§ Order of the Day for the Second Reading, read.
THE EARL OF CAMPERDOWN,in moving the Second Reading of this Bill, explained that by a recent decision of the Court of Appeal the Act of 1891, as regarded the relation between occupier and owner, did not apply to fee-farm grants made prior to 1860; and said that the Bill had been brought in to carry out what he believed was the intention of Parliament by extending the Act to these cases.
§ Moved, "That the Bill be nowread 2a"—(The Earl of Camperdown.)
§ LORD ACTONsaid, the Government had not opposed the Bill in the other House, and he would not, on their behalf, put any obstacle in the way of the noble Earl; but considerable objections were taken to certain of its provisions, and he asked that the Committee stage should be postponed until the noble Earl had consulted those engaged in the administration of the Land Laws.
THE EARL OF CAMPERDOWNasked what length of time would be required and whom it would be necessary to consult, as the matter was important at this period of the Session?
§ LORD ACTONsaid, on the question of time he could give no opinion, and on the question of persons he would communicate with the noble Earl.
§ Motion agreed to; Bill read 2a accordingly, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House.