§ The LORD CHANCELLOR acquainted the House, That the Clerk of the Parliaments had laid upon the Table the Certificates from the Examiners that the Standing Orders applicable to the following Bills have been complied with.
§ Education Board Provisional Order Confirmation (London) [H.L.]; Education Board Provisional Orders Confirmation (East Ham, etc.) [H.L.].
§ And the Certificates that the further Standing Orders applicable to the following Bills have been complied with.
§ Great Eastern Railway; Great Northern Railway; Sittingbourne District Gas; Walker and Wallsend Union Gas.
§ And the Certificate that no further Standing Orders are applicable to the following Bill.
§ Pier and Harbour Orders Confirmation (No. 1) [H.L.].
§ And the Certificate that the Standing Orders applicable to the following Bill have not been complied with.
§ Bangor Corporation [H.L.]. (Petition for additional Provision.)
§ The same were ordered to lie on the Table.
§ Manchester Corporation Bill [H.L.]. Petition for additional provision of Manchester Corporation; together with the proposed Clauses and Amendments annexed thereto; read, and referred to the Examiners.
§ Gosport, Fareham, and Cosham Tramways Bill [H.L.]. Petition for additional provision of the Portsmouth Street Tramways Company; together with the proposed Amendments annexed thereto; read, and referred to the Examiners.
270§ Chatham and District Light Railways Bill [H.L.]; Rochester Corporation Tramways and Improvements Bill [H.L.]. Leave given to the Select Committee to incorporate in the Rochester Corporation Tramways and Improvements Bill such parts as they think fit of the Chatham and District Light Railways Bill.
§ Somerset and District Electric Power Bill [H.L.]. Reported from the Select Committee, with Amendments.
§ Tynemouth and District Tramways Bill [H.L.]. Report from the Select Committee, That the Committee had not proceeded with the consideration of the Bill, the opposition thereto having been withdrawn; read, and ordered to lie on the Table: The Orders made on the 27th of April and 1st of May last discharged, and Bill committed.
§ North-Western Electricity and Power Gas Bill [H.L.]; Exeter Corporation Bill [H.L.]; Preston and Norwich Tramways Bill [H.L.]. The Lord Glanusk, the Chairman of the Select Committee appointed for the consideration of the said Bills, informed the House that the Lord Aberdare, a member of the Committee, was, on account of illness, unable to be present; read, and ordered to lie on the Table.
§ North Cheshire Tramways Bill [H.L.]. Report from the Select Committee, That the promoters do not intend to proceed further with the Bill; ordered, that the Bill be not further proceeded with.
§ Charing Cross, Euston, and Hampstead Railway Bill; City and South London Railway Bill. Read 2a and committed: The Committees to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
§ Maidstone Gas Bill. Read 2a and committed.
§ Bishopric of Bristol Bill [H.L.]. Read 3a (according to Order) and passed, and sent to the Commons.
§ Electric Lighting Provisional Order (No. 1) Bill (No. 61); Land Drainage Provisional Order Bill (No. 62); Local Government (Ireland) Provisional 271 Orders (No. 4) Bill (No. 63). Local Government Provisional Orders (No 4) Bill (No. 64). Brought from the Commons and read 1a; to be printed, and referred to the Examiners.
§ London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Bill [H.L.]; Wakefield and District Tramways Bill [H.L.]; Midland Railway Bill; Bangor Corporation Bill [H.L.]; Broadstairs Gas Bill; Bradford Corporation Bill [H.L.]; Gosport, Fareham, and Cosham Tramways Bill [H.L.]; Willesden Urban District Council 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.,
- D. Manchester,
- E. Verulam,
- L. Sinclair,
- L. Brougham and Vaux (Chairman),
- L. Sudley (E. Arran);