PRIVATE BILL BUSINESS.

HL Deb 22 May 1903 vol 122 cc1453-5

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:—

Tramways Orders Confirmation (No. 1) [H.L.]; Tramways Orders Confirmation (No. 2) [H.L.]; Gas and Water Orders Confirmation [H.L.].

And the Certificates that the further Standing Orders applicable to the following Bills have been complied with:—

Electric Lighting Provisional Orders (No. 6); Gorleston and Southtown Gas; London United Tramways; New Hunstanton Improvement.

The same were ordered to lie on the Table.

Kip's Patents Bill [H.L.]. Presented, read l^a; and referred to the Examiners.

Pentillie Estate Bill [H.L.]. The Lord Chancellor acquainted the House that, in pursuance of Standing Order No. 163A, relating to Private Bills, he had, on the requisition of the Chairman of Committees, appointed the Rev. Ernest Henry Glencross, of Morval, in the county of Cornwall, Clerk in Holy Orders, as guardian or protector of the infants John Tillie Coryton, Edmund George Coryton, Ruth Evelyn Coryton, Mary Louisa Coryton, William Alec Coryton, and Joan Elizabeth Loveday Coryton, named in the Bill, to represent such infants before the Committee on the Bill.

Maryport Harbour Bill [H.L.]. The King's consent signified; and Bill reported from the Select Committee, with Amendments.

Exeter Corporation Bill [H.L.]. Reported from the Select Committee, with Amendments.

London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Bill [H.L.]. The King's consent signified; and Bill reported from the Select Committee, with Amendments.

Bridgwater Gas Bill. The King's consent signified; and Bill reported, with Amendments.

Electric Lighting (London) Bill [H.L.]. Reported, with Amendments, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Monday next.

Cardiff Railway Bill [H.L.]; Aston Manor Improvement Bill [H.L.]; King's College, London, Bill [H.L.]; Sutton District Water Bill; Tynemouth and District Tramways Bill [H.L.]; British Gas Light Company (Norwich) Bill [H.L]; Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation Bill [H.L.]. Reported, with Amendments.

Port Talbot Railway and Docks Bill [H.L.]. Reported, with Amendments.

St. Philip's Chapel (Regent Street) Bill [H.L.]. The King's consent signified; and Bill reported, with Amendments.

North Middlesex Gas Bill. Reported, without Amendment.

London Hydraulic Power Bill. Reported, with an Amendment.

London and North-Western Railway Bill [H.L.]. Reported from the Select Committee, with Amendments.

Preston and Horwich Tramways Bill [H.L.], now Preston, Chorley, and Horwich, Tramways Bill [H.L.]. Reported from the Select Committee, with Amendments.

Pentillie Estate Bill [H.L.]. Read 2^a.

Walker and Wallsend Union Gas Bill. Read, 2^a, and committed. The Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.

Scarborough Gas Bill; Market Drayton Gas Bill; Commercial Gas Bill; Read 2^a, and committed.

Worthing Corporation Tramways Bill [H.L.]. Read 3^a, and passed, and sent to the Commons.

Crystal Palace District Gas Bill; Ebbw Vale Water and Improvement Bill; Leigh Corporation Bill; Gas Light and Coke Company Bill; Hampton Court Gas Bill; Lancashire and Yorkshire and London and North-Western Railways (Steam Vessels) Bill; Midland and Belfast and Northern Counties Railways Bill; Metropolitan District Railway (Various Powers) Bill. Brought from the Commons; read 1^a; and referred to the Examiners.

Torquay Corporation Water Bill [H.L.]; Reported from the Select Committee, with Amendments.

Mid Yorkshire Tramways Bill [H.L.]; The order made on the 14th instant appointing certain Lords the Select Committee to consider the said Bill, discharged.

Bury and District Joint Water Board Bill [H.L.]; Brighton Corporation Bill [H.L.]; The orders made on the 4th instant appointing certain Lords the Select Committee to consider the said Bills, discharged.

Electric Lighting Provisional Order (No. 1) Bill; Electric Lighting Provisional Orders (No. 2) Bill; Electric Lighting Provisional Orders (No. 3) Bill. Read 2^a (according to Order), and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Monday next.

Gas Orders Confirmation (No. 1) Bill [H.L.]; Gas Orders Confirmation (No. 2) Bill [H.L.]; Water Orders Confirmation Bill [H.L.]. Read 2^a (according to Order).

Education Board Provisional Order Confirmation (London) Bill [H.L.]. Committed; the Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.

Education Board Provisional Orders Confirmation (East Ham, etc.) Bill [H.L.]; Pier and Harbour Orders Confirmation (No. 1) Bill [H.L.]. Committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Monday next.