HC Deb 13 June 1842 vol 63 cc1489-90

MINUTES.] BILLS. Public.—1.° Assessed Taxes; Grand Jury Presentments (Ireland); Assessed Taxes Composition.

Reported.—Sugar Duties; Double Costs; Dean Forest Foot; Dean Forest Ecclesiastical Districts.

Private. — 1°. Toxteth Park Paving and Sewerage (No. 2).

2°. Lagan Navigation.

Reported.—Gait's Naturalization; London Bridge Approaches and Royal Exchange Avenues; St. Briarel's Small Debts.

PETITIONS PRESENTED. By Mr. Masterman, from Cole. man-street Ward, for the Redemption of the Tolls on Waterloo Bridge.—By Mr. Stuart Wortley, from Holm. firth, for Alteration of the Poor-law Amendment Bill.— From Colchester Union, against the Poor-law Amendment Bill.— By Mr. Bell, from Northumberland, and Durham, against the Employment of Children in the Mines and Collieries.—From the Subscribers to the Queen's County Infirmary, against placing such Institutions under the Control of the Poor-law Commissioners. —By Captain Berkeley, from Frenchay, for the Abolition of Church Rates; and from the Catholics at Bristol, for Equality of Civil Rights.—By Captain Thomas Wood, from Staines, and Winchester, against the use of Rail' ways on Sundays.—From Enfield, against any further Grant to Maynooth College; and from H. E. Edwards, against the West Middlesex Water-work Company.—By Mr. Brotherton, from Salford, and Stebbing, for the use of Affirmations in lieu of Oaths.—From the Presbytery of Nairn, for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Burgh and Parochial Schoolmasters of Scotland.—From Kingston-upon-Hull, for a Clause in the Municipal Corporations Act to confer upon Town Councils the power of Erecting and Regulating Lunatic Asylums.—From Trustees of Doncaster, and Hutfield Roads, Bawtry and Lelly Roads, and Bawtry-bridge and Hatton Road, against the Turnpike Roads Act.—From the Rev. B. Phillpott, for Amendment of the Law relative to the Rating of Tithes. —From Abraham Abrahams, for an opportunity to refute the Assertion of John Wren touching the Southampton Election.—From R. Smyth, against the Fisheries (Ireland) Bill.