§ SECOND READING.
§ Order of the Day for the Second Reading read.
§ THE LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (Viscount CRANBROOK)My Lords, this is a Bill to give more elasticity to the division of the money, which division is at present fixed by Act of Parliament as a certain amount for England and a certain amount for Ireland; this Bill will enable the money to be divided by the Treasury and the Agricultural Department together as it is required by the one country and the other; and I trust your Lordships will give the Bill a Second Reading.
§ Moved, "That the Bill be now read 2a."—(The Viscount Cranbrook.)
§ Motion agreed to; Bill read 2a accordingly, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House To-morrow.