HC Deb 21 May 1849 vol 105 c779

The Bill was read a Second Time. On the Motion that it be committed on Friday,

CAPTAIN PECHELL

said, he observed one object of this Bill was to increase the business of the county courts. Now it was already matter of complaint that the judges and officers of these courts were underpaid, and that even their travelling expenses were not allowed them. He was determined to raise this question on every stage of the present Bill, till the matter was finally settled. The county courts were giving great satisfaction throughout the country, and that satisfaction was every day increasing. Debts were now got in with great facility, cheap justice was brought to every man's door, and therefore he contended that the Government ought to place the officers of these courts in a position commensurate with their great utility and increasing business.

MR. TURNER

wished it to be under-stood that though he had not opposed the second reading of this Bill, he did not agree to all its provisions. It was certainly an improvement upon the Bill of last year, but there were several clauses which, he thought, would require to be modified in Committee.

Bill committed for Friday next.

The House adjourned at Eleven o'clock.