§ Amendment moved, in page 23, lines 20 to 23, leave out ("Part II.")—(The Duke of Bucchuch.)
§ LORD CARLINGFORD (Lord PRESIDENT of the COUNCIL)said, he could not accept the Amendment, seeing that the Government attached great importance to that part of the Schedule as it stood. They regarded drainage, in very numerous cases, so essential to farming, that they earnestly desired to stipulate, by provisions in the Bill, that where the landlord could not, or would not, undertake the work himself, the tenant should be able to do so.
THE DUKE OF RICHMOND AND GORDONsaid, he would advise his noble Friend (the Duke of Buccleuch) not to persist in this Amendment, as it was one which would most materially affect one of the principles on which the Bill had been drawn, which was to encourage drainage. He (the Duke of Richmond and Gordon) had not that fear, which some noble Lords had, that tenants were going to drain all the land in the country; he only wished they could.
§ Amendment (by leave of the Committee) withdrawn.
§ Schedule agreed to.
§ SECOND SCHEDULE agreed to.
§ The Report of the Amendments to be received on Tuesday next; and Bill to be printed as amended. (No. 186.)
§ House adjourned at One o'clook A. M., to Monday next, a quarter past Four o'clook.