§ 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:—West London, Barnes, and Richmond Tramways [H.L.].
§ Also the Certificate that the Standing Orders applicable to the following Bill have not been complied with:—Cambrian Railways—(Petition for Bill).
§ 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 Stratford-upon-Avon, Towcester, and Midland Junction, Evesham, Redditch, and Stratford-upon-Avon Junction; and East and West Junction Railways (Amalgamation) Bill [H.L.] ought to be dispensed with, and the Bill allowed to proceed, provided that a clause be inserted in the Bill to the following effect, viz.:—That no sale of the amalgamated undertaking shall take place without the consent of the Memorialists Charles William Bartholomew, Richard Donald Bain, and William Howard Gray, which does not provide for the payment to the said Memorialists of the sum of at least £5,000 in cash in respect of the debenture stock mentioned in Section 4 of the Act of 1901, or in respect of the stock of the new Company incorporated by the Bill to be exchanged therefore under the provisions of the said Bill.
§ Read, and agreed to.
§ Briton Ferry Urban District Council Bill [H.L.]—Reported from the Select Committee, with amendments.
§ Madras Railway Company (Annuities) Bill.—Read 2a, and committed for Wednesday next.
102§ Great Western Railway (Superannuation Scheme) Bill [H.L.]—Read 3a, and passed, and sent to the Commons.