HL Deb 11 August 1848 vol 101 c83

MINUTES.] Took the Oaths.—The Earl of Ducie.

PUBLIC BILLS.—1° Registers of Sasines (Scotland); Court of Justiciary (Scotland); Chancery Proceedings further Regulation.

2a Militia Ballots Suspension.

Reported.—Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction; Loan Societies; Highway Rates; Bankrupts' Release.

3a and passed:—Trustees' Relief; Paymaster's Offices Consolidation.

PETITIONS PRESENTED. From Salford, and Stalybridge, in favour of the Adoption of a System of Secular Education.—From Wakefield and Gloucester, for the Reduction of the Warlike Expenditure of this Country.—From Barford and Arnold, for the Repeal of the Law of Settlement.—From the Members of several Lodges of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and Order of Foresters, for the Extension of the Provisions of the Benefit Societies Act to these Orders.—From Members of the Gloucester Temperance Society, for the Enactment of Sanitary Measures,—From the Parish of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, for Improving the Sanitary Condition of the Metropolis.—From the Counties of Cumberland and Cork, and Colony, of New South Wales, that no Bill may be passed, that will have the effect of Diminishing the Electoral Privileges of the Inhabitants of New South Wales.