Lords Sitting of 23 February 1915

Preamble
Appeal Committee—First Report from; read [at last Friday's Judicial Sitting] and agreed to.
The LORD CHANCELLOR 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:

Frimley and Farnborough District Water [H.L.]

Mersey Railway [H.L.]

Prescot Gas [H.L.]

Yorkshire Electric Power [H.L.]

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
Aberdare Urban District Council (Tramways, &c.) Bill [H.L.]
Stalybridge, Hyde, Mossley and Dukinfield Tramways and Electricity Board Bill [H.L.]
ought to be dispensed with and the Bills allowed to proceed:
That the Standing Orders not complied with in respect of the
Halifax Corporation Bill [H.L.]
ought to be dispensed with and the Bill allowed to proceed, provided that Tramways Nos. 4, 5, 6, 7, and 21 be struck out of the Bill:
That the Standing Orders not complied with in respect of the
London County Council (Tramways and Improvements) Bill
ought to be dispensed with provided that Tramways Nos. 3 and 3A be struck out of the Bill:
And that the Standing Orders not complied with in respect of the
River Glen Improvement Bill
ought not to be dispensed with:
Read, and agreed to.

DENNY'S DIVORCE BILL. [H.L.]
A Bill intituled an Act to dissolve the marriage of Phyllis Denny of Claverdon Hall, in the County of Warwick, with Gerald Henry Maynard Denny her husband, and to enable her to marry again, and for other purposes: Presented (on Petition), and a copy of the proceedings in and of the decree of the King's Bench, Matrimonial Division of the High Court of Justice in Ireland: Delivered (on Oath): Bill read 1a, and to be read 2a on Tuesday the 9th day of March next: The usual Orders made.

DEAF AND DUMB POOR ASYLUM BILL. [H.L.]
PLYMOUTH CORPORATION BILL [H.L.]
Reports from His Majesty's Attorney General received and ordered to lie on the Table.

ALTRINCHAM GAS BILL. [H.L.]
Read 2a, and committed: The Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
FALMOUTH DOCKS BILL. [H.L.]
Read 2a, and committed.
FRIMLEY AND FARNBOROUGH DISTRICT WATER BILL. [H.L.]
Read 2a, and committed: The Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.

MERSEY RAILWAY BILL. [H.L.]
NEATH CANAL NAVIGATION BILL. [H.L.]
Read 2a, and committed.

PRESCOT GAS BILL. [H.L.]
YORKSHIRE ELECTRIC POWER BILL. [H.L.]
BRIGHTON AND HOVE GAS BILL. [H.L.]
Read 2a, and committed: The Committees to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.

ILFRACOMBE GAS BILL. [H.L.]
Read 2a, and committed.

NORTHWICH GAS BILL. [H.L.]
ORMSKIRK GAS AND ELECTRICITY BILL. [H.L.]
SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE WATER BILL. [H.L.]
Read 2a and committed: The Committees to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.

SPENNYMOOR AND TUDHOE GAS BILL. [H.L.]
Read 2a, and committed.

SUTTON DISTRICT WATER BILL. [H.L.]
WARWICK GAS BILL. [H.L.]
Read 2a, and committed,: The Committees to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.

WEST GLOUCESTERSHIRE WATER BILL. [H.L.]
Read 2a, and committed.
DEAF AND DUMB POOR ASYLUM BILL. [H.L.]
Read 2a (according to Order), and committed.

PLYMOUTH CORPORATION BILL. [H.L.]
Read 2a (according to Order), and committed: The Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
ASHINGTON URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL BILL. [H.L.]
EASTERN VALLEYS (MONMOUTHSHIRE) JOINT SEWERAGE BOARD BILL. [H.L.]
ROTHERHAM CORPORATION BILL. [H.L.]
SHEFFIELD CORPORATION (TRAMWAYS) BILL. [H.L.]
SOUTH SHIELDS CORPORATION BILL. [H.L.]
SUNDERLAND CORPORATION (WEAR MOUTH BRIDGE) BILL. [H.L.]
WOLVERHAMPTON CORPORATION WATER BILL. [H.L.]
Committed: The Committees to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.

BRISTOL TRAMWAYS BILL. [H.L.]
To be read 2a on Wednesday the 10 th of March next.
ABERDEEN CORPORATION ORDER CON FIRMATION BILL.
To be read 3a To-morrow.

HOUSE OF LORDS OFFICES.
Second Report of the Select Committee considered (according to Order).
THE CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEES (THE EARL OF DONOUGHMORE): My Lords, I beg to move that this Report be adopted. The Report sets out very fully the matter in discussion [the placing of the House of Lords Refreshment Department under the management of a Select Committee], and unless your Lordships desire me to do so I do not propose to elaborate it.
Moved, That the Report be adopted.—(The Earl of Donoughmore.)
On Question, Motion agreed to.

SUSPENSORY ACT, 1914, AMENDMENT BILL. [H.L.]
To be read 2a on Tuesday next.
House adjourned at twenty-fire minutes before Five o'clock, till To-morrow, a quarter past Four o'clock.