Lords Sitting of 20 June 1895

COMMISSION.
The following Bills received the Royal Assent:—
Ambleside Urban District Council (Gas and Water).

Bank of Bolton.

Barry Railway.

Brymbo Water.

Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway.

Local Government Provisional Orders (No.1).

Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 2).

Reformatory and Industrial Schools (Channel Island Children).

South Eastern Railway.

Vale of Glamorgan Railway.

Waterford and Limerick Railway.

The Lords Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor (Lord Herschell), Lord Tweedmouth, and Lord Kensington.

ARMY MILITIA.
Further regulations relating to the Militia:
Forty-ninth Report of the Commissioners in Lunacy to the Lord Chancellor:
NATIONAL SCHOOL TEACHERS (IRE- LAND) PENSION FUND.
Annual account of receipts and payments in respect of capital and income for the year ended 31st December, 1894: Laid before the House (pursuant to Act), and ordered to lie on the Table:
ARMY.
List of exceptions to Army Regulations, as to pay, non-effective pay, and allowances sanctioned during the year ended 31st March, 1895:

BIRTHS, DEATHS, AND MARRIAGES (ENGLAND).
1. Fifty-seventh Annual Report of the Registrar General, for 1894:
2. Supplement to the Fifty-fifth Annual Report of the Registrar General:

EDUCATION (SCOTLAND).
1. General Report for the year 1894, by the Chief Inspector of the Western Division:
2. Twenty-second Annual Report by the Accountant for Scotland to the Scotch Education Department:
Presented (by command); and ordered to lie on the Table.

FLOODS PREVENTION BILL [H.L.]
A Bill to give further powers to County Councils with a view to the prevention of floods and other damage arising from rivers or watercourses—Was presented by the Lord Thring; read 1a; and to be printed. (No. 158.)
MID WIVES REGISTRATION BILL [H.L.]
To be printed as amended on Report. (No. 157.)
PROVISIONAL ORDER BILLS.
  PRIVATE AND PROVISIONAL ORDER CONFIRMATION BILLS.
  Ordered that Standing Orders Nos. 72 and 82 be suspended for the remainder of the Session.

  TRAMWAYS ORDERS CONFIRMATION (No. 1) BILL [H.L.]
  House in Committee (according to Order): Amendments made: Standing Committee negatived: The Report of Amendments to be received To-morrow.
  LOCAL GOVERNMENT (IRELAND) PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 3) BILL; LOCAL GOVERNMENT (IRELAND) PROVISIONAL ORDER (No. 4) BILL; and METROPOLITAN POLICE PROVISIONAL ORDER BILL.
  Read 2a (according to Order), and committed to a Committee of the Whole House To-morrow.

  ELECTRIC LIGHTING PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 1) BILL; ELECTRIC LIGHTING PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 2) BILL; ELECTRIC LIGHTING PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 3) BILL; and PIER AND HARBOUR PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 1) BILL.
  Read 2a (according to Order), and committed to a Committee of the Whole House To-morrow.
  ELECTRIC LIGHTING PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 5) BILL [H.L.]; and ELECTRIC LIGHTING PROVISIONAL ORDER (No. 6) BILL [H.L.]
  House in Committee (according to Order): Amendments made: Standing Committee negatived: The Report of Amendments to be received To-morrow.
  WATER ORDERS CONFIRMATION BILL [H.L.]; and TRAMWAYS ORDERS CONFIRMATION (No. 2) BILL [H.L.]
  Read 3a (according to Order), and passed, and sent to the Commons.

  COURT OF SESSION CONSIGNATIONS (SCOTLAND) BILL
  *THE LORD PRIVY SEAL (Lord TWEEDMOUTH),in moving the Second Reading of this Bill, explained that it had been introduced to provide for the more efficient custody of funds lodged with the accountant of court or any of the clerks or officers of the Supreme Court in Scotland, and for the disposal of such funds, subject to Treasury liability. The sums for which the accountant of course was responsible, which were dealt with in Clause 7 of the Bill were funds which had accumulated prior to Janury 1889. These sums amounted to £36,603. £5,363 was in the Bankruptcy Department, and the remainder in the Judicial Factory Department; a smaller sum of probably under £500 being in the hands of the Clerk of the Bills. Under this Bill these sums would be payable to the Queen's and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer, and the Treasury would have power to direct him to pay into the Exchequer such sums as they might think fit out of the moneys accumulated in his hands. Clause 15 of
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  the Bill empowered the Treasury to apply £5,000 out of these sums to the purpose of improving the Advocates' Library and the Parliament House. There were English and Irish precedents for this provision. In England a sum derived from cognate sources, was appropriated to defray the expenses of the erection of the new Law Courts, and in Ireland several sums of the same character had been applied in extending the law courts. The Bill had passed through the House of Commons with the assent of all parties.
  Bill read 2a.

  POST OFFICE ACT (1891) AMENDMENT BILL.
  LORD PLAYFAIR,in moving the Second Reading of this Bill, said that it had been passed by the House of Commons. It was not a Government measure, but the Post Office Department approved the Amendment which it proposed. An Act was passed in 1891 which gave sanitary authorities power to arrange with the Post Office for increased postal and telegraph facilities. When such arrangements were made the Post Office took a guarantee that no loss should accrue to the Department by reason of the increased facilities, and the rural sanitary authority had power to make good any loss that accrued. The object of this Bill was merely to extend that power to the Parish Council, and to the parish meeting where there was no Parish Council.
  Bill read 2a.

  MORTGAGEES' COSTS BILL.
  Amendments reported (according to Order), and Bill to be read 3a on Mon day next.

  LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANIES (PAYMENT INTO COURT) BILL.
  Read 3a (according to Order), and passed, and sent to the Commons.
  House adjourned at Twenty minutes before Five o'clock.