§ [SECOND READING.]
§ Order of the Day for the Second Reading read.
§ THE EARL OF NORTHBROOKI have to ask your Lordships to give a Second Reading to this Bill. It is a very small one, and its object is to avoid the necessity of holding a meeting of the county council in the month of March, simply for the purpose of electing a chairman. The Bill is permissive. Any county council that wishes it may, instead of holding a special meeting for this purpose, conduct the election either in March, April, or May. The Bill has come from the House of Commons, and I do not believe it has been objected to by anyone.
§ Moved, That the Bill be now read a second time.—(The Earl of Northbrook.)
§ Bill read 2aaccordingly, and committed to a Committee of the whole House.