Honourable E. A. C. HughesT -I don't think that can be done.
 Honourable O. D. Brisbane : We should submit to Executive Council the fees
 that we suggest should be charged.
 Honourable Crown Attorney: 'I suggest that the Bill be left in Committee
- and we will then be able to ascertain from the principal Ordinance who are the
persons entitled to free fiedical aid.
 Question that the Medical Officers (Amendment) Bill should remain in
 Committee put and agreed to.
 President: I now call upon the Honourable Crown Attorney -to move the
 S- second reading of the Land Acquisition (Amendment) Bill.
 Honourable Crown Attorney : I move that a bill for "an Ordinance further to
 amend the Land Acquisition Ordinance be read a second time.-
 Honourable Colonial Treasurer : I second the motion.
 Question put and agreed to.
 Bill read a second time.
 Honourable Crown Attorney I move that this Council resolve itself into a
 Committee of the whole.Council to consider the Bill clause by clause.
 Honourable Colonial Treasurer": I second the motion.
 Question put -and agreed to.
 In Coniiittee.
 Honourable Member for South Windward: I would like some fuller
 Hxplanation of the background of this Bill.

 Honourable E. A. C. Hughes: ,The present position is that under our original
 Land Acquisition Ordinance the compensation payable for the land was determined
 by a Board of Arbitration. In 1946 a new Ordinance was passed providing that
 the land would be valued on the amountwhich it was likely to fetch if sold in the
 open market in 1939, plus whatever increase the Governor inr Council might
 prescribe. It was, however, found extremely difficult to arrive at a fixed value
 and to. get a flat percentage increase. I believe Government appointed, two
 Committees to try and decide what this percentage should be, but in both cases
 their efforts were in vain. The object of this bill is to value the land at the price
 which the willing seller would receive or in other words an open market value.
 Clause 2--Setion 19 (a) of Principal Ordinance repealed and replaced.
 Question put and agreed to;
 Clause 1-Short title.'
 Question put and agreed to. .
 Honourable Crown Attorney I move that the Committee rise, Council
 resume and the President report back to the Council.
 S Honorable Colonial Treasurer : I second the motion.
 Question put and agreed to.
 SPresident: I have to report that the Land Acquisition (Amendment) Bill
 passed through the Committee stage Without amendment,
 Honourable Crown Attorney : I move that'the President's report be adopted.
 Honourable Colonial Treasurer : I second the motion.
 Question put and agreed to.
 Honourable Crown Attorney: I move that the Bill be- read a third time by
 title\andp8as8ed..