§ Amendments reported (according to Order).
§ THE LORD PRIVY SEAL (Lord TWEEDMOUTH) moved an Amendment to leave out the words "or by any Act amending the same" in Clause 1 as superfluous and misleading. By the principal Act it was clear that the maximum rate was 1d. in the £1; and the 4 only statutory provision touching the matter was one for lowering the rate.
§ Amendment moved, in Clause 1, page 1, line 9, leave out ("or by any Act amending the same").—(The Lord Tweedmouth.)
§ Amendment agreed to.
LORD TWEEDMOUTHproposed next to leave out Clause 7, and was very glad thereby to meet the objection of Lord Ashbourne. He had found already existing in the Libraries and Scientific Institutions Act, 1854, all the powers given by the clause, which was therefore entirely superfluous and unnecessary.
§ Amendment moved, in page 4, to leave out Clause 7.—(The Lord Tweedmouth.)
§ LORD ASHBOURNEsaid, he would be sorry to have attributed to him any intention which he had not expressed. He had not the slightest objection to the substance of the clause, but only desired to point out that in the case of an owner giving part of his property for the purpose of a public library all the safeguards should be preserved. He had, therefore, suggested that the requirements of the Act passed in reference to the Technical Schools, 1892, should be adopted.
§ Amendment agreed to.
§ Bill to be read 3a on Monday next.