§ Order [7th March] that the Metropolitan Tramways Provisional Orders Bill be committed to a Select Committee read, and discharged.
§ Select Committee appointed, "to consider the schemes contained in the Metropolitan Tramways Provisional Orders Bill of this Session, and to report whether, in their opinion, it is desirable that all or any of the proposed lines of Tramways should be constructed within the Metropolitan area under the jurisdiction respectively of the Corporation of the City of London and the Metropolitan Board of Works."
§ Report of the Joint Committee of both Houses of Parliament of last Session, appointed to inquire into the question of Metropolitan Tramways, together with the Report of the Board of Trade upon the Railway, Canal, Tramway, &c. Bills of the present Session, with Map of the Metropolitan Tramways, referred to the said Committee.
§ Report of the Board of Trade, dated 5th May 1871, of their proceedings under "The Tramways Act, 1870," with regard to the proposed Tramways in and about the Metropolis, also referred to the Committee.—(Mr. Arthur Peel.)
§ And, on March 28, Committee nominated as follows:—Sir FRANCIS GOLDSMID, Mr. SCLATERBOOTH, Sir JOHN ST. AUBYN, Mr. ALGERNON EGERTON, Mr. LOCKE, Mr. JOHN STEWART HARDY, and Sir WILFRID LAwsos:—Power to send for persons, papers, and records; Three to be the quorum.