HC Deb 14 June 1875 vol 224 cc1812-3
COLONEL KINGSCOTE

asked the Secretary to the Treasury, Whether, taking into consideration the period of the Session and the state of Public Business, he will withdraw the Dean Forest and Hundred of Saint Briavels Bill, which stands for Second Reading on Monday June 21st; and, whether, seeing how necessary it is that some immediate steps should be taken to improve the state of affairs in Dean Forest, he will at once bring in a Bill, similar to the Act 1 and 2 Will. IV., c. 12, to appoint commissioners who shall visit the forest and report to the House of Commons how, in their judgment, the evils which were shown to exist by the evidence taken before the Select Committee which sat last Session may be best and most speedily remedied?

MR. W. H. SMITH

, in reply, side, that in consequence of the late period of the Session it would not be possible to obtain a proper consideration for the Bill that Session; but still he did not think it would be desirable that a Commission should be appointed to report upon the subject as the matter had been fully inquired into by a Select Committee.