§ Mr. SPEAKER laid upon the Table Report from one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, That, in the case of the Petition for the following Bill, originating in the Lords, the Standing Orders have not been complied with, viz.—Honourable Artillery Company Bill [Lords].
§ Ordered, That the Report be referred to the Select Committee on Standing Orders.
§ Great Western Railway (Superannuation Scheme) Bill [Lords]. As amended considered to be read the third time.
§ Edinburgh Corporation (Tramways, &c.) Order Confirmation Bill. Read a second time; and ordered to be considered To-morrow.
§ Metropolitan Police Provisional Order Bill. Read a second time, and committed.
§ Leith Harbour and Docks Order Confirmation Bill.—"To confirm a Provisional Order under The Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act, 1899, 19 relating to Leith Harbour and Docks," presented by Mr. Sinclair; and ordered (under Section 7 of the Act) to be considered upon Thursday.
§ Land Drainage Provisional Order Bill.—"To confirm a Provisional Order under The Land Drainage Act, 1861, in the matter of a proposed drainage district in the parishes of Blundeston, Flixton, and Oulton, in the County of Suffolk," presented by Sir Edward Strachey; read the first time; to be referred to the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, and to be printed. [Bill 211.]
§ Loch Leven Water Power Order Confirmation Bill.—"To confirm a Provisional Order under the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act, 1899, relating to Loch Leven Water," presented by Mr. Sinclair; read the first time; and ordered (under Section 9 of the Act) to be read a second time upon Wednesday, 13th May, and to be printed. [Bill 212.]
§ Tyne Improvement Bill.—Reported, with Amendments; Report to lie upon the Table, and to be printed.
§ Standing Orders.—Resolutions reported from the Select Committee—
§ "That, in the case of the Wath-upon-Dearne Urban District Council Gas Bill [Lords], Petition for Additional Provision, the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed with:—That the parties have leave to insert the additional Provision if the Committee on the Bill think fit."
§ "That, in the case of the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Tramways, Petition for leave to deposit a Petition for Bill, the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed with:—That the parties be permitted to deposit their Petition for a Bill."
§ "That, in the case of the Pontypridd Water Bill [Lords], Petition for dispensing with Standing Order 128 in the case of the Petition of N. B. Allen and Company' against the Bill, the said Standing Order ought to be dispensed with."
§ Resolutions agreed to.