§ Ordered, That it be an Instruction to the Select Committee on the Mines, &c., Assessment Bill that they have power to inquire into the present exemptions from liability to local rates of different hereditaments other than those occupied for State purposes, whether arising out of Statutory provisions, or the decisions of the Courts of Law, or custom or usage, and to make provision for the abolition of all or any of such exemptions, if the Committee shall deem such course to be right, by extending the provisions of the Bill referred to them.—(Mr. Gathorne Hardy.)
§ House adjourned at a quarter after Twelve o'clock.