Lords Sitting of 12 May 1891

THE MANIPUR DISASTER.

  OBSERVATIONS.
  THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (Viscount CROSS): My Lords, with reference to the answer which I gave to my noble Friend the Marquess of Ripon yesterday, I, of course, at once telegraphed that answer to the Viceroy, and I have just this moment received the following telegram from him:—
  "There is no foundation for the report that a reward has been offered by us for the rebels, dead or alive."

  TRUCK BILL [H.L.]
  A Bill to consolidate and amend the law relating to truck—Was presented by the Lord Kenry (E. Dunraven and Mount-Earl); read 1a; and to be printed. (No. 127.)

PRIVATE AND PROVISIONAL ORDER CONFIRMATION BILLS.
Ordered—
"That Standing Orders No. XCII. and XCIII. be suspended; and that the time for depositing petitions praying to be heard against Private and Provisional Order Confirmation Bills, which would otherwise expire during the adjournment of the House at Whitsuntide, be extended to the first day on which the House shall sit after the Recess."

MARRIAGE ACTS AMENDMENT BILL [H.L.]—(No. 118.)
Order of the Day for the Third Reading, read.
Bill read 3a (according to order.)
Amendment made.
THE BISHOP OF CARLISLE: Before the Bill passes I wish to ask your Lordships' permission to move the insertion of a new clause. I explained upon the Report being received the reason for this new clause being required. It is manifest that if this Bill becomes an Act it will throw considerable and rather complicated duties upon the clergy with regard to the publication of banns, and it is essential that something is done to alleviate the difficulties thus arising. I, therefore, propose a new clause for that
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purpose, which will come between Clauses 20 and 21.
Amendment moved,
After Clause 20, to insert as a new clause "It shall be the duty of the Registrar General to prepare and cause to be printed a form of banns-book suited to the provisions of this Act, and to transmit upon application from time to time a copy of the same to the minister of any church in which banns may be lawfully published."—(The Bishop of Carlisle.)
Agreed to.
Bill passed and sent to the Commons,

PRESUMPTION OF LIFE LIMITATION (SCOTLAND) BILL.—(No. 104.)
House in Committee (according to order); Bill reported without amendment; and re-committed to the Standing Committee.
HERRING BRANDING (NORTHUMBERLAND) BILL.—(No. 92.)
House in Committee (according to order); Bill reported without amendment; and re-committed to the Standing Committee.
ENDOWED CHARITIES (NOTTINGHAM.)
VISCOUNT GALWAY: My Lords, I have upon the Paper a notice to move for copies of the General Digest of Endowed Charities for the Counties and Cities mentioned in the Fourteenth Report of the Charity Commissioners relating to the County of Nottingham (in continuation of House of Commons Parliamentary Paper, No. 292–1., of 1871.) As I understand that the Return for which I ask is being prepared in a series for production in the House of Commons I will postpone my question for the present, hoping that this Adjournment may render it unnecessary.

BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.
Ordered, That the Evening Sitting of the House on Tuesday the 26th instant do commence at a quarter past Four o'clock.
House adjourned at a quarter before Five o'clock, to Tuesday the 26th instant, a quarter past Four o'clock.