HC Deb 06 July 1860 vol 159 cc1524-5
MR. T. S. DUNCOMBE

presented a Petition, assuming the shape of a remonstrance, from the Committee of the Constitutional Defence Association, complaining that the Select Committee on Tax Bills had placed the vote of the House of Lords in reference to the paper duty among their recorded precedents, such voting being still in dispute. The Petition concluded by praying the House to expunge the precedent in question (No. 212) from the Report.

MR. PACKE

said, he wished to call the attention of the Speaker to the wording of the document, and to ask whether, according to the rules of the House, it could be received?

MR. SPEAKER

There is a precedent exactly in point, establishing that, although in the first instance it may bear the appearance of a remonstrance, yet if the paper concludes with a Petition respectfully worded, it can be received.

On Motion "That the House at rising adjourn till Monday next,"