HC Deb 02 July 1861 vol 164 c252
VISCOUNT BURY

said, he would move that the Select Committee have power to adjourn from place to place.

SIR STAFFORD NORTHCOTE

said, he should be glad to know to what the committee referred.

MR. SOTHERON ESTCOURT

said, that hon. Members would be glad to have some explanation of the scope and objects of the inquiry pursued by the Cadastral Survey Committee, and why it should be anxious, in the terms of the notice, "to adjourn from place to place."

VISCOUNT BURY

said, the Committe was appointed to consider whether a part of Great Britain which had been surveyed on the 1-inch scale should be re-surveyed on the 25-inch scale. Sir Henry James had invented a number of improvements for reducing the cost of maps on a large scale, and the Committee sought power to proceed to Southampton for the purpose of witnessing experiments in connection with those inventions.

Motion agreed to.

Ordered, That the Select Committee on the Cadastral Survey have leave to adjourn from place to place.

House adjourned at One o'clock.