Lords Sitting of 10 June 1901

PRIVATE BILL BUSINESS.
The LORD CHANCELLOR acquainted the House that the Clerk of the Parliaments had laid upon the Table the Certificates from the Examiners that the Standing Orders applicable to the following Bills have been complied with:—
Tramways Orders Confirmation (No. 3) [H.L.].
Electric Lighting Provisional Orders (No. 8) [H.L.].
Electric Lighting Provisional Orders (No. 9) [H.L.].
Electric Lighting Provisional Orders (No. 11) [H.L.].
Electric Lighting Provisional Orders (No. 12) [H.L.].
Water Orders Confirmation (No. 2) [H.L.].
Tramways Orders Confirmation (No. 1) [H.L.].
Tramways Orders Confirmation (No. 4) [H.L.].
And also the Certificates that the further Standing Orders applicable to the following Bills have been complied with:—
Ilkeston and Heanor Water Board.
Aldershot Gas and Water.
Cleveland and Durham County Electric Power.
Bexley Tramways.
London Riverside Fish Market.
The same were ordered to lie on the Table.

LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) BILL.
  LONDON, TILBURY, AND SOUTHEND RAILWAY BILL.
  Examiner's Certificates of non-compliance with the Standing Orders referred to the Standing Orders Committee on Monday next.
BURGESS HILL WATER BILL.
  GREAT CENTRAL RAILWAY BILL.
  Read 2ª, and committed: The Committees to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
  HULL, BARNSLEY, AND WEST RIDING JUNCTION RAILWAY AND DOCK BILL.
  Read 2ª, and committed.
  LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (SPITAL- FIELDS MARKET) BILL.
  Read 2ª, and committed: The Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
  GATESHEAD AND DISTRICT TRAM- WAYS BILL.
  Read 3ª, and passed.
  LONDON BRIDGE WIDENING BILL.
  Read 3ª, with the Amendments, and passed, and returned to the Commons.
  CAMBRIAN RAILWAYS BILL.
    CLYDE VALLEY ELECTRICAL POWER BILL.

      DORKING GAS BILL.
      DUBLIN CORPORATION (MARKETS, ETC.) BILL.
      KINGSTON-UPON-HULL CORPORATION BILL.
      MOND GAS BILL.
      TORRINGTON AND OKEHAMPTON RAILWAY BILL.
      Brought from the Commons; read 1ª; and referred to the Examiners.

  BATH GAS LIGHT AND COKE BILL [H.L.]
    BRISTOL, CLIFTON, AND WEST OF ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BILL [H.L.]
      ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE BILL [H.L.]
      Returned from the Commons agreed to.
      SHEFFIELD DISTRICT RAILWAY BILL [H.L.]
      Returned from the Commons agreed to, with an Amendment: The said Amendment considered, and agreed to.
  ALFRETON GAS BILL [H.L.]
    OMAGH GAS BILL [H.L.]
    Returned from the Commons agreed to, with Amendments.

    GLASGOW CORPORATION (POLICE) PROVISIONAL ORDER CONFIRMATION BILL.
    A Bill to confirm a Provisional Order under the Private Legislation Procedure

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    (Scotland) Act, 1899, relating to Glasgow Corporation (Police).

    AYR COUNTY BUILDINGS PROVISIONAL ORDER CONFIRMATION BILL.
    A Bill to confirm a Provisional Order under the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act, 1899, relating to Ayr County Buildings.
    Were presented by the Lord Balfour; read 1ª (pursuant to the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act, 1899, Sections 8 and 9); and to be read 2ª on Thursday, the 20th instant.

  GAS ORDERS CONFIRMATION BILL [H.L.]
    GAS AND WATER ORDERS CONFIRMA- TION BILL [H.L.]
    Committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.
    PIER AND HARBOUR PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 2) BILL [H.L.]
    Committed to a Committee of the Whole House.
  EDUCATION BOARD PROVISIONAL ORDER CONFIRMATION (LONDON) BILL [H.L.]
    EDUCATION BOARD PROVISIONAL ORDERS CONFIRMATION (BARNES, ETC.) BILL [H.L.]
      TRAMWAYS ORDERS CONFIRMATION (No. 2) BILL [H.L.]
      Committed: The Committees to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.

      FALKIRK AND DISTRICT TRAMWAYS ORDER CONFIRMATION BILL.
      Bill read 3ª [according to Order].
      THE SECRETARY FOR SCOTLAND (Lord BALFOUR OF BURLEIGH): As Clause 55 now stands, the company would be able, with the consent of the local authority, to lay down lines at any portion of the tramways for the purpose of crossings and sidings, and to put the rails nearer the footpath than 9 feet 6 inches. We wish to limit that power, and the Amendment of which I have given notice carries out that object.
      Amendment moved—
      "In Clause 55 of Schedule, page 20, line 43 to leave out 'for a distance of 30 feet or up wards.'"—(Lord Balfour of Burleigh.)
      On question, Amendment agreed to.
      Bill passed, and returned to the Commons.

  COMMONS REGULATION AND IN- CLOSURE (SKIPWITH) PROVISIONAL ORDER BILL. (No. 93.)
    ELECTRIC LIGHTING PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 2) BILL. (No. 94.)

      ELECTRIC LIGHTING PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 3) BILL. (No. 95.)
      ELECTRIC LIGHTING PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 4) BILL. (No. 96.)
      ELECTRIC LIGHTING PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 5) BILL. (No. 97.)
      LOCAL GOVERNMENT (IRELAND) PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 2) BILL. (No. 98.)
      LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROVISIONAL ORDER (GAS) BILL. (No. 99.)
      METROPOLITAN COMMON SCHEME (ORPINGTON) PROVISIONAL ORDER BILL. (No. 100.)
      Brought from the Commons; read 1ª; to be printed; and referred to the Examiners.

      NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY'S PROVI- SIONAL ORDER BILL.
      Brought from the Commons; read 1ª; to be printed; and (pursuant to the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act, 1899, Section 7 (2)), deemed to have been read 2ª, and reported from the Committee. (No. 101.)
  RETURNS, REPORTS, ETC.
  The LORD CHANCELLOR acquainted the House that the following Papers having been commanded to be presented to this House by His 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, viz.:—
  TURKEY. No. 1 (1901).
  Further correspondence respecting the affairs of Crete (in continuation of "Turkey, No. 1 (1899)"):
  DUBLIN METROPOLITAN POLICE.
  Statistical Tables for the year 1900.
  CENSUS (ENGLAND AND WALES) (1901).
  Preliminary Report and Tables of the population and houses enumerated in England and Wales, and in the Islands in the British Seas, on 1st April, 1901. (May 23rd.)

  TRADE REPORTS.
  I. Annual Series:

  No. 2605, Spain (Canary Islands).

  No. 2606, Greece (the Ionian Islands).

  No. 2607, France (Dunkirk).

  No. 2608, Portugal (Mozambique).

  No. 2609, Argentine Republic (Rosario and District).

  No. 2610, Trade of Paraguay for the year 1900. (29th May.)

  No. 2611, Japan (Yokohama and District). (30th May.)

  No. 2612, France (Bordeaux.)

  No. 2613, Russia (Taganrog.) (4th June.)

  No. 2614, Greece (Piræus and District).

  No. 2615, Argentine Republic (Buenos Ayres).

  No. 2616, Trade, Commerce, and Agriculture of Italy.

  No. 2617, China (Shashih). (7th June.)

  No. 2618, France (French Indo-China).

  No. 2619, China (Ichang).

  No. 2620, China (Swatow). (8th June.)

  Miscellaneous Series:

  No. 552, France (Production of Normandy Cider). (29th May.)

  No. 553, German Iron Trade in 1899 and 1900.

  No. 554, Austria-Hungary (Sugar Industry of Bohemia). (7th June.)

  AFRICA, No. 4. (1901).
  Correspondence respecting Slavery and e Slave Trade in East Africa and the lands of Zanzibar and Pemba (in connuation of "Africa, No. 3 (1900)"). 9th May.)
  The Sixty-Second Annual Report of e Deputy-Keeper of the Public Records.

  ARMY.
  I. Report of the Committee appointed to inquire into War Office organisation;
  II. Minutes of evidence taken before the Committee appointed to inquire into War Office organisation; together with appendices, digest, and index. (31st May.)

  Report on recent improvements at Gibraltar, in respect of sanitary and other matters. (4th June.)

  COMMERCIAL.
  No. 2 (1901). Suez Canal—Returns of shipping and tonnage, 1898, 1899, and 1900 (in continuation of "Commercial, No. 1, 1900").
  No. 3 (1901).—Reports from His Majesty's representatives abroad on special facilities for locomotion of workmen in Belgium, France, and Germany. (5th June.)

  EDUCATION (SCOTLAND).
  Reports and Papers relating to the training colleges of Scotland, for the year 1900.
  LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND).
  Return of the population and valuation of counties, burghs, and parishes in Scotland.
  IRISH LAND COMMISSION (RULES).
  Rules, dated 17th May, 1901, under the Land Purchase Acts.

  BOARD OF EDUCATION (WELSH DIVISION).
  General Report for the year 1900, by A. G. Legard, Esquire, Chief Inspector, with appendices. (7th June.)
  The same were ordered to lie on the Table.

  TRADE REPORTS.
  Annual Series:—

  No. 2621, United States (Philadelphia).

  No. 2622, Germany (Baden).

  BOARD OF EDUCATION.
  I. Associations constituted under the Voluntary Schools Act, 1897.
  II. Associated Schools and amounts of aid grant paid.
  III. Unassociated Schools and amounts of aid grant paid, 1900–1901.

  COMMERCIAL, No. 4 (1901).
  Reports from His Majesty's representatives abroad respecting Bounties on Shipbuilding, etc.

  SOUTH AFRICA.
  I.—(a) Report of the Transvaal Concessions Commission, dated 19th April, 1901.
  (b) Volume II., Minutes of evidence.
  (c) Volume III., Appendix of documents.
  II.—(a) Report of the Land Settlement Commission, South Africa, dated 28th November, 1900.
  (b) Volume II., Documents, Minutes of evidence, etc.
  III.—Report of Sir David Barbour, K. C. S. I., K. C. M. G., on the Finances of the Transvaal and the Orange River Colony, dated the 29th March, 1901.

  SIGHT TESTS.
  Report on the sight tests used in the Mercantile Marine, for the year ended 31st December, 1900 (in continuation of Parliamentary Paper [Cd. 116]).
  INTERMEDIATE EDUCATION (IRELAND).
  Rules and programme of examinations, for the year 1902.

  PARIS INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1900 (ROYAL COMMISSION).
  Report of the Commissioners appointed to advise respecting the procuring and transmission of British and Colonial products to the Paris Exhibition of 1900. (Vols. I. and II.)
  Presented (by command), and ordered to lie on the Table.

  ARMY (MILITARY SAVINGS BANKS).
  Statement of amount due to depositors on the 31st March, 1899, and of the receipts, interests, and disbursements
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  during the year ended 31st March, 1900, etc.

  POLICE (COUNTIES AND BOROUGHS, ENGLAND AND WALES).
  Reports of His Majesty's Inspector of Constabulary, for the year ended 29th September, 1900.
  POLICE ACT, 1890.
  Correspondence relative to the refusal, of the Secretary of State's certificate, under Section 17 (2) of the Act, to the River Tyne Police Force, for the year ended 29th September, 1900.
  MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT, 1894.
  Order in Council of 13th May, 1901, approving certain bye-laws made by the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board (Pilotage Funds of the Liverpool District).
  INTERMEDIATE EDUCATION (IRELAND).
  Rule made by the Intermediate Education Board for Ireland appointing the places at which examinations for 1901 shall be held.
  LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (IRELAND).
  Order dividing the urban county district of Strabane into wards.

  SUPERANNUATION ACT, 1884.
  Two Treasury Minutes, dated 22nd May, 1901, declaring that—

  I. Henry Lathen, rural postman, Hertford Post Offices;

  II. Henry Richards, rural messenger, Post Office;

  were appointed without Civil Service certificates through inadvertence on the part of the head of their department.

  Returns to 31st March, 1901, relating to the London County Council.
  ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHERS (SUPERANNUATION) RULES (ISLE OF MAN).
  Draft rules made under the Elementary School Teachers (Superannuation) Act, 1898, as extended by the Elementary School Teachers Superannuation (Isle of Man) Act, 1900.

  NATIONAL SCHOOL TEACHERS (IRE- LAND) PENSION FUND.
  Account of receipts and payments for the year, to 31st December, 1900.
  Laid before the House (pursuant to Act), and ordered to lie on the Table.

  UNION OF BENEFICES (METROPOLIS) ACT, 1860.
  Scheme of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for the union of the benefice of Saint Mary-at-Hill with Saint Andrew, Hubbard, and the benefice of Saint George, Botolph Lane, with Saint Botolph, Billingsgate, and for effecting certain other measures incidental to, or arising out of, such union; laid before the House (pursuant to Act), and to be printed. (No. 90.)

  ENDOWED SCHOOLS ACT, 1869, AND AMENDING ACTS.
  Scheme for the management of—

  1. The grammar school of King Edward VI. in the borough of Stratford-on-Avon, in the county of Warwick.

  2. The endowment known as the Guild Estate in the said borough.

  3. The following exhibition endowments in connection with the said school:

  (a) The De la Warr Exhibition founded in 1854; and

  (b) The Shakespeare Exhibition founded in 1864.

  Laid before the House (pursuant to Act), and to be printed. (No. 91.)

PETITIONS.
  HABITUAL DRUNKARDS BILL [H.L.]
    LICENSING BILL [H.L.]
    Petition in favour, and for amendment of; of the Executive Committee of Manchester, Salford, and District Temperance Union; read, and ordered to lie on the Table.

    PREVENTION OF CORRUPTION (No. 2) BILL [H.L.]
    Order of the day for the Second Reading read.
    THE LORD CHANCELLOR (The Earl of HALSBURY): My Lords, the discussion which is usual on the Second Reading of a Bill took place in the case of this Bill on the First Reading, and I do not think anything has since transpired which makes it necessary for me to add to what I then said. The Bill is a very short one, and explains itself, and I beg to move that it be read a second time.
    Moved, That the Bill be now read 2ª.—(The Lord Chancellor.)
    On Question, agreed to; Bill read 2ª (according to Order), and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Thursday next.

    QUEEN ANNE'S BOUNTY BOARD.
    Message from the Commons that they have come to the following resolution, to which they desire the concurrence of this House, viz.: That it is expedient that a Select Committee be appointed, to join with a Committee of the Lords, to consider the constitution of Queen Anne's Bounty Board, and to report whether economy and efficiency of administration would be promoted by any change in its constitution or by its amalgamation with any other body; the said message to be taken into consideration to-morrow.
    PUBLIC ACCOUNTS.
    Message from the Commons for leave for the Viscount Esher to attend to be examined as a witness before the Select Committee of that House.
    DAY INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS (IRE- LAND) BILL [H.L.]
    A Bill to enable day industrial schools to be established in Ireland. Was presented by the Lord Chaworth (E. Meath); read 1ª; and to be printed. (No. 92.)

    SOLICITORS BILL [H.L.]
    Read 3ª (according to Order), and passed, and sent to the Commons.
    House adjourned at twenty minutes before Five of the clock, till to-morrow, half-past Ten of the clock.