§ Order of the Day for the Second Reading, read.
§ LORD WINMARLEIGH,in moving that the Bill be now read the second time, said, the Bill was merely an amendment of a previous Act—the 34th, and 35th of the Queen—and its object was to put the Clerk of the Peace of the County Palatine on the same footing as the clerks of the peace of other counties. By a provision of the Bill the chief clerk would have deputy clerks to assist him in the discharge of the duties of his office, but he would be alone responsible for their proper discharge, and. would have to pay their salaries.
§ Moved, "That the Bill be now read 2a."—(The Lord Winmarleigh.)
§ THE EARL OF HARROWBYsaid, he had been requested to present two Petitions against the Bill; but in presenting them he deemed it right to observe that, having listened to the statements of the noble Lord in moving the second reading of the Bill, he felt he could not offer any opposition to it.
§ Motion agreed to:—Bill read 2a accordingly, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Monday next.
§ House adjourned at Six o'clock, till To-morrow, half past Eleven o'clock.