Lords Sitting of 24 April 1907

PRIVATE BILL BUSINESS.
Mitcham and Wimbledon District Gas Bill. Read 2a, and committed for Tuesday next.
Basingstoke Gas Bill; Keswick Urban District "Council (Water) Bill. Read 2a, and committed.
Maidstone Gas Bill. Read 2a, and committed. The Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
Neath, Pontardawe, and Brynaman Railway Bill. Brought from the Commons, read 1a and referred to the Examiners.
Portishead District Water Bill [H.L.]. Report from the Select Committee, That the Committee had not proceeded with the consideration of the Bill, no parties
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having appeared in opposition thereto; read, and ordered to lie on the Table. The orders made on the 4th and 18th of March last discharged, and Bill committed.

RETURNS, REPORTS, ETC.
  PRISONS (SCOFLAND) ACT, 1877.
  Twenty-ninth Annual Report of the Prison Commissioners for Scotland, being the Sixty-eighth Annual Report on Prisons in Scotland.

  LAND LAW (IRELAND) ACT, 1887.
  Return of the number of eviction notices filed during the quarter ended 31st March, 1907.
  Presented (by command), and ordered to lie on the Table.

  SHOP HOURS ACT, 1904 (COUNTY BOROUGH OF SWANSEA).
  Order made by the council of the county borough of Swansea, and confirmed by the Secretary of State for the

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  Home Department, fixing the hours of closing for certain classes of shops within the county borough. Laid before the House (pursuant to Act), and ordered to lie on the Table.

  STATUTE LAW REVISION BILL [H.L.]
  Order of the Day for the House to be in Committee, read, and discharged.

  RULE COMMITTEE BILL [H.L.]
  House in Committee (according to order). Bill reported without Amendment. Standing Committee negatived; and Bill to be read 3a to-morrow.
  House adjourned at twenty-five minutes before Five o'clock, till To-morrow, half-past Ten o'clock.