§ On the Question "That the House do take into consideration the Commons Amendments to this Bill,"
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THE LORD CHANCELLOR moved to omit Sub-section (11), which had been added to Clause 20 ("Power to require registration") by the Commons:—
The City of London shall be a separate county, and the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons, in Common Council assembled, shall be deemed the County Council thereof; and for the purpose of this section the representation of the said City on the London County Council shall not be computed in the number of the County Council not entitled to vote.
§ The proviso seemed, on the face of it, either unnecessary or a repeal of the provisions of the Local Government Act on the subject. At all events, it was a highly controversial matter, which ought not to have been introduced into a clause which was represented to be an agreed clause. It was also unnecessary from another point of view. He was sure that the City of London must have known that he should not be a party to an order affecting them without consulting them and considering their wishes, either as to the application of the Act or as to any arrangement for a registry there or otherwise, He therefore moved that their Lordships disagree 324 with the sub-section, and, subject to this, they agree with the Commons' Amendments.
§ Motion agreed to; new sub-section struck out.