§ Mr. Fox Maule, on moving the further consideration of the report of the committee on the Prison Regulations' Bill, said that he would take that opportunity of introducing the alterations giving power to the proper parties to make rules and regulations for the classification of those convicted of misdemeanours so as to reach persons convicted of libels.
§ House in committee.
1118§ The following words were added to the preamble:—" And whereas several of such rules and regulations ought not to be applied to persons suffering imprisonment upon convictions for writing and publishing, or for procuring to be written and published seditious libels, or for uttering seditious words;" and the other necessary alterations having been made in the clauses, the House resumed, the report to be received.