§ Order [24th April], That a Select Committee be appointed, "to inquire whether the signatures to the Petition presented to this I louse upon the 12th day of April 1866, professing to be a Petition of Inhabitants of Harden, near Bingley, in the County of York, in favour of the Representation of the People Bill, are the genuine signatures of the persons whose signatures they profess to be; and under what circumstances such signatures were annexed," read.
§ Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the said Order be discharged."—(Mr. Ferrand.)
§ Motion, by leave, withdrawn.
§ Notice taken that 40 Members were not present,—Committee counted, and 40 Members not being present:
§ Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair: — House counted, and 40 Members not being present:
§ House adjourned at half after Seven o'clock.