* LORD CHURCHILL, in moving the Second Reading of this Bill, explained that by the Act of 1859 establishing the Naval Reserve, the raising of volunteers and the payment of retaining fees was limited to the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man, Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney and Sark, and it was proposed by Section 1 of the Bill that the powers should be extended subject to the regulation of the 1439 Admiralty, and that Naval Reserve men might be allowed to enrol and re-enrol, and retaining fees might be paid outside the United Kingdom, and the places mentioned. These powers were restricted, and no volunteer might be enrolled or paid outside the British Islands unless he was a British subject serving on a ship registered in the British Islands. In the opinion of Parliamentary Counsel the prohibition of the entry of Lascars could be effected by Admiralty regulation, so for this reason it was not inserted in the Bill. The opportunity had been taken in this Act to amend the Act of 1859 in another particular, and Clause 2 cleared up a slight legal doubt which existed in Clause 11 of the Act of 1859.
Read 2a (according to Order), and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Thursday next.