§ Select Committee appointed, "to consider the working of 'The Artizans' and Labourers' Dwellings Improvement Act, 1875,' and the amending Act of 1879, with a view of considering how the expense of and the delay and difficulty in carrying out these Acts may be reduced, and also of inquiring into any causes which may have prevented the reconstruction of Dwellings for the Artizan Class to the full extent contemplated and authorised by these Acts, and of recommending such Amendments as may be most expedient for carrying out the full intention of these Acts, and also to consider the working of the Metropolitan Streets Improvement Acts, 1872 and 1877, and of 31 and 32 Vic. c. 130, and 42 and 43 Vic. c. 64:"—Committee to consist of Nineteen Members:—Mr. ARTHUR BALFOUR, Mr. BRODRICK, Mr. BRYCE, Mr. FRANCIS BUXTON, Mr. CROPPER, Sir RICHARD CROSS, Viscount EMLYN, Mr. HASTINGS, Sir HENRY' HOLLAND, Mr. JOHN HOLLOND, Mr. "WILLIAM HOLMS, Mr. LEAMY, Mr. SHAW LEFEVRE, Sir JAMES M'GARELHOGG, Mr. RANKIN, Sir MATTHEW RIDLEY, Mr. TORRENS, and Sir SYDNEY WATERLOW; Five to be the quorum.
§ Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence taken before the Select Committee on Artizans' and Labourers' Dwellings, in Session 1881, be referred to the Committee.—(Sir Richard Cross.)