§ Order of the Day for the Second Reading, read.
THE LORD CHANCELLOR, in moving that the Bill be now read the second time, said, that the measure carried the work of revision and expurgation 1930 down to the Act of Union with Ireland, and repealed nearly 1,100 Acts and parts of Acts. The task commenced by Lord Westbury had been going steadily forward, and after some years of laborious work two volumes of the Revised Statutes had been published, bringing the statutes down to the 10th of George III. He could not, he was afraid, hope that the reduction in the subsequent volumes would be on so large a scale.
§ Motion agreed to:—Bill read 2a (according to Order) and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Thursday next.