HC Deb 30 April 1860 vol 158 cc422-3

Order for Consideration read.

SIR HUGH CAIRNS moved the following clause:— And whereas contracts may have been made on or before the 10th day of February, 1860, for the delivery free of duty after that day of goods or commodities the duties of customs on which are hereby lowered or repealed: Be it therefore enacted, that any person who shall or may, on or before the 10th day of February, 1860, have made or entered into any such contract or agreement as the purchaser or consignee of such goods or commodities, may and is hereby authorized and empowered to deduct from the sum payable by him under such contract or agreement the amount of the duties which, if this Act had not passed, would have been payable in respect of such goods or commodities.

MR. LAING

objected to the introduction of this clause.

MR. WHITESIDE

supported it.

THE SOLICITOR GENERAL

opposed the clause on account of the principle involved in it.

SIR HUGH CAIRNS

replied, and said that although the Solicitor General opposed the clause on account of the principle involved in it, it was one that the House had agreed to five or six times over.

Clause agreed to.

Bill to be read 3° To-morrow.

House adjourned at a Quarter after One o'clock.