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Finally, Lord Midleton proposed a series of amendments giving the

executive power in the excluded area not to the Lord-Lieutenant, but to " a Secretary of State." These con- sequential and administrative alterations were agreed to without a division. Lord, St. Aldwyn moved and carried an amendment reducing the number of Members sent to the House of Commons, while Lord Halsbary moved a new clause in regard to the judicial powers conferred by the Bill, which was carried on the following day by a majority of 124.