Lords Sitting of 23 March 1903

PRIVATE BILL BUSINESS.
Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal Bill [H.L.]; a witness ordered to attend the Select Committee.
Macclesfield and District Electric Tramways Bill [H.L.]; read 2a (according to order).
South Staffordshire Tramways Bill [H.L.]; Hove, Worthing, and District Tramways Bill [H.L.]; Chatham and District Light Railways Bill [H.L.]; Mid Yorkshire Tramways Bill [H.L.]; committed: the Committees to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
South Lancashire Tramways Bill [H.L.]; Preston and Horwich Tramways Bill [H.L.]; Manchester Southern Tramways: (Lancashire) Bill [H.L.]; Manchester Southern Tramways (Cheshire) Bill [H.L.]; Derby Gas Bill [H.L.]; Manchester Corporation Bill [H.L.]; North Cheshire Tramways Bill [H.L.]; committed: the Committees to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
Shepshed Urban District Gas Bill [H.L.]; committed.
Plymouth and Stonehouse Gas Bill [H.L.]; reported from the Select Committee, with Amendments.
Cleveland and Durham County Electric Power Bill [H.L.]; Report from the Select Committee, That the Committee had not proceeded with the consideration of the Bill, no parties having appeared and in opposition thereto; read and ordered to lie on the Table. The orders made on the 12th instant discharged; and bill committed for Thursday next.

RETURNS, REPORTS, ETC.
  LOAN FUND BOARD OF IRELAND.
  Sixty-fifth Annual Report, 1902: Presented [by command], and ordered to lie on the Table.
  SUPERANNUATION.
  Treasury Minute, dated 18th March, 1903, declaring that William Barber, artificer, Royal Small Arms Factory, Enfield, was appointed without a Civil Service certificate through inadvertence on the part of the head of his department. Laid before the House [pursuant Act], and ordered to lie on the
  BRIDLINGTON PIERS AND HARBOUR.
  Abstract of the Annual General Account, for the year ended 26th July, 1902. Delivered [pursuant to Act], and ordered to lie on the Table.

  COMMITTEE OF SELECTION FOR THE STANDING COMMITTEE.
  Report from, That the Committee have nominated the following Lords to serve as Chairmen of the Standing Committee:
  E. Spencer.
  E. Morley.
  E. Camperdown.
  V. Cross.
  L. Balfour.
  L. Elgin (E. Elgin and Kincardine).
  L. Burghclere.
  Read, and ordered to lie on the Table.

  STANDING COMMITTEE.
  Report from the Committee of Chairmen of the Standing Committee, that Chairman of the Standing Committee; read, and ordered to lie on the Table.
  STANDING COMMITTEE.
  To meet to-morrow at Four o'clock.
  LIGHT LOCOMOTIVES (IRELAND) BILL.
  Amendments reported [according to order], and Bill to be read 3a to-morrow

  BANK HOLIDAYS (IRELAND) BILL.
  Read 3a [according to order], and passed.
  House adjourned at twenty-five minutes before Five o'clock, till To-morrow, half-past Ten o'clock.