§ Petitions against (praying to be heard by Counsel): From General Shipowners Society, London; Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Bermondsey; Commercial Gas Company; Timber Trade Federation of the United Kingdom (London Section) and others; London Chamber of Commerce; Pilots on the River Thames; Master Lightermen and Barge-owners Wharfingers, Coal Merchants, and Granary Keepers on the River Thames; Midland Railway Company; London, Tilbury, and Southend Railway Company; Hertfordshire County Council; Gas Light and Coke Company; Berkshire County Council; Holders of Debenture Stock of the Surrey Commercial Dock Company; Corporation of London; Surrey Commercial Dock 624 Company; Poplar Borough Council; London Trades Council; London Grain Elevator Company, Limited; Mayor, Aldermen, and Citizens of the City of Rochester; and Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the County Borough of West Ham; referred to the Select Committee on the Bill.