§ Select Committee appointed to inquire into the alleged evils attendant upon the system of money-lending by professional money-lenders, at high rates of interest, or under oppressive conditions as to repayment, and to report thereon.
§ The Committee was accordingly nominated of,—Mr. Ascroft, Mr. Thomas Bayley, Mr. Caldwell, Captain Chaloner, Mr. Garfit, Mr. W. Hazell, Mr. Jeffreys, Mr. Lloyd-George, Mr. A. K. Loyd, Dr. M'Donnell, Mr. Price, Mr. T. W. Russell, Mr. Warr, Mr. George Whiteley, and Mr. Yerburgh.
§ Ordered, That the Committee have power to send for persons, papers, and records.
§ Ordered, That five be the quorum.—(Sir William Walrond.)
§ Adjourned at twenty-five minutes before Six of the clock.