§ Mr. Tierneybrought up a bill to explain and render more effectual an act, passed in the 7th of William III. for preventing charge and expense in Elections of Members to serve in Parliament. The bill was read a first time, and ordered to be printed. The right hon, gent. then said, that he should move for its being read a second time on Friday se'nnight, unless gentlemen wished for longer time to consider it.
§ Mr. Hurstwished that a longer day should be named. As for himself, he approved entirely of the principles of the bill, and of almost all the observations made by the hon. member in proposing it; but as it was a bill that went to make a material change in the old established laws, and as several gentlemen might entertain doubts, which a fuller consideration might remove, he thought it would be better to allow a longer tune to consider it.
Mr. Rosedid not consider that the bill made any alteration in old established laws; he thought it would be only a declaration of what was actually the existing law.—The question was then put, and the bill was ordered to be read a second time on Friday se'nnight.