§ Order for Second Reading read.
§ MR. SPEAKERI have examined this Bill, and I feel it my duty to advise the House that it is one which the House cannot properly entertain as a private Bill. The promoters do not ask Parliament to confer any powers upon them, but they invite it to bestow new and large powers upon a public department—the Local Government Board—to enable it to initiate and superintend a scheme for carrying out the recommendations of the Royal Commission on London Water Supply, and it extends the provisions of a public Bill of last session. These being the objects of the Bill, it ought not to have been introduced as a private Bill, and I trust that the hon. Member in charge will withdraw it.
§ Order discharged; Bill withdrawn.