§ 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 (Tramways and Improvements); London County Council (Money).
§ Also the Certificates that no Standing Orders are applicable to the following Bills:—Education Board Provisional Order (Swansea); Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 14); Local Government Provisional Order (No. 15).
§ The same were ordered to lie on the Table.
§ Canal Rates and Charges (Regents Canal) Order Confirmation 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Committee, That the Committee had not proceeded with the consideration of the Bill, the opposition thereto having been withdrawn; read, and ordered to lie on the Table.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 7th of June and Thursday last discharged, and Bill committed to a Committee of the Whole House.
§ Scarisbrick Estate (Amendment) Bill [H.L.]; Lord Tredegar's Supplemental Estate Bill [H.L.]; De Trafford Estate Bill [H.L.].Committed.
§ Chesterfield Gas and Water Board Bill [H.L.]. Commons Amendments considered, and agreed to.
§ Surrey Commercial Dock Bill. Read 2a, and committed.
§ Carlisle Corporation Bill. Read 2a, and committed. The Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
§ Lytham Improvement Bill. Read 2a, and committed.
§ Radcliffe Tramways and Improvement Bill; London United Tramways Bill; Middlesbrough, Stockton-on-Tees, and Thornaby Tramways Bill; Thames River 246 Steamboat Service Bill. Read 2a, and committed. The Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
§ Skipton Water and Improvement Bill. Read 2a
§ Tottenham Improvement Bill. Read 2a, and committed.
§ Strabane, Raphoe, and Convoy Railway Bill. Read2a, and committed. The Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
§ London County Council (Tramways and Improvements) Bill; London County Council (Money) Bill; North-Western Electricity and Power Gas Bill. Read 2a.
§ Midland Railway Bill. Read 3a, with the Amendments, and passed, and returned to the Commons.
§ Marylebone Chapels (St. James, Westmoreland Street) Bill [H.L.]; South Staffordshire Mines Drainage Bill [H.L.]. Returned from the Commons agreed to.
§ Electric Lighting Provisional Orders (No. 1) Bill. Returned from the Commons with the Amendments agreed to.
§ Dundee, Broughty Ferry, and District Tramways Order Confirmation Bill (No. 104); Leith Burgh Order Confirmation Bill (No. 105); Motherwell and Bellshill Railway (Abandonment) Order Confirmation Bill (No. 106). Brought from the Commons; read la; to be printed; and (pursuant to the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland, Act, 1899) deemed to have been read 2a (The Lord Kintore (E. Kintore)), and reported from the Committee.
§ Gas Orders Confirmation (No. 1) Bill [H.L.]. Report from the Committee of Selection, That the Earl of Wharncliffe, the Lord Sherborne, and the Lord Stewart of Garlies (E. Galloway), be proposed to the House as Members of the Select Committee on the said Bill in the place of the Marquess of Winchester, the Earl of Dartmouth, and the Lord Digby; read, and agreed to.
§ Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 5) Bill; Local Government Provisional Orders (Gas) Bill; Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 6) Bill; 247 Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 7) Bill; Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 8) Bill; Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 12) Bill. Read 2a (according to order), and committed to a Committee of the Whole House.
§ Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 14) Bill; Local Government Provisional Order (No. 15) Bill. Read 2a (according to order).
§ Commons Regulation (Merrow) Provisional Order Bill; Commons Regulation (Oxshott) Provisional Order Bill; Land Drainage Provisional Order Bill. Read 2a (according to order), and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Monday the 27th instant.
§ Education Board Provisional Order (Swansea) Bill. Read 2a (according to order).
§ Local Government Provisional Order (No. 4) Bill. Read la; to be printed; and referred to the Examiners. (No. 103.)