§ Mr. Secretary Walker, supported by Mr. Secretary Peter Thomas, Mr. James Prior, Mr. R. Graham Page, Mr. Patrick Jenkin and Mr. Michael Heseltine presented (under Standing Order No. 91 (Procedure upon Bills whose main object is to create a charge upon the public revenue)) a Bill to remove the limit imposed by subsection (5) of section 1 of the Rural Water Supplies and Sewerage Act 1944, as amended, on contributions under that section towards the expenses of local authorities in England and Wales: And the same was read the first time; and ordered to be read a second time upon Monday next, and to be printed [Bill 147].