HL Deb 26 March 1903 vol 120 cc277-9

Bangor Corporation Bill [H.L.]. Report from His Majesty's Attorney-General received, and ordered to lie on the Table.

Birmingham District Tramways Bill [H.L.]. The meeting of the Standing Orders Committee (which stands appointed for this day) put off to Monday next.

Standing Orders Committee—Report from, That the Standing Orders not complied with in respect of the Thames River Steamboat Service Bill ought to be dispensed with, provided that Clause 27 be struck out of the Bill.

That the Standing Orders not complied with in respect of the petition for a Bill by the Jewish Colonisation Association ought to be dispensed with, and leave given to introduce the Bill.

Read and agreed to.

Hexham Gas Bill [H.L.]. Reported from the Select Committee, with Amendments.

Lima Railways Bill [H.L.]; Indiarubber, Guttapercha, and Telegraph Works Company Bill [H.L.]. Reported, with Amendments.

North's Navigation Collieries Bill [H.L.]; Faversham Gas Bill [H.L.]; Exeter Railway Bill [H.L.]. Reported, with Amendments.

West Bromwich Corporation Bill [H.L.]. The Chairman of Committees informed the House that the opposition to the Bill was withdrawn: Bill committed.

St. Philip's Chapel (Regent Street) Bill [H.L.]; All Saints, Poplar (Rate Abolition) Bill [H.L.]. Committed.

Bangor Corporation Bill [H.L.]. Read 2a [according to order].

Electric Lighting (London) Bill [H.L.]. Committed: The Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.

Light Locomotives (Ireland) Bill. Returned from the Commons with the Amendments agreed to.

Frinton-on-Sea Sea Defences Bill [H.L.]; Rickmansworth Gas Bill [H.L.]; Pelican and British Empire Life Office Bill [H.L.]; Wellington (Salop) Gas Bill [H.L.]; Southampton Harbour Bill [H.L.]; Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation Bill [H.L.]: Harrow and Stanmore Gas Bill [H.L.]; Bournemouth Corporation Tramways Bill [H.L.]; Poole and District Electric Traction Bill [H.L.]; Birmingham Corporation Bill [H.L.]. Report from the Committee of Selection, That the following Lords be proposed to the House to form the Select Committee for the consideration of the said Bills; viz.:

Agreed to; and the said Lords appointed accordingly. The Committee to meet on Thursday the 30th of April next at Eleven o'clock; and all petitions referred to the Committee, with leave to the petitioners praying to be heard by counsel against the Bills to be heard as desired, as also counsel for the Bills.

South-Western and Isle of Wight Junction Railway Bill [H.L.]; South-Eastern and London, Chatham, and Dover Railways Bill [H.L.]; Sutton Cold-field Corporation Bill [H.L.]; Cardiff Railway Bill [H.L.]; Manchester Southern Tramways (Lancashire) Bill [H.L.]; Manchester Southern Tramways (Cheshire) Bill [H.L.]; South Lancashire Tramways Bill [H.L.]; Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Tramways Bill [H.L.]: North Cheshire Tramways Bill [H.L.]. Report from the Committee of Selection, That the following Lords be proposed to the House to form the Select Committee for the consideration of the said Bills; viz.:

Agreed to; and the said Lords appointed accordingly. The Committee to meet on Thursday the 30th of April next at Eleven o'clock; and all petitions referred to the Committee, with leave to the petitioners praying to be heard by counsel against the Bills to be heard as desired, as also counsel for the Bills.