§ LORD ST. LEONARDS moved the Second Reading of this Bill, observing that he thought the better course of proceeding would be to refer it, and the several other measures of legal reform now standing for a second reading, to a Select Committee.
The LORD CHANCELLORexpressed his concurrence in the course suggested by the noble and learned Lord, which he thought the most expedient and convenient that could be adopted. In assenting to the second reading of the Bill, he hoped-he should not be understood as assenting to the assertion that it would effect a saving of expense in the Accountant General's Office, because he thought it capable of demonstration that the contrary would be the fact.
§ Bill read 2a.