HL Deb 17 April 1946 vol 140 c869
THE LORD CHANCELLOR (LORD JOWITT)

My Lords, I beg leave to introduce a Bill to enable the Trustees of the British Museum to lend the Lacock Abbey Magna Charta for a period not exceeding two years for public exhibition in the Library of Congress of the United States of America; and to move that it be read a first time.

Moved, That the Bill be now read 1a.—(The Lord Chancellor.)

On Question, Bill read 1a, and to be printed.