THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR SCOTLAND (Lord BALFOUR of BURLEIGH)There is a power of the Local Government Board by Provisional Order to make joint committees of county councils for the enforcement of the Rivers Pollution Act in England. There is a similar power in Scotland to the Secretary of State for Scotland, but it has been discovered that there is no power to make a joint committee where the river runs partly through England and partly through Scotland—that is the case with the Tweed—and the object of this Bill is to give power to appoint some joint committee in that case, as in other cases that I have mentioned. I beg to move that the Bill be read a second time.
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Motion made, and Question put—
That the Bill be read a second time.
§ Agreed to.
§ Bill read the second time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House To-morrow.