§ Sir George Clerk moved for leave to bring in a bill to discontinue certain actions under the provisions of an act of the 2nd year of William the 4th, for regulating the vend and delivery of coals in the cities of London and Westminster, and in certain parts of the adjacent counties. The hon. Member explained that a number of coal fitters had inadvertently infringed the act of Parliament which was referred to in his motion, by not describing in certain certificates, according to the act, the pits from which these coals were taken. For this inadvertence several actions had been brought against them by a common in former, and one of them had been tried, and the parties condemned to pay a fine of 100l. The bill was similar to bills brought forward to remedy similar evils, 1026 and he hoped it would be allowed to pass through the House as speedily as possible, consistently with its forms. He would add, that the bill met the approbation of the corporation of the city of London.
§ Leave given. Bill brought in, and read a first time.