Corporations-continued. also Municipal Authorities; Muni- cipal Corporations.
Corrupt Practices Acts; disqualifica- tion under, 35. 659.
Costs (Private and Provisional Order Bills); taxation of costs, 913-5. 822.906.
Parliamentary Costs Acts, 820, et seq.; when costs are granted to petitioners against bills, 820; to promoters, 821; cases in the Commons, 822-3; special provisions in the Lords' standing orders, 823. n. 847; committees, in granting costs, to be unanimous, 820-1; except in case of certain provisional order bills (allotments), 821. 886. 890; (Housing of Working Classes), 821. 869; and bills under the Private Legislation Pro- cedure (Scotland) Act, 822. 906. Counsel; professional statements by, privileged, 129; members not to act as, before committees, &c., 84; or before the Lords, except in judicial cases, 85.
Counsel heard at bar upon public bills, 476; upon impeachments, 665; upon second reading, in the Lords, of divorce bills, 861; before select com- mittees, 414; before private bill com- mittees, 808, et seq.; before the referees, 762.
Counsel to Lords' Chairman of Com- mittees; duties of, on private bills, 705-7, 754. 849. See also Chairman of Committees (Lords).
Counsel to Mr. Speaker; duties of, on private bills, 705. 707-8. 747. 753. 761. See also Chairman of Ways and Means, and Private Business. Counties; origin of the term, 9; elective franchise of, in England, 24; in Scotland and Ireland, 26.
Counting the House, 230; house counted out, ib.; cannot be counted between 8.15 and 9.15..231; when the Speaker has declined to count the house, 231. See also Quorum. County Councils; provisional orders. issued by, 888; ditto, Scotland, 889; provisional orders issued respecting, 870. 888; locus standi of (Commons), 776-7; (Lords), 849.
County Courts, judges of; disqualified
from sitting in House of Commons, 30, n.; conduct of, to be discussed only upon a substantive motion, 278; reflections upon, in debate, out of order, 333. Courts of Law; causes of commitment
by houses not to be inquired into by, 69; jurisdiction of, over privilege, 131
Courts of Law-continued. authorities favouring the jurisdiction of Parliament, 132; of the courts, 135; judgments of courts, and proceedings of Parliament thereon, 137; present posi- tion of privilege, 145; no debate upon matters pending before the courts, 278; or questions thereon, 251; promoters of private bills restrained by injunction, 687.
Courts Martial; notice of arrest of members by, given to the house, 117. 447; address, in answer, 451. Credit; grant of vote of, 554. Creevey, Mr.; case of, 101. Crematoriums; standing orders (private bills) as to (Commons), 802; (Lords), 851. Criminal Act; committed within par- liamentary precincts, 137, n. 1. Criminal Commitments. See Arrests Freedom from.
Cross Benches; in the Lords, 177. Crossing the House; rules as to, 344. Crown, The:
I. Prerogatives.-Hereditary, but sub- ject to Parliament, 2; ancient right of females to inherit, 2, n.; definition of its prerogatives, 3-5; declaration of adherence to the Protestant faith, 4; head of the Church of England, 5; no power of adding to Scotch peers, 11; Irish peerage, power to add to, 11; pre- rogative of pardon, 667.
II. Demise of.--Parliament meets upon, without summons, 41; instances of, 42; does not determine Parliament, 47; both houses again take the oaths, 171; addresses of condolence on, 454.
III. Its relations to, and communica- tions with, Parliament.-Summons of Parliament, 41; causes of, declared, 42. 171; approves Speaker of Commons, 43. 150, n.; assembles or prorogues Parliament, 43. 171. 207; adjournment of both houses at pleasure of Crown, 46; power over adjournments, conceded by statute, 47; duration of Parliament formerly at will of Crown, ib; dissolves Parliament, ib.; by sovereign in person, 48; prorogation with view to a disso- lution, ib.
Confirmation by, of Commons' privi- leges, 59. 156; Commons' privileges, independent of Crown, 60; freedom of access to sovereign, ib. 455; favourable construction of the Commons' proceed- ings, 61; addresses to, for prosecutions, 76; King's name not to be used in debate, 328; explanation of rule, 329.
Presence of, in Parliament, 444; cases
of attendance, ib.; communicates with Parliament in person or by commission, 445; by message, ib.; subjects thereof, 446; to both houses, 447: verbal mes- sages, ib.; King's pleasure signified, ib.; consent of, to bills, &c., 448. 460. 815. 835; procedure on bills passed without royal consent, 448; amend- ments in committee affecting, 448; con- sent withheld, 449; appearance in behalf of Crown before committees, 815; places its interests at disposal of Parliament, 449.
Character of the communications be- tween the Crown and Parliament, 450; how acknowledged, 451; addresses to, 452; resolutions communicated, 456; ministers responsible to Crown and Parliament, 457; bills for the restitution of honours, 460. 862; of pardon, 461; royal assent to bills, 510; given in person, 514; to bills providing for the dignity of Crown, ib.; accounts and papers presented by command, 540; and during a recess, 541; relating to expenditure of public money on Crown property, 537.
The revenue of the Crown dependent on Parliament, 587; of what it consists, ib.; private bill recommitted to make provision thereout, 727.
Control of Crown over expenditure, &c., 545; demand of the Crown for aid, ib.; royal order for issue of public money, ib.; estimates, 546; power of Crown over, 547; for grant on account, 548; a supplementary grant, 552; ex- cess grants, 553; for grants on a vote of credit, 554; for exceptional charges, 555; incidental charges, 556; messages regarding the militia and army reserves, ib.; the royal recommendation of charges, 447. 556. 558. 560. 726; pro- cedure on, 559; no increase on money demands of Crown, 564. 615; recom- mendation in general terms, 564; re- sponsibility regarding taxation, 564.625; financial measures exempt from royal control, 567; grants needing no recom- mendation, 570. 598.
Private bills relating to a claim on the Crown, 727; King's recommendation signified in cases of private bills, ib. 726; King's consent (private bills), 815. 835.
IV. Acceptance of Office under.—Va- cates seats in Parliament, 30. 640. 650, n.; exceptions, 645. See also Addresses to the Crown; Commons, House of; Dissolution of Parliament; Proclama- tions; Sovereign; Taxation.
Cumulative Offices; held under Crown, 648.
Customs and Inland Revenue Bills. See Finance Bill.
Dangerfield's Narrative; the Speaker prosecuted for publishing, 138. Davis, Mr. Gent; case of, 122. Davitt, M.; void election, 1882..34. 657.
Debates; a peer addresses the Lords in general, 310; debate on question in Lords, 311; the Commons address the Speaker, 310; speech not to be read, ib.; must be in English, 310; use of letters in a debate, 310, n.; members to speak standing and uncovered, 310; exceptions, ib.; may speak from the galleries, 311; debates on privilege cases, 270; interruptions to debate under standing orders, 214; incidental inter- ruptions to debate, 269.
When debate arises, 280. 311; the Speaker's call, 311; the call questioned, 312; member who speaks having been called, not to be interrupted, 314; mo- tion that a member do not speak, 217, n. ; precedence, new members, 313; to mem- ber who has moved the adjournment, ib.; though motion interrupted, 314; member not entitled to speak on main question, after having moved or seconded motion for adjournment of debate, which has been negatived, 313; to speak to the question, 314; debate on cognate bills, 315; matter ruled out of order not to be debated, ib.; merits of a bill not to be discussed on motion for postpone- ment or withdrawal, 317; debate on making a sessional order a standing order, ib.; discussion of motion or bill not to be anticipated, 315; nor of bill in the other house of parliament, 328.
Debate out of order when no question is before the house, 318; ministerial explanations, ib.; personal explanation, 319. 534; to speak once only, 320; ex- cept on reply, or in committee, ib.; or to explain, ib.; when reply allowed, 321; reserved speech, ib. ; rules thereon, 322; when new question arises, 322.
Order in debate, 323; rules for mem- bers speaking, 324; reference to prior debates, ib.; reading speeches from newspapers, 325; distinction between the speeches of living or dead members, ib., n.; not to reflect upon votes of the house, 326; nor to allude to debates or bills in the other house, 326; allusions to reports, 328; use of the King's name, ib.; not to use words against
Parliament, or either house, 331; nor against a statute, 332; nor on matters pending judicial decision, 332; nor reflections on sovereign, &c., ib.; per- sonal allusions, 333; imputations of bad motives, &c., 333; unparliamentary expressions, 334, n.; words of heat, 335; challenges, 336; words taken down, 337; dealt with, 338; rules for repression of irrelevance, &c., in debate, 316, 340; citing documents not before the house, 338.
When debate ceases, 339; debate stopped by Mr. Speaker Brand, 286, n.; closure of debate, 217.
Rules to be observed by members not speaking, 343; to keep their places, ib.; entering and leaving the house, ib.; not to cross before members speak- ing, 344; not to read books, &c., in their places, 344; to maintain silence, ib.; hissing and disorderly interruption, ib.; misbehaviour to members in the house, 346; interruptions in committee, 347; misbehaviour in the lobbies, 348; authority of the Speaker, 349. 386; members withdraw when conduct under debate, 352; rules of debate in com- mittee, 385; disorder in, 386.
Petitions not to allude to debates, 528; debate on petitions, 532; on presentation of papers, 540; debate on going into committee of supply, 609; in committee, 619; in committee of ways and means, 624; on report of supply resolutions, 627; on appropria- tion bill, 594; on army annual bill, 603; on finance bill, 629. See also Freedom of Speech; Motions; News- papers; Obstruction; Adjournment, Debate on; Closure; Interruption of Business; Privilege; Suspension of Members.
Debates, Adjournment of; moved to intercept a motion, 281; to obtain priority in debate, 313; debate on mo- tion for adjournment, 316; standing orders in restraint of debate on ques- tions of adjournment, 316; when mo- tion lapses, 216; adjourned debate on privilege, 275, n.; on going into supply, 610.
Debts to the Crown; rules as to peti- tions for compounding, &c., 561. Declaration; petitions not received in the form of, 525.
Declarations as to Personal Interest;
to be signed by members of private bill committees, 747. 755; exception in case of specially constituted committees, 829;
Declarations as to Personal Interest -continued.
to be signed by commissioners under the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act, 902.
Demise of the Crown. See Crown. Denison, Mr. Speaker; spoke on com- mittee of the whole house, 369. Departments. See Government Depart-
Deposit of Documents and Money (Private Bills); standing orders con- cerning, 695. 795. 798. 799. 852. Deputy Chairman; (Commons) ap- pointment of, 604; acts as Deputy Speaker, 197; takes chair at request of the Speaker, ib.; and private bills, 747. 789, n.; and referees, 761. Deputy Speaker; (Lords), 190; (Com- mons), 196.
Derby Day; adjournment over, 188, n. 256, n.
Destructors; standing orders (private bills) relating to, 802. 851.
De Tallagio non Concedendo; statute referred to, 18.
Dilatory Motions; when they lapse, 216; dealt with from the chair, 316. See Adjournment; Progress, &c. Directors of Railway Companies; standing orders (private bills) relating to, 724. 844. 853.
Discharge; of orders of the house, 300; of orders of the day, 261; by member not in charge of order, 262, n. Diseases (Animals); provisional orders
Disfranchisement Bill; service of copy of, on returning officer, 661, n. Disorder; direction from chair that dis- orderly members do withdraw, 350. See also Members; Speaker. Disqualification; of members, 29.640; of voters, 27.
Disraeli, Mr.; allowed to make state- ment in the house on the authority of the Queen, 330. Dissolution of Parliament; by the Crown, 47; grants on account before, 550; appropriation thereof, 551; Par- liament not determined by demise of the Crown, 48; by proclamation, ib.; in person, ib.; prorogations, with a view to, ib.; interval between a dissolution and assembling, 49; duration of privi lege after, 110; of speakership, 190; does not determine an impeachment, 667; nor an appeal case, 51; effect of, on inquiries under the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act, 902, n.; sus- pensions of private bills over, 837. 869.
I. Generally.-Division on election of Speaker, 155; when division arises, 286; voices to determine votes, 287; time for dealing with errors in, 363; members speak sitting and covered on question during a division, 310; claimed frivo- lously, 370; personal interest in the question, 373; motions to disallow votes, 377.
II. Lords.-Lords voting to be present when question put, 354; presence of strangers, 355; mode of taking divisions, 358; vote of peer in the wrong lobby, 359; division lists recorded in votes and journals, ib.; appointment of tellers, ib.; vote of Speaker given from wool- sack, ib.; of infirm peers from seats, ib.; votes by proxies discontinued, 370; question negatived when voices equal, 359; mode of putting questions in judicial cases, ib.; protests, 372.
III. Commons. Presence of members when question put, 354; precedents, ib.; rooms beyond the lobby not within the house, 355; presence of strangers, 355; proceedings prior to division, 356, App. VI.; members in wrong lobby, 362; question twice put, 356; breach of order during a division, 357; obligation upon members present to vote, 357, App. VI. ; members not voting on amendment may vote on main question, 358; mode of dividing, 361, App. VI.; appointment of tellers, ib.; mode of noting the names, ib.; report of numbers, ib.; second division in case of disagree- ment, 362; in absence of tellers, 361, n.; casting voice of Speaker, 364; of chair- man in committee, 364. 382; divisions in committee, 370; publication of division lists, 369; clerical errors in, 369; pairs, 371.
IV. In Standing and Select Com- mittees.-Divisions in standing commit- tees, 395; casting vote of chairman, 394; in select committees, 403. 411; cast- ing vote of chairman, 411; divisions, and casting vote of chairman, in private bill committees, 791.
Divorce Bills; when applied for, 858; always originate in Lords, 856; pro- cedure on, in Lords, 859-861; in Commons, 860; Fees on, 912; Divorce Bills Evidence Act, 1820..860. Documents; production of, if cited in
Documents-continued.
debate, 338; exceptions, ib.; referred to committees, 401; bills referred to committees as, ib. n.; power of sending for, given to committees, 406; pro- duction of, before private bill com- mittees not so empowered, 825; and before Examiners, 700. Door-keepers; duties of, on divisions, 356.
Doorз; re-opened for second division, 361.
Dormant Peerages (Scotch); laws respecting the assumption of, 11. Double Returns; proceedings on, 652. 658.
Drainage; private bills, 801. 910; pro- visional orders (Board of Agriculture), 880; (Ireland), 888.
Drawbacks and Allowances; rules as to proposing, 566. 601. Dropped and Superseded Orders of the Day, 263.
Dublin City; bills relating to, when public or private, 677; corporation, petitions from, presented, 530, and n.; bill for disfranchisement of freemen or- dered as amendment of question for new writ, 463.
Dukes; origin of the title, &c., 8. "Dummies" (Accounts and Re- turns); presentation of, 541. Duration of Temporary Laws; posi- tion of clause defining, 503. Duties; procedure on imposition of, 564; not to be increased by the house, 565. 625; reduction of, 565; petitions against imposition of, 528.
Ealdormen; title amongst the Saxons,
Earls; origin of the title, 8.
East Hendred, Manor of; stewardship of, 643, n.
East India Revenue Accounts; com- mittee thereon, 598; practice therein, ib. See also India.
Ecclesiastical Courts; privilege re- served in cases of contempt of, 122. Edinburgh; petitions of corporation of, 530; bills relating to, when public or private, 677.
Education; provisional orders (Board of Education), 882; (Scotland), 886. Edward the Confessor; enactment as to freedom from arrest, 103. Edward I.; summons of Parliament by, 18; recognition of consent of Commons to taxation, 584.
Edward II.; recognition of Commons in his statutes, 19.
Edward III.; laid Pope's demand of homage before Parliament, 3; recogni- tion of the Commons under, 19; and the annual holding of Parliament, 39. Elections; how held, 35; votes taken by ballot, ib.; returning officer gives notice of day of election, ib.; extent of Commons' jurisdiction in matters of, 52; its judicature in such matters delegated to courts of law, 54; laws, and number of statutes relating to, 631, and n.; issue of new writs, 54. 631, et seq.; members returned for two places, 652; to with- draw while their returns are in ques- tion, ib.; double returns, ib.; reso- lutions respecting voting and interfer- ence of peers, bishops, or ministers under Crown, 653; and bribery, ib.; proceed- ings of house in, 656; commissions of inquiry, 656. 661; penalties for corrupt practices, 659. See also Writs. Elections, Controverted; trial of, 651; former systems, ib.; the present, ib.; proceedings upon trial of petitions, 654; proceedings of house upon determination of election trials, 658; amendment of return by Clerk of the Crown, 658; special reports, 659; report of corrupt practices, 659.
Elective Franchise, 23-28. Electricity, Generation of; standing orders (private bills) relating (Commons), 802-3; (Lords), 851. Electric Lighting; provisional orders, 875.
Eliot, Sir John; prosecution of, with
Hollis and Valentine, 99.
Elsynge; his opinion on the tenure of bishops, 6, n.; on the separation of the two houses, 20; on parliamentary privi- leges, 60. 96.
Enacting Words; in bills not be amended, 485.
English; speeches must be made in, 310. Entering the House; rules to be ob-
served by members on, 343. Equality of Votes. See Divisions. Equity, Courts of; injunction by, restraining parties from proceeding with a private bill, 687.
Estate Bills; originate, on petition, in Lords, 856; special provisions as to Irish estate bills, 857; as to Scotch estate bills, ib. 896; proceedings on estate bills (Lords), 856-8; (Commons), 858; referred to Examiners, 858; standing order relating to, to be observed by committees, 858; Fees on, 912; classi- fication of, as Acts, 910. Estates of Members; claim of privi- leges for, omitted (1853), 59, n.
Estates of the Realm, 2. Estimates; annual, presented, 546; for the revenue departments, ib.; for the militia, ib.; power of Crown over, 547 ; ordinary, ib.; of grants on account, 548; of supplementary grants, 552; alteration in form of, 553, n.; excess grants, 553; vote of credit, 554; exceptional charges, 555; reference of, to select committees, 597, n.; dealt with in committee of supply, 603; time allotted to, 605. Estimates (Private Bills); require- ments as to, of preliminary standing orders, 695; in local authorities' bills, 804. Evidence; before select committees, pub- lication of, a breach of privilege, 74. 416; taken down and printed, 414; report of, from time to time, 418; by a reappointed committee, ib.; referred to a secretary of state, 421; evidence protected, 431; indemnity for, ib.; false evidence punished, 75. 431.
Evidence before private bill com- mittees, minutes of, 824; printing of, ib.; where ordered to be laid before house, ib.; evidence before former committees referred to a committee, 791; or to a commission under the Private Legislation Procedure (Scot- land) Act, 902.
See also Oaths; Witnesses. Examiners, The; appointed by both houses, 695; to examine as to compli- ance with the Standing Orders relating to Private Bills, 696; memorials to, complaining of non-compliance, 697, et seq., 840; sittings of, for proof to com- pliance with preliminary requirements of the standing orders in the case of bills for which petitions have been deposited, 698, et seq., 840; examination of cases included in the general list of petitions for bills, ib.; where petitions are struck off the list, 698; how re- inserted, ib.; statement of proofs before Examiners, 699; formal proofs, ib.; proof by affidavit, ib.; proceedings in unopposed cases, 700; opposed cases, 700, et seq.; decision of Examiner as to compliance or non-compliance with standing orders, 700. 704; decision re- ported to Commons and certified to Lords, 704. 840; special reports, 704. 840. 894, n.; reports (certificates) as to non-compliance, and special reports, referred in either house to standing orders committee, 696. 716. 841; bills referred to Examiners after first reading (Commons), 723. 724; (Lords), 841. 842; petitions for additional provision
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