§ Select Committee appointed, "to inquire into the Contagious Diseases Acts, 1866–1869, their Administration, Operation, and Effect:"—Mr. STANSFELD, Mr. CAVENDISH BENTINCK, Viscount CRICHTON, Mr. BURT, Mr. O'SHAUGH-NESSY, Mr. OSBORNE MORGAN, Mr. COBBOLD, General BURNABY, Sir HENRY WOLFF, Mr. ERNEST NOEL, Colonel DIGBY, Mr. WILLIAM FOWLER, Mr. HOPWOOD, Colonel TOTTENHAM, Dr. CAMERON, Dr. FARQUHARSON, and Mr. HANBURY-TRACY:—Power to send for persons, papers, and records; Five to be the quorum.
1493§ Ordered, That all Reports and Returns relating thereto be referred to the said 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or in other Countries, and to report whether the said Contagious Diseases Acts should be maintained, amended, or repealed.—(Mr. Secretary Childers.)
§ House adjourned at Two o'clock.