Lords Sitting of 7 August 1899

PRIVATE BILL BUSINESS.
  BRADFORD TRAMWAYS AND IMPROVEMENT BILL.

    BROMPTON AND PICCADILLY CIRCUS RAILWAY BILL.
    CHARING CROSS, EUSTON, AND HAMPSTEAD RAILWAY BILL.
    HARROW AND UXBRIDGE RAILWAY BILL.
    LEEDS CORPORATION BILL.
    LONDON IMPROVEMENTS BILL.
    NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE TRAMWAYS AND IMPROVEMENTS BILL.
    NORTH-WEST LONDON RAILWAY BILL.
    UXBRIDGE AND RICKMANSWORTH RAILWAY BILL.
    Returned from the Commons, with the Amendments agreed to.

    DERWENT VALLEY WATER BILL.
    Returned from the Commons, with the Amendments agreed to, with Amendments, and a consequential Amendment to the Bill; the said Amendments and consequential Amendment considered, and agreed to.
  RETURNS, REPORTS, &c.

    EDUCATION (SCOTLAND).
    Report for the year 1899, by Sir Henry Craik, K.C.B., on the inspection of higher
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    class schools and the examination for leaving certificates.

    TUNIS, No. 1. (1899)
    Return of Exports from Great Britain and France to Tunis during the years 1880, 1885, 1890, 1895, and 1897.

    TRADE REPORTS-ANNUAL SERIES.
    No. 2326. Finances of Italy.
    No. 2327. Trade and general condition of British Central Africa Protectorate.
    No. 2328, Portugal (Chinde).

    HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS (ROYAL COMMISSION).
    Report on the Manuscripts of—

    I.—

    1. J. M. Heathcote, Esq., of Conington Castle.

    2. J. B. Fortescue, Esq., of Dropmore, Volume III.

    3. The Welsh Language, Volume II., W. R. M. Wynne, Esq., of Penarth.

    4. The Marquess of Salisbury, K.G., Part VIII.

    5. F.W. Leyborne-Popham, Esq., of Littlecote.

    6. The Duke of Portland, Volume V.

    II.—Appendix to the Fifteenth Report on the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, Part X., the Manuscripts of Shrewsbury Corporation, etc.

    IRISH LAND COMMISSION (PROCEEDINGS).
    Return of proceedings during the months of March, April, and May, 1899.
    NATIONAL EDUCATION (IRELAND).
    Appendices (Sections ii., iii., iv., and v.) to the Annual Report of the Commissioners, 1898–99.
    PUBLIC RECORDS (IRELAND).
    Thirty-first Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Records.
    BANKING, RAILWAY, AND SHIPPING STATISTICS (IRELAND).
    Report for June, 1899.
    LUNACY (IRELAND).
    Forty-eighth Report (with Appendices) of the Inspectors of Lunatics in Ireland.
    LOCAL TAXATION (IRELAND).
    Returns for the year 1898.

    LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (IRELAND).
    Annual Report for the year ended 31st March, 1899.
    Presented (by Command), and ordered to lie on the Table.

    INTERMEDIATE EDUCATION (IRELAND).
    Receipts and Expenditure of the Intermediate Education Board for Ireland, for the year ended 31st December, 1898; together with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor-General thereon.

    POLICE ACT, 1890.
    Correspondence relative to the refusal of the Secretary of State's Certificate, under Section 17 (2) of the Act, to the River Tyne Police Force for the year ended 29th September, 1898.
    Laid before the House (pursuant to Act), and ordered to lie on the Table.

    PRIVATE BILLS—STANDING ORDERS.
    THE CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEES (The Earl of MORLEY): My Lords, the Amendments to the Standing Orders this year are apparently very large in number, and occupy eleven pages of your Lordships' Paper. But they are, with very few exceptions, formal alterations, a great many of them being the result of the Irish Local Government Act coming into force. The Amendments to Standing Orders 38 and 111, which deal with the rehousing of the working classes displaced by any undertaking, are not formal. The first Amendment gives a definition of the word "house." It was thought that, at the present moment, "house" might include a very large tene-
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    ment, such as are being erected all over the metropolis for the housing of many hundreds of the working classes. It is quite clear that "house" ought not to cover such a tenement, and therefore a definition of the word is given in the Standing Orders to avoid all further misunderstanding on the point. The definition adopted is:
    "The expression 'house' means any tenement separately occupied by any person or persons."
    The other point to which attention has been called during the past session is that the provisions of the Standing Order, especially in London, have in certain cases been a good deal evaded. There was the notable case of the London School Board, which, instead of taking twenty houses under one Bill, brought in a series of Bills for a small number of houses, and thus evaded the Standing Order. Other authorities and companies, we are given to understand, have, in certain cases, also evaded the Standing Order, and Amendments to Standing Orders 38 and 111 have been made, which are designed to meet these evasions.
    Standing Orders considered and amended, and to be printed as amended. (No. 214.)

    HOUSE OF LORDS OFFICES.
    Second Report of the Select Committee considered (according to Order), and agreed to.
    LINCOLNSHIRE CORONERS BILL. [H.L.]
    Commons Amendments considered (according to Order), and agreed to.
EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL.
  PUBLIC.WORKS (LOANS) BILL.
    TANCRED'S CHARITIES SCHEME CONFIRMATION BILL.
    Read 3a (according to Order), and passed.

    BATHS AND WASHHOUSES ACTS AMENDMENT 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.
    House adjourned at twenty minutes before Five of the clock, till To-morrow, at a quarter past Four of the clock.