§ MR. PEEL DAWSON moved for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the Laws relating to the Presentment of Public Money by Grand Juries in Ireland. He said, the object of the Bill was for the purpose of electing instead of nominating the associated cesspayers who acted with the magistrates at sessions, and for the purpose of preventing their numbers being swamped. Also for the appointment of a standing committee by the grand jury from assize to assize, in order to have a more efficient control over the county officers, and to afford a better opportunity of examining into the state of the county business before submitting it to the grand jury at the ensuing assizes. He had shown a draft of the Bill to the noble Lord the Chief Secretary for Ireland (Lord Naas), who had no objection to its introduction.
§ Motion agreed to.
§ Bill "to amend the Laws relating to the Presentment of Public Money by Grand Juries in Ireland," presented, and read the first time. [Bill 73.]