Lords Sitting of 13 February 1890

REPRESENTATIVE PEERS FOR IRELAND.
Petition of Charles William Earl Mount Cashell, &c., in the Peerage of Ireland, claiming a right to vote at the elections of Representative Peers for Ireland; read, and referred to the Lord Chancellor to consider and report thereupon to the House.
THE DUKE OF FIFE.
The Right Honourable Alexander William George Earl of Fife, K.T., having been created Marquess of Macduff, in the county of Banff, and Duke of Fife—Was (in the usual manner) introduced.

REPRESENTATIVE PEERS FOR SCOTLAND.
THE LORD CHANCELLOR THE LORD CHANCELLOR acquainted the House that the Clerk of the Parliaments had received (by post) from the Lord Clerk Register of Scotland,
Minutes of the election of the Viscount Strathallan and the Lord Saltoun as two of the sixteen Peers of Scotland, 6th January last, in room of Alexander Earl of Leven and Melville, and George William Hamilton, Karl of Orkney, deceased; and
Separate Return by the Lord Clerk Register of certain Titles of Peerage called at the said election, in right of which respectively no vote had been received and counted at any election for fifty years then last past (pursuant to Act 14th and 15th Vict., chap. 87.):
Ordered that the said Minutes of Election, &c. be printed. (No. 7.)

LICHFIELD CATHEDRAL BILL (No. 12.)
A Bill to amend the existing statutory provisions respecting the canonries, prebends, and other ecclesiastical offices of the cathedral church of Lichfield: And

PRESENTATION TO BENEFICES BILL (No. 13.)
A Bill to make better provision for the exercise of the right of presentation to benefices in cases where the right is now exerciseable by
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parishioners or others forming a numerous class:
Were presented by the Lord Bishop of Lichfield; read 1a and to be printed.

CATHEDRAL CHURCHES BILL (No. 14.)
A Bill to provide for making statutes respecting deans and chapters and cathedral churches in England; and for other purposes relating thereto: And

REGISTRATION ACT AMENDMENT BILL (No. 15.)
A Bill to amend the Act of the fifty-second year of King George the Third, chapter one hundred and forty-six, for the better regulating and preserving parish and other registers of births, baptisms, marriages, and burials in England:
Were presented by the Lord Bishop of Carlisle; read 1a and to be printed.

SERVITUDES REDEMPTION (SCOTLAND) BILL.
A Bill to enable proprietors of land in Scotland to redeem certain servitude rights—was presented by the Lord Watson (for the Lord Meldrum [M. Huntly]); read 1a and to be printed. No. (16.)
House adjourned at half past Four o'clock, till To-morrow, a quarter past Ten o'clock.