§ Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed to consider whether, on grounds of public health, it is desirable that certain classes of Spirits, British and Foreign, should be kept in bond for a definite period before they are allowed to pass into consumption, and to inquire into the system of blending British and Foreign Spirits in or out of bond, and into the propriety of applying the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts and the Merchandise Marks Act to the case of British and Foreign Spirits, and also into the Sale of Ether as an Intoxicant.
§ The Committee was accordingly nominated of,—Sir Lyon Playfair, Mr. Somervell, Sir Henry Roscoe, Mr. T. M. Healy, Mr. Boord, Sir Edward Harland, Mr. Flynn, Colonel Hill, Mr. Hozier, Mr. M'Ewan, and Mr. Jackson.
§ Ordered, That the Committee have power to send for persons, papers, and records.
§ Ordered, That Five be the quorum.—(Sir Lyon playfair.)