Lords Sitting of 12 May 1903

PRIVATE BILL, BUSINESS.
The LORD CHANCELLOR acquainted the House, that the Clerk of the Parliaments had laid upon the Table the Certificates from the Examiners that the further Standing Orders applicable to the following Bills have been complied with:
London County Council (General Powers); Great Central Railway.
And also the Certificate that the Standing Orders applicable to the following Bill have been complied with.
Local Government (Ireland) Provisional Order (No. 2).
The same were ordered to lie on the Table.
Bangor Corporation Bill [H L.]—(Petition for additional provision); Examiners' Certificate of non-compliance with the Standing Orders referred to the Standing Orders Committee on Tuesday next.
Great Northern and City Railway Bill. Reported, without Amendment.
Shepshed Urban District Gas Bill [H.L.]. Reported, with Amendments.
Stoke Newington Borough Council Bill. Reported, with Amendments.
Exeter Corporation Bill [H.L.]; Preston and Horwich Tramways Bill [H.L.]; Report from the Committee of Selection, That the Lord Hylton be proposed to the House as a Member of the Select Committee on the said Bills in the place of the Lord Aberdare. Read, and agreed to.
Broadstairs Gas Bill. The Chairman of Committees informed the House that the opposition to the Bill was withdrawn. The orders made on Tuesday last and yesterday discharged, and Bill committed.
Bangor Corporation Bill [H.L]. The Chairman of Committees informed the House that the opposition to the Bill
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was withdrawn: The orders made on the 27th of April last and yesterday discharged, and Bill committed.
Belfast Water Bill [H.L.]. Report from the Select Committee, That the Committee had not proceeded with the consideration of the Bill, the Committee having found that the petitioner had no locus standi before them; read, and ordered to lie on the Table. The orders made on the 9th of March and the 28th of April last discharged, and Bill committed for Thursday next.
Southampton Harbour Bill [H.L.]. Read 3a, and passed, and sent to the Commons.
Oldham Corporation Bill [H.L.]. Report from the Select Committee, That it is not expedient to proceed further with the Bill; read, and ordered to lie on the Table.
Macclesfield and District Electric 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.
Scarborough Gas Bill. Brought from the Commons; read 1a; and referred to the Examiners.
Electric Lighting Provisional Orders (No. 2) Bill (No. 66); Electric Lighting Provisional Orders (No. 3) Bill (No. 67). Brought from the Commons; read 1a; to be printed; and referred to the Examiners.

PETITION.
  LAND REGISTERS (SCOTLAND) BILL [H.L.]
  Petition against: of the Society of Solicitors, Airdrie; read, and ordered to lie on the Table.
RETURNS, REPORTS, ETC.

  JOURNAL COMMITTEE.
  Report from, that the one hundred and thirty-fourth volume of the Journals (1st and 2nd Edw. VII., 1902), with

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  an Index, was ready for delivery; read, and ordered to lie on the Table; and the said volume ordered to be delivered in the same manner as the preceding volumes of the Journals have been delivered.

  COLONIES ANNUAL.
  No. 384. St. Lucia (Report for 1901); No. 385. St. Vincent (Report for 1901).
  STRAITS SETTLEMENTS (STRAITS SETTLEMENTS CURRENCY COMMITTEE).
  Report, Minutes of Evidence, and Appendices.
  RAILWAY AND CANAL TRAFFIC ACTS, 1854 TO 1894.
  Fourteenth Annual Report of the Railway and Canal Commission; with Appendix.

  MINES AND QUARRIES.
  Reports of His Majesty's Inspectors of Mines and Quarries, for the year 1902.
  Presented [by Command], and ordered to lie on the Table.

  RAILWAY COMPANIES' POWERS ACT, 1864.
  Certificate of the Board of Trade, authorising the Yorkshire Dales Railway Company to raise additional capital.
  DISEASES OF ANIMALS ACTS, 1894 AND 1896.
  Foreign Animals (Amendment) Order of 1903 (No. 2).

  INDIA.
  I. (Finance and Revenue Accounts.) Finance and Revenue Accounts of the Government of India, for the year 1901–1902.
  II. (Estimate.) Estimate of revenue and expenditure of the Government of India, for the year 1902–1903, compared with the results of 1901–1902.
  III. (Home Accounts.) Home Accounts of the Government of India.
  Laid before the House [pursuant to Act], and ordered to lie on the Table.

  NEW PEER.
  The Lord Willoughby de Broke sat first in Parliament after the death of his father.
NEW BILL.
  DTVORCE BILL [H.L.]
  A Bill to amend the law relating to Divorce. Was presented by the Earl Russell; read 1a; to be printed; and to be read 2a on Tuesday the 23rd of June next. (No. 65.)

  THE LICENSING ACT, 1902.
  VISCOUNT CROSS: My Lords, I beg to give notice that on Thursday next I shall call the attention of the House to the recent decision of the Court of King's Bench on the Licensing Act, 1902, in the case of the Commissioners of Police for the Metropolis against Donovan, and ask the Lord Chancellor whether, in consequence of that decision, he will bring in a short amending Bill.
  House adjourned at half-past Four o'clock, to Thursday next, half-past Ten o'clock.