§ Order of the Day for the Second Reading, read.
§ THE MARQUESS OF SALISBURY,in moving that the Bill be now read the second time, explained that the object of the Bill was to amend the Act of 3 & 4 Vict. c. 113, for the Regulation of Cathedrals, and to facilitate endowment of Canonries by private benefaction. By the 20th section of the Act referred to it was provided that a plan might be laid before the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for re-establishing any canonries which should be suspended under the Act by assigning towards the re-endowment of any such revived canonry a portion of the capitular revenues, not exceeding £200 per annum. The present Bill proposed that any plan for reviving a canonry need not necessarily propose to appropriate any portion of the capitular revenue; and authorized the revival of old canonries and the establishment of new ones from private endowment. The Bill contained some provisions assigning the duties, fixing residences, &c., for the new canons, and regulating their position in the Chapters of the cathedrals and collegiate churches.
§ Motion agreed to; Bill read 2a, and referred to a Select Committee.
§ And, on Friday, June 13, the Lords following were named of the Committee:—
| Abp. Canterbury. | E. Ducie. |
| M. Salisbury. | V. Portman. |
| E. Carnarvon. | Bp. Winchester. |
| E. Powis. | Bp. Lichfield. |
| E. Nelson. | L. Blachford. |