§ Message from the Commons that they have ordered that the Committee appointed by them to join with the Committee of this House to consider the application of the provisions contained in the Local Government Acts, 1888 and 1894, and the Local Government (Scotland) Acts, 1889 and 1894, do meet the Lords' Committee in Committee Room A this day at Twelve o'clock.
422§ Leave given to the Joint Committee to hear parties interested by themselves, their counsel, agents, and witnesses, so far as the Committee think fit: The evidence taken before the Joint Committee from time to time to be printed, but no copies thereof to be delivered out, except to members of the Committee and to such other persons as the Committee shall think fit, until further order. (No. 32.)
§ The Lord BARRYMORE—Took the Oath.
§ The Lord FOLEY—Sat first in Parliament after the death of his father.
§ 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:
§ Middlesbrough, Stockton-on-Tees, and Thornaby Tramways Bill.[H.L.]
§ The same was ordered to lie on the Table.