§ THE LORD CHANCELLOR (LORD HALSBURY),in moving the Second Reading of this Bill, said it proposed to amend a defect in the administration of the criminal law with respect to the receipt or possession of stolen property. As the law stood a person who received or had in his possession any property knowing it to have been stolen outside the United Kingdom could not be prosecuted with effect in this country; and the Bill proposed to make such an act a felony or misdemeanour in this country according as it would be a felony or misdemeanour if the property had been stolen in the United Kingdom.
§ Read 2a (according to Order); and committed to a Committee of the Whole House.