Debate on The Grauburg Diary Licences Act

Official report · Assembly of SchwartzistanSession 1904 · col. 9284

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

Oskar Ort (Minister of Chronology): I beg to move the third reading of the Bill, and I shall be brief. The Bill regulates what the Ministry already regulates and adds nothing to the record that the record does not already contain. The Bill is in the hands of the House.

Karl Rusk (The Sudmark; 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 Bill concerns dates, and the House does not argue about dates. It passes Bills about them. In The Sudmark, which I have the honour to sit for, the Bill will be read at the market cross and understood by half. My party will divide the House on the Bill. [Interruption.]

Anton Rebhuhn (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 Bill concerns dates, and the House does not argue about dates. It passes Bills about them. The schedule is plain enough. Offences under this Act are tried before the Court of Chronological Offences. I support the Bill, with the reservation I have stated. [Interruption.]

Arno Doter (Norrfeld; The Assembly Union): Mr. Speaker, 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. The Bill concerns dates, and the House does not argue about dates. It passes Bills about them. In Norrfeld, which I have the honour to sit for, the Bill will be read at the market cross and understood by half. I shall vote against the Bill.

Rainer Hallin (The Capital District; The Continuity Party): Mr. Speaker, 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. The Capital District is content with it and so am I.

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 be now read a third time and do pass. As many as are of that opinion say Aye. [Ayes.] Of the contrary, No. [Noes.] A division was claimed.

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

The House adjourned at ten in the forenoon.