§ Against the Third Reading.
§ DISSENTIENT:
§ Because this Bill repeals the only law in Scotland relating to mortmain without providing any substitute.
§ Because instead of allowing time and opportunity for the due consideration of this Bill by Parliament and by Scotland, it was brought into the House of Commons on the 20th July under a different title. It had then two clauses, the first relating to reductions ex capite lecti, and the second to fees of conquest, and was named after this latter provision Fees of Conquest Abolition Bill, under which title it was read a Second Time after midnight on Thursday 27th July, and committed for the same day, Friday 28th July, when the second clause was struck out, and the title of necessity changed. It was considered on Monday 31st July, and read a Third Time, and passed on Tuesday 1st August, having been under its proper title those two days only.
§ Because having been thus smuggled through the House of Commons, it was brought to this House on Thursday 3d August, and notice of the Second Reading was first given on Monday 7th August for the following day, when the attention of the House was called, and objection taken to it by a noble Lord well acquainted with Scotch Law and the feelings of that people, and if the above-mentioned facts relating to its passage through the Commons had been then known and stated, it would have most probably been thrown out.
§ Because such a course of proceeding with an important Bill is discreditable to both Houses of Parliament, neither having had time to consider the measure properly, or prepare the provisions which ought to be introduced in connexion with the repeal of the present law, and because from the manner in which it has been managed by its promoters it is impossible that such repeal can be generally, if at all, known to the people of Scotland.
§ REDESDALE.
§ SKELMERSDALE.
§ HAWARDEN.
§ DENMAN,
§ Especially for the first Reason.
§ House adjourned at a quarter past Seven o'clock, 'till To-morrow, a quarter past Four o'clock.