§ Order for Second Reading read.
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, in moving the second reading said that he only wished to insist on those clauses which remedied certain intolerable evils in the working of the law, as for instance the necessity of bringing up witnesses from the most distant parts of the kingdom, for the simple purpose of swearing an affidavit before the Court. It was not his intention to insist on the clause which had caused so much, but unnecessary, alarm, namely, that which extended the powers of the Court to persons domiciled abroad or in the colonies.
§ MR. HADFIELDsaid, he would suggest that they should go into Committee pro formâ, and reprint the Bill as amended.
§ Bill read 2o and committed for To-morrow.