Sitting of 16 April 1915

At Sitting for Judicial Business.
The LORD CHANCELLOR acquainted the House, That the Clerk of the Parliaments had laid upon the Table the Certificate from the Examiners that the Standing Orders applicable to the following Bill have been complied with:
Local Government Provisional Order (No. 1).
Also the Certificate that the further Standing Orders applicable to the following Bill have been complied with:
Liverpool Corporation.
The same were ordered to lie on the Table.

PRESCOT GAS BILL. [H.L.]
Report from the Select Committee, That the Committee had not proceeded with the consideration of the Bill, no parties having appeared in opposition thereto: The Orders made on the 23rd of February and 10th of March last discharged, and Bill committed for Tuesday next.
HALIFAX CORPORATION BILL. [H.L.]
ABERDARE URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL (TRAMWAYS, &c.) BILL. [H.L.]
EASTERN VALLEYS (MONMOUTHSHIRE) JOINT SEWERAGE BOARD BILL. [H.L.]
PLYMOUTH CORPORATION BILL. [H.L.]
ASHINGTON URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL BILL. [H.L.]
STALYBRIDGE, HYDE, MOSSLEY AND DUKINFIELD TRAMWAYS AND ELECTRICITY BOARD BILL. [H.L.]
Report front the Committee of Selection, That the following Lords be proposed to the House to form the Select Committee for the consideration of the said Bills; (viz.),

M. Bath (Chairman),

E. Harrowby,

E. Cathcart,

L. Ravensworth,

L. D'Abernon;

agreed to; and the said Lords appointed accordingly: The Committee to meet on Thursday next, at Eleven o'clock; and all Petitions referred to the Committee, with leave to the Petitioners praying to be heard by Counsel against the Bills to be heard as desired, as also Counsel for the Bills.
FRIMLEY AND FARNBOROUGH DISTRICT WATER BILL. [H.L.]
SOUTH SHIELDS CORPORATION BILL. [H.L.]
YORKSHIRE ELECTRIC POWER BILL. [H.L.]
Report from the Committee of Selection, That the Earl of Essex be proposed to the House as a Member of the Select Committee on the said Bills in the place of the Earl of Clarendon; read, and agreed to.
House adjourned to Monday next, a quarter before Eleven o'clock.