§ Order for Second Reading read.
§ Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Bill be now read a second time."—(Mr. Stansfeld.)
§ MR CRAUFURDsaid, there was one point which had not been raised in the discussion just concluded, and that was whether they were to confirm and extend the system of having a gross value and a rateable value—a gross value for public taxation and a rateable value for local taxes. As far as Scotland was concerned they would resist any such proposal because they had had experience of such a system, and there was nothing the Scotch people were crying out more against than the rateable value for their Poor Law. In Scotland they had the gross value as the basis of all local taxation, except in the ease of the poor-rates, and nothing was so demonstrated before the Committee which sat on the Scottish Poor Law as the determination of the people to remove from their system of local taxation that blot of having the poor-rate provided upon rateable value alone. If they would take the system of having the gross value as the solo basis of all local rating in England, he thought they would avoid many difficulties.
§ In reply to Mr. HUNT,
§ MR. STANSFELDsaid, it was not proposed to refer the Bill to a Select Committee; it was quite ready for discussion in Committee of the Whole House.
§ Motion agreed to.
§ Bill read a second time, and committed for Monday June 9.