§ Amendments reported (according to Order).
§ Clause 8 (Suburban Commons. Sanitary authorities to be represented in the case of commons in the neighbourhood of towns).
THE DUKE OF RICHMOND AND GORDONsaid, that he had considered the Amendment proposed by the noble Duke (the Duke of Northumberland) in Committee, and he was willing to adopt it. He would therefore propose that the six miles radius of distance should be measured, not from "the outer boundary of the town," as it now stood, but—
In a direct line from the town hall, or if there shall be no town hall, then from the cathedral or church, or if there shall be only one church, or if there be more churches than one, then from the principal market place of such town to the nearest point of the suburban common.
§ Amendment made.
§ Clause 19 (Allotments for recreation and gardens).
§ LORD REDESDALErenewed his objection to this clause, which extended the power of the Inclosure Commissioners to require allotments for recreation and field gardens, which under the Inclosure Acts was restricted to the inclosure of commons which were waste of a manor, or subject to an unrestricted right of common, to commons not waste or not so subject, and moved to omit the clause.
§ After some conversation,
§ Clause struck out accordingly.
§ Clause 30 (Jurisdiction of County Court in respect of illegal inclosures).
§ LORD ABERDAREmoved at end of 1st Section to add—
Provided nevertheless, that this section shall not apply to any inclosure or encroachment or interference with the surface of the soil made in the exercise of any rights or alleged rights of getting stone, or of raising or working minerals, or of any operation connected therewith, upon or under a common.
§ Amendment negatived.
§ Bill to be read 3a on Thursday next; and to be printed as amended. (No. 183).