§ [SECOND READING.]
§ Order of the day for the Second Reading read.
1488§ EARL BEAUCHAMPMy Lords, the subject with which this Bill deals has been before the public for something like twenty-two years, and I believe the Bill itself has no opponent of any sort or kind. Its object is. to give relief to the rates of districts in which prisons are situated by giving powers for the sending of distressed prisoners, who, on release seek refuge in the nearest workhouse, to districts more properly charged with them. In Wandsworth alone no less than seventy-nine prisoners became chargeable'' to the rates of the borough, although none of the offences for which they were sentenced were committed within the Wandsworth Poor-Law union. I hope that your Lordships will give the Bill a Second Reading, and will not consider any Amendment necessary.
§ Moved, "That the Bill be now read 2a " —(Earl Beauchamp.)
§ On Question, Bill read 2a and committed to a Committee of the Whole House.