§ Considered in Committee.
§ (In the Committee.)
§
MR. BALFOUR moved—
That the Chairman be directed to move the House, that leave be given to bring in a Bill to amend and declare the Law of Burial.
§ SIR WILFRID LAWSONasked the hon. Gentleman to explain what the nature of the Bill was. Already this Session they had had two measures on this subject.
MR. BALFOURsaid, his object was simply to embody, in the form of a Bill, an Amendment which he brought forward at the time the Bill of the hon. and learned Member for Denbighshire (Mr. Osborne Morgan) was before the House. That Amendment, to his mind, offered a satisfactory solution of the question, and the proposal was this—All members of whatever denomination, might be buried in the churchyards, with what orderly and decent rights they pleased, except in those cases where there was already a cemetery within reach. If the cemetery existed, or was subsequently provided, then the churchyard reverted to its present legal condition.
§ Motion agreed to.
§ Resolved, That the Chairman be directed to move the House, that leave be given to bring in a Bill to amend and declare the Law of Burial.
§ Resolution reported:—Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr. BALFOUR, Lord FRANCIS HERVEY, Mr. COWPER-TEMPLE, and Mr. WAIT.
§ Bill presented, and read the first time. [Bill 154.]