§ Order for Second Reading read.
§ *MR. CALDWELL (Glasgow, St. Rollox)This Bill passed the Second Reading last Session, but at so late a period that it was found impracticable to get it passed through Committee. Its object is to extend the summary procedure in Scotland for the recovery of small debts from £12 to £25. The Bill had the approval of the Lord Advocate and his predecessor, and I now beg to move the Second Reading.
§ Motion made, and Question proposed, that the Bill be read a second time.
§ DR. CAMERON (Glasgow, College)The main object of the Bill I thoroughly approve, but there are certain clauses, however, that are considered as rather dangerously stringent. If my hon. Friend will put off Committee to a tolerably distant date, so that these clauses may be considered, I offer no objection to the Second Reading.
§ Question put, and agreed to.
§ Bill read a second time, and committed for Thursday, 25th April.