§ The LORD CHANCELLOR acquainted the House, That the Clerk of the Parliaments had laid upon the Table the Certificate from the Examiners that the further Standing Orders applicable to the following Bill have been complied a with: Folkestone, Sandgate, and Hythe Tramways (No. 1) [H.L.].
§ The same was ordered to lie on the Table.
§ Barry Railway Bill [H.L.]. A witness ordered to attend the Select Committee.
§ Essex and Suffolk Equitable Insurance Society Bill [H.L.]. Reported from the Select Committee, with Amendments.
§ Folkestone, Sandgate, and Hythe Tramways (No. 1) Bill [H.L.]. Read 2a, and committed. The Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
§ Glamorgan and South Wales Water Bill [H.L.]. Shropshire, Worcestershire, and Staffordshire Electric Power Bill [H.L.]. Read 2a (according to order), and committed. The Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
§ Kent Electric Power Bill [H.L.] Read. 2a (according to order), and committed. The Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
§ Vauclain's Patent Bill [H.L.]; Antofagasta (Chili) and Bolivia Railway Bill [H.L.]. Read 3a, and passed, and sent to the Commons.
§ Hull Joint Dock Bill [H.L.]. Read 3a. An amendment made. Bill passed, and sent to the Commons.
§ Penllwyn Railway and Road Bill [H.L.]; London and North Western Railway Bill [H.L.]; Great Western and Rhymney Railway Companies Bill [H.L.]; Barry Railway Bill [H.L.]; Western Valleys (Monmouthshire) Sewerage 806 Board Bill [H.L.]; Cardiff Railway Bill [H.L.]. Report from the Committee of Selection, That the Lord Belhaven and Stenton be proposed to the House as a member of the Select Committee on the said Bills in the place of the Earl of Verulam; read, and agreed to.