Lords Sitting of 13 June 1873

MINUTES.
PUBLIC BILLS—First Reading—Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 6)* (157); Grand Jury Presentments (Ireland)* (158).
Second Reading—Municipal Corporations Evidence* (129); Local Government Board (Ireland) Provisional Order Confirmation (No. 2) (134), postponed.
Select Committee—Canonries* (83), nominated. Committee—Report—County Authorities (Loans)* (124); Game Birds (Ireland)* (127).
Third Reading—Juries (Ireland) (150); Customs Duties (Isle of Man)* (116); Registration (Ireland)* (138); Crown Lands* (117), and passed.

JURIES (IRELAND) BILL—(No. 150).
The Marqncss of Lansdowne.

THIRD READING.
Bill read 3a according to Order.
LORD DUNSANYmoved, after clause 4, to add—
"And. it shall be further lawful for the said judge, upon the evidence of the high sheriff, of any justice of the peace, any stipendiary magistrate, county inspector, or sub-inspector of constabulary, to remove from the general jurors book or special book the name or names of any juror or jurors who may have been convicted of any ribbon offence, or arraigned for such offence and not acquitted, or who to the best of the knowledge or belief of the justices or sub-inspector of constabulary within whose district the said juror or jurors reside, is or has been a member of any ribbon or unlawful society; provided the said judge shall be satisfied as to the evidence in the case."
THE MARQUESS OF LANSDOWNEpointed out that the provisions already in the Bill were only temporary. They would expire in January, 1875, but the Amendment would make the Bill a permanent one.
On Question, disagreed to.
Bill passed.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (IRELAND) PROVISIONAL ORDER CONFIRMATION (Nos. 2. 3. & 4.) BILL.
The Marquess of Lansdowne.

(No. 134). SECOND READING.
Order of the Day for the Second Reading, read.
Moved, "That the Bill be now read 2a."—(The Marquess of Lansdowne).
THE MARQUESS OF SALISBURYsaid, he must once more draw attention to the slovenly manner in which these Bills were frequently drawn. The enactments of the Bill consisted chiefly of the enumeration of the sections of previous Acts. The consequences of this were sometimes ludicrous, not to say inconvenient. One of these references in the Bill empowered entry into any dwelling house in Belfast at any hour. One, at least, of the references was incorrect, and this mode of legislation was peculiarly liable to printers' blunders, one of them this Session having confused a provision as to bastard children with Courts-martial in India.
THE MARQUESS OF LANSDOWNEsaid, that instructions had been given to the Irish Local Government Board to avoid this practice for the future.
After a short conversation, the Motion for the Second Reading was withdrawn, and the Bills were ordered to be read the second time on Tuesday next.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROVISIONAL ORDERS (NO. 6) BILL [H.L.]
A Bill to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to the districts of Ashbourne, Bury Saint Edmunds, Epping, Fenton, Richmond (Surrey), Shipley, Stoke, Tong Street, and Ventnor—Was presented by The Marquess of LANSDOWNE; read 1a. (No. 157.)
House adjourned at half past Six o'clock, to Monday next, Eleven o'clock.