§ House in Committee (according to Order).
THE LORD CHANCELLOR,in reporting the Bill, which had passed through Committee without Amendment, explained that it continued the expurgation of the statutes from the 42nd George III. to the commencement of the reign of William IV. He moved the omission of the reference to the section of the Emancipation Act with reference to the assumption of territorial tithes. The framers of the Bill had construed the Act of 1871, repealing the Ecclesiastical Titles Act, as having repealed that section, but he doubted whether it went quite so far.
§ LORD CAIRNSalso thought that, though the Act of 1871 had very much narrowed the operation of the section, it had not repealed it.
§ Amendment made accordingly.
§ Bill to be read 3a To-morrow.