§ Order of the Day for the Second Reading, read.
§ THE EARL OF FEVERSHAM,in moving that the Bill be now read the second time, said, its object was to remove some inconveniences which attended the existing law with respect to fairs. For this purpose it repealed altogether the Fairs Act of 1868, and enabled the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on the representation of the magistrates of the petty sessional division within which any fair was held, or of the owner of any fair, to alter the days for holding such fair. The 7th clause held intact all rights of the owner.
§ Moved, "That the Bill be now read 2a."—(The Earl of Feversham.)
§ THE EARL OF POWISthought the Bill ought to provide that in any case in which it was proposed to prolong or to abridge a fair by application to the Secretary of State, notice should be given of the application by those who made it—by the justices to the owners of the land, or by the owners of the land to the justices, as the case might be—so as to prevent private injury or public inconvenience on the one hand, or injury to public morality on the other.
§ Motion agreed to: Bill read 2a acordingly, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Monday next.