§ Ordered, "That a Select Committee be appointed to inquire into the causes which have produced the steady decrease in the acreage of land under Hop cultivation, and the serious displacement of labour occasioned thereby, and to report as to the best means, if any, of providing a remedy.
§ Ordered, That the Committee do consist of Seventeen Members.
§ The Committee was accordingly nominated of,—Mr. Shaw Lefevre, Mr. Agg-Gardner Mr. Biddulph, Mr. Channing, Sir Guyer Hunter, Mr. Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen, Sir Wilfrid Lawson, Sir Edmund Leehmere, Sir Roper Lethbridge, Mr. Long, Mr. Jasper More, Mr. Norton, Mr. O'Keeffe, Mr. Pomfret, Sir Henry Roscoe, Mr. Stack, and Mr. Brook-field.
§ Ordered, That the Committee have power to send for persons, papers, and records.
§ Ordered, That Five be the quorum."—(Mr. Akers-Douglas.)