§ SECOND READING.
§ Order for Second Reading read.
§ *THE PRESIDENT OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (Mr. H. H. FOWLER, Wolverhampton, E.) moved the Second Reading of this Bill. Its object, he explained, was to remove a doubt raised by the Law Officers of the Crown and also by the Court as to the meaning of one clause in the Rivers Pollution Act—namely, in reference to the position of the Sanitary Authority in discharging sewage into a river without applying the necessary means of depriving it of its obnoxious character. It had. been urged that an appeal should be carried to the House of Lords so that a final decision could be obtained on the question, but he had thought the simplest way to deal with the matter was to pass a short Bill of one clause. As this was a non-contentious Bill, he hoped the House would consent to its now being read a second time.
1247§ Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Bill be now read a second time.—(Mr. H. H. Fowler.)
§ Motion agreed to.
§ Bill read a second time, and committed for To-morrow.