§ Order for Second Reading read.
§ MR. DAWSON (LORD MAYOR of DUBLIN), in moving that the Bill be now read the second time, said, he believed the Home Secretary approved of the Bill, which contained only two clauses, and provided that in the case of an epidemic the sanitary authorities should be able to borrow money for the purpose of dealing with it, without the usual delay caused by getting Provisional Orders.
§ Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Bill be now read a second time."—(Mr. Dawson.)
§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKEsaid, that so far as the Bill applied to England it would rather come before him than before the Home Secretary; and so far as it applied to Ireland it would come 1111 before the Chief Secretary. He therefore did not see that the hon. Member had been quite right in referring to the Home Secretary; but he had no objection to the second reading of the Bill, although he did not know that it was very necessary in regard to England. At the same time, he understood that the Home Secretary did approve of the Bill; but he could not say what the opinion of the Chief Secretary for Ireland was as to the Irish portion of the Bill.
§ MR. DAWSON (LORD MAYOR of DUBLIN)said, the Chief Secretary had expressed to him his entire concurrence with the Bill. The provisions of the measure were very necessary in Ireland, because sometimes they had a case of small-pox in a harbour, and there was no power to oblige a ship to go into quarantine.
§ Motion agreed to.
§ Bill read a second time, and committed for Monday next.
§ House adjourned at Four o'clock in the morning.