§ Bill read 3a (according to Order) with the Amendments.
§ LORD PENZANCEsaid, he had given notice of an Amendment to meet the views of those who thought there was some objection to the mode in which, by his clause, it was proposed to recover maintenance money from husbands against whom magistrates pronounced judicial separation in consequence of their having assaulted their wives.
Amendment moved, in Clause 4, line 3, leave out from ("the board") to ("conviction") in line 5, both inclusive, and insert ("his wife"); line 7, leave out from ("the support") to ("her") in line 14, both inclusive, and insert—
("Her support, and the payment of any sum of money so ordered shall be enforcible and enforced against the husband in the same manner as the payment of money is enforced under an order of affiliation.")—(The Lord Penzance.)
THE EARL OF KIMBERLEYsaid, that the Amendment proposed by his noble and learned Friend was a great improvement, and met the difficulty which he pointed out when his noble and learned Friend introduced the clause.
§ Amendment agreed to; further Amendments made.
§ Bill passed, and sent to the Commons.