§ Moved That a Select Committee be appointed to inquire and report—
- I. Whether, and, if so, to what extent, British ships are sent to sea in an unsea-worthy condition by reason of their being insufficiently or improperly ballasted;
- II. Whether any Amendment or amplification of the present law is desirable in connection therewith;
- III. If so, to what extent any such alteration of the law could be made equally applicable to foreign vessels.—(The Earl of Dudley).
§ Agreed to; and ordered accordingly.
§ House adjourned at five minutes past Five o'clock till tomorrow, half-past Ten o'clock.