§ The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Michael Foot)Mr. Kenneth Lomas presented a Bill to abolish the right of hereditary peers to vote; to provide for the eventual extinction of the hereditary peerage; to make other provision with respect to the functions of hereditary peers; to make provision with respect to the composition of the House of Lords and to the powers of the House of Lords with respect to legislation and its other functions; and for purposes connected therewith: and the same was read the First time; and ordered to be read a Second time upon Friday 25th February and to be printed. [Bill 53.]