§ Standing Orders Committee. Report from, that the Standing Orders not complied with in respect of the Electric Supply Corporation Bill [H.L.] ought to be dispensed with.
§ That the Standing Orders not complied with in respect of the petition for additional provisions in the Coventry Corporation Water Bill [H.L.] and the Midland Railway Bill [H.L.] ought to be dispensed with, and leave given to the Committees on the Bills to insert the additional provisions.
§ Read, and agreed to.
§ Baines' Name Bill [H.L.]. Reported, with an Amendment.
§ Sutton Coldfield Rectory Bill [H.L.]; Royal Bank of Scotland Bill [H.L.]; Birmingham Corporation Water Bill [H.L.]; King Edward's Hospital Fund for London Bill [H.L.]. Reported, with Amendments.
§ Llandrindod Wells Gas Bill; Bude Gas Bill; Falmouth Gas Bill. Read 2a, and committed.
§ Annfield Plain and District Gas Bill. Read 2a and committed. The Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
§ Gas Companies (Removal of Sulphur Restrictions) Bill. Read 2a, and committed.
§ Pontypridd Urban District Council Bill [H.L.]. Report from the Select Committee, that the Committee had not proceeded with the consideration of the Bill no parties having appeared in opposition thereto; read, and ordered to lie on the Table. The orders made on the 25th of February and 18th of March last discharged, and Bill committed.
§ Royal Insurance Company Bill [H.L.]. Returned from the Commons agreed to.
1534§ Education Board Provisional Orders Confirmation (Surrey, &c.) Bill [H.L.] A Bill to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Education under the Education Acts, 1870 to 1903, to enable the councils of the administrative county of Surrey and the county boroughs of Birkenhead and Southport to put in force the Lands Clauses Acts—Was presented by the Lord President (E. Crewe); road 1a; to be printed; and referred to the Examiners. (No. 35.)