§ Order of the Day for the Second Reading read.
§ LORD SUDELEY, in moving that the Bill be now read a second time, said, it was introduced merely to amend one clause of the Highway Act of 1878, which was creating a considerable amount of hardship. The Isle of Wight, having a separate Act, passed in 1813, and its own Highway Commissioners, was specially exempted, under the Act of 1878, from receiving anything from the county of Hampshire rates towards its main roads. Unfortunately, in Clause 13. the name of "Isle of Wight" was left out from the list of exemptions who have not to contribute to the county rate. The result was that the Isle of Wight was in the peculiar position of having to pay, and, at the same time, to be excluded from receiving any benefits whatever from it. All parties were agreed that this glaring injustice should be rectified, and he trusted the House would agree to pass the Bill.
§ Moved, "That the Bill be now read 2a."—(The Lord Sudeley.)
§ Motion agreed to; Bill read 2a accordingly; Committee negatived: Then Standing order No. XXXV. considered (according to Order), and dispensed with: Bill read 3a, and passed.