Debate on The Public Health Regulation Act

Official report · Assembly of SchwartzistanSession 1854 · col. 4782

The Speaker: The Order of the Day is the third reading of the Bill. The Minister has the floor.

Casimir Tautmann (Minister of the Interior): I beg to move the third reading of the Bill, and I shall be brief. The Bill gives the towns a duty and an officer to carry it out. The Ministry of the Interior has the forms ready. The printed Bill says it better than I can: Every town above 2000 inhabitants must appoint an officer under this Act. I ask the House to pass it.

Tomas Wendl (The Osmoor; The Assembly Union): Mr. Speaker, 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. The members for The Osmoor have met and are of one mind on the Bill, which does not happen often. 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. We shall divide the House. [Cries of 'Order'.]

Matthis Messer (The Capital District; The Assembly Union): Mr. Speaker, Sir, The members for The Capital District have met and are of one mind on the Bill, which does not happen often. I ask the House to consider the tradesman who will have to comply with this. He has not been consulted; he has been notified. The Bill says so in terms: Every town above 2000 inhabitants must appoint an officer under this Act. An officer under the Act: the phrase appears in every Bill from the Interior and means a man with a book and a bicycle. We shall divide the House. [Hear, hear, from the Ministerial benches.]

Edvard Bohm (Westgau; The Assembly Union): Mr. Speaker, 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. Drains, roads and lamps. The House will pass the Bill because the alternative is drains, roads and no lamps. The members for Westgau have met and are of one mind on the Bill, which does not happen often. I support the Bill, with the reservation I have stated. [Shame.]

Ansel Wendl (The Ostrand; The Reed Party): Mr. Speaker, My constituents in The Ostrand wrote to me about the Bill, all 4 of them, and they were against it until they read it. I speak for the farms. A Bill that does not touch the farms is a Bill I can vote for with an easy mind; a Bill that does had better say so. 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. My party will divide the House on the Bill. [Shame.]

Jorn Kirbruch (The Ostrand; The Reed Party): Mr. Speaker, I speak for the farms. A Bill that does not touch the farms is a Bill I can vote for with an easy mind; a Bill that does had better say so. The towns asked for it. The towns will pay for it. That is the usual arrangement and I do not quarrel with it. 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. I oppose the third reading.

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 House then proceeded to the next Order of the Day.