§ Order of the Day for the Second Reading, read.
THE EARL OF CRAWFORD, in moving that the Bill be now read a second time, said, it was a consolidating and amending measure.
§ Moved, "That the Bill be now read 2a—(The Earl of Crawford.)
THE SECRETARY FOR SCOTLAND (The Marquess of LOTHIAN)observed, that this Bill, which, as the noble Earl had said, was a consolidating and amending one, appeared to him to be a useful and practical measure.
§ Motion agreed to; Bill read 2a accordingly, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House To-morrow.