§ 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: Baker Street and Waterloo Railway; Lancashire Electric Power; St. Pancras Electricity; Tottenham and Edmonton Gas; Metropolitan District Railway; Kettering Water; Middlesex County Council (General Powers); North-west London a Railway; Bristol Corporation.
§ And also the certificates that the further Standing Orders applicable to the following Bills have not been complied with: Metropolitan Water Board; London County Council (Tramways and Improvements); London County Council (General Powers).
§ The same was ordered to lie on the Table.
§ London County Council (General Powers) Bill; London County Council (Tramways and Improvements) Bill; Metropolitan Water Board Bill. Examiner's certificates of non-compliance with the Standing Orders referred to the Standing Orders Committee on Friday next.
§ Sea Fisheries Provisional Order Bill; Lind Drainage Provisional Order Bill. Read 2a (according to order).
§ Corporation of London (Blackfriars and other Bridges) Bill. A petition of Messrs. Dyson and Company, of 9, Great George Street, Westminster, Parliamentary agents, praying for leave to 1318 present a petition of the Metropolitan Water Board, praying to be heard by counsel against the Bill, although the time limited by Standing Order No. 93 for presenting such petition has expired. Read, and ordered to lie on the Table, and Standing Order No. 93 to be considered to-morrow in order to its being dispensed with in respect of the said petition.
§ Nettlebed and District Commons (Preservation Bill [H.L.]. Reported, with Amendments.
§ London Squares and Enclosures Bill [H.L]. Report from the Committee of Selection, that the Lord Clinton be proposed to the House as a member of the Select Committee on the said Bill in the place of the Lord Digby. Read, and agreed to.
§ Western Valleys (Monmouthshire) Sewerage Board Bill [H.L.]. Read 3a; Amendments made; Bill passed, and sent to the Commons.
§ Shropshire, Worcestershire, and Staffordshire Electric Power Bill [H.L.]. Read 3a, and passed, and sent to the Commons.
§ Hackney Electricity Bill. Brought from the Commons. Read 1a and referred to the Examiners.
§ Private and Provisional Order Confirmation Bills. Ordered, that Standing Orders No. 72 and 82 be suspended for the remainder of the session.
§ Education Board Provisional Orders Confirmation (Kesteven, &c.) Bill [H.L.]. Order of the day for the Third Reading read, and discharged.