§ MR. NEWDEGATE,in rising to move for leave to bring in a Bill for appointing Commissioners to inquire respecting Monastic and Conventual Institutions in Great Britain, and for other purposes connected therewith, said, that the Bill was the same Bill he had introduced in the last Session, but for the second reading of which he had failed to obtain an opportunity, owing to the crowded state of the Order Book. Since, therefore, the Bill had been in the hands of hon. Members for the greater part of the last Session, it was unnecessary that he should then enter into a detail of its provisions. He rested the measure chiefly on this circumstance—that, with the exception of the United States, this was the only principal country in the world in which there were no practical legal regulations with respect to those institutions. He felt it would be unreasonable, as the documents and translations descriptive of the laws of foreign States with respect to these institutions would soon be in the hands of hon. Members, that he should on the present occasion detain the House further than by moving for leave to introduce his Bill.
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Motion agreed to.
Bill for appointing Commissioners to inquire respecting Monastic and Conventual Institutions in Great Britain, and for other purposes connected therewith, ordered to be brought in by Mr. NEWDEGATE, Sir THOMAS CHAMBERS, and Mr. HOLT.
§ Bill presented, and read the first time. [Bill 69.]