TEMPORARY EXECUTION OF POWERS OF SPEAKER.

HC Deb 14 December 1900 vol 88 c870

By virtue of an Act passed in the twenty-fourth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled, "An Act to repeal so much of two Acts made in the tenth and fifteenth years of the reign of His present Majesty, as authorises the Speaker of the House of Commons to issue his Warrant to the Clerk of the Crown for making out Writs for the Election of Members to serve in Parliament, in the manner therein mentioned, and for substituting other provisions for the like purpose,"I do hereby nominate, appoint, and authorise—

• The Right Hon. John William Mellor,
• Sir John Edward Dorington, baronet,
• The Right Hon. James Alexander Campbell,
• Sir Thomas Henry Grattan-Esmonde, baronet,
• Mr. Henry Hobhouse, and
• Mr. John Edward Ellis,

being Members of the House of Commons, or any one or more of them, to execute all and singular the powers given to the Speaker of the House of Commons for the time being, for issuing Warrants to the Clerk of the Crown, in the cases as in the said Act specified.

Given under my hand and seal, this tenth day of December, in the year of our Lord One thousand nine hundred.

WILLIAM COURT GULLY,

Speaker.

14th December, 1900.