The Solicitor-General, on the question for going into Committee on the Expiring Laws Bill, moved: the following instruction which was agreed; to, viz.—
And whereas, by an act passed in the seventh year of the reign of his late Majesty, intituled,' An Act for the Commutation of Tithes in England and Wales it was among others enacted 913 That no commissioner or assistant commissioner, secretary, assistant secretary, or other officer or person appointed under the said act, should hold his office for a longer period than five years next after the day of the passing of the said act, and thenceforth until the end of the then next Session of Parliament; and that after the expiration of the said period of five years, and of the then next Session of Parliament, so much of the said act as authorises any such appointment should cease:' and whereas it is expedient that the said commission should be further continued, be it enacted, that so much of the last recited act as is hereinbefore recited shall be repealed, and that no commissioner, or assistant commissioner, secretary, assistant secretary, or other officer or person so to be appointed, shall hold his office for a longer period than until the thirty-first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two ¿ and after the said 31st day of July so much of the last recited Act as authorises any such appointment shall cease.
§ The House in committee on the bill. Clauses, with amendments, agreed to, the House resumed, report to be received. Adjourned.