§ Kingston-upon-Hull Corporation Bill; Pontefract Corporation Bill; Sutton District Water Bill. Lords Amendments in pursuance of the Order of the House [30th July], considered, and agreed to.
§ Metropolitan Electric Supply Bill. As amended, considered.
§ Ordered, That Standing Orders 223 and 243 be suspended, and that the Bill be now read the third time.—(The Chairman of Ways and Means.)
§ Bill accordingly read the third time, and passed.
§ Bristol Corporation Bill (by Order). Lords Amendments to be considered upon Thursday, at a quarter past Eight of the clock.
§ Hackney Electricity Bill (by Order); Hampstead Garden Suburb Bill (by (Order); London County Council (Money) Bill (by Order); North West London Railway Bill (by Order); St. Pancras Electricity Bill (by Order); South Lincolnshire Water Bill (by Order); South Wales Electrical Power Distribution Company Bill (by Order); Watford and Edgware Railway Bill (by Order). Lords Amendments considered, and agreed to.
§ Bute (English and Welsh) Estates Bill [Lords] (by Order). Read the third time, and passed, without Amendment.
§ Nettlebed and District Commons (Preservation) Bill [Lords] (by Order); Shropshire, Worcestershire, and Staffordshire Electric Power Bill [Lords] (by Order). Read the third time, and passed, with Amendments.
§ Glasgow and South Western Railway Order Confirmation Bill [Lords]. Read the third time, and passed, without Amendment.
669§ Water Orders Confirmation Bill [Lords]. As amended, considered; read the third time, and passed, with Amendments.
§ Great Northern (Ireland) and Midland Railways Bill [Lords]. Ordered, That Standing Order 243 be suspended, and the Great Northern (Ireland) and Midland Railways Bill [Lords], be now read the third time.—(The Chairman of Ways and Means).
§ Bill accordingly read the third time, and passed, with Amendments.
§ Standing Orders (Private Business). Standing Order 1 read, and amended, in line 14, by inserting after the word "Purposes," as a new line, the words "Electricity Supply."
§ In line 25, by inserting after the word "Regulating," as a new line, the word "Pilotage."
§ Standing Order 15 read, and amended, in line 4, by leaving out the word "and," and inserting the word "or,"Instead thereof.
§ In line 4, by inserting after the word "for,"the words "constructing any station for generating electrical energy on specified lands, or for."
§ In line 9, by inserting after the word 'products,"the words "generating station."
§ Ordered, That on or before the twenty-first day of December immediately preceding the application for a Bill whereby any express statutory provision relating to nuisance arising on any lands is sought to be altered or repealed, notice in writing of such Bill, and of the intention to alter or repeal such provision, shall be served upon the owner and lessee of every dwelling-house situate within three hundred yards of the said lands.
§ Resolved, That this Order be a Standing Order of this House.
§ Ordered, That on or before the eighteenth day of December a printed copy of every Bill of the 1st Class which proposes to authorise any persons other than the road authority to break up or 670 otherwise interfere with any streets or roads, shall be deposited at the office of the road authority.
§ Resolved, That this Order be a Standing Order of this House.
§ Standing Order 72, read, and amended, by adding, at the end thereof, the words, In the case of any Provisional Order Confirmation Bill in which provisions have been inserted in the House of Lords to which the Standing Orders of this House would apply if the Bill were a Private Bill, the Examiners shall inquire whether, in respect of such provisions, the Standing Orders have been complied with, and report to the House accordingly.
§ Standing Order 153, read and amended, in line 3, by leaving out the word "on," and inserting the word "of,"Instead thereof.—(The Chairman of Ways and Means.)