§ "For empowering the Metropolitan District Railway Company to lay down and maintain substituted mains for electrical energy and to work certain railways by electrical energy; to acquire lands; to extend the time for the completion of certain railways and compulsory purchase of lands; to constitute the railway authorised by The Metropolitan District Railway Act, 1897, a separate undertaking; to raise further capital; and for other purposes" read the first time; and referred to the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills.