mittee in Commons (on bill), 790. 824. 827. 828; (as to adjournments), 828; (as to witnesses), 825-6; (special re- ports), 826; of committee in the Lords, 847. 854. 858. 862; reports as to costs, 820, et seq.; and in the case of Pro- visional Order bills, 892-4; reports from public departments regarding a private bill, to be referred to committee, 791.850. See also Private Bills; Resolutions. Reporters' Galleries; Lords' and Com- mons', dates of, 73, n. See also Debates; Newspapers.
Representative Peers of Ireland.
Representative Peers of Scotland. See Scotland.
Reprimand. See Speaker, III. Reserved Speech; in debate, 321. Resolutions; duration of, 148; obser- vance of, ib.; are questions resolved in the affirmative, 288; rescinded, 300; notice required, 301; or modified by other resolutions, 301; procedure on, in committee of the whole house, 384; notice of, not needed, 383; cannot be postponed, 368; considered by select committees, 461; communicated at con- ferences, 437; laid before the sovereign, 456; before members of the royal family, ib.; bills ordered upon, 463. 629; amendments to question for second read- ing of bills in the form of resolutions, 472; abstract resolutions regarding ex- penditure, 572. See also Reports. Restitution Bills; originate with the Lords, 460. 862; King's consent signi- fied before first reading in Commons, 460, 862.
Restoration (1660); Parliament met, and chose Speaker of its own authority, 39. 158. Return of Members, Proof of; book delivered by Clerk of the Crown to Clerk of the House of Commons, 150; names of members read from, on call of the house, 181; certificate of returns after a general election, 169; delay therein, 169, n., 170.
Returning Officers; how far disqualified
for election, 30; hold elections, 35; casting vote of, 653. Returns. See Accounts and Papers; Elections, Controverted; Unopposed Returns; Writs for New Members. Revenue Departments; estimates for, 546.
Revival of Committees; select, 414; of the whole house, 264; of supply, 611; on private bills, in Commons, 828. Revolution of 1688; effect of, on the Constitution, 2. 4; Parliament met, and chose Speaker of its own authority, 39. 158; freedom of speech confirmed at, 99; practice of petitioning respecting public measures introduced after, 528; no taxes by prerogative since, 587. Rex v. Merceron; cited, 130. Rex v. Wright; cited, 101. Richard II.; petition to, respecting the annual holding of Parliament, 40. Rochdale Election; alleged tampering with witness, 87; debate whether ac- cused party is bound to criminate him- self, ib.
Rolls of Parliament; 202, n., 515. Roman Catholic Clergy; excluded
from sitting in Parliament, 31. Roman Catholic Faith; a disability for holding Crown, 4; declaration against, by sovereign, 5.
Roman Catholics; oaths formerly taken by, 160; now the same oath for all members, ib.
Roman Senate; forms of putting ques- tions in, 297, n.
Rothschild, Baron de; case of, 162; committee respecting his contracting for government loans, 32; chosen of a committee and conference prior to taking oath, 169; certificate of Clerk of Crown being first read, 170.
Royal Assent to Bills; the final stage, 510; bills passed cannot be withheld from, ib.; custody of bills prior to, ib.; session not concluded by, 511, n.; given by commission, 511; forms of commis- sion for declaring the, prescribed by Order in Council, 511, n.; form of giving assent, 512; of refusing, 513; given by the sovereign in person, 514; to civil list bills, ib.; in the sovereign's absence from the realm, 515; assent to appro- priation bills, 513. 596; informalities in, 520.
Royal Commissions; questions to members of, 249; report of, held to be a parliamentary paper, 102, n. ; irregular publication of reports, 416, n.; address for appointment with power to take evidence on oath, 454, n.
Royal Family; peer of, takes oath in
House of Lords, singly, 153; adjourn- ment of the Commons on funerals of, 187; messages for provision for, 446 condolence by Parliament on death of, 454; messages to, 456; communica- tions from, ib.
Royal Household; addresses presented
by members of, 175. 176. 453. Royal Order; supply grants, 545. 591. Royal Pleasure; signified, 447; an- swered, 451.
Royal Titles Act, 6.
Running Powers; in tramway bills, 800; locus standi, against (railway bills), 764, 774.
Sadleir, Mr. James; expelled the house, having fled from justice, 58.
St. Paul's Cathedral; attendance of both houses at, 186. Salmon Fisheries; provisional orders, 880.
Salomons, Alderman; proceedings in regard to his taking the oaths, 162. Saturday; usual hour of meeting on, 213; no interruption of business or adjournment under standing order, 227; appointment of sitting on, 265; special arrangements respecting, 267; as to committees sitting on, 413. 828-9, n., 847.
Savings Banks; bills relating to, when founded on resolutions of committees, 561.
Schedules to Bills; proceedings on, 490; accidentally omitted from private bill on presentation, 723, n.; scheduled agreements (private bills), 792. 850. Scotland; obligation of the sovereign to maintain the Presbyterian Church in, 5; peers of, represented in Parliament, 10; their privileges, 10. 110. 670; order of Scottish peerage, 10; when a representa- tive peer becomes peer of Great Britain, 11; Scottish peers and judges ineligible to House of Commons, 30; representa- tive peers must be of full age, 12; judi- cature of Lords over seats of, 50; certi- ficate of election from Clerk of Crown, 152; number of representatives for, 24; elective franchise of, 26; Scotch judges, places for, in House of Lords, 198, n.; Scotch estate bills, 857. 896; Scotch provisional order bills, 883-6. 889. See also Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act; Secretary for Scotland. Sea Fisheries (Scotland) provisional orders, 885.
Seats of Members in the House. See Places. Second Reading; of public bills, 470; of private bills (in the Commons), 729; (in the Lords), 846. 861; of provisional order bills, 892; of confirming bills under the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act, 905-7.
Second Speech; when permitted, 321. Secret Committees, 410.
Secretaries of State, &c.; vacation of seats, on appointment, 640; not on transfer between offices, 645; or on re- sumption of office prior to appointment of successor, 646; number of, in House of Commons limited, 647; case of five under secretaries inadvertently sitting, 647; under secretaries do not vacate their seats, 646.
Secretary for Scotland; powers and duties under the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act, 690. 883. 895, et seq.; in the framing of the "general orders" regulating proceed- ings under the Act, 896; petition to, for a provisional order under the Act, 895, 897; duties of, on the application for an order, 897–900; report to, of the two chairmen (Lords and Commons), regarding proposed orders, 898; takes proposed orders into consideration, 900; may direct an inquiry to be held on order, 901; duties of, in the appoint- ment of commissioners to hold inquiries, 901-2; refusal to issue an order, 903; issues order, with or without modifi- cations, 903-4; determines in which house the confirming bill is first intro- duced, 904, n.
Provisional orders made by, under other Acts, 883. 895. 905, n.; and the procedure thereon, ib.
Seditious Libels; a breach of privilege,
Select. Selection, Committee of, (Commons); a sessional committee, 745; constitution of, ib.
Duties of, in classifying private bills for consideration by committee, 745; in regard to the committee on unopposed bills, 746. 747; and in appointing ordi- nary committees on opposed private or provisional order bills, 745. 746. 892; other duties in regard to private bill committees, 747-9.
Duties of, in nomination of special committees on private bills, 749-752. 805; of committees on hybrid bills, 469; of the standing committees, 393-4; of the parliamentary panel, or of a joint committee, under the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act, 901. 906; and of other committees, 404. 836.
Selection, Committee of, (Lords), 846. 901.
Separatists. See Quakers, &c. Septennial Act (1 Geo. I. c. 38); re- ferred to, 47.
Serjeant-at-Arms; (Lords), his duties, 199; (Commons), supported by the house in execution of their orders, 64. 66; assistance of the civil power, power to break open outer doors, 67; may not occupy the premises, 68; returns made by, to writs of habeas corpus, 69; made arrests under authority of mace, 71; arrests persons under orders of the house, ib.; persons com- mitted to his custody, 93; appointed by Crown, 204; his duties, ib.; assisted by a deputy, 205; duties respecting strangers, 206; in maintaining order in the lobby, 205; enforces Speaker's orders with regard to members, 343; duty at divisions, 356; arrests a disorderly mem- ber, 347; gives notice of prayers to select committees, 413; enforces the attendance of witnesses, 425; attends Lords with witnesses in custody, 427; witnesses prevaricating, committed to 75; stands with mace at the bar on ex- amination of witnesses in custody, 433; introduces peers, judges, &c., on exami- nation at the bar, ib.; sheriffs of Lon- don presenting petitions, 529; and com- moners impeached, 665.
Serjeants-at-Law; formerly part of the consilium regis, 198, n.
Servants of Members; formerly privi- leged from arrest, 59, n., 104. 108. Session; question when decided on, not to be offered again in the same session, 300; not concluded by royal assent to bills, 511, n.; public bill suspended till following session, 309, n.; proceedings on private bills suspended and resumed in another session, 837-8. Sessional Committees; Lords, 402; Commons, 405.
Sessional Orders; their nature and du- ration, 148. 168. Appendix I.; debate on making, standing orders, 317; re- lating to private and provisional order bills in the Lords, 845. 856. 857. 891. Settlement, Act of; disables a Roman Catholic from holding the Crown, 5; declares that pardon is not pleadable in bar of impeachment, 667. Sewage Works; standing orders (pri- vate bills) relating to, 802. 851. Seymour, Sir Ed. (Speaker); seized Mr. Serjeant Pemberton, 87; royal approbation of, refused, 158. Shareholders; locus standi of, 778-9; dissentient, standing orders respecting, 700. 779. 842-4. 848. See also Preference Shares.
Sheriffs; how far disqualified for elec- tion, 30; hold elections in pursuance of
Sheriffs-continued.
King's writ, 35; ordered to assist Ser- jeant in executing a warrant, 66. Shire-Gemót; its character, 14. Shirley, Sir T.; case of, 106. Shorthand Writer (Parliament); appointment and duties of, 199; at- tendance at the bar, 200; at select committees, 414; not to give evidence elsewhere without leave, 431; their first employment by Parliament, 414, n.; report evidence and judgment upon trials of election petitions, 655, n. Short Title of a Bill; amended, 491. 502.
Sign-manual; messages under the royal, 445.
Sittings of the House. See Adjournment of the House; Meeting of a New Parlia ment; Two o'clock Sittings; Quorum; Saturday; Wednesday Sittings. Sodor and Man, Bishop of; has no seat in Parliament, 7, n. Soldiers in Uniform; admitted to strangers' gallery, 207. Solicitor-General; part of the consilium regis, 198.
Solicitors; privileged when attending the house, 125; appearing before private bill committees, 807.
South Sea Company; prorogation for introduction of new bills, 308; evidence on oath taken by committee on (1720), 430, n.
Sovereign; debate on conduct of, on motion, 278; rule applies to represen- tatives of the sovereign, ib.; reflection not to be cast on, by a question, 248. 250; or in debate, 332. Speaker:
I. Of the House of Lords.-The lord chancellor, or lord keeper, 43. 189; prorogues Parliament by royal com- mand, 43; duties of, 190; not neces- sarily a peer, 189; when great seal in commission, ib.; on meeting of new Parliament, 149, et seq.; takes the oath, 152; signifies approval of Commons' Speaker, 156; reads the royal speech to the house, 174; sits on the woolsack, 177; has written to desire the attend- ance of peers, 180; obligation to attend, 189, n.; deputy Speakers, 190; Speaker pro tempore, ib.; his place when he ad- dresses the house, 191, n.; attended by Serjeant-at-arms with mace, 199.
Prorogues Parliament, 208; omits ob- jectionable words from motion, 279; pro- poses questions, ib.; puts the question, 286; effect of his limited authority upon the conduct of debates, 311. 323.
349; has, by courtesy, precedence in speaking, 311; appoints tellers on a division, 358; votes from woolsack, 359; writes to desire the attendance of peers and peeresses as witnesses, 424; reads messages from the Crown, 446; presents joint address of both houses to the sovereign, 455; reports answer to addresses, ib.; has notice when a com- mission for royal assent to bills is wanted, 481.
II. Of the House of Commons.—
1. Generally.-Earliest mention of the office, 20, and n.; his rank, 195; words of, taken down, 337.
2. Choice of Speaker.-Chosen by Commons at desire of Crown, 150. 447; election of Speaker, 154; vacancy during session, 157; retirement of, 156; member who has not taken the oaths and seat cannot be proposed as, 157, n. ; royal approbation of, 156; refused, 158; elected without, 157; duration of office, 156; after a dissolution, 195.
3. His Duties and Authority.-Peti- tions for Commons' privileges, 59. 156; power of committal, 87; libels on, 81; admonishes or reprimands culprits, 93; entry of his words, 191, n.; his duties at the opening of a new Parliament, 159; calls on members to take the oath, ib.; takes the oath, ib.; has read prayers, ib., n.; waits in Clerk's chair till approach of Black Rod, 172; goes up with Commons to hear the royal speech, ib.; reads it to house, 174; his speech on presenting a money bill, 208.
Summary of the Speaker's duties, 191-195; fixes hour of meeting of house, 212; his duty at interruption of business, &c., 214; regarding closure, 218; his duties at commencement of public business, 255; duty regarding a quorum, 229; no printed question to, 247; duty regarding questions to mem- bers, ib.; notices of motions, 243; regarding a motion for a charge, 559; power to adjourn house or suspend sit- ting in case of disorder, 194.
Appointment and duties of the deputy Speaker, 195; Speaker can request chairman of ways and means or deputy chairman to take the chair, 197; re- sumes the chair, 197.
Peruses votes of the house, 201; his duties at prorogation, 208; calls mem- bers to bring up bills, 466; to bring up papers, 540; authorizes delivery of papers to members, 542; demands
judgment on impeachments, 666; di- rects arrest of offenders, 71. 87; issues warrants, 191; orders disorderly mem- bers to withdraw from the precincts, 350; libels on, 81; debates on conduct of, 277. 293. 332; words of, entered on the journal, 94. 191, n.
Questions.-Formerly framed by him, 279; proposed by him, 280; takes pleasure of house on withdrawal of motions, 280; puts question, 286. 311; permitted to do so sitting, 286, n.; ruling by, that a member's voice deter- mines his vote, 287; states amend- ments to questions, 290; calls attention when the same question is twice offered, 302.
Debates. Addressed by members, 310; calls upon members to speak, 311; powers with regard to irrelevance and repetition in debate, 316; his duty regarding words taken down, 337; the suspension of members, 340; the order directing disorderly members to with- draw, 350; disorder in the lobbies, 348; maintains order in debate, 344; his authority, 349; refers doubtful cases to the judgment of the house, ib. ; is always to be heard, 350.
Divisions.-Enforces rule that mem- bers voting must be present when ques- tion put, 354; orders strangers to with- draw, 356; puts the question, 356; again states the question, 358; division on an amendment, 358; directs the division, 361; appoints tellers, ib.; de- clares the numbers, 362; his casting voice, 364; assigns reasons, ib.; pre- cedents, ib.; rulings regarding per- sonal interest in a vote, 373; overrules objections to votes, 374; procedure on divisions frivolously claimed, 370.
Committees of the whole House.-In committee entitled to speak and vote, 368; cases, ib.; leaves the chair, upon house going into committee, 380; after midnight, 223.
Resumes the Chair.-To put the question on election of chairman, 603; on disorder in committee, 386; on sum- mons by Black Rod, 388; when quorum is not present in committee, 231.
Witnesses.-Issues warrants for at- tendance of witnesses in custody, 425; authorizes, in the recess, attendance of officers of the house at trials, 432; examines witnesses and prisoners at the bar, 432.
Messages and Addresses, &c.-Reads written messages from the Crown, 446;
presents addresses to sovereign, 455; mode of approach to palace, ib.; pre- sentation of addresses, ib.; reports answers, ib.; communications from royal family to him, by letter, 456.
Elections and Writs.-Duties of, re- garding the issue of new writs, 54, 631; during recess, 636; form of certificates to authorize him to issue warrant for new writ during recess, App. V.
Private Business.-Authority of, over parliamentary agents, 709. 710. 711. 913; calls on Clerk to read appointed private business, 235; rulings of (as to what may be deemed private busi- ness), 714, n., 738. 739; (as to a bill being brought in as public or as private), 675. 682. 684; (as to irre- gularity in introduction of bill), 675, n., 728, n.; (as to the grounds on which private bill may be opposed on second reading), 730, n.; (as to excessive amendments made by a committee), 492. 830, n,; rulings as to instructions on private bills, 731, et seq.; rules in- structions out of order (as dealing with general policy), 737-9; (as outside scope of bill), 739-742; (on other grounds), 731, n., 743; memorandum as to government departments before private bill committees, 815-7, n.; duties of, as to amendments on consideration of bill, 833-4; and Lords amendments, 836; powers of, regarding taxation of costs, 914. 915.
Speaker's Counsel. See Counsel to Mr. Speaker.
Special Reports. See Examiners; Re- ports.
Speech from the Throne; at opening
of session, 42. 171. 545; at a proroga- tion, 208.
Spiritual Lords. See Bishops. Stamp Duties, imposition of, in private bills, 561.
Standing Committees: - Commons: appointment of, 393; constitution of, ib.; quorum, 394; rules, ib.; appoint- ment of chairman, ib.; vote of chairman in, ib.; sitting of, during sitting of house, ib.; procedure in, 395; divisions in, ib.; duties of, regarding bills, 395; motions not to proceed further with bills in, 397; authority of chairman in, 396; no appeal from chairman to the Speaker, 397; procedure on bills reported, 398. Lords: appointment of, ib.; appointment of chairman, ib.; constitution and proce- dure, ib.; quorum, ib.; procedure on bill reported, 399.
Standing Orders; character of, 147; authorized collections of, published, 148; suspension of, ib.; suspended, Lords, in respect of bills, 517.
Standing Orders relative to Private Bills; in both Houses, 148. 692. 695, n.; compliance with, to be proved before the Examiners, 694. 696. 723–5. 729.841, et seq., 891; orders to be observed by committees on private bills (Commons), 790, et seq., 823; (Lords), 850, et seq.; orders relating to locus standi (Com- mons), 761, et seq.; (Lords), 848; stand- ing orders dispensed with, 711. 721; suspended, 837. 722; amended, 695, n., 714. See also Private Bills. Standing Orders Committee; In the Commons: constitution and duties, 716; Examiners' reports of non-compliance, referred to committee, 696. 716. 726; proceedings of, 717, et seq.; parties not usually heard by, 717; report that standing orders should or should not be dispensed with, 718. 719; subject parties to conditions, 718; compliance with committee's conditions, how proved, 718. 792, n.; reports of, referred back to committee by the house, 719. 720; special reports of Examiners referred to committee, 716. 894, n.; and petitions for dispensing with orders, 721; and proposed clauses on consideration of bill, 834; other matters referred to com- mittee, 699. 721. 726. 728. 798, n.; chairman of, 745.
In the Lords: duties, 841. 696; proceedings of, on cer- tificates, and special reports, from Ex- aminers, 841; parties heard before, 842. Statement of Proofs. See Proofs. Statutes; abusive mention of, 332; how enacted, 458. See also Bills.
Steam vessels; standing order (private bills) as to power of railways to acquire, 795. 852; locus standi of steamship owners, 767, n., 774.
Stockdale v. Hansard; case referred to, 102. 136. 141.
Strangers; taken into custody for mis- conduct, 71; regulations of admission, 205; standing order respecting with- drawal of, 207; order to withdraw not applied to ladies' gallery, ib.; presence of strangers during divisions, 355; soldiers in uniform, 207; in select com- mittees of the Lords, 408; of the Com- mons, ib.; in private bill committees, 806. See also Closed Doors. Strode's Case; referred to, 97.99. Sub-Committees; Lords, 398. Subpoenas; privilege regarding, 114.
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