Lords Sitting of 17 March 1903

The Lord Lyveden sat first in Parliament after the death of his uncle.

PRIVATE BILL BUSINESS.
Dewsbury, Batley, and Birstal Tramways Bill [H.L.], read 2a.
Bradford Corporation Bill [H.L.], Committed: The Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.

RETURNS, REPORTS, ETC.

  FOREIGN JURISDICTION ACT, 1890.
  Order in Council of 12th March, 1903, entitled—
  The Foreign Marriages Order in Council, 1903.
  The Somaliland Order in Council, 1903; and
  The Wei-hai-Wei Order in Council Amendment Order, 1903.

  ASSIZES ACTS 1876 AND 1877.
  Orders in Council of 12th March, 1903, relating to Spring Assize Counties No. 2 and No. 3.
  ELEMENTARY EDUCATION ACT, 1876, AND YOUTHFUL OFFENDERS ACT, 1901.
  Order in Council of 12th March, 1903, applying certain provisions of the Youthful Offenders Act, 1901, to Day Industrial Schools.

  GREENWICH HOSPITAL ACT, 1865 AND 1869.
  Order in Council of 12th March, 1903-amending the regulations as to Green, with Hospital pensions and allowances to widows and children of seamen or marines killed on duty or who died from injuries received.
  Laid before the House (pursuant to Act), and ordered to lie on the Table.

  UNIVERSITIES OF OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE ACT, 1877.
  Statutes made by the Governing Bodies of—
  Queen's College, Oxford, on 26th November, 1902, altering Statutes II. and XXIII., and the Statute concerning exhibitions within the College.
  Corpus Christi College, Oxford, on 29th November, 1902, amending Clauses 19, 22, and 77 of the College Statutes.
  St. John's College, Cambridge, on 28th November, 1902, amending the College Statutes.
  Laid before the House (pursuant to Act), and to be printed. (No. 16.)

  BANK HOLIDAYS (IRELAND) BILL. [SECOND READING.]
  Order of the day for the Second Reading read.
  THE EARL OF DUNRAVEN: My Lords, this is a Bill to give to what is the national holiday in Ireland—namely, St. Patrick's Day—the legal position of a bank holiday. It is universally desired by all classes in Ireland; it has not been, objected to by anyone in its passage through the other House of Parliament, and has been accepted by His Majesty's Government. In those circumstances I do not think it is necessary for me to say more in asking your Lordships' to give it a Second Reading.
  Moved, "That the Bill be now read 2a."—{The Earl of Dunraven.)
  On Question, Bill read 2a (according to order), and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Friday next.

  PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN (AMENDMENT) BILL [H.L.]
  A Bill to amend the Prevention of Cruelty to Children Act, 1894, and to provide for the punishment of incest, was presented by the Lord Alverstone; read 1a, and to be printed. (No. 17.)
  House adjourned at twenty-five minutes before Five o'clock to Thursday next, half-past Ten o'clock.