§ Order read, for resuming Adjourned Debate on Question [4th December], "That the Bill be now read a second time."
§ Question again proposed.
§ Debate resumed.
§ (11.58.) MR. CRAIG (Newcastle upon-Tyne)When the Debate on this Bill was adjourned last night I was endeavouring to elicit from the Law Officer of the Crown some explanation of this some what obscure Bill. It professes to be a Bill to enable solicitors of the High Court to act as County Justices but it really proposes in its enacting clause to repeal the 6th Geo. IV., chap. 48. Now, what is that enactment? On looking into the matter I find it an Act for the recovery of small debts in Scotland. There are no fewer than 11 closely printed pages in that enactment, and I do urge that we are entitled to some explanation of this extraordinary state of affairs. What is the real object of the Bill? Will the Solicitor General kindly give us some explanation on that point?
§ It being midnight, the Debate stood adjourned.
§ Debate to be resumed upon Monday next.
§ House adjourned at two minutes after Twelve o'clock till Monday next.