HC Deb 21 March 1859 vol 153 cc482-3
THE SOLICITOR GENERAL

asked for leave to introduce a Bill to Amend the Lunacy Regulation Act (1853). The object of the measure he stated to be to secure a more efficacious inspection of those unfortunate persons who were found to be lunatics by inquisition. He might add that he proposed to refer the Bill to the same Select Committee as that to which two others of a similar nature which had been laid on the table by the right hon. Gentleman lately Home Secretary had been referred.

Leave given.

Bill to amend the Lunacy Regulation Act, 1853, ordered to be brought in by Mr. SOLICITOR GENERAL and Mr. SECRETARY SOTHERON ESTCOURT.

Bill presented, and read 1°.

House adjourned at half-after Twelve o'clock.