Debate on The Calendar Licensing (Amendment) Act

Official report · Assembly of SchwartzistanSession 1854 · col. 4803

The Speaker: The House will come to order. The Bill stands for its third reading. The Minister.

Jorn Leirfeld (Minister of Chronology): I move the third reading. The Bill regulates what the Ministry already regulates and adds nothing to the record that the record does not already contain. In terms: Administered by the Ministry of Chronology. Offences under this Act are tried before the High Court. The House will note that the Bill is an amending Bill; the principal Act, The Weinfeld Calendar Licensing Act, is not otherwise touched. I move.

Josef Klelach (Norrfeld; The Reed Party): Mr. Speaker, Sir, The land pays for everything in the end. The Reed Party will vote as the land would vote if it could. I have no observation on the reckoning of years, which is the Ministry's business and not mine. I sit for Norrfeld. The clerks there are few and the roads are long, and any officer the Bill appoints will spend a week finding the houses. The Bill should pass and I shall vote for it.

Tomas Brenn (Westgau; The Assembly Union): Mr. Speaker, The Union stands where it has always stood: for the towns, for the trade, and against any clause that begins with the word 'licence'. The calendar is the calendar. The licence is a small thing to ask of a clockmaker, and the clockmakers have said so themselves. My constituents in Westgau wrote to me about the Bill, all 5 of them, and they were against it until they read it. I cannot vote for the Bill as it stands and I shall not. [Hear, hear.]

Albrecht Brenn (The Ostrand; The Continuity Party): Mr. Speaker, Sir, The Bill is in order. The Clerk has entered it. The Ministry of Chronology has seen it. I do not see what more the House requires. The people of The Ostrand will ask what it costs them, and I should like to be able to tell them. The Bill concerns dates, and the House does not argue about dates. It passes Bills about them. The Bill says so in terms: Administered by the Ministry of Chronology. I support the Bill, with the reservation I have stated. [The Line!]

Piet Hallin (The Sudmark; The Reed Party): Mr. Speaker, The members for the reed districts will ask, as they always ask, what the Bill means for the harvest and the causeways. I sit for The Sudmark. The clerks there are few and the roads are long, and any officer the Bill appoints will spend a week finding the houses. The calendar is the calendar. The licence is a small thing to ask of a clockmaker, and the clockmakers have said so themselves. The schedule is plain enough. Offences under this Act are tried before the High Court. My party will divide the House on the Bill. [Hear, hear.]

Jorn Holt (The Sudmark; The Assembly Union): Mr. Speaker, 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 members for The Sudmark have met and are of one mind on the Bill, which does not happen often. The calendar is the calendar. The licence is a small thing to ask of a clockmaker, and the clockmakers have said so themselves. I read the clause. Offences under this Act are tried before the High Court. I cannot vote for the Bill as it stands and I shall not. [Hear, hear, from the Ministerial benches.]

Ottmar Hallin (The Sudmark; The Reed Party): Mr. Speaker, Sir, I ask the Minister one thing: does the Bill send an officer out to the farms, and if it does, who feeds him? I have no observation on the reckoning of years, which is the Ministry's business and not mine. The members for The Sudmark have met and are of one mind on the Bill, which does not happen often. I oppose the third reading. [Cries of 'Order'.]

Konrad Holt (Kesselhöh; The Continuity Party): Mr. Speaker, Sir, The member opposite used the word 'irregular'. I have the Bill here and I have the register here and I find nothing irregular in either. I sit down. [Cries of 'Order'.]

The Minister, in reply, said that the points raised were answered in the printed Bill and that the Ministry would consider the rest.

The Speaker put the question. The Ayes were challenged and the House divided.

The Speaker: The Ayes have it. The Bill is passed and will go to the Grand Chancellor for assent.

The House proceeded to other business.