§ Order for Second Reading read.
§ Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Bill be now read a second time."—(Sir Charles Forster.)
§ Motion agreed to.
§ Bill read a second time.
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VISCOUNT SANDON moved that the Bill be committed to the Select Committee on the London and North Western Railway (Additional Powers) Bill, with the following Instruction to the Committee:—
That they have power to inquire and report as to the expediency of authorizing the said Company from time to time to purchase by agreement or take on lease or otherwise provide, and to establish and hold booking and receiving offices and other premises for the collection, reception, and booking and delivery of goods, parcels, and other matters and things intended to be carried upon or over their Railway, and to collect, receive, book, and invoice any such goods, parcels, and other matters and things; and to make and carry into effect any such con-
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tracts or agreements with any "other Railway Company or Companies with regard to the collection, reception, hooking, or invoicing of any goods, parcels, and other matters and things intended to be carried upon or over the Railways of the respective Companies so contracting, or any or either of them.
§ Motion agreed to.