§ Order for Second Reading read.
MR. ACLAND,in moving that the Bill be now read a second time, said, the points raised by the Bill were that the officers and members of Local Authorities might be exempted from certain penalties which were now, in such a manner as to entail grievous public inconvenience, attached to their having any interest in the sale, purchase, lease, or hiring under contracts, with particular Companies of which they were shareholders, or in respect of advertisements in newspapers in which they might have some interest.
§ Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Bill be now read a second time."—(Mr. Acland.)
§ Question put, and agreed to.
§ Bill read a second time, and committed for Friday.