Lords Sitting of 9 February 1877

MINUTES.
—SELECT COMMITEE—Intemperance, appointed.
PUBLIC BILL — First Reading — Metropolitan Board of Works (Election of Members) * (2).

INTEMPERANCE.

  MOTION FOR A SELECT COMMITTEE.
  Moved that a Select Committee be appointed for the purpose of inquiring into the prevalence of habits of intemperance, and into the manner in which those habits have been affected by recent legislation and other causes.—(The Lord Archbishop of Canterbury.)
  Motion agreed to.
  And, on Tuesday, the 13th instant, the Lords following were named of the Committee:—

  L. Abp. Canterbury.

  V. Gordon.

  L. Abp. York.

  V. Hutchinson.

  D. Westminster.

  L. Bp. Peterborough.

  E. Shrewsbury.

  L. Bp. Exeter.

  E. Shaftesbury.

  L. Bp. Carlisle.

  E. Belmore.

  L. Penrhyn.

  E. Onslow.

  L. Aberdare.

  E. Morley.

  L. Cottesloe.

  E. Kimberley.

  The Committee to appoint their own Chairman.
  And, on February 15, the Lord Hartismere added.

METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS (ELECTION OF MEMBERS) BILL [H.L.]
A Bill for increasing the number of members of the Metropolitan Board of Works, and for altering the mode of electing such members—Was presented by The Earl of CAMPERDOWN; read 1a. (No. 2.)

YEOMAN USHER OF THE BLACK ROD.
Ordered that Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable Wellington P. M. C. Talbot, Serjeant-at-Arm s, be permitted to officiate in the room of Colonel Clifford during his absence through deep domestic affliction.
House adjourned at a quarter past Five o'clock, to Monday next, Eleven o'clock.