the remission of a certain debt due to the Public Marriage Legislation Bill. Considered in Committee, and reported; Bill, POST OFFICE (CONTRACT FOR ACCELERATED MAIL SERVICE TO AND FROM IRELAND via CARLISLE, STRANRAER, AND LARNE).-Order read, for resuming adjourned debate on Question [3rd August]. "That the contract, dated the 8th day of November, 1902, with the Glasgow and South West- ern Railway Company, the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Committee and the Belfast and Northern Counties Railway Company, for an Acceler- ated Mail Service to and from Ireland via Carlisle, Stranraer, and Larne, printed in Parliamentary Paper, No. 56, of Session 1903, be approved."- Resolved, That it is expedient to authorise the imposition of an Excise duty on persons employed as drivers on motor-cars of the same amount as is payable on male servants, in pursuance of any Act of the present session to amend The Locomotives on Highways Act, 1896.-(Mr. THE PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES (AUTHORISED EDITION) IN THE FOURTH SESSION OF THE TWENTY-SEVENTH PARLIAMENT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, IN THE HIS MAJESTY KING EDWARD VII. An Asterisk (*) at the commencement of a Speech indicates revision by the Member. NINTH VOLUME OF SESSION. HOUSE OF LORDS. Thursday, 23rd July, 1903. PRIVATE BILL BUSINESS. Strabane and Letterkenny Railway Bill. Several witnesses ordered to attend the Select Committee. London County Council (Tramways and Improvements) Bill. The King's consent signified; and Bill reported from the Select Committee, with Amendments. London County Council (Money) Bill; Baker Street and Waterloo Railway (Extension of Time) Bill; South Shields Corporation Bill. Reported, with Amend ments. and Friday last discharged; and Bill committed for Tuesday next. Kingston-upon-Hull Corporation Bill. Report from the Select Committee, That the Committee had not proceeded with the consideration of the Bill, no parties having appeared in opposition thereto; read, and ordered to lie on the Table: The orders made on the 14th instant and Friday last discharged; and Bill committed for Tuesday next. Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 8.) Bill. Report from the Select Whole House. Erith Tramways and Improvement Bill. Report from the Select Committee, That the Committee had not proceeded with Alexandra Park and Palace Bill; Croythe consideration of the Bill, no parties don and District Electric Tramways having appeared in opposition thereto; Bill. Moved, That the order made on read, and ordered to lie on the Table: the 16th day of March last, "That no The orders made on the ninth instant Private Bill brought from the House of A VOL. CXXVI. [FOURTH SERIES.] Commons shall be read a second time | Commons, with the Amendment agreed after the 18th day of June next," he to. dispensed with, and that the Bills be now read 2a, agreed to; Bills read 2a accord ingly, and committed. Middlesbrough Corporation Bill. Returned from the Commons, with the Amendments agreed to. Plymouth Corporation Bill. Report from the Select Committee, That the promoters do not intend to proceed further with the Bill: Ordered, that the Bill be not further proceeded with. Drainage and Improvement of Lands Government (Ireland) Provisional Orders (Ireland) Provisional Order Bill; Local (No. 3) Bill; Local Government (Ireland) Provisional Orders (No. 7) Bill. Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 13) Bill. Read 3a (according to Order), and passed. RETURNS, REPORTS, ETC. AFRICA No. 9 (1903). Memorandum showing position of the four African Protectorates administered by the Foreign Office in June, 1903, arranged in chronological order of date of administration. WEST INDIES. Report on Excise Restrictions in force in the West Indies and British Guiana in relation to a proposal to sanction the payment of such an allowance on export of rum as shall compensate the distillers in those colonies for additional outlay caused by Excise restrictions. ORDNANCE SURVEY. Report of the progress of the Ordnance Survey, to the 31st March, 1903. AGRARIAN OUTRAGES (IRELAND). June, 1903. Presented (by Command), Return for the Quarter ended 30th and ordered to lie on the Table. FORESHORES. Treasury Minute, dated 21st July, 1903, directing the application of moneys received by the Board of Trade, in the year ended 31st March, 1903, in respect of the rights and interests of the Crown in the foreshores of the United Kingdom. into Committee I should like to say a few words with reference to the remarks which were made upon this Bill by my noble friend the Chairman of Committees the other day. On that occasion I gave an undertaking to look into the matter Earl pointed out that the Bill would to which he took exception. The noble enable a County Council to borrow money in order to pay for the hire of land, and he objected to that power. I propos, when the House is in Committee, to move an Amendment which will make it clear that the money that is to be borrowed is only to be in the nature of capital expenditure. I have taken this opportunity of mentioning this matter in order to give the noble Earl the Chairman of Committees an opportunity of expressing his views before the House goes into Committee, when he will not have that opportunity. |