Lords Sitting of 3 December 1900

Preamble
The FIRST SESSION OF THE FIFTEENTH PARLIAMENT of Her Majesty the Queen, and the Twenty-seventh Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, was opened by commission at Two o'clock.
The Lords Commissioners were:—The Lord Chancellor (the Earl of Halsbury), the EARL OF CLARENDON, the EARL OF KINTORE, the EARL OF PEMBROKE AND MONTGOMERY and LORD BELPER.
The Commons (who were sent for) being at the Bar, were directed to proceed to the choice of a Speaker, and to present such person whom they should so choose here to-morrow, at Twelve o'clock, for Her Majesty's Royal Approbation.
The LORD CHANCELLOR, singly in the first place, took Oath at the Table.
Certificate of the Election of Sixteen Representative Peers for Scotland—Delivered and road.

ROLL OF THE LORDS.
NORROY KING OF ARMS attending, delivered at the Table (in the usual manner), a list of the Lords Temporal in the First Session of the Twenty-seventh Parliament of the United Kingdom: The same was ordered to lie on the Table.
The LORD CHANCELLOR acquainted the House that he had received from the Registrar in Bankruptcy of the High Court of Justice a certificate under the seal of the said Court, stating, "That the Right Honourable Charles Douglas Richard, Baron Sudeley, of Ormeley Lodge, Ham Common, in the County of Surrey, being a Peer of Parliament, was adjudicated bankrupt on the 13th day of

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August, 1900": the same was ordered to lie on the Table.
The LORD CHANCELLOR acquainted the House that he had received from the Registrar in Bankruptcy of the High Court of Justice, a certificate under the seal of the said Court, stating, "That the Most Noble William Angus Drogo, Duke of Manchester, of No. 45, Portman Square, in the County of London, being a Peer of Parliament, was adjudicated bankrupt on the 18th day of September, 1900": the same was ordered to lie on the Table.

SAT FIRST.
The Earl Howe sat first in Parliament after the death of his father.
The Lord Delamere sat first in Parliament after the death of his father.
Several Lords took the oath.
House adjourned at Four of the clock till To-morrow, half-past Ten of the clock.