Lords Sitting of 29 March 1904

PRIVATE BILL BUSINESS.
The LORD CHANCELLOR 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:—Gomersal Gas; Bexhill Water and Gas; Torquay Tramways; Great Eastern Rail-way. The same were ordered to lie on the Table.
Littlestone-on-Sea and District Water Bill. Read 2ª, and committed.
Elysée Palace Hotel Company Bill [H.L.]; Milwr and District Mines Drainage Bill [H.L.]. Read 3a, and passed, and sent to the Commons.
Bridlington Corporation Bill [H.L.]; Bristol Corporation Bill [H.L.]; Ebbw Vale Urban District Water Bill [H.L.]; Harrogate Waterworks Tramroads Bill [H.L.]; Leeds Corporation (Waterworks) Railway Bill [H.L.]; Llanelly Harbour Bill [H.L.]; Belfast Corporation (Tramways) Bill [H.L.]; Holywood Tramways Bill [H.L.]; Metropolitan District Railway Bill [H.L.]. Report from the Committee of Selection, That the Marquess of Bath be proposed to the House as a Member of the Select Committee on the said Bills in the place of the Earl of Craven; read, and agreed to.
Telegraph (Money) Bill. Brought from the Commons.
Bishop's Stortford and District Gas Bill; Great Central and Midland Joint Railways Bill. Brought from the Commons; read 1ª, and referred to the Examiners.
Sutton Gas Bill; Croydon Gas Bill; Great Northern Railway Bill; London, Tilbury, and Southend Railway Bill; Ryde Gas Bill. Brought from the Commons; read 1a, and referred to the Examiners.

PETITION.
  WEIGHTS AND MEASURES (METRIC SYSTEM) BILL [H.L.]
  Petition in favour of; of Hammer smith Corporation; read, and ordered to lie on the Table.
RETURNS, REPORTS, ETC.
  TRADE REPORTS: ANNUAL SERIES.
  No. 3133. United States (Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky). No. 3134. Peru (Iquitos).
  NATIONAL GALLERY, ETC. (SCOTLAND)
  Tenth Annual Report to the Secretary for Scotland by the Commissioners and Trustees of the Board of Manufactures in Scotland, for the year ended 30th September, 1903.
  POLICE (SCOTLAND).
  Forty-sixth Annual Report of His Majesty's Inspector of Constabulary for Scotland, for the year ended 31st December, 1903.

  BOARD OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES.
  Annual report of proceedings under the Tithe Acts, 1836 to 1891, the Copyhold Act, 1894, the Inclosure Acts, 1845 to 1899, the Agricultural Holdings Acts, 1883 to 1900, the Drainage and Improvement of Land Acts, the Universities and College Estates Acts, 1858 to 1898, the Glebe Lands Act, 1888, etc., etc., for the year 1903. Annual reports of proceedings under the Diseases of Animals Acts, the Markets and Fairs (Weighing of Cattle) Acts, etc., etc., for the year 1903.
  Presented (by Command), and ordered to lie on the Table.

  POLLING DISTRICTS (COUNTY OF YORK, WEST RIDING).
  Order made by the County Council of the West Riding of the county of York, altering certain polling districts in the Osgoldcross, Skipton, and Barnsley Parliamentary divisions. Laid before the House (pursuant to Act), and ordered to lie on the Table.
  BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.
  Standing Order No. XXXIX. considered (according to order), and suspended for this day's sitting.
  TELEGRAPH (MONEY) BILL.
  Read 1a; Then (Standing Older No. XXXIX. having been suspended) Bill read 2a (The Earl Waldegrave); Committee negatived; Bill read 3ª, and passed.

  COMMISSION.
  The following Bills received the Royal Assent:

  1. Consolidated Fund (No. 1).

  2. Telegraph (Money).

  3. Metropolitan Improvements (Funds).

  4. Dumbarton Tramways Order Confirmation.

  5. Kilmarnock Corporation Order Confirmation.

  House adjourned at a quarter past Four o'clock, to Tuesday the 19th of April next, a quarter past Four o'clock.