§ Amendments reported (according to Order).
§ LORD HERSCHELLsaid, that in pursuance of an undertaking given in Committee to consider the expediency of assimilating the Law of Distress under the Agricultural Holdings Act to this Bill, he proposed to omit Clause 7, relating to the appraisement of goods, and to insert a new clause, which would be applicable both to the present Bill and to the Agricultural Holdings Act. He moved the insertion of a new clause after Clause 4, providing that—
So much of an Act passed in the second year of the reign of their Majesties King William III. and Mary, chapter 5, as requires appraisement before sale of goods distrained is 1255 hereby repealed, except in cases where the tenant or owner of the goods and chattels by "writing requires such appraisement to be made, and the landlord or other person levying a distress may sell the goods and chattels distrained without causing them to be previously appraised; and, for the purposes of sale, the goods and chattels distrained shall, at the request in writing of the tenant or owner of such goods and chattels, be removed to a public auction room or to some other fit and proper place specified in such request, and be there sold. The cost and expenses of appraisement, when required by the tenant, shall be borne and paid by him; and the costs and expenses attending any such removal, and any damage to the goods and chattels arising therefrom, shall be borne and paid by the person requesting the removal.
§ Clause agreed to, and added to the Bill.
§ Bill to be read 3a on Thursday next; and to be printed as amended. (No. 44.)