HL Deb 06 August 1846 vol 88 c349

PUBLIC BILLS.—2a. Adverse Claims (Ireland); Mandamus (Ireland); Joint Stock Banks (Scotland and Ireland); Cheshire Returning Officer; Waste Lands (Australia); Poor Removal; Grand Jury Cess Bonds (Ireland); Prisons (Ireland); Consolidated Fund.

Reported. Marriages (Ireland) Act Amendment; Art Unions; Ecclesiastical Patronage.

3a. and passed. Small Debts; Cheshire Returning Officer; Militia Ballots Suspension; Ordnance Survey; Newfoundland.

PETITIONS PRESENTED. From Royal Burghs of Scotland in General Convention assembled, for Reduction and Equalization of the Duties on Colonial and Foreign Sugars.—From Newport, Monmouth, and several other places, in favour of the Small Debts Bill.—From Poor Law Officers of several places, for Assistance and Protection, and for a Clause to be inserted in the Law of Settlement Bill to enable them to provide out of their own Salaries a Superannuation Fund for Old Age.