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On the consideration of the Commons' message of Friday last—
That the promoters of the Bill which has been introduced into this House in the present Session of Parliament, and which has passed this House and been sent to the House of Commons, shall have leave to introduce the same in the next Session of Parliament, provided that notice of their intention to do so be lodged in the Private Bill Office not later than three o'clock on the day prior to the close of the present Session, and that all fees due thereon, up to that period, be paid:
That such Bill shall be deposited in the Private Bill Office not later than three o'clock on or before the third day on which the House shall sit after the next meeting of Parliament, with a declaration annexed thereto, signed by the agent, stating that the Bill is the same in every respect as the Bill at the last stage of the proceedings thereon in this House in the present Session:
That the proceedings on such Bill shall be pro formâ only in regard to every stage through which the same shall have passed in
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the present Session; and that no new be charged in regard to such stages:
That the Standing Orders by which the proceedings on Bills are regulated shall not apply to the said Bill in regard to any of the stages through which the same shall have passed during the present Session."—(The Earl of Morley.)
THE CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEES (The Earl of MORLEY)I have to move, my Lords, that this message be considered, and that your Lordships resolve in the words of the Notice standing on the Paper in my name. That Notice is a very unusual one; it is to enable the promoters of the General Powers Distributing Company's Bill to postpone the Bill, and to take it up next Session at the same stage at which it was this Session. The reason why I make, this Motion is that the Bill was extremely delayed from the fact that it was referred with a number of other Bills by your Lordships' and the other House's orders to a Joint Committee to consider the principles which are to regulate the procedure of these Bills. The other Bills have passed, but this Bill, which was the largest and involved the most novel process, has been delayed in consequence, and I venture to think that the House will consider it is fair to the promoters that, as they were delayed by the action of this House, they should have this indulgence shown them.
§ Motion made, and Question put.
§ Agreed to.