§ 2.30 p.m.
§ Opened by Commission (the Royal Commissioners being The LORD CHANCELLOR (LORD SIMONDS), VISCOUNT MERSEY, VISCOUNT SWINTON, VISCOUNT HALL AND LORD ISMAY); 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 half past two o'clock, for His Majesty's Royal approbation.
§ Prayers
§ Certificate of the Election of Sixteen Representative Peers for Scotland—Delivered, and read.
§ The Lord Chancellor, singly in the first place—Took the Oath.
§ Several Lords—Took the Oath.
§ The Earl of Ancaster—Sat first in Parliament after the death of his father.
§ Certain Lords—Affirmed.
§ House adjourned at half past five o'clock.