Debate on The Sealed Archive (Amendment) Act

Official report · Assembly of SchwartzistanSession 1854 · col. 4807

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

Jorn Leirfeld (Minister of Chronology): I beg to move that the Bill be now read a third time and do pass. I am asked why the Bill is necessary. It is necessary because the clockmakers have asked for it, and because the Ministry has agreed with them. I read the material clause to the House. Administered by the Ministry of Chronology. I commend the Bill to the House.

Ulrik Dahlmann (Norrfeld; The Assembly Union): Mr. Speaker, Sir, The liberty of the subject is a large phrase for a small Bill, but I use it, because the Bill is small and the liberty is not. The calendar is the calendar. The licence is a small thing to ask of a clockmaker, and the clockmakers have said so themselves. 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. We shall divide the House. [Cries of 'Order'.]

Casimir Voss (The Ostrand; The Reed Party): Mr. Speaker, Sir, 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 Reed Party has read the Bill with the harvest in mind. The harvest is late this year and the causeways are under water in two districts. I have the Bill before me and the House has it before it. The Bill concerns dates, and the House does not argue about dates. It passes Bills about them. I shall vote against the Bill. [Cries of 'Order'.]

Tomas Kessler (Westgau; The Continuity Party): Mr. Speaker, Sir, Nothing in the Bill disturbs the record. The Continuity Party asks only that the register be kept as it has always been kept. The calendar is the calendar. The licence is a small thing to ask of a clockmaker, and the clockmakers have said so themselves. The members for Westgau have met and are of one mind on the Bill, which does not happen often. I oppose the third reading. [Hear, hear.]

Fedor Kessler (Norrfeld; The Reed Party): Sir, I ask the Minister one thing: does the Bill send an officer out to the farms, and if it does, who feeds him? The calendar is the calendar. The licence is a small thing to ask of a clockmaker, and the clockmakers have said so themselves. In Norrfeld, which I have the honour to sit for, the Bill will be read at the market cross and understood by half. We shall divide the House.

Roderik Berfon (The Osmoor; The Reed Party): Sir, I ask the Minister one thing: does the Bill send an officer out to the farms, and if it does, who feeds him? The Bill concerns dates, and the House does not argue about dates. It passes Bills about them. The members for The Osmoor 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. [Laughter.]

Konrad Holt (Kesselhöh; The Continuity Party): Sir, Nothing in the Bill disturbs the record. The Continuity Party asks only that the register be kept as it has always been kept. The calendar is the calendar. The licence is a small thing to ask of a clockmaker, and the clockmakers have said so themselves. The people of Kesselhöh will ask what it costs them, and I should like to be able to tell them. I support the Bill, with the reservation I have stated.

Tomas Kessler (Westgau; The Continuity Party): Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have heard nothing in this debate that touches the record, and I should have heard it, because I listen for it. The Bill is in order. Westgau is content with it and so am I.

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

The question being put, a division was called for, and the members went to the lobbies.

The Speaker declared the Ayes to have it and the Bill was passed.

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