Lords Sitting of 6 May 1901

LORD DUNSANY.
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 Lord Dunsany 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.
Several Lords took the Oath.
PRIVATE BILL BUSINESS.

  BRISTOL CORPORATION (DOCKS AND RAILWAYS, ETC.) BILL [H.L.]
  A witness ordered to attend the Select Committee.
  The LORD CHANCELLOR acquainted the House that the Clerk of the Parliaments had laid upon the Table the Certificates from the Examiners that the further Standing Orders applicable to the following Bills have been complied with:

  Electric Lighting Provisional Orders (No. 6) [H.L.]

  Electric Lighting Provisional Orders (No. 7) [H.L.].

  Education Board Provisional Order Confirmation (Acton) [H.L.].

  Great Eastern Railway.

  The same were ordered to lie on the Table.

  STANDING ORDERS COMMITTEE.
  Report from, That the Standing Orders not complied with in respect
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  of the petition for additional Provision in the

  Elland Gas Bill [H.L.]

  ought to be dispensed with, and leave given to the Committee to insert the additional Provision.

  PRESTATYN WATER BILL [H.L.]
  Reported from the Select Committee with Amendments.
  WESTON-SUPER-MARE GAS BILL [H.L.]
  Reported with Amendments.
  MILFORD DOCKS BILL [H.L.]
  Reported without Amendment.
  WATFORD AND DISTRICT TRAMWAYS BILL [H.L.]
    WORCESTER TRAMWAYS BILL [H.L.]
    Report from the Select Committee, That the Committee had not proceeded with the consideration of the Bills, the opposition thereto having been withdrawn; read, and ordered to lie upon the Table; the Orders made on the 22nd and 26th of April last discharged; and Bills committed.
  GREAT SOUTHERN AND WESTERN RAILWAY BILL [H.L.]
    SOUTH LANCASHIRE TRAMWAYS BILL [H.L.]
    Report from the Committee of Selection, That the Earl of Ducie and the Lord Wandsworth be proposed to the House as members of the Select Committee on the said Bills in the place of the Lord Ribblesdale and the Lord Ludlow, and that the Earl of Ducie be Chairman of the said Committee; read, and agreed to.
    LEATHERHEAD GAS BILL.
    Read 2a, and committed.
  CITY AND SOUTH LONDON RAILWAY BILL [H.L.]
    MERSEY DOCKS AND HARBOUR BOARD (CANADA DOCK WORKS, ETC.) BILL [H.L.]
    Read 3a, and passed, and sent to the Commons.
    CARDIFF CORPORATION BILL.
    Brought from the Commons; read 1a; and referred to the Examiners.
  HEYWOOD AND MIDDLETON WATER BOARD BILL [H.L.]
    RUGBY WATER AND IMPROVEMENT BILL [H.L.]
      ELL AND GAS BILL [H.L.]
        LOWESTOFT CORPORATION BILL [H.L.]
          WOLVERHAMPTON AND CANNOCK CHASE RAILWAY BILL.
            GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY BILL.

              MIDLAND RAILWAY BILL.
              Report from the Committee of Selection, That the following Lords be proposed to the House to form the Select Committee for the consideration of the said Bills, viz.:

              E. Carnwath,

              E. Northesk,

              L. Penrhyn,

              L. Somerton (E. Normanton),

              L. Pirbright (chairman);

              agreed to; and the said Lords appointed accordingly: The Committee to meet on Tuesday, the 14th instant, at Eleven o'clock; and all petitions referred to the Committee, with leave to the petitioners praying to be heard by counsel against the Bills to be heard as desired, as also counsel for the Bills.

  TRAMWAYS ORDERS CONFIRMATION (No. 1) BILL [H.L.] (No. 58.)
  A Bill to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Tramways Act, 1870, relating to Ashton-under-Lyne Corporation Tramways, Denton Urban District Council Tramways, Devonport Corporation Tramway, Liverpool Corporation Tramways Extensions, Northampton Corporation Tramways, and Pontypridd Urban District Council Tramways.
  TRAMWAYS ORDERS CONFIRMATION (No. 2) BILL [H.L.] (No. 59.)
  A Bill to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Tramways Act, 1870, relating to Birkdale Urban District Council Tramways, Compton Urban District Council Tramways, Leamington Tramways, Royton Urban District Council Tramways, Swindon Corporation Tramways, and Wrexham District Tramways.

  TRAMWAYS ORDERS CONFIRMATION (No. 3) BILL [H.L.] (No. 60.)
  A Bill to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Tramways Act, 1870, relating to Cheriton Urban District Council Tramways, Colchester Corporation Tramways, Hyde Corporation Tramway, Little-borough Urban District Council Tramways, and Middleton and Chad-derton (Local Authorities) Tramway.
  Was presented by the Earl of Hardwicke (for the Earl of Dudley); read 1a; to be printed; and referred to the Examiners.

  THAMES AND SEVERN CANAL PROVISIONAL ORDER BILL.
  Read 3a (according to Order), and passed.
  LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 1) BILL. (No. 61.)
    LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 2) BILL. (No. 62.)
      LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROVISIONAL, ORDERS (POOR LAW) BILL. (No. 63.)
        LOCAL GOVERNMENT (IRELAND) PROVISIONAL ORDER (No. 1) BILL. (No. 64.)
          METROPOLITAN COMMON SCHEME (HAM) PROVISIONAL ORDER BILL. (No. 65.)
          Brought from the Commons; read 1a; to be printed; and referred to the Examiners.
  RETURNS, REPORTS, ETC.
    FISHERIES (SCOTLAND).
    Nineteenth Annual Report of the-Fishery Board for Scotland, for the Year 1900. Part I.
    EDUCATION COMMISSIONERS (IRELAND).
    Annual Report for the Year 1900.
    ELECTRIC LIGHTING ACTS, 1882 AND. 1888.
    Special Report by the Board of Trade under Section 1 of the Electric Lighting Act, 1888. (Newbury Electric Lighting Order, 1901).

    SOUTH AFRICA.
    Despatch by General Lord Kitchener, dated 8th March, 1901, relative to Military Operations in South Africa.
    Presented (by command), and ordered to lie on the Table.

    UNIVERSITIES (SCOTLAND) ACT.
    I. Annual Statistical Report by the University Court of the University of St. Andrews to the Secretary for Scotland under the provisions of the Act, for the year 1899–1900.
    II. Abstracts of Accounts for the University of St. Andrews for the year ended 30th September, 1900, being the Annual Report on the state of the finances of the university under the provisions of the Act.

    INEBRIATES ACT, 1898.
    Regulations for Visiting Committees of State Inebriate Reformatories in Ireland.

    SUPERANNUATION.
    Treasury Minute, dated 26th April, 1901, declaring that Frederick Hamilton, junior messenger in the Royal Irish Constabulary Office, was appointed without a civil service certificate through inadvertence on the part of the head of his department.
    Laid before the House (pursuant to Act), and ordered to lie on the Table.

    PUBLIC LIBRARIES BILL [H.L.]
    Amendments reported (according to Order); Bill to be read 3a on Thursday next.

    MARRIAGES LEGALISATION BILL [H.L.]
    House in Committee (according to Order); Bill reported without Amendment; and re-committed to the Standing Committee.
    House adjourned at twenty-five minutes before Five of the clock till to-morrow, half-past Ten of the clock.