§ (1) The representative members hold office for terms of six years (the first whereof shall date from the appointed day) and shall be eligible for re-election.
§ (2) A representative member may resign office by giving notice to the secretary.
§ (3) A casual vacancy occurring through death, resignation, or otherwise, in the office of representative member shall be
2198§ filled by the election of a person by the local authority by whom the person whose office is vacant was elected.
§ (4) A person elected to fill a casual vacancy shall retire from office at the same time as the person whose office is vacant would have retired.
§ Question put, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill."
§ The Committee divided: Ayes, 223; Noes, 42.
2199| Division No. 519.] | AYES. | [9.20 p.m. |
| Abraham, W. (Cork, N.E.) | Bowerman, C. W. | Clough, William |
| Ambrose, Robert | Brace, William | Collins, Stephen (Lambeth) |
| Armitage, R. | Branch, James | Collins, Sir Wm. J. (St. Pancras, W.) |
| Baker, Joseph A. (Finsbury, E.) | Brigg, John | Cooper, G. J. |
| Balfour, Robert (Lanark) | Bright, J. A. | Corbett, A. Cameron (Glasgow) |
| Baring, Godfrey (Isle of Wight) | Brooke, Stopford | Corbett, C. H. (Sussex, E. Grinstead) |
| Barlow, Sir John E. (Somerset) | Brunner, J. F. L. (Lancs., Leigh) | Cox, Harold |
| Barnes, G. N. | Bryce, J. Annan | Craig, Herbert J. (Tynemouth) |
| Barran, Rowland Hirst | Buckmaster, Stanley O. | Crean, Eugene |
| Barran, Sir John Nicholson | Burke, E. Haviland- | Crooks, William |
| Barry, Redmond J. (Tyrone, N.) | Burns, Rt. Hon. John | Crosfield, A. H. |
| Beauchamp, E. | Carr-Gomm, H. W. | Crossley, William J. |
| Berridge, T. H. D. | Causton, Rt. Hon. Richard Knight | Cullinan, J. |
| Bethell, T. R. (Essex, Maldon) | Cherry, Rt. Hon. R. R. | Curran, Peter Francis |
| Birrell, Rt. Hon. Augustine | Clancy, John Joseph | Davies, Timothy (Fulham) |
| Boland, John | Cleland, J. W. | Delany, William |
| Devlin, Joseph | Joyce, Michael | Pearce, William (Limehouse) |
| Dillon, John | Kavanagh, Walter M. | Philips, John (Longford, S.) |
| Donelan, Captain A. | Keating, M. | Pickersgill, Edward Hare |
| Duffy, William J. | Kekewich, Sir George | Ponsonby, Arthur A. W. H. |
| Duncan, C. (Barrow-in-Furness) | Kelley, George D. | Power, Patrick Joseph |
| Duncan, J. Hastings (York, Otley) | Kettle, Thomas Michael | Radford, G. H. |
| Dunn, A. Edward (Camborne) | Kilbride, Denis | Rea, Walter Russell (Scarborough) |
| Edwards, Sir Francis (Radnor) | Lambert, George | Reddy, M. |
| Elibank, Master of | Lamont, Norman | Redmond, John E. (Waterford) |
| Esmonde, Sir Thomas | Lardner, James Carrige Rushe | Richards, T. F. (Wolverhampton, W.) |
| Essex, R. W. | Law, Hugh A. (Donegal, W.) | Roberts, Charles H. (Lincoln) |
| Esslemont, George Birnie | Lehmann, R. C. | Robsun, Sir William Snowdon |
| Evans, Sir S. T. | Lewis, John Herbert | Roche, Augustine (Cork) |
| Everett, R. Lacey | Lundon, T. | Roche, John (Galway, East) |
| Farrell, James Patrick | Lupton, Arnold | Rose, Sir Charles Day |
| Fenwick, Charles | Luttrell, Hugh Fownes | Rowlands, J. |
| Ferens, T. R. | Macdonald, J. R. (Leicester) | Russell, Rt. Hon. T. W. |
| Ffrench, Peter | Macdonald, J. M. (Falkirk Burghs) | Samuel, Rt. Hon. H. L. (Cleveland) |
| Field, William | Maclean, Donald | Samuel, S. M. (Whitechapel) |
| Flavin, Michael Joseph | Macnamara, Dr. Thomas J. | Scanlan, Thomas |
| Flynn, James Christopher | MacNeill, John Gordon Swift | Scarisbrick, Sir T. T. L. |
| Gilhooly, James | Macpherson, J. T. | Scott, A. H. (Ashton-under-Lyne) |
| Gill, A. H. | MacVeagh, Jeremiah (Down, S.) | Sears, J. E. |
| Ginnell, L. | MacVeigh, Charles (Donegal, E.) | Seddon, J. |
| Gladstone, Rt. Hon. Herbert John | M'Callum, John M. | Shackleton, David James |
| Glendinning, R. G. | M'Kean, John | Sheehan, Daniel Daniel |
| Clover, Thomas | M'Laren, Sir C. B. (Leicester) | Sheehy, David |
| Goddard, Sir Daniel Ford | M'Micking, Major G. | Shipman, Dr. John G. |
| Gooch, George Peabody (Bath) | Mallet, Charles E. | Smyth, Thomas F. (Leitrim, S.) |
| Gulland, John W. | Marnham, F. J. | Stanley, Albert (Staffs, N.W.) |
| Gwynn, Stephen Lucius | Massie, J. | Steadman, W. C. |
| Hancock, John George | Meehan, Francis E. (Leitrim, N.) | Stewart, Halley (Greenock) |
| Harcourt, Robert V. (Montrose) | Meehan, Patrick A. (Queen's Co.) | Stewart-Smith, D. (Kendal) |
| Harmsworth, R. L. (Caithness-shire) | Molteno, Percy Alport | Strauss, E. A. (Abingdon) |
| Harrington, Timothy | Mooney, J. J. | Summerbell, T. |
| Harvey, W. E. (Derbyshire, N.E.) | Morrell, Philip | Taylor, John W. (Durham) |
| Haslam, James (Derbyshire) | Morton, Alpheus Cleophas | Thomas, Sir A. (Glamorgan, E.) |
| Hayden, John Patrick | Muldoon, John | Thomasson, Franklin |
| Hazleton, Richard | Murnaghan, George | Thome, William (West Ham) |
| Mealy, Maurice (Cork) | Murphy, John (Kerry, East) | Ure, Rt. Hon. Alexander |
| Healy, Timothy Michael | Nannetti, Joseph P. | Ward, John (Stoke-upon-Trent) |
| Hemmerde, Edward George | Napier, T. B. | Ward, W. Dudley (Southampton) |
| Henderson, Arthur (Durham) | Nicholls, George | Wardle, George J. |
| Henderson, J. McD. (Aberdeen, W.) | Nolan, Joseph | Waring, Walter |
| Henry, Charles S. | Norman, Sir Henry | Watt, Henry A. |
| Herbert, Col. Sir Ivor (Mon. S.) | Nugent, Sir Walter Richard | White, Sir Luke (York, E.R.) |
| Hodge, John | O'Brien, K, (Tipperary, Mid) | White, Patrick (Meath, North) |
| Hogan, Michael | O'Brien, Patrick (Kilkenny) | Whitehead, Rowland |
| Horniman, Emslie John | O'Connor, John (Kildare, N.) | Wiles, Thomas |
| Howard, Hon. Geoffrey | O'Donnell, John (Mayo, S.) | Wilkie, Alexander |
| Hudson, Walter | O'Dowd, John | Wilson, Henry J. (York, W.R.) |
| Hyde, Clarendon G. | O'Kelly, Conor (Mayo, N.) | Wilson, John (Durham, Mid) |
| Jackson, R. S. | O'Kelly, James (Roscommon, N.) | Wilson. W. T. (Westhoughton) |
| Jardine, Sir J. | O'Malley, William | Winfrey, R. |
| Jenkins, J. | O'Shaughnessy, P. J. | Young, Samuel |
| Johnson, John (Gateshead) | O'Shee, James John | Yoxall, Sir James Henry |
| Johnson, W. (Nuneaton) | Parker, James (Halifax) | |
| Jones, William (Carnarvonshire) ' | Partington, Oswald | TELLERS FOR THE AYES.—Captain Norton and Mr. Fuller. |
| Jordan, Jeremiah | Pearce, Robert (Staffs, Leek) | |
| Jowett, F. W. | ||
| NOES. | ||
| Ashley, W. W. | Craig, Charles Curtis (Antrim, S.) | Lonsdale, John Brownlee |
| Balcarres, Lord | Craik, Sir Henry | Magnus, Sir Philip |
| Banbury, Sir Frederick George | Doughty, Sir George | Moore, William |
| Baring, Capt. Hon. G. (Winchester) | Fetherstonhaugh, Godfrey | Powell, Sir Francis Sharp |
| Barrie, H. T. (Londonderry, N.) | Fletcher, J. S. | Roberts, S. (Sheffield, Ecclesall) |
| Beech, Hon. Michael Hugh Hicks | Forster, Henry William | Scott, Sir S. (Marylebone, W.) |
| Butcher, Samuel Henry | Gordon, J. | Sloan, Thomas Henry |
| Campbell, Rt. Hon. J. H. M. | Gretton, John | Smith, Abel H. (Hertford, East) |
| Carlile, E. Hildred | Guinness, Hon. W. E. (B. S. Edm'ds) | Talbot, Lord E. (Chichester) |
| Carson, Rt. Hon. Sir Edward H. | Hamilton, Marquess of | Thomson, W. Mitchell- (Lanark) |
| Castlereagh, Viscount | Harrison-Broadley, H. B. | Tuke, Sir John Batty |
| Clark, George Smith | Hill. Sir Clement | Wyndham, Rt. Hon. George |
| Clive, Percy Archer | Kerry, Earl of | |
| Cochrane, Hon Thomas H. A. E. | Lockwood, Rt. Hon. Lt.-Col. A. R. | TELLERS FOR THE NOES.—Sir A. Acland-Hood and viscount Valentia. |
| Corbett, T. L. (Down, North) | Long, Rt. Hon. Walter (Dublin, S.) |