§ MR. MARRIOTTasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether his attention has been called to the 135th section of the Burnley Borough Improvement Bill, now before a Committee of this House, which, if passed, would give absolute power to the Corporation of Burnley to supervise and control all clubs, social or political, within the borough; whether he has considered how far such powers are consistent with "The Municipal Corporation Act, 1838;" and, whether the Government would support a Bill which confers such powers to a Municipal Corporation?
§ SIR WILLIAM HARCOURT,in reply, said, that he had received a communication from the promoters of this Bill, informing him that the clause in question had been withdrawn.