Debate on The Markets Regulation Act

Official report · Assembly of SchwartzistanSession 1854 · col. 4779

The Speaker: Order. The Minister will move the third reading.

Casimir Tautmann (Minister of the Interior): I move the third reading. The Bill gives the towns a duty and an officer to carry it out. The Ministry of the Interior has the forms ready. I read the material clause to the House. Sets the duty at 4 pfen in the marka. I ask the House to pass it.

Magnus Rothonn (The Capital District; The Continuity Party): Sir, I have read the Bill for what it does to the record, which is the only reading that matters, and it does nothing to the record. The people of The Capital District will ask what it costs them, and I should like to be able to tell them. Drains, roads and lamps. The House will pass the Bill because the alternative is drains, roads and no lamps. The schedule is plain enough. Comes into force on 1 January 1855. My party will vote for the Bill. [Laughter.]

Teodor Hallin (The Ostrand; The Assembly Union): Mr. Speaker, Sir, The Union has no quarrel with the purpose of the Bill; its quarrel is with the fee, and with the officer who will collect it. An officer under the Act: the phrase appears in every Bill from the Interior and means a man with a book and a bicycle. My constituents in The Ostrand wrote to me about the Bill, all 6 of them, and they were against it until they read it. The Bill should pass and it will. [Cries of 'Order'.]

Konrad Lendvan (Kesselhöh; The Assembly Union): Mr. Speaker, My constituents in Kesselhöh wrote to me about the Bill, all 6 of them, and they were against it until they read it. The Union has no quarrel with the purpose of the Bill; its quarrel is with the fee, and with the officer who will collect it. I have the Bill before me and the House has it before it. Drains, roads and lamps. The House will pass the Bill because the alternative is drains, roads and no lamps. I shall not divide the House on it. [Shame.]

Albrecht Kessler (The Ostrand; The Assembly Union): Sir, Every Bill of this kind adds a form, a fee and a clerk. The Assembly Union would like, once in a session, to pass a Bill that removes one. Drains, roads and lamps. The House will pass the Bill because the alternative is drains, roads and no lamps. The Ostrand has had a hard year. I say that not against the Bill but so that the Minister remembers it when the fees are fixed. The Bill should pass and it will.

Bertil Marrow (Norrfeld; The Continuity Party): Mr. Speaker, Sir, The people of Norrfeld will ask what it costs them, and I should like to be able to tell them. The Continuity Party supports every measure that keeps the record whole and opposes every measure that does not. This one keeps it whole. The material provision is this: Sets the duty at 4 pfen in the marka. I ask the House to note it. An officer under the Act: the phrase appears in every Bill from the Interior and means a man with a book and a bicycle. I support the third reading. [Shame.]

Ivo Brenn (The Osmoor; The Continuity Party): Sir, The Continuity Party supports every measure that keeps the record whole and opposes every measure that does not. This one keeps it whole. My constituents in The Osmoor wrote to me about the Bill, all 7 of them, and they were against it until they read it. The towns asked for it. The towns will pay for it. That is the usual arrangement and I do not quarrel with it. I have the Bill before me and the House has it before it. My party will vote for the Bill. [Laughter.]

The Minister thanked the House for a short debate and asked for a short division.

The Speaker: The question is that the Bill be now read a third time and do pass. As many as are of that opinion say Aye. [Ayes.] Of the contrary, No. [Noes.] A division was claimed.

The tellers reported the numbers to the Chair. The Speaker declared the Bill passed.

The remaining Orders of the Day were deferred and the House rose.