§ House in Committee (according to order).
§ Clause 1 (Amendments on the Timber Acts).
THE LORD PRIVY SEAL (The Earl of CADOGAN)proposed an Amendment, which, he explained, would have the effect of practically taking the Schedule out of the Bill, and referring only to one of the old Timber Acts—namely, the 23 & 24 Geo. III. c. 39, intituled— "An Act to amend the Acts relating to the planting of Timber Trees." He proposed this Amendment in order to meet the objections which had been raised by a noble Earl behind him on the second reading of the Bill.
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Amendment moved, in page 1, line 5, leave out ("the Timber Acts") and insert—
("The Act of the Session of the Irish Parliament of the twenty-third and twenty-fourth years of the reign of King George the Third,
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chapter thirty-nine, intituled 'An Act to amend the Acts relating to the planting of Timber Trees'");
in line 9, leave out ("the Timber Acts") and insert ("the said Act of King George the Third"); and in line 12, leave out ("the Timber Acts") and insert—
("The said Act of King George the Third, and the other Acts relating to the planting of Timber Trees in Ireland.")—(The Lord Privy Seal.)
§ Amendment agreed to.
§ Clause, as amended, agreed to.
§ Clause 2 agreed to.
§ Clause 3 (Amendment of Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Act, 1870, s. 4).
§ A noble LORD (for Lord SUDELEY) proposed an Amendment providing that no claim may be made under this Act, or under any of the Acts mentioned in the Schedule of this Act, exceeding in amount the value of the trees at the time the claim was made. In 1886, when the Bill identical to this was passed through their Lordships' House, a similar Amendment to this was also passed.
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Amendment moved,
In page 1, line 25, after ("Acts") insert ("Provided always, that no claim may be made under this Act, or under any of the Acts mentioned in the Schedule of this Act, exceeding in amount the value of the trees at the time the claim is made.")
§ EARL CADOGANsaid, he would recommend their Lordships to accept the Amendment; but he would wish to have an alteration made in the wording of it. It would be unfair to the tenant that the compensation should be limited simply to the value of the trees at the time at which they were planted, because he might have incurred other expenses in making fences, trenching, and so on.
§ Amendment amended, and agreed to.
§ Clause, as amended, agreed to.
§ Remaining Clauses agreed to.
§ The Report of Amendments to be received To-morrow; and Bill to be printed as amended. (No. 188.)