§ 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:—
§ Jewish Colonisation Association [H.L.].
§ And also the Certificate that the Standing Orders applicable to the following Bill have not been complied with:—
§ Baker Street and Waterloo Railway (Extension of Time).
§ The same were ordered to lie on the Table.
§ Macclesfield and District Electric Tramways Bill [H.L.].
§ A petition of Messrs. Lewin, Gregory, and Anderson, of 6, The Sanctuary, Westminster, Parliamentary agents, praying for leave to present a petition of Messrs Greenall, Whitley, and Company, 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 on the Table; and Standing Order No. 92 to be considered on Thursday next in order to its being dispensed with in respect of the said petition.
§ Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation Bill [H.L.].
§ The Chairman of Committees informed the House that the opposition to the Bill was withdrawn. The orders made on the 13th and 26th of March last discharged, and Bill committed.
§ Birmingham District Tramways Bill [H.L.]. Read 2a.
§ Jewish Colonisation Association Bill [H.L.]. Read 2a (according to order).
§ South-Eastern and London, Chatham, and Dover Railways Bill [H.L.]; Sutton Coldfield Corporation Bill [H.L.]; Cardiff Railway Bill [H.L.]; Manchester 594 Southern Tramways (Lancashire) Bill [H.L.]; Manchester Southern Tramways (Cheshire) Bill [H.L.]; South Lancashire Tramways Bill [H.L.]; Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Tramways Bill [H.L.]: North Cheshire Tramways Bill [H.L.].
§ Report from the Committee of Selection, That the Lord Zouche of Haryngworth be proposed to the House as a member of the Select Committee on the said Bills in the place of the Earl of Lytton; read, and agreed to.
§ Scunthorpe Urban District Water Bill [H.L.]; Salford Corporation Bill [H.L.]; Belfast Water Bill [H.L.]; Oldham Corporation Bill [H.L.]; Dewsbury, Batley, and Birstal Tramways Bill [H.L.]; Dudley, Stourbridge, and District Tramways Bill [H.L.]; South Staffordshire Tramways Bill [H.L.]; Maryport Harbour Bill [H.L.]; Derby Gas Bill [H.L.].
§ 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. Albemarle,
- L. Clifford of Chudleigh (chairman),
- L. Oranmore and Browne,
- L. Farrer,
- L. Wandsworth.
§ Agreed to; and the said Lords appointed accordingly: The Committee to meet on Tuesday next 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.