§ MR. M'LAREN moved for a Select Committee to inquire into the operation of the Edinburgh Annuity Tax Abolition Act, 1860, and the Canongate Annuity Tax Act, and to report their opinion thereon to the House.
THE LORD ADVOCATE, while assenting to the Motion, was not to be understood as consenting to open up the arrangements already come to in reference to this matter.
§ Motion agreed to.
§ Select Committee appointed, "to inquire into the operation of 'The Edinburgh Annuity Tax Abolition Act, I860,' and 'The Canongate Annuity Tax Act,' and to report their opinion thereon to the House."—(Mr. M'Laren.)
§ House adjourned at Two o'clock.