§ If the council of a county on the complaint of the parish council or parish meeting of any parish comprised in any rural district in the county, or of any four inhabitant householders of that district, after holding a local inquiry are satisfied that the rural district council have failed to exercise their powers under Part III. of the principal Act in cases where those powers ought to have been exercised, the county council may resolve that the powers of the district council for the purposes of
1708§ that Part be transferred to the county council with respect either to the whole district or to any parish in the district, and those powers shall be transferred accordingly, and, subject to the provisions of the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1900, and this Act, Section sixty-three of the Local Government Act, 1894, shall apply as if the powers had been transferred under that Act.
§ Mr. BURNSmoved, to leave out the words "the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1900, and" ["provisions of the Housing of the Working Classes Act," etc.].
§ Question put, "That the Amendment be made."
§ The House divided: Ayes, 124; Noes, 28.
1709| Division No. 634.] | AYES. | [5.10 p.m. |
| Adkins, W. Ryland D. | Foster, Rt. Hon. Sir Walter | Molteno, Percy Alport |
| Alden, Percy | Fullerton, Hugh | Morgan, G. Hay (Cornwall) |
| Allen, A. Acland (Christchurch) | Gladstone, Rt. Hon. Herbert John | Morrell, Philip |
| Allen, Charles P. (Stroud) | Harcourt, Robert V. (Montrose) | Morse, L. L. |
| Ashton, Thomas Gair | Hardy, George A. (Suffolk) | Morton, Alpheus Cleophas |
| Baker, Joseph A. (Finsbury, E.) | Harmsworth, R. L. (Caithness-shire) | Murray, Capt. Hon. A. C. (Kincard.) |
| Balfour, Robert (Lanark) | Hart-Davis, T. | Myer, Horatio |
| Barker, Sir John | Haslam, Lewis (Monmouth) | Nicholls, George |
| Barnard, E. B. | Hedges, A. Paget | Nolan, Joseph |
| Beale, W. P. | Henry, Charles S. | Norman, Sir Henry |
| Benn, Sir J. Williams (Devonport) | Higham, John Sharp | O'Brien, Patrick (Kilkenny) |
| Boulton, A. C. F. | Hogan, Michael | O'Connor, James (Wicklow, W.) |
| Branch, James | Hooper, A. G. | O'Connor, T. P. (Liverpool) |
| Brodie, H. C. | Howard, Hon. Geoffrey | O'Kelly, Conor (Mayo, N.) |
| Bryce, J. Annan | Illingworth, Percy H. | Radford, G. H. |
| Burns, Rt. Hon. John | Isaacs, Rufus Daniel | Rees, J. D. |
| Byles, William Pollard | Jackson, R. S. | Ridsdale, E. A. |
| Channing, Sir Francis Allston | Jardine, Sir J. | Roberts, Charles H. (Lincoln) |
| Cherry, Rt. Hon. R. R. | Jones, Sir D. Brynmor (Swansea) | Robson, Sir William Snowdon |
| Cleland, J. W. | Jones, Leif (Appleby) | Roch, Walter F. (Pembroke) |
| Clough, William | Jones, William (Carnarvonshire) | Roe, Sir Thomas |
| Collins, Stephen (Lambeth) | Joyce, Michael | Schwann, Sir C. E. (Manchester) |
| Compton-Rickett, Sir J. | Keating, Matthew | Shipman, Dr. John G. |
| Condon, Thomas Joseph | Kekewich, Sir George | Stanger, H. Y. |
| Cooper, G. J. | Kilbride, Denis | Stewart, Halley (Greenock) |
| Corbett, A. Cameron (Glasgow) | King, Alfred John (Knutsford) | Straus, B. S. (Mile End) |
| Corbett, C H. (Sussex, E. Grinstead) | Laidlaw, Robert | Strauss, E. A. (Abingdon) |
| Cotton, Sir H. J. S. | Lamb, Ernest H. (Rochester) | Thorne, G. R. (Wolverhampton) |
| Cowan, W. H. | Lamont, Norman | Verney, F. W. |
| Cox, Harold | Lupton, Arnold | Walters, John Tudor |
| Cullinan, J. | Luttrell, Hugh Fownes | Waring, Walter |
| Dalziel, Sir James Henry | Lynch, H. B. | Warner, Thomas Courtenay T. |
| Davies, Timothy (Fulham) | Macdonald, J. R. (Leicester) | Whitbread, S. Howard |
| Dewar, Sir J. A. (Inverness-sh.) | Macdonald, J. M. (Falkirk Burghs) | White, Patrick (Meath, North) |
| Dickinson, W. H. (St. Pancras, N.) | Mackarness, Frederic C | Whittaker, Rt. Hon. Sir Thomas P. |
| Dillon, John | Macpherson, J. T. | Wilson, W. T. (Westhoughton) |
| Dobson, Thomas W. | McKenna, Rt. Hon. Reginald | Wood, T. M'Kinnon |
| Duncan, C (Barrow-in-Furness) | M'Laren, Sir C B. (Leicester) | Young, Samuel |
| Elibank, Master of | M'Micking, Major G. | |
| Everett, R. Lacey | Maddison, Frederick | |
| Faber, G. H. (Boston) | Marks, G. Croydon (Launceston) | TELLERS FOR THE AYES.—Mr. |
| Falconer, James | Massie, J. | Herbert Lewis and Mr. Gulland. |
| Findlay, Alexander | Micklem, Nathaniel | |
| NOES. | ||
| Anstruther-Gray, Major | Castlereagh, Viscount | Fell, Arthur |
| Banner, John S. Harmood- | Craig, Charles Curtis (Antrim, S.) | Gardner, Ernest |
| Barrie, H. T. (Londonderry, N.) | Craig, Captain James (Down, E.) | Gretton, John |
| Brotherton, Edward Allen | Dickson, Rt. Hon. C Scott- | Guinness, Hon. W. E. (B. S. Edmunds) |
| Burdett-Coutts, W. | Douglas, Rt. Hon. A. Akers- | Heaton, John Henniker |
| Carlile, E. Hildred | Faber, George Denison (York) | Kimber, Sir Henry |
| Lonsdale, John Brownlee | Morpeth, Viscount | Thomson, W. Mitchell-(Lanark) |
| Lowe, Sir Francis William | Morrison-Bell, Captain | |
| MacCaw, Wm. J. MacGeagh | Peel, Hon. W. R. W. | TELLERS FOR THE NOES.—Sir F. |
| M'Arthur, Charles | Smith, Abel H. (Hertford, East) | Banbury and Mr. Rawlinson. |
| Moore, William |
Bill read the third time, and passed.