HL Deb 19 June 1885 vol 298 c1594

Commons Amendment considered (according to order).

THE MARQUESS OF RIPON

moved that the Commons' Amendment to this Bill, by which Corporations were allowed to grant the freedom of their boroughs by a bare majority, be agreed to.

Moved, "To agree to the said Amendment."—(The Marquess of Ripon.)

EARL BEAUCHAMP

objected to the Amendment. The Bill originally required a two-thirds majority, and he moved that the Amendment be not agreed to.

THE MARQUESS OF RIPON

said, he regarded the point as a small one. He would not give the House the trouble of dividing.

On Question? Resolved in the negative.

A Committee appointed to prepare a reason to be offered to the Commons for the Lords disagreeing to the said amendment: The Committee to meet forthwith: Report from the Committee of the reason prepared by them; read, and agreed to; and Bill returned to the Commons with a reason.