Lords Sitting of 8 January 1924

PARLIAMENT
Opened by Commission (the Royal Commissioners being the LORD CHANCELLOR (Viscount Cave), the Earl of CROMER, the Earl of SHAFTESBURY, the Earl of DESART, and Lord SOMERLEYTON); and the Commons (who were sent for) being at the Bar, were directed to proceed to the choice of a Speaker, and to present such person whom they should so choose here to-morrow, at a quarter before three o'clock, for His Majesty's Royal approbation.
The Lord Chancellor—Singly, in the first place, took the Oath at the Table.

REPRESENTATIVE PEERS FOR SCOTLAND.
Certificate of the Election of Sixteen Representative Peers for Scotland—Delivered, and read.
The LORD CHANCELLOR The LORD CHANCELLOR acquainted the House that the Clerk of the Parliaments had received (by post) from the Lord Clerk Register of Scotland, Minutes of the meeting hold on the 10th of December last of the Peers of Scotland for the election of their representatives to sit and vote in the ensuing Parliament of the United Kingdom; and also, Return by the Lord Clerk Register of Scotland concerning titles of peerages called at the said meeting, in right of which respectively no vote had been received and counted for fifty years last past as at the date of the said meeting: Ordered that the said Minutes of Election, &c, be printed.
Several Lords—Took the Oath.
The Lord Gainford—Affirmed.
Several Lords—Took the Oath.
House adjourned at five o'clock.