§ EARL SPENCER, in presenting a Bill for consolidating enactments relating to Municipal Corporations in England and Wales, said: This Bill, which has been prepared in pursuance of a recommendation of the Statute Law Committee, is, as far as can be, a pure Consolidation Bill. It has been prepared with the greatest care by Mr. Reilly and Mr. Ilbert, and places the whole of the law on this most important subject in a compendious form. Some few amendments in the law have been introduced where they were manifestly desirable, and they have been generally adopted on the advice of persons or bodies practically acquainted with the working of the present system. It is not proposed to proceed with the Bill during the present Session. It is only introduced for the purpose of 202 being circulated and considered during the Recess. A similar course was adopted with the Bill which was introduced by the then Lord Chancellor on the 12th of August, 1879, with a view to its being proceeded with last year. Since then there has been no fitting opportunity for its introduction into Parliament, and it is again submitted in the hope that such a useful measure may soon become law.
§ Bill presented (The LORD PRESIDENT); read 1a (No. 216.)