§ 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:—Metropolitan Police Provisional Order; Camborne Water; Southwell District Gas.
§ Also the Certificate that the Standing Orders have not been complied with in respect of the Petition for the following Bill: River Wandle Protection.
§ The same were ordered to lie on the Table.
§ Aire and Calder Navigation Bill [H.L.].—Read 3a, and passed, and sent to the Commons.
§ Knott End Railway Bill; Dartford Gas Bill; Great Eastern Railway (General Powers) Bill; Dundalk Urban District Council Bill.—Read 3a, and passed.
§ Garw and Ogmore Gas Bill; London County Council (General Powers) Bill.—Brought from the Commons, read 1a, and referred to the Examiners.
§ Fishguard and Rosslare Railways and Harbours Bill [H.L.].—Returned from the Commons agreed to.
§ St. Marylebone Borough Council (Superannuation) Bill [H.L.].—Returned from the Commons agreed to, with Amendments.
§ London and District Electricity Supply Bill [H.L.]; London Electric Supply Bill [H.L.]; London (Westminster and Kensington) Electric Supply Companies Bill [H.L.].—Report from the Select Committee, that the Committee adjourned this day at One o'clock; read, and ordered to lie on the Table.
§ Leith Burgh Bill [H.L.]; Ammanford Urban District Council Water Bill [H.L.]; Llanelly and Burry Port Water Board 686 Bill [H.L.].—Report from the Select Committee, that the Committee adjourned on Friday last at a quarter past Eleven o'clock; read, and ordered to lie on the Table.
§ Holderness Water Bill (Petition for additional Provision); River Wandle Protection (Petition for Bill).—Examiners' Certificates of non-compliance with the Standing Orders referred to the Standing Orders Committee on Monday next.
§ Motherwell Burgh Extension, etc., Bill.—Report from the Committee of Selection, that the Lord Saltoun be proposed to the House as a Member of the Select Committee on the said Bill in the place of the Earl of Westmeath; read, and agreed to.
§ Monmouthshire County Council Bill [H.L.].—Report from the Select Committee, that it is not expedient to proceed further with the Bill; read, and ordered to lie on the Table.
§ Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 2) Bill.—Brought from the Commons, and read 1a; to be printed, and referred to the Examiners. (No. 77.)