§ Considered in Committee.
§ (In the Committee.)
§ Clause 1:
§ MR. CLAUDE HAYsaid that power was given the trustees to deal with the property without the necessity of obtaining the consent of the Church. Why should the trustees be free from obtaining the consent of their constituency for the disposal of the trust confided in them? Did that power relate to any property over which the Charity Commissioners had no jurisdiction?
§ MR. SOARESsaid the reason why those powers had been conferred upon the trustees was because the trustees desired them, because all those people who were interested in the Charity desired them, and because the Charity Commissioners thought it wise.
§ MR. CLAUDE HAYIs this the usual practice in connection with Bills of this sort?
§ MR. SOARESYes.
§ MR. CLAUDE HAYsaid that if a man was a trustee it was a very singular thing that with respect to a portion of the trust he should be subject to control, and with respect to another portion he should be an absolutely free agent. He did not believe it was usual, and ho, had some reason for saying so.
§ Clause agreed to.
§ Bill reported, without, Amendment; read the third time, and passed.