§ The CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEES acquainted the House that (pursuant to the Resolutions of the 14th of August last) the Bill had been lodged in the Private Bill Office together with the declaration of the agent: Bill presented, read la and 2a: Committee negatived: Bill read 3a, and passed, and sent to the Commons.
§ The LORD CHANCELLOR acquainted the House, That the Clerk of the Parliaments had laid upon the Table the Certificates from the Examiners that the Standing Orders applicable to the following Bills have been complied with:
§ Abertillery and District Water Board.
§ Aire and Calder Navigation.
§ Alexandra (Newport and South Wales) Docks and Railway.
§ Alliance and Dublin Consumers Gas (Electric Supply, &c).
§ Ashington Urban District Council.
§ Barnsley Corporation.
§ Bedwas and Machen Urban District Council.
§ Beira Railway.
§ Bengal and North-Western Railway.
§ Birkenhead Corporation.
§ Birmingham Corporation.
§ Bournemouth District Railless Traction.
§ Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway.
§ Brentford Gas.
§ Bristol Corporation (Tramways).
§ Bristol Corporation (Various Powers).
§ Bristol Water.
§ British Gas Light Company (Hull Station).
§ Cardiff Railway.
54§ Cardiff Railway (Compounding of Tonnage Rates).
§ Cavan and Leitrim Railway.
§ Central London Railway.
§ Chelmsford Gas.
§ Chelsea Borough Council (Superannuation and Pensions).
§ Chesterfield Corporation.
§ Chiswick Urban District Council.
§ City of London (Various Powers).
§ Cleckheaton Urban District Council.
§ Clergy Mutual Assurance Society.
§ Colonial and Foreign Banks Guarantee Corporation.
§ Corn Exchange Company (Mark Lane).
§ Crystal Palace.
§ Deal and Walmer Gas and Electricity.
§ Dee Conservancy Board.
§ Didcot, Newbury, and Southampton Railway.
§ Eastbourne Corporation.
§ Ellesmore Port and Whitby Urban District Council.
§ Fishguard and Rosslare Railways and Harbours.
§ Gas Light and Coke Company.
§ Great Eastern Railway.
§ Great Northern Railway.
§ Great Western Railway.
§ Great Yarmouth Haven Bridge.
§ Hayward's Heath Gas.
§ Hightown Gas and Electricity.
§ Hull and Barnsley Railway.
§ Isle of Thanet Gas.
§ Kidsgrove Gas.
§ Leighton Buzzard Gas.
§ Leyland Gas and Electricity.
§ Liverpool United Gaslight Company.
§ Llanfaelog Water.
§ London, Brighton and South Coast Railway.
§ London County Council (General Powers).
§ London Electric Railway.
§ London Electric Supply.
§ London United Tramways.
§ Longwood and Slaithwaite Gas.
§ Lurgan Gas and Electricity.
§ Mablethorpe Urban District Council.
§ Manchester Corporation.
§ Mansfield Railway.
§ Market Rasen Water.
§ Metropolitan and Great Northern Railway Company.
§ Mexborough Urban District Council.
§ Mexborough Water.
§ Middlesex County Council (Western Road and Improvements and Finance).
§ Midland Railway.
§ Middlesbrough Corporation.
§ Mold and Denbigh Junction Railway.
55§ Motherwell Burgh Extension and Sewage Purification.
§ Newport Corporation.
§ North Eastern Railway.
§ North Metropolitan Electric Power Supply.
§ Northern Junction Railway.
§ Northwich Urban District Council.
§ Nottingham Mechanics Institution (Amendment).
§ Ossett Corporation.
§ Oxford and District Tramways.
§ Poole Harbour.
§ Poole, Sandbanks and Westbourne Railless Traction.
§ Port of London Authority.
§ Port Talbot Railway and Docks.
§ Porthcawl Urban District Council.
§ Preston Corporation.
§ Railway Clearing System Superannuation Fund Corporation.
§ Reading Corporation.
§ Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway.
§ Rhymney and Aber Valleys Gas and Water.
§ Rhymney Railway.
§ Riddings District Gas.
§ St. Anne's-on-the-Sea Improvement.
§ St. George's Hospital.
§ St. Just Railway.
§ Severn Navigation.
§ Skegness Gas.
§ South Bank and Normanby Gas Light and Coke Company.
§ South Metropolitan Cemetery Company.
§ South Staffordshire Mines Drainage.
§ South Suburban Gas.
§ South Western and Isle of Wight Junction Railway.
§ Southend Gas.
§ Stone Gas and Electricity.
§ Stourbridge Navigation.
§ Swindon Corporation (Wilts and Berks Canal Abandonment).
§ Taff Vale Railway.
§ Tees Valley Water.
§ Upper Medway Navigation and Conservancy.
§ Wadhurst and District Gas.
§ Walsall Corporation.
§ Wesleyan and General Assurance Society.
§ West Gloucestershire Water.
§ Weston-super-Mare Urban District Council.
§ Weymouth and Melcombe Regis Corporation.
§ Whitwell and District Gas.
§ Wimbledon Corporation.
§ Worthing Corporation.
§ York Corporation.
56§ Also the Certificates that the Standing Orders applicable to the following Bills have not been complied with:
§ Belfast Corporation.
§ Edenbridge and District Gas.
§ Newcastle-upon-Tyne Corporation.
§ Sheffield Corporation.
§ Skegness Urban District Council.
§ Yorkshire Electric Power.
§ The same were ordered to lie on the Table.