§ Order for Committee read.
§ MR. EVELYN ASHLEY, in moving that the Order for going into Committee on the Bill be discharged, said, the House must not be alarmed, because it was merely a formal matter. The Examiners of Standing Orders had reported that the Standing Orders had not been complied with, and that the Bill, though virtually a Public Bill, was in reality a Hybrid Bill, and ought to be considered upstairs by a Hybrid Committee, nominated partly by the House and partly by the Committee of Selection.
§ Motion made, and Question, "That the Order for going into Committee upon the said Bill be discharged,"—(Mr. Evelyn Ashley,)—put, and agreed to.
§ Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Bill be referred to a Select Committee, consisting of Five Members, Three to be nominated by the House, and Two by the Committee of Selection."—(Mr. Evelyn Ashley.)
§ MR. EVELYN ASHLEYreplied in the affirmative.
§ Question put, and agreed, to.
§ Ordered, That all Petitions against the Bill be referred to the Committee.
§ Ordered, That Petitioners praying to be heard by Counsel or Agents be heard against the Bill, and that Counsel be heard in support of the Bill.
§ Ordered, That the Committee have power to send for persons, papers, and records:—Three to be the quorum.