HC Deb 14 April 1890 vol 343 cc459-60

(3.50.) Order for Second Reading read.

MR. JACKSON

I beg to move the Second Reading of this Bill, which is a consolidation Bill pure and simple, with the exception of four minor points, which are stated in the Memorandum issued with the Bill. The Government have been pressed to introduce the measure, and, having taken the usual means of ascertaining the feeling on both sides of the House, they find that the course now proposed, namely, to read it a second time and refer it to a Standing Committee, is generally acceptable.

MR. W. REDMOND

Is it the fact that the Bill was circulated only this morning?

MR. JACKSON

No; it was circulated before Easter.

Question, "That the Bill be now read a second time," put, and agreed to.

Question, "That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Statute Law Revision," put, and agreed to.