§ Order of the Day for the Second Reading read.
§ EARL CADOGANMy Lords, this Bill is one of a sort which is commonly known as Money Bills, and I need not therefore trouble your Lordships with the details of it. I may state generally that it is for the purpose of assisting the drainage of a large district in the counties of Galway and Roscommon. The Drainage Board was established in 1878, and under the powers which they then took they were not enabled then to entirely complete the system of drainage which it was proposed to establish. Since then they have found that if further funds were not granted all the monies which had been expended would be wasted. Therefore the object of the present Bill is to provide additional funds, partly as a, free grant and partly as a loan from the Board of Works. A Private Bill had been introduced upon the subject; but as it was not thought right to make a free grant of public funds under a Private Bill it was found necessary to draft the present Bill in order to enable the Treasury to grant the £50,000. I beg to move the Second Reading of the Bill.
§ Bill read 2ª (according to order), and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Thursday next.