Lords Sitting of 26 March 1907

Preamble
The Lord RIBBLESDALE—Sat Speaker.

PRIVATE BILL BUSINESS.
Marriages Provisional Order Bill. (No. 26.) Metropolitan Police Provisional Order Bill. (No. 27.) Brought from the Commons and read 1a; to be printed; and referred to the Examiners.
Fitz Gerald's Divorce Bill [H.L.]. Message from the Commons for copy of the Minutes of Evidence taken before this House, together with the proceedings, and the documents deposited in the case; Ordered to be communicated, with a request that they may be returned.
Annefield Plain and District Gas Bill, Bude Gas Bill, Gas Companies (Removal of Sulphur Restrictions) Bill, Llandrindod Wells Gas Bill, Falmouth Gas Bill. Brought from the Commons; read 1a; and referred to the Examiners.
Metropolitan Water Board (Charges, etc.) Bill, Metropolitan Water Board (Various Powers) Bill. Message from the Commons that they have appointed a Committee to consist of five members to join with a Committee of this House to consider the said Bills, and request this House to appoint an equal number of Lords to be joined with the members of their House.

RETURNS, REPORTS, ETC.

  TRADE REPORTS: ANNUAL SERIES.
  No. 3748. Persia (Ispahan and Yezd).
  No. 3749. Roumania (Supplementary).
  No. 3750. West Africa (Liberia).
  No. 3751. Mexico (Budget).

  LOCAL TAXATION (IRELAND).
  Returns for the year 1905–1906.

  RAILWAY COMPANIES (ARRANGEMENTS).
  Correspondence between the Board of Trade and the Railway Companies Association with regard to certain arrange-
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  ments entered into by railway companies with regard to rebates on traffic, etc.

  NATIONAL GALLERY, ETC. (SCOTLAND).
  Thirteenth Annual Report to the Secretary for Scotland by the Commissioners and Trustees of the Board of Manufacturers in Scotland, for the year ended 30th September, 1906.
  BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS, AND VACCINATION.
  Fifty-second Annual Report of the Registrar-General in Scotland, for the year 1906; and Forty-second Annual Report on Vaccination.
  LICENSING STATISTICS, 1906.
  Statistics as to the operation and administration of the laws relating to the sale of intoxicating liquor, for the year 1906.

  CROFTERS BUILDINGS (SCOTLAND) ACTS, 1886–1887.
  Report by the Crofters Commission, being for the year ended 31st December, 1906.
  Presented (by Command), and ordered to lie on the Table.

  SUPERANNUATION.
  Treasury minutes, dated 6th and 20th March, 1907, respectively, declaring that the following persons were appointed without Civil Service certificates, through inadvertence on the part of the heads of their department, viz.: —William Edwards, artificer, Royal Small Arms Factory, Enfield, War Office; Walter Henry Jeakins, clerk, Post Office.
  COURT OF PROBATE DIVISION (HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE (IRELAND)).
  Annual account of receipts and disbursements for year ended 31st December, 1906.
  UNIVERSITIES (SCOTLAND) ACT, 1889.
  Annual report on the state of the finances of the University of Aberdeen, under the provisions of Section 30 of the Universities (Scotland) Act, 1889, for the year 1905–1906.
  POST OFFICE.
  The Foreign and Colonial Post Amendment (No. 15) Warrant, 1907, dated 14th February, 1907.
  LIGHTHOUSES, ETC., (LOCAL INSPECTIONS).
  Reports to the Board of Trade by the Trinity House of Deptford Strond, the Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses, and the Commissioners of Irish Lights, of their inspection of local lighthouses, buoys, and beacons (in continuation of Parliamentary Paper No. 92, of Session 1906).

  NAVAL AND MARINE PAY AND PENSIONS ACT, 1865.
  Orders in Council, dated 1st March, 1907, approving memorials of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty praying,
  That they may be empowered to award at their discretion to the Commanders-in-Chief at the three Home Ports such rate of commuted allowance, in lieu of servants, within a maximum of £500 a year, as the circumstances of each case may require.
  For sanction to certain modifications in the existing system of clothing and bedding gratuities to petty officers, seamen and boys.
  For sanction to the payment of the allowance of 2d. a day now paid to Royal Marines when employed as tailors to any rating when so employed.

  GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL (RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURE).
  Returns of receipts and expenditure of the General Medical Council and of the branch councils; also of receipts and expenditure of the Dental Registration Fund, for the year ended 31st December, 1906.
  Laid before the House (pursuant to Act), and ordered to lie on the Table.

  ARMY (ANNUAL) BILL.
  Read 1a; to be printed; and to be read 2a on Monday the 15th of April next. [No. 25.]
  House adjourned at a quarter past Three o'clock, to Monday, the 15th of April next, a quarter before Eleven o'clock.