Lords Sitting of 12 March 1901

PRIVATE BILL BUSINESS.
  WATFORD AND DISTRICT TRAMWAYS BILL [H.L.]
  Examiner's Certificates of non-compliance with the Standing Orders referred to the Standing Orders Committee on Tuesday next.
  PICCADILLY AND CITY RAILWAY BILL [H.L.]
  A petition of Messrs. Banter and Company, of 12, Victoria Street, Westminster, parliamentary agents, praying for leave to present a petition of the Reverend John Fenwick Kitto, praying to be heard by counsel against the Bill, although the time limited by Standing Order No. 92 for presenting such petition has expired; read, and ordered to lie on the Table; and Standing Order No. 92 to be considered on Thursday next, in order to its being dispensed with in respect of the said petition.
  MILFORD DOCKS BILL [H.L.]
    HARPENDEN DISTRICT GAS BILL [H.L.]
    Read 2ª.

    HARROGATE WATER BILL [H.L.]
    Standing Order No. 92 considered (according to order), and dispensed with with respect to a Petition of Leeds Corporation. Leave given to present the said petition.
    AIRE AND CALDER NAVIGATION BILL [H.L.].
    CENTRAL LONDON RAILWAY BILL [H.L.].
    CHESTER GAS BILL [H.L.].
    CITY AND BRIXTON RAILWAY BILL [H.L.].
    CITY AND SOUTH LONDON RAILWAY BILL [H.L.].
    LLANELLY AND MYNYDD MAWR RAILWAY HILL [H.L.].
    LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY BILL [H.L.].
    NEWPORT (ISLE OF WIGHT) GAS BILL [H.L.].
    SOUTH EASTERN AND LONDON, CHATHAM, AND DOVER RAILWAY BILL [H.L.].
    SOUTH ESSEX WATER BILL [H.L.].
    Committed. The Committees to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
    BATH GAS LIGHT AND COKE BILL [H.L.].
    NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE AND GATESHEAD GAS BILL [H.L.].
    NEW SWINDON GAS BILL [H.L.].
    SHREWSRURY GAS BILL [H.L.].
    Committed.

  RETURNS, REPORTS, ETC.
    GOLD COAST.
    Correspondence relating to the Ashanti War, 1900.
    COLONIES (ANNUAL).
    No. 317. Jamaica, Report for 1899–1900.
  TRADE REPORTS (ANNUAL SERIES). No. 2560. Spain (1899).
    BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS, AND VACCINATION (SCOTLAND).
    Forty-sixth Annual Report by the Registrar General in Scotland, for the year 1900; and Thirty-sixth Annual Report on Vaccination.

    ARMY.
    Correspondence relative to the recall of Lieut.-General Sir H. E. Colvile, K.C.M.G., C.B.
    Presented (by command), and ordered to lie on the Table.

    PIERS AND HARROUR ACTS (PROVISIONAL ORDERS, SESSION 1901).
    Report by the Board of Trade of their proceedings under the General Pier and Harbour Act, 1861, and the General Pier and Harbour Act, 1861, Amendment Act.

    PHARMACY (IRELAND) ACTS, 1875 AND 1890.
    Order in Council, dated 7th March, 1901, approving of a regulation made by the Pharmaceutical Society.
    Laid before the House (pursuant to Act), and ordered to lie on the Table.

    BERWICKSHIRE COUNTY TOWN BILL.
    Order of the Day for the Second Reading read.
    *The SECRETARY FOR SCOTLAND (Lord BALFOUR of BURLEIGH): My Lords, the circumstances under which this Bill is presented to the House are these: So long ago as 1692 Greenlaw was made the head burgh of the county of Berwick by an Act of the Scottish Parliament. About fifty years ago that was so far altered that ordinary courts are allowed to be held at Duns as well as at Greenlaw; but small debt courts and criminal cases tried by jury are kept at Greenlaw, and also at that place there are kept all the county records. The distribution of jurisdiction has been felt to be a great inconvenience. Duns is now much more accessible than Greenlaw by modern methods of communication, and is also a more important town. It is proposed, therefore, to transfer to Duns the records and all the Sheriff Court business, and to give it the status of head burgh. I believe there is no opposition to the Bill. It is, I know, supported by the county council, and I hope your Lordships will agree to pass it.
    Moved, "That the Bill be read a second time."—(Lord Balfour of Burleigh.)
    On Question, agreed to; Bill read 2a accordingly, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Tuesday next.

    CREMATION BILL [H.L.]
    Read 3a (according to order); an Amendment (privilege) made; Bill passed, and sent to the Commons.

    PRIVATE LEGISLATION PROCEDURE (SCOTLAND) ACT, 1899.
    Report from the Committee of Selection proposing that the Lords following form the Parliamentary Panel of Members of this House to act as Commissioners under the Act, viz.:—

    E. Mansfield.

    E. Camperdown.

    L. Clifford of Chudleigh.

    L. Torphichen.

    L. Belhaven and Stenton.

    L. Fairlie (E. Glasgow).

    Considered (according to order) and agreed to.
    House adjourned at twenty-five minutes before Five of the clock, to Thursday next, half-past Ten of the clock.