Lords Sitting of 9 April 1900

PRIVATE BILL BUSINESS.
The LORD CHANCELLORacquainted the House that the Clerk of the Parliaments had laid upon the Table the Certificates from the Examiners that the further Standing Orders applicable to the following Bills have been complied with:—

Brighton Corporation.

North Warwickshire Water.

The same were ordered to lie on the Table.

PRIVATE BILL BUSINESS.
  OSSETT CORPORATION GAS BILL.
  Read 2a, and committed; the Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.

  WETHERBY DISTRICT WATER BILL.
  WAKEFIELD CORPORATION MARKET BILL.
  Read 2a, and committed.

  DORKING WATER BILL [H.L.]
  EXMOUTH URBAN DISTRICT WATER BILL [H.L].
  FISHGUARD WATER AND GAS BILL [H.L.].
  Read 3a, and passed, and sent to the Commons.

  GREAT CENTRAL RAILWAY BILL [H.L.]
  DEARNE VALLEY RAILWAY BILL [H.L.].
  NEATH HARBOUR BILL [H.L.].
  TAFF VALE RAILWAY BILL [H.L.].
  FISHGUARD AND ROSSLARE RAILWAYS AND HARBOURS BILL [H.L].
  RHYMNEY RAILWAY BILL [H.L].
  CORK ELECTRIC TRAMWAYS BILL [H.L.].
  SOUTH ESSEX WATER BOARD BILL [H.L.].
  SOUTH ESSEX WATER BILL [H.L.].
  Report from the Committee of Selection, That the Lord Northbourne be pro-
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  posed to the House as a member of the Select Committee on the said Bills in the place of the Lord Barnard; read, and agreed to.

  MORLEY CORPORATION BILL [H.L.]
  PRESTON CORPORATION BILL [H.L].
  GREAT GRIMSBY STREET TRAMWAYS BILL [H.L.].
  ROTHERHAM CORPORATION BILL [H.L.].
  SHEFFIELD CORPORATION BILL [H.L.
  RAWMARSH URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL (TRAMWAYS) BILL [H.L].
  WALSALL CORPORATION BILL [H.L].
  SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE TRAMWAYS BILL [H.L].
  Report from the Committee of Selection, That the Lord Barnard be proposed to the House as a Member of the Select Committee on the said Bills in the place of the Lord Northbourne; read, and agreed to.

  AIRDRIE AND COATBRIDGE TRAMWAYS BILL.
  HOYLAKE AND WEST KIRBY IMPROVEMENT BILL.
  WIDNES AND RUNCORN BRIDGE BILL.
  Brought from the Commons; read 1a; and referred to the Examiners.

  GAS AND WATER ORDERS CONFIRMATION BILL [H.L.]
  A Bill to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Gas and Water Works Facilities Act, 1870, relating to Hoylake and West Kirby Gas and Water, Manningtree and Mistley (Essex) Gas, South Elmsall, South Kirby, and North Elmsall Gas, and Steyning and District Water—was presented by the Earl Waldegrave (for the Lord Balfour); read 1a; to be printed; and referred to the Examiners. (No. 52.)
RETURNS, REPORTS, ETC.
  NAVY (ESTIMATES, 1899–1900).
  Statement showing the original and revised programme of estimated expenditure in cash, and in net value of stores to be issued for shipbuilding, etc., during the year 1899–1900.
  MINES AND QUARRIES.
  Reports of Her Majesty's Inspectors for the year 1899.
  INDIAN EXPENDITURE (ROYAL COMMISSION).
  Final Report of the Royal Commission on the Administration of the Expenditure of India (Vol. IV.), and Minutes of Evidence (Vol. III.).
  AGRARIAN OFFENCES (PROVINCES) (IRELAND).
  Return for the year ended 31st December, 1899.
  EGYPT, NO. 1 (1900).
  Reports by Her Majesty's Agents and Consul-General on the finances, administration, and condition of Egypt and the Soudan in 1899.
  AFRICA, NO. 3 (1900).
  Correspondence respecting Slavery and the Slave Trade in East Africa and the Islands of Zanzibar and Pemba [in continuation of Africa, No. 8. (1899)].
  CHINA, NO. 2 (1900).
  Correspondence with the United States Government respecting foreign trade in China.
  TRADE REPORTS (ANNUAL SERIES).
  No. 2396. Turkey (Trebizond and Sivas, 1899).

  INDIA (USE OF GOVERNMENT CHURCHES).
  Papers relating to the use for Presbyterian and Wesley an services of garrison churches in India which have been consecrated for the service of the Church of England.
  Presented (by command), and ordered to lie on the Table.

  AGRICULTURE AND TECHNICAL INSTRUCTION (IRELAND) ACT, 1899.
  Regulations for the appointment of Members of the Council of Agriculture, the Agricultural Board, and the Board of Technical Instruction.

  SUPERANNUATION.
  Treasury Minute, dated 3rd April, 1900, declaring that for the due and efficient discharge of the duties of the posts of Senior Examiner and of Junior Examiner in the Board of Education (Science and Art Department), professional or other peculiar qualifications not
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  ordinarily to be acquired in the public service are requisite.
  Laid before the House (pursuant to Act), and ordered to lie on the Table.

  FINANCE BILL.
  Read 2a (according to order); Committee negatived; then Standing Order No. XXXIX. considered (according to order), and dispensed with. Bill read 3a, and passed.
  ARMY (ANNUAL) BILL.
  Read 3a (according to order), and passed.
  PUBLIC LIBRARIES BILL [H.L.]
  Read 3a (according to order); Amendments made; Bill passed, and sent to the Commons.
  CENSUS (IRELAND) BILL.
  Read 3a (according to order), and passed.
NEW BILL.

  COUNTY COURTS (INVESTMENT OF DEPOSITS) BILL [H.L.]
  A Bill to amend the law with regard to the investment of money paid into a county court—Was presented by the Lord Chancellor; read 1a; and to be printed. (No. 53.)
  House adjourned during pleasure.
  House resumed.

ROYAL ASSENT.

  COMMISSION.
  The following Bills received the Royal Assent:—

  1. Finance.

  2. Army (Annual).

  3. Census (Ireland).

  4. Military Lands Provisional Order.

  5. Colonial Bank.

  House adjourned at twenty minutes past Three of the clock, to Monday the 30th instant, a quarter past Four of the clock.