§ On the Order for the Second Reading of this Bill,
§ THE MARQUESS OF RIPONsaid, this is a very simple measure which ha passed the House of Commons. I have made it my business to-day to enquire both at the Home Office and the Treasury whether there is any Departmental 48 objection to the Bill, and from both Departments I am informed that there is no such objection. In these circumstances I move the Second Reading. The object of the Bill is merely to make certain very minor alterations in the Act relating to these societies, which was massed two years ago, with regard to one or two small points in which the Act has been found in practice to be defective.
§ Read 2a (according to Order), and committed to a Committee of the Whole House To-morrow.