§ The LORD CHANCELLOR acquainted the House, That the Clerk of the Parliaments had laid upon the Table the Certificate from the Examiners that the Standing Orders applicable to the following Bill have been complied with:— Metropolitan Police Provisional Order.
§ The same was ordered to lie on the Table.
§ Richard Jaeger's Patent Bill [H.L.]. Presented (pursuant to leave given on Tuesday last), and read 1a.
§ Holywood Tramways Bill [H.L.]. A witness ordered to attend the Select Committee.
§ Manchester Ship Canal Bill [H.L.]. Witnesses ordered to attend the Select Committee, and to produce documents.
§ Oakengates, Dawley, and District Joint Water Board Bill [H.L.]. The order made on Friday last appointing certain Lords the Select Committee to consider the Bill, discharged.
§ Ilford Urban District Council Bill [H.L.]. Report from the Committee of Selection. That the Lord Kinnaird be proposed to the House as a member of the Select Committee on the said Bill in the place of the Duke of Manchester; read, and agreed to.
§ Portmadoc, Beddgelert, and South Snowdon Railway-Bill [H.L.]. Reported 1406 from the Select Committee, with Amendments.
§ Maidenhead Bridge Bill [H.L.]. Reported from the Select Committee, with Amendments.
§ Clyde Valley Electrical Power Bill [H.L.]. Reported, with Amendments.
§ Wellington (Somerset) Gas Bill. Reported, with Amendments.
§ Norwich Water Bill. Reported, without Amendment.
§ Charing Cross, Euston, land Hampstead Railway Bill. Read 2a, and committed. The Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
§ Felixstowe Gas Bill; Birkdale Improvement Bill; Acton Improvement Bill. Read 2a, and committed.
§ Soothill Nether Urban District Tramways Bill. Read 2a, and committed. The Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
§ Southend-on-Sea Gas Bill; Bishop's Stortford and District Gas Bill; Brixham Gas Bill. Read 2a, and committed.
§ St. Marylebone Electric Lighting Bill. Read 2a, and committed. The Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
§ Colney Hatch Gas Bill. Read 2a and committed.
§ London and North Western Railway Bill; Midland Railway Bill. Read 2a, and committed. The Committees to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
§ Lancashire Electric Power Bill [H.L.]. Read 3a, and passed, and sent to the Commons.
§ New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Bill [H.L.]. Returned from the Commons 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 Earl of Yarborough be proposed 1407 to the House as a member of the Select Committee on the said Bills in the place of the Lord Bateman; read, and agreed to.
§ 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.]: King's College Hospital Bill [H.L.]. Report from the Committee of Selection. That the Lord Napier be proposed to the House as a member of the Select Committee on the said Bills in the place of the Duke of Manchester; read, and agreed to.