§ Report by the Chairman of Committes of the House of Lords and the Chairman of Ways and Means in the House of Commons under Section 3 of the Statutory Orders (Special Procedure) Act, 1945, that the following Petitions have been presented against the Order and have been certified as proper to be received and as Petitions for amendment:
§ Petition of the Wellingborough Urban District Council;
§ Petition of the Wellingborough Rural District Council;
§ Petition of the Rural District Council of Northampton;
§ Petition of the Higham Ferrers and Rushden Water Board, Higham Ferrers Corporation and Rushden Urban District Council;
§ Petition of the River Nene Catchment. Board;
§ Petition of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, and others:
§ Laid before the House (pursuant to Act); and ordered to lie on the Table.
§ Report from the Journal Committee, That the One hundred and eightieth Volume of the Journals (11 and 12 George VI, Sessions 1947–48 and 1948), with an Index, was ready for delivery: Read, and ordered to lie on the Table; and the said Volume ordered to be delivered in the same manner as the preceding Volumes of the Journals have been delivered.