HL Deb 28 July 1845 vol 82 cc1130-1

BILLS. Public—1a. Taxing Masters, Court of Chancery (Ireland); County Rates; Real Property (No. 3).

2a. Railways (Selling or Leasing); Bills of Exchange, etc.; Bonded Corn; Testamentary Disposition, etc.; Criminal Jurisdiction of Assistant Barristers (Ireland): Stamp Duties, etc.; Militia Pay; Land Revenue Act Amendment; Lunatics; Compensations.

Reported.—Poor Law Amendment (Scotland); Lunatic Asylums (Ireland); Drainage (Ireland); Highways.

3a. and passed: — Unclaimed Stock and Dividends; Spirits (Ireland); Excise Duties on Spirits (Channel Islands).

Private—1a. Leeds and Bradford Railway (Mistake Rectifying).

2a. Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings Railway (Hastings, Rye, and Ashford Extension); Darby Court, Westminster.

Reported.—South Wales Railway; Monmouth and Hereford Railway; Glasgow Junction Railway; Guildford, Chichester, and Portsmouth Railway; Brighton and Chichester Railway (Portsmouth Extension); Direct London and Portsmouth Railway; Duddeston and Nechells Improvement; Erewash Valley Railway; Glasgow, Barrhead, and Neilston Direct Railway; Manchester and Leeds Railway.

3a. and passed:—Birmingham and Gloucester Extension Railway (Stoke Branch); London and South Western Railway; South Eastern Railway (Greenwich Extension); South Eastern Railway (Tunbridge to Tunbridge Wells); Gravesend and Rochester Railway; Rothwell Prison; Shrewsbury and Holyhead Road,

PETITIONS PRESENTED. By Duke of Buckingham, from Clergy and others of Aylesbury, for Abolishing Punishment of Death.—By Bishop of Norwich, from Rotherfield, and several other places, for the Suppression of Intemperance, especially on the Sabbath.