SECOND READING. (Hansard, 24 February 1880)

§ LORD EUSTACE CECIL
said, that this Bill was of merely a formal character, and he hoped that the House would now read it a second time.

§ MR. DILLWYN
believed that there was an objection taken to the Bill.

§ LORD EUSTACE CECIL
said, that he was not aware of any objection. None had reached him. The Bill was really of a purely formal character, and was to enable the Secretary of State to compensate the owners of common rights and ascertain what those common rights were. The House might be aware that Strensall Common had been purchased by the Government, and the present Bill was to make the necessary arrangements. Hitherto, Government had been unable to deal with the common rights which had started up. It was now proposed to hand the matter over to the Inclosure Commissioners to ascertain—first of all, what the common rights were, to whom they belonged, and what amount of compensation ought to be paid for them. So far as he had been able to ascertain from hon. Members, he could not find that there was any objection to the Bill. He trusted that the hon. Member for Swansea would withdraw his objections, 1383 and allow the Second Reading of the Bill to be taken.

§ MR. DILLWYN
said, that the objection to the Bill was not his own, but that of the hon. Member for Hackney, who had given Notice of Opposition. For his own part, he had no objection to the Bill, and he only wished to draw attention to the fact that it was opposed by the hon. Member for Hackney.