§ [SECOND READING.]
§ Order of the day for the Second Reading read.
§ THE EARL OF GRANARDMy Lords, since the Companies Act of 1862 there have been no fewer than seventeen amending Acts, and the object of this Bill is simply to codify and arrange all these different statutes. There is at present before the other House the Companies Bill of this session which I had the honour of introducing in your Lordships' House, and we intend holding over this Bill, if your Lordships grant it a Second Reading, until that measure has passed the other House, in order that we may be able to add to this Consolidation Bill the Amendments effected in the Bill now before the House of Commons. With these few words I trust- your Lordships will give the Bill I a Second Reading.
§ Moved, "That the Bill be now read 2a' —(The Earl of Granard.)
§ On Question, Bill read 2a (according to Order), and committed to a Committee of the Whole House.