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Sir Edward Strachey, Mr. Bo wen -Jones, Mr. C. Middleton, 

 Mr. F. J. Lloyd and Mr. Trustram Eve. This Committee 

 reported on 3rd March, 1903, recommending a number of 

 amendments to the Act. and the Council adopted their report. 

 Mr. Lloyd then drafted a Bill for the Council, which Viscount 

 Templetown introduced in the House of Lords. This Bill 

 was read a second time on 4th August, and was referred to 

 a Departmental Committee which Lord Onslow (President 

 of the Board of Agriculture) had meantime appointed. The 

 Council sent Mr. C. Middleton and Mr. F. J. Lloyd to give 

 evidence before this Committee, which reported in January, 

 1905. Their report made it quite evident that an amending 

 Act was required, and in May, 1905, the Council requested 

 the Government to pass a measure giving effect to the 

 recommendations of the Departmental Committee. Nearly 

 all the amendments of the Act asked for by the Committee 

 of the Chamber were adopted as the conclusions of the Depart- 

 mental Committee, and this, of course, was a cause of much 

 satisfaction. 



Early in 1906 Sir Edward Strachey introduced, on behalf 

 of the Government, a Bill giving effect to the conclusions 

 of the Committee, which, while repealing the Act of 1893, 

 re-enacted all its essential provisions, thus avoiding in this 

 one instance all legislation by reference. On 1st May the 

 Council adopted a report from their Committee, which pro- 

 posed certain amendments to the Bill, but generally expressed 

 approval of it. Most of these amendments were adopted 

 during the Bill's passage through Parliament, and it became 

 an Act in August of that year. 



The " Sales for Agricultural Purposes " Bill, already 

 referred to (page 287), proposed further amendments to the 

 Act of 1906, but as stated, it did not pass through the House 

 of Lords. 



Adulteration of Butter. 



In February, 1883, when considering the report of the 

 Royal Commission on Agriculture, the Council approved the 

 recommendation of that Commission for the prevention of 

 adulteration. 



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