§ THE LORD CHANCELLOR (Lord HALSBURY)My Lords, my object in asking your Lordships to allow the Land Transfer Bill to be re-introduced immediately is to obtain, if your Lordships shall so please, the re-appointment of the Select Committee which worked upon the Bill of last Session up to Clause 54, and which, I venture to hope, will be willing to bring the work to completion early in the present Session. Under the circumstances, I presume your Lordships would think it convenient to postpone any discussion either of the principles or of the details of the 253 Bill until it shall have returned from the Select Committee.
§ Bill to simplify titles and facilitate the transfer of land in England.—Presented (The Lord Chancellor); read 1a.