§ 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:—Pier and Harbour Provisional Orders (No. 1) [H.L.];Education Board Provisional Orders Confirmation (Surrey, etc.) [H.L.]; Port Talbot Railway and Docks; South-Eastern, and London, Chatham and Dover Railways; Taff Vale Railway; London and North-Western Railway (Superannuation Fund); Grays and Tilbury Gas; Swansea Harbour.
§ Also the Certificates that no further Standing Orders are applicable to the following Bills:—Land Drainage Provisional Order (No. 1); Land Drainage Provisional Order (No. 2).
§ The same were ordered to lie on the Table.
§ Mailstone Gas Bill: The CHAIRMAN of COMMITTEES informed the House that the opposition to the Bill was withdrawn. The order made on the 24th of April last discharged, and Bill committed.
§ Sutton Coldfield Rectory Bill [H.L.];Tees Valley Water (Consolidation) Bill [H.L.]; Kendal Corporation Bill [H.L.]; Western Valleys (Monmouthshire) Sewerage Board Bill [H.L.]; Metropolitan Railway (Pension Fund) Bill [H.L.].—Read 3a, and passed, and sent to the Commons.
§ Metropolitan Water Board (Charges etc.) Bill; Metropolitan Water Board (Various Powers) Bill.—Report from the Committee of Selection, That the Viscount Ridley be proposed to the House as a member of the Joint Committee on the said Bills in the place of the Lord Leith of Fyvie; read, and agreed to.
1202§ Brighouse Corporation Bill; Burnley Corporation Bill; Shanklin Gas Bill.—Brought from the Commons, read 1a, and referred to the Examiners.
§ Canal Tolls and Charges (New Junction Canal) Order Confirmation Bill [H.L.].—Read 2a (according to order).
§ Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 3) Bill.—Read 2a (according to order), and committed.