§ Select Committee appointed, "to inquire into the Contagious Diseases Acts, 1866–9, their administration, operation, and effect:"—Power to send for persons, papers, and records; Five to be the quorum.
§ Ordered, That all Reports and Returns thereto relating be referred to the Committee.
§ Ordered, That it be an Instruction to the Committee, That they have power to receive evidence which may be tendered concerning similar systems in British Colonies or in other Countries, and to report whether the said Contagious Diseases Acts should he maintained, extended, amended, or repealed.—{Mr. Secretary Childers.)
§ And, on July 9, Committee nominated as follows:—Mr. CAVENDISH BENTINCK, Mr. STANS-FELD, Colonel ALEXANDER, Sir HARCOURT JOHNSTONE, Viscount CRICHTON, Mr. BURT, Mr. O'SHAUGHNESSY, Mr. OSBORNE MORGAN, Mr. BRASSEY, Mr. COBBOLD, General BURNABY, Sir HENRY WOLFE, Mr. ERNEST NOEL, Colonel DIGBY, and Mr. WILLIAM FOWLER: —Power to send for persons, papers, and records; Five to be the quorum.
§ House adjourned at Five minutes before Six o'clock.