§ Order of the Day for the Second Reading, read.
§ EARL STANHOPE, in moving that the Bill be now read the second time, said, that like a similar one recently passed for England, its object was to prevent the disqualification of voters merely on the ground of their having let their houses for a portion of the year. The one clause of which the Bill consisted provided that after the passing of the Act every man should be entitled to be registered and to vote under the provisions of the 3rd section of the Representation of the People (Scotland) Act, 1868, notwithstanding that during part of the qualifying period not exceeding four months he should by letting or otherwise have permitted the qualifying premises to be occupied as a furnished house by some other person.
§ Motion agreed to: Bill read 2a accordingly, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House To-morrow.
§ House adjourned at half past Five o'clock, till To-morrow, half past Ten o'clock.