HC Deb 30 March 1922 vol 152 cc1557-8

That they have passed a Bill, intituled, "An Act to assimilate and amend the Law of Real and Personal Estate; to abolish copyhold and other special tenures; to amend the Law relating to commonable lands and of intestacy; and to amend The Wills Act, 1837, the Settled Land Acts, 1882 to 1890, the Conveyancing Acts, 1881 to 1911, The Trustee Act, 1893, and the Land Transfer Acts, 1875 and 1897." [Law of Property Bill [Lords.]

Also, a Bill, intituled, "An Act to amend the Law with respect to the preparation of Jurors Books, and otherwise to amend the Law relating to Jurors and Juries, in England and Wales." [Juries Bill [Lords.]

Also, a Bill, intituled, "An Act for empowering the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the Borough of Stoke-on-Trent to acquire the Staffordshire Potteries undertaking of the British Gas Light Company, Limited; to amalgamate that undertaking and the existing gas undertakings of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses aforesaid and to consolidate the special Acts and Orders relating thereto; and for other purposes." [Stoke-on-Trent Corporation (Gas Consolidation) Bill [Lords.]

Also, a Bill, intituled, "An Act to confer further powers on the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the Borough of Ossett with respect to the supply of water; and for other purposes." [Ossett Corporation (Water) [Lords.]

And also, a Bill, intituled, "An Act to extend the period limited by the Nottingham Corporation (Trent Navigation Transfer) Act, 1915, for the construction of certain works; to empower the Corporation of Nottingham to borrow further money in respect of such works or some of them; and for other purposes." [Nottingham Corporation Trent (Navigation) Bill [Lords.]

Maguire's Divorce Bill [Lords] and Babington's Divorce Bill [Lords],—That they communicate Minutes of Evidence and Proceedings taken upon the Second Reading of Maguire's Divorce Bill [Lords] and Babington's Divorce Bill [Lords], as desired by the Commons, with a request that the same may be returned.

Stoke-on-Trent Corporation (Gas Consolidation) Bill [Lords],

Ossett Corporation Water Bill [Lords],

Nottingham Corporation (Trent Navigation) Bill [Lords],

Read the first time; and referred to the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills.