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Substituted Bills; under the Private
Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act,
899.

Subways. See Railway, &c., Bills.
Sugar Duties; illustrative of practice
regarding permanent or annual duties,
590.

Suitors in Parliament; privileged,
124; restrained by injunction, or by
order of the house, 146. See also
Promoters (Private Bills).

Summons of Parliament; by act of
Crown, 39; Parliament meeting on
its own authority, ib.; writ of summons,
41; Parliament to meet without, on
demise of Crown, ib.; causes of, de-
clared, 42. 171. See also Writs of
Summons.

Sums and Dates; rules regarding ques-
tions on, 384. 560. 619.

Sunday; excluded in reckoning time for
election proceedings, 36; meetings of
Parliament on, 42. 184; standing
order (Lords) as to sitting of committees
on, 847.

Supersedeas, Writs of. See Writs, &c.
Superseded Orders of the Day, 264.
Supplementary Grants, 552; debate
on, 621.

Supply, and Ways and Means:

Right of the Commons in voting, 52;
the Commons' right of supply, 586;
taxes by prerogative abolished, 587;
revenue of Crown dependent upon
Parliament, ib.; demand of Crown for
a supply, 545; estimates presented by
the Crown, 546; messages from the
Crown, 555; enforcement of royal con-
trol over public expenditure, 558; over
taxation, 563; use of existing charges,
567; grants needing no royal recom-
mendation, 567. 570. 598; action by the
Commons on the demand by Crown for
supply, 587; imposition of taxation,
588; the budget, ib.; permanent and
annual taxes, 589; legal effects of grants,
ib., n.; appropriation of the grants of
committee of supply, 593; drafts upon
consolidated fund in committee of ways
and means to meet grants of supply,
591; enforcement of appropriation, 597;
reduction of charges, 601; packet, &c.,
contracts, ib.; Army Annual Bill, 602.

Appointment of committees of supply,
and ways and means, 587. 603; of
chairman, 603; of deputy chairman,
604; days of sitting, 605; first order
on Thursdays, 259. 605; number of
days allotted to supply during session,
605;
method of computing such days,
605; arrangements for business on,

Supply, and Ways and Means-con-
tinued.

259; number of allotted days given to
a vote on account, 606; procedure for
concluding a vote on account, 606; for
concluding supply on last two allotted
days, 606; no motion for adjournment
on, 607; proceedings on, exempt from
interruption, 607; questions put from
the chair, 606. 607, n.; no instruction
to committee of supply, 607; amend-
ments on going into committee, 608;
debate thereon, ib.; adjournment of
procedure thereon, 610; revival of
order for supply, 611; notice of esti-
mates to be considered, 612; form of
supply grants, ib.; ways and means
grants not to exceed amount of supply
grants, 592; appropriation of, 593.

Procedure on supply grants, 613;
items of a grant proposed separately,
613; grants proposed by a minister,
614; procedure on supplementary
grants and on grants on account, 614;
British Museum grant, 614; grants not
to be increased, 615; or destination
altered, 616; method of proposing
amendments, ib.; treatment of items,
617; debate in committee of supply,
619; on army and navy grants, ib.; on
civil services, 620; on supplementary
and excess grants, 621; general method
of debate, 622; legislation not to be
discussed, 623; committee closed, ib.;
method of reopening, ib.; procedure
upon reports of committee of supply
626; postponement or recommittal of,
628; amendments thereto, 628.

Procedure in committee of ways and
means, 624; proposal of amendments,
ib.; no increase of demands, 625; mode
of proposing sums and dates, ib.; pro-
cedure upon reports, 626; amendments
thereto, 628; bills ordered upon reports,
629.

Committees on exceptional charges,
630. See also Appropriation, &c.; Con-
solidated Fund; Crown, the Control of,
over Expenditure; Exceptional Grants;
Excess Grants; Grant of a Vote of
Credit; Grants on Account; Lords
and Public Charges; Public Charges;
Report of Supply, &c., Resolutions.
Supremacy, Oath of; cases of refusal to
take the oath, 161.

Suspension of Bills; public, 308; pri-
vate, 837.

Suspension of Members; early cases
of, 56; for disregarding authority of the
chair, &c., 340; period of suspension,
341; when force has been necessary to

Suspension of Members-continued.
secure obedience to chair, ib.; motion
for, exempt from interruption under
standing order 1 .. 341, n.
Suspension of Sittings; of the house,
228; at 7.30 under arrangements in
force between 1902 and 1906.. 228, n.;
of committee of the whole house, 389, n.;
by the Speaker, in case of grave dis-
order, 194.

Suspension of Writs, 660.

Table of the House; peers and peer-
esses sworn at, 429; petitions laid
upon, Lords, 532; Commons, ib. ; and
papers, 542; Lords' minutes, 328, n.;
private bills (Commons) presented, and
deemed to be read first time, by being
laid on table, 715-6. 723. See also
Mace.

Tacks to Money Bills, 585.
Tallage; levy of, 18. 586.
Tampering with Witnesses before
Parliament; a breach of privilege,

86.

Taxation; feudal origin of parlia-
mentary taxation, 586; by prerogative,
abolished, 587; to meet the demand of
supply, 545; responsibility of the Crown,
558. 564; to be proposed by a minister
of the Crown, 564; reduction of, 565;
imposition of, 588; permanent and
yearly, 590; procedure in ways and
means, 591; no increase of demands,
625; questions involving longer or
shorter time, ib.; imposition of, to
originate in committee, 558; but not
of local taxation, 599; petitions against
proposed taxes, received, 528. See also
Public Charges; Supply, and Ways
and Means.

Taxation of Costs; on private bills, 913,

et seq.; of costs awarded by committee
(private or provisional order bill), 822;
(under the Private Legislation Pro-
cedure (Scotland) Act), 906.
Taxing Officers; of each house, 914;
powers and duties of, 914-5.
Telegraph Act; confers powers of
provisional legislation on postmaster-
general, 882.

Telegraphic Contracts. See Contracts.
Tellers on Divisions. See Divisions.
Temporary Chairmen of Commit-
tees, 381; closure not enforceable
under, ib.; can put the question for
suspension," 340; or direct a dis-
orderly member to withdraw, 350.
Temporary Laws; duration of, to be
expressed, 503; continued during pass-
ing of continuance bills, ib.

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Test Roll, the; subscribed by members,
170.

Teste (Writs); interval between, and
return of writ, 41.

Thames Conservancy Bills; public or
private, 673. 683-4, n.

Thames Valley Drainage Act; pro-
visional order under, 880.

Thanks of the House; precedence to
motions for, 256; place of member
thanked, 178, n.

Thanksgiving Days; custom of houses
to attend service on, 185.

Third Reading and Passing; of public
bills, 501; of private bills (Commons),
835; (Lords), 855. 862.

Thorpe's Case; referred to, 105. 132.
Thursday; supply first order of the day
upon, 259; motion to supersede supply
upon, 266; no other business than supply
to be taken before eleven o'clock upon,
259; or supply after eleven o'clock
upon, 606.

Tithes; introduction of bills relating to,
600.

Titles of Bills; form of, 465; effect
of title on an instruction, 479; special
report, if title amended, in committee,
479; amendment of title in the Lords,
502; in the Commons, ib.; trans-
position of titles by mistake, 521; short
title amended, 491. 502.

Titles of Honour; the gift of the
Crown, 5.

Tobacco; members not to take, in the
house, 343, n.

Tolls and Charges. See Rates and Charges.
Tooke, Mr. Horne; a member, though

in holy orders, 31; his application re-
garding a parliamentary publication,
101.

Tower of London; committal to, 93.
Town Councils (Scotland); and pro-
visional orders, 884. 889.

Trade; (Commons), introduction of bills
relating to, 464, n.; grand committee
for, 392; standing committees on bills
relating to, 393.

Trade, Board of. See Board of Trade.
Traders; locus standi of (Commons), 767;
(Lords), 849.

Tramroads; standing orders (private
bills) relating to, in the Commons, 800.
793-9; in the Lords, 851-2; 855.
Tramways; standing orders (private
bills) relating to, (consents), 695, n.;
(tolls and rates), 793; (loans), 794;
(abandonment), 795; (completion), 797;
(length of line), 800; (acquisition by
local authorities), 800; (running powers),
800; standing orders relating to, in the

Tramways-continued.

INDEX.

Lords, 851-2.855; locus standi (against
tramway bills), 773-4. 777. 849; (of
tramway companies), 773, n.; report of
tramway bill (Commons), 832.
Tramways Provisional Orders; by
the Board of Trade, 875; by the Lord-
Lieutenant (Ireland), and procedure on
confirming bill, 886. 891, n.
Treason; member convicted of, disquali-
fied to sit, 34; petition from, 528; no
privilege in cases of, 115; notice of
Commons
arrest of members for, 118;
impeach peers and commoners for, 663;
trial of peers for, 667.
Treasury; authority given to, by the
royal order, 545; by appropriation Act,

591;
financial statement made by first
lord of, 588, n.; first lords holding
also chancellorship of the exchequer,
648; secretaryship to, does not vacate
seat, 646; grant the Chiltern Hundreds,
643; expenses of witnesses before select
committees paid at, 434.

Private bills deposited with, 755. 855;
suggestions of, on private bills, 755;
appearance of, before private bill com-
mittees, 815-7, n.; provisions relating
to, in the Private Legislation Procedure
(Scotland) Act, 897. 899. 903. 904.
Treating. See Bribery; Corrupt Prac-
tices Acts.

Trevor, Sir John; expelled for receipt
of gratuity, 84.

Trials Pending; questions relating to,
250.

Triennial Act (6 & 7 Will. & Mary,

c. 2); referred to, 41. 47.
Triers of Petitions. See Receivers and
Triers of Petitions.

Trustees; no privilege over property
held by peers as, 108.

Tuesday Sittings; rules for, 226;
notices of unofficial members at com-
mencement of public business on, 257;
priority to their notices of motions at a
quarter-past eight o'clock on, 258. See
also Monday; Two o'clock Sittings.
Tumultuous Assemblages; near Par-
liament, 524; for the presentation of
petitions, prohibition of, 183; house
when in committee resumed on occa-
sion of, 387.
Turnpike Roads (Ireland); standing
order (private bills) relating to, 802.
Two o'clock Sittings; on Tuesdays and
Fridays before 1902 for Government
business, 213, n., 265; on Mondays,
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays,
between 1902 and 1906 .. 213, n.; inter-
ruption of business on, ib.

"Umbrella Case," the; (Lords), 65.
Under Secretaries of State. See Secre-
taries of State.

Undue Influence. See Elections, Contro-
verted, III.

Uniformity, Act of; passed, the lords
spiritual dissenting, 13.

Union with Ireland, see Ireland; with
Scotland, see Scotland.

United States; houses of legislature of,
enforce answer to questions by law,
87, n.; quorum of, 228, n.

Universities of Oxford and Cam-
bridge; members for, styled burgesses,
14, n.

Unopposed Business, 214, 222.
Unopposed Returns, 237, 277.
Unusual Expedition; bills passed with,

516; ditto, private bill, 837. 861, n., 722.
Urgency Resolution (1881-82), 342, n.
Usher of the Black Rod, 198; attends

with witnesses in custody, 425; has
custody of persons impeached, 665.

Vacancies in Seats; causes of, 631,
et seq.; by members, capable of re-
election, 640. See also Offices under the
Crown; Writs.

Viscount; origin of the title, 9.
Voices; on a question, 287; bind the
member's vote, ib.

Vote Office (Commons); distribution

of parliamentary papers by, 542; copies
delivered to, of private bills, 723. 830.
Votes and Proceedings (Commons);
compilation of, 201; period over which
they extend, ib., n.; entries expunged
from, 203; journals prepared from, 201;
questions not entered in, 203; hour of
meeting announced in, 213; description
of, 232; circulation of, ib.; Lords
division
search Commons' votes, 308;
lists, printed with, 369; and petitions,
533; notices relating to private business,
714. 747. 833. 836; and reports, 832.
See also Minutes of Proceedings
(Lords); Notice Paper of the House;
Journals, III.

Votes of Members. See Divisions.
Votes of Thanks. See Thanks of the House.
Votes on Account. See Grants, &c.

Wages of Members; amount of, in
time of Edward III., 22.

Wales, Prince of. See Cornwall, Duke of.
Walpole, Sir Robert; expelled and de-
clared incapable of sitting, 56; use of
king's name by, 329; resignation of
office, 651, n.; held office of first lord
of the treasury and chancellor of the
exchequer, 648.

War; message from Crown respecting,
446. 556; address in answer to, 451;
vote of credit on account of, 554;
secretary and under secretary of state
for, to sit in House of Commons, 647.
War Office; and provisional orders, 882.
875; appearance of, before private bill
committee, 815-7, n. See also
Government Departments.

Warrant; committal without, 71; tenor

and legal effect of Speaker's warrant of
committal, 67. 143; of chairman of
election committee, 68; for examina-
tion of witnesses on divorce bills, 860.
See also Speaker, II. 3.

Wason v. Walter, cited, 101.
Water Bills; standing orders relating to
(Commons), 802. 803; (Lords), 850;
locus standi against (in the Commons),
771–2. 777; (in the Lords), 849.
Water Board (Metropolis); provisional
orders relating to, 871.

Ways and Means, Committee of; an-
nual taxes voted in, 588, 590; appoint-
ment of, 587. 603; appointment of
chairman, 603; retirement of, 604; pro-
cedure in committee, 624; debate in,
ib.; amendments in, ib.; Consolidated
Fund Bills based on resolutions of,
557, n., 591; taxation not to be in-
creased, 625; questions involving longer
or shorter time, ib. See also Reports;
Supply, and Ways and Means.
Wednesday Sittings; rules for, 226;
notices of motions of unofficial members
at commencement of public business on,
257; priority to their notices of motions
at a quarter-past eight on, 258; hour
of meeting on, before 1902..213, n.;
case of prolonged sitting of Tuesday,
183, n.; sittings on Ash Wednesday,
188, n.; Lords, 209.

Wellesley, Mr. Long; case of, 120.
Wensleydale Peerage Case, 13.
Westminster Palace, Precincts, &c. See
Houses of Parliament.

Whalley, Mr.; committal of, by Queen's
Bench for contempt, 120.
Wharncliffe Order (Private Bills);
standing orders, 842, et seq., 723-4; pro-
prietors dissenting under, to be heard
(before Examiners), 700. 701. 849, n.;
(before committees), 779. 848.
Whitsuntide; order of bills after, 260;
and the first reading of provisional order
bills in Commons, 891.

Wilkes, John; proceedings on expulsion

and re-election, 55. 116; extraordi-
nary sitting on his case, 184, n.
William, German Emperor; announce-
ment to Parliament of death of, 454, n.

William the Conqueror; changes
tenure of spiritual lords in Parliament,
6; summons a council, 16.

William the Third; Parliament meeting
on death of, 42.

Williams, Sir William, Speaker, case
referred to 138.

Witena-gemót; described, 15; freedom
from arrest traced to, 103.
Withdrawal of Bills; public, 317; on
account of number of amendments made
in committee, 491; of private bills (by
order of house), 677. et seq., 728. 830; (by
the promoters), 687. 827; of petitions
against private bills in Commons, 757.
Withdrawal of Members, 350.
Witnesses before Parliament;

I. Privilege of Witnesses.-The privi-
leges of, 124; tampering with, a breach
of privilege, 75. 86; prevarication, &c.,
by, punished, 75; answers to criminating
questions, 86; statements by, to Parlia-
ment, protected, 125; Witnesses, &c.,
Protection Act, 125; Cambrian Railway
Company case, 128; statements not
actionable, 129; admissible in evidence,
130; acts of indemnity to witnesses, 431;
sessional order relating to, App. I.

II. Before the Lords.-Summoned to
attend, 402. 424; brought from prison,
425; proceedings against absconding
witnesses, ib.; peers and peeresses sum-
moned, 424; rule as to witnesses cor-
recting evidence, 415; messages for
attendance of members of House of
Commons, 427; of the officers thereof,
ib.; mode of examination described,
429;
oaths taken at the bar, ib.; at
the table, ib; before committees, 425.
429; perjury and prevarication, 430;
expenses of witnesses, 434; summons
to witnesses at impeachments, 665.

III. Before the Commons.-Sum-
moned to be examined by the house, or
by committees of the whole house, 424;
attendance of peers, members, &c., pro-
cured, 426; of witnesses in custody,
425; of clerks and officers of Parlia-
ment, 427. 431; examination at the
bar, 432; by counsel, 433; of members,
peers, &c., ib.; proceedings against non-
attending or absconding witnesses, 431;
address for proclamation against, to
originate in committee, 571; House of
Commons formerly unable to administer
oath, 430; power conferred by statute,
ib.; oath administered by a joint com-
mittee, 423; false evidence a breach of
privilege, 431; report from a private bill
committee as to perjury, 826; sick
witnesses examined by committee, 412.

Witnesses before Parliament-con-
tinued.

Select and Private Bill Committees.-
Summons to witnesses, 402. 406; not
summoned from India or the colonies,
406; summons enforced, 406. 425. 431;
examination of witnesses, 430; wit-
nesses, correction of evidence, 415;
evidence not to be published before re-
port, 416; expenses of witnesses, 434.

Private bill committees empowered
to administer oath, 429. 430-1. 825.
848.

Witnesses before private bill com-
mittees in Commons, 825; how sum-
moned, 825; examination of, 809-812;
from Government departments, 815-
7, n.; witnesses before Examiners, 700;
before the referees, 762; before Taxing
officers, 914.

Witnesses (Public Inquiries) Pro-
tection Act; provisions of, 125.
Woods Commissioners of; and the
amendment of private bills, 754; before
private bill committees, 815-17, n.
Woolsack (Lords); vote of peer on,
first taken, 359.

Words of Heat, &c.; in debate, 335.
Words taken down, 337.

Works, Office of; and private bills,
815-17, n.

Writs for Election of New Members;
motion for, made without notice, 631;
when two days' notice is required, ib.;
issue of, 54. 631; issued during session,
631; during the recess, 636; not issuable
on acceptance of Chiltern Hundreds,

Writs for Election of New Members
-continued.

643; moved to replace member omit-
ting to take the oaths, 168; issue of,
when election petitions pending, 632;
supersedeas to writs, 635; Speaker's
appointment of members to execute his
duties in regard to issue of writs, 638;
form of certificates to authorize the issue
of warrant for new writ, Appendix V.;
to whom warrants directed, 638; de-
livery of writs, ib.; error in, 638; one
election held on issue of two writs, 638;
errors in return, 639; when no return
made, 640; occasions for issue of writs,
631, et seq.; suspension of writs, 660.
Writs of Error and Appeals before
the House of Lords, 50. 51.
Writs of Privilege; formerly applied
for, by the Commons, 105.
Writs, Prorogation by, 43.
Writs of Summons; Commons elected
under writ from Crown, 41; Parliament
summoned by, 48; time between the
teste and the return, 41; to name day
and place of meeting, ib.; writs to peers,
152.633; excepting Scotch representa-
tive peers, 152, n.

Writ (of Summons) under the Crimi-

nal Law (Ireland) Act; service of,
in the outer lobby, 80; in civil action,
as to service of, on member within
precincts of Parliament, ib., n.

Writs of Supersedeas; to issue of a
new writ, 635.

Wynne v. Middleton, case of, referred
to, 135.

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