Lords Sitting of 21 March 1848

MINUTES.
Took the Oaths.—Several Lords.
PUBLIC BILLS.—2a Administration of Oaths, &C., Court of Chancery,
PETITIONS PRESENTED. From the Royal Burgh of Stranraer, for the Amendment of the Scottish Prisons Act.—From Saint Florence, Penally, and Manorbean, against the Admission of Jews into Parliament.

ELECTION OF REPRESENTATIVE PEERS FOR SCOTLAND.
The EARL of EGLINTOUNreminded their Lordships that an Act had passed last Session for the purpose of correcting certain abuses that had taken place at the election of the Representative Peers of Scotland. At the last election, which took place at Holyrood House, on the 8th of September, a person attended and proposed to give his vote under the title of Lord Colville of Ochiltree. That vote was protested against, pursuant to the Act of Parliament, by several Peers present, and he now begged to move that the individual who had so tendered his vote be required to establish his claim before the House, and that a notice be served upon him to attend before their Lordships for that purpose, on Tuesday, the 11th of Aprill next.
Agreed to.
House adjourned.