HL Deb 19 July 1847 vol 94 cc508-9
LORD CAMPBELL

moved that this Bill be now read 3a.

LORD REDESDALE

recommended that the Bill should be recommitted, as it was impossible to deal with it in a satisfactory manner, unless by discussing it clause by clause.

LORD CAMPBELL

objected.

LORD REDESDALE

said, that under these circumstances he should move that the Bill be read a third time this day three months.

After a short conversation, in which Lord BROUGHAM, Lord CAMPBELL, the Duke of RICHMOND, Earl GREY, and other Peers took part,

On question that the word "now" stand part of the Motion, House divided:—Contents 26; Not-Contents 20: Majority 6.

List of the CONTENTS.
DUKE VISCOUNT.
Norfolk Falkland
MARQUESSES. BISHOP.
Clanricarde St. Asaph
Lansdowne LORDS.
EARLS. De Mauley
Auckland Camoys
Grey Cottenham
Fingall Wrottesley
Radnor Montford
Devon Stafford
Granville Strafford
Bruce Dunalley
Minto Lilford
Bessborough Sudely
Fitzhardinge Campbell
List of the NOT-CONTENTS.
DUKES. Montrose
Richmond Buccleuch
MARQUESSES. VISCOUNTS.
Ayslesbury Combermere
Huntley Sydney
EARLS.
Harewood LORDS.
Nelson Sondes
Enniskillen Colville
Rosse Walsingham
St. Germans Redesdale
Stradbroke Gray
Cardigan Colchester

Resolved in the Affirmative: Bill read 3a accordingly.

The further Proceedings on this Bill were as follows: Amendments made. Then it was moved, in Clause I, to leave out ("Forty-seven") and insert ("Fifty-two"): on Question, That the Words proposed to be left out stand Part of the Bill, House divided;—Contents 21; Non-Contents Hi: Majority 5. Resolved in the Affirmative. Then it was moved, to leave out Clause II; objected to; and Motion (by Leave of the House) withdrawn. Then it was moved, in Clause III., to insert, after the Word ("them") the following Words ("up to the Term of Whitsunday one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two"); objected to; and, on Question, Resolved, in the Negative, Then it was moved, after Clause III., to insert the following Clause: ("And be it enacted, That all Powers of borrowing or raising Money under an Act passed in the Second Year of Her present Majesty, intituled 'An Act to regulate and secure the Debt due by the City of Edinburgh to the Public; to confirm an Agreement between the said City and its Creditors; and to affect a Settlement of the Affairs of the said City and the Town of Leith' shall cease and determine, and the same are hereby repealed"); objected to; and, on Question, Resolved in the Negative. Then it was moved, to leave out Clauses ("IV.") and ("VI."): on Question, Resolved in the Affirmative. Bill passed, and sent to the Commons.