§ The following Bills received the Royal Assent:—
§ Alexandra and Newport (South Wales) Docks and Railway.
§ Archdeaconry of London (Additional Endowments).
§ Baldock and Bygrave Benefices Union.
§ Belfast Water.
§ Birmingham Churches.
§ Birmingham City Tramways.
§ Birmingham, North Warwickshire, and Stratford-upon-Avon Railway.
§ Borrowstounness Water Provisional Order.
§ Bradford Corporation Tramways and Improvement.
§ Bristol Extension.
506§ Brompton and Piccadilly Circus Railway.
§ Burials Joint Committee.
§ Bute Docks, Cardiff.
§ Callander and Oban Railway.
§ Chaff-cutting Machines (Accidents).
§ Cirencester Water.
§ Cleansing of Persons.
§ Colne Corporation.
§ Colwyn Bay and Colwyn Urban District Council.
§ Congested Districts (Scotland).
§ Consolidated Fund (Appropriation).
§ Constabulary (Ireland).
§ Cotton Cloth Factories.
§ Coventry Electric Tramways.
§ Cowes Harbour.
§ Dangerous Performances.
§ Deal and Walmer Water.
§ Dearne Valley Railway.
§ Didcot, Newbury, and Southampton Railway.
§ District Councils (Water-supply Facilities).
§ Dublin United Tramways (Electrical Power).
§ Dublin United Tramways (New Lines).
§ Dublin, Wicklow, and Wexford Railway (New Ross and Waterford Extension).
§ Dundee Corporation.
§ Duntocher and Dalmuir Water Provisional Order.
§ East London Water.
§ East Warwickshire Water.
§ Education Department Provisional Orders Confirmation (East Barnet, etc.).
§ Education Department Provisional Orders Confirmation (London).
§ Education (Scotland).
§ Electric Lighting Provisional Orders (No. 7).
§ Electric Liahting Provisional Orders, (No. 8).
§ Electric Lighting Provisional Orders (No. 9).
§ Electric Lighting Provisional Orders (No. 10).
§ Electric Lighting Provisional Orders (No. 11).
§ Expiring Laws Continuance.
§ Foreign Prison-made Goods.
§ Fylde Water (Transfer).
§ Gas Orders Confirmation (No. 1).
§ Gas Orders Confirmation (No. 2).
§ Glasgow Corporation Improvements.
§ Glasgow and Renfrew District Railway.
§ Glasgow and South-Western Railway.
§ Gonne Estate.
§ Gravesend and Milton Water.
507§ Great Northern and City Railway.
§ Great Northern Railway (Ireland).
§ Great Western Railway (Additional Powers).
§ Great Western Railway (Bristol Lines).
§ Great Yarmouth Corporation.
§ Harrogate Corporation (Water Transfer).
§ Harrogate Water.
§ Harrow and Uxbridge Railway.
§ Hastings Harbour District Railway.
§ Highgate Woods Preservation.
§ Highland Railway (Additional Powers).
§ Hull and South Yorkshire Extension Railway.
§ Infant Life Protection.
§ Invergarry and Fort Augustus Railway.
§ Isle of Man (Church Building Acts).
§ King's Lynn Corporation.
§ Kingston-upon-Hull Corporation.
§ Land Transfer.
§ Leeds Corporation.
§ Leicester Corporation.
§ Licensing (Scotland) Acts Amendment.
§ Lincoln and East Coast Railway and Dock.
§ Llandudno Urban District Council.
§ Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 3).
§ Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 11).
§ Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 12).
§ Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 13).
§ Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 14).
§ Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 15).
§ Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 16).
§ Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 17).
§ Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 18).
§ Lochearnhead, St. Fillans, and Comrie Railway.
§ London County Council (General Powers).
§ London County Council (Improvements).
§ London County Council (Money).
§ London (Green Street, Southwark) Provisional Order.
§ London and South-Western Railway (Various Powers).
§ Manchester Corporation.
508§ Merchant Shipping (Exemptions from Pilotage).
§ Merchant Shipping (Undermanning).
§ Mersey Docks and Harbour Board.
§ Metropolitan District Railway.
§ Metropolitan and other Police Courts.
§ Metropolitan Police (Borrowing Powers).
§ Metropolitan Water Companies.
§ Midland and Great Northern Railways Joint Committee.
§ Midland Railway.
§ Military Manœuvres.
§ Municipal Elections (Scotland).
§ Naval Works.
§ New River Company.
§ Newark Corporation Water.
§ Newburgh and North Fife Railway.
§ Newport Corporation.
§ Newry Navigation.
§ North-Eastern Railway.
§ North London Railway.
§ North Metropolitan Tramways.
§ North Pembrokeshire and Fishguard Railway.
§ Norwich Electric Tramways.
§ Nottingham Corporation Water.
§ Nottingham Improvement.
§ Out-door Relief (Ireland).
§ Paisley and Barrhead District Railway.
§ Parish Councils (Scotland) (Casual Vacancies).
§ Patent Office Extension.
§ Pier and Harbour Provisional Orders (No. 3).
§ Pier and Harbour Provisional Orders (No. 4).
§ Pier and Harbour Provisional Orders (No. 6).
§ Pilotage Provisional Order.
§ Police (Property).
§ Poor Law.
§ Poor Law Officers' Superannuation Act (1896) Amendment.
§ Post Office (Sites).
§ Post Office and Telegraphs (Facilities and Pensions).
§ Public Health (Scotland).
§ Public Offices (Whitehall) Site.
§ Public Works Loans.
§ Pwllheli Corporation.
§ Rhymney Valley Gas and Water.
§ Salford Corporation.
§ School Boards' Expenses.
§ Sinclair's Divorce.
§ South-Eastern Railway.
§ South-Eastern Railway (Confirmation of Cator Agreement).
§ Southwark and Vauxhall Water.
509§ Stipendiary Magistrates Jurisdiction (Scotland).
§ St. Neot's Water.
§ Swadlincote District Gas.
§ Swansea Improvements and Tramways.
§ Supreme Court of Judicature (Ireland).
§ Taff Vale Railway.
§ Tramways Orders Confirmation (No. 1).
§ Tramways Orders Confirmation (No. 2).
§ Tramways Orders Confirmation (No. 3).
§ Tyne Improvement.
§ Tynemouth Corporation (Water).
§ Thames Subway (Greenwich to Millwall).
§ Tuxford and District Gas.
§ Vale of Rheidol Light Railway.
§ Vanston's Divorce.
§ Volunteers.
§ Water Orders Confirmation.
§ Watford, Edgware, and London Railway.
§ Weights and Measures (Metric System).
§ Weston-super-Mare Grand Pier.
§ Weston-super-Mare Tramways.
§ Weymouth Water.
§ Whitechapel and Bow Railway.
§ Wicklow Harbour (Advances).
§ Woodhouse and Conisbrough Railway.
§ Workmen (Compensation for Accidents).
§ Yorkshire Coroners.
§ Yorkshire Dales Railway (Skipton to Grassington).
§ The Lords' Commissioners were the LORD CHANCELLOR (Lord HALSBURY), the Duke of NORFOLK (Postmaster General), Viscount CROSS (Lord Privy Seal), and Lord ASHBOURNE (Lord Chancellor of Ireland).
§ House adjourned at half-past Eleven o'Clock.
§ House resumed at half-past Two p.m.
§ THE LORD CHANCELLORstated that Her Majesty the Queen, not finding it convenient to be present, had appointed a Commission for the prorogation of Parliament.
§ The Reading Clerk having Royal read the Commission,
§ THE LORD CHANCELLORannounced that Her Majesty had given her Royal Assent to the Pills named on page 505.