Lords Sitting of 8 April 1830

MINUTES.
The Royal Assent was given by Commission to the Officers' Indemnity Bill, the Smugglers' Families Bill, the County Palatine of Durham Bill, and several private Bills. The Tanjore Commissioners' Bill was read a third time and passed. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY laid on the Table Reports of the Irish Ecclesiastical Courts' Commissioners, and of the Irish Charities' Commissioners. Sir A. GRANT and others from the Commons brought up the Four-per-Cents Bill, the East Retford Witnesses' Indemnity Bill, the Haymarket Removal Bill, and some Private Bills.
Returns presented. An Annual Account of Superannuation Allowances:—An Account of Foreign and Colonial Wheat remaining under Bond on January 5, 1828, the Quantity entered for Home-consumption, the Quantity re-exported, and the Quantity remaining under Bond on January 5, 1830:—An Account of Wheat imported into Liverpool from Ireland or Coastwise, from July 5, 1828, to Jan. 5, 1830:—An Account of all Sums expended on Surveys for the Roads between London and Edinburgh, and London and Portpatrick:—An Account of Pensions and Salaries granted by the Company during the period therein mentioned.
Lord STRATHALLAN Lord STRATHALLAN laid on the Table a Second Report of Evidence taken before the East India Committee—Ordered to be Printed.
Petitions presented. By Lord CALTHORPE, from the Females of Blackburn, and two Congregations of Protestant Dissenters of Blackburn, against Suttees. By Lord HOLLAND, from the Inhabitants of Woburn, praying for the Revision of the Criminal Code.