Lords Sitting of 15 December 1900

LORD ORANMORE AND BROWNE.
Report made from the Lord Chancellor, that the right of Geoffrey Henry, Baron of Oranmore and Browne, to vote at elections of Representative Peers for Ireland has been established to the satisfaction of the Lord Chancellor; read and ordered to lie on the Table.
VISCOUNT MOUNTGARRET.
Report made from the Lord Chancellor that the light of Henry Edmund, Viscount Mountgarret, to vote at elections of Representative Peers for Ireland has been established to the satisfacion of the Lord Chancellor; read and ordered to lie on the Table.
VISCOUNT MOUNTGARRET.
  LORD ORANMORE AND BROWNE.
  Ordered and directed, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, that certificates be sent by the Clerk of the Parliaments to the Clerk of the Crown in Ireland, stating that the Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom has reported to the House of Lords that the right of the Viscount Mountgarret and of the Lord Oranmore and Browne to vote at the elections of Representative Peers for Ireland has been established to the satisfaction of him the said Lord Chancellor; and that the House of Lords has ordered such reports to be sent to the said Clerk of the Crown in Ireland. And it is hereby also ordered, that the said Reports of the said Lord Chancellor be sent to the Clerk of the Crown in Ireland.
RETURNS, REPORTS, ETC.
  Military Notes on the Dutch Republics of South Africa. Presented [by Command], and ordered to lie on the Table.

POLLING DISTRICTS (COUNTY OF LONDON).
Order made by the County Council of the County of London, dividing the East Division of Finsbury into Polling Dis-
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tricts. Laid before the House (Pursuant to Act), and ordered to lie on the Table.

SUPPLEMENTAL WAR LOAN (No.2) BILL.
  CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.
  Brought from the Commons, and read 1a.
BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.
Standing Order No. XXXIX. considered (according to order), and suspended for this day's sitting.
SUPPLEMENTAL WAR LOAN (No.2) BILL.

  CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.
  Standing Order No. XXXIX. having been suspended, Bills read 2a (The Lord Ashbourne). Committees negatived. Bills read 3a, and passed.
  House adjourned during pleasure.
  House resumed

COMMISSION.
The following Bills received the Royal Assent:

1.Consolidated Fund (Appropriation).

2.Supplemental War Loan (No. 2).

HER MAJESTY'S SPEECH.
Delivered by the Lord Chancellor. Commission for proroguing Parliament read, and Parliament prorogued to Thursday, the 14th of February next.