§ Order of the Day for the Second Reading read.
§ LORD COLONSAY, in moving the second reading of this Bill, said, that its object was to render the registration of deeds in Scotland in certain cases more useful, and he proposed to effect that purpose by altering and amending some provisions in two Acts which related to the particular class of registers to which alone this measure applied. Under those Acts, as they now stood, and as they had been interpreted, it was in the power of persons to withdraw from the custody of the keepers of the register deeds that might have been placed in their hands, in order to form part of the public records, and even in some cases deeds which had for a certain time and to some extent actually formed a portion of the public records of Scotland.
§ Motion agreed to:—Bill read 2a, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Monday next.