§ (Mr. Attorney General, Mr. Solicitor General, Baron Henry Be Worms.)
§ SECOND READING.
§ Order for Second Beading read.
§ THE ATTOENEY GENEEAL (Sir RICHARD WEBSTER) (Isle of Wight)I beg to move that this Bill be now read a second time. It is simply a measure to provide that outstanding bankruptcies, under the Act of 1869, may be closed. There are some 2,000 of them, and in many of them the bankrupts have not been able to obtain their discharge, simply because there is no machinery whereby they can do so, because the principal creditors cannot be got together. This was a measure the last Government desired to pass when they were in Office. It is a purely formal matter; but it will relieve a large number of persons, and I trust that the House will now read the Bill a second time.
§ Motion made, and Question "That the Bill be now read a second time," —(Mr. Attorney General,) — put, and agreed to.
§ Bill read a second time, and committed for To-morrow.