THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK, in moving the second reading of this Bill, stated that its object was to enable Companies and Corporations to provide for the education and religious instruction of the families of their workmen, and to provide means of education and worship for their use. It was undoubted that there 484 did exist a great desire among large Companies employing many workmen to make some better provision for their educational, moral, and religious improvement than was found in many cases to exist at present; and this Bill, which was merely an enabling Bill, provided that such Companies and Corporations, with consent of three-fifths of their shareholders, might vote money or appropriate land for the purposes he had indicated.
§ Bill read 2ª, and committed, to a Committee of the Whole House on Tuesday next.