Debate on The Firearms (Amendment) Act

Official report · Assembly of SchwartzistanSession 1854 · col. 4816

The Speaker: Order. The Bill before the House is a Line measure. The Minister of War will move it and the House will hear him in the customary silence.

Anton Marrow (Minister of War): I move the third reading. The Bill concerns the men on the planking and the timber under their feet. I ask the House to pass it as it has passed every measure of the kind. The Bill provides as follows. Penalty on conviction: a fine of 125 marka or 15 months. The House will note that the Bill is an amending Bill; the principal Act, The Firearms (Amendment) Act, is not otherwise touched. I commend the Bill to the House.

Matthis Manfeld (Norrfeld; 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 Line is held. What the Line needs the House provides. I have nothing to add and I shall not detain the House. In Norrfeld, which I have the honour to sit for, the Bill will be read at the market cross and understood by half. I support the third reading. [Hear, hear, from the Ministerial benches.]

Ansel Schall (Norrfeld; The Continuity Party): Sir, In Norrfeld, which I have the honour to sit for, the Bill will be read at the market cross and understood by half. Nothing in the Bill disturbs the record. The Continuity Party asks only that the register be kept as it has always been kept. The material provision is this: Penalty on conviction: a fine of 125 marka or 15 months. I ask the House to note it. The Line is held. What the Line needs the House provides. I have nothing to add and I shall not detain the House. I support the Bill. [Shame.]

Ulrik Birk (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 Line is held. What the Line needs the House provides. I have nothing to add and I shall not detain the House. In The Capital District, which I have the honour to sit for, the Bill will be read at the market cross and understood by half. I support the Bill.

The Minister replied briefly. The fee was as printed; the officer was as printed; the House had the Bill and could read it.

The Speaker: The question is that the Bill do pass. The House does not divide on a Line measure. The members rose in their places. The Bill was passed.

The House adjourned at the rising of the court.