§ Order for Second Reading read.
§ Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Bill be now read a second time."—(Colonel Kingscote.)
§ COLONEL KINGSCOTEsaid, that this was a very simple Bill, and was founded upon the Report of the Government Inspectors, made in 1877. It embodied the views of those officials in respect of doing away with a close time weekly, and extending it to an equivalent period in May and December. It only related to tidal waters—in fact, was local—fisheries in the Severn being only affected. He might state that most of the proprietors of the upper waters were in favour of it.
§ Motion agreed to.
§ Bill read a second time, and committed for Thursday.