§ Ordered, That the Select Committee on Small Holdings be re-appointed to inquire into the facilities which exist for the creation of Small Holdings in Land in Great Britain; whether, either in connection with an improved system of Local Government or otherwise, those facilities may be extended; whether, in recent years, there has been any diminution in the number of Small Owners and Cultivators of Land; and whether there is any evidence to show that such diminution is due to legislation.
§ The Committee was accordingly nominated of,—Sir Edward Birkbeck, Mr. Broadhurst, Sir George Campbell, Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, Mr. Chaplin, Mr. Jesse Collings, Viscount Curzon, Sir Charles Dalrymple, Sir William Hart Dyke, Sir Walter Foster, Mr. Llewellyn, Mr. James William Lowther, Mr. Seale-Hayne, Mr. Halley Stewart, and Mr. Angus Sutherland, with power to send for persons, papers, and records.
§ Ordered, That five be the quorum.
§ Ordered, That the Minutes of Evidence taken before the Select Committee on Small Holdings in 1889, be referred to the Committee.—(Mr. Akers-Douglas.)
§ House adjourned at half after Twelve o'clock.