Mr. DEPUTY-SPEAKERlaid upon the Table Report from one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, That, in the case of the following Bills, referred on the First Reading thereof, the Standing Orders which are applicable thereto have been complied with, viz.:—Electric Lighting Provisional Orders (No. 6) Bill; Electric Lighting Provisional Orders (No. 7) Bill; Local Government (Ireland) Provisional Orders (No. 2) Bill; Local Government Provisional Order (Gas) Bill; Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 6) Bill; Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 9) Bill.
§ Ordered, That the Bills be read a second time To-morrow.
255§ Commercial Union Assurance Bill [Lords]. Read the third time, and passed, without Amendment.
§ London United Tramways (Extension of Time) Bill. Read the third time, and passed.
§ Mortgage Insurance Corporation Bill [Lords]; Truro Water Bill [Lords]. Read the third time, and passed, without Amendment.
§ London County Council (Money) Bill. Read a second time, and committed.
§ South Eastern and London, Chatham, and Dover Railways Bill [Lords]. To be read a second time to-morrow.
§ London Government Scheme (London and Middlesex) Bill. "To confirm a Scheme made under The London Government Act, 1899, relating to the counties of London and Middlesex," presented by Mr. Gerald Balfour; supported by Mr. Wodehouse; read the first time; and referred to the Examiners of Petition for Private Bills, and to be printed. [Bill 212.]
§ London Government Scheme (Hackney and Edmonton Unions) Bill. "To confirm a Scheme made under The London Government Act, 1899, relating to the Hackney and Edmonton Unions," presented by Mr. Gerald Balfour; supported by Mr. Wodehouse; read the first time; and referred to the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, and to be printed. [Bill 213.]
§ Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 12) Bill. "To confirm certain Provisional orders of the Local Government Board relating to Liverpool and Poole and the counties of Essex and Hertford," presented by Mr. Grant Lawson; supported by Mr. Gerald Balfour; read the first time; and referred to the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, and to be printed. [Bill 214.]
§ Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 13) Bill. "To confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to Briton Ferry Clifton, Dartmouth, Hardness, Horsforth, 256 and Teignmouth," presented by Mr. Grant Lawson; supported by Mr. Gerald Balfour; read the first time; and referred to the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, and to be printed. [Bill 215.]
§ Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 14) Bill. "To confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to Acton, Bradford (Yorkshire), the Fylde Water Board, and the Fylde, Preston, and Garstang and the Middlesex Districts Joint Hospital Districts," presented by Mr. Grant Lawson; supported by Mr. Gerald Balfour; read the first time; and referred to the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, and to be printed. [Bill 216.]
§ Great Northern (Ireland) and Midland Railways Bill. Ordered, That the Evidence taken before the Committee on the Strabane, Raphoe, and Convoy Railway Bill, 1903, and the Strabane, Raphoe, and Convoy Railway Bill, 1904, be referred to the Committee on the Great Northern (Ireland) and Midland Railways Bill.—(Mr. Caldwell.)
§ Rhondda Urban District Council Bill. Reported, with Amendments, from the Police and Sanitary Committee; Report to lie upon the Table, and to be printed.