HC Deb 18 March 1886 vol 303 cc1324-5

Bill, as amended, considered.

MR. CHANCE (Kilkenny, S.)

I beg to move that a new clause be added to the Bill after Clause 4.

MR. SPEAKER

That Motion will require Notice.

MR. CHANCE

Then I will move that the Bill be re-committed.

A Clause (Improvements under "The Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Act, 1870,") added.

Amendment made.

MR. SPEAKER

Does the hon. Member move that I now leave the Chair?

MR. CHANCE

Yes.

Bill re-committed in respect of New Clause; considered in Committee.

MR. MULHOLLAND (Londonderry, N.)

An hon. Friend of mine wishes to oppose one of the clauses of the Bill; therefore I move to report Progress.

Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Chairman do report Progress, and ask leave to sit again."—(Mr. Mulholland.)

MR. CHANCE

The clauses have received the assent of the right hon. and learned Gentleman the late Attorney General for Ireland (Mr. Holmes). If the hon. Member understood the meaning of this clause—the limited meaning of it—he would make no difficulty in allowing it to pass. Its object is merely to remove a doubt as to the 10th section of 23 & 24 Geo. III., c. 39. Owing to the defective construction of that clause, the landlord, where a tenant cuts down a tree, is entitled to have compensation assessed, and to take all the trees and cut them down and remove them. That has been thought unreasonable; hence this Bill.

THE CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND (Mr. JOHN MORLEY) (Newcastle-on-Tyne)

So far as the Government is concerned we have no objection to the clause.

Motion, by leave, withdrawn.

MR. GILHOOLY (Cork, W.)

Following the example of the Lord Advocate, I beg to move the third reading of the Bill.

MR. SPEAKER

It must be reported before that stage can be taken.

Bill reported; as amended, considered; to be read the third time To-morrow.