HC Deb 08 May 1878 vol 239 c1591

House moved, That so much of the Order appointing the Select Committee on Public Petitions as directs that the Reports of the Committee do in all cases set forth the number of signatures to each Petition might be read; and the same being read,

Ordered, That, in accordance with the recommendation of the Special Report of the Committee on Public Petitions (11th of April), so much of the Order appointing the Select Committee on Public Petitions as directs that the Reports of the Committee do in all oases set forth the number of signatures to each Petition be discharged.

Ordered, That it be an Instruction to the Committee that the Reports of the Committee do set forth the number of signatures to each Petition only in respect to those signatures to which addresses are affixed.—(Sir Charles Forster.)

House adjourned at five minutes before Six o'clock.