§ Order of the Day for the Third Reading, read.
§ THE EARL OF REDESDALEpresented a numerously-signed Petition from the Magistrates and Commissioners of Police of the Burgh of Govan, pointing out that in the English Act there was a clause the object of which was to secure the consumption of smoke by the locomotive engines travelling on the roads. In other respects he believed that the same provision was applicable, so far as Scotland was concerned, but the words were not inserted in this Bill. He should, therefore, with the permission of their Lordships, propose to insert them after the Bill had been read a third time.
§ Bill read 3a (according to Order).
§ THE EARL OF REDESDALEthen moved the insertion of words in Clause 5 rendering it compulsory the use of engines that would, as far as practicable, consume their own smoke, and 1751 imposing penalties for breach of the enactment. The noble Earl stated that the Amendment was in accordance with the prayer of the Petition that he had just presented to the House.
§ Amendment agreed to.
LORD DENMAN, in moving the Amendment of which he had given Notice, and which was the same as that which had been rejected in the Committee, pointed out that it might be necessary to stop the locomotives for a longer period of time during the summer and autumn than in the spring or winter, and stated that it would not do any injury whatever to the owners of locomotives. He hoped the noble Duke would be able to give a more favourable answer to this question; because, from the much greater number of locomotives in parts of Scotland than in any county of England, there was no necessity for dealing with the Scotch roads in the same manner as the English.
§ Amendment negatived.
§ Bill passed; and sent to the Commons.