§ Amendments reported (according to Order.)
§ THE EARL OF POWISdesired to point out that an Amendment, introduced by Lord Cairns into the first clause, would have the effect of preventing anyone granting a site for a parsonage, unless as part of a grant for the site of a church. There might be a district furnished with a chapel-of-ease, which it would be desirable to erect into an independent parish, but no landowner could there make a grant for a parsonage, the grant of the church site having been already made.
§ LORD CAIRNSsaid, that the alteration would not have the effect the noble Earl supposed. At the same time he admitted the desirability of empowering gifts of sites for parsonages only, and would accept any Amendment which the noble Earl might propose at the next stage for that purpose.
THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORKhoped the noble and learned Lord would himself frame the Amendment suggested.
§ Bill to be read 3a on Monday next.