HL Deb 20 February 1890 vol 341 cc725-6

House in Committee (according to order.)

Clause 1 agreed to.

Clause 2.

LORD STANLEY OF ALDERLEY

My Lords, the effect of the Amendment which is down on the Notice Book in my name is to maintain the Ground Game Act in its entirety in respect of all nursery, allotment, market, and other private gardens. In other words, it excludes from the protection of this Bill, hares who are so ill-advised as to go into such gardens, instead of remaining in the fields. If this Amendment be passed by your Lordships it is probable that it will disarm the opposition of those persons who are greatly attached to the Ground Game Act, as well as the author of it, and, at the same time, meet the views of those who have petitioned the other House very numerously for a suspension of it during a certain time.

Amendment moved, In page 1, line 22, after the word "conviction" to add the words "the provisions of this clause shall not apply in cases where a hare or leveret shall have been killed, wounded, or taken inside a nursery or other garden."—(The Lord Stanley of Alderley.)

Amendment agreed to.

Report thereof to be received Tomorrow: and Bill to be printed, as amended. (No. 26.)

House adjourned at a quarter before Five o'clock, till To-morrow, a quarter past Ten o'clock.