RESOLUTION. (Hansard, 12 July 1883)

§ MR. HIBBERT
said, he wished to move the Motion which stood in his name on the Paper, and which was as follows:— That it is expedient that the recommendations contained in the Report of the Committee appointed by the Secretary of State for the Home Department to consider and revise the 1339 List of 1801 for the Promulgation of the Statutes, and the revised List contained in the said Report should he adopted, and that the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office should he authorized and directed to cause the printing and delivery of copies of the Public General Statutes and the Public Local and Personal Acts, according to the mode of distribution contained in the said Report and Revised List, and the Secretary of State, with the sanction of the Treasury, may vary the distribution authorized by the said Revised List from time to time. In moving this Resolution, he wished to say that it was intended for the purpose of carrying out the recommendations contained in the Report laid on the Table with regard to the Promulgation of the Statutes. He wished to say that the hon. Member for Wolverhampton (Mr. H. H. Fowler) had intended to move an Amendment as to the mode in which the Statutes were to be distributed to the House; but on receiving an explanation that the Statutes issued to the House of Lords were not more expensive than those issued unbound to Members of the House of Commons, the hon. Member had been satisfied, and had withdrawn his opposition. He (Mr. Hibbert) found that the unbound copies of the folio edition presented to the Members of this House actually cost more than the bound copies presented to the House of Peers. It would be safe to say that in future Members of the House of Commons would, on application to the proper quarter, receive bound copies in place of the unbound copies they had hitherto received.

§ SIR HENRY HOLLAND
said, he wished to express his sense of the good work the Committee had done; but, at the same time, he also desired to enter a protest against its being considered a final Report. He was satisfied that experience had shown that the number of copies of Statutes now supplied was far greater than it ought to be; and he thought that, after supplying Members of both Houses of the Legislature, no copies should be delivered free, except to magistrates or judicial bodies. He said this simply as showing that they did not entirely assent to the Report of the Committee.

§ MR. HIBBERT
said, that in the revised scheme laid before the House there were fewer copies than had been previously supplied.

§ MR. STUART-WORTLEY
asked whether Members of the House would have 1340 the option of having the Statutes as they were, bound or unbound, delivered to them at the end of the Session?

§ MR. HIBBERT
replied in the affirmative.