METROPOLITAN SEWERS BILL.

HL Deb 08 August 1854 vol 135 cc1404-5

Moved to resolve— That as the Metropolitan Sewers Bill is necessary for the Continuance of the Powers of the Metropolitan Sewers Commission, and for increasing the Facilities for constructing Sewers, and as such Powers and Facilities are of essential Importance to the Public Health, especially in reference to the Existence of the Cholera in Parts of the Metropolis, the Circumstances of this Bill present such a Case of Urgency as to render necessary the immediate Consideration of the said Bill; and that accordingly the said Bill be allowed to be read a Second Time this Day, if the House shall think fit so order.

On Question, agreed to.

Order of the Day for the Second Reading; and for Standing Orders Nos. 37 and 38 to be considered, in order to their being dispensed with on the said Bill, and the Lords Summoned, read.

Moved, That the Bill be now read 2^a.

(After short debate) on Question, agreed to.

Bill read 2^a accordingly.

Committee negatived.

Standing Orders Nos. 37 and 38 dispensed with.

Bill read 3^a.

Amendments made; Amendments moved; objected to; and, on Question, negatived; and Bill passed and sent to the Commons.