§ 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:—Scotch Education Department Provisional Order Confirmation (Edinburgh) [H.L.].
§ The same was ordered to lie on the Table.
§ Barnet District Gas and Water Bill. A witness ordered to attend the Select Committee.
§ Electric Lighting Provisional Orders (No. 3) Bill [H.L.].—(Huddersfield Order). A petition of Alfred Vansittart Frere, of 5, Victoria Street, London, Parliamentary 350 Agent, praying for leave to present a petition of the Longwood Gas Company against the Order, although the time limited by Standing Order No. 92 for presenting such petition has expired; read, and ordered to lie on the Table; and Standing Order No. 92 to be considered on Monday next in order to it being dispensed with in respect of the said petition.
§ Skipton Water and Improvement Bill; North Western Electricity and Power Gas Bill. Committed.
§ New River Company Bill [H.L.]. Re turned from the Commons agreed to, with Amendments. The said Amendments considered, and agreed to.
§ Kirkby-in-Ashfield Urban District Gas Bill. Returned from the Commons with | the Amendments agreed to.
§ Electric Lighting Provisional Orders (No. 3) Bill [H.L.]; Electric Lighting? Provisional Orders (No. 6) Bill[H.L.]; Doncaster Corporation Bill; Electric Lighting Provisional Order3 (No. 2) Bill [H.L.]; I Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (Steam Vessels) Bill; Barnet District Gas and Water Bill. Report from the Select Committee, That the Committee adjourned this day at One o'clock; read, and ordered to lie on the Table.
§ Electric Lighting Provisional Orders (No. 3) Bill [H.L.]; Electric Lighting: Provisional Orders (No. 6) Bill [H.L.]; Doncaster Corporation Bill; Electric Lighting Provisional Orders (No. 2) Bill; [H.L.]; Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (Steam Vessels) Bill; Barnet District Gas and Water Bill. Report from the Committee of Selection, That the Lord Congleton be proposed to the House as a member of the Select Committee on the said Bills in the place of the Lord Tenterden; read, and agreed to.
§ Gas Orders Confirmation (No. 2) Bill [H.L.]; Electric Lighting Provisional Orders (No. 5) Bill [H.L.]. Committed to a Committee of the Whole House.
§ Electric Lighting Provisional Orders (No. 4) Bill [H.L.]; Tramways Orders Confirmation (No. 1) Bill [H.L.]. Committed. The Committees to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.