RETURNS, REPORTS, ETC. (Hansard, 18 June 1900)

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§ The LORD CHANCELLOR acquainted the House that the following Papers having been commanded to be presented to this House by Her Majesty had been so presented on the following dates by delivery to the Clerk of the Parliaments, pursuant to Order of the House of the 17th February, 1896, vizi—

§ Trade Reports—

I. Annual Series—
- No. 2436. United States (Trade of the Philippine Islands, 1899). (May 31.)
- No. 2437. China (Pakhoi);
- No. 2438. Italy (Genoa and District);
- No. 2439. Netherlands (Amsterdam);
- No. 2440. France (Pondicherry);
- No. 2441. Turkey (Beirut and Coast of Syria);
- No. 2442. Persia (Persian Gulf);
- No. 2443. China (Swatow). (June 6.)
- No. 2444. Japan (Yokohama);
- No. 2445. Spain (Bilbao and District);
- No. 2446. France (Dunkirk);
- No. 2447. Russia (Taganrog);
- No. 2448. Switzerland;
- No. 2449. China (Hangchow). (June 11.)
II. Miscellaneous Series—
- No. 526. Shipping and shipbuilding on the American lakes. (May 31.)

§ Malta.—Ordinance No. X. of 1898 (the Contagious Diseases Law). (May 31.)

§ Metropolitan Water Supply (Royal Commission).—Minutes of evidence taken before Her Majesty's Commissioners 255 appointed to inquire into the subject of the water supply within the limits of the Metropolitan Water Companies. Vol. II. (June 6.)

§ Army (Volunteers).—Annual Return for 1899. (June 7.)

§ Fisheries (Scotland). — Eighteenth Annual Report of the Fishery Board for Scotland, being for the year 1899—

Part II. Report on Salmon Fisheries. (June 8);
Part III. Scientific Investigations. (June 12.)

§ Local Taxation (Royal Commission;.— Minutes of evidence and appendix. Vol. IV. (June 8.)

§ Board of Education—

1. South-Eastern Division. General Report for the year 1899, by I. W. Danby, Esq., Chief Inspector.
2. East Central Division. General Report for the year 1899, by Reverend C. D. Du Port, Chief Inspector. (June 8.)
3. Report to the Board of Education of the Proceedings of the Charity Commissioners for England and Wales under the Endowed Schools Acts, 1869 to 1889, for the year 1899. (June 12.)
4. Minutes sanctioning the subjects to be taught under Clause 8 of the Technical Instruction Act, 1889, for the counties of—

I. Warwick (sixth minute);
II. Glamorgan (ninth minute). (June 12.)

5. Associations constituted under the Voluntary Schools Act, 1897;
6. Associated schools and amounts of aid grant paid;
7. Unassociated schools and amounts of aid grant paid. (June 16.)

§ India (Famine).—Papers regarding the famine and the relief operations in India during 1899–1900. Vol. I. British Districts. Vol. II. Native States. (June 15.)

§ Patent Office.—Report of the Committee appointed by the Board of Trade to consider various suggestions which have been made for developing the benefits afforded by the Patent Office to inventors. (June 15.)

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§ Irish Land Commission—

1. (Proceedings.) Return for the month of February, 1900.
2. (Rules.) Rules, dated 21st May, under the Congested Districts Board (Ireland) Act, 1899, section 2. (June 15.)

§ Loan Fund Board (Ireland).—Sixty-second Annual Report, for 1899. (June 15.)

§ The same were ordered to lie on the Table.

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