§ Order for Second Reading read.
§ MR. CALDWELL (Glasgow, St. Rollox)I have to ask the House to road this Bill a second time. Its object is to enlarge the jurisdiction of the 1125 Scotch Courts in respect to small debts, to simplify the procedure, and to reduce the expense. Since the Bill has been printed, there have been several valuable suggestions made regarding it by both the present and late Law Officers of the Crown; and it is intended that if the House will assent to the second reading, affirming the principle of the Bill, the suggestions of the Law Officers will be given effect to by Amendments of the Bill in Committee, and the Bill, as so amended, will thereafter be reprinted. I hope that, as the Bill has received the assent of the Law Officers, it may now be road a second time.
§ Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Bill be now read a second time."—(Mr. Caldwell.)
§ THE LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. J. H. A. MACDONALD) (Edinburgh and St. Andrew's Universities)This is a Bill relating to legal procedure; and the Government are quite prepared to allow it to be read a second time. In conference with my hon. Friend (Mr. Caldwell), I have arranged that certain alterations should be made in Committee.
§ Question put, and agreed to.