§ Commons Amendments considered.
LORD HAMILTON OF DALZELLsaid that this matter was very much the same as was disposed of on Saturday in the English Bill. It would be within the recollection of the House that when the Bill was originally introduced it provided for women holding the offices of convenors of county councils and provosts of burghs, but, in accordance with what had been done in the case of a similar English Bill, their Lordships struck out those provisions. The Bill also contained two provisions by which women by virtue of being provosts or convenors should not become magistrates, and a further provision that, if a woman was elected as provost, an additional magistrate should be appointed during her tenure of office. The qualification of women for those two offices having been struck out, the other two provisions naturally went also. The other House of Parliament had reinserted the provisions, and they were contained in the Amendments. He begged to move that the Commons Amendments be agreed to.