§ Order for Committee read.
§ Bill considered in Committee.
§ (In the Committee.)
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUERsaid, he proposed to introduce four alterations into this Bill; one with regard to the reduction of the per-centage from 45 to 25; another relating to the reduction of the number of years from twenty-five years to ten; a third with respect to the bankruptcy of banks under this Act; and a fourth providing that the privileges permitted to banks beyond the limits of forty-five miles, should not give them any power of issue within the forty-five miles.
§ House resumed.
§ Bill reported; to be printed, as amended [Bill 75]; re-committed for Friday next.