§ 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.
MR. LYULPH STANLEYmoved—
That it he committed to a Select Committee of Seven Members, Four to he nominated by the House and Three to be added by the Committee of Selection:—That such of the Petitioners as shall have presented their Petitions against the Bill on or before the 8th day of February may, if they think fit, be heard before such Committee by their Counsel, and Counsel may he heard in support of the Bill against such Petitions.He believed there was no opposition to the Motion. He thought it right, however, to state that the Bill was not an ordinary Private Bill, but that it took power to levy a perpetual tax on the salt trade of Cheshire. He, therefore, thought it right to move that it should be referred to a Hybrid Committee instead of to an ordinary Private Bill Committee.
§ MR. LYON PLAYFAIRthought it would be well to assent to the Motion, because, although it was a Private Bill so far as it related to the special district, it involved a tax of 3d. per ton upon an article of traffic in the district. Under these circumstances, he considered it necessary that the Bill should be referred to a Hybrid Committee.
§ Motion agreed to.