Lords Sitting of 18 June 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 further Standing Orders applicable to the following Bills have been complied with: Scottish Ontario and Manitoba Land Company [H.L.]; Dover Corporation; Merthyr Tydfil Urban District Council.
Also the Certificates that no Standing Orders are applicable to the following Bills; Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 12); Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 14); Local Government Provisional Orders (Poor Law).
Also the Certificate that the further Standing Orders applicable to the following Bill have not been complied with: Wigan Corporation Tramways.
Also the Certificates that the Standing Orders applicable to the following Bills have been complied with: Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 10); Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 16).
And also the Certificate that the Standing Orders applicable to the following Bill have not been complied with: Southwestern and Isle of Wight Junction Railway [H.L.]—(Petition for additional Provision).
The same were ordered to lie on the Table.
Plymouth Corporation Bill; Report from His Majesty's Attorney-General received, and ordered to lie on the Table.
New Hunstanton Improvement Bill; The Chairman of Committees informed the House that the opposition to the Bill was withdrawn: The orders made on the 26th of May last and the 15th instant discharged, and Bill committed for Tuesday next.
Wood Green Urban District Council Bill; Committed: The Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
Gas Light and Coke Company Bill. Reported, with an Amendment.
Ipswich Gas Bill; Bournemouth Gas and Water Bill [H.L.]; Great Eastern Railway Bill; Nelson Corporation Bill. Reported, with Amendments.
South Western and Isle of Wight Junction Railway Bill [H.L.] (Petition for additional provision); Wigan Corporation Tramways Bill. Examiner's Certificates of non-compliance with the Standing Orders referred to the Standing Orders Committee on Tuesday next.
West Cumberland Electric Tramways Bill. Read 2a, and committed.
Seaforth and Sefton Junction Railway Bill. Read 2a, and committed. The Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland Bill. Read 2a, and committed.
Middlesbrough Corporation Bill. Read 2a, and committed. The Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway Bill; South Yorkshire Joint Railways Bill. Read 2a, and committed.
Wolverhampton and Cannock Chase Railway (Extension of Time) Bill. Read 2a, and committed. The Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
Great Southern and Western Railway Bill. Read 2a, and committed.
Mullingar, Kells, and Drogheda Railway Bill. Read 2a, and committed. The Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
Plymouth Corporation Bill. Read 2a, and committed. The Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
Woolwich Borough Council Bill; Great Northern, Piccadilly, and Brompton Railway (Various Powers) Bill. Read 2a, and committed.
Great Western Railway Bill. Read 2a, and committed. The Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
Hainault Forest Bill. Read 2a, and committed. The Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
London County Council (Money) Bill. Read 2a, and committed.
Neath, Pontardawe, and Brynaman Railway Bill. Read 2a, and committed. The Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
North Eastern Railway Bill. Read 2a, and committed. The Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection
Merthyr Tydfil Urban District Council Bill. Read 2a.
Blackheath and Greenwich District Electric Light Bill. Read 2a, and committed.
Scottish Ontario and Manitoba Land Company Bill [H.L.]; Dover Corporation Bill. Read 2a.
Derby Gas Bill [H.L.]. Read 3a, and passed, and sent to the Commons.
Gas Orders Confirmation (No. 1) Bill [H.L.]; Gas Orders Confirmation (No. 2) Bill [H.L.]. Read 3a (according to Order), and passed, and sent to the Commons.
Water Orders Confirmation Bill [H.L.]. Amendments reported (according to Order), and Bill to be read 3a to-morrow.
Local Government Provisional Orders (No 10) Bill; Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 12) Bill; Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 14) Bill; Local Government Provisional Order (No. 16) Bill; Local Government Provisional Orders (Poor Law) Bill. Read 2a (according to Order).
Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 4) Bill. Amendments reported (according to Order), and Bill to be read 3a on Monday next.
Electric Lighting Provisional Orders (No. 4) Bill. House in Committee
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(according to Order): Bill reported without Amendment: Standing Committee negatived, and Bill to be read 3a to morrow.
Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 5) Bill; Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 6) Bill; Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 7) Bill; Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 11) Bill; Local Government Provisional Orders (Gas) Bill. Read 2a (according to Order), and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Monday next.
Local Government (Ireland) Provisional Orders (No. 6) Bill; Local Government (Ireland) Provisional Orders (No. 8) Bill; Local Government (Ireland) Provisional Orders (Housing of the Working Classes) Bill. Read 2a (according to Order) and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Monday next.

RETURNS, REPORTS, ETC.

  TRADE REPORTS—ANNUAL SERIES.
  No. 2996. Brazil (Porto-Alegre).
  No. 2997. Russia (Odessa).
  No. 2998. Germany (Hamburg).
  No. 2999. China (Newchwang).
  No. 3000. Japan (South Formosa).

  ALLOWANCES TO WITNESSES IN CRIMINAL PROSECUTIONS.
  Report of the Departmental Committee appointed by the Secretary of State for the Home Department to inquire into the allowances to prosecutors and witnesses in criminal prosecutions; with evidence and appendices.
  Presented (by Command), and ordered to lie on the Table.

  INDIA (LOANS RAISED IN INDIA).
  Return of all loans raised in India chargeable on the revenues of India outstanding at the commencement of the half year ended the 31st March, 1903, with the rates of interest and total amount payable thereon, etc.

  SUPERANNUATION.
  Treasury Minute, dated the 12th June, 1903, declaring that Frank Par ham, Royal Laboratory Department, War Office, was appointed without a

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  Civil Service certificate, through inadvertence on the part of the head of his department.
  Laid before the House (pursuant to Act), and ordered to lie on the Table.

  PORT OF LONDON BILL.
  Leave given to the Joint Committee to hear parties interested by themselves, their counsel, agents, and witnesses, so far as the Committee think fit. The evidence taken before the Joint Committee from time to time to be printed, but no copies to be delivered except to members of the Committee, and to such other persons as the Committee shall think fit, until further order. (No. 118.)
NEW BILL.
  ROYAL DECLARATION BILL [H.L.]
  A Bill to abolish the declaration required to be made by the Sovereign on his Accession was presented by the Earl Grey; read 1a; to be printed; and to be read 2a on Thursday next. (No. 119.)
  NAVAL WORKS PROVISIONAL ORDER BILL.
  Read 2a (according to Order), and committed to a Committee of the whole House to-morrow.
  MUSICAL COPYRIGHT BILL [H.L.]
  Amendments reported (according to Order), and Bill to be read 3a to-morrow.
  STATUTE LAW REVISION (SCOTLAND) BILL [H.L.]
  Read 3a (according to Order), and passed, and sent to the Commons.
  JUSTICES OF THE PEACE BILL [H.L.]
  Amendments reported (according to Order), and Bill to be read 3a to-morrow.

  COAL MINES (CERTIFICATES) BILL.
  Amendment reported (according to Order), and Bill to be read 3a to-morrow.
  House adjourned at twenty-five minutes before Five o'clock, till To-morrow, half-past Ten o'clock.