Aug. 4.1 EVENING SITTING. Page Fife Electric Power Bill [LORDS] (BY ORDER).-Lords reason for disagreeing to one of the Commons' Amendments to the Bill, considered Resolved, That this House doth not insist upon the Amendment to which Wood Green Urban District Council Bill (BY ORDER).-Lords' Amend- Lords' Amendment to the Amendment. "In page 26, line 31.” Agreed to. Lords' Amendment "In page 26, line 31, after the word 'make,' to insert the words 'Nothing in this section shall apply to milk in the possession of any railway company until its arrival at the station of destination,'" The next Amendment read a second time. ... 1523 Mr Heywood Johnstone (Sussex, Horsham) Sir Frederick Banbury (Camberwell, Peckham) ... ... ... 1525 1526 The Chairman of Committees (Mr. J. W. Lowther, Cumberland, Penrith) 1526 Question put, and agreed to. Subsequent Lords' Amendments agreed to. Committee appointed to draw up reasons to be assigned to the Lords for Committee nominated of-The Chairman of Ways and Means, Mr. Heywood To withdraw immediately.-(The Chairman of Ways and Means.) STANDING ORDERS. Standing Order 135, relating to Private Business, read and amended, in lines 1 and 2, by inserting, after the words "in any street," the words " road." or At end, by adding the words "and it shall be competent to the Referees on Private Bills to admit the Petitioners, being the owners, lessees, or occupiers of any house, shop, or warehouse having its access materially dependent on such street or road, and making the aforesaid allegations, to be heard against the Bill, if they think fit." (The Chairman of Ways and Means) Glasgow Corporation (Police) Order Confirmation Bill [LORDS] (BY Aug. 4.] Lanarkshire Tramways Order Confirmation Bill [LORDS] (BY ORDER).— ... Page ... . 1527 Glasgow Corporation Tramways Order Confirmation Bill [LORDS] (BY ... 1527 Wood Green Urban District Council Bill (By ORDER).-Reasons for disagreeing to one of the Lords' Amendments reported, and agreed to. To be communicated to the Lords... Sugar Convention Bill. (Considered in the Committee.) (In the Committee). [Mr. J. W. LOWTHER (Cumberland, Penrith) in the Chair.] Clause 1. Mr. Levy (Leicestershire, Loughborough)...... Amendment proposed "In page 1, line 14, leave out Sub-section (1)."-(Mr. Levy.) Question proposed, "That the words proposed to be left out to the word 'is' in line 15, stand part of the clause. 1527 1528 Mr. Lough (Islington. W.)..... Mr. Sydney Buxton (Tower Hamlets, Stepney) Lieutenant Colonel Geo. Kemp (Lancashire, Heywood) The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Gerald Balfour, Leeds, Central) 1532 Sir Charles Dilke (Gloucestershire, Forest of Dean) Mr. Guest (Plymouth) Mr. Ure (Linlithgowshire)... Question put. The Committee divided:-Ayes, 154; Noes, 86. (Division List No. 211.) "In page 1, line 15, after the word 'bounty,' to insert the words as defined in the Convention, the provisions of which are set forth in the schedule to this Act.'"-(Mr. Sydney Buxton.) Question proposed, "That those words be there inserted." 1551 The Committee divided :-Ayes, 61; Noes, 118. (Division List No. 212.) Committee report Progress, to sit again this day. NAVY AND ARMY EXPENDITURE 1901-2.-Committee to consider the saving and deficiencies upon Navy and Army grants for 1901-2, and the temporary sanction obtained from the Treasury by the Navy and Army Departments to the expenditure not provided for in the grants for that year, upon Ordered, That Appropriation Accounts for the Navy and Army Depart- ments, which were presented on the 23rd and 24th days of February last, MOTOR-CARS [EXCISE DUTY].-Committee to consider of authorising the imposition of an Excise Duty on persons employed as drivers of motor-cars in pursuance of any Act of the present session to amend the Locomotives on Highways Act, 1896 (King's recommendation signified) this day.—(Sir A. Aug. 5.] HOUSE OF LORDS, WEDNESDAY, 5TH AUGUST, 1903. Hainault Forest Bill. Read 3, with the Amendments, and passed, and ... ... ... ... ... ... Glasgow Corporation (Police) Order Confirmation Bill [H.L.].—Returned ... Baker Street and Waterloo Railway Extension of Time Bill; Becken- ... Wood Green Urban District Council Bill.-Returned from the Commons with several of the Amendments agreed to, and one disagreed to, with reasons for such disagreement... ... Fife Electric Power Bill [H.L.].-Returned from the Commons with the RETURNS, REPORTS, ETC. Page 1569 1569 1569 1569 1569 ...1569 CLERGY (WEST INDIES).-Return of the amount payable on 5th January, 1903, out of the Consolidated Fund, for ecclesiastical purposes in the West Indies 1569 SUPERANNUATION ACT, 1887.-Return for the year ended 31st March, 1903, of the Army and Navy Officers permitted under Rule 2 of the Regulations drawn up under Section 6 of the Superannuation Act, 1887, to hold civil employment of profit under public departments. Laid before the House (pursuant to Act), and ordered to lie on the Table ... Patent Office (Extension) Bill.-Brought from the Commons Pistols Bill. Returned from the Commons, with the Amendments agreed to... 1570 Licensing Acts (Scotland) Consolidation and Amendment Bill.— Poor Law (Dissolution of School Districts and Adjustments) Bill.— Moved "That the Bill be now read 2a."-Lord Kenyon. On Question, Bili read 2 (according to Order), and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Marine Store Dealers (Ireland) Bill.-The Report of Amendments to be received to-morrow Aug. 5.] Patent Office (Extension) Bill.-Read 1*; to be printed and referred to the ... House adjourned at twenty minutes before Five o'clock, till Page 1571 HOUSE OF COMMONS, WEDNESDAY, 5TH AUGUST, 1903. The House met at Two of the Clock. UNOPPOSED PRIVATE BILL BUSINESS. South Shields Corporation Bill.-Lords' Amendments considered, and agreed to ... ... 1572 ... Bangor Corporation Bill [LORDS]. As amended, considered; Amendments made; Bill to be read the third time... 1572 1572 Hastings Harbour Bill [LORDS].-Read a second time, and committed ... Airdrie and Coatbridge Tramways Order Confirmation Bill; Lerwick ... Lanarkshire Tramways O der Confirmation Bill [LORDS].-Read the RETURNS, REPORTS, ETC. ... - 1572 LAND REGISTRY.-Return presented, relative thereto [ordered, 19th May; Mr. Henry David Greene]; to lie upon the Table, and to be printed. [No. 315.] ... ... ... CLERGY (WEST INDIES).Copy presented, of Return of the Amount payable on PRISONS (IRELAND).-Copy presented, of twenty-fifth Report of the General Prisons Board (Ireland) for 1902-3, with an Appendix [by Command]; to lie upon the Table 1572 1573 1573 1573 |