§ 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: South Wales Mineral Railway; Neath, Pontardawe, and Brynaman Railway.
§ Also the Certificates that the Standing Orders applicable to the following Bills have been complied with: Education Board Provisional Order Confirmation (London No. 1) [H.L.]; Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 3).
§ The same were ordered to lie on the Table.
§ York (Micklegate Strays) Bill [H.L.]. A petition of Messrs. Sherwood and Company, of 7, Great George Street, Westminster, Parliamentary Agents, praying for leave to present a petition of the Freemen of the City of York, praying to be heard by counsel against the Bill, although the time limited by Standing Order No. 92 for presenting such petition has expired; read, and ordered to lie on the Table, and Standing Order No. 92 to be considered Tomorrow in order to its being dispensed with in respect of the said petition.
§ Simon-Carves Bye-Product Coke Oven Construction and Working Company, Limited, Bill [H.L.]. Committed.
§ Rawtenstall Corporation Bill; Taff Vale Railway Bill. Brought from the 462 Commons, read 1a, and referred to the Examiners.
§ West Riding Tramways Bill [H.L.]; Medway Lower Navigation Bill [H.L.]. Returned from the Commons agreed to.
§ Southend-on-Sea Corporation Bill [H.L.]. Report from the Select Committee, That it is not expedient to proceed further with the Bill; read, and ordered to lie on the Table.
§ Sutton Coldfield Rectory Bill [H.L.]. The Lord Bishop of Birmingham (in his place) consented to the Bill.
§ Baines' Name Bill [H.L.]; Royal Bank of Scotland Bill [H.L.]; King Edward's Hospital Fund for London Bill [H.L.]. Read 3a, and passed, and sent to the Commons.
§ Pier and Harbour Provisional Order (No. 1) Bill [H.L.]. A Bill to confirm a Provisional Order made by the Board of Trade under the General Pier and Harbour Act, 1861, relating to Pwllheli, was presented by the Earl Beauchamp (for the Lord Granard (E. Granard)); read 1a; to be printed; and referred to the Examiners. (No 40.)
§ Land Drainage Provisional Order (No. 1) Bill (No. 38); Land Drainage Provisional Order (No. 2) Bill (No. 39). Brought from the Commons and read 1a; to be printed; and referred to the Examiners.
§ Education Board Provisional Order Confirmation (London No. 2) Bill [H.L.]. A Bill to confirm a Provisional Order made by the Board of Education under the Education Acts, 1870 to 1903, to enable the London County Council 10 put in force the Lands Clauses Act, was presented by the Lord President (E. Crewe); read 1a; to be printed; and referred to the Examiners. (No. 37).
§ Metropolitan Water Board (Charges, etc.) Bill; Metropolitan Water Board (Various Powers) Bill. Message from the Commons that they have ordered that the Committee appointed by them to join with the Committee of this House, to consider the said Bills, do meet the Lords' Committee in Committee Room A., on Thursday next, at Three o'clock, as proposed by their Lordships.