HC Deb 15 August 1860 vol 160 cc1346-8
MR. T. S. DUNCOMBE

moved that the Resolution of the 24th day of January, 1860, be read.

Act of the present Session read; Resolution of the 24th day of January, 1860, read, as follows:— That any person professing the Jewish Religion may henceforth, in taking the Oath prescribed in an Act passed in the twenty-second year of Her Majesty to entitle him to sit and vote in this House, omit the words and I make this declaration upon the true faith of a Christian.'

MR. T. S. DUNCOMBE

then moved, that the said Resolution be a Standing Order of this House.

Motion agreed to.

Ordered, That the said Resolution be a Standing Order of this House.

Standing Order of the 14th day of April, 1859, read, as follows:— That, on the meeting of a new Parliament no Resolution in pursuance of the Act of the twenty-first and twenty-second years of Victoria, chapter forty-nine, which shall have the effect of admitting a Member professing the Jewish Religion to be sworn at the Table, be taken into consideration before Twelve of the clock on the fourth day appointed for taking the Oaths required by Law.

MR. T. S. DUNCOMBE,

in moving that this Standing Order be repealed, congratulated the House on the destruction of the last shred of persecution for religion's sake, as far as that House was concerned. As long as great constituencies like London and Greenwich continued to return distinguished members of the Jewish persuasion to that House there was no fear of the people of England reverting to the old system of intolerance.

Motion agreed to.

Ordered, That the said Standing Order be repealed.

House adjourned at a quarter before Six o'clock.