Lords Report of 16 March 1922

BABINGTON'S DIVORCE BILL. [H.L.]
Order of the Day for the Second Reading read: Counsel called in: Witnesses examined: Moved that the Bill be now read 2ª; agreed to: Bill read 2ª accordingly, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Tuesday next.

OSSETT CORPORATION (WATER) BILL. [H.L.]
Reported, with Amendments.
The LORD CHANCELLOR The LORD CHANCELLOR acquainted the House, That the Clerk of the Parliaments had laid upon the Table the Certificate from the Examiners that no Standing Orders are applicable to the following Bill:
Marriages Provisional Order.
The same was ordered to lie on the Table.

COLNE VALLEY WATER BILL. [H.L.]
CAMBRIDGE CORPORATION BILL. [H.L.]
NEWHAVEN AND SEAFORD WATER BILL. [H.L.]
RAMSGATE CORPORATION BILL. [H.L.]
STRETFORD AND DISTRICT GAS BOARD BILL. [H.L.]
SHEPTON MALLET WATERWORKS BILL. [H.L.]
SOUTH WALES ELECTRICAL POWER DISTRIBUTION COMPANY BILL. [H.L.]
Report from the Committee of Selection that the Lord Loch be proposed to the House as a Member of the Select Committee on the said Bills in the place of the Earl of Chichester; read, and agreed to.
[From Minutes of Judicial Sitting, March 20.]

MORTON'S DIVORCE BILL. [H.L.]
The LORD SPEAKER (Lord Buckmaster)The LORD SPEAKER (Lord Buckmaster) acquainted the House that the Clerk of the Parliaments had received by post from the Lord Justice of the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice in Southern Ireland a Report of the Proceedings upon the inquiry before him in the case Morton v. Clements: The same was ordered to lie on the Table.
Petition of Robert Morton, Junior, praying that the attendance of Harriet Shepard and Elizabeth Rawlings of Lymington, Southampton, on the Second Reading of the Bill be dispensed with, and that the evidence taken on oath before William Lowry, Barrister-at-Law, at Lymington, on 3rd February, 1922, be received in evidence on the Second Reading of the Bill: Presented, and read; and to be taken into consideration on Thursday next.