§ Order of the Day for the Second Reading, read.
11§ LORD MORRIS, in moving the Second Reading, explained that its object was to remove doubts which had arisen as to whether certain chief or quit rents payable to the Crown were within the Act of 1876, and to provide that the period of 60 years should be a bar to all claims.
§ Moved, "That the Bill be now read 2a."—(The Lord Morris.)
§ THE LORD CHANCELLOR (Lord HERSCHELL)My Lords, this subject was very fully discussed the other day, when I stated I was certainly quite prepared to give my assent to the Bill. I am quite satisfied that whether the Act of 1876 did or not cover these cases, it was intended to cover them; and if it does not cover them, it is, I think, quite right that it should be amended.
§ Motion agreed to: Bill read 2a accordingly, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Thursday next.