Lords Sitting of 9 June 1902

LORD KENSINGTON.
Ordered that the report of the Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom, made to the House of Lords on the 6th day of this instant June, that the right of Lord Kensington to vote at the elections of representative peers for Ireland has been established to his satisfaction, be sent to the Clerk of the Crown in Ireland, together with a certificate stating that such report has been made, and that the House has ordered it to be sent to the said Clerk of the Crown in Ireland.
EARL FITZWILLIAM.
Petition of William Charles de Muro Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, Earl Fitzwilliam, in the peerage of Ireland, claiming a right to vote at the elections of representative peers for Ireland; read, and referred to the Lord Chancellor to consider and report thereupon to the House.

PRIVATE BILL BUSINESS.
The Lord Chancellor 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:—

Local Government (Ireland) Provisional Orders (Gas).

Local Government Provisional Order (Gas).

Also the Certificate that no Standing Orders are applicable to the following Bill—
Local Government Provisional Order (Poor Law).
And also the Certificates that the further Standing Orders applicable to the following Bills have been complied with—

Croydon and District Electric Tramways.

Bournemouth Gas and Water.

Bexhill and Rotherfield Railway (Abandonment).

The same were ordered to lie on the Table.

KENT ELECTRIC POWER BILL.
The Chairman of Committees informed the House that the opposition to the Bill was withdrawn. The Orders made on the 12th May, and Thursday last, discharged, and Bill committed.
NOTTINGHAM CORPORATION BILL [H.L.]
Reported with Amendments.
GREAT NORTHERN AND CITY RAILWAY BILL [H.L.]
Reported from the Select Committee, with Amendments.
WEST GLOUCESTERSHIRE WATER BILL.
Read 2a, and committed.

CENTRAL LONDON RAILWAY BILL [H.L.]
THE CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEES (The Earl of MORLEY): I wish to explain that, though this is one of the Tube Bills and I undertook to give my noble friend the Earl of Camperdown notice of certain clauses introduced into a good many of these measures, this Bill contains no new works and therefore the clause to which the noble Earl referred is not in. In these circumstances I ask your Lordships to read it a third time.
Bill read 3a, and passed, and sent to the Commons.

BRISTOL CORPORATION BILL [H.L.]
Read 3a, and passed, and sent to the Commons.
DEVONPORT CORPORATION (GENERAL POWERS) BILL [H.L.]
Read 3a; Amendments made; Bill passed, and sent to the Commons.
MENAI BRIDGE URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL BILL [H.L.]
Read 3a, and passed, and sent to the Commons.
LEYLAND AND FARINGTON GAS BILL.
Read 3a, and passed.
DOVER HARBOUR BILL [H.L.]
Read 3a, and passed, and sent to the Commons.
DEVONPORT CORPORATION WATER BILL [H.L.]
Read 3a; Amendments made; Bill passed, and sent to the Commons.
WIGAN CORPORATION BILL [H.L.]
Read 3a, and passed, and sent to the Commons.
CITY AND BRIXTON RAILWAY BILL, LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (MONEY) BILL,
  LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (SUBWAYS AND TRAMWAYS) BILL,

    LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (TRAMWAYS AND IMPROVEMENTS) BILL,
    LONDON, TILBURY, AND SOUTHEND RAILWAY BILL.
    Brought from the Commons; read 1a; and referred to the Examiners.

    ELECTRIC LIGHTING PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 4.) BILL.
    Read 3a (according to order), and passed.
    MILITARY LANDS PROVISIONAL ORDER (No. 2.) BILL.
    Read 2a (according to order), and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Thursday next.
    EDUCATION BOARD PROVISIONAL ORDER CONFIRMATION (SWANSEA UNITED DISTRICT) (No. 2.) BILL. [H.L.]
    Order of the day for the Third Reading read, and discharged; and Bill (by leave of the House) withdrawn.
EDUCATION BOARD PROVISIONAL ORDERS CONFIRMATION (BARNES, &c.) BILL. [H.L.],
  GAS ORDERS CONFIRMATION (No. 1.) BILL. [H.L.]
  Amendments reported (according to order), and Bills to be read 3a Tomorrow.
DRAINAGE AND IMPROVEMENT OF LANDS (IRELAND) PROVISIONAL ORDER BILL.
Read 2a (according to order), and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Thursday next.
LONDON GOVERNMENT SCHEME (SOUTHWARK) BILL.
Brought from the Commons; read 1a; to be printed; and referred to the Examiners. (No. 97.)
RETURNS, REPORTS, ETC.
  BOARD OF EDUCATION.
  Statistics of elementary day schools, evening continuation schools, and training colleges, 1900–1901. Presented [by Command], and ordered to lie on the Table.
  GAS AND WATER WORKS FACILITIES ACT, 1870.
  Reports by the Board of Trade as to dispensing with the consent of (1) the Shirland and Higham Parish Council in the case of the Clay Cross Gas Provisional Order; (2) the Bothwell Parish Council in the case of the Bothwell and Uddingston Gas Provisional Order; (3) the Wood Green Urban District Council in the case of the Hornsey Gas Provisional Order.

  CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.
  Rules made by the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the provisions of the Capital Punishment Amendment Act, 1868, for regulating the execution of capital sentences.
  Laid before the House (pursuant to Act), and ordered to lie on the Table.

  UNIVERSITIES OF OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE ACT, 1877.
  (1) Statute made by the Governing Body of New College, Oxford, on 15th January, 1902, amending Statute III., Clause 2 (Marriage and Residence of Tutorial Fellows) of the Statutes of the College; (2) Statute made by the President and Fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford, on 11th December, 1901, amending Clause 8 of Statute XII. (Grammar Schools) of the Statutes of the College; (3) Statute made by the Governing Body of Christ's Hospital, Cambridge, on 7th February, 1902, amending Section 2 of Chapter XXXVII. of the College Statutes.
  Laid before the House (pursuant to Act), and to be printed. [No. 94.]

  BRITISH MUSEUM BILL [H.L.]
  [SECOND READING.]
  Order of the day for the Second Reading read.
  VISCOUNT PEEL: My Lords, I have the honour, on behalf of the trustees of the British Museum, to ask your Lordships to give a Second Reading to this Bill. It is a very short and succinct Bill, and correctly explains the object which the trustees have in view. I need not remind your Lordships that the great pressure on the space of the British Museum buildings in Bloomsbury is a constantly increasing anxiety to the trustees. It is proposed, therefore, to erect certain buildings upon a site, for the purchase of which provision has been made, at Hendon, about a mile from the Hendon Station on the Midland Railway. The buildings will be of sufficient size to receive provincial newspapers and other printed matter which it is not necessary to store in the existing buildings. Those papers which are constantly referred to by visitors, however, such as the London newspapers, will be preserved, as at present, in the British Museum buildings in Bloomsbury. The land to be obtained, through the Office of Works, at Hendon is between four and five acres; a very moderate sum of money has been expended upon its purchase, and the buildings will be of a simple and inexpensive character, although every care will be taken for the due preservation of the papers deposited there. With regard to the ample precautions which have been taken against lire, we have been in communication with Captain Wells, and danger from fire will be precluded as far as human foresight can provide. The site will be vested in the Office of Works, as are the buildings and site which the trustees at present occupy at South Kensington. If any references are desired to be made to the papers at Hendon it is expected that a notice of a very few hours would be quite sufficient to enable the authorities to meet the convenience of the public.
  Bill read 2a (according to order), and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Friday next.

  WILD BIRDS PROTECTION ACTS AMENDMENT BILL [H.L.]
  House in Committee (according to order): Bill reported without Amendment; and recommitted to the Standing Committee.
LOAN BILL.
Read 3a (according to order), and passed.
IMMORAL TRAFFIC (SCOTLAND) BILL (No. 95),

  UNIVERSITY OF WALES (GRADUATES) BILL (No. 96).
  Brought from the Commons; read 1a; and to be printed.
  House adjourned at twenty minutes before Five o'clock till Tomorrow, half-past Ten o'clock.