§ Mr. Weyland, after observing, with respect to the law of settlement, that many cases had occurred at the Quarter Sessions, in which the Judges had decided the law contrary to the spirit in which he was sure that law was enacted, —after citing a case where the hiring of a house for 10l. a-year had been decided not to give a settlement, as the tenant did not remain in it for a year—moved for leave to bring in a Bill "to explain and amend the Act 6 Geo. 4th, c. 57, as far as regards the Settlement of the Poor, by the renting and occupation of tenements."
§ Leave given. Bill brought in and read a first time.