§ The CHAIRMAN of COMMITTEES acquainted the House that the Clerk of the Parliaments had laid upon the Table the Certificates from the Examiners that the further Standing Orders applicable to the following Bills have been complied with:—
§ Pier and Harbour Provisional Orders (No. 5); Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 9).
§ The same were ordered to lie on the Table.
§ Highland and Invergarry and Fort Augustus Railway Companies Bill. Reported from the Select Committee, with Amendments.
§ Pentillie Estate Bill [H.L.]. Reported, with Amendments.
§ Blackheath and Greenwich District Electric Light Bill. Reported without Amendment.
§ Middlesbrough Corporation Bill; Grindleford, Baslow, and Bakewell Railway Bill; Merthyr Tydfil Urban District Council Bill. Reported, with Amendments.
§ South-Western and Isle of Wight Junction Railway Bill [H.L.]. The King's consent signified; and Bill reported with Amendments.
§ Education Board Provisional Order Confirmation (London) Bill [H.L.]. Reported from the Select Committee with Amendments, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House To-morrow.
§ East Ham Improvement Bill. Report from the Select Committee, That the Committee had not proceeded with the consideration of the Bill, no parties having appeared in opposition thereto; read, and ordered to lie on the Table: 1126 The orders made on the 16th of June and Monday last discharged, and Bill committed.
§ Nelson Corporation Bill; Hampton Court Gas Bill. Read 3a, with the Amendments, and passed, and returned to the Commons.
§ Erith Tramways and Improvement Bill. Brought from the Commons; read 1; and referred to the Examiners.
§ King's College, London, Bill [H.L.]. Returned from the Commons agreed to.
§ Seunthorpe Urban District Water Bill [H.L.]. Returned from the Commons agreed to, with Amendments. The said Amendments considered, and agreed to.
§ Ipswich Gas Bill. Returned from the Commons with the Amendments agreed to.
§ West Cumberland Electric Tramways Bill. Reported, with Amendments.
§ Great Western Railway Bill; Neath, Pontardawe, and Brynaman Railway Bill; North Eastern Railway Bill; Wolverhampton and Cannock, Chase Railway (Extension of Time) Bill; Romford and District Tramways Bill; Wood Green Urban District Council Bill; Beckenham Urban District Council Bill; Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 5) Bill. Report from the Committee of Selection, That the Lord Abinger be proposed to the House as a member of the Select Committee on the said Bills in the place of the Lord Berwick; read, and agreed to.
§ Bury and District Joint Water Board Bill [H.L.]; Reported from the Select Committee, with Amendments.
§ City and South London Railway Bill; The consent of the Prince of Wales signified; and Bill reported from the Select Committee, with Amendments.
§ Electric Lighting Provisional Orders (No. 7) Bill; House in Committee (according to Order): An Amendment made: Standing Committee negatived: The Report of Amendment to be received To-morrow.
1127§ Local Government Provisional Orders (Poor Law) Bill. Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 12) Bill; Read 3a (according to order), and passed.
§ Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 14.) Bill. Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 10) Bill; Amendments reported (according to Order), and Bills to be read 3a on Tuesday next.
§ Military Lands Provisional Orders Bill. Moved, That the order made on the 16th day of March last, "That no Provisional Order Confirmation Bill brought from the House of Commons shall be read a second time after Thursday the 18th day of June next," be dispensed with, and that the Bill be now read 2a; agreed to; Bill read 2a accordingly, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House To-morrow.
§ Lanarkshire Tramways Order Confirmation Bill [H.L.]. A Bill to confirm a Provisional Order relating to the Lanarkshire Tramways was presented by the Lord Balfour (pursuant to the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act, 1899, sections 8 and 9); read 1a; and to be printed. (No. 153.)