§ The LORD CHANCELLOR acquainted the House, That the Clerk of the Parliaments had laid upon the Table the Certificates from the Examiners that no Standing Orders are applicable to the following Bills: Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 11); Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 14).
§ 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 Central London Railway Bill ought to be dispensed with, and the Bill allowed to proceed.
§ Read, and agreed to.
§ Pier and Harbour Provisional Orders (No. 2) Bill [H. L.]. Witnesses ordered to attend the Select Committee.
§ London and North Western Railway Bill. Reported from the Select Committee with Amendments.
§ North Metropolitan Electric Power Supply Bill. Moved, That the Order made on the 20th day of March last, "That no Private Bill brought from the House of Commons shall be read a second time after the 18th day of June next," be dispensed with, and that the Bill be now read 2a; agreed to: Bill read 2a accordingly, and committed.
§ Great Central Railway Bill. Read 3a with the Amendments; and passed, and returned to the Commons.
§ Great Northern and City Railway Bill. Read 3a with the Amendment, and passed, and returned to the Commons.
§ Southport, Birkdale, and West Lancashire Water Board Bill [h. l.]; King Edward's Hospital Fund for London Bill [H. l.]. Returned from the Commons agreed to, with Amendments.
§ Southend Water Bill [H.L.]; Burnham (Somerset) Pier Bill [h. l.]. Returned 1038 from the Commons agreed to, with Amendments: The said Amendments considered, and agreed to.
§ Hull and Barnsley Railway Bill. Returned from the Commons with the Amendments agreed to.
§ Pier and Harbour Provisional Orders (No. 2) Bill [H. L.]—(Fleetwood Victoria Pier Order); Barry Railway Bill; Alexandra (Newport and South Wales) Docks and Railway (General Powers) Bill; North Staffordshire Railway Bill; Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 6) Bill—(Dunstable Order). Report from the Committee of Selection. That the Lord Southampton be proposed to the House as a member of the Select Committee on the said Bills in the place of the Lord Zouche of Haryngworth; read, and agreed to.
§ Gas and Water Orders Confirmation (No. 2) Bill [H. L.]; Tramways Orders Confirmation Bill [H. L.]. Read 3a (according to order), and passed, and sent to the Commons.
§ Board of Education Scheme (Hulme Trust Estates Educational) Confirmation Bill. Brought from the Commons and read la; to be printed, and referred to the Examiners. (No. 96.)