Lords Sitting of 9 January 1807

MALT DUTY BILL.
The order for committing the Malt Duty bill, which also purported to be a bill for removing doubts respecting the issue of certain Exchequer bills, and for other purposes, having been read,
The Lord Chancellorleft the woolsack, to call the attention of the house to this bill, which appeared to contain matter foreign to the object of a money bill. His lordship moved that the standing order respecting bills of this description should be read. The standing order was accordingly read by the clerk, declaring, that to insert in money bills, clauses foreign to the objects of those bills, was unparliamentary, and destructive of the constitution of parliament.—The noble and learned lord said it would be wasting the time of their lordships for him to attempt to prove, what must be obvious to the house, that clauses were inserted in this bill, which had no relation to its object as a money bill, and which therefore rendered it obnoxious to the standing order of the house which had just been read. He therefore moved that the bill be rejected, which was ordered accordingly,