Lords Sitting of 13 May 1901

Preamble
An Asterisk (*) at the commencement of a Speech indicates revision by the Member.
EARL OF CLANCARTY.
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 Clancarty 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 Earl Brownlow took the Oath.

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 further Standing Orders applicable to the following Bills have been complied with:—

Derwent Valley Water Board.

Thames Deep Water Dock.

Also the Certificates that no further Standing Orders are applicable to the following Bills:—

Local Government (Ireland) Provisional Order (No. 1).

Local Government Provisional Orders (Poor Law).

Also the Certificate that the Standing Orders applicable to the following Bill have not been complied with:—

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

And also the Certificates that the Standing Orders applicable to the following Bills have been complied with:—

Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 1).

Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 2).

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Electric Lighting Provisional Orders (No. 10) [H.L.].

Education Board Provisional Orders Confirmation (Barnes, etc.) [H.L.].

Water Orders Confirmation (No. 1) [H.L.].

The same were ordered to lie on the Table.

PRIVATE BILL BUSINESS.
  GREAT SOUTHERN AND WESTERN RAILWAY BILL [H.L.]
  Reported from the Select Committee with Amendments.
  HANDSWORTH URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL BILL [H.L.]
  Reported with Amendments.
  HONLEY URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL (GAS) BILL.
  Reported without amendment.
  HEYWOOD AND MIDDLETON WATER BOARD BILL [H.L.]
  The Chairman of Committees informed the House that the opposition to the Bill was withdrawn; The orders made on the 8th of March and Monday last discharged; and Bill committed.
  CHRIST'S HOSPITAL (LONDON) BILL [H.L.]
  Read 3a; an Amendment made;. Bill passed and sent to the Commons.
  BIDEFORD AND CLOVELLY RAILWAY (ABANDONMENT) BILL [H.L.]
  Read 3a, and passed, and sent to the Commons.
  GRAVESEND GAS BILL.
  Read 3a, and passed.
  SOUTH WESTERN AND ISLE OF WIGHT JUNCTION RAILWAY BILL [H.L.]
  Read 3a; an Amendment made; Bill passed, and sent to the Commons.

  BETHLEM HOSPITAL BILL [H.L.]
  BRIDEWELL HOSPITAL BILL [H.L.].
  Read 3a, and passed, and sent to the Commons.

  LONG EATON GAS BILL
  TEES VALLEY WATER BOARD BILL.
  WELLS CORPORATION WATER BILL.
  Brought from the Commons; read 1a; and referred to the Examiners.

RETURNS, REPORTS, ETC.
  CHINA, No. 5. (1901).
  Further correspondence respecting the disturbances in China (in continuation of China, No. 1, 1901).

  SOUTH AFRICA.
  Return of buildings burnt in each month from June, 1900, to January, 1901, including farm buildings, mills, cottages, and hovels.
  Presented (by command), and ordered to lie on the Table,

  IMPERIAL DEFENCE (FINAL ACCOUNT).
  Account of all moneys issued from the Consolidated Fund, of sums borrowed, and of transactions in relation to sums so borrowed, up to 31st March, 1901, in pursuance of the Imperial Defence Act, 1888.

  POLLING DISTRICTS (YORKSHIRE, WEST RIDING).
  Order made by the County Council of the West Riding of Yorkshire, constituting polling districts and polling places in the parliamentary divisions of Otley, Ripon, Sowerby, Colne Valley, and Rotherham.
  Laid before the House (pursuant to Act), and ordered to lie on the Table.

  UNIVERSITIES OF OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE ACT, 1877.
  Statutes made by the Governing Body of Christ Church, Oxford, on 14th November and 5th December, 1900, respectively, amending Statute XXIII. (College Exhibitions) of the statutes of the College. Laid before the House (pursuant to Act), and to be printed. (No. 73.)

  ALKALI, ETC., WORKS REGULATION 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.