§ Order for Second Reading read.
§ MR. HIBBERT,in moving that the Bill be now read a second time, said, it proposed to make two alterations in the present law with regard to asylums. One proposal was to empower the Lord Chancellor to deal with properties of £2,000, instead of £1,000, as under the present law, and the other was to restrict the number of visits to lunatics in private asylums. At the present time the Visitors visited these asylums four times a-year, and that number of visits was found to be unnecessary, as in such cases the lunatics were mostly under the care of relatives or friends; and the Lord Chan- 2062 cellor had suggested that, if the law were altered in this way, it might be possible to visit all the lunatics under the Lord Chancellor at least twice a-year, instead of only once. In that way both public and private lunatic asylums would be visited twice a-year.
§ Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Bill be now read a second time."—(Mr. Hibbert.)
§ Motion agreed to.
§ Bill read a second time, and committed for Monday next.