§ Returns ordered. On the Motion of Mr. PIGOTT, the Gross Amount of the Sums paid by Persons compounding for their Assessed Taxes, under 59 George 3rd, cap. 51, in each of the three years ending 5th April, 1822; similar Returns of the Sums paid by Persons compounding, or renewing their Compositions, under Acts 1 and 2 George 4th, 4 George 4th, 5 George 4th, and 7 George 4th, in each of the nine years, ending 5th April, 1831:—On the Motion of Colonel DAVIES, a Copy of the Instructions issued by the Governor of New South Wales, for the Regulation of the Penal Settlements:—On the Motion of Mr. CROKER, Estimates showing the Superficial Extent in Acres of the Boroughs in Schedule A from 46 to 56, and of all the Boroughs hereafter to send Members to Parliament under the Bill now in progress through the House, the extent of the Limits of the New Boroughs to be included in such Estimates:—On the Motion of Lord MILTON, of the 580 total quantity, and cost of Wheat purchased by the Victualling Office for the use of the Navy, from 1816 to 1831, inclusive; the same Return of Bread Purchased or Contracted for by the Commissariat for the use of the Army:—On the Motion of Mr. HUME, of the Officers for whom Services of Plate were provided at the Public Expense, and transferred with the Office on Non-appointments, stating the Expense of each Service; and of the several Public Officers who were allowed Outfits of Equipage, with the Amount allowed, and by what Authority the same was fixed; of the Compromise or Agreement entered into in 1824 with the Executrix of the late Colonel Browne, the Agent for Recruiting in Ireland, relating to the Payment of 170,000l. due from the said Colonel Browne at his decease, and an Account of the Sums paid Annually on Account of the Same, and the Sum remaining now due; an Account of the Expenses incurred, and the Number of Reports presented by the Commissioners of Inquiry during the years 1830 and 1831; of the Persons to whom 556l. was paid as Fees on the Patent creating Sir JAMES SAUMAREZ a Peer; of the Expenses and Receipts of Printing and Publishing the London Gazette, during the year 1831.
§ Petitions presented. By an HON. MEMBER, from the Inhabitants of Cardiff and Cowbridge, praying that those towns, with Llantrissent, may return one Member, and that Merthyr Tydvil might have no share in such Return:—By Sir HENRY WILLOUGHBY, from Dartmouth, praying that that Borough may be transferred to Schedule B:—By Mr. PIGOTT, from Solicitors in the County of Buckingham, against the General Registry Bill:—By Mr. WRANGHAM, from Great Grimsby, praying that the Borough might be taken out of the Disfranchisement Schedule, and retain its privileges of returning Two Members:—By Viscount DUNCANNON, from the Inhabitants of Ballycallan, praying that a Member may be given to the City of Kilkenny instead of Dublin University in the Irish Reform Bill:—By Mr. HODGES, from the Inhabitants of Folkestone, against the Union of that place with Hythe to return one Member only:—By Mr. CHARLES DUNDAS, from the Owners and Occupiers of Mills at Halifax, against the Factories Regulation Bill:—By Mr. SHAW, from the Guild of Merchants, Dublin, to continue to that City the benefit of the Coal Meters Superintendance:—By Mr. HUME, from Thomas Wakley; for an Inquiry into the Causes of the Distress at Bethnal Green and Spitalfields:—By an HON. MEMBER, from the Guild of Shipwrights, Galway, praying that the peculiar Franchise of that place might be preserved.