§ Order for Second Reading read.
§ (11.59.) MR. C. CAMERON (Glasgow, College)In moving the Second Reading of this Bill, I need only say that it is the same Bill which has been before the House in a previous Session, and its object is to restore the Act passed some years ago to the state in which, as a Bill, it left this House, alterations being made in the House of Lords.
Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Bill be now read a second time."
THE LORD ADVOCATE (Sir C. J. PEARSON, Edinburgh and St. Andrew's Universities)I can hardly agree 410 with the hon. Member in the description he has given of this Bill as one that has been, so far as I know, before the House on a previous occasion in its present shape. I rather think there is a clause in it which has not appeared before——
§ MR. CAMERONNo, not a word.
§ SIR C. J. PEARSONHowever that may be, this is a matter of great importance to the community in Scotland, for it is a proposal to alter what is regarded as a settlement of the question embodied in the Act of 1887——
It being Midnight, the Debate stood adjourned.
Debate to be resumed upon Tuesday next.