§ Order for Second Reading read.
§ MR. DUNLOP,in answer to Mr. E. Lockhart, said, that Commissioners of Supply in Scotland were originally appointed for the purpose of levying taxes; that function, however, was now entirely superseded. Their principal function at present was the whole charge of levying the county rate. It had been the practice to pass a periodical Supply containing the names of persons who were qualified to act as Commissioners. The object of the present Bill was to supersede the necessity of this periodical naming, and to allow the qualification, which consisted in the possession of a certain quantity of land, to be in itself sufficient.
§ THE LORD ADVOCATEsaid, he did not see any objection to the Bill.
§ Bill read 2°.