§ Report from the Select Committee considered (according to Order), and agreed to: Then the Order of the Day for the Lords to be Summoned being read, it was moved to resolve, "That before the First 1292 Reading of any Rill for making any Work, in the Construction of which compulsory Power is sought to take Thirty Houses or more inhabited by the Labouring Classes in any One Parish or Place, the Promoters be required to deposit in the Office of the Clerk of the Parliaments a Statement of the Number, Description, and Situation of the said Houses, the Number (so far as they can be estimated) of Persons to be displaced, and whether any and what Provision is made in the Bill for remedying the Inconvenience likely to arise from such Displacement."
§ The EARL of SHAFTESBURYsaid, that this Resolution would go far to remove a general complaint that was now made; and he had to express his thanks to the noble Lord the Chairman of Committees for the great service he had rendered in the framing of the Resolution. If he might judge by the letters he had received from Mr. Cubitt and others, he was satisfied that by adopting this Resolution their Lordships had gone far towards instituting the very best relations between cnpital and labour that were capable of being made in relation to this subject.
§ On Question, agreed to; and ordered accordingly: and to be added to the Roll of the Standing Orders of this House.