§ Ordered, That the Order for Committee be discharged.
§ Ordered, That the Bill be committed to a Select Committee of Seven Members, Four to be nominated by the House and three by the Committee of Selection.
§ Ordered, That all Petitions against the Bill presented three clear days before the meeting of the Committee be referred to the Committee; that the Petitioners praying to be heard by themselves, their Counsel or Agents, be heard against the Bill, and Counsel heard in support of the Bill.
1491§ Ordered, That the Committee have power to send for persons, papers, and records.
§ Ordered, That Three be the quorum.—(Mr. Sexton.)
§
Motion made, and Question proposed,
That it be an Instruction to the Committee to insert in the Bill clauses re-arranging the existing division of the City of Belfast into wards, so as to make it possible for all classes of its inhabitants to obtain representation in the Town Councils."—(Mr. Sexton.)
§ And, the Motion being opposed, Further Proceeding stood adjourned until To-morrow.