§ Liverpool University Bill [H.L.]. Report from His Majesty's Attorney-General received, and ordered to lie on the Table.
§ Pentillie Estate Bill [H.L.]. Judges' Report received. Bill presented and read 1a.
§ Hove, Worthing, and District Tram ways Bill [H.L.]. Petition for additional provision; of the British Electric Traction Company under their Common Seal; together with the proposed Amendments annexed thereto; read and referred to the Examiners.
§ Antrim, Down, Armagh, and Belfast Electric Power Bill [H.L.]. The Chairman of Committees informed the House that the promoters do not intend to proceed further with the Bill: Ordered that the Bill be not further proceeded with.
§ Cardiff Railway Bill [H.L.]. The Chairman of Committees informed the House that the opposition to the Bill was with drawn: The orders made on the 12th and 26th March last discharged, and Bill committed.
§ Harrogate Water Bill [H.L.]; Wirral Railway Bill [H.L.]; Pelican and British Empire Life Office Bill [H.L.]; Harrow and Stanmore Gas Bill [H.L.]; Wellington (Salop) Gas Bill [H.L.]; South Wales Mineral Railway Bill [H.L.]; Milford Docks Bill [H.L.]; All Saints, Poplar (Rate Abolition) Bill [H.L.]. Reported, with Amendments.
§ Knott End Railway (Extension of Time) Bill [H.L.]. Reported, with an Amendment.
§ Dublin Improvement (Bull Alley Area) Bill. Read 2a and committed.
§ Great Western Railway (Pension Fund) Bill. Read 2a, and committed for Tuesday next.
914§ Macclesfield and District Electric Tramways Bill [H.L.]. Standing Order No. 92, considered (according to order), and dispensed with, with respect to a petition of Messrs. Green all, Whitney, and Company, leave given to present the said petition.
§ Local Government Provisional Order (Housing of the Working Classes) Bill, (No. 40); Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 1) Bill, (No. 41); Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 2) Bill, (No. 42); Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 3.) Bill, (No. 43). Read 1a, to be printed; and referred to the examiners.
§ County Councils (Bills in Parliament) Bill; Local Government Provisional Order (Housing of the Working Classes) Bill; Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 1) Bill; Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 2) Bill; Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 3) Bill. Brought from the Commons.
§ Charing Cross, Euston, and Hampstead Railway Bill; City and South London Railway Bill. Brought from the Commons; read 1a; and referred to the Examiners.
§ Hastings Tramways (Extensions) Bill [H.L.]; Hastings Harbour District Railway Bill [H.L.]; Worthing Corporation Tramways Bill [H.L.]; Hove, Worthing, and District Tramways Bill [H.L.]. Report from the Committee of Selection that the Five Lords appointed a Select Committee on the Bournemouth Corporation Tramways and other Bills, do form the Select Committee for the consideration of Hastings Tramways (Extensions) Bill [H.L.], Hastings Harbour District Railway Bill [B.L], Worthing Corporation Tramways Bill [H.L.], Hove, Worthing, and District Tramways Bill [H.L.]; read, and agreed to; 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.
§ Carmarthenshire Electric Power Bill [H.L.]; Somerset and District Electric power Bill [H.L.]; Shropshire, Worcestershire, and East Denbighshire Electric Power Bill [H.L.]; Fife Electric Power Bill [H.L.]; North-Western Electricity 915 and Power Gas Bill [H.L.]; Exeter Corporation Bill [H.L.]; Preston and Horwich Tramways Bill [H.L.]; Manchester Corporation 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. Abingdon,
- L. Barnard,
- L. De Mauley,
- L. Aberdare,
- L. Glanusk (Chairman);