§ Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed, to whom shall be referred all Petitions presented to the House, with the exception of such as relate to Private Bills; and that such Committee do classify and prepare abstracts of the same, in such form and manner as shall appear to them best suited to convey to the House all requisite information respecting their contents, and do report the same from time to time to the House; and that the reports of the Commitee do set forth, in respect of each Petition, the number of signatures which are accompanied by addresses, and which are written on sheets headed in every case by the prayer of the Petition; 772 provided that on every separate sheet after the first the prayer may be reproduced in print or by other mechanical process:—And that such Committee have power to direct the printing in extenso of such Petitions, or of such parts of Petitions, as shall appear to require it:—And that such Committee have power to report their opinion and observations thereupon to the House.
§ The Committee was accordingly nominated of;—Mr. Edward Barry, Mr. Burt, Mr. Charles Craig, Mr. Ellis Griffith, Mr. Leicester Harmsworth, Mr. Henniker Heaton, Colonel Kenyon-Slaney, Mr. T. P. O'Connor, Mr. Wynford Philipps, Mr. Agar-Robartes, Mr. Charles Shaw, Lord Willoughby de Eresby, Mr. Wills, and Mr. Henry Joseph Wilson.
§ Ordered, That Three be the quorum.—(Mr. Whiteley.)
§ In pursuance of Standing Order No. 1, "Sittings of the House,"—I hereby nominate—
- The right hon. Charles Beilby Stuart Wortley,
- Sir William Holland,
- Mr. Charles Fenwick.
- Mr. Alfred Hutton, and
- Mr. Patrick Joseph Power
§ JAMES W. LOWTHER,
§ Speaker.
§ 18th February, 1908.
§ Adjourned at live minutes after Eleven o'clock.