§ Bute (English and Welsh) Estates Bill [H.L.].—;Judges' Report received; Bill presented, and read 1a.
§ Portsmouth Water Bill [H.L.].—;Report from the Committee of Selection, That the Earl of Morley be proposed to the House as a member of the Select Committee on the said Bills in the place of the Lord Ravensworth; read and agreed to.
§ Epsom and Ewell Gas Bill. Read 2a, and committed: The Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
§ Dowlais Gas Bill; Merthyr Tydfil Gas Bill. Read 2a, and committed.
§ Manchester Churches Bill [H.L]; Alexandra (Newport and South Wales) Docks and Railway Bill [H.L.]; Mullingar, Kells, and Drogheda Railway Bill [H.L.]; Folkestone and District Electricity Supply Bill [H.L.]; Shropshire, Worcestershire, and Staffordshire Electric Power Bill [H.L.] Kent Electric Power Bill [H.L.]; Folkestone, Sandgate and Hythe Tramways (No. 1) Bill [H.L.]; Folkestone, Sandgate, and Hythe Tramways (No. 2.) Bill [H.L.].—;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, E. Mayo, V. Falmouth, L. Suffield, L. Brougham and Vaux (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.
§ Gas Orders Confirmation (No. 1) Bill [H.L.]. (NO. 62).—;A Bill to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the 670 Board of Trade under the Gas and Water Works Facilities Act, 1870, relating to Charing Gas, Chichester Gas, Corsham Gas, Farnham Gas, and Kings Lynn Gas.
§ Gas Orders Confirmation (No. 2) Bill [H.L.]. (NO. 63).—;A Bill to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Gas and Water Works Facilities Act, 1870, relating to Newport Pagnell Gas, Pontardulais Gas, Raunds Gas, Redditch Gas, and Saint Austell Gas.
§ Gas and Water Orders Confirmation Bill [H.L.]. (No. 64).—;A Bill to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Gas and Water Works Facilities Act, 1870, relating to Bolsovor and District Water, Great Grimsby Gas, Great Grimsby Water. Hoylake and West Kirby Water, Wath-upon-Dearne and District Gas, and Wollaston Gas.
§ Water Orders Confirmation Bill [H.L.]. (No. 65).—;A Bill to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Gas and Water Works Facilities Act, 1870, relating to Herne Bay Water, Maidstone Water, Mid-Kent Water, Rickmansworth and Uxbridge Valley Water, Sleaford and District Water and Slough Water.
§ Tramways Orders Confirmation Bill [H.L.]. (NO. 66).—;A Bill to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Tramways Act, 1870, relating to Altrincham Urban District Council Tramways, Dewsbury Corporation Tramways, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Corporation Tramways, Ossett Corporation Tramways, Portobello and Mussel-burgh Tramways (Port Seaton Extension), and Rochdale Corporation Tramways.
§ Electric Lighting Provisional Orders (No. 3.) Bill [H.L.]. (No. 67).—;A Bill to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Electric Lighting Acts 1882 and 1888, the Electric Lighting (Scotland) Act, 1890, and the Electric Lighting (Scotland) Act, 1902, relating to Bellshill, Blantyre, Bothwell, Dumfermline and District, Dunoon, Fochabers, Inveresk, Shettleston, and Pollcross and Uddingston: And
§ Electric Lighting Provisional Order (No. 4.) Bill [H.L.]. (No. 68.)—;A Bill to 671 confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Electric Lighting Acts 1882 and 1888, relating to Aylesbury, Boston, Castleward, Weetslade, and Cramlington, Godalming (Extension), Gomersal, Henley-on-Thames, Pinner, Stanmore, Harrow, Weald, and Edgware, Ryton, Swanage, Wantage and District.—;Were presented by the Lord Granard (E. Granard); read 1a; to be printed, and referred to the Examiners.