HC Deb 26 July 1858 vol 151 cc2138-9

Order for Second Reading read.

MR. MOWBRAY

, in moving the Second Reading of this Bill, said the object of it was to enable Committees, if they thought fit, to administer oaths to witnesses, and also to enable witnesses to be sworn before Committees of the House of Lords, instead of being sworn at the bar of the House.

Bill read 2o, and committed for To-morrow at Twelve o'clock.