Lord Stanleypresented a petition from certain owners of stage-coaches, calling on Parliament either to repeal the act by which licenses are required to be taken out by stage-coach proprietors, or to extend its provisions to carriages carrying passengers or goods for hire, and moved by Steam. He wished to know whether the Chancellor of the Exchequer intended to introduce any provision with respect to this subject?
The Chancellor of the Exchequersaid, that it was his intention to propose a measure by which stage-coaches, whether drawn by horses or impelled by steam, would be placed on an equality.
§ Petition to be printed.