§ "To enable the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and citizens of the city of Belfast to construct and work additional tramways in and adjacent to the city; to make street improvements; to construct works and exercise powers for prevention of flooding; to acquire lands; to make provisions for the better control of persons practising midwifery in the city; to establish a textile testing-house; to enable the Corporation to raise further money; and to confer various further powers upon the Corporation with respect to streets and buildings in the city and in relation to sanitary matters and the health and good government of the city; and for other purposes," presented, and read the first time; and ordered to be read a second time.