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REPORT.

STANDING COMMITTEE A, to whom the MARRIAGE (PROHIBITED DEGREES OF RELATIONSHIP) BILL was referred;-Have gone through the Bill and have agreed to report the same without Amendment.

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PROCEEDINGS OF STANDING COMMITTEE A.

MARRIAGE (PROHIBITED DEGREES OF
RELATIONSHIP) BILL.

Clause 1.

Amendment proposed, in page 1, line 9, to leave out all the words from the word "therein therein" to the word "the " in line 10-(Sir Evelyn Cecil).-Question, "That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the Clause,"-put, and agreed to.

Question put, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill." -The Committee divided :

Ordered To Report the Bill, without amendment, to the House.

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STANDING COMMITTEE A.

MENTAL DEFICIENCY BILL.-Read a second time and committed to a Standing Committee on the 18th March, and allocated by Mr. Speaker to the Committee on the 21st March.

The Committee was constituted as follows:

Mr. MORGAN JONES, appointed Chairman on the 31st May.

Acland-Troyte, Lieut.-Colonel

Alexander, Mr. Ernest

Apsley, Lord

Baker, Mr. John

Barker, Mr.

Bethel, Mr.

Brass, Captain

*Briant, Mr.

Carver, Major *Chamberlain, Mr.

*Charleton, Mr.

Colfox, Major

Connolly, Mr.

Cove, Mr.
Cowan, Mr.

Crooke, Mr. Smedley
*Davies, Mr. Rhys
*Davies, Dr. Vernon
Dunnico, Mr.

Ellis, Mr.

*Fremantle, Lieut.-Colonel

Graham, Mr. Fergus

Greenall, Mr.

Gunston, Captain

Hacking, Captain
Harvey, Mr. George

Henderson, Captain Robert
Heneage, Lieut.-Colonel

Hilton, Mr.
Holt, Captain
Jones, Mr. Haydn
Lawrence, Miss

Lucas-Tooth, Sir Hugh

*Luce, Major-Gen. Sir Richard MacAndrew, Major

Makins, Brigadier-General *March, Mr.

Montague, Mr.

*Newton, Sir Douglas
Nuttall, Mr.
*Peto, Mr. Geoffrey
*Philipson, Mrs.
Richardson, Sir Philip
Scurr, Mr.

Slaney, Major Kenyon-
Stott, Lieut.-Colonel
Waddington, Mr.

Warner, Brigadier-General
Watts, Dr.

*Wedgwood, Colonel

*Williams, Mr. Charles
Williams, Mr. Herbert
Williams, Mr. John
*Wood, Mr. Crompton
*Wood, Sir Kingsley.

* Added in respect of the Mental Deficiency Bill.

REPORT.

STANDING COMMITTEE A, to whom the MENTAL DEFICIENCY BILL was referred;-Have gone through the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto.

STANDING COMMITTEE A.

Tuesday, 28th June, 1927.

MEMBERS PRESENT:

Major Sir RICHARD BARNETT in the Chair, in place of