§ Order for the Second Reading read.
§ THE LORD PRIVY SEAL (Viscount CROSS)My Lords, I beg to move that this Bill be read a second time. The object of the Bill is set forth in the Memorandum. By a scheme under 455 section 11 of the Union of Benefices Act, 1860 (23 and 24 Vic., c. 142), any surplus revenues from a union of benefices may be annexed as an endowment to a benefice in the metropolis, or in the vicinity thereof. Under section 14 of the same Act a scheme for removal of a church or parsonage rendered unnecessary by a union of benefices can only be made if it provides for the erection of a new church or parsonage in the metropolis. The object of this Bill is to assimilate the scope of these two sections and to define "the vicinity of the metropolis" as including the whole of the metropolitan police district.
§ Question put.
§ Bill read a second time, and committed to a Committee of the whole House.
§ House adjourned at 5.5.