§ Order for Second Reading read.
§ MR. WALPOLE, in moving the second reading of this Bill, said, its object was of some importance. As the law stood, when a criminal was found lunatic, either at the time of his arraignment or after the verdict of the jury, the Crown had power to deal with such lunatic; and, on a criminal lunatic being cured of his lunacy, the Crown had power to order his discharge; but the Crown had no-power to discharge a criminal lunatic, when quite recovered, unless he was set entirely free. The object of the present Bill was to enable the Crown, instead of entirely discharging such a person out of prison, to impose such conditions upon the release that the individual should be subject to a certain amount of surveillance. The Bill also provided that a criminal lunatic might be removed to a county asylum on the expiration of his sentence.
§ Motion agreed to.
§ Bill read a second time, and committed for Thursday.