Sitting of 10 January 1807

MINUTES.
Mr. Hobhouse presented a petition from the provost, &c. of the city of Edinburgh, praying for leave to

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bring in a bill for the improvement of Leith Harbour. Referred to a committee.—Mr. Hobhouse brought up the report of the 10,500,000 l. Exchequer Bills bill. The amendments were agreed to, and a clause added, providing that the bill might be altered, amended, or repealed by any bill or bills to be passed in the present session of parliament. The bill was then ordered to be engrossed, and read a third time on Monday. Mr. Vansittart brought up the Malt Duty bill, without the exceptionable clauses, which had caused the former bill to be thrown out in the lords, on the motion of the lord chancellor. It was read a first time.