§ House in Committee (according to order).
§ Clauses 1 to 3 agreed to.
§ Clause 4.
§ THE LORD PRIVY SEAL (The Marquess of SALISBURY) said that the Amendments standing in his name to Clauses 4, 5, and 6 were all of a drafting character, 151 having reference to one particular point. Their Lordships would recollect that in moving the Second Reading of the Bill he explained that the coal field was divided into areas, which were granted to the free miners of the district; but it had been found that there was a part of the deep level which had never been so granted. It did not, therefore, technically come within the term "gale," and the object of the Amendments was to add, after the word "gale," the words "or tract of coal."
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Amendment moved—
In page 3, line 27, after the word 'gale' to insert the words 'or tract of coal."—(The Marquess of Salisbury.)
§ On Question, Amendment agreed to.
§ Clause 4, as amended, agreed to.
§ Clause 5.
§ Verbal Amendment agreed to.
§ Clause 5, as amended, agreed to.
§ Clause 6.
§ Verbal Amendment agreed to.
§ Clause 6, as amended, agreed to.
§ Clauses 7 and 8 agreed to.
§ Clause 9.
§ THE MARQUESS OF SALISBURY explained that this clause provided, inter alia, that the term "galee" included any person holding through or under a galee. It had been found that the words "any person holding through or under" were rather too wide. As the grantee held in fee it was necessary to protect his heirs and assigns, and he moved to omit the words "another person holding through or under" and to insert the words in his Amendment.
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Amendment moved—
In page 6, lines 13 and 14, to leave out the words 'any person holding through or under' and to insert the words 'the heirs and assigns of.'"—(The Marquess of Salisbury.)
§ On Question, Amendment agreed to.
§ Consequential Amendments agreed to.
152§ Clause 9, as amended, agreed to.
§ Clause 10.
§ Consequential Amendment agreed to.
§ Clause 10, as amended, agreed to.
§ Bill reported, with Amendments, to the House.
§ Bill re-committed to the Standing Committee; and to be printed as amended. [No. 147.]
§ House adjourned at five minutes before Five o'clock, to Monday next, a quarter before Eleven o'clock.