§ MR. CUNINGHAME GRAHAMI beg to ask the Lord Advocate whether he would be willing to support a Bill to confer on the mother of a child born out of wedlock the same rights and obligations towards that child as if the child had been born in wedlock, and to confer on the person acknowledging himself to be the father of a child born out of wedlock, or against whom a bastardy order has 1120 been made in respect of a child, the same rights and obligations towards that child as if the child had been born in wedlock?
§ * SIR C. J. PEARSONI cannot give the hon. Member my decision on this question until I have seen his proposals put in the form of a Bill.