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London, England, 1826-01-04 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY PAPER.

PRINTED REPORT, &c.
The Select Committee appointed to inquire
into the State and Condition of the Printed Re!
ports and other Papers presented to this House,
and who were instructed to consider and at..
mange such Reports as it may be proper to print
in volumes, in addition to those. which have been
already so printed, and prepare an Estimate of
the Expence of printing the same; also to con-,
skier of providing some proper place for the safe
custody of the Printed Books and Papers, afford-
ing convenient access to the same for the'use of
the Members of this House ; and who were also
instructed to consider the best means of provid-
ing additional Accommodation for Committee
Rooms, with the least possible delay and. to re.,
port their Observations and Opinions thereupon)
together with the Minutes of the Evidence taken
before them from time to time, to the douse;--
Have, pursuant to the Orders of the Route, fur-
ther inquired into the matters referred to them,
and agreed to the following Report :-
1 In obedience to the order in reference, your Committee have
proceeded to inquire into the.state of the Printed Reports and
Papersipresented to the House. Referring to a Report made
by the Select Committee, appointed for a similar purpose in
1803, they directed an arrangement to bemade of Selected Ite-
ports, similar to that adopted in the collection of fifteen volumes
already printed. This arrangement will be found in the Appen-
dix. The Rep Oils comprised in this Catalokue have all been
presented during the period from the year 1801 to the present
time. The importance of the subjects that have engaged the
attention ofTarliament during the interval, renders the Reports,
both of Committees and olCommissioners, of the greatest public
interest. In. these Reports various questions are discussed re-
lating to the Administration of Justice, the Privileges of Par-
liament, Atts and Manufactures, Agricultureand Trade, Edo'
cation, CriniinaLaw, and Police : and it is obvious that the
preservation of documents of this description, and their arrange-
ment in such a form as to be available for the purposes of refer-
ence, are 'of the greatest importance. 'rite same motives which
induced the House in 1803 to reprint a selection of the reports
then existing, appear to your Committee sufficient to warrant's
continuation of the series. But as a very considerable number
of copies of these Reports are still preserved in warehouses,
your Committee do not feel themselves warranted at the present
moment in recommending to the house the commencement of
such an undertaking.
Three hundred and seventy-three , volumes, including.
Papers, have been printed by the authority of the House since
the year 1800, of which the most valuable Reports, both of
Committees and of Commissioners' contained in this collection,
might all,be comprised in thirty folio volumes.
A Reprint of these Reports your Committee consider de-
serving the attention of the House at some future period; and
they consider, that with regard to the Sessional Papers here.,
after annually printed anti arranged, a certain number of per-
fect copies should be preserved unbroken. The necessity of
some such arrangement will be apparent by a reference to the
evidence of, Mr. Hansard, who has informed your Committee,
that only one complete copy of these Papers is at the present
moment in his possession. Your Committee recommend, that
at the close of every Session complete sets of the printed Papers
should be deposited in the Library of the British Museum, the.
Bodleian and Cambridge University Library, the Library et
Trinity College, Dublin, and the advocates Library at Edip'
burgh.

Whenever the House shall conceive it expedient to direct A
reprint of the Reports, your Committee conceive that the pro'
ceedings of Commissioners, whether appointed under statute, ot
in consequence of an Address, sl.ould be included in the neo
edition ordered, Previously to the Union with Ireland, fes.
Reports of this description were laid before Parliament; but
since that period, many subjects of the greatest importance
have been subjected to this mode of inquiry ; and the JAW*
principles of selection should direct the arrangement of the
Reports of Commissioners and the Reports of the Commit's.°
of the House.

A General Index to the Sessional Paperit has been prepared
by tlr. Hansard, the Printer to the House ; your Committee
recommend its completion to the accession of his present Ma-
jesty, and consider it necessary that it should be printed for the
use of the House.

The set of primed. Papers, now deposited in the custody of
the Clerk of the Journals, being more complete than that in the
care of the Librarian, your Committee recommend that It should
be transferred to the Library, as a place of more convenient ac-
cess and reference.

Whenever a reprint of the Reports is ditected, the Hoof
will have to consider how far it is expedient, in the new series,
to adhere to the size and arrangement adopted by the Commit•
ted of 1803. The difference of cost between an edition of the

larger folio, and of the same size as the Sessional Papers, ho
been stated at 50 per cent.; a consideration of considerable inn•

portance in a work of magnitude and expence.
The classification to which your Committee have referred
applies at preient, except in a few instances, to reports only. it
has occurred to your Committee, that a similar classification
might with much utility be adopted as to the Papers. Those of
each Session are arranged with as much attention to similaritl
of subjects as the case admits; and for the Papers of each
sion, perhaps no better arrangement could be adopted. But It
appears to your Committee, that where the Papers of a period
endiracing several Sessions are to be preserved, a classification
similar to that which is adopted ln regard to the Reports, that
is, a classification of subjects, not by years, would be found
more convenient. They will at present only suggest, that opt
set of Papers, for the longest period of which the number of
copies iu store will allow, should be in the first instance made
up upon this principle of classification, for the Library a the
House.

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On New Year's-c! BIRTHS.
ay Mrs. William Devey, New Kent-wad
of a son. ,
On the 3d instant, at Leyton, Essex, Mrs. R. BurelaY, 0f a
daughter.

MARRIED.
On Tuesday, the 27th ult.. at All Saints' Church Leicestel
the Rev. John Owen, of l'atnworth to Elizabeth, the third daughter Of the late R. Teed Esq., aneaster-cour
of 'L t, 140Ed°°'

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On the 2d inst., Elizabeth, DIED
wife of Mr. Joseph Thomas, or
Shepherd's-bush.
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mail at that place on the 20th.
On the 20th ult., of apoplexy, aged 46, Mr. James MM°°'
of
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tihie yd2et-si trineestt.,,Balt London, the
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Hon.ld.eh aswerallarn
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Q a Member of the Executivearni Legislative Councils 01 the
province of Lower Canada.
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