§ Lords Amendment: In page 1, line 14, leave out "it applies" and insert "they apply."
§ The Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty (Mr. John Dugdale)I beg to move, "That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment."
This is a purely drafting Amendment. Their Lordships have displayed a rather better knowledge of the English language 2246 than we did, and they found that it is better to say "X and Y do" than "X and Y does," and have therefore substituted the plural for the singular.