Lords Sitting of 16 January 1924

Preamble
The House met at a quarter before four of the clock, The LORD CHANCELLOR on the Woolsack.
Several Lords—Took the Oath.

VISCOUNT CECIL OF CHELWOOD.
The Right Honourable Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne-Cecil (commonly called Lord Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne-Cecil), having been created Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, of East Grinstead, in the County of Sussex—Was (in the usual manner) introduced.
LORD JESSEL.
Sir Herbert Merton Jessel, Baronet, C.B., C.M.G., having been created Baron Jessel of Westminster, in the County of London—Was (in the usual manner) introduced.
LORD DARLING.
The Right Honourable Sir Charles John Darling, Knight, having been created Baron Darling of Langham, in the County of Essex—Was (in the usual manner) introduced.

BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES (THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE): My Lords, I beg to move that this House do now adjourn till Tuesday next.
Moved accordingly, and, on Question, Motion agreed to.
[From Minutes of January 15.]

EARL CASTLE STEWART.
Report made from the Lord Chancellor that the right of Arthur Earl Castle Stewart to vote at the elections of Representative Peers for Ireland has been established to the satisfaction of the Lord Chancellor; read and ordered to lie on the Table.
The LORD CHANCELLOR The LORD CHANCELLOR informed the House that he had received from the Registrar of the Court of Bankruptcy in Saorstat Eireann a certificate that Hugh Somerset John Baron Massy in the Peerage of Ireland, was adjudicated a bankrupt on the 10th November, 1923: The same was ordered to lie on the Table.
House adjourned at twenty-five minutes past four o'clock.