Lords Sitting of 5 April 1895

EDUCATIONAL ENDOWMENTS (IRE LAND) ACT, 1885.
Scheme for the management of the Banks Endowment Eyreount: Laid before the House (pursuant to Act), and to be printed. [No. 67.]
TREATY SERIES, No. 8 (1895).
Agreement between the Governments of Great Britain and Russia with regard to the spheres of influence of the two countries in the region of the Pamirs; London, 11th March 1895: Presented (by command), and ordered to lie on the Table.
LIFE INSURANCE.
Tables of the premiums to be charged under contracts for the insurance of lives, together with a statement of the rules observed in constructing them: Laid before the House (pursuant to Act), and ordered to lie on the Table.

ARMY (ANNUAL) BILL.
House in Committee according to Order): Bill reported without amendment: Standing Committee negatived: Then Standing Order No. XXXIX considered (according to Order), and dispensed with.
Bill read 3a, and passed.

SOLICITORS (IRELAND) BILL [H.L.]
Amendments reported (according to Order).

LEGISLATION BY REFERENCE.
THE LORD CHANCELLOR (Lord HERSCHELL)THE LORD CHANCELLOR (Lord HERSCHELL) moved—
"That a Committee of five Lords be appointed to join with a Committee of the House of Commons to consider in what manner such inconvenience as arises from Legislation by reference in Acts of Parliament to prior enactments can best be avoided; that the Lords following be members of such Committee:— The Lord Chancellor, the Marquess of Salisbury, the Earl of Morley, Lord Halsbury, and Lord Thring; that such Committee have power to agree with the Committee of the House of Commons in the appointment of a Chairman."
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Then a message was ordered to be sent to the House of Commons to acquaint them therewith, and to request them to appoint five Members of that House to be joined with the said Committee pursuant to the Resolution of this House of Friday last, and to the message of the House of Commons of yesterday, signifying their concurrence in the said Resolution.

GRAND JURIES (IRELAND) (No. 2) BILL.
Read 3a (according to Order), with the Amendments, and passed, and returned to the Commons.

EVIDENCE IN CRIMINAL CASES (No. 2) BILL [H.L.]
Read 3a (according to Order), and passed, and sent to the Commons.
House adjourned at Twenty-five minutes before Five o'clock, to Monday next, a quarter before Eleven o'clock.