§ 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 have not been complied within respect of the Petition for additional provision in the following Bill:—Wellingborough and District Tramroads Electricity Supply [H.L.]. The same was ordered to lie on the Table.
§ Wellingborough and District Tramroads and Electricity Supply Bill [H.L.].—(Petition for additional provision). Examiner's Certificate of non-compliance with the Standing Orders referred to the Standing Orders Committee on Tuesday next.
§ Nottingham Corporation Bill [H.L.]. Reported from the Select Committee, with Amendments.
§ Birmingham Corporation Bill. 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Committee, That the Committee had not proceeded with the consideration of the Bill, the opposition thereto having been withdrawn; read, and ordered to lie on the Table.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 May 11th discharged, and Bill committed.
§ Heckmondwike Improvement Bill. Read 2a, and committed. The Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
§ Weybridge and Walton-upon-Thames Electric Supply Bill; Chelsea Electricity Supply Bill. Read 3a, and passed.
§ Wrexham Gas Bill. Read 3a, with the Amendments, and passed, and returned to the Commons.
§ Administrative County of London and District Electric Power Company Bill [H.L]; Metropolitan Electric Supply Company (Various Powers) Bill [H.L.]; Llandrindod Wells Urban District Council Bill [H.L.]; Newcastle-upon- 854 Tyne Corporation Bill [H.L.]; Wellingborough and District Tramroads and Electricity Supply Bill [H.L.]; Acton Sewage Bill. Leave given to the Select Committee not to sit on Monday next till half-past Twelve o'clock.
§ Great Northern Railway Bill. 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Committee, That the Committee had not proceeded with the consideration of the Bill, the opposition thereto having been withdrawn; read, and ordered to lie on the Table.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 11th of May discharged, and Bill committed.
§ McConnell's Divorce Bill [H.L.]. Minutes of evidence and proceedings before this House on the Second Reading, together with the documents deposited, returned from the Commons.
§ Education Board Provisional Orders Confirmation (Liverpool, etc.) Bill [H.L.]; Education Board Provisional Order Confirmation (London No. 2) Bill [H.L.]. Committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Tuesday next.
§ Education Board Provisional Order Confirmation (London No. 1) Bill [H.L.]. Committed. The Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
§ Arbroath Water Order Confirmation Bill. Brought from the Commons and read 1a; 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. (No. 79.)
§ Local Government (Ireland) Provisional Order (No.1) Bill (No. 80); Local Government Provisional Orders (No.4) Bill (No. 81); Local Government Provisional Orders (No.5) Bill (No. 82). Brought from the Commons and read 1a; to be printed; and referred to the Examiners.
§ Hitchin and District Gas Bill; Croydon Corporation Bill; Ealing Corporation Bill; Education Board Provisional Order Confirmation (London No. 1) Bill [H.L.]; Stockport Corporation Bill; Bristol Corporation Bill; Great Western Railway (New Railways) Bill; Great Western 855 Railway (Additional Powers) Bill; Gas and Water Orders Confirmation (No. 1) Bill [H.L.]; London Gas Bill. 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.—D. Wellington, M. Winchester, E. Rosse, E. Gainsborough, L. Newton (chairman); agreed to; and the said Lords appointed accordingly. The Committee to meet on Thursday 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.
§ Newcastle-upon-Tyne Corporation Bill [H.L.]; Acton Sewage Bill; Welling-borough and District Tramroads and Electricity Supply Bill [H.L.]. Report from the Committee of Selection, That the Lord Ranfurly (E. Ranfurly) be proposed to the House as a member of the Select Committee on the said Bills in the place of the Lord Raveusworth; read, and agreed to.
§ Metropolitan and Great Central Railway Companies Bill [H.L.]; Southport, Birkdale, and West Lancashire Water Board Bill [H.L.]; Formby Township Bill [H.L.]; Humber Conservancy Bill [H.L.]. Report from the Committee of Selection, That the Viscount Ridley be proposed to the House as a member of the Select Committee on the said Bills in the place of the Earl of Yarborough; read, and agreed to.