Lords Sitting of 23 April 1914

Preamble
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:

Corn Exchange Company (Mark Lane).

Riddings District Gas.

Kidsgrove Gas.

Mold and Denbigh Junction Railway.

Leyland Gas and Electricity.

Port of London Authority.

London Electric Railway.

Also the Certificate that no Standing Orders are applicable to the following Bill:

Land Drainage (Rippingale) Provisional Order.

And also the Certificate that compliance with the further proofs required by the Standing Orders Committee has been proved before the Examiner in the case of the
Ancient Monuments Preservation Order Confirmation (No. 1) Bill [H.L.]
The same were ordered to lie on the Table.

DE TRAFFORD ESTATE.
Petition for a Bill, together with a copy of the proposed Bill annexed thereto; read, and referred to two English Judges.
BRENTFORD GAS BILL. [H.L.]
Reported from the Select Committee, with Amendments.
BUTTERLEY COMPANY BILL. [H.L.]
  BEDWAS AND MACHEN URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL BILL.
    CHELSEA BOROUGH COUNCIL (SUPERANNUATION AND PENSIONS) BILL.
    Committee to meet on Tuesday next.
NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY BILL. [H.L.]
  HULL AND BARNSLEY RAILWAY BILL. [H.L.]
  Report from the Committee of Selection, That the Earl of Morley be proposed to the House as a Member of the Select Committee on the said Bills in the place of the Earl of Hardwicke; read, and agreed to.
ARMY (ANNUAL) BILL.
Brought from the Commons.
BARNSLEY CORPORATION BILL.
  SOUTHEND GAS BILL.

    TAFF VALE RAILWAY BILL.
    WEYMOUTH AND MELCOMBE REGIS CORPORATION BILL.
    Brought from the Commons; read 1a, and referred to the Examiners.

ARMY (ANNUAL) BILL.
Read 1a; to be printed; and to be read 2a on Monday next (The Lord Lucas). (No. 63.)

MIDWIVES (SCOTLAND) BILL. [H.L.]
[SECOND READING.]
Order of the Day for the Second Reading read.
LORD BALFOUR OF BURLEIGH: My Lords, I do not propose to make any speech in moving the Second Reading of this Bill. I said all that I thought necessary on the occasion of introducing it. Any communication I have had has been entirely favourable to the Bill. A certain number of purely drafting Amendments have been suggested. I propose, if your Lordships are good enough to give the Bill a Second Reading to-day, to take the Committee stage pro forma this day week and put in the drafting Amendments, and thereafter let the Bill go through its other stages.
Moved, That the Bill be now read 2a.—(Lord Balfour of Burleigh).
On Question, Bill read 2a, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Thursday next.

SOLICITORS BILL. [H.L.]
House in Committee (according to Order): Bill reported without amendment, and to be read 3a on Monday next.
House adjourned at twenty-five minutes before Five o'clock, till To-morrow, half-past Twelve o'clock.