§ SECOND READING.
§ Order of the Day for the Second Reading read.
§ EARL CADOGANMy Lords, this Bill provides for an increase of sala- 1791 ries of the Land Purchase Commissioners, and for reducing their number when vacancies occur, if the business should permit. I beg to move that the Bill be read a second time.
§ Moved, "That the Bill be now read 2a"—(The Earl Cadogan.)
§ THE MARQUESS OF WATERFORDI should like to ask my noble Friend the Lord Privy Seal why this increase of salaries should not be for this year. The Land Purchase Commissioners apparently will have just as much to do this year as next year. What is the object for the increase of salaries being postponed for a whole year?
§ EARL CADOGANMy Lords, the Bill is practically a Treasury Bill, and is one with which this House, I am afraid, is incompetent to deal; but I will make inquiries, and will answer my noble Friend's question at the next stage.
§ Motion agreed to; Bill read 2a accordingly, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House To-morrow.