Debate on The Company Registration Act

Official report · Assembly of SchwartzistanSession 1854 · col. 4847

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

Josef Hallin (Minister of Finance): I move the third reading. The trade has been consulted. The trade objects, as the trade always objects, and the Ministry has met it half way. The Bill provides as follows. Sets the duty at 9 pfen in the marka. I ask the House to pass it.

Ivo Fenn (Westgau; The Assembly Union): Sir, I sit for Westgau. The clerks there are few and the roads are long, and any officer the Bill appoints will spend a week finding the houses. 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. 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. I support the Bill, with the reservation I have stated. [Cries of 'Order'.]

Magnus Hallin (The Sudmark; The Reed Party): Sir, 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 should like the Minister to say what the yield will be, and I should like it in marka and not in percentages. 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. I shall vote against the Bill. [Hear, hear, from the Ministerial benches.]

Stellan Hotfeld (The Capital District; The Reed Party): Mr. Speaker, Sir, The members for the reed districts will ask, as they always ask, what the Bill means for the harvest and the causeways. The people of The Capital District will ask what it costs them, and I should like to be able to tell them. I should like the Minister to say what the yield will be, and I should like it in marka and not in percentages. The clause is short and I shall not read it. We shall divide the House. [Cries of 'Order'.]

Lorenz Moor (Kesselhöh; The Continuity Party): 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 duty falls on the trade and the trade passes it on. The House knows this and votes for it every year. My constituents in Kesselhöh wrote to me about the Bill, all 8 of them, and they were against it until they read it. My party will divide the House on the Bill. [Hear, hear.]

Teodor Mengen (Westgau; The Continuity Party): Mr. Speaker, The Continuity Party supports every measure that keeps the record whole and opposes every measure that does not. This one keeps it whole. The duty falls on the trade and the trade passes it on. The House knows this and votes for it every year. I sit for Westgau. The clerks there are few and the roads are long, and any officer the Bill appoints will spend a week finding the houses. I oppose the third reading. [Laughter.]

Ottmar Hetmaff (The Capital District; 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'. The duty falls on the trade and the trade passes it on. The House knows this and votes for it every year. My constituents in The Capital District wrote to me about the Bill, all 8 of them, and they were against it until they read it. I cannot vote for the Bill as it stands and I shall not. [Shame.]

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

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

The House proceeded to other business.