HC Deb 31 May 1849 vol 105 c1008

PUBLIC BILLS.—1o Joint Stock Companies Act (1848) Amendment; Highways (Annual Returns); General and Quarter Sessions.

Reported.—Defects in Leases; Passengers; Clergy Relief.

PKTITIONS PRKSKNTED. By Mr. Buck, from Crediton, Devonshire, against the Parliamentary Oaths Bill.—By Mr. Cobden, from Rhos Llanerchrugog, Denbighshire, for Repeal of the Septennial Act; and from Navenby, Lincolnshire, for the Clergy Relief Bill.—By Lord Dudley Stuart, from Marylebone, for the Adoption of Universal Suffrage.—By Mr. Fuller, from Ninfield, Sussex, against the Marriages Bill.—By Lord Charles Manners, from Melton Mowbray, against the Alienation of Tithes.—By Mr. Mathew Wilson, from Clitheroe, respecting the Lancashire County Expenditure.—By Mr. Cowan, from Edinburgh, against the Lunatics (Scotland) Bill.—By Mr. Cockburn, from Southampton, respecting the Payment of Magistrates Clerks—By Sir Alexander Hood, from the Guardians of the Williton Union, for an Alteration of the Poor Law.—By Mr. Chaplin, from the Warminster Union, for a Superannuation Fund for Poor Law Officers.—By Mr. Broadley, from the Guardians of the Driffield Union, for an Alteration of the Poor Removal Act.—By Mr. S. Martin, from several Wesleyan Congregations in Yorkshire, for the Suppression of Promiscuous Intercourse—By Sir G. Clerk, from Edinburgh, against the Public Health (Scotland) Bill—By Admiral Gordon, from Cruden, Aberdeenshire, against the Registering Births, &c. (Scotland) Bill, and Marriage (Scotland) Bill.—By Mr. Heyworth, from Sowerby, for an Alteration of the Sale of Beer Act—By Mr. Mostyn, from Llanrwst, for an Alteration of the Small Debts Act.—By Mr. Barnard, from Greenwich, against, and by Mr. Christopher, from the City of London, in favour of, the Removal of Smithfield Market.