§ The Lord Chancellor moved the second reading of the Small Debts (Scotland) Bill, the object of which was to enable the Sheriff to hold courts in different parts of the same county, so as to carry his jurisdiction, the exercise of which was very beneficial, to the doors of various litigants.
Viscount Melvilleobjected to the bill, that it went so saddle the public with nearly 6,000l., for the performance of duties which were now done for nothing. He would not oppose the second reading but he would at the proper time move that it be referred to a select committee.
§ Bill read a second time.