§ Order of the day for the Second Reading read.
THE UNDER-SECRETARY OF STATE FOE WAR (The Earl of DONOUGHMORE)My Lords, except for a 725 small, and, I can assure your Lordships, purely drafting Amendment in Clause 3, this Bill is exactly the same Bill that your Lordships passed through all its stages last year. On the Second Reading last session, I explained the Bill at some length, and I do not therefore think it necessary to inflict another speech upon you on the subject. I beg to move that the Bill be read a second time.
§ Moved, "That the Bill be now read 2a."—(The Earl of Donoughmore.)
§ On Question, Bill read 2a, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Thursday next.