Lords Sitting of 13 February 1868

MINUTES.
Sat First in Parliament—The Marquess of Lansdowne, after the Death of his Father.
PUBLIC BILL—First Reading—Promissory Oaths (10).

PROMISSORY OATHS BILL.

  PRESENTED. FIRST READING.
  THE LORD CHANCELLOR, on rising to introduce a Bill to amend the Law relating to Promissory Oaths, said, it was not his intention to explain its object on the present occasion. When, however, the Bill came on for a second reading, he would fully state the purport of its provisions. He would now merely ask their Lordships to assent to the first reading, and would fix the second reading for Tuesday next.
  A Bill to amend the Law relating to Promissory Oaths—Presented by The LORD CHANCELLOR; read 1a. (No. 10.)

  PRIVATE BILLS.
  Ordered, That this House will not receive any Petition for a Private Bill after Monday the 23d of March next, unless such Private Bill shall have been approved by the Court of Chancery; nor any Petition for a Private Bill approved by the Court of Chancery after Monday the 11th of May next:
  Ordered, That this House will not receive any Report from the Judges upon Petitions presented to this House for Private Bills after Monday the 11th of May next:
  Ordered, That the said Orders be printed and published, and affixed on the Doors of this House and Westminster Hall. (No. 9.)
  House adjourned at a quarter past Five o'clock, till To-morrow, a quarter before Five o'clock.