Lords Sitting of 7 May 1901

EARL OF DONOUGHMORE.
  LORD FARNHAM.
  Reports made from the LORD CHANCELLOR, that the right of Richard Walter John, Earl of Donoughmore, and Arthur Kenlis, Baron Farnham, to vote at the elections of Representative Peers for Ireland has been established to the satisfaction of the Lord Chancellor; read, and ordered to lie on the Table.

  PRIVATE BILL BUSINESS.
  The LORD CHANCELLOR acquainted the House that the Clerk of the Parliaments had laid upon the Table the Certificate from the Examiners that the further Standing Orders applicable to the following Bill have been complied with:
  Gateshead and District Tramways.
  The same was ordered to lie on the Table.

  STANDING ORDERS COMMITTEES.
  Report from, That the Standing Orders not complied with in respect of the
  London United Tramways Bill
  ought to be dispensed with, provided that the powers to construct Tramways Nos. 2, 2A, 3, 3A, 4, 4A, 5, 5A, 6, 6A, 7, 7A, 7B, 8, 16, 17, 18, and 18A be struck out of the Bill.
  Read and agreed to.

  CITY AND NORTH-EAST SUBURBAN ELECTRIC RAILWAY BILL [H.L.]
  Petition of Messrs. Hollams, Sons, Coward, and Hawksley, of Mincing Lane, in the City of London, solicitors praying for leave to present a petition of the Trustees of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society, 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 upon the Table; and Standing Order No. 92 to be considered on Thursday next in order to its being dispensed with.
  SOUTH WESTERN AND ISLE OF WIGHT JUNCTION RAILWAY BILL [H.L.]
  The King's consent signified; and Bill reported from the Select Committee with Amendments.
  DOVER HARBOUR BILL [H.L.]
  Report from the Select Committee, That the Committee had not proceeded with the consideration of the Bill, no parties having appeared in opposition thereto; read, and ordered to lie on the Table; the orders made on the 8th of March and Tuesday last discharged; and the Bill committed.
  BOLTON CORPORATION BILL [H.L.]
  Report from the Select Committee, That the Committee had not proceeded with the consideration of the Bill, no parties having appeared in opposition thereto; read, and ordered to lie on the Table; the orders made on the 8th of March and Tuesday last discharged; and Bill committed.
  HEYWOOD AND MIDDLETON WATER BOARD BILL [H.L.] RUGBY WATER AND IMPROVEMENT BILL [H.L.] LLAND 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 Lord Saye and Sele be proposed to the House as a member of the Select Committee on the said Bills in the place of the Lord Penrhyn; read, and agreed to.
  COLWYN BAY AND COLWYN URBAN DISTRICT GAS BILL.
  Read 2a, and committed.
  CORK, BLACKROCK, AND PASSAGE RAILWAY BILL [H.L.]
  Read 2a (according to order).
  LONDON (CITY) SCHOOL FOR ORPHANS OF FREEMEN BILL [H.L.]
  Read 3a, and passed, and sent to the Commons.
  THAMES DEEP WATER DOCK BILL.
  Brought from the Commons; read 1a, and referred to the Examiners.
  ELECTRIC LIGHTING PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 11) BILL [H.L.] (No. 66.)
  A Bill to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Electric Lighting Acts, 1882 and 1888, relating to Bromsgrove, Goole, Ilkley, Lyndhurst, the extension of the area of supply of the Midland Electric Corporation for Power Distribution (Limited), Northwood and Ruislip, Rick-mansworth, Rishton, Great Harwood, and Clayton-le-Moors and Warwick.

  ELECTRIC LIGHTING PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 12) BILL [H.L.] (No. 67.)
  A Bill to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Electric Lighting Acts, 1882 and 1888, relating to Lewisham and Penge.
  Were presented by the Earl of Hard-wicke (for the Earl of Dudley); read 1a; to be printed; and referred to the Examiners.

  TRAMWAYS CONSENTS OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES).
  Petition against amendment of Standing Order No. 22; of Westminster Corporation; read, and ordered to lie on the Table.
  PRESENCE OF THE SOVEREIGN IN PARLIAMENT.
  The evidence taken before the Select Committee from time to time to be printed for the use of Members of the Committee; but no copies thereof to be delivered except to Members of the Committee until further order.
RETURNS, REPORTS, ETC.
  EDUCATION (SCOTLAND).
  Report of the Committee of Council on Education in Scotland; with Appendix, 1900–1901.

  TRADE REPORTS (ANNUAL SERIES).
  No. 2588.

  Turkey (Vilayets of Trebizond and Sivas);

  No. 2589.

  Denmark (Faroe Islands);

  No. 2590.

  Stockholm and Eastern Coast of Sweden.

  Presented (by command), and ordered to lie on the Table.

  PRISONS (ENGLAND AND WALES) (VISITING COMMITTEES).
  Rules approved by the Secretary of State for the Home Department under the Prison Acts, 1877 and 1898, with respect to the constitution of the Visiting Committee of Hull Prison.

  PUBLIC RECORDS (BOARD OF TRADE: GENERAL REGISTER AND RECORD OFFICE OF SHIPPING AND SEAMEN).
  Second Schedule containing a list and particulars of classes of documents which exist or accrue in the office of the Registrar-General of Shipping and Seamen (under the general superintendence and control of the Board of Trade), or which have been removed therefrom and deposited in the Public Record Office, but which are not considered of sufficient public value to justify their preservation in the Public Record Office.
  Laid before the House (pursuant to Act), to lie on the Table.
  House adjourned at twenty-five minutes before Five of the clock to Thursday next, half-past Ten of the clock,