§ Report from, that the Standing Orders not complied with in respect of the London County Council (General Powers) Bill ought to be dispensed with, and the Bill allowed to proceed, subject to the restoration of the definition of a "Tenement House" to the form in which it was inserted in the Bill as introduced into Parliament. Read, and agreed to.
§ Local Government Board (Ireland) Provisional Orders (No. 3) Bill. Reported, without Amendment, and recommitted to a Committee of the Whole House tomorrow.
§ Alton-under-Lyne, Stalybridge, and Dukinfield (District) Waterworks Bill [H.L.]. Commons Amendments considered and agreed to.
§ Sunderland Corporation Bill. Read 3a, with the Amendments; and passed, and returned to the Commons.
§ Alton Military Hospital Bill [H.L.], Electric Supply Corporation Bill [H.L.]. Returned from the Commons agreed to.
§ Sheffield Corporation Bill [H.L.]. Returned from the Commons agreed to, with Amendments.
§ London and North Western Railway Bill, Penrith Urban District Council Bill, Worthing Gas Bill. Returned from the Commons with the Amendments agreed to.
§ Aberdeen Corporation Order Confirmation Bill [H.L.]. Read 3a (according to order), and passed, and sent to the Commons.
§ Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 8) Bill. Committed: The Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection in regard to the Chelmsford Order.
§ Local Government Provisional Orders No. (13) Bill. Committed: The Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection in regard to the Norwich Order.
1282§ Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 10) Bill. Brought from the Commons, and read 1a; to be printed, and referred to the Examiners. (No. 133.)
§ Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 7) Bill; Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 9) Bill; Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 11) Bill; Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 12) Bill; Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 14) Bill; Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 15) Bill; Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 8) Bill; Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 13) Bill.
§ Moved, That the order made on the 20th day of March last, "That no Provisional Order Confirmation 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 Bills be now read 2a (Lord Allendale.)
THE CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEES (The Earl of, ONSLOW)My Lords, there are a large number of Bills in respect of which the Standing Order is proposed to be dispensed with; but I have been in communication with the Local Government Board and I think there is good reason why your Lordships should agree to this Motion.
§ LORD AVEBURYMy Lords, the Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 8) Bill raises some questions as regards audit, and although I have no objection to anything which is in the Bill, I beg to give notice that when we reach the next stage I shall ask your Lordships to consider whether it would not be an advantage to introduce into this Bill, and, if so, into others afterwards, the provisions unanimously agreed upon by the Joint Committee of the two Houses which sat under the presidency of the noble Earl the Lord President of the Council.
§ On Question, Motion agreed to, and Hills read 2a accordingly.