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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