§ (The Lord Winmarleigh.)
§ [NO. 99.] SECOND READING.
§ Order of the Day for the Second Reading, read.
§ LORD WINMARLEIGH,in moving that the Bill be now read the second time, said that, under two existing Acts of Parliament the Town Council of a corporate city or town could by resolution appoint an Assistant Barrister to sit in one division of the Court of Quarter Sessions; but a resolution of the Council was required on each occasion when such a power was proposed to be exercised, and the Assistant Barrister was not entitled to claim remuneration for more than two days in a session. The object of this Bill was to enable Town Councils to pass such a resolution for a whole year instead of for a session, and to extend to four days in a session as the time for which the Assistant Barrister might claim remuneration. In Liverpool and other large towns it was found that two days' assistance from a Barrister appointed under the existing law was not sufficient.
§ Motion agreed to; Bill read 2a accordingly, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Tuesday next.
§ House adjourned at half-past Five o'clock, to Thursday next, half-past Ten o'clock.