§ Report of the Amendments received.
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Amendments proposed—
Clause 19, page 6, line 15, leave out 'restoring' and insert 'altering.'"—(Earl Russell.)
EARL RUSSELLsaid he agreed that plans for building, restoring, or enlarging an asylum, and contracts for the purchase of lands and buildings, decided upon by a visiting committee, should not be carried into effect until approved by a Secretary of State; but as, in his opinion, the meaning of the word "restoring" was not quite clear, he moved that the word "altering" be substituted.
§ LORD CHANCELLOR (The EARL of HALSBURY)I see no objection to the Amendment.
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Question put—
That the word 'restoring' stand part of the Question.
§ Motion negatived.
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Question put—
That the word 'altering' be here inserted.
§ Motion agreed to.
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Amendment proposed—
Clause 22, page 8, after sub-section (2) insert as a new subsection—'(3.) Where more than one asylum is maintained by a local authority, whether solely or in conjunction with any other local authority, and the charges for the maintenance of lunatics in the several asylums are not uniform, the local authority may make to any board of guardians sending lunatics to any of those asylums such payments as will, in the opinion of the local authority, tend to equalise the cost of maintenance of pauper lunatics in the asylums as between the poor law unions sending lunatics thereto.'"—(The Lord Chancellor.)
§ Question put.
§ Amendment agreed to.