§ Order of the Day for the Second Reading read.
§ THE LORD CHANCELLOR (Lord HALSBURY), in moving that the Bill be now read a second time, said, it was simply a Bill to codify the numerous Acts of Parliament—somewhere about a dozen in number—dealing with the subject of lunacy; and, in the event of the Bill which their Lordships had just read a second time going to the other House, it might be possible to refer both the codification of the existing law and the new Bill to a Committee together, so that the new Bill might be incorporated with the other measure, and the whole law in regard to lunacy be reduced to one Statute.
§ Motion agreed to.
§ Bill read 2a accordingly.