§ Order of the Day for the Second Reading read.
§ LORD CARLINGFORD (LORD PRESIDENT of the COUNCIL), in moving that the Bill be now read a second time, said, that under the existing law the Lord Lieutenant had the power to distribute the force every five years. It was desirable that he should have the power at once of making a supplementary redistribution, which would have the effect of relieving some localities of extra charge and increasing in them the quota of the free force.
§ Moved, "That the Bill be now read 2a."—(The Lord President.)
§ Motion agreed to; Bill read 2a accordingly, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House To-morrow.