§ Report from, That the Standing Orders not complied with in respect of Richard Jaeger's Patent—(Petition for Bill) ought to be dispensed with, and leave given to introduce the Bill. Read, and agreed to.
§ Ebbw Vale Urban District Water Bill [H.L.]. Reported from the Select Committee, with Amendments.
§ Great Northern and City Railway (Extension of Time) Bill; Corbridge Gas Bill. Reported, without Amendment.
§ South Staffordshire Mines Drainage Bill [H.L.]; Chesterfield Gas and Water Board Bill [H.L.]. Reported, with Amendments.
§ Shipley Urban District Council Bill [H.L.]; Hampton-in-Arden Gas Bill; Great Eastern Railway (Steamboats) Bill; St. Bartholomew's Hospital Bill [H.L.]. Reported, with Amendments.
§ Mid-Cheshire Tramways Bill [H.L.]. The Lord BALFOUR informed the House that the Promoters do not intend to proceed further with the Bill. The orders made on the 26th of February and Friday last discharged. Ordered, That the Bill be not further proceeded with.
§ Motherwell and Bellshill Railway (Abandonment) Provisional Order. Ordered, That the evidence taken before the Committee of this House on the Bill for the Motherwell and Bellshill Railway Act, 1900, be referred to the Commissioners appointed under the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act, 1899, to inquire into the Motherwell and Bellshill Railway (Abandonment) Draft Provisional Order, 1904.
§ Liverpool and Wigan Churches 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Committee, That the Committee had not proceeded with the consideration of the Bill, the opposition thereto having been withdrawn; read, and ordered to lie on 1166 the Table. The orders made on the 4th and 24th of March last discharged, and Bill committed.
§ Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 1) Bill. Brought from the Commons.
§ Thurles Urban District Council Water Bill; Wolverhampton Corporation Bill. Brought from the Commons; read 1a; and referred to the Examiners.
§ Appleby Corporation Gas Bill [H.L.]. Returned from the Commons agreed to, with Amendments. The said Amendments considered, and agreed to.
§ Southend Water Bill. Returned from the Commons with the Amendment agreed to, with Amendments. The said Amendments considered, and agreed to.
§ King's College Hospital Bill [H.L.]; Ilford Urban District Council Bill [H.L.]; West Riding Tramways Bill [H.L.]; Newcastle and Gateshead Water Bill [H.L.]; St. Mary Woolnoth Bill [H.L.]; Great Yarmouth Corporation Bill [H.L.]; North Wales Electric Power Bill [H.L.]; Oakengates, Dawley, and District Joint Water Board Bill [H.L.]. Report from the Committee of Selection, That the Lord Ellenborough be proposed to the House as a member of the Select Committee on the said Bills in the place of the Lord Rosmead; read, and agreed to.
§ Manchester Ship Canal Bill [H.L.]; Trafford Park Dock and Railway Bill [H.L.]; Manchester Corporation Tramways Bill [H.L.]; Manchester Corporation (General Powers) Bill [H.L.]; Stretford 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., E. Romney, E. Lytton, L. Bateman, L. Hamilton of Dalzell, L. Glanusk (Chairman); agreed to, and the said Lords appointed accordingly. The Committee to meet on Wednesday the 4th of May 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.
1167§ Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 1) Bill. Read 1a; to be printed; and referred to the Examiners. (No. 53.)