§ Order of the Day for the Second Reading read.
*My Lords, I have to ask your Lordships to give a Second Reading to this Bill, the reasons for which formed the subject of an elaborate Report of February 5, 1909, presented by the Board of Education in the matter of this charity known as Cheshunt College. The scheme has been prepared at the request of the governors of the charity, and is now submitted for confirmation by Parliament. All the notices have been given which Parliament requires in legislation of this description. Every opportunity has been afforded for lodging objections, but there has been no opposition, and this is practically an unopposed Bill having the approval of the Charity Commissioners and the Board of Education. The college was founded in 1768 by the Countess of Huntingdon and the trust of the foundation is contained in a deed dated 1793, which was altered in 1866 and in 1884 by the Charity Commissioners and in 1906 by a scheme of the Board of Education. There are, however, some restrictions of a rather rigid character affecting the trustees, teaching staff and students of the college which it is desired to remove. The authorities, 957 after the most careful consideration, are of opinion that the charity is very much impeded by one or two restrictions, and this Bill proposes to deal with that question. I beg to move that the Bill be read a second time.
Moved, That the Bill be now read 2a.—(Viscount Wolverhampton.)
On Question, Bill read 2a.