§ (1) From and after the appointed day, the Congested Districts Board shall consist of the following members:—
- (a) The Chief Secretary, the Under secretary to the Lord Lieutenant, and the Vice-President of the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland, who shall be ex-officio members:
- (b) Five members appointed by His Majesty (in this Act referred to as appointed members):
- (c) Nine members representing the congested districts counties, of whom one shall be elected by the local authority
§ of each congested districts county (in this Act referred to as representative members):
§ (d) Two paid members appointed by His Majesty (in this Act referred to as permanent members).
§ (2) An appointed member shall hold office for four years and shall be eligible for re-appointment.
§ (3) Each of the permanent members shall hold office during pleasure, and shall be paid by the Board out of the funds at their disposal an annual salary of two thousand pounds.
§ (4) His Majesty will fill any casual vacancy in the office of appointed or permanent member by appointing a member in the place of the member whose office is vacant.
§ (5) Every existing member of the Congested Districts Board who is not an ex-officio member, or is not appointed or elected under or in pursuance of this Section, shall cease to hold office on the appointed day.
§ Amendment proposed: In Section (3), at the end, to insert: "Provided that a permanent member shall not be removed from his office except by an Order in Council, and any such Order shall be laid before each House of Parliament forthwith, and if an Address is presented to His Majesty by either House of Parliament within the next subsequent forty days on which that House has sat after any such Order is laid before it praying that the Order may be annulled. His Majesty in Council may annul the Order, and it shall thenceforth be void."
§ The House divided: Ayes, 236; Noes, 53.
2437| Division No. 675.] | AYES. | [10.45 p.m. |
| Abraham, W. (Cork, N.E.) | Birrell, Rt. Hon. Augustine | Cooper, G. J. |
| Acland, Francis Dyke | Black, Arthur W. | Corbett, A. Cameron (Glasgow) |
| Agar-Robertes, Hon. T. C. R. | Boland, John | Corbett, C. H. (Sussex, E. Grinstead) |
| Agnew, George William | Bowerman, C. W. | Cornwall, Sir Edwin A. |
| Alden, Percy | Branch, James | Cotton, Sir H. J. S. |
| Allen, A. Acland (Christchurch) | Brunner, J. F. L. (Lancs., Leigh) | Cowan, W. H. |
| Allen, Charles P. (Stroud) | Bryce, J. Annan | Cullinan, J. |
| Ambrose, Robert | Buckmaster, Stanley O. | Curran, Peter Francis |
| Armitage, R. | Burke, E. Haviland- | Dalziel, Sir James Henry |
| Baker, Joseph A. (Finsbury, E.) | Burns, Rt. Hon. John | Davies, Timothy (Fulham) |
| Balfour, Robert (Lanark) | Burnyeat, W. J. D. | Davies, Sir W. Howell (Bristol, S.) |
| Baring, Godfrey (Isle of Wight) | Burt, Rt. Hon. Thomas | Dewar, Arthur (Edinburgh, S.) |
| Barlow, Sir John E. (Somerset) | Byles, William Pollard | Dickinson, W. H. (St. Pancras, N.) |
| Barnard, E. B. | Channing, Sir Francis Allston | Dillon, John |
| Barran, Rowland Hirst | Cherry, Rt. Hon. R. R. | Dobson, Thomas W. |
| Barry, E. (Cork, S.) | Clancy, John Joseph | Donelan, Captain A. |
| Barry, Redmond J. (Tyrone, N.) | Clough, William | Duffy, William J. |
| Beauchamp, E. | Clynes, J. R. | Dunne, Major E. Martin (Walsall). |
| Beaumont, Hon. Hubert | Cobbold, Felix Thornley | Edwards, Sir Francis (Radnor) |
| Benn, Sir J. Williams (Devonport) | Collins, Stephen (Lambeth) | Elibank, Master of |
| Bethell, T. R. (Essex, Malden) | Condon, Thomas Joseph | Erskine, David C. |
| Evans, Sir S. T. | Lehmann, R. C. | Power, Patrick Joseph |
| Everett, R. Lacey | Lewis, John Herbert | Priestley, Sir W. E. B. (Bradford, E.) |
| Falconer, J. | Lundon, T. | Radford, G. H. |
| Farrell, James Patrick | Luttrell, Hugh Fownes | Rainy, A. Rolland |
| Ffrench, Peter | Lynch, A. (Clare, W.) | Raphael, Herbert H. |
| Field, William | Macdonald, J. R. (Leicester) | Rea, Rt. Hon. Russell (Gloucester) |
| Flavin, Michael Joseph | Macdonald, J. M. (Falkirk Burghs) | Reddy, M. |
| Flynn, James Christopher | Maclean, Donald | Redmond, John E. (Waterford) |
| Fuller, John Michael F. | MacNeill, John Gordon Swift | Redmond, William (Clare) |
| Fullerton, Hugh | Macpherson, J. T. | Richards, T. F. (Wolverhampton, W.) |
| Furness, Sir Christopher | MacVeagh, Jeremiah (Down, S.) | Roberts, Charles H. (Lincoln) |
| Gibb, James (Harrow) | MacVeigh, Charles (Donegal, E.) | Roberts, G. H. (Norwich) |
| Gilhooly, James | M'Kean, John | Robertson, Sir G. Scott (Bradford) |
| Gill, A. H. | M'Laren, Sir C. B. (Leicester) | Robson, Sir William Snowdon |
| Ginnell, L. | M'Laren, H. D. (Stafford, W.) | Roch, Walter F. (Pembroke) |
| Glendinning, R. G. | M'Micking, Major G. | Roche, Augustine (Cork) |
| Glover, Thomas | Maddison, Frederick | Roe, Sir Thomas |
| Gooch, George Peabody (Bath) | Mallet, Charles E. | Rutherford, V. H. (Brentford) |
| Grayson, Albert Victor | Marnham, F. J. | Samuel, Rt. Hon. H. L. (Cleveland) |
| Gulland, John W. | Meagher, Michael | Scanlan, Thomas |
| Gwynn, Stephen Lucius | Meehan, Francis E. (Leitrim, N.) | Scarisbrick, Sir T. T. L. |
| Haldane, Rt. Hon. Richard B. | Meehan, Patrick A. (Queen's Co.) | Schwann, C. Duncan (Hyde) |
| Hancock, John George | Menzies, Sir Walter | Schwann, Sir C. E. (Manchester) |
| Harcourt, Robert V. (Montrose) | Molteno, Percy Alport | Seely, Colonel |
| Hardy, George A. (Suffolk) | Mooney, J. J. | Shackleton, David James |
| Harmsworth, R. L. (Caithness-shire) | Morgan, J. Lloyd (Carmarthen) | Sheehan, Daniel Daniel |
| Harrington, Timothy | Morrell, Philip | Sheehy, David |
| Harwood, George | Morton, Alpheus Cleophas | Smyth, Thomas F. (Leitrim, S.) |
| Haworth, Arthur A. | Muldoon, John | Snowden, P. |
| Hazleton, Richard | Murnaghan, George | Soares, Ernest J. |
| Healy, Timothy Michael | Murphy, John (Kerry, E.) | Stewart-Smith, D. (Kendal) |
| Helme, Norval Watson | Nannetti, Joseph P. | Strachey, Sir Edward |
| Henry, Charles S. | Newnes, F. (Notts, Bassetlaw) | Summerbell, T. |
| Higham, John Sharp | Nicholls, George | Taylor, John W. (Durham) |
| Hogan, Michael | Nolan, Joseph | Tennant, Sir Edward (Salisbury) |
| Hooper, A. G. | Norman, Sir Henry | Tennant, H. J. (Berwickshire) |
| Horniman, Emslie John | Nugent, Sir Walter Richard | Thomas, Abel, (Carmarthen, E.) |
| Hudson, Walter | Nussey, Sir Willans | Thomasson, Franklin |
| Hutton, Alfred Eddison | Nuttall, Harry | Verney, F. W. |
| Idris, T. H. W. | O'Brien, K. (Tipperary, Mid) | Vivian, Henry |
| Isaacs, Rufus Daniel | O'Brien, Patrick (Kilkenny) | Walters, John Tudor |
| Johnson, John (Gateshead) | O'Connor, John (Kildare, N.) | Wardle, George J. |
| Jones, Leif (Appleby) | O'Connor, T. P. (Liverpool) | Waring, Walter |
| Jones, William (Carnarvonshire) | O'Doherty, Philip | Warner, Thomas Courtenay T. |
| Jordan, Jeremiah | O'Donnell, John (Mayo, S.) | Wason, Rt. Hon. E. (Clackmannan) |
| Joyce, Michael | O'Donnell, T. (Kerry, W.) | Watt, Henry A. |
| Kavanagh, Walter M. | O'Dowd, John | White, J. Dundas (Dumbartonshire) |
| Keating, M. | O'Kelly, Conor (Mayo, N.) | White, Sir Luke (York, E.R.) |
| Kekewich, Sir George | O'Kelly, James (Roscommon, N.) | White, Patrick (Meath, North) |
| Kelley, George D. | O'Malley, William | Whittaker, Rt. Hon. Sir Thomas P. |
| Kennedy, Vincent Paul | O'Shaughnessy, P. J. | Wiles, Thomas |
| Kilbride, Denis | O'Shee, James John | Wilson, Hon. G. G. (Hull, W.) |
| King, Alfred John (Knutsford) | Parker, James (Halifax) | Wilson, W. T. (Westhoughton) |
| Laidlaw, Robert | Partington, Oswald | Young, Samuel |
| Lambert, George | Pearce, Robert (Staffs, Leek) | |
| Lamont, Norman | Philips, John (Longford, S.) | |
| Lardner, James Carrige Rushe | Pickersgill, Edward Hare | TELLERS FOR THE AYES.—Mr. |
| Law, Hugh A. (Donegal, W.) | Pointer, J. | Joseph Pease and Captain Norton. |
| Layland-Barratt, Sir Francis | Ponsonby, Arthur A. W. H. | |
| NOES. | ||
| Acland-Hood, Rt. Hon. Sir Alex. F. | Douglas, Rt. Hon. A. Akers- | M'Arthur, Charles |
| Arkwright, John Stanhope | Duncan, Robert (Lanark, Govan) | M'Calmont, Colonel James |
| Balcarres, Lord | Fletcher, J. S. | Moore, William |
| Banbury, Sir Frederick George | Gordon, J. | Parker, Sir Gilbert (Gravesend) |
| Banner, John S. Harmood- | Goulding, Edward Alfred | Rawlinson, John Frederick Peel |
| Barrie, H. T. (Londonderry, N.) | Grotton. John | Renton, Leslie |
| Bull, Sir William James | Guinness, Hon. W. E. (B. S. Edmunds) | Roberts, S (Sheffield, Ecclesall) |
| Butcher, Samuel Henry | Haddock, George B. | Scott, Sir s. (Marylebone, W.) |
| Carlile, E. Hildred | Harrison-Broadley, H. B. | Sheffield, Sir Berkeley George D. |
| Carson, Rt. Hon. Sir Edward H. | Kay, Hon. Claude George | Staveley-Hill, Henry (Staffordshire) |
| Castlereagh, Viscount | Hermon-Hodge, Sir Robert | Thomson, W. Mitchell (Lanark) |
| Cecil, Evelyn (Aston Manor) | Hill, Sir Clement | Thornton, Percy M. |
| Clark, George Smith | Kennaway, Rt. Hon. Sir John H. | Valentia, Viscount |
| Clive, Percy Archer | Kerry, Earl of | Wilson, A. Stanley (York, E.R.) |
| Coates, Major E. F. (Lewisham) | Keswick, William | Wyndham, Rt. Hon. George |
| Corbett. T. L. (Down, North) | Lambton, Hon. Frederick William | |
| Craik, Charles Curtis (Antrim, S.) | Long, Rt. Hon. Walter (Dublin, S.) | TELLERS FOR THE NOES.—Mr. H. W. Forster and the Marquess of Hamilton. |
| Craig, Captain James (Down, E.) | Lonsdale, Jonn Brownlee | |
| Craik, Sir Henry | MacCaw, Wm. J. MacGeagh |