§ The LORD CHANCELLOR acquainted the House that the Clerk of the Parliaments had laid upon the Table the Certificate from the Examiners that the Standing Orders applicable to the following Bill have not been complied with:—
§ North Metropolitan Electric Power Supply—(Petition for Bill).
§ The same was ordered to lie on the Table.
§ Dover Corporation Bill; Merthyr Tydfil Urban District Council Bill. Committed.
§ Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal Bill [H.L.]. Commons Amendments considered, and agreed to.
§ Bournemouth Gas and Water Bill [H.L.]; Bristol Corporation Bill [H.L.]; Salford Corporation Bill [H.L.]. Read 3a, and passed, and sent to the Commons.
2§ Commercial Gas Bill. Read 3a, with the Amendments, and passed, and returned to the Commons.
§ Gas Light and Coke Company Bill. Read 3a, with the Amendment, and passed, and returned to the Commons.
§ Elementary Education Amendment Bill; Out-door Relief (Pensioners) Bill. Brought from the Commons.
§ Tramways Orders Confirmation:(No. 1) Bill [H.L.]; Gas and Water Orders Confirmation Bill [H.L.]; Charing Cross, Euston, and Hampstead Railway Bill; City and South London Railway Bill; Great Central Railway Bill; London County Council (General Powers) Bill; Walker and Wallsend Union Gas Bill; Lancashire and Yorkshir and London and North-Western Railways (Steam Vessels) Bill. Report from the Committee of Selection, That the Lord Stewart of Garlies (E. Galloway) be proposed to the House as a member of the Select Committee on the said Bills in the place of the Earl Powis; read, and agreed to.
3§ Gosport, Fareham, and Cosham Tramways Bill [H.L.]; Brighton Corporation Bill [H.L.]; Bury and District Joint Water Board Bill [H.L.]; Education Board Provisional Order Confirmation (London) Bill [H.L.]. Report from the Committee of Selection, That the Lord Bolton be proposed to the House as a member of the Select Committee on the said Bills in the place of the Lord Crawshaw; read, and agreed to.
§ 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. House in Committee (according to Order): Bills reported without Amendment; Standing Committee negatived; and Bills to be read 3a to-morrow.
§ Local Government (Ireland) Provisional Orders (No. 6) Bill; Local Government (Ireland) Provisional Orders (No. 8) Bill. House in Committee (according to Order): Bills reported without Amendment: Standing Committee negatived; and Bills to be read 3a on Thursday next.
§ Local Government (Ireland) Provisional Orders (Housing of the Working Classes) Bill. House in Committee (according to Order): Amendment made: Standing Committee negatived: The Report of the Amendment to be received on Thursday next.
§ Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 4 Bill). Read 3a (according to Order), with the Amendments, and passed, and returned to the Commons.
§ Naval Works Provisional Order Bill. House in Committee (according to Order): Bill reported without Amendment: Standing Committee negatived; and Bill to be read 3a to-morrow.
§ Tramways Orders Confirmation (No. 2) Bill [H.L.]. House in Committee (according to Order): The Amendments proposed by the Select Committee made: Further Amendments made: Standing Committee negatived; The Report of Amendments to be received To-morrow.