PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS (RECESS). (Hansard, 15 April 1907)

THE LORD CHANCELLOR

acquainted the House that the following Papers, having been commanded to be presented to this House by His Majesty, had been so presented on the following dates by delivery to the Clerk of the Parliaments, pursuant to Standing Order No. CXI., viz.:

1. Treaty Series, No. 11 (1907). Accessions of British Colonies, etc., to various Treaty engagements between the United Kingdom and Foreign Powers. (March 27.)
2. Militia Units. Return showing the establishment of each unit of Militia in the United Kingdom, and the numbers present, absent, and wanting to complete at the training of 1906 (in continuation of [Cd. 2697] of session 1906). (March 27.)
3. Bobbinite (Departmental Committee). Report of the Departmental Committee on Bobbinite: Report and appendices. (March 27.)
4. Explosives (Explosion of Nitro-Glycerine at Ardeer, near Stevenston, Ayrshire)—Report to the Secretary of 563 State for the Home Department on the circumstances attending an explosion of nitro-glycerine which occurred at the factory of Nobel's Explosives Company, Limited, at Ardeer, near Stevenston, Ayrshire, on 5th February, 1907. (27th March.)
5. Colonies (General)—Circular dispatch, dated 15th February, 1907, relative to the part taken by ex-Governors of Colonies in the organisation or direction of companies formed to operate in territories which they were recently administering. (27th March.)
6. Trade Reports—I. Annual Series.

No. 3752. Belgium (Port of Antwerp; Shipping and Navigation for 1906).
No. 3753. Santo Domingo (Trade for the First Six Months of 1906). (4th April.)
No. 3754. Portugal (Trade of the Azores for 1906). (6th April.)
No. 3755. Sudan (Trade of Port Sudan for 1906).
No. 3756. Honduras (Trade for 1905–1906).
No. 3757. Venezuela (Trade of Ciudad Bolivar for 1906). (10th April.)
No. 3758. Bolivia (Trade for 1906).
No. 3759. France (Trade of New Caledonia for 1906).
No. 3760. Honduras (Trade of Puerto Cortes for 1906).
No. 3761. Chile (Trade of Coquimbo for 1906).
No. 3762. Portugal (Trade of Oporto for 1906). (13th April.)
II. (Miscellaneous Series).
No. 657. Liquor Traffic Legislation of the United States. (4th April.)
No. 658. Mexican Isthmus (Tehuantepec Railway). (6th April.)

7. Egypt, No. 1. (1907)—Reports by His Majesty's Agent and Consul-General on the finances, administration, and condition of Egypt and the Soudan in 1906. (4th April.)
8. Historical Manuscripts (Royal Commission)—

I. Calendar of the Stuart Papers belonging to His Majesty the 564 King, preserved at Windsor Castle. Volume III.
II. Report on the manuscripts of the Earl of Ancaster, preserved at Grimsthorpe. (4th April.)

9. Unemployed Workmen Act, 1905—Report by the Local Government Board for Scotland as to the proceedings of Distress Committees in Scotland. (4th April.)
10. Mines (Eight-Hour Day for Miners) First Report (with evidence) of a Departmental Committee appointed by the Secretary of State for the Home Department, to inquire into the probable economic effect of a limit of eight hours to the working day of coal miners. (4th April.).
11. Railway Accidents—Returns of accidents and casualties as reported to the Board of Trade by the several railway companies in the United Kingdom during the three months ended 31st December, 1906, in pursuance of the Regulation of Railways Act (1871), together with reports of the inspecting officers, assistant inspecting officers, and sub-inspectors of the Railway Department to the Board of Trade upon certain accidents which were inquired into. Part I. Returns of accidents. (4th April.)
12. Commercial—No. 3. (1907)—Return of Most-Favoured Nation Clauses in existing treaties of commerce and navigation between Great Britain and Foreign Powers, stating the period when terminable, and showing whether they apply to the British Colonies: In force on the 1st January, 1907.

No. 4. (1907)—Return of National Treatment Clauses in existing treaties of commerce and navigation between Great Britain and Foreign Powers, stating the period when terminable, and showing whether they apply to the British Colonies: In force on the 1st January, 1907. (5th April.)

13. Local Government (Scotland). Return of the areas, population, and valuation of counties, burghs, and parishes in Scotland. (6th April.)
14. Police (Scotland). Forty - ninth Annual Report of His Majesty's Inspector of Constabulary for Scotland, for the 565 year ended 31st December, 1906. (6th April.)
15. Army—

I. Territorial and Reserve Forces Bill, 1907. Memorandum by the Secretary of State for War, with tables showing the war establishments and composition of the proposed field force and other particulars. (8th April.)
II. Memorandum showing how various enactments are affected by the Territorial and Reserve Forces Bill. (9th April.)
III. General Annual Report on the British Army for the year ended 30thSeptember, 1906, with which is incorporated the Annual Report of Recruiting prepared by command of the Army Council. (10th April.)
IV. Interim Report of the War Office Committee on the Provision of Officers (a) for Service with the Regular Army in War; and (b) for the Auxiliary Forces—Minutes of evidence with an appendix on the conference between the committee and the sub-committee of the Headmasters' Conference. (13th April.)

16. Education (Scotland)—

I. General Report by the Chief Inspector of the Southern Division of Scotland, for the year 1906. (10th April.)
II. General Report by Dr. W. Leslie-Mackenzie on the teaching of school and personal hygiene to students in training as teachers in Scotland. (13th April.)

17. Reformatory and Industrial Schools. Fiftieth Report for the year 1906, of the inspector of reformatory and industrial schools: Part I. Lists of schools and detailed reports. (11th April.)
18. Public Records. Sixty-eighth Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records. (12th April.)
19. Board of Education (Special Grants). Statement showing the amount of the special grants paid during the financial year 1906–1907 in aid of certain local education authorities in England and Wales. (12th April.)
20. Royal Observatory (Edinburgh). Seventeenth Annual Report of the 566 Astronomer-Royal for Scotland. (13th April.)
21. Marriages, Births, and Deaths. General abstract of marriages, births, and deaths registered in England and Wales in the year 1906. (13th April.)
22. Imports and Exports at Prices of 1900. Tables showing for each of the years 1900–1906, the estimated value of the imports and exports of the United Kingdom at the prices prevailing in 1900, with an introductory memorandum (in continuation of Parliamentary Paper [Cd. 2894], 1906). (13th April.)