§ MR. ALDERMAN LUSK (for Mr. GOURLEY)asked the President of the Board of Trade, What steps (if any) he intends adopting for the purpose of reenacting this Session the law which was repealed in 1862 regulating the carrying of timber deck loads; and, whether, if re-enacted, the prohibition will be extended to deck cargoes other than timber?
§ MR. CHICHESTER FORTESCUE,in reply, said, the Merchant Shipping Acts Amendment Bill which he had introduced dealt to a certain extent—to as large an extent as he thought it proper to attempt to deal under present circumstances—with the question of overloading; but the special question of deck-loading with timber from America and other countries was not embraced in that measure. That question formed part of the reference to the Royal Commission on merchant ships. When he made his statement on the second reading of the Bill, he would explain that portion of the subject.