Lords Sitting of 16 May 1902

APPEAL COMMITTEE.
First Report from; read, and agreed to.
EARL OF LEITRIM.
Ordered that the Report of the Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom, made to the House of Lords on the 15th day of this instant May, that the right of Earl of Leitrim 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.

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 Standing Orders applicable to the following Bills have been complied with :—
Tramways Orders Confirmation (No. 2) [H.L.].
Water Orders Confirmation [H.L.].
Gas Orders Confirmation (No. 1.) [H.L.].
Also the Certificates that the further Standing Orders applicable to the following Bills have been complied with:—
Cleethorpes Improvement.
Knaresborough Improvement.
Bedford Corporation Water.
Also the Certificate that no Standing Orders are applicable to the following Bill :—
Military Lands Provisional Order (No. 2.)
The same were ordered to lie on the Table.

PRIVATE BILL BUSINESS.
  EDGWARE AND HAMPSTEAD RAILWAY BILL [H.L.]
  The King's consent signified; and Bill reported from the Select Committee, with Amendments.
  NATIONAL TELEPHONE COMPANY (MANCHESTER AREA) BILL [H.L.]
  The Chairman of Committees in formed the House that the promoters do not intend to proceed further with the Bill: Ordered that the Bill be not further proceeded with.
  NOTTINGHAM AND RETFORD RAILWAY BILL.
  Read 2a, and committed.
  LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY (STEAM VESSELS) BILL,
    HULL. BARNSLEY, AND WEST RIDING JUNCTION RAILWAY AND DOCK (SOUTH YORKSHIRE EXTENSION LINES) BILL.
    Read 2a and committed; the Committees to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
  PRESTON CORPORATION BILL.
  Read 2a, and committed.
  MANCHESTER AND LIVERPOOL ELECTRIC EXPRESS RAILWAY BILL, FAREHAM GAS BILL.
  Read 3a, and passed.

  ISLE OF WIGHT CENTRAL RAILWAY BILL [H.L.]
  Returned from the Commons agreed
  GAS ORDERS CONFIRMATION (No 1) BILL [H.L.],
  WATER ORDERS CONFIRMATION BILL [H.L.],
  TRAMWAYS ORDERS CONFIRMATION (No. 2) BILL [H.L.],
  EDUCATION BOARD PROVISIONAL ORDER CONFIRMATION (LONDON) BILL [H.L.],
  EDUCATION BOARD PROVISIONAL ORDERS CONFIRMATION (BARNES, ETC.) BILL [H.L.],
  EDUCATION BOARD PROVISIONAL ORDER CONFIRMATION (SWANSEA UNITED DISTRICT (No 2) BILL [H.L.].
  Read 2a (according to order).

  LOCAL GOVERNMENT (IRELAND) PROVISIONAL ORDER (No. 1) BILL.
  House in Committee (according to order): Bill reported without Amendment: Standing Committee negatived; and Bill to be read 3a on Monday the 2nd of June next.
  LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 3) BILL (No. 75.),
    DRAINAGE AND IMPROVEMENT OF LANDS (IRELAND) PROVISIONAL ORDER BILL (No. 76.).
    Brought from the Commons: read 1a; to be printed; and referred to the Examiners.
  COATBRIDGE GAS ORDERS CONFIRMATION BILL [H.L.]
  A Bill to confirm a Provisional Order under the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act, 1899, relating to Coatbridge Gas—Was presented by the Earl Waldegrave (for the Lord Balfour); read 1a; to be printed; and (pursuant to the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act, 1899), deemed to have been read 2'; and reported from the Committee. (No. 77.).
  PRIVATE AND PROVISIONAL ORDER CONFIRMATION BILLS.
  Ordered, that Standing Orders Nos. 92 and 93 be suspended; and that the time for depositing petitions praying to be heard against Private and Provisional Order Confirmation Bills, also the time for depositing documents relating to any Order under the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act, 1899, which would otherwise expire during the adjournment of the House at Whitsun tide, be extended to the first day on which the House shall sit after the Recess.
RETURNS, REPORTS, ETC.
  RAILWAY COMPANIES POWERS ACT, 1864.
  Draft certificate of the Board of Trade, authorising the Yorkshire Dales Railway Company to raise additional capital and to increase the number of directors; laid before the House (pursuant to Act), and ordered to lie on the Table.

BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.
Moved, That the House at its rising do adjourn to Monday the 2nd of June next.—(The Earl Waldegrave.) Agreed to.
House adjourned at twenty-five minutes before Five o'clock, to Monday, the 2nd of June next, at a quarter past Four o'clock.