THE CHARIMAN OF COMMIIIEES (LORD MERTHYR)My Lords, I beg to move that the Commons Message be now considered.
§ Moved, That the Commons Message be now considered.—(Lord Merthyr.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to.
§ [The Message from the Commons was as follows:
§ That they have resolved, That the Promoters of the Cardiff Corporation Bill and the Esso Petroleum Company Bill shall have leave to suspend any further proceedings on the Bills until the next Session of Parliament.]
§ Moved to resolve, That the promoters of the Bill have leave to suspend any further proceedings thereon, in order to proceed with the Bill, if they shall think fit, in the next Session of Parliament, provided that notice of their intention to do so be lodged in the Office of the Clerk of the Parliaments not later than three o'clock on the day before the close of the present Session, and that all fees due thereon up to that period be paid;
§ That such Bill shall be deposited in the Office of the Clerk of the Parliaments not later than three o'clock on or before 802 the third day on which the House shall sit after the commencement of the next Session of Parliament, with a declaration annexed thereto, signed by the Agent, slating that the Bill is the same in every respect as the Bill at the last stage of the proceedings thereon in this House in the present Session;
§ That the proceedings on such Bill shall be pro formâ only in regard to every stage through which the same shall have passed in the present Session, and that no new fees be charged in regard to such stages;
§ That the Standing Orders by which the proceedings on Bills are regulated shall not apply to such Bill in regard to any of the stages through which the same shall have passed during the present Session.—(Lord Merthyr.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to.