[May 24.] Amendment proposed "Line 2, after 'guardian' leave out to shall' in line 4."-(Mr. J. H. M. Campbell.)... Page "After shall' insert without prejudice to existing rights.""(Mr. M. Healy.) Agreed to. Clause, as amended, added to the Bill. NEW CLAUSE. Page 45, after clause 73, insert the following clause : "The provisions of this Act with respect to officers transferred to a county council stall apply to all existing officers of any urban district council or town commissioners other than a town clerk or clerk to the commissioners, in like manner as if they were officers transferred by this Act to such council or commissioners."-(Mr, Gerald Balfour.) Amendment proposed. "Line 5, at end, add, 'and an annual election shall not, in future, be necessary in the case of an existing office.' -(Mr. M. Healy.) Agreed to. Clause added to the Bill. NEW CLAUSE. "Page 45, after clause 73, insert the following clause : "Every existing clerk of a union shall, unless he otherwise agrees with the county council or urban district council as the case may be, continue to perform the duties of the clerk of a union under the Registration Acts and the Jurors (Ireland) Acts, 1871 to 1894, and every collector of poor rate shall continue to give the same information and assistance as heretofore to that clerk in relation to the said duties.”—(Mr. Gerald Balfour.) Clause added to the Bill. 'Page 49, line 9, leave out 'Section one hundred and six.'”—( Mr. M. Healy.) DISCUSSION:— Mr. Maurice Healy 657, 658 Mr. Atkinson... Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. "Page 49, line 17, at end, insert- Will. An Act to Alter and amend the laws relating | Section seventy-two." 17 and 18 Vic., An Act to enable the Collector-General of Dublin to levy money to repay a certain outlay by the Corporation for preserving and improving the port of Dublin in and about repairing the quay wall of the River Liffey and for future repairs thereof, and for · Schedule 4 (Election of County and District Councils and Guardians) and Schedule 5 (Irish Enactments subject to adaptation by Order "The compensation payable to any high constable or collector of a barony, or to his deputy, duly appointed under section two hundred and forty-eight ments for each grand jury half-year which he has served above the two first, but not exceeding in any case five years' net emoluments; (-) The net emoluments shall be ascertained according to the average for the six grand jury half-years next before the summer assizes, 1898, or if the officer has served for less than that period, then for the period of his service; (d) The gross emoluments of a deputy shall not exceed the sum deducted in respect thereof in ascertaining the net emoluments of the high constable or collector whose deputy he was; (e) The expression 'grand jury half-year' means the period between any assizes and the next assize.”—(Mr. Gerald Balfour.) Amendment to Amendment proposed- "And for the purposes of this schedule the net emoluments of a high constable or collector or of a collector of a district shall be deemed to be the gross average annual poundage received by him during the period aforesaid, after deducting therefrom the average annual salaries or poundage paid by him to his deputy or sub-collector during the same period.”—(Mr. J. ̃H. M. Bill as amended ordered to be reported to the House. House resumed; 21st June fixed for Report stage of the Bill. QUESTION ON MOTION FOR ADJOURNMENT— Motion made, and Question proposed- "That this House do now adjourn until Monday, 6th June "—(The [June 6.] Page LORDS SATURDAY, 28TH MAY 1898. INDIA (ACCOUNTS AND ESTIMATES, 1898-9)-Explanatory memorandum by the Secretary of State for India; Presented, by command, and ordered to lie on the Table ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... TRADE REPORTS, 1898-Formular series, Diplomatic and Consular Reports ... ... THE LATE RIGHT HON. W. E. GLADSTONE-House adjourned during House Adjourned at 12.45. COMMONS: SATURDAY, 28TH MAY 1898. FUNERAL OF THE LATE RIGHT HON. W. E. GLADSTONE-This being the day on which the House had resolved to attend the funeral of the Right Hon. William Ewart Gladstone in Westminster Abbey, Mr. Speaker and the Members assembled in the House, and proceeded thence through the Hall to Westminster Abbey, and there attended the funeral ... 702 COMMONS: MONDAY, 6TH JUNE 1898. PRIVATE BILL BUSINESS. East Ham Improvement Bill.-Read the third time, and passed Usk Valley Railway Bill.-Read the third time, and passed Foreign Bondholders Corporation Bill.-As amended, considered; Amend- London, Tilbury and Southend Railway Bill.-As amended, considered; to be read the third time ... Blackpool and Fleetwood Tramroad (Tramway Extensions) Bill. [H.L.]— |