Lords Sitting of 9 August 1901

ROYAL ASSENT.

  COMMISSION.
  The following Bills received the Royal Assent:—

  1. Education (Scotland).

  2. Larceny.

  3. Education (No. 2).

  4. Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 7).

  5. Local Government Provisional Order (No. 11).

  6. Local Government Provisional Order (Port).

  7. Local Government Provisional Orders (Housing of Working Classes) (No. 2).

  8. Kirkcaldy and Dysart Water Order Confirmation.

  9. Education Board Provisional Order Confirmation (Barnes, etc.)

  10. Electric Lighting Provisional Orders (No. 7.)

  11. Electric Lighting Provisional Orders (No. 8.)

  12. Electric Lighting Provisional Orders (No. 9.)

  13. Electric Lighting Provisional Orders (No. 11.)

  14. Electric Lighting Provisional Orders (No. 12.)

  15. Glasgow Corporation (Tramways and General) Order Confirmation.

  16. Pier and Harbour Provisional Orders (No. 3.)

  17. Tramways Orders Confirmation (No. 2.)

  18. Tramways Orders Confirmation (No. 3.)

  19. Tramways Orders Confirmation (No. 4.)

  20. Edinburgh Corporation Order Confirmation.

  21. Stirling Corporation Order Confirmation.

  22. Kilmarnock Corporation Order Confirmation.

  23. Wigan Corporation Tramways, etc.

  24. North British Railway.

  25. South Metropolitan Gas.

  26. Leeds Churches.

  27. Worcester Tramways.

  28. Chester Corporation Tramways.

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  29. Manchester Corporation.

  30. Long Eaton Gas.

  31. Stalybridge, Hyde, Mossley, and Dukinfield Tramways and Electricity Board.

  32. Wells Corporation Water.

  33. Albion Steam Coal Company.

  34. Stockport Corporation Water.

  35. Bridewell Hospital.

  36. Freshwater, Yarmouth, and Newport Railway.

  37. Bradford Corporation.

  38. Humber Commercial Railway and Dock.

  39. London, Tilbury, and Southend Railway.

  40. Paisley Police and Public Health.

  41. Central London Railway (No. 2).

  42. Dover Harbour.

  43. South Essex Water.

  44. Great Southern and Western Railway.

  45. Bournemouth Corporation.

  46. Broadstairs and St. Peter's Water and Improvement.

  47. Golborne Gas.

  48. Taff Vale Railway.

  49. Christ's Hospital (London).

  50. Doncaster Tithe Trust.

  51. Harrogate Water.

  52. Newport (Isle of Wight) Gas.

  53. Elland Gas.

  54. Barrow-in-Furness Corporation.

  55. Dublin (Equalisation of Rates).

  56. Metropolitan District Railway.

  57. Arlesey Gas.

  58. Salford Corporation.

  59. Blackburn Corporation.

  60. Brighton Corporation.

  61. Clyde Valley Electrical Power.

  62. Glasgow and South-Western Railway.

  63. London and India Docks (New Works).

  64. Metropolitan Electric Supply.

  65. Rhyl Improvement.

  66. Shireoaks, Laughton, and Maltby Railway.

  67. Birmingham (City) Tramways.

  68. Shipley Improvement.

  69. Biggleswade Water Board.

  70. Bethlem Hospital.

  71. Easton and Church Hope Railway.

  72. Heywood and Middleton Water Board.

  73. South-Eastern and London, Chatham, and Dover Railways.

  74. Tyneside Tramways and Tram-roads.

  75. Cardiff Railway.

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  76. Cork, Blackrock, and Passage Railway.

  77. Mond Gas.

  78. Cromer Water.

  79. Dover Corporation.

  80. Smethwick Corporation.

  81. Lowestoft Corporation.

  82. Ripon Corporation.

  83. Harpenden District Gas.

  84. Southport Water (Transfer).

  EARL OF LEITRIM.
  Ordered and Directed, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, That a Certificate 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 Earl of Leitrim 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 report to be sent to the said Clerk of the Crown in Ireland; and it is hereby also Ordered, That the said Report of the said Lord Chancellor be sent to the Clerk of the Crown in Ireland.
  The Lord Swansea took the Oath.

  DEATH OF HER IMPERIAL MAJESTY THE EMPRESS FREDERICK OF GERMANY.
  The King's answer to the Address of yesterday reported by the Lord Steward (E. Pembroke and Montgomery) as follows:—
  "I return you My most sincere thanks for your Loyal and Dutiful Address, expressing sympathy with Me in the great loss which I have sustained by the death of My beloved Sister, the Dowager Empress and Queen Frederick of Germany and Prussia, Princess Royal of Great Britain and Ireland.
  "It affords Me great comfort and gratification to receive this expression of your cordial feeling towards Myself and the Royal Family, and to be reminded of the warm interest you take in all that concerns Them.
  "I shall not fail to communicate to His Imperial Majesty the German
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  Emperor your message of condolence with Him and the Imperial and Royal Family."
  Address and Answer to be printed and published. (No. 190.)

PRIVATE BILL BUSINESS.
  LOCH LEVEN WATER POWER BILL.
  Read 3a, with the Amendments, and passed, and returned to the Commons.

  ALDEBURGH CORPORATION (WATER) BILL.
  ILKESTON AND HEANOR WATER BOARD BILL.
  WEST CUMBERLAND ELECTRIC TRAMWAYS BILL.
  STRATFORD-UPON-AVON, TOWCESTER, AND MIDLAND JUNCTION, EAST AND WEST JUNCTION, AND EVESHAM, REDDITCH, AND STRATFORD-UPON-AVON JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANIES BILL.
  SWANSEA HARBOUR BILL. WOLVERHAMPTON AND CANNOCK CHASE RAILWAY BILL.
  Returned from the Commons with the Amendments agreed to.

  LEEDS CORPORATION WATER BILL [H.L.]
  Returned from the Commons agreed to, with Amendments.

  LEEDS CORPORATION (GENERAL POWERS) BILL [H.L.]
  SOUTH LANCASHIRE TRAMWAYS BILL [H.L.].
  STRATTON AND BUDE IMPROVEMENT BILL [H.L.].
  Returned from the Commons agreed to, with Amendments; the said Amendments considered, and agreed to.

  TRAMWAYS ORDERS CONFIRMATION (No. 1) BILL [H.L.]
  Commons' Amendments considered, (according to Order), and agreed to.

  GREENOCK CORPORATION ORDER CONFIRMATION BILL.
  Brought from the Commons; read 1a; to be printed; and (pursuant to the

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  Private Legislation Procedure(Scotland) Act, 1899), deemed to have been read 2a, and reported from the Committee. (No. 191.)

RETURNS, REPORTS, ETC.

  TRADE REPORTS.
  I. Annual Series:—

  No. 2687. Corea;

  No. 2688. Austria-Hungary (Bohemia);

  No. 2689. Egypt (Port Said and Suez);

  No. 2670. Sweden (Gothenburg).

  II. Miscellaneous Series:—

  No. 563. Horse Industry in the United States.

  AFRICA, No. 8 (1901).
  Report by the Mombasa-Victoria (Uganda) Railway Committee on the progress of the works, 1900–1901 (with a map).
  Correspondence relating to the prolongation of hostilities in South Africa.
  PITCAIRN ISLANDS.
  Farther correspondence relating to the condition of the Pitcairn Islanders (in continuation of [C 9148], February, 1899).

  NAVY.
  I. (Courts-Martial).—Returns of the number of courts-martial held and summary punishments inflicted on seamen of the Royal Navy, etc., during the year 1900.
  II. (Health).—Statistical report of the health of the Navy for the year 1900.

  TRAMWAY AND GAS AND WATER ORDERS.
  Report by the Board of Trade of their proceedings under the Tramways Act 1870, and the Gas and Waterworks Faci-
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  lities Act, 1870, during the session of 1901.
  Presented (by command), and ordered to lie on the Table.

  NAVY.
  I. Naval Savings Banks.—Account of deposits in Naval Savings Banks and the payments thereof, and of interest thereon, of all investments under the Naval Savings Banks Act, 1866, and the application of the interest or dividends accruing in respect thereof, and of the proceeds of any sale of any stocks, annuities, or securities during the financial year 1899–1900.
  II. Prize Money.—Account showing the receipt and expenditure of naval prize, bounty, salvage, and other moneys between the 1st April, 1900, and the 31st March, 1901.

  Eighteenth General Annual Report by the Board of Trade, under Section 131 of the Bankruptcy Act, 1883.
  Tenth General Annual Report, by the Beard of Trade, under Section 29 of the Companies (Winding-up) Act, 1890.
  Report, by the Board of Trade, on their proceedings and business under the Weights and Measures Acts.

  RAILWAY SERVANTS (HOURS OF LABOUR).
  Report by the Board of Trade respecting the proceedings of the Board of Trade under the Railway Regulation Act, 1893, during the year ended 27th July, 1901.
  Laid before the House (pursuant to Act), and ordered to lie on the Table.

LOAN BILL.
Read 3a (according to Order), and passed.
House adjourned at half-past Four of the clock, to Monday next, at a quarter past Four of the clock.