§ Resolutions reported from the Select Committee—
- 1. "That, in the case of the Lower Thames (Grays) Dock Bill, Petition for dispensing with Standing Order 128 in the case of the Petition of 'Northfleet Paper Mills, Limited,' the Standing Order ought to be dispensed with."
- 2. "That, in the case of the Ards and Bangor Railways Bill, the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed with:—That the parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill, on the condition that resolutions of the Belfast and County Down Railway Company, and of the County Council of the County of Down, and the Urban District Council of Newtownwards, approving of the Bill as introduced, and the deposit of copies of the said resolutions in accordance with the requirements of the Standing Orders, are proved before the Committee on the Bill, and that, failing such proof, Clause 19 and Clauses 83 to 90, both inclusive, be struck out of the Bill:—That the Committee on the Bill do report how far such Order has been complied with."
- 3. "That, in the case of the Stratford upon-Avon, Towcester, and Midland Junction, Evesham, Redditch, and Stratford-upon-Avon Junction, and East and West Junction Railways (Amalgamation) [Lords], Petition for Bill, the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed with:—That the parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill, on the condition that a clause is inserted in the Bill to the following effect, viz.: 'That no sale shall
293 take place of the amalgamated undertaking without the consent of the memorialists, Charles William Bartholomew, Richard Donald Bain, and William Howard Gray, which does not provide for the payment to the said memorialists of the sum of at least £5,000 in cash in respect of the debenture stock mentioned in Section 4 of the Act of 1901 or in respect of the stock of the new company incorporated by the Bill to be exchanged therefore under the provisions of the said Bill:'—That the Committee on the Bill do report how far such Order has been complied with." - 4. "That, in the case of the Cambrian Railways [Lords], Petition for Bill, the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed with:—That the parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill."
§ Resolutions agreed to.