§ Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed to consider the operation of the Law by which hospitals and other institu- 1012 tions for the care and treatment of the sick, or of those afflicted in mind or body, are liable to local rates, and to report whether under any and what conditions it is for the public interest that such hospitals and institutions, or any of them, should be exempted wholly or in part from such liability in future.
§ Ordered, That five be the quorum.
§ Ordered, That the Committee have power to send for persons, papers, and records.
§ The Committee was accordingly nominated of:—Mr. Bonsor, Dr. Farquharson Mr. Hayes Fisher, Sir Cameron Gull, Sir John Maclure, Mr. M'Crae, Mr. Pickers-gill, Mr. Round, Mr. T. W. Russell, Mr. Tomlinson, Mr. Lawson Walton, Mr. Warr, and Sir James Woodhouse.—(Sir WilliamWalrond.)