§ Order for Consideration read.
§ MR. CAIRD moved to introduce words into the 12th clause which would make its provisions applicable to owners of fisheries as well as to the public generally.
§ Amendment proposed, in Clause 12, line 10, after the word present to insert the words "or by this Act."
§ MR. BAILLIE COCHRANEstated that the Bill, as drawn, was highly favourable to the operative classes, among whom, in large manufacturing towns, angling clubs were largely in process of formation. It was absurd, however, to suppose that any proprietor would put lime into his waters to destroy his own fish.
§ Question put, "That those words be there inserted.
§ The House divided:—Ayes 37; Noes 37; and the numbers being equal, Mr. Speaker stated, that, as the House was unable to form a judgment upon the propriety of the proposed Amendment, he should best perform his duty by leaving the Bill in the form in which the Committee had reported it to the House; and accordingly he declared himself with the Noes.
§ The House resumed.
§ Bill to be read 3° To-morrow.
§ House adjourned at a Quarter before One o'clock.