§ The LORD CHANCELLOR acquainted the House, That the Clerk of the Parliaments had laid upon the Table the Certificate from the Examiners that the further Standing Orders applicable to the following Bill have been complied with:— Blackburn Corporation.
§ Also the Certificate that no further Standing Orders are applicable to the following Bill:—Public Offices Sites (Extension).
§ The same were ordered to lie on the Table.
§ Gas and Water Orders Confirmation Bill [H.L.] (Sevenoaks and Stourbridge Water Orders); Tramways Orders Confirmation (No. 2) Bill [H.L.] (Potteries, etc., Order).—Reported from the Select Committee, with Amendments.
§ Pier and Harbour Provisional Orders (No l.) Bill [H.L.] (Bridgwater Order); Education Board Provisional Orders Confirmation (London) Bill [H.L.] (No. 1 Order).—Reported from the Select Committee, with Amendments.
§ Gas and Water Orders Confirmation Bill [H.L.] (unopposed Orders); Pier and Harbour Provisional Orders (No. 1.) Bill [H.L.] (unopposed Orders); Education Board Provisional Orders Confirmation (London) Bill [H.L.] (unopposed Order).— Reported, with Amendments.
§ Tramways Orders Confirmation (No. 2) Bill [H.L.] (Unopposed Orders).—Reported, with an Amendment.
§ Wishaw Burgh Electricity, etc., Bill; Rhymney and Aber Valleys Gas and Water Bill [H.L.]; Garw and Ogmore Gas Bill.—Reported, with Amendments.
§ Croydon and Southern District Tramways Bill [H.L.].—The CHAIRMAN of COMMITTEES informed the House that the Promoters do not intend to proceed 494 further with the Bill. Ordered that the Bill be not further proceeded with.
§ Fine Art and General Insurance Company Bill [H.L.].—The CHAIRMAN of COMMITTEES informed the House that the Promoters do not intend to proceed further with the Bill. Order of the Day for the Second Reading read, and discharged. Ordered, that the Bill be not further proceeded with.
§ Stockport Corporation Bill; Humber Commercial Railway and Dock Bill; Southwell District Gas Bill.—Read 3a, with the Amendments; and passed, and returned to the Commons.
§ Louth and East Coast Railway (Transfer) Bill; Seaham Harbour Dock Bill.—Read 3a, with the Amendment, and passed, and returned to the Commons.
§ Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 10) Bill.—Brought from the Commons; read 1a; to be printed; and referred to the Examiners. (No. 119.)
§ Gas and Water Orders Confirmation Bill [H.L.]; Tramways Orders Confirmation (No. 2) Bill [H.L.]; Pier and Harbour Provisional Orders (No. 1) Bill [H.L.]; Education Board Provisional Orders Confirmation (London) Bill [H.L.].—Re-committed to a Committee of the Whole House To-morrow.