Chairman of Committees of the whole House-continued. 604. See also Chairman of Ways and Means and Private Business.
Deputy chairman, appointment, 604; acts as deputy Speaker, 197; takes chair at Speaker's request, ib.
Temporary chairmen, 381, 604; closure not enforceable under temporary chairman, 386.
Chairman of Ways and Means, and Private Business; his general super- vision of all private bills, 688. 707-8. 754; duties in dividing bills between houses before introduction, 705. 708–9; bills laid before him and examined (before introduction), 707; (as sub- mitted to committee), 708. 753-4; (as amended by committee), 833; duties on proposed amendments on con- sideration of bill, 833-4; and Lords' amendments, 836; reports special cir- cumstances regarding a bill, 753; reports that unopposed bill should be treated as opposed, 753. 790; duties on un- opposed bills, 688. 789; as chairman of committee on unopposed bills, 747.789. 790. 807. 826, n.; other duties (Court of Referees), 761; (reports regarding witnesses), 825, n.; (Government con- tract bills), 727; (parliamentary agents)
Duties, in conjunction with the Lords' chairman of committees, under the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act, 898, et seq.; in the framing of the "general orders," 896; in dispensing with the general orders, 900; in con- sidering and reporting on orders applied for under the Act, 898; in the appoint- ment of commissioners, 901; and in making recommendations regarding pro- posed orders, 902. 903. 904. See also Private Legislation Procedure (Scot- land) Act.
Chairman of Private Bill Commit-
tees (Commons); appointment of, 746-7; absence of, 757; casting vote, 791. 829; special duties of, in reporting bill, 823. 824.
Chairmen of Select Committees:
Lords.-Vote like other peers, 403; sign orders for witnesses' expenses, 434. Commons.-Witnesses summoned by, 406. 425. 426; sign orders for their ex- penses, 434; casting vote of, 411; the votes of chairmen of private and hybrid bill committees, 411.
Chairmen of Standing Committees; (Commons), duties of, 396; power of, to shorten discussion, ib.; no appeal
Chairmen of Standing Committees -continued.
from, to Speaker, 397; casting vote of, 394. Challenges and Quarrels; by or to members, prevented or punished, 79. 336. Chamber of Agriculture; locus standi of, in Lords, 849..
Chancery Fee Funds; not public money under the standing orders, 601. Chaplain (Mr. Speaker's); prayers read by, 159; instances of his absence, ib. n.; reference to the origin of the office, ib. n.
Charges upon the People. See Crown; Public Charges; Supply, &c. Charities; charities, orders, schemes, &c., laid before Parliament, 543.
Provisional schemes relating to, made by Charity Commission, 883; and pro- cedure on confirming bill, ib.
Bills relating to, in Lords, 845. Charles I.; prosecuted Sir J. Eliot, &c., 99; noticed debates in the Lords, 329. Charles II.; on restoration of, Parlia- ment met on its own authority, 39;
dissolved Parliament in person, 48; noticed disorders of the Lords, 444, n. Charlton, Mr. Lechmere; case of, 120. Chedder's Case; referred to, 104. Chiltern Hundreds; grant of the stewardship to members, 642; refused,
643; no writ thereon during recess, ib.; granted to unsworn members, 645. Church of England; Crown the head of, 5; acceptance by the Crown of bills relating to, 449.
Cinque Ports; terms abolished in writs, 14, n.; lord wardenship of, vacates seat, 641.
Cities and Boroughs; elective fran- chise of, 25.
Citizens and Burgesses; position of,
in the legislature, 21; their wages, 22; property qualification of abolished, 28; the titles, &c., abolished in writs, &c., 14, n.
City of London; bills relating to, 675. Civil List Bills; form of royal assent to, 514.
Civil Power; assistance of, in support of parliamentary authority, 66. Civil Service Departments; estimates,
&c., 547; grants on account for, 519; debate on grants for, 620.
Clauses; procedure on, in committtee, 484; on new clauses and schedules, 489; money clauses, 560; clauses added on report, 495; clauses involving local taxation, 599; bills recommitted for addition of, 497; closure on clauses, 220.
(Private bills) clauses inserted by Commons' committee, 753-5. 790; on railway and other bills, 793. 797, et seq.; clauses considered in committee, 814, et seq.; clauses proposed on consideration of bill as amended (Commons), 833-5; laid before chairman of ways and means, ib.; where referred to committee on standing orders, ib. ; notice of, in votes, ib., 713; consideration of, postponed (in Cominons), 730. 835.
Clauses Consolidation Acts; incor- poration of, in private bills, 694. Clergy; of the Church of England, and Rome, not capable of election, 31; dis- ability ceases when office of priest is relinquished, ib.; formerly taxed them- selves, 586.
Clerk of the Crown; delivers return- book to the Clerk of the House of Com- mons, 150; certifies the election of representative peers of Scotland, 152; and of Ireland, 153; his certificate of return of member, 169. 171; if no re- turn be made, attends to explain, 640; ordered to attend and amend returns, 171.639.658.
Warrants directed to him, to issue new writs, 632. 636. 638; examined re- garding error in delivery thereof, 638; when directed to Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper in Ireland, 638; copy of Speaker's appointment of members to issue writs, deposited with, 638.
Duties of, on royal assent being given to bills, 513.
Clerk of the House of Commons; his appointment and duties, 200; his duties on election of Speaker, 154; and on retirement of Speaker, 156; formerly read prayers in Speakers' absence, 159, n.; records absentees from call of house, 181; takes down words, 337; reads orders of the day, 260; reports of com- mittees of the whole house, 391; titles of bills, 467; and petitions, 532; signs the summons to witnesses before the house, 424; and orders for their ex- penses, 434; sanctions production of documents, 432; bears messages to House of Lords, 437. 503; indorses bills, 509; has custody of Speaker's appointment of members to issue writs, 638.
Clerk of the Parliaments; records names of lords attending the house, 179; his duties, 198; authenticates extracts from journals, 202; receives money bills from the Speaker, 513.596; signs the summons to witnesses before
Clerk of the Parliaments-continued. the Lords, 424; certifies their expenses, 434; bears messages to Commons, 437. 503; reads messages from the Crown, 446; indorses bills, 509; and Acts, 515; his duties regarding the royal assent, 513. regarding taxation of costs (private bills), 914. 915.
Clerk of the Parliaments Office; deposit at, of private bills, 693. 840. 855; of memorials relating to private bills, 841; of certificates of compliance with standing orders, 840. 855, n.; of orders under the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act, 897. 901. Clerks Assistant (Commons); ap- pointment of, and duties, 200; second clerk assistant, ib.; carry messages to House of Lords, 437. 503; clerk assist- ant officiates in committees of the whole house, 393; indorses bills in absence of Clerk, 509, n.; duty of, on the ballot for notices, 241; (Lords), duties of, 199; reading clerk, ib.; appointment of, ib. n.; bear messages to Commons, 437.
Clerks, &c., of the House; evidence of, 431.
Closed Doors; breaches of privilege for- merly inquired into with, 88; select and secret committees, deliberate with, 410; private bill committee, 806. Closure; procedure thereon, 217; form of, 218; claim thereunder, ib.; neces- sary majority for, 218; failure of motion through insufficient majority, ib. n.; closure upon the words of a clause, 220; closure at moment of interruption, 224; questions claimed under previous closure motion, 225; reflections on vote of, out of order, 326; questions to ministers, re- specting, out of order, 248, n.; cannot be enforced under temporary chairman, 381; or under deputy chairman without announcement of absence of chairman of ways and means, 381; or in a stand- ing committee, 396; analogous motions, 219, n.
Cochrane, Lord; privilege not ex- tended to, on criminal commitment of, 116.
Coke, Sir Edward; his opinions; on the separation of the two houses; 20; on minors being members, 29; on authority and privileges of Parliament, 38. 133; on the law of Parliament, 62; on freedom of speech, 98; moved that a bill be torn in the house, 475. Colonies; legislation regarding, 37; governorship of, vacates seat in the house, 641.
Commencement of Public Business; time of, 255. See also Business of the House. Commission; for opening Parliament, 42. 149. 171; for prorogations and further prorogations, discontinued, 43; for King's approval of Speaker in certain cases, 150, n.; a commission makes a house, 232; for giving royal assent to bills, 511; to investigate corrupt practices at elections, 656. 661; of inquiry, on orders under the Private Legislation Procedure (Scot- land) Act, 901-3.
Commissions; when acceptance of, does not vacate a seat, 649. Commitment; the right of both houses, 63; assistance of the civil power, 66; causes of commitment cannot be in- quired into by courts of law, 69; need not be stated, 70; persons sent for in custody, ib.; arrests without warrant, 71; commitments by Speaker, 87; for offences in a former session, 90; by the Lords for fixed time, 91; petitions for release, 93; by Commons concluded by prorogation, 94; but not by adjourn- ment, 95, n. See also Fees on Commit- ment.
Committee of Privileges, 88. 392. Committee on Public Petitions, 534. See also Petitions, Public. Committees, Grand; discontinued,
Committees, Joint; of both houses, 421. See also Joint Committees. Committees of the whole House:
I. Lords.-Appointment of, 380; pro- cedure in, 381; chairman of, 380; quorum, 210; members speak more than once, 385; house resumed, ib.; vote by proxy discontinued, 371; mode of obtaining adjournment of, 389; pro- ceedings of, entered in journals, 393; consideration in, of local or provisional order bills, 854. 892.
II. Commons.-Appointment of com- mittees, 380; on bills, 477; instructions to, 383. 478; conduct of business in, 381; functions of, 382; chairman of ways and means the usual chairman, 381; his casting vote, 382; when to report progress on interruption of busi- ness, 214; temporary chairmen, 381.
Committees on public charges, 558; sitting of committee suspended, 389, n.; divisions in committee, 370; interrup- tions in committee, 388; witnesses ex- amined by, 383. 424; members may speak more than once in, 385; to speak standing, ib.
Committees of the whole House- continued.
When Speaker leaves the chair forth- with, 380; exceptions to this rule, ib.; when instructions are moved, ib.; matters committed, 383; royal message read, 384.
Order of debate therein, 385; closure in committee, 217; powers of the chair- man, 386; to repress irrelevance, &c., ib.; disorder, ib.; no appeal from his decision to the Speaker, 385; disorder in committee dealt with by the house, 386; divisions in abuse of rules, ib.
Resolutions proposed in, 384; motions in, not seconded, 383; previous question not admitted, 385; questions of sums and dates, 384; resolution proposed in, cannot be postponed, 388; amendments moved in, 384; quorum, 231; committee cannot adjourn, 389; motions to report progress, &c., ib.; order of day for a committee dropped, 390; revived, 263.
Report of proceedings, 391; till report made, proceedings of committee not to be referred to, ib.; report of grant of public money received on future day, ib.
Speaker entitled to speak and vote in, 368; proceedings entered in journals, 392; clerk assistant officiates in, as clerk, 393; oath administered by, 430.
Bills originating in committee, 464; provisions in a bill not to be considered by a concurrent committee, 465; pro- ceedings in committees on bills, 483; in committees of supply, and ways and means, 603; private bills recommitted to committee, 680, n., 727. 832; pro- visions, or petitions for additional pro- vision, in private bills, considered in committee, 726. See also, Instructions ; Standing Committees, Supply, and Ways and Means.
Committees, Select:
I. Generally.-Libels on, 83; wit- nesses before, 124-128; protected, by the Witnesses (Public Inquiries) Protec- tion Act, 125; documents referred to, 401; power of obtaining, 406.
General province of, 400; order of reference, and instructions, ib.; secret committees, 410; sessional committees, 402. 405; joint committees, 421; of both houses communicating with each other, 423; committees to examine siek witnesses, 412; to inspect journals, 307; Lords' amendments, 508; matters of privilege, 405; to consider questions re- garding members' seats, 656.
Printed minutes of evidence, 414;
Committees, Select-continued.
alterations to be confined to correction of inaccuracies, 415; publication of, be- fore report, a breach of privilege, 74.
Preparation of report, 416; power to report, 417; special report, 418; power to report from time to time, ib.; report of evidence by a reappointed committee, ib.; publication of draft reports, 419; reports cancelled, ib.; presented, 420; consideration of reports, 420; recom- mittal of, ib.; evidence referred to a secretary of state, 421; reports recom- mending grant of public money, 416; offering reward for absconding witnesses, 426.
Bills committed to select committees, 400. 499; power of a committee over a bill, 491. 499; over private bills, 469, n., 729. 813; power of select committees to take evidence, 402. 406.
Bills referred as documents to select committees, 401, n.
II. Lords.-Appointment of, 401; by ballot, ib.; sessional committees, 402; select committees may sit, notwith- standing any adjournment, 402; ap- pointment of chairman, ib.; chairman has no casting vote, 403; quorum, 401. 406; minutes of proceedings, 402; witnesses or documents procured, 402. 425. 429; preliminary examination into evidence, 408; absconding witnesses, 424; oaths, 402. 429; presence of strangers, 408; of lords not of the com- mittee, ib.; select committees, ib., 410; divisions, 403.
III. Commons.-Seats in house of members serving on, 178; obligation of members to attend, 182; appointment, constitution, and practice of, 403; notice of nomination of, ib.; of discharge therefrom, ib., 405; on privilege cases without notice, 403; nomination of, by ballot, ib.; by committee of selection, 404. 469. 750; of members per- sonally interested in bills, 405. 829; nomination of, at commencement of public business, 257; to serve without voting, 404; members added and dis- charged, 405; motion to raise number of committee above fifteen, 403.
Quorum, 405; if no quorum named, ib.; procedure on want of, 406; evi- dence taken in absence of quorum re- ported, ib.; power to send for persons, &c., ib.; for papers and records only, 407; production of documents before, ib.; appointment of committees dis- charged, 408; revived, 414.
Committees, Select-continued.
Presence of strangers, 408; of mem- bers, ib.; secret committees, 410; di- visions, 411; choice of chairman, ib.; casting voice of, ib.; adjournment of committees, 413; from place to place, 412; sitting whilst house sits, 413; after adjournment of house, ib.; notice of prayers, ib.; sittings on Ascension Day, 413; on Saturdays, ib.
Counsel heard, 414; witnesses sum- moned, 425; absconding, ib.; examined, 414; on oath, 430; indemnified, 431; their expenses, 434; attendance and examination of members, 426; of peers, ib.; of officers, &c., 427.
Procedure on money clauses in, 416. 500; no previous question in, 284. 420. n. See also Private Bills; Provisional Order Bills; Sub-Committees; Wit-
Committees, Standing. See Standing
Commons, House of; elected under writ from Crown, 6; third estate of realm, 14; origin of, 14-20; knights of the shire, and citizens and burgesses, 16; early instances of writs of summons, 18; originally sat with the Lords, 19; when separated, 21; number of members at different periods, 22-24; wages of, 22.
Effects of the Reform Acts (1832), 23; (1867) 23; Redistribution of Seats Act, 1885..24; present number of members, and classification of constitu- encies, 24; the electors, 24; Scottish and Irish franchises, 26; registration, 27; qualification of voters, 27; and of members, 28; mode of election, 35; and of summons, 41.
Powers of the house, in adjournment, 46; in impeachments, 51, 663; in voting supplies, 52. 603; demand of Crown for aid, 545. 587; in vote of taxation, 588; in determining elections, and issuing new writs, 52. 54. 631; in suspension of members, 56; in expulsion of members, 56; privileges of the house, 59; in ordering attendance of persons, 64; punishments inflicted by, 91-94; claim of, to be a court of record, 92; imprisonment by, 93; terminated by prorogation, 94.
Proceedings on meeting of Parlia- ment, 149; election and duties of Speaker, 154. 191; deputy Speaker, 196; prayers, 159. 233; oaths taken, 159; consideration of royal speech, 175; call of house, 180; times of meeting, 211; announced in "Votes," 213; sit- tings of the house, 183. 212; suspension
Commons, House of-continued.
of or adjournment by Speaker in case of disorder, 194; longest sittings, 183, n. extraordinary sittings, 183; thanksgiving and fast days, 185; chief officers of, 200; votes and journals, 201; admission of strangers, 205; proceedings on prorogation, 207; quorum, 228; counting out, 230; order of business in, 232. 257; interruption of business in, 214; petitions, 522. See also Business, Order of; Adjournment, II.; Members of the House of Commons; Questions to Members.
Commons, Inclosure and Regula- tion; provisional orders relating to, 878, et seq.; the Select Committee on Com- mons, 879. See also Metropolitan
Communications from Members of the Royal Family, 456. See also Address; Crown. Companies; standing orders (private bills) specially relating to, 724. 792-800. 842. 850-853; Clauses Acts, 694. Competing Bills; before private bill committees, 709, 813.
Competition; as a ground of locus standi (private bills), 773. Complaints. See Privileges of Parlia-
Completion of Line (Railway Bills);
standing orders to be observed by Com- mittees, 797. 852. Complicated Questions; how dealt with, 285.
Composite Tax Acts, 584.
Comptroller and Auditor General;
reports of, on public expenditure, 597. Condolence; addresses and messages of, on demise of members of the royal family, 453. 456.
Conduct of Members; when under discussion member to withdraw, 350. 527, n.; petitions complaining of, 352; if complained of, in select committee, to be reported to house, 414. Conferences; character and subjects of, 437; the demand for, ib.; purpose to be stated, 438; to offer reasons, ib.; time and method of meeting, ib.; con- ferences regarding bills, 439. 508; free conferences, 440; other means of com- munication, 436. 441; bill introduced on resolutions agreed upon at a conference, 463.
Conflict of Opinion between the Two Houses; instances, 441. Conquest, The; position of the people after, 15.
Consent of the Crown. See Crown, III.
Consents to Private Bills; to be re- ported on by committees in Commons, 824; consents (in the case of inclosure bills), 801; (estate bills), 857-8; (under standing orders, 22. 61-66 of both houses), 695. 723-5. 842-5.
Consequential Amendments; to bills, 477, 836.
Conservators of Commons; locus standi of, 776.
Consilium Regis; the, 50. 192. Consolidated Fund; the nature of, 591; drafts upon, ib.; application of, 592; permanent charges on, 593. Consolidated Fund Bills; object of, 557; occasions for, ib.; debate upon, 594; founded on ways and means reso- lutions, 591; brought in on resolutions based on Army and Navy votes only, 557, n. See also Appropriation Act. Consolidation (Clauses) Acts; incor- poration of, in private bills, 694. Consolidation (Private) Bills; locus standi against, 769.
Constituencies; classification of (Eng- lish), 24; (Scotch), ib.; (Irish), ib.; qualification of electors, 27; registra- tion, 27.
Consul or Consul General; accept- ance of office of, vacates seat, 649. Contempt of Court; members of both houses liable to commitment and attach- ment by courts of justice for, 119–122; explanation of the liability, 122; not extended to commitment for non-pay- ment of money, 123; nor to cases of contempt of ecclesiastical courts, 122. Contractors (Government); disquali- fied from serving as members, 31. 642; when not disqualified, 32.
Contracts (Packet and Telegraphic); not binding until approved by the house, 601; to be laid on table with treasury minute, 602.
Private bills relating to Government contracts, 727.
Controverted Elections. See Elections, Controverted.
Convocation; subsidies of clergy voted in, 586; origin and summons, ib. Copyholds; general Acts passed to facili- tate the enfranchisement of, 689. Cornwall, Duke of; Edward the Black Prince created, 8; consent of the Crown and Prince of Wales regarding the duchy of, 448; to private bill, 835. Coronation; attendance of houses at, 186.
Coronation Oath, the; referred to, 2. 4. Corporations; petitions from, to be under their common seal, 526. See
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