§ Order for Second Reading read.
§ MR. ELTON (Somerset, Wellington)I hope the House, although the hour is advanced, will allow me to take the second reading of this Bill. I am sure the House will be satisfied of its salutary object. It is intended to extend for the benefit of a large and neglected class, gipsies and others, who travel about this country in caravans, the principle the House adopted in the Canal Boats Acts of 1877 and 1884. Not to detain the House, I will only say the details are strictly in accordance with that principle. No doubt, it will require some further consideration, and this I propose it shall receive from a Select Committee.
§ Bill read a second time, and committed to a Select Committee.