§ 2.50 p.m.
§ LORD HENDERSONMy Lords, I beg leave to introduce a Bill to transfer to the Crown Apsley House and the site, forecourt and garden thereof and certain chattels formerly belonging to the first Duke of Wellington; to provide for the Use of Apsley House partly as a museum for the preservation and exhibition of the said chattels and other chattels associated with the said first Duke or his times, and 144 for other public purposes, and partly as a residence for the Dukes of Wellington; to amend enactments relating to the Wellington estates so as to provide for the automatic devolution of the property subject to the trusts thereof whenever there is a change in the person holding office as First Lord of the Treasury, Chancellor of the Exchequer or Speaker of the House of Commons; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid. I beg to move that the Bill be read a first time.
§ Moved, That the Bill be now read 1a.—(Lord Henderson.)
§ On Question, Bill read 1a, to be printed, and referred to the Examiners.