COMPRISING THE PERIOD FROM THE TWENTY-THIRD DAY OF JULY TO THE FIFTH DAY OF AUGUST, 1903. NINTH VOLUME OF SESSION. 1903. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED, UNDER CONTRACT WITH HIS MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE, BY WYMAN AND SONS, LIMITED, FETTER LANE, LONDON. THE PARLIAMENTARY HISTORY contains all that can be collected of the Legislative History of this country from the Conquest to the close of the XVIIIth Century (1803), 36 vols. The chief sources whence these Debates are derived are the Constitutional History, 24 vols. ; Sir Simonds D'Ewes' Journal; Debates of the Commons in 1620 and 1621; Chandler and Timberland's Debates, 22 vols.; Grey's Debates of the Commons, from 1667 to 1694, 10 vols. ; Almon's Debates, 24 vols.; Debrett's Debates, 63 vols.; The Hardwicke Papers; Debates in Parliament by Dr. Johnson, &c., &c. THE PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES commence with the year 1803, and the contents are set forth in the following Chronological Table: HISTORY. (SIXTH PARLIAMENT.) CONQUEST to 34 GEO. II.-1066 to 1760. Vol. 39 & 40...59 GEO. III. Vol. 1 to 15, 1 WILL. I. to 34 GEO. II. 1066-1760 41 .........60 Second Series. 1802 (SECOND PARLIAMENT.) Vol. 36.42 GEO. III. ......1802-3 DEBATES. First Series. (SECOND PARLIAMENT—continued.) Vol. 1 & 2...44 GEO. III....... 1803-4 22 to 25...11 Third Series. REIGN OF WILLIAM IV.-1830 to 1837. 1809 1810 1810-11 1812 Vol. 24 to 26...53 GEO. III. ... 1812-13 (ELEVENTH PARLIAMENT.) Vol. 15 to 20..... 4 WILL. IV. ...... (TWELFTH PARLIAMENT.) 1833 1834 1816 Vol. 26 to 30... 6 WILL. IV. ...... 1835 1817 38...58 1818 |