§ Moved, "That there be laid before the House a return of loans contracted by local authorities in Ireland, with: (1) The amount which they are entitled to borrow under the limitation in Section 238 of the Act of 1878; (2) The amount they have so borrowed up to the present; (3) The amount of the last-mentioned total which would be placed outside the limitation of the Act of 1878 by the present Bill."—(The Earl of Mayo).
LORD DENMANMy Lords, I certainly know no reason why we cannot give the Return for which the noble Lord asks, but I should like to assent to it rather on this understanding, that if this Return takes a long time for us to produce, the noble Lord and his friends will not regard it as a necessary preliminary to the passing of the Bill they have read a second time to-night.
§ Motion agreed to, and ordered accordingly.
§ House adjourned at twenty-five minutes before Eight o'clock, till To-morrow, a quarter past Four o'clock.