§ Order for Third Reading read.
§ Bill read 3o.
§ On the Question that the Bill do pass,
§ COLONEL FRENCHproposed some additional clauses, which, after some brief conversation, were withdrawn.
§ MR. MACARTNEYproposed a Clause relative to the duties of a contractor for any county work or the repair of roads, and also defining the powers of the country surveyor.
§ Clause was added to the Bill.
MR. FORTESCUEmoved to insert, after clause 3, the following clause:—
In making such applotment, the treasurer shall omit therefrom every tenement consisting wholly or in part of a dwelling-house, the total annual valuation of which tenement, as set forth in such final list or in such revised valuation as aforesaid, shall not exceed the sum of three pounds.
§ Clause brought up, and read 1o.
§ MR. MACARTNEYopposed the clause. He did not think it would work well.
§ Motion made, and Question put, "That the clause be now read a second time."
§ The House divided:—Ayes 32; Noes 109; Majority 77.
§ Another Clause added.
§ Bill passed.
§ The House adjourned at Two o'clock.