§ Order for Committee read; House in Committee.
§ Resolution proposed, pro formâ, preliminary to the introduction of the Bill.
§ MR. NEWDEGATEsaid, he was in favour of increased salaries for the clerks, because, if the augmentation of business was an argument for increasing the salaries of the Judges, it was an argument for augmenting those of the clerks.
THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUERsaid, the Resolution did not pledge the Committee to increase the salaries, but only to deal with them in some more efficient way. The clerks, moreover, were not paid out of the Consolidated Fund, but by fees.
Resolved—"That provision be made out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for payment of the Salaries of the Judges of County Courts, and of the remuneration of any Deputy Judge, during the period he may act after the death of a Judge,
§ The House resumed.