§ Message to attend the Lords Commissioners.
§ The House went, and having returned,
§ Mr. SPEAKER(standing in the Clerk's place at the Table): I have to acquaint the House that this House has been to the House of Peers, at the desire of the Lords Commissioners appointed under the Great Seal to Prorogue the present Parliament, and that the Lord High Chancellor, being one of the High Commissioners, delivered His Majesty's Most Gracious Speech to both Houses of Parliament, in pursuance of His Majesty's Command, as followeth:
My Lords and Members of the House of Commons,
I have received with deep satisfaction the assurance of your approval of the Articles of the Irish Agreement and of your readiness to give effect to its provisions.
I pray that the blessing of almighty God may rest upon, your decisions.
Then a Commission for proroguing the Parliament was read in the House of Lords.
After which the LORD CHANCELLOR said:
MY LORDS AND MEMBERS,—By virtue of His Majesty's Commission, under the Great Seal, to us and other Lords directed, and now read, we do, in His Majesty's Name and in obedience to his Commands, Prorogue, this Parliament to Tuesday, the thirty-first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, to be then here holden; and this Parliament is accordingly prorogued to Tuesday, the thirty-first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two.
End of the Fourth Session (opened, Wednesday, 14th December, 1921) of the Thirty-first Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in the twelfth year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Fifth