Debate on The Company Registration Regulation Act

Official report · Assembly of SchwartzistanSession 1854 · col. 4838

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

Josef Hallin (Minister of Finance): I beg to move the third reading of the Bill, and I shall be brief. The Ministry of Finance has costed the Bill and the sum is in the estimates. The duty falls where the printed Bill says it falls. The printed Bill says it better than I can: Sets the duty at 7 pfen in the marka. The Bill is in the hands of the House.

Edvard Lenz (The Osmoor; The Assembly Union): Mr. Speaker, Sir, I sit for The Osmoor. The clerks there are few and the roads are long, and any officer the Bill appoints will spend a week finding the houses. I ask the House to consider the tradesman who will have to comply with this. He has not been consulted; he has been notified. I have the Bill before me and the House has it before it. The Bill is a money Bill and a money Bill is a Bill about who goes without. My party will divide the House on the Bill.

Piet Ebner (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 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 duty falls on the trade and the trade passes it on. The House knows this and votes for it every year. The material provision is this: Sets the duty at 7 pfen in the marka. I ask the House to note it. My party will divide the House on the Bill.

Bertil Brack (The Sudmark; The Reed Party): Mr. Speaker, Sir, The people of The Sudmark will ask what it costs them, and I should like to be able to tell them. 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 clause is short and I shall not read it. I should like the Minister to say what the yield will be, and I should like it in marka and not in percentages. I support the Bill, with the reservation I have stated.

Tomas Marrow (Norrfeld; The Assembly Union): Mr. Speaker, Sir, The Union stands where it has always stood: for the towns, for the trade, and against any clause that begins with the word 'licence'. 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 is a money Bill and a money Bill is a Bill about who goes without. The clause is short and I shall not read it. The Bill should pass and I shall vote for it. [Laughter.]

Piet Brenn (Kesselhöh; The Continuity Party): Mr. Speaker, Sir, The people of Kesselhöh 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 7 pfen in the marka. I ask the House to note it. I should like the Minister to say what the yield will be, and I should like it in marka and not in percentages. I support the Bill, with the reservation I have stated.

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

The House adjourned when the court resumed after the midday adjournment.