Lords Sitting of 27 February 1903

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:—
Scottish American Mortgage Company.
Life Association of Scotland.
Fife Electric Power.
Also the Certificate that the Standing Orders applicable to the following Bill have not been complied with:—
Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway.
The same were ordered to lie on the Table.

LIFE ASSURANCE OF SCOTLAND BILL [H.L.],
  NORTH CHESHIRE TRAMWAYS BILL [H.L.],
    TYNEMOUTH AND DISTRICT TRAMWAYS BILL [H.L.]
    Presented; read 1a; and referred to the Examiners.
FIFESHIRE ELECTRIC POWER BILL [H.L.],
  LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY BILL [H.L.],
    MARYPORT HARBOUR BILL [H.L.],
    Presented, and read 1a.
RETURNS, REPORTS, ETC.

  EXPLOSIVES.
  (Explosion at the Factory of Messrs. Curtis and Harvey, Limited, at Lower Hope Point, near Cliffe, Kent.)
  Report to the right hon. the Secretary of State for the Home Department, by Major A. Cooper-Key, His Majesty's Inspector of Explosives, on the circumstances attending an explosion of partly mixed cordite paste, which occurred at the factory of Messrs. Curtis and Harvey, Limited, at Lower Hope Point, near Cliff'e, Kent, on 15th December, 1902.
  Presented [by Command], and ordered to lie on the Table.

  BANK OF ENGLAND.
  Applications made by the First Lord of the Treasury and the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the Governor of the Bank of England for advances to Government, authorised by Parliament, from 5th January, 1902, to 5th January, 1903. Delivered (pursuant to Act), and ordered to lie on the Table.
  House adjourned at half-past Four o'clock, to Monday next, a quarter before Eleven o'clock.