§ Sir G. Clerksaid, that the object of the resolution which he intended to propose was, to obviate a technical objection as to the services of notices in cases of election petitions. Considerable inconvenience was occasioned last year, in consequence of some informality in the service of the notices on the agent in the Ludlow election case. He had consulted the officers of the House on the subject, and they informed him, that the adoption of his resolution would prevent the recurrence of the inconvenience he had alluded to:—"That, on or within ten days after the day on which any election petition, or any petition praying that the petitioner may be admitted as a party to defend any return, or to oppose the prayer of any election petition, shall be presented to the House, the petitioner do lodge in the office for election petitions, the name of the agent or other person upon whom, and the place where, may be served the notices required to be served on the petitioner by the general committee of elections, pursuant to the act passed in the third year of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled, 'An Act to amend the Jurisdiction for the Trial of Election Petitions.'"
§ Mr. Greenedid not think, that the matter came within the scope of that committee; if it was thought necessary to refer the resolution at all, it should be laid before the general election committee.
§ Sir G. Clerkobserved, that it was of importance that the House should agree to the resolution without delay, to prevent their falling into the same situation in which they were placed last year in the case of the Ludlow petition. If they postponed the matter for even a few days, inconvenience might arise, as there was little doubt but that some election petitions would be presented.
§ Resolution agreed to.