§ Select Committee of Five Members appointed, "to join with a Committee of The Lords to inquire into the question of Metropolitan Tramways proposed to be sanctioned by Bills in the present Session, and to report: 1. Whether it is desirable or not that any fresh Tramways should be laid within the metropolitan area; 2. What should be the limits of the metropolitan area in respect of Tramways; 3. Under what authority the construction and working of Metropolitan Tramways, if any, should be placed; 4. Along what lines of streets, if any, Tramways should be allowed to be constructed, and under what restrictions."—(Mr. Arthur Peel.)
§ Ordered, That a Message be sent to The Lords, to acquaint their Lordships that this House hath appointed a Committee of Five Members to join with a Committee of The Lords to inquire into the question of Metropolitan Tramways proposed to be sanctioned by Bills in the present Session, and to report: 1. Whether it is desirable or not that any fresh Tramways should be laid within 1621 the metropolitan area; 2. What should be the limits of the metropolitan area in respect of Tramways; 3. Under what authority the construction and working of Metropolitan Tramways, if any, should be placed; 4. Along what lines of street, if any, Tramways should be allowed to be constructed, and under what restrictions; and to request that their Lordships will be pleased to appoint an equal number of Lords to be joined with the Members of this House.
§ And, on March 15, Committee nominated as follows:—Mr. SCLATER-BOOTH, Mr. ARTHUR GUEST, Sir EDWARD COLEBROOKE, Mr. JAMES WHITE, and Mr. ARTHUR PEEL:—Power to send for persons, papers, and records; Three to be the quorum.