(17) Voluntary Schools Bill, 1897.-To insert clauses to make provision for ensuring adequate representation of local authorities or parents on the management of schools in receipt of the aid grant given by the bill.1

(18) Workmen (Compensation for Accidents) Bill, 1897.-To insert provisions to secure compensation to workmen for injuries to health arising out of and in the course of their employment.2 (19) Education (Scotland) Bill, 1897.-To make provision for the exemption of voluntary schools from local rates and to insert clauses in the bill with a view to making provision for insuring adequate representation of local authorities or parents on the management of voluntary schools in receipt of the aid grant.3 Class 2. Cases when instructions were unnecessary, because the committee possessed the power which the instructions would confer :(1) Representation of the People Bill, 1884.-To insert provisions dealing with the registration of electors.+

(2) Local Government (England and Wales) Bill, 1888.-To insert a provision transferring the duties discharged by the high sheriff, as returning officer at elections of county representatives, to the chairman of a county council; also provisions enabling a county council to appoint a standing committee to superintend the administration and financial business of the council, during the intervals between the sittings or sessions of a council; and provisions giving a county council compulsory powers for the erection of one gymnasium for every 100,000 inhabitants."

(3) Local Government (Scotland) Bill, 1889.-To insert clauses enabling county councils to purchase land by agreement, or under compulsory powers, for the purposes of public utility. Speaker's ruling (private).

(4) Purchase of Land (Ireland) Bill, 1890.-To insert clauses creating local authorities in Ireland, whose assent should be necessary to the imposition of any liability upon local revenues for the purposes of the bill.

(5) Western Australian Constitution Bill, 1890.—To insert clauses enacting that the bill should not come into operation until the Act recited in the schedule to the bill, which conferred a constitution upon the colony, was amended by assimilating the franchise, and the qualifications of members of the legislative council and assembly of Western Australia, to those of other Australian colonies. Speaker's ruling (private).

(6) Local Taxation (Customs, &c.) Bill, 1890.-To insert clauses defining the principle upon which licences for the sale of liquor should be extinguished relatively to the population, the wishes, and the rateable value of each licensing district, and to fix a maximum value for renewable licences, which should be imperative upon the county councils. Speaker's ruling (private).

1 152 C. J. 83. See also Elementary Education Bill, 1891, 146 C. J. 400.

2 152 ib. 249..

3 152 ib. 374.

4287 H. D. 3 s. 828.

5 326 ib. 1440.

345 ib. 346.

(7) Established Church (Wales) Bill, 1895.-To enable a holder of an ecclesiastical office entitled to existing interest to be transferred to another office without forfeiting such interest, to provide for the application of the property of the Church of Wales to purposes directly connected with the religious welfare of, or to purposes of general advantage to, the people of Wales.1 (8) Agricultural Rates, Congested Districts, and Burgh Land Tax Relief (Scotland) Bill, 1896.-To provide that the Crofters Commission in fixing a fair rent for a holding shall not be entitled to take into consideration any relief afforded by the Act.2 (9) Education Bill, 1896.—To insert provisions for abolishing cumulative voting at school board elections, for the separate treatment of London and county boroughs and for the representation of voluntary schools upon the education authority under the bill.3 (10) Voluntary Schools Bill, 1897.-To insert clauses to provide as a condition of receiving the aid grant that no teacher in a voluntary school shall be required to perform any non-educational duty.4

(11) Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister Bill, 1902.—To limit the operation of the bill to such marriages of persons so related as shall take place after the bill becomes law." (12) Education (England and Wales) Bill, 1906.-To provide that the education committees constituted under the Act of 1902 should consist in part or entirely of persons directly elected by the ratepayers, and that secular education only should be given during school hours in public elementary schools, to insert a definition of the particulars of the religious instruction to be given in schools when the local education authority authorizes the giving of such instruction, and to provide for the establishment of a central education authority for London and other areas.

Class 3.-Cases of instructions ruled out of order, as being foreign to the subject-matter of the bill :

(1) Arms (Ireland) Continuance Bill, 1886.-To insert clauses dealing with the law relating to poor law guardians, labourers' dwellings, and the franchise in corporate towns in Ireland. Speaker's ruling (private).

(2) East India (Purchase and Construction of Railways) Bill, 1887.To insert provisions imposing harbour dues and charges on her Majesty's ships conveying material for government railways in India. Speaker's ruling (private).

(3) Criminal Law Amendment (Ireland) Bill, 1887.-To insert provisions to prevent the exaction of unfair and excessive rents. Speaker's ruling (private).

(4) Criminal Evidence Bill, 1888.-To insert provisions conferring on prisoners tried by the courts of summary jurisdiction in

Ireland a right to appeal, similar to the right possessed by the like class of prisoners in England. Speaker's ruling (private). (5) Local Government (England and Wales) Bill, 1888.-To insert clauses giving county councils power to appoint and remove justices of the peace, and dealing with the property qualification of the justices, and to create fishery boards with power to acquire harbours, levy rates, and generally to promote fishing industry.1 (6) Land Law (Ireland) Bill, 1888.--To insert in the bill which related solely to the tenure of land, and did not touch the charges thereon, provisions dealing with family charges upon land. Speaker's ruling (private).

(7) Land Purchase (Ireland) Bill, 1888.-To insert in this bill-of which the sole object was an advance of money, for the purposes prescribed by the Purchase of Land (Ireland) Act, 1885—clauses dealing with arrears of rent due, not from tenants who sought to avail themselves of the rights given by the bill, but from the Irish tenantry in general; to insert clauses in the bill excepting minerals, mining rights, and foreshores from sales under the Purchase of Land (Ireland) Act, 1885, and vesting that class of property in the Crown.2

(8) Local Government (Scotland) Bill, 1889.-To insert provisions empowering sea-coast towns in Scotland to raise loans for harbour purposes under the Harbour and Passing Tolls Act, 1881, and to create local councils for that purpose. Speaker's ruling (private).

(9) Tithe Rent-Charge Recovery Bill, 1889.-To insert clauses exempting persons from payment of tithe who objected to its application to the Church of England; to apply tithe rentcharge recoverable in Wales to purposes generally acceptable to the Welsh people, or to public education in Wales; to insert provisions that prescribed, when a receiver had been appointed under the bill, the owner as regards the occupier, subject to the provisions of the Agricultural Holdings Act, and responsible for the proper repair of the farm buildings, &c.; and also provisions dealing with the status of the ecclesiastical commissioners.3

(10) Private Bill Procedure (Scotland) Bill, 1890-1.-To insert clauses authorizing the commissioners under the bill, or the secretary for Scotland upon their report, to grant to local authorities provisional orders for the purposes for which powers are conferred on local authorities by private Acts; and to insert clauses to substitute a joint committee of both houses of Parliament for the commission to be appointed by the bill; and to enable the joint committee to dispense with a local inquiry.*

(11) Local Government (England and Wales) Bill, 1893.—To provide for the reform of the method of election of aldermen in municipal corporations."

(12) Railway and Canal Traffic Bill, 1894.-To insert clauses in the

1 326 H. D. 3 s. 1440.

2 331 ib. 33.

339 ib. 1082.

+352 ib. 154. 155.

5 18 Parl. Deb. 4 s. 1089.

bill-which was to regulate charges-for the reforming of the Railway and Canal Commission and ensuring the presence upon it of a person experienced in trading. Speaker's ruling (private). (13) Fatal Accidents Inquiry (Scotland) Bill, 1895.-To amend the bill so as to include all cases of sudden death in Scotland.1 (14) Established Church (Wales) Bill, 1895.-To insert a clause to provide for the taking of a quinquennial religious census in Wales, or to deal with the endowments of chapels in Wales exempted from rates as places of public religious worship.2 (15) Naval Works Bill, 1895.-To extend the powers for the acquisition of land given by the bill-which placed £1,000,000 at the disposal of the Admiralty for certain specific purposes for the use of the navy-to the acquisition of land for housing workpeople employed on the works contemplated by the bill, to specify a time for the completion of the works mentioned in the schedule of the bill (part of the cost of which only was taken by the bill) and to compel the Treasury to apply annually to Parliament until all the money necessary to complete all the works contained in the schedule had been sanctioned.3

(16) Agricultural Rates, Congested Districts and Burgh Land Tax Relief (Scotland) Bill, 1896.-To introduce provisions for the relief of occupiers of lands and heritages other than agricultural, and to apply the funds allotted by the bill to purposes of higher education or agricultural experiment and research.4 (17) Land Law (Ireland) Bill, 1896.-To insert provisions in the bill-which dealt with the relations of landlord and tenant-empowering the Land Commission to make advances to landlords for the redemption of incumbrances on their estates."

(18) Agricultural Land Rating Bill, 1896.-To insert provisions to transfer to county councils in Wales the grant in relief of rates proposed by the bill."

(19) Voluntary Schools Bill, 1897.-To insert clauses in the billwhich was one to afford relief to voluntary schools-to place schoolrooms in schools receiving the aid grant at the disposal of the inhabitants of the district for the purpose of public meetings, to provide that in districts in which there was no board school religious tests should not be applied to the appointment of pupil teachers, to enable the managers of voluntary schools to contract with school boards for the supply of education and to insert clauses for the creation of elective authorities in districts in which there were no board schools.

(20) Workmen (Compensation for Accidents) Bill, 1897.-To insert clauses providing that the State or the owners of mine royalties should contribute to the compensation established by the bill, to establish a system of State insurance, to extend the law of employer's liability to, and abolish the doctrine of common

employment in, trades not affected by the bill, and to extend the bill to foreign shipowners.1

(21) London Government Bill, 1899.-To insert clauses providing for the transfer to the new local authorities, created by the bill, the powers and duties of the guardians of the poor, for dealing with local taxation or the taxation of ground values, and for transferring to the London County Council powers relating to the public health exercised by other authorities.2

(22) Tithe Rent Charge (Rates) Bill, 1899.-To extend the provisions of the bill by which partial relief from rates was given to the tithe rent-charge of beneficed clergymen to rates assessed in respect of tithe rent-charge payable to schools and colleges, or to provide for the repayment by the ecclesiastical commissioners out of their ecclesiastical property of the sums paid in relief of rates under the bill, or for the payment of such sums to the local taxation account.3

(23) Demise of the Crown Bill, 1901.-To insert provisions in the bill the object of which was to prevent the demise of the Crown from having any effect on the tenure of office of servants of the Crown, to secure that acceptance of office should not vacate the seat of a member of the House of Commons, or to provide that the demise of the Crown between a dissolution and the meeting of a new parliament should not render void or affect elections or returns.1 (24) Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister Bill, 1902.-To extend the bill to the legalisation of other prohibited marriages and to marriages of persons related in affinity which are lawful in Canada and Australia.

(25) London Water (Recommitted) Bill, 1902.-To provide for the purchase of the undertakings, which under the bill were to be purchased and managed by the Water Board constituted thereby, by an existing authority pending the further consideration of the ultimate authority by whom they were to be held and managed."

Class 4.-Cases of instructions to extend the scope of a bill throughout the United Kingdom. A committee can, without an instruction, extend the operation of a bill to Scotland or Ireland, if the bill be not by the title restricted to England. In the following cases an instruction was required to extend the operative effect of a bill beyond the limits and scope contained in the provisions of the bill as brought into the house :

:

(1) Sunday Trading (Metropolis) Bill, 1855.-To insert a clause applying the provisions of the bill to the United Kingdom. Speaker's ruling (private).

(2) Supreme Court of Judicature Bill, 1873.-To insert in this bill which dealt with the constitution of a supreme court, and the better administration of justice in England, clauses which provided for the hearing of appeals from Scotland and Ireland.