§ 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: Gas Orders Confirmation (No. 1) [H.L.]; Water Orders Confirmation [H.L.]; Electric Lighting Provisional Orders (No. 3) [H.L.].
§ And also the Certificates that the further Standing Orders applicable to the following Bills have been complied with:—Electric Lighting Provisional Order (No. 1); Electric Lighting Provisional Orders (No. 2); London and South Western Railway; London County Buildings; Peterborough Gas; Southampton Gas.
§ The same were ordered to lie on the Table.
§ Standing Orders Committee, Report from, that the Standing Orders not complied with in respect of the Poole Corporation Water Bill ought to be dispensed with.
§ Read and agreed to
§ West Yorkshire Tramways Bill [H.L.]. Reported from the Select Committee, with Amendments.
854§ Manchester and Milford Railway Bill [H.L.]. Commons' Amendments considered, and agreed to
§ Kent Electric Power Bill [H.L.]; Folkestone, Sandgate, and Hythe Tramways (No. 2.) Bill [H.L.]; Alexandra (Newport and South Wales) Docks and Railway Bill [H.L.]; Great Yarmouth Waterworks and Lowestoft Water and Gas Bill [H.L.]; Western Valleys (Monmouthshire) Sewerage Board Bill [H.L.]. Leave given to the Select Committee not to sit again till Wednesday next.
§ Railway Clearing System (Superannuation Fund) Bill [H.L.]; Scottish Provident Institution Buildings Bill [H.L]; Newport Harbour Commissioners Bill [H.L.]; Rugby Subordinate School Bill [H.L.]; now Rugby Lower School Bill [H.L.]. Read 3a and passed, and sent to the Commons.
§ Sutton, Southcoates, and Drypool Gas Bill; Waterford Corporation and Bridge Bill. Brought from the Commons; read 1a; and referred to the Examiners.
§ North Metropolitan Tramways Bill. Returned from the Commons with the Amendments agreed to.