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    position: absolute;
    top: 2px;
    left: 3px;
    width: 2.4rem;
    height: 2.4rem;
  }

  .wayback-search-1 .search-field.wayback-search .fill-color.wayback-search {
    fill: #999;
  }

  @media (min-width: 890px) {
    .wayback-search-1 form.wayback-search {
      margin: 0 auto;
    }

    .wayback-search-1 p.wayback-search {
      margin-bottom: 3rem;
      font-size: 1.6rem;
      text-align: center;
    }

    .wayback-search-1 img.wayback-search {
      margin: 0;
    }

    .wayback-search-1 fieldset.wayback-search {
      margin: 0 auto;
      font-size: 0;
    }

    .wayback-search-1 fieldset.wayback-search a.wayback-search,
    .wayback-search-1 .search-field.wayback-search {
      display: inline-block;
      width: 50%;
      vertical-align: middle;
    }

    .wayback-search-1 fieldset.wayback-search a.wayback-search {
      text-align: center;
    }

    .wayback-search-1 .search-field.wayback-search svg.wayback-search {
      width: 2.8rem;
      height: 2.8rem;
    }

    .wayback-search-1 .search-field.wayback-search .fill-color.wayback-search {
      fill: #333;
    }

  }

  .wayback-search-1 p.wayback-search {
    margin-bottom: 1rem;
    font-size: 1.6rem;
    text-align: center;
  }

  .wayback-search-1 fieldset.wayback-search {
    padding: .5rem;
    border-radius: 5px;
    box-shadow: none;
  }

  .wayback-search-1 input.wayback-search {
    padding-left: 3rem;
    margin-top: .3rem;
    font-size: 1.4rem;
    border-color: #bca38e;
    background: #fff;
  }

  .wayback-search-1 input.wayback-search::placeholder,
  .wayback-search-1 input.wayback-search::-webkit-input-placeholder {
    color: #8e8e8e;
  }

  .wayback-search-1 .search-field.wayback-search svg.wayback-search {
    top: 50%;
    transform: translateY(-50%);
  }

  @media (min-width: 890px) {

    .wayback-search-1 fieldset.wayback-search a.wayback-search,
    .wayback-search-1 .search-field.wayback-search {
      display: block;
      width: auto;
    }

    .wayback-search-1 fieldset.wayback-search a.wayback-search {
      margin: 0 1.5rem;
    }

  }
</style><!-- Shady DOM styles for save-page-form -->
<style scope="save-page-form-1">
  .save-page-form-1 div.save-page-form {
    display: grid;
    grid-template-columns: 1fr auto;
    grid-column-gap: .8rem;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    border: none;
  }

  .save-page-form-1 input.save-page-form[type="text"] {
    width: 100%;
    height: 3rem;
    box-sizing: border-box;
    border: 1px solid #999;
    border-radius: .5rem;
    color: #222;
    font-size: inherit;
  }

  .save-page-form-1 input.save-page-form[type="submit"] {
    -webkit-appearance: none;
    -moz-appearance: none;
    appearance: none;
    padding: .4rem .8rem;
    font: normal 1.3rem 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
    text-transform: uppercase;
    color: #fff;
    border: none;
    border-radius: 16px;
    background: #222;
    cursor: pointer;
  }

  .save-page-form-1 .error.save-page-form {
    display: none;
    margin-top: .5rem;
    font-weight: bold;
    color: #ffcd27;
  }

  .save-page-form-1 .visible.save-page-form {
    display: block;
  }

  @media (min-width: 890px) {
    .save-page-form-1 h3.save-page-form {
      margin-top: 0;
      font: normal 100 1.6rem 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
    }

  }
</style><!-- Shady DOM styles for wayback-slider -->
<style scope="wayback-slider-1">
  .wayback-slider-1 h4.wayback-slider {
    font-size: 1.6rem;
  }

  .wayback-slider-1 a.wayback-slider {
    text-decoration: none;
    color: #fff;
  }

  .wayback-slider-1 ul.wayback-slider {
    padding: 0;
    margin: 0;
    list-style: none;
  }

  .wayback-slider-1 li.wayback-slider+li.wayback-slider {
    padding-top: 1.5rem;
  }

  @media (min-width: 890px) {
    .wayback-slider-1 h4.wayback-slider {
      margin: 0 0 1rem 0;
      font-weight: 100;
    }

    .wayback-slider-1 ul.wayback-slider {
      font-size: 1.3rem;
    }

    .wayback-slider-1 li.wayback-slider {
      padding-bottom: .5rem;
    }

    .wayback-slider-1 li.wayback-slider+li.wayback-slider {
      padding-top: 0;
    }

    .wayback-slider-1 li.wayback-slider a.wayback-slider {
      display: block;
      overflow: hidden;
      white-space: nowrap;
      text-overflow: ellipsis;
    }

  }

  @media (min-width: 890px) {
    .wayback-slider-1 {
      display: block;
      grid-column: 1 / 4;
      padding: 0 1.5rem;
    }

    .wayback-slider-1 h4.wayback-slider {
      margin-top: 0;
      font: normal 100 1.6rem 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
    }

    .wayback-slider-1 .grid.wayback-slider {
      display: grid;
      grid-template-columns: minmax(auto, 260px) 1fr minmax(auto, 260px);

      grid-column-gap: 2.5rem;
    }

    .wayback-slider-1 .link-lists.wayback-slider {
      display: grid;
      grid-template-columns: calc(50% - 1.25rem) calc(50% - 1.25rem);
      grid-column-gap: 2.5rem;
    }

  }
</style><!-- Shady DOM styles for more-slider -->
<style scope="more-slider-1">
  .more-slider-1 ul.more-slider {
    padding: 0;
    margin: -1rem 0 0 0;
    list-style: none;
  }

  .more-slider-1 a.more-slider {
    display: block;
    padding: 1rem 0;
    text-decoration: none;
    color: #fff;
  }
</style><!-- Shady DOM styles for media-subnav -->
<style scope="media-subnav-1">
  .media-subnav-1 h4.media-subnav {
    font-size: 1.6rem;
  }

  .media-subnav-1 a.media-subnav {
    text-decoration: none;
    color: #fff;
  }

  .media-subnav-1 ul.media-subnav {
    padding: 0;
    margin: 0;
    list-style: none;
  }

  .media-subnav-1 li.media-subnav+li.media-subnav {
    padding-top: 1.5rem;
  }

  @media (min-width: 890px) {
    .media-subnav-1 h4.media-subnav {
      margin: 0 0 1rem 0;
      font-weight: 100;
    }

    .media-subnav-1 ul.media-subnav {
      font-size: 1.3rem;
    }

    .media-subnav-1 li.media-subnav {
      padding-bottom: .5rem;
    }

    .media-subnav-1 li.media-subnav+li.media-subnav {
      padding-top: 0;
    }

    .media-subnav-1 li.media-subnav a.media-subnav {
      display: block;
      overflow: hidden;
      white-space: nowrap;
      text-overflow: ellipsis;
    }

  }

  .media-subnav-1 img.media-subnav {
    display: block;
    width: 90px;
    height: 90px;
    margin: 0 auto 1rem auto;
    border-radius: 45px;
  }

  .media-subnav-1 h3.media-subnav {
    margin-top: 0;
    font-size: 1.8rem;
  }

  .media-subnav-1 .icon-links.media-subnav {
    display: -webkit-box;
    display: -ms-flexbox;
    display: flex;
    -webkit-box-pack: space-evenly;
    -ms-flex-pack: space-evenly;
    justify-content: space-evenly;
    text-align: center;
  }

  .media-subnav-1 .icon-links.media-subnav a.media-subnav {
    display: inline-block;
    width: 12rem;
    margin-bottom: 1.5rem;
    overflow: hidden;
    white-space: nowrap;
    text-align: center;
    text-overflow: ellipsis;
  }

  .media-subnav-1 .icon-links.media-subnav a.media-subnav+a.media-subnav {
    margin-left: 2rem;
  }

  .media-subnav-1 .featured.media-subnav h4.media-subnav {
    display: none;
  }

  @media (min-width: 890px) {
    .media-subnav-1 {
      display: -ms-grid;
      display: grid;
      -ms-grid-columns: 40% 20% 40%;
      grid-template-columns: 40% 20% 40%;
    }

    .media-subnav-1 .wayback-search.media-subnav {
      -ms-grid-column: 1;
      -ms-grid-column-span: 3;
      grid-column: 1 / 4;
    }

    .media-subnav-1 h3.media-subnav {
      display: none;
    }

    .media-subnav-1 .icon-links.media-subnav {
      -ms-grid-column: 1;
    }

    .media-subnav-1 .icon-links.media-subnav a.media-subnav {
      padding-top: 3.5rem;
      max-width: 16rem;
    }

    .media-subnav-1 .links.media-subnav {
      padding: 0 1.5rem;
    }

    .media-subnav-1 .featured.media-subnav {
      -ms-grid-column: 2;
    }

    .media-subnav-1 .featured.media-subnav h4.media-subnav {
      display: block;
    }

    .media-subnav-1 .top.media-subnav {
      -ms-grid-column: 3;
    }

    .media-subnav-1 .top.media-subnav ul.media-subnav {
      display: -ms-grid;
      display: grid;
      -ms-grid-columns: 50% 3rem 50%;
      grid-template-columns: 50% 50%;
      -ms-grid-rows: (auto)[7];
      grid-template-rows: repeat(7, auto);
      grid-column-gap: 3rem;
      grid-auto-flow: column;
    }

    .media-subnav-1 .top.media-subnav ul.media-subnav>*.media-subnav:nth-child(1) {
      -ms-grid-row: 1;
      -ms-grid-column: 1;
    }

    .media-subnav-1 .top.media-subnav ul.media-subnav>*.media-subnav:nth-child(2) {
      -ms-grid-row: 2;
      -ms-grid-column: 1;
    }

    .media-subnav-1 .top.media-subnav ul.media-subnav>*.media-subnav:nth-child(3) {
      -ms-grid-row: 3;
      -ms-grid-column: 1;
    }

    .media-subnav-1 .top.media-subnav ul.media-subnav>*.media-subnav:nth-child(4) {
      -ms-grid-row: 4;
      -ms-grid-column: 1;
    }

    .media-subnav-1 .top.media-subnav ul.media-subnav>*.media-subnav:nth-child(5) {
      -ms-grid-row: 5;
      -ms-grid-column: 1;
    }

    .media-subnav-1 .top.media-subnav ul.media-subnav>*.media-subnav:nth-child(6) {
      -ms-grid-row: 6;
      -ms-grid-column: 1;
    }

    .media-subnav-1 .top.media-subnav ul.media-subnav>*.media-subnav:nth-child(7) {
      -ms-grid-row: 7;
      -ms-grid-column: 1;
    }

    .media-subnav-1 .top.media-subnav ul.media-subnav>*.media-subnav:nth-child(8) {
      -ms-grid-row: 1;
      -ms-grid-column: 3;
    }

    .media-subnav-1 .top.media-subnav ul.media-subnav>*.media-subnav:nth-child(9) {
      -ms-grid-row: 2;
      -ms-grid-column: 3;
    }

    .media-subnav-1 .top.media-subnav ul.media-subnav>*.media-subnav:nth-child(10) {
      -ms-grid-row: 3;
      -ms-grid-column: 3;
    }

    .media-subnav-1 .top.media-subnav ul.media-subnav>*.media-subnav:nth-child(11) {
      -ms-grid-row: 4;
      -ms-grid-column: 3;
    }

    .media-subnav-1 .top.media-subnav ul.media-subnav>*.media-subnav:nth-child(12) {
      -ms-grid-row: 5;
      -ms-grid-column: 3;
    }

    .media-subnav-1 .top.media-subnav ul.media-subnav>*.media-subnav:nth-child(13) {
      -ms-grid-row: 6;
      -ms-grid-column: 3;
    }

    .media-subnav-1 .top.media-subnav ul.media-subnav>*.media-subnav:nth-child(14) {
      -ms-grid-row: 7;
      -ms-grid-column: 3;
    }

  }
</style><!-- Shady DOM styles for media-slider -->
<style scope="media-slider-1">
  .media-slider-1 .media-slider-container.media-slider {
    position: relative;
  }

  .media-slider-1 .overflow-clip.media-slider {
    display: none;
    position: absolute;
    top: 3rem;
    right: 0;
    left: 0;
    height: 0;
    overflow: hidden;
    transition: height 0.2s ease;
  }

  .media-slider-1 .information-menu.media-slider {
    position: absolute;
    top: 0;
    right: 0;
    left: 0;
    padding: 0;
    height: 31.9rem;
    overflow-x: hidden;
    font-size: 1.4rem;
    background: #333;
  }

  .media-slider-1 .open.media-slider {
    display: block;
  }

  .media-slider-1 .hidden.media-slider {
    display: none;
  }

  .media-slider-1 .info-box.media-slider {
    padding: 1rem;
  }

  @media (max-width: 889px) {
    .media-slider-1 .overflow-clip.open.media-slider {
      display: block;
      height: 35.8rem;
      left: 4rem;
      top: 0;
    }

  }

  @media (min-width: 890px) {
    .media-slider-1 .overflow-clip.media-slider {
      display: block;
    }

    .media-slider-1 .information-menu.media-slider {
      left: 0;
      z-index: 3;
      height: auto;
      min-height: 21rem;
      background: #474747;
      transform: translate(0, -100%);
      transition: transform 0.2s ease;
    }

    .media-slider-1 .overflow-clip.open.media-slider {
      height: 22rem;
    }

    .media-slider-1 .information-menu.open.media-slider {
      transform: translate(0, 0);
    }

    .media-slider-1 .info-box.media-slider {
      max-width: 100rem;
      padding: 1.5rem 0;
      margin: 0 auto;
    }

  }
</style><!-- Shady DOM styles for desktop-subnav -->
<style scope="desktop-subnav-1">
  .desktop-subnav-1 ul.desktop-subnav {
    position: relative;
    z-index: 3;
    padding: .8rem 0;
    margin: 0;
    font-size: 1.2rem;
    text-transform: uppercase;
    text-align: center;
    background: #333;
  }

  .desktop-subnav-1 li.desktop-subnav {
    display: inline-block;
    padding: 0 15px;
  }

  .desktop-subnav-1 a.desktop-subnav {
    text-decoration: none;
    color: #aaa;
  }

  .desktop-subnav-1 a.desktop-subnav:hover,
  .desktop-subnav-1 a.desktop-subnav:active,
  .desktop-subnav-1 a.desktop-subnav:focus {
    color: #fff;
  }

  .desktop-subnav-1 .donate.desktop-subnav svg.desktop-subnav {
    width: 1.6rem;
    height: 1.6rem;
    vertical-align: top;
    fill: #f00;
  }
</style><!-- Shady DOM styles for signed-out-dropdown -->
<style scope="signed-out-dropdown-1">
  .signed-out-dropdown-1 .nav-container.signed-out-dropdown {
    position: relative;
  }

  .signed-out-dropdown-1 nav.signed-out-dropdown {
    position: absolute;
    right: 0;
    z-index: 4;
    overflow: hidden;
    font-size: 1.6rem;
    background-color: #333;
    transition-property: top;
    transition-duration: 0.2s;
    transition-timing-function: ease;
  }

  .signed-out-dropdown-1 .initial.signed-out-dropdown,
  .signed-out-dropdown-1 .closed.signed-out-dropdown {
    top: -1500px;
  }

  .signed-out-dropdown-1 .closed.signed-out-dropdown {
    transition-duration: 0.5s;
  }

  .signed-out-dropdown-1 .open.signed-out-dropdown {
    max-width: 100vw;
    overflow: auto;
  }

  .signed-out-dropdown-1 h3.signed-out-dropdown {
    padding: 0.6rem 2rem;
    margin: 0;
    font-size: inherit;
    overflow: hidden;
    text-overflow: ellipsis;
  }

  .signed-out-dropdown-1 ul.signed-out-dropdown {
    padding: 0.4rem 0 0.7rem 0;
    margin: 0;
    list-style: none;

    max-height: calc(100vh - 7.2rem + 1px);
    overflow: auto;
    box-sizing: border-box;
  }

  .signed-out-dropdown-1 .divider.signed-out-dropdown {
    margin: 0.5rem 0;
    border-bottom: 1px solid #666;
  }

  .signed-out-dropdown-1 a.signed-out-dropdown,
  .signed-out-dropdown-1 .info-item.signed-out-dropdown {
    display: block;
    color: #fff;
    text-decoration: none;
    padding: 1rem 2rem;
  }

  .signed-out-dropdown-1 .info-item.signed-out-dropdown {
    font-size: 0.8em;
    color: #a0a0a0;
  }

  .signed-out-dropdown-1 .callout.signed-out-dropdown {
    position: absolute;
    margin-left: 10px;
    padding: 0 5px;
    border-radius: 2px;
    background: #fee257;
    color: #2c2c2c;
    font-size: 1.4rem;
    font-weight: bold;
  }

  .signed-out-dropdown-1 a.mobile-upload.signed-out-dropdown {
    display: flex;
    justify-content: left;
    align-items: center;
  }

  .signed-out-dropdown-1 a.mobile-upload.signed-out-dropdown svg.signed-out-dropdown {
    fill: #fff;
    margin-right: 1rem;
    height: 1.4rem;
    width: 1.4rem;
  }

  @media (min-width: 890px) {
    .signed-out-dropdown-1 nav.signed-out-dropdown {
      display: flex;
      overflow: visible;
      top: 0;
      left: auto;
      z-index: 5;
      transition: opacity 0.2s ease-in-out;
      font-size: 1.4rem;
      border-radius: 2px;
      background: #fff;
      box-shadow: 0 1px 2px 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15);
    }

    .signed-out-dropdown-1 nav.signed-out-dropdown:after {
      position: absolute;
      right: 7px;
      top: -7px;
      width: 12px;
      height: 7px;
      box-sizing: border-box;
      color: #fff;
      content: '';
      border-bottom: 7px solid currentColor;
      border-left: 6px solid transparent;
      border-right: 6px solid transparent;
    }

    .signed-out-dropdown-1 h3.signed-out-dropdown {
      display: none;
    }

    .signed-out-dropdown-1 ul.signed-out-dropdown {
      max-height: calc(100vh - 8.5rem + 1px);
    }

    .signed-out-dropdown-1 .divider.signed-out-dropdown {
      border-bottom-color: #666;
    }

    .signed-out-dropdown-1 a.signed-out-dropdown {
      padding: 0.5rem 2rem;
      color: #333;
      transition: background 0.1s ease-out, color 0.1s ease-out;
    }

    .signed-out-dropdown-1 .info-item.signed-out-dropdown {
      padding: 0.5rem 2rem;
      font-size: 0.8em;
      color: #6f6f6f;
    }

    .signed-out-dropdown-1 a.signed-out-dropdown:hover,
    .signed-out-dropdown-1 a.signed-out-dropdown:active,
    .signed-out-dropdown-1 a.signed-out-dropdown:focus {
      color: #fff;
      background: #4b64ff;
      outline: none;
    }

    .signed-out-dropdown-1 .initial.signed-out-dropdown,
    .signed-out-dropdown-1 .closed.signed-out-dropdown {
      opacity: 0;
      transition-duration: 0.2s;
    }

    .signed-out-dropdown-1 .open.signed-out-dropdown {
      opacity: 1;
      overflow: visible;
    }

    .signed-out-dropdown-1 a.mobile-upload.signed-out-dropdown {
      display: none;
    }

  }

  @media (min-width: 890px) {

    .signed-out-dropdown-1 .initial.signed-out-dropdown,
    .signed-out-dropdown-1 .closed.signed-out-dropdown,
    .signed-out-dropdown-1 .open.signed-out-dropdown {
      right: 18.5rem;
    }

  }

  @media (min-width: 990px) {

    .signed-out-dropdown-1 .initial.signed-out-dropdown,
    .signed-out-dropdown-1 .closed.signed-out-dropdown,
    .signed-out-dropdown-1 .open.signed-out-dropdown {
      right: 26rem;
    }

  }
</style><!-- Shady DOM styles for ia-topnav -->
<style scope="ia-topnav-1">
  .ia-topnav-1 {
    ;

    color: #fff;
    font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
  }

  .ia-topnav-1 primary-nav.ia-topnav:focus {
    outline: none !important;
  }

  .ia-topnav-1 #close-layer.ia-topnav {
    display: none;
    position: fixed;
    top: 0;
    right: 0;
    bottom: 0;
    left: 0;
    z-index: 3;
  }

  .ia-topnav-1 #close-layer.visible.ia-topnav {
    display: block;
  }

  .ia-topnav-1 .topnav.ia-topnav {
    position: relative;
    z-index: 4;
  }

  @media (max-width: 889px) {
    .ia-topnav-1 desktop-subnav.ia-topnav {
      display: none;
    }

  }
</style>
<style>
  body {
    transition: opacity ease-in 0.2s;
  }

  body[unresolved] {
    opacity: 0;
    display: block;
    overflow: hidden;
    position: relative;
  }
</style>








<ia-topnav locallinks="true" waybackpagesarchived="1 trillion" class="x-scope ia-topnav-1"><!---->
  <div class="topnav style-scope ia-topnav">
    <primary-nav class="style-scope ia-topnav x-scope primary-nav-1"><!---->
      <nav class="style-scope primary-nav">
        <button class="hamburger style-scope primary-nav" title="Open main menu"
          data-event-click-tracking="TopNav|NavHamburger">
          <icon-hamburger class="style-scope primary-nav x-scope icon-hamburger-1"><!---->
            <svg viewBox="0 0 40 40" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" aria-labelledby="hamburgerTitleID hamburgerDescID"
              class="style-scope icon-hamburger">
              <title id="hamburgerTitleID" class="style-scope icon-hamburger">Hamburger icon</title>
              <desc id="hamburgerDescID" class="style-scope icon-hamburger">An icon used to represent a menu that can be
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JOURNALS 


OF THE 


HOUSE OF COMMONS. 


































JOURNALS 


a 


HOUSE OF COMMONS. 











From FEBRUARY the 8th, 1876, | 


In the Tutrty-NintTH Year of the Reign of 


QUEEN VICTORIA, | 
To August the 15th, 1876, 
| 


In the Fortreta Year of the Reign of 


QUEEN VICTORIA. 








——&lt;—a— 
SEssIon 1876. 
. 
if Printed by Order of The House of Commons, 


BY HENRY HANSARD, PRINTER TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. 

























JOURNALS 





OF THE | 


HOUSE OF COMMONS. 











VOL. 131. 


By The QUEEN. 


A PROCLAMATION. 


VICTORIA Rk. 


HEREAS Onur Parliament stands prorogued to the Twenty-ninth day of October 

instant: We, by and with the Advice of Our Privy Council, hereby issue Our 
Royal Proclamation, and publish and declare that the said Parliament be further pro- 
rogued to Wednesday the Fifteenth day of December One thousand eight hundred and 
seventy-five. 


Given at Our Court at Balmoral, this Twenty-sixth day of October, in the Year of 
Our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, and in the Thirty-ninth 
Year of Our Reign. 


GOD save The QurEN. 





By The QUEEN. 


A PROCLAMATION. 
VICTORIA RB. 


HEREAS Our Parliament stands prorogued to erm the Fifteenth day of 


December instant: We, by and with the Advice of Our Privy Council, hereby 
issue Our Royal Proclamation, and publish and declare, that the said Parliament be 
further prorogued to Tuesday the Eighth day of February One thousand eight hundred 
and seventy-six; and We do hereby further, with the Advice aforesaid, declare Our 
Royal Will and Pleasure that the said Parliament shall, on the said Tuesday the Eighth 
day of February One thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, assemble aud be holden 
for the Despatch of divers urgent and important Affairs; And the Lords Spiritual and 
Temporal, and the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses, and the Commissioners for Shires 
and Deahe of the House of Commons, are hereby required and commanded to give their 
Attendance accordingly, at Westminster, on the said Tuesday the Eighth day of February 
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-six. 


Given at Our Court at Windsor, this Tenth day of December in the Year of Our 


Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, and in the Thirty-ninth Year 
of Our Reign. 


GOD save The QUEEN, 








JOUR 


NALS 


OF THE 


HOUSE OF 


COMMONS. 





Session. 


1876. 








Tuesday, 8th February, 1876. 


PRAYERS at half an hour after One of the clock. 


M to MESSAGE from Her Majesty, by Colonel 
attend Her A Clifford, Yeoman Usher of the Black Rod: 


Majesty. 
= Mr. Speaker, 


The Queen commands this Honourable House 
to attend Her Majesty immediately, in the House 
of Peers. 

Accordingly Mr. Speaker, with the House, went 
up to attend Her Majesty:—And having re- 
turned ; 


Writs issued in Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair at a quarter of 

the Recess. an hour before Four of the clock ; and acquainted 
the House, That, in pursuance of the directions of 
the Acts passed in the 24th year of the reign of 
his Majesty King George the Third, c. 26, and 
in the 21st and 22nd years of the reign of Her 
Majesty Queen Victoria, c. 110, and in the 26th 
year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, 
c. 20, he had issued Warrants to the Clerk of the 
Crown to make out new Writs for the Election of 
Members to serve in this present Parliament, 

For the Borough of Blackburn, in the room of 
Henry Master Feilden, Esquire, deceased : 

For the Western Division of the County of 
Suffolk, in the room of Fuller Maitland 
Wiison, Esquire, deceased : 

For the South Western Division of the County 
of Lancaster, in the room of Charles Turner, 
Esquire, deceased : 

For the Middle Division of the County of 
Surrey, in the room of Sir Richard Bag- 
gallay, Knight, who has accepted the office 
of .a Judge of Her Majesty’s Court of 
Appeal : 

For the Borough of Whitehaven, in the room 
of George Augustus Frederick Cavendish 
Bentinck, Esquire, who has accepted the 
office of Her Majesty’s Judge Advocate 
General : 

For the Eastern Division of the County of 

Vou. 131. 





Aberdeen, in the room of William Dingwall 
Fordyce, Esquire, deceased : 

For the Borough of Horsham, in the room of 
the Right Honourable Sir William Robert 
Seymour Vesey Fitzgerald, who has accepted 
the office of Chief Charity Commissioner of 
England and Wales : 

For the Borough of Ipswich, in the room of 
John Patteson Cobbold, Esquire, deceased : 

For the Southern Division of the County of 
Wilts, in the room of the Honourable 
Henry Frederick Thynne, commonly called 
Lord Henry Thynne, who has accepted the 
— of Treasurer of Her Majesty’s House- 

old: 

For the Northern Division of the County of 
Salop, in the room of John Ralph Ormsby 
Gore, Esquire, now Baron Harlech, called 
up to the House of Peers: 

For the County of Dorset, in the room of 
Henry Gerard Sturt, Esquire, now Baron 
Alington, called up to the House of Peers: 

For the Borough of Burnley, in the room of 
Richard Shaw, Esquire, deceased : 

For the Eastern Division of the County of 
Suffolk, in the room of the Honourable 
Arthur Philip Stanhope, commonly called 
Viscount Mahon, now Earl Stanhope, called 
up to the House of Peers. 

And also a Warrant to the Clerk of the Crown 
in Ireland, to make out a new Writ for the Elec- 
tion of a Member to serve in this present Parlia- 
ment, 

For the Borough of Armagh, in the room of 
John Vance, Esquire, deceased. 


Mr. Speaker informed the House, That he had 
received from Mr. Baron Bramwell, one of the 
Judges selected for the trial of Election Petitions, 
pursuant to the Parliamentary Elections Act, 
1868, a Report relating to an Election for the 
Northern Division of the County of Durham; 
and from Mr. Justice FitzGerald, another of the 

B2 Judges 











Se Ce STI eT GARR SCENE he SS a eT a a aT Bee 


4 


Judges so selected, a Certificate and Report re- 
lating to the Election for the Borough of Armagh ; 
and the same were severally read, as follow :— 


Court of Exchequer Chambers, 
Rolls Gardens, Chancery-lane, 
Sir, 24th August 1875. 


Election Petition from North Durham. 
Edward Pickering and William Williams, Peti- 
tioners. 
Charles Murk Palmer, M.P., Respondent. 


I have the honour to report that the above Pe- 
tition, filed on the 17th of July 1874, was with- 


drawn by order granted by me on the 25th day of | 


August 1874. And I further report, that in my 
opinion the withdrawal of such Petition was not 
the result of any corrupt arrangement, nor in con- 
sideration of the withdrawal of any other Peti- 
tion. 

I must add that, through some inadvertence, the 
sending of this Report has been delayed. 

. I am, Sir, 
Your obedient Servant, 
G. Bramwell. 


To the Right Honourable 
The Speaker. 


The Parliamentary Elections Act. 
Armagh Borough Election Petition, 


In the matter of the Petition presented to the 
Court of Common Pleas in Jreland, by James Leslie 
Riggs, of English Street, Upper Armagh, in the 
County of Armagh, Doctor of Medicine, gg 
Scott Riddall, of Altavallen Corporation, in the 
County of Armagh, Merchant, and James Gardner, 
of English Street, Upper Armagh, in the County 
of Armagh, Merchant, against George de la Poer 
Beresford, who was elected to serve in Parliament 
for said Borough at the Election holden on Monday 
the 18th day of October 1875, complaining of the 
Return of said George de la Poer Beresford, and 
praying that said Election should be declared to 

e void, 

I, the Right Honourable John David Fitz Gerald, 
Third Justice of the Court of Queen’s Bench in 
Ireland, and one of the Judges for the trial of 
Election Petitions in Jre/and, having heard and 
determined the said Petition, do hereby report and 
certify as follows :— 

1. That the said Election was not a void Elec- 
tion; 

2. That the said George de la Poer Beresford, 
whose Return is complained of, was duly elected 
and returned ; 

3. That no corrupt practice was proved to have 
been committed by or with the knowledge or con- 
sent of the said George de la Poer Beresford ; 

4. That 0 practices have not been proved 
to have prevailed, nor is there any reason to believe 
that corrupt practices had extensively prevailed at 
said Election. 

Given under my hand this fifth day of January 
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six. 

Signed, 
J. D, Fitz Gerald. 


To the Right Honourable The Speaker 
of the House of Commons. 


And the said Certificate and Reports were or- 
dered to be entered in the Journals of this House. 


Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his War- 
rant to the Clerk of the Crown, to make outa 
New Writ for the electing of « Member to serve 
in this present Parliament for the County of Berks, 
in the room of Richard Benyon, Esquire, who, since 
his Election for the said County, hath accepted the 
Office of Steward or Bailiff of Her Majesty’s 
Manor of Northstead, in the County of York. 


sth February. 


Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his War- Leominster 
rant to the Clerk of the Crown, to make out a Writ. 


1876. 


New Writ for the electing of a Member to serve 
in this present Parliament for the Borough of 
Leominster, in the room of Richard Arkwright, 
Esquire, who, since his Election for the said 
Borough, hath accepted the Office of Steward or 
Bailiff of Her Majesty’s Three Chiltern Hundreds 
of Stoke, Desborough, and Bonenham, in the County 
of Buckingham. 





New Writ for the electing of a Member to serve 
| in this present Parliament for the City of Manches- 
‘ter, in the room of William Romaine Callender, 
Esquire, deceased. 


two or more places in any part of the United King- 
dom do make their Election for which of the places 
they will serve, within one week after it shall ap- 
pear that there is no question _— the Return for 
that place ; and if anything shall come in question 
| touching the Return or Election of any Member, he 
_is to withdraw during the time the matter is in de- 
bate; and that all Members returned upon double 
| Returns do withdraw till their Returns are de- 
termined. 
| Resolved, That no Peer of the Realm, except 
such Peers of Jreland as shall for the time being 
be actually elected, and shall not have declined to 
serve, for any County, City, or Borough of Great 
Britain, hath any right to give his Vote in the 
Election of any Member to serve in Parliament. 
Resolved, That it is a high infringement of the 
liberties and privileges of the Commons of the 
United Kingdom, for any Lord of Parliament, 
or other Peer or Prelate, not being a Peer of Jre- 
land at the time elected, and not having declined 
to serve for any County, City, or Borough of 
Great Britain, to concern himself in the Election 
of Members to serve for the Commons in Parlia- 
ment, except only any Peer of Jreland, at such 
Elections in Great Britain respectively, where 
such Peer shall appear as a Candidate, or by him- 
self, or any others, be proposed to be elected; or 
for any Lord Lieutenant or Governor of any 
County to avail himself of any authority derived 
from his Commission, toinfluence theElection of any 
Member to serve for the Commons in Parliament. 
Resolved, Thatif it shall appear that any person 
hath been elected or returned a Member of this 
House, or endeavoured so to be, by bribery, or 
any other corrupt practices, this House will pro- 
ceed with the utmost severity against all such 
persons as shall have been wilfully concerned in 
such bribery or other corrupt practices. 





hath been tampering with any Witness, in respect 
of his evidenee to be given to this House, or an 
Committee thereof, or directly or indirectly hath 
endeavoured to deter or hinder any person from 
appearing or giving evidence, the same is declared 
to be a high crime and misdemeanor; and this 
House will proceed with the utmost severity 
against such offender. 

Resolved, That if it shall appear that any person 
hath given false evidence in any case before this 
House, or any Committee thereof, this House will 
proceed with the utmost severity against such 
offender. 


Session of Parliament, the passages through the 
streets leading to this House be kept free and 
open, and that no obstruction be permitted to 
hinder the passage of Members to and from this 
House, and that no disorder be allowed in West- 
minster Hall, or in the passages leading to this 

House, 











Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his War- Manchester 
rant to the Clerk of the Crown, to make out a Writ 


Ordered, That all Members who are returned for Elections. 


Resolved, That if it shall appear that any person Witnesses. 


Ordered, That the Commissioners of the Police Metropolitan 
of the Metropolis do take care that, during the Police. 





39 Vicroria. 


House, during the sitting of Parliament, and that 
there be no annoyance therein or thereabouts ; and 
that the Serjeant-at-Arms attending this House 
do communicate this Order to the Commissioners 


aforesaid. 

a Ordered, That the Votes and Proceedings of 

&amp;*: this House be printed, being first perused by Mr. 

Speaker; and that he do appoint the printing 
thereof; and that no person but such as he shall 
appoint do presume to print the same. 

Privileges. Ordered, That a Committee of Privileges be 
appointed. 

Outlawries A Bill for the more effectual preventing Clandes- 

Bill. tine Outlawries, was read the first time; and 
ordered to be read a second time. 

Army (Manu- = J?esolved, That an humble Address be presented 

sem Aare to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return of the Annual Accounts of the 
several Manufacturing Establishments under the 
War Office, for the Year 1874-75 (in continua- 
tion of Parliamentary Paper, No. 96, of Session 
1875). 

Merchant Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 


Toi Capes. Papers showing the steps taken by the Board of 


tors.) Trade with respect to the Appointment of In- 
No.1. spectors under “ The Merchant Shipping Act, 
1875.” 


Mr. Edward Stanhope accordingly presented 
the said Papers. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


Merchant Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Shipping. a Copy of Tables showing the Progress of British 
No.2, Merchant Shipping. 
Mr. Edward Stanhope accordingly presented 
the said Paper. 
Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


Merchant Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
rapping Act, a Return of Vessels detained, or otherwise, by Or- 
Deued) der of the Board of Trade, under the Provisions of 
the Second Section of “ The Merchant Shipping 
Act, 1875,” upon Complaints made by Crews. 

Mr. Edward Stanhope accordingly presented 
the said Return. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


No. 3. 


Merchant Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
aipeing Act, a Copy of Letters addressed by the Board of 
N Trade to Shipowners’ Societies, Local Marine 
0 4. Boards, and others, asking for Observations or 
Suggestions as to the Operation of “ The Mer- 
chant Shipping Act, 1875”; and of the Replies re- 
ceived thereto. 
Mr. Edward Stanhope accordingly presented 
the said Paper. 
Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


chanet*Y a Copy of further Correspondence with Mr. Plim- 
Shipping Acts so/l, M.P., concerning the Survey of a Number of 
Amendment Ships which have run off their List at Lloyd’s, or 
Act 1871.) had the Black Mark set opposite their Names 
No. 5. in that List; of the consequent Communications 
addressed to Lloyd’s Register of British and Fo- 

reign Shipping and to the Owners of the Vessels, 

together with the Replies received thereto (in 

oL. 131. 


Ships Detained Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
n 
(Mere 





8th February, 5 


continuation of Parliamentary Papers, Nos. 82, 
178, and 364, of Session 1873). 

Mr. Edward Stanhope accordingly presented 
the said Paper. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Marine 
a Copy of further Reply to Questions concerning Insurance 
the Law of Foreign Countries on the subject of Seaton) 
Marine Insurance (in continuation of Parliament- N 
ary Paper, No. 304, of Session 1875). we 
Mr. Edward Stanhope accordingly presented 
the said Paper. 
Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Tuble ; and be printed. 


ee there be laid — this House, rey 
a Copy of Correspondence and Papers relating to Ships (“The 
the alleged Unseaworthiness of the “ Wild Rese® WS er) 
of Liverpool. No. 7. 
Mr. Edward Stanhope accordingly presented 
the said Paper. 
Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Merchant 
a Copy of Communications between the Board Ships (Free- 
of ‘Trade, the Committee for Managing the ; 
Affairs of Lloyd's, the Committee of Lloyd’s Re- No. 8, 
gister of British and Foreign Shipping, and the 
Committee of Underwriters’ Registry of Iron 
Vessels; having for their object to ascertain 
whether any principles can be adopted for deter- 
mining the proper amount of Freeboard in Mer- 
chant Ships. 

Mr. Edward Stanhope accordingly presented 
the said Paper. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Trade and 
Accounts relating to Trade and Navigation of the Navigation. 
United Kingdom for each Month during the Year No 9% 
1876. 

Mr. Edward Stanhope accordingly presented 
the said Accounts. 

Ordered, That the said Accounts do lie upon 
the Table ; and be printed. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Railway, &amp;c. 
a Copy of Report by the Board of Trade upon all Bills. 
the Saline, Canal, Tramway, Gas, and Water No. 10. 
Bills of Session 1876. 

Mr. Edward Stanhope accordingly presented 
the said Paper. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


Mr. Hunt presented, by Her Majesty’s Come “Vanguard” 
mand,—Copy of Minutes of Proceedings at a ©ourt Martial. 
Court Martial held at Devonport, in September 
1875, to inquire into the Loss of Her Majesty’s 
Ship “ Vanguard,” and Copy of the Mainly 
Minute in relation thereto. 

. Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
able. 


Mr. Bourke presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- Guano 
mand,—Copy of Report upon the Guano Deposits (Cea mn 
on the Islands of Lobos de Tierra, Lobos de Afuera, No, 1, 1876.) 
Macabi, and Guanape (in continuation of Com- 
mercial, No. 17, 1874). 

Copy of Treaty between Her Majesty and the Fugitive 
President of the Republic of Haytz for the Mu- Criminals 
tual Surrender of Fugitive Criminals, Signed at {7a acne 
Port-au-Prince, December 7, 1874. 





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6 Sth February. 1876. 


Copy of Treaty between Her Majesty and the | showing the Population of each separate Police 

Republic of Honduras for the Mutual Surrender | District, and the Number and Total Cost of each 

No.1, 1876.) Of Fugitive Criminals. Signed at Guatemala, | separate Force of Police, together with Summary for 

January 6, 1874. ' England generally : And, II. Of the Number 

Suez Canal Copy of Correspondence respecting the Pur- | of Forces of Police in England and Wales consist- 

tefey No.l, chase by Her Majesty’s Government of the Suez | ing of less than Five Men each; of the Number of 

‘ Canal Shares belonging to the Egyptian Govern-| Forces consisting of less than Ten Men each; of 

ment. the Number of Forces of less than Twenty-five 

Suez Canal Copy of Correspondence respecting the Suez} Men each; and of the Number of Forces of less 

hg No.2, Canal. (In continuation of Papers presented to| than Fifty Men each. 

; Parliament in 1874, “ Commercial, No. 19.”) Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated Administration 


— Copy of Agreement between the British and|the 7th day of July, in the last Session of Par- a. 





(Egypt, No. 3, Egyptian Governments respecting Judicial Re-|liament, for a Return of the under-mentioned penditure.) 
1876.) forms in Egypt. Signed at Alerandria, July 31, | Particulars relating to the Local Expenditure in 
. England in respect of the Administration of Justice 
Trade Marks Copy of Declaration between Great Britain and | during the year 1873-4, with a Summary for 
(Spain, No.1, Spain for the Protection of Trade Marks. Signed | Counties, for Boroughs (including the City of 
at London, December 14, 1875. London), and for Englund as a whole, separately ; 
Telegraph Copy of Declaration between Great Britain and| the Information to be given in the following 
es 


1876.) 


essa’ Spain respecting Telegraphic Messages between | Form :— 
Hin No.2, Gibraltar and Spain. Signed at Madrid, De- 
cember 25, 1875. 
Tunis Copy of General Convention between the Go- 
(No. 1, 1876.) vernments of Great Britain and Tunis. Signed 
in the English and Arabic Languages, July 19, 
1875. 
Slave Trade Copy of Treaty between Her Majesty and the 
(Zanzibar, Sultan of Zanzibar, supplementary to the Treaty 
No: 1, 1876.) for the Suppression of the Slave Trade of June 4, 
1873. Signed at London, July 14, 1874, 
Monastic and Mr. Bourke also presented,—Return to an Ad- 
Conventual dress to Her Majesty, dated the llth day of 
Ginene August, in the last Session of Parliament, for a 
iscella- 5 - ° ° . 
neous, No.1, Return, in continuation of the Returns to an Ad- 
1876.) dress ordered to be presented upon the 27th day 
of July 1874, which shows the feos Ordinances, 


or Regulations relating to Monastic and Conven-) Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated County Court 
tual I netitations if certain States, giving the | the ond day of August, in the last Session of Parlia- Resistrars 
Originals and Translations of any new Laws, Or- ment, fora Return of the Fees and Remuneration ns 
dinances, or Regulations, and any alterations of received by the Registrars of the several County 


Laws, Ordinances, or Regulations which have up Courts having jurisdiction in Bankruptcy, in the 
to the present time been adopted or promulgated | ¢,))jowine Form :— , 
g : 


by the Governments of the said States, and with 

respect to which Information has not hitherto been | 00444) sutary under rece under Fees under | Remuneration | petal 

furnished to this House. i of | 19 &amp; 50 Fite ©. 108, a ae Admiralty Juris gestae Act, | , Amount of 
° . ourts.| or ie. c. 14, | . *| dicti i ’ t 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the Schedules C. and D, } “oven (any | 1668. 


Table. 





ge Ordinary Cost per Prisoner 
in all Prisons within each Jurisdic- 


tion. 
Average 


ners. 
Total Cost of Coroners.and of In- 


Repayment by the Treasury in 





Amount received from the 
for Maintenance, calcu- 


er Prisoner on the Daily 


P' : 
Average of Prisoners within the 


Jurisdiction. 
Cost of Removal of Convicts and of 


for the Maintenance of Convicted 


Prisoners. 


in respect of the Costs of Prosecu- 


tions. 
Number of separate Coroners within 


commodation is provided. 
Daily Average Number of Prisoners 
the Conveyance of Priso 
respect of Removal and Convey- 
ance. 
Total Cost of Criminal Prosecutiors. 
Amount received from the Treasury 


quests during the Year. 
Total of Columns 7, 12, 14, and 17. 


Total of Columns 9, 13, and 15. 


during the Year. 


Number of Prison Officers. 
Total Amount of Ordinary Cost of 
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each Jurisdiction. 


Prison Officers. 
Amount of Government Subvention 


the Jurisdiction. 
Number of Prisoners for whom Ac- 


Treasury 


Prisons. 
Salaries, Allowances, and Rations of 


Number of Separate Prisons within 
lated 


Population in 1871. 


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Artillery Mr. Secretary Hardy presented, by Her Ma- 
—e jesty’s Command,—Copy of Reports on the Pro- 
ness.) “y- ceedings of Artillery Volunteers encamped at| Return to an Order, dated the 11th day of Irish Gaols 

Shoeburyness in August 1875. August, in the last Session of Parliament, for 224 Work- 


Patriotic Fund. Copy of Fourteenth Report of the Royal Com-| Returns of Jrish County Gaols where the Board a 


missioners of the Patriotic Fund to Her Majesty 
the Queen, 1875; being the Seventh Report of 
the Commissionersappointed by the Supplementary 
Commission, dated the 26th March 1868. 

Mr. Secretary Hardy also presented, pursuant 
to the directions of several Acts of Parliament,— 
Copy of further Regulations for the Discipline 
and Payment of the Militia Reserve. 

Copy of Royal Warrant for the Government 
and future Establishment of the Royal Hospital at 
Chelsea. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Secretary Cross presented, by Her Ma- 
jesty’s Command,—Copy of Report of the Royal 
Commission on the practice of subjecting live 
Animals to Experiments for scientific purposes ; 
with Minutes of Evidence, and Appendix. 

Mr. Secretary Cross also presented,—Return to 
an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 7th day of 
July, in the last Session of Parliament, for Returns, 
I. Of the Number of separate Forces of Police, 

(a.) In the Metropolis ; 

(b.) In the City of London ; 

(c.) In the Counties of England and Wales; 
(d.) In the Boroughs of England and Wales ; 


of Superintendence supply Vestments and other 
requisites for Divine Service to the Chaplains of 
different Denominations: —— And, of Jrish Work- 
houses where the Boards of Guardians supply 
Vestments and other requisites for Divine Service 
to the Chaplains of different Denominations. 

Mr. Secretary Cross also presented, pursuant Court ot 
to the directions of several Acts of Parliament,— Session 
Copy of Act of Sederunt of the Court of Session °°) 
in Scotland for regulating the Arrangements, 
Custody, and Disposal of Unextracted Processes. 

Copies of Proclamations issued by the Lord Peace Preservs- 
Lieutenant of Ireland in Council, under the au- tion (Ireland) 
thority of the Peace Preservation (Ireland) Acts, —_ 
during the Parliamentary Recess of 1875-76. 

. — That the said Papers do lie upon the 
able. 


Lord George Hamilton presented, pursuant to East India 
the directions of several Acts of Parliament,—Re- (nme 
turn of all Loans raised in England under the ™ -_ 
provisions of any Acts of Parliament, chargeable 
on the Revenues of India, outstanding at the 
commencement of the half year ending on the 
30th September 1875, with the Rates of Interest 
payable thereon, and the Date of the Termination 





of each Loan, the Debt incurred during the half- 


year, 








39 Vicroria. 


year, the Moneys raised thereby during the half- 
ear, the Loans paid off or discharged during the 
ialf-year, and the Loans outstanding at the close 
of the half-year; stating, so far as the public 
convenience will allow, the purpose or service 
for which Moneys have been raised during the 
half-year. 
East India Return of all Loans raised in India chargeable 
(Loans raised on the Revenues of Jndia, outstanding at the 
is India.) commencement of the half-year ending on the 30th 
September 1875, with the Rates of Interest pay- 
able thereon, and the Date of the Termination of 
each Loan, the Debt incurred during the half-year, 
the Moneys raised thereby during the half-year, 
the Loans paid off or discharged during the half- 
year, and the Loans outstanding at the close of 
the half-year; stating, so far as the public con- 
venience will allow, the purpose or service for 
which Moneys have been raised during the half- 
year. 
Bast India Copy of Order or Warrant made by the Secre- 
Home Govern- tary of State for India in Council, declaring 
a certain Persons to have been appointed to Situa- 
1875, * tions on the permanent Establishment of the 
Secretary of State for Jndia in Council, between 
the first formation of the said Establishment 
and before the 3lst December 1874, without Cer- 
tificates from the Civil Service Commissioners 
through inadvertence on the part of the Head of 
the Department, and without any fault on the part 
of the said Persons. 
Return showing the Names of all Persons with 
respect to whom any Order or Warrant has been 
issued in pursuance of Act 38 &amp; 39 Vic. c. 73, 
sec. 1, together with the Situations to which they 
have been appointed. 
Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
rt Table. 


Postal Mr. William Henry Smith presented, by Her 

Convention  Majesty’s Command,—Copy of Postal Convention 

(Gui) between the Government of Her Majesty and the 

- Government of Brazil. Signed at Rio de Janeiro, 
| the 16th day of August 1875. 

en Customs Mr. William Henry Smith also presented,—Re- 

ail Establish- turn to an Order, dated the 3rd day of May, in 

ments, &amp;¢. the last Session of Parliament, for a Return of 

the Total Cost of the Customs Establishments in 

London and the Outports during the year ended 

the 3lst day of December 1874 :—-—Accounts 

; for each Port of the United Kingdom, for the 

year ended the 3lst day of December 1874, of 

the Number and Tonnage of Vessels with Cargoes 

entered Inwards and cleared Outwards, distin- 

guishing Sailing from Steam Vessels : Of the 

Number of Entries passed, distinguishing Im- 

ports, Entries for Goods into, and out of Ware- 

house, and Exports: ——Of the Number of 

Lookers’ Orders issued for the Delivery of Goods 

from Warehouse, including those for Ships’ Stores: 

) ——Of the Number of Despatches made out for 

Goods removed under Bond : Of the Number 

and Tonnage of Vessels registered :——Of the 

Number of Light Receipts issued, and the Amount 

~ of Light Dues collected:——-Of the Number of 

Payments to Army and Navy and other Pen- 

sioners, including Navy Allotments :——Of the 

Number of Money Orders issued and paid : 

Of the Number of Crews Engaged and Dis- 

Te with the Total Number of Men :——Of 

the Number of Forms and Letters filled up and 











- sed written upon matters connected with the Board of 
wi) Trade Work : And, of the Total Gross Amount 





of Customs Duties collected at the several Ports 
of the United Kingdom in the year ended the 31st 
day of December 1874, specifying the Amount of 
Duty received on each Article at each Port (to- 
gether with the Amount received on British 
Spirits for the Inland Revenue). 

Vo. 131. 








8th February. 7 


Return to an Order, dated the 14th day of July, Statiovery.and 
in the last Session cf Parliament, for a Return of P 
Expenditure for Stationery and Printing, &amp;c. for 

the several Departments in the respective Divisions 

of the Kingdom, in each of the years 1862-3 to 
1865-6, inclusive, this being the year in which 
separate Departmental Accounts ceased to be 

kept; the Return being arranged, as nearly as 
practicable, under the Departmental Heads now 

used for the Departmental Accounts recently 
re-established, with such explanatory Notes as 

will clearly show the various additions to the 
supplies of Stationery, and in the Expenditure 

for Departments since the year 1865-6, as also the 

New Departments, for which the supplies are now 

made, in contrast with those in 1875-6. 

Return to an Order, dated the 26th day of Post Office 
July, in the last Session of Parliament, for (Sunday Duty.) 
Returns of the Number of Receiving Post Offices 
in Towns, which have been closed on Sundays 
under the recommendation of-Clause 24 in the 
Report on Sunday Labour in the Post Office, of 
December 1871 : ——And, of the Number of Rural 
Messengers entirely released from Sunday Work 
under the recommendation of Clause 9 in the 
above-mentioned Report, 

Return to an Order, dated the 9th day of Telegraph 
August, in the last Session of Parliament, for ae 
a Return showing the Names of the Seven Tele- 
graph Stations in London, the 303 in other parts 
of England, the 28 in Scotland, and the 111 in 
Ireland, referred to in the Report to the Treasury 
of the 17th day of July 1875 ; and also showing in 
Columns the Number of Messages telegraphed 
from each Station during the latest Period of 
Twelve Months for which Accounts are made up; 
the Total Amount of Money received for such 
Messages addressed ta any part of Great Britain 
or Ireland; the Total Salaries, Rent, and other 
Allowances made to Persons employed in the Tele- 
graph Service at each Station, together with any 
Salary or other Allowance made to the Post- 
master in connection with Telegraph Business; 
also a Summary of the Results for England, Scot- 
land, and Ireland. 

Mr. William Henry Smith also presented, pur- Friendly 
suant to the directions of several Acts of Parlia- Societies Act, 
ment,—Copy of Regulations approved by the “" 
Treasury, under the Friendly Societies Act, 1875, 

38 &amp; 39 Vic. c. 60. 

Abstract Account, showing the Issues made Consolidated 
from the Consolidated Fund of the United King- *""™* 
dom, in the Financial year ended 3lst March 
1875, for the Interest and Management of the 
Public Funded and Unfunded Debt, for the 
Civil List, and all other Issues in the Financial 
Year for Services charged directly on the said 
Fund; together with the Report of the Comptroller 
and Auditor General thereon. 

Appropriation Account of the Sum granted by Army Purchase 
Parliament to defray the Charges for the Esta~ Commission 
blishment of, and Expenditure incurred by, the jaa” 
Army Purchase Commissioners, and of the Ex- 1874-75.) 
penses to be incurred in purchasing the remaining 
Commissions of Gentlemen-at-Arms; together 
with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor 
General thereon. 

Appropriation Account of the Sum granted by Greenwich 
Parliament for Greenwich Hospital and Schoo » penal Chowees 
for the year ended 31st March 1875, together with priation Ac- 
the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General count, 1874- 
thereon. site 

Account of Receipts and Payments by the Com- Irish Repro- 
missioners of Public Works ( /reland), on account —" Loan 
of the Irish Reproductive Loan Fund, for the year 
ended 31st December 1875. 

Copy of Treasury Minuté, dated 21st January ——- ; 
1876, discontinuing the presentation to Parliament (gcotiand.) 
of the Annual Return of Income and Expenditure 
of the Lunacy Commissioners in Scotland. 





B4 Copy 


































8 8th February. 1876. 


Register of Copy of Treasury Minute, dated 16th January 
(eeteeh) 1876, authorising Increase of Clerical Staff in the 
Office of the General Register of Sasines in Scot- 
land. 
perann Copy of Treasury Minute, dated 6th October 
‘ieee a 1875, awarding a Special Compensation Allowance 
to Mr. Easton John Ilayward Cox, late Secretary 
to the Visitors of Lunatics in the Court of 
Chancery. 
Copy of Treasury Minute, dated 9th September 
1875, awarding a Special Compensation Allowance 
to Samuel Hill, Established Shipwright. 
Copy of Treasury Minute, dated 3rd December 
1875, awarding a Special Retired Allowance to 
Frederick Spicer, Established Caulker, Portsmouth 
Dockyard. 
Copy of Treasury Minute, dated 23rd October 
1875, awarding a Special Retired Allowance to 
John Faithful, Established Hammerman, Ports- 
mouth Dockyard. 
Copy of Treasury Minute, dated 26th November 
1875, awarding a Special Retired Allowance to 
George Harnden, Third Class Smith, Portsmouth 
Dockyard. 
Copy of Treasury Minute, dated 16th December 
1875, awarding a Special Retired Allowance to 
John Allen, Assistant Warder, Portsmouth Convict 
Prison. 
Copy of Treasury Minute, dated 10th November 
1875, awarding a Special Retired Allowance to 
James Trathen, Established Sailmaker, Dept/ord 
Storeyard. 
Copy of Treasury Minute, dated 23rd October 
1875, awarding a Special Retired Allowance to 
Thomas Michael Condran, Established Shipwright, 
Chatham Dockyard. 
Copy of Treasury Minute, dated 5th No- 
vember 1875, awarding a Special Retired Allow- 
ance to Joseph Barton, Labourer, Koyal Labora- 


tory. 


Subject of Grain 
of Parliamentary Paper [C. 1313 


38th and 39th Victoria, chapter 88, from lst July 
to 30th September 1875; together with a 
Summary showing the Total Number of Vessels 
ordered to be surveyed under the same Acts from 
5th August 1873 to 30th September 1875. (In 
continuation of Parliamentary Paper [C. 1300].) 


under Section 11 of the 34th and 35th Victoria, 
chapter 110, and Section 4 of the 38th and 39th 
Victoria, chapter 88. 

Copy of Report of an Inquiry held by Order of 
the Board of Trade under the Provisions of the 
14th Section of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, 
into the circumstances attending the Loss of the 
Steamship “ Deutschland,” on the Kentish Knock 
Land on the 6th day of December 1875. 

Mr. Edward Stanhope also presented, pursuant 
to the directions of several Acts of Parliament,— 
Copy of Rules made by the Board of Trade under 
Section 64 of the Tramways Act, 1870, in respect 
. Applications for Provisional Orders under that 

ct. 

Copy of Warrant of the Board of Trade autho- 
rising the Abandonment of the Severn Junction 
Railways (1865), in pursuance of “ The Abandon- 
ment of Railways Act, 1850,” and “ The Railway 
Companies Act, 1867 ;” and Report thereon. 

Copy of Draft Certificates settled by the Board 
of Trade under the Railway Companies Powers 
Act, 1864, authorising the following Companies to 
raise Additional Capital: 1. The Isle of Wight 
Railway Company; 2. The North Staffordshire 





Copy of Treasury Minute, dated 27th October 


Railway Company. 





1875, awarding a Special Retired Allowance to 
Arthur Kinsella, Artificer, Royal Small Arms 
Factory, Enfield. 
Copy of ‘Treasury Minute, dated 16th August 
1875, awarding a Special Retired Allowance to 
John Hall, Artificer, Royal Small Arms Factory, 
Enfield. 
Copy of Treasury Minute, dated 31st August 
1875, awarding a Special Compassionate Allowance 
to Samuel Billing, Hired Boiler Maker, Ports- 
mouth Dockyard. 
Superannu- Copy of Treasury Minute, dated 23rd November 
ation Act, 1875, placing Civil Chaplains employed by the 
— War Department under the 4th Section of the 
Superannuation Act, 1859. 
Superannu- Copy of Treasury Minute, dated 3rd November 
ay —_. 1875, declaring that the Island of Ascension shall 
® and 1875. 1,6 deemed to be an unhealthy Place for the pur- 
poses of the Superannuation Acts of 1859 and 
1875. 
Copy of Treasury Minute, dated 3rd November 
1875, declaring that Mauritius shall be deemed to 
be an unhealthy place for the purposes of the 
Superannuation Acts of 1859 and 1875. 
Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Railway Mr. Edward Stanhope presented, by Her Ma- 

Accidents. jesty’s Command,—Return of Accidents which 
have been reported to the Board of Trade 
during the months of October, November, and 
December 1875, by the several Railway Com- 
panies in the United Kingdom, in pursuance of 
the Regulation of Railways Act, 1871 (34 &amp; 35 
Vic. c. 78). 


Merchant Copy of Report to the President of Board of 


Ships and Trade on recent Legislation concerning Merchant 
Seamen, Ships and Seamen. 


Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


The following Papers, pursuant to the directions 
of several Acts of Parliament, were laid upon the 
Table by the Clerk of the House,—The Accounts 
of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, for the 
year ending Ist July 1875. 

Copy of Supplemental Scheme of the Ecclesi- 
astical Commissioners proposed to be submitted to 
Her Majesty in Council, with reference to the 
Church of Saint James, lately situate in Duke's 
Place, Aldgate, in the City and Diocese of London, 
but now taken down. 


this day, attended Her Majesty in the House o 
Peers, when Her Majesty was pleased to make, by 
Her Chancellor, a most gracious Speech from the 
Throne to both Houses of Parliament; of which 
Mr. Speaker said he had, for greater accuracy, 
obtained a Copy; which he read to the House, as 
followeth : 


My Lords, and Gentlemen, 


It is with much satisfaction that I again resort 
to the advice and assistance of my Parliament. 

My relations with all Foreign Powers continue 
to be of a cordial character. 

The insurrectiopary movement which during 
the last six months has been maintained in the 
Turkish Provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and 
which the Troops of the Sultan have up to the 
present time been unable to repress, has excited 
the attention and interest of the great European 
Powers. I have considered it my duty not to 
stand aloof from the efforts now being made by 
allied and friendly Governments to bring about a 
pacification of the disturbed districts, and I have 
accordingly, 











aden Ships. .y continuation 1878 (eee 


) Laden Ships.) 
Return of all Vessels ordered tu be Surveyed Merchant 
by the Board of Trade or its Officers under the sipping a 


Copy of paper and Papers on the Merchant 


12th Section of the 36th and 37th Victoria, (Vessels gur. 
chapter 85, and the lst and 2nd sections of the veyed) 


Copy of Report to the President of the Board Unseaworthy 
of Trade upon the action of the Board of Trade ® 


hips, 


Merchant 


Ships’ Casual. 


ties (“ The 


Deutschland”) 


Tramways Act, 


1870, 


Railways 
Abandonment, 


Railway 
Companies 
Certificates, 


Mersey Docks 
and Harbour 
Board. 


Saint James, 
Duke’s Place, 


Aldgate, 


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accordingly, while respecting the independence of 
the Porte, joined in urging on the Sultan the 
expediency of adopting such measures of admin- 
istrative reform as may remove all reasonable cause 
of discontent on the part of his Christian subjects. 

I have agreed to purchase, subject to your 
sanction, the Shares which belonged to the 
Khedive of Egypt in the Suez Canal, and I rely 
with confidence on your enabling Me to complete 
a transaction in which the public interests are 
deeply involved. 

The representations which I addressed to the 
Chinese Government as to the attack made in the 
course of last year on the Expedition sent from 
Burmah to the Western Proviuces of Chinu, have 
been received in a friendly spirit. The circum- 
stances of that lamentable outrage are now the 
subject of an inquiry, in which I have thought it 
right to request that a member of My Diplomatic 
Service should take part. I await the result of 
this inquiry in the firm conviction that it will be 
so conducted as to lead to the discovery and 
punishment of the offenders. 

Papers on all the above subjects will be laid 
before you. 

Tam deeply thankful for the uninterrupted health 
which My dear Son, the Prince of Wales, has 
enjoyed during his journey through India. The 
hearty affection with which he has been received 
by My Indian Subjects of all Classes and Races 
assures Me that they are happy under My Rule, and 
loyal to my Throne. At the time that the direct 
Government of My Jndian Empire was transferred 
to the Crown, no formal addition was made to the 
Style and Titles of the Sovereign. I have deemed 
the present a fitting opportunity for supplying this 
omission, and a Bill upon the subject will be pre- 
sented to you. 

The humane and enlightened policy consistently 
pursued by this Country in putting an end to 
Slavery within her dependencies, and in suppress- 
ing the Slave Trade throughout the world, makes 
it important that the action of British National 
ships in the territorial waters of Foreign States 
should be in harmony with these great principles. 
I have, therefore, given directions for the issue of 
a Royal Commission to inquire into all Treaty 
engagements and other International obligations 
bearing upon this subject, and all instructions from 
time to time issued to My Naval Officers, with a 
view to ascertain whether any steps ought to be 
taken to secure for My Ships and their Comman- 
ders abroad greater power for the maintenance of 
the right of personal liberty. 

A Bill will be laid before you for punishing 
Slave Traders who are subjects of Native Indian 
Princes. 

The affairs of My Colonial Empire, the general 
prosperity of which has continued to advance, have 
received a large share of My attention. Papers of 
importance and interest will soon be in your hands 
showing the proceedings with respect to a Con- 
ference of the South African Colonies and States. 

The murder of a high officer of the Straits Set- 
tlements whilst acting as Resident in a neigh- 
bouring Malay State, and the disorders ensuing on 
that outrage, have demanded the interference of My 
troops. I trust that the operations, which have 
been ably and energetically conducted, though 
not without the loss of some valuable lives, have 
restored order, and re-established the just influence 
and authority of this Country. 


Gentlemen of the House of Commons, 


Ihave directed the Estimates of the year to 
be prepared and presented to you without delay. 


My Lords, and Gentlemen, 


Bills for regulating the Ultimate Tribunal of 
Appeal for the United Kingdom, and for the 





oth February. 9 


amendment of the Merchant Shipping Laws, will 
be immediately submitted to you. 

Legislation will be proposed relating to the Uni- 
versities and to Primary Education. 

Your attention will be called also to the Acts 
relating to the Inclosure of Commons, and to a 
measure for promoting economy and efficiency in 
the management of Prisons, and at the same time 
effecting a relief of local burthens, 

Other important measures, as the time of the 
Session permits, will be introduced to your notice ; 
and I pray that your deliberations may, under the 
Divine blessing, result in the happiness and con- 
tentment of My people. 


Gracious Speech which Her Majesty has addressed 
to both Houses of Parliament : 

Humbly to thank Her Majesty for informing us 
that Her relations with all Foreign Powers’ con- 
tinue to be of a cordial character : 

To thank Her Majesty for informing us that 
Her Majesty has considered it Her duty not to 
stand aloof from the efforts now being made by 
allied and friendly Governments to bring about a 
pacification of the disturbed districts of Bosnia 
and Herzegovina, and that Her Majesty has 
accordingly, while respecting the independence of 
the Porte, joined in urging op the Sultan the 
expediency of adopting such measures of adminis- 
trative reform as may remove all reasonable 
causes of discontent on the part of his Christian 
subjects : 

Humbly to thank Her Majesty for informing us 
that Her Majesty has agreed to purchase, subject 
to the sanction of Parliament, the shares which be- 
longed to the Khedive of Egypt in the Suez 
Canal: 

Humbly to thank Her Majesty for informing us 
that the representations which have been addressed 
to the Chinese Government, as to the attack made 
in the course of last year on the Expeditiun 
sent from Burmah to the Western Provinces of 
China, have been received in a friendly spirit, and 
that the circumstances of that lamentable outrage 
are now the subject of an inquiry : 

To assure Her Majesty that we rejoice to learn 
that His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has 
enjoyed uninterrupted health during his journey 
through Jndia, and that we join in regarding the 
hearty affection with which he has been received 
by Her Majesty’s Indian subjects as an assurance 
that they are happy under Her Majesty’s rule, and 
loyal to Her Throne: 

Humbly to thank Her Majesty for reminding us 
that at the time the direct Government of Her 
Majesty's Indian Empire was transferred to the 
Crown, no formal addition was made to the style 
and titles of the Sovereign, and for informing us 
that Her Majesty deems the present a fitting op- 
portunity for supplying the omission : 

Humbly to thank Her Majesty for informing us 
that directions have been given for the issue of a 
Royal Commission to inquire into all Treaty en- 
gagements and other International obligations 
bearing upon the subject of the Slave Trade, 
and the action of British national ships in the 
territorial waters of foreign States, with a view to 
ascertain whether any steps ought to be taken to 
secure for Her Majesty’s ships and their com- 
manders abroad greater power for the maintenance 
of the right of personal liberty : 

Humbly to thank Her Majesty for informing us 
that a Bill will be introduced for the punishment of 
Slave Traders who are subjects of Native Indian 
Princes : 

To assure Her Majesty that we rejoice to learn 
that the general prosperity of Her Colonial Em- 
pire has continued to advance. 











OL. 131, 


c To 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Resolution for 
to Her Majesty, to thank Her Majesty for the Most Address, 





8th—Yth February. 1876. 
Burial Places (England and Wales), in subjoined 


Form :— 


10 


To join with Her Majesty in trusting that the 
operations of Her Majesty’s troops in Malay have 
restored order and re-established the just influence 
and authority of this Country: 

Humbly to thank Her Majesty for directing the 
Estimates of the year to be prepared and presented 
without delay : 

Humbly to assure Her Majesty that our ‘care- 
ful consideration shall be given to the measures 
which may be submitted to us, and that we ear- 
nestly join in Her Majesty’s prayer that our deli- 
berations may, under the Divine blessing, result 
in the happiness and contentment of Her Majesty’s 
people. 

Ordered, That a Committee be appointed to 
draw up an Address to be presented to Her Ma- 
jesty upon the said Resolution: And a Com- 
mittee was appointed of Mr. Ridley, Mr. Mul- 
holland, Mr. Disraeli, Mr. Chancellor of the Ex- 
chequer, Mr. Secretary Cross, Mr. Secretary 
Hardy, Mr. Hunt, Sir Charles Adderley, Lord 
John Manners, Mr. Sclater- Booth, Viscount San- 
don, Mr. Attorney General, Mr. Bourke, Viscount 
Barrington, Sir James Elphinstone, Mr. William 
Henry Smith, and Sir William Dyke, or any 
Three of them: And they are to withdraw imme- 
diately. 

Ordered, That Her Majesty’s Most Gracious 
Speech to both Houses of Parliament be referred 


to the Committee. 





Number of 
Churchyards or Consecrated 
Burial Grounds 
adjoining to or separated 

from Churchyards, 





Number of | Population of 


ces of 


Parishes, Parishes. 











Number of Consecrated Pla 


Worship. 
Closed by Order in 


Returns received. 
Council, 


Returns received. 
Not received. 


Not received, 





Committee to 
draw up 
Address. 





























Number of Unconsecrated Burial 
Grounds attached to 
Unconsecrated Places of Worship in 
the Parish, or otherwise. 


Number of 
Burial Grounds provided 
under Burial Acts, 





Closed by Order 
in Council, 
Unconsecrated 


Ground. 
Not containing 


Unconsecrated 


Containing 
Ground, 


Number of Unconsecrated 


Places of Worship. 























Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Copy of Contract, dated the 9th day of October 
1875, entered into with the West India and Pacific 
Steamship Company, for the conveyance of Mails 


Post Office 
(Port-au- 
Prince, &amp;c. 
Mails.) 


No. 11. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Petitions for 
the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, That, rote gy 
. opal in the case of the following Petitions for Bills, the Orders om 
from this Country to Puerto Cabello, Zampico, and | standing Orders have not been complied with, complied with) 
Santa Martha; with Copy of Treasury Minute | ,;..W° 
thereon. 1. 
Mr. William Henry Smith accordingly presented 
the said Paper. 
Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


Cleator and Workington Junction Rail- 
way. 
. Mersey Railway. 
3. Midland Counties and Shannon Junction 
Railway. 
. North and South (Gravesend Tunnel) 
Junction Railway. 
. Northern Union Railways of Ireland. 
. Penarth, Sully, and Cadoxton Railway. 
. Preston Tramways. 
. Rosstrevor Improvement. 
. Stockton and Middlesbrough Corporation 
Water. 
Waterford, New Ross, and Wexford 
Junction Railway. 
Ordered, That the Reports be referred to the 
Select Committee on Standing Orders. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Copy of Annual Report of the Director of the 
National Gallery to the Treasury, for the year 
1875. 

Mr. William Henry Smith accordingly presented 
the said Paper. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


And then the House adjourned till To-mor- 
row. 


National 
Gallery. 
No, 12, 


10. 


Address 
reported. 





Mr. Ridley reported from the Committee ap- 
ointed to draw up an Address to be presented to 
Her Majesty ; That they had drawn up an Address 
accordingly ; and the same was read, as fol- 


loweth :— 


Most Gracious Sovereign, 


We your Majesty’s most dutiful and loyal Sub- 
jects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of 


Wednesday, 9th February, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 
YEVERAL Public Petitions were presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Public 
Petitions. 


Vide First 
Report. 


East India Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 





(Tariff Act, 
1875.) 


Population and 
Burial Places 
(England and to 


Wales.) 


to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Copy of Correspondence relating to the 
Indian Tariff Act of 1875. 


Ordered, That Mr. Alexander Brown have leave 
of absence till Easter, on urgent private affairs ; 
pee ~~ Trevelyan, for four weeks, on account of ill 

ealth. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return relative to Population and 


Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assem- 
bled, beg leave to convey to Your Majesty our 
thanks for the gracious Speech which Your Ma- 
jesty has commanded to be made to both Houses 
of Parliament. 

We humbly thank your Majesty for informing 
us that Your Majesty’s relations with all Foreign 
Powers continue to be of a cordial character. 

We thank Your Majesty for informing us that 
Your Majesty has considered it Your duty not to 
stand aloof from the efforts now being made by 
allied and friendly Governments to bring about a 
pacification of the disturbed districts of Bosnia 
and Herzegovina, and that Your Majesty has ac- 
cordingly, while respecting the independence of 








the 











for 
sills 


ot 
with.) 





SY VicToria. 


the Porte, joined in urging on the Sultan the ex- 
pedieucy of adopting such measures of admini- 
strative reform as may remove all reasonable cause 
of discontent on the part of his Christian sub- 
jects. 

, We humbly thank Your Majesty for informing 
us that Your Majesty has agreed te purchase, sub- 
ject to the sanction of Parliament, the shares 
which belonged to the Khedive of Egypt in the 
Suez Canal. 

We humbly thank Your Majesty for informing 
us that the representations which have been ad- 
dressed to the Chinese Government, as to the 
attack made in the course of last year on the Ex- 
pedition sent from Burmah to the Western Pro- 
vinces of China, have been received in a friendly 
spirit, and that the circumstances of that lament- 
able outrage are now the subject of an inquiry. 

We assure Your Majesty that we rejoice to 
learn that His Royal Highness the Prince of 
Wales has enjoyed uninterrupted health during 
his journey through India, and that we join in 
regarding the hearty affection with which he has 
been received by Your Majesty’s Indian subjects 
as an assurance that they are happy under Your 
Majesty’s rule, and loyal to Your Throne. 

We humbly thank Your Majesty for reminding 
us that at the time the direct Government of 
Your Majesty’s Indian Empire was transferred to 
the Crown uo formal addition was made to the 
style and titles of the Sovereign, and for inform- 
ing us that Your Majesty deems the present a 
fitting opportunity for supplying the omission. 

We humbly thank Your Majesty for informing 
us that directions have been given for the issue of 
a Royal Commission to inquire into all Treaty 
engagements and other International obligations 
bearing upon the subject of the Slave Trade, and 
the action of British national ships in the terri- 
torial waters of Foreign States, with a view to 
ascertain whether any steps ought to be taken to 
secure for Your Majesty’s ships and their com- 
manders abroad greater power br the maintenance 
of the right of personal liberty. 

We humbly thank Your Majesty for informing 
us that a Bill will be introduced for the punish- 
ment of Slave Traders who are subjects of Native 
Indian Princes. 

We assure Your Majesty that we rejoice to 
learn that the general prosperity of Your Ma- 
jesty’s Colonial Empire has continued to advance. 

We join with Your Majesty in trusting that the 
operations of Your Majesty’s troops in Malay 
have restored order and re-established the just 
influence and authority of this Country. 

We humbly thank Your Majesty for directing 
the Estimates of the year to be prepared and pre- 
sented without delay. 

We humbly assure Your Majesty that our care- 
ful consideration shall be given to the measures 
which may be submitted to us, and that we earn- 
estly join in Your Majesty’s prayer that our de- 
liberations may, under the Divine blessing, result 
in the oe and contentment of Your Ma- 
jesty’s people. 

The said Address being read a second time ; 

Resolved, That this House doth agree with the 
Committee in the said Address to be presented 
to Her Majesty. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
Her Majesty by such Members of this House as 
are of Her Majesty’s Most honourable Privy 
Council. 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into a Committee to consider of 
the Supply to be grarfted to Her Majesty. 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into a Committee to consider of 
VoL, 131. 


Oth February. 








L1 


the Ways and Means for raising the Supply to 
be granted to Her Majesty. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Game Laws 
to amend the Laws relating to Game in Scotland : (Stand) 
And that Mr. M‘ Lagan, Sir William Stirling Maz- 
well, Sir Edward Colebrooke, and Mr. John Mait- 
land do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Registrationof 
to amend the Law with reference to the Registra- (Ireland.) 
tion of Parliamentary Voters in Ireland: And ; 
that Mr. Mtchell Henry, Mr. Meldon, Mr. Smyth, 

Mr. Shaw, and Mr. Sullivan do prepare, and bring 
it In. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Burghs and 
tomake Provision for lighting Burghs and Popu- Populous 
lous Places in Scotland with Gas: And that Sir in ag 
Windham Anstruther, Mr. Orr Ewing, Mr. Grieve, Supply. 
and Mr. William Holms do prepare, and bring 
it in. 

Resolved, That this House will, immediately, re- Intoxicating 
solve itself into a Committee to consider of pro- Liquors 
viding for the election of Boards for granting se 
Licences for the Sale of Intoxicating Liquors: ) 
—The House accordingly resolved itself into the 
Committee. 


(In the Committee.) 


Resolved, That the Chairman be directed to 
move the House, That leave be given to bring in 
a Bill to provide for the election of Boards for 
—— Licences for the Sale of Intoxicating 

iquors, 

Resolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had come to a Re- 
solution. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Raikes accordingly reported a Resolution ; 
which was read, as followeth : 

That the Chairman be directed to move the 
House, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
provide for the election of Boards for granting 
Licences for the Sale of Intoxicating Liquors :— 
And he moved the House accordingly. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in the 
Bill: And that Mr. Joseph Cowen, Sir Henry 
Havelock, Mr. Burt,and Mr. Norwood do prepare, 
and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Municipal 
to amend the Law relating to the Municipal Fran- (ireland) 
chise in [reland: And that Major O’Gorman, Mr. 

Butt, Mr. Richard Power, and Sir Colman O’ Logh- 


len do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Sonne 
for the establishment of Electoral County Boards (qrejand.) 
in Jreland: And that Captain Nolan, Mr. O’ Clery, 


and Mr. Fay do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Coast and Deep 


for the regulation and encouragement of the Coast (ine — 


and Deep Sea Fisheries of Jreland: And that Dr. 
Ward, Mr. Butt, Mr. Collins, and Sir Joseph 
M‘Kenna do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill land Tenure 
to amend the Laws relating to the Tenure of Land ey 
in Ireland: And that Mr. Butt, Mr. Richard Smyth, 

Mr. Meldon, and Mr. Ennis do prepare, and bring 


it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Increase of the 
for enabling Her Majesty and Her Successors to =piscopate. 
divide Dioceses, and to erect additional Bishop- 
rics in England and Wales: And that Mr. Beres- 

c2 


Sord 

















12 


ford Hope, Sir John Kennaway, and Mr. Thomas 
Brassey do prepare, and bring it in. 
Waste Lands 


(Ireland) 
Reclamation. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for the Reclamation of Waste Lands in Ireland: 
And that Mr. Parnell, Mr. MacCarthy, and Cap- 
tain Nolun do prepare, and bring it in. 

Training Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
Schools and 

=e County Training Schools and Training Ships: 
And that Captain Pim and Mr. Coope do prepare, 
and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to amend “ The Elementary Education Act, 
1870,” by making obligatory in England and Wales 
the Attendance of Children at School and the 
formation of School Boards: And that Mr, Dizon, 
Mr. Mundella, Sir John Lubbock, and Mr. Trevel- 
yan do prepare, and bring it in. 


Elementary 
Education Act 
(1870) Amend- 
anent. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to amend the Law relating to the Liability of Em- 
jloyers for Injuries negligently caused to Persons 
in their Employment: And that Mr. Macdonald, 
Dr. Cameron, Mr. Meldon, and Mr. Bass do pre- 


pare, and bring it in. 


Employers 
Liability for 
Injury. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to amend * The Elementary Education Act, 
1870,” in respect of the period which must elapse 
between the rejection and renewal of a Resolu- 
tion for Application for a School Board: And 
that Mr. Heygate, Mr. Pell, Mr. William Stan- 
hope, and Mr. Sampson Lloyd do prepare, and 
bring it in. 


Elementary 
Education 
(Application 
for School 
Board.) 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to assimilate the Borough Franchise of /reland to 
that of England; And that Mr. Biggar, Mr. Butt, 
Mr. Blennerhassett, Mr. Maurice Brooks, and 
Mr. Richard Power do prepare, and bring it in. 


Borough 
Franchise 


(Ireland.) 


Barristers and 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
Advocates Fees, 


to enable Barristers at Law and Advocates to 
recover their Fees, and to render them liable at 
Law to Persons employing them: And that Mr. 
Norwood, Mr. Leeman, Mr. Charles Lewis, Mr. 
Sampson Lloyd, and Mr. Anderson do prepare, 
and bring it in. 


Resolved, That this House will, immediately, 
resolve itself into a Committee to consider of 
enabling Owners and Occupiers of Property in 
certain Districts to prevent the common Sale of 
Intoxicating Liquors within such Districts :— 
The House accordingly resolved itself into the 
Committee. 


Permissive 
Prohibitory 
Liquor. 


(In the Committee.) 


Resolved, That the Chairman be directed to 
move the House, That leave be given to bring in 
a Bill to enable Owners and Occupiers of Property 


in certain Districts to prevent the common Sale of 


Intoxicating Liquors within such Districts, 
Resolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Razhes 
reported, That the Committee had come to a 
Resolution. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Raikes accordingly reported a Resolution ; 
which was read, as followeth: 

That the Chairman be directed to move the 
House, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
enable Owners and Occupiers of Property in cer- 
tain Districts to prevent the common Sale of In- 
toxicating Liquors within such Districts:—And 
he moved the seis accordingly. 








Qth February. 


for the provision, regulation, and maintenance of 











1876. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in the 
Bill: And that Sir Wilfrid Lawson, Sir Thomas 
Bazley, Mr. Downing, Mr. Richard, Dr. Cameron, 
Mr. Dalway, and Mr. William Johnston do pre- 
pare, and bring it in. 


Women’s 
Disabilities 
Removal, 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to remove the Electoral Disabilities of Women: 
And that Mr. Forsyth, Sir Robert Austruther, 
Mr. Russell Gurney, and Mr. Stansfild do pre- 
pare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Ancient 
to provide for the Protection of Ancient Monu- Monuments. 
ments: And that Sir John Lubbock, Mr. Beresford 
Hope, Mr. Russell Gurney, and Mr. Osborne Mor- 
gan do prepare, and bring it in. 


Grand Jury 
Presentments, 
&amp;c. (Ireiand.) 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to provide for the better Administration of Public 
Moneys now levied by Grand Jury Presentment 
in Ireland, and for the Establishment of Repre- 
sentative Councils in the Zrisk Counties for the 
Management of Local Affairs: And that Mr. 
Ronayne, Mr. Butt, and Mr. O'Shaughnessy do 
prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bil] Employers ani 
to extend the Provisions of the Employers and Us75) Bean 
Workmen Act of last Session to Seamen whilst sion. 
they are in British Waters: And that Mr. Burt, 

Mr. Joseph Cowen, Mr. Mundella, and Mr. Gourley 


do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Monastic and 
for appointing Commissioners to inquire respecting Conventual 
° es ~ ,. — Institutions, 
Monastic and Conventual Institutions in Great 
Britain, and for other purposes connected there- 
with: And that Mr. Newdegate, Mr. Holt, and 
Sir Thomas Chambers do prepare, and bring 
it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Church Rate 
to abolish Church Rates in Scotland; And that (Scotland) 
Mr. Al‘Zaren, Dr. Cameron, Mr. Baxter, Mr. 
Trevelyan, Mr. Grieve, Mr. Laing, and Sir George 
Balfour do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Sea Insurans 
to amend the Law relating to the Stamping of er 
Policies of Sea Insurances: And that Mr. Serjeant 
Simon, Mr. Hubbard, Mr. Norwood, and Mr. 

Rathbone do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Banns of 
to abolish the system of proclaiming Banns of ‘rementd 
Marriage presently in force in Scotland, and to ames 
make provision for the due Publication of such 
Banns in Scotland: And that Dr. Cameron, Mr. 
Baxter, Mr. Barclay, Mr. M‘Laren, and Mr. Ed- 
ward Jenkins do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bil] MetropolisGss 
to amend “ The Metropolis Gas Act, 1860,” to Compam™ 
make further provision for regulating the Supply 
of Gas within the limits of the said Act, and for 
other purposes relating thereto: And that Sir 
Jumes Hogg, Sir Andrew Lusk, and Mr. Goldney 
do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill House 
to relieve certain Occupiers of Dwelling Houses peer wer 
from being disqualified from the right of voting in (yr, 
the Election of Members to serve in Parliament 
by reason of their undérletting such Dwelling 
Houses for Short Terms: And that Sir Henry 
Drummond Wolff, Sir Charles Russell, Mr. Onslow, 
and Mr. Ryder do prepare, and bring it in. 
Ordered, 








ents. 


ments, 
land.) 


ers and 
an Act 
Exten- 


c and 
ual 
ions, 


Rates 
d.) 


ances 
ng of 
) 


lis Gas 
ies. 


tion 
l. 





Municipal 
Officers Super- 
annuation. 


Divine 
Worship 
Facilities. 


Real Estate 
Intestacy. 


Orphan and 
Deserted 
Children 
(Ireland.) 


Imprisonment 
for Debt 
Abolition. 


Offences 
against the 
erson, 


Merchant 
ipping Acts 
Amendment. 


39 Vicrorta. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to enable the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses 
of Municipal Boroughs in England aud Wales to 
grant Superannuation Allowances to their Officers, 
Clerks, and Servants: And that Mr. Rathbone, 
Mr. Birley, Mr. Dizon, Mr. Cawley, Mr. Kirkman 
Hodgson, and Mr. Torr do prepare, and bring 
it in. 


Resolved, That this House will, immediately, 
resolve itself into a Committee to consider of pro- 
viding additional Facilities for the performance 
of Divine Worship according to the Rites and 
Ceremonies of the Church of England:—The 
House accordingly resolved itself into the Com- 
mittee. 

(In the Committee. ) 


Resolved, That the Chairman be directed to move 
the House, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to provide additional Facilities for the performance 
of Divine Worship according to the Rites and 
Ceremonies of the Church of England. 

Resolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had come to a Re- 
solution. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. faikes accordingly reported a Resolution ; 
which was read, as followeth: 

That the Chairman be directed to move the 
House, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
_ additional Facilities for the performance of 

ivine Worship according to the Rites and Cere- 
monies of the Church of England :—And he moved 
the House accordingly. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in the 
Bill: And that Mr. Wilbraham Egerton, Mr. Dir- 
ley, Mr. Whitwell, and Mr. Rodwell do prepare, 
and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for the better settling the Real Estates of Intes- 
tates: And that Mr. Potter, Mr. ZLeatham, Sir 
Wilfrid Lawson, Mr. Hopwood, and Mr. William 
Edwin Price do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to extend the limits of Age up to which, with the 
assent of Boardsof Guardians, Orphan and Deserted 
Pauper Children may be supported out of Work- 
houses in Jreland: And that Mr. O'Shaughnessy, 
Mr. O’ lteilly, Mr. Bruen, and Mr. Redmond do 
prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for the abolition of Imprisonment for Debt by 
the Inferior Courts: And that Mr. Fielden, Mr. 
Thomas Bass, Mr. Cobbett, Mr. Anderson, and Mr. 
Knowles do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to amend the Law relating to Offences against the 
Person: And that Mr. Charley and Mr. Whitwell 
do prepare, and bring it in. 


The House was moved, That the Acts relating 
to Merchant Shipping, might be read; and the same 
being read; _ 

Resolved, That this House will, immediately, 
resolve itself into a Committee to consider the said 
Acts :—The House accordingly resolved itself into 
the Committee. 

(In the Committee.) 


Resolved, That the Chairman be directed to 
move the House, That leave be given to bring ina 
Bill to amend the Acts relating to Merchant 
Shipping. 

Resolution to be reported. 





Vou. 131. 


Oth February. 


13 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had come toa Re- 
solution. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Raikes accordingly reported a Resolution ; 
which was read, as followeth: 

That the Chairman be directed to move the 
House, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
amend the Acts relating to Merchant Shipping : 
—And he moved the, House accordingly. 

Ordered, ‘That leave be given to bring in the 
Bill: And that Mr. Plimsoll, Mr. Roebuck, Mr. 
Samuda, and Mr. Kirkman Hodgson do prepare, 
and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Free Libreries 
to facilitate the establishment of Free Libraries 4 Museums. 
and Museums, and Institutions for the teaching of 
Science and Art: And that Mr. Mundella, Sir 
John Lubbock and Mr. Cowper-Temple do prepare, 


and bring it in. 


Ordercd, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Medical Act 
to amend “ The Medical Act, 1858,” so far as re- joo” 
lates to the Registration of Women who have taken Universities.) 
the Degree of Doctor of Medicine in a Foreign 
University: And that Mr. Cowper-Temple, Mr. 
dtussell Gurney, Dr. Cameron, and Mr. Forsyth do 
prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Parish 
to remove the Exemption of Parish Ministers in Cheetenal) 
Scotland from payment of Poor Rates and Edu- Exemption 
cation Rates: And that Mr. Jumes Barclay, Mr. from Rates. 
Baxter, Mr. M‘Laren, and Dr. Cameron do prepare, 


and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Sale of _ 
to prohibit the Sale of Intoxicating Liquors on eee 
Sunday in Jre/and: And that Mr. Richard Smyth, nke “ 
The O’Conor Don, Mr. James Corry, Mr. William (Ireland.) 
Johnston, Mr. Dease, Mr. Thomas Dickson, and 


Mr. edmond do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Municipal 
to extend to the Municipal Corporations of Ireland (relaceh) 
the same Privileges asare enjoyed by the Municipal : 
Corporations of England: And that Mr. Maurice 
Brooks, Mr. Butt, and Mr. onayne do prepare, 


and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Landlord and 
to amend * The Landlord and Tenant (Jreland) Tenant 
Act, 1870”: And that Mr. Crawford, Mr. Richard | na 


Smyth, Mr. Thomas Dickson, and Mr. Macartney 
do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Towns Rating 
to amend the Law relating to the Rating of Towns (!eland.) 
in Jreland: And that Sir Joseph M‘Kenna, Mr. 
Butt, Mr. Maurice Brooks, and Mr. Meldon do 
prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Wild Fowl 
for the Preservation of Wild Fowl: And that Mr, Preservation. 
Chaplin and Mr. Rodwell do prepare, and bring 


it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Legal 
to amend the Law relating te Legal Practi- P*#titioners. 
tioners: And that Mr. Charley and Mr. William 
Gordon do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Supreme Court 
to amend “‘ The Supreme Court of Judicature Act, ace ast) 
1875:” And that Mr. Meldon, Mr. Butt, and Mr. 4 mendment. 


O’Shaughnessy do prepare, and bring it in. 


Resolved, That this House will, immediately, Publicans 
resolve itself into a Committee to consider of assi- Certificates 





c3 milating 8°") 


14 


milating the Law of Scotland relating to the 
granting of Licences to sell Intoxicating Liquors 
to the low of England :—The House accordingly 
resolved itself into the Committee. 


(In the Committee.) 


Resolved, That the Chairman be directed to 
move the House, That leave be given to bring in a 
Bill to assimilate the Law of Scotland relating to 
the granting of Licences to sell Intoxicating 
Liquors to the Law of England. 

Resolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Razkes 
reported, That the Committee had come to a Re- 
solution. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Raikes accordingly reported a Resolution, 
which was read, as followeth: 

That the Chairman be directed to move the 
House, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
assimilate the Law of Scotland relating to the grant- 
ing of Licences to sell Intoxicating Liquors to the 
Law of England :—And he moved the House ac- 
cordingly. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in the 
Bill: And that Dr. Cameron, Sir Windham Ans- 
truther, Mr. Ramsay, and Mr. Mackintosh do pre- 
pare, and bring it in. 


Election of 
Aldermen 
(Cumulative 
Vote.) 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a 
Bill to amend the Law relating to the Election of 
Aldermen in Municipal Boroughs, by the appli- 
cation thereto of the Cumulative Vote: And that 
Mr. Heygate, Mr. Russell Gurney, Mr. Fawcett, 
Mr. Wheelhouse, and Mr. Morley do prepare, and 
bring it in. 


County 
Infirmaries 
(Treland.) 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to alter the Constitution and Government of 
County Infirmaries in /reland: And that Mr. 
Meldon, Mr. Parnell, and Mr. O’Shaughnessy do 
prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed 
to assist Mr. Speaker in all matters which relate 
to the Printing executed by Order of this House, 
and for the purpose of selecting and arranging for 
Printing, Returns and Papers presented in pur- 
suance of Motions made by Members of this 
House :—And a Committee was appointed of Mr. 
Spencer Walpole, Mr. Henley, Mr. Chancellor of 
the Exchequer, The O’Canor Don, Mr. Hunt, Mr. 
Stansfeld, Mr. Sclater-Booth, Mr. Dodson, Mr. 
Massey, Mr. Whitbread, and Mr. William Henry 
Smith. 

Ordered, That Three be the Quorum. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to assimilate the Law of Scotland to that of Eng- 
land respecting the creation of Burgesses: And 
that Mr. Mf Laren, Mr. Anderson, and Mr. Yeaman 
do prepare, and bring it in. 


Burgesses 
(Scotland.} 


Game Laws 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Bill 3, 


Mr. M‘ Lagan presented a Bill to amend the 
Laws relating to Game in Scotland: And the same 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time upon Wednesday the &amp;th day of 
March next; and to be printed. 


Mr. Mitchell Henry presented a Bill to amend 
the Law with reference to the Registration of 
Parliamentary Voters in Jreland: And the same 
was read the first time ; and ordered to be read a 
second time upon Wednesday the 3rd day of May 
next; and to be printed. 


Registration of 
Voters (Ire- 
land) Bill. 


Bill 4. 


Sir Windham Anstruther presented a Bill to 
make Provision for lighting Burghs and Populous 
Places in Scotland with Gas: And the same was 
read the first time; and ordered to be read a 


Burghs and 
Populous 
Places 
(Scotland) Gas 
Supply Bill. 


Bill 5. 


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1876. 


second time upon Wednesday the 15th day of 
March next; and to be printed. 


Mr. Joseph Cowen presented a Bill to provide Intoxicating 
for the Election of Boards for granting Licences — 
for the sale of Intoxicating Liquors: And the Boers) iin, 
same was read the first time; and ordered tobe ity g 
read a second time upon Wednesday the 17th day ; 
of May next; and to be printed. 


Major O’Gorman presented a Bill to amend the Municipal 
Law relating to the Municipal Franchise in Jre- Franchise 
land: And the same was read the first time; and (Ireland) Bill, 
ordered to be read a second time upon Wednesday Bill 7, 
the 1st day of March next; and to be printed. 


Captain Nolan presented a Bill for the establish- Electoral 
ment of Electoral County Boards in Ireland: And County!Boards 
the same was read the first time; and ordered to oo, =~ 
be read a second time upon Wednesday the 23rd Bill 8, 
day of this instant February; and to be printed. 


Dr. Ward presented a Bill for the Regulation Coast and Deep 
and Encouragement of the Coast and Deep Sea Se Fisheries 
Fisheries of Jreland: And the same was read the “784 Bill 
first time; and ordered to be read asecond time Bill 9. 
upon Wednesday the 22nd day of March next; 
and to be printed. 


Mr. Butt presented a Bill to amend the Laws Land Tenure 
relating to the Tenure of Land in Jreland: And (!eland) Bill, 
the same was read the first time; and ordered to — Bill 10, 
be read a second time upon Wednesday the 29th 
day of March next; and to be printed. 


Mr. Beresford Hope presented a Bill for enabling Increase of the 
Her Majesty and Her Successors to divide Dioceses, Episeopate Bill, 
and to erect additional Bishoprics in England and _ Bill 11. 
Wales: And the same was read the first time ; and 
ordered to be read a second time upon Wednesday 
next; and to be printed. 


Mr. Parnell presented a Bill for the Reclamation Waste Lands 
of Waste Lands in Jreland: And the same was (Ireland), 
read the first time; and ordered to be read — 
second time vpon Wednesday the 12th day of in y9, 


April next ; and to be printed. 


Training 
+s. Schools and 
Training Ships Bill. 


Bill 13, 


Captain Pim presented a Bill for the provision, 
regulation, and maintenance of County 
Schools and Training Ships: And the same was 
read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time upon Wednesday next; and to be 
printed, 


Mr. Dixon presented a Bill to amend “ The gementary 
Elementary Education Act, 1870,” by making Education 
obligatery in England and Wales the attendance pak ae A 
of Children at School and the formation of School Bil, 
Boards: And the same was read the first time; Bill 14 
and ordered to be read a second time upon Wed- 

nesday the 5th day of April next; and to be 

printed. 


Mr. Macdonald presented a Bill to amend the Employers 














Law relating to the liability of Employers for In- Lisbility for 
_s ; ° ‘ Injury Bill. 
juries negligently caused to Persons in their Em- Bill 15 
ployment: And the same was read the first time ; 

and ordered to be read a second time upon Wed- 

nesday the 24th day of May next; and to be 

printed. 


Mr. Heygate presented a Bill to amend “ The Elementary 
Elementary Education Act, 1870,” in respect of Education 
the period which must elapse between the Rejection (APP 
and Renewal of a Resolution for Application for a Board) Bill. 
School Board: And the same was read the first Bill 16. 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time upon 
Wednesday the 12th day of April next; and to be 








printed. 
Mr. 








F &amp; 


the 
Bill, 


i a 





Boroagh 
one 
Bill 17. 


Barristers and 
Advocates Fees 


Bill. 
Bill 18. 


Permissive 
Prohibitory 
Liquor Bill. 


Bill 19. 


Women’s 
Disabilities 
Removal Bill. 


Ancient 
Monuments 


Bill. 
Bill 21. 


Grand Jury 
Presentments, 
&amp;e. (Ireland) 
Bill. 


Bill 22. 


Employers and 
Workmen Act 
(1875) Exten- 
sion Bill. 


Bill 23. 


Monastic and 
Conventual 
Institutions 
Bill. 


Bill 24, 


Church Rates 
Abolition 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Bill 25. 


Sea Insurances 
(Stamping of 
Policies) Bill. 


Bill 26. 


Banns of 


(Scotland) Bill. 
Bill 27, 


39 VicToRIA. 


Mr. Biggar presented a Bill to assimilate the 
Borough Franchise of Jreland to that of England: 
And the same was read the first time ; and ordered 
to be read a second time upon Wednesday the 8th 
day of March next; and to be printed. 


Mr. Norwood presented a Bill to enable Bar- 
risters at Law and Advocates to recover their Fees, 
and to render them liable at Law to Persons em- 
ploying them: And the same was read the first 
time; and ordered to be read a second time upon 
Wednesday the 10th day of May next; and to be 
printed. 


Sir Wilfrid Lawson presented a Bill to enable 
Owners and Occupiers of Property in certain Dis- 
tricts to prevent the common Sale of Intoxicating 
Liquors within such Districts: And the same was 
read the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time upon Wednesday the 14th day of June next ; 
and to be printed. 


Mr. Forsyth presented a Bill to remove the 
Electoral Disabilities of Women: And the same 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time upon Wednesday the 26th day of 
April next; and to be printed. 


Sir John Lubbock presented a Bill to provide for 
the Protection of Ancient Monuments: And the 
same was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time upon Wednesday the 31st day 
of May next; and to be printed. 


Mr. Ronayne presented a Bill to provide for the 
better administration of Public Monies now levied 
by Grand Jury Presentment in Jreland, and for 
the establishment of Representative Councils in 
the Jrish Counties for the management of Local 
Affairs: And the same was read the first time; 
and ordered to be read a second time upon Wed- 
nesday the 23rd day of this instant February ; and 
to be printed. 


Mr. Burt presented a Bill to extend the Provi- 
sions of the Employers and Workmen Act of last 
Session to Seamen whilst they are in British 
Waters: And the same was read the first time ; 
and ordered to be read a second time upon Wed- 
nesday the 3rd day of May next; and to be 
printed. 


Mr. Newdegate presented a Bill for appointing 
Commissioners to inquire respecting Monastic and 
Conventual Institutions in Great Britain, and for 
other purposes connected therewith : And the same 
was read the tirst time; and ordered to be read a 
second time upon Wednesday next; and to be 
printed. 


Mr. M‘Laren presented a Bill to abolish Church 
Rates in Scotland: And the same was read the 
first time ; and ordered to be read a second time 
upon Wednesday the 15th day of March next; 
and to be printed. 


Mr. Serjeant Simon presented a Bill to amend the 
Law relating to the Stamping of Policies of Sea 
Insurances: And the same was read the first 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time upon 
Wednesday the lst day of March next; and to be 
printed. 


Dr. Cameron presented a Bill to abolish the 
System of proclaiming Banns of Marriage presently 
in force in Scotland, and to make provision 
for the due publication of such Banns in Scotland: 
And the same was read the first time ; and ordered 
to be read a second time upon Wednesday the 21st 
day of June next; and to be printed. 

OL, 131. 


Yth February. 15 


Sir James Hogg presented a Bill to amend “ The Metropolis Gas 
Metropolis Gas ‘Act, 1860 ;” to make further pro- Companies 
vision for regulating the Supply of Gas within the p31) 98, 
limits of the said Act; and for other purposes re- 
lating thereto; and the same was read the first 
time. 

Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills; and be 
printed. 

Ordered, That the Examiner have leave to sit 
and proceed forthwith. 


Sir Henry Drummond Wolff presented a Bill to House 
relieve certain Occupiers of Dwelling Houses from Occupiers 
being disqualified from the right of voting in the Disayelifice._ 
Election of Members to serve in Parliament by Bil. 
reason of their underletting such Dwelling Houses _ Bill 29. 
for short ternis: And the same was read the first 
time; and ordered to be read a second time upon 
| Wednesday the 22nd day of March next ; am to 
be printed. 


Mr. Rathbone presented a Bill to enable the Municipal 
Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of Municipal Officers 
Boroughs in England and Wales to grant Super- ee 
' annuation Allowances to their Officers, Clerks, and Bill 2. 
Servants: And the same was read the first time ; 
and ordered to be read a second time upon Tues- 
day next; and to be printed. 


Mr. Wilbraham Egerton presented a Bill to pro- Divine 
vide additional Facilities forthe Performance of Di- i Bill 
vine Worship according to the Rites and Cere- Bill 30 
monies of the Church of England: And the same : 
was read the first time ; and ordered to be read a 
second time upon Wednesday the 15thday of March 
next; and to be printed. 


Mr. Potter presented a Bill for the better settling Real Estate 
the Real Estates of Intestates: And the same was !ntestacy Bill. 
read the first time; and ordered to be readase- Bill 31. 
cond time upon Wednesday the 28th day of June 
next; and to be printed. 


Mr. O’ Shaughnessy presented a Bill toextend the Orphan and 
limits of Age up to which, with the assent of Boards Deserted 
of Guardians, Orphan and Deserted Pauper Children Chien 














may be supported out of the Workhouses in Ire- aa ot 
| land: And the same was read the first time; and F 
ordered to be read a second time upon Wednesday 

the 5th day of July next; and to be printed. 


Mr. Fielden presented a Bill for the abolition of Imprisonment 
Imprisonment for Debt by the Inferior Courts: for Debt 
And the same was read the first time ; and or- “ition Bill, 
| dered to be read a second time upon Wednesday Bill 33. 
the 5th day of April next; and to be printed. 


Mr. Charley presented a Bill to amend the Law offences 
relating to Offences against the Person: And the against the 
same was read the first time; and ordered to be Person Bill. 
read a second time To-morrow; and to be printed, _ Bill 1. 


Mr. Plimsoll presented a Bill to amend the Acts Merchant 
relating to Merchant Shipping: And the same was Shipping Acts 
read the first time; and ordered to be read a se- 37;""™™™ 
cond time upon Monday the 20th day of March jy) 34, 


next; and to be printed. 


Mr. Mundella presented a Bill to facilitate the Free Libraries 
establishment of Free Libraries and Museums, and 224 Museums 
Institutions for the teaching of ‘Science and Art: 24) 
And the same was read the fret time; and ordered Bill 36. 
to be read a second time upon Wednesday the 
24th day of May next; and to be printed. 


Mr. Cowper-Temple presented a Bill to amend Medical Act 
“ The Medical Act, 1858,” so far as relates to the reg 
Registration of Women whohave taken the Degree Universities) 
of Doctor of Medicine in a Foreign University : Bill. 


c4 And _ Bill 36, 




















16 Qth—10th 


And the same was read the first time ; and ordered 
to be read a second time upon Wednesday the 26th 
day of April next; and to be printed. 


Mr. James Barclay presented a Bill to remove 
the exemption of Parish Ministers in Scotland from 
Kxemption Payment of Poor Rates and Education Rates: 
from Rates And the same was read the first time ; and ordered 
Bill. to be read a second time upon Wednesday the 15th 

Bill 37. day of March next; and to be printed. 


Parish 
Ministers 
(Scotland) 


Sale of 
Intoxcating 
Liquors on 
Sunday 
(Ireland) Bill, 


Bill 38. 


Mr. Richard Smyth presented a Bill to prohibit 
the Sale of Intoxicating Liquors on Sunday in 
Ireland; And the same was read the first time ; 
and ordered to be read a second time upon 
Wednesday the 3rd day of May next; and to be 
printed, 


Municipal 

Privileges 

(Ireland) Bill. 
Bill 39. 


Mr. Maurice Brooks presented a Bill to extend 
to the Municipal Corporations of Zreland the same 
privileges as are enjoyed by the Municipal Cor- 
porations of England; And the same was read the 
first time ; and ordered to be read a second time 
upon Thursday the 17th day of this instant Fe- 
bruary; and to be printed. 


Landlord and 
Tenant 


Mr. Crawford presented a Bill to amend ‘* The 

(Ireland) Act Landlord and Tenant (/redand) Act, 1870” : And 

Amendment the same was read the first time; and ordered to 

Bill. be read a second time upon Wednesday the 21st 
Bill 40. day of June next; and to be printed. 


Towns Rating 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Bill 41. 


Sir Joseph MJ‘ Kenna presented a Bill to amend 
the Law relating to the Rating of Towns in Ireland: 
And the same was read the first time; and or- 
dered to be read a second time upon Wednesday 
the 10th day of May next; and to be printed. 


Wild Fowl 
Preservation 
Bill 

Bill 42. 


Mr. Chaplin presented a Bili for the Preserva- 
tion of Wild Fowl: And the same was read the 
first time ; and ordered to be read a second time 
upon Wednesday the 23rd day of this instant 
February ; and to be printed. 


Legal 
Practitioners 
Bill. 


Bill 43. 


Mr. Charley presented a Bill tv amend the Law 
relating to Legal Practitioners: And the same 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read 
a second time upon Wednesday the 21st day of 
June next; and to be printed. 


Supreme Court 
of Judicature 


Mr. Meldon presented a Bill to amend “ The 
ature Supreme Court of Judicature Act, 1875”: And 
Act (1875) ° 
‘Amendment the same was read the first time ; and ordered to be 
Bill. read a second time To-morrow; and to be printed. 
Bill 44. 
Publicans 
Certificates 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Bill 45. 


Dr. Cameron presented a Bill to assimilate the 
Law of Scotland relating to the granting of 
Licences to sell Intoxicating Liquors to the Law 
of England: And the same was read the first 
time; and ordered to be read a second time upon 
Tuesday next; and to be printed. 


Mr. Heygate presented a Bill to amend the Law 
relating to the Election of Aldermen in Municipal 
Boroughs, by the application thereto of the Cumu- 

ative Vote: And the same was read the first 

time ; and ordered to be read a second time upon 
Wednesday the 17th day of May next; and to be 
printed. 


Eiection of 
Aldermen 
(Cumulative 
Vote) Bill. 


Bill 46. 


Mr. Meldon presented a Bill to alter the Con- 
stitution and Government of County Infirmaries 
in Ireland: And the same was read the first 
time; and ordered to be read a second time upon 
Wednesday the 12th day of July next; and to 
be printed. 


County 
Infirmaries 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Biil 47. 


Burgesses Mr. M‘Laren presented a Bill to assimilate the 
(Scotland) Bill. Law of Scotland to that of Lngland respecting 
Bill 48. the creation of Burgesses: And the same was 





1876. 


read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time upon Wednesday the 23rd day of this 
instant February ; and to be printed. 


February. 


Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his War- Huntingdon 
rant to the Clerk of the Crown, to make out a Borough Writ, 
new Writ for the electing of a Member to serve 
in this present Parliament for the Borough of 
Huntingdon, in the room of Sir John Burgess 
Karslake, Knight, who, since his Election for the 
said Borough, hath accepted the Office of Steward 
or Bailiff of Her Majesty’s Manor of Worthstead, 
in the County of York. 


Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his War- Enniskillen 
rant to the Clerk of the Crown in Jreland, to make Writ. 
out a new Writ for the electing of a Member to 
serve in this present Parliament for the Borough 
of Enniskillen, in the room of John Henry Crichton, 
commonly called Viscount Crichton, who, since 
his Election for the said Borough, hath accepted 
the Office of one of the Commissioners for 
executing the Office of Treasurer of the Exchequer 
of Great Pritain, and Lord High Treasurer of 
Ireland. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented, by Her guez Canal 
Majesty’s Command,—Estimate of the Amount (Purchase of 


‘required to pay the Purchase Money of certain Shes) 


Shares in the Suez Canal Company, and the No. 14, 


Expenses attendant thereon. 
Kstimates for Civil Services and Revenue De- Civil Services 


3 , i nd Revenue 
partments, for the year ending 31st March 1877. ran aes 
1876-77. 
Mr. William Henry Smith also presented, pur- No. 13. 


suant to the directions of several Acts of Parlia- gyperannua- 
ment,-—Copy of Treasury Minute, dated the 3rd tion Acts, 1859 
December 1875, declaring various places shall be 24 1875. 
deemed to be unhealthy places for the purposes 

of the Superannuation Acts, 1859 and 1875. 

Copy of Treasury Minute, dated the 29th No- superannua- 
vember 1875, placing the Office of Deputy Judge tion Act, 1859. 
Advocate General under the 4th section of the 
Superannuation Act, 1859. 

An Account of the Receipts and Disbursements puchy of 
of the Duchy of Lancaster, in the year ended 21st Lancaster. 
December 1875: Also, a separate Account 
of the Capital of the said Duchy, to same date. 

Ordered, That the said Estimates be referred 
to the Committee of Supply, and be printed; and 
that the other Papers do lie upon the Table. 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 








Thursday, 10th February, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 


HE Select Committee on Standing Orders gtanding 
was nominated of Mr. Bruen, Sir Edward Orders. 
Colebrooke, Mr. Cubitt, Mr. Floyer, Mr. Thomson 
Hankey, Mr. Howard, Sir Graham Montgomery, 
Mr. Mowbray, The O’Conor Don, Mr. Scourfield, 
and Mr. Whitbread. 


The Committee of Selection was nominated of selection. 
Mr. Thomson Hankey, Sir Graham Montgomery, 
The O’ Conor Don, Mr. Scourfield, Mr. Whitbread, 
and the Chairman of the Select Committee on 
Standing Orders. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, slave Trade 
Copies of the “ Instructions” issued in 1865 for (Fugitive 
the guidance of Her Majesty’s Ships of War eee 
employed in the suppression of the Slave Trade: 

Of “ Instructions” issued for the same pur- 
pose, and dated the 6th day of November 1869: 
——Of “ Station Orders” issued in 1871 for the 
guidance of Commanders of Her Majesty’s Ships 
on the East India Station in reference to Slaves: 
——And, of the Circular, dated the 5th day of 

December 





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December 1875, in reference to the reception 
of Fugitive Slaves. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions that there be laid before this 
House, a Return of all the Public Cemeteries in 
England and Wales, showing the Year in which 
each was Opened. and the Quantity of Land origi- 
nally assigned for Interment in each, with any sub- 
sequent addition thereto, distinguishing in each 
Case the Consecrated Ground from the Uncon- 
secrated; and further, showing the Number of 
Tnterments which have been made in the Conse- 
crated and Unconsecrated Grounds respectively. 


Cemeteries. 


Naval Reserve Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
and Mercantile Copies of the Revised Regulations relative to the 
Training Ships. Roval Naval Reserve, showing the Alterations 
No. 15. made in the Reserve Regulations of 1873: 
And, of the Regulations showing the Conditions 
under which the Admiralty will make Grants to 
the Managers of the Mercantile Training Ships 
for trained Boys who join the Third Class Royal 
Naval Reserve, and also for those who join the 
Royal Navy. 
Mr. Algernon Egerton accordingly presented the 
said Paper. 
Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 





Several Public Petitions were presented, and 





=. read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 
Vide First 
Report. 
a Copyhold Mr. Secretary Cross presented, by Her Ma- 
Commission. jesty’s Command,—The Thirty-fourth Annual 
Report of the Copyhold Commissioners, 1876. 
Tedlesure hirty-first Annual Report of the Inclosure 
9 Commission. Commissioners, 1876. 
~ Tithe The Report of the Tithe Commissioners for 
Commission. 1875. 
Cattle Mr. Secretary Cross also presented, pursuant to 
Disease the directions of several Acts of Parliament,— 
_ Copy of an Order in Council by the Lord Lieute- 
; nant of Jrelund, dated 22nd October 1875, made 
under the Cattle Disease (Jreland) Acts. 
Police Copy of Reports of the Inspectors of Constabu- 
sm lary for the year ended 29th September 1875, 
and Boroughs.) made to Her Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State, 
under the provisions of the Statute 19 &amp; 20 Vic. 
c. 69. 
Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 
Deputy Mr. Secretary Hardy presented,—Return to an 


Lieutenants. Address to Her Majesty, dated the 19th day of 
July, in the last Session of Parliament, for a 
Return of the. Number of Deputy Lieutenants in 
England, Wales, and Scotland, on the 1st day of 
January 1868, and of 1875, in part continuation 
of Return, No. 397, of Session 1835, showing 
Numbers for the several Counties, Divisions of 
Counties, Ridings, Stewartries, Cities, and Liber- 
ties which are Counties within themselves, Stan- 
naries, and Cinque Ports; and including the Deputy 
Wardens and Commissioners for the Lieutenancy 
of the City of London. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 


ts Table. 


Postal Mr. William Henry Smith presented, by Her 
en Majesty’s Command,—Copy of additional Postal 
) Convention with Spain. 

Russian Dutch 4 Mr. William Henry Smith also presented, pur- 
Lou, suant to the directions of several Acts of Parlia- 
ment,—An Account of the Sums which have been 
paid and applied within the year 1875 on account 

; of the Russian-Dutch Loan. 
ninianLoan. An Account of the Total Sums issued out of the 


Vot. 131, 








10th February. 





17 


Consolidated Fund, and advanced to His Majesty 
the King of Surdinia, by virtue of the Acts 18 Vie. 
ce. 17, and 19 &amp; 20 Vic.c. 39; and also of the Sums 
received to 3lst December 1875, for Interest and 
Sinking Fund thereof. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Edward Stanhope presented, pursuant to Gas and 
the directions of an Act of Parliament,—Copy Fecilitce ant 
of Rules made by the Board of Trade under Sec- 1370, 
tion 14 of the Gas and Waterworks Facilities Act, 

1870, Amendment Act, 1873, in respect to Appli- 

cations for Provisional Orders under the Gas and 

Waterworks Facilities Act, 1870. 

. —" That the said Paper do lie upon the 
able. 


The following Paper, pursuant to the directions Charitable 
of an Act of Parliament, was laid upon the Table Funds. 
by the Clerk of the House,—An Account of the 
Total Amount of the Capital, Stock, Shares, and 
Securities transferred to “ The Official Trustees 
of Charitable Funds” in the year ending the 31st 
day of December 1875, 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented County Courts. 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return from every County Court of the 
particulars mentioned in the Statement annexed, 
for the year ending the 31st day of December 
1875; with the Names of the Judges attached to 
each Court: 

Statement. 

Number of Plaints entered in 1875; 

Number entered for Sums exceeding 40s. ; 

Number entered for Sums exceeding 5s, and 
not exceeding 4(s. ; 

Number entered for Sums exceeding 1s. and 
not exceeding 5 s. ; 

Number entered for Sums not exceeding 1s. ; 

Number of Persons imprisoned in 1875 ; 

Number of such imprisoned where the Sum 
in respect of which Default was made ex- 
ceeded 40s. ; 

Number of Persons imprisoned where the 
Sum in respect of which Default was made 
exceeded 5s. and did not exceed 40s. ; 

Number of Persons imprisoned where the 
Sum in respect of which Default was made 
-exceeded 1s. and did not exceed 5s. ; 

Number of Persons imprisoned where the 
Sum in respect of which Default was made 
did not exceed 1s, ; 


Number of Days during which each Person 
imprisoned lay in Prison. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Spirits, &amp;c. 

Returns of the Quantities of Foreign Spirits, of 
British Spirits, of Foreign Wines, and of Malt, 
that have gone into Consumption in England, Ire- 
land, and Scotland respectively, in each of the Five 
Years ending the 31st day of December 1875 :— —- 
And, of the Amount of Drawback on Malt and on 
Beer exported in each of those years (in continua- 
tion of Parliamentary Paper, No. 367, of Session 
1874). 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented parliamentary 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased Constituencies 
to give directions, that there be laid before this {iets} 
House, a Return showing, with respect to each 
Parliamentary Constituency in the United King- 
dom, the Total Number of Electors on the Regis- 
ter now in force. 


A Motion being made, That this House will, Council of 
To-morrow, resolve itself into a Committee, to India 
consider of authorising the payment, out of the /Pensions.] 

D Revenues 




















18 


Revenues of India, of any Pension that may be 
granted to any Member of the Council of India; 

Mr. Hunt, by Her Majesty’s Command, ac- 
quainted the Moone, That Her Majesty, having 
been informed of the subject-matter of this Mo- 
tion, recommends it to the consideration of the 
House. 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order‘of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Offences against the Person Bill ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a 
second time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the word “ now,” and, 
at the end of the Question, adding the words “ upon 
* this day six months.” 

And the Question being put, That the word 
“now” stand part of the Question: —I1t was 
resolved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That the Bill be now read a second 
time:— The Bill was accordingly read a second 
time ; and committed to a Committee of the whole 
House, for Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Supreme Court of Judicature Act 
(1875) Amendment Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


Supreme Court 
of Judicature 
Act (1875) 
Amendment 
Bill. 


Maritime 


Resolved, That this House will, immediately, 
Contracts. 


resolve itself into a Committee to consider of 
amending the Law relating to Insurances and other 
Maritime Contracts: — The House accordingly 
resolved itself into the Committee. 


(In the Committee.) 


Resolved, That the Chairman be directed to move 
the House, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to amend the Law relating to Insurances and other 
Maritime Contracts. 


Resolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr. Razkes 
reported, That the Committee had come to a Reso- 
lution. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Raikes accordingly reported a Resolution ; 
which was read, as followeth : 

That the Chairman be directed to move the 
House, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
amend the Law reiating to Insurances and other 
Maritime Contracts :—And he moved the House 
accordingly. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in the 
Bill: And that Mr. Raikes, Mr. Chancellor of the 
Exchequer, and Mr. Attorney General do prepare, 
and bring it in. 


Resolved, That this House will, immediately, 
resolye itself into a Committee to consider of 
amending the Merchant Shipping Acts:—The 
House accordingly resolved itself into the Com- 
mittee. 


Merchant 
Shipping. 


(In the Committee.) 


Resolved, That the Chairman be directed to 
move the House, That leave be given to bring in 
a Bill to amend the Merchant Shipping Acts, 


Resolution to be reported. 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. 
Raikes reported, That the Committee had come 
to a Resolution. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Raikes iste 2 reported a Resolution ; 
which was read, as followeth: 





10h February. 








1876. 


That the Chairman be directed to move the 
House, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
amend the Merchant Shipping Acts:—And he 
moved the House accordingly. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in the 
Bill: And that Mr. Raikes, Sir Charles Adderley, 
and Mr. Edward Stanhope do prepare, and bring 
it In. 


Resolved, That, except for a Money Bill, no Business of the 
Order of the Day or Notice of Motion be taken House. 
after half-past Twelve of the clock at night, with 
respect to which Order or Notice of Motion a 
Notice of Opposition or Amendment shall have 
been Pe | on the Notice Paper, or if such 
Notice of Motion shall only have been given the 
next previous day of Sitting, and objection shall 
be taken when such Notice is called. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Local 
to reform and assimilate the Systems of Local — omnea 
Governments in force in Towns in Ireland: And ({reland.) 
that Mr. Bruen, Sir Arthur Guinness, Mr. Corry, 
Mr. Mulholland, and Mr. Kavanagh do prepare, 


and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill County 
to amend the Act for making Regulations as to —— 
the Office of Clerk’ of the Peace for the County (Clerk of the 
Palatine of Lancaster”: And that Mr. Hardcastle, Peace.) 
Mr. Holt, and Mr. Clifton do prepare, and bring 


it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Commons. 
for facilitating the Regulation and Improvement 
of Commons, and for the Amendment of the In- 
closure Acts: And that Mr. Secretary Cross and Sir 
Henry Selwin-Ibbetson do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Indian 
to amend the Law relating to Legislation in Jndia Legislation. 
with a view to the Consolidation thereof: And 
that Lord George Hamilton and Mr. Attorney 
General do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That a Standing Committee be ap- Kitchen and 
pointed to control Arrangements of the Kitchen Refreshment 
and Refreshment Rooms in the Department of - of 
the Serjeant at Arms attending this House :—And 
a Committee was appointed of Mr. Adam, Mr. Dick, 
Sir William Hart Dyke, Mr. Edwards, Mr. Goldney, 
Captain Hayter, Lord Kensington, Mr. Muntz, Mr. 
Stacpoole, and Sir Henry Drummond Wolff. 

Ordered, That Three be the Quorum. 


Commons.) 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill contagious 
to repeal “ The Contagious Diseases Acts, 1864, Diseases 
1866, and 1869”: And that Sir Harcourt John- 4° Repel 
stone, Mr. Whitbread, and Mr. Stansfeld do pre- 
pare, and bring it in. 


Resolved, That this House will, immediately, tntoxicating 
resolve itself into a Committee to consider of Liquors a 
amending the Licensing Laws:—The House ac- (Licensing 

. . . ° Amendment.) 
cordingly resolved itself into the Committee. 


(In the Committee.) 


Resolved, That the Chairman be directed to move 
the House, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to amend the Licensing Laws. 


Resolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had come to a Re- 
solution. 

Ordered, That the - + be now received. 

Mr. Raikes accordingly reported a Resolution ; 
which was read, as followeth: 

That 





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39 Victoria. 


That the Chairman be directed to move the 
House, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
amend the Licensing Laws:—And he moved the 
House accordingly. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in the 
Bill: And that Sir Harcourt Johnstone, Mr. Birley, 
Mr. Pease, and Mr. Bell do prepare, and bring 


it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 


vn to prohibit the Sale of Intoxicating Liquors on 
Liqorson Sunday: And that Mr. Wilson, Mr. Birley, Mr. 
Sunday. Osborne Morgan, Mr. M* Arthur, and Mr. James 
do prepare, and bring it in. 
: ; Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
Rati ’ —. 
(lretand.) "5 to substitute Union Rating for Electoral Division 


Rating for Poor Law purposes in Ireland: And 
that Mr. O’ Shaughnessy, Mr. Butt, Mr. Downing, 
and Mr. Sheil do prepare, and bring it in. 


ariti Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer presented a 
Contracts Bill. Bill to amend the Law relating to Insurances and 
Bill 50. other Maritine Contracts: And the same was read 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second time 

upon Thursday next; and to be printed. 


Merchant Sir Charles Adderley presented a Bill to amend 

Shipping Bill. the Merchant Shipping Acts: And the same was 

Bill49. read the first time ; and ordered to be read a second 
time upon Thursday next; and to be printed. 


Sir Henry Selwin-Ibbetson presented a Bill for 
facilitating the Regulation and Improvement of 

ommons, and for the Amendment of the Inclosure 
Acts: And the same was read the first time; and 
ordered to be read a second time upon Thursday 
next ; and to be printed. 


Commons Bill. 
Bill 61. 


Local Mr. Bruen presented a Bill to reform and as- 
ee similate the Systems of Local Governments in 
(Ireland) Bil, force in Towns in Jreland: And the same was read 

Bill 52 the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
* time upon Wednesday the Ist day of March next ; 


and to be printed. 


Count Mr. Hardcastle presented a Bill to amend the 
esti Act for making Regulations as to the Office of 
(Clerk of the Clerk of the Peace for the County Palatine of 
Peace) Bill. Lancaster”: And the same was read the first time; 
Bill 53, and ordered to be read a second time upon Thurs- 

day next; and to be printed. 
Indian Lord George Hamilton presented a Bill to amend 
itn the Law relating to Legislation in Jndia, with a 
Bill s4, Yiew the Consolidation thereof: And the same 
ui od- was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time upon Thursday next; and to be 

printed. 

Contagious Sir Harcourt Johnstone presented a Bill to repeal 


a “ The Contagious Diseases Acts, 1864, 1866, and 
1869”: And the same was read the first time; 


Bill 65. and ordered to be read a second time upon Wed- 
nesday the 19th day of July next; and to be 
printed. 

Intoricating Sir Harcourt Johnstone presented a Bill to amend 
(ileding law the Licensing Laws: And the same was read the 
Amendment) first time; and ordered to be read a second time 
B upon Tuesday the 14th day of March next; and to 

Bill56. be printed. 

a Mr. Charles Wilson presented a Bill to prohibit 
Liquors on’ the Sale of Intoxicating Liquors on Sunday: And 
Sunday Bill. the same was read the first time; and ordered to 

Bill 57, be read'a second time upon Wednesday the 12th 


day of July next; and to be printed. 
VoL. 131. 


10th—11th February. 


19 


Mr. O’Shaughnessy presented a Bill to sub- Viner Bettis 
stitute Union Rating for Electoral Division Rat- (eland) 
ing for Poor Law purposes in Ireland: And the  Bill68. 
same was read the first time; and ordered to be 

read a second time upon Wednesday the 8th day 

of March next; and to be printed. 


And then the House adjourned till To-mor- 
row. 























Friday, 11th February, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 


PETITION of the Great Western Rail- Liynvi and 
way Company, the Liynvi and Ogmore Rail- pao and 
way Company, and the Cardiff and Ogmore Valley aie 
Railway Company, for leave to bring in a Bill for Railway 
the Amalgamation of the Cardiff and Ogmore Val- Companies. 
ley Railway Company with the Lilynvi and Ogmore 
Railway Company, and for other purposes, was 
presented, and read ; and a Bill was ordered to be 
brought in accordingly, by Major Beaumont and 
Mr. Brogdei. 


A Petition of the Ely, Haddenham, and Sutton ny, 
Railway Company, and of the Great Eastern Haddenham, 
Railway Company, for leave to bring in a Bill to — 
authorise the Ely, Haddenham, and Sutton Rail- " 
way Company to extend their authorised Railway 
to the Saint Ives and March Railway of the Great 
Eastern Railway, to change their Name, and for 
other purposes, was presented, and read; anda 
Bill was ordered to be brought in accordingly, by 
Mr. Rodwell and Mr. Fellowes. 


A Petition of Promoters of the Bill thereunto Burry Port 
annexed, for leave to bring in a Bill to authorise 24 North 
the Construction of a Railway from the Burry Vt 
Port and Gwendreath Valley Railway to the Line Railway. 
of the Central Wales and Carmarthen Junction 
Railway Company, and for other purposes, was pre- 
sented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to be 
brought in accordingly, by Mr. Jones and Mr. 

Thomas Cave. 


A Petition of the Chesterfield Waterworks and Chesterfield 
Gaslight Company, for leave to bring in a Bill to Water and 
grant further Powers to the Chesterfield Water- 
works and Gas Light Company, was presented, and 
read; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in 
accordingly, by Admiral Egerton and Mr. Francis 
Arkwright. 


A Petition of the Derby Gas Light and Coke Derby Gas. 

Company, for leave to bring in a Bill to confirm the 
holding of certain Lands by the Derby Gas Light 
and Coke Company, to enable that Company to 
raise additional Capital, and for other purposes, 
was presented, and read; and a Bill was ordered 
to be brought in accordingly, by Sir Henry Wilmot 
and Mr. Evans. 


A Petition of the Folkestone Gas and Coke Folkestone 

Company, for leave to bring in a Bill to authorise ©* 

the Folkestone Gas and Coke Company to acquire 

further Lands, to extend their Works, to raise 
additional Capital, and for other purposes, was 
presented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to be 

brought in accordingly, by Mr. Anatchbull-Hu- 

gessen and Sir Edward Watkin. 


A Petition of the Great Northern Railway Com- Great Northern 
any, for leave to bring in a Bill to grant further Railway. 

Powen to the Great Northern Railway Company 
with relation to their Undertaking, was pre- 
sented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to be 
brought in accordingly, by Mr. Beckett Denison 
and Mr. Tennant. 
D2 A Petition 














20 


Great Westen A Petition of the Great Western Railway and 

— nd the Bristol and Exeter Railway Companies, for 

Railway leave to bring in a Bill to amalgamate the Under- 

Companies. takings of the Great Western and Bristol and 
Exeter Railway Companies, and for other pur- 
poses, was presented, and read ; and a Bill was 
ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Sir 
Daniel Gooch and Mr, Dillwyn. 


Huddersfield 
Water and 
Improvement. 


A Petition of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Bur- 
gesses of the Borough of Huddersfield, for leave 
to bring in a Bill to enable the Mayor, Aldermen, 
and Burgesses of the Borough of Huddersfield to 
abandon the Enlargement of Wessenden Reser- 
voir, and to construct a new Reservoir in lieu 
thereof; to make new Streets and Street Im- 
provements, and to acquire Markets and Fairs; to 
extend the Limits of Gas and Water Supply, and 
to make further Provision for the Improvement 
and Government of the Borough, and for other 
purposes, was presented, and read; and a Bill was 
ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. Lea- 
tham and Mr, Lewis Starkey. 


Lancashire and 
Yorkshire 
Railway. 


A Petition of the Lancashire and Yorkshire 
Railway Company, for leave to bring in a Bill for 
conferring further Powers on the Lancashire and 
Yorkshire Railway Company with relation to their 
Undertaking, was presented, and read; and a Bill 
was ordered to be ew in accordingly, by Mr. 
Hardcastle, Sir Mathew Wilson, Mr. Philips, and 
Lord Frederick Cavendish. 


Hove A Petition of the Hove Commissioners, for leave 

Extension and to bring ina Bill for extending the District of the 

Improvement. 775ye Commissioners to part of the Parish of Pres- 
ton, in the County of Sussex, and for amending the 
Hove Commissioners Act, 1873, and for other pur- 
poses, was presented, and read; and a Bill was 
ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. Mon- 
tagu Scott and Mr. Gregory. 


Colney Hatch A Petition of the Colney Hatch Gas Company, 

Gas. for leave to bring in a Bill to empower the Colney 
Hatch Gas Company to raise additional Capital, 
and for other purposes, was presented, and read ; 
and a Bill was ohne to be brought in accord- 
ingly, by Sir Sydney Waterlow and 


GasLightand A Petition of the Gas Light and Coke Com- 
CokeCompany. pany, for leave to bring in a Bill for granting 
further Powers to the Gas Light and Coke Com- 
pany, and for other purposes, was presented, and 
read; anda Bill was ordered to be brought in ac- 


cordingly, by Sir Charles Mills and Colonel Makins. 


ajor Dickson. 


A Petition of the Llanfyllin and Langynog Rail- 


way Company, !for leave to bring in a Bill for the 
abandonment of the Llanfyllin and Llangynog Rail- 
way, was presented, and read; and a Bill was ordered 


to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. Charles Wynn 
and Mr. Hanbury-Tracy. 


A Petition of the Local Board of Health for the 
District of Oldbury, in the Parish of Halesowen 
and County of Worcester, for leave to bring in a 
Bill to enable the Oldbury Local Board of Health 
to purchase from the Corporation of Birmingham 
so much of the Gas Undertaking required by 
them as is situate inthe District of Oldbury, in 
the County of Worcester, and to light with Gas the 
said District and parts adjacent, and for other pur- 
poses, was presented, and read; and a Bill was 
ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. 
Henry Alisopp and Mr. Walker. 


Oldbury Local 
Board of 
Health. 


A Petition of the Drainage Board of the Upper 
Inny Drainage District, in the Counties of West- 
meath, Meath, Cavan, and Longford, for leave to 
bring in a Bill for extending the time for the 


(1th February, 








1876. 


completion of the Works authorised by “ The 
Drainage and Improvement of Lands Supple- 
mental Act (Ireland) 1868,” was presented, and 
read ; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in ac- 
cordingly, by Major O’ Reilly and Mr. Conolly. 


A Petition of the London, Brighton, and South London, 
Coast Railway Company, for leave to bring in a Brighton, and 
Bill to vest in the London, Brighton and South por y tee we 
Coast Railway Company the Undertaking of the Wells and” 
Tunbridge Wells and Eastbourne Railway Com- Eastbourne 
pany, and to make better provision for Railway ee 
Communication to Eastbourne, was presented, and 
read; and a Bill was ordered to be seer in ac- 
cordingly, by Mr. Laing and Mr. Lopes. 


A Petition of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Bur- Leicester 
gesses of the Borough of Leicester, for leave to Improvement, 
bring in a Bill to enable the Mayor, Aldermen, 
and Burgesses of the Borough of Leicester to pur- 
chase the Undertaking of the Leicester Waterworks 
Company, to construct additional Works for the pre- 
vention of Floods in the Borough, and for other 
purposes, was presented, and read; anda Bill was 
ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. 

Peter Taylor and Mr. Alexander M‘ Arthur. 


A Petition of the London and Blackwall Rail- London and 
way Company, and of the Great Eastern Railway Blackwall 
Company, for leave to bring in a Bill to authorise ®!”*- 
the widening of parts of the London and Blackwall 
Railway and the enlargement of some of the Sta- 
tions, to authorise Agreements with other Com- 
panies, and for other purposes, was presented, and 
read; and a Bill was ordered to be ater in ac- 
cordingly, by Colonel Makins and Mr. Lewis 
Starkey. 


A Petition of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin- Manchester, 
colnshire Railway Company, for leave to bring in Sheffield, and 
a Bill for authorising the Manchester, Sheffield, and a 
Lincolnshire Railway Company to make New ms 
Branch Railways and other Works, for conferring 
upon them additional Powers, and for other pur- 
poses, was presented, and read; and a Bill was 
ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Sir 
Edward Watkin and Mr. Chapman. 


A Petition of the Merionethshire Railway Com- Merionethshire 
pany, for leave to bring in a Bill to extend the Railway. 
time for the completion of the Merionethshire Rail- 
way, was presented, and read; and a Bill was or- 
dered to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. Holland 
and Mr. Robertson. 


A Petition of the Monmouthshire Railway and yonmouth- 
Canal Company, for leave to bring in a Bill to grant shire Railwsy 
further Powers to the Monmouthshire Railway and #4 Caml. 
Canal Company, and for other purposes with refer- 
ence to the Undertaking of the Company, was pre- 
sented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to be 
brought in accordingly, by Lord Henry Somerset and 
Mr. Frederick Morgan. 


A Petition of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Bur- stafford 
gesses of the Borough of Stafford, for leave to bring Borough 
in a Bill for extending the Boundaries of the =*"™ 
Borough of Stafford, in the County of Stafford, 
and for empowering the Mayor, Aldermen, and 
Burgesses of the Borough to construct Water- 
works, and to acquire the Undertaking of the 
— Gas Company, and to provide a Park, 
and to execute other Improvements, and for other 
purposes, was presented, and read; and a Bill was 
ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. 

Colin Campbell and Mr. Heath. 


A Petition of the Newcastle and Gateshead Newcastle a 
Waterworks Company, for leave to bring in a Bill &amp; 
to enable the Newcastle and Gateshead Water- *°™ 


works 








ent, 


.r, 


way 





Humber 
Conservancy. 


Southport 
Improvement. 


Upper Mersey 
Navigation. 


Bristol United 
Gas, 


Brighton 
Borough 
Extension of 
Fumes 
‘arliamen: 
Limits, ne 


Burntislan 
Direct Mineral 
way, 


Caledonian 
way 
(Additional 

Owers,) 


39 Vicrortia. 


works Company to construct additional Works, 
and raise additional Capital, and for other purposes, 
was presented, and read; and a Bill was ordered 
to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. Joseph 
Cowen, Mr. Hamond, and Mr. James. 


A Petition of the Humber Conservancy Com- 
missioners, for leave to bring in a Bill to extend 
and amend the Humber Conservancy Acts, 1852, 
1868, and 1871, and to confer further Powers on 
the Humber Conservancy Commissioners, and for 
other purposes, was presented, and read; and a Bill 
was ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. 
Sykes, Mr. Charles Wilson, and Mr. Norwood. 


A Petition of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Bur- 
gesses of the Borough of Southport, for leave to 
bring in a Bill to extend the Boundary of the 
Borough of Southport, in the County of Lancaster, 
so as to include the Township of Birkdale; to 
enable the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of 
the Borough to construct new Streets and other 
Works; to construct new Promenades ; to purchase 
the Undertaking of the Southport Tramways Com- 
pany» Limited ; to make further Provisions for the 

mprovement of the Borough, and for other pur- 
poses, was presented, and read; and a Bill was 
ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. 
Rathbone and Mr. Torr. 


A Petition of the Bridgewater Navigation Com- 
pany, Limited, and the Company of Proprietors 
of the Mersey and Jrwell Navigation, for leave 
to bring in a Bill for creating a Commission 
for Lighting, Buoying, and otherwise improving 
the Upper Mersey; for authorising that Com- 
mission to levy and receive certain Tolls and 
Dues, and fur other purposes, was presented, and 
read; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in 
accordingly, by Sir Edward Watkin and Mr. 
Cawley. 


A Petition of the Bristol United Gas Light 
Company, for leave to bring in a Bill to authorise 
the Bristol United Gas Light Company to pur- 
chase additional Lands and erect Works for the 
manufacture and storage of Gas and Residual 
Products thereon, and to construct two Bridges 
across Avon Sireet; Amendment of Acts, was pre- 
sented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to be 
brought in accordingly, by Mr. Morley and Mr. 
Kirkman Hodgson. 


A Petition of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Bur- 
gesses of the Borough of Brighton, for leave to 
bring in a Bill for making the limits of the Muni- 
cipal Borough of Brighton co-extensive with the 
limits of the Parliamentary Borough, and for pur- 
poses incidental thereto, was presented, and read ; 
and a Bill was ordered to be brought in accordingly, 
by Mr. Montagu Scott and Mr. Ashbury. 


A Petition of Persons whose Names are there- 
unto subscribed, for leave to bring in a Bill for 


-making a Railway from Burntisland to the North 


British Railway at Cowdenbeath, with Branches 
to various Collieries in the County of Fife, and for 
other purposes, was presented, and read; and a 
Bill was ordered to be brought in accordingly, by 
Sir Robert Anstruther, Sir George Campbell, and 
Mr. Campbell- Bannerman. 


A Petition of the Caledonian Railway Company, 
for leave to bring in a Bill for enabling the Cale- 
donian Railway Company to make certain Rail- 
ways and other Works, and to acquire certain 
Lands in the Counties of ZLanurk, Stirling, Edin- 
burgh, Renfrew, and Forfar; for abandoning cer- 
tain authorised Works in the Counties of Forfar 
and Edinburgh ; for extending the Periods limited 
Vou. 131. 


11th February. 











21 


by certain former Acts; for confirming a Scheme 
for the conversion and consolidation of certain 
classes of Shares and Stock in the said Company, 
and for other purposes, was presented, and read ; 
and a Bill was ordered to be brought in accord- 
ingly, by Mr. Anderson and Mr. William Holms. 


A Petition of the Whitehaven, Cleator, and Whitehaven, 
Egremout Railway Company, for leave to bring in » semen 
a Bill to authorise the Whitehaven, Cleator, and Railway. 
Egremont Railway Company to make new Rail- 
ways in the County of Cumberland, to raise further 
Capital, and for other purposes, was presented, 
and read; anda Bill was ordered to be brought 
in accordingly, by Mr. Perey Wyndham, Lord 
Muncaster, and Mr. Cavendish Bentinck. 


A Petition of the South Eastern Railway Com- South Eastern 
pany, for leave to bring in a Bill to authorise the ®#!*”- 
South Eastern Railway Company to extend the 
Hytheand Sandgate Branch Railway to Folkestone, 
to widen a portion of their Charing Cross Line, 
to acquire additional Lands, and for other purposes, 
was presented, and read; and a Bill was ordered 
to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. Knatchbull- 

Hugessen and Mr. Fielden. 


A oe of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Bur- ea P 
gesses of the Borough of Romsey, in the County ;* enon an 
of Southampton, for leave to ree ad in a Bill for en 
extending the boundary of the Borough of Romsey, 
in the County of Southampton, and for other pur- 
poses, was presented, and read; and a Bill was 
ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. 

Cowper- Temple and Lord Henry Scott. 


A Petition of the Metropolitan Board of Works, Metropolitan 
for leave to bring in a Bill for enabling the Me- Board of 
tropolitan Board of Works to make a new Street “°"** 
from Sun Street to Worship Street; to undertake 
certain duties in connection with the Chelsea Em- 
bankment; to free Deptford Creek Bridge from 
Toll, and for other purposes, was presented, and 
read; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in 
accordingly, by Sir James Hogg and Mr. Rod- 
well. , 


A Petition of the London, Brighton, and South London, 
Coast Railway Company, for leave to bring in a Brighton, and 
Bill for conferring further Powers on the London, —" 
Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company, (Various 
was presented, and read; and a Bill was ordered Powers-) 
to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. Laing and 


Mr. Lopes. 


A Petition of the Rossendale Union Gas Com- Rossendale 
pany, for Jeave to tring in a Bill to grant further Union Gas. 
Powers to the Rossendale Union Gas Company, 
was presented, and read; and a Bill was ordered 
to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. Holt, Mr. 

Starkie, and Mr. Philips. 


A Petition of the Scotswood, Newburn, and ne sey ‘ 
Wylam Railway and Dock Company, for leave to + gy ine 
bring in a Bill to authorise the Scotswood, New- Railway and 
burn, and Wylam Railway and Dock Company to Deck- 
abandon the Construction of the Dock and Branch 
Railway near Scotswood Bridge, in the County 
of Northumberland, to change their Name, and for 
other purposes, was presented, and read; and a 
Bill was ordered to be brought in accordingly, by 
Mr. Joseph Cowen and Lord Eslington. 


A Petition of the Shepton Mallet Waterworks Shepton Mallet 

Company, for leave to bring in a Bill to enable VW 

the Shepton Mallet Waterworks Company to con- 

struct additional Works and to raise further 

Capital, and for other purposes, was presented, 

and read; and a Bill was ordered to be*brought 

in accordingly, by Mr. Paget and Mr. Neville- 

Grenville. 


D3 A Petition 














g2 


A Petition of the South Metropolitan Gas Light 
and Coke Company, for leave to bring in a Bill 
to grant further Powers to the South Metro- 
politan Gas Light and Coke Company, was pre- 
sented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to be 
brought in accordingly, by Sir George Bowyer and 
Mr. Staveley Hill. 


South Metro- 
politan 

Gas Light and 
Coke. 


Bolton-le- A Petition of the Warton Land Company 
Sands, Warton, (Limited), for leave to bring in a Bill to authorise 
— the construction of an Embankment in Morecambe 
Bay, in the Counties of Westmorland and Lan- 
caster, and for other purposes, was presented, and 
read; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in 


accordingly, by Mr. Cawley and Mr. Rodwell. 


A Petition of the Alexandra (Newport) Dock 
Company, for leave to bring in a Bill to further 
extend the Time limited for the Purchase of 
Lands for and for the completion of the Railways 
authorised by “ ‘The Alerandra( Newport) Dock Act, 
1865,” and to authorise the Alexandra (Newport) 
Dock Company to make and maintain a Road in 
the Parish of Saint Woollos, in the County of 
Monmouth; and to confer further Powers upon 
the Company, and for other purposes, was pre- 
sented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to be 
brought in accordingly, by Sir George Elliot, Mr. 
Elliot, and Mr. Frederick Morgan. 


Alexandra 
(Newport) 
Dock. 


A Petition of the East Norfolk Railway Com~- 
pany and of the Great Eastern Railway Company, 
for leave to bring in a Bill for authorising the 
East Norfolk Railway Company to construct a 
Branch Railway to Aylsham, in the County of 
Norfolk, and a Wharf on the River Bure, with a 
Branch Railway thereto, and for other purposes, 
was presented, and read; and a Bill was ordered 
to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. Clare Read 
and Mr. Colman. 


East Norfolk 
Railway. 


A Petition of Suitors for a Bill for effecting 
the Objects thereinafter-mentioned, for leave to 
bring in a Bill to authorise the construction of a 
Pier and other Works at or near Hornsea, in the 
Fast Riding of the County of York, and for other 
purposes, was presented, and read; and a Bill 
was ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. 
Sykes and Mr. Broadley. 


Hornsea Pier. 


A Petition of the London and South Western 
Railway Company, the Midland Railway Com- 
pany, and the Somerset and Dorset Railway Com- 
pany, for leave to bring in a Bill for vesting the 
Somerset and Dorset Railway in the London and 
South Western and Midland Railway Companies 
by way of Lease, and for other purposes, was 
yresented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to 
&amp; brought in accordingly, by Mr. Beach, Mr. Hey- 
gate, and Mr. Neville-Grenville. 


London and 
South Western, 
Midland, and 
Somerset and 
Dorset 
Railway 
Companies. 


A Petition of the Spennymoor and Tudhoe Gas 
Company (Limited), for leave to bring in a Bill 
for incorporating and conferring Powers on the 
Spennymoor and Tudhoe Gas Company, was pre- 
sented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to be 
brought in accordingly, by Mr. Herschell and Mr. 
Dodds. ; 


Spennymoor 
and Tudhoe 
Gas. 


London and A Petition of the Zondon and South Western 

South Western Railway Company, for leave to bring in a Bill to 

(Exeter an@ 2uthorise the Pisciass by the London and South 

Crediton and Western Railway Company of the Exeter and 

North Devon (Crediton Railway and the removal of the Broad 

Railways.) § Gauge Rails on that and other Railways in 
North Devon, and for other purposes, was pre- 
sented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to be 
brought in accordingly, by Mr. Sclater-Booth and 
Mr. Beach, 


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1876. 


A Petition of the Southampton Gas Light and Southampton 
Coke Company, for leave to bring in a Bill to Gs Might and 
extend the Limits of Supply of the Southampton ~~ 
Gas Light and Coke Company, and to enable 
them to raise additional Capital, was presented, 
and read; anda Bill was ordered to be brought 
in accordingly, by Mr. Beach and Colonel Naghten. 


A Petition of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Bur- Newport (Mon. 
gesses of the Borough of Newport, in the County mouthshire) 
of Monmouth, for leave to bring in a Bill to ex- provement. 
tend the Borough of Newport, in the County of 
Monmouth, and to enable the Mayor, Aldermen, 
and Burgesses thereof to improve Streets and to 
construct New Streets and other Works within 
the same, and to make further provision for the 
Improvement and good Government of the Borough, 
and for other purposes, was presented, and read ; 
and a Bill was ordered to be brought in ac- 
cordingly, by Mr. Frederick Morgan and Mr. 

Cordes. 


A Petition of the Metropolitan Inner Circle Metropolitan 
Completion Railway Company, for leave to bring Ine Circle 
in a Bill to extend the respective Periods limited — 
by “The Metropolitan Inner Circle Completion ” 
Act, 1874,” for the compulsory Purchase of Lands 
for and for the completion of the Works by that 
Act authorised, and to revive and extend in certain 
cases the Powers of the Metropolitan Inner Circle 
Completion Railway Company for the Purchase 
of Lands under that Act, and to authorise that 
Company to acquire additional Lands in the City 
of London, and for other purposes, was presented, 
and read; and a Bill was ordered to be brought 
in accordingly, by Mr. Frederick Walpole, Mr. 

Twells, and Major Dickson. 


A Petition of Promoters of the Undertaking west Riding 
thereinafter-mentioned, for leave to bring in a Bill and Lancashire 
to authorise the construction of Railways in York- Railways. 
shire and Lancashire, to be called “The West 
Riding and Lancashire Railways,” was presented, 
and read; and a Bill was ordered to be brought 
in accordingly, by Mr. Wheelhouse and Mr. 

Crossley. 


A Petition of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Mersey Docks 
Board, for leave to bring in a Bill to authorise the and Harbour 
Mersey Docks and Harbour Board to improve the “°" 
River Entrance to the Canada Basin, and for other 
purposes, was presented, and read; and a Bill 
was ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. 

Rathbone and Mr. Torr. 


A Petition of the London and South Western London and 
Railway Company, for leave to bring in a Bill to South Westem 
confer further Powers upon the London and South ‘Fusions 
Western Railway Company in respect of their Powers.) 
Undertaking and of the Undertakings of other 
Companies, and to empower that Company and 
the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway 
Company to purchase additional Lands for the 
purposes of the Tooting, Merten, and Wimbledon 
Railway, and for other purposes, was presented, 
and read; and a Bill was ordered to be brought 
in accordingly, by Mr. Sclater-Booth and Mr. 

Beach. 


A Petition of the Banbury and Cheltenham Banbury and 
Direct Railway Company, for leave to bring in a Cheltenham 
Bill to empower the Banbury and Cheltenham ion 
Direct Railway Company to make a Deviation of 
their authorised Railway, and.for other purposes, 
was presented, and read; and a Bill was ordered 
to be brought in accordingly, by Sir Thomas 
Bazley and Mr. Sherriff. 


A Petition of the East London Railway Com- fast London 
pany, for leave to bring in a Bill to enable the Railway. 
: East 








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39 VicrorRIA. 


East London Railway Company to make a new 
Junction with the Main Line of the Great 
Eastern Railway Company, and to confer further 
Powers on those Companies, and for other pur- 
poses, was presented, and read; and a Bill was 
ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Sir 
Thomas Chambers and Mr. Grantham. 


A Petition of the Commissioners for executing 
and carrying into effect the a ong of the Paisley 
Waterworks Act, 1854, and the Paisley Water. 
works Act, 1866, for leave to bring ina Bill for 
extending the Time for the completion of Works 
authorised to be constructed by the Paisley Water- 
works Commissioners ; for reviving the Powers of 
compulsory purchase of Lands for the purposes of 
certain of those Works; for authorising those 
Commissioners to construct additional Works, to 
supply Water by measure, and to borrow further 
Money ; for the prevention of waste of the Water 
supplied by them, and for other purposes, was 
presented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to 
be brought in accordingly, by Colonel Mure and 
Mr. William Holms. 


Paisley Water. 


Glasgow and A Petition of the Glasgow and South Western 

South Western Railway Company, for leave to bring in a Bill 

nay for conferring further Powers on the Glasgow 
and South Western Railway Company for the 
construction of Works and the acquisition of 
Lands; for converting and consolidating the 
several classes of their Shares and Stocks; for 
granting them additional Powers of raising Money 
and Subscription, and otherwise in relation to 
Saint Enoch Station, and for other purposes, was 
resented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to be 
lewnabe in accordingly, by Mr. Grieve and Colonel 
Alexander. 


A Petition of the Great Western Railway Com- 
pany, for leave to bring in a Bill for conferring 
further Powers on the Great Western Railway 
Company in relation to their own Undertaking, 
and the Undertakings of other Companies, and for 
other purposes, was presented, and read; and a 
Bill was ordered to be brought in accordingly, by 
Sir Daniel Gooch and Mr. Dillwyn. 


Great Western 
Railway. 


Senden end A Petition of the Zondon and North Western 
North Western Railway Company, for leave to bring in a Bill for 
ay Acre conferring additional Powers on the London and 
&gt;" — North Western Railway Company in relation to 
their own Undertaking and the Undertakings of 

other Companies, and for other purposes, was pre- 

sented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to be 

brought in accordingly, by Mr. Bruce, Colonel 

Bourne, Mr. Nicholson Hodgson, and Mr. Knowles. 


London and A Petition of the London and North Western 
North Western Railway Company, and the Sirhowy Railway Com- 


(Sithowy pany, for leave to bring in a Bill for vesting in the 

Railway London and North Western Railway Company the 

Transfer.) Undertaking of the Sirhowy Railway Company, 
was presented, and read; and a Bill was ordered 
to be brought in accordingly, by Lord Richard 
Grosvenor, Mr. William Lowther,and Mr. Bienjamin 
Whitworth. 

Midland A Petition of the Midland Railway Company, 

ae for leave to bring in a Bill for conferring further 

Powers.) Powers on the Midland Railway Company in 
relation to their own Undertaking and the Under- 
takings of other Companies, and for raising addi- 
tional Capital, and for other purposes, was pre- 
sented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to be 
brought in accordingly, by Mr. Heygate and 
Captain William Price. 

Midlana A Petition of the Midland Railway Company, 


Wry (New for leave to bring in a Bill for enabling the Mid- 
Vou. 131. 


&amp;c.) 








1ith February. 23 


land Railway Company to construct new Railways 
and other Works; to acquire additional Lands; 
to raise further Capital, and for other purposes, 
was presented, and read; and a Bill was ordered 
to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. Heygate and 
Captain William Price. 


A Petition of the North Eastern RailwayCompany, North Eastern 
for leave to bring in a Bill for enabling the North Railway. 
Eastern Railway Company to make new Railways 
and W orks, and for conferring additional Powers 
on the Company in relation to their own Under- 
taking and the Undertakings of other Companies, 
and for other purposes, was presented, and read; 
and a Bill was ordered to be brought in accord- 
ingly, by Mr. Leeman, Mr. Pease, Sir Harcourt 
Johnstone, and Mr. Beil. 


A Petition of the Sidmouth Railway Company, Sidmouth 
for leave to bringin a Bill for enabling the Sidmouth Railway. 
Railway Company to extend their Railway to Bud- 
leigh Salterton and Exmouth, and for other pur- 
poses, was presented, and read; and a Bill was 
ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Sir John 
Kennaway and Mr. Stewart. 


A Petition of the Thames Tunnel Company, for Thames 
leave to bring ina Bill to amend and extend “ The Tl. 
Thames Tunnel Act, 1866,” and for other pur- 
poses, was presented, and read; and a Bill was 
ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Colonel 
Makins and Mr. Forsyth. 


A Petition of the Wye Valley Railway Com- Wye Valley 
pany, for leave to bring in a Bill to enable the Railway. 
Wye Valley Railway Company to construct new 
Railways and other Works, and for other pur- 
poses, was presented, and read; and a Bill was 
ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. 

Cordes and Mr. Marling. 


A Petition of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Bur- Lancaster 
gesses of the Borough of Lancaster, for leave to Water and 
bring in a Bill for enabling the Corporation of the '™Prvemes+ 
Borough of Lancaster to extend their Water- 
works, and to make Street Improvements, and for 
other purposes, was presented, and read; and a 
Bill was ordered to be brought in accordingly, by 
Mr. Stanley and Mr. Clifton. 


A Petition of the Caledonian Railway Company, Caledonian 
for leave to bring in a Bill for enabling the Cale- aan oath 
donian Railway Company to make a Wet Dock, abo) 
Timber Basin, Quays and other Works at Grange- 
mouth, and to improve the Navigation of the River 
Carron, for altering the Rates leviable at the Har- 
bour of Grangemonth, for extending the Period 
limited for the acquisition by the said Company 
of Lands near that Port, and for other purposes, 
was presented, and read; and a Bill was ordered 
to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. Anderson 
and Mr. William Holms. 


A Petition of the several Persons whose Names Westerham 
are thereunto subscribed, for leave to bring in a a 
Bill to authorise the Construction of a Railway —— 
from Dunton Green, in the County of Kent, to 
Oxted, in the County of Surrey, and for other 
purposes connected with the said Railway, was 
presented, and read ; and a Bill was ordered to be 
brought in accordingly, by Mr. Locke and Mr. 
Goldney. 


A Petition of the Manchester South District Manchester 
Railway Company, for leave to bring in a Bill to South District 
extend the Time limited for the compulsory Pur- —_ 
chase of Lands, and Completion of the Railways 
for so much of the Railways authorised by “ The 
Manchester South District Railway Act, 1873,” 
as was not abandoned by “ The Manchester South 

D4 District 





Lynn and 
Fakenham 
Railway. 


Cleveland 
Water. 


Walsall Gas 
Purchase and 
Borough 
Extension. 


Campbeltown 
Burgh and 
Harbour. 


Glasgow and 
Kilmarnock 
Joint Line and 
Caledonian 
Railway. 


24 


District Railway Act, 1874,” was presented, and 
read; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in ac- 


cordingly, by Mr. Locke and Mr. Stacpoole. 


A Petition of Subscribers to and Promoters of 
the Undertaking thereinafter mentioned, for leave 
to bring in a Bill to authorise the Construction of 
Railways between King’s Lynn and Fakenham, in 
the County of Norfolk, and for other purposes 
connected with the said Undertaking, was pre- 
sented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to be 
brought in accordingly, by Sir William Bagge and 
Mr. Goldney. 


A Petition of the Cleveland Water Company, 
for leave to bring in a Bill for extending the 
Limits within which the Cleveland Water Com- 
pany may supply Water, and for empowering 
them to construct additional Works, and to raise 
additional Capital, and for other purposes, was 
presented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to be 
brought in accordingly, by Mr. Milbank and Mr. 
Bolchow. 


A Petition of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Bur- 
gesses of the Borough of Walsall, for leave to 
bring in a Bill for extending the Boundaries of 
the Municipal Borough of Walsall, in the County 
of Stafford; and for transferring to the Mayor, 
Aldermen, and Burgesses of the Borough, the 
Powers, Duties, and Property of the Commis- 
sioners acting under “ The Walsall Improvement 
and Market Act, 1848 ;” and for authorizing the 
Purchase by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Bur- 
gesses of so much of the Gas Undertaking late 
of the Birmingham and Staffordshire Gas Light 
Company as relates to the supply of Gas within 
the eoeiah, and for other purposes, was pre- 
sented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to be 
brought in accordingly, by Mr. Arthur Bass and 
Sir Charles Forster. 


A Petition of the Provost, Magistrates, and 
Town Council of the Royal and Parliamentary 
Burgh of Campbeltown, for leave to bring in a Bill 
to provide for the Local Government of the Royal 
and Parliamentary Burgh of Campbeltown, in the 
County of Argyll, for the Improvement of the Har- 
bour thereof, and for supplying Gas and Water to 
the Burgh, and for other purposes, was presented, 
and read; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in 


accordingly, by Mr. Dalrymple and Sir William 


Cuninghame. 


A Petition of the Furness Railway Company, 
for leave to bring in a Bill for conferring further 


Powers on the Furness Railway Company for the | 


construction of Works, the acquisition of Lands, 
the raising of Money; and otherwise in relation to 
their Undertaking, and for other purposes, was 
resented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to be 
rought in accordingly, by LordFrederick Ca en- 


dish and Admiral Egerton. 


A Petition of the Caledonian Railway Com- 
any, and of the Glasgow and South Western 
Railway Company, for leave to bring in a Bill for 
enabling the Caledonian and the Glasgow and 
South Western Railway Companies jointly to ac- 
quire certain Lands and execute certain Works 
in the Counties of Lanark and Renfrew ; for autho- 
rising the diversion of a certain Road, and of cer- 
tain authorised Tramways in connection there- 
with ; for enabling the Caledonian Railway Com- 
pany separately to acquire certain Lands in the 
said Counties, and for other purposes, was pre- 
sented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to be 
brought in accordingly, by Mr. Whitelaw and Mr. 
Wiliam Holms. 


A Petition of the Provost, Magistrates and 
Council of the Royal Burgh of Burntisland, as 


11th February. 





1376. 


such, and as Commissioners of Police of the said 
Burgh, under and in virtue of the Public Act, 
13 &amp; 14 Vie. c. 33, thereinafter mentioned, for 
leave to bring in a Bill for extending the Bounda- 
ries of the Burgh of Burntisland for Municipal 
and Police purposes ; for transferring to and vest- 
ing in the Corporation the Powers and Property 
of the Commissioners of Police of the Burgh, and 
the Undertakings by means of which the Burgh 
is at present supplied with Water and Gas; for 
empowering the Corporation to construct ad- 
ditional Waterworks, and to supply Water and 
Gas to the extended Burgh and Places adjacent, 
and for other purposes, was presented, and read ; 
and a Bill was ordered to be brought in accord- 
ingly, by Sir Robert Anstruther and Sir George 
Campbell. 


A Petition uf the Mayor, Aldermen, and Bur- gtockton-on. 
gesses of the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees, for Tees Markets, 
leave to bring in a Bill to empower the Mayor, 
Aldermen, and Burgesses of the Borough of 
Stockton-on-Tees to establish Cattle and other 
Markets, and for other purposes, was presented, 
and read; and a Bill was ordered to be brought 
in accordingly, by Mr. Pease and Mr. Dodds. 


A Petition of the City of Norwich Waterworks Norwich 
Company, for leave to bring in a Bill to authorize (City) Water. 
the City of Norwich Waterworks Company to 
raise additional Capital and to extend their Limits 
of Supply, and for other purposes, was presented, 
and read; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in 
accordingly, by Mr. Clare Read and Mr. Colman. 


A Petition of the Forth Bridge Railway Com- Forth Bridge 
pany, for leave to bring in a Bill to extend the Railway. 
‘lime for the Purchase of Lands for and for the 
construction of the Forth Bridge Railway, was 
presented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to be 
brought in accordingly, by Mr. Adam and Mr. 

Yeaman. 


A Petition of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Bur- yajitax Wate 
gesses of the Borough of Halifax, for leave to and Gas 
bring in a Bill for enabling the Mayor, Aldermen, =*tension. 
and Burgesses of the Borough of Halifax to con- 
struct new Works in extension of their Water- 
works, and for extending their Limits of Water Sup- 
ply, and for authorising them to extend their Gas- 
works, and for other purposes, was ang and 
read; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in 
accordingly, by Mr. Stansfeld and Mr. Crossley. 


A Petition of the Persons whose Names are gtonchouse 
thereunto subscribed, for leave to bring in a Bill Pool Improve 
for incorporating a Company, and_ authorising ™™ 
them to make and maintain a Quay Wall or Em- 
bankment on the Shore of Stonehouse Pool, in the 
County of Devon, and other Works for the Im- 
ig of Stonehouse Pool; and a short Line of 

ailway to connect the Quays and Works with 
the Devon and Cornwall Railway, and for other 
purposes, was presented, and read; and a Bill was 


ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. 
Puleston and Mr. Thomas Brassey. 


A Petition of the Coombe Hill Navigation Com- Coombe Hill 
pany, for leave to bring in a Bill to provide for Cama! Nav 
the closing of the Coombe Hill Canal Navigation, ena 
and the Sale of the Site thereof, and for other 
purposes, was presented, and read; and a Bill was 
ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. 

Forsyth and Mr. Herbert Praed. 


A Petition of the Provost, Magistrates, and Kirkcaldy 
Town Council of the Royal Burgh of Kirkcaldy, Bush 
the said Provost, Magistrates, and Town Council ; 
as Commissioners of Police of the said Burgh, and 
William Ross Spears, Writer, in Kirkcaldy, Clerk 

to 











-On- 


Kets, Chesterfield 
Borough 
Extension and 
Improvement. 
‘ater. 
Caterham and 
Godstone 
Valley 
Railway. 
i Ruthin and 
Cerrig-y- 
Druidion 
Railway. 
Whitehaven 
W ater Harbour and 
Town 
n. Improvement. 
ise 
proves 
Ramsgate 
Local Board 
Hill 
avi- 
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3Y VicTorta. 


to and on behalf of the said Commissioners, the 
Commissioners of Kirkcaldy Harbour, the Water- 
works Commissioners of Kirkcaldy and Dysart, the 
Governors of Robert Philp’s Trust Estate and 
Schools, and the said William Ross Spears, their 
Clerk, and the Trustees of the Prime Gilt Box 
Society, of Kirkcaldy,and Thomas Johuston, Writer, 
in Kirkcaldy, Clerk to the said Society, for leave 
to bring in a Bill for extending the Municipal and 
Police Boundaries of the Burgh of Kirkcaldy ; for 
empowering the Corporation to purchase the 
Undertaking of the Kirkcaldy Gas Light Com- 
pany, and to supply Gas; for extending the com- 
pulsory Limits of Water Supply ; for making pro- 
vision for the improvement of the Harbour of 
Kirkcaldy, and for other purposes, was presented, 
and read; and a Bill was jt sie to be brought in 
accordingly, by Sir George Campbell and Sir 
Robert Anstruther. 


A Petition of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Bur- 
gesses of the Borough of Chesterfield, for leave to 
bring in a Bill for extending the Boundaries of 
the Borough of Chesterfield, in the County of 
Derby ; for making further Provisions for the Im- 
provement of the Borough, and for other purposes, 
was presented, and read; and a Bill was ordered 
to be brought in accordingly, by Admiral Egerton 
and Mr. Francis Arkwright. 


A Petition of the There-undersigned, for leave 
to bring in a Bill for making a Railway in the 
County of Surrey, to be called “ The Caterham 
and Godstone Valley Railway,” was presented, and 
read; and a Bill was ordered tu be brought in 
accordingly, by Mr. Grantham and Mr. Watney. 


A Petition of the There-undersigned, for leave 
to bring in a Bill for making a Railway from 
Ruthin to Cerrig-y-Druidion, in the County of 
Denbigh, was presented, and read; and a Bill 
was ordered to be brought in accordingly, by 
Viscount Folkestone and Mr. Stacpoole. 


A Petition of Twelve of the Trustees of the 
Port, Harbour, and Town of Whitehaven, being a 
majority of the said Trustees, for leave to bring in 
a Bill to amend the Qualification of Persons en- 
titled to vote in the Election of Trustees for the 
Town and Harbour of Whitehaven; to extend the 
Periods for the compulsory Purchase of Lands, 
and for the Completion of certain authorised 
Works; to authorise Agreements with the White- 
haven, Cleator, and Egremont Railway Company ; 
to authorise and alter certain Tolls, Rates, Duties, 
and Charges; to grant further Powers to the 
Trustees with reference to the Harbour, and with 
reference to the Supply of Water, and with refer- 
ence to the Town of Whitehaven, and for other pur- 
poses, was presented and read; and a Bill was 


ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. 
Cavendish Bentinck and Mr. Perey Wyndham. 


A Petition of the Local Board for the District 
of Ramsgate, in the County of Kent, for leave to 
bring in a Bill authorising the Local Board for the 
District of Ramsgate, in the County of Kent, to 
purchase the Undertaking of the Company of Pro- 
prietors of the Ramsgate Waterworks, and part of 
the Undertaking of the Isle of Thanet Gas Light 
and Coke Company, to supply Water, and to make 
and supply Gas, and for other purposes, was pre- 
sented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to be 
brought in accordingly, by Mr. Pemberton and 
Viscount Holmesdale. 


A Petition of the Local Board for the District 
of Tipton, in the County of Stafford, for leave to 
bring in a Bill to enable the Local Board for the 
District of Tipton, in the County of Stafford, to 


11th February. 


25 


purchase from the Corporation of Birmingham so 
much of the Gas Undertaking acquired by them 
as is situate in the Parish of Tipton, and to light 
with Gas the said Parish, and for other purposes, 
was presented and read; and a Bill was ordered 
to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. Arthur Bass, 
Mr. Charles Allsopp, and Mr. Brogden. 


supplying with Gas the Parish or Township of 
Horncastle, in the County of Lincola, was pre- 
sented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to be 
brought in accordingly, by Mr. Henry Chaplin and 
Mr. Turnor. 


bring in a Bill for dissolving the Gorleston and 
Southtown Gas Light and Coke Company 
(Limited), for re-incorporating the Proprietors 
therein with others, and for conferring Powers on 
the Company so to be incorporated, and for other 
purposes, was presented, and read; and a Bill was 
ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Sir Ed- 
mund Lacon and Mr. Frederick Walpole. 


able the West Bromwich Improvement Commis- 
sioners to purchase from the Corporation of Bir- 
mingham so much of the Gas Undertaking acquired 
by them as is situate in the Parish of West Brom- 
wich, in the County of Stafford, and te light with 
Gas the said Parish, and for other purposes, was 
presented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to be 
brought in accordingly, by Mr. Bass and Mr. 
Brogden. 


A Petition of the Bolton Junctions Railways Com- 
pany, Limited, for leave to bring in a Bill for 
authorising the making of certain Railways in Lan- 
cashire, to be called “ The Bolton Junctions Rail- 
way,” and for other purposes, was presented, and 
read; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in 
accordingly, by Mr. John Kynaston Cross and Mr. 
Hardcastle. 


A Petition of Suitors for the Bill thereinafter Horncastle 
mentioned, for leave to bring in a Bill for better &amp;* 


A Petition of the Gorleston and Southtown Gas Gorleston and 
Light and Coke Company (Limited), for leave to Southtown 


A Petition of the West Bromwich Improvement West Brom- 


Commissioners, for leave to bring in a Bill to en- wich Improve- 
men 


Bolton Junc- 
tions Railway. 


A Petition of the Tyne Improvement Commis- Tyne Improve- 


sioners, for leave to bring in a Bill for altering and 
consolidating the Dues levied by the Tyne Im- 
provement Commissioners, and for other purposes, 
was presented, and read; and a Bill was ordered 
to be brought in accordingly, by Lord Eslington, 
Mr. Stevenson, and Mr. Joseph Cowen. 


A Petition of the Sevenoaks Gas Company 
(Limited), for leave to bring in a Bill for dis- 
solving the Sevenoaks Gas Company (Limited), 
for re-incorporating the Proprietors therein, with 
others, and for conferring on the Company so to 
be incorporated, Power to supply Gas to the Parish 
of Sevenoaks, and certain neighbouring Parishes 
and Places in the County of Kent, and for other 
purposes, was presented, and read ; and a Bill was 


ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Sir Charles 
Mills and Mr. John Talbot. 


A Petition of the Provost, Magistrates, and 
Town Council of the Royal Burgh of Dunfermline, 
for leave to bring in a Bill for providing an addi- 
tional supply of Water to the Burgh of Dunferm- 
line and Places adjacent, and for other purposes, 
was presented, and read; and a Bill was ordered 
to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. Campbell- 


Bannerman and Sir Robert Anstruther. 


A Petition of the Persons whose names are there- 
unto subscribed, for leave to bring in a Bill for 
making a Railway from the authorised Kelvin Valley 





Von. 131. 


E Railway, 


ment. 


Sevenoaks Gas. 


Dunfermline 
Water. 


Kilsyth and 
Falkirk 
Railwaye 


26 


Railway, near Kilsyth, to the North British a 
Company’s Stirlingshire Midland Junction Rail- 
way, near Falkirk, and of a Railway therefrom, and 
for other purposes, was presented, and read ; and a 
Bill was ordered to be brought in accordingly, by 
Mr. Orr Ewing and Dr. Cameron. 


Dewsbury and A Petition of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Bur- 

Heckmondwike gesses of the Borough of Dewsbury, and of the 

ena Cocal Board of Health for the District of Heck- 
mondwike, for leave to bring in a Bill to conso- 
lidate and amend the Acts relating to the Dewsbury 
and Heckhmondwike Waterworks, and to authorise 
the Construction of New Works, and for other 
purposes, was presented, and read; and a Bill was 
ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. 
Serjeant Simon and Mr. Lewis Starkey. 


A Petition of Persons whose Names are there- 
unto subscribed, for leave to bring in a Bill 
for incorporating the Kildwick Parish Gas Com- 

any, | authorising them to supply Gas in the 
Parish of Kildwick, in the West Riding of the 
County of York, and for other purposes, was pre- 
sented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to be 
brought in accordingly, by Lord Frederick Ca- 
vendish, Sir Mathew Wilson and Mr. Ripley. 


Kildwick 
Parish Gas. 


Charnwood A Petition of the Charnwood Forest Railway 

Forest Railway. Company, for leave to bring in a Bill to authorise 
the Charnwood Forest Kailway Company to make 
Branch Railways near Coalville, and for other 
purposes, was presented, and read; and a Bill was 
ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Lord 
John Manners and Mr. Clowes. 


, A Petition of the Didcot, Newbury, and South- 
Didcot, New- ‘ ‘ ‘ 
bury, and ampton Junction Railway Company, for leave to 
Southampton bring in a Bill to authorise an Extension of Time 
— to the Didcot, Newbury, and Southampton Junc- 
way- - A 
tion Railway Company for purchasing Land, and 
completing their Railway, and for other purposes, 
was presented, and read; and a Bill was ordered 
to be brought in accordingly, by Colonel Loyd 
Lindsay, Mr. Walter, Lord Henry Scott, and Sir 
Frederich Perkins. 


Stockton and A Petition of the Stockton and Middlesbrough 

Middlesbrough Waterworks Company, for leave to bring in a Bill 

Water. for empowering the Stockton and Middlesbrough 
Waterworks Company to consolidate certain Share 
Capital and to raise additional Capital; to con- 
struct additional Works ; to alter and amend their 
existing Acts, and for other purposes, was pre- 
sented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to be 
brought in accordingly, by Mr. Backhouse, Mr. 
Pease, and Major Beaumont. 


A Petition of the City of Glasgow Union, the 
Glasgow and South Western, and North British 
Railway Companies, for leave to bring in a Bill 
to confer further Powers on the City of Glasgow 
Union Railway Company, the Glasgow and South 
Western Railway Company, and the North British 
Railway Company, and for other purposes, was 
presented, and read; and a Bill was pos mee to be 
brought in accordingly, by Mr. Anderson aud Mr. 
Whitelaw. 


Glasgow 
(City) Union 
Railway 


Halesowen 
and Broms- 
grove Branch 
Railways. 


A Petition of the Halesowen and Bromsgrove 
Branch Railways Company, for leave to bring in 
a Bill to confer further Powers on the Halesowen 
and Bromsgrove Branch Railways Company, and 
for other purposes, was presented, and read; and 
a Bill was ordered to be brought in accordingly, 
by Mr. Henry Alisopp and Mr. Walker. 


A Petition of the South Alloa Dock Company, 


for leave to bring in a Bill to enlarge the Powers 
of the South Alloa Dock Company, was presented, 


11th February. 





1876. 
and read; and a Bill was ordered to be brought 


in accordingly, by Sir William Edmonstone and 
Mr. Whitelaw. 


A Petition of the Manchester and Milford Rail- Manchester 
way Company, for leave to bring in a Bill to Peilweye 


authorise an Extension of Time for purchasing 


Land and completing the Railway authorised by 
the Manchester and Milford Railway (Devil's 
Bridge Branch) Act, 1873, was presented, and 
read; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in 
accordingly, by Viscount Emlyn, Mr. Jones, Mr. 
Thomas Lloyd, and Mr. Davies. 


A Petition of Promoters of the Littlehampton Littlehampton 
Water Bill, for leave to bring in a Bill for better W#r- 
supplying with Water Littlehampton and other 
places, all in the County of Sussex, and for other 
purposes, was presented, and read; and a Bill was 
ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. 

Thomson Hankey and Mr. Montagu Scott. 


A Petition of the London, Chatham, and Dover London, 
Railway Company, for leave to bring in a Bill for ae 
conferring further Powers on the London, Chatham, Railway. 
and Dover Railway Company, and for other 
purposes, was presented, and read; and a Bill was 
ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Sir 
Sydney Waterlow and Major Dickson. 


A Petition of the Vale of Clyde Tramways Vale of Clyde 
Company, for leave to bring in a Bill to amend T™™*y*. 
“ The Vale of Clyde Tramways Act, 1871,” was 

resented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to be 
somrw in accordingly, by Mr. Anderson and Mr. 
William Holms. 


A Petition of the Pegwell Bay Reclamation Pegwell Bay 
Company, for leave to bring in a Bill for extend- ®eclamation 
ing the Time limited by the Pegwell Bay Reclama- 
tion and Sandwich Haven Improvement Act, 1873, 
for the purchase of Land and the completion of 
Works, and for other purposes, was presented, and 
read; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in ac- 
cordingly, by Major Dickson and Mr, Pemberton. 


A Petition of the Severn Bridge and Forest of Severn Bridge 
Dean Central Railway Company, for leave to bring aha eee 
in a Bill to extend the Time granted to the Severn Railway. 
Bridge and Forest of Jean Central Railway Com- 
pany, for the purchase of Lands and completion of 
their Railway, and to authorise them to make 
another short Railway, and for other purposes, was 
presented, and read ; and a Bill was ordered to be 
brought in accordingly, by Mr. Plunkett and 
Colonel Kingscote. 


A Petition of the Local Board of Health for the Smethwick 
District of the Hamlet of Smethwick, for leave to Loca! Boat. 
bring in a Bill to authorise the Smethwick Local 
Board of Health to manufacture and supply Gas 
within their District, and for other purposes, was 

resented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to be 
leuko in accordingly, by Mr. Arthur Bass and 
Mr. Charles Allsopp. 


A Petition of the Local Board for the District Padiham and 
of Padiham and Hapton, in the County of Lan- —— 
caster, for leave to bring in a Bill for empowering _ 
the Local Board for the District of Padiham and 
Hapton, in the County of Lancaster, to acquire 
the Undertaking of the Padiham Gas Light and 
Coke Company, and for improving the Water 
Supply of the said District, and for other purposes, 
was presented, and read; and a Bill was ordered 
to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. Holt and Mr. 
Starkie. 


A Petition of the Great Southern and Western Great Southem 
Railway Company, for leave to bring in a Bill for el al 
enabling é 











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Great Eastern 
Railway. 

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GoldenValley 
Railway. 

and 

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Railway. 

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Merthyr Tydfil 
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enabling the Great Southern and Western Railway 
Company to construct a new Road or Street at 
Cork, to acquire additional Lands, to raise addi- 
tional Capital, and for other purposes, was pre- 
sented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to be 
brought in accordingly, by Mr. Murphy and Mr. 
Downing. 


A Petition of the Great Eastern Railway Com- 
pany, for leave to bring in a Bill for authorising 
the Great Eastern Railway Company to make 
several Railways and other Works, and for con- 
ferring on them further Powers in relation to their 
Undertaking and the Undertakings of certain other 
Companies, and for other purposes, was presented, 
and read; and a Bill was ordered to be brought 
in accordingly, by Lord Claud Hamilton, Lord 
Eustace Cecil, and Colonel Makins. 


A Petition of the There-undersigned, for leave 
to bring in a Bill to incorporate a Company for 
making a Railway in the County of Hereford, 
from the Great Western Railway at Pontrilas to 
Dorstone, and for other purposes, was presented, 
and read; and a Bill was ordered to be brought 
in accordingly, by Sir Joseph Bailey and Mr. 
Biddulph. 


A Petition of the Imperial Gas Light and Coke 
Company, for leave to bring in a Bill to authorise 
the Imperial Gas Light and Coke Company to 
raise more Money, and amalgamate with certain of 
the Metropolitan Gas Companies, and for other 
purposes, was presented, and read ; and a Bill was 
ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. 
Cawley and Mr. Samuel Smith. 


A Petition of the Metropolitan Railway Com- 
pany, for leave to bring in a Bill to authorise an 
Extension of the Metropolitan Railway to the 
Whitechapel Road and Railwaysfrom the Hammer- 
smith and City Railway to Walham Green and 
Fulham; and to confer upon the Metropolitan 
Railway Company various Powers in connection 
with their Share and Loan Capital and the Under- 
takings of the Metropolitan and Saint John’s 
Wood and other Railway Companies, and for other 
purposes, was presented, and read; and a Bill 
was ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Sir 
Edward Watkin and Mr. Benjamin Whitworth. 


A Petition of the There-urdersigned, for leave 
to bring in a Bill to incorporate a Company for 
making Railways from the Rhondda Valley and 
Hirwain Junction Railway to join the Brecon and 
Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway at Cefn Coed, 
and for other purposes, was presented, and read ; 
and a Bill was ordered to be brought in accord- 
ingly, by Mr. Kinnaird and Mr. Leeman. 


A Petition of the Mid Hants Railway Company, 
for leave to bring in a Bill to make provision for 
the Settlement and discharge of the Debts of the 
Mid Hants Railway Company, and to confer 
Powers upon that Company and other Companies 
and persons using their Railway over certain 
parts of the London and South Western Railway, 
and for other purposes, was presented, and read ; 
and a Bill was ordered to be brought in accord- 
ingly, by Mr. John Maitland and Mr. Mont- 
gomerie. 


A Petition of the Mid Wales Railway Company, 
for leave to bring in a Bill for the Abandonment 
of the Railway authorised to be made by the Mid 
Wales Railway (Western Extensions) Act, 1865, 
was presented, and read; and a Bill was ordered 
to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. Kinnaird and 
Mr. Leeman, 

Vou. 131. 


11th February. 








27 


A Petition of the North Staffordshire Railway 
Company and the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin- 
colnshire Railway Company, for leave to bring in 
a Bill to authorise the Amalgamation of the North 
Staffordshire Railway with the Manchester, Shef- 
field, and Lincolnshire Railway Company, was pre- 
sented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to be 
brought in accordingly, by Mr. Colin Campbell, 
Mr. Mills, and Mr. Salt. 


A Petition of the North British Railway Com- 
pany, for leave to bring in a Bill to authorise the 
North British Railway Company to make certam 
Railways and Works in Fifeshire, and to provide 
for the vesting of one of such Railways in the 
Forth Bridge Railway Company, with working 
Powers to the North British Railway Company ; to 
extend the Time for the purchase of Land, and for 
completing the Forth Bridge Railways, and other- 
wise to provide for the construction of certain 
portions of the Forth Bridge Undertaking; to 
reduce the Capital and Borrowing Powers of the 
Dunfermline and Queensferry Railway Company, 
and for other purposes, was presented, and read ; 
and a Bill was ordered to be brought in accord- 
ingly, by Sir Graham Montgomery and Mr. Adam. 


A Petition of the North British Railway Com- 
pany, for leave to bring in a Bill to authorise the 
North British Railway Company to make a Railway 
to connect their Edinburgh and Glasyow Line, and 
Glasgow, Dumbarton, and Helensburgh Branch, also 
a Sea Wall at Burntisland, and other Works in the 
Counties of Edinburgh and Lanark; to acquire 
additional Lands; to stop up certain Streets in 
Glasgow ; to abandon parts of the Undertaking 
authorised by “‘ The Worth British Railway Act, 
1873 ;” to extend the Time for purchase of Land 
and completing other Railways ; ard for the Sale of 
superfluous Lands; to sanction the purchase by the 
Company of the Silloth Gas Works, and provide 
for the Supply of Gas therefrom; to confirm an 
Agreement between the Leith Harbour and Dock 
Commissioners and the Company ; to amalgamate 
with the Company the Peebles, Penicuich, and 
Berwickshire Railway Companies ; to authorise 
the Company to subscribe to the Edinburgh, Loan- 
head, and Roslin Railway Company; to confer 
various Powers upon the Company with respect 
to their Capital and Borrowing Powers, and for 
other purposes, was presented, and read; and a 
Bill was ordered to be brought in accordingly, by 
Sir Graham Montgomery and Mr. Adam. 


A Petition of the There-undersigned, for leave 
to bring in a Bill for making a Railway from 
Halesworth to Southwold, with Branches there- 
from, all in the County of Suffolk, was pre- 


North 
Staffordshire 
Railway. . 


North British 
Railway (Fife 
Railways.) 


North British 
Railway (Addi« 
tional Works, 
&amp;c.) 


Southwold 
Railway. 


sented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to be. 


brought in accordingly, by Mr. Kinnaird and Mr. 
Plunkett. 


A Petition of the Wakefield Waterworks Com- 
pany, for leave to bring in a Bill to authorise the 
Wakefield Waterworks Company to make a new 
Pumping Station and other Works, and to raise 
more Money, also to extend their Limits of 
Supply, and for other purposes, was presented, 
and read; and a Bill was ordered to be brought 
in accordingly, by Mr. Sanderson and Mr. Wheel- 
house. 

’ 

A Petition of the West Kent Main Sewerage 
Board, for leave to bring in a Bill for authorising 
a Deviation of the Line of a Sewer to be con- 
structed in pursuance of “ The West Kent Main 
Sewerage Act, 1875,” and for amending that Act, 
and for other purposes, was presented, and read ; 
and a Bill was ordered to be brought in accord- 





ingly, by Sir Charles Mills and Mr. John Talbot. 


E2 A. Petition 


Wakefield 
Waier. 


West Kent 
Main 
jewerage. 





Stockton and 
Middlesbrough 


Corporations 
Water. 


Cleator and 
Workington 
Junction 
Railway. 


Penarth, Sully, 
and Cadoxton 
Railway. 


Rosstrevor 
Improvement. 


Preston 
Tramways. 


Mersey 
Railway. 


Private Bills. 


2% 


A Petition of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Bur- 
gesses of the Boroughs of Stockton-on-Tees and 
Middlesbrough, in the North Riding of the County 
of York, for leave to bring in a Bill for supplying 
with Water the Boroughs of Stockton-on-Tees and 
Middlesbrough, &amp;c., was presented, and read ; and 
referred to the Select Committee on Standing Or- 
ders. 


A Petition of Subscribers to or Promoters of 
the Undertaking thereinafter mentioned, for leave 
to bring in a Bill to authorise the Construction 
of Railways in Cumberland, to be called ‘* The 
Cleator and Workington Junction Railway,” was 
presented, and read: and referred to the Select 
Committee on Standing Orders. 


A Petition of Persons whose Names are there- 
unto subscribed, for leave to bring in a Bill 
to incorporate a Company for the Construction 
of the Penarth, Sully, and Cadoxton Railway, 
and for other purposes, was presented, and read ; 
and referred to the Select Committee on Standing 
Orders. 


A Petition of the There-undersigned, for leave 
to bring in a Bill to authorise the Construction of 
a Pier, Carriage Road, or Promenade, Tramway, 
and Waterworks, at or near Rosstrevor, in the 
County of Down, was presented, and read; and 
referred to the Select Committee on Standing 
Orders. 


A Petition of Promoters of the Preston Tram- 
ways Bill, for leave to bring in a Bill to incor- 
porate the Preston Tramways Company, and to 
authorise the Construction of Tramways in the 
Borough of Preston, and the adjacent Township 
of Fulwood, both in the County of Lancaster, and 
for other purposes, was presented, and read; and 
referred to the Select Committee on Standing Or- 
ders. 


A Petition of the Mersey Railway Company, for 
leave to bring in a Bill to authorise the Mersey 
Railway Company to make a Branch Railway in 
Liverpool, and for other purposes, was presented, 
and read; and referred to the Select Committee 
on Standing Orders. 


Mr. Raikes reported, That, in accordance with 
Standing Order 88, it had been determined, with 
the concurrence of the Chairman of Committees 
of the House of Lords, that the Private Bills con- 
tained in the following List should originate in 
that House of Parliament: viz :— 

. Allan Glen’s Institution, Glasgow. 
. Anglesey Central Railway. 


11th February. 


1876. 


. Edinburgh Improvement. 
. Ennis and West Clare Railway. 
. Erwood Bridge. 
. Flookersbrook Improvement. 
. Forth South Foreshore Reclamation. 
. Galashiels Municipal Extension Police and 
Water. : 
. Great Northern London Cemetery. 
. Great North of Scotland Railway. 
. Greencastle and Kilkeel Railway and Pier. 
. Hall’s Patent. 
. Ivel Navigation. 
. Leigh and Hindley Local Boards. 
. Letterkenny Railway. 
. Leven Harbour. 
. Lincoln City Commons, 
. Llandudno  Aeveneenraenent 
. Llandudno Water and Gas. 
. Maidenhead District Gas. 
. Methodist Conference. 
- Midland Counties and Shannon Junction 
Railway. 
. Milner’s Patent. 
. National Assurance Company of Ireland. 
. Newcastle-upon- Tyne Quayside Lift. 
. Newport (Isle of Wight) Borough. 
. New Shoreham Harbour. 
. Norfolk Estuary. 
. North Dublin Street Tramways. 
. Northern Union Railways of Ireland. 
. Peterhead Harbour. 
. Rochester Bridge. 
. Ryde New Pier and Railway. 
. Ryde Pier. 
. Saint Werburgh’s Church, Bristol. 
» Scarborough Harbour. 
. Scottish Equitable Life Assurance Society. 
. Sheerness Pier Improvement. 
. Sitllar’s and Wigner’s Patent. 
. Smith’s Patent. 
. Southern Railway. 
. South Wales Atlantic Steamship 
. Southwark and Vauxhall Water. 
. Sutton Gas. 
. Sutton Pool Harbour. 
. Swansea Harbour. 
. Temple and Warleggan Railway. 
. Truro and Newlyn Railway. 
. Wakefield Commons Inclosure. 
. Waterford and Limerick Railway. 
. Waterford and Wexford Railway. 
. Waterford, New Ross, and Wexford Junc- 
tion Railway. 
71. Western Bank of Scotland. 
72. West Ham Local Board. 
73. Willesden Local Board. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Company. 


. Assam Company. 

. Ballymena and Larne Railway. 

Belfast and County Down Railway. 

. Belfast, Holywood, and Bangor Railway. 
. Blackrod Gas. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and public 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions. 
Vide First 

Report. 


. Blachrod Local Board. 
. Bodmin and Wadebridge and Delabole Rail- 
way. 
‘ Bousfeli’s Patent. 
. Braceborough Water. 
. Bridgewater Water. 
. Brighton Pavilion. 
. Camelford, Altarnun, and Launceston Rail- 
way. 
. Cornwall Minerai and Bodmin and Wade- 
bridge Junction Railway. 
3. Cornwall Minerals and Lostwithiel and Fowey 
Railways. 
. Dublin Port and Docks Board. 
. Dublin, South, City Markets. 
. East Cornwall Mineral Railway. 
. Edinburgh and District Water. 


CONTA P WN 





Ordered, That there be laid before this House, suez Canal 
a Return showing the Number of English Ships of Tonnage Dues. 


War and Transports which have paid Tonnage 
Dues on going and returning through the Suez 
Canal during the year 1875; specifying the Date, 
Name, Tonnage Dues per Ton, Total Amount 
paid, and Number of Troops conveyed on each 
occasion. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Navy (Retire- 
a Return showing the Number of Naval Officers ment of 


of all Ranks who have been Retired subsequent 
to the Order in Council of February 1870; speci- 
fying their Names, Age at time of Retirement, 
Rank, Amount of Service in Highest Rank, and 
whether Retired on Old Scheme of Retirement or 
in accordance with the Terms of the Order in 
Council dated the 7th day of February 1870. 
Ordered, 


cers.) 








1e8. 





89 Vicroria. 


Poor Law Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Returns for the year 1875, of the Names of Poor 
Mellon! Law Unions in Jreland which have agreed to 


School become “Contributory Unions” under “ The 

Teachers.) § National School Teachers (Jre/and) Act, 1875,” 
with the Annual Valuation of each, and the Total 
of the whole: ——Of the Unions that have refused 
to become Contributory, with the Annual Valua- 
tion of each, and the Total of the whole; and, in 
case of a Division on the question, of the Num- 
bers of Guardians who voted on each Side: 
Of the Resolutions agreed to by Boards of 
Guardians of such Unions expressing any Opinion 
beyond such Consent or Refusal : —— And, of the 
additional Rate per £ of the Valuation which 
such Contribution imposes on the Ratepayers of 
each such Contributory Union respectively. 





Answer to 


The Comptroller of the Household reported to 
Address. 


the House, That Her Majesty having been 
attended with their Address of the 9th day of 
this instant February, was pleased to receive the 
same very graciously, and to give the following 
Answer: 

I have received with much satisfaction your 
loyal and dutiful Address. 

You may rely on My hearty co-operation in all 
measures best calculated to promote the happiness 
and contentment of My People. 


Ordered, That Mr. Bryan have leave of absence 
till Easter, on account of ill health; and Sir WM. 
Welby Gregory, for three weeks, on account of 
domestic affliction. 


Leave of 
Absence. 


The Order for reading a second time, upon 
Wednesday next, the Monastic and Conventual 
Institutions Bill, was read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday the 21st day of March next. 


Monastic and 
Conventual 
Tnstitutions 
Bill. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Irish 
Society, which was presented upon the 13th day 
of August in the last Session of Parliament, be 
printed. 


Police Forces Ordered, That the Return relative to the Police 
(England and Forces (England and Wales), which was presented 


Trish Society. 
No. 16. 


be a7, Upon the 8th day of this instant February, be 
o printed. : 

Administration Ordered, That the Return relative to the Ad- 

of Justice 


(Local ministration of Justice (Local Expenditure), which 
ee was presented upon the 8th day of this instant 


No. 1g, February, be printed. 
County Court, _ Ordered, That the Return relative to County 
Registrars Court Registrars (Fees), which was presented 
(Fess.) upon the 8th day of this instant February, be 
No. 19. printed. 
Rast India Ordered, That the Return relative to East India 
year yy (Loans raised in England), which was presented 
Ne 99, Upon the 8th day of this instant February, be 
“printed. 
East India Ordered, That the Return relative to East India 


(Loans raised (T,oans raised in India), which was presented 


— upon the 8th day of this instant February, be 
‘“" printed. 
ee Estas Ordered, That the Return relative to Customs 
nage &amp;e. Establishments, &amp;c., which was presented upon the 
0.22. 8th day of this instant February, be printed. 
Consolidated Ordered, That the Account relative to the Con- 
Fund. solidated Fund, which was presented upon the 8th 
No. 23. day of this instant February, be printed. 
AmmyPurchase Qrdered, That the Army Purchase Commission 
earepaiatien (Appropriation Account, 1874-75), which was 


Account, —s upon the 8th day of this instant Fe- 
ruary, be printed. 
VoL. 131. 


1874-75.) 
No, 24, 





11th February. 29 


Ordered, That the Greenwich Hospital and Greenwich 
School (Appropriation Account, 1874-75), which Hospital and 
was presented upon the 8th day of this instant (appro sation 
February, be printed. lane 

: 1874-75.) 

No. 25. 

Ordered, That the Account relative to the Trish trish Repro- 
Reproductive Loan Fund, which was presented ductive Loan 
upon the 8th day of this instant February, be ~~, 
printed. “= 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to Railways Railways 
Abandonment, which was presented upon the 8th Abqndeumenp, 
day of this instant February, be printed. No. 27. 


Ordered, That the Papers relative to the Super- Superannua- 
annuation Acts, 1859 and 1875, which were pre- b~ —_— ieee 
sented upon the 8th and 9th days of this instant ~ No. 98 
February, be printed. a 


Ordered, That the Account relative to the Duchy Duchy of 
of Lancaster, which was presented upon the 9th Lancaster. 
day of this instant February, be printed. No. 29. 


Mr. Secretary Cross presented, by Her Majesty’s Boston 
Command,—Copy of Report of the Royal Com- Election | 
mission appointed to inquire into the Existence of °™™" 
Corrupt Practices at Parliamentary Elections in 
the Borough of Boston, together with Minutes of 
Evidence. Vol. I. The Report. Vol. II. Minutes 
of Evidence. 

Copy of the Second Annual Report and Ap- Railway 
pendix of the Railway Commissioners. Commniecten. 
Census of Ireland, 1871. Part III. Copy of Censusof 
General Report, with Illustrative Maps and Dia- !e!n4, 1871. 

grams, Summary Tables, and Appendix. 

Copy of Report of the Commissioners of Church Irish Church 
Temporalities in Jreland, for the year 1875. Temporalities. 
~ — That the said Papers do lie upon the 

able. 


Mr. Bourke presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- Egypt (No. 
mand,—Copy of Correspondence respecting Mr. aa J 
Cave’s Special Mission to Egypt. Mission.) 
- Jie, That the said Paper do lie upon the 

able. 


Viscount Sandon presented, pursuant to the Copyright. 
directions of several Acts of Parliament,—Copy 
of an Order in Council, dated the 5th August 
1875, applying the International Copyright Act of 
1875 to France. 

Copy of an Order in Council, dated the 5th Explosives 
August 1875, under the 106th section of the Ex- 4% 187 
plosives Act, 1875, for the Classification of Ex- 
plosives. 

Copy of Ten Orders in Council, dated the 27th 
November 1875, making General Rules as to Fac- 
tories, Magazines, and Stores, &amp;c. for Explosives, 
and as to their Sale and Importation; and re- 
specting Notice to be given of Accidents connected 
with the Conveyance of Explosives other than 
Gunpowder. 

Copy of Two Orders in Council, dated the 5th Fugitive 
February 1876, for carrying into effect Two Criminals 
Treaties concluded between— eames 

i Her Majesty and the Republic of Honduras, 
and— 

2. Her Majesty and the Republic of Hayti, —_ Fugitive 
for the mutual Surrender of Criminals, (Hayti 

Copy of an Order in Council, dated 27th No- ;, we) . 
vember 1875, granting special Greenwich Hospital Hospital. 
Pensions of £.3. 8s. a year to all Warrant Officers 
and others who, while serving in the Roya] Navy 
or Marines, contributed to the Funds of that In- 
stitution for full five years previous to the Ist 
January 1830. 

Copy of an Order in Council, dated the 26th India Office. 
October 1875, approving certain alterations of 
Salaries and New Appointments in the Office of 
the Secretary of State for India in Council, under 
the 15th section of 21 &amp; 22 Vic. c. 106. 

E3 Copy 


30 


Copy of an Order in Council, dated the 26th 
October 1875, approving certain Bye-laws made 
by the Wexford Harbour Commissioners as to 
—— r pegs for me Port ‘o pen aid 

opy of an Order in Council, dated the 12t 
of — Pe 1875, making Regulations as to Solicitors’ 
Act, 1873 and Fees, &amp;c. under the Supreme Court of Judicature 
— Acts, 1873 and 1875. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Trade Marks Mr. Attorney General presented, pursuant to 
Registrations the directions of several Acts of Parliament,— 
Act, 1875. | Copy of Rules under the Trade Marks Regis- 
tration Act, 1875. 

Copy of Rules and Orders for the purpose of 
carrying the Land Transfer Act, 1875, into exe- 
cution. 

Supreme Court Copy of Rules of the Supreme Court (Costs) 
of Judicature under the Judicature Act, being the additional 
Act, 1875. Rules made by Order in Council of 12th August 
1875. 
Copy of Rules of the Supreme Court under the 
Judicature Act, December 1875. 
Copy of an Order in Council of the 5th Fe- 
bruary 1876, dealing with Circuits. 
Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave 
the Chair ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” to 
the end of the Question, in order to add the words 
“an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty, 
*‘ that She will be graciously pleased to give di- 
* rections, that there be laid before this House, 
* Copies of— 

“1, Circular Letter of Governor General in 
«“ Council to Local Governments, dated the 
“ 14th day of August and the 2nd day of 
“ November 1872, calling for Returns of 
“ Numbers of Christians in Congregations, 
“ Salaries of Ministers to same, &amp;c., and 
“‘ of Returns to the same by Local Govern- 
** ments ; 

“2. Memorandum by Lord Mayo, dated the 
* 2nd day of December 1870, on Position 
* of Roman Catholic Chaplains in India ; 

** 3, Despatch of Governor General in Coun- 
“cil to the Secretary of State, dated the 
* 21st day of December 1870; 

‘4, Minutes by Members of Council on the 
** Question of the Position of the Roman 
“ Catholic Clergy in Jndia, dated the 15th 
* and the 22nd days of June 1872; 

* 5. Despatch of Governor General in Coun- 
* cil to the Secretary of State, dated Simla, 
“ the 19th day of August 1872; 

“6, Minutes by Members of Council on same 
** Subject, dated the 16th day of December 
** 1873 and the 10th day of March 1874; 

“7, Same by same, dated the 2nd and the 
*¢ 22nd days of July 1874; 

* 8. Memorial of Most Rev. Dr. Stein’s de- 
* livered to Government of India ; 

9, Minutes by Members of Council on Dr. 
“ Stein’s Memorial, dated the 19th day of 
* October and the 9th day of November 
“ 1874; 

10. Letter and Memorandum addressed to 
“the Secretary of State by M. O'Reilly, 
“ Esq., M.P., dated the 28th day of October 
“ 1875; 
11. And, any further Correspondence on 
** same Subject between Secretary of State 
* and Government of India or Mr. O” Reilly,” 
instead thereof. 


Pilotage. 


Land Transfer 
Act, 1875. 


11th February. 





1876. 


And the Question being proposed, That the 
words proposed to be left out stand part of the 
Question :—The said proposed Amendment and 
Motion were severally, with leave of the House, 
withdrawn. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Ways and 
mittee of Ways and Means ; Means. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Council of 
into a Committee on Council of India [ Pensions]. [Pon 


Pensions. ] 
(In the Committee.) 


Resolved,:That it is expedient to authorise the 
payment, out of the Revenues of Jndia, of any 
Pension that may be granted to any Member of 
the Council of India. 

Resolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had come to a Re- 
solution. 

Ordered, That the Report be received upon 
Monday next. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill vatuation. 
to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to the 
Valuation of Property for the purposes of Rates 
and Taxes: And that Mr. Sclater-Booth, Mr. Salt, 
and Mr. William Henry Smith do prepare, and 
bring it in. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Salmon 
to amend the Law relating to Salmon Fisheries in Fisheries. 
Ergland and Wales: And that Mr. Assheton and 
Mr. Robertson do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Criminal Law 
to further amend the Law of Evidence in Crimi- Pvidente 
nal Trials, and to enable Prisoners or Defendants, = 
and their Wives or Husbands, to give Evidence 
at such Trials: And that Mr. Ashley and Mr. 


George Clive do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill United 
to amend the Act of the Seventh and Eighth years ‘feutaent) 
of Her Majesty, chapter Forty-four, relating to “° 
the Formation of Quoad Sacra Parishes in Scot- 
land: And that Mr. Dalrymple, Colonel Alexander, 
and Mr. M‘ Lagan do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Burglary and 
to enable Justices in General and Quarter Ses- F°rs*'Y: 
sions and Recorders of Boroughs to try Cases of 
Burglary and Forgery: And that Mr. Forsyth, 

Lord Francis Hervey, Mr. Locke, and Mr. Serjeant 
Simon do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Newspaper 
to provide for the Registration of Newspapers, and Resistration 
to amend the Law of Libel: And that Mr. Waddy ~ 
and Mr. Ashley do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Oyster 
for the better Protection of the Oyster Fisheries: Piste" 
And that Mr. Waddy, Mr. Muntz, Sir Charles 
Legard, and Sir Charles Russell do prepare, and 
bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be oo to bring in a Bill Epping Forest 
t 


to extend the Time for the Epping Forest Com- 
missioners to make their final ay And that 
Lord Henry Lennox and Mr. William Henry Smith 
do prepare, and bring it in. 


The Committee of Public Accounts was nomi- Public 
nated of Mr. Dodson, Sir Walter Barttelot, Lord 4¢coum 
Frederick 








Law 
nt. 


Forest. 





39 Vicroria. 


Frederick Cavendish, Mr. Cubitt, Lord Eslington 
Mr. Goldney, Mr. Thomson Hankey, Mr. O’ Reilly, 
Sir Charles Mills, Mr. Seely, and Mr. William 
Henry Smith. 


Dulwich The Orders made upon the 13th day of August 
College and = jn the last Session of Parliament, That the Schemes 
—- for Dulwich College and Camberwell Grammar 
School. School do lie upon the Table, and be printed, were 


severally read, and discharged. 
Ordered, That the Papers be withdrawn. 


Mr. Sclater-Booth presented a Bill to consoli- 
date and amend the Laws relating to the Valua- 
tion of Property for the purposes of Rates and 
Taxes: And the same was read the first time; and 
ordered to be read a second time upon Monday 
the 28th day of this instant February; and to be 
printed. 


Valuation Bill. 
Bill 59. 


_ Mr. Assheton presented a Bill to amend the Law 
Fisheries Bill. relating to Salmon Fisheries in England and 
Bill60. Wales: And the same was read the first time; 
and ordered to be read a second time upon Friday 

the 10th day of March next; and to be printed. 


Mr. Ashley presented a Bill to further amend 


wide! ” the Law of Evidence in Criminal Trials, and to 


Evidence 


Amendment enable Prisoners or Defendants, and their Wives 
Pil. or Husbands, to give Evidence at such Trials: 
Bill 61. And the same was read the first time ; and ordered 
to be read a second time upon Tuesday the 14th 
day of March next; and to be printed. 
United Mr. Dalrymple presented a Bill to amend the 
Parishes Act of the Seventh and Eighth years of Her Ma- 
— jesty, chapter Forty-four, relating to the Forma- 
3311 ..  tionof Quoad Sacra Parishes in Scotland; And 
Bill 62. the same was read the first time; and ordered to 
be read a second time upon Monday the 21st day 
of this instant February ; and to be printed. 
Burglary and Mr. Forsyth presented a Bill to enable Justices 
Forgery Bill. in General and Quarter Sessions and Recorders of 
Bill 63, Boroughs to try Cases of Burglary and Forgery: 
And the same was read the first time; and ordered 
to be read a second time upon Wednesday the 22nd 
day of March next; and to be printed. 
sar mo Mr. Waddy presented a Bill to provide for the 
a Registration of Newspapers, and to amend the Law 
Biles, of Libel: And the same was read the first time ; and 
ordered to be read a second time upon Tuesday 
next; and to be printed. 
Oyster Mr. Waddy presented a Bill for the better Pro- 
Fisheries Bill. tection of the Oyster Fisheries: And the same 
Bill 65. was read the first time; and ordered to be read 
a second time upon Tuesday next; and to be 
printed. 
Epping Forests Mr. William Henry Smith presented a Bill to 
. Bill gg, °x*entl the Time for the Epping Forest Commis- 


sioners to make their final Report: And the same 
was read the first time. 

Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills; and be 
printed. 


The Order for reading a second time, upon 
Wednesday the 31st day of May next, the Ancient 
Monuments Bill, was read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday the 13th day of June next. 


And then the House adjourned till Monday next. 


Ancient Monu- 
ments Bill, 


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1izh—14th February. 31 


Monday, 14th February, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 


Fig TITION of the Felixstowe Railway Felixstowe 
and Pier Company, for leave to bring in a Railway and 
Bill to authorise the Felixstowe Railway and Pier P'** 
Company to construct a Tidal Basin or Dock and 

other Works at Felixstowe, in the County of Suffolk, 

and for other purposes, was presented, and read ; 

and a Bill was ordered to be brought in ac- 
cordingly, by Mr. George Bentinck, Mr. Chapman, 

and Mr, Sandford. 


A Petition of the There-undersigned, for leave Bundoran and 
to bring in a Bill for making Railways in the Sligo Railway. 
Counties of Donegal, Leitrim, and Sligo, to be 
called “‘ The Enniskillen and Bundoran Extension 
and Branch Railways,” and for other purposes, 
was presented, and read; and a Bill was ordered 
to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. Conolly and 
Mr. Maurice Brooks. 


A Petition of Benjamin Hopkins, of Uppingham, Uppingham 
in the County of Rutland, Gentleman, and William Water. 
Garner Hart, of the same Place, Grocer, for leave 
to bring in a Bill for better supplying with Water 
the Parish of Uppingham, in the County of Rut- 
land, and for other purposes, was presented, and 
read; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in 
accordingly, by Mr. Finch and Mr. Storer. 


A Petition of the Sutton Bridge Dock Com- Sutton Bridge 
pany, for leave to bring in a Bill for conferring Dock 
further Powers on the Sutton Bridge Dock Com- 
pany for the Construction of Works, the raising 
of Money, and otherwise in relation to their 
Undertaking, and for other purposes, was pre- 
sented, aud read; and a Bill was ordered to be 
brought in accordingly, by Mr. Turnor and Mr. 

Tennant. 


A Petition of the British Gas Light Company, British Gas 
Limited, for leave to bring in a Bill for empower- Light Compan 
ing the British Gas Light Company, Limited, to (Hu!! Station. 
enlarge their Works, to extend their Limits, and 
to expend further Capital at Kingston-upon-Hull, 
and for other purposes, was presented, and read ; 
and a Bill was ordered to be brought in accordingly, 
by Mr. Norwood and Mr. Twells. 


A Petition of the City of Dublin City Steam Dublin (city) 
Packet Company, for leave to bring in a Bill to au- Steam Packet 
thorise the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company ©°™P®Y- 
to make further arrangements for the investment of 
their Reserve Fund, and for other purposes, was 
presented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to 
be brought in accordingly, by Sir Arthur Guinness, 

Mr. Maurice Brooks, and Mr. Gibson. 


A Petition of the Burnham Tidal Harbour Com- gurnham Tidal 
pany, for leave to bring in a Bill for reviving and Harbour, 
extending the Powers of the Burnham Tida) Har- 
bour Company, for the construction of Works, 
the acquisition of Lands, and otherwise in relation 
to their Undertaking, and for other purposes, was 
presented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to 
be brought in accordingly, by Mr. Lopes and Mr. 

Ashley. 


“A Petition of Sir Edmund Henry Knowles Great 
Lacon, Baronet, M.Pp., Henry Edmund Buzion, — 
Charles Cory Aldred, Edward Pitt Youell, and (right) 
John Clowes, for leave to bring in a Bill for making Railway. 
a Light Railway from Great Yarmouth, in the 
County of Norfolk, to Stalham, in the same 
County, and for other purposes, was presented, 
and read; and a Bill was ordered to be brought 
in accordingly, by Mr. Fellowes and Mr. Frederick 
Walpole. 

E4 A Petition 











32 


A Petition of the Tunbridge Wells Gas Com- 
pany, for leave to bring ina Bill to authorise the 


Tunbridge Wells Gas Company to acquire a new 
Site for the erection of Gas Works, and to confer 
further Powers upon that Company, and for other 
purposes, was presented, and read; and a Bill 
was ordered to be brought in accordingly, by 


Viscount Holmesdale and Sir William Dyke. 


A Petition of Joseph Robinson, of Lawrence 
Pountney Hill, in the City of Loudon, Gentleman, 
and William Carter, of Shooter’s Hill, in the 
County of Kent, Gentleman, for leave to bring in 
a Bill for conferring further Powers upon the 
Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury 
in respect of certain Bonds given for securing the 
completion of the Railways authorised by the 
Northampton and Banbury Railway (Branch) Act, 
1865, and the Northampton and Banbury Railway 
(Extensions) Act, 1865, was presented, and read ; 
and a Bill was ordered to be brought in accord- 
ingly, by Major Dickson and Sir Henry Jackson. 


Northampton 
and Banbury 
Junction Rail- 
way Company 
and their 
Sureties. 


A Petition of Suitors for a Bill for effecting the 
objects thereinafter mentioned, for leave to bring 
in a Bill for incorporating the North East Wor- 
cestershire Waterworks Company, and for other 
purposes, was presented, and read; and a Bill was 
ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. 
Kinnaird and Mr. Fortescue Harrison. 


North East 
Worcestershire 
Water. 


A Petition of the Mayor, Jurats, Bailiffs, and 
Burgesses of the Borough of Quinborowe, in the 
County of Kent, for leave to bring in a Bill to en- 
able the Corporation of Queenborough to lay down 
or erect Buoys and Lights; to place Moorings, to 
regulate the Use and Navigation of West Swale ; 
to regulate Tolls, Dues, and Duties; to borrow 
Money, and for other purposes, was presented, and 
read; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in ac- 
cordingly, by Mr. Pemberton and Sir Wyndham 
Knatchbull. 


A Petition of the Sluithwaite Gas Light Com- 
pany (Limited), for leave to bring in a Bill for 
dissolving and re-incorporating the Slaithwaite 
Gas Light Company (Limited), and granting 
Powers for supplying with Gas the Township of 
Slaithwaite, and certain neighbouring Townships 
and Places in the West Riding of the County of 
York, was presented, and read; and a Bill was 
ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. 
Walter Stanhope and Mr. Lewis Starkey. 


Queenborough 
Harbour. 


Slaithwaite 
Gas. 


A Petition of the several Persons whose Names 
are thereunto subscribed, and Subscribers to and 
Promoters of the Undertaking thereinafter men- 
tioned, for leave to bring in a Bill for authorising 
the completion of a Railway from the London, 
Brighton, and South Coast Railway at Chichester 
to their Mid-Sussex and Midhurst Junction Rail- 
way at Midhurst, was presented, and read; anda 
Bill was ordered to be brought in accordingly, by 
Sir Henry Holland, Mr. Laing, and Mr. Lopes. 


Chichester and 
Midhurst 
Railway. 


A Petition of the Corporation of the Hall of 
Arts and Sciences, for leave to bring in a Bill to 
make better Provision for the Maintenance of the 
Royal Albert Hall, was presented, and read; and 
« Bill was ordered to be brought in accordingly, 
by Mr. Colin Campbell and Mr. Sherriff. 


A Petition of the There-undersigned, for leave 
to bring in a Bill for making Railways in the 
Counties of Essex and Kent; to connect the Zon- 
don, Tilbury, and Southend Railway with the 
South Eastern and London, Chatham, and Dover 
Railways, and for other purposes, was presented, 
and read; and a Bill was ordered to be brought 
in accordingly, by Sir Charles Mills and Mr. John 
Talbot. 


Royal Albert 
Hall. 


London and 
Tilbury, 
Dartford, and 
Kent Coast 
Junction 
Railway. 


14th February. 











1876. 


A Petition of Suitors for a Bill for effecting the 
objects thereinafter mentioned, for leave to bring W 
in a Bill for incorporating the South Hants Water- 
works Company, and for other purposes, was pre- 
sented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to be 


brought in accordingly, by Mr. Cowper-Temple 
and Mr. Herschel. 


A Petition of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Bur- Stoke-upon- 
gesses of Stohe-upon-Trent, in the County of _— 4 
Stafford, for leave to bring in a Bill to authorise "?"*"™ 
the Sale of the Markets in Stoke-upon-Trent to 
the Corporation of Stoke-upon- Trent, and for other 
purposes, was presented, and read: and a Bill was 
ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. 


Colin Campbell and Mr. Heath. 


A Petition of the Isle of Thanet Gas Light and Thanet Gas, 
Coke Company, for leave to bring ina Bill to 
confer further Powers upon the Isle of Thanet 
Gas Light and Coke Company, and for other pur- 
poses, was presented, and read; and a Bill was 
ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Sir 
Wyndham Knatchbull and Mr. Pemberton. 


A Petition of the Bromley Direct Railway Com- Bromley 
pany, for leave to bring in a Bill to extend the Direct 
Time limited by “The Bromley Direct Railway ®*!”*v- 
Act, 1874”; for the completion of the Railway 
and Works connected therewith, was presented, 
and read; and a Bill was ordered to be brought 
in accordingly, by Mr. Knatchbuli-Hugessen and 
Mr. Fielden. 


A Petition of the Company of Proprietors of Ramsgate 
the Ramsgate Waterworks, for leave to bring in a Water. 
Bill to confer further Powers upon the Company 
of Proprietors of the Ramsgate Waterworks, and 
for other purposes, was presented, and read; and 
a Bill was ordered to be brought in accordingly, 
by Sir Wyndham Kuatchbull and Mr. Pemberton. 


A Petition of the York New Waterworks Com- York New 
pany, for leave to bring in a Bill for empowering Water. 
the York New Waterworks Company to construct 
additional Works; to raise additional Capital, and 
for other purposes, was presented, and read; and 
a Bill was ordered to be brought in accordingly, 
by Mr. Leeman and Mr. James Lowther. 


A Petition of the Dudley and Oldbury Junction Dudley and 
Railway Company, for leave to bring in a Bill to a 
authorise the Dudley and Oldbury Junction Rail- “°° °"""™ 
way Company to construct a new or Deviation 
Railway, and for other purposes, was presented, 
and read ; and a Bill was ordered to be brought 
in accordingly, by Mr. Henry Allsopp and Mr. 

Sampson Lloyd. 


A Petition of the Dudley and Oldbury Junction pudley and 
Railway Company, for leave to bring in a Bill for Oldbury Junc- 
the Abandonment of the Railways authorised by pp om og 
** The Dudley and Oldbury Junction Railway Act, ment.) 
1873,” and for other purposes, was presented, and 
read; anda Bill was ordered to be brought in 
accordingly, by Mr. Henry Allsopp and Mr. Samp- 
son Lloyd. 


A Petition of the Company of Proprietors of Wilts and 
the Wilts and Berks Canal Navigation, and of the Berks Canal. 
Wilts and Berks Canal Company, Limited, for 
leave to bring in a Bill for incorporating the Wilts 
and Berks Canal Company ; for the Transfer to 
them of the Undertaking of the Wilts and Berks 
Canal Navigation; for authorising the closing of 
the Longcot Branch of that Navigation, and the 
sale of the Site thereof, and for other purposes, 
was presented, and read; and a Bill was ordered 
to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. Matheson and 
Mr. Robertson. 

A Petition 








39 Vicrortia. 


A Petition of Suitors for the Bill thereinafter 


dra - p ° ° 
= named, for leave to bring in a Bill for making 
Railway. Railways from the Tottenham and Hampstead 


Junction Railway to the Alexandra Palace, to be 
called the Alexandra Palace Railway, and for 
other purposes, was presented, and read; and a 
Bill was ordered to be brought in accordingly, by 
Sir John Lubbock and Mr. Pender. 


Gorsedda A Petition of the Gorsedda Junction and Port- 

Junction and madoc Railways Company, for leave to bring in a 

Portmadoc Bill to enable the Gursedda Junction and Portma- 

aia doc Railways Company to maintain two existing 
diverted portions of Railway in the Parishes of 
Ynyscynhaiarn and Llanfihangel y Pennant, in the 
County of Carnarvon, and to make a Siding in the 
said Parish of Ynyscynhaiarn, and to raise further 
Capital, and for other purposes, was presented, 
and read; and a Bill was ordered to be brought 
in accordingly, by Mr. O'Byrne and Captain 
Stacpoole. 


Redcar and A Petition of the Redcar Gas Company, Li- 

Coatham Gas. mited, for leave to bring in a Bill for dissolving 
and re-incorporating the Redcar Gas Company, 
Limited, and granting Powers for supplying with 
Gas the Town of Redcar and certain neighbour- 
ing Townships and Places in the North Riding of 
the County of York, and for other purposes, was 
presented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to 
be brought in accordingly, by Mr. Milbank, Mr. 
Bolehow, and Mr. Dodds. 


Colne Valley 
Gas. 


A Petition of the Colne Valley Gas Company 
Limited, for leave to bring in a Bill for dissolving 
and re-incorporating the Colne Valley Gas Com- 
pany, Limited, and granting them Powers for sup- 
plying with Gas the Township of Longwood and 
certain Neighbouring Places in the West Riding 
of the County of York, and for other purposes, 
was presented, and read; and a Bill was ordered 
to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. Walter Stan- 
hope and Mr. Lewis Starkey. 


Sittingbourne 
and Maidstone 
Railway. 


A Petition of Persons whose Names are 
thereunto subscribed, being respectively Sub- 
scribers to and Promoters of the Undertaking, for 
leave to bring in a Bill to authorise the con- 
struction of a Railway from Sittingbourne to 
# Muidstone, in the County of Kent, and for other 
Ye purposes, was presented, and read; and a Bill was 
ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. 
Pemberton and Sir Wyndham Knatchbull. 


A Petition of Persons whose Names are there- 
unto subscribed, being respectively holders of 
Ordinary Shares of the Sittingbourne and Sheerness 
Railway Company, for leave to bring in a Bill to pro- 
vide for the Winding-up of the Affairs of the Sit- 
“¢ tingbourne and Sheerness Railway Company ; the 
realization of their Assets; the Payment of their 
remaining Debts and the Distribution of any Sur- 
plus of Assets; the Dissolution of the Company, 
and for other purposes, was presented, and read; 
and a Bill was colonel to be brought in accord- 
ir Wyndham 


Sittingbourne 
and Sheerness 
Railway. 


y 


ingly, by Mr. Pemberton and 
Knatchbull. 


North and A Petition of Suitors for a Bill for effecting 
wan Gaver the objects thereinafter mentioned, for leave to 


Junction bring in a Bill to authorise the construction of a 

Railway, Railway for connecting with each other the Rail- 
ways North and South of the River Thames (with 
a Tunnel for carrying the Railway under that 
River near Gravesend), and for other purposes, 
was presented, and read; and referred to the Se- 
lect Committee on Standing Orders. 

Pew and The Order, That Mr. Joseph Cowen, Mr. 

Weter Bill Hamond, and Mr. James do prepare, and bring in 


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33 


the Newcastle and Gateshead Water Bill, was read, 
and discharged. 

Ordered, That Mr. Joseph Cowen and 
Hamond do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. 


A Bill for making the Limits of the Municipal Brighton 
“ys, - of Brighton co-extensive with the Limits ——. , 
of the Parliamentary Borough, and for purposes yfunicioal « 
le to 
incidental thereto, was read the first time; and Parliaonten 
ordered to be read a second time. Limite Bill. 


A Bill to authorise the Bristol United Gas Bristol United 
Light Company to purchase additional Lands, and s Bill. 
erect Works for the Manufacture and Storage of 
Gas and residual Products thereon, and to construct 
two Bridges across Avon Street; Amendment of 
Acts, was read the first time; and ordered to be 
rend a second time. 


A Bill for enabling the Metropolitan Board of Metropolitan 
Works to make a new Street from Sun Street to sa 
Worship Street; to undertake certain Duties in ” ‘ 
connection with the Chelsea Embankment; to free 
Deptford Creek Bridge from Toll, and for other 
purposes, was read the first time ; and ordered to 


be read a second time. 


A Bill to enable the Mayor, Aldermen, and Huddersfield 
Burgesses of the Borough of Huddersfield to Water and 
abandon the enlargement of Wessenden Reservoir, pup 
and to construct a new Reservoir in lieu thereof ; 
to make new Streets and Street Improvements, 
and to acquire Markets and Fairs; to extend the 
Limits of Gas and Water Supply, and to make 
further provision for the Improvement and 
Government of the Borough, and for other pur- 
poses, was read the first time ; and ordered to be 
read a second time. 


A Bill to authorise the Construction of a Rail- Burry Port 
way from the Burry Port and Gwendreath Valley 2x4 North 
Railway to the Line of the Central Wales and jc" 
Carmarthen Junction Railway Company, and for Railway Bill. 
other purposes, was read the first time; and or- 
dered to be read a second time. 


A Bill to authorise the Construction of Railways Lynn and 
between King’s Lynn and Fakenham, in the County a seg 
J F way Bill. 
of Norfolk, and for other purposes connected with 
the said Undertaking, was read the first time; and 
ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill to enable the Mayor, Aldermen, and Leicester 
Burgesses of the Borough of Leicester to purchase Improvement 
the Undertaking of the Leicester Waterworks ~~ 
Company ; to construct additional Works for the 
prevention of Floods in the Borough, and for other 
purposes, was read the first time; and ordered to 
be read a second time. 


A Bill to confirm the holding of certain Lands perby Gas 
by the Derby Gas Light and Coke Company ; to Bill. 
enable that Company to raise additional Capital, 
and for other purposes, was read the first time ; 
and referred to the Examiners of Petitions for 
Private Bills. 


A Bill to amalgamate the Undertakings of the Great Western 
Great Western, and Bristol and Exeter Railway an4 Bristol 
Companies, and for other purposes, was read the Railwey Cone 
first time ; and referred to the Examiners of panies Bill. 


Petitions for Private Bills, 


A Bill to authorise the Ely, Haddenham, and Ely, Hadden- 
Sutton Railway Company to extend their autho- hs, . 
rised Railway to the Saint Ives and March Rail- gy 
way of the Great Eastern Railway, to change their 
Name, and for other purposes, was read the first 
time ; and referred to the Examiners of Petitions 
for Private Bills. 

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54 


A Bill to authorise the Folkestone Gas and Coke 
Company to acquire further Lands, to extend 
their Works, to raise additional Capital, and for 
other purposes, was read the first time; and re- 
ferred to the Examiners of Petitions for Private 
Bills. 


A Bill to enable the Newcastle and Gateshead 
Waterworks Company to construct additional 
Works and raise additional Capital, and for other 
purposes, was read the first time; and referred to 
the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


Newcastle and 
Gateshead 
Water Bill. 


A Bill to authorise the Scotswood, Newburn, and 
Wylam Railway and Dock Company to abandon 
the construction of the Dock and Branch Railway 
near Scotswood Bridge, in the County of North- 
umberland, to change their Name, and for other 
purposes, was read the first time; and referred to 
the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


Scotswood, 
Newburn, and 
Wylam 
Railway and 
Dock Bill. 


A Bill to enable the Shepton Mallet Waterworks 
Company to construct additional Works and to 
raise further Capital, and for other purposes, was 
read the first time; and referred to the Examiners 
of Petitions for Private Bills, 


Shepton Mallet 
Water Bill. 


Spennymoor 
and Tudhoe 
Gas Bill. 


A Bill for incorporating and conferring Powers 
on the Spennymoor and Tudhoe Gas Company, 
was read the first time ; and ordered to be read a 
second time. 


West Riding A Bill to authorise the construction of Railways 

and Lancashire in Yorkshire and Lancashire, to be called “ The 

Railways Bill. West Riding and Lancashire Railways,” was read 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 


A Bill to empower the Colney Hatch Gas Com- 
pany to raise additional Capital, and for other 
purposes, was read the first time; and referred to 
the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


Colney Hatch 
Gas Bill. 


A Bill for granting further Powers to the Gas 
Light and Coke Company, and for other purposes, 
was read the first time; and referred to the Exa- 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


Gas Light and 
Coke Company 
Bill. 


A Bill for the abandonment of the L/anfyliin 
and Liangynog Railway, was read the first time ; 
and referred to the. Examiners of Petitions for 
Private Bills. 


Llanfyllin and 
Liang ynog 
Railway Bill. 


Manchester A Bill to extend the Time limited for the com- 
— ee ulsory Purchase of Lands, and Completion of the 
aie Railways for so much of the Railways authorised 
by * The Manchester South District Railway Act, 
1873,” as was not abandoned by “ The Manchester 
South District Railway Act, 1874,” was read the 
first time ; and referred to the Examiners of Pe- 
titions for Private Bills. 
Manchester, A Bill for authorising the Manchester, Sheffield, 
“yer and and Lincolnshire Railway Company to make new 
incolnshire ° ° 
Railway Bill. Branch Railways and other Works; for conferring 
upon them additional Powers, and for other pur- 
poses, was read the first time ; and referred to the 
xaminers of Petitions for Private Bills. 


Merionethshire A Bill to extend the Time for the Completion 

Railway Bill. of the Merionethshire Railway, was read the first 
time ; and referred to the Examiners of Petitions 
for Private Bills. 


Stafford A Bill for extending the Boundaries of the 
Borough Borough of Stafford, in the County of Stafford ; 
Extension Bill. and for empowering the Mayor, Aldermen, and 
Burgesses of the te h to construct Water- 
works, and to acquire the Undertaking of the 
Stafford Gas Company ; and to provide a Park 


14th February. 





1876. 


and to execute other Improvements, and for other 
urposes, was read the first time ; and ordered to 
e read a second time. 


A Bill for creating a Commission for lighting, Upper Mersey 
buoying, and otherwise improving the Upper Navigation 
Mersey ; for authorising that Commission to levy 
and receive certain Tolls and Dues, and for other 
purposes, was read the first time; and referred to 
the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Bill to authorise the Construction of a Rail- westernam 
way from Dunton Green, in the County of Kent, Valley 
to Oxted, in the County of Surrey, and for other ®+ilway Bill. 
purposes connected with the said Railway, was 
read the first time ; and ordered to be read a se- 
cond time. 


A Bill for better supplying with Water Little- rittichampton 
hampton and other Places, all in the County of Water Bill. 
Sussex, and for other purposes, was read the first 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill to extend the Time for the Completion Upper Inny 
of the Works authorised by “ The Drainage and Drainage Bill 
Improvement of Lands Supplemental Act (Jre- 
lund) 1868,” was read the first time ; and ordered 
to be read a second time. 


A Bill for extending the Boundary of the Bo- Romsey 
rough of Romsey, in the County of Southampton, nen and 
and for other purposes, was read the first time; pp °"™ 


ill. 
and ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill to extend the Boundary of the Borough Southport 
of Southport, in the County of Lancaster, so as to Improvement 
include the Township of Birkdale; to enable the _ 
Mayor, Aldermen, aud Burgesses of the Borough 
to construct new Streets and other Works; to 
construct new Promenades ; to purchase the Un- 
dertaking of the Southport. Tramways Company, 
Limited ; to make further Provisions for the Im- 
provement of the Borough, and for other pur- 
poses, was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time. 


A Bill to authorise the Whitehaven, Cleator, whitchaven, 
and Egremont Railway Company to make new Cleator, and 
Railways in the County of Cumberland; to raise — 
further Capital, and for other purposes, was read 
the first time; and referred to the Examiners of 
Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Bill to extend and amend “ The Humber Humber Con- 
Conservancy Acts, 1852, 1868, and 1871,” and to servancy Bill 
confer further Powers on the Humber Conservancy 
Commissioners, and for other purposes, was read 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 


A Bill to authorise the City of Vorwich Wa- Norwich (City) 
terworks Company to raise additional Capital, and Water Bill 
to extend their Limits of Supply, and for other 
purposes, was read the first time ; and referred to 
the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


of the Coombe Coombe Hill 
Canal Naviga- 


tion Bill. 


A Biil to 
Hill Canal Navigation, and the Sale of the Site 
thereof, and for other purposes, was read the first 
time; and ordered to be read a second time. 


rovide for the — 


A Bill to consolidate and amend the Acts re- Dewsbury and 
lating to the Dewsbury and Hechmondwike Water- og 
works, and to authorise the Construction of New a 
Works, and for other purposes, was read the first 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill to incorporate a Company for making a Golden Valley 
a in the County of Hereford, from the Railway Bill 
Great Western Railway at Pontrilas to Dorstone, 

and 








Great Eastern 
&gt; Railway Bill. 
Great Southern 
" and Western 
Railway Bill. 
on 
Imperial Gas 
Bill. 
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aro 
Tydfil an 
Rhondda 
Valley 
Junction 
nd Railway Bill. 
at 
Metropolitan 
Railway Bill. 
nt 
Mid-Hants 
Railway Bill. 
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ill. 
Mid-Wales ~ 
Railway Bill. 
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(Additional 
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39 VicTorta. 


and for other purposes, was read the first time; 
and ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill for authorising the Great Eastern Rail- 
way Company to make several Railways and other 
Works; and for conferring on them further 
Powers in relation to their Undertaking and the 
Undertakings of certain other Companies, and for 
other purposes, was read the first time; and re- 
ferred to the Examiners of Petitions for Private 
Bills. 


A Bill for enabling the Great Southern and 
Western Railway Company to construct a new 
Road or Street at Cork; to acquire additional 
Lands; to raise additional Capital, and for other 
purposes, was read the first time; and referred to 
the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Bill to authorise the Imperial Gas Light and 
Coke Company to raise more Money and amal- 
gamate with certain of the Metropolitan Gas Com- 
panies, and for other purposes, was read the first 
time; and referred to the Examiners of Petitions 
for Private Bills. 


A Bill to incorporate a Company for making 
Railways from the Rhondda Valley and Hirwain 
Junction Railway to join the Brecon and Merthyr 
Tvdfil Junction Railway at Cefn Coed, and for 
other purposes, was read the first time; and 
ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill to authorise an Extension of the Metro- 
politan Railway to the Whitechapel Road and 
Railways from the Hammersmith and City Rail- 
way to Walham Green and Fulham; and to confer 
upon the Metropolitan Railway Company various 
Powers in connection with their Share and Loan 
Capital and the Undertakings of the Metropolitan 
and Saint John’s Wood and other Railway Com- 
panies, and for other purposes, was read the first 
time ; and referred to the Examiners of Petitions 
for Private Bills. 


A Bill to make Provision for the Settlement 
and Discharge of the Debts of the Mid-Hants 
Railway Company, and to confer Powers upon 
that Company and other Companies and Persons 
using their Railway over certain parts of the 
London and South Western Railway, and for 
other purposes, was read the first time; and re- 
— to the Examiners of Petitions for Private 

ills. 


A Bill for the Abandonment of the Railway 
authorised to be made by “The Mid-Wales Rail- 
way (Western Extensions) Act, 1865,” was read 
the first time; and referred to the Examiners of 
Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Bill to authorise the North British Railway 
Company to make a Railway to connect their 
Edinburgh and Glasgow Line, and Glasgow, Dum- 
barton, and Helensburgh Branch, also a Sea Wall 
at Burntisland, and other Works in the Counties 
of Edinburgh and Lanark: to acquire additional 
Lands; to stop up certain Streets in Glasgow ; 
to abandon parts of the Undertaking authorised 
by “The North British Railway Act, 1873;” to 
extend the Time for Purchase of Land and com- 
pleting other Railways, and for the Sale of super- 
fluous Lands; to sanction the Purchase by the 
Company of the Sil/oth Gasworks, and provide for 
the supply of Gas therefrom; to confirm an 
Agreement between the Leith Harbour and Dock 
Commissioners and the Company ; to amalgamate 
with the Company the Peebles, Penicuick, and 
Berwickshire Railway Companies; to authorise 
~ Company to subscribe to the Edinburgh, Loan- 

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14th February. 





35 


head, and Roslin Railway Company; to confer 

various Powers upon the Company with respect 

to their Capital and Borrowing Powers, and for 

other purposes, was read the first time; and re- 

— to the Examiners of Petitions for Private 
s. 


A Bill to authorise the North British Railway North British 
Company to make certain Railways and Works Railways) Bil. 
in Fifeshire, and to provide for the vesting of one . 
of such Railways in the Forth Bridge Railway 
Company with working Powers to the North 
British Railway Company; to extend the Time 
for Purchase of Land and for completing the 
Forth Bridge Railways and otherwise to provide 
for the Construction of certain portions of the 
Forth Bridge Undertaking ; to reduce the Capital 
and Borrowing Powers of the Dunfermline and 
Queensferry Railway Company, and for other 
purposes, was read the first time; and referred to 
the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


North 
Staffordshire 
Railway Bill, 


A Bill to authorise the Amalgamation of the 
North Staffordshire Railway with the Manchester, 
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Company, was 
read the first time; and referred to the Examiners 
of Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Bill for making a Railway from Halesworth Southwold 
to Southwold, with Branches therefrom, all in the ®#!vay Bill. 
County of Suffolk, was read the first time; and 
ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill to authorise the Wakefield Waterworks Wakefield 
Company to make a new Pumping Station and Wer Bill. 
other Works, and to raise more Money ; also to 
extend their limits of Supply, and for other pur- 
poses, was read the first time; and referred to the 
Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Bill for authorising a Deviation of the Line West Kent 
of a Sewer to be constructed in pursuance of the Ly Sowenge 
West Kent Main Sewerage Act, 1875, and for ~ 
amending that Act, and for other purposes, was 
read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time. 


A Bill for empowering the Local Board for the Padiham and 
District of Padiham and Hapton, in the County of oe ape 
Lancaster, to acquire the Undertaking of the ° 
Padiham Gas Light and Coke Company, and for 
improving the Water Supply of the said District, 
and for other purposes, was read the first time; 
and ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill for extending the District of the Hove Hove Exten- 
Commissioners to part of the Parish of Preston, in sion and 
the County of Sussex, and for amending “ ‘The imprevement 
Hove Commissioners Act, 1873,” and for other 
ay S09 was read the first time; and ordered to 
e read a second time. 


A Bill to authorise the Construction of an Em- Bolton-le- 
bankment in Morecambe Bay, in the Counties of Sands, Watton, 
Westmorland and Lancaster, and for other pur- Reclamation 
poses, was read the first time; and referred to the Bill. 


Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Bill for the Amalgamation of the Cardiff and Liynvi and 
Ogmore Valley Railway Company with the Llynvi ———— 
and Ogmore Railway Company, and for other pur- Ogmore Valley 
poses, was read the first time ; and referred to the Railway Com- 


Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills. panies Bill. 


A Bill for enabling the Corporation of the Bo- Lancaster 
rough of Lancaster to extend their Waterworks Water and 
and to make Street Improvements, and for other [provement 
purposes, was read the first time; and ordered to 
be read a second time. 

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S6 14th February. 


A Bill to grant further Powers to the Chester- 
field Waterworks and Gas Light Company, was 
read the first time; and oti to the Examiners 
of Petitions for Private Bills. 


Chesterfield 
Water and 
Gas Bill 


GreatNorthern A Bill to grant further Powers to the Great 

Railway Bill. Northern Railway Company with relation to their 
Undertaking, was read the first time ; and referred 
to the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Bill for conferring further Powers on the 
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company with 
relation to their Undertaking, was read the first 
time; and referred to the Examiners of Petitions 
for Private Bills. 


Lancashire and 
Yorkshire 
Railway Bill. 


A Bill to authorise the widening of parts of the 
London and Blackwall Railway and the enlarge- 
meut of some of the Stations; to authorise Agree- 
ments with other Companies, and for other pur- 
poses, was read the first time; and referred to 
the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


London and 
Blackwall 
Railway Bill. 


Londen, A Bill to vest in the London, Brighton, and 
Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company the Undertaking 
South Coast of the I'unbridge Wells and Eastbourne Railway 
eC lt ke better provision for Rail- 
Wells and ompany, and to ma p 
Eastbourne way Communication to Eastbourne, was read the 
a first time; and referred to the Examiners of Peti- 
Bil. _ tions for Private Bills. 
London, A Bill for conferring further Powers on the 
a and London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Com- 
—" pany, was read the first time; and referred to the 


Railway ~ : ‘ oe 4 : 
(Various Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


Powers) Bill. 


Monmouth- 
shire Railway 
and Canal Bill. 


A Bill to grant further Powers to the Mon- 
mouthshire Railway and Canal Company, and for 
other purposes with reference to the Undertaking 
of the Company, was read the first time ; and re- 
ferred to the Examiners of Petitions for Private 


Bills. 


Rossendale _ A Bill to grant further Powers to the Rossen- 

Union Gas Bill. 747 Union Gas Company, was read the first time; 
and referred to the Examiners of Petitions for 
Private Bills. 

South Mateo- A Bill to grant further Powers to the South 

politan Gas aty i . j - 

Light and Coke Metropolitan Gas Light and Coke Company, was 

Bill. read the first time; and referred to the Exami- 
ners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


Burntisland 


A Bill for extending the Boundaries of the 
Burgh Bill. 


Burgh of Burntisland for Municipal and Police 
Purposes; for transferring to and vesting in the 
Corporation the Powers and Property of the 
Commissioners of Police of the Burgh, and the 
Undertakings by means of which the Burgh is at 
present supplied with Water and Gas; for em- 
vowering the Corporation to construct additional 
Vaterworks, and to supply Water and Gas to the 
extended Burgh and Places adjacent, and for 
other purposes, was read the first time; and or- 
dered to be read a second time. 
ee A Bill to empower the Banbury and Cheltenham 
Direct Railway Direct Railway Company to make a Deviation of 
Bill. their authorised Railway, and for other purposes, 
was read the first time; and referred to the Exa- 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


East London 


A Bill to enable the East Londen Railway Com- 
Railway Bill. 


pany to make a new Junction with the Main Line 
of the Great Eastern Railway Company, and to 
confer further Powers on those Companies, and 
for other purposes, was read the first time; and 


referred to the Examiners of Petitions for Private 
Bills. 








1876. 


A Bill for conferring further Powers on the Glasgow and 
Glasgow and South Western Railway Company South Western 
for the construction of Works and the acquisition ®“!”4y Bill. 
of Lands; for converting and consolidating the 
several Classes of their Shares and Stocks; for 
granting them additional Powers of raising Money 
and Subscription, and otherwise in relation to 
Saint Enoch Station, and for other purposes, was 
read the first time; and referred to the Examiners 
of Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Bill for conferring further Powers on the Great Western 
Great Western Railway Company in relation to Railway Bill. 
their own Undertaking and the Undertakings of 
other Companies, and for other purposes, was read 
the first time; and referred to the Examiners of 
Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Bill for conferring additional Powers on the London and 
London and North Western Railway Company in North Western 
relation to their own Undertaking and the Under- Line ey 
takings of other Companies, and for other pur- Bill. 
poses, was read the first time ; and referred to the 


Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Bill for vesting in the London and North London ond 
Western Railway Company the Undertaking of — 
the Sirhowy Railway Company, was read the first (sirhowy 
time ; and referred to the Examiners of Petitions Railway 


for Private Bills. Transfer) Bill. 


A Bill for conferring further Powers on the Midland Rail- 
Midland Railway Company in relation to their [#7 eg 
own Undertaking and the Undertakings of other eer 
Companies, and for raising additional Capital, and 
for other purposes, was read the first time; and 


referred to the Examiners of Petitions for Private 
Bills. 


A Bill for enabling the Midland Railway Com- Midland 
pany to construct new Railways and other Works ; Walaa 
to acquire additional Lands; to raise further Ca- pil, © ; 
pital, and for other purposes, was read the first 
time; and referred to the Examiners of Petitions 


for Private Bills. 


A Bill for enabling the North Eastern Railway forth Bastom 
Company. to make new Railways and Works; and **!"*Y 
for conferring additional Powers on the Company 
in relation to their own Undertaking and the Un- 
dertakings of other Companies, and for other pur- 
poses, was read the first time ; and referred to the 
Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Bill for enabling the Sidmouth Railway Com- Sidmouth | 
pany to extend their Railway to Budleigh Salter- Railway Bill 
ton and Exmouth, and for other purposes, was read 
the first time; and referred to the Examiners of 
Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Bill to amend and extend “ The Thames Thames Tunnel 
Tunnel Act, 1866,” and for other purposes, was Bil 
read the first time; and referred to the Examiners 
of Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Bill to enable the Wye Valley Railway Com- Wye Valley 
pany toconstruct new Railways and other Works, Railway Bill 
and for other purposes, was read the first time ; and 
referred to the Examiners of Petitions for Private 


Bills. 


A Bill for making a Railway from Burntisland Buratisient ae 
to the North British Railway at Cowdenbeath, Raltwor Bill. 
with Branches to various Collieries in the County 
of Fife, and for other purposes, was read the first 


time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill for enabling the Caledonian Railway Caledonian 
Company to make certain Railways and other Railway 


Works, and to acquire certain Lands in the Coun- (Addition 





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ll. 


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l. 





Caledonian 
Railway 
(Grangemouth 
Harbour) Bill. 


Glasgow and 
Kilmarnock 
Joint Line and 
Caledonian 
Railway Bill. 


Paisley Water 
Bill. 


39 VicrTorta. 


ties of Lanark, Stirling, Edinburgh, Renfrew, and 
Forfar ; for abandoning certain authorised Works 
in the Counties of Forfar and Edinburgh; for ex- 
tending the Periods limited by certain former Acts; 
for confirming a Scheme for the conversion and 
consolidation of certain Classes of Shares and Stock 
in the said Company, and for other purposes, was 
read the first time; and referred to the Examiners 
of Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Bill for enabling the Caledonian Railway 
Company to make a Wet Dock, Timber Basin, 
Quays, and other Works at Grangemouth, and to 
improve the Navigation of the River Carron; for 
altering the Rates leviable at the Harbour of 
Grangemouth ; for extending the Period limited 
fur the acquisition by the said Company of Lands 
near that Port, and for other purposes, was read 
the first time; and referred to the Examiners of 
Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Bill for enabling the Caledonian and the 
Glasgow and South Western Railway Companies 
jointly to acquire certain Lands and execute cer- 
tain Works in the Counties of Lanark and Ren- 
Frew; for authorising the diversion of a certain 
Road, and of certain authorised Tramways in con- 
nection therewith; for enabling the Caledonian 
Railway Coimpany separately to acquire certain 
Lands in the said Counties, and for other pur- 
poses, was read the first time; and referred to the 
Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Bill for extending the Time for the comple- 
tion of Works authorised to be constructed by the 
Paisley Waterworks Commissioners ; for reviving 
the Powers of compulsory Purchase of Lands for 
the purposes of certain of those Works; for autho- 


rising those Commissioners to construct additional 


South Eastern 
Railway Bill. 


Horncastle 
Gas Bill. 


Chesterfield 


Borough 
Extension and 


Improvement 
Bill. 


Campbeltown 
— and 
Harbour Bill. 


Forth Bridge 
Railway Bill. 


Works, to supply Water by Measure, and to borrow 
further Money; for the prevention of waste of the 
Water supplied by them, and for other purposes, 
was read the first time ; and ordered to be read a 
second time. 


A Bill to authorise the South Eastern Railway 
Company to extend the Hythe and Sandgate 
Branch Railway to Folkestone ; to widen a portion 
of their Charing Cross Line; to acquire additional 
Lands, and for other purposes, was read the first 
time; and referred to the Examiners of Petitions 
for Private Bills. 


A Bill for better supplying with Gas the Parish 
or Township of Horncastle, in the County of 
Lincoln, was read the first time; and referred 
to the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Bill for extending the Boundaries of the 
Borough of Chesterfield, in the County of Derby; 
for making further Provisions for the Improvement 
of the Borough, and for other purposes, was read 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 


A Bill to provide for the Local Government of 
the Royal and Parliamentary Burgh of Campbel- 
town, in the County of Argyll; for the Improve- 
ment of the Harbour thereof; and for supplying 
Gas and Water to the Burgh, and for other pur- 
poses, was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time. 


A Bill to extend the Time for the purchase of 
Lands for and for the Construction of the Forth 
Bridge Railway, was read the first time; and 
sees to the Examiners of Petitions for Private 

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37 


A Bill for altering and consolidating the Dues Tyne 
levied by the Tyne Improvement Commissioners, Improvements 
and for other purposes, was read the first time ; Bill 
and ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill for authorising the making of certain Bolton 
Railways in Lancashire, to be called the Bolton tt 
. ‘ . way Bill. 
Junctions Railway, and for other purposes, was 
read the first time ; and referred to the Examiners 


of Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Bill for dissolving the Sevenoaks Gas Com- Sevenoaks Gas 

pany, Limited ; for re-incorporating the Proprie- Bill. 

tors therein with others ; and for conferring on the 

Company so to be incorporated Powers to supply 

Gas to the Parish of Sevenoaks and certain neigh- 

bouring Parishes and Places in the County of 

Kent, and for other purposes, was read the first 

time; and referred to the Examiners of Petitions 

for Private Bills. 


A Bill to confer further Powers on the Halesowen Halesowen and 
and Bromsgrove Branch Railways Company, and a ae 
for other purposes, was read_the first time ; and Railways Bill. 
referred to the Examiners of Petitions for Private 


Bills. 


A Bill to enlarge the Powers of the South Alloa South Alloa 
Dock Company, was read the first time; and Peck Bill. 
referred to the Examiners of Petitions for Private 


Bills. 


A Bill for conferring further Powers on the London, 
London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company Chatham, and 
. i ? Dover Railway 
and for other purposes, was read the first time; Bill. 
and referred to the Examiners of Petitions for 


Private Bills. 


A Bill to confer further Powers on the City of Glasgow (City) 
Glasyow Union Railway Company, the Glasgow pi" _ 
and South Western Railway Company, and the 
North British Railway Company, and for other 
purposes, was read the first time; and referred to 


the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Bill to amend “ The Vale of Clyde Tramways Vale of Clyde 
Act, 1871,” was read the first time; and referred Ttamways 
to the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Bill for conferring further Powers on the Furness _ 
Furness Railway Company for the Construction vey Bill 
of Works; the acquisition of Lands; the raising 
of Money; and otherwise in relation to their 
Undertaking, and for other purposes, was read the 
first time ; and referred to the Examiners of Peti- 
tions for Private Bills. 


A Bill for incorporating a Company, and autho- Stonehouse 
rising them to make and maintain a Quay Wall or ae 
Embankment on the Shore of Stonehouse Pool, in 
the County of Devon, and other Works for the 
Improvement of Stonehouse Pool; and a short Line 
of Railway to connect the Quays and Works with 
the Devon and Cornwall Railway, and for other 

urposes, was read the first time ; and ordered to 
e read a second time. 


A Bill for incorporating the Kildwick Parish Kildwick 
Gas Company, and authorising them to supply =— Gas 
Gas in the Parish of Kildwick, in the West Riding ~* 
of the County of York, and for other purposes, 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time. 


A Bill to enable the Oldbury Local Board of Oldbury Local 
Health to purchase from the Corporation of Bir- ae 
mingham so much of the Gas Undertaking acquire 
by them as is situate in the District of Oldbury, 
in the County of Worcester, and to light with 
Gas the said District and parts adjacent, and 

F3 for 





38 


for other purposes, was read the first time; and 
ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill to further extend the Time limited for 
the Purchase of Lands for and for the completion 
of the Railways authorised by “The Alexandra 
( Newport) Dock Act, 1865,” and to authorise the 
Alexandra (Newport) Dock Company to make and 
maintain a Road in the Parish of Saint Woollos, 
in the County of Monmouth, and to confer further 
Powers upon the Company, and for other pur- 

oses, was read the first time ; and referred to the 
ixaminers of Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Bill to authorise the construction of a Pier 
and other Works at or near Hornsea, in the East 
Riding of the County of York, and for other pur- 
poses, was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time. 


Hornsea Pier 
Bill. 


London and 
South Western, 


A Bill for vesting the Somerset and Dorset Rail- 

' way in the London and South Western and Mid- 
Midland, and Jand Railway Companies by way of Lease, and 
Dorset Railway for other purposes, was read the first time ; and 
Companies Bill. referred to the Examiners of Petitions for Private 


Bills. 


ew A Bill to authorise the Purchase by the London 
‘ y . 
South Western and South Western Railway Company of the 
—w , Exeter and Crediton Railway, and the removal of 
gel the Broad Gauge Rails on that and other Railways 
North Devon in North Devon, and for other purposes, was read 
Railways) Bill. the first time; and referred to the Examiners of 
Petitions for Private Bills. 


London and 
South Western 
Railway 
(Various 
Powers) Bill. 


A Bill to confer further Powers upon the London 
and South Western Railway Company in respect 
of their Undertaking and of the Undertakings of 
other Companies, and to empower that Company 
and the London, Brighton, and South Coast Rail- 
way Company to purchase additional Lands for 
the purposes of the Tooting, Merton, and Wimbledon 
Railway, and for other purposes, was read the 
first time; and referred to the Examiners of Peti- 
tions for Private Bills. 


A Bill to authorise the Mersey Docks and Har- 
bour Board to improve the River Entrance to the 
Canada Basin, and for other purposes, was read 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 


Mersey Docks 
and Harbour 
Board Bill. 


A Bill to extend the Limits of Supply of the 
Southampton Gas Light and Coke Company, and 
to enable them to raise additional Capital, was 
read the first time ; and referred to the Examiners 
of Petitions for Private Bills. 


Southampton 
Gas Light and 
Coke Bill. 


Dunfermline 


A Bill for providing an additional Supply of 
Water Bill. 


Water to the Burgh of Dunfermline, and Places 
adjacent, and for other purposes, was read the first | 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill for making a Railway from the autho- 
rised Kelvin Valley Railway, near Kilsyth, to the 
North British Railway Company’s Stirlingshire 
Midland Junction Railway, near Falkirk, and of a 
Railway therefrom, and for other purposes, was 
read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time. 


Kilsyth and 
Falkirk 
Railway Bill. 


A Bill for extending the Municipal and Police 
Boundaries of the Burgh of Kirkcaldy; for em- 
powering the Corporation to purchase the Under- 
taking of the Kirkcaldy Gas Light Company, and 
to Supply Gas; for extending the compulsory 
Limits of Water Supply ; for making Provision 
for the Improvement of the Harbour of Kirkcaldy, 
and for other purposes, was read the first time ; 
and ordered to be read a second time. 


Kirkcaldy 
Burgh and 
Harbour Bill. 





14th February. 





1876. 


A Bill for making a Railway from Ruthia to Ruthin ang 
Cerrig-y-Druidion, in the County of Denbigh, was Cerrig-y- 
read the first time; and ordered to be read a — . 

“ way Bill, 
second time. 


A Bill to amend the qualification of Persons Whitehaven 
entitled to vote in the election of Trustees for the ee 
Town and Harbour of Whitehaven ; to extend the ment Bir” 
Periods for the compulsory Purchase of Lands, 
and for the Completion of certain authorised 
Works; to authorise Agreements with the White- 
haven, Cleator, and Egremont Railway Company ; 
to authorise and alter certain Tolls, Rates, Duties, 
and Charges; to grant further Powers to the 
Trustees with reference to the Harbour, and with 
reference to the Supply of Water; and with re- 
ference to the Town of Whitehaven, and other 
purposes, was read the first time ; and referred to 
the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


eek 


A Bill for authorising the East Norfolk Railway East Norfolk 
Company to construct a Branch Railway to Ay/- Railway Bill 
sham, in the County of Norfolk, and a Wharf on 
the River Bure, with a Branch Railway thereto, 
and for other purposes, was read the first time; 


and referred to the Examiners of Petitions for 
Private Bills. 


2° 


A Bill to extend the Borough of Newport, in Newport 
the County of Monmouth, and to enable the Cie) a 
Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses thereof to im- oonaneaiii 
prove Streets, and to construct New Streets, and 
other Works within the same, and to make further 
Provisions for the Improvement and good Govern- 
ment of the Borough, and for other purposes, was 
read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time. 


A Bill to extend the respective Periods limited Metropolitan 
by “The Metropolitan Inner Circle Completion Inner Circle 
Act, 1874,” for the compulsory Purchase of Lands a 
for, and for the completion of the Works by that ’ 
Act authorised; and to revive and extend in cer- 
tain Cases the Powers of the Metropolitan Inner 
Circle Completion Railway Company for the 
Purchase of Lands under that Act; and to autho- 
rise that Company to acquire additional Lands in 
the City of London, and for other purposes, was 
read the first time; and referred to the Examiners 
of Petitions for Private Bills. 


awm 


et eet et ot 


A Bill for making a Railway in the County of Caterham and 
Surrey, to be called “The Caterham and Godstone ag 
Valley Railway,” was read the first time; and pi 
ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill to authorise the Charnwood Forest Rail- Charnwood 
way Company to make Branch Railways near Forest Railway 
Coalville, and for other purposes, was read the Bil. 
first time; and referred to the Examiners of Peti- 
tions for Private Bills, 


—rTna 


A Bill to authorise an Extension of Time to the pidcot, 
Didcot, Newbury, and Southampton Junction Rail- Newbury, and 
Cc hasing Land and . Southampton 
way Company for purchasing Land and completing jenction 
their Railway, and for other purposes, was read Railway Bill. 
the first time; and referred to the Examiners of 


Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Bill to authorise an Extension of Time for Manchester 
purchasing Land and completing the Railway 2&gt;4 Milford 
authorised by ‘“‘ The Manchester and Milford Rail- ais 
way ( Devil’s Bridge) Branch Act, 1873,” was read 
the first time ; and referred to the Examiners of 
Petitions for Private Bills. 


hd bt bod 


A Bill for extending the Time limited by “The Pegwell Bay 
Pegwell Bay Reclamation and Sandwich Haven Rec! 
Improvement Act, 1873,” for the purchase of Land - 
and the completion of Works, and for other pur- 


poses, 





Fr 


Bill, 


vay 


ay 





Severn Bridge 
and Forest of 
Dean Cen 
Railway Bill. 


Smethwick 
Local Board 
Bill. 


Halifax Water 
and Gas 
Extension Bill. 


Cleveland 
Water Bill. 


Stockton-on- 
Tees Markets 
Bill. 


Stockton and 
Middlesbrough 
Water Bill. 


Walsall Gas 
Purchase and 
Borough 
Extension Bill.’ 


Gorleston and 
Southtown Gas 
Bill, 


Bromwich 
Improvement 
Bill, 


Tipton 
cam 


39 VicToria. 


oses, was read the first time ; and referred to the 
xaminers of Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Bill to extend the Time granted to the Severn 
Bridge and Forest of Dean Central Railway Com- 
pany for the purchase of Lands and completion of 
their Railway, and to authorise them to make 
another short Railway, and for other purposes, was 
read the first time ; and referred to the Examiners 
of Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Bill to authorise the Smethwick Local Board 
of Health to manufacture and supply Gas within 
their District, and for other purposes, was read the 
first time; and ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill for enabling the Mayor, Aldermen, and 
Burgesses of the Borough of Halifax to construct 
new Works in Extension of their Waterworks, and 
for extending their Limits of Water Supply, and 
for authorising them to extend their Gasworks, 
and for other purposes, was read the first time ; 
and ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill for extending the Limits within which the 
Cleveland Water Company may supply Water, 
and for empowering them to construct additional 
Works and to raise additional Capital, and for 
other purposes, was read the first time; and re- 
ferred to the Examiners of Petitions for Private 
Bills. 


A Bill to empower the Mayor, Aldermen, and 
Burgesses of the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees to 
establish Cattle and other Markets, and for other 

urposes, was read the first time ; and ordered to 
be read a second time. 


A Bill for empowering the Stockton and Middles- 
brough Waterworks Company to consolidate 
certain Share Capital and to raise additional 
Capital; to construct additional Works ; to alter 
and amend their existing Acts, and for other pur- 
— was read the first time; and referred to the 

xaminers of Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Bill for extending the Boundaries of the 
Municipal Borough of Walsall, in the County of 
Stafford ; and for transferring to the Mayor, Alder- 
men, and Burgesses of the Borough the Powers, 
Duties, and Property of the Commissioners acting 
under “ The Walsall Improvement and Market 
Act, 1848 ;” and for authorising the purchase b 
the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of so nie 
of the Gas Undertaking late of the Birmingham 
and Staffordshire Gas Light Company as relates to 
the Supply of Gas within the Borough, and for 
other purposes, was read the first time; and 
ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill for dissolving the Gorleston and South- 
town Gas Light and Coke Company, Limited ; for 
re-incorporating the Proprietors therein with 
others; and for conferring Powers on the Com- 
pany so to be incorporated, and for other purposes, 
was read the first time; and referred to the Exa- 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Bill to enable the West Bromwich Improve- 
ment Commissioners to purchase from the Corpo- 
ration of Birmingham so much of the Gas Under- 
taking acquired by them as is situate in the Parish 
of West Bromwich, in the County of Stafford, and 
to light with Gas the said Parish, and for other 

urposes, was read the first time ; and ordered to 
e read a second time. 


A Bill to enable the Local Board for the District 
of Tipton, in the County of Stafford, to purchase 
= the Corporation of Birmingham so much of 

OL. 131. 


14th February. 


the Gas Undertaking acquired by them as is situate 
in the Parish of Tipton, and to light with Gas the 
said Parish, and for other purposes, was read the 
first time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 








39 


A Bill authorising the Local Board for the Ramsgate 
District of Ramsgate, in the County of Kent, to pi 
— the Undertaking of the Company of 

roprietors of the Ramsgate Waterworks, and 
= of the Undertaking of the Isle of Thanet Gas 

ight and Coke Company; to supply Water; 
and tomake and supply Gas, and for other pur- 
poses, was read the first time: and ordered to be 
read a second time. 


Several Public Petitions were seen and Public 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions. 


Vide First 
Report. 
Ordered, That the Paper relative to Police Police 
(Counties and Boroughs), which was presented —- - 
upon the 10th day of this instant February, be No . 
. 0. 30. 
printed. 


Ordered, That the Account relative to the Russian Dutch 
Russian Dutch Loan, which was presented upon Loan. 
the 10th day of this instant February, be printed. No. 31. 


Ordered, That the Account relative to the Sar- Sardinian Loan. 
dinian Loan, which was presented upon the 10th No. 32, 
day of this instant February, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Charitable Charitable 
Funds, which was presented upon the 10th day of * “Ne 
this instant February, be printed. o 3S. 


Mr. Secretary Hardy presented, by Her Ma- Army. 
jesty’s Command,—Army Estimates of Effective No. 35. 
and Non-effective Services, fer 1876-77. 

Copy of Report on the Diszipline and Manage- Military 
ment of the Military Prisons, 1874, by Lieut.- Prisons, &amp;c. 
Colonel E. F. Du Cane, ¢.B., B.E., Inspector 
General of Military Prisons, &amp;c. 

Copy of the Yeomanry Inspection Return, for Yeomanry 
1875. Inspection. 

Copy of Return showing the Training Establish- Militia 
ment of each Regiment of Militia in the United (Training 
Kingdom; the Number Present, Absent, and os 
Wanting to Complete for the Training of 1875 
(in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 131, 
of Session 1875). 

Abstract of Annual Returns of Volunteer Volunteer 
Corps, dated 1st November 1875, in Alphabetical ©°'Ps- 
Order of Counties. 

Statement showing the Variation of the Numbers army 
of Her Majesty’s British Forces; and Explanations (Variation of 
of the Differences between the Amounts proposed Xue &amp;c.) 
in the Army Estimates for Effective Services for 
1876-77, and the Amounts voted for Effective 
Services for 1875-76. 

Statement showing the Amounts included in the Army — 
Army Estimates, 1876-77, for Military purposes ‘“lnies.) 
in the Colonies, and the probable Repayments by 
the several Colonies on the same account. 

Ordered, That the said Estimates be referred to 
the Committee of Supply, and be printed; and 
that the other Papers do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Secretary Cross presented, by Her Ma- Dublin 
jesty’s Command,—Copy of Seventeenth Report "*pitals. 
of the Board of Superintendence of Dublin 
Hospitals; with Appendices. 

Copy of Tenth Detailed Annual Report of the Marriages, 
Registrar General of Marriages, Births, and Deaths | ctr and 
in Ireland, 1873. ({reland.) 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented, pursuant Super- 
to the directions of several Acts of Parliament,— ®™uations. 
Copy of Treasury Minute, dated 18th December 
F4 


1875, 





40 


1875, awarding a Special Superannuation Allow- 
ance to Mr. R. A. Ogilvie, v.B., Surveyor General 
in the Customs Department. 
Copy of Treasury Minute, dated 21st December 
1875, awarding a Special Superannuation Allow- 
ance to Stephen Burt, Established Shipwright, 
Devonport Dockyard. 
Copy of Treasury Minute, dated 24th December 
1875, awarding a Special Superannuation Allow- 
ance to Stephen Wotton, Established Shipwright, 
Devonport Dockyard. 
Copy of Treasury Minute, dated 31st December 
1875, awarding a Special Superannuation Allow- 
ance to R. D. T. Cowlyn, Established Shipwright, 
Devonport Dockyard. 
Copy of Treasury Minute, dated 18th January 
1876, awarding a Special Superannuation Allow- 
ance to William Cullum, Leading Man of Ship- 
wrights, Portsmouth Dockyard. 
Copy of Treasury Minute, dated 10th December 
1875, awarding a Special Retired Allowance to 
James Wheeler, Established Shipwright, Purts- 
mouth Dockyard. 
Copy of Treasury Minute, dated 7th January 
1876, awarding a Special Retired Allowance to 
William Tonkin, Shipwright, Portsmouth Dockyard. 
Copy of Treasury Minute, dated 18th December 
1875, awarding a Special Superannuation Allow- 
ance to William Duce, Viewer, Royal Small Arms 
Factory, Enfield. 
Super. Copy of Treasury Minute, dated 17th December’ 
annuation Acts, 1875, declaring that Payta, in Peru, shall be 
1859 and 1875. 5 
deemed to be an unhealthy place, for the purposes 
of the Superannuation Acts, 1859 and 1875. 
Abstract Accounts of the Commissioners of Her 
Majesty’s Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, for 
the year ended 31st March 1875; with the Report 
of the Comptroller and Auditor General thereon. 
A Balance Sheet setting forth the Assets and 
Liabilities of the Commissioners for the Reduction 
of the National Debt, in respect of Savings Banks 
established under the Act 9 Geo. 4, cap. 92, and 
showing in detail the Securities held by the said 
Commissioners on account of such Savings Banks 
on the 20th November 1875, and their Value, 
taken at the price of that day, pursuant to Act 
26 Vic. cap. 25. 
Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Woods, Forests, 
and Land 
Revenues. 


National Debt 
(Savings 
Banks.) 


Industrial and 
Provident 
Societies. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return, in a Tabular Form, giving the 
following Particulars:—1. Abstract of Return 
furnished to the Registrar of Friendly Societies in 
England by Industrial and Provident Societies 
for the year ending the 3lst day of December 
1875, with Summary for each County in England 
and Wales; 2. List of Societies dissolved between 
the 31st day of December 1874 and the 1st day of 
January 1876; 3. List of Societies which have 
neglected to make Returns to the Registrar for 
the year ending the 3lst day of December 1875 ; 
4. List of New Societies registered during the year 
1875: And, similar Returns from the Registrars 
of Friendly Societies in Scotland and Ireland. 


Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant 
to the Clerk of the Crown, to make out a new 
Writ for the electing of a Member to serve in this 
present Parliament for the Borough of East Ret- 
ford, in the room of the Right Honourable George 
Edward Arundell Monckton Arundell, Viscount 
Galway, deceased. 


East Retford 
Writ. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee of Supply. 


(In the Committee. ) 
Motion made, and Question proposed, That a 


Supply. 


14th February. 





1876. 


Sum, not exceeding £. 4,080,000, be granted to 
Her Majesty, to enable Her Majesty to pay the 
Purchase Money of the Shares which belonged to 
the Khedive of Egypt in the Suez Canal, and the 
Expenses attendant thereon, which will come in 
course of payment during the year ending on the 
31st day of March 1876. 
To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had made Progress 
in the Matter to them referred; and that he was 
directed to move, That the Committee may have 
leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on Council of 
Council of India [Pensions], a Resolution; which —, 
was read, as followeth: ase 

That it is expedient to authorise the payment, 
out of the Revenues of India, of any Pension that 
may be granted to any Member of the Council of 
India. 

The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 

Ordered, That a Bill be brought in upon the Council of 
said Resolution: And that Mr. Razkes, Lord India (Pro- 
George Hamilton, and Mr. William Henry Smith fevcaaaill 
do prepare, and bring it in. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Ways and 
mittee of Ways and Means; Means. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Burial 
to amend the Law as to Provision of Burial 6744. 
Grounds: And that Mr. John Tulbot, Mr. Cubitt, 
and Mr. Wilbraham Egerton do prepare, and 
bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Industrial and 
to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to In- Provident 
dustrial and Provident Societies: And that Mr, 5°tes. 
Staveley Hill, Mr. Cowper-Temple, and Mr. Rod- 
well do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed Public 
to whom shall be referred all Petitions presented Petitions. 
to the House, with the exception of such as relate 
to Private Bills; and that such Committee do 
classify and prepare Abstracts of the same, in such 
form and manner as shall appear to them best 
suited to convey to the House ail requisite In- 
formation respecting their Contents, and do report 
the same from time to time to the House; and 
that such Reports do in all cases set forth the 
Number of Signatures to each Petition; and 
that such Committee have Power to direct the 
Printing in extenso of such Petitions, or of such 
parts of Petitions, as shall appear to require it; 
and that such Committee have Power to report 
their Opinion and Observations thereupon to the 
House: — And a Committee was appointed of 
Sir Charles Forster, Mr. Kay-Shuttleworth, The 
O’ Donoghue, Mr. O’ Conor, ‘Mr. M‘ Lagan, Earl 
de Grey, Mr. Kinnaird, Lord Arthur Russell, Mr. 
William Ormsby Gore, Mr. Cavendish Bentinck, 
Mr. Reginald Yorke, Sir Charles Russell, Mr. 
Sandford, Mr. Simonds, and Mr. Mulholland. 

Ordered, That Three be the Quorum. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Drainage and 
to confirm two Provisional Orders made under Improvement 
“ The Drainage and Improvement of Lands ( [re- (Ireland) 
land) Act, 1863,” constituting the River Bride Provisional 
and Kilerea and Tory Hill Drainage Districts : Ode" 
And that Mr. William Henry Smith and Mr. 
Solicitor General for Jreland do prepare, and bring 


it in. 
Mr. 











ents.) 


e and 
ment 





Burial Grounds 
Bill. 
Bill 67. 


Industrial and 

Provident 

Societies Bill. 
Bill 68. 


Council of 
India (Pro- 
fessional 
Appointments) 
Bill. 


Bill 69. 
Epping Forest 
Bill. 


Medical Act 
Amendment 
(Foreign 
Universities) 
Bill. 


Post Office 
Telegraphs. 


No. 34. 


Metropolis Gas 
— 


Royal Albert 
Hall Bill. 


Dublin (City) 
Steam Packet 
Company Bill. 


lighan Gas 

ight Company 
(Hull Station) 
Bill, 


Ramsgate 
Water Bill, 


39 VicTorRIA. 


Mr. John Talbot presented a Bill to amend the 
Law as to the Provision of Burial Grounds: And 
the same was read the first time; and ordered to 
be read a second time upon Friday the 3rd day of 
March next ; and to be printed. 


Mr. Staveley Hill presented a Bill to conso- 
lidate and amend the Laws relating to Industrial 
and Provident Societies: And the same was read 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time upon Wednesday the 23rd day of this instant 
February ; and to be printed. 


Lord George Hamilton presented a Bill to amend 
the Law relating to certain Appointments to the 
Council of India: And the same was read the 
first time; and ordered to be read a second time 
upon Friday next ; and to be printed. 


Ordered, That, in the case of the Epping Forest 
Bill, the Examiner of Petitions for Private Bills 
have leave to sit and proceed forthwith. 


The Order for reading a second time, upon 
Wednesday the 26th day of April next, the Me- 
dical Act Amendment (Foreign Universities) Bill, 
was read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday the 5th day of July next. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Copies of Letter from the Postmaster General to 
the Lords of the Treasury, dated the 23rd day of 
December 1875, containing Observations on the 
Report of the Committee appointed to investigate 
the Causes of the increased Cost of the Telegraph 
Service (see Paper, C. 1309):—— And, of Trea- 
sury Letter, of the 14th day of February to the 
Postmaster General. 

Mr. William Henry Smith accordingly presented 
the said Papers. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 


14th—15th February. 








Tuesday, 15th February, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 
M R. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report 
from one of the Examiners of Petitions for 
Private Bills, That in the case of the Metropolis 
Gas Companies Bill, referred on the First Read- 
ing thereof, the Standing Orders have been com- 
plied with. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday the 25th day of this instant February. 


A Bill to make better Provision for the main- 
tenance of the Royal Albert Hall, was read the 
first time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill to authorise the City of Dudlin Steam 
Packet Company to make further Arrangements 
for the Investment of their Reserve Fund, and for 
other purposes, was read the first time; and re- 


—_ to the Examiners of Petitions for Private 
ills. 


A Bill for empowering the British Gas Light 
Company, Limited, to enlarge their Works, to 
extend their Limits, 'and to expend further Ca- 
pital at Kingston-upon-Hull, and for other pur- 
poses, was read the first time; and referred to the 
Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Bill to confer further Powers upon the Com- 
pany of Proprietors of the Ramsgate Waterworks, 
and for other purposes, was read the first time; 
and referred to the Examiners of Petitions for 
Private Bills. 

VoL. 131. 








41 


A Bill to confer further Powers upon the Jsle of Thanet Gas 
Thanet Gas Light and Coke Company, and for Bill. 
other purposes, was read the ‘first time; and re- 


ferred to the Examiners of Petitions for Private 
Bills, 


A Bill for authorising the Completion of a Rail- Chichester and 
way from the London, Brighton, and South Coast Midhurst 
Railway at Chichester to their Mid-Sussex and lay Bill. 
Midhurst Junction Railway at Midhurst, was 
read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time. 


A Bill to authorise the Dudley and Oldbury Dudley and 
Junction Railway Company to construct a new or Oldbury 
Deviation Railway, and for other purposes, was are 
read the first time; and referred to the Examiners 
of Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Bill for the Abandonment. of the Railways Dudley and 
authorised by “ The Dudley and Oldbury Junction Oldbury 
Railway Act, 1873,” and for other purposes, was Railway 
read the first time; and referred to the Examiners (Abandon- 


of Petitions for Private Bills. ment) Bill. 


A Bill for incorporating the Wilts and Berks wits and 
Canal Company ; for the Transfer to them of the Berks Canal 
Undertaking of the Wilts and Berks Canal Navi- ®" 
gation; for authorising the Closing of the Longcot 
Branch of that Navigation, and the Sale of the 
Site thereof, and for other purposes, was read the 
first time ; and referred to the Examiners of Pe-: 
titions for Private Bills. 


A Bill to enable the Gorsedda Junction and Gorsedda 
Portmadoc Railways Company to maintain Two —— =a 
ene . : ° ° ortmadoc 
existing diverted portions of Railway in the Railways Bill. 
Parishes of Ynyscynhaiarn and Llanfihangel y Pen- 
nant, in the County of Carnarvon; and to make a 
Siding in the said Parish of Ynyscynhaiarn; and 
to raise further Capital, and for other purposes, 
was read the first time; and referred to the Exa- 

miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Bill for better supplying with Water the Uppingham 
Parish of Uppingham, in the County of Rutland, Wer Bill. 
and for other purposes, was read the first time; 
and ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill to authorise the Tunbridge Wells Gas Tunbridge 
Company to acquire a new Site for the Erection Wells Gas Bill. 
of Gasworks, and to confer further Powers upon 
that Company, and for other purposes, was read 
the first time ; and referred to the Examiners of 
Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Bill for incorporating the South Hants Water- South Hants 
works Company, and for other purposes, was read Water Bill. 
the first time ; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 


A Bill for incorporating the North East Wor- North East 
cestershire Waterworks Company, and for other Worcestershire 
: ater Bill. 
purposes, was read the first time; and ordered to 
be read a second time. 


A Bill for reviving and extending the Powers Burnham Tidal 
of the Burnham Tidal Harbour Company ; for the Harbour Bill. 
construction of Works; the acquisition of Lands 
and otherwise in relation to their Undertaking, 
and for other purposes, was read the first time ; 
and referred to the Examiners of Petitions for 
Private Bills. 


A Bill for conferring further Powers on the Sutton Bridge 
Sutton Bridge Dock Company for the construction Dock Bill. 
of Works, the raising of Money, and otherwise in 
relation to their Undertaking, and for other pur- 

oses, was read the first time; and referred to the 
xaminers of Petitions for Private Bills, 
G A Bill 








Slaithwaite Gas 
Bill, 


York New 
Water Bill. 


Queenborough 
Harbour Bill. 


Sittingbourne 
and Maidstone 
Railway Bill. 


Felixstowe 
Railway and 
Pier Bill. 


Bundoran and 
Sligo Railway 
Bill. 


Sittingbourne 
and Sheerness 


Railway Bill. 


Public 
Petitions. 
Vide First 
Report. 
Army 
(Variation of 


Numbers, &amp;c.) 
No. 36. 


Army 
(Colonies. ) 


No. 37. 


42 


A Bill for dissolving and re-incorporating the 
Slaithwaite Gas Light Company, Limited, and 
granting Powers for supplying with Gas the Town- 
ship of Slaithwaite, and certain neighbouring 
Townships and Places in the West Riding of the 
County of York, was read the first time; and re- 
ferred to the Examiners of Petitions for Private 
Bills. 


A Bill for dissolving and re-incorporating the 
Colne Valley Gas Company, Limited, and granting 
them Powers for supplying with Gas the Town- 
ship of Longwood and certain neighbouring Places 
in the West Riding of the County of York, and 
for other purposes, was read the first time; and 
referred to the Examiners of Petitions for Private 
Bills. 


A Bill for empowering the York New Water- 
works Company to construct additional Works, 
to raise additional Capital, and for other purposes, 
was read the first time ; and referred to the Exa- 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Bill for dissolving and re-incorporating the 
Redcar Gas Company, Limited, and granting 
Powers for supplying with Gas the Town of Red- 
car and certain neighbouring Townships and 
Places, in the North Riding of the County of 
York, and for other purposes, was read the first 
time ; and referred to the Examiners of Petitions 
for Private Bills. 


A Bill to enable the won mesg of Queen- 
borough to lay down or erect Buoys and Lights; 
to place Moorings; to regulate the use and Navi- 
gation of West Swale; to regulate Tolls, Dues, 
and Duties; to borrow Money, and for other pur- 
poses, was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time. 


A Bill to authorise the Construction of a Rail- 
way from Sittingbourne to Maidstone, in the County 
of Kent, and for other purposes, was read the first 
time; and ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill to authorise the Felixstowe Railway and 
Pier Company to construct a Tidal Basin or Dock, 
and other Works, at Felixstowe, in the County of 
Suffolk, and for other purposes, was read the first 
time; and referred to the Examiners of Petitions 
for Private Bills. 


A Bill for making Railways in the Counties of 
Donegal, Leitrim, and Sligo, to be called “ The 
Enniskillen and Bundoran Extension and Branch 
Railways,” and for other purposes, was read the 
first time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill to provide for the Winding-up of the 
Affairs of the Sittingbourne and Sheerness Railway 
Company; the Realisation of their Assets; the 
Payment of their remaining Debts and the Distri- 
bution of any Surplus of Assets; the Dissolution 
of the Company, and for other purposes, was read 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 


resented, and 
able. 


Several Public Petitions were 
read; and ordered to lie upon the 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to the Army 
( Variation of Numbers, &amp;c.), which was presented 
upon the 14th day of this instant February, be 
printed. 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to the Arm 
(Colonies), which was presented upon the 14 
day of this instant February, be printed. 


15th February. 





1876. 


Ordered, That the Accounts relative to the Woods, Forests 
Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, which were = Land 
presented upon the 14th day of this instant Feb- ““\'* 
ruary, be printed. satis 


Ordered, That the Account relative to the National Det 
National Debt (Savings Banks), which was pre- egy 
sented upon the 14th day of this instant February, ‘) 
be printed. No. 38, 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to the Super- superannua. 
annuation Acts, 1859 and 1875, which was pre- tion Acts, 18%9 
sented upon the 14th day of this instant February, "41°" 
be printed. No. 28, 


Mr. Bourke presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- Fugitive 
mand,—Copy of Correspondence respecting the aves 
Reception of Fugitive Slaves on Board Her Ma- ek sre} 
jesty’s Ships. 

Copy of Agreement between the Governments of Merchant Seg, 
Great Britain and Greece, relative to Merchant Sea- ps — 
men Deserters, signed at Athens, August -1,, 1875. 1876)” “ 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. James Lowther presented, by Her Majesty’s The Gambia. 
Command,—Copy of Correspondence respecting 
the Affairs of the Gambia, and the proposed Ex- 
change with France of Possessions on the West 
Coast of Africa (in continuation of House of Com- 
mons 444 of 1870). 
Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Secretary Cross presented, by Her Ma- Poor Relief 


jesty’s Command,—Copy of Thirtieth Annual Re- (Stand) 


“ae of the Board of Supervision for the Relief of the 
oor, and of Public Health, in Scotland, 1874-75. 

Mr. Secretary Cross also presented, pursuant to Penal Servi- 
the directions of several Acts of Parliament,— te Acts. 
Copy of the Conditions of a Licence to a Convict, 
granted under the Penal Servitude Acts (16 &amp; 17, 
and 27 &amp; 28 —— 

Copy of Regulations made by the Council of Pharmacy Act 
the Pharmaceutical Society of Jre/and, pursuant (Ireland), 
to the 16th Section of the “ Pharmacy Act (Jre- 7 
land), 1875,” and submitted for the Approval of 
the Lord Lieutenant and the Privy Council, and 
approved by him. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Sir Charles Adderley presented, by Her Ma- Merchant 
jesty’s Command,—Return of all Vessels ordered iota = 
to be surveyed by the Board of Trade, or its Offi- (Vessels 
cers, under the 12th section of the 36th and 37th Surveyed.) 
Vic. c. 85, and the Ist and 2nd sections of the 
38th and 39th Vic. c. 88, from 1st October to 31st 
December 1875, together with a Summary, show- 
ing the Total Number of Vessels ordered to be 
Surveyed under the same Acts, from 5th August 
1873 to 3lst December 1875 (in continuation of 
Parliamentary Paper [C. 1383]. 

Sir Charles Adderley also presented, pursuant to Railway 
the directions of an Act of Parliament,—Copy of Companies’ 
Draft Certificates settled by the Board of Trade © a 
authorising the following Companies to raise addi- 
tional Capital:—(1). The Severn and Wye Rail- 
way and Canal Company. (2). The Ryde and 
Newport Railway Compan 

Ordered, That the said 
Table. 


—_ do lie upon the 


Viscount Sandon presented, pursuant to the geal Fishery 
directions of an Act of Parliament,—Copy of Act, 18%. 
Orders in Council—(1) For bringing into opera- 
tion the “ Seal Fishery Act, 1875,” and fixing the 
Close Time for Seal Fishery, dated 5th February 
1876; and (2) For rescinding the Order in 
Council of the 5th February 1876, bringing into 

operation 








5.) 


ters 
0 1, 


Act 


Acts, 
1875 





East India 


(Tariff Act, 
1875.) 


National Debt 
Ganka 

ks and 
Friendly 
Societies.) 


National Debt 
(Annuities.) 


National Debt 
(Military 
Savings 
Banks.) 


Bank of 
England. 


89 Victoria. 


operation the “Seal Fishery Act, 1875,” dated 
12th February 1876. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Lord George Hamilton presented,—Return to 
an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 9th day of 
this instant February, for a Return relative to 
East India (Tariff Act, 1875). 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented, pursuant 
to the directions of several Acts of Parliament,— 
An Account of the Gross Amount of all Sums 
received and paid by the Commissioners for the 
Reduction of the National Debt, on account of 
Banks for Savings and Friendly Societies in Great 
Britain and Ireland, from their commencement at 
6th August 1817 to the 20th November 1875 in- 
clusive :——Of the Aggregate Amount of the se- 

arate Surplus Fund of all Savings Banks at 20th 

ovember 1875, and of the Gross Amount of all 
Sums transferred to, or paid out of such Surplus 
Fund in the course of the year ended 20th No- 
vember 1875 :——-And, of all Expenses incurred 
by the said Commissioners, for Salaries of Clerks 
or other Incidental Expenses during the year 
ended 20th November 1875 :——-(2.) An Account, 
setting forth, in detail, the whole of the several 
Transactions which have taken place during the 
year ended 20th November 1875, in the Invest- 
ment of all Moneys which came into the hands of 
the Commissioners for the Reduction of the Na- 
tional Debt, for Savings Banks and Friendly So- 
cieties, and of all the variations which have taken 
place during such year, in the Securities held by 
the said Commissicners for those Institutions: 
——(3.) And, an Account showing the Aggregate 
Amount of the Liabilities of the Government to 
the Trustees of Savings Banks and Friendly So- 
cieties respectively, on 20th November 1875; and 
the Nature, Amount, and Value of the Securities 
(taken at the price of that day) held by the Com- 
missioners for the Reduction of the National Debt 
to meet the same, and the Amount of the Defi- 
ciency thereon. 

An Account of the Gross Amount of all Bank 
Annuities and Long Annuities, and any other 
Annuities for Terms of Years transferred, and of 
all Sums paid to the Commissioners for the Reduc- 
tion of the National Debt, and the Gross Amount 
of Annuities for Lives and for Terms of Years 
which have been granted for the same, under the 
provisions of the Acts 10 Geo. 4, c. 24, 3 Will. 4, 
ce. 14, and 16 &amp; 17 Vic. c. 45, within the year 
ending 5th January 1876. 

An Account of the Gross Amount of all Monies 
received and paid by the Commissioners for the 
Reduction of the National Debt, and of the Gross 
Amount of Stock bought and sold by, and trans- 
ferred to the said Commissioners on account of the 
Fund for the Military Savings Banks, pursuant 
to 8 &amp; 9 Vie. c. 27, s. 5, from the 19th September 
1845 to the 5th January 1876. 

. Ordered, That the said Accounts do lie upon the 
able. 


The following Papers, pursuant to the direc- 
tions of several Acts of Parliament, were laid 
upon the Table by the Clerk of the House,—An 
Account of the Amount of all Exchequer Bills 
or Treasury Bills, and other Government Secu- 
rities, which have been purchased by the Go- 
vernor and Company of the Bank of England, or 
on which any Sum or Sums have been lent and 
advanced for the Public Service by the Governor 
and Company of the said Bank, in the year ending 
the 5th January 1876, showing what Amount of 


such Bills, before the making up of this Account, 
VoL. 131. 


15th February. 








43 


has been paid off, and discharged, and the Amount 
of such Exchequer Bills or Treasury Bills, or 
other Government Securities, which was in the 
hands of the Governor and Company of the said 
Bank on the 5th day of January 1876 aforesaid. 

_ An Account of the Amount of Balances of Sums 
issued for the Payment of Dividends due, and not 
demanded, and for the Payment of Lottery Prizes 
or Benefits which had not been claimed, and which 
remained in the hands of the Governor and Com- 
pany of the Bank of England on the there-under- 
mentioned days, being those next before the issue 
from the Exchequer of Money for the Payment 
of Dividends on account of the National Debt, 
for each of the four preceding quarters respec- 
tively. 

The Annual Account of Sums received and 
expended by the Commissioners for the Reduction 
of the National Debt, in the year ending 31st 
December 1875. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, pops, 


Returns of the Quantity of Hops imported into 
the United Kingdom for the year ending the 30th 
day of September 1875, distinguishing the Ports 
where imported, and the Countries whence ex- 
ported : Of the Quantity of Foreign Hops 
exported from the United Kingdom from and to 
the same Date, distinguishing the Countries to 
which the same have been exported, and the 
Quantities to each Country: And, of the 
Quantity of British Hops exported from and to 
the same Date, distinguishing the Countries to 
which the same have been exported; and also, the 
Quantities to each Country, with the Dates of the 
years in which the Hops were grown (in con- 
tinuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 128, of 
Session 1875). 








Ordered, That there be laid before this House, yyait ana 
Returns of the Number of Bushels of Malt Barley. 


charged with Duty, and the Amount of Duty 
charged, in the year 1875, in England, Scotland, 
and Ireland respectively : And, of the Quan- 
tity of Barley, imported into the United Kingdom 
in the year 1875 (in continuation of Parliamentary 
Paper, No. 127, of Session 1875). 





Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Brewers, &amp;e. 


Accounts of the Number of Persons in each of 
the several Collections of the United Kingdom 
licensed as Brewers, Victuallers, to sell Beer to 
be drunk on the Premises, and to sell Beer not 
to be drunk on the Premises; stating the Number 
of each Class who brew their own Beer, and the 
Quantity of Malt consumed by them, particular- 
ising each Class in each Collection, from the 1st 
day of October 1874 to the 30th day of Sep- 
tember 1875:——Of the Number of Barrels of 
Beer exported from the United Kingdom, and the 
Declared Value thereof, and where exported to, 
from the lst day or October 1874 to the Ist day 
of October 1875, each year separately; distin- 
guishing England, Scotland, and Ireland; Of 
the Total Number of Bushels of Malt made, and 
the Amount of Duty charged, for the year ending 
the 31st day of December 1875 :——And, of the 
Number of Common Brewers paying for Licences, 
from the lst day of October 1874 to the 30th 
day of September 1875, under 1,000 Barrels ; 
over 1,000 and under 10,000; over 10,000 and 
under 20,000; over 20,000 and under 30,000; 
over 30,000 and under 50,000; over 50,000 and 
under 100,000; over 100,000 and under 150,000; 
over 150,000 and under 200,000; over 200,000 
and -under 250,000; over 250,000 and under 
300,000; over 300,000 and under 350,000; over 








350,000 and under 400,000; over 400,000 and 
under 450,000 ; over 450,000 and under 500,000; 
over 500,000 and under 550,000; over 550,000 

G2 &amp; and 





15th—16¢th February. 


and under 600,000; over 600,000 and under 
650,000; over 650,000 and under 700,000; over 
700,000 and under 750,000; over 750,000 and 
under 800,000; over 800,000 and under 850,000 ; 
over 850,000 and under 900,000; over 900,000 
and under 950,000; over 950,000 and under 
1,000,000 ; and over 1,000,000, showing in each 
Case the Supplementary Charge or the Supple- 
mentary Diminution; stating the Amount paid 
for Licences for each Class, and the Total Amount 
paid by all Classes (in continuation of Parlia- 
mentary Paper, No. 207, of Session 1875). 


Newspaper 
Registration, 
&amp;c. Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Newspaper Registration, &amp;c. Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday next. 


Oyster The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Fisheries Bill. Reading of the Oyster Fisheries Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday next. 


The Order for reading a second time, upon 
Wednesday, the 15th day of March next, the 
Parish Ministers ( Scot/and) Exemption from Rates 
Bill, was read, and discharged. 

Ordered, ‘Vhat the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday, the 10th day of May next. 


Parish 
Ministers 
(Scotland) 
Exemption 
from Rates 
Bill. 


Leave of 
Absence, 


Ordered, That Sir Frederick Williams have 
leave of absence for a fortnight, on account of 
domestic affliction. 


Metropolis A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 

(Parochial osed, That, in the opinion of this House, the 

Bystem,) Parochial System is unsuitable and inadequate to 
the reasonable requirements of the Inhabitants of 
the Metropolis; and that the subject deserves the 
attention of Her Majesty’s Government, with a 
view to remove by legislation the great evils 
which at present exist:—And the said Motion 
was, with leave of the House, withdrawn. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to explain the Law relating to Cheques or Drafts 
on Bankers: And that Mr. Hubbard, Mr. Goschen, 
and Mr, Twells do prepare, and bring it in. 


Cheques on 


Bankers. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to enable Her Majesty’s Postmaster General to 
acquire a Site for the Extension of the Manchester 
General Post Office: And that Mr. William 
Henry Smith and Lord John Manners do prepare, 
and bring it in. 


Manchester 
Post Office. 


Partition Act Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 

(1868) Amend- to amend “ The Partition Act, 1868”: And that 

mene. Sir Henry Jackson and Mr. Alfred Marten do pre- 
pare, and bring it in. 


Municipal The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
pa * : . 
Officers Super- Reading of the Municipal Officers Superannuation 
annuation Bill. Bj]] ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a se- 
cond time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the word “ now,” and, at 
the end of the Question, adding the words “ upon 
* this day six months.” 

And the Question being put, That the word 
“now” stand part of the Question ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the; Mr. Rathbone, 

Yeas, Mr. Kirkman Hodgson: 

Tellers for the Mr. Fielden, 

Noes, Mr. Wheelhouse : 
So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 
a 


\io1. 
\ 94. 








1876. 


Ordered, That the Bill be now read a second 
time:—The Bill was accordingly read a second 
time ; and committed to a Committee of the whole 
House, for Friday next. 


The Publicans Certificates (Scotland) Bill was, publicans 
according to Order, read a second time ; and com- Certificates 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for (Sotland) Biz, 
Tuesday, the 28th day of March next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Offences 
mittee on the Offences against the Person Bill; against the 
A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- ¢" Bill. 
posed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair : 
—And the said Motion was, with leave of the 
House, withdrawn. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second County 
Reading of the County Palatine of Lancaster —s 
(Clerk of the Peace) Bill ; (Clerk pe the 

And the Motion being made, and the Question Peace) Bill. 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a second 
time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the word “now,” and, 
at the end of the Question, adding the words 
* upon this day six months.” 

And the Question bein 
* now” stand part of the 
solved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That the Bill be now read a second 
time:—The Bill was accordingly read a second 
time ; and committed to a Committee of the whole 
House, for Tuesday the 29th day of this instant 
February. 


Mr. Hubbard presented a Bill to explain the Cheques on 
Law relating to Cheques or Drafts on Bankers; Bakes Bil 
And the same was read the first time ; and ordered Bill 70, 
to be read a second time upon Tuesday next; and 
to be printed. 


g put, That the word 
Question :—It was re- 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented a Bill to Drainage and 
confirm two Provisional Orders made under “ The !™provement 
Drainage and Improvement of Lands (Jreland) ¢Lreland) 
Act, 1863,” and the Acts amending the same: Provisional 
And the same was read the first time ; and ordered Orders Bill 
to be read a second time upon Thursday next; Bill 71. 


and to be printed. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented a Bill to Manchester 
enable Her Majesty's Postmaster General to ac- Post fice Bil 
quire a Site for the extension of the Manchester Bill”. 
General Post Office: And the same was read the 
first time. 

Ordered, That the Biil be referred to the Exa- 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills; and be 
printed. 

Sir Henry Jackson presented a Bill to amend Partition 
“The Partition Act, 1868:” And the same was pom Vee A 
read the first time; and ordered to be read agi. 
second time upon Tuesday the 7th day of March  piil73, 
next; and to be printed, 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 








Wednesday, 16th February, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 
BILL for making Railways in the Counties London and 
of Esser and Kent to connect the London, ae 
Tilbury, and Southend Railway with the South Kent Coast 
Eastern and London, Chatham, and Dover Rail- Junction 
ways, and for other purposes, was read the first ®alvey 


time; and ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill for making Railwaysfrom the Tottenham Alexandra 
and Hampstead Junction Railway to the Alerandra — Railww 
Palace, to be called the Alexandra Palace Rail- ~~ 

way, 








Bill. 


the 
ll. 


on 


70, 


2 and 
ment 


sill. 
71. 


ster 
ice Bill, 


72. 


nm 
68) 
ment 


n and 


yi, and 


yn 


y Bill. 


dra 
 Railwsy 





39 VicTORIA. 


way, and for other purposes, was read the first 
time; and ordered to be read a second time. 


Northampton A Bill for conferring further Powers upon the 

and i, Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury 

per see in respect of certain Bonds given for securing the 

and their completion of the Railways authorised by “ The 

Sureties Bill. §~=Northampton and Banbury Railway (Branch) Act, 
1865,” and “ The Northampton and Banbury Rail- 
way (Extensions) Act, 1865,” was read the first 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


Stoke-upon- A Bill to authorise the Sale of the Markets in 

Trent Corpora S¢oke-upon- Trent to the Corporation of Stoke-upon- 

tion Bill. Trent, and for other purposes, was read the first 
time; and ordered to be read a second time. 


Great Yar- A Bill for making a Railway from Great Yar- 
mouthand = mouth, in the County of Norfolk, to Stalham, in the 
Stalham same County, and for other purposes, was read the 
(Light) Rail- . y&gt; purposes, wa 
way Bill. first time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 
Thames Floods Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
Prevention. one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 
That the Standing Orders have not been com- 
lied with in the case of the Petition for the Thames 
‘loods Prevention Bill. 
Ordered, That the Report be referred to the 
Select Committee on Standing Orders. 
Public Several Public Petitions were presented, and 
Petitions. read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 
Vide Second 
Report. 
National Debt Ordered, That the Account relative to the 


(Savings Banks National Debt (Savings Banks and Friendly 


Sedation) Societies), which was presented upon the 15th day 


No. 40, of this instant February, be printed. 

National Debt Ordered, That the Account relative to the 

(Annuities) National Debt (Annuities), which was presented 
No.41. upon the 15th day of this instant February, be 

printed. 

National Debt Ordered, That the Account relative to the 

on Dake) National Debt (Military Savings Banks), which 
No, 42, Was presented upon the 15th day of this instant 

‘February, be printed. 

othe Ordered, That the Accounts relative to the Bank 

gland. 


of England, which were presented upon the 15th 
No. 43. day of this instant February, be printed. 


Navy 


es Mr. William Henry Smith presented, pursuant 
(Appropriation 
Account.) 


to the directions of several Acts of Parliament,— 
Appropriation Account of the Sums granted by 
Parliament for Navy Services for the year ended 
31st March 1875, together with the Report of the 
Comptroller and Auditor General thereon; also, 
Statements of the Surpluses and Deficits upon the 
Grants for Navy Services in the Year ended the 
31st day of March 1875, showing all Cases in 
which the Navy Department has obtained the 
sanction of the Treasury to Expenditure not pro- 
vided for in the Grants for that Year, together 
with Copies of the Representations made to the 
Treasury by the Board of Admiralty; also the 
Balance Sheet, showing the Ledger Balances on 
the 30th September 1875, the Date on which the 
Account of Naval Receipt and Expenditure for 
the Year 1874-75, was closed. 

Appropriation Accounts of the Sams granted by 

ents arliament for Civil Services, Classes I. to VII., 

(Appropriation and the Revenue Departments (including the 

mats.) Post Office Packet and Telegraph Services), for 
the year ended 31st March 1875; together with 
the Reports of the Comptroller and Auditor 
General thereon. 
ao gga That the said Accounts do lie upon the 

able, 


The following Paper, pursuant to the directions 
of 5 Act of Parliament, was Jaid upon the Table 
OL. 131. 


Bank of 


16th February. 


45 
by the Clerk of the House,—Copy of Applications 
/made by the First Lord of the Treasury and the 
| Chancellor of the Exchequer to the Governor and 
Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, for 
advances to Government, authorised by Parlia- 
ment, from 5th January 1875 to 5th January 
1876; with a Copy of the Minutes of the Court 
of Directors thereon, and the Answers of the said 
Court thereto. 


The Order for the House to resolve itself into Offences 
a Committee, upon Friday next, on the Offences against the 
against the Person Bill, was read, and discharged. °° Bill 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
the 24th day of this instant February, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 





The Order of the day being read, for the Second Increase of the 
Reading of the Increase of the Episcopate Bill; — 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a second 
time ; 

And the previous Question being proposed, 
That that Question be now put :—And a Debate 
arising thereupon ; 

Aud a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That the Debate be now adjourned; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; e 

The Noes to the Left. 


” Mr. Hail 7 
Tellers for the Yeas,| Mr. Pell: j 174. 
(Mr. Dillwyn, 
Tellers for the Noe 8) Mr. Mundella: \ 90. 


So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 
_ Ordered, That the Debate be adjourned till 
Wednesday the 5th day of July next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Training 
Reading of the Training Schools and Ships Bill; Schools and 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time ~"?* ® 
upon Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Supply. 
mittee of Supply ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Ways and 
mittee of Ways and Means ; a 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 





Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Valuation of 
to amend the Valuation of Property (Metropolis) CMenotal s) 
Act, 1869: And that Mr. Hubbard, Mr. Forsyth, Act (1869) 


and Mr. Twells do prepare, and bring it in. Amendment. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Homicide Law 
to amend the Law of Homicide: And that Sir 4™endment. 
Eardley Wilmot and Mr. Whitwell do prepare, and 
bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Toll Bridges 
to provide for throwing open for the free use of (River 
the Public the present Toll Bridges connecting ae 
the Counties of Middlesex and Surrey across the 
River Thames: And that Mr. Alderman M Arthur, 

Sir James Clarke Lawrence, Mr. Forsyth, Sir 
Henry Peek, Sir Trevor Lawrence, and Sir Charles 
Russell do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Mercantile 
to provide for the Organization of a Mercantile Marine Hos- 
Marie Hospital Service and the Medical Exami- Pi**! Service. 
nation of Seamen: And that Captain Pim and 
Mr. Wheelhouse do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Navy (H. M.S. 
a Copy of Sailing Orders issued to Vice Admiral “ V@svard.”) 








Tarleton for the Conduct of the Reserve Squad- 
G3 ron: 











46 


ron :—— Return of the Number of entire Days 
during which the Squadron was at Sea :——-State- 
ment of the Movements of the Squadron during 
the Cruise :——Return ot the Date of the Termi- 
nation of the Cruise of the “ Vanguard” while 
carrying the Fleet-men :— 

a. Total Number of Crew of “ Vanguard,” in- 

cluding Fleet-men ; 

b. Total Number of the Crew of the “ Van- 

guard” on the lst day of September ; 

ce. Total Number of Crew of “ Jron Duke,” 

including Fleet-men, on the Ist day of 
September : 

Copies of any Application for Permission to 
“Vanguard” to proceed from Kingstown toCorkon the 
Ist day of September :——Of Orders under which 
“ Vanguard” was proceeding from Kingstown to 
Cork: Extracts from Fog Signal Instructions, 
giving the Articles referred to in the Evidence 
taken before the Court Martial on the Loss of the 
“ Vanguard” Articles 2, 7, and 9): And, from 
the General Signal Book, showing the purport of 
Signal 017 referred to in the Admiralty Minute 
dated the 12th day of October, with Diagram 
showing the direction in which the Ships of the 
Squadron would have moved had it been made. 


Valuation of 
Property 
(Metropolis) 
Act (1869) 
Amendment 
Bill. 

Bill 74. 


Mr. Hubbard presented a Bill to amend ** The 
Valuation of Property (Metropolis) Act, 1869 :” 
And the same was read the first time; and or- 
dered to be read a second time upon Tuesday the 
29th day of this instant February; and to be 
printed. 


Sir Eardley Wilmot presented a Bill to amend 
the Law of Homicide: And the same was read 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time upon Wednesday the 8th day of March next; 
and to be printed. 


Homicide Law 
Amendment 
Bill. 

Bill 75. 


Captain Pim presented a Bill to provide for the 
Organization of a Mercantile Marine Hospital 
Service and the Medical Examination of Seamen : 
And the same was read the first time; and or- 
dered to be read a second time upon Wednesday 
next; and to be printed. 


Mercantile 
Marine 
Hospital Ser- 
vice Bill. 


Bill 76. 


Toll Bridges Mr. Alderman M‘Arthur presented a Bill to 
(River Thames) 


provide for throwing open for the free use of the 
Bill. D . © on &gt; ° 
Bill 77 ublic the present Toll Bridges connecting the 
* Counties of Middlesex and Surrey across the River 
Thames: And the same was read the first time. 
Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills; and be 
printed. 


Leave of 


Ordered, That Mr. Cust have leave of absence 
Absence. 


for a fortnight, on account of ill health. 


Elementary 
Education 
(Application 
for School 
Board) Bill. 


The Order for reading a second time, upon 
Wednesday the 12th day of April next, the Ele- 
mentary Education (Application for School Board ) 
Bill, was read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday the 26th day of April next. 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 


= =  — — 


Thursday, 17th February, 1876. 
PRAYERS. 
Bromley Direct A BILL to extend the Time limited by “ The 
Railway Bill. Bromley Direct Railway Act, 1874,” for the 
completion of the Railway and Works connected 


therewith, was read the first time; and referred to 
the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills. 








Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private 


Epping Forest 
Bill. 


16th—17th February. 








1876. 


Bills, That the Standing Orders have not been 
complied with in the case of the Epping Forest 
Bill, referred on the First Reading thereof. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the 
Select Committee on Standing Orders. 


Sir Charles Forster reported from the Select Public 
Committee on Public Petitions; That they had (First Report) 
examined the Petitions presented upon the 9th, ' 
10th, 11th, 14th, and 15th days of this instant 
February, and had directed him to make a Report 
thereof to the House. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and Public 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. —, 
Vide Second 
Report. 
Ordered, That the Navy (Appropriation Ac- Navy (Ap. 
count), which was presented upon the 16th day of Propriation 


P 
&gt; 2 ° Account.) 
this instant February, be printed. No. 44, 


Ordered, That the Civil Services and Revenue pa nee 
Departments (Appropriation Accounts), which }epartments 
were presented upon the 16th day of this instant (Appropriation 
February, be printed. Accounts.) 


No. 45. 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to the Bank ar “4 
of England, which was presented upon the 16th . ” 
day of this instant February, be printed. “os 


Mr. Secretary Cross presented,—Return to an County Courts 
Address to Her Majesty, dated the 31st day of a 
July, in the last Session of Parliament, for a Re- , 
turn from every County Court in England of the 
Number of Persons taken to Prison under the 
Act 9 &amp; 10 Vic. c. 95, or any Act amending the 
same, in the year ended the 31st day of December 
1874; specifying in each case the Grounds of the 
Commitment, and the Average Period for which 
such Commitments were made, and the Number 
of Re-commitments (in the same form as Parlia- 
mentary Paper, No. 391, of Session 1868-9) ; 
with an additional Column to show the Total 
Number of Days for which Persons have been 
imprisoned for Non-payment of Instalments of the 
same Debt. 

Mr. Secretary Cross also presented, pursuant to (Seotland.) 

the directions of an Act of Parliament,—Copy of 
Thirty Seventh Report on Prisons in Scotland ; 
being (in continuation of the Reports of the late 
General Board of Prisons) I. The Fifteenth 
Annual Report of the Managers appointed under 
the Prisons ( Scotland) Administration Act, 1860: 
II. Report for the year 1875 by the Chief Officer 
ot the Joint Department of Prisons and Judicial 
Statistics in Scotland; to the-Right Honorable 
Richard Assheton Cross, one of Hee Majesty’s 
Principal Secretaries of State. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Algernon Egerton presented,—Return to an Navy (H. M.S 
Order of the House of Commons, dated the 16th « Vanguand.”) 
day of this instant February, for Returns relative 
to the Navy (H.M.S. “Vanguard.”) 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Tale. 


Mr. James Lowther presented, by Her Majesty’s South Africs 
Command,—Copy of Correspondence respecting 
the proposed Conference of Delegates on Affairs 
of South Africa. 

Copy of further Correspondence relating to the Cape Gel 
Colonies and States of South Africa—Cape of Hore Mt aa 
Good Hope, and Griqua Land West (in continua- Wert. 
tion of Part I. of C. 1342, of August 1875). 

Copy of further Correspondence relating to the Natal. 
Colonies and States of South Africa, Natal (in 

continuation 





snr ea 


obeo 


es &amp; 


re 





Fiji. 
West Africa. 
port.) 
Suez Canal 
No. 5, 
1876. 
Suez Canal 
Egypt, No. 6, 
2 1876.) 
ond 
J&lt; 
x Civil Service 
Estimates 
14, (Grants in Aid 
rice of Local Rates.) 
nue 
nts 
iation 
) 
15, 
6, 
ourts 
Civil Services 
and Revenue 
Departments. 
No. 47, 
Army (Appro- 
priation Ac- 
count.) 
.) 
. M. 8. 
rd.”) 
Orders of the 
ricd. Day. 
Royal Titles, 
- 
and 








39 Vicroria. 


continuation of Part II. of C. 1342-I. of August 
1875). 

Copy of further Correspondence respecting the 
Colony of Fiji (in continuation of C. 1337 of 
1875). 

Further Papers relating to Her Majesty’s Pos- 
sessions in West Africa (in continuation of C. 1343 
of 1875). 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Bourke presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- 
mand,—Copy of Memoranda by Lord Tenterden and 
Mr. F. S. Reilly, relative to the Suez Canal Shares. 

Copy of Concessions, Conventions, and Statutes 
of the Suez Canal Company, with the Sultan’s 
Firman. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Returns showing the Grants in Aid of Local Tax- 
ation and Charges transferred from Local to Im- 
perial Funds for which provision is made in the 
Estimates for 1876-77, compared with the corre- 
sponding provisions for the years 1872-73, 1873- 
74, 1874-75, and 1875-76, under the Appropria- 
tion Act for each year; distinguishing where a 
Grant or Charge, or any portion of a Grant or 
Charge, has in any year been transferred from one 
Vote to another, or any new or additional Grant 
has been made, and the amount of the addition; 
And, showing the provision made in each of 
the above years for the Salaries of Stipendiary 
Magistrates in London and in Ireland. 





Mr. William Henry Smith presented, by Her 
Majesty’s Command,—Copy of Memorandum in 
Explanation of the Variations between the 
Amounts of the several Classes of the Civil Ser- 
vice Estimates, and of the Estimates for Revenue 
Departments, for 1876-77 and 1875-76. 

Mr. William Henry Smith also presented, pur- 
suant to the directions of an Act of Parliament,— 
Appropriation Account of the Sums granted by 
Parliament for Army Services for the Year ended 
31st March 1875, together with the Report of the 
Comptroller and Auditor General thereon; also, 
Statement of the Surpluses and Deficits upon the 
Grants for Army Services, for the Year ended 
31st March 1875, showing all Cases in which the 
War Office has obtained the sanction of the Trea- 
sury to Expenditure not provided for in the Grants 
of that Year; together with Copies of the Repre- 
sentations made to the Treasury by that Depart- 
ment, pursuant to Act 37 &amp; 38 Vic. c. 56, 8. 4; 
and a Balance Sheet, showing the Ledger Bal- 
ances on the 30th September 1875, the Date on 
which the Army Account of Receipt and Ex- 
penditure for 1874-75 was closed, prepared in 
conformity with the directions of the Lords Com- 
missioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury, contained 
in Letter dated 7th November 1864. 

Ordered, That the Papers relative to the Civil 
Services and Revenue Departments be referred to 
the Committee of Supply, and be printed; and 
that the Army (Appropriation Account) do lie 
upon the Table. 


Ordered, That the Orders of the Day be post- 
poned till after the Notice of Motion for leave to 
bring in a Bill relating to the Royal Titles. 


The House was moved, That so much of Her 
Majesty’s Most gracious Speech to both Houses of 
Parliament at the opening of the Session as relates 
to Royal Titles might be read ; and the same was 
read, as followeth :— 

“I am deeply thankful for the uninterrupted 
health which My dear Son, the Prince of Wales, 


17th—18th February. 





47 


has enjoyed during his journey through India. 
The hearty affection with which he has a re- 
ceived by My Indian Subjects, of all Classes and 
Races, assures Me that they are happy under My 
Rule,and Loyal to My Throne. At the time that 
the direct Government of My Indian Empire was 
transferred to the Crown, no formal addition was 
made to the Style and Titles of the Sovereign. I 
have deemed the present a fitting opportunity for 
supplying this omission, and a Bh upon the 
subject will be presented to you.” 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to enable Her Most Gracious Majesty to make an 
addition to the Royal Style and Titles appertaining 
to the Imperial Crown of the United Kingdom 
and its Dependencies: And that Mr. Disraeli, Mr. 
Secretary Cross, Mr. Attorney General, and Lord 
George Hamilton do prepare, and bring it in. 


The Merchant Shipping Bill was, according to 
Order, read a second time; and committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for Thursday 
next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Commons Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Indian Legislation Bill ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a second 
time ; 


And the House having continued to sit till after 





Twelve of the clock on Friday morning ; 
Friday, 18th February, 1876: 


And the Question being put; 

Ordered, That the Bill be now read a second 
time:—The Bill was accordingly read a second 
time; and committed to a Committee of the whole 
House, for Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Maritime Contracts Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


The Drainage and Improvement of Land (Jre- 
land) Provisional Orders Bill was, according to 
Order, read a second time; and committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Municipal Privileges (Ireland) 
Bill; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a second 
time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the word “ now,” and, at 
the end of the Question, adding the words, “upon 
“ this day six months.” 

And the Question being proposed, That the 
word “now” stand part of the Question:—The 
said proposed Amendment was, with leave of the 
House, withdrawn. 

Ordered, That the Bill be now read a second 
time:—The Bill was accordingly read a second 
time ; and committed to a Committee of the whole 
House, for Thursday the second day of March 
next. 


Reading of the Supreme Court of Judicature Act 
(1875) Amendment Bill ; 


upon Thursday next. 








Vou. 131. 


G 4 


Agfotion 


Merchant 
Shipping Bill. 


Commons Bill. 


Indian Legis- 
lation Bill, 


Maritime 
Contracts Bill, 


Drainage and 
Improvement 
of Land (Ire- 
land) Provi- 
sional Orders 
Bill. 


Municipal 
Privileges 
(Ireland) Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Supreme Court 
of Judicature 

Act (1875) 

Amendment 


Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time Bill. 














Business of the 
House 
(Committee of 
Supply.) 


Poor Law 
Amendment. 


Marriages 
(Saint James, 
Buxton.) 


Fugitive Slaves. 


48 


A Motion was made, and the Question being 
proposed, That whenever notice has been given 
that Estimates will be moved in Committee of 
Supply, and the Committee stands as the first 
Order of the Day upon any day except Thursday 
and Friday, on which Government Orders have 
precedence, the Speaker shall, when the Order 
for the Committee has been read, forthwith leave 
the Chair without putting any Question, and the 
House shall thereupon resolve itself into such 
Committee, unless on first going into Committee 
on the Army, Navy, or Civil Service Estimates 
respectively an Amendment be moved relating to 
the division of Estimates proposed to be considered 
on that day :—And a Debate arising thereupon ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That the Debate be now adjourned ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the / Mr. Dilhwyn, 1 

Yeas, \Mr. Stacpoole: J 

Tellers for the{ Sir William Dyke, 

Noes, (Mr. Rowland Winn: } 

So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being again proposed, That 
whenever notice has been given that Estimates 
will be moved in Committee of Supply, and the 
Committee stands as the first Order of the Day 
upon any day except Thursday and Friday, on 
which Government Orders have precedence, the 
Speaker shall, when the Order for the Committee 
has been read, forthwith leave the Chair without 
putting any Question, and the House shall there- 
upon resolve itself into such Committee, unless on 
first going into Committee on the Army, Navy, or 
Civil Service Estimates respectively an Amend- 
ment be moved relating to the division of Esti- 
mates proposed to be considered on that day ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to 
the Question, by leaving out the second word 
“ first.” 

And the Question being put, That the second 
word “first” stand part of the Question :—It 
passed in the Negative. 

Then the Main Question, so amended, being 

ut; 
‘ Resolved, That whenever notice has been given 
that Estimates will be moved in Committee of 
Supply, and the Committee stands as the first 
Order of the Day upon any day except Thursday 
and Friday, on which Government Orders have 
precedence, the Speaker shall, when the Order for 
the Committee has been read, forthwith leave the 
Chair without putting any Question, and the 
House shall thereupon resolve itself into such 
Committee, unless on going into Committee on 
the Army, Navy, or Civil Service Estimates re- 
spectively an Amendment be moved relating to 
the division of Estimates proposed to be considered 
on that day. 


44. 
136. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to provide for the better arrangement of Divided 
Parishes and other Local Areas, and to make 
sundry Amendments in the Law relating to the 
Relief of the Poor in England: And that Mr. 
Sclater-Booth and Mr. Salt do prepare, and bring 


it in. ® 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to render valid Marriages heretofore solemnised in 
the Chapel of Ease of Saint James, in the Parish 
of Buxton, in the County of Derby: And that Sir 
Henry Selwin-Ibbetson and Mr. Secretary Cross 
do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Returns of all Cases which have occurred during 
the — Years in which British Naval Officers 


(7th—18th February. 





1876. 


on Foreign Stations have asked Government for 
Instructions in regard to Slaves who have taken 
Refuge on board their Vessels while in the Terri- 
torial Waters of Countries where Slavery is the 
Law of the Land: And, for the same period 
of Time, of all Cases relating to Fugitive Slaves 
which have ended in Actions being brought 
against British Naval Officers, of the Damages 
incurred, and of the Amount of Compensation 
= in each case by this Country on their be- 
alf. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Navy (Sale of 
a Return of all Sales of Provisions, being Naval Stores.) 


Stores, by or for the Admiralty, for the Two 
Years ending December 31st, 1875, showing when 
each Parcel sold was bought, of what it consisted, 
whether Beef, Pork, or Biscuit, and the Price 
paid for it; also the Date of its Sale, the Prices 
for which it was sold, and the Name of the Pur- 
chaser. 


Mr. Sclater-Booth presented a Bill to provide Poor Law 
for the better arrangement of Divided Parishes a 
and other Local Areas, and to make sundry 5. 


Amendments in the Law relating to the Relief o 
the Poor in Exgland: And the same was read the 
first time; and ordered to be read a second time 
upon Thursday the 9th day of March next; and 
to be printed. 


Sir Henry Selwin-Ibbetson presented a Bill to Marriages 
render valid Marriages heretofore solemnised in (Saint Jamey, 
the Chapel of Ease of Saint James, in the Parish Buxton.) 


of Buxton, in the County of Derby: And the same 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time this day ; and to be printed. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till a quarter of an hour before Two of the 
clock on Friday morning, adjourned till 
this day. 





Friday, 18th February, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 


Bill 79. 


M*® Speaker laid upon the Table,—Reports Private Bills 
from the Examiners of Petitions for Private (Standing 


Order 74 


Bills, That in the case of the following Bills, re- complied with) 


ferred on the First Reading thereof, Standing 
Order 74 has been complied with : 
Caledonian Railway (Additional Powers) Bill. 
— Railway (Grangemouth Harbour) 
ill. 

Chesterfield Water and Gas Bill. 

Colney Hatch Gas Bill. 

Derby Gas Bill. 

Folkestone Gas Bill. 

Forth Bridge Railway Bill. 

Gas Light and Coke Company Bill. 

Glasgow and Kilmarnock Joint Line and Cale- 
donian Railway Bill. 

Glasgow and South Western Railway Bill. 

Glasgow (City) Union Railway Bill. 

Great Eastern Railway Bill. 

Great Southern and Western Railway Bill. 

Great Western and Bristol and Exeter Railway 
Companies Bill. 

Halesowen and Bromsgrove Branch Railways 
Bill. 

Llanfyllin and Llangynog Railway Bill. 

London and South Western Railway (Exeter and 
Crediton and North Devon Railways) Bill. 
London and South Western Railway (Various 

Powers) Bill. 
London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Bill. 
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway 


Bill. 
Mertonethshire 








Sale of 


aw 
ment 


1 78, 





39 Vicrorta. 


Merionethshire Railway Bill. 

Metropolitan Railway Bill. 

Mid-Wales Railway Bill. 

“= British Railway (Additional Works, &amp;c.) 

ill. 

North British Railway (Fife Railways) Bill. 

North Staffordshire Railway Bill. 

Norwich (City) Water Bill. 

Scotswood, Newburn, and Wylam Railway and 
Dock Bill. 

Shepton Mallet Water Bill. 

South Alloa Dock Bill. 

Thames Tunnel Bill. 

Wakefield Water Bill. 

Whitehaven, Cleator, and Egremont Railway 
Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bills be read a second time. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 


i ill ° ad : 
poor tog * one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private 
Order 75 Bills, That in the case of the following Bill, re- 


complied with-) formed on the First Reading thereof, Standing 
Order, No. 75, has been complied with: 
Gorleston and Southtown Gas Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time. 


The Order, That the Spennymoor and Tudhoe 


ore Tedhoe Gas Bill be read a second time, was read, and dis- 
Gas Bill. charged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- 

miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 

Bristol United . Lhe Order, That the Bristol United Gas Bill 

Gas Bill. be read a second time, was read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- 

miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 

Standing Mr. Mowbray reported from the Select Com- 

Orders, mittee on Standing Orders, several Resolutions; 
which were read, as follow: 

a 1. That in the case of the Cleator and Working- 

Workington on Junction Railway Petition, the Standing 

Junction Orders ought to be dispensed with; that the 

aaieny. Parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill, 
provided that an amended copy of the sections be 
deposited in the office of the Clerk of the Peace 
for the County of Cumberland, and in the Private 
Bill Office; that the Committee on the Bill do 
report how far such Order has been complied with 
on the Report of the Bill. 

Mersey 2. That in the case of the Mersey Railway Pe- 

Railway, tition, the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed 
with; that the Parties be permitted to proceed 
with their Bill. 

Preston 3. That in the case of the Preston Tramways 

Tramways. Petition, the Standing Orders ought to be dis- 
pensed with; that the Parties be permitted to 
proceed with their Bill. 

Penarth, Sully, 4 That in the case of the Penarth, Sully, and 


and Cadoxton Cadoxton Railway Petition, the Standing Orders 
_ ought to be dispensed with; that the Parties be 
permitted to proceed with their Bill, provided that 
the powers contained in Clause 5 of the Bill for 
the construction of the Railways numbered 2 and 
3 be struck out of the same; that the Committee 
on the Bill do report how far such Order has been 
complied with on the Report of the Bill. 


Stockton and 5. That in the case of the Stockton and Middles- 
Middlesbrough brough Corporations Water Petition, the Standing 
Wie "* Orders ought to be dispensed with; that the 


Parties be permitted to — with their Bill. 
Rosstrevor 6. That in the case of the Rosstrevor Improve- 
Improvement, ment Petition, the Standing Orders ought to be 
dispensed with; that the Parties be permitted to 

roceed with their Bill, provided that the powers 

for the construction of Tramways be struck out 

of the Bill, unless proof be adduced of the con- 


sent of the Grand Jury of the County of Down to 

the construction of the Tramways mentioned in 

Clause 22 of the Bill; that the Committee on the 
VoL, 131. 


18th February. 








49 


Bill do report how far such Order has been com- 
plied with on the Report of the Bill. 

The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 


The House was moved, That the Report from Mersey 
the Select Committee on Standing Orders, in Railway. 
respect of the Petition for leave to bring in the 
Mersey Railway Bill, might be read ; and the same 
being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to authorise the Mersey Railway Company to make 
a Branch Railway in Liverpool, and for other pur- 
poses: And that Mr. Rathbone and Mr. Maclver 
do prepare, and bring it in. 


The House was moved, That the Report from Penarth, Sully, 
the Select Committee on Standing Orders, in snd Cadoxton 
respect of the Petition for leave to bring in the — 
Penarth, Sully, and Cadoxton Railway Bill, might 
be read; and the same being read; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to incorporate a Company for the Construction 
of the Penarth, Sully, and Cadoxton Railway, and 
for other purposes: And that Colonel Clive and 
Viscount ewport do prepare, and bring it in. 


The House was moved, That the Report of the Preston 
Select Committee on Standing Orders, in respect Tramways. 
of the Petition for leave to bring in the Preston 
i Bill, might be read ; and the same being 
read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to incorporate the Preston Tramways Company, 
and to authorise the Construction of Tramways 
in the Borough of Preston and the adjacent Town- 
ship of Fulwood, both in the County of Lancaster, 
and for other purposes: And that Mr. Clifton and 
Mr. Gorst do prepare, and bring it in. 


The House was moved, That the Report from stockton and 
the Select Committee on Standing Orders, in Middlesbrough 
respect of the Petition for leave to bring in the yrporations 
Stockton and Middlesbrough Corporations Water ; 

Bill, might be read; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for supplying with Water the Boroughs of Stockton- 
on- Tees and Middlesbrough, &amp;c.: And that Mr. 

Milbank, Mr. Pease, Mr. Bolchow, Mr. Dodds, and 
Major Beaumont do prepare, and bring it in. 


The House was moved, That the Report from cjeator and 
the Select Committee on Standing Orders, in Workington 
respect of the Petition for leave to bring in the ee 
Cleator and Workington Junction Railway Bill, “”~"™ 
might be read; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to authorise the Construction of Railways in Cum- 
berland, to be called the Cleator and Workington 
Junction Railway: And that Mr. Percy Wynd- 
ham and Mr. Fletcher do prepare, and bring it in. 


The House was moved, That the Report from Rosstrevor 
the Select Committee on Standing Orders, in Improvement. 
respect of the Petition for leave to bring in the 
Rosstrevor Improvement Bill, might be read; and 
the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to authorise the construction of a Pier, Carriage 
Road or Promenade, Tramway, and Waterworks, 
at or near Rosstrevor, in the County of Down: And 
that Lord Edwin Hill-Trevor and Mr. Close do 
prepare, and bring it in. 


Several Public Petitions were 


, resented, and public 
read; and ordered to lie upon the 


able. Petitions. 


H A Petition —” 




















50 


A Petition of the Trustees of the British Museum 
being offered to be presented ; 

Lord John Manners, by Her Majesty’s Com- 
mand, acquainted the House, That Her Majesty, 
having been informed of the contents of the said 
Petition, recommends it to the consideration of 
the House. 

Then the said Petition was brought up, and 
read; setting forth, That the only Funds belong- 
ing to the Petitioners for the support of the British 
Museum consist of Thirty thousand pounds Three 
per cent. Reduced Bank Annuities, the annual di- 
vidend whereof amounts to Nine hundred pounds ; 
of a Bequest of the late Earl of Bridgewater, the 
annual proceeds of which amount to about Four 
hundred and twenty-five pounds; and also of a 
Bequest of the late Lord Farnborough, the annual 
proceeds of which amount to Eighty-six pounds 
three shillings and five-pence; that the Establish- 
ment is necessarily attended with an Expense far 
beyond the annual produce of the above-mentioned 
Sums, and the Trust cannot, with benefit to the 
Public, be carried on without the aid of Parlia- 
ment; and praying the House to grant them such 
further support towards enabling them to carry on 
the execution of the Trust reposed in them by 


18th February. 





Parliament for the general benefit of learning and 
useful knowledge, as to the House shall seem meet. 

Ordered, That the said Petition do lie upon the 
Table. 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to the Friendly 
Societies Act, 1875, which was presented upon the 
No. 4g, 8th day of this instant February, be printed. 


Army Ordered, That the Army (Appropriation Ac- 
(Appropriation count), which was presented upon the 17th day of 


Account.) this instant February, be printed. 
No. 49. 


Navy (H.M.S. 
“ Vanguard.”’) 
No. 50, 


Friendly 
Societies Act, 
1875. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Navy 
(H. M.S. * Vanguard”), which was presented upon 
the 17th day of this instant February, be printed. 


Mr. Secretary Cross presented, pursuant to the 
directions of an Act of Parliament,—Return of 
Committals from the Clerks of the Crown and the 
Clerks of the Peace for the several Counties, &amp;c., 
in Jreland, for 1875. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Metropolitan Mr. William Henry Smith presented, pursuant 
Improvements. to the direction of an Act of Parliament,—State- 
ment of the Advances for Metropolitan Improve- 
ments out of the Consolidated Fund to the Com- 
missioners of Her Majesty’s Works, &amp;c., and of the 
Moneys paid into the Consolidated Fund, between 
the Ist of January and the 31st of December 1875. 
Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Algernon Egerton presented,—Return to an 
Order, dated the 17th day of this instant February, 
for Returns relative to Fugitive Slaves. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Committals 
( Ireland.) 


Fugitive 
Slaves. 








Reports and The following Paper was laid upon the Table 
Returns (1874 by the Clerk of the House,—Return to an Order, 
and 1875.) dated the 11th day of August, in the last Session | 
of Parliament, for Returns for Session 1874 and| 
and 1875 of all Reports and Returns presented in | 
Dummy to this House, in the following Form:—- | 





Date of | 
Actual Delivery. 


Title 
of Paper. 


Date of Presentation 
on Dummy. 





February 
March 
April 
May 

June 
July 
August - 


| 











1876. 


The following Paper, pursuant to the directions Augmentation 
of an Act of Parliament, was .also laid upon the of Benefices. 
Table by the Clerk of the House,—Return of Pro- 
ceedings under the Lord Chancellor’s Augmenta- 
tion of Benefices Act, from the 18th March 1875 
to the 18th February 1876. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Landlord and 
a Return giving the Amount awarded in Com- i 
pensation under the Third Clause of the Land Act, oe at: 
since the passing of the Act, showing the Amount 
in each County, and distinguishing between the 
Sums awarded as Compensation for Improvements 
and the Sums awarded as Compensation for Dis- 
turbance. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Belfast (Slob 
a Copy from the Board of Trade, of all Memorials 14.) 
received from, and Correspondence with, Mr. 
William Bany Ritchie,m.D., of Belfast, relative to 
Reclamation of Slob Land in the Lough of Belfast; 
and also with the Belfast Harbour Commissioners 
relative to the said Slob Land. 


Mr. Speaker informed the House, That he had Controverted 
received from Mr. Justice Quain, one of the Judges Elections. 
selected, pursuant to the Parliamentary Elections 
Act, 1868, for the Trial of Election Petitions, a 
Certificate and Report relating to the Election . 

For the Borough of Horsham. 

And the same was read, as followeth :— 

The Parliamentary Elections Act, 1868. 


To the Right Honourable The Speaker 
of the House of Commons. 


Horsham 
Election. 


Sir. 

I, Sir John Richard Quain, Knight, one of the 
Judges of Her Majesty’s High Court of Justice, 
and one of the Judges for the time being on the 
rota for the Trial of Election Petitions in England, 
do hereby, in pursuance of the said Act, certify as 
follows :— 

1, That upon Monday, Tuesday, and Wednes- 
day, the 14th, 15th, and 16th days of February 
1876, I duly held a Court at the Town Hall, in the 
Borough of Horsham, in the County of Sussex, for 
the Trial of, and did try the Parliamentary Elec- 
tion Petition for the Borough of Horsham, between 
John Aldridge, Petitioner, and Robert Henry Hurst, 
Respondent. 

2. The Petition prayed that it might be de- 
termined that the said Robert Henry Hurst was 
not duly elected or returned, and that his Election 
and Return were wholly null and void, and that the 
Petitioner, the said John Aldridge, was duly elected 
and ought to have been returned. ;, 

3. During the Trial of the said Petition, and 
before the conclusion thereof, the Petitioner by 
his Counsel withdrew so much of the prayer of his 
Petition as prayed that it might be determined 
that he was duly elected and ought to have been 
returned, and at the same time the Counsel for 
the sitting Member declined to proceed with the 
recriminatory case of which notice had been given. 

4, At the conclusion of the said Trial I de- 
termined that the said Robert Henry Hurst, being 
the Member whose Election and Return were 
complained of in the said Petition, was not duly 
elected or returned, and that his Election and 
Return were and are wholly void. I also de- 
termined that the said John Aldridge the Peti- 
tioner was not duly elected, and I do hereby 
certify in writing such my determination to you. 

And whereas the Petition contained charges of 
corrupt practices having been committed at the 
said Election, I, in further pursuance of the said 
Act, report as follows :— 

(a.) That no corrupt practice was proved to 
have been committed by or with the 
knowledge 









ad 


Leave of 
Absence. 


Supply. 


Referees on 
Private Bills. 


f 


q 





39 Victoria. 


knowledge or consent of any Candidate 
at such Election ; 

(b.) That one person, namely, Hammond 
Davis, Solicitor, of Horsham, and one 
of the firm of “ Medwin and Co.,” 


Solicitors of that town, who were the’ 


acknowledged Agents of the said Robert 
Henry Hurst for conducting and manag- 
ing the said Election, was proved at the 
trial of the said Petition to have been 
guilty of corrupt practices, namely, 
bribery. The bribery consisted in 
writing letters in the name of his firm 
of “ Medwin and Co.” to two voters 
residing away from Horsham, in which 
he offered to pay the travelling ex- 
penses of those voters if they would 
come to Horsham and vote for the said 
Robert Henry Hurst; 

(c.) That there is no reason to believe that 
corrupt practices have extensively pre- 
vailed at the Election for the said 
Borough of Horsham to which the said 
Petition relates. 


Dated this 18th day of February 1876. 
J. R. Quain. 


And the said Certificate and Report were 
ordered to be entered in the Journals of this 
House. 


Ordered, That Mr. Russell Gurney have leave 
of absence for six weeks, on account of ill health. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave 
the Chair ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the 
words, “a Select Committee be appointed to in- 
quire and report on the position of the Referees 
“of the House on Private Bills, and particularly 
“as to the legality and expediency of allowing the 
“ Referees the same power of voting on a Private 
* Bill Committee as a Member of Parliament 
“regularly elected by a constituency,” instead 
thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Ques- 
tion:—It passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being put, That the words, “a 
Select Committee be appointed to inquire and re- 
port on the position of the Referees of the House 
on Private Bills, and particularly as to the legality 
and expediency of allowing the Referees the same 
power of voting on a Private Bill Committee as a 
Member of Parliament regularly elected by a con- 
stituency,” be added, instead thereof :—It was re- 
solved in the Affirmative. 

Then the Main Question, so amended, being put; 

Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed 
to inquire and report on the position of the Re- 
ferees of the House on Private Bills, and particu- 
larly as to the legality and expediency of allowing 
the Referees the same power of voting on a Private 
Bill Committee as a Member of Parliament regu- 
larly elected by a constituency. 


Resolved, That this House will, immediately, re- 
solve itself into the Committee of Supply:—The 
House accordingly resolved itself into the Com- 
mittee. 


(In the Committee.) 


1. £.43,489, for the Offices of the House of 
Lords. 
VoL, 131, 


18zh February. 


51 


2. £.50,006, for the Offices of the House of 
Commons. 

3. £. 58,010, for the Salaries and Expenses in 
the Department of Her aaa a Treasury. 


4. £.90,178, for the Home Department. 
_ 5. £.63,196, for the Department of Her Ma- 
jesty’s Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. 

_ 6. £.34,755, for the Department of Her Ma- 
jesty’s Secretary of State for the Colonies. 

7. £. 145,958, for the Privy Council for Trade 
and Subordinate Departments. 

8. Motion made, and Question put, That a Sum 
not exceeding £.2,773, be granted to Her Ma- 
jesty, to defray the Charge which will come in 
course of payment during the year ending on the 
31st day of March 1877, for the Salaries and Ex- 
penses of the Office of the Lord Privy Seal; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the { Sir William Dyke, . 

Yeas, Mr. Rowland Winn: } 145. 

Tellers for the f Mr. Monk, 

Noes, Mr. James: } 50. 

9. £. 33,500, for the Charity Commission for 
England and Wales. 

10. Motion made, and Question proposed, That 
a Sum, not exceeding £. 22,893, be granted to Her 
Majesty, to defray the Charge which will come 
in course of payment during the year ending on 
the 3lst day of March 1877, for the Salaries and 
Expenses of the Civil Service Commission : 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question put, 
That a Sum, not exceeding £. 21,193, be granted 
to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge which will 
come in course of payment during the year ending 
on the 31st day of March 1877, for the Salaries 
and Expenses of the Civil Service Commission ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the ; Mr. Macdonald, 62 

Yeas, {Mr Meldon: } . 

Tellers for the f Sir William Dyke, \ 

Noes, 1 Mr. Rowland Winn: J 87. 

Original Question again proposed : 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question put, 
That a Sum, not exceeding £. 22,393, be granted 
to: Her Majesty, to defray the Charge which will 
come in course of payment during the year ending 
on the 31st day of March 1877, for the Salaries 
and Expenses of the Civil Service Commission ; 

The Genusttien divided. 


Tellers for the; Mr. Mundella, 
Yeas, \ Mr. Anderson: 63. 
Tellers for the (Sir William Dyhe, » 
Noes, { Mr. Rowland Winn: } 79. 
Original Question put, and agreed to. 
11. £. 18,619, for the Office of the Copyhold, 
Inclosure, and Tithe Commission. 
12. £. 8,600, for the Imprest Expenses under 
the Inclosure and Drainage Acts. 
13. £. 46,065, for the Comptroller and Auditor 
General of the Exchequer. 
_14. £.4,496, for the Registry of Friendly So- 
cieties. 
15. Motion made, and Question proposed, That 
a Sum, not exceeding £. 693,287, be granted to 
Her Majesty, to defray the Charge which will 
come in course of payment during the year ending 
on the 31st day of March 1877, for the Salaries 
and Expenses of the Local Government Board, 
including various Grants in aid of Local Taxation : 
Whereupon Motion made, and Question pro- 
posed, That a Sum, not exceeding £. 692,287, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 31st day of March 1877, for 
the Salaries and Expenses of the Local Govern- 
ment Board, including various Grants in aid of 
Local Taxation; 
Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Chairman do report Progress, and ask leave to 





sit again :—Motion, by leave, withdrawn. 
H 2 Question 





52 


Question again proposed, That a Sum, not ex- 
ceeding £. 692,287, be granted to Her Majesty, 
to defray the Charge which will come in course of 
payment during the year ending on the 31st day 
of March 1877, for the Salaries and Expenses of 
the Local Government Board, including various 
Grants in aid of Local Taxation :—Motion, by 
leave, withdrawn. 

Original Question put, and agreed to. 

16. £. 15,026, for the Commissioners in Lunacy 
in England. 

17. £. 50,250, for the Mint, including Expenses 
of the Coinage. 

18. £. 17,334, for the National Debt Office. 


Resolutions to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. 
Raikes reported, That the Committee had come to 
several Resolutions. 

Ordered, That the Report be received upon 
Monday next. 

Mr. Raikes also acquainted the House, that he 
was directed to move, That the Committee may 
have leave to sit again. 

Resvlved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Commons Bill ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a second 
time; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That,” to 
the end of the Question, in order to add the words, 
‘** this House considers that the Bill does not pro- 
“‘ vide sufficient facilities for the Regulation and 
“ Improvement of Commons in their present open 
** condition, and is of opinion that, after the recent 
“ decisions given in regard to Epping Forest and 
** other cases, where inclosures have been illegally 
“and arbitrarily made, no inclosures should be 
“‘ nermitted except under the special sanction of 
és Parliament,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being proposed, That the 
words proposed to be left out stand part of the 
Question ; 


Commons Bill, 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Saturday morning ; 


Saturday, 19th February, 1876: 


The said proposed Amendment was, with leave of 
the House, withdrawn. 

Ordered, That the Bill be now read a se- 
cond time:—The Bill was accordingly read a 
second time ; and committed to a Committee of the 
whole House for Thursday the 2nd day of March 
next, 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Council of India (Professional 
Appointments) Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Ways and Means ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Council of 
India ( Pro- 
fessiona. Ap- 


gee 
ill. 


Ways and 
Means. 


Marriages The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
(Saint James, Reading of the Marriages ( Saint James, Buzton) 
Buxton) Bill. R3)] ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Newspaper Registration, &amp;c. 
Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


18¢h—19th—21st February. 





1876. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Oyster 
Reading of the Oyster Fisheries Bill ; Fisheries Bil. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


being read, for the Com- Municipal 


Officers Superannuation Officers Super. 
annuation Bil], 


The Order of the da 
mittee on the Munisioal 
Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
the 7th day of March next, resolve itself into the 
said Committee. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Medical 
to enable legally qualified Medical Practitioners Pr¢titioners, 
to hold certain Public Medical Appointments, and 
to amend the Medical Act: And that Mr. Gibson, 
Dr. Cameron, Mr. Mulholland, and Dr. Ward do 
prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Grand Jury 
to amend the Law relating to Grand Juries in aon ae 
Ireland: And that Mr. Kavanagh, Mr. Gibson, Mr. mous (Hoctenll) 
Ormsby Gore, and Mr. Mulholland do prepare, and 
bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill civil Bin 
to extend the Jurisdiction of the Courts for hear- Courts 
ing Civil Bill Causes in Jreland, and for other sarees 
purposes relating thereto: And that Mr. Solicitor 
General for Ireland and Sir Michael Hicks Beach 
do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Gibson presented a Bill to amend the Law Grand Jury 
relating to Grand Juries in Jreland: And the same 1@w Amend. 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read —y ny 
a second time upon Wednesday next; and to be iii go, 


printed. 


Mr. Gibson presented a Bill to enable legally Medical 
qualified Medical Practitioners to hold certain Practitioners 
Public Medical Appointments, and to, amend the 2" 
Medical Act: And the same was read the first Bill 81. 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time upon 
Thursday next; and to be printed. 


Mr. Solicitor General for Zreland presented a civil Bil 
Bill to extend the Jurisdiction of the Courts for Courts _ 
hearing Civil Bill Causes in Ireland, and for other ‘elan¢) Bill 
purposes relating thereto: And the same was read Bill 82. 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time upon Monday the 6th day of March next; 
and to ie printed. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till half an hour after One of the clock on 
Saturday morning, adjourned till Monday 
next. 








Monday, 21st February, 1876. 


PRAYERS, 
\ Brighton Borough Extension of Muni- 
cipal to Parliamentary Limits Bill was read 
a second time; and committed. 


Brighton 
Borough 
Extension of 
Municipal to 
Parliamentary 
Limits Bill. 
The Bundoran and Sligo Railway Bill was read Bundoran and 


a second time; and committed. Sligo Railway 


The Burntisland Burgh Bill was read a second meg 


time; and committed. an SS 


The Burntisland Direct Mineral Railway Bill 
was read a second time; and committed. 


Burntisland 
Direct Mineral 
Railway Bill. 
The Burry Port and North Western Junction Burry Portas 
Railway Bill was read a second time; and com- North Wests 


° Junction 
mitted. way Bill. 


The Campbeltown Burgh and Harbour Bill was on 


read a second time ; and committed. me ms ate Bil 








Bill. 


Super. 
. Bill. 


ry 
nd. 


nd. 
eland) 


30. 


ners 


1, 


32. 


n of 
1 to 
ntary 


lway 





39 Vicroria. 


Caterham and ‘The Caterham and Godstone Valley Railway 
Godstone _—«- Bill was read a second time ; and committed. 

Valley Railway 

= The Chesterfield Borough Extension and Im- 
Chesterfield al d d ti : d 
Borough provement Bill was read a second time; and com- 
Extension and ynitted. 

Improvement 

Bill. 


The Coombe Hill Canal Navigation Bill was read 


Coombe Hill ” : 
pe Naviga- a second time; and committed. 
tion Bill. 
The Dewsbury and Heckmondwike Water Bill 
Dewsbury and . 


Heckmondwike Was read a second time ; and committed. 
Water Bill. 
The Dunfermline Water Bill was read a second 


Dunfermline : 7 

Water Bill. time; and committed. 

Golden Valley ‘Lhe Golden Valley Railway Bill was read a se- 
Railway Bill. cond time ; and committed. 

Halifax Water Lhe Halifax Water and Gas Extension Bill was 
and Gas Ex- read a second time; and committed. 

tension Bill. 

Hornsea Pier The Hornsea Pier Bill was read a second time; 
Bill. and committed. 


HoveExtension The Hove Extension and Improvement Bill was 


and Improve- read a second time ; and committed. 

ment Bill. 

Huddersfield The Huddersfield Water and Improvement Bill 
Water and was read a second time; and committed. 

Improvement 

Bill. , 

Humber The Humber Conservancy Bill was read a second 
Conservancy time; and committed. 

Bill. 

Kildwick The Kildwick Parish Gas Bill was read a second 
Putt Gas time; and committed. 

Kilsyth and Ordered, That the Kilsyth and Falkirk Railway 
Falkirk Rail- Bill be read a second time upon Friday the 10th 
wee day of March next. 

Kirkcaldy The Kirkealdy Burgh and Harbour Bill was 
Burghand read a second time; and committed. 

Harbour Bill. 

Lancaster The Lancaster Water and Improvement Bill 
Water and = was read a second time ; and committed. 

ee 

Stents The Leicester Improvement Bill was read a se- 


Improvement cond time; and committed. 
Bill. 


The Littlehampton Water Bill was read a second 
time ; and committed. 


Mersey Docks © The Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Bill was 


and Harbour . e ; 
Board Bill read a second time; and committed. 


Littlehampton 
Water Bill. 


Merthyr Tydfil 
and Rhondda 
Valley Junc- 
tion Railway 
Bill. 


The Merthyr Tidfil and Rhondda Valley Junc- 
tion Railway Bill was read a second time; and 
committed. 


Metropolitan Ordered, That the Metropolitan Board of Works 
Poard of Works Bill be read a second time upon Thursday next. 


Newport(Mon- The Vewport (Monmouthshire) Improvement 


manage Bill was read a second time; and committed. 
— 

ul, 
North East The North East Worcestershire Water Bill was 


Worcestershire read a second time ; and committed. 


Water Bill. 

Oldbury Local The Oldbury Local Board of Health Bill was 
—. read a second time; and committed. 

Padiham and © Lhe Padiham and Hapton Local Board Bill was 


Hapton Local read a second time; and committed. 
Board Bill, : 


Water The Paisley Water Bill was read a second time ; 
and committed. 

Queenborough i 

me The Queenborough Harbour Bill was read a 


second time ; and committed. 
Vou. 131. 


21st February. 53 


The Ramsgate Local Board Bill was read a Ramsgate 
second time; and committed. og Board 
The Romsey Extension and Improvement Bill ana P 
was read a second time; and committed. emeneanand 
Bill. 
Ordered, That the Ruthin and Cerrig-y-Druidion ee aud 
: : . errig-y- 
age Bill be read a second time upon Monday p&gt;" pai. 
the 6th day of March next. way Bill. 
The Sittingbourne and Maidstone Railway Bill pe aw 
; P : and Maidstone 
was read a second time ; and committed. Railway Bill. 
The Sittingbourne and Sheerness Railway Bill Sittingbourne 
was read a second time; and committed. Galway BE 
The Smethwick Local Board Bill was read a Smethwick 
second time; and committed. a Board 
lil, 
The South Hants Water Bill was read a second south Hants 
time ; and committed. Water Bill. 


The Southport Improvement Bill was read a Southport 
second time; and committed. ——- 
lil. 
The Southwold Railway Bill was read a second Southwold 
time ; and committed. Railway Bill. 


The Stafford Borough Extension Bill was read Stafford 
a second time; and committed. Borough 
Extension Bill. 
The Stockton-on-Tees Markets Bill was read a Stockton-on- 
second time; and committed. ia Markets 
The Stonehouse Pool Improvement Bill was Stonehouse 
read a second time; and committed. Pool Improve- 
ment Bill. 
The Tipton Local Board Bill was read a second Tipton Local 
time ; and committed. Board Bill. 


The Tyne Improvement Bill was read a second Tyne Raaquove- 
time ; and committed. ment Bill. 


The Upper Inny Drainage Bill was read a second aes _* 
time ; and committed. rainage Bill. 


The Uppingham Water Bill was read a second Uppingham 
time ; and committed. Weter 28. 


The Walsall Gas Purchase and Borough Ex- Walsall Gas 


° . ° Purchase and 
tension Bill was read a second time; and com- Borough Ex- 


mitted. tension Bill. 
The West Bromwich Improvement Bill was read West . 
d time ; and committed - aomattne 
a secon 3 ° Improvement 
Bill. 


The Westerham Valley Railway Bill was read a be age 
second time ; and committed. = 


The West Kent Main Sewerage Bill was read a bn Kent 
second time ; and committed. | Sewerage 


The West Riding and Lancashire Railways Bill Wet Riding 
was read a second time; and committed. Railways Bill. 
A Bill to authorise the construction of a Pier, Rosstrevor 
Carriage-road or Promenade, Tramway, and _— 
Waterworks at or near Rosstrevor, in the County 
of Down, was read the first time ; and ordered to 

be read a second time. 


A Bill to authorise the Mersey Railway Com- Mersey Rail 
pany to make a Branch Railway in Liverpool, and “*Y ©" 
for other purposes, was read the first time; and 


referred to the Examiners of Petitions for Private 
Bills. 


A Bill for supplying with Water the Boroughs Stockton and 


of Stockton-on-Tees and Middlesbrough, &amp;c., was ee 
orporations. 


read the first time; and ordered to be read a Water Bill, 








second time. 
H3 A Bill 


54 


A Bill to authorise the construction of Railways 
in Cumberland, to be called the Cleator and Work- 
ington Junction Railway, was read the first time ; 
and ordered to be read a second time. 


Cleator and 


Workington 
Junction Rail- 
way Bill. 


A Bill to incorporate the Preston Tramways 
Company, and to authorise the construction of 
Tramways in the Borough of Preston and the ad- 
jacent Township of Fulwood, both in the County 
of Lancaster, and for other purposes, was read the 
first time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


Preston Tram- 
ways Bill. 


Penarth, Sully, 
an struction of the Penarth, Sully, and Cadoxton 
— Railway, and for other purposes, was read the first 


time; and ordered to be read a second time. 


21st February. 


A Bill to incorporate a Company for the con- | 


1876. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Reports Reports ana 
and Returns (1874 and 1875), which was pre- Returns (Igy 
sented upon the 18th day of this instant February, 4 1875.) 
be printed. No. 53, 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Aug- Augmentation 
mentation of Benefices, which was presented upon ° Benefices, 
the 18th day of this instant February, be printed. No. 64, 


Mr. Secretary Cross presented, by Her Majesty’s Factories. 
Command,—Copy of Reports of the Inspectors of 
Factories to Her Majesty’s Principal Secretar 
of State for the Home Department, for the Halt. 
| year ending 31st October 1875. 
| Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 





Private Bills 
(Standing 
Order 74 com- 
plied with.) 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private | 
Bills, That in the case of the following Bills, | 
referred on the First Reading thereof, Standing 
Order, No, 74, has been complied with :— 

Dublin (City) Steam Packet Company Bill. 

Whitehaven Harbour and Town Improvement 

Bill. 

Ramsgate Water Bill. 

Thanet Gas Bill. 

Cleveland Water Bill. 

Stockton and Middlesbrough Water Bill. 

London and Blackwall Railway Bill. 

Metropolitan Inner Circle Completion Railway 

Bijl. 

East Norfolk Railway Bill. 

York New Water Bill. 

Ely, Haddenham, and Sutton Railway Bill. 

Severn Bridge and Forest of Dean Central Rail- 

way Bill. 

Pegwell Bay Reclamation Bill. 

Charnwood Forest Railway Bill. 

Manchester and Milford Railway Bill. 

East London Railway Bill. 

North Eastern Railway Bill. 

Didcot, Newbury, and Southampton Junction 

Railway Bill. 
Gorsedda Junction and Portmadoc Railways 
Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bills be read a second time. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private 
Bills, That in the case of the following Bills, 
referred on the First Reading thereof, Standing 
Order, No. 75, has been complied with :-— 

British Gas Light Company (Hull Station) Bill. 

Redcar and Coatham Gas Bill. 

Slaithwaite Gas Bill. 

Sevenoaks Gas Bill. 

Bolton Junctions Railway Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bills be read a second time. 


Private Bills 
(Standing 
Order 75 com- 
plied with.) 


Sir Charles Forster reported from the Select 
Committee on Public Petitions; That they had 
examined the Petitions presented upon the 16th, 
17th, and 18th days of this instant February, and 
had directed him to make a Report thereof to the 
House. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Public 
Petitions. 
Vide Third 
Report. 
Deputy 
Lieutenants. 
No. 52 . 
Fugitive 
Slaves. 
No. 61. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Deputy 
Lieutenants, which was presented upon the 10th 
day of this instant February, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Fugitive 
Slaves, which was presented upon the 18th day of 
this instant February, be printed. 





Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Valuation of 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased Lands (Scot. 
to give directions, that there be laid before this ae, 

ouse, a Copy of Instructions issued by the Lord 
Clerk Register of Scotland under the Act 17 and 
18 Vie. c. 91, for ensuring uniformity in the Re- 
turns of the Valuation Rolls of Lands and Heri- 
tages in Scotland; also a List of the Valuation 
Rolls of the several Counties and Burghs received 
under that Act by the Lord Clerk Register, and 
for what Years; also List of the Rolls not so re- 
ceived, of what Counties and Burghs, and for what 
Years, explaining why not called for; also a De- 
scription of the Arrangements made for the due 
Preservation of these Rolls in the General Regis- 
ter House of Scotland, stating any defects, if such 
exist, in the Arrangements, and whether the Rolls 
have been transmitted in all respects uniform in 
form and dimensions, 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Municipal 

to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased a 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return, in the subjoined Form, of all 
Municipal Officers, Clerks, Servants, or other 
Persons in the Boroughs of Liverpool, Manchester, 
Salford, Birmingham, and Bristol who might, 
under the provisions of the Municipal Officers 
Superannuation Bill, be now entitled to receive 
Superannuation Allowances :— 





of 


Nature of Office or 
Holder 


Occupation. 
Amount of Salary. 
Other Emoluments 


enjoyed in addition 


Name of the pre- 
to Salary. 


sent 
Office. 




















Resolved, That an humble Address be presented prisoners in 

to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased Gaol. 

to give directions, that there be laid before this 

House, a Return of all Prisoners in England and 

Wales awaiting Trial by Assize Courts who were 

in various Gaols at the time of the last Winter 
Circuits, and will remain so until the Spring 

Assizes, with the Dates of their Committal. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be a Artizans 


to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased Dwellings 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Returns from the Commissioners of Sewers, 
from the Metropolitan Board of Works, and from 
such Urban Sanitary Authorities as have received 
Official Representations under the Artizans and 
Labourers Dwellings Improvement Act, 1874, of 
the Number of Official Representations made to 
them; of the Number, Size, and Locality of the 
| Areas to which they relate ; of the Number, Size, 
and Locality of the Areas regarding which Resolu- 
tions (under Section 3) have been passed, or for 
which 








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Navy: 
No. 55. 


Honduras : 
(No. 2, 1876.) 


Leave of 
Absence. 


Supply. 


Supply [18th 
February. ] 


if 


q 


z 
fi 


39 VicTOoRIA. 


which Improvement Schemes have been made; 
and of the stage which each Improvement Scheme 
has reached ; giving the Date of each Official Re- 
presentation, of each Resolution, and of each Im- 
rovement Scheme :—— And, from the Metropo- 
tan Board of Works of any appointment under 
Section 13 of the Artizans and Labourers Dwel- 
lings Improvement Act, 1875, of a Medical Officer 
or Officers for the purpose of carrying the Act 
into operation, and of the Amount of his or their 
Remuneration. 


Mr. Algernon Egerton presented, by Her Ma- 
jesty’s Command,—Navy Estimates for the year 
1876-77, with Appendix. [Account of Naval Old 
Store Moneys at Extra Receipts in 1874-75. | 

Ordered, That the said Estimates be referred to 
the Committee of Supply; and be printed. 


Mr. Bourke presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- 
mand,—Copy of Correspondence with Sefior Gu- 
tierrez on the subject of the Report of the Select 
Committee of the House of Commons on Foreign 
Loans. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Ordered, That Mr. Dowdeswell have leave of 
absence for the Session, on account of ill health; 
and Mr. William Maitland for a fortnight, on ac- 
count of domestic affliction. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into the Committee of Supply. 


(In the Committee.) 


Question again proposed, That a Sum, not ex- 
ceeding £.4,080,000, be granted to Her Majesty, 
to enable Her Majesty to pay the Purchase 
Money of the Shares which belonged to the Khe- 
dive of Egypt in the Suez Canal, and the Expenses 
attendant thereon, which will come in course of 
payment during the year ending on the 31st day 
of March 1876. 

Question put, and agreed to. 


Resolution to be reported. 





And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Tuesday morning ; 


Tuesday, 22nd February, 1876: 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had come to a Re- 
solution. 

Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 

Mr. Raikes also acquainted the House, that he 
was directed to move, That the Committee may 
have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Com- 
mittee. 


The Order of the day being read, for receiving 
the Report from the Committee of Supply ; 

Ordered, That the Report be received upon 
Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Council of India (Professional Ap- 
pointments) Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Ways and Means; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednes- 
da mag ~ enim itself into the said Committee. 
OL. 131. 


Q1st—22nd February. 


55 


The United Parishes (Scotland) Bill was, ac- United 
cording to Order, read a second time; and com- &gt; a 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for 


this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Newspaper 
Reading of the N ewspaper Registration, &amp;c. Bill; Seana 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time ~~ 
upon Friday next. 
The Order of the day being read, for the Second Oyster __ 
Reading of the Oyster Fisheries Bill ; Fisherico BG. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday next. 


Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant Horsham Writ. 
to the Clerk of the Crown, to make out:a new 
Writ for the Election of a Member to serve in this 
present Parliament for the Borough of Horsham, 
in the room of Robert Henry Hurst, Esquire, whose 
Election has been determined to be void. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Tenant Right 
to facilitate the proof of the Ulster Tenant Right ype a 
Custom at the Expiration of Leases in certain (jreland.) 
cases: And that Mr. Mulholland, Lord Edwin 
Hill- Trevor, Marquis of Hamilton, Captain Corry, 


and Mr. Chaine do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented a Bill to Royal Titles 
enable Her Most Gracious Majesty to make an Bill. 
addition to the Royal Style and Titles appertaining — Bill 83. 
to the Imperial Crown of the United Kingdom and 

its Dependencies: And the same was read the 

first time; and ordered to be read a second time 

upon Thursday the 2nd day of March next; and 

to be printed. 


Mr. Mulholland presented a Bill to facilitate the Tenant Right 
proof of the Ulster Tenant Right Custom at the Ex- at pay 
piration of Leases in certain cases: And the same (Ireland) Bill, 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a Bill 84 
second time upon Monday the 6th day of March . 


next; and to be printed. 


The Order for reading a second time, upon Fri- Metropolis 
day next, the Metropolis Gas Companies Bill, was Gas Com 
read, and Sntegit — 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday the 10th day of March next. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till a quarter of an hour before One of the 
clock on Tuesday morning, adjourned till 
this day. 











Tuesday, 22nd February, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 


RDERED, That the Chichester and Mid- Chichester and 
hurst Railway Bill be read a second time ae Rail- 
upon Thursday next. _ 


Ordered, That the Great Yarmouth and Stalham Great 
(Light) Railway Bill be read a second time upon ang and 
Tuesday the 14th day of March next. (Light) Rail- 
way Bill. 

The Lynn and Fakenham Railway Bill was Lynn ana 


read a second time ; and committed. Fakenham 
, Railway Bill. 


Mr. Mowbray reported from the Select Com- Standing 
mittee on Standing Orders, several Resolutions ; Orr. 
which were read, as follow: 

1. That in the case of the North and South North and 
(Gravesend Tunnel) Junction Railway Petition, iTea 
the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed with ; Junction 
that. the parties be permitted to proceed with Railway. 
their Bill. 

2. That 


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Epping Forest 
Bill. 


Epping Forest 
Bill. 


North and 
South (Graves- 
end Tunnel) 
Junction 
Railway. 


Plymouth 
Dock (Devon- 
port) Water. 


Private Bills 
(Standing 
Order 74 com- 
plied with.) 


Public 
Petitions. 


Vide Third 
Report. 
East India 
(Tariff Act, 
1875.) 


No. 56. 


Army (Half 
Pay Officers.) 


Agricultural 
Statistics, 
Emigration, 
&amp;c. (Lreland.) 


56 
2. That in the case of the Epping Forest Bill, 
the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed with ; 
that the Bill be permitted to proceed. 
The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 


The House was moved, That the Report from 
the Select Committee on Standing Orders, in the 
case of the Epping Forest Bill, might be read; 
and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
To-morrow. 


The House was moved, That the Report from 
the Select Committee on Standing Orders, in 
respect of the Petition for leave to bring in the 
North and South (Gravesend Tunnel) Junction 
Railway Bill, might be read; and the same being 
read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to authorise the Construction of a Railway for 
connecting with each other the Railways North 
and South of the River Thames (with a Tunnel 
for carrying the Railway under that River near 
Gravesend), and for other purposes: And that 
Captain Pim and Mr. James do prepare, and 
bring it in. 


A Petition of the Company of Proprietors of 
the Plymouth Dock Waterworks, for leave to 
bring in a Bill for conferring further Powers 
on the Company of Proprietors of the Plymouth 
Dock Waterworks, for the supply of Water, and 
otherwise in relation to their Undertaking, and for 
other purposes, was presented, and read; and a 
Bill was ordered to be brought in accordingly, 
by Mr. Puleston and Captain Price. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private 
Bills, That in the case of the following Bills, 
referred on the First Reading thereof, Standing 
Order 74 has been complied with :—. 

Felixstowe Railway and Pier Bill. 

Great Northern Railway Bill. 

Great Western Railway Bill. 

London and North Western Railway (New 

Lines, &amp;c.) Biil. 

London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway 
(Various Powers) Bill. 

London, Brighton, and South Coast and Tun- 
bridge Wells, and Eastbourne Railway Com- 
panies Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bills be read a second time. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to East India 
(Tariff Act, 1875), which was presented upon the 
15th day of this instant February, be printed. 


Mr. Secretary Hardy presented, pursuant to 
the directions of an Act of Parliament,—Return 
showing the Names of all Half-Pay Officers who 
are allowed to draw their Half-Pay with Civil 
Emoluments, so far as is known to the War De- 
partment. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Cross presented, by Her Majesty’s 


Mr, Secretar 
Command, — Tables of Agricultural Statistics, 
Ireland, showing the Estimated Average Produce 
of the Crops for the year 1875, and the Emigration 


from Jrish Ports, from 1st January to 31st De- 
cember 1875; also the Number of Mills for 
scutching Flax in each County and Province. 


22nd February. 





1876. 


Mr. Secretary Cross also presented,—Return to Population, 
an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 11th day of Areas, ang 


Return of the Number and Ages of Males, Areas, 
and Inhabited Houses, classified under Counties, 
Registration Counties, Lieutenancy Sub-Divisions, 
Petty Sessional Divisions, Cinque Ports, Stan- 
naries, Superintending Registration, and Regis- 
tration Districts, and Enumeration Districts as 
far as the Reports of the Census can supply, with 
any Information available connected with the 
Militia Acts, with the Military Divisions, Clerks 
of Lieutenancy, &amp;c.: Similar Return for Jre- 
land :——And, similar Return for Scotland. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


August, in the last Session of Parliament, for a [rhabited 


Ouses, 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Succession 


to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously 
pleased to give directions, that there be laid before 
this House, a Return of Cases turning on the Con- 
struction of the 38th Section of the Succession 
Duty Act (1853), contested in Courts of Law by 
the Commissioners of Inland Revenue since the 
passing of the Act, specifying in such Return the 
Names of Cases, the Courts in which they were 
contested, the Result in each Court, and the 
Amount of Costs incurred by the Crown :— 





House 
of 
Lords, 


Exchequer Chamber, 
now 
Court of Appeal. 


Name 
of 
Case. 


Exchequer. Costs. 

















Duty Act 
(1853.) 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Church 


to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Returns showing the Number of Churches 
(including Cathedrals) in every Diocese in Eng- 
land, which have been built or restored at a Cost 
exceeding £. 500 since the year 1840: And, 
showing also, as far as possible, the Expenditure 
in each Case, and the the Sources from which in 
each Case the required Funds were derived. 


Building and 


Restoration. 


Ordered, That there be ‘laid before this House, Merchant 
a Copy of Reports received by the Board of Trade Shipping Act 


tage. wae : ¢ 1875 
from their principal Officers upon the working oi Line) 


the sixth Section of the Merchant Shipping Act, 
1875. 

Mr. Edward Stanhope accordingly presented the 
said Paper. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Copy of the Report of the Committee appointed 
by the Admiralty, the Board of Trade, and the 
Trinity House, to consider the Regulations for 
preventing Collisions at Sea {Rule of the Road at 
Sea), and of the Amendments proposed by them, 
together with a Copy of the Letter addressed by 
the Board of Trade to the Foreign Office upon 
the subject (in continnation of Parliamentary 
Paper, No. 353, of Session 1874). 

Mr. Edward Stanhope accordingly presented the 
said Paper. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously 
pleased to give doustinin, that there be laid before 
this House, a Copy of Two Ordinances published 
officially in the “‘ Gibraltar Chronicle” of the 
15th day of January 1876, by the authority of the 
Governor, and — by the Colonial Secretary, 
having for their object the Endowment of Church 

Bodies 


(Load 


No, 57. 


Rule of the 
Road at Sea 


No. 58 ' 


Gibraltar 
(Church 
Endowments) 








ion, 


ion, 


ad 


D7. 


er ed 


nts.) 





Malta. 


Fugitive 
Slaves. 


Cheques on 


Bankers Bill. 


Supply [21st 
February. ] 


Suez Canal. 


United Parishes 
(Scotland) 
Bill, 


39 VicTorRIA. 


Bodies for the Anglican and Roman Catholic Com- 
munities at Gibraltar with the annual Sum of 
£. 500 each, and other purposes. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Copies of Despatch of Lord Carnarvon to 
the Governor of Malta, dated the 22nd day of 
May 1875, No. 72, and all Letters and Papers 
relating thereto: And, of Mr. Cardwell’s 
Despatch of the 19th day of September 1864. 





A Motion was made, and the Question being 
proposed, That, in the opinion of this House, a 
Slave once admitted to the protection of the 
British Flag should be treated while on board one 
of Her Majesty’s ships as it he were free, and 
should not be removed from or ordered to leave 
the ship on the ground of slavery; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to 
the Question, by leaving out from the word 
“ House ” to the end of the Question, in order to 
add the words “in order to maintain most effec- 
“ tually the right of personal liberty, it is desirable 
“ to await further information from the Report of 
“a Royal Commission, both as to the instructions 
“from time to time issued to British naval officers, 
“ the international obligations of this Country, and 
“the attitude of other States in regard to the 
“treatment of domestic Slaves on board of na- 
“ tional ships,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being proposed, That the 
words proposed to be left out stand part of the 
Question :—And a Debate arising thereupon ; 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Wednesday morning ; 


Wednesday, 23rd February, 1876: 


Ordered, That the Debate be adjourned till 
Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Cheques on Bankers Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday the 2nd day of March next. 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee of 
Supply, a Resolution; which was read, as fol- 
loweth : 

That a Sum, not exceeding £. 4,080,000, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to enable Her Majesty 
to pay the Purchase Money of the Shares which 
belonged to the Khedive of Egypt in the Suez 
Canal, and the Expenses attendant thereon, which 
will come in course of payment during the year 
ending on the 31st day of March 1876. 

The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the United Parishes (Scot- 
land) Bill; and, after some time spent therein, 
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Razkes 
reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill, and directed him to report the same, 
without Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Thursday next. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till a quarter of an hour after Twelve of the 
clock on Wednesday morning, adjourned 
till this day. 


Vou. 131. 


22nd—23rd February. 





&amp; 
mm) 


Wednesday, 23rd February, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 


. I ‘HE Caledonian Railway (Additional Powers) Pe cea dai 
Bill was read a second time; and com- tional heoeny 


mitted. Bill. 


The Caledonian Railway (Grangemouth Har- Caledonian 








; ° s ilway 
a, Bill was read a second time; and com- ( Grangemouth 
mitted. Harbour) Bill. 


The Chesterfield Water and Gas Bill was read gm 
a second time; and committed. = and Gas 
The Colney Hutch Gas Bill was read a second Colney Hatch 
, : at 
time ; and committed. Gas Bill. 


The Derby Gas Bill was read a second time; Derby Gas Bill. 
and committed. 


The Folkestone Gas Bill was read a second time ; Folkestone Gas 
and committed. Bill, 


The Forth Bridge Railway Bill was read a se- Forth Bridge 
cond time; and committed. Railway Bill. 


The Gas Light and Coke Company Bill was read Gas Light and 

a second time ; and committed. a Company 
The Glasgow and Kilmarnock Joint Line and Glasgow and 

Caledonian Railway Bill was read a second time ; Fimamock 
and committed. Calsdenion “4 
Railway Bill. 
The Glasgow and South Western Railway Bill Glasgow and 

was read a second time ; and committed. South Western 
Railway Bill. 

The Glasgow (City) Union Railway Bill was Glasgow (City) 


read a second time; and committed. Bill, eames 


_ 


The Gorleston and Southtown Gas Bill was read Gorleston and 
a second time; and committed. — Gas 

The Great Eastern Railway Bill was read a se- Great Eastern 
cond time; and committed. Railway Bill. 


The Great Southern and Western Railway Bill een 
. 7 . an estern 
was read a second time; and committed. Railway Bill. 
The Great Western and Bristol and Exeter Great Western 
Railway Companies Bill was read a second time ; —— and 
A xeter Railway 
and committed. Companies 
_ Bill. 
The Halesowen and Bromsgrove Branch Rail- Halesowen and 


ways Bill was read a second time; and com- Bromsgrove 
mitted Branch Rail. 
° ways Bill. 


The Llanfyllin and Llangynog Railway Bill was Lianfyllin and 
read a second time; and committed. Reiley Sill 

The London and South Western Railway (£e- London and 
ter and Crediton, and North Devon Railways) Bill South Western 


; Ra 
was read a second time; and committed. (Exeter os 


Crediton, and 
North Devon 
Railways) Bill. 
The Zondon and South Western Railway ( Va- London and 
rious Powers) Bill was read a second time; and South Western 
° ilway 
committed. (Various 
Powers) Bill. 
The London and Tilbury, Dartford and Kent London and 
Coast Junction Railway Bill was read a second Tilbury, Dart- 
time; and committed Sed ane Rant 
&gt; ’ Coast Junction 
, 4 Railway Bill. 
The London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Bill London, 


was read a second time; and committed. Chatham, and 
Dover Railway 


Bill. 
Ordered, That the Manchester, Sheffield, and Manchester, 
Lincolnshire Railway Bill be read a second time ome by 
To-morrow. ailway Bill 
I The Railway Bill. 








58 


The Merionethshire Railway Bill was read a 
second time ; and committed. 


Merionethshire 
Railway Bill. 


Ordered, That the Metropolitan Railway Bill be 


read asecond time To-morrow. 


Metropolitan 
Railway Bill. 


Mid-Wales 


The Mid-Wales Railway Bill was read a second 
Railway Bill. 


time ; and committed. 


North British The North British Railway (Additional Works, 


Railway (Ad- &amp;c.) Bill was read a second time; and com- 
ditional Works, mitted 
&amp;e.) Bill. . 


The North British Railway (Fife Railways) 
Bill was read a second time ; and committed. 


North British 
Railway (Fife 
Railways) Bill. 
North Stafford- The North Staffordshire Railway Bill was read 


og Railway g second time; and committed. 
Mil. 


Menutdh The Norwich (City) Water Bill was read a se- 


(City) Water cond time; and committed. 
Mil, 


Royal Albert 


Ordered, That the Royal Albert Hall Bill be 
Hall Bill. 


read a second time To-morrow. 


Scotswood, The Scotswood, Newburn, and Wylam Railway 
Newburn, and ond Dock Bill was read a second time ; and com- 
Wylam Rail- ° 

way and Dock mitted. 
Bill. 


Skepton Mallet 
Water Bill. 


The Shepton Mallet Water Bill was read a se- 
cond time; and committed. 


The South Alloa Dock Bill was read a second 
time; and committed. 


South Alloa 
Dock Bill. 


The Thames Tunnel Bill was read a second 
time ; and committed. 


Thames Tunnel 
Bill. 


The Wakefield Water Bill was read 2 second 
time; and committed. 


Wakefield 
Water Bill. 


The Whitehaven, Cleator, and Egremont Rail- 
way Bill was read a second time ; and committed. 


Whitehaven, 
Cleator, and 
Egremont 
Railway Bill. 
Plymouth Dock 
(Devonport) 
Water Bill. 


A Bill for conferring further Powers on the 
Company of Proprietors of the Plymouth Dock 
Waterworks for the supply of Water, and other- 
wise in relation to their Undertaking, and for 
other purposes, was read the first time; and re- 
ferred to the Examiners of Petitions for Private 


Bills. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Public 
Petitions. 
Vide Fourth 
Report. 
Population, 
Areas, and 


Inhabited 
Houses. 


No. 59. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Popula- 
tion, Areas, and Inhabited Houses, which was pre- 
sented upon the 22nd day of this instant February, 
be printed. 


Populaticn and 
Burial Places 
(England and 
Wales.) 

No. 60. 


Mr. Secretary Cross presented,—Return to an 
Address to Her Majesty, dated the 9th day of this 
instant February, for a Return relative to Popu- 
lation and Burial Places (Eugland and Wales), 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


The following Paper, pursuant to the directions 
of an Act of Parliament, was laid upon the Table 
by the Clerk of the House,—Return made to the 
Lord Chancellor, under the Act 8 &amp; 9 Vic. c. 100, 
s. 88, of the Number of Visits made, the Num- 
ber of Patients seen, and the Number of Miles 
travelled by the several Commissioners in Lu- 
nacy during the Six months ending on the 30th 
June 1875, and 3lst December 1875 :——And, 
of all Sums received by the several Commis- 
sioners in Lunacy for Travelling and Personal 
Expenses during the year ended 31st December 
1875. 


93rd February. 








1876. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented “ Mistletoe» 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased airy. 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Copy of Baron Bramwell’s Letter to the 
Secretary of State for the Home Department on 
the subject of the ‘* Mistletve” Inquiry. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Army 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased (Commission) 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Returns of the Number of Commissions 
vacant on the Ist day of April 1873, specifying 
Cavalry and Infantry :——-Of the Number which 
became vacant in the Six months ending on the Ist 
day of October 1873 :——Of the Number which 
became vacant in the Year ending on the Ist day 
of October 1874: —-— Of the Number which became 
vacant in the Year ending on the lst day of October 
1875 :——-Of the Number of University Graduates 
on Commander in Chief’s List as Candidates within 
the prescribed Age for First Commissions, and 
whose parchment Degree of B. A. had been lodged 
prior to the lst day of April 1873: Of the 
Number of University Graduates whose Papers 
have been called for and lodged during the Six 
months ending on the Ist day of October 1873: 

Of the same for the Year ending on the Ist 
day of October 1874: Of the same for the Year 
ending on the Ist day of October 1875: Of the 
Number of University Graduates gazetted to 
Commissions in the Army, specifying Cavalry and 
Infantry, and their University, for Six months 
ending on the Ist day of April 1873 :——Of the 
same for the Year ending on the Ist day of Octo- 
ber 1874: Of the same for the Year ending on 
the Ist day of October 1875:——And, of the 
Number of Commissions which have been filled 
up during the Three years ending on the Ist day 
of October 1875, specifying Cavalry and Infantry. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Electoral 
Reading of the Electoral County Boards (Ireland) rere Ay 
Bill; _— 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a second 
time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the word “ now,” and, at 
the end of tne Question, adding the words “‘ upon 
* this day six months.” 

And the Question being put, That the word 
“now ” stand part of the Question :—It passed in 
the Negative. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
“upon this day six months” be added at the end 
of the Question :—It was resolved in the Affirma- 
tive. 

Then the Main Question, so amended, being put ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon this day six months. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Grand Jury 
Reading of the Grand Jury Presentments, &amp;c, Presentment 
; &amp;c. (Ireland) 
(Ireland) Bill ; Bill. 
Anda Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a 
second time ; 
An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the word “ now,” and, at 
the end of the Question, adding the words “ upon 
** this day six months.” 
And the Question being put, That the word 
“now,” stand part of the Question ; 
The House divided. 
The Yeas to the Right ; 
The Noes to the Left.. 
r. Butt, 1153. 


-_{M 
Tellers for the Yeas,) My. Downing : J 


Mr. Verner, 1 181 
J . 


Tellers for the Noes,) x4," agytholland: 
So 





Ses ‘o&gt; 


Fe 


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oon 





ye? 


sions.) 


ents, 








Wild Fowl 
Preservation 
Bill. 


Burgesses 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Industrial and 
Provident 
Societies Bill. 


TMaining 
Schools and 
Ships Bill. 


Mercantile 
Marine 
Hospital 
Service Bill. 


Grand Jury 
law Amend- 
ment (Ireland) 
Bill. 


Supply [18th 
February. } 


House of 
Lords Offices. 


House of 
Commons 
ces, 


Home Office, 


$y Vicrorta. 


So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
‘** upon this day six months” be added at the end 
of the Question :—It was resolved in the Affirm- 
ative. : 

Then the Main Question, so amended, being 





put; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon this day six months. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Wild Fowl! Preservation Bill ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a 
second time :—And a Debate arising thereupon ; 

And it being a quarter of an hour before Six of 
the clock, the Debate stood adjourned till To- 
morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Burgesses ( Scotland) Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday next. 


The Industrial and Provident Societies Bill was, 
according to Order, read a second time ; and com- 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for 
To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Training Schools and Ships Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Mercantile Marine Hospital Ser- 
vice Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Grand Jury Law Amendment 
(Jreland) Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday the 15th day of March next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Mr. William Henry Smith reported from the 
Committee of Supply, several Resolutions ; which 
were read, as follow: 

1. That a Sum, not exceeding £43,489, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 3lst day of March 1877, for 
the Salaries and Expenses of the Offices of the 
House of Lords. 

2. That a Sum, not exceeding £.50,006, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 3lst day of March 1877, for 
the Salaries and Expenses in the Offices of the 
House of Commons. 

3. That a Sum, not exceeding £.58,010, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 31st day of March 1877, for 
the Salaries and Expenses in the Department of 
Her Majesty’s Treasury. 

4. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 90,178, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to. defray the Charge 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 3lst day of March 1877, for 
the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of Her 
Majesty’s Secretary of State for the Home De- 
partment and Subordinate Offices. 

VoL, 131. 


23rd February. 














59 


5. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 63,196, be Foreign Office. 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 3lst day of March 1877, for 
the Salaries and Expenses of the Department of 
Her Majesty’s Secretary of State for Foreign 
Affairs. 

6. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 34,755, be Colonial Office 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 31st day of March 1877, for 
the Salaries and Expenses of the Department of 
Her Majesty’s Secretary of State for the Colonies. 

7. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 145,958, be Privy Council 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge Office. 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 31st day of March 1877, for 
the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the 
Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Sub- 
ordinate Departments. 

8. That a Sum, not exceeding £.2,773, be Office of the 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge = Privy 
which will come in course of payment during the” 
year ending on the 3lst day of March 1877, for 
the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the 
Lord Privy Seal. 

9. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 33,500, be Charity 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge Commission, 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 31st day of March 1877, for 
the Salaries and Expenses of the Charity Commis- 
sion for England and Wales. 

10. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 22,893, be Civil Service 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge Commission. 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 3lst day of March 1877, for 
the Salaries and Expenses of the Civil Service 
Commission. 

11. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 18,619, be Copyhold, 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge Inclosure, 
which will come in course of payment during the eer 
year ending on the 31st day of March 1877, for 
the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the 
Copyhold, Inclosure, and Tithe Commission. 

12. That a Sum, not exceeding £.8,600, be Inclosure and 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge Dramage Acts, 
which will come in course of payment during the Selene. 
year ending on the 3lst day of March 1877, for 
the Imprest Expenses under the Inclosure and 
Drainage Acts. 

13. That a Sum, not exceeding £.46,065, be Exchequer and 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge — a 
which will come in course of payment during 
the year ending on the 3lst day of March 1877, 
for the Salaries and Expenses of the Department 
of the Comptroller and Auditor General of the 
Exchequer. 


14. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 4,496, be maging of 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge Societies. 


which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 31st day of March 1877, for 
the Salaries and Expenses of the Registry of 
Friendly Societies. 

15. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 693,287, be See 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge er ea 
which will come in course of payment during Taxation. 
the year ending on the 3ist day of March 1877, 
for the Salaries and Expenses of the Local Govern- 
ment Board, including various Grants in Aid of 
Local Taxation. 

16. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 15,026, be Lunacy — 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge Commission, 
which will come in course of payment during ~~ 
the year ending on the 3lst day of March 1877, 
for the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the 
Commissioners in Lunacy in England. 

17. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 50,250, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge 
which will come in course of payment during 
the year ending on the ry day of March 1877, 

2 for 


Local Governe 


Mint and 
Coinage. 











National Debt 
Office. 


Ways and 
eans, 


Epping Forest 
Bill. 


Drugging of 
Animals, 


Open Spaces 
(Metropolitan 
District.) 


Irish Society. 


Mercantile 
Marine Fund. 


Merchant 
Shipping 
[Salaries, &amp;c.] 


60 
for the Salaries and Expenses of the Mint, in- | 
cluding Expenses of the Calenee. 

18. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 17,334, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge 
which will come in course of payment during | 
the year ending on the 3lst day of March 1877, 
for the Salaries and Expenses of the National 
Debt Office. 

The first Three Resolutions, being read a second | 
time, were agreed to. 

The Fourth Resolution, being read a second | 
time, was postponed. 

The next Four Resolutions, being read a second | 
time, were agreed to. 

The Ninth and Tenth Resolutions, being read a | 
second time, were postponed. 

The subsequent Resolutions, being read a second 
time, were agreed to. | 

Ordered, ‘That the Resolutions which have been | 
postponed be taken into consideration upon Friday | 
next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com-| 
mittee of Ways and Means ; 

Resolved, Vhat this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second | 
Reading of the Epping Forest Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the second time 
To-morrow. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to make the Administration of Poisonous Drugs 
and Compounds to Horses and other Animals a 
punishable Offence: And that Sir John Astley, 
Mr. Chaplin, and Mr. Rodwell, do prepare, and | 
bring it in. | 





Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill | 
for affording Facilities for vesting in the Metro- 
politan Board of Works Open Spaces, Gardens, | 
and Squares in the Metropolitan District for the | 
Exercise and Recreation of the Public, and to| 
empower Owners and Joint Owners to enter into | 
Arrangements with the Metropolitan Board of | 
Works in relation thereto: And that Mr. Whalley | 
and Sir George Bowyer do prepare, and bring 
it in. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Return of the Receipts and Expenditure of the 
Honourable the Jrish Society from the 9th day of 
February 1875 to the 7th day of February 1876, 
as presented to the Court of Common Council of 
the City of London. 


23rd—2ith February. 





Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Return showing for each of the last Five years | 
the Receipts of the Mercantile Marine Fund on | 
account of Fees paid for the Engagement and | 
Discharge of Seamen, and the Payments on ac- | 
count of the Expenses of Mercantile Marine 
Offices. 

A Motion being made, That this House will, | 
To-morrow, resolve itself into a Committee to 
consider of authorising the payment, out of Moneys | 
to be provided by Parliament, of the Salaries of | 
all Surveyors appointed under the Merchant Ship- | 
ping Acts, and of the Expenses connected with | 
the Survey and Measurement of Ships, and of the | 
Salaries and Expenses of Persons employed under | 
the Passengers Act, 1855, and of the Salaries and | 
Remuneration of all Officers that may be ap-| 
pointed under any Act of the present Session for 
amending the Merchant Shipping Acts, and of all 
Costs and Compensation payable by the Board of 
Trade in pursuance of such Act; 

Sir Charles Adderley, by Her Majesty’s Com- 





1876. 


mand, acquainted the House, That Her Majesty, 
having been informed of the subject-matter of 
this Motion, recommends it to the consideration of 
the House. 

Resolved, That this House wili, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


Sir John Astley presented a Bill to make the Drugging ¢ 
Administration of Poisonous Drugs and Compounds “™™als Bil 
to Horses and other Animals a punishable Offence: _ Bill §5, 
And the same was read the first time ; and ordered 
to be read a second time upon Monday the 6th day 
of March next; and to be printed. 


Mr. Whalley presented a Bill for affording Faci- Open gpacg 
lities for vesting in the Metropolitan Board of (Metropolity 
Works Open Spaces, Gardens, and Squares in District) Bil 
the Metropolitan District for the Exercise and Re- _ Bill &amp;, 
creation of the Public, and to empower Owners and 
Joint Owners to enter into Arrangements with the 
Metropolitan Board of Works in relation thereto: 

And the same was read the first time; and ordered 
to be read a second time upon Tuesday the 7th 
day of March next; and to be printed. 


The Order, made upon the 18th day of this in- Landion wi 
stant February, That there be laid before this Tenant (In. 
House, a Return relative to the Landlord and“ 4* 
Tenant (Ireland) Act, was read, and discharged. 


And then the House adjourned till To- 
morrow. 








Thursday, 24th February, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 
Oe DERED, That the Alexandra Palace Rail- Alexanin 
way Bill be read a second time upon Monday ss 
next. 7 


Ordered, That the Northampton and Banbury Northampin 
Junction Railway Company and their Sureties and Banbwy 
Bill be read a second time upon Friday the 24th Jution Me 
day of Marcl pe fv 

ay oO arch next, and their 
Sureties Bill 


Ordered, That the Stoke-upon-Trent Corpora- stoke-upm- 
tion Bill be read a second time upon Friday the Trent Copm 
24th day of March next. at 


The Chichester and Midhurst Railway Bill was, Chichester wl 


according to Order, read a second time ; and com- Midhurst las 
mitted. — 


The Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Rail- Manchest, 
way Bill was, according to Order, read a second — 


. _ e incolnshire 
time ; and committed. Railway Bil 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Metropolit 
Reading of the Metropolitan Board of Works arias 


ill; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
| being proposed, That the Bill be now read a 
second time; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to 


”? 


the Question, by leaving out the word “ now, 
and, at the end of the Question, adding the words 
** upon this day six months.” 

And the Question being proposed, That the 
word “ now” stand part of the Question :—The 
said proposed yee sand was, with leave of the 
House, withdrawn, 

Ordered, That the Bill be now read a second 
time:—The Bill was accordingly read a second 
time ; and committed. 


The Order of the day being 


read, for the Second Metropolit 
Reading of the Metropolitan Railway Bill ; . 


Railwa. 


And 











ging of 
als Bill 
ill 85, 


ropolitay 
ict) Bill 
ill 86, 


lord and 


at (Ire. 
Act, 


indra 


hampton 
Sanbury 
tion Ral 
Compaty 
heir 

ies Bill 


= UOl- 


; Corpor 
Bill. 


rester atl 
urst Rak 
Bill. 


‘hester, 
eld, and 
yInshire 
vay Bill 


opolitan 
1 of Works 


ppolitss 
ray Bill 





Royal Albert 
Hall Bill. 


North and 
South 
(Gravesend 
Tunnel) 
Junction 
Railway Bill. 


Public 
Petitions 
(Third Report.) 


Private Bills 
(Standing 
Orders 74 and 
75 complied 
with.) 


Private Bills 
(Standing 
Order 74 com- 
plied with.) 


Private Bills 
(Standing 
Order 75 com- 
plied with.) 


Manchester 
Post Office 
Bill. 


39 Vicroria. 


made, and the Question 
e Bill be now read a second 


And a Motion bein 
being proposed, That th 
time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to 
the Question, by leaving out the word ‘* now,” and, 
at the end of the Question, adding the words 
‘*‘ upon this day six months.” 

And the Question being put, That the word 
“ now” stand part of the Question ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 


Tellers for the (Sir Edward Watkin, L125 
Yeas, Mr. William Gordon: J ’ 
Tellers forthe f Lord Claud Hamilton, 194 
Noes, Mr. Samuda: } : 


24th February. 





6i 


plied with in the case of the Manchester Post Office 
Bill, referred on the First Reading thereof. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Secretary Hardy presented, by Her Ma- 
jesty Command,— Copy of Report to the Adjutant 
General of Her Majesty’s Forces, by the Inspector 
General of Recruiting, upon Recruiting for the 
Regular Army for the year 1875. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 





So it passed in the Negative. 


: 5 
And the Question being put, That the words | 


*‘ upon this day six months” be added at the end 


of the Question: ~It was resolved in the Affirma- | 


tive. 
Then the Main Question, so amended, being 
ut; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon this day six months, 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Royal Albert Hall Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday next. 


A Bill to authorise the construction of a Rail- 
way for connecting with each other the Railways 
North and South of the River Thames (with a, 


Tunnel for carrying the Railway under that River | 
near (rravesend), and for other purposes, was read | 


the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 


Sir Charles Forster reported from the Select 
Committee on Public Petitions; That they had 
examined the Petitions presented upon the 2\st 
and 22nd days of this instant February, and had 
directed him to make a Report thereof to the 
House. 


| Order, dated the 24th day of June, in the last 
Session of Parliament, for a Return of the Number 
of Civil Bill Processes served in each Quarter 
Sessions District in each County in Jreland pre- 
vious to the last Easter Quarter Sessions, classified 
as follows :— 
1. For Sums not exceeding £. 2; 
2. For Sums exceeding £.2 and not exceed- 
ing £.5; 
3. For Sums exceeding £.5 and not exceed- 
ing £.10; 
4, For Sums exceeding £.10 and not exceed- 
ing £.20; 
5. For Sums exceeding £. 20. 
Ordered, ‘That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 





Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
_to give directions, that there be laid before this 

House, a Copy of Letters from Sir Charles Reed 
) and Mr. Patteson to the Vice President of the 
, Council on Education on the subject of the Con- 

viction of Juo. Speer for Non-payment of a School 
| Board Fine at the Greenwich Police Court on the 
| 8th instant. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 


Public 
Petitions. 


Vide Fourth 
Report. 


Army 
(Recruiting. ) 


Mr. Secretary Cross presented,—Return to an Civil Bill 


Processes 
(Treland.) 


School Board 
Prosecutions 
(Greenwich.) 


Weights and 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased Measures. 


and be printed. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—-Report from 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 
That Standing Orders, Nos. 74 and 75, have been 
complied with in the case of the following Bill, 
referred on the First Reading thereof : 

Wilts and Berks Canal Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private 
Bills, That Standing Order, No. 74, has been com- 
plied with in the case of the following Bills, re- 
ferred on the First Reading thereof: 

Midland Railway (Further Powers) Bill. 
Midland Railway (New Works, &amp;c.) Bill. 
Southampton Gas Light and Coke Bill. 
South Metropolitan Gas Light and Coke Bill. 

Ordered, Thai the Bills be read a second time. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from | 


one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private 
Bills, That Standing Order, No. 75, has been com- 
plied with in the case of the following Bill, re- 
ferred on the First Reading thereof: 
Horncastle Gas Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time. 


| to give directions, that there be laid before this 
| House, a Return of the Number of Convictions 
for false Weights and Measures in the respective 
| Divisions of the Justices of the Peace of Middlesex 
and Westminster, and of the mode in which the 
' Inspections are made, and under the authority of 
‘what Acts of Parliament, for the last Three 
_ years, each year ending the 31st day of December, 
| separately. 
Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Return of the Name, Port of Registry, and 
Register Tonnage of all Ships detained for alleged 
Unseaworthiness under the Acts of 1873 and 1875; 
distinguishing between the cases where (1) the 
Ships were repaired or released; (2) are still 
under Detention; or (3) have been broken up or 
converted into Hulks (adding in the last case the 
Names of the Owners). 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Statements of the Districts and Stations to which 
the 171 Fleetmen embarked on board the “ Van- 
guard” during her late Cruise belonged : And, 
of the mode in which the Fleetmen belonging to 
the Queenstown District were conveyed to their 
| destination after the completion of the Cruise. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 


Merchant Ships 
Detained for 
Unsea- 
worthiness. 


Navy (Fleet- 
men on the 


“ Vanguard.”) 


Armagh 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from r Copy of the Shorthand Writer’s Notes of the lection. 


one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private 


Bills, That the Standing Orders have been com-' 


Vou. 131, 


Trial and the Judgment in the case of the Armagh 
Election Petition. 
13 The 





62 24th-—25th February. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Amendment which, 
upon the 22nd day of this instant February, was pro- 
posed to be made to the Question, That, in the opinion 
of this House, a Slave once admitted to the protec- 
tion of the British Flag should be treated while 
on board one of Her Majesty’s ships as if he were 
free, and should not be removed from or ordered 
to leave the ship on the ground of slavery; and 
which Amendment was, to leave out from the 
word “ House ” to the end of the Question, in 
order to add the words “ in order to maintain most 
“ effectually the right of personal liberty, it is 
* desirable to await further information from the 
** Report of a Royal Commission, both as to the 
** instructions from time to time issued to British 
** Naval Officers, the international obligations of 
“ this Country, and the attitude of other States in 


*‘ regard to the treatment of domestic Slaves on 


*“ board of national ships,” instead thereof ; 

And the Question being again proposed, That 
the words proposed to be left out stand part of the 
Question :—The House resumed the said ad- 
journed Debate. 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Friday morning ; 
Friday, 25th February, 1876: 


And the Question being put; 
The House divided. 
The Yeas to the Right; 
The Noes to the Left. 
» Mr. Whitbread, 
Tellers for the Yeas, { M. Ash ~m, 


7 J Sir William Dyke, \ 5. 
Tellers for the Noes, Lete. MenheadiMtent! 293. 


\. 
j 248. 


So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being proposed, That the 
words “in order to maintain most effectually the 
“ right of personal liberty, it is desirable to await 
‘further information from the Report of a Royal 
** Commission, both as to the instructions from time 
“to time issued to British Naval Officers, the inter- 
“ national obligations of this Country, and the 
“ attitude of other States in regard to the treatment 
“ of domestic Slaves on board of national ships,” be 
added, instead thereof; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to 
the said proposed Amendment, by inserting, after 
the word “desirable,” the words “ provided that 
“ the Circular of the 5th day of December 1875 
“and the East Indies Station Order of 1871, on 
* the subject of Fugitive Slaves, shall not con- 
* tinue in force.” 

And the Question being put, That those words be 
there inserted ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Leit. 

&gt; _ (Mr. Hopwood, 
Tellers for the Y eas,} Mr. J fen della : } 
Sir William Dyke, \ 
Tellers for the Noes, { Mr. Rowland Wins f 290. 

So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
“ in order to maintain most effectually the right of 
‘* personal liberty, it is desirable to await further 
* information from the Report of a Royal Com- 
* mission, both as to the instructions from time to 
* time issued to British Naval Officers, the inter- 
“national obligations of this Country, and the 
“ attitude of other States in regard to the treat- 
“ment of domestic Slaves on board of national 
** ships,” be added after the word “ House” in the 
Main Question:--It was resolved in the Affirma- 
tive. 

Then the Main Question, so amended, being 

ut ; 

Resolved, That in the opinion of this House, in 
order to maintain most effectually the right of per- 


245. 


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1876. 
sonal liberty, it is desirable to await further in- 
formation from the Report of a Royal Commission, 
both as to the instructions from time to time issued 
to British Naval Officers, the international obliga- 
tions of this Country, and the attitude of other 
States in regard to the treatment of domestic 
Slaves on board of national ships. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Merchant 
mittee on Merchant Shipping [Salaries, &amp;c.]; Shipping 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve [Salaries, &amp;c.] 
itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Merchant 
mittee on the Merchant Shipping Bill; Shipping Bill, 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
the 9th day of March next, resolve itself into the 
said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Indian Legis. 
mittee on the Jndian Legislation Bill ; lation Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Maritime 
Reading of the Maritime Contracts Bill ; Contracts Bill, 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday the 9th day of March next. 


The Marriages (Saint James, Buxton) Bill was, Marriages 
according to Order, read a second time ; and com- (Saint James, 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for B¥*ton) Bill. 
Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Council of 
Reading of the Council of India (Professional Mmdia =~ 
Appointments) Bill; pointments) 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time Bill. 


this day. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Ways and 
into the Committee of Ways and Means. Means. 


(In the Committee. ) 


1. Motion made, and Question proposed, That, Exchequer 
towards raising the Supply granted to Her Ma- Bonds. 
jesty, the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Trea- 
sury be authorised to raise any Sum of Money, 
not exceeding Four Million and Eighty Thousand 
Pounds, by issue of Exchequer Bonds, bearing 
Interest at a rate not exceeding Three Pounds 
Ten Shillings per cent. per annum, and to be paid 
off from time to time at par: 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question pro- 
posed, That the Chairman, do report progress, and 
ask leave to sit again:—Motion, by leave, with- 
drawn. 

Original Question put, and agreed to. 

2. Resolved, That, towards meeting the Principal 
and Interest of such Exchequer Bonds, during the 
currency thereof, an annual Sum not exceeding 
Two Hundred Thousand Pounds, be charged upon 
and issued out of the Consolidated Fund of the 
United Kingdom, or the growing produce thereof. 

3. Resolved, That the Interest of such Ex- 
chequer Bonds shall be payable half-yearly out of 
the said Sum of Two Hundred Thousand Pounds, 
and that the residue of the said Sum shall be ap- 
propriated to the payment of the Principal of the 
said Bonds. 

4. Resolved, That, towards making good the Consolidated 
Supply granted to Her Majesty for the Service of Fund. 


'the year ending on the 3lst day of March 1876, 


the Sum of Four Million and Eighty Thousand 
Pounds be granted out of the Consolidated Fund 
of the United Kingdom. 

Resolutions to be reported. 





Mr. 








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mere 


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Epping Forest 
Bill. 


Offences 
inst the 


Person Bill. 


Supreme Court 
of Judicature 
Act (1875) 
Amendment 


Bill. 


Medical 
Practitioners 
Bill. 


United 
Parishes 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Wild Fowl 
Preservation 
Bill. 


Industrial 
and Provident 
Societies Bill. 


Turnpike Acts 


39 VicTorRIA. 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had come to several 
Resolutions. 

Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 

Mr. Raikes also acquainted the House, that he 
was directed to move, That the Committee may 
have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, again 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Epping Forest Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Offences against the Person Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Supreme Court of Judicature Act 
(1875) Amendment Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday the 27th day of March next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Medical Practitioners Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday next. 


The United Parishes (Scotland) Bill was, ac- 
cording to Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
upon the 23rd day of this instant February, That 
the Wild Fowl Preservation Bill be now read a 
second time; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Industrial and Provident Societies 
Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed 


Continuance. to inquire into the Sixth Schedule of “The 


Colonial 
Marriages, 


Colonial 
Marriages Bill. 
Bill 87, 


Annual Turnpike Acts Continuance Act, 1875.” 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to remove Doubts with reference to certain 
Colonial Marriages: And that Sir Thomas Cham- 
bers, Dr. Cameron, and Mr. Young do prepare, 
and bring it in. 

Sir Thomas Chambers accordingly presented a 
Bill to remove Doubts with reference to certain 
Colonial Marriages: And the same was read the 
first time; and ordered to be read a second time 
upon Thursday next; and to be printed. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till a quarter of an hour before Three of 
the clock on Friday morning, adjourned till 
this day. 


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63 


Friday, 25th February, 1876. 
PRAYERS. 
A PETITION of Arthur Bigge, Police Brighton 
Magistrate and Justice of the Peace for the — ™ 
Borough of Brighton, in the County of Sussex, Municipal to 
praying that provision may be made in the Parliamentary 
Brighton Borough Extension of Municipal to M™%ts Bill 
Parliamentary Limits Bill for increasing the 
salary of the Stipendiary Police Magistrate and 
Justice of the Peace for the Borough of Brighton 
on the extension of the jurisdiction of such 
Magistrate to the extended Limits proposed by 
the Bill, and for charging such increase upon the 
Borough Fund and Borough Rate of the Borough, 
was presented, and read ; and referred to the Exa- 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


Mr. Spexker laid upon the Table,—Report from Private Bills 
one of the [.xaminers of Petitions for Private Bills, (Standing 
That Standing Order, No. 74, has been complied complied with 
with in the case of the following Bills, referred on 
the First Reading thereof: 

Mersey Railway Bill. 
Tunbridge Wells Gas Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bills be read a second time. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and Public 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions. 
Vide Fourth 
Report. 

Ordered, That the Return relative to Bodmin Bodmin Gaol 
Gaol as a Naval Prison, which was presented upon 2° — 
the 19th day of July, in the last Session of Parlia- N 7 
ment, be printed. we. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Civil Bill Civil Bill 
Processes (Ireland), which was presented upon the Processes 


ane . 7 (Ireland.) 
24th day of this instant February, be printed. No. 62. 


Mr. Algernon Egerton presented,—Return to an Navy 
Order, dated the 24th day of this instant February, ge 
for Returns relative to the Navy (Fleetmen on guard.”) “ 
the “ Vanguard”). No. 63. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


Lord Eustace Cecil presented,—Return to an Army (Manu- 
Address to Her Majesty, dated the 8th day of this ficturing Esta- 
instant February, for a Return relative to the ’” — 
Army (Manufacturing Establishments). 

* Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
able. 


Mr. Secretary Hardy presented, pursuant to the Militia. 
directions of an Act of Parliament,—Copies of 
Royal Warrants and Regulations issued relative 
to the Militia. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Edward Stanhope presented,—Return to an Belfast 
Order, dated the 18th day of this instant February, (Slob Lands.) 
for a Return relative to Belfast (Slob Lards). 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Army 

to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased (Colonels, &amp;c.) 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 

House, a Return showing the Number of Colonels 

and Lieutenant Colonels of the Army, according 

to the Army List, on the lst day of January 1853, 

and on the Ist day of January in each of the 

years 1857, 1860, 1865, 1870, and 1876, specifying 

by Arms of the Service the Number on Full-pay 

and on Half-pay. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, MerchantShips 
a Copy of Letter addressed by the Board of Trade es re of 


to the Admiralty asking for Information as to they, ‘gq 
14 mode ex 


Herne Bay 
Oyster Fishery. 


No. 65. 


Irish Society. 


Supply. 


64 


mode of payment of Seamen’s Wages in the Royal 
Navy, and of the Reply received thereto. 

Mr. Edward Stanhope accordingly presented the 
said Paper. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Copy of Report by Mr. Spencer Walpole, of an 
Inquiry held - him at Herne Bay, by order of 
the Board of Trade, under the provisions of the 
Sea Fisheries Acts, to inquire into the manner in 
which the Herne Bay, Hampton, and Reculver 
Oyster Fishery Company are cultivating the 
Oyster Grounds within the limits of the Fishery 
granted to them by “ The Herne Bay Fishery Act, 
1864,” 

Mr. Edward Stanhope accordingly presented the 
said Paper. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Return from the Honourable the Jrish Society 
of London, of the detailed particulars of the Total 
Receipts of such Society in each year for the 
years 1866 to 1875, included in the Column 
“ Total Receipts” in the Return presented to this 
House, and ordered to be printed on the 11th of 
February last. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave 
the Chair; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That ” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the 
words ‘* in the opinion of this House, the present 


** condition of the Lritish Army is most unsatis- | 


* factory, and its cost extravagant; that our pre- 
“sent practice of retaining men in barracks for 
* Home Service longer than is necessary to make 
“ them efficient and thorough soldiers is vicious 
“and immoral; and that, having regard to the 
“ efficient defence of the Country, it is inexpedient 
* to maintain two rival paid forces in the United 
“ Kingdom,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Question : 
—It was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
Chair:—The House accordingly resolved itself 
into the Committee. 


(In the Committee. ) 


1. £.23,875, for Charges connected with the 
Patent Law Amendment Act, the Registration of 
Trade Marks Act, and the Registration of Designs 
Act. 

2. £.23,651, for the Department of Her Ma- 
jesty’s Paymaster General in London and Dublin. 

3. £.22,509, for the Public Record Office. 

4. £.9,600 for the Establishments under the 
Public Works Loan Commissioners, and the West 
India Islands Relief Commissioners. 

5. £.45,911, for the Department of the Regis- 
trar General of Births, &amp;c. in England. 

6. £.489,635, for Stationery, Printing, Bind- 
ing, and Printed Books for the several Depart- 
ments of Government in England, Scotland, and 
Ireland, and some Dependencies, and for Sta- 
tionery, Binding, Printing, and Paper for the two 
Houses of Parliament, including the Salaries and 
Expenses of the Stationery Office. 

7. £.26,284, for the Office of Woods, Forests, 
and Land Revenues, and of the Office of Land 
Revenue Records and Inrolments. 

8. £.38,865, for the Office of the Commissioners 
of Her Majesty’s Works and Public Buildings. 


Q25th-—26th February. 








1876. 


9. £.24,000, for Her Majesty’s Foreign and 
other Secret Services. 

10. £.6,225, for the Department of the Queen’s 
and Lord Treasurer’s Remembrancer in the lix- 
chequer, Scot/and, of certain Officers in Scotland, 
and other Charges formerly on the Hereditary 
Revenue. 

11. Motion made, and Question proposed, That 
a Sum, not exceeding £.12,672, be granted to 
Her Majesty, to defray the Charge which will 
come in course of payment during the year endin 
on the 3lst day of March 1877, of the Salaries val 
Expenses of the Fishery Board in Scotland : 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question, That 
a Sum, not exceeding £. 8,850, be granted to Her 
Majesty, to defray the Charge which will come in 
course of payment during the year ending on the 
31st day of March 1877, of the Salaries and Ex- 
penses of the Fishery Board in Scotland, put, 
and negatived, 

Original Question again preposed : 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question pro- 
posed, That a Sum, not exceeding £.12,322, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 31st day of March 1877, of 
the Salaries and Expenses of the Fishery Board 
in Scotland :—Motion, by leave, withdrawn. 

Original Question put, and agreed to. 

12. £.5,705,for the Board of Lunacy in Scot- 
land. 

13. £.6,665, for the Registrar General of Births, 
&amp;e. in Scotland. 

14, £.82,783, for the Board of Supervision for 
Relief of the Poor and for Publie Health and Vac- 
cination Act, including certain Grants in Aid of 
Local Taxation in Scotland. 

Resolutions to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. 
Raikes reported, That the Committee had come to 
several Resolutions. 

Ordered, That the Report be received upon 
Monday next. 

Mr. Latkes also acquainted the House, that he 
was directed to move, That the Committee may 
have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Saturday morning ; 


Saturday, 26th February, 1876 : 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to gupply [18th 
take into consideration the Fourth, Ninth, and February.) 
Tenth of the Resolutions which, upon the 23rd 
day of this instant February, were reported from 
the Committee of Supply, and which Resolutions 
were then postponed; and the same were again 
read, as follow: 

4. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 90,178, be Home Office. 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 3lst day of March 1877, for 
the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of Her 
Majesty’s Secretary of State for the Home Depart- 
ment and Subordinate Offices. 

9. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 33,500, be charity. 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge Commission 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 31st day of March 1877, for 
the Salaries and Expenses of the Charity Commis- 
sion for England and Wales. 

10. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 22,893, be civil Service 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge Commission 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 31st day of March 1877, for 
the Salaries and Expenses of the Civil Service 
Commission. 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 

Fourth 








18th 
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fice. 


sion. 


Be 





Ways and 
Means, 


Exchequer 
Bonds. 


Consolidated 
Fund, 


Exchequer 


$9 VICTORIA. 


Fourth Resolution, by leaving out “ £. 90,178,” 
and inserting “ £. 89,678,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being proposed, That 
« £. 90,178 ” stand part of the Resolution :—The 
said proposed Amendment was, with leave of the 
House, withdrawn. 

And the said Resolution was agreed to. 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Ninth Resolution, by leaving out “ £. 33,500,” and 
inserting “ £. 31,500 ” instead thereof. 

And the Question being put, That “ £. 33,500” 
stand part of the Resolution ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the {Sir William Dyhe, 

Yeas, Mr. Rowland Winn 

Tellers for the{ Mr. James, 

Noes, Mr. Monk: 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

A Motion was made, and the Question being 
proposed, That this House doth agree with the 
Committee in the said Resolution :—And a Debate 
arising thereupon ; 

A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That the Debate be now adjourned :—And 
the said Motion was, with leave of the House, 
withdrawn. 

And the said Resolution was agreed to. 

Ordered, That the further consideration of the 
postponed Resolutions be deferred till Monday next. 


}isr. 
71 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee of 
Ways and Means, several Resolutions; which 
were read, as follow: 

1. That, towards raising the Supply granted 
to Her Majesty, the Commissioners of Her Ma- 
jesty’s Treasury be authorised to raise any Sum of 
Money, not exceeding Four Million and Eighty 
Thousand Pounds, by issue of Exchequer Bonds, 
bearing Interest at a rate not exceeding Three 
Pounds Ten Shillings per cent. per annum, and to 
be paid off from time to time at par. 

2. That, towards meeting the Principal and In- 
terest of such Exchequer Bonds, during the cur- 
rency thereof, an annual Sum not exceeding Two 
Hundred Thousand Pounds, be charged upon and 
issued out of the Consolidated Fund of the United 
Kingdom, or the growing produce thereof. 

3. That the Interest of such Exchequer Bonds 
shall be payable half-yearly out of the said Sum 
of Two Santee Thousand Pounds, and that the 
residue of the said Sum shall be appropriated to 
the payment of the Principal of the said Bonds. 

4. That, towards making good the Supply 
granted to Her Majesty for the service of the year 
ending on the 3lst day of March 1876, the Sum 
of Four Million and Eighty Thousand Pounds be 
— out of the Consolidated Fund of the 

nited Kingdom. 

The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That a Bill be brought in upon the 
first Three Resolutions: And that Mr. Raikes, 


(£4,080,000.) My. Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Mr. William 


gQ 


i 


Henry Smith do prepare, and bring it in. 

Ordered, That a Bil be brought in upon the 
Fourth Resolution: And that Mr. Raikes, Mr. 
Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Mr. William 
Henry Smith do prepare, and bring it in. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Indian Legislation Bill ; 

Resolved, That this euns will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Drainage and Improve- 
ment of Land (Jreland) Provisional Orders Bill ; 
~ after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 

OL. 131, 








25th—26th February. 65 


resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes reported, 
That the Committee had gone through the Bill, 
and directed him to report the same, without 
Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Merchant 
mittee on Merchant Shipping [ Salaries, &amp;c.] ; Shipping 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday !S*lsries, &amp;c.] 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Council of 
Reading of the Council of India (Professional Ap- dia (Pro- 
pointments) Bill; a 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time Bill. : 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Ways and 
mittee of Ways and Means ; Means. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Epping Forest 
Reading of the Epping Forest Bill; = 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 


upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Newspaper 
Reading of the Newspaper Registration, &amp;c. Registration 
Bill ; &amp;c. Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Oyster _ 
Reading of the Oyster Fisheries Bill ; Fisheries Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Wild Fowl 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed — 
upon the 23rd day of this instant February, That 
the Wild Fowl Preservation Bill be now read a 
second time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Industrial and 
mittee on the Industrial and Provident Societies Provident 
Bill; Societies Bill. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Select Committee on Turnpike Acts Con- Turnpike Acts 
tinuance was nominated of Lord George Caven- Continuance. 
dish, Lord Henry Thynne, Mr. Beach, Mr. Went- 
worth Beaumont, Sir Robert Anstruther, Mr. Wil- 
braham Egerton, Sir Harcourt Johnstone, Mr. 

Clare Read, Mr. Spencer Stanhope, Mr. George 
Clive, and Mr. Salt; with Power to send for per- 
sons, papers, and records. 

Ordered, That Three be the Quorum. 

Ordered, That it be an Instruction to the Com- 
mittee, that they have power to inquire and report 
to the House under what conditions, with reference 
to the Rate of Interest, Expenses of Management, 
Maintenance of Road, Payment of Debt, and Term 
of Years, or other special arrangements, the Acts 
of the Trusts mentioned should be continued. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Poor Law 
to provide for the Election of Poor Law Guar- Guardians 
diaris by Ballot in Jreland: And that Mr. Callan, (tretand.) 
Sir Colman O’Loghlen, Mr. Maurice Brooks, and 
Mr. Downing, do prepare and bring it in. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented a Bill to Exchequer 
raise a Sum by Exchequer Bonds: And the same Bonds 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a ony 
second time upon Monday next. “ 
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66 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented a Bill to 
apply a Sum out of the Consolidated Fund to the 
Service of the Year ending on the Thirty-first day 
of March One thousand eight hundred and seventy- 
six: And the same was read the first time; and 
ordered to be read a second time upon Monday 
next. 


Consolidated 
Fund 

(£. 4,080,000) 
Bill. 


Poor Law 
Guardians 
Elections 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Bill 88. 


Mr. Callan presented a Bill to provide for the 
Election of Poor Law Guardians by Ballot’in 
Ireland: And the same was read the first time ; 
and ordered to be read a second time upon Wed- 
nesday the 22nd day of March next; and to be 
printed. 


Post Office 
Telegraph 
Services 


[ Loan. } 


A Motion being made, That this House will, 
upon Monday next, resolve itself into a Com- 
mittee to consider of authorising the Commis- 
sioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury to raise a further 
Sum of Money for the purposes of the Telegraph 
Acts; 

Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, by Her Ma- 
jesty’s Command, acquainted the House, That Her 
Majesty, having been informed of the subject- 
matter of this Motion, recommends it to the con- 
sideration of the House. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Waste Lands 
(Ireland) 
Reclamation 
Bill. 


The Order for reading a second time, upon 
Wednesday the 12th day of April next, the Waste 
Lands (Jreland) Reclamation Bill, was read, and 
discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday the 28th day of June next. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till a quarter of an hour after One of the 
clock on Saturday morning, adjourned till 
Monday next. 








PRAYERS. 


rT. HE Bolton Junctions Railway Bill was read 
a second time ; and committed. 


Bolton 
Junctions 


Railway Bill. 


British Gas The British Gas Light Company (Hull Station) 
Light Company Bj]] was read a second time ; and committed. 
(Hull Station) 

Bill. 

Charnwood The Charnwood Forest Railway Bill was read a 


— Railway second time ; and committed. 
Hi. 


Cleator and 
Workington 
Junction Rail- 
way Bill. 


Cleveland 
Water Bill. 


The Cleator and Workington Junction Railway 
Bill was read a second time; and committed. 


The Cleveland Water Bill was read a second 
time ; and committed. 


Ordered, That the Didcot, Newbury, and South- 
ampton Junction Railway Bill: be read a second 
time To-morrow. 


Didcot, New- 
bury, and 
Southampton 
Junction Rail- 
way Bill. 
Dublin (City) 
Steam Packet 
Company Bill. 


East Londoa 
Railway Bill. 


The Dublin (City) Steam Packet Company Bill 


was read a second time; and committed. 


The East London Railway Bill was read a second 
time ; and committed. 


The East Norfolk Railway Bill was read a second 


time ; and committed. 


East Norfolk 
Railway Bill. 


ly, Hadden- 
ham, and 
Sutton Railway 
Bill. 
Felixstowe 
Railway and 
Pier Bill. 


The Ely, Haddenham, and Sutton Railway Bill 
was read a socond time; and committed. 


The Felixstowe Railway and Pier Bill was read 
a second time; and committed. 


25th—26th— 2th February. 





1876. 


The Gorsedda Junction and Portmadoc Rail- Gorsedda 
ways Bill was read a second time; and: com- junction and 
initted. Rellwere't 

ys Bil, 

The Great Northern Railway Bill was read a Great Northen 
second time; and committed. Railway Bill, 


The Great Western Railway Bill was read a Great Westen 
second time ; and committed. Railway Bill, 


The London and Blackwall Railway Bill was London ana 

read a second time ; and committed. Blackwall 
Railway Bill, 

‘The London and North Western Railway (New London and 
Lines, &amp;c.) Bill was read a second time; and North Westen 
committed. Railway (New 

i &amp;c.) 
lil. 

The London, Brighton, and South Coast, and London, 
Tunbridge Wells and Eastbourne Railway Com- Brighton, anj 
panies Bill was read a second time; and com- 
mitted. Wells and East. 
bourne Railway 
Companies 
an Bill. 

The London, Brighton, and South Coast Rail- London, 
way (Various Powers) Bill was read a second Brighton, ni 
time; and committed. a Const 

ilway 
(Various 
, Powers) Bill, 

The Manchester and Milford Railway Bill was Manchester 
read a second time ; and committed. and Milford 

: Railway Bill, 

The Metropolitan Inner Circle Completion metropolitan 
Railway Bill was read a second time; and com- Inner Cire 
mitted. Completion 

Railway Bill, 

The North Eastern Railway Bill was read a North Eastem 

second time ; and committed. Railway Bill 


The Pegwell Bay Reclamation Bill was read a Pegwell Bay 
second time ; and committed. — 

Ordered, That the Penarth, Sully, and Cadoxton Penarth, Sully, 
Railway Bill be read a second time upon Wed- 24 Cadoxton 
nesday next. — 


The Preston Tramways Bill was read a second Preston 
time ; and committed. Trammaye 


The Ramsgate Water Bill was read a second Ramsgate 
time ; and committed. Water Bill. 


The Redcar and Coatham Gas Bill was read a Redcar and 
second time; and committed. — Gas 
1. 
The Rosstrevor Improvement Bill was read a Rosstrevor 
second time ; and committed. selene 
ul. 
The Sevenoaks Gas Bill was read a second time ; Sevenoaks Gas 
and committed. Bill. 


Ordered, That the Severn Bridge and Forest of pry se 
Dean Central Railway Bill be read a second time Pean Centnl 
upon Monday next. Railway Bill 

The Slaithwaite Gas Bill was read a second Slaithwaite 
time ; and committed. Gas Bill. 


Stockton and 
Middlesbrough 
Corporations 
Water Bill. 


The Stockton and Middlesbrough Corporations 
Water Bill was read a second time; and com- 
mitted. 


The Stockton and Middlesbrough Water Bill was Stockton -- 


, : iddlesb: 
read a second time ; and committed. et 


The Thanet Gas Bill was read a second time ; Thanet Gas 
and committed. Bill. 


The Whitehaven Harbour and Town Improve- Whitehaven 
ment Bill was read a second time; and com- Harborne, 


mitted. 


ment 


The 








da 
mn and 


ys Bill, 


Northern 
y Bill, 





389 VicToRIA. 


The York New Water Bill was read a second 


York New . : 
time ; and committed. 


Water Bill. 


Alexandra The Order of the day being read, for the Second 

Palace Railway Reading of the Alexandra Palace Railway Bill ; 

Bill. Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


Private Bills Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
eT one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 
shed wit.) That Standing Order, No. 74, has been complied 
with in the case of the following Bills, referred on 
the First Reading thereof, viz. : 
Furness Railway Bill. 
London and North Western Railway (Sirhowy 
Railway Transfer) Bill. 
South Eastern Railway Bill. 
Sutton Bridge Dock Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bills be read a second time. 
Private Bills Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
(Standing one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 
eA ee That Standing Order, No. 75, has been complied 
with in the case of the following Bill, referred on 
the First Reading thereof, viz. : 
Colne Valley Gas Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time. 
Dewsbury and A Petition of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Bur- 
Heckmond- gesses of the Borough of Dewsbury, and the Local 
= Water Board of Health for the District of Heckmondwike 
” (both in the West Riding of the County of York), 
praying that provision may be made in the Dews- 
bury and Heckmondwike Waier Bill, for including 
the District of the Local Board of Ravensthorpe 
within the extended Limits of Supply of the 
Petitioners, was presented, and read ; and referred 
to the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills. 
Public Several Public Petitions were presented, and 
Petitims. read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 
Vide Fourth 
Report. 
Belfast (Slob Ordered, That the Return relative to Belfast 
Lands.) (Slob Lands), which was presented upon the 25th 
No. 66. day of this instant February, be printed. 
Army Ordered, That the Return relative to the Army 
av (Manufacturing Establishments), which was. pre- 
blishments.) sented upon the 25th day of this instant February, 
No. 67, be printed. * 
Piers and Mr. Edward Stanhope presented, pursuant to the 
—.. directions of an Act of Parliament,—Copy of Re-" 
ers.) port by the Board of Trade of their Proceedings 
under the General Pier and Harbour Act, 1861, 
and the General Pier and Harbour Act (1861) 
Amendment Act 
Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 
Peet Beard Viscount Sandon presented,—Return to an Ad- 
(Greenwich, ‘ress to Her Majesty, dated the 24th day of this 
instant February, for a Return relative to School 
Board Prosecutions ( Greenwich). 
Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 
Exchequer 


Ordered, That the Exchequer Bonds(£.4,080,000) 
(£.4,080,000) Bill, be printed. 

Bill 89, 
Journal. 


Ordered, That the Journal of this House, from 
the end of, the last Session to the end of the present 
Session, with an Index to the 13lst Volume, be 
printed. 

Ordered, That 750 Copies of the said Journal 
and Index be printed by the appointment and 
under the direction of Sir Thomas Erskine May, 
the Clerk of this House. 

Ordered, That the said Journal and Index be 


28th—29th February. 





67 
ors by such Person as shall be licensed by 


r. Speaker, and that no other Person do pre- 
sume to print the same. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Army _ 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased —— 
to give directions, that there be laid before this Ranks.) 
House, a Nominal Return of all Officers promoted 
from the Ranks since the Abolition of Purchase 
in the Army, in the following Form :— 





Date of 
Enlistment and 
Regiment in which 
Enlisted. 


Statement whether 
Commission is Quartermaster, 
Ridiog Master, or 
Lieutenant. 


Name Date of 
of 


Officer, Commission. 














Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Coal, Cinders, 
Accounts of the Quantities of Coals, Cinders, and &amp; 
Patent Fuel shipped at the several Ports of Eng- 
land, Scotland, and Ireland, Coastways, to other 
Ports of the United Kingdom, in the year 1875: 
Of the Quantities and Declared Value of 
Coals, Cinders, and Patent Fuel exported ‘from 
the several Ports of England, Scotland, and Jre- 
land to Foreign Countries and the British Settle- 
ments Abroad in the year 1875, distinguishing the 
Countries to which the same were sent :——Of 
the Quantities of Coals, Cinders, and Patent Fuel 
exported from the United Kingdom in the year 
1875, with the Rate and Amount of Duty there- 
on:——Of the Quantities of Coals and Patent 
Fuel brought Coastways, by Inland Navigation, 
and by Railway, into the Port of London during 
the year 1875:——And, of the Quantities of 
Coals and Patent Fuel received Coastways at the 
various Ports of the United Kingdom. 





Ordered, That the Orders of the Day be post- Orders of the 
poned until after the Notice of Motion relating to P*™ 
H. M.S. “ Vanguard ;” 


A Motion was made, and the Question. being HMs. 
proposed, That there be laid before this House, a “Vanguard.” 
Copy of a further Minute relating to the Loss of 
H. M.S. “ Vanguard” ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That,” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the 
words “ in the opinion of this House the oppor- 
“tunity should be afforded to the Admiral in 
“ Command, Vice-Admiral Sir Walter Tarleton, 

“ k,C.B., of clearing his reputation by being 
** tried by a Court Martial,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being proposed, That the 
words proposed to be left out stand part of the 
Question :—And a Debate arising thereupon ; 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Tuesday morning ; 


Tuesday, 29th February, 1876 : 


A ‘Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That the Debate be now adjourned :—And 
the said Motion was, with leave of the House, 
withdrawn. ' 

And the Question being again proposed; That 
the words proposed to be left out stand part of the 
Question :—The said proposed Amendment was, 
with leave of the House, withdrawn. 

Then the Main Question being put; 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Copy of a further Minute relating to the Loss 
of H. M.S. “ Vanguard.” 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second valuation Bill. 
Reading of the Valuation Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 


upon Thursday next. 





VoL. 131. 





K 2 The 











Supply [18th 
February. ] 


Civil Service 
Commission. 


Supply [25th 
February. ] 


Patent Law 
Amendment 
Act, &amp;c. 


Public Record 
Office. 


Public Works 
Loan Commis- 
sioners, &amp;c. 


Registrar 
General’s 


Stationery end 
Printing, &amp;c. 


68 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
take into further consideration the Tenth Reso- 
lution which, upon the 23rd day of this instant 
February, was reported from the Committee of 
Supply, and which Resolution was then post- 

oned; and the same was again read, as fol- 
loweth i 

“10, That a Sum, not exceeding £. 22,893, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charg¢g 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 31st day of March 1877, for 
the Salaries and Expenses of the Civil Service 
Commission.” 

An Amendment was proposed to be made there- 
unto, by leaving out ‘* £. 22,893,” and inserting 
“ £. 22.393,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being put, That “ £. 22,893” 
stand part of the Resolution ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the; Sir William Dyke, 

Yeas, \Mr. Rowland Winn: 

Tellers for the Mr. Mundella, 

Noes, \ Mr. Macdonald : 
So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 
And the said Resolution was agreed to. 


} 159. 


1 126. 
sj 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednes- 
day next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee of 
Supply, several Resolutions ; which were read, as 
follow : 

1. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 23,875, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charges 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 31st day of March 1877, con- 
nected with the Patent Law Amendment Act, 
the Registration of Trade Marks Act, and the 
Registration of Designs Act. 

2. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 23,651, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 3lst day of March 1877, for 
the Salaries and Expenses of the Department of 
Her Majesty’s Paymaster General in London and 
Dublin. 

3. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 22,509, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 31st day of March 1877, for 
the Salaries and Expenses of the Public Record 
Office. 

4. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 9,600, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 3lst day of March 1877, for 
the Salaries and Expenses of the Establishments 
under the Public Works Loan Commissioners, 
and the West India Islands Relief Commissioners. 

5. That a Sum, not exceeding £.45,911, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 3lst day of March 1877, of 
the Salaries and Expenses of the Department of 
the Registrar General of Births, &amp;c., in England. 

6. That a Sum, not exceeding £.489,635, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 31st day of March 1877, for 
Stationery, Printing, Binding, and Printed Books 
for the several Departments of Government in 
England, Scotland, and Ireland, and some Depen- 
dencies, and for Stationery, Binding, Printing, 
and Paper for the two Houses of Parliament, in- 
cluding the Salaries and Expenses of the Sta- 
tionery Office: 


8th—29th February. 


‘| mittee on the Indian Legislation Bill ; 





1876. 


7. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 26,284, be Woods, 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge Forests, ang 
which will come in course of payment during the OY 
year ending on the 31st day of March 1877,for | 
the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of Woods, 

Forests, and Land Revenues, and of the Office 
of Land Revenue Records and Inrolments. 

8. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 38,865, be works ang 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge Public Buils. 
which will come in course of payment during the ™8* Office. 
year ending on the 3lst day of March 1877, for 
the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the 
Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Works and 
Public Buildings. 

9. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 24,000, be g, 
granted to Her Majesty, to yw the Charge ae 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 3lst day of March 1877, for 
Her Majesty’s Foreign and other Secret Services. 

10. That a Sum, not exceeding £.6,225, he Queen’s and 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge Lord Tres. 
which will come in course of payment during the — = 
year ending on the 31st day of March 1877, for &amp;e. (Scotian) 
the Salaries and Expenses of the Department of 
the Queen’s and Lord Treasurer’s Remembrancer 
in the Exchequer, Scotland, of certain Officers in 
Scotland, and other Charges formerly on the 
Hereditary Revenue. 

11. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 12,672, be Fishery Boan 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge (Scotland) 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 3lst day of March 1877, for 
the Salaries and Expenses of the Fishery Board 
in Scotland. 

12. That a Sum, not exceeding £.5,705, be Lunacy Bow 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge (Scotland) 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 3lst day of March 1877, for 
the Salaries and Expenses of the Board of Lunacy 
in Scotland. 

13. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 6,665, be Registrar 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge Seneral’s 
which will come in course of payment during the (Sentiand) 
year ending on the 3lst day of March 1877, for 
the Salaries and Expenses of the Department of 
the Registrar General of Births, &amp;c. in Scotland. 

14, That a Sum, not exceeding £. 82,783, be Board of Super 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge vision and 
which will come in course of payment during the Public a 
year ending on the 3lst day of March 1877, co 
Salaries and Expenses of the Board of Supervision 
for Relief of the Poor and for Public Health and 
Vaccination Act, including certain Grants in Aid 
of Local Taxation in Scotland. 

The first thirteen Resolutions, being read a 
second time, were agreed to. 

_ The Fourteenth Resolution being read a second 
time ; 

A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That the further consideration of the Reso- 
lution be postponed:—And the said Motion was, 
with leave of the House, withdrawn. 

And the said Resolution was agreed to. 


The Manchester Post Office Bill was, according Manchester 
to Order, read a second time; and committed to a Lamy _ 
Select Committee. = 

The House, according to Order, resolved itself Marriages 

into a Committee on the Marriages ( Saint James, (Saint Bill 
Buxton) Bill; and, after some time spent therein, 
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill, and directed him to report the same, 
without Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- rad tion 


Resolved, 








3, 

8, and 
Reven: 
fice, “ 


3 and 
fice, ; 


; Services, 


’s and 
s Re. 


rancer, 
scotland) 


"y Board 
and.) 


y Board 
and.) 


al’s 
and.) 


of Super- 
and 

; Health, 
cotland.) 


rester 
)ffice 


ages 
n) Bill. 


stion Bill 





Drainage and 
Improvement 
of Land 
(Ireland) 
Provisional 
Orders Bill. 


Council of 
India 
(Professional ’ 
Appointments J 
Bill. 


Ways and 
Means. 


Epping Forest 
Bill. 


Exchequer 
Bonds 

(£. 4,080,000) 
Bill. 


Consolidated 
Fund 
(£.4,080,000) 
Bill. 


Post Office 
Telegraph 
Services 


(Loan. ] 


Offences 


against the 
Pergon Bill. 


Vaccine 
Lymph, 


39 Vicrortia. 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Drainage and Improvement of Land (Jre- 
land) Provisional Orders Bill was, according to 
Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Council of [ndia (Professional Ap- 
pointments) Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Ways and Means; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednes- 
day next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Epping Forest Bill was, according to Order, 
read a second time; and committed to a Select 
Committee, to consist of Five Members, Three to 
be nominated by the House, and Two to be nomin- 
ated by the Committee of Selection. 

Ordered, That all Petitions presented against 
the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on 
the Bill, provided such Petitions are presented one 
clear day before the Meeting of the Committee, 
and that such of the Petitioners as pray to be 
heard by themselves, their Counsel, or Agents, be 
heard upon their Petitions, if they think fit, and 
Counsel heard in favour of the Bill against the 
said Petitions. 

Ordered, That the Committee have Power to 
send for persons, papers, and records. 


Ordered, That Three be the Quorum. 


The Exchequer Bonds (£. 4,080,000) Bill was, 
according to Order, read a second time; and com- 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for 
Thursday next. 


The Consolidated Fund (£. 4,080,000) Bill was, 
according to Order, read a second time ; and com- 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for 
Thursday next. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on Post Office Telegraph Ser- 
vices [ Loan]. 

(In the Committee). 


Resolved, That it is expedient to authorise the 
Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury to raise 
further Sums of Money, not exceeding in the 
whole the Sum of Five Hundred Thousand 
Pounds, for the purposes of the Telegraph Acts, 
by the creation of Three per Cent. Capital Stocks 
of Annuities chargeable on the Consolidated Fund 
of the United Kingdom. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. 
Raikes reported, That the Committee had come to 
a Resolution. 

Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Offences against the Person Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That there be laid before this House, Copy 
of Correspondence on the subject of the supply of 
Lymph from the National Vaccine Establishment, 
or relating to the Cow Pock Institution, which 
passed, in the years 1871 and 1872, between the 
Medical Department of the Privy Councilor Local 
VoL. 131, 


QWth—2W9th February. 





69 
Government Board in England, and the Poor Law 
Commissioners in Ireland; between the Jrish Poor 
Law Commissioners and the Directors of the Cow 
Pock Institution; and between the Lord Lieu- 
tenant or Chief Secretary and the Cow Pock In- 
stitution:—And the said Motion was, with leave 
of the House, withdrawn. 


Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed Parliamentary 
to inquire into the working of the existing ma- ee 
: . os : ections. 
chinery of Parliamentary and Municipal Elections, 

with power to suggest amendments in the same. 


The Order for reading a second time, this day, Medical 
the Medical Practitioners Bill, was read, and oe 
discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday the 30th day of March next. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till half an hour after One of the clock on 
Tuesday morning, adjourned till this day. 








Tuesday, 29th February, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 


HE Horncastle Gas Bill was read a second Horncastle 
time; and committed. Gas Bill. 


The Midland Railway (Further Powers) Bill Midland Rail- 
was read a second time; and committed. way (Further 
Powers) Bill. 

The Midland Railway (New Works, &amp;c.) Bill miatana Rail- 
was read a second time; and committed. way (New 

Works, &amp;c.) 
Bill. 

The Southampton Gas Light and Coke Bill was gouthampton 

read a second time; and committed. Gas Light and 
Coke Bill. 

The South Metropolitan Gas Light and Coke gouth Metro- 

Bill was read a second time; and committed. politan Gas 
Light and Coke 
Bill 

The Wilts and Berks Canal Bill was read a wits ana 

second time; and committed. Berks Canal 
Bill. 

The Order of the day being read, for the Second pidcot, New- 
Reading of the Didcot, Newbury, and Southampton bury, and 
Junction Railway Bill ; peewee, 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time way Bill. 
upon Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Royal Albert 
Reading of the Royal Aljert Hall Bill ; ec a 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday the 14th day of March next. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Private Bills 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, bay 
That Stunding Order, No. 74, has been complied plied with.) 
with in the case of the following Bills, referred on 
the First Reading thereof, viz. : 

Imperial Gas Bill. 
Wye Valley Railway Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bills be read a second time. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Private Bill 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, (Standim 
° 7 £ 
That the Standing Orders have not been complied Orders not 
with in the case of the Petitions for the following complied with.) 
Bills, viz. : 
Dublin, South, City Markets Bill. 
Southern Railway Bill. 
Ordered, That the Report be referred to the 


Select Committee on Standing Orders. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from — Bills 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, ae te not 


That Standing Order 74, has not been complied complied with.) 





with 


K 3 





Mines 
(Blasting 
Powder.) 


Arundel Port. 


Borough 
Franchise 
(Ireland) Bill. 


70 


with in the case of the following Bill, referred on 
First Reading thergof, viz. : 
Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Bill. 
Ordered, That the Report be referred to the 
Select Committee on Standing Orders. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and | 


read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to Piers and 
Harbours (Provisional Orders), which was pre- 
sented upon the 28th day of this instant February, 
be printed. 


Lord George Hamilton presented, by Her Ma- 
jesty’s Command,—Copy of a Proclamation by the 
Queen in Council to the Princes, Chiefs, and 
People of India (published by the Governor Ge- 
neral at Allahabad, November lst, 1858). 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented, pursuant 
to the directions of an Act of Parliament,—Copy 
of Treasury Minute, dated the 17th February 
1876, awarding a special Superannuation Allow- 
ance to Mr. Andrew Doyle, Local Government 
Board Inspector. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Secretary Cross presented, by Her Ma- 
jesty’s Command,— Copy of further Report made 
by Her Majesty’s Inspectors of Mines, relating to 
the use of Blasting Powder in Fiery Mines, the 
Secretary of State for the Home Department 
having referred back to them their collective Report 
of 1875 upon this subject, in order that they might 
consider the propriety of legislation, or of making 
general or special Rules (in continuation of Par- 
liamentary Paper, No, 417, of the Session of 
1875). 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. James Lowther presented, by Her Majesty’s 
Command,—-Copy of Correspondence relating to 
the Island of Tristan D’ Acunha. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Secretary Hardy presented, by Her Ma- 
jesty’s Command,—-Précis of Reports from Regi- 
ments in the United Kingdom, on Rifles as first 
issued :—— Reports received during the past year 


with respect to alleged defects; and Report of! 


Committee thereon: Reports from Regiments 
on altered Rifles; and Decision of the Secretary 
of State thereon. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


The following Paper, pursuant to the directions 
of an Act of Parliament, was laid upon the Table 
by the Clerk of the House,—Copy of the Annual 
Report and Account of the Commissioners of 
Arundel Port. 


The Order for reading a second time, upon 
Wednesday the 8th day of March next, the Bo- 
rough Franchise (Jreland) Bill, was read, and 
discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. , 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Copy of Dissents recorded by Members 
of the Council of Jndia upon Despatch of the 


29th February. 











1376. 


Secretary of State to the Governor General, No. 
51 (Legislative), of the 11th day of November 
1875, relating to the Indian Tariff Act of 1875. 


Ordered, That Mr. Horsman and Mr. Eyton Leave of 
have leave of absence till Easter, on account of Absence. 
ill-health ; and Mr. Dease till the 11th day of 
March, on urgent private affairs. 


Resolved, That this House do meet To-morrow, Meeting of th, 
at Two of the clock. House. 
The Order for reading a second time, upon gjyi 3; 
Monday next, the Civil Bill Courts (Jreland) Bill, Courts 
was read, and discharged. (Ireland) Bill, 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday the 23rd day of March next. 


The Order for reading a second time, upon Royal Titls 
Thursday next, the Royal Titles Bill, was read, Bill. 
and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday the 9th day of March next. 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- Municipal 

oe That, in the opinion of this House, it would Corporations. 

e desirable to forthwith abolish all criminal juris- 
diction exercised by unreformed “Municipal Cor- 
porations or their Officers, with ihe exception of 
that of the City of London, for which due provision 
has been made by statute:—And the said Motion 
was, with leave of the House, withdrawn. 


Mr. Kinnaird, Mr. Cubitt, and Mr. Goldney were Epping Forest 
nominated Members of the Select Committee on Bil 
the Epping Forest Bill. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself County 
into a Committee on the County Palatine of Lan- pom 
caster (Clerk of the Peace) Bill. 


(Clerk of the 
(In the Committee. ) 


Peace) Bill. 

Preamble postponed. 

CiausE, N° 1 (Appointment of deputy clerks 
of the peace). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 1, 1. 17, after the 
word “him,” to insert the words ‘* Provided 
“ always, that each deputy clerk to be appointed 
“shall be a solicitor of ten years’ standing, and 
* shall have an office within the district for which 
“ he is appointed, and the clerk of the peace shall 
“‘ have no interest in the emolument of any deputy 
clerk.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted ; 

Amendment made to the said proposed Amend- 
ment, by leaving out the word “ ten,” and inserting 
the word “ seven.” 

Another Amendment proposed to the said pro- 
posed Amendment, as amended, to leave out from 
the word “ standing,” to the end of the said pro- 
posed Amendment. 

Question put, That the words proposed to be 
left out tend art of the said proposed Amend- 
ment, as amended ; 

The Committee divided. 


Tellers for the Yeas, ‘ a am 


Tellers for the Noes, oer ae 
Amendment, as amended, agreed to. 
Clause, as amended, agreed to. 
Preamble agreed to. 

Bill, as amended, to be reported. 


45. 


\ 
y 53. 





Mr, Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration To-morrow. | m 

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39 Victoria. 


Valuation of The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Property. Reading of the Valuation of Property (Metropolis) 
erty Act (1869) Amendment Bill; ; 
Amendment And a Motion being made, and the Question 
ill. being proposed, That the Bill be now read a second 


time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the word “ now,” and, at 
the end of the Question, adding the words “ upon 
“ this day month.” 

And the Question being proposed, That the 
word “ now” stand part of the Question ; 


| And Notice being taken, that Forty Members 
were not present:—The House was told by Mr. 


of the 





_ Speaker; and Forty Members not being present, 
and it being then after Four of the clock :—The 
House was adjourned by Mr. Speaker, without a 
Question first put, till To-morrow. 

tles ‘ 

Wednesday, 1st March, 1876. 
PRAYERS. 

1 Tunbridge HE Tunbridge Wells Gas Bill was read a 

ions, Wells Gas second time; and committed. 

Bill. 

Penarth, Sully, The Penarth, Sully, and Cadoxton Railway Bill 

and Cadoxton Was according to Order, read a second time; and 

Railway Bill. ° 
committed. 

Public Several Public Petitions were presented, and 

Petitions.  yead; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

on i 
East India Lord George Hamilton presented,—Return to an 
— Address to Her Majesty, dated the 29th day of 
” February last, for a Return relative to East India 
of ( Tariff Act, 1875). 
. Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
f the T 
Bill. able. 

Irish Society. | The following Paper was laid upon the Table 
by the Clerk of the House,—Return to an Order, 
dated the 25th day of February last, for a Return 
relative to the Irish Society. 

ideas The following Paper, pursuant to the directions 


Hashow. of an Act of Parliament, was also laid upon the 
Table by the Clerk of the House,—Copy of Report 
and Annual Statement of Accounts of the Shore- 
ham Harbour Trustees, acting under and by virtue 
of * The New Shoreham Harbour Act, 1873,” and 
in execution of an Act of Parliament passed in the 
56th year of the Reign of His Majesty King 
George the Third, intituled, “ An Act for the 
more effectual Security and Improvement of the 
Harbour of New Shoreham, in the County of 
Sussex, and of the New Shoreham Harbour Act, 
1873,” up to the 1st day of July 1875. 


Civil Service _ The Order, made upon the 17th day of February 
Estimates last, That there be laid before this House, Returns 
pe Aid relative to the Civil Service Estimates (Grants in 
Rates.) Aid of Local Rates), was read, and discharged. 


Civil Service Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
ys ., &amp; Return for England and Wales, for Scotland, 
of Local Rates) and for Ireland, showing the Grants in Aid of 
Local Taxation and Charges transferred from 

Local to Imperial Funds for which provision is 

made in the Estimates for 1876-7 ; the correspond- 

ing Provisions for the year 1875-6, under “ The 
Appropriation Act, 1875,” and by subsequent 
Supplementary Estimate, if any, up to date of 

Return, and the Payments made from the Ex- 

chequer in aid or in substitution of Local Rates or 

Charges in each of the years 1872-3, 1873-4, and 

1874-5 ; distinguishing where a Grant or Charge, 

or any Portion of a Grant or Charge, has been 

Vou. 131. 


99th February.—ist March. 71 


transferred from one Class of Estimate to another, 
or from one Vote to another, or any new or addi- 
tional Charge has been made, and the Amount of 
the Addition :——General Summary of the three 
Returns, showing the Total Amount of the Pay- 
ments or Provisions made in each of the above 
ears :——And, Return showing the Payments or 
rovisions made in each of the above years for 
Salaries of Stipendiary Magistrates, Expenses of 
their Courts, and Salaries of their Clerks, in 
London and in Ireland, distinguishing the Amounts 
charged on the Consolidated Fund and provided 
out of Parliamentary Votes. 





Resolved, ‘That an humble Address be presented Lostwithiel 
to Her Majesty, that She will be aeusivethy pleased Sane 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 

House, a Copy of any Memorials lately received 

by the Charity Commissioners from the In- 


habitants of Lostwithiel and New Romney. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Training 
Reading of the Training Schools and Ships Bill; Schools sd 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Mercantile 
Reading of the Mercantile Marine Hospital Mere | 
Service Bill ; Service Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 

upon Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second ——— 
— of the Municipal Franchise (Ireland) (Ireland) Bill. 
And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a 
second time ; 
An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the word “now,” and, 
at the end of the Question, adding the words 
** upon this day six months.” 
And the Question being put, That the word 
* now” stand part of the Question ; 
The House divided. 
The Yeas to the Right ; 
The Noes to the Left. 


Tellers for the f Major O’Gorman, 7} 148 
Yeas, Captain Nolan: oo 
Tellers for thef Mr. Charles Lewis, 1 176 
Noes, Mr. Mulholland: J : 


So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
* upon this day six months” be added at the end 
of the Question :—It was resolved in the Affirma- 
tive. 

Then the Main Question, so amended, being 

ut; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon this day six months. 


The Sea Insurances (Stamping of Policies) Bill Sea Insurances 
was, according to Order, read a second time; and erry 
committed to a Committee of the whole House, for “° _ 
To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Local Govern- 
Reading of the Local Government in Towns ( Jre- ment in Towns 
land) Bill; (Ireland) Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday the 10th day of May next. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming wit Fowl 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed Preservation 
upon the 23rd day of February last, That the Wild 54 
Fowl Preservation Bill be now read a second time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 





till Wednesday next. 
K 4 The 


i 
‘ 
i 

4 





















Ways and 
Means. 


County 
Palatine of 
Lancaster 
(Clerk of the 
Peace) Bill. 


Burgesses 
(Scotland) 
Bill. 


Post Office 
Telegraph 
Services 

[ Loan. } 


Telegraphs 
(Money.) 


Offences 
against the 
Person Bill. 


Intoxicating 
Liquors 


(Scotland.) 


72 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply ; 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
eolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Ways and Means; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
consideration the County Palatine of Lancaster 
(Clerk of the Peace) Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into considera- 


tion upon Thursday the 9th day of this instant 
March. 


The Burgesses ( Scotland) Bill was, according to 
Order, read a second time; and committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for Friday next. 


Mr. William Henry Smith reported from the Com- 
mittee on Post Office Telegraph Services jAccan 
a Resolution; which was read, as followeth : 

That it is expedient to authorise the Commis- 
sioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury to raise further 
sums of money, not exceeding in the whole the 
Sum of Five Hundred Thousand Pounds, for the 
purposes of the Telegraph Acts, by the creation 
of Three per Cent. Capital Stocks of Annuities 
chargeable on the Consolidated Fund of the United 
Kingdom. 

The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 

Ordered, That a Bill be brought in on the said 
Resolution: And that Mr. Raikes, Lord John 
Manners, and Mr. William Henry Smith do pre-~ 
pare, and bring it in. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Offences against the Person Bill; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave 
the Chair ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That ”’ 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the 


words “ this House will, upon this day six months, | 


* resolve itself into the said Committee,” instead 
thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Question ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the { Mr. Charley, } 108 

Yeas, Mr. M‘Laren : , 

Tellers for the {Mr. Peter Taylor, 32 

Noes, Sir Edward Watkin: } 4 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
Chair:—The House accordingly resolved itself into 
the Committee ; and, after some time spent therein, 
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Razkes 
reported, That the Committee had made Progress 
in the Bill, and that he was directed to move, 
That the Committee may have leave to sit again. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Resolved, That this House will, immediately, 
resolve itself into a Committee to consider of 
amending the Law relating to the Sale of In- 
toxicating Liquors in Scotland:—The House ac- 
cordingly resolved itself into the Committee. 


(In the Committee.) 


Resolved, That the Chairman be directed to move 
the House, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 


lst March. 


1876. 
to amend the Law relating to the Sale by Retail 


of Intoxicating Liquors in Scotland. 
Resolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Ratkes 
reported, That the Committee had come to a Re- 
solution. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Raikes accordingly reported a Resolution ; 
which was read, as followeth: 

That the Chairman be directed to move the 
House, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
amend the Law relating to the Sale by Retail of 
Intoxicating Liquors in Scotland :—And he moved 
the House accordingly. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in the 
Bill: And that Sir Robert Anstruther, Mr. Dal- 
rymple, Mr. Maitland, and Mr. Edward Jenkins 
do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Trade Union 
to amend “ The Trade Union Act, 1871”: And yoo § 
that Mr. Mundella, Mr. Thomas Brassey, Mr. . 














Jacob Bright, and Mr. Morley do prepare, and 


bring it in. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee on the Manchester 
Manchester Post Office Bill do consist of Five Pet Office 
Members, Three to be nominated by the House, ~*” 
and Two to be nominated by the Committee of 
Selection :—Mr. Floyer, Mr. Sampson Lloyd, and 
Mr. Leveson Gower were accordingly nominated 
Members of the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Committee have Power to 
send for persons, papers, and records. 

Ordered, That Three be the Quorum. 

Ordered, That all Petitions presented against 
the Bill be referred to the Committee on the Bill, 
provided such Petitions are presented one clear 
day before the meeting of the Committee, and that 
such of the Petitioners as pray to be heard by 
themselves, their Counsel, or Agents, be heard 
upon their Petitions, if they think fit, and Counsel 
heard in favour of the Bill against the said Peti- 
tions. 


Ordered, That, in the case of the Epping Forest Epping Forest 
Bill, Standing Order 239 be suspended, and that ®# 
the Select Committee have leave to sit and proceed 
on Friday next. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Mr. Wilber- 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased *°* 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Copy of the Letter and Enclosures from 
the Secretary of State to the Lord Chancellor, and 
the Lord Chancellor’s Letter to Mr. Wilberforce. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented a Bill for Telegraphs 
enabling a further Sum to be raised for the pur- (Money) Bill. 
poses of the Telegraph Acts, 1868 to 1870: And __ Bill 90. 
the same was read the first time; and ordered to 
be read a second time upon Monday next; and to 
be printed. 


Sir Robert Anstruther ego: a Bill to amend Intoxicating 


the Law relating to the Sale by Retail of Intox- end) 
icating Liquors in Scotland: And the same was jin, 
read the first time; and ordered to be read a ijl 91. 
second time upon Tuesday the 28th day of this 

instant March; and to be printed. 


Mr: Mundella presented a Bill to amend “ The Trade Union 
Trade Union Act, 1871:” And the same was read sa 8, 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second gi, 
time upon Wednesday next; and to be printed. Bill 92. 


Sir Henry Selwin-Ibbetson presented,—Return to Mr. Wilber 


an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 1st 4 ~ a 








nion 
1) 


ent, 


ber- 


phs 
) Bill, 


ad) 
| 91. 


Jnion 
71) 
ment 


| 92. 


ilber- 


London and 


39 Vicroria. 


this instant March, for a Return relative to the 
case of Mr. Wilberforce. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


And it being Six of the clock, Mr. Speaker 
adjourned the House till To-morrow, with- 
out putting the Question. 





Thursday, 2nd March, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 
PETITION of the Zondon and North 





~ dy my Fe _ Western Railway Company, praying that 
Lines, &amp;c.) — may be mace in the London and North 
Bill Vestern Railway (New Lines, &amp;c.) Bill, for the 
removal of doubts whether the Petitioners can 
lawfully demand and recover certain Rates and 
Charges prescribed by the London and North 
Western Ralivay (New Works and Additional 
Powers) Act, 1867, and for giving effect to the 
provisions contained in Section 50 of the said Act, 
for the extinguishment of certain Town and An- 
chorage Dues in respect of Vessels using the Docks 
at Garston, was presented, and read ; and referred 
to the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills. 
Tunbridge A Petition of the Tunbridge Wells and East- 
Wellsand = Sourne Railways Company, for leave to bring in a 
—— Bill to extend the respective periods limited by 
‘ ©The Tunbridge Wells and Eastbourne Railways 
Act, 1873,” for the compulsory purchase of Lands, 
and for the completion of the Railways by that 
Act authorised, and to authorise the Tunbridge 
Wells and Eastbourne Railways Company to raise 
additional Capital, and for other purposes, was 
presented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to be 
brought in accordingly, by Mr. Gregory and Mr. 
Scott. 
North Wales = A Petition of the Worth Wales Narrow Gauge 
Narrow Gauge Railways Company, for leave to bring in a Bill to 
a authorise the abandonment of the Railway No. 1, 
authorised by “ The North Wales Narrow Gauge 
Railways Act, 1872,” and to enable the North 
Wales Narrow Gauge Railways Company to raise 
further Capital, and for other purposes, was pre- 
sented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to be 
brought in accordingly, by Mr. Holland and Mr. 
Puleston. 
Public Sir Charles Forster reported from the Select 
ery Committee on Public Petitions; That they had 
Report.) examined the Petitions presented upon the 23rd, 
24th, 25th, 28th, and 29th days of February last, 
and had directed him to make a Report thereof to 
the House. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 
ja Bills Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
Orier 74com. OBC Of the Examiners of Petitions for Private 
plied with.) Bills, That Standing Order, No. 74, has been com- 
plied with in the case of the following Bill, referred 
on the First Reading thereof, viz. : 
Rossendale Union Gas Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time. 
ll Several Public Petitions were presented, and 
— read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 
Vide Fifth 
Report. 
ares Ordered, That the Return relative to East India 
1875.) (Tariff Act, 1875), which was —— upon the 
No,70, 1st day of this instant March, be printed. 
Rail Mr. Secretary Cross presented, by Her Majesty’s 


Command,—Return of Burial Grounds partially 
open, and closed by Orders in Council, from 1854 
to 1875 inclusive; and, Return of London Burial 
Grounds partially open, and closed by Orders in 
Council, from 1853 to 1875 inclusive. 

Vou, 131. 

















lst—2nd March. 73 


Copy of the Twenty-fifth Report of the Church Church Estates 
Estates Commissioners, with Appendix. Cuma 

Copy of the Twenty-eighth Report from the 5. .:.siastical 
Ecclesiastical Commissioners for Exgland, with an Commission. 
Appendix. 

Mr. Secretary Cross also presented,—Return Aibert Life 
to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 19th day Assurance 
of July, in the last Session of Parliament, for yar so a 
Returns of the Total Amount of all Payments 
to the Arbitrator, Assessor, and Liquidators re- 
spectively for Services in the Arbitration since 
the passing of the Arbitration Act on the 25th 
day of May 1871, together with the Gross Amount 
paid to Solicitors and Parliamentary Agents for 
Costs, as well as the Sums paid for the Office and 
General Expenses of the Arbitration :——Of the 
Dates of each Sitting of the Arbitrator; the 
Number of Judgments delivered; the Aggregate 
Amount of Creditors’ Claims, and the Sums re- 
ceived towards Payments of the same, and the Costs 
respectively; the Total Amount of Dividends de- 
clared, and, if any Claims paid in full, the Amount 
thereof, and the Sum now remaining undistributed: 

And, of all Proceedings and Expenses before 
the Court of Chancery in respect of the Company. 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the Public Schools 
9th day of August, in the last Session of Parlia- Ste &amp;) 
ment, for a Copy of Statutes, Schemes, and Regula- 
tions made under the Public Schools Acts by the 
Public Schools Commissioners, September 1874. 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the London School 
11th day of August, in the last Session of Parlia- Board (Inspec. 
ment, for a Copy of Reports to the London School ** Reports.) 
Board of Inspectors appointed by that Board re- 
specting the Schools supported by the Board, and 
presented to the Board in the year 1875. 

Mr. Secretary Cross also presented, pursuant to National 
the directions of several Acts of Parliament,— School 
Copy of Order of Assessment under the National Teachers 

(Ireland) Act, 
School Teachers (Ireland) Act, 1875, on Sixty-five jg75, 
Contributory Unions. 

Ninth Annual Report of the Inclosure Commis- Inclosure 
sioners to Her Majesty’s Secretary or State for the Commission 
Home Department, dated the 29th February 1876, ae 
under the Metropolitan Commons Acts, 1866 and uses - ° 
1869. . 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 





Mr. Secretary Hardy presented, by Her Ma- army Purchase 
jesty’s Command,—Estimate of the Amount re- Commission, 
quired in the year ending 3lst March 1877,to No. 71. 
defray the Charges for the Establishment of, and 
Expenditure incurred by, the Army Purchase 
Commissioners; and of the Expenses to be in- 
curred in purchasing the remaining Commissions 
of Gentlemen-at-Arms. 

Ordered, That the said Estimate be referred to 
the Committee of Supply; and be printed. 


Sir Massey Lopes presented, by Her Majesty’s Greenwich 
Command,—Estimate for Greenwich Hospital and Hospital 
School for the year 1876-77. (The Expenditure *™4 School. 
to be repaid from Greenwich Hospital Funds, per No. 72. 
Acts 28 &amp; 29 Vict. c. 89, and 33 &amp; 34 Vict, 

c. 100.) 

Ordered, That the said Estimate be referred to 

the Committee of Supply; and be printed. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented, pursuant Superannu- 
to the directions of an Act of Parliament,—Copy tions. 
of Treasury Minute, dated the 22nd February 
1876, awarding a Special Retired Allowance to 
Mr. Bennet Woodcroft, Clerk to the Commissioners 
of Patents. 
Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


The following Paper was laid upon the Table Irish Society. 
by the Clerk of the House,—Return to an — 
L ate 
































































ed A RAPA NaN 








74 


dated the 23rd day of February last, for a Return 
relative to the Irish Society. 


Merchant Ships Ordered, That there be added to the Return 


Detained for 
Unseaworthi- 
ness. 


Ceylon 
(Ecclesiastical 
Endowments.) 


Council of 

India (Pro- 

fessional Ap- 

~ eg 
ill. 


relative to Merchant Ships detained for Unsea- 
worthiness, ordered upon the 24th day of February 
last,—A Return of all Vessels detained for Over- 
loading, specifying those Lightened. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Copies or Extracts of all Papers and 
Correspondence having reference to the question 
of Ecclesiastical Endowments of whatever kind in 
the Island of Ceylon. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave 
the Chair ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the 
words “the inducements to enter the ranks of 
“ the Army ought to be increased,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Question: 
—It was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
Chair:—The House accordingly resolved itself 
into the Committee. 


(In the Committee.) 


Motion made, and Question proposed, That a 
number of Land Forces, not exceeding 152,884, 
be maintained for the Service of the United King- 
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, and for Depéts 
for the training of Recruits for Service at Home 
and Abroad, including Her Majesty’s Indian 
Possessions, from the Ist day of April 1876 to the 
31st day of March 1877, inclusive : 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question pro- 

osed, That a number of Land Forces, not exceed- 
ing 122,884, be maintained for the Service of the 
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 
and for Depéts for the training of Recruits for 
Service at Home and Abroad, including Her 
Majesty’s Zndian Possessions, from the Ist day of 
April 1876 to the 3lst day of March 1877, in- 
clusive : 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question, That 
the Chairman do report Progress, and ask leave to 
sit again——put, and ayreed to. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. 
Raikes reported, That the Committee had made 
Progress in the matter to them referred ; and that 
he was directed to move, That the Committee may 
have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, 
again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


read, for the Second 


The Order of the day a Ia, (Poel 
udia (Professiona 


Reading of the Council o 
Appointments) Bill ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a second 
time ; 

And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Friday morning ; 


Friday, 3rd March, 1876: 


An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the 
words ‘it is inexpedient to pass this Bill, as it 
“‘ would throw an additional and unnecessary charge 
“‘on the Revenues of Jndia,” instead thereof. 


Qnd —Srd March. 





1876. 


And the Question being put, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Question ; 
The House divided. 
The Yeas to the Right; 
The Noes to the Left. 
Tellers for the; Sir William Dyke, 7} 
Yeas, Mr. Rowland Winn: f 
Tellers for the; Mr. Jucob Bright, \ 
Noes, \Mr. Dunbar: J 
So it was resolved in the Affirmative, 
Ordered, That the Bill be now read a second 
time:—The Bill was accordingly read a second 
time ; and committed to a Committee of the whole 
House, for Monday next. 


151. 


41 


Ordered, That the Exchequer Bonds(£.4,080,000) Exchequer 
Bill, and the Consolidated Fund (£.4,080,000) Bill, Bonds 
be committed to the same Committee. Bills ang 
The House, according to Order, resolved itself Consolidated 


into a Committee on the said Bills. 


(In Committee on the Exchequer Bonds 
£.4,080,000 Bill.) 


Preample postponed. 

CrauseE, N° 1, agreed to. 

CuiavusE, N° 2 (Interest on Bond and repayment 
of principal). 

Question proposed, That the Clause stand part 
of the Bill; 


To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had made Progress 
in the Exchequer Bonds (£. 4,080,000) Bill; and Exchequer 
that he was directed to move, That the Committee Bonds 
may have leave to sit agai i SN 
y have leave again. Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, again 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 
Mr. Raikes also reported, That the Committee 
had made Progress in the Consolidated Fund Consolidated 
(£.4,080,000) Bill; and that he was directed to Fund 
move, That the Committee may have leave to sit 1s eee) 
again. 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, again 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Commons Bill 
mittee on the Commons Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Merchant 
mittee on Merchant Shipping [Salaries, &amp;c.]; FuipPing &amp;e] 
And a Motion being made, and the Question § bait 

being put, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
Chair ; 
The House divided. 
The Yeas to the Right ; 
The Noes to the Left. 
Tellers for thes Sir William Dyke, 1 
Yeas, {Mr. Rowland Winn: j “1. 
Tellers for the fMr. Rylands, 
Noes, {un Goldsmid : } 34. 
So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 
The House accordingly resolved itself into the 
Committee. 


(In the Committee.) 


Resolved, ‘Yhat it is expedient to authorise the 
ag out of moneys to be provided by Par- 
ament, of the Salaries of all Surveyors appointed 
under the Merchant Shipping Acts, and of the 
Expenses connected with the Survey and Mea- 
surement of Ships, and of the Salaries and Ex- 
penses of Persons employed under the Passengers 
Act, 1855, and of the Salaries and Remuneration 
of all Officers that may be appointed under any 
Act of the present Session for amending the 
Merchant Shipping Acts, and of all Costs and 
Compensation 








00): 


00) 


00) 


Bill. 


&amp;e.] 





39 Vicrortia. 


Compensation payable by the Board of Trade in 
ursuance of such Act. 
Resolution to be reported. 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had come to a Reso- 
lution. 

Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 





The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Valuation Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday the 27th day of this instant March. 


Valuation Bill. 


sasviegne The Marriages (Saint James, Buxton) Bill was, 
Saint James, according to Order, read the third time. 
uxton) Bill. § Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Indian The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Legislation mittee on the Indian Legislation Bill ; 
Bill. Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 
Municipal The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Privileges mittee on the Municipal Privileges (Jreland) Bill ; 
(Ireland) Bil. == Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
the 23rd day of this instant March, resolve itself 
into the said Committee. 
The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Cheques on 


Reading of the Cheques on Bankers Bill ; 

Bankers Bill. q 3 

- Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday next. 


Colonial The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Marriages Bill. Reading of the Colonial Marriages Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday the 4th day of April next. 


Sea Insurances The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
(Stamping of into a Committee on the Sea Insurances (Stamp- 
. om on * ing of Policies) Bill; and, after some time spent 
meer therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. 
Raikes reported, That the Committee had gone 

through the Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill, as amended, be printed. 
Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for Wednesday 

next. 


Cattle Disease Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
(Ireland) = to amend the Acts relating to Cattle Disease in 
Ireland: And that Sir Michael Hicks Beach and 
Mr. Solicitor General for Jreland do prepare, and 
bring it in. 
Protection of Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
Growing Crops to enable the Tenants of Arable Farms in Scot- 
Gute land to protect their Growing Crops from Injury 
by Hares and Rabbits: And that Sir Alerander 
Gordon, Sir Robert Anstruther, Viscount Macduff, 
and Sir Windham Anstruther do prepare, and 
bring it in. 
Cattle Disease Sir Michael Hicks Beach presented a Bill to 
(Ireland) Bill. amend the Acts relating to Cattle Disease in Ire- 
Bill94. Jand: And the same was read the first time; and 
ordered to be read a second time upon Thursday 
next; and to be printed. 


Protection of Sir Alezander Gordon presented a Bill to en- 
te, Crops able the Tenants of Arable Farms in Scotland to 
i) protect their Growing Crops from Injury by Hares 
Billg95. and Rabbits: And the same was read the first 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time upon 
Wednesday the 17th day of May next; and to be 

printed. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till half an hour after One of the clock on 
Friday morniag, adjourned till this day. 


Qnd—S3rd March. 75 


Friday, 3rd March, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 
P I ‘HE Mersey Railway Bill was read a second Mersey Rail- 
time; and committed. wey Be. 


Ordered, That the North and South ( Gravesend North and 
Tunnel) Junction Railway Bill be read a second — 
time upon Friday the 17th day of this instant Junction Rail- 


March. way Bill. 


A Bill to authorise the abandonment of the Rail- North Wales 
way No. 1, authorised by “The North Wales Narrow Narrow Gatge 
Gauge Railways Act, 1872,” and to enable the ®v%7 BY 
North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways Company 

to raise further Capital, and for other purposes, 

was read the first time; and referred to the Exa- 

miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of the Commissioners for putting in Walsall Im- 
execution the Powers and Provisions of the provement 
Walsall Improvement and Market Act, 1848, for ("Pachess. 
leave to bring in a Bill for authorising the Com- 
missioners acting under the Walsall Improvement 

and Market Act, 1848, to purchase so much of the 

Gas Undertaking late of the Birmingham and 
Staffordshire Gas Light Company as relates to the 

Supply of Gas within the Borough of Walsall, in 

the County of Stafford, and for extending the 
Commissioners’ limits of Gas Supply, and for 
authorising them to construct new Gas Works, and 

for other purposes, was presented, and read; and 

a Bill was ordered to be brought in accordingly, 

by Mr. Bass and Sir Charles Forster. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Dewsbury and 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, a 
That the Standing Orders have been complied - 
with in the case of the Petition for additional pro- 
vision in the Dewsbury and Heckmondwike Water 
Bill. 
Ordered, That it be an Instruction to the Com- 
mittee on the Bill, that they have power to make 
provision therein pursuant to the prayer of the 
said Petition. 


Mr. Goldney reported from the Select Com- Epping Forest 
mittee on the Epping Forest Bill; That they had 5. 
examined the allegations of the Bill, and found 
the same to be true; and had gone through the 
Bill, and had directed him to report the same, 
without Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to a 
Committee of the’ whole House, for Monday 
next. 


Several Public Petitions were a and Public 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions. 


Vide Fifth 
Report. 

Ordered, That the Returns relative to the Irish Irish Society. 
Society, which were presented upon the Ist and No, 73. 
2nd days of this instant March, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Albert —_ Life 
Life Assurance Company Arbitration, which was Govan 
°° pany 

presented upon the 2nd day of this instant March, Arbitration. 


be printed. No. 74 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Zon- London School 
don School Board (Inspectors’ Reports), which was Board (Inspece 
presented upon the 2nd day of this instant March, ey 
be printed. ne 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to the In- Inclosure 
closure Commission (Metropolitan Commons Acts, Cidenapalinen 
1866 and 1869), which was presented upon the Sensation Acts, 
2nd day of this instant March, be printed. aa 

0. 


Mr. Algernon Egerton presented,—Return to an Suez Canal 











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Order, dated the 11th day of February last, for Tse Dues. 
L 2 Returns No. 77. 





























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Army (Majors, 
Royal 
Artillery.) 


Civil Service 
Examinations. 


76 


Returns relative to the Suez Canal Tonnage 
Dues. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


Mr. Secretary Hardy presented, by Her Ma- 
jesty’s Command,-~ Statement showing the Ex- 
pense of the deferred Pay of 2d.a day proposed 
to be given to the Army and Army Reserve for 
the year 1876-77, and for each subsequent year, 
until the maximum Expense has been reached. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Return of all Exports and Imports of Copper 
and Copper Ore, Tin and Tin Ore, Lead and Lead 
Ore, Spelter and Zinc, for twelve months, to the 
31st day of December 1875 (in continuation of 
Parliamentary Paper, No. 277, of Session 1875). 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously 
pleased to give directions, that there be laid before 
this House, a Return of all Applications for 
Arrears of Pay by Majors of the Royal Artillery 
who served in Jndia between the 5th day of July 
1872 and the Ist day of April 1875, forwarded to 
the Authorities at the War Office through the 
Deputy Adjutant General of Artillery since the 
16th day of July 1875 ; and of any Replies thereto. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Returns of the several Fees now levied, by means 
of Stamps or otherwise, upon Candidates present- 
ing themselves at Competitive or other Examina- 
tions for the Civil Service: Of the Amount 
received on account of each of such Fees in each 
year since its imposition: ——And, Copy of any 
Regulations, Orders, or Minutes of the Civil 
Service Commissioners, the Lords of the Trea- 
sury, or any other Authority, imposing or regula- 
ting such Fees. 


Ordered, Vhat there be laid before this House, 
a Return of the Number of Public Elementary 
Day Schools (Church, British, Roman Catholic, 
and Board respectively) in England and Wales, in- 
spected in the years ending 31st August 1874 and 
1875 respectively, showing, — 

The Number of Departments in such Schools; 

The Number of Scholars on the Register, and 
the Number of Children in average Attend- 
ance at such Schools in those years ; 

The Amount of Voluntary Contributions for 
Maintenance of such Schools in respect of 
each of those years, School Fees, and 
Government Grant paid ; 

And, the Number of Civil Parishes (exclusive 
of London and Municipal Boroughs) under 
School Boards, as compared with the Num- 
ber not under School Boards, on the Ist day 
of January of the present year. 

Viscount Sandon accordingly presented the said 
Return. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave 
the Chair ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the 
words “ the parish churchyards of England and 
“ Wales having been by the common law of Eng- 
*‘ /and appropriated to the use of the entire 


3rd—4Ath March. 





1876. 


“‘ body of the parishioners, it is just and right, 
‘‘ while making proper provision for the mainten- 
“ance of order and decency, to permit inter- 
‘‘ ments in such churchyards either without any 
“ burial services or with burial services other than 
* those of the Church of England, and performed 
“by persons other than the Ministers of that 
“ Church,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being proposed, That the 
words proposed to be left out stand part of the 
Question ; 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Saturday morning ; 


Saturday, 4th March, 1876: 


And the Question being put ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the Sir William Dyke, 1 979 

Yeas, LMr. Rowland Winn: oT 

Tellers for the fMr. Osborne Morgan, 1 248. 

Noes, LMr. Wykeham Martin: § 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

And the Main Question being proposed, That 
Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair:—The said 
Motion was, with leave of the House, withdrawn. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Exchequer 
into a Committee on the Exchequer Bonds Bonds 
(£. 4,080,000) Bill, and the Consolidated Fund (4080.00) 
(£. 4,080,000) Bill. Consolidated 


(In Committee on Exchequer Bonds (£. 4,080,000) 
Bill.) 


Cause, N° 2 (Interest on Bond and repayment 
of principal). 

Question again proposed, That the Clause stand 
part of the Bill :—Question put, and agreed to. 

Clause agreed to. 

CiauseEs, N° 3 to N° 5, agreed to. 

Preamble agreed to. 


Bill to be reported. 


Fund 
(£. 4,080,000) 
Bill. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had gone through gyxchequer 
the Exchequer Bonds (£. 4,080,000) Bill, and di- Bonds 
rected him to report the same, without Amend- cea 
ment. ‘ 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Monday next, at half an hour after Four of 
the clock. 
Mr. Raikes also reported, That the Com- Consolidated 
mittee had gone through the Consolidated Fund Fund 
(£. 4,080,000) Bill, and directed him to report the (4.40800) 
same, without Amendment. ? 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Monday next, at half an hour after Four of 
the clock. 


“nel a a from the Committee on Merchant 
erchant Shipping [Salaries, &amp;c.], a Resolution ; Shipping 
which was aan loweth : | ” [Salaries, 
That it is expedient to authorise the payment, 
out of Moneys to be provided by Parliament, of 
the Salaries of all Surveyors appointed under the 
Merchant Shipping Acts, and of the Expenses 
connected with the Survey and Measurement of 
Ships, and of the Salaries and Expenses of Persons 
employed under the Passengers Act, 1855, and of 
the Salaries and Remuneration of all Officers that 
may be appointed under any Act of the present 
Session for amending the Merchant Shipping Acts, 
and of all Costs and Compensation payable by the 
Board of Trade in pursuance of such Act. 
The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 


&amp;e.] 


The 








Ways and 
Means. 


Burial Grounds 


Bill. 


Fisheries Bill. 


Industrial and 
Provident 
Societies Bill. 


Burgesses 
(Scotland) 
Bill. 


0) 


Offences 
against the 
Person Bill. 


0) 


Depreciation 
of Silver, 


00) 


Mr. Charles 
Henwood. 


xc.) 





39 Victoria. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Ways and Means ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Burial Grounds Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Newspaper Registration, &amp;c. Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Oyster Fisheries Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Industrial and Provident Societies 
Bill; * 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Burgesses (Scotland) 
Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes re- 
ported, That the Committee had made Progress in 
the Bill ; and that he was directed to move, That 
the Committee may have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Offences against the 
Person Bill. 

(In the Committee.) 


Preamble postponed. 
To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr. Razkes 
reported, That the Committee had made Progress 
in the Bill ; and that he was directed to move, That 
the Committee may have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 





Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed 
to consider and report upon the Causes of the 
Depreciation of the Price of Silver, and the Effects 
of such Depreciation upon the Exchange between 
India and England. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being 
proposed, That the Petition of Mr. Charles 
Henwood, presented upon the 16th day of Fe- 
bruary last, be printed and distributed with the 
Votes ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the 
words “ the Order that the Petition of Mr. Charles 
* Henwood do lie upon the Table, be read, and 
“ discharged,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being proposed, That the 
words proposed to be left out stand part of the 
Question ; 


And Notice being taken, that Strangers were 
present ; 

Mr. Speaker, in accordance with the Reso- 
lution of the House of the 31st day of May 1875, 
forthwith put the Question, That Strangers be 
ordered to withdraw :—And the House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right; 

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3rd—4th—6th March. 7 


The Noes to the Left. 
(Mr. Parnell, 1 
Tellers for the Yeas, \Mr. O’ Sullivan : 


s 
Tall forthe Nowa Bn} 


6. 
6. 
_ And it appearing, upon the Report of the Divi- 
sion by the Tellers, that Forty Members were not 
present; and it being then a quarter of an hour 
before Two of the clock on Saturday morning :— 


The House was adjourned by Mr. Speaker, with- 
out a Question first put, till Monday next. 








Monday, 6th March, 1876. 


PRAYERS.: 


Se Charles Forster reported from the Select Public 
h 


Committee on Publi itions; That they Petitions 
e on Public Petitions; That they (Fifth Report.) 





had examined the Petitions presented upon the 
Ist, 2nd, and 3rd days of this instant March, and 
had directed him to make a Report thereof to the 
House. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table; 
and be printed. 


A Petition of the School Board for Leeds, for Leeds School 
leave to bring in a Bill to enlarge the Powers of Board. 
the School Board for Leeds, was presented, and 
read; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in ac- 
cordingly, by Mr. Carter and Mr. Tennant. 


_ The Colne Valley Gas Bill was read a second Colne Vailey 
time; and committed. Gas Bill. 


The Imperial Gas Bill was read a second time ; tmperial Gas 
and committed. Bill. 


The London and North Western Railway ( Sir- London and 
howy Railway Transfer) Bill was read a second North Western 
time ; and committed. ane Dallwey 
Transfer) Bill. 
Ordered, That the South Eastern Railway Bill South Eastern 


be read a second time To-morrow. Railway Bill. 


The Wye Valley Railway Bill was read a second Wye Valley 
time ; and committed. Railway Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Alexandra 
Reading of the Alexandra Palace Railway Bill; = Railway 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time ~~ 
To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Ruthin and 
Reading of the Ruthin and Cerrig-y-Druidion a Rail 
Railway Bill; way Bill. ™ 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday the 20th day of this instant March. 


The Severn Bridge and Forest of Dean Central a 
Railway Bill was, according to Order, read a se- Fy, Conca 


cond time ; and committed. Railway Bill. 


A Bill to extend the respective periods limited Tunbridge 

by “The Tunbridge Wells and Eastbourne Rail- Wellsandt 
‘ ourne Rail- 

ways Act, 1873,” for the compulsory purchase of ways Bill, 
Lands and for the completion of the Railways by 
that Act authorised; and to authorise the Tun- 
bridge Wells and Eastbourne Railways Company to 
raise additional Capital, and for other purposes, 
was read the first time; and referred to the Exa- 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Bill for authorising the Commissioners acting Walsall Im- 
under “ The Walsall Improvement and Market provement 
Act, 1848,” to purchase so much of the Gas Un- png wes my 
dertaking late of the Birmingham and Staffordshire Bill. 

Gas Light Company as relates to the supply of 
Gas within the Borough of Walsall, in the County 
of Stafford; and for extending the Commissioners’ 
Limits of Gas Supply; and for authorising them to 

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construct new Gasworks, and for other purposes, 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 
That Standing Order, No. 75, has been complied 
with in the case of the following Bill, referred 
on the First Reading thereof, viz. :— 

Spennymoor and Tudhoe Gas Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time. 


plied with.) 


London and Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 


North Western one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 
Railway (New 
Lines, &amp;c.) 
Bill. 


That the Standing Orders have been complied 
with in the case of the Petition for additional 
Provision in the London and North Western Rail- 
way (New Lines, &amp;c.) Bill. 

Ordered, That it be an Instruction to the Com- 
mittee on the Bill, that they have power to make 
provision therein pursuant to the prayer of the 
said Petition. 


Mr. Speaker laid upor the Table,—Report from 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 
That Standing Order, No. 74, has been complied 
with in the case of the following Bills, referred 
on the First Reading thereof, viz. :— 

Newcastle and Gateshead Water Bill. 

London and South Western, Midland, and 
Somerset and Dorset Railway Companies 
Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bills be read a second time. 


Private Bills 
(Standing 
Order 74 com- 
plied with.) 


Several Public Petitions were 
read; and ordered to lie upon the 


Public 
Petitions. 


— and 
able. 

Vide Sixth 
Report. 
International 
Telegraphic 
Convention 
(Miscellaneous, 
No. 2, 1876.) 


Mr. Bourke presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- 
mand,~-Copy of Accession of Great Britain to the 
International Telegraphic Convention, signed at 


Saint Petersburg, July ~ 1875: ——Signed at 


Yecember 26, 1875, 
December 26." and Acceptance 


January 7, 1876, 

° . December 26, 1875. 
y eters ee 
thereof, signed at Saint Petersburg, Sanay tise. 


Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Secretary Cross presented, by Her Ma- 
jesty’s Command,—Copy of the Fifth Report of 
the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts. 
Part I. Report and Appendix. 

Mr. Secretary Cross also presented, pursuant to 
the directions of an Act of Parliament,—Returns 
to both Houses of Parliament of Receipts and 
Expenditure of the General Council for Medical 
Education, and of the Branch Councils for Eng- 
land, Scotland, and Ireland respectively, for the 
year ending 5th January 1876. 

Ordered, ‘That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Lord George Hamilton presented,—Return to 
an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 16th day of 
July, in the last Session of Parliament, for a Re- 
turn of all Letters or Memorials forwarded to 
the Commander in Chief in Jndia, or the Com- 
manders in Chief of Bombay and Madras, from 
Majors of the Royal Artillery serving in India be- 
tween the 5th day of July 1872 and the Ist day of 
April 1875, complaining of the mode in which the 
Royal Warrant of the 5th day of July 1872 was 
carried out in India, together with any Replies or 
Order or Circular in reference thereto (in continua- 
tion of Parliamentary Paper, No. 258, of the pre- 
eent Session). 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Saint Petersbury, 


Historical 
Manuscripts. 


Duchy of 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented, pursuant 
Cornwall. 


to the directions of an Act of Parliament,—An 





6th March. 








1876, 


Account of the Receipts and Disbursements of the 
Duchy of Cornwall, in the year ended on the 31st 
December 1875. 

Mr. William Henry Smith also presented, pur- Superanny, 
suant to the directions of an Act. of Parliament,— tion Act, 1959, 
Copy of Treasury Minute, dated 2nd March 1876, 
placing the Office of Assistant Parliamentary 
Counsel under the 4th Clause of the Superannua~ 
tion Act, 1859. 

Copy of Treasury Minute, dated 29th February 
1876, awarding a Special Retired Allowance to 
John Mitchell, Established Shipwright, Devonport 
Dockyard. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Superanny. 
tions, 


Mr. Salt presented,— Return to an Order, dated Local 
the 23rd day of March, in the last Session of Par- Authorities 
liament, for a Return abstracted from the Accounts (Receipt aa 
of the there under-mentioned Local Authorities 1874, 


during the year last ended previous to June 1874, 


C. 
Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Resolved, Tnat an humble Address be presented Science and 4x 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased (ireland) 
to give directions, that there be laid before this : 
House, a Copy of Letters from the Privy Council 
(Education Department) to various Societies in 
Dublin, with reference to the proposed Institution 
of Science and Art for Jreland. 


@n6 a Got Oe 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Deaths 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased (Starvation, 
to give directions, that there be laid before this &amp;e.), Metros 
House, a Return of the Number of all Deaths in District, 
the Metropolitan District, in the year 1875, upon 
which a Coroner’s Jury have returned a Verdict 
of Death from Starvation, or Death accelerated 
by Privation, in the following Form :— 


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so what, Officer of 
the Union or Parish 
examined at Inquest. 


Name, Address, and 
Occupation of De- 
Whether any, and if 


ceased. 
to Workhouse had 


Date of Inquest. 

If receiving Out- 
Door Relief, the 
Amount. 

Whether Admission 
been offered. 





























a That - a Address be presented pues 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased ,°°° 
to give deegimn, that there be laid before this (Sootleel) 
House, a Return showing, for each Justice of 
Peace Small Debt Court in Scotland, and for each . 
year from 1870 to 1875, both inclusive,— 
. The Number of Summonses issued ; 
. The Total Amount sued for; 
. The Number of Causes which were de- 
fended ; 
. The Number of Decrees in Absence ; 
. The Number of Causes which were reheard 
on Consignation ; 
. The Number of Decrees extracted ; 
. The Number of Cases in which Execution 
by Poinding followed on the Decrees. 


= a Ps ve ee —— Royal Naval 
a Copy of the rt of Inspection of the al Reserve 
Naval” Reserve “ Scotland by the Advil ae 4 
Superintendent of Naval Reserves. * 
r. Algernon Egerton accordingly presented 
the said Paper. 
Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. -” 
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Cheques on The Order for reading a second time, To- 
Bankers Bill morrow, the Cheques on Bankers Bill, was read, 
and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 

upon Tuesday the 14th day of this instant March. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return showing the Number of British 
Soldiers who, having been discharged in Jndia, 
are paid their Pensions in India; the Amount of 
Pension; and any other Privileges enjoyed by 
them. 


Army (Soldiers 
Dn 


eS 


Mr. Speaker called the attention of the House 
to a Proceeding which took place on Friday last, 
when, on Notice being taken of the presence of 
Strangers, he put the Question, That Strangers 
be ordered to withdraw, in pursuance of the Re- 
solution of the 3lst day of May 1875; and ex- 

lained that he had considered himself bound to 
Follow the practice prescribed by that Resolution, 
until otherwise instructed by the House; but he 
thought it proper to give the House an oppor- 
tunity of further declaring its purpose, and deter- 
mining whether that Resolution should be per- 
manent. 


Strangers. 


The Exchequer Bonds (£.4,080,000) Bill was, 
according to Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act to raise the Sum of Four 
Million and Eighty Thousand Pounds by Exche- 
quer Bonds. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Exchequer 
Bonds 
(£.4,080,000) 


The Consolidated Fund (£. 4,080,000) Bill was, 
according to Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act to apply the Sum of Four 
Million and Eighty Thousand Pounds, out of the 
Consolidated Fund, to the Service of the Year 
ending on the Thirty-first day of March One 
thousand eight hundred and seventy-six. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Consolidated 
Fund 
(£.4,080,000.) 
Bill 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply. ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave 
the Chair ; ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the 
words “ in the opinion of this House, the interests 
“of the Nation do not demand an increased Ex- 
* penditure on the Land Forces,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Question; 

he House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the; Sir William Dyke, lige 

Yeas, | Mr. Rowland Winn: | ee 

Tellers for the {i Wilfrid Lawson, } 63 

Noes, Mr. Richard: : 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, Tnat Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
Chair:—The House accordingly resolved itself 
into the Committee. 


Supply, 


Land Forces, 


(In the Committee.) 


1. Question again proposed, That a Number of 
Land Forces, not exceeding 132,884, be maintained 
for the Service of the United Kingdom of Great 
Britain and Ireland, and for Dep6ts for the train- 


6th—7Z7th March. 





79 


ing of Recruits for Service at Home and Abroad, 
including Her Majesty’s Indian Possessions, from 
the 1st day of April 1876 to the 31st day of March 
“a , inclusive : 

ereupon Question in proposed, That a 
Number of Land Sean cnanaiie 122,884, 
be maintained for the Service of the United Kin 
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, and for Depéts 
for the training of Recruits for Service at Home 
and Abroad, including Her Majesty’s Indian 
Possessions, from the lst day of April 1876 to the 
3ist day of March 1877, inclusive :—Motion, by 
leave, withdrawn. 

Original Question put, and agreed to. 

2. £. 4,722,200, for the Pay, Allowances, and 
other Charges of Her Majesty’s Land Forces at 
Home and Abroad, exclusive of India. 

3. £.49,200, for Divine Service. 

. 4, £.27,900, for the Administration of Military 
aw. 

5. £. 262,400, for Medical Establishments and 
Services. 

Resolutions to be reported. 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That a 
Sum, not exceeding £. 672,700, be granted to Her 
Majesty, to defray the Charge for Militia Pay 
and Allowances, which will come in course of 
Payment from the 1st day of April 1876 to the 31st 
day of March 1877, inclusive. 

To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 





And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on ‘Tuesday morning ; 


Tuesday, 7th March, 1876: 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had come to several 
Resolutions. 

Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 

Mr. Raikes also reported, That the Committee 
had made Progress in the matter to them referred; 
and that he was directed to move, That the Com- 
mittee may have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednes- 
day next, again resolve itself into the said Com- 
mittee. 
The House, according to Order, resolved itself Council of 
into a Committee on the Council of India (Pro- a o—_ 
fessional Appointments) Bill; and, after some sate) a 
time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the 
Chair; and Mr, Ratkes reported, That the Com- 
mittee had gone through the Bill, and directed him 
to report the same, without Amendment. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Thursday next. 


The Telegraphs (Money) Bill was, according to Telegraphs 
Order, read a second time ; and committed to a Com- (Money) Bill, 
mittee of the whole House, for Thursday next. 


The Order of the day a read, for the Com- Epping Forest 
mittee on the Epping Forest Bill; Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 

itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Ways an 
mittee of Ways and Means; Means. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednes- 

day next, resolve itself into the said Committee, 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Tenant Right 
Reading of the Tenant Right at the Expiration of 4 the Expira- 
Leases (Jreland) Bill; (ireland) Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 


upon Monday next. 


The Drugging of Animals Bill was, according to Drugging of 
Order, read a second time; and committed to aCom- Animals Bill. 
mittee of the whole House, for Wednesday next. 





Vou. 131. 


L4 The 








Private Bills. 


Referees on 
Private Bills. 


80 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Offences against the Per- 
son Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes re- 

rted, That the Committee had made Progress 
in the Bill; and that he was directed to move, 
That the Committee may have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, again 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 

sed, That the solicitation of Members of this 
ed to oppose or on aaag Private Bills on 
Second Reading by Members connected in any 
way with interests concerned in that opposition or 
support, has a tendency to restore the evils which 
this House sought to redress by the present system 
of Private Bill Committees chosen by a Com- 
mittee of Selection :—And the said Motion was, 
with leave of the House, withdrawn. 


17. 


bers ; 
three,” instead thereof. 
The Yeas to the Right; 
Sir William Fraser : 
Ordered, That the Committee do consist of 
Members of the Committee ; 
Tellers for the Yeas {Mr. Anderson, ‘ 
} 11. 
So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 
The House divided. 
©4851 Mr. Monk: 
And a Motion being made, and the Question 
And a Motion ane made, and the Question 
The Noes to the Left. 
Noes, Sir John Lubbock : 68. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being 
proposed, That the Select Committee on Referees 
on Private Bills do consist of Twenty-one Mem- 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the words “ Twenty- 
one,” in order to insert the words “ Twenty- 

And the Question being put, That the words 
«“ Twenty-one ” stand part of the Question ; 

The House divided. 

The Noes to the Left. 

: Mr. Christopher Beckett 
7 for the] Denison, | 73. 
eas, 
Tellers for the ; Captain Nolan, } 2] 
Noes, Mr. Sullivan : » 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 
Twenty-one Members. 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That Mr. Speneer Walpole be one of the 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

*\Mr. Monk : - 

Tellers for the Noes, geo naa 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That Mr. Dodson be one other Member 
of the Committee ; 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the Y fMr. Anderson, } 77. 

SDr. Ward, 

Tellers for the Noes,) y7- oa } 11. 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 
being proposed, That Mr. Mowbray be one other 
Member of the Committee :—And a Debate arising 
thereupon ; 
being put, That the Debate be now adjourned ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right: 

Tellers for thes Captain Nolan, 

Yeas, Mr. Sullivan: 

Tellers for the { Mr. Anderson, 

So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being put, That Mr. Mow- 
bray be one other Member of the Committee ; 


6th—7th March. 


The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the (Mr. Anderson, 

Yeas, Sir John Lubbock: Ps 

Tellers for thef Mr. Parnell, { 10 

Noes, (Mr. Sullivan: | aca 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That Mr. Sclater-Booth be one other 
Member of the Committee ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the; Mr. Anderson, 

Yeas, | Sir John Lubbock : 

Tellers for the f Major O'Gorman, 9 

Noes, LMr. Parnell: . 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Then Sir Edward Colebrooke was nominated 
one other Member of the Committee. 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That Mr. Pemberton be one other 
Member of the Committee ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the f Mr. Anderson, Long 

Yeas, \Sir Henry Havelock: { . 

Tellers for the ; Major O’Gorman, } 9 

Noes, \Mr. Sullivan: ; 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That Mr. Whitbread be one other 
Member of the Committee ; 

The House divided ; 

The Yeas to the Right; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the; Mr. Anderson, 

Yeas, Sir Henry Havelock: 

Tellers for the { Mr. Parnell, 

Noes, Mr. Sullivan: 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That Mr. Basil Woodd be one other 
Member of the Committee ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the ; Mr. Anderson, 

Yeas, (Sir Henry Havelock : } a 

Tellers for the f Major O’ Gorman, 

Noes, Mr. Sullivan: } 9. 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That Sir John St. Aubyn be one other 
Member of the Committee ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the f Mr. Anderson, 

Yeas, Sir Henry Havelock: 

Tellers for the) Major O’Gorman, 

Noes, Mr, Sullivan: 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Then Mr. Kavanagh and The O’Conor Don were 
nominated other Members of the Committee. 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That Mr. Heygute be one other Member 
of the Committee ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the ms Anderson, 

Yeas, Sir Henry Havelock: 

Tellers for the {Coes O’ Gorman, 


74, 


} 74, 
} 9. 


} um. 
} s. 


} 71. 
Noes, Captain Nolan ; } 1. 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Then Sir Francis Goldsmid was nominated one 





other Member of the Committee. 
And 





if 





39 VicToRIA. 


being put, That Mr. Mills be one other Member 
of the Committee ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the f Mr. Anderson, } 75 

Yeas, (Sir Henry Havelock : . 

Tellers for thes Major O’Gorman, 3 

Noes, Mr. Parnell : 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Then Mr. Dillwyn was nominated one other 
Member of the Committee. 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That Mr. Rodwell be one other Member 
of the Committee ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the { Mr. Anderson, 74 

Yeas, Sir Henry Havelock : } , 

Tellers for the; Major 0’Gorman, Ll 3 

Noes, (Mr. Parnell: . 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That Mr. AZonk be one other Member 
of the Committee ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the f Mr. Anderson, lv 

Yeas, Sir Henry Havelock : 

Tellers for the erage O’ Gorman, } 3 

Noes, Mr. Parnell: | ey 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That Mr. Staveley Hill be one other 
Member of the Committee ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the f Mr. Anderson, 

Yeas, {Six Henry Havelock : 

Tellers for the ; Major O’Gorman, 

Noes, | Dr. Ward: 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That Mr. Muntz be one other Member 
of the Committee. 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for they Mr. Anderson, 175 

Yeas, Sir Henry Havelock: oo 

Tellers for the { Major O’Gorman, 1 3 


Noes, Dr. Ward: 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

‘And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That Mr. John Talbot be one other 
Member of the Committee ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the f Mr. Anderson, 

Yeas, Sir Henry Havelock : 

Tellers for the a O’ Gorman, 


} 75. 
}3 


hea. 
3. 
Noes, Dr. Ward: \ 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Then Mr. Anderson was nominated one other 
Member of the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Committee have Power to 
send for persons, papers, and records. 

Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 


A Motion was made, and the Question bein 
proposed, That a Select Committee be appointe 
to inquire what are the reasons for the present 
scarcity of Oysters, and what has been the effect 
of the Measures relating to a Fisheries 
adopted by Parliament subsequently to the Report 
OL. 131, 


6¢th—7th March. 


And a Motion being made, and the Question! of the Royal Commission on Sea Fisheries in 





81 





1866 ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made io the 
Question, by adding at the end thereof the words 
“and to report what further legislative measures 
” —, in the opinion of the Committee, be desir- 
ce a eo.” 

And the Question being put, That those words 
be there added :—It was resolved in the Affiirma- 


* | tive. 


Then the Main Question, so amended, being put; 

Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed 
to inquire what are the reasons for the present 
scarcity of Oysters, and what has been the effect 
of the Measures relating to Oyster Fisheries 
adopted by Parliament subsequently to the Re- 
port of the Royal Commission on Sea Fisheries in 
1866, and to report what further legislative mea- 
sures may, in the opinion of the Committee, be 
desirable. 


Ordered, That Captain Nolan be added to the Printing. 
Select Committee on Printing. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Mr. Wilber- 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased free- 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Copy of further Correspondence between 
the Lord Chancellor and Mr. Wilberforce (in con- 
tinuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 69, of the 
present Session). 


The Order for reading a second time, UPON Union Rating 
Wednesday next, the Union Rating (Jreland) (Ireland) Bill. 
Bill, was read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time i 
upon Tuesday next. i 


Sir Henry Selwin-Ibbetson presented,—Return to y,. wither. 
an Address to Her Majesty. dated the 6th day of — 
this instant March, for a Return relative to the No. 80. 
case of Mr. Wilberforce. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till a quarter of an hour after Four of the 
clock on Tuesday morning, adjourned till 
this day. 














Tuesday, 7th March, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 


HE Furness Railway Bill was read a second ——,_. i 
time; and committed. — 


The Rossendale Union Gas Bill was read a Romentele 
second time; and committed. Union Gas Bill. 


The Sutton Bridge Dock Bill was read a second a Bridge 
time; and committed. —— 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second #lexandva, 
Reading of the Alexandra Palace Railway Bill; py 
Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 


Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


The Didcot, Newbury, and Southampton Junc- Didcot, New- 
tion Railway Bill was, according to Order, read a bury, and 
second time ; and committed. i. 
Railway Bill. 

The Order of the day being read, for the Second South Eastern 
Reading of the South Eastern Railway Bill ; nyo 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


A Bill to enlarge the Powers of the School er 
Board for Leeds was read the first time; and or- 2? 
dered to be read a second time. 


M Mr. 

















Se acne eR a ae wes 
See 


82 7th March. 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on the 
Derby Gas Bill; That they had examined the 
allegations contained in the Preamble of the Bill, 
and amended the same to make it consistent with 
the circumstances of the case which were proved 
to the Committee, and found the same, as amended, 
to be true ; and had gone through the Bill, and 
made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table. 


Dublin (City) __ Mr. Raikes reported the Dublin (City) Steam 
Steam Packet Packet Company Bill, without Amendment. 
Company Bill. Qrdered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Derby Gas Bill. 


Mr. Raikes reported the Ely, Haddenham, and 
Sutton Railway Bill, with Amendments. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


Ely, Hadden- 
ham, and 
Sutton Railway 
Bill. 


Folkestone Gas Mr. Faikes reported from the Committee on the 
Bill Folkestone Gas Bill; That they had examined the 
allegations contained in the Preamble of the Bill, 
and amended the same by reciting more accurately 
the financial position of the Company, and found 
the same, as amended, to be true; and had gone 
through the Bill, and made Amendments there- 
unto. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Ratkes reported the Manchester and Milford 
Railway Bill, without Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


Manchester 
and Milford 
Railway Bill. 


| Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on the 
Newburn, and Scotswood, Newburn, and Wylam Railway and 
Wylam Rail- Dock Bill; That they had examined the allega- 
Bay’ Peck tions contained in the Preamble of the Bill, and 
amended the same by striking out the recital as to 
holding additional Lands for extraordinary pur- 
poses, and found the same, as amended, to be true ; 
and had gone throngh the Bill, and made Amend- 
ments thereunto. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


Shepton Mallet Mr. Raikes reported the Shepton Mallet Water 
Water Bill. Bill, with Amendments. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table. 

Mr. Raikes reported the South Alloa Dock Bill, 


without Amendment. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


South Alloa 
Dock Bill. 


Standing Mr. Mowbray reported from the Select Com- 
Orden. mittee on Standing Orders, several Resolutions ; 
which were read, as follow : 
Caledonian 1. That in the case of the Caledonian Railway 
res d (Additional Powers) Bill, Petition of William 
bowers) Dull Robertson, for dispensing with Standing Order 
131, in the case of the Petition of Colonel John 
Findlay, against the Bill, the said Standing 
Order ought to be dispensed with. 
Monmouth- 2. That in the case of oe ay gp Rail- 
shire Railway way and Canal Bill, Standing Order 74 ought to 
ee a dena with. x ri 
Northern - 3. That in the case of the Northern Union Rail- 
henge onl , Ways of Ireland Bill, the Standing Orders ought to 
Bill [Lords.} be dispensed with; that the Parties be permitted 
to proceed with their Bill. 
The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 


Monmouth- The House was moved, That the Report from 
mary e | the Select Committee on Standing Orders in re- 
spect of the Monmouthshire Railway and Canal 
Bill, might be read; and the same being read ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time. 

















1876. » 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Private Bills 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, (Standing 
That Standing Order, No. 74, has been complied — 74 com. 
with in the case of the following Bill, referred on? ™™ 
the First Reading thereof, viz. : ’ 

Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Bill. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and Public 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions, 
Vide Sixth 
Report. 
Ordered, That the Return relative to the Post Post Office 
Office (Sunday Duty), which was presented upon (Sunday Duty) 
the 8th day of February last, be printed. No. 81, 


Ordered, That the Account relative to the Duchy Duchy of 
of Cornwall, which was presented upon the 6th “™vell 
day of this instant March, be printed. No, 82, 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Local Au- Local Autho. 
thorities (Receipts and Expenditure, 1874), which “es (Receipts 

i” and Expendi. 

was presented upon the 6th day of this instant ture, 1874.) 


March, be printed. No. 83. 


Mr. Algernon Egerton presented, by Her Ma- Navy (Works 
jesty’s Command,—Copy of Memorandum by Co- “4 
lonel Pasley, R.E., Director of Admiralty Works, “‘” " 
explanatory of Vote 11 of the Navy Estimates for 
1876-7. 

Ordered, That the said Paper be referred to 


the Committee of Supply ; and be printed. 


Viscount Sandon presented, by Her Majesty’s Education Code 
Command,—Education Department, 1876. Copy (1876) 
of New Code of Regulations, with an Appendix 
of New Articles, and of all Articles modified, by 
the Lords of the Committee of the Privy Council 
on Education. 

Scotch Education Department, 1876. Copy of Education Code 
Code of Regulations. with an Appendix of new (S:vtland) 
Articles and of all Articles modified, by the Lords — 
of the Committee of the Privy Council on Edu- 
cation in Scotland. 

Copy of Second Annual Report by the Ac- Education 
countant to the Board of Education for Scotland, (Scotland.) 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Salt presented,— Return to an Order, dated — . 
the 14th day of June, in the last Session of Par- tes 
liament, for a Return showing the Amounts ex- &amp;c.) 
pended and estimated to be expended, under the 
Orders of the late Poor Law Board, and of the 
Local Government Board, by Metropolitan Boards 
of Guardians, Managersof Sick Asylums, Managers 
of Pauper Schools, or other Local Authorities, for 
the erection or enlargement of Buildings for the re- 
ception of Paupers belonging to the Metropolis, since 
the lst day of January 1868 ; giving, in each case; 

a. The Date of the Order ; 

b. The Class of the Establishment (whether 
Workhouse, School, Infirmary, &amp;c.) ; 

c. The Class and Number of Inmates to be 
accommodated ; 

d. The Cost; 

e. Amount of Loans paid off; 

f. Loans still outstanding. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Secretary Cross presented, by Her Ma- sce - 
jesty’s Command,—Copy of Report of the Com- 0"? 
missioners on the Factory and Workshops Acts, 
with Appendix and Index. 

Mr. Soevetn Cross also presented,—Return to “Mistletoe” 
an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 23rd day of ™4™ 
February last, for a Return relative to the “ Mis- 
tletoe” Inquiry. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 

Mr. 








Bills 


| Com. 


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eceipts 
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4.) 
83. 
Yorks, 


84, 


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) 


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8, 


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1875. 


London Schools 
(Government 
Grants.) 


Leave of 
Absence. 


Burgesses 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Wine Duties. 


Tralee Savings 
Bank, 


39 Victoria. 


Mr. Attorney General presented, pursuant to 
the directions of an Act of Parliament,—Copy of 
New Rules of Court, and alterations of existing 
Rules unanimously agreed to, at a Meeting of the 
Judges of the Supreme Court held on the 23rd of 
February 1876, in pursuance of the Judicature 
Act, 1875, and ordered to be in force on and after 
the 3rd day of March 1876. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Resolved, That an humbie Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return of the Schools, receiving Govern- 
ment Grants, inspected in the London School 
Board District in the year ending the 31st day of 
August 1875, showing separately, for Church, 
British, Roman Catholic, and Board Schools, the 
following particulars :— 

The Number of Schools ; 

Their Accommodation ; 

Average Attendance of Scholars ; 

Scholars present at Inspection ; 

Scholars presented for Individual Exami- 
nation ; 

. The Amount of Grants paid; 

The Income of the Scholars to meet such 

Grants; and 
The Rate per Scholar from each Source of 

Income. 


Ore go bo 


eS 


Ordered, That Mr. Paget have leave of absence 
for a fortnight, on account of domestic affliction. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Burgesses (Scotland) Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being 
put, That a Select Committee be appointed to 
Inquire into the present system of levying the 
Customs Duties on Wine: —It passed in the 
Negative. 


7th March. 








A Motion was made, and the Question being | 
| Advocate, Mr. Secretary Cross, and Sir Henry 


put, That a Select Committee be appointed to 
inquire into the case of the depositors in the late 
Tralee Savings Bank ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas tu the Right ; 

The Noes to the Leit. 


Tellers for the {The O’ Donoghue, lV s4 
Yeas, (Mr. Henry Herbert: f ‘ 
Tellers for the Sir William Dyke, } 133 
Noes, Mr. Rowland Winn: ’ 


So it passed in the Negative. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being 
proposed, That, in the opinion of this House, the 
Railway Passenger Duty ought to be reduced at 
an early date, with a view to its ultimate repeal ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” to 
the end of the Question, in order to add the words 
“a Select Committee be appointed to inquire into 
“and report upon the operation of the present 
“‘ Law relating to the Railway Passenger Duty, 
“ and especially as to its effect. upon the working 
“&lt; of cheap trains,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Ques- 
tion :—It passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being proposed, That the 
words “a Select Committee be appointed to in- 
‘&lt; quire into and report upon the operation of the 
“ present Law relating to the Railway Passenger 
“ Duty, and especially as to its effect upon the 
VoL. 131. 





83 


“ working of cheap trains,” be added, instead 
thereof ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to 
the said proposed Amendment, by adding, at the 
end thereof, the words “ and further to inquire 
“ what additional accommodation for the public 
“ may fairly be demanded from the Railway Com- 
“panies as an equivalent for a reduction or the 
“ abolition of the Duty.” 

And the Question being put, That those words 
be added at the end of the said proposed Amend- 
ment ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

‘he Noes to the Left. 


Tellers for the; Mr. Macdonald, lay 
Yeas, (Mr. Samuelson : eee 
Tellers for the{ Sir William Dyke, Lais 
| &gt; 


Noes, iMr. Rowland Winn: 

So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
“a Select Committee be appointed to inquire 
“into and report upon the operation of the pre- 
“sent Law relating to the Railway Passenger 
«“ Duty, and especially as to its effects upon the 
“ working of cheap trains,” be added to the word 
“ That,” in the Main Question ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Mr. Rodwell, 


Tellers for the Yeas,! Mr Sens 


} 137 
&gt;. {Mr. Macdonald, 
Tellers for the Noes, | Mr. O'Sullivan : 


} 23. 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Then the Main Question, so amended, being 
put ; 

Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed 
to inquire into and report upon the operation of 
the present Law relating to the Railway Passen- 
ger Duty, and especially as to its effect upon the 
working of cheap trains. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring ia a Bill 
to alter and amend the Law relating to the ad- 
ministration of Justice in Civil Causes in the or- 
dinary Sheriff Courts in Scotland, and for other 
purposes relating thereto: And that the Lord 


Selwin-Ibbetson do prepare, and bring it in. 


The Partition Act (1868) Amendment Bill was, 


according to Order, read a second time ; and com- (1868) Amend~ 


mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for 
To-merrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Municipal Officers Superannuation 
Bill; 

And a Motion ‘being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave 
the Chair ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to 
the Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the 
words * this House will, upon this day six months, 
‘resolve itself into the said Committee,” imstead 
thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Question ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the; Mr. Rathbone, 1 

Yeas, \ Sir John Lubbock : 

Tellers for the f Mr. Fielden, 

Noes, Mr. Anderson: 

So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
** this House will, upon this day six months, re- 

m2 “ solve 


} 68 
} 88. 


Railway 
Passenger 


Sheriff Courts 
(Scotland.) 


Partition Act 
ment Bill. 


Muncipal Offi- 
cers Super- 
annuation Bill. 









Open Spaces 
(Metropolitan 
District) Bill. 


Supply. 


Epping Forest 
Bill. 


Offences 
against the 
Person Bill. 


Message from 
the Lords, 


Exchequer 
Bonds 

(£. 4,080,000) 
Bill. 
Consolidated 
Fund 

(£. 4,080,000) 
Bill. 


Sheriff Courts 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Bill 96. 


Public 
Petitions. 
Vide Seventh 
Report. 

East India 
(Majors of 


Artillery, 
Memorials.) 


No. 85. 


Paupers 
(Metropolis) 
(Buildings, 
&amp;c.) 

No, 86. 


* Mistletoe ” 
Inquiry. 


No. 87. 


Game Laws 


(Scotland) Bill. 


84 


* solve itself into the said Committee,” be added 
instead thereof :—It was resolved in the Affirma- 
tive. 
Then the Main Question, so amended, being 
put ; ' ’ 
Resolved, That this House will, upon this day 
six months, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Open Spaces (Metropolitan Dis- 
trict) Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday the 15th day of this instant 
March. 


The Order of the day being read, for receiving 
the Report from the Committee of Supply. 

Ordered, That the Report be received To- 
morrow. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Epping Forest Bill; and, 
after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker re- 
sumed the Chair; and Mr. Razkes reported, That 
the Committee had gone through the Bill, and 
directed him to report the same, without Amend- 
ment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Offences against the Person Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
the 16th day of this instant March, resolve itself 
into the said Committee. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a 
Message had been brought from the Lords by one 
of their Clerks, as followeth : 

The Lords have agreed to the Exchequer Bonds 
(£. 4,080,000) Bill, without any Amendment. 


The Lords have agreed to the Consolidated 
Fund (£.4,080,000) Bill, without any Amend- 
ment. 

And then the House adjourned till To- 
morrow. 





= —_————-- _«— = — 


Wednesday, 8th March, 1876. 
PRAYERS, 

die E Lord Advocate presented a Bill to alter 
and amend the Law relating to the Adminis- 
tration of Justice in Civil Causes in the ordinary 
Sheriff Courts in Scotland, and for other purposes 
relating thereto: And the same was read the first 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time upon 


Thursday the 30th day of this instant March ; and 
to be printed. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to East India 
(Majors of Artillery, Memorials), which was pre- 
sented upon the 6th day of this instant March, be 
printed. , 

Ordered, That the Return relative to Paupers 
( Metropolis )( Buildings, &amp;c.), which was presented 
upon the 7th day of this instant March, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the 
* Mistletoe” Inquiry, which was meee upon 
the 7th day of this instant March, be printed. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Game hems (Scotland) Bill ; 


7th—8th March. 





1876. 


And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a 
second time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to 
the Question, by leaving out the word “ now,” 
and, at the end of the Question, adding the words 
* upon this day six months.” 

And the Question being put, That the word 
“ now” stand part of the Question ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to a. " 

r. M‘ Lagan, 

— for the) Sir Willian Stirling Mazx-\ 172. 
—™ well: | 

Tellers for the Lord Elcho, 

Noes, { Mr. Greene: 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That the Bill be now read a second 
time :—The Bill was accordingly read a second 
time, and committed to a Committee of the whole 
House, for To-morrow. 


1) 
s 150. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Homicide 
Reading of the Homicide Law Amendment Bill; Law Amend. 
And a Motion being made, and the Question ™™* Bill 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a se- 

cond time :—And a Debate arising thereupon ; 
Ordered, That the Debate be adjourned till 
Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Training 
Reading of the Training Schools and Ships Bill; Schools and 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time Ships Bil, 
upon Wednesday the 29th day of this instant 
March. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Mercantile 
Reading of the Mercantile Marine Hospital Service a 
Bill; a 

3 ’ . _ Service Bill 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday the 29th day of this instant 
March. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Wild Fowl 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed Preservatio 
upon the 23rd day of February last, That the ~“ 
Wild Fowl Preservation Bill be now read a second 
time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Wednesday next. 


Trade Union 
Act (1871) 
Amendment 
Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Trade Union Act (1871) Amend- 
ment Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Sea Insurumes 
. ° ° (Stamping of 
into a Committee on the Sea Insurances (Stamping policies) Bil 
of Policies) Bill. 

(In the Committee.) 

Preamble postponed. 

Clause agreed to. 

To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had made Progress 
in the Bill; and that he was directed to move, That 
the Committee may have leave to sit again. 

Resulved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Supply- 
mittee of Supply ; 
Resolved, that this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. v 
e 









de 
mend. 


ill, 


atile 


al 
&gt; Bill, 


Fowl 
vation 


871) 
dment 





34 VICTORIA. 


Ways and The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Means. mittee of Ways and Means; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 
Drugging of The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Animals Bill. mittee on the Drugging of Animals Bill ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
the 16th day of this instant March, resolve itself 
into the said Committee. 
Partition Act Lhe House, according to Order, resolved itself 


(1968) Amend- into a Committee on the Partition Act (1868) 
ment Bill. © Amendment Bill; and, after some time spent 


8th—uyth March. 


| 





Bill 97- therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. 
Raikes reported, That the Committee had gone! 
through the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended, be printed. | 

Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to a) 
Committee of the whole House, for Tuesday the! 
4th day of April next. 


The Order of the day being read, for receiving 
the Report from the Committee of Supply ; 

Ordered, That the Report be received To-| 
morrow. 


Supply. 


The Epping Forest Bill was, according to Order, 
read the third time. 

Resolved, 'That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Epping Forest 
Bill. 





Bast India Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 

(Chief Justices to amend the Law relating to the Appointment of 

coed) Chief Justices of the High Courts in India: And 

that Sir George Campbell, Sir George Balfour, and 
Mr. Kinnaird do prepare, and bring it in. 


Parliamentary Ordered, That the Select Committee on Parlia- 

and Municipal mentary and Municipal Elections do consist of 

Hlections. = Twenty-one Members :—The Committee was ac- 
cordingly nominated of Mr. Forster, Sir John 
Holker, Mr. Sampson Lloyd, Mr. Villiers, Mr. 
Gihson, Sir Henry James, Mr. Floyer, Mr. 
Leatham, Lord Francis Hervey, Mr. John Holms, 
Mr. Christopher Beckett Denison, Mr. Sheil, Mr. 
Stewart, Captain Nolan, Mr. Gorst, Mr. Eustace 
Smith, Mr. Ridley, Mr. Bruen, and Sir Charles 
Dilke; with Power to send for persons, papers, 
and records. 

Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
aon to confirm Two Provisional Orders made under 
(Ireland) Pro. “ Lhe Drainage and Improvement of Lands ( Jre- 
visional Orders and) Act, 1863,” and the Acts amending the 
(No, 2.) same: And that Mr. William Henry Smith and 
Mr. Solicitor General for Ireland do prepare, and 
bring it in. 


Drainage and 


Improvement 


The Order for reading a second time, upon Fri- 
day next, the Burial Grounds Bill, was read, and 
discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday the 17th day of this instant March. 


Sir George Campbell presented a Bill to amend 
(Chie Justices the Law ss to the Appointment of Chief 
eo) Justices of the High Courts in Jndia: And the 

Bill 9g, Same was read the first time; and ordered to be 

* read a second time upon Wednesday the 5th day 
of April next; and to be printed. 

Mr. William Henry Smith presented a Bill to 
confirm Two Provisional Orders made under “ The 
(Ireland) Pro. Drainage and Improvement of Lands (Ireland) 
Visional Orders Act, 1863,” and the Acts amending the same: 
(No, *) Bil. And the same was read the first time; and ordered 

Bill 99. to be read a second time upon Monday next; and 
to be printed 


And then the House adjourned till To-mor- 
row. 


Burial Grounds 
Bill. 


East India 


Drainage and 


Improvement 
of Lan 





Vou. 131. 


Thursday, 9th March, 1876. 


PRAYERS, 
M®* Floyer reported from the Select Com- Manchester 
I mittee on the Manchester Post Office Bill ; = Office 
That they had examined the allegations of the Bill 100 
Bill, and found the same to be true; and had s , 
gone through the Bill, and made Amendments 
thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for Monday next. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Private Bills. 
the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, That, 
in respect of the Bills comprised in the List re- 
ported by the Chairman of Ways and Means as 
intended to originate in the House of Lords, they 
have certified that the Standing Orders have been 
complied with in the following cases, viz. : 

Allan Glen’s Institution, Glasgow. 

Anglesey Central Railway. 

Assam Company. 

Ballymena and Larne Railway. 

Belfast and County Down Railway. 

Belfast, Holywood, and Bangor Railway. 

Blackrod Gas. 

Blackrod Local Board. 

Bodmin and Wadebridge and Delabole Railway. 

Bousfield’s Patent. 

Braceborough Water. 

Bridgewater Water. 

Brighton Pavilion. 

Camelford, Altarnun,and Launceston Railway. 

Cornwall Mineral and Bodmin and Wade- 
bridge Junction Railway. 

Dublin Port and Docks Board. 

East Cornwall Mineral Railway. 

Edinburgh and District Water. 

Edinburgh Improvement. 

Ennis and West Clare Railway. 

Erwood Bridge. 

Flookersbrook Improvement. 

Forth South Foreshore Reclamation. 

Galashiels Municipal Extension Police and 
Water. 

Great Northern London Cemetery. 

Great North of Scotland Railway. 

Greencastle and Kilkeel Railway and Pier. 

Halls Patent. 

Ivel Navigation. 

Leigh and Hindley Local Boards. 

Letterkenny Railway. 

Leven Harbour. 

Lincoln City Commons. 

Llandudno Improvement. 

Llandudno Water and Gas. 

Maidenhead District Gas. 

Methodist Conference. 

Milner’s Patent. 

National Assurance Company of Jreland. 

Newcastle-upon- Tyne Quayside Lift. 

Newport (Isle of Wight) Borough. 

New Shoreham Harbour. 

Norfolk Estuary. 

North Dublin Street Tramways. 

Peterhead Harbour. 

Rochester Bridge. 

Ryde New Pier and Railway. 

Ryde Pier. 

Saint Werburgh’s Church, Bristol. 

Scarborough Harbour. 

Scottish Equitable Life Assurance Society. 

Sheerness Pier Improvement. 

Sillar’s and Wigner’s Patent. 

South Wales Atlantic Steamship Company. 

Southwark and Vauxhall Water. 

Sutton Gas. 

Sutton Pool Harbour. 


M3 Swansea 








9th March. 


Swansea Harbour. 
Truro and Newlyn Railway. 
Wakefield Commons Inclosure. 
Waterford and Limerick Railway. 
Waterford and Wexford Railway. 
Western Bank of Scotland. 
West Ham Local Board. 
Willesden Local Board. 
And that they have certified that the Standing 
Orders have not been complied with in the follow- 
ing instances :— 
Dublin, South, City Markets. 
Midland Counties and Shannon Junction Rail- 
way. 
nae ol Union Railways of Ireland. 
Southern Railway. 
Waterford, New Ross, and Wexford Junction 
Railway. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private 
Bills, That Standing Order, No. 74, has been com- 
plied with in the case of the following Bills, re- 
ferred on the First Reading thereof, viz. : 

Bristol United Gas Bill ; 
North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bills be read a second time. 


Private Bills 
(Standing 
Order 74 com- 
plied with.) 


A Message was delivered by Colonel Clifford, 
Yeoman Usher of the Black Rod: 


Mr. Speaker, 


The Lords, authorised by virtue of Her Ma- 
jesty’s Commission, for declaring Her Royal As- 
sent to several Acts agreed upon by both Houses, 
desire the immediate attendance of this Honour- 
able House in the House of Peers, to hear the 
Commission read. 

Accordingly Mr. Speaker, with the House, went 
up to the House of Peers :—And being returned ; 

Mr. Speaker reported, That the House, at the 
desire of the Lords, authorised by virtue of Her 
Majesty’s Commission, had been at the House of 
Peers, where a Commission under the Great Seal 
was read, giving, declaring and notifying the Royal 
Assent to the several Acts therein mentioned; and 
that the Lords, thereby authorised, had declared 
the Royal Assent to the said Acts, as follow: 

An Act to raise the Sum of Four million and 
eighty thousand pounds by Exchequer Bonds. 


Royal Assent. 


Exchequer 
Bonds 

(£. 4,080,000) 
Bill. one 
ie An Act to apply the Sum of Four million and 
Fund eighty thousand pounds out of the Consolidated 
(£. 4,080,000) Fund to the Service of the year ending on the 
a. Thirty-first day of March One thousand eight 

hundred and Seventy-six. 


Public 
Petitions 
(Sixth Report.) 


Sir Charles Forster reported from the Select 
Committee on Public Petitions; That they had 
examined the Petitions presented upon the 6th 
and 7th days of this instant March, and had di- 
rected him to make a Report thereof to the 
House. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


A Petition of the Forth Bridge Railway Com- 
pany, praying that provision may be made in the 
Forth Bridge Railway Bill for enabling the Peti- 
tioners to divide their authorised capital, and for 
other purposes, was presented, and read; and 
referred to the Examiners of Petitions for Private 


Bills. 


Forth Bridge 
Railway Biii. 


London and A Petition of the Zondon and North Western 
North Western Railway Company, praying that provision may be 
coy eg made in the London and North Western Railway 
Bill. (New Lines, &amp;c.) Bill, for the repeal of certain 
sections of the Holyhead Old Harbour Act, and | 

the enactment of other provisions in lieu thercof | 

| 





1876. 


relating to the Public Quay in Holyhead Old Har- 
our, was presented, and read; and referred to the 
Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second South Easter 
Reading of the South Eastern Railway Bill; Railway Bill 
Anda Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a second 
time :—And a Debate arising thereupon ; 
Ordered, That the Debate be adjourned till 
Thursday next. 


Several Public Petitions were 


egg and Public 
read; and ordered to lie upon the 


able. Petitions, 
Vide Seventh 
Report. 
Mr. William Henry Smith presented, by Her Civil service 
Majesty’s Command,—Copy of Index to the !™quiry Con. 
Appendices to the First, Second, and Third Re- 
ports of the Civil Service Inquiry Commissioners. 


Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Secretary Cross presented,—Return to an Prisons 
Address to Her Majesty, dated the 9th day of ‘@teatBritain) 
August, in the last Session of Parliament, for a No. 8, 
Return from all County and Borough Prisons for 
1874, in Great Britain, showing— 

1. The Daily Average Number of Prisoners in 
Custody : 

2. The Average Annual Cost per Prisoner 
without allowing for Earnings of Labour: 

3. The Average Annual Net Profit of each 
Prisoner’s Labour : 

4, The Proportion of Recommitments to Total 
Number committed: 

5. A Statement showing the Nature and Total 
Value of Prisoner’s Labour, the Number of Per- 
sons employed in each kind of Labour, the Cash 
received in respect of each kind of Labour, and 
the estimated Value of the Work done for Prison 
use : 

6. A Statement of the Cash received from 
Purchasers of each kind of W ork, and of the Ex- 
penditure connected with the same in Labour 
(Form as annexed), for the year ending the 31st 
day of December 1874 :— 


| 





Balance of Recei 
being Net ree 
for the Year. 


Salaries or Wages 
of Officers or Servants 
employed in the 
Manufacture of such 

ork. 


Expenditure 
for Materials, 
Machinery, 
Implements, &amp;c. 


Receipts from 
Purchasers 
for Work 
Sold. 


Counties. | Prisons. 


——) 

















7. A Table showing the Number of Persons 
committed for different Terms of Imprisonment 
during the year 1874, in each Prison, as in Form 
annexed :— 





Males. Females. 


Length of Sentence. 





Adults. | Juveniles.| Adults. | Juveniles. 





Not exceeding 7days - 
Above 7 and not exceeding 14 days 
» 4 ” 1 month 
»  Imonth 
» 2months 
” 
» 6 


2 months 
3 


” 
1 year 
2 years 


” 
” ” 

















»  lyear 
Penal Servitude - 





Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon 
the Table ; and be printed. 


—Return to an Gibraltar 
(Church By- 
dowments.) 


Mr. James Lowther presented, 
Address to Her Majesty, dated the 22nd day of 
February last, for a eta relative to Gibraltar 
(Church Endowments). 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 

Ordered, 








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ts.) 





Navy, 


39 Vicroria. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 


(admiralty | a Return of all Trials of Coal recently made by 


rial of Coal) +h Admiralty, adopting as far as possible the form 


of similar Returns previously made to this House. 


sour, xe. Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
"a Copy of a Report on the following Bills :— 
No. 89. 1. London, Brighton, and South Coast Rail- 
way ( Various Powers). 
2. Queenborough Harbour. 
3. South Eastern Railway. 
Mr. Edward Stanhope accordingly presented the 
said Paper. 
Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table, and be printed. 


Ordered, That a Message be sent to the Lords, 
to request that their Lordships will be pleased to 
give leave to the Lord Winmarleigh to attend to 
be examined as a Witness before the Select Com- 
mittee on the Referees on Private Bills: And that 
the Clerk do carry the said Message. 


Referees on 
Private Bills. 


Metropolis Gas The Order for reading a second time, To-morrow, 
Companies the Metropolis Gas Companies Bill, was read, 
Bill and discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday the 24th day of this instant March. 





Nay (H.MS. Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 

“Devasta- a Copy of Reports of the Behaviour of H.M.S. 

i") “ Devastation” on her Passage from England to 
Malta. 

Navy (Lossof Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 

ard”) Copies of any Report of the Hydrographer on the 

set of the Tide in the Neighbourhood of the Spot 

where the ** Vanguard” was wrecked: And, 
of any Changes in the Signal Book or other Regu- 
lations in the Naval Service made by the Board 
of Admiralty in corsequence of the Facts disclosed 
by the Loss of the “‘ Vanguard.” 

Leave of Ordered, That Mr. Richard Power have leave 

Absence. of absence until the 28th day of this instant March, 
on account of ill health. 

Public Income Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 


——. an Account of the Public Income of Great Britain 

) and Ireland in each year from the year 1871, 

showing separately the Revenue derived from 

Great Britain and Ireland (in the Form of Parlia- 

mentary Paper, No. 331, of the year 1870, and 
preceding years). 


qi Tites ‘The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Royal Titles Bill; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a 
second time :—And a Debate arising thereupon ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That the Debate be now adjourned ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the f Mr. Joseph Cowen, L 3) 

Yeas, Mr. Anderson ; ‘ 

Tellers for the (Sir William Dyke, 284 

Noes, \ Mr. Rowland Winn: }2 : 

So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Original Question being put ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be now read a second 
time :—The Bill was accordingly read a second 
time, and committed to a Committee of the whole 
House, for Thursday next. 

Supply, 


‘The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave 
the Chair ; 

VoL, 131, 


Qth—10th March. 











87 


An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the 
words “ this House ought not to be asked to vote Knightsbridge 
“ the first instalment of” £. 100,000 for the proposed Barks. 


“ re-construction of Knightsbridge Barracks without 


** the plans — by Mr. Wyatt being first pro- 
“ duced, and sutficient time being allowed for their 
** consideration by Members,” instead thereof. 
And the Question being put, That tne words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Ques- 
tion ; 
The House divided. 
The Yeas to the Right ; 
The Noes to the Left. 
Tellers for the (Sir William Dyke, 
Yeas, { Mtr. Rowland Winn : } 196. 
Tellers for thes Mr. Reginald Yorke, } 
Noes, Mr. Mitchell Henry : 46. 
So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 
Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
Chair:—The House accordingly resolved itself 
into the Committee. 


(In the Committee.) 


Question again proposed, That a Sum, not ex- 
ceeding £.672,700, be granted to Her Majesty, 
to defray the Charge for Militia Pay and Allow- 
ances, which will come in course of Payment from 
the Ist day of April 1876 to the 31st day of March 
1877, inclusive. 

Question put, and agreed to. 

2. £.74,400, for Yeomanry Cavalry Pay and 
Allowances. 

3. £.458,000, for Volunteer Corps Pay and 
Allowances. 

4, £.132,000, for Army Reserve Force Pay 
and Allowances (including Enrolled Pensioners). 

Resolutions to be reported. 





And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Friday morning ; 


Friday, 10th March, 1876: 


Mr, Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had come to several 
Resolutions. 

Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 

Mr. Razkes also acquainted the House, that he 
was directed to move, That the Committee may 
have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will this day, again 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Merchant 
mittee on the Merchant Shipping Bill; Ship ping Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Maritime __ 
Reading of the Maritime Contracts Bill ; Contensts SE. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- commons Bill. 
mittee on the Commons Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Tho Order of the day being read, for the Com- Indian 
mittee on the Jndian Legislation Bill ; Legislation 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monda _s 
the 20th day of this instant March, resolve itself 
into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Poor Law 
Reading of the Poor Law Amendment Bill; — 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 
M4 T he 


88 


Cattle Disease = The Cattle Disease (Zreland) Bill was, according 
(Ireland) Bill. ¢9 Order, read a second time ; and committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for this day. 


The Council of India (Professional Appoint- 
ments) Bill was, according to Order, read the third 
time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Council of 

India (Pro- 

fessional Ap- 

_e 
ill. 


Telegraphs The House, according to Order, resolved itself 

(Money) Bill. into a Committee on the Telegraphs (Money) Bill; 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes reported, 
That the Committee had gone through the Bill, 
and directed him to report the same, without 
Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 

this day. 

Supply. Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee of 

Supply, several Resolutions; which were read, as 

follow : 

1. That a number of Land Forces, not exceed- 
ing 132,884, be maintained for the Service of the 
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 
and for Depéts for the training of Recruits for 
Service at Home and Abroad, including Her Ma- 
jesty’s Indian Possessions, from the Ist day of 
April 1876 to the 31st day of March 1877, in- 

clusive. 

Pay ——— 2. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 4,722,200, be 
Forces at Home granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge of 
and Abroad. the Pay, Allowances, and other Charges of Her 
Majesty’s Land Forces at Home and Abroad, ex- 
clusive of India, which will come in course of pay- 
ment from the Ist day of April 1876 to the 31st 
day of March 1877, inclusive. 

3. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 49,200, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge for 
Divine Service, which will come in course of pay- 
ment from the Ist day of April 1876 to the 31st 
day of March 1877, inclusive. 

4. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 27,900, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge for 
the Administration of Military Law, which will 
come in course of payment from the Ist day of 
April 1876 to the 3lst day of March 1877, in- 
clusive. 

Medical Esta- 5. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 262,400, be 
blishments and oranted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge for 
Services Ry: 7 we y. : . 
(Army.) Medical Establishments and Services, which will 
come in course of payment from the Ist day of 
April 1876 to the 3lst day of March 1877, in- 
clusive. 
The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 


Land Forces. 


Divine Service 
(Army.) 


Military Law. 


Mutiny. Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 


for punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and for the 
better payment of the Army and their Quarters : 
And that Mr. Raikes, Mr. Secretary Hardy, and 
the Judge Advocate do prepare, and bring it in. 


County 
Palatine of 
Lancaster 
Clerk of the 
Peace) Bill. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
take into consideration the County Palatine of 
Lancaster (Clerk of the Peace) Bill, as amended 
in the Committee. 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Bill, in p. 1, 1. 20, by inserting after the word 
“ standing,” the words “ and shall reside and have 
** an office within the district for which he is ap- 
** pointed, and the clerk of the peace shall have 
“no interest in the emolument of any deputy 
* clerk.” 

And the Question being put, That those words 
be there inserted :—It passed in the Negative. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
this day. 


Qth—10th March. 


1876. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Burgesses 
into a Committee on the Burgesses (Scotland) (S-otland) Bi 
Bill. 

(In the Committee.) 


Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Preamble be postponed ; 


To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr. Razhes 
reported, That the Committee had made Progress 
in the Bill, and that he was directed to move, That 
the Committee may have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 





The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Game Laws 
mittee on the Game Laws ( Scotland) Bill ; (Scotland) Bil, 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
the 24th day of April next, resolve itself into the 
said Committee. 


The Select Committee on the Depreciation of Depreciation 

Silver was nominated of Mr. Baxter, Mr. Chris- of Silver. 
topher Beckett Denison, Mr. Goschen, Mr. Kirk- 
man Hodyson, Mr. Hubbard, Lord George Ha- 
milton, Mr. Massey, Mr. Mulholland, Mr. Fawcett, 
Mr. Cave, Mr. Shaw, Mr. Hermon, and Sir Charles 
Mills ; with Power to send for persons, papers, and 
records. 

Ordered, That Three be the Quorum. 


Ordered, That Mr. Charles Lewis and Mr. Cotes Parliamentary 
be added to the Select Committee on Parliamentary and Municipal 
and Municipal Elections. Elections, 


Ordered, That the Select Committee on Oyster Oyster 
Fisheries do consist of Nineteen Members :—The Fisheries. 
Committee was accordingly nominated of Mr. 
Edward Stanhope, Mr. Shaw Lefevre, Viscount 
Holmesdale, Mr. Herbert, Colonel Learmonth, Mr. 
Dillwyn, Lord Rendlesham, Mr. Wykeham Martin, 

Mr. Malcolm, Mr. Mitchell Henry, Mr. O’ Conor, 
Mr. Pemberton, Mr. Eustace Smith, Mr. Frederick 
Walpole, Mr. Arthur Vivian, Mr. Ashbury, Mr. 
Waddy, Sir Charles Russell,and Sir Charles Legard; 
with Power to send for persons, papers, and records. 
Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 


The Judge Advocate presented a Bill for pun- Mutiny Bill. 
ishing Mutiny and Desertion, and for the better 
payment of the Army and their Quarters: And 
the same was read the first time; and ordered to 
be read a second time upon Monday next. 


The Order for resuming, upon Wednesday next, Wild Fowl 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed — 
upon the 23rd day of February last, That the ™ 
Wild Fowl Preservation Bill be now read a second 
time, was read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Wednesday the 24th day of May next. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till half an hour after One of the clock on 
Friday morning, adjourned till this day. 

















Friday, 10th March, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 
QRDE RED, That the Committee of Public Public 
Accounts have leave to sit this day till Six Accou 
of the clock, during the sitting of the House. 


Mr. Mowbray reported from the Select Com- Standing 
mittee on Standing Orders, several Resolutions ; 
which were read, as follow: 

That, in the case of the Wilts and Berks Canal Wilts and 
Bill, Petition of James Copleston Townsend and _ 


others, for dispensing with Standing Order 131 in 
the case of the Petition of ‘“ Proprietors in the 
Wilts and Berks Canal Navigation Company,” 


against 





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Q2eyv 


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Ws 
) Bill, 


tary 
cipal 





3y Vicroria. 


against the Bill, the said Standing Order ought 
not to be dispensed with. 
That, in the case uf the Glasgow and South 


w and 


oak Western Western Railway Bill, Petition of Edward Henry 
Railwsy Bil. = John Craufurd, for dispensing with Standing Order 
131 in the case of his Petition against the Bill, 
the said Standing Order ought not to be dispensed 


with. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table. 
Brighton Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
Borough one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 
are 2 That the Standing Orders have not been complied 
aeilamentary with in the case of the Petition for additional 
Limits Bill. Provision in the Brighton Borough Extension of 
Municipal to Parliamentary Limits Bill. 
Ordered, That the Report be referred to the 
Select Committee on Standing Orders. 
Dublin (City) The Dublin (City) Steam Packet Company Bill 


Steam Packet was read the thira time. 
Company Bill. Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The South Alloa Dock Bill was read the third 


South Alloa 7 
Dock Bill, time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 

Lords, and desire their concurrence. 

Kilsyth and The Kilsyth and Falkirk Railway Bill was, ac- 
Falkirk Rail- cording to Order, read a second time; and com- 
way Bill. mitted. 
Public Several Public Petitions were presented, and 
Petitions. read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 
Vide Seventh 
Report. ; ; 
Public Schools Ordered, That the Return relative to Public 


(Statutes, &amp;e.) Schools (Statutes, &amp;c.), which was presented upon 


No.90. the 2nd day of this instant March, be printed. 
Gibraltar Ordered, That the Return relative to Gibraltar 
(Church Church Endowments), which was presented upon 


—. the 9th day of this instant March, be printed. 


Civil Services Mr. William Henry Smith presented, by Her 

(Exeesses,  _Majesty’s Command,— Statement of Sumsrequired 

“— , to be voted, in order to make good Excesses on 

No.92. certain Grants for Civil Services, for the year 
ended 31st March 1875. 

Seeltion Estimate of the Sum required to be voted, 


(Vote of Creait, beyond the ordinary Grants of Parliament, towards 
Supplementary defraying the Expense of the Expedition into 


1875-6,) Ashantee. 
No. 93. 
Civil Services | An Estimate of the Sums required to be voted 
= Revenue for the Expenditure of the year ending 31st March 
Sees. 1876, in addition to the Sums already provided in 
ary Estimate, the Estimates presented in the Session of 1875, 
gad for Civil Services and Revenue Departments. 
0. 94. 
Civil Services Mr. William Henry Smith also presented, pur- 
aS Soresee suant to the directions of an Act of Parliament,— 
earl Appropriation Account of the Vote for the Board 
Accounts, Of Supervision for Relief of the Poor, and for 
1874-5.) Public Health (Scotland), and Report of the 
No. 45. Comptroller and Auditor General thereon. (Sup- 
plement to the Appropriation Accounts, presented 
upon the 16th day of February last.) 
Ordered, That the Statement of Excesses and 
Estimates be referred to the Committee of Supply, 
and be printed; and that the Appropriation Ac- 
count do lie upon the Table, and be printed. 
Navy (Excess, Mr. Algernon Egerton presented, by Her Ma- 
1874-5,) jesty’s Command,—Statement of Excess of Ex- 
No.95. penditure for Her Majesty’s Navy for the year 
1874-75, 
VoL, 131. 


10th March. 


89 


Statement of Excess of Expenditure for Green- Greenwich 
wich Hospital and School for the year 1874-75. Sent (ones, 
Ordered, That the said Papers be referred to 1874-5.) 


the Committee of Supply; and be printed. No. 96, 


Viscount Sandon presented, by Her Majesty’s Public 
Command,—Return showing separately for Eng- "4vestion. 
land and Scotland, (1.) The Expenditure from 
the Grant for Public Education in the year 1875, 
upon Building Grants and Annual Grants to 
Elementary Schools and Training Colleges; and 
(2.) The Results of the Inspection and Examina- 
tion of Elementary Schools during the year ending 
31st August 1875. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Edward Stanhope presented,—Return to Mercantile 
an Order, dated the 23rd day of February last, Marine Fund. 
for a Return relative to the Mercantile Marine 
Fund. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Lord George Hamilton presented, by Her Ma- gast India 
jesty’s Command,—Papers connected with the (British 
Development of Trade between British Burmah — and 
and Western China, and with the Mission to China.) 
Yunnan of 1874-75. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. James Lowther presented, by Her Majesty’s Gibraltar 
Command,—Copy of Correspondence relating to (Church 
Church Endowments and other Ecclesiastical ™4°"™"*) 
Questions in Gibraltar (in continuation of H. C. 

259-1, of 1873). 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 

Table. 


The following Papers, pursuant to the directions Soane’s 
of several Acts of Parliament, were laid upon the Museum. 
Table by the Clerk of the House,—Statement of 
the Funds of the Museum of the late Sir John 
Soane, on the 5th January 1876. 

Copy of Return made to the Lord Chancellor, Lunacy. 
by the Visitors of Lunatics, of the Number of 
Visits made, the Number of Patients seen, and the 
Number of Miles travelled by the said Visitors 
during the Six months ending on the 30th June 
1875, and 3lst December 1875:——And, of all 
Sums received by the Visitors of Lunatics for 
Travelling Expenses, or upon any other Account, 
from lst January to 3lst December 1875 in- 
clusive. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Herring 
a Copy of the Instructions to the Commanders of Fishery 
Her Majesty’s Cruisers on the East Coast of Scot- Scotland.) 
land in reference to their Duties for Protection of 
the Herring Fishing. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Training Ships. 

a Return showing the Number of Boys who have 
entered the Royal Navy, the Merchant Service, 
and other Occupations; the me and Pe- 
cuniary Terms of the Indentures of Apprentice- 
ship, and the Place where established; Class, 
Staff, and Working Expenses of the several 
Vessels up to the lst day of March 1876 (in con- 
tinuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 11, of 
Session 1875). 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Supply. 
mittee of Supply ; 





And a Motion ary age and the Question 

being proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave 
the Chair ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 

N Question, 





Elementary 
Schools 
(Education.) 


yO 


Question, by leaving out from the word “ That ” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the 
words “while reading, writing, and arithmetic 
‘‘ should be obligatory in all Elementary Schools, 
“it is desirable that the choice of other subjects 
“should, as heretofore, be left to the School 
“Board or Committee of Management,” instead 
thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
proposed to be left out nan part of the Question : 
—It was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
Chair: — The House accordingly resolved itself 
into the Committee. 


(In the Committee.) 


1. Motion made, and Question proposed, That 
a Sum, not exceeding £.6,992, be granted to Her 
Majesty, to defray the Charge which will come in 
course of payment during the year ending on the 
31st day of March 1877, for the Salaries of the 
Officers and Attendants of the Household of 
the Lord Lieutenant of Jreland and other Ex- 
penses : 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question pro- 
posed, That a Sum, not exceeding £.5,430, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 3lst day of March 1877, for 
the Salaries of the Officers and Attendants of the 
Household of the Lord Lieutenant of Jreland and 
other Expenses :—Motion, by leave, withdrawn. 

Original Question put, and agreed to. 

2. £.27,530, for the Offices of the Chief Secre- 
tary to the Lord Lieutenant of Jreland in Dublin 
and London. 

3. £.460, for the Boundary Survey, Jreland. 

4. £.2,058, for the Office of the Commissioners 
of Charitable Donations and Bequests for J/re- 
land. 

5. £.6,050, for the Public Record Office in 


Ireland, and of the Keeper of State Papers in | 


Dublin. 

6. Motion made, and Question proposed, That 
a Sum, not exceeding £. 28,675, be granted to 
Her Majesty, to defray the Charge which will 
come in course of payment during the year ending 
on the 31st day of March 1877, for the Salaries 
and Expenses of the Office of Public Works in 
Ireland: 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question put, 
That a Sum, not exceeding £. 27,836, be granted 
to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge which will 
come in course of payment during the year ending 
on the 31st day of March 1877, for the Salaries 
and Expenses of the Office of Public Works in 


Ireland; 
} 78. 
Noes, 1 Mr. Rowland Winn: 


The Committee divided. 
Tellers for thef Mr. Sud/ivan, 

} 123. 
Original Question again proposed ; 


Yeas, Mr. Rylands : 
Tellers for the Sir William Dyke, 


10th—11th March. 


1876. 


8. £.21,550, for the Salaries and Expenses of 
the General Valuation of Ire/and. - 

9. £. 78,000, in aid of the Local Cost of Main- 
tenance of Pauper Lunatics, Ireland. 

10. £. 57,061, for the Salaries of the Law Of- 
ficers of the Crown, and the Law Charges in the 
Department of tke Solicitor for the Affairs of Her 
Majesty’s Treasury. 

1l. £.179,848, for Criminal Prosecutions at 
Assizes and Quarter Sessions in England. 

Resolutions to be reported. 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That a 
Sum, not exceeding £. 173,025, be granted to Her 
Majesty, to defray the Charge which will come in 
course of payment during the year ending on the 
31st day of March 1877, for such of the Salaries 
and Expenses of the Chancery Division of the 
High Court of Justice, of the Court of Appeal, 
and of the Supreme Court of Judicature, as are 
not charged on the Consolidated Fund: 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question pro- 
posed, That a Sum, not exceeding £. 171,325, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 31st day of March 1877, for 
such of the Salaries and Expenses of the Chancery 
Division of the High Court of Justice, of the 
Court of Appeal, and of the Supreme Court of 
Judicature, as are not charged on the Consolidated 

Fund :—Motion, by leave, withdrawn. 
| Original Motion, by leave, withdrawn. 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That a 
Sum, not exceeding £. 61,586, be granted to Her 
Majesty, to defray the Charge which will come in 
course of payment during the year ending on the 
| 31st day of March 1877, for such Salaries and 
| Expenses of the Queen’s Bench, Common Pleas, 
and Exchequer Divisions of the High Court of 
Justice, as are not charged on the Consolidated 
| Fund 3 
To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 








And the House having continued to sit till after 
| Twelve of the clock on Saturday morning ; 


Saturday, 11th March, 1876: 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had come to several 
Resolutions. 

__ Ordered, That the Report be received upon 
Monday next. 

Mr. Ratkes also reported, That the Committee 
had made Progress in the matter to them referred ; 
| and that he was directed to move, That the Com- 
| mittee may have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 





Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee of supply. 


Supply several Resolutions ; which were read, as 
follow : 


Whereupon Motion made, and Question put, 1. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 672,700, be Militia Pay and 
That a Sum, not exceeding £. 28,175, be} granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge for Allowances. 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge; Militia Pay and Allowances, which will come in 
which will come in course of payment during the | course of Payment from the Ist day of April 1876 
year ending on the 3lst day of March 1877, for | to the 31st day of March 1877, inclusive. 
the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of Public! 2. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 74,400, be Yeomanry 
Works in Ireland ; granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge for Cavalry- 
The Committee divided. Yeomanry Cavalry Pay and Allowances, which 
Tellers for thes Mr. Muntz, will come in course of payment from the Ist day 
Yeas, { Mr. Waddy : of April 1876 to the 31st day of March 1877, in- 
Tellers for thes Sir William Dyke, clusive. 
Noes, \ Mr. Rowland Winn: 3. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 458,000, be Volunteer 
Original Question put, and agreed to. ranted to Her Majesty, to ae the Charge for ©"?* 
0 


} 81. 
} 123. 


wances, which 


7. £. 18,237, for the Department of the Regis- 
trar General of Births, &amp;c., and the Expenses of 
the Collection of Agricultural and Emigration 
Statistics in Jre/and. 


olunteer Corps Pay and Al 
will come in course of payment from the lst day 
of April 1876 to the 31st day of March 1877, in- 





clusive. 
4. That 








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389 Vicroria. 


ammyReserve 4, That a Sum not exceeding £. 132,000. be 
Force (in- granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge for 
ood Army Reserve Force Pay and Allowances (in- 
pasioners.) cluding Enrolled Pensioners), which will come in 
course of payment from the 1st day of April 1876 
to the 31st day of March 1877, inclusive. 
The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 
Ways and The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Means. mittee of Ways and Means; 
Resclved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resulve itself into the said Committee. 
sDieeaso ‘Lhe House, according to Order, resolved itself 


(Ireland) Bill. into a Committee on the Cattle Disease (Jreland) 
Bill; 


(In the Committee.) 


Preamble postponed. 


CriauseE, N° 1 (Short Title.) 
To report Progress and ask leave to sit again. 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. 
Raikes reported, That the Committee had made 
Progress in the Bill; and that he was directed to 
move, That the Committee may have leave to sit 
again. 

” Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Telegraphs The Telegraphs (Money) Bill was, according to 
(Money) Bill. Order, read the third time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 
Salmon The Salmon Fisheries Bill was, according to 
Fisheries Bill. Oyder, read a second time; and committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for Friday the 
31st day of this instant March. 
Newspaper The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Registration, Reading of the Newspaper Registration, &amp;c. 
&amp;e, Bill. Bill: ° bd 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday next. 
industrial and ‘he Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Provident mittee on the Industrial and Provident Societies 
Societies Bill Bill; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 
Salnurances The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Nanring of mittee on the Sea Insurances (Stamping of Poli- 
) Bil. cies) Bill ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 
fe The Order of the day being read, for the Third 
ln Reading of the County Palatine of Lancaster 
(Cetk ofthe (Clerk of the Peace) Bill; 
‘wa Bil, Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Friday next. ; 
deaicpal Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
t(Pmds) to amend the Law relating to the Application of 
“Funds of Municipal Corporations and other Go- 
verning Bodies in certain cases: And that Sir 
Sydney Waterlow, Mr. Mundella, Mr. Morley, Mr. 
Leeman, and Mr. Dizon do prepare, and bring it 
in. 
lal Gorem- Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
Tsonal to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local 


Government Board relating to the Borough of 
Arundel, the District of Bacup, the Rural Sanitary 
District of the Caistor Union, the City of Cariisie, 
the District of Milton-nezt- Sittingbourne, the Bo- 
Vou. 131. 


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91 


rough of Northampton, and the District of Torteth 
Park: And that Mr. Salé and Mr. Sclater- Booth 
do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Irish Church 
to amend the Jrish Church Act of 1869 by extend- Act (1869) 
ing to Lessees and Tenants holding under the Irish 
Church Temporalities Commissioners the right of 
purchasing the Fee Simple of their Holdings, subject 
to the conditions allowed by Section Seven of the 
Act of the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth years of 
Victoria, chapter Ninety, to purchasers of Tithe 
Rent-charge: And that Mr. Parnell and Mr. Fay 
do prepare, and bring it in. 


A Motion being made, That this House will, Manchester 
upon Monday next, resolve itself into a Committee Tis; coaaaa 
to consider of authorising the Purchase, out of sone 
moneys to be provided by Parliament, of any 
Land that may be acquired in pursuance of any 
Act of the present Session for enabling Her Ma- 
jesty’s Postmaster General to acquire a Site for 
the extension of the Munchester General Post 
Office ; 

Mr. Secretary Cross, by Her Majesty’s Com- 
mand, acquainted the House, That Her Majesty, 
having been informed of the subject-matter of this 
Motion, recommends it to the consideration of the 
House. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


ee That an humble Address be presented — Main 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased (01° 

to give directions, that there be laid before this _— 
House, a Copy of Report of the Swaithe Main 

Colliery Explosion. 


Sir Sydney Waterlow presented a Bill to amend Municipal 

the Law relating to the Application of Funds of pag a 
o.8 P ‘ c. (Funds) 

Municipal Corporations and other Governing gin. 

Bodies in certain cases: And the same was read pint 101 

the first time; and ordered to be read a second . 

time upon Tuesday the 25th day of April next; 

and to be printed. 


Mr. Salt presented a Bill to confirm certain Pro- Local Govern- 
visional Orders of the Local Government Board ™&amp;* Pre- 
relating to the Borough of Arundel, the District of a eee 
Bacup, the Rural Sanitary District of the Caistor iy 109, 
Union, the City of Carlisle, the District of Milton- 
next- Sittingbourne, the Borough of Northampton, 
and the District of Toxteth Park: And the same 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time upon Monday the 20th day of this 
instant March; and to be printed. 


Mr. Parnell presented a Bill to amend the Jrish Trish Church 
Church Act of 1869 by extending to Lessees and , 
Tenants holding under the Jrish Church Tempo- Bill. 
ralities Commissioners the right of purchasing the _ Bill 103. 
Fee Simple of their Holdings, subject to the con- 
ditions allowed by Section Seven of the Act of the 
thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth years of Victoria, 
chapter Ninety, to purchasers of Tithe Rent-charge: 

And the same was read the first time ; and ordered 
to be read a second time upon Wednesday the 14th 
day of June next; and to be printed. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till One of the clock on Saturday morning, 
adjourned till Monday next. 


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92 
Monday, 13th March, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 
IR Charles Forster reported from the Select 
Committee on Public Petitions; That they 
had examined the Petitions presented upon the 
8th, 9th, and 10th days of this instant March, and 
had directed him to make a Report thereof to the 
House. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Public 

Petitions 
(Seventh 
Report.) 


The House proceeded io take into consideration 
the Derby Gas Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Ely, Hadden- The House proceeded to take into consideration 
hamand Sutton the Ely, Haddenham, and Sutton Railway Bill, as 
Railway Bill. amended in the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Manchester and Mi/ford Railway Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Manchester 
and Milford 
Railway Bill. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
Scotswood, : &gt; “ ° 
Newburn, and the Scotswood, Newburn, and Wylam Railway and 
Wylam Rail- P)ock Bill, as amended in the Coramittee. 


Bin and Deck —_ Ordered, That #he Bill be read the third time. 


Shepton Mallet 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
Water Bill. 


the Shepton Mallet Water Bill, as amended in the 
Committee. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The Leeds School Board Bill was read a second 
time ; and committed. 


Leeds School 
Buard Bill. 


London and The London and South Western, Midland, and 
a Somerset and Dorset Railway Companies Bill was 
+ ore coe ee read a second time ; and committed. 
Dorset Railway 
Companies Bill. 
Monmouth- 
shire Railway 
and Canal Bill. 
Newcastle and 
Gateshead 
Water Bill. 


The Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Bill 
was read a second time; and committed. 


The Newcastle and Gateshead Water Bill was 
read a second time ; and committed. 


Spennymoor 
and Tudhoe 
Gas Bill. 


The Spennymoor and Tudhoe Gas Bill was read 
a second time; and committed. 


Walsall Im- 
provement 
Commissioners 
Gas Purchase 
Bill. 


Whitehaven, 
Cleator, and 
Egremont 
Railway Bill 
(1875.) 


The Walsall Improvement Commissioners Gas 
Purchase Bill was read a second time; and com- 
mitted. 


Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence 
taken before the Committee on the Whitehaven, 
Cleator, and Egremont Railway Bill, in Session 
1875, be referred to the Committee on the Cleator 
and Workington Junction Railway, and the White- 
haven, Cleator, and Egremont Railway Bills. 


Private Bills 
(Standing 
Order 74 com- 
plied with.) 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private 
Bills, That Standing Order No. 74 has been com- 
plied with in the case of the following Bill, re- 
ferred on the First Reading thereof, viz. : 

Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway 
Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 
That the Standing Orders have been complied 
with in the case of the Petition for additional Pro- 
vision in the Forth Bridge Railway Bill. 

Ordered, That it be an Instruction to the Com- 
mittee on the Bill, that they have power to make 


Forth Bridge 
Railway Bill. 


13th March. 





1876. 


provision therein pursuant to the prayer of the 
said, Petition. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,— Report from London ang 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private North Wester 
Bills, That the Standing Orders have not been rele Al 
complied with in the case of the Petition for addi- Bin, ’ 
tional Provision in the London and North Western 
Railway (New Lines, &amp;c.) Bill. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the 
Select Committee on Standing Orders. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and pubic 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions, 
Vide Eighth 
Report. 
Ordered, That the Return relative to the Mer- Mercantile 
cantile Marine Fund, which was presented upon Marine Fung 
the 10th day of this instant March, be printed. No. 93, 


Mr. Bourke presented,—Further Return to an Monastic and 
Address to Her Majesty, dated the 11th day of eee 
August, in the last Session of Parliament, for a (Miscellaneous 
Return, in continuation of the Returns to an No. 3, 1876) 
Address ordered to be presented upon the 27th 
day of July 1874, which shows the Laws, Ordi- 
nances, or Regulations relating to Monastic and 
Cenventual Institutions in certain States, giving 
the Originals and Translations of any New Tan 
Ordinances, or Regulations, and any alterations of 
Laws, Ordinances, or Kegulations which have up 
to the present time been adopted or promulgated 
by the Governments of the said States, and with 
respect to which Information has not hitherto been 
furnished to this House. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Hunt presented,—Return to several Orders, Navy (Loss of 
dated the 28th day of February last, and the the “Van- 
9th day of this instant March, for Returns relative 8”) 
to the Navy (Loss of the “ Vanguard ”). No. 98, 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


Sir Henry Selwin-Ibbetson presented, —Return gwaithe Main 
to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 10th day Colliery Ex- 
of this instant March, for a Return relative to the P's" 
Swaithe Main Colliery Explosion. No. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed, 


Mr, Secretary Cross presented,—Return to an Poor Law 
Order, dated the 11th day of February last, for heey os “a 
a Return relative to Poor Law Unions (Jreland) pees - 
(National School Teachers). Teachers.) 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the No. 100. 


Table; and be printed. 


Mr. Secretary Hardy presented,—Return to Army 
an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 23rd day (Commissions) 
of February last, for Returns relative to the Army 
(Commissions). 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated Army 
the 25th day of February last, for a Return rela- (Colonels ) 
tive to the Army (Colonels, &amp;c.) 

Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon 
the Table. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Yarmouth | 
a Return of the Sums levied and expended by the (Isle of Wight) 
Corporation of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, in respect 
of the Harbour Account during the Ten Years 
ended with June 1875. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, public 
Retarns of the Number of Petitions annually pres 
printed by the Select Committee on Public Peti- ?"""* 
tions during the last Ten Years :———And, of the 
Annual Cost of printing such Petitions during 
those years. u 

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187 . 

(Diplomatic 

Services.) 
No. 101. 


Hops. 


Foreshores. 


Superannua- 
tions. 


Message from 
the Lords. 


Referees on 
Private Bills. 


Supply. 


Admiralty 
Administra- 
tion. 


Supply. 


39 Vicroria. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented, by Her 
Majesty’s Command,—Estimate of Sum necessary 
to complete a Total Amount of £. 216,742, origi- 
nally estimated to be required in the year ending 
31st March 1876, to defray the Expenses of Her 
Majesty’s Embassies and Missions Abroad (vide 
page 353 of the Estimates for Civil Services and 
Revenue Departments, 1875-76, No. 100, of 
1875). 

Mr. William Henry Smith also presented,— 
Return to an Order, dated the 15th day of February 
last, for Returns relative to Hops. 

Mr. Witliam Henry Smith also presented, pur- 
suant to the directions of several Acts of Parlia- 
ment,—Copy of Letter from the Treasury, dated 
7th March 1876, to the Commissioners for the Re- 
duction of the National Debt, as toa Sum received 
on account of Crown Rights in the Foreshores of 
the United Kingdom. 

Copy of Treasury Minute, dated 7th March 
1876, awarding a Special Retired Allowance to 
Mr. William Vonkin, late Shipwright, Portsmouth 
Dockyard, in lieu of that previously granted. 

Ordered, That the said Estimate be referred to 
the Committee of Supply, and be printed; and 
that the other Papers do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a 
Message had been brought from the Lords by one 
of their Clerks, as followeth : 

The Lords give leave to the Lord Winmarleigh 
to attend, in order to his being examined as a Wit- 
ness before the Select Committee appointed by 
this House on Referees on Private Bills, his Lord- 
ship (in his place) consenting. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave 
the Chair ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” to 
the end of the Question, in order to add the words 
“in the opinion of this House, the practice of 
** placing at the head of the Admiralty civilians, 
“ who, trom their antecedents, cannot be con- 
“ versant with the business of that Department, is 
* detrimental to the interests of the service,” in- 
stead thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Question ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the; Sir William Dyke, 1 


Yeas, (Mr. Rowland Winn: J _— 
Tellers for the; Mr. Bentinck, 1 ig 
Noes, \|Mr. Monk: | cus 


So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That, Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
Chair:—The House accordingly resolved itself 
into the Committee. 


(In the Committee.) 


60,000 Men and Boys for the Sea and Coast 
Guard Services, including 14,000 Royal Marines. 
Motion made, and Question put, That the 
Chairman do report Progress, and ask leave to sit 
again ; 
The Committee divided. 
Tellers for the f Mr. Rylands, } 63 
Yeas, Mr. Biggar: ; 
Tellers for the Sir William Dyke, } 105 
Noes, { Mr. Rowland Winn: : 
Motion made, and Question put, That the 
Chairman do now leave the Chair. 
The Committee divided. 
VoL. 131. 


13th—14th March. 





93 
Tellers for the {Captain Nolan, } 62 
Yeas, UMr. Sullivan: . 
Tellers for the! Sir William Dyke, 104 
Noes, (Mr. Rowland Winn: J P 
Resolution to be reported. 





And the House having continued sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Tuesday morning ; 


Tuesday, 14th Marck, 1876: 
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 


reported, That the Committee had come to a Re- 
solution. 

Ordered, That the Repoct be received this day. 

Mr. Raikes also acquainted the House, that he 
was directed to move, That the Committee may 
have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee of Supply. 
Supply, several Resolutions; which were read, as 
foliow : 

1. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 6,992, be Lord Licu- 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge fenantof 
which will come in course of payment during the (Household. 
year ending on the 31st day of March 1877, for 
the Salaries of the Officers and Attendants of the 
Household of the Lord Lieutenant of /re/and, and 
other Expenses. 

2. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 27,530, be Chief Secretary 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge —— 
which will come in course of payment during the — 
year ending on the 3lst day of March 1877, for 
the Salaries and Expenses of the Offices of the 
Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Jre- 
land in Dublin and London, and Subordinate De- 
partments. 

3. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 460, be granted Boundary 
to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge which will (ional) 
come in course of payment during the year ending : 
on the 3lst day of March 1877, for the Salaries 
and Expenses connected with the Boundary Sur- 
vey, Lreland. 

4, That a Sum, not exceeding £. 2,058, be Charitable 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge - sem 
which will come in course of payment during the (ircland.) si 
year ending on the 3lst day of March 1877, for 
the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the 
Commissioners of Charitable Donations and Be- 
quests for Ireland. 

5. That a Sum, not exceeding £.6,050, be Public Record 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge fice (Ire- 
which will come in course of payment during the “"” 
year ending on the 3lst day of March 1877, for 
the Salaries and Expenses of the Public Record 
Office in Ireland, and ot the Keeper of State Papers 
in Dublin. 

6. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 28,675, be Public Works 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge Office (Ire- 
which will come in course of payment during the *"“) 
year ending on the 3lst day of March 1877, for 
the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of Public 
Works in Ireland. 

7. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 18,237, be Registrar 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge General’s 
which will come in course of payment during the eo. (ireland) 
year ending on the 31st day of March 1877, for 
the Salaries and Expenses in the Department of 
the Registrar General of Births, &amp;c., and the Ex- 
penses of the Collection of Agricultural and Emi- 
gration Statistics in Jreland. 

8. That a Sum, not exceeding £.21,550, be General 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge Valuation 
which will come in course of payment during the ‘+ 
year ending on the 31st day of March 1877, for 
the Salaries and Expenses of the General Valua- 
tion of Ireland. 

9. That a Sum, not exceeding £.78,000, be Pauper 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge a 
which will come in course of payment during the ‘!"*) 

N3 year 


Criminal 
Prosecutions, 
&amp;c. 


Drainage and 
Improvement 
of Lands (Ire- 
land) Pro- 
visional Orders 
(No. 2) Bill. 


Manchester 
Post Office 
[ Expenses. ] 


Manchester 
Post Office 
Bill. 


Mutiny Bill. 


Tenant Right 

at the Expira- 
tion of Leases 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Burgesses 
(Scotland) Bill. 


O4 


year ending on the 3lst day of March 1877, in aid 
of the Local Cost of Maintenance of Pauper Lu- 
natics, Ireland. 

10. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 57,061, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 31st day of March 1877, for 
the Salaries of the Law Officers of the Crown, 
and the Law Charges, Salaries, Allowances, and 
Incidental Expenses, including Prosecutions re- 
lating to Coin, in the Department of the Solicitor 
for the Affairs of Her Majesty’s Treasury. 

11. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 179,848, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 3lst day of March 1877, for 
Criminal Prosecutions at Assizes and Quarter 
Sessions in England, including Adjudications un- 
der the Criminal Justice Act and the Juvenile 
Offenders Acts, for Sheriffs’ Expenses, Salaries to 
Clerks of Assize and other Officers, and for Com- 
pensation to Clerks of the Peace. 

The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 


The Drainage and Improvement of Lands (Jre- 
land) Provisional Orders (No. 2) Bill was, accord- 
ing to Order, read a second time; and committed 
to a Committee of the whole House, for Monday 
next. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on Manchester Post Office 
[ Expenses }. 

(In the Committee.) 


Resolved, That it is expedient to authorise the 
Purchase, out of Moneys to be provided by Par- 
liament, of any Land that may be acquired in 
pursuance of any Act of the present Session for 
enabling Her Majesty’s Postmaster General to 
acquire a Site for the extension of the Manchester 


General Post Office. 
Resolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had come to a Re- 


solution. 
Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 


into a Committee on the Manchester Post Office }. 


Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes re- 
ported, That the Committee had made Progress 
in the Bill, and that he was directed to move, That 
the Committee may have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, again 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Mutiny Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Ways and Means; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednes- 
day next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Tenant Right at the Expiration of 
Leases (Ireland) Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The House, mgr to Order, resolved itself 


into a Committee on the Burgesses (Scotland) 


Bill. 





13th—14th March. 





1876. 
(In the Committee.) 


Question again proposed, That the Preamble be 
postponed ; 

Question put, and agreed to. 
. Causes, N° 1 and N° 2, amended, and agreed 
0. 
A Clause added. 
Preamble agreed to. 


Bill, as amended, to be reported. ( 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration upon Wednes- 
day next. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Coroners 
to amend the Law relating to Coroners and In- (Dublin) 
quests in the County of the City of Dublin: And 
that Mr. Sullivan, Sir Arthur Guinness, Mr. 
Maurice Brovks, and Mr. Patrick Martin do pre- 
pare, and bring it in. 


— oo 


Ordered, That a Select Committee of Five Halifax 
Members, to be nominated by the Committee of (Vicar's Rate) 
Selection, be appointed to inquire into the Opera- 
tion of the Act 10 Geo. 4, c. 14, relating to the 
Vicar’s Rate at Halifar,and to report their Opinion 
to the House whether any and what Amendments 
should be made in the said Act. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Poolbeg 
for vesting Poolbeg Lighthouse in the Dublin Port Lighthouse. 
and Docks Board, and for other purposes relating 
thereto: And that Mr. Edward Stanhope and Sir 
Charles Adderley do prepare, and bring it in. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented East India 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased (Legislation) 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Copies of the following Legislative De- 
spatches :— 

No. 15, of the 15th day of December 1864, 
from the Governor General of India to the 
Secretary of State for India in Council; 

No. 12, of the 31st day of March 1865, from 
the Secretary of State to the Governor § 
General ; I 

No. 8, of the 18th day of March 1869, from 
the Secretary of State to the Governor 
General ; 

No. 1, of the 22nd day of March 1870, from 
the Governor General to the Secretary of 
State ; 

No. 47, of the 24th day of November 1870, 
from the Secretary of State to the Governor 
General ; 

No. 2, of the Ist day of February 1871, from 
the Governor General to the Secretary of 
State ; 

No. 9, of the 31st day of March 1874, from 
the Secretary of State to the Governor 
General ; 

No. 45, of the 28th day of July 1874, from 
the Governor General to the Secretary of 
State ; 

No. 33, of the 15th day of October 1874, 
from the Secretary of State to the Governor 
General :” 

And, of a Minute by Mr. John Stuart Mill. 


Mr. Sullivan presented a Bill to amend the Law Coroners 
relating to Coroners and Inquests in the County (Dublin) Bill 
of the City of Dublin: And the same was read Bill 104 R 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time upon Friday the 24th day of this. instant 
March ; and to be printed 


Mr. 











89 Vicrorta. 





Poolbeg Mr. Edward Stanhope presented a Bill for vest- 

ighthoue §=ing Poolbeg Lighthouse in the Dublin Port and 
&gt; Docks Board, and for other purposes relating 
Bill 105. thereto: And the same was read the first time. 


Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills; and be 
printed. 


East India Lord George Hamilton presented,—Return to 
(Legislation.) an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 13th day of 
No. 102. this instant March, for Returns relative to East 
India (Legislation). 
Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till half an hour after One of the clock 
on Tuesday morning, adjourned till this 
day. 








Tuesday, 14th March, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 


Mersey Docks M R. Raikes reported from the Committee 


and Harbour 

Board Bill. 
hain) contained inthe Preamble ofthe Bill,and amended 
the same, by adding a recital that Plans and Sec- 
tions of the proposed Works, and a Book of Re- 
ference thereto, had been deposited with the Clerk 
of the Peace for the County Palatine of ZLancas- 
ter, and found the same, as amended, to be true; 
and had gone through the Bill, and made Amend- 
ments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 

Table. 


Prstm $$ Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on 
Tramways Bill. the Preston Tramways Bill; That they had exa- 
mined the allegations contained in the Preamble 
of the Bill, and amended the same to make it con- 
sistent with the circumstances of the case which 
were proved to the Committee, and found the 
same, as amended, to be true; and had gone 
through the Bill, and made Amendments there- 
unto. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


ion.) 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on 
the Glasgow and South Western Railway Bill ; 
That they had examined the allegations contained 
in the Preamble of the Bill, and amended the 
same by striking out the recitals relating to the 
Saint Enoch Station in Glasgow, in order to make 
it consistent with the Provisions of the Bill as 
submitted to and passed by the Committee, and 
found the same, as amended, to be true; and had 
gone through the Bill, and made Amendments 
thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


Mr. Bathurst reported from the Committee on 
Group C. of Private Bills; That the Parties pro- 
moting the Ramsgate Local Board Bill had stated 
that the evidence of Ellice Clark was essential to 
enable them to establish their case, and it having 
been proved that his attendance could not be pro- 
cured without the intervention of the House, he had 
been instructed to move that the said Ellice Clark 
do attend the Committee To-morrow, at Twelve 
of the clock. 

Ordered, That Ellice Clark do attend the Com- 
mittee on Group C. of Private Bills To-morrow, 
at Twelve of the clock. 

106 Mr. Bathurst reported from the Committee on 
Group C. of Private Bills; That the Parties pro- 
moting the Ramsgate Water Bill had stated to the 


Vater Bill, 


13th—14th March. 


95 


Committee that it was not their intention to pro- 
ceed with the same. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Bathurst reported from the Committee on Thanet Gas 
Group C. of Private Bills; That the Parties pro- Bill. 
moting the Thanet Gas Bill had stated to the Com- 
| mittee that it was not their intention to proceed 
with the same. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table. 





The Bristol United Gas Bill was read a second Bristol United 
: ‘ Gas Bill. 
time ; and commtted. 

The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Bill was Lancashire and 
read a second time; and committed Yorkshire 
- . Railway Bill. 


The North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways Bill am Wales 


. 5 . 
was read a second time; and committed. Railways Bu 





The Order of the day being read, for the Second Great 


| Reading of the Great Yarmouth and Stalham — al 
(Light) Railway Biil; 
on the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board | 
Bill; That they had examined the allegations | 


: : (Light) Rail- 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time way Bill. 
upon Friday the 24th day of this instant March. 


The Royal Albert Hall Bill was, according to Royal Albert 
Order, read a second time ; and committed. Hall Bill. 


Mr. Mowbray reported from the Select Com- Standing 
mittee on Standing Orders, several Resolutions ; ~™*** 
which were read, as follow: 

That, in the case of the Merthyr Tydfil and 
Rhondda Valley Junction Railway Bill, Petition vciey Joneiion 
of Bartle J. L. Frere, for dispensing with Stand- Railway Bill. 
ing Order 131 in the case of the Petition of the 
Earl of Dunraven against the Bill, the said Stand- 
ing Order ought to be dispensed with. 

That, in the case of the Felizstowe Railway and Felixstowe | 
| Pier Bill, Petition of Frederick Blomfield Philbrick, Pier BL 
‘for dispensing with Standing Order 131 in the 
case of the Petition of the Harwich Harbour Con- 
servancy Board against the Bill, the said Standing 
Order ought not to be dispensed with. 

The first Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 


Merthyr Tydfil 








Von. 131. 








Table. 


The Order, That the Chichester and Midhurst Chichester 
Railway Bill be committed, was read, and dis- 74 Midhmt 
charged. ee 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Chichester 
for authorising the London, Brighton, and South — 
Coast Railway Company to make a Railway from (No. 2.) 
their Railway at Chichester to their Mid-Sussex 
and Midhurst Junction Railway at Midhurst, and 
for other purposes: And that Mr. Laing and Mr. 

Lopes do prepare, and bring it in. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and Public 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions. 
Vide Eighth 
Report. 
Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Mr. Wilber- 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased “* 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Copy of Memorial addressed to the Lord 
Chancellor by the Agricultural Labourers’ Union, 
relating to the case of Mr. Wilberforce; and of the 
Lord Chancellor’s Reply. 


Ordered, That there be added to the Return or- Navy (Loss of 
dered on the 9th day of this instant March, relative the “ Van- 
to the Loss of the “ Vanguard,” the following par- 
ticulars, namely :—The ascertained Dimensions of 
N4 


Chasm 


' 
‘| 
} 
i 


96 


Chasm which the Stem of H.M.S. “ Jron Duke” 
made in the side of Her Majesty’s late Ship “* Van- 
guard”: The similar Dimensions, &amp;c. made 
by the formidable Prow or Spur of H.M.S. 
* Hercules” in the side of H.M.S. “ Northumber- 
land,” Christmas 1872, off Madeira :—-—And fur- 
ther, with a view to elucidate the Water-tight Ar- 
rangements, the Structural Differences, and Typical 
Construction of both class of Ships, the same shall be 
accompanied with shaded and perspective Mid-ship 
Sectional Plans cf the ‘‘ Vanguard” and “ Northum- 
berland” Class, illustrating the ‘* Wing-passage ” 
Bulkhead, its purpose and uses; and such other 
Descriptive Details as given in the Text Book of 
the late Chief Constructor of the Navy, and at 
chap. 12, pp. 284-5, of “ Our Iron-clad Ships.” 


Lunatics Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 

(Workhouses.) g Return showing the Number of Workhouses in 
England in which Lunatics are received, and 
where there are no separate Wards for Lunatics; 
also the Number of Workhouses in which there 
are separate Wards for Lunatics, and the Number 
of Lunatics in each of such Workhouses on the Ist 
day of January 1876; at the same time specifying 
the Workhouses in which Special Paid Attendants 
are appointed for the superintendence and care of 
the Lunatics, with the Number of such Attendants 
in each case. 


The Order for reading a second time, upon Fri- 
day next, the Burial Grounds Bill, was read, and 
discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday the 10th day of May next. 


Burial Grounds 
Bill. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously 
pleased to give directions, that there be laid before 
this House, a Return showing the Number of 
Officers in the Militia who have been recom- 
mended tor Commissions in the Line by their 
Commanding Officers, and the Number of Com- 
missions that have been granted. 


Army (Com- 
missions to 
Militia 
Officers.) 


Hops. 
No. 163. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Hops, 
which was presented upon the 13th day of this 
instant March, be printed. 


Mr. Algernon Egerton presented, by Her Ma- 
jesty’s Command,—Copy of Programme of Works 
in Her Majesty’s Dockyards, 1876-77. 

Mr. Algernon Egerton also presented,—Return 
to an Order, dated the 9th day of this instant 
March, for a Return relative to the Navy (H. M.S. 
“ Devastation”). 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table; and that the last be printed. 


Navy (Pro- 
gramme of 
Works.) 


Navy (H.M.S, 
* Devasta- 
tion.”’) 


No. 104. 


Lostwithieland Mr, Secretary Cross presented,—Return to an 
New Romney. A ddress to Her Majesty, dated the Ist day of this 
instant March, for a Return relative to Lostwithiel 
and New Romney. 
Ordered, hat the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Copies of the Memorial of the President, 
Vice President, and Council of the Royal Colonial 
Institute to Her Majesty, praying that Her Ma- 
jesty would be pleased to assume such additional 
Style and Title as would distinctly indicate Her 
Majesty’s Sovereignty over the whole of Her 
Colonial Dominions: And, of the Answer 
thereto. 


Royal Titles 
(Memorial of 
Royal Colonial 
Institute.) 


Ordered, That Colonel Mure have leave of ab- 


Leave of ° : 
sence for three weeks, on urgent private affairs, 


Absence. 


14¢h—15th Murch. 














1876. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being Contagious 
proposed, That, in the opinion of this House, the ( Animale 
general Orders and Regulations for the stoppage of ) 
Contagious Diseases among Stock should cease to 
be varying or permissive, and should be uniform 
throughout Great Britain and Ireland; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by adding at the end thereof the words 
‘and that it is further desirable that the Recom- 

** mendations of the Select Committee of 1873, in 
“ relation to Foot and Mouth Disease, should be 
** carried into effect.” 

And the Question being proposed, That those 
words be there added :—The said proposed Amend- 
ment and Motion were severally, with leave of the 
House, withdrawn. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being Saint Vincent 
proposed, That an humble Address be presented a 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased “° ~ 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Copies or Extracts of any Correspondence 
which may have passed from the [st day of August 
1875 to the present date, between the Governor 
of the Windward Isiands, the Lieutenant Governor 
of Saint Vincent, and the Colonial Office, relative 
to alleged abuses in treatment of Coolies in Saint 
Vincent ; 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Wednesday morning ; 


Wednesday, 15th March, 1876: 


And the Question being put:—It was resolved 
in the Affirmative. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Ecclesiastical 
to amend the Law in regard to Ecclesiastical As- Assessments 
sessments in Scotland: And that the Lord Advo- “™) 
cate, Mr. Secretary Cross, and Sir Henry Selwin- 

I[bbetson do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That The O’ Conor Don be discharged 
from further attendance on the Select Committee 
on Referees on Private Bills. 

Ordered, That Mr. Butt be added to the Com- 
mittee. 


Referees on 
Private Bills, 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Chancery 

Returns of the Number of Cases set down for (and) 
Hearing in the Chancery Appeal Court (Jreland) 
in each Term for the last five years, viz., 1871 to 
1875, inclusive; and for Hilary Term 1876 :—— 
And, of the Number of Days Lord Justice 
Christian sat in the Chancery Appeal Court (Jre- 
laud) in each Term or Sitting after Term for the 
last Five years, viz., 1871 to 1875, inclusive; and 
for Hilary Term 1876, and after Sittings. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Intoxicating 
Reading of the Intoxicating Liquors (Licensing (Licensing Law 
Law Amendment) Bill; Amendment) 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time Bill. 


this day. 


Criminal Law 
Evidence 
Amendment 
Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Criminal Law Evidence Amend- 
ment Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon ‘Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being 
Reading of the Cheques on Bankers Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday the 4th day of April next. 


Cheques on 
read, for the Second Coes Bt 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Union Rating (Jreland) Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day. 
The 


Uni i 
vend) Bill 





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cent 
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) 


Bills. 


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39 VicTorRIA. 


sup Insurances Lhe Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
(Samping of mittee on the Sea Insurances (Stamping of 
Policies) Bills Policies) Bill; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Mr. James Lowther reported from the Committee 


our of Supply, a Resolution; which was read, as fol- 
loweth: 
sea and Coast «=» That 60,000 Men and Boys be employed for 


Guard Services the Sea and Coast Guard Services for the year 
ending on the 31st day of March 1877, including 
14,000 Royal Marines. 
The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed 10. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for the Regulation of Her Majesty’s Royal Marine 
Forces while on Shore: And that’ Mr. Rathes, 
Mr. Hunt, and Mr. Algernon Egerton do prepare, 
and bring it in. 


Marine 
Mutiny. 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on 
Manchester Post Office { Expenses], a Resolution; 
which was read, as followeth: 

That it is expedient to authorise the Purchase, 
out of Moneys to be provided by Parliament, of 
any Land that may be acquired in pursuance of 
any Act of the present Session for enabling Her 
Majesty’s Postmaster General to acquire a Site 
for the extension of the Manchester General Post 
Office. 

The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 


Manchester 
Post Office 
[Expenses. ] 


Manchester 
Post Office 
Bill. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Manchester Post Office 
Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. William 
Henry Smith reported, That the Committee had 
gone through the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration this day. 


Erclesiastical The Lord Advocate presented a Bill to amend 
(hotand) Bll the Law in regard to Ecclesiastical Assessments 


in Scotland: And the same was read the first time ; 


Bill 106. and ordered to be read a second time upon Mon- 
day the 3rd day of April next; and to be 
printed. 

Message fron Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a 
tte Lords. — Message had been brought from the Lords by one 
of their Clerks, as followeth: 

taming The Lords have agreed to the Marriages ( Saint 

Dazio) Bane James, Buxton) Bill, without any Amendment. 


Prins Forest ‘The Lords have agreed to the Epping Forest 
Bill, without any Amendment. 


Pningeand The Lords have agreed to the seme and 
dina’ Improvement of Land (Ireland) Provisional Orders 


(Irdand) Pro- Bill, without any Amendment. 
"sional Orders ‘ . P 
Bill. And then the House, having continued to sit 
till half an hour after Twelve of the clock on 
Wednesday morning, adjourned till this 


day. 








Wednesday, 15th March, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 
Gu Bil T HE House proceeded to take into considera- 
tion the Folkestone Gas Bill, as amended in 
= Samanlttoe and an Amendment was made to 
e Bill. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 
Vou 131. 


14th—1i5th March. 





97 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and public 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions. 
Vide Ninth 
Report. 
Mr. Secretary Cross presented,—Return to an Mr. Wilber- 
Address to Her Majesty, dated the 14th day of force. 
this instant March, for a Return relative to the No. 106. 
case of Mr. Wilberforce. 
Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 





Mr. Bourke presented,—Return to an Address Peru (Im- 
to Her Majesty, dated the 19th day of July, in prisonment of 
the last Session of Parliament, for a Copy or jects) (No. 
Extracts of Correspondence and Despatches rela- 1876.) : 
tive to the Imprisonment of British Subjects since 
the year 1872, inclusive, addressed to and received 
from the Representatives of Her Majesty in that 
Country. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Lord Henry Lennox presented, by Her Ma- Ordnance 
jesty’s Command,—Copy of Report of the Pro- 5": 
gress of the Ordnance Survey to the 3lst De- 
cember 1875. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


The Burghs and Populous Places (Scotland) Burghs and | 
Gas Supply Bill was, according to Order, read a Piven (Geet. 
second time; and committed to a Select Com- land) Gas 


mittee. Supply Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Church Rates 
Reading of the Church Rates Abolition (Scotland) (Scotland) 
Bill; Bill. 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a second 
time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the word “ now,” and, at 
the end of the Question, adding the words “ upon 
* this day six months.” 

And the Question being put, That the word 
“ now” stand part of the Question ; 

The House divided. 

The @eas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the; Mr. M‘Zaren, 1155 

Yeas, Mr. Greene: f , 

Tellers for the (Sir William | 210 

Noes, { Sir Graham Montgomery: ’ 

So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
“ upon this day six months” be added at the end 
of the Question :—It was resolved in the Affirma- 
tive. 

Then the Main Question, so amended, being 

ut ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon this day six months, 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Divine 
Reading of the Divine Worship Facilities Bill; JYomhip 
And a Motion being made, and the Question “°° 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a second 
time :—And a Debate arising thereupon ; 
And it being a quarter of an hour before Six of 
the clock, the Debate stood adjourned till To- 
morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Grand Jury 
Reading of the Grand Jury Law Amendment “w Amend. 
(Ireland) Bill ;  cataaaa 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday the 24th day of this instant March. 


The Open Spaces (Metropolitan District) Bill Open Spaces 
was, according to Order, read a second time; and Gistriot) Bill 
committed 


Homicide Law 
Amendment 
Bill. 


Trade Union 
Act (1871) 
Amendment 
Bill. 


Burgesses 
(Scotland) 
Bill. 


Intoxicating 
Liquors 
(Licensing 
Law Amend- 
ment) Bill. 


Union Rating 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Manchester 
Post Office 
Bill. 


Leave of 
Absence. 


Oyster 
Fisheries. 


Small Testate 
Estates (Scot- 
land.) 


Small Testate 
Estates (Scot- 
land) Bill. 


Bill 107, 


Criminal Law 
Evidence 
Amendment 
Bill. 


Q8 


committed to a Committee of the whole House, 
for To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
_ the 8th day of this instant March, ‘That the 

omicide Law Amendment Bill be now read a 
second time; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Trade Union Act (1871) Amend- 
ment Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply ; 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself intu the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Wavs and Means ; 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
consideration the Burgesses (Scotland) Bill, as 
amended in the Committee ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into considera- 
tion To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Intoxicating Liquors (Licensing 
Law Amendment) Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Union Rating (Jreland) Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday next. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
take into consideration the Manchester Post Office 
Bill, as amended in the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the thiré time 
To-morrow. 


Ordered, That Mr. Herbert Praed have leave of 
absence for a fortnight, on account of domestic 
affliction. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee on Oyster 
Fisheries do consist of Twenty-one Members. 

Ordered, That Lord Claud Hamilton and Mr. 
Fuller Maitland be added to the Committee. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for the Relief of Widows and Children of Testates 
in Scotland where the Personal Estate is of small 
Value: And that Mr. James Barclay, Sir Robert 
Anstruther, Mr. Kinnaird, and Mr. Mackintosh do 
prepare, and bring it in. 

Mr. James Barclay accordingly presented a 
Bill for the Relief of Widows and Children of 
Testates in Scotland where the Personal Estate 
is of small Value: And the same was read the 
first time; and ordered to be read a second time 
upon Tuesday the 28th day of this instant March ; 
and to be printed. 


The Order for reading a second time, upon 
Tuesday next, the Criminal Law Evidence Amend- 
ment Bill, was read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday the 28th day of this instant March. 


15th—16th March. 





1876. 

Mr. William Henry Smith presented, by Her Army 
Majesty’s Command, — Supplementary Estimate Defrayed oy 
Charges defrayed by the War Office on Account ¢countof 
of India. — 

Ordered, That the said Estimate be referred to 
the Committee of Supply ; and be printed. 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 


No. 105, 








Thursday, 16th March, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 
TL HE Derby Gas Bill was read the third Derby Gas 
ill. 


time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Ely, Haddenham, and Sutton Railway Bill Bly, Hadi. 
was read the third time. ham, and 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. ieee 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence, 


The Manchester and Milford Railway Bill was Manchester 
read the third time. and Milford 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. Railway Bill 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Scotswood, Newburn, and Wylam Railway Scotswooi, 
and Dock Bill was read the third time. a 

Resolved, ‘That the Bill do pass. be ae 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the Bill. 
Lords, and desire their concnrrence. 


A Motion being made, That the Shepton Mallet Shepton Malt 
Water Bill be now read the third time ; Weer 

And Notice being taken, that the interest of the 
Prince of Wales, as Duke of Curnwall, is concerned 
therein ; 

Mr. Hubbard, by Command of His Royal 
Highness, acquainted the House, That His Royal 
Highness, having been informed of the purport of 
the Bill, gives His Consent, as far as His Royal 
Highness’s interest is concerned, that the House 
may do therein as they shall think fit. 

‘Then the Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day beiag read, for resuming South _— 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed ®*!™ 
upon the 9th day of this instant March, That the 
South Eastern Sete Bill be now read a second 
time ; 

And the Question being again proposed :—The 
House resumed the said adjourned Debate. 

A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That the Debate be now adjourned:— 

And the said Motion was, with leave of the House, 
withdrawn, 

And the original Question being put ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be now read a second 
time :—The Bill was accordingly read a second 
time; and committed. 


Petitions. 


Several Public Petitions were Fn amma and Public 


read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. po 
Several Public Petitions were also presented, Vide Votes, and 
and read; and referred to a Select Committee. Ninth Repo 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to the Navy pwd a 
(Programme of Works), which was presented upon C Works.) 
the 14th day of this instant March, be printed, 0, 107. 

Lord 





Bee 2eoree 


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Qor 


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in ins 





105, 


Gas 


mme 
ks.) 


107. 





fast India 


(Selection and 


Training of 
Candidates for 
Civil Service.) 


Science and 


De 
a Cfeland.) 


Superannua- 


tions. 


Railway 
Companies 
Certificates. 


Manufactures, 
Commerce, &amp;c. 
Consular 
Reports 
(Commercial, 
No. 2, 1876.) 


Railway Bills 
(Group 5.) 


Private Bills 
(Group J.) 


Poor Law 


39 VicToRIA. 


. Lord George Hamilton presented, by Her Ma- 
jesty’s Command,—Paper entitled “ The Selection 
and Training of Candidates for the Indian Civil 
Service.” 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie uponthe 
Table. 


Mr. Secretary Cross presented,— Return to an 
Address to Her Majesty, dated the 6th day of this 
instant March, fora Return relative to the Science 
and Art Department (Ireland). 

Ordered, ‘That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented, pursuant 
to the directions of an Act of Parliament,—Copy 
of Treasury Minute, dated 7th March 1876, award- 
ing a Special Compassionate Allowance to Thomas 
Powell, Established Shipwright, Chatham Dock- 

ard. 
. Ordered That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Edward Stanhope presented, pursuant to 
the directions of an Act of Parliament,—Copy of 
Draft Certificate of the Board of Trade (under 
the Railway Companies’ Powers Act, 1864) for 
authority to the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway 
Company to raise additional Capital. 

Copy of Draft Certificate of the Board of Trade 
(under the Railway Companies’ Powers Act, 1864) 
for authority to the Cockermouth, Keswick, and 
Penrith Railway Company to raise additional Ca- 

ital. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Bourke presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- 
mand,—Copy of Reports from Her Majesty’s 
Consuls on the Manufactures, Commerce, &amp;c., of 
their Consular Districts. Part I. 

— That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Goldsmid reported from the Committee on 
Group 5 of Railway Bills; That the Parties op- 
posing the Great Eastern Railway Bill had stated 
that the evidence of William Cox was essential to 
enable them to estublish their case; and it having 
been proved that his attendance could not be 
pa without the intervention of the House, 

e had been instructed to move that the said Wil- 
liam Cox do attend the said Committee To-mor- 
row, at Twelve of the clock. 

Ordered, That William Cox do attend the Com- 
mittee on Group 5 of Railway Bills To-morrow, 
at Twelve of the clock. 


Admiral Egerton reported from the Committee 
on Group J. of Private Bills; That the Parties 
promoting the Leicester Improvement Bill had 
stated that the evidence of Thomas Warren was 
essential to enable them to establish their case ; 
and it having been proved that his attendance 
could not be procured without the intervention of 
the House, he had been instructed to move that 
the said Thomas Warren do attend the said Com- 
mittee To-morrow, at Twelve of the clock. 

Ordered, That Thomas Warren do attend the 
Committee on Group J. of Private Bills To-mor- 
row, at Twelve of the clock. 


The Order for teading a second time, upon 
Tuesday next, the Monastic and Conventual Insti- 
tutions Bill, was tread, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday the 31st day of this instant March. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 


I and 1e75,% Retarn of the Sums expended for In-Mainte- 


nance and Out-door ‘Relief in each Union in 


16th March. 


99 


Englund during the years ended on the 25th day 
of March 1874 and 1875, showing those Particu- 
lars and the Rate per Cent. of Out-door Relief to 
Total, according to the subjoined Form (in conti- 
nuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 259, of Ses- 
sion 1875):— 

















1874, 1875 

Cost of 3 Cost of 3 

3 a wa, 3 a 3 a ¥ a 
3 P “S wu s | . at il s 
£2 /£)s 122 (Sa/2 | 812) 28124 
= = f=} an se = =} - a» Ss 
£ c ° a [=&lt;] 7c ss 

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PelisloOleol/am [oni #léoéleociée 
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to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return from the School Board for 
London, showing for each year since its Formation 
in 1870, and separately for each Division of the 
Metropolis :— 

1. The Number of and Accommodation in Ele- 
mentary Schools, distinguishing, 
‘ine 

. Efficient ; 
A. Voluntary Schools | Private; Non-Eff.. 
cient; 
j Built or provided by the 
B. Board Schools! Board; 
| Transferred to the Board; 

2. The Number of Children on the Rolls, and 
their average Attendance in such Schools respec- 
tively ; 

3. The Number of Children ascertained by the 
Visitors not to be attending School ; 

4. the Number of Visitors appointed to carry 
out the compulsory Bye-laws ; 

The Number of Visitors dismissed or caused 
to resign under circumstances tantamount 
to Dismissal ; 

5. The Number of Summonses taken out, and 
of Convictions obtained, with the Amount of Fines 
and Costs imposed, and the Number of Commit- 
ments to Prison ; 

6. The Number of Instances in which Deduc- 
tions have been made from the Government Grant 
to Schools under the Management of the Board, 
under Article 32 (b) and (c) of the Code, and the 
Amount of such Deductions ; 

7. The Number of Sites scheduled by the 
Board ; 

The Number and Names of such Sites subse- 
quently abandoned by the Board, with the 

eason in each case of such Abandon- 
ment ; 

The Expenses incurred in respect of each Site 
so abandoned ; 

8. The Total Cost of each School erected by the 
Board, including the Cost of the Site, Erection of 
the Buildings, permanent Fittings, Legal Ex- 
penses, Surveyor’s Charges, Compensation, &amp;c. ; 

9. The Annual Income and Expenditure of the 





Board, distinguished as follows :— 
Income. 
Grant. Fees. Rates. Loans. Miscellaneous. Total. 





























Expenditure. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented pondon School 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased Board. 


Public 
Petitions 
(Eighth 
Report.) 


Navy (Iron- 
clads.) 


Navy (Ships 
Built.) 


Message from 
the Lords. 


Appellate 
Jurisdiction 
Bill [Lords.] 


Ecclesiastical 
Offices and 
Fees. 


100 


Expenditure. 





Administration 
of Bye-Laws, Office 
including Salaries Expenses. 


= = 


10. Amount of Rate in the £. ; 

11. And, Copy of Estimate made by the former 
Board in 1873 of the ultimate Charge to be made 
on the Rates (p. 15 of Memorandum dated the 
25th day of October 1873). 

The above Return, so far as possible, to be 
made in Tabular Form, and to show the respec- 
tive Totals. 


Provisions Maintenance} 
i) 


Schools. 
| 
| 


Industrial | Miseel- 


°o 
Schools. Schools. | laneous. 











Sir Charles Forster reported from the Select 
Committee on Public Petitions; That they had 
examined the Petitions presented upon the 13th 
and 14th days of this instant March; and had 
directed him to make a Report thereof to the 
House. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Nominal Lists of all Ironclads, and Date of their 
first Completion for Sea: Of Ironclads which 
have received new Boilers since their first Com- 
yletion, and Date when these Boilers were put on 
~_ : List of Ironclads for which Boilers are 
now in Store: ——And, Return of the Number of 
Tons built up to the present date of all Ironclads 
now Building (in continuation of Parliamentary 
Paper, No. 99, of Session 1874). 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Return of the Amount of Shipping estimated for 
and built in Ten years ending March 1875, con- 
tinued to the present Date, and including also, in 
a Tabular Form, the Total Number of Tons in 
each year estimated for and the Total built re- 
spectively in the Royal Dockyards and by Con- 
tract, and the Money voted in each year for 
Building compared with the Expenditure (in con- 
tinuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 285, of 
Session 1875). 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a 
Message had been brought from the Lords by one 
of their Clerks, as followeth: 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An 
Act for amending the Law in respect of the Ap- 
pellate Jurisdiction of the House of Lords, and for 
other purposes; to which the Lords desire the 
concurrence of this House. 

The Lords request, that this House will be 
leased to give leave to Charles James Monk, 
easton, a Member of this House, to attend, in 
order to his being examined as a Witness before 
the Select Committee appointed by their Lord- 
ships in the present Session of Parliament on 
Ecclesiastical Offices and Fees. 

And Mr. Monk being present in his place, de- 
clared that he was willing, with leave of the 
House, to go to the House of Lords, as desired by 
their Lordships. 

Resolved, That Charles James Monk, Esquire, 
have leave to go to the House of Lords, as desired 
by their knotting if he think fit. 

Ordered, That a Message be sent to the Lords, 
to acquaint them that this House hath given leave 
to Charles James Monk, Esquire, to go to the 
House of Lords, as desired by their Lordships, if 
he think fit: And that the Clerk do carry the 
said Message. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Royal Titles Bill; 


16¢h—17th March. 








1876. 


And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave 
the Chair ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the 
words “while willing to consider a measure 


| enabling Her Majesty to make an addition to 
' the Royal Style and Title which shall include 


** such Dominions of Her Majesty as to Her Ma- 
** jesty may seem meet, this House is of opinion 
*‘ that it is inexpedient to impair the ancient and 
“ Royal dignity of the Crown by the assumption 
“of the Style and ‘Title of Emperor,” instead 
thereof. 

And the Question being proposed, That the 
words proposed to be left out stand part of the 
Question :—And a Debate arising thereupon ; 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Friday morning ; 


Friday, 17th March, 1876: 


And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That the Debate be now adjourned; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the, Mr. Thomas Cave, 1 199 

Yeas, (Mr. Morgen Lloyd: eas 

Tellers for the j Sir William Dyke, 394 

Noes, \Mr. Row/and Winn: } : 

So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being again proposed, That 
the words proposed to be left out stand part of 
the Question ; 

A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That this House do now adjourn :—And 
the said Motion was, with leave of the House, 
withdrawn. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Question ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the ts William Dyke, 

Yeas, Mr. Rowland Winn: 

Tellers for they Mr. Adam, 

Noes, (Lord Kensington: 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
Chair:—The House accordingly resolved itself 
into the Committee. 


(In the Committee.) 


Preamble postponed. 
To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had made Progress 
in the Bill, and that he was directed to move, That 
the Committee may have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Supply. 


mittee of Supply ; 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee, 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- oe and 


mittee of Ways and Means; 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- arn 


mittee on the Merchant Shipping Bill ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 


next, resolve itself into the said Committee. A 
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Contracts Bill. Reading of the Maritime Contracts Bill; | 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


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The Order of the day being read, for the Com-| 


Bill. 
— mittee on the Commons Bill; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday | 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 
Poor Law The Order of the day being read, for the Second | 
Amendment Reading of the Poor Law Amendment Bill ; 
Bill. Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day. 
Mutiny Bill. The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Mutiny Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next, 
Manchester The Manchester Post Office Bill was, according 
Post Office to Order, read the third time. 


Bill. Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


_ The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 

against the mittee on the Offences against the Person Bill ; 

Person Bill. Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
the 6th day of April next, resolve itself into the 
said Committee. 

Drugging of ‘The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 


Animals Bill. mittee on the Drugging of Animals Bill; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
the 3lst day of this instant March, resolve itself 
into the said Committee. 


DivineWorship _ Lhe Order of the day being read, for resuming 
Facilities Bill. the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
upon the 15th day of this instant March, That the 
Divine Worship Facilities Bill be now read a 
second time ; 
Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Tuesday next. 


Open Spaces The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
(Metropolitan mittee on the Open Spaces (Metropolitan District) 
District) Bill. ij] ; 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


Burgesses The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
(Scotland) Bill. take into consideration the Burgesses ( Scotland) 
Bill, as amended in the Committee. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
this day. 


Intoxicating The Order of the day being read, for the Second 

Liquors Reading of the Intoxicating Liquors (Licensing 

red : Law Amendment) Bill; 

Bill, Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next. 


Parliamentary Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 


co to constitute one Register of Persons entitled to 

(Boroughs.) | the Parliamentary and Municipal Franchise, and 
otherwise to amend the Law relating to Parlia- 
mentary and Municipal Registration in certain 
Boroughs: And that Mr. A/fred Marten, Mr. 
Torr, Mr. Birley, and Mr. Docds do prepare, and 
bring it in. 

local Govern. | Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed 

Tuutn’,, to inquire into the operation in Ireland of the 

Torn ~— following Statutes: 9 Geo. 4, c. 82,3 &amp; 4 Vic. c. 


(Ireland.) 108, and 17 &amp; 18 Vic. c. 103, and the Acts altering 
and amending the same; and to report whether 





any and what alterations are advisable in the 
Law relating to Local Government and Taxation 
VoL. 131. 


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Maritime The Order of the day being read, for the Second | 


of Cities and Towns in that part of the United 
Kingdom. 


Mr. Alfred Marten presented a Bill to constitute Parliamentary 
one Register of Persons entitled to the Parlia- ad Municipal 
mentary and Municipal Franchise, and otherwise ane ag 
to amend the Law relating to Parliamentary and Bil. 
Municipal Registration in certain Boroughs: And Bil] 198. 
the same was read the first time; and ordered to 
be read a second time upon Thursday the 6th day 
of April next; and to be printed. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till a quarter of an hour before ‘wo of the 
clock on Friday morning, adjourned till 
this day. 








Friday, 17th March, 1876. 
PRAYERS. 


M R. Spencer Walpole reported from the Select Referees on 
| Committee on the Referees on Private Private Bills. 
Bills; That they had considered the matters to No. 108. 
them referred, and directed him to make a Report 
thereof to the House, together with the Minutes 
of the Evidence taken before them. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table; 
and be printed. 


Mr. Goldsmid reported from the Committee on Lynn and 
Group 5 of Railway Bills; That in the case of Fakenham 
the Lym and Fakenham Railway Bill, they vy Bill 
had examined the allegations contained in the 
Preamble of the Bill, and amended the same by 
striking out the recital as to the expediency of 
conferring powers on the Great Eastern Railway 
Company with respect to the undertaking to be 
authorised by the Bill, and found the same, as 
amended, to be true; and had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table; 
and be printed. 


Mr. Beach reported from the Committee on Private Bills 
Group G. of Private Bills; That, at the meeting (tp ©) 
of the Committee this day, a Letter was received 
from Colonel Makins, one of the Members of the 
said Committee, stating that he was unable, on 
— of illness, to attend the Committee this 

ay. 

Ordered, That Colonel Makins do attend the 
Committee on Group G. of Private Bills upon 
Friday next, at. Twelve of the clock. 


Mr. Beach reported from the Committee on private Bills 
Group G. of Private Bills; That, for the conve- (Group G.) 
nience of the parties, the Committee had adjourned 
till Friday next, at Twelve of the clock. 

. — That the Report do lie upon the 
able. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second North and 
Reading of the North and South (Gravesend (er og 
Tunnel) Junction Railway Bill; Tunnel) June. 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. _ tion Railway 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. Ba. 


Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence Glasgow ana 
taken before the Committees on the Glasgow and Bothwell 
Bothwell Railway Bill, in Session 1872, the Cale- (1873) de 
donian Railway (Additional Powers), and the North idea 
British Railway ( Uddingston, &amp;c. Branches) Bills, 
in Session 1873, and on the Glasgow, Bothwell, 
Hamilton, and Coatbridge Railway Bill in Session 
1874, be referred to the Committee on the Cale- 
donian Railway (Additional Powers) Bill. 


Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence Stockton, 
taken before the Committees on the Stockton, a 
Middlesbrough, and Yarm Waterworks Bill, in Waterworks 

03 Session Bill (1851), &amp;e 


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Session 1851, the Stockton and Middlesbrough 
Water Bill, in Session 1864, and the Weardale 
and Shildon Water Bill, and the Stockton and 
Middlesbrough Water Bill, in Session 1875, be 
referred to the Committee on the Stockton and 
Middlesbrough Corporations Water Bill, and the 
Stockton and Middlesbrough Water Bill. 


Chichester and 
Midhurst Rail- 
way (No. 2) 
Bill. 


A Bill for authorising the London, Brighton, 
and South Coast Railway Company to make a 
Railway from their Railway at Chichester to their 
Mid-Sussex and Midhurst Junction Railway at 
Midhurst, and for other purposes, was read the 
first time; and referred to the Examiners of Peti- 
tions for Private Bills. 


Railway Bills 


Mr. Evans reported from the Committee on 
(Group 2.) 


Group 2 of Railway Bills; That, at the meeting of 
the Committee this day, a Letter was received from 
Mr. Clifford, one of the Members of the said Com- 
mittee, stating that he was unable, on account of 
illness, to attend the Committee this day. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table. 


Caterham and 
Godstone 
Valley Railway 


Mr. Evans reported the Caterham and Godstune 
Valley Railway Bill, with Amendments. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


Standing Mr. Mowbray reported from the Select Com- 
Orders. mittee on Standing Orders, several Resolutions ; 
which were read, as follow: 
That, in the case of the Brighton Borough Ex- 
tension of Municipal to Parliamentary Limits Bill, 
——s Petition for additional Provision, the Standing 
pal to - ; 8 
Parliamentary Orders ought to be dispensed with; that the 
Limits Bill. Parties be permitted to introduce their additional 
Provision accordingly, if the Committee on the 
Bill shall think fit. 
London and That, in the case of the London and North 
— Western Western Railway (New Lines, &amp;c.) Bill, Pe- 
way (New .... &gt; “a °° 
Lines, kc.) tition for additional Provision (No. 2), the Stand- 
Bill. ing Orders ought to be dispensed with; that the 
Parties be permitted to introduce their additional 
Provision accordingly, if the Committee on the Bill 
shall think fit. 
The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 


Brighton 
Borough 


Ramsgate Mr. Bathurst reported from the Committee on 
Local Board Group C. of Private Bills; That in the case of 
= the Ramsgate Local Board Bill, they had exa- 
mined the allegations contained in the Preamble 
of the Bill, but the same had not been proved to 
their satisfaction. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 
Royal Assent. A Message was delivered by Colonel Ciifford, 
Yeoman Usher of the Black Rod: 


Mr. Speaker, 
The Lords, authorised by virtue of Her Ma- 


jesty’s Commission, for declaring Her Royal 
Assent to several Acts agreed upon by both Houses, 
desire the immediate attendance of this Honour- 
able House in the House of Peers, to hear the 
Commission read. 

Accordingly Mr. Speaker, with the House, went 
up to the House of Peers :—And being returned ; 

Mr. Speaker rted, That the House, at the 
desire of the Senin, antieaied® by virtue of Her 
Majesty’s Commission, had been at the House of 
Peers, where a Commission under the Great Seal 
was read, giving, declaring, and notifying the 
Royal Assent to the several Acts therein men- 
tioned; and that the Lords, thereby authorised, 
had declared the Royal Assent to the said Acts, 
as follow : 

An Act to extend the time for the Epping Forest 
Commissioners to make their Final Report. 


Epping Forest 
Bill. 


17th March. 





1876, 


An Act to render valid Marriages heretofore Marriages 
solemnised in the Chapel of Ease of Suint James, in — Ay 
the Parish of Buzton, in the County of Derby. ™ 

An Act to confirm Two Provisional Orders made Drainage ang 
under “ The Drainage and Improvement of Lands Tmprovement 
(Ireland) Act, 1863,” and the Acts amending the (relent) Poe. 


same. visional QO; 
_ 


Several Public Petitions were agin and Public 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions. 
Several Public Petitions were also presented 


‘ n ? Vide Votes 
and read; and referred to a Select Committee. pet 


Ninth Report, 


Ordered, That the Return relative to School school Board 
Board Prosecutions (Greenwich), which was pre- Prosecutions 
sented upon the 28th day of February last, be (Steevie) 
printed. No. 109, 


Mr. Secretary Cross presented, by Her Ma- Marriages, 
jesty’s Command,—Table of the Number of Mar- Births, and 
riages, Births, and Deaths registered in England (Baglend) 
in the year 1875. 

Copy of Report of the Royal Commission ap- Norwich 
pone to inquire into the existence of Corrupt Hlection. 

ractices at the last Parliamentary Election for (7 ™ 
the City of Norwich. 

Mr. Secretary Cross also presented,—Return Banks, &amp;, 
to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 19th 
day of July, in the last Session of Parliament, for 
Returns of the Number of Banks in England, 
distinguishing Private Banks, Joint Stock Banks, 
and Banks of Issue; and the Number of Discount 
Houses (receiving Deposits and using the same in 
discounting Bills) and Biil Brokers which have be- 
come Bankrupt or stopped payment, in every 
year from the lst day of January 1844 to the Ist 
day of July 1875, with the Amount of the Lia- 
bilities and of the Dividends paid by them re- 
spectively in each case: Similar Return for 
Ireland : And, similar Return for Scotland. 

. — That the said Papers do lie upon the 
able. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented, pursuant Treasary Chest. 
to the directions of several Acts of Parliament,— 
An Account showing all the Sums which have been 
received into the Treasury Chest, and which have 
been paid out of the same, between the Ist April 
1874, and the 3lst March 1875, and of the Lia- 
bilities and Assets of the Treasury Chest on the 
latter day. 

Appropriation Account, 1874-75. Account Military Forces 
showing the Money raised and issued under the renee 
Provisions of the Military Forces Localisation Account.) 
Act (35 &amp; 36 Vic. ¢'68), the Securities created in 
respect thereof, and the Amount expended for the 
purposes of the said Act to 3lst March 1875; 
together with the Report of the Comptroller and 
Auditor General thereon. 

. — That the said Accounts do lie upon the 
able. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Navy (Office of 
a Return of the Names of the Persons who have rete 
held the Office of Lord High Admiral, or when ' 
that Office was m Commission the post of First 
Lord of the Admiralty, with the Dates of their 
Appointment and Resignation, and the Rank held 
by such Persons in Her Majesty’s Navy, if a 
Member of that Profession, from 1660 to the 
present date. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Navy (Office 
a Return of the Namesand Rank of Officers hold- holding Civil 
ing Civil Appointments under the Admiralty who 7PM.) 
draw Retired or Half-pay in addition to the Civil 
Pay of their Office ; the Names and Rank of such 
Officers who are not permitted to draw Retired or 
Half-pay in addition to their Civil Pay; and the 
Names and Rank of Naval Officers serving in 
other Departments of the Government, or under 

Foreign 





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Supply. 


Post Office 


(Telegraph 
Department.) 


National 
School 
Teachers 
(Ireland.) 


39 Vicrorta. 


Foreign Governments, who draw Retired Pay or 
Half-pay in addition to the Civil Pay of their 
Office. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Copy of the Reports received at the Admiralty 
showing the Tabular Results of Trials of the 
Griffith’s Screw-casing made in the “ Bruiser” 
and in the “‘ Steam Pinnace, No. 22.” 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Copies of all Papers and Correspondence 
between Her Majesty’s tonnene and the Go- 
vernment of the Dominion of Canada since the 
Ist day of January 1875 in relation to Imperial 
Merchant Shipping Legislation as affecting Ship- 
ping registered in Canada :-—— Of all Correspond- 
ence between the said Governments as to the Ex- 
emption of Canadian Shipping from the operation 
of Imperial Legislation : And, of all Corre- 
spondence between the said Governments in rela- 
tion to Canadian Legislation for the Inspection of 
Canadian Vessels, and the extent to which Her 
Majesty’s Government will accept Canadian Cer- 
tificates as equivalent to Board of Trade Inspection 
and Certificates. 





The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave 
the Chair ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That ” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the 
words “a Select Committee be appointed to in- 
** quire into the organisation and management of 
“the Telegraph Department of the Post Office,” 
instead thereof. 

And the Question being proposed, That the 
words proposed to be left out stand part of the 
Question:—The said proposed Amendment was, 
with leave of the House, withdrawn. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made 
to the Question, by leaving out from the word 
“ That” to the end of the Question, in order to 
add the words “in the opinion of this House, 
“ «©The National School Teachers ( Zreland) Act, 
* 1875,’ having failed to satisfy the just demands 
“of the Teachers, particularly of those in non- 
“contributory Unions, the claims of the Irish 
“ National School Teachers deserve the immediate 
“ attention of Parliament, with a view of substan- 
* tially and permanently increasing their salaries, 
*‘ and securing to them pensions upon retirement 
“ from old age or ill health,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being proposed, That the 
words proposed to be left out stand part of the 
Question ; 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Saturday morning ; 


Saturday, 18th March, 1876: 


The said proposed Amendment was, with leave of 
the House, withdrawn. 

Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
Chair:—The House accordingly resolved itself 
into the Committee. 


(In the Committee.) 


1. £.23,585 1s. 8d., year ending on the 31st 
day of March 1875, to make good Excesses of 
Expenditure beyond the Grants for the following 
Civil Services, viz. : 


Crass I, x - 

Royal Palaces - - - - - 2313 1 

Public Buildings - - - - - 246012 2 

Furniture of Public Offices - - - 617 1 
Vou. 131. 


17th—18th March. 





£. 8. @. 
Houses of Parliament (Buildings)- - 872 3 5 
National Gallery, Enlargement - - 1,864 5 4 
Portland Harbour - - = - 2410 - 
Lighthouses Abroad - - - - 41,763 7 9 
Crass II. 
Home Office - - - - - 73 1 8 
Privy Seal Office - - - - = 12 - 4 
Registrars of Friendly Societies - - 16215 4 
Public Works Loan. Commission and 
West India Islands Relief Commission 19 4 7 
Stationery Office and Printing - - 4,110 8 L 
Exchequer and other Offices in Scotland 9 19 10 
Fishery Board, Scotland - =) @ 2719 - 
Register Office, General, Scotland - - 111 11 11 
Household of the Lord Lieutenant of 
Ireland - - + = = -« 59 7 8 
Crass IIT. 
Police Counties and Boroughs, Great 
Britain - - - - - - 1,349 6 6 
Convict Establishments in England and 
the Colonies - - - «= - £92410 6 
Law Charges and Criminal Prosecutions, 
Ireland - - - - - = 583010 4 
Cuass IV. 
University of London - ~ ies 13 19 10 
Cuass V. 

Diplomatic Services - - - - 8,172 511 
Consular Services - - - - - 645 - 5 
Crass VI. 

Relief of Distressed British Seamen 
Abroad - - - ~ - - 2,185 16 1 
Crass VII. 
Deep Sea Exploring Expedition - - 9861 14 11 
£.23,585 1 8 





2. £.18,000, to complete a Total Amount of 
£.216,742, originally estimated to be required in 
the year ending on the 3lst day of March 1876, 
for the Expenses of Her Majesty’s Embassies and 
Missions Abroad. 

3. Motion made, and Question proposed, That 
a Supplementary Sum, not exceeding £.4,750, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 3lst day of March 1876, for 
the Maintenance and Repair of Royal Palaces : 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question pro- 
posed, That the Chairman do report Progress, and 
ask leave to sit again :—Motion, by leave, with- 
drawn. 

Original Question put, and agreed to. 

4. £.18,944 (Supplementary Sum), year ending 
on the 31st day of March 1876, for one-half of 
the Expense of Erecting or Improving Court 
Houses or Offices for the Sheriff Courts in Scot- 
land. 

5. £.1,233 (Supplementary Sum), year ending 
on the 31st day of March 1876, for Works for the 
Enlargement of the National Gallery. 

6. £.1,500 (Supplementary Sum), year ending 
on the 31st day of March 1876, fora Gunns in Aid 
of the Expenses of Ramsgate Harbour. 

7. £.250, for the warming of the Chapter 
House at Westminster. 

8. £.36,920, for the acquisition of Land and 
Houses as a Site for Public Offices. 

9. £.4,200 (Supplementary Sum), year ending 
on the 31st day of March 1876, for the Erection, 
Repairs, and Maintenance of the several Public 
Buildings in the Department of the Commissioners 
of Public Works in Jreland. 

10. £.2,762 sg eae Sum), year ending 
on the 3lst day of March 1876, for the British 


Embassy Houses, Consular and Legation Build- 

ings, &amp;c. in China and Japan, Constantinople, The- 

rapia, Madrid, Paris, Teheran, Vienna, and Wash- 
ington. 

11, £.1,200 Cnn Sum), year ending 

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Ways and 
Means. 


Cattle Disease 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Poor Law 
Amendment 
Bill. 


Newspaper 
Registration, 
&amp;c. Bill. 


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on the 3lst day of March 1876, for the Home 
Department. 

12. £. 1,450 (Supplementary Sum), year ending 
on the 31st day of March 1876, for the Depart- 
ment of Her Majesty’s Secretary of State for the 
Colonies. 

13. £.1,200 (Supplementary Sum), year ending 
on the 3lst day of March 1876, for the Charity 
Commission for England and Wales. 

14, £.1,124 (Supplementary Sum), year ending 
on the 31st day of March 1876, for the Registry 
of Friendly Societies. 

15. £.329 (Supplementary Sum), year ending 
on the 3!st day of March 1876, for the Establish- 
ments under the Public Works Loan Commis- 
sioners, and the West India Islands Relief Com- 
missioners. 

16. £.27,900 (Supplementary Sum), year end- 
ing on the 31st day of March 1876, for Stationery, 
Printing, Binding, and Printed Books for the 
several Departments of Government in England, 
Scotland, and Ireland, and some Dependencies, 
and for Stationery, Binding, Printing, and Paper 
for the two Houses of Parliament, including the 
Salaries and Expenses of the Stationery Office. 

17. £.600 (Supplementary Sum), year ending 
on the 3st day of March 1876, for the Office of 
Public Works in Jreland. 

18. £.2,055 (Supplementary Sum), year ending 
on the 31st day of March 1876, for the Department 
of the Registrar General of Births, &amp;c., and the 
Expenses of the Collection of Agricultural and 
Emigration Statistics in Jreland, and of taking the 
Census of Ireland. 

19. £.1,256 (Supplementary Sum), year ending 
on the 31st day of March 1876, in aid of the Local 
Cost of Maintenance of Pauper Lunatics, Zreland. 

Resolutions to be reported. 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That a 
Supplementary Sum, not exceeding £.5,250, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 3lst day of March 1876, for 
the Salaries of the Law Officers of the Crown, and 
the Law Charges, Salaries, Allowances, and Inci- 
dental Expenses, including Prosecutions relating 
to Coin, in the Department of the Solicitor for 
the Affairs of Her Majesty’s Treasury ; 

To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. 
Raikes reported, That the Committee had come 
to several Resolutions. 

Ordered, That the Report be received upon 
Monday next. 

Mr. Raikes also reported, That the Committee 
had made Progress in the matter to them referred ; 
and that he was directed to move, That the Com- 
mittee may have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, wpon Monday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Ways and Means; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Cum- 
mittee on the Cattle Disease (/reland) Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Poor Law Amendment Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Newspaper Registration, &amp;c. Bill ; 





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1876. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Industrial and 
mittee on the Industrial and Provident Societies Provident 
Bill ; Societies Bill, 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The County Palatine of Lancaster (Clerk of the county 
Peace) Bill was, according to Order, read the Palatine of 
third time. poe pe 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. Peace) Bill. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Open Spaces 

into a Committee on the Open Spaces (Metropo- Diss) Ban 
litan District) Bill; and, after some time spent 
therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. 
Raikes reported, That the Committee had made 
Progress in the Bill, and that he was directed to 
move, That the Committee may have leave to sit 
again. : 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Burgesses (Scotland) Bill was, according to Burgesses 
Order, read the third time; and verbal Amend- oe 
ments were made to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass, 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Salmon Fishery 
to confirm a Provisional Order made by one of — 
Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State in O°") 
pursuance of “ The Salmon Fishery Act, 1873,” 
relating to the River Tees Salmon Fishery Dis- 
trict: And that Sir Henry Selwin-Ibbetson and 
Mr. Secretary Cross do prepare, and bring it in. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Herring 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased Fisheries (East 
to give directions, that there be laid before this tant.) ae 
House, a Copy of the General Instructions given 
by the Fishery Board of Scotland to the Command- 
ers of the Admiralty Vessels employed in the pro- 


tection of the Fisheries on the East Coast of Scot- 
land. 


Ordcred, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Crab and 
to preserve the Crab and Lobster Fisheries on the ——— 
Coast of Norfolk: And that Mr. Frederick Wal- (Norfolk.) 
pole, Sir Robert Buxton, and Mr. Culman do pre- 
pare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee on the Halifax 
Halifaz (Vicar’s Rate) have Power to send for (Vica’s Rate) 
persons, papers, and records. 

Ordered, That Three be the Quorum of the 
Committee. 


Mr. Frederick Walpole presented a Bill to pre- Crab and 
serve the Crab and Lobster Fisheries on the Coast Lopster 
of Norfolk: And the same was read the first time ; (Norfolk) Bill. 
and ordered to be read a second time upon Mon- gill 109. 
day next; and to be printed. 


Sir Heary Selwin-Ibbetson presented a Bill to salmon 
confirm a Provisional Order made by one of Her Fishery Orn) 
Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State in pur- i, 
suance of “ The Salmon Fishery Act, 1873,” re- pi) 110. 
lating to the River Tees Salmon Fishery District : 

And the same was read the first time ; and ordered 
to be read a second time upon Monday next; and 
to be printed. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, benno 

a Copy of a Letter addressed by the Local Govern- - 9 

ment Board to the Guardians of the or No. 110. 
nion 















































39 Vicronta. 


Union on the 17th day of September 1875, relative 
to the Powers of the Guardians in relation to re- 
peated Prosecutions against Persons who have 
been more than once fined for refusing to have 
their Children vaccinated. 

Mr. Sclater-Booth accordingly presented the 
said Paper. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till Two of the clock on Saturday morning, 
adjourned till Monday next. 





Monday, 20th March 1876. 


PRAYERS. , 


Pablic es Charles Forster reported from the Select 
Petitions Committee on Public Petitions; That they 
(Ninth had examined the Petitions presented upon the 
Report.) 15th, 16th, and 17th days of this instant March, 
and had directed him te make a Report thereof to 
the House. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 
Folkestone The Folkestone Gas Bill was read the third time. 
Gas Bill. Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 
Glasgow and The House proceeded to take into consideration 


South Western the Glasgow and South Western Railway Bill, as 


Railway Bill. omended in the Committee; and Amendments 
were made to the Bill. 
Ordered, that the Bill be read the third time. 
Buburyand =©9The Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway 
Cheltenham Bill was read a second time; and committed. 
Direct, Railway 
al - The Ruthin and Cerrig-y-Druidion Railway 
Cerrig-y- Bill was, according to Order, read a second time ; 
Druidion Rail- ond committed. 
way Bill. 
Private Bills Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,— Report from 
(Standing one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private 
ula) Bills, That Standing Order, No. 74, has been com- 
mn) plied with in the case of the following Bili, re- 
ferred on the First Reading thereof, viz.: 
Upper Mersey Navigation Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time. 
Publi Several Public Petitions were presented, and 
etitions, 


tions. read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 
Vide Votes,and Several Public Petitions were also presented, 
Tenth Report. and read; and referred to a Select Committee. 


Army Ordered, That the Return relative to the Army 
(Colonels, &amp;e.) (Colonels, &amp;c.), which was presented upon the 


No. 112, 13th day of this instant March, be printed. 
wor Ordered, That the Account relative to the 
N Treasury Chest, which was presented upon the 
113. 17th day of this instant March, be printed. 
ary Forces Ordered, That the Military Forces Localisation 
(Appropriation (Appropriation Account), which was presented 
Account.) upon the 17th day of this instant March, be 
No.114. printed. 
Banks, &amp;c. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Banks, 
No.115. &amp;c., which was presented upon the 17th day of 
this instant March, be printed. 


Railway 
Accidents, 


Mr. Edward Stanhope presented, by Her Ma- 
jesty’s Command,—Copy of Reports of the In- 
specting Officers of the Railway Department to 
the Board of Trade, upon certain Accidents which 
have occurred on Railways during the Months of 
——s and December 1875. (Part Eighth.) 

OL. 131, 


17 th—18th—20th March. 


105 


Mr. Edward Stanhope also presented, pursuant Railway 
to the directions of an Act of Parliament,—Copy Companies’ 
of Draft Certificate of the Board of Trade, =e Cutiastes 
the Railway Companies Powers Act, 1864, autho- 
rising the Cula Valley Light Railway Company to 
raise additional Capital. 

Copy of Report of the Board of Trade on the Railways. 
Applications made in the year 1875, under the 
“ Railway Companies Powers Act, 1864,” and 
of the Proceedings of the Board of Trade with 
respect thereto. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Lord George Hamilton presented,—Return to East India 
an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 8th day of be ee 
July, in the last Session of Parliament, for Copies eines 
of the Chinchona Correspondence (in continuation 
of Return of 1870). 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Secretary Cross presented, by Her Ma- Factory and 
jesty’s Command,—Copy of Minutes of Evidence ee 
taken by the Commissioners on the Factory and~*~ 
Workshops Acts. Vol. IT. 

Mr. Secretary Cross also presented,—Further Swaithe Main 
Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the Colliery 
10th day of this instant March, for a Return re- Posen. 
lative to the Swaithe Main Colliery Explosion. No. 99. 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the Herring 
17th day of this instant March, for a Return rela- Fisheries (East 
tive to Herring Fisheries ( Scotland). lend) aie 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the ~~ 
Table; and that the Return relative to the Swaithe 
Main Colliery Explosion be printed. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented,—Return Malt and 
to an Order, dated the 15th day of February last, Barley. 
for Returns relative to Malt and Barley. 

Return to an Order, dated the 3rd day of this civit gervice 
instant March, for Returns relative to Civil Service Examinations. 
Examinations. 

Mr. Ihilliam Henry Smith also presented, pur- Post Office 
suant to the directions of an Act of Parliament,— Telegraphs. 
Account of Receipts and Payments by the Post- No. 116. 
master General in respect of Telegraph Under- 
takings, Extensions, &amp;c., for the year ended 31st 
March 1875; together with the Report of the 
Comptroller and Auditor General thereon. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table ; and that the last be printed. 


Mr. Secretary Hurdy presented,—Return to Army (Com. 
an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 14th day yrsions t 
of this instant March, for a Return relative to the Officers.) 
Army (Commissions to Militia Officers). : 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Erans reported from the Committee on Railway Bills 
Group 2 of Railway Bills; That, at the meeting (Group 2.) 
of the Committee this day, a Letter was oslo 
from Mr. Clifford, one of the Members of the said 
Committee, stating that he was unable, on account 
of illness, to attend the Committee this day. 

Ordered, That Mr. Clifford be discharged from 
further attendance on the said Committee. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Excise 
Returns showing for each Excise Collection in Licences. 
England, for the year ended the 5th day of 
July 1875, the Number of Licences issued to 
Spirit Dealers not being Retailers : And, of 
the Number of Licences issued to such Spirit 
Dealers to retail Spirits not to be consumed on the 
Premises (in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, 

No. 349, of Session 1875). 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, rocaj 
a Return with reference to the Provision of the Authorities 
Act 28 &amp; 29 Vic. c. 74, “ That, in the case of any (Loans) 











P Loan 


Merchant 
Ships (Health 
of Crews.) 


No. 117. 


Merchant 
Shipping Act, 
1873 (Com- 
pensation.) 


No. 118. 


Suez Canal 
(Surtax and 
Tonnage.) 


Leave of 
Absence. 


Royal Titles 
(Memorial of 
Royal Colonial 
Institute.) 


No. 111. 


Message from 
the Lords. 


Crossed 
Cheques Bill 
[Lords.] 


Royal Titles 
Bill. 


106 


Loan already made toany Local Authority in pur- 
suance of any Powers conferred by the Sanitary 
Acts, the Public Loan Commissioners may, if they 
see fit, reduce the Interest payable thereon to the 
Rate of not less than Three and a half per centum 

er annum,” of all Applications made to the Public 

oan Commissioners for such Reduction, stating 
the Amount of each Loan in question; when 
contracted, and for what Period; the Result of 
such Application; and, where the Application has 
been refused, stating the Reason given for such 
Refusal. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Return of Copy of Reports, Correspondence, and 
Papers relating to recent Cases of Scurvy which 
have occurred on Board British Merchant Ships. 

Mr. Edward Stanhope accordingly presented 
the said Return. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Return of Claims for Compensation paid by the 
Board of Trade on account of Detention of Ships 
under the Thirteenth Section of ** The Merchant 
Shipping Act, 1873,” and the Eighth Section of 
“The Merchant Shipping Act, 1875,” showing 
the Name of the Ship and Port of Registry ; why 
the Ship was detained, and why released ; together 
with the Amount of Compensation claimed, and 
the Amount paid in each Case :— 





Compensation. 
Name of Ship 
and 


Port of Registry. 


Why 
Detained. 


Why 
Released. 





Amount 
Paid. 


Amount 
Claimed. 

















Mr. Edward Stanhope accordingly presented 
the said Return. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Returns showing the Annual Increments of Ton- 
nage passing the Suez Canal for each full year 
since it was opened down to the latest Date, and 
the Average of those Increments : And, show- 
ing the several Dates at which under the existing 
Arrangement the Surtax on Shipping which 
passes through the Canal would diminish and be 
extinguished, upon the supposition (1) that the 
Annual Increment of Tonnage will be for future 
years as great as it has been on the Average during 
the past years 1871-5 ; (2) that the future Annual 
Increment will be equal to that of the year 1875. 


Ordered, That Sir George Jenkinson have leave 
of Absence until Easter, on account of ill health. 


Mr. James Lowther presented,—Return to an 
Address to Her Majesty, dated the 14th day of 
this instant March, for a Return relative to the 
Royal Titles (Memorial of Royal Colonial Insti- 
tute). 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- 
sage had been brought from the Lords by one of 
their Clerks, as followeth: 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
for amending the Law relating to Crossed Cheques; 
io which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Royal Titles Bill. 


20th March. 





1876. 
(In the Committee. ) 


Cause, N° 1 (Power to Her Majesty to make 
addition to Style and Titles of Crown). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 2, 1. 5, after the 
word “ India,” to insert the words “ and in order 
*‘ to include Her Majesty’s Colonial Dominions in 
** the Royal Style and Title of Her Majesty.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted :—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 2, 1. 5, 
after the word ‘* India,” to insert the words “ but 
“ not so as to give to any Style or Title which 
“ Her Majesty may be graciously pleased to as- 
“ sume any precedence or priority over the Royal 
** Style and Titles now appertaining to the Im- 
** perial Crown.” 

Question proposed, That those, words be there 
inserted :—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 2, 1. 6, 
after the word “ the,” to insert the word “ Royal.” 

Question put, That the word “ Roya)” be there 
inserted ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for a Serjeant Simon, 7} 99 

Yeas, Mr. Osborne Morgan: {| ““° 

Tellers for the J Sir William Dyke, 1 171 

Noes, UMr. Rowland Winn: J P 

Another Amendment proposed, at the end of the 
Clause, to add the words “ provided that nothing 
** in this Act shall abridge or prejudicially affect 
** the power or authority of Purlinnent in relation 
** to the Government of India.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
added :—-Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Amendment proposed, at the end of 
the Clause, to add the words “ Provided, That 
* nothing in this Act coutained shall be taken to 
“ authorise the use in the United Kingdom of any 
“ Style or Title of Her Majesty other than those 
“at present in use as appertaining to the Im- 
** perial Crown.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
added :— Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Clause agreed to. 

A Clause (Definition of the word Jndia in this 
Act)——tkrought up, and read the first time. 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Clause be read a second time:—Motion and Clause, 
by leave, withdrawn. 

Preamble. 

Amendment proposed, in p. 1,1. 18, to leave out 
from the word “of” to the word “ Majesty,” in 
1. 19, in order to insert the words “ the territories | 
* in the possession of or under the Government of 
“ the Kast India Company, aud all rights vested in 
“ or which might have been exercised by the said 
“ Company in relation to any territories.” 

Question, That the word “ India” stand part of 
the Preamble——put, and agreed to. 

Preamble agreed to. 


Bill to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill, and directed him to report the same, with- 
out Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Thursday next. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Supply. 


into the Committee of Supply. 
(In the Committee.) 


Question again proposed, That a Supplementary 
Sum, not exceeding £. 5,250, be granted to Her 
Majesty, to defray the Charge which will come in 
course of payment during the year ending on the 
31st day of March 1876, for the Salaries of the 


Law Officers of the Crown, and the Law Charges, 
Salaries, 











39 VicTorta. 





Salaries, Allowances, and Incidental Expenses, 
including Prosecutions relating to Coin, in the 
Department of the Solicitor for the Affairs of Her 
Majesty’s Treasury ; 

Question put, and agreed to. 

2. £. 3,200, for the Expenses of the Expedi- 
tion into Ashantee, 

3. £. 5,000 La erage Sum), year ending 
on the 31st day of March 1876, for Criminal Pro- 
secutions at Assizes and Quarter Sessions in Lng- 
land. 

4. £.60,752 (Supplementary Sum), year end- 
ing on the 3lst day of March 1876, for certain Ex- 

enses connected with the Police in Counties and 
Demshe in England and Wales, and with the 
Police in Seotlund. 

5. £.800 (Supplementary Sum), year ending 
on the 3lst day of March 1876, for the Superin- 
tendence of Convict Establishments, and for the 
Maintenance of Convictsin Convict Establishments 
in England and the Colonies. 

6. £.376 (Supplementary Sum), year ending 
on the 31st day of March 1876, for the Office for 
the Registration of Deeds in Ireland. 

7. £.369 (Supplementary Sum), year ending on 
the 31st day of March 1876, for the Maintenance 
of Criminal Lunatics in the Dundrum Criminal 
Lunatic Asylum, Jreland. 

8. £. 14,800 (Supplementary Sum), year end- 
ing on the 3lst day of March 1876, for the Ex- 
penses of Her Majesty’s Embassies and Missions 
Abroad. 

9. £.500 (Supplementary Sum), year ending 
on the 3lst day of March 1876, in aid of Colonial 
Local Revenue, and the Salaries and Allowances 
of Governors, &amp;c., and other Expenses in certain 
Colonies. 

10. £. 3,000 (Supplementary Sum), year end- 
ing on the 3lst day of March 1876, for Tonnage 
Bounties, Bounties on Slaves, and Expenses of 
the Liberated African Department. 

11. £.5,000 (Supplementary Sum), year end- 
ing on the 3lst day of March 1876, for Superan- 
nuation and Retired Allowances to Persons for- 
merly employed in the Public Service. 

12. £.9,330, for Gratuities and Prize Pay 
awarded to Officers and Men of the Ashantee Ex- 
pedition. 

13. £.6,249, for payment of the Guarantee 
under the Agreement of the Government with 
the Mediterranean Extension Telegraph Company. 

14. Motion made, and Question proposed, That 
a Sum, not exceeding £. 8,192, be granted to Her 
Majesty, to defray the Charge which will come in 
course of payment during the year ending on the 
3lst day of March 1876, for the repayment of 
certain Miscellaneous Advances to the Civil Con- 
tingencies Fund : 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question pro- 
posed, That a Sum, not exceeding £. 8,067, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 31st day of March 1876, for 
the repayment of certain Miscellaneous Advances 
to the Civil Contingencies Fund:—Motion, by 
leave, withdrawn. 

Original Question put, and agreed to. 

15. £. 6,500(Supplementary Sum ), year ending 
on the 31st day of March 1876, for the Inland 
Revenue Department. 

16. £.9,000 (Supplementary Sum), year ending 
on the 3lst day of March 1876, for the Post 
Office Packet Service. 


Wth—21st March. 





19. £.3,718. 18s. 11 d., year ending on the 


Expenditure beyond the Grant for Greenwich 
Hospital and School. 


Resolutions to be reported. 





And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on _ wer morning ; 


Tuesday, 21st March, 1876: 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had come to several 
Resolutions. 

Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 

Mr. Raikes also acquainted the House, that he 
was directed to move, That the Committee may 
have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into the Committee of Ways and Means. 


(In the Committee.) 


1. Resolved, That, towards making good the 
Supply granted to Her Majesty for the Ser- 
vice of the years ending the 3lst day of March 
1875 and 1876, the Sum of £. 1,029,550 5s. 1 d. 
be granted out of the Consolidated Fund of the 
United Kingdom. 

2. Resolved, That, towards making good the 
Supply granted to Her Majesty for the Service 
of the year ending on the 31st day of March 1877, 
the Sum of £. 9,000,000 be granted out of the 
Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom. 

Resolutions to be reported. 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had come to several 
Resolutions. 
Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 
Mr. Raikes also acquainted the House, that he 
was directed to move, That the Committee may 
have leave to sit again. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon W ednesday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 





Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee of 

Supply, several Resolutions ; which were read, as 
follow : 
1. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 23,585 1s. 8d. 
be granted to Her Majesty, to make good Ex- 
cesses of Expenditure beyond the Grants for the 
following Civil Services, for the year ended on the 
31st day of March 1875, viz. :— 





17. £. 500,000, in respect of repayments to the 
War Office, of Charges which it has defrayed on 
behalf of the India Office. 

18. £,238,255. 4s. 6d., year ending on the 31st 
day of March 1875, to make good the Excess of 
the Naval Expenditure iayeed the Ordinary and 





Supplementary Grants. 
VoL. 131. 





Cuass I. £. 8. d. 
Royal Palaces - - - - - 2313 1 
Public Buildings - - = - - - 2,46012 2 
Furniture of Pablic Offices - - - 617 1 
Houses of Parliament (Buildings) - - 372 3 5 
National Gallery, Enlargement - ~- 1,864 5 4 
Portland Harbour - - - - - 2410 - 
Lighthouses Abroad - - - - 1,763 7 9 
Crass II. 
Home Office - - - - - + 731 8 
Privy Seal Office - - . - 12 - 4 
Registrars of Friendly Societies - - 16215 4 
Public Works Loan Commission and West 
India Islands Relief Commission - 19 4 7 
Stationery Office and Printing - - 4,110 8 1 
Exchequer and other Offices in Scotland - 919 10 
Fishery Board, Scotland- - — - - 27 19 - 
Register Office, General, Scotland - - 111 11 il 
Household of tne Lord Lieutenant of Ire- 
land - - - - - - - 59 7 8 
Cuass III. 
Police Counties and Boroughs, Great 
ile -« = «© ©. = ete s 
Convict Establishments in England and 
the Colonies - © © « « C10 6 
Law Charges and Criminal Prosecutions, 
Ireland - - - - - 3,830 10 4 
P2 


107 


31st day of March 1875, to make good Excess of 


Ways and 
Means. 


Consolidated 
Fund, 


Supply. 


Civil Services 
(Excesses, 
1874-5.) 

























































108 
Crass IV, 
University of London - = - 


Crass V. 


Diplomatic Services e ote - 3,172 5 11 
Consular Services - - . - 645 - 5 


Crass VI. 
Relief of Distressed British Seamen Abroad, 2,185 16 1 

Cuass VII. 
Deep Sea Exploring Expedition  - 


&amp;.. &amp;. &amp; 
13 19 10 


361 14 11 


£.23,585 1 8 





2. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 18,000, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete a Total 
Amount of £. 216,742, originally estimated to be 


Embassies 
and Missions 
Abroad. 


required in the year ending on the 3lst day of 


March 1876, to defray the Expenses of Her Ma- 
jesty’s Embassies and Missions Abroad. 

3. That a Supplementary Sum, not exceeding 
£.4,750, be granted to Her Majesty, to defray 
the Charge which will come in course of payment 
during the year ending on the 3lst day of March 
1876, for the Maintenance and Repair of Royal 
Palaces. 

4, That a Supplementary Sum, not exceeding 
£. 18,944, be granted to Her Majesty, to defray 
the Charge which will come in course of payment 
during the year ending on the 3lst day of March 
1876, for one-half of the Expense of Erecting or 
Improving Court Houses or Offices for the Sheriff 
Courts in Scotland, and the Expense of Maintain- 
ing Courts so Erected or Improved. 

5. That a Supplementary Sum, not exceeding 
£. 1,233, be granted to Her Majesty, to defray 
the Charge which will come in course of payment 
during the year ending on the 3lst day of March 
1876, for Works for the Enlargement of the 
National Gallery. 

Ramsgate 6. That a Supplementary Sum, not exceeding 
Harbour (Sup- £1,500, be granted to Her Majesty, to defray 
plementary.) &lt;4 » ° ° nie" 
the Charge which will come in course of payment 
during the year ending on the 31st day of March 
1876, of a Grant in Aid of the Expenses of Rams- 
gate Harbour. 
Westminster 7. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 250, be 
Chapter House. oranted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 3lst day of March 1876, for the 
warming of the Chapter House at Westmiuster. 
Public Offices 8. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 36,920, be 
(Acquisition of oranted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge 
naan, &amp;o,) ‘hich will come in course of payment during the 
which will come in cour pay g 
year ending on the 31st day of March 1876, for 
the acquisition of Land and Houses as a Site for 
Public Offices. 

9. That a Supplementary Sum, not exceeding 
£.4,200, be granted to Her Majesty, to defray 
the Charge which will come in course of payment 
during the year ending on the 31st day of March 
1876, for the Erection, Repairs, and Maintenance 
of the several Public Buildings in the Department 
of the Commissioners of Public Works in Jre- 
land. 

10. That a Supplementary Sum, not exceeding 
£. 2,762, be granted to Her Majesty, to defray 
the Charge which will come in course of payment 
during the year ending on the 31st day of March 
1876, for the British Embassy Houses, Consular 
and Legation Buildings, &amp;c. in China and Japan, 
Constantinople, Therapia, Madrid, Paris, Teheran, 
Vienna, and Washington. 

11. That a Supplementary Sum, not exceeding 
£.1,200, be granted to Her Majesty, to defray 
the Charge which will come in course of payment 
during the year ending on the 3lst day of March 
1876, for the Salaries and Expenses of the Office 
of Her Majesty’s Secretary of State for the Home 
Department and Subordinate Offices. 


Royal Palaces 
(Supple- 
mentary.) 


Sheriff Court 
Houses and Of- 
fices (Scotland) 
(Supple- 
mentary.) 


National 
Gallery En- 
largement(Sup- 
plementary.) 


Public Build- 
ings (Ireland) 
(Supple- 
mentary.) 


Embassy 
Houses Abroad 
(Supple- 
mentary.) 


Home Office 
(Supple- 
mentary.) 


2th—21st March. 











1876. 


12, That a Supplementary Sum, not exceeding Colonial Oficg 
£.1,450, be granted to Her Majesty, to defray (Supple. 
the Charge which will come in course of payment ™™™) 
during the year ending on the 31st day of March 
1876, for the Salaries and Expenses of the Depart- 
ment of Her Majesty’s Secretary of State for the 
Colonies. 

13. That a Supplementary Sum, not exceeding Charity Com. 
£.1,200, be granted to Her Majesty, to defray mission (Su 
the Charge which will come in course of payment P!™ntay. 
during the year ending on the 3lst day of March: 

1876, for the Salaries and Expenses of the Charity 
Commission for England and Wales. 

14, That a Supplementary Sum, not exceeding Registrars of 
£.1,124, be granted to Her Majesty, to defray Friendly 
the Charge which will come in course of payment me (Sup. 
during the year ending on the 31st day of March — 
1876, for the Salaries and Expenses of the Registry 
of Friendly Societies. 

15. That a Supplementary Sum, not exceeding Public Works 
£. 329, be granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Loan Commis. 
Charge which will come in course of payment ee 
during the year ending on the 31st day of March’ “) 
1876, for the Salaries and Expenses of the Esta- 
blishments under the Public Works Loan Com- 
missioners, and the West India Islands Kelief Com- 
missioners. 

16. That a Supplementary Sum, not exceeding Stationery and 
£.27,900, be granted to Her Majesty, to defray Printing (Sup. 
the Charge which will come in course of payment P!ementary.) 
during the year ending on the 31st day of March 
1876, for Stationery, Printing, Binding, and 
Printed Books for the several Departments of 
Government in England, Scotland, and Ireland, 
and some Dependencies, and for Stationery, 

Binding, Printing, and Paper for the two Houses 
of Parliament, including the Salaries and Expenses 
of the Stationery Office. 

17. That a Supplementary Sum, not exceeding public Works 
£. 600, be granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Oftice, Ireland 
Charge which will come in course of payment veer) 
during the year ending on the 31st day of March . 
1876, for the Salaries and Expenses of the Office 
of Public Works in Jreland. 

18. That a Supplementary Sum, not exceeding Registrar 
£, 2,055, be granted to Her Majesty, to defray a 
the Charge which will come in course of payment (Ireland) (Sup- 
during the year ending on the 31st day of March plementary.) 
1876, for the Salaries and Expenses in the De- 
partment of the Registrar General of Births, &amp;c., 
and the Expenses of the Collection of Agri- 
cultural and Emigration Statistics in Jredand, and 
of taking the Census of Ireland. 

19. That a Supplementary Sum, not exceeding Pauper 
£. 1,256, be granted to Her Majesty, to defray (Ireland) (Sup- 
the Charge which will come in course of payment plementary.) 
during the year ending on the 3lst day of March 
1876, in aid of the Local Cost of Maintenance of 
Pauper Lunatics, [reland. 

The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Merchant 
mittee on the Merchant Shipping Bill ; mane 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Mutiny pe 
Reading of the Matiny Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Drainage oe 
into a Committee on the Drainage and Improve- (FP ands 
ment of Lands (Ireland) Provisional Orders (No. 2) (Ireland) Pro- 


Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. visional 2 


Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes re- (No. 2) 


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Amendment. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 


this day. 


The Local Government Provisional Orders Bill 
was, according to Order, read a second time; and 


Local Govern- 
ment Pro- v ; 
sisional Orders .o5 mitted to a Committee of the whole House, 


Bil. for Monday the 3rd day of April next. 


Maritime The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Contracts Bill. Reading of the Maritime Contracts Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday the 3rd day of April next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 


Legiaaton mittee on the Jndian Legislation Bill; 

Bill. Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
the 10th day of April next, resolve itself into the 
said Committee. 

cattle Disease ‘The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 


(Ireland) Bill. mittee on the Cattle Disease (Jreland) Bill ; 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


gio len The Order of the day being read, for the Second 

Amendment Reading of the Poor Law Amendment Bill ; 

Bill. Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 


Salmon Fishery 7 re 
(Provisional Reading of the Salmon Fishery (Provisional Order) 
Order) Bill. = Bi]] ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 
Merchant The Order of the day being read, for the Second 


Shipping Acts Reading of the Merchant Shipping Acts Amend- 


Aneniment ment Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday the 10th day ef April next. 
Tenant Right The Order of the day being read, for the Second 


at the Expira- Reading of the Tenant Right at the Expiration of 
(nand Bi, Leases (Jre/and) Bill; 
Ordered, That tne Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday the 2nd day of May next. 


Sa Insurances Lhe House, according to Order, resolved itself 

(Sumping of into a Committee on the Sea Insurances (Stamping 

Policies) Bill. of Policies) Bill; and, after some time spent 
therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and 
Mr. Raikes reported, That the Committee had 
gone through the Bill. 


Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration this day. 


Open Spaces The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
(Metropolitan mittee on the Open Spaces (Metropolitan District) 
District) Bill. Bill; 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


pea The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Fisheries - Reading of the Crab and Lobster Fisheries (Wor- 
Norfolk) Bin, folk) Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day. 


Mr. Charles 
Henwood, 


A Motion was made,‘and the Question being 
proposed, That the Petition of Mr. Charles Hen- 
wood, which was presented upon the 16th day of 
February last, be printed with the Votes ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to 
the Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the 
words “ the Order that the Petition dolie upon the 
“ Table be read, and discharged,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words 

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109 


proposed to be left out stand part of the Question 
—It passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
“the Order that the Petition do lie upon the 
Table be read, and discharged,” ‘be added, instead 
thereof :—It was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Then the Main Question, so amended, being 
put ; 

Ordered, That the Order that the Petition do 
lie upon the Table be read. 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 


Mr. Algernon Exerton presented a Bill for the Marine Mutiny 
Regulation of Her Majesty’s Royal Marine Forces Bil. 
while on Shore: And the same was read the first 
— and ordered to be read a second time this 
ay. 


_ The Order, made upon the 10th day of this Herring 
instant March, That there be laid before this Fisheries (East 
House, Returns relative to the Herring ane ow 

: ’ : . &gt; land.) 
Fisheries (East Coast: of Scotland), was read, and 


discharged. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till half an hour after One of the clock on 
Tuesday morning, adjourned till this day. 








Tuesday, 2\st March, 1876. 
PRAYERS. 


rP.‘HE Order, That the West Riding and Lan- West Riding 
cashire Xailways Bill be committed, was read, 2"4 Lancashire 
and discharged. a 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence London, 
taken before the Committee on the London, Chai- Chatham, and 
ham, and Dover Railway (Various Powers) Bill, a 
in Session 1866, be referred to the Committee on Powers) Bill 


the Sittingbourne and Sheerness Railway Bill. (1866.) 


Mr. Mowbray reported from the Select Com- Standing 
mittee on Standing Orders, several Resolutions ; Orders. 
which were read, as follow : 

That, in the case of the Dublin, South, City Dublin, South, 
Markets Bill, the Standing Orders ought to be ne pee 
dispensed with; that the Parties be permitted to — 
proceed with their Bill. 


That, in the case of the Humber Conservancy Humber 
Bill, Petition of Bartle J. L. Frere, for dispensing Conservancy 
with Standing Order 131 in the case of the Peti- 
tion of the “ Harl of Essex and others,” against the 
Bill, the said Standing Order ought to be dispensed 
with. 

The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Toll Bridges 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private (RiverThames) 
Bills, That the Standing Orders have been com- 
plied with in the case of the following Bill, re- 
ferred on the First Keading thereof, viz. : 

Toll Bridges (River Thames) Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday the 29th day of this instant 
March. 


Mr. Backhouse reported from the Committee on Hove Extension 
Group B. of Private Bills; That the Parties pro- and Improve- 
moting the Hove Extension and Improvement ™™ Bi 
Bill had stated to the Committee that it was not 
their intention to proceed with the same. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table. 


Ordered, That the Committee on Group 2 of Railway Bills 
Railway Bills have leave to sit this day till Five of (Group 2.) 
the clock, during the sitting of the House. 

P3 Several 





110 21st March. 1876. 


Public Several Public Petitions were rag and 
Petitions. read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

A Public Petition was also presented, and read ; 
Vide Votes, and ° ° 
Tenth Report, 2nd referred to a Select Committee. 


East India Ordered, That the Keturn relative to East India 

(Transports.) (Transports), which was presented upon the 11th 

No. 119. day of August, in the last Session of Parliament, 
be printed. ~ 


roe India Ordered, That the Return relative to East India 
Sadan) (Chinchona Cultivation), which was presented 
No. 190, Upon the 20th day of this instant March, be 
o. 120, ‘ 
printed. 


Malt and Ordered, That the Return relative to Malt and 
Barley. Barley, which was presented upon the 20th day 
No. 121. of this instant March, be printed. 


PublicPetitions The following Paper was laid upon the Table 

(Printing.) by the Clerk of the House,—Return to an Order, 
dated the 13th day of this instant March, for Re- 
turns relative to Public Petitions (Printing). 


Royal Albert Mr. Razkes reported from the Committee on the 
Hall Bill. Royal Albert Hall Bill; That they had examined 
the allegations contained in the Preamble of the 
Bill, and amended the same by reciting that Her 
Majesty’s Commissioners for the Exhibition of 
1851 hired large portions of the Hall during the 
International xhibitions, and gave, in lieu of rent, 
asum of Three thousand Pounds annually for 
the maintenance of the Hall, which sum is no 
longer available now that Exhibitions are discon- 
tinued, and found the same, as amended, to be 
true; and had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. * 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table. 


Glasgow (City) Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on the 
Union Railway Glasgow (City) Union Railway Bil; That they 
Bul. had examined the allegations contained in the 
Preamble of the Bill, and amended the same by 
striking out certain recitals in regard to the rela- 
tions between the City of Glasgow Union Rail- 
way Company, the Glasgow and South Western 
Railway Company, and the Worth British Rail- 
way Company; and made other Amendments 
therein, in order to make it consistent with the Bill | 
as submitted to and passed by the Committee, and | 
had also made verbal Amendments therein, and 
found the same, as amended, to be true; and had 
gone through the Bill, and made Amendments 
thereunto. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


Savings Banks. | Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return from each Savings Bank in England and 
Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, containing in co- 
lumns, the Names of the Officers, their respective 
Salaries, and other Allowances, if any; the Amount 
of Security each gives; the Number of Accounts 
remaining open; the Total Amount owing to De- 
positors ; the Total Amount invested with the Com- 
missioners for the Reduction of the National Debt; 
the Rate of Interest paid to Depositors on the va- 
rious Amounts of Deposit, and the average Rate 
of Interest on all Accounts ; and the Total Amount 
of the separate Surplus Fund, on the 20th day of 
November 1875; the Rate per Centum per Annum 
on the Capital of the Bank for the Expenses of 
Management; the Annual Number of Receipts 
from Depositors ; the Annual Number of Pay- 
ments; the average Amount of Receipts; the 
average Amount of Payments; the Number and 
Amount of Annuities granted; the Annual Ex- 
penses of Management, inclusive of all Payments 
and Salaries, for the Year ended the 20th day of 
November 1875; also the Year in which Business 
commenced in each Bank, and the Name of the 
Day or Days, and the Number of Hours in the 











Week on which the Banks are open for the de- 
= and withdrawal of Moneys, including in such 
eturn a List of all such Savings Banks as, under 
the provisions of the Act 26 Vic. c. 14, or other- 
wise, have been closed and have transferred their 
Funds, or any Part thereof, to the Post Office 
Savings Bank; showing in each case, the Num- 
ber of such Banks, as well as the Number and 
Amount of Depositors’ Accounts so transferred, 
and the Amount of Compensation, if any, made to 
all or any of the Officers of such Banks respec- 
tively ; and showing also the Years in which such 
Banks were respectively opened and closed, and 
the Number ard Amount of their Depositors’ 
Balances, and the Number of Days and Hours in 
each Week on which the same Banks were open 
for Public Business at the Close of the Year next 
preceding the Date of such Closing; distinguish- 
ing the same, as in the Form of the Return, for 
each separate County, as well as collectively, for 
England and Wales, Scotland and Ireland, and for 
the United Kingdom (in continuation of Parlia- 
mentary Paper, No. 289, of Session 1875). 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Enclosures, 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return of the Total Acreage and estimated 
Value of Lands which have been enclosed under 
the sanction of the Enclosure Commissioners up to 
the close of the year 1875, showing the Total Ex- 
tent and estimated Value of the Land set out for 
Public Purposes, and the Amount of Money ex- 
pended thereon; the Extent of Land allotted to 
Lords of Manors and to Common Right Owners 
respectively; the Extent of Land sold, and the 
Number of separate Estates created by such Al- 
lotments and Sales respectively. 


The Appellate Jurisdiction Bill was read the Appellate 
first time; and ordered to be read a second time Bill [Land] 


upon Monday next; and to be printed. Bill 111 


The Crossed Cheques Bill was read the first Crossed 
time; and ordered to be read a second time upon see 
Monday next; and to be printed. Bill 112, 


A Motion was made, and the Question being Metropolitm 
proposed, That a Select Committee be appointed Fite Brigade. 
to inquire into the constitution, efficiency, emolu- 
ments, and finances of the Metropolitan Fire 
Brigade; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to 
the Question, by adding, at the end thereof, the 
words “ and into the most efficient means of pro- 

** viding further security from loss of life and pro- 
* perty by fire in the Metropolis.” 

And the Question being put, That those words be 
there added :—It was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Then the Main Question, so amended, being put; 

Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed 
to inquire into the constitution, efficiency, emolu- 
ments, and finances of the Metropolitan Fire Bri- 
gade, and into the most efficient means of provid- 
ing further security from loss of life and property 
by fire in the Metropolis. 


Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed Ecclesiastical 
to inquire into the operation of the Ecclesiastical meas 
Dilapidations Acts of 1871 and 1872. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being Steamship ,, 
proposed, That a Select Committee be appointed “ T#lis™™ 
to inquire into the circumstances connected with 
the seizure of the British Steamship ** Talisman” 
by the Peruvian Government, her employment in 
the national Service of Peru, the impressment 
her crew on board Peruvian war ships, their pro- 
longed imprisonment without trial, and the whole 

circumstances 





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circumstances of the case:—And a Debate arising 
thereupon ; 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Wednesday morning ; 


Wednesday, 22nd March, 1876 : 


Ordered, That the Debate be adjourned till 
Tuesday next. 


The Select Committee on the Burghs and Po- 
Populus -- pulous Places ( Scotland) Gas Supply Bill was no- 
Places (Seot- inated of Mr. Massey, Mr. Salt, Sir John St. 
bad) Or Aubyn, Mr. Goldney, Mr. Redwell, Sir Edward 
Sepp ‘olebrooke, Mr. Jon Hamilton, Mr. Campbell-Ban- 
nerman, Mr. Whitelaw, Mr. Cawley, Mr. Grieve, 
Mr. O’ Shaughnessy, ond Sir Windham Anstruther. 
Ordered, That Three be the Quorum. 





Burghs and 


Homicide Law The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
Amendment the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
Bill upon the 8th day of this instant March, That the 
Homicide Law Amendment Bill be now read a 

second time ; 
Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 

till this day. 


Trade Union The Order of the day being read, for the Second 


Act(1871)_ Reading of the Trade Union Act (1871) Amend- 


t ? 
— ment Bill; 


Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday next. 


Union Rating The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
(Ireland) Bill. Reading of the Union Rating (Jreland) Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


Divine The Order of the day being read, for resuming | 


Worship the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 

Fuilities Bil. bon the 15th day of this instant March, That 
the Divine Worship Facilities Bill be now read a 
second time; 


Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned | 


till Tuesday the 11th day of April next. 


Supply. Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee of 
Supply, several Resolutions; which were read, as 
follow : 

law Charges 1. That a Supplementary Sum, not exceeding 

(England) =». £, 5,250, be granted to Her Majesty, to defray 


=. the Charge which will come in course of payment 


during the year ending on the 31st day of March | 


1876, for the Salaries of the Law Officers of the 
Crown, and the Law Charges, Salaries, Allow- 
ances, and Incidental Expenses, including Pro- 
secutions relating to Coin, in the Department of 
the Solicitor for the Affairs of Her Majesty’s 
Treasury. 
Ateains 2. That a Sum, not exceeding £.3,200, be 
lapeditin, granted to Her Majesty, beyond the ordinary 
Grants of Parliament, towards defraying the Ex- 
pense which will come in course of payment 
during the year ending on the 31st day of March 
1876, for the Expenses of the Expedition into 
Ashantee. 
Criminal Prose. 3. That a Supplementary Sum, not exceeding 
(lop £.5,000, be granted to Her Majesty, to defray 
watary,) the Charge which will come in course of payment 
during the year ending on the 3lst day of March 
1876, for Criminal Prosecutions at Assizes and 
Quarter Sessions in England, including Adjudica- 
tions under the Criminal Justice Act and the 
Juvenile Offenders Acts, for Sheriffs’ Expenses, 
Salaries to Clerks of Assize and other Officers, 
and for Compensation to Clerks of the Peace. 
ae 4. That a Supplementary Sum, not exceeding 
(Gratt Britain, £* 80,752, be granted to Her Majesty, to defray 
(Spl ~— the Charge which will come in course of payment 
“suy.) during the year ending on the 31st day of March 
1876, for certain Expenses connected with the 
Police in Counties and Boroughs in England 
and Wales, and with the Police in Scotland. 
Vou. 131, 


22nd March. 111 


5. That a Supplementary Sum, not exceeding Convict 
£. 800, be granted to Her Majesty, to defray anene 
the Charge which will come in course of payment the Colonies) 
during the year ending on the 31st day of March (Supple- 
1876, for the Superintendence of Convict Esta- mentary.) 
blishments, and for the Maintenance of Convicts 
— — Establishments in England and the 

olonies. 

6. That a Supplementary Sum, not exceeding Registration 
| £.376, be granted to Her Majesty, to defray of Deeds 
the Charge which will come in course of payment eae - 
during the year ending on the 31st day of March 
1876, for the Salaries and Expenses of the Office 
for the Registration of Deeds in Jreland. 

7. That a Supplementary Sum, not exceeding Dundrum 
£. 369, be granted to Her Majesty, to defray Criminal 

° P . Lunatic 
the Charge which will come in course of payment Asylum 
during the year ending on the 31st day of March (Ireland) (Sup- 
1876, for the Maintenance of Criminal Lunatics in P!e™entry-) 
the Dundrum Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Ireland. 

8. That a Supplementary Sum, not exceeding Embassies and 
£. 14,800, be granted to Her Majesty, to defray Missions 
the Charge which will come in course of payment ome 9 
during the year ending on the 31st day of March 
1876, for the Expenses of Her Majesty’s Embassies 
and Missions Abroad. 

9. That a Supplementary Sum, not exceeding Colonies 
£. 500, be granted to Her Majesty, to defray (Grants in Aid) 
the Charge which will come in course of payment aos 
during the year ending on the 31st day of March 
1876, in aid of Colonial Local Revenue, and for 
defraying the Salaries and Allowances of Go- 
vernors, &amp;c., and other Expenses in certain 
Colonies. 

10. ‘That a Supplementary Sum, not exceeding Tonnage 
£.3,000, be granted to Her Majesty, to defray ——— = 
| the Charge which will come in course of payment (Suprice : 
| during the year ending on the 31st day of March mentary.) 
1876, for Tonnage Bounties, Bounties on Slaves, 
and Expenses of the Liberated African Depart- 
ment. 

11. That a Supplementary Sum, not exceeding Superannua- 
£.5,000, be granted to Her Majesty, to defray fonand | 
the Charge which will come in course of payment preety ener 
during the year ending on the 3lst day of March mentary.) 
1876, for Superannuation and Retired Allowances 
|to Persons formerly employed in the Public 
Service. 

12. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 9,330, be Ashantee 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge (anaaan 
| , : P e atuities and 
| which will come in course of payment during the Prize Pay.) 
| year ending on the 31st day of March 1876, for 
, Gratuities and Prize Pay awarded to Officers and 
| Men of the Ashantee Expedition. 

13. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 6,249, be Mediterranean 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge —— 
| which will come in course of payment during the (Gemantes.) 
year ending on the 31st day of March 1876, for 
payment of the Guarantee under the Agreement 
of the Government with the Mediterranean Ex- 
tension Telegraph Company. 

14. That a Sum, not exceeding £.8,192, be Civil Con- 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge ery 
which will come in course of payment during the SA th cosa 
year ending on the 3lst day of March 1876, for Advances.) 
the repayment of certain Miscellaneous Advances 
to the Civil Contingencies Fund. 

15. That a Supplementary Sum, not exceeding Inland Revenue 
£.6,500, be granted to Her Majesty, to defray — 
the Charge which will come in course of payment neuen) 
during the year ending on the 31st day of March 
1876, for the Salaries and Expenses of the Inland 
Revenue Department. 

16. That a Supplementary Sum, not exceeding post Office 
£.9,000, be granted to Her Majesty, to defray Packet Service 
the Charge which will come in course of payment ae) 
during the year ending on the 31st day of March * 
1876, for the Post Office Packet Service. 

17. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 500,000, be War Office 











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Navy (Excess, 
1874-75.) 


Greenwich 
Hospital and 
School ( Excess, 
1874-75.) 


Ways and 
Means. 


Consolidated 
Fund. 


Mutiny Bill. 


Drainage and 
Improvement 
of Lands 
(Ireland) Pro- 
visional Orders 


(No. 2) Bill. 


Cattle Disease 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Sea Insurances 
(Stamping of 
Policies) Bill. 


Open Spaces 
(Metropolitan 
District) Bill. 


112 Q1st—-22nd March. 


which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 3lst day of March 1876, in 
respect of repayments to the War Office, of 
Charges which it has defrayed on behalf of the 
India Office. 

18. That aSum, not exceeding £. 238,255.4s.6d., 
be granted to Her Majesty, to make good the Ex- 
cess of the Naval Expenditure beyond the Or- 
dinary and Supplementary Grants for the year 
ended on the 3lst day of March 1875. 

19. ‘That aSum, not exceeding £.3,718.18s.11d., 
be granted to Her Majesty, to make good Ex 
cess of Expenditure beyond the Grant for Green- 
wich Hospital and School, for the year ended on the 
3ist day of March 1875. 

The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 


Mr. William Henry Smith reported from the 
Committee of Ways and Means, several Resolu- 
tions; which were read, as follow: 

1. That, towards making good the Supply 
granted to Her Majesty for the Service of the 
years ending the 3lst day of March 1875 and 
1876, the Sum of £. 1,029,550, 5 s. 1 d. be granted 


out of the Consolidated Fund of the United King- | 


dom. 

2. That, towards making good the Supply 
granted to Her Majesty for the Service of the 
year ending on the 3lst day of March 1877, the 
Sum of £. 9,000,000, be granted out of the Con- 
solidated Fund of the United Kingdom. 


The said Resolutions, being read a second time, | ~ 


were agreed to. 

Ordered, That a Bill be brought in upon the 
said Resolutions : And that Mr. Raikes, Mr. Chan- 
cellor of the Exchequer, and Mr. William Henry 
Smith do prepare, and bring it in. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Mutiny Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday next. 


The Drainage and Improvement of Lands (Jre- 
land) Provisional Orders (No. 2) Bill was, accord- 
ing to Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered,That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Cattle Disease (Jreland) Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to take 
into consideration the Sea Insurances (Stamping 
of Policies) Bill, as amended in the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 


this day. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Open Spaces (Metro- 
politan District) Bill. 


(Iu the Committee.) 


Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Preamble be postponed : 


Whereupon, Motion made, and Question put, 
That the Chairman do now leave the Chair ; 
The Committee divided. 
Las 


Tellers for the; Sir Charles Dilke, 
Yeas, Sir William Fraser: 

Tellers for the; Mr. Whalley, 1 29 

Noes, Mr. Monk: J ‘ 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair, 


1876. 

The Crab and Lobster Fisheries (Norfolk) Bill Crab ang 
was, according to Order, read a second time; and Lobster 
committed to a Committee of the whole House, (Nene 

| for Tuesday next. ) a 
| The Order of the day being read, for the Second Marine Naty 
Reading of the Marine Mutiny Bill ; Bill 

| Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 

_upon Friday next. 

| Mr. William Henry Smith presented a Bill to Consotidgya 
apply certain Sums out of the Consolidated Fund Fund 

_to the Service of the years ending the Thirty-first (*: 10,0295 
| day of March One thousand eight hundred and ”” Vd.) Bi 
' seventy-five, One thousand eight hundred and 
seventy-six, and One thousand eight hundred and 

| seventy-seven: And the same was read the first 

_time ; and ordered to be read a second time this day. 

| _ Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Civil Con 
Copy of Civil Contingencies Account for the year tingencies 
| 1874-5, and of the Correspondence with the ©” 

| Comptroller and Auditor General thereon. 

| Mr, William Henry Smith accordingly presented 
the said Paper. 

| Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
|Table ; and be printed. 


No, 122, 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till half an hour after One of the clock on 
Wednesday morning, adjourned till this 
day. 








WVednesday, 22nd March, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 
KDERED, That the Minutes of the Evi- purness pai. 
dence taken hefore the Committee on the way Bill 
Furness Railway Bill, in Session 1569, be referred (1869) 
to the Committee on the Furness Railway Bill. 


Several Public Petitions were rs gana and public 


able. Petitions. 


&gt; Vide Votes, 
and Eleventh 
Report. 

Mr. Secretary Cross presented,—Return to an Church Built 
Address to Her Majesty, dated the 22nd day of ing and Re. 
February last, for Returns relative to Church 
Building and Restoration. 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated Enclosures. 
the 21st day of this instant March, for a Return 
relative to Enclosures. 

Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the 
Table. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Coast and De 
Reading of the Coast and Deep Sea Fisheries (Jre- Se Fishes 
land) Bill ; a 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a second 
time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to 
the Question, by leaving out the word “ now,” and, 
at the end of the Question, adding the words “ upon 
* this day six months.” 

And the Question being put, That the word 
* now” stand part of the Question ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right; 

The Noes to the Left. . 

Tellers for the { Dr. Ward, 131 

Yeas, | Lord Francis Conyngham :} P 

Tellers for the {Sir William Dyke, 1015 

Noes, LMr. Rowland Winn: J ' 

So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
“ upon this day six months” be added at the end of 
the Question :—It was resolved in the ——— 

en 


read; and ordered to lie upon the 
A Public Petition was also presented, and read 
and referred to a Select Committee. 


































1e8 


Nk) Bay 


&gt; Mutay 


029,554 
L.) Bill 


cies 


, 122. 


3 Rail 


otes, 
eventh 


: Build 
1 Re- 


ind Deep 
sheries 
d’ Bill. 





House 
Qccupiers 
Disqualifica- 
tion Removal 
Bill. 


Forgery Bill. 


Poor Law 
Guardians 
Elections 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Intoxicating 
Liquors ‘4 
(Licensing 
Law Amend- 
ment) Bill. 


Supply. 


Ways and 
Means. 


Homicide Law 
Amendment 
Bill. 


Sea Insurances 
(Stamping of 
Policies) Bill. 


Consolidated 
Fund 

(£. 10,029,550 
58.1.) Bill. 


Leave of 
Absence, 


Slave Trade 
(Fugitive 
Slaves.) 


39 VicToRIA. 


Then the Main Question, so amended, being 


put ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon this day six months. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the House Occupiers Disqualification 
Removal Bill; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a second 
time :—And a Debate arising thereupon; 

And it being a quarter of an hour before Six of 
the clock, the Debate stood adjourned till To-mor- 
row: 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Burglary and Forgery Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time To- 
morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Poor Law Guardians Elections 
(Ireland) Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Intoxicating Liquors (Licensing 
Law Amendment) Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply ; 

Resolved, ‘That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


‘The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Ways and Means; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
upon the 8th day of this instant March, That the 
Homicide Law Amendment Bill be now read a 
second time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Wednesday the 5th day of April next. 


The Sea Insurances (Stamping of Policies) 
Bill was, according to Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Consolidated Fund (£. 10,029,550. 5s. 1d.) 
Bill was, according to Order, read a second time; 
and committed to a Committee of the whole House, 
for To-morrow. 


Ordered, That Mr. Spencer Walpole have leave 
of absence for a week, on account of domestic 
affliction. 


The House was moved, That the Order made 
upon the 10th day of February last, That there 
be laid before this House, Returns relative to the 
Slave Trade (Fugitive Slaves), might be read; 
and the same being read ; 

So much thereof as relates to Copies of Instruc- 
tions issued for the guidance of Her Majesty’s 
Ships of War employed in the suppression of the 
Slave Trade, dated the 6th day of November 1869: 
Of Station Orders issued in 1871 for the 





guidance of Commanders of Her Majesty’s Ships 
on the East India Station in reference to Slaves: 
——And, of the Circular, dated the 5th day of 
December 1875, in reference to the reception of 
Fugitive Slaves, was discharged. 

OL, 131. 


29nd—23rd March. 113 


The Order for the House to resolve itself into a Municipal 
Committee, To-morrow, on the Municipal Privi- ey 


leges (Ire/and) Bill, was read, and discharged. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
the 30th day of this instant March, resolve itself 
into the said Committee. 


Mr. Backhouse reported from the Committee on Private Bills 
(Group RB.) 


Group B. of Private Bills; That the parties pro- 
moting the Brighton Borough Extension of Mu- 
nicipal to Parliamentary Limits Bill had stated 
that the evidence of Robert Rawlinson, Arnold 
Taylor, John Carrick, George Graham, John 
Peake Knight, Arthur Bigge,and Edward Burstall 
was essential to enable them to establish their 
case, and it having been proved that their attend- 
ance could not be procured without the interven- 
tion of the House, he had been instructed to move 
that the said Robert Rawlinson, Arnold Taylor, 
John Carrick, George Graham, John Peake 
Knight, Arthur Bigge, and Edward Burstall do 
attend the said Committee To-morrow, at Twelve 
of the clock. 

Ordered, That Robert Rawlinson, Arnold Taylor, 
John Carrick, George Graham, John Peake Knight, 
Arthur Bigge, and Edward Burstall do attend the 
Committee on Group B. of Private Bills To-mor- 
row, at Twelve of the clock. 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 








Thursday, 23rd March, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 


OF DERED, That the Committee of Public Public 
Accounts have leave to sit this day till Five Accounts. 


of the clock, during the sitting of the House. 


Ordered, That the Committee on Group 6 of Railway Bills 
(Group 6.) 


Railway Bills have leave to sit this day till Six of 
the clock, during the sitting of the House. 


Ordered, That the Committee on Group 2 of Railway Bills 
Railway Bills have leave to sit this day till Five (Group 2.) 


of the clock, during the sitting of the House. 


Mr. Goldsmid reported from the Committee on Railway Bills 
Group 5 of Railway Bills; That, for the conve- (Group 5.) 


nience of Parties, the Committee had adjourned till 
Monday next, at a quarter to Three of the clock. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table. 


Sir Charles Forster reported from the Select Public 
Committee on Public Petitions; That they had Fe 
examined the Petitions presented upon the 20th and Report.) 


21st days of this instant March, and had directed 
him to make a Report thereof to the House. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed, 


Admiral Egerton reported from the Committee Leicester 
on Group J. of Private Bills; That, in the case of Improvement 


the Leicester Improvement Bill, they had examined 
the allegations contained in the Preamble of the 
Bill, and amended the same by striking out the 
recitals having reference to the purchase of the 
Undertaking of the Leicester Waterworks Com- 
pany, in order to make it consistent with the pro- 
visions of the Bill as passed by the Committee, 
and found the same, as amended, to be true; and 
that a Report from the Local Government Board 
had been laid before the Committee, and con- 
sidered by them; and that they had adopted such 
of the recommendations therein contained as 
appeared to them applicable to the circumstances 
of the case submitted to them, and that they had 








Q gone 


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114 


gone through the Bill, and made Amendments 
thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table. 


Glasgow and Ordered, That the pe rm and South Western 
South Western Railway Bill be read thet ird time after the other 
Railway Bill. Private Business. 


Caledonian 
Railway and 
Forth and Clyde 
Navigation 
Companies 

Bill (1867.) 


Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence 
taken before the Committee on the Caledonian 
Railway and Forth and Clyde Navigation Com- 
panies Bill, in Session 1867, be referred to the 
Committee on the Caledonian Railway ( Grange- 
mouth Harbour) Bill. 


Ordered, That the Proceedings before the Com- 
mittee on the Ramsgate Local Board Bill, of the 
present Session, be referred to the Committee on 
Group K. of Private Bills, upon the Stockton and 
Middlesbrough Corporations Water and Stockton 
and Middlesbrough Waterworks Companies Bills. 


Ramsgate 
Local Board 
Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Third 
Reading of the Glasgow and South Western Rail- 
way Bill; 

And a Motion being made, That the Bill be 
now read the third time ; 

Mr. Hubbard, by Her Majesty’s Command, 
acquainted the House, That Her Majesty, having 
been informed of the purport of the Bill, gives 
Her Consent, as far as Her Majesty’s interest is 
concerned, that the House may do therein as they 
shall think fit. 

Then the Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act for conferring further Powers 
on the Glasgow and South Western Railway Com- 
pany for the Construction of Works and the 
Acquisition of Lands; for converting and con- 
solidating the several Classes of their Shares and 
Stocks, and for other purposes. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Glasgow and 
South Western 
Railway Bill. 


Sittingbourne _ Mr. Evans reported from the Committee on 
and Maidstone Group 2 of Railway Bills; That, in the case of 
Railway Bill. the Sittingbourne and Maidstone Railway Bill, they 
had examined the allegations contained in the 
Preamble of the Bill, but the same had not been 
proved to their satisfaction. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


Westerham Mr. Evans reported from the Committee on 
—? Railway Group 2 of Railway Bills; That in the case of the 
; Westerham Valley Railway Bill, they had examined 
the allegations contained in the Preamble of the 
Bill, and amended the same by inserting the words 
“to Westerham both” after the words “ Dunton 
Green,” and striking out the words “ to Ozted, in 
the County of Surrey,” in the first paragraph of 
the Preamble, Railway No. 2, proposed by the 
Bill, having been struck out during the progress of 
the case by agreement, and found the same, as 
amended, to be true; and had gone through the 

Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 

Table; and be printed. 


Public Several Public Petitions were presented, and 
Petitions. read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 
Vide Votes, Several Public Petitions were also presented, 


—_ wn and read; and referred to a Select Committee. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Judicial 
Expenditure (England and Ireland), which was 
resented upon the 12th day of April, in the last 


Judicial 
Expenditure 
(England and 
Trelan 


d. 
No. aa Denton of Parliament, be printed. 


23rd March. 





1876. 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to Railways, Railways, 
which was presented upon the 20th day of this No, 124, 
instant March, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Church Church 
Building and Restoration, which was presented Building and 


‘eae Restoration, 
upon the 22nd day of this instant March, be 
printed. No. 126. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Enclo- Enclosures, 
sures, which was presented upon the 22nd day of No. 126, 
this instant March, be printed. 


Mr. Secretary Cross presented, by Her Majesty’s Charity — 
Command,—Copy of Twenty-third Report of the Commission. 
Charity Commissioners. 

Copy of Report of Sir John Hawkshaw, the River Clyde 
Commissioner appointed to inquire as to the Puri- (Purification.) 
fication of the River Clyde, together with Appendix 
and Minutes of Evidence. 

Mr. Secretary Cross also presented,—Return London Schools 
to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 7th day (Government 
of this instant March, for a Return relative to &amp;™™*-) 
London Schools (Government Grants). 

Return to an Order, dated the 6th day of Waste Lands 

August, in the last Session of Parliament, for (!eland.) 
Returns of the Acreage under (a) Crops; (b) 
Grass; (c) Plantation; (d) Fallow; (e) Bog 
Waste, in each Poor Law Union wholly within 
the Counties of Mayo, Galway, and Donegal, in 
the year 1874:—-—Of the Number of Proprietors 
in each of such Unions :——Of the Number and 
Amount of Loans made to and expended by them 
since 1847 for purposes of Land Reclamation and 
Improvement within each of such Unions: Of 
the Number and Amount of Loans made to Occu- 
piers, not being Proprietors, and expended by 
them since 1847 for purposes of Land Reclama- 
tion and Improvement within each of such Unions : 
——And, of the Acreage of the Lands with re- 
spect to which each of such Loans was made. 


Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Edward Stanhope presented, by Her Railway 
Majesty’s Command,—Copy of the Report of the tatbeue 
Court of Inquiry, held in pursuance of an Order Ripton,) 
of the Board of Trade, dated the 22nd January 
1876, into the circumstances attending the Double 
Collision on the Great Northern Railway, which 
occurred at Abbotts Ripton on the 21st January 
1876. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Coolies, 

to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 5* Vineen* 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 

House, a Return of the Number of Coolies, of the 

Money expended on Immigration, together with 
particulars as to certain Taxes, for the Island of 

Saint Vincent, West Indies, duting the Fifteen 

Years since the origination of the Immigration 

Fund in that Island, arranged according to the 
Schedule annexed :— 





per 


Number of 
Coolies 

‘| Imported each 
Year 

since 1861. 


| 


otherwise, 


Amount of Export Duty de- 
voted to Immigration Pur- 


poses per Annum. 
Amount of General Revenue 


devoted to Immigration Pur- 


_poses per Annum. 


Amount paid by Planters for 
Immigration Purposes, in 
Fees and 

Duty Levied on Salt Fish per 
Duty Levied on Flour per 


Total Expenditure per Annum 
for Immigration Purposes. 


Number returned to India. 
Number remaining in Colony. 


Males. |Females. 












































89 Vicroria. 
Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 






































—— to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
(Animals = tg. give directions, that there be laid before this 
Diseased.) == -House, a Return showing the Number and De- 
scription of Animals seized or detained on account 
of being affected with an Infectious or Contagious 
Disease (on being presented for Shipment) by the 
Veterinary Inspectors at the various Ports in 
Ireland; also of the Numbers shipped at the said 
Ports for the years 1872, 1873, 1874, and 1875, in 
the following Form :— 
1872. 
Shipments. Number of ee or Detained on 
Port. t _ 
prleuo: | Foot and Mouth. | See? 
Cattle. | Sheep. | Swine. 
Cattle. | Cattle. | Sheep. | Swine. | Sheep. 
— Same for 1873, 1874, and 1875. 
Poolbeg Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
Lighthouse © one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 
Bill. That the Standing Orders have been complied 
with in the case of the following Bill, referred on 
the First Reading thereof, viz. : 
Poolbeg Lighthouse Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
To-morrow. 
Private Bills Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
(Standing one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 
ud with) That Standing Order, No. 74, has been complied 
with in the case of the following Bills, referred 
on the First Reading thereof, viz. : 
Alexandra ( Newport) Dock Bill. 
Bromley Direct Railway Bill. 
Plymouth Dock (Devonport) Water Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bills be read a second time. 
Private Bills Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
(Standing one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 
Order 74 not That Standing Order 74 has not been complied 
complied with.) ith in the case of the following Bill, referred on 
the First Reading thereof, viz. : 
Chichester and Midhurst Railway (No. 2) 
Bill. 
Ordered, That the Report be referred to the 
Select Committee on Standing Orders. 
gu Ordered, That all Petitions referring to the Con- 
tinuance or Discontinuance of Turnpike Trusts 
be referred to the Select Committee on the Turn- 
pike Acts Continuance. 
Leave of Ordered, That Mr. Conolly have leave of ab- 
Absence. sence for a week, on account of ill health. 
~ Titles The Order of the day being read, for the Third 





Reading of the Royal Titles Bill ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That the Bill be now read the third 
time ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the { Sir William Dyke, 

Yeas, \Mr. Rowland Winn: 

Tellers for thef Mr. Joseph Cowen, 

Noes, (Mr. Anderson : 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

The Bill was accordingly read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Vo. 131. 


23rd —24th March. 


115 


Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their coneurrence. 


mittee on the Merchant Shipping Bill ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave 
the Chair ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the 
words “in the opinion of this House, the Mer- 
** chant Shipping Acts should be so amended that 
“ the breach of a contract of service not involving 
*‘ danger to life or injury to the ship on the part 
“ of a seaman should be no longer punishable 
* with imprisonment and forfeiture, and should 
‘no longer render such seaman liable to be ar- 
“ rested without warrant within the United King- 
“ dom,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being proposed, That the 
words proposed to be left out stand part of the 
Question :—The said proposed Amendment was, 
with leave of the House, withdrawn. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made 
to the Question, by leaving out from the word 
* That” to the end of the Question, in order to 
add the words “ greater facilities and encourage- 
“ment should be given to the engagement and 
“ training of apprentices by shipowners,” instead 
thereof. 

And the Question being proposed, That the 
words proposed to be left out stand part of the 
Question:—The said proposed Amendment was, 
with leave of the House, withdrawn. 

Then the Main Question being put ; 

Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
Chair:—The House accordingly resolved itself 
into the Committee. 


(In the Committee. ) 


Causes, N° 1 and N° 2, agreed to. 


CxiAusE, N° 3 (Sending unseaworthy ships to 
sea a misdemeanor, 34 &amp; 35 Vie. c.110,s. 11, 
38 &amp; 39 Vic. c. 88, s. +). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 1, 1. 12, after the 
word “ who,” to insert the word “ wilfully.” 

Question proposed, That the word “ wilfully” 
be there inserted :—Amendment, by leave, with- 
drawn. 


To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 





And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Friday morning ; 


Friday, 24th March, 1876: 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Razkes 
reported, That the Committee had made Progress 
in the Bill, and that he was directed to move, 
That the Committee may have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Consolidated 
Consolidated Fund Fu4 


into a Committee on the 
(£10,029,550. 5s. 1d.) Bill; and, after some time 
spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; 
and Mr. Razkes reported, That the Committee had 
gone through the Bill, and directed him to report 
the same, without Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
this day, at half an hour after Four of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Civil Bill 


Reading of the Civil Bill Courts (Jreland) Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 





upon Monday the 3rd day of April next. 
Q2 The 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Merchant 
Shipping Bill. 





116 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Commons Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Commons Bill. 


Salmon Fishery The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
ey eaten of the Salmon Fishery (Provisional Order) 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 

upon Monday next. 


House 


renter Bt The Order of the day being read, for resuming 


qualification the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
Removal Bill. upon the 22nd day of this instant March, That the 
House Occupiers Disqualification Removal Bill 
ve now read a second time ; 
And the Question being again proposed :—The 
House resumed the said adjourned Debate. 
And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That the Debate be now adjourned ; 
The House divided. 
The Yeas to the Right ; 
The Noes to the Left. 
Tellers for the ; Mr. Evans, 71 76 
Yeas, | Sir Charles Dilke : f , 
Tellers for the {Sit ad a. - 
Noes olff, : 
. | Mr. Onslow : 

So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being again proposed, That 
the Bill be now read a second time ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That this House do now adjourn ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the; Mr. Dillwyn, 

Yeas, \ Mr. Callan: 
Tetiens box ten! on _ Dremmend| ; 
N _ ) olf, 122, 
ie (Mr. Onslow : 

So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being again proposed, That 
the Bill be now read a second time :—And a De- 
bate arising thereupon ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That the Debate be now adjourned ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the; Mr. Macdonald, 

Yeas, {Me Biggar: 


Tellers for the| uI 
Noes, 


79. 


76. 


r Henry Drummond, 
Wolff, L118, 
| My. Onslow : J 

So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being again proposed, That 
the Bill be now read a second time ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That this House do now adjourn ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for thes Mr. Locke, 

Yeas, \ Mr. Marling: 
Wilton the thet Drummond 
b 
Noes, |r. Onslow: 

So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being again proposed, That 
the Bill be now read a second time:—And a De- 
bate arising thereupon ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till this day. 


106. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Burglary and Forgery Rill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


Wrd—224th March. 








1376. 


Resolved, That this House will, immediately, re- Beer Licences 
solve itself into a Committee to consider of amend- (Ieland.) 
ing the Law in respect of granting Licences for 
the Sale of Beer, Ale, and Porter in Jreland:— 

The House accordingly resolved itself into the 
Committee. 
(In the Committee.) 


Motion made, and Question, That the Chair- 
man do report Progress, and ask leave to sit 
again-——— put, and negatived. 

Motion made, and Question, That the Chairman 
be directed to move the House, That leave be given 
to bring in a Bill to amend the Law in respect of 
granting Licences for the Sale of Beer, Ale, and 
Porter in Jreland——put, and agreed to. 


Resolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr. Razkes 
reported, That the Committee had come to a Re- 
solution. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Raikes accordingly reported a Resolution ; 
which was read, as followeth : 

That the Chairman be directed to move the 
House, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
amend the Law in respect of granting Licences 
for the Sale of Beer, Ale, and Porter in Ireland: 

—And he moved the House accordingly. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in the 
Bill: And that Mr. Meldon, Mr. Charles Lewis, 
and Mr. Benjamin Whitworth do prepare, and bring 
it in, 

Ordered, That Sir William Cuninghame and Mr. burghs and 
Dundas be added to the Select Committee on Populous 
Burghs and Populous Places (Scotland) Gas Supply se pee 
Bill. Supply Bill. 


The Select Committee on the Railway Pas- Railway 

senger Duty was nominated of Lord Claud Ha- Passenger 
milton, Sir Harcourt Johnstone, Earl Percy, Mr, vty: 
Arthur Peel, Mr. Bruce, Mr. Knatchbull-Hugessen, 
Mr. James Corry, Mr. Ashley, Mr. Edward Stan- 
hope, Mr. Samuda, Mr. Serjeant Spinks, Mr. Sul- 
livan, Sir John Kennaway, Mr. M‘Lagan, and Mr. 
Rodwell; with Power to send for persons, papers, 
and records. 

Ordered, That Three be the Quorum. 


The Order for the House to resolve itself into Cattle Disease 
a Committee, this day, on the Cattle Disease (Jre- (Ireland) Bill. 
land) Bill, was read, and discharged. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Mr. Meldon presented a Bill to amend the Law Beer Licences 
in respect of granting Licences for the Sale of (Ireland) Bill. 
Beer, Ale, and Porter in Ireland: And the same _ Bill 113. 
was read the first time ; and ordered to be read a 
second time upon Friday next; and to be printed. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till a quarter of an hour before Two of the 
clock on Friday morning, adjourned till 
this day. 








Friday, 24th March, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 

N R. Mowbray reported from the Select Com- standing 
mittee on Standing Orders, a Resolution ; Orders. 
which was read, as followeth : 

That in the case of the London and North London and 
Western Railway (New Lines, &amp;c.) Bill, Petition nee tee 
of John Stock, for dispensing with Standing Order Riven Ke.) Bill. 
131 in the case of his Petition against the Bill, 
the Standing Order ought to be dispensed with. 

The said Resolution, being read a second time, 


was agreed to. 
Mr. 











39 VicTorRIA. 
Mr. Mills reported from the Committee on 


en Group 11 of Railway Bills; That they had pro- 
gsilway Bill. geeded to examine the allegations contained in the 


Preamble of the Burntisland Direct Mineral Rail- 
way Bill, but that the parties promoting the said 
Bill had stated to the pet that it was not 
their intention to proceed with the same. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table; 
and be printed. 


Mr. Mills reported from the Committee on 
Group 11 of Railway Bills; That, for the con- 
venience of Parties, the Committee had adjourned 
till Tuesday next, at Twelve of the clock. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. £vans reported from the Committee on 
Group 2 of Railway Bills; That in the case of 
the Sittingbourne and Sheerness Railway Bill, they 
had examined the allegations contained in the 
Preamble of the Bill, and amended the same by 
altering the recitals having reference to the Re- 
ceiver being subject to the jurisdiction and con- 
trol of the Supreme Court of Judicature, and 
enlarging the recitals with respect to the assets of 
the Sittingbourne and Sheerness Railway Company; 
by inserting a recital that the said Bill has been 
approved by the Judge in whose Court the affairs 
ot the Company are being wound up, and other- 
wise, in order to make them consistent with the 
provisions of the Bill as passed by the Committee, 
and had also made verbal Amendments therein, 
and found the same, as amended, to be true; and 
had gone through the Bill, and made Amendments 
thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table; 
and be printed. 


The Great Yarmouth and Stalham (Light) 


Q4¢n March. 





117 
Mr. Leveson Gower reported from the Committee Whitehaven, 
on Group 6 of Railway Bills; That in the case of Cleator, and 
the Whitehaven, Cleator, and Egremont Railway hae 
; : i ; y Bill. 
Bill, they had examined the allegations contained 
in the Preamble of the Bill, and amended the same 
by striking out the recitals as to running powers 
over the London and North Western Railway, as 
to varying the Provisions of the 92nd Section of 
the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, and 
as to repealing Section 34 of the Whitehaven, 
Cleator, and Egremont Railway Act, 1875, the 
same not having been proved to the satisfaction 
of the Committee, and found the same, as amended, 
to be true; and had gone through the Bill, and 
made Amendments thereunto. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table; 
and be printed. 


Mr. Leveson Gower reported from the Com- North Eastern 
mittee on Group 6 of Railway Bills; That in the ®!way Bill. 
case of the North Eastern Railway Bill, they had 
examined the allegations contained in the Pre- 
amble of the Bill, and amended the same by 
striking out the recitals relating to the abandon- 
ment of the Cleveland Mineral Extension Railway 
and the construction of a proposed substituted Rail- 
way, so as to make it consistent with the provi- 
sions of the Bill as submitted to and passed by the 
Committee, and found the same, as amended, to be 
true; and had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and Public 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. —— 
A Public Petition was also presented, and read ; vide Votes, and 


and referred to a Select Committee. Eleventh 
Report. 













Yarmouth and 
Stalham 
(Light) Rail- 
way Bill. 
Northampton 
and Banbury 
Junction Rail- 


Railway Bill was, according to Order, read a se- 


, . ° ¥ i A Com- 
cond time; and comsnitied. Ordered, That the Return relative to the Army Army (Com 


(Commissions), which was presented upon the 13th — 
day of this instant March, be printed. No. 127, 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second in 
Ordered, That the Return relative to Civil Ser- Civil Service 


Reading of the Northampton and Banbury Junc- 7 
xXaminations, 


tion Railway Company and their Sureties Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday the 7th day of April next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Stoke-upon- Trent Corporation Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday the 7th day of April next. 


The Order for reading a second time, upon Wed- 
nesday the 5th day of April next, the Imprison- 
ment for Debt Abolition Bill, was read, and dis- 
charged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday the 20th day of June next. 


Mr. Leveson Gower reported from the Com- 
mittee on Group 6 of Railway Bills; That in the 
case of the Cleator and Workington Junction Rail- 
way Bill, in pursuance of the Resolution of the 
House of the 18th February, the Promoters had 
proved to the Committee that they had deposited 
an amended copy of the section at the office of 
the Clerk of the Peace for the County of Cum- 
berland, and in the Private Bill Office. 

Mr. Leveson Gower further reported from the 
Committee; That they had examined the allega- 
tions contained in the Preamble of the Bill, and 
amended the same, by striking out the recital as 
to working Agreements with two other Companies, 
the Clauses relating thereto having been struck 
out of the Bill, and found the same, as amended, 
to be true; and had gone through the Bill, and 
made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table; 
and be printed. 

Vou, 131, 








vice Examinations, excepting Copy of Regula- , 
tions, &amp;c. imposing Fees, which was presented upon 
the 20th day of this instant March, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to London London 
Schools (Government Grants), which was pre- peed i 
sented upon the 23rd day of this instant March, 


Grants.) 
be printed. No. 129. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Waste Waste Lands 
Lands (Ireland), which was presented upon the (!eland.) 
23rd day of this instant March, be printed. No. 130. 


No. 128. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Pensions — 
an Account of Sums advanced by the National Cmmstation. 
Debt Commissioners, in the year ended the 31st No 131. 
day of December 1875, in payment of Commuta- 
tion of Pensions under the Act 34 &amp; 35 Vic. c. 36, 
and the Annuities for Ten Years, commencing on 
the 1st day of April 1876, sufficient to repay the 
Advances with Interest at 33 per cent. per annum. 

Mr. William Henry Smith accordingly presented 
the said Account. 

Ordered, That the said Account do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


Mr. Secretary Hardy presented,—Return to an Army (Majors, 
Address to Her Majesty, dated the 3rd day of bos 

pg “ : rtillery.) 
this instant March, for a Return relative to the 
Army (Majors, Royal Artillery). 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Secretary Cross presented, pursuant to the militia 
directions of an Act of Parliament,—Return, in (Voluntary 
pursuance of Section 12 of the Militia ( Voluntary) Act, 1875.) 
Enlistment Act, 1875, of Copies of Accounts fur-" ” : 

Q3 nished 





Navy 
(Religious De- 
nominations.) 


No. 132. 


118 


24th March. 


1876, 


nished by the Clerks of the Peace in Ireland to\ the Committee that it was not their intention to 
the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of, proceed with the same. 


Ireland of the several a of Qualifica- | 
tions of Persons appeinted as Deputy Lieutenants, 


delivered to the Clerks of the Peace in Jreland from | 

the passing of the Act to the end of the year 1875. 
Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the | 

Table. | 


Mr. Algernon Egerton presented,—Return to an | 
Order, dated the 2nd day of July, in the last Ses- 
sion of Parliament, for Returns of the Religious 
Persuasions of the Seamen of the Royal Navy, 
and also of the Royal Marines: 

Of the Number of Chaplains— 

(a.) All Chaplains to Her Majesty’s Ships | 
are “ Commissioned Officers” ; 
(b.) Chaplains in the Navy must all be of the 
Established Church ; 
employed, together with a Statement of their Sala- 
ries and Allowances: And, List of the Minis- 
ters of Religion of every Denomination employed 
in the Home Ports, and of Foreign Stations, and 
amongst the Coastguard Men, in the following 
Form: 





Denomination. 


Average 
Salary or Allowanee, 
and Regulations vader 
which such Payments 
are made. 


Number of 
Men 
Ministering to. 


Religious Where 


Stationed, 








Public Offices 
(Increase and 
Diminution.) 


Public Offices 
(Superannua- 
tions.) 


Navy (Loss of 
the “ Van- 
guard.”’) 


Bridges (River 
Thames.) 


Littlehampton 
Water Bill. 











Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented, pursuant 
to the directions of an Act of Parliament,—Ab- 
stract of an Account of every Increase and Dimi- 
nution which has taken place in the year 1875, in 
the Number of Persons employed, or in the Salaries, 
Emoluments, Allowances and Expenses of all 
Public Offices or Departments. 

Account of all Allowances or Compensation 
granted as Retired Allowances or Superannua- 
tions in all Public Offices or Departments which 
remained payable on the Ist January 1875, the An- 
nual Amount which was granted in the year 1875, 
the Amount which ceased within the year, and the 
Total Amount remaining payable on 31st De- 
cember 1875. 

7 Ordered, That the said Accounts do lie upon the 
able. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Return giving Extract from the Signal Book of 
the Article referred to by Lieutenant Evans, in 
his Evidence before the Court Martial on the 
Loss of the “ Vanguard,” as justifying him in 
steering the “ Jron Duke” out of line. (Signal 
Book, page 74, Article 16.) 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Return of the Sums expended by the Corpora- 
tion of London out of their Bridge Estates for 
the objects stated, viz. :— 
The Erection of London Bridge, Maintenance 
of it during the present Century ; 
The Purchase of Southwark Bridge, Mainten- 
ance of ditto since Purchase ; 
The Erection of Blackfriars Bridge, Main- 
tenance of ditto since it was charged on the 
Bridge Estates. 


Mr. Backhouse reported from the Committee on 
Group B. of Private Bills; That the parties pro- 





moting the Littlehampton Water Bill had stated to 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 


| Table: 


Ordered, That the Committee of Public Ac- Public 
counts have Power to report their Observations Account 
thereupon to the House; together with the Mj- (First Rey 
nutes of the Evidence taken before them from No. 1% 
time to time. 

Mr. Dodson reported from the said Committee ; 

That they had made Progress in the matters to 
them referred, and directed him to make a Report 
thereof to the House; together with the Minutes 
of the Evidence taken before them, and an Ap- 
pendix. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table; 
and be printed. 


Ordered, That Mr. Kavanagh have leave of toy, y 
absence till Easter, on account of illness in his Absene, 
family. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- yfessag ina 
sage had been brought from the Lords by one of the Lons, 
their Clerks, as followeth : 

The Lords have agreed to the Telegraphsy 
(Money) Bill, without any Amendment, (Money) Bil 


The Consolidated Fund (£. 10,029,550. 5 s. 1 d.) Consolidaiai 
Bill was, according to Order, read the third time, Fund 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. oa 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the *'#) ™ 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- supply, 
mittee of Supply ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave 
the Chair ; 

And Amendment was proposed to be made to 
the Question, by leaving out from the word 
* That” to the end of the Question, in order to 
add the words “in the opinion of this House, effect Acts of 
* should be given to the recommendations of the 
** Select Committee of 1875 upon Acts of Parlia- 
“ ment,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Question : 
—It was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
Chair:—The House accordingly resolved itself 
into the Committee. 


(In the Committee.) 


Question again proposed, That a Sum, not ex- 
ceeding £. 61,586, be granted to Her Majesty, to 
defray the Charge which will come in course of 

ayment during the year ending on the 31st day 
of March 1877, for such Salaries and Expenses of 
the Queen’s Bench, Common Pleas, and Ex- 
chequer Divisions of the High Court of Justice, 
as are not charged on the Consolidated Fund ; 

Question put, and agreed to. 

2. £. 92,041, for the Salaries and Expenses of the 
Registries of Probate and Divorce and Matrimonial 
Causes, &amp;c. in the Probate, Divorce, and Ad- 
miralty Division of the High Court of Justice. 

3. £. 12,284, for the Salaries and Expenses of 
the Officesof the Admiralty Registrar and Marshal 
of the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Divisions 
of the High Court of Justice. 

4, £.48,585, for such of the Salaries and Expenses 
of the London Bankruptcy Court as are not 
charged on the Consolidated Fund. 

5. £414,426, for the Salaries and Expenses 
connected with the County Courts. 

6. 5,414, for the Office of Land Registry. 

7. £. 14,240, for the Police Courts of London 


and Sheerness. 
8. £.433,374, 








lic 


lo, 18, 


ve of 


&amp; 
i 


Bil. 


a 


10,029,591 
1d.) Bil 


ply, 


3 of 





39 Vicroria. 


8. £. 433,374, for the Salaries and Expenses of 
the Metropolitan Police. 

9. £. 808,098, for certain Expenses connected 
with the Police in Counties and Boroughs in Eng- 
land and Wales, and with the Police in Scotland. 

10. £. 440,745, for the Superintendence of Con- 
vict Establishments, and for the Maintenance of 
Convicts in Convict Establishments in England 
and the Colonies. 

11. £. 101,187, for the Maintenance of Prison- 
ers in County and Borough Prisons and of Cri- 
minal Lunatics in Private Asylums in Great 
Britain. 

12. £. 230,547, for the Maintenance of Ju- 
yenile Offenders in Reformatory and Industrial 
Schools in Great Britain. 

13. £. 29,484, for the Maintenance of Criminal 
Lunatics in the Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic 
Asylum, England. 

14. £. 18,690, for Miscellaneous Legal Charges 
in England. 

15. £. 69,389, for Salaries and Expenses of the 
Lord Advocate’s Department and others con- 
nected with Criminal Proceedings in Scotland. 

16. £. 59,527, for the Salaries and Expenses of 
the Courts of Law and Justice in Scotland, and 
other Legal Charges. 

17. £.32,389, for the Salaries and Expenses of 
the Offices in Her Majesty’s General Register 
House, Edinburgh, 

18. £.24,189, for the Joint Departments of 
Prisons and Judicial Statistics in Scotland, and 
for the Maintenance of Prisoners in the Prisons 
at Perth (including Establishment for Criminal 
Lunatics), Ayr, and Paisley. 

19. £.80,453, for Criminal Prosecutions and 
other Law Charges in Ireland. 

20. £.42,196, for such of the Salaries and Ex- 
penses of the Court of Chancery in Jreland as 
are not charged on the Consolidated Fund. 

21. £. 28,901, for such of the Salaries and Ex- 

enses of the Superior Courts of Common Law 
in Jreland as are not charged on the Consolidated 
Fund. 

22. £.9,619, for the Court of Bankruptcy in 
Ireland. 

23. £. 12,283, for the Salaries and Expenses of 
the Landed Estates Court, Ireland, 

24, £. 11,530, for the Court of Probate in Jre- 
land, and of the District Registries thereof. 

25. £.1,700, for the Admiralty Court Registry, 
Ireland. 

26. £.18,460, for the Office for the Registra- 
tion of Deeds in Jreland. 

27. £. 3,060, for the Office for the Registration 
of Judgments in Ireland. 

28. £. 136,975, for the Salaries and Expenses 
of the Commissioners of Police, of the Police 
Courts, and of the Metropolitan Police Establish- 
ment of Dublin. 

29. £.1,086,168, for the Constabulary Force in 
Ireland. 

30. £.40,540, for the Superintendence and In- 
spection of Government Prisons, and the Office of 

egistrar of Habitual Criminals, and for the Main- 
tenance of Convicts in Government Prisons in 
Ireland. 

31. £. 90,768, for the Maintenance of Prisoners in 
County and Borough Prisons, and for the Expenses 
of Reformatories and Industrial Schools in Jreland. 

32. £.6,165, for the Maintenance of Criminal 
Lunatics in the Dundrum Criminal Lunatic Asy- 
lum, Ireland. 

33. £. 69,666, for certain Miscellaneous Legal 
Expenses in Jre/and. 

esolutions to be reported. 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had come to several 
esolutions. 
Vou. 131. 











Q4th—27th March. 119 


Ordered, That the Report be received upon 
Monday next. 

Mr. Raikes also acquainted the House, that he 
was directed to move, That the Committee may 
have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Poor Law Amendment Bill was, according Poor Law 
to Order, read a second time; and committed to a Amendment 
Committee of the whole House, for Monday next. 5 


The Mutiny Bill was, according to Order, read Mutiny Bill. 
a second time; and committed to a Committee of 
the whole House, for Monday next. 


The Marine Mutiny Bill was, according to Marine Mutiny 
Order, read a second time; and committed to a Bill. 
Committee of the whole House, for Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- ways and 
mittee of Ways and Means ; Means. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Poolbeg Lighthouse Bill was, according to Poolbeg 
Order, read a second time; and committed to a Lighthouse 
Committee of the whole House, for Monday next. ® 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Metropolis Gas 

Reading of the Metropolis Gas Companies Bill; Companies 
And Notice being taken, that Forty Members 

were not present:—The House was told by Mr. 

Speaker; and Forty Members not being present, 

and it being then after Four of the clock :—The 

House was adjourned by Mr. Speaker, without a 

Question first put, till Monday next. 





Monday, 27th March, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 
OQRPE RED, That the Committee on Group Private Bills 
G. of Private Bills have leave to sit this day (GP &amp;) 
till Five of the clock, during the sitting of the 
House. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration «Glasgow (City) 
the Glasgow (City) Union Railway Bill, as amend- Union Railway 
ed in the Committee. Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Royal Albert 
the Royal Altert Hall Bill, as amended in the Hall Bill. 
Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The Upper Mersey Navigation Bill was read a Upper Mersey 
second time; and committed. Navigation 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on the Romsey 
Romsey Extension and Improvement Bill ; That oe 
a Report from the Local Government Board “upon gil. 
the Bill, and the objects thereof, had been re- 
ferred to the Committee, and considered by them, 
and that they had adopted such of the recom- 
mendations therein contained’ as appeared appli- 
cable to the case as submitted to them. 

Mr. Raikes further reported from the Com- 
mittee; That they had examined the allegations 
contained in the Preamble of the Bill, and amend- 
ed the same, by specifying the date of a meeting 
held by the Town Council of the Borough of Rom- 
sey, for the purpose of considering the expediency 
of promoting the Bill, and found the same, as 
amended, to be true; and had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That. the Report do lie upon the 
Table. 

Q4 Mr. 





British Gas 


Light Company 


(Hull Station) 
Bill. 


Rossendale 


Union Gas Bill. 


Public 
Petitions 
(Eleventh 
Report.) 


Gorleston and 
Southtown Gas 
Bill. 


Padiham and 
Hapton Local 


Board Bill. 


Message from 
the Lords. 


Consolidated 
Fund 

(£. 10,029,550 
58. 1d.) Bill. 


Council of 
India (Pro- 
fessional Ap- 
pointments) 


Bill. 


East London 
Railway Bill. 


London and 
Blackwall 
Railway Bill. 


Great Eastern 
Railway Bill, 


120 


Mr. Raikes reported the British Gas Light 
Company ( Hull Station) Bill, with Amendments. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Raikes reported the Rossendale Union Gas 
Bill, with Amendments. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Sir Charles Forster reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Public Petitions; That they had exa- 
mined the Petitions presented upon the 22nd, 23rd, 
and 24th days of this instant March, and had di- 
rected him to make a Report thereof to the House. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


Admiral Egerton reported the Gorleston and 
Southtown Gas Bill, with Amendments. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Admiral Egerton reported from the Committee 
on Group J. of Private Bills; That, in the case of 
the Padiham and Hapton Local Board Bill, they 
had examined the allegations contained in the 
Preamble of the Bill, and amended the same by 
striking out the recital relating to the improving 
of the Water Supply, that part of the Preamble 
not having been proved to their satisfaction, and 
by adding recitals having reference to the constitu- 
tion of the Padiham Gas Light and Coke Com- 
pany and their debts, as well as to the estimates 
prepared by the Local Board, and the several 
works included in those estimates, in order to 
make it consistent with the provisions of the Bill 
as passed by the Committee, and found the same, 
as amended, to be true; and that a Report from 
the Local Government Board had been laid before 
the Committee, and considered by them, and that 
they had adopted such of the recommendations 
therein contained as appeared to them applicable 
to the circumstances of the case submitted to them; 
and that they had gone throvgh the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a 
Message had been brought from the Lords by one 
of their Clerks, as followeth : 

The Lords have agreed to the Consolidated 
Fund (£. 10,029,550. 5s. 1d.) Bill, without any 
Amendment. 

The Lords have agreed to the Council ’of India 
(Professional Appointments) Bill, with an Amend- 
ment; to which the Lords desire the concurrence 
of this House. 


Mr. John Talbot reported the East London 
Railway Bill, with Amendments. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


Mr. John Talbot reported from the Committee 
on Group 1 of Railway Bills; That, in the case of 
the London and Blackwall Railway Bill, they had 
examined the allegations contained in the Pream- 
ble of the Bill, and amended the same by reciting 
the expediency of confirming the Agreement 
scheduled to the Bill, the Bill as passed by the 
Committee providing for such cvilendien, and 
found the same, as amended, to be true; and ha 
gone through the Bill, and made Amendments 
thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


Mr. Goldsmid reported from the Committee on 
Group 5 of Railway Bills; That in the case of 
the Great Eastern Railway Bill, they had exa- 
mined the allegations contained in the Preamble 
of the Bill, ee amended the same by striking out 


27th March. 


1876, 


reference to powers conferred upon the Great 
Eastern Railway Company to make a Railway in 
the parish of West Ham, in the County of Essex, 
/to apply money received from the Postmaster 
|General for Telegraph to improvement of Plant, 
| Stations, and other Works, and to acquire the 
fee simple of the Lands upon which a Tramway at 
Ipswich is constructed, all which powers were struck 
out of the Bill, and by inserting words to make the 
reference to a particular class of preference stock 
| more clear, and found the same, as amended, to be 
true; and had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


A Message was delivered by Colonel Clifford, Royal Ase 
Yeoman Usher of the Black Rod: 


Mr. Speaker, 


The Lords, authorised by virtue of Her Ma- 
jesty’s Commission, for declaring Her Royal As- 
sent to several Acts agreed upon by both Houses, 
desire the immediate attendance of this Honourable 
House in the House of Peers, to hear the Com- 
mission read, 

Accordingly Mr. Speaker, with the House, 
went up to the House of Peers:—And being re- 
turned ; 








Mr. Speaker reported, That the House, at the 
desire of the Lords, authorised by virtue of Her 
Majesty’s Commission, had been at the House of 
Peers, where a Commission under the Great Seal 
was read, giving, declaring, and notifying the 
Royal Assent to the several Acts therein men- 
tioned; and that the Lords, thereby authorised, 
had declared the Royal Assent to the said Acts, 
as follow : 

An Act to apply certain Sums out of the Con- Consolidated 
solidated Fund to the Service of the years ending Fund 
the Thirty-first day of March One thousand eight - 1a) BL 
hundred and Seventy-five, One thousand eight ~~ 
hundred and Seventy-six, and One thousand eight 
hundred and Seventy-seven. 

An Act for enabling a further Sum to be raised Telegraphs 
for the purposes of the Telegraph Acts, 1868 to (Money) Bil 
1870. 


Ordered, That it be an Instruction to Com- Private Bill 
mittees on Private Bills, that Referees, appointed ™™* 
to such Committees, may take part in all the 
proceedings thereof, but without the power of 
voting. 


Ordered, That the Metropolis Gas Companies Metropolis 6s 
Bill be read a second time upon Tuesday the 9th ji! 
day of May next. 


Sir Charles Adderley presented, by Her Ma- Railway 
jesty’s Command,—Copy of Reports of the In- Accident 
specting Officers of the Railway Department to 
the Board of Trade, upon certain Accidents which 
have occurred on Railways during the Months of 
| January and February 1876. (Part First.) 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 





d | 


Table. 
d Public 
Petitions. 
d, Vide Votes, aud 
? Twelfth 
Report. 


| Several Public Petitions were presented, an 

read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 
Several Public Petitions were also presente 

and read ; and referred to a Select Committee. 


| 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to Public Public be) 
Offices (Increase and Diminution), which was aie) 
resented upon the 24th day of this instant March, yp, 135, 
» printed. 


Ordered, That the Account relative to Public a 


Offices (Superannuations), which was presented tn) 
upon the 24th day of this instant March, be No, 136. 
printed. ma 











al Assent 


lidated 


029,580 
d.) Bill 


raphs 
ey) Bill. 


'e Bill 
nittees. 


polis Gas 


ay 
ents. 


ons. 


"otes, and 
h 


» Offices 
ution.) 
. 135. 
rannus- 


. 136. 





Navy (Loss of 
the “ Van- 
guard.”’) 

No. 98. 


Superann- 


tions. 


Telegraph 
(Money) Act, 
1876. 


Parliamentary 
Boroughs. 


No. 134 


Murder of 
Mr. Margary, 


\Uaina, 
No. 1, 1876.) 


Trish Society. 


Marriage with 


a 
8 
(Colonies, ) 


39 VicTorRIA. 


Mr. Algernon Egerton presented,—Return to an 
Order, dated the 14th day of this instant March, 
for Returns relative to the Navy (Loss of the 
“ Vanguard”). 

Return to an Order, dated the 24th day of this 
instant March, for a Return relative to the Navy 
(Loss of the “ Vanguard”). 

Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented, pursuant 
to the directions of several Acts of Parliament,— 
Copy of Treasury Minute, dated 21st March 1876, 
awarding a Special Retired Allowance to John 
Luckham, Established Shipwright, Devonport 
Dockyard. 

Copy of Treasury Minute, dated 18th March 
1876, awarding a Special Retired Allowance to 
Mr. Ord Graham Campbell, Senior Clerk in the 
Office of the Board of Supervision of the Poor in 
Scotland. 

Copy of Regulations laid down by the Treasury 
in accordance with Section 2 of the Telegraph 
(Money) Act, 1876, as to the Issue of Money 
raised under the Authority of that Act. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Secretary Cross presented,—Return to an 
Address to Her Majesty, dated the 26th day of 
July, in the last Session of Parliament, for a Re- 
turn with respect to each Parliamentary Borough 
in England, the Parliamentary and Municipal 
Boundaries of which are co-extensive, and of which 
the Population does not exceed 250,000: 

1. The Population according to the Census of 
1871; 

2. The Number of Electors as Occupiers, ex- 
clusive of Lodgers, on the Register now in 
force ; 

3. The Rateable Value according to the Va- 
luation Lists now in force, or where there 
is no such List, according to the last Poor 
Rate; 

4. The Number of Persons assessed in such 
Valuation List or Poor Rates, at the follow- 
ing Rateable Values (that is to say): at 
£.4 and under; above £.4 and not ex- 
ceeding £.6; above £.6 and under £. 10; 
at £. 10 and upwards. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


Mr. Bourke presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- 
mand,—Copy of Correspondence respecting the 
Attack on the Indian Expedition to Western 
China, and the Murder of Mr. Margary. 

. Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
able. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Returns of the several Annual Accounts of the 
Receipts and wv of the Jrish Society of 
London, presented to the Court of Common Coun- 
cil of the City of London in the month of February 
in each of the years 1871 to 1875, both inclusive : 
—Of the Amount of Deductions (if any) made 
from the item of Receipt “ for Fisheries on account 
of Rent,” included in such Returns, and of the 
Application of such Deductions : And, of the 
Amount of the Law and Parliamentary Expenses 
incurred by the Society, in reference to the Lon- 
donderry Port and Harbour Bill, introduced into 
Parliament in the year 1874, and of the Dates of 
any Payments made on account of such Expenses. 





Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
ive directions, that there be laid before this 


to 


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House, a Copy of the Correspondence between 
Sir Thomas Chambers and the Ransieis of State 
for the Colonies on the subject of the Laws passed 
in several of the Colonies, and allowed by the Im- 
perial Government, legalising Marriage with a 
Deceased Wife’s Sister. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Merchant _ 
into a Committee on the Merchant Shipping Bill. Shipping Bill. 


(In the Committee.) 


CxiausE, N° 3 (Sending unseaworthy ship to 
sea a misdemeanor, 34 &amp; 35 Vic. c. 110,s. 11, 
38 &amp; 39 Vic. c. 88, s. 4). 

An Amendment made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 1, 1. 13, 
after the word “sea,” to insert the words “ from 
“ any port in the United Kingdom contrary to the 
* following provisions of this section.” 

Question put, That those words be there in- 
serted ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for thes Mr. Plimsoll, 110 

Yeas, aed Francis Conyngham :} . 

Tellers for the ¢Sir William Dyke, 247 

Noes, Mr. Rowland Winn: } , 


To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 





And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Tuesday morning ; 


Tuesday, 28th March, 1876: 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr. Ruihes 
reported, That the Committee had made Progress 
in the Bill, and that he was directed to move, 
That the Committee may have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this Hoase will, upon Thursday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee of Supply. 
Supply, several Resolutions; which were read, as 
follow : 

1. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 61,586, be Queen’s Bench 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge sd other 
which will come in course of payment during the ase —. 
year ending on the 3lst day of March 1877, for Justice. 
such Salaries and Expenses of the Queen’s Bench, 

Common Pleas, and Exchequer Divisions of the 
High Court of Justice, as are not charged on the 
Consolidated Fund. 

2. That a Sum, not exceeding £.92,041, be Probate and 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge other Regis- 
which will come in course of payment during the ae 
year ending on the 3lst day of March 1877, for Justice. 
the Salaries and Expenses of the Registries of 
Probate and Divorce and Matrimonial Causes, &amp;c. 
in the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division 
of the High Court of Justice. 

3. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 12,284, be Admiralty 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge Registry, High 
which will come in course of payment during the 5°v7,° 
year ending on the 31st day of March 1877, for 
the Salaries and Expenses of the Offices of the 
Admiralty Registrar and Marshal of the Probate, 

Divorce, and Admiralty Divisions of the High 
Court of Justice. 

4. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 48,585, be Bankruptcy 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge Court, London. 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 31st day of March 1877, for 
such of the Salaries and Expenses of the London 
Bankruptcy Court as are not charged on the Con- 
solidated Fund. 

5. That a Sum, not exceeding £.414,426, be county Courts. 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 3lst day of March 1877, for 
the Salaries and Expenses connected with the 
County Courts. 





OL. 131. 


R 6. That 





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6. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 5,414, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 3lst day of March 1877, for 
the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of Land 
Registry. 

7. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 14,240, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 31st day of March 1877, for 
the Salaries and Expenses of the Police Courts 
of London and Sheerness. 

8. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 433,374, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 3lst day of March 1877, for 
the Salaries and Expenses of the Metropolitan 
Police, including the Salaries of the Commissioner, 
Assistant Commissioners and Receiver, the 
Mounted Police, River Police, and Police Van 
Service. 

9. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 808,098, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 31st day of March 1877, for 
certain Expenses connected with the Police in 
Counties and Boroughs in England and Wales, and 
with the Police in Scotland. 

10. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 440,745, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 31st day of March 1877, for 
the Superintendence of Convict Establishments, 
and for the Maintenance of Convicts in Convict 
Establishments in England and the Colonies. 

11. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 101,187, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 3lst day of March 1877, for 
the Maintenance of Prisoners in County and 
Borough Prisons, and of Criminal Lunatics in 
Private Asylums in Great Britain. 

12. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 230,547, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge 


Land Registry 
Office. 


Police Courts, 
London and 
Sheerness. 


Metropolitan 
Police. 


County and 
Borough 
Police, Great 
Britain. 


Convict Esta- 
blishments, 

England and 
the Colonies. 


County and 
Borough 
Prisons, &amp;c., 
Great, Britain. 


Reformatory 
and Industrial 
Schools, Great 
Britain, 


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1876. 


18. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 24,189, be Prisons anj 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge Judicial 
which will come in course of payment during the — 
year ending on the 31st day of March 1877, for — 
the Joint Departments of Prisons and Judicial 
Statistics in Scotland, and for the Maintenance of 
Prisoners in the Prisons at Perth (including 
Establishment for Criminal Lunatics), Ayr, and 
Paisley. | 

19. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 80,453, be Criminal ppp. 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray. the Charge secutions ang 
which will come in course of payment during the Ta chants 
year ending on the 3lst day of March 1877, of ‘ 
Criminal Prosecutions and other Law Charges in 
Ireland. 

20. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 42,196, be Court of 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge wr 
which will come in course of payment during the “ - 
year ending on the 31st day of March 1877, for 
such of the Salaries and Expenses of the Court of 
Chancery in Jreland as are not charged on the 
Consolidated Fund. 

21. Thata Sum, not exceeding £. 28,901, be Common Law 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge CU lela 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 3lst day of March 1877, for 
such of the Salaries and Expenses of the Superior 
Courts of Common Law in Ireland as are not 
charged on the Consolidated Fund. 

22. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 9,619, be Court of 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge ee 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 3lst day of March 1877, for 
the Salaries and the Incidental Expenses of the 
Court of Bankruptcy in Jreland. 

23. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 12,283, be Landed Estates 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge ort Ireland. 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 3lst day of March 1877, for 
the Salaries and Expenses of the Landed Estates 
Court, Zreland. 

24. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 11,530, be Probate Court, 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge *™ 
which will come in course of payment during the 


which will come in course of payment during the | year ending on the 31st day of March 1877, for 


year ending on the 31st day of March 1877, for | the Salaries and Expenses of the Court of Probate 


the Expense of the Maintenance of Juvenile 
Offenders in Reformatory and Industrial Schools 
in Great Britain, and of the Inspectors of Re- 
formatories. 

13. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 29,484, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 31st day of March 1877, for the 
Maintenance of Criminal Lunatics in the Broad- 
moor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, England. 

14, That a Sum, not exceeding £. 18,690, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 3lst day of March 1877, of 
Miscellaneous Legal Charges in England. 

15. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 69,389, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 3lst day of March 1877, for 
Salaries and Expenses of the Lord Advocate’s 
Department and others connected with Cri- 
minal Proceedings in Scotland. 

16. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 59,527, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 3lst day of March 1877, for 
the Salaries and Expenses of the Courts of Law 
and Justice in Scot/and, and other Legal Charges. 

17. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 32,389, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 3lst day of March 1877, for 
the Salaries and Expenses of the Offices in Her 
Majesty’s General Register House, Edinburgh. 


Broadmoor 
Criminal 
Lunatic 
Asylum. 


Miscellaneous 
Legal Charges, 
England. 


Criminal 
Proceedings, 
Scotland. 


Courts of Law 
and Justice, 
Scotland. 


Register House 
Departments, 
Edinburgh, 





in Ireland, and of the District Registries thereof. 

25. That a Sum, not exceeding £.1,700, be Admiralty 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge Court Registry, 
which will come in course of payment during the "a4 
year ending on the 31st day of March 1877, for 
the Salaries and Expenses of the Admiralty Court 
Registry, /reland. 

26. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 18,460, be Registry of 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge Pe! 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 3lst day of March 1877, for 
the Salaries and Expenses of the Office for the 
Registration of Deeds in Ireland. 

27. That a Sum, not exceeding £.3,060, be Registry of 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge Judgments 
which will come in course of payment during the * 
year ending on the 31st day of March 1877, for 
the Salaries and Expenses in the Office for the 
Registration of Judgments in Jreland. 

28. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 136,975, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 31st day of March 1877, for 
the Salaries and Expenses of the Commissioners 
of Police, of the Police Courts, and of the Metro- 
politan Police Establishment of Dublin. 

29. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 1,086,168, be Constabulary 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge Force, I 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 31st day of March 1877, for 
the Constabulary Force in Jreland. 

30. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 40,540, be Government 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge ee dasa 
which will come in course of payment during the 

year 


Dublin | 
Metropolitan 
Police. 








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eland. 


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38 Victoria. 


year ending on the 3lst day of March 1877, for 
the Superintendence and Inspection of Govern- 
ment Prisons, and the Office of Registrar of 
Habitual Criminals and for the Maintenance of 
Convicts in Government Prisons, in Jreland. 


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Whereupon Motion made, and Question pro- 
posed, That the Chairman do report Progress, and 
ask leave to sit again :—Motion, by leave, with- 
drawn. 

Preamble postponed. 

Criavusss, N° 1 to N* 65, with Amendments to 
five of them, agreed to. 

Cause, N° 66 (Allowance to Innkeepers). 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Chairman do report Progress, and ask leave to sit 
again :— Motion, by leave, withdrawn. 

Clause agreed to. 

Causes, N° 67 to N° 89, agreed to. 

CiauseE, N° 90 (Recovery of Penalties). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 54, 1. 43, to leave 
out from the word “ forfeiture” to the end of the 
Clause. 

Question proposed, That the words proposed to 
be left out stand part of the Clause: 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question put, 
That the Chairman do report Progress, and ask 
leave to sit again ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the { Mr. Parnell, \ 38 

Yeas, (Mr. Goldsmid: os 

Tellers for the; Sir William Dyke, } 154 

Noes, Mr. Rowland Winn: ° 

Question again proposed, That the words pro- 
posed to be left out stand part of the Clause : 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question pro- 
posed, That the Chairman do now leave the Chair: 
—Motion, by leave, withdrawn. 

Question, That the words proposed to be left 
out stand part of the Clause—— put, and nega- 
tived. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr Razkes 
reported, That the Committee had made Progress 
in the Bill, and that he was directed to move, 
that the Committee may have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, again 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Marine Mutiny 
mittee on the Marine Mutiny Bill ; Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 
The Order of the day being read, for the Com- ways and 
mittee of Ways and Means; Means. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednes- 
day next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 





County and 31. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 90,768, be 
Borough, granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge 
emeeriet, which will come in course of payment during the 
Ireland, year ending on the 3lst day of March 1877, for 
the Maintenance of Prisoners in County and 
Borough Prisons, and for the Expenses of Re- 
formatories and Industrial Schools in Jreland. 
Dundrum 32. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 6,165, be 
Criminal granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge 
—_ which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 31st day of March 1877, for 
the Maintenance of Criminal Lunatics in the Dun- 
drum Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Ireland. 
Misellaneous 33. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 69,666, be 
Ex. granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge 
pases Ireland. hich will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 3lst day of March 1877, for 
certain Miscellaneous Legal Expenses in Jreland. 
The first Thirty-two Resolutions, being read a 
second time, were agreed to. 
The last Resolution being read a second time ; 
And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That this House doth agree with the 
Committee in the said Resolution ; 
The House divided. 
‘The Yeas to the Right; 
The Noes to the Left. 
Tellers for the fSir William Dyhe, 1 192 
Yeas, Mr. Rowland Winn: ' Tapgeics 
Tellers for the.{ Mr. Fay, } 18 
Noes, UMr. Parnell: , 
So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 
Calile Disease +. /e Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
(Ireland) Bill, mittee on the Cattle Disease (/reland) Bill; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 
Valuation Bill. The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Valuation Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday the 6th day of April next. 
Appellate The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Bil [Love Reading of the Appellate Jurisdiction Bill; 
: Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday the 24th day of April next. 
mel The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
\lords.) Reading of the Crossed Cheques Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read:a second time 
upon Monday next. 
ena Pahery The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Onder) Bill. ——e of the Salmon Fishery (Provisional Order) 
ill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 
Supply. The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednes- 
day next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 
Poor Law The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Bil, mittee on the Poor Law Amendment Bill ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 
Mutiny Bi, 


_ The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Mutiny Bill. 


(In the Committee. ) 


Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Preamble be postponed : 
Vo.. 131. 


The Order of the day being 
mittee on the Poolbeg Lighthouse Bill; 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be committed to a Select 


Committee. 


read, for the Com- Poolbeg Light- 
house Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Supreme Court 
Reading of the Supreme Court of Judicature Act of Judicature 
(1875) Amendment Bill ; yt te 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time Bill. 


this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Union Rating 
Reading of the Union Rating (Jreland) Bill ; (Ireland) Bill. 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Burglary and 
Reading of the Burglary and Forgery Bill; Forgery Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday next. 


The Coroners (Dublin) Bill was, according to Coroners 
Order, read a second time; and committed to a (Dublin) Bill. 
Committee of the whole House, for Monday next. 

R2 The 








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The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Grand Jury Law Amendment 


(Ireland) Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 


this day. 


Grand Jury 
Law Amend- 
ment (Ireland) 
Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Newspaper Registration, &amp;c. 
Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


Newspaper 
Registration, 
&amp;c. Bill. 


Industrial and The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Provident mittee on the Industrial and Provident Societies 
Societies Bill. Bill: 
&gt; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Trade Union Act (1871) Amendment Bill 
was, according to Order, read a second time ; and 
committed to a Committee of the whole House, for 
Monday next. 


Trade Union 
Act (1871) 
Amendment 


House Occu- The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
piers Disquali- the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
an upon the 22nd day of this instant March, That the 
’ House Occupiers Disqualification Removal Bill be 
now read a second time; 
Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till this day. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Return showing the Profit and Loss of the 
Money Order Branch of the Post Office for the 
year 1875, distinguishing the Home, Foreign, and 
Colonial Branches, and showing the Amount paid 
for Commission, Salary, Printing, and other Ex- 
penses connected therewith. 


Post Office 
(Money 
Orders.) 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to assimilate the Law in Jreland to the Law in 
England as to Notices to Quit: And that Sir 
Colman O’ Loghlen, Mr. Downing, and Mr. Patrick 
Martin do prepare, and bring it in. 


Notices to Quit 
(Ireland.) 


The Select Committee on the Ecclesiastical 
Dilapidations Acts was nominated of Mr. Walter, 
Mr. Birley, Lord George Cavendish, Mr. Dodds, 
Mr. Forester, Mr. Freshfield, Mr. Gregory, Mr. 
Beresford Hope, Mr. Kunatchbull-Hugessen, Mr. 
Monk, Mr. Cowper-Temple, Mr. Wait, Mr. 
Frederick Walpole, Sir Sydney Waterlow, and 
Mr. Goldney; with Power to send for persons, 
papers, and records. 

Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 


Ecclesiastical 
Dilapidations 
Acts. 


Notices to Quit Sir Colman O’Loghlen presented a Bill to 
(Ireland) Bill. assimilate the Law in Jreland to the Law in Eng- 
Bill 114. land as to Notices to Quit: And the same was 
read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time upon Tuesday next; and to be 

printed. 


Poor Rates and ., 27red, That there be laid before this House, 
Pauperism, Returns of Comparative Statement of the Number 
No. 138, . of Paupers of all Classes (except Lunatic Paupers 
in Asylums, and Vagrants) in receipt of Relief 
on the last day of each week in the Months of 
January, February, March, April, May, June, 
July, August, September, October, November, 
and December 1875 and 1876, respectively : 
Of Statement of the Number of Paupers, dis- 
tinguishing the Number of Adult Able-bodied 
Paupers relieved on the lst day of January 1876: 
Of similar Statement for the Ist day of July 
1876: Of Statement of the Amount expended 
for In-maintenance and QOut-relief only for the 
Half-year ended at Lady Day 1876:——Of similar 
Statement for the Half-year ended at Michaelmas 
1876 :——And, of Statement of the Amount of 


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1876. 


Poor Rates levied and expended during the year 
ended at Lady Day 1876. 

Mr. Salt accordingly presented the said Re- 
turns. 

Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


The Order for resuming, this day, the adjourned Steamship 
Debate on the Question proposed upon the 21st “Talisman.” 
day of this instant March, That a Select Com- 
mittee be appointed to inquire into the circum- 
stances connected with the seizure of the British 
Steamship “ Talisman” by the Peruvian Govern- 
ment, her employment in the national service of 
Peru, the impressment of her Crew on board Peru- 
vian war ships, their prolonged imprisonment with- 
out trial, and the whole circumstances of the case 
was read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
tlll Tuesday the 2nd day of May next. 


Ordered, That the Amendment made by the Council of 
Lords to the Council of India ( Professional Ap- {ndia (Profes. 


pointments) Bill be taken into consideration upon o—_i” 
Thursday next. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till a quarter of an hour after Two of the 
clock on Tuesday morning, adjourned till 
this day. 





Tuesday, 28th March, 1876. 

PRAYERS. 

\ J R. Mowbray reported from the Select Com- standing 
1 mittee on Standing Orders, several Resolu- Orders. 
tions; which were read, as follow: 

That in the case of the Romford Canal Com- Romford Canal 
pany, Petition for leave to deposit a Petition Company. 
for Bill, the Standing Orders ought to be dis- 
pensed with; that the parties be permitted to 
deposit their Petition for Bill. 

hat in the case of the Chichester and Midhurst Chichester and 
Railway (N oO. 2) Bill, Standing Order, N 0. 74, Railway (No. 
ought to be dispensed with; that the parties be gin, 
permitted to proceed with their Bill. 

That in the case of the Humber Conservancy Humber 
Bill, Petition of Randolph Henry Crewe, for dis- Conservancy 
en with Standing Order 131 in the case of the ®! 

etition of “ Lord Carington” against the Bill, the 
said Standing Order ought to be dispensed with. 

The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 


Mr. Woodd reported from the Committee on Great Western 
Group 4 of Railway Bills ; That in the case of the and Bristol 
Great Western and Bristol and Exeter Railway a 
Companies Bill, they had examined the allegations Companies 
contained in the Preamble of the Bill, and verbally Bill. 
amended the same, and found the same, as amended, 
to be true; and had gone through the Bill, and 
made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 


Table; and be printed. 


Mr. Woodd reported the London and South 
Western Railway ( Lzeter and Crediton and North 
Devon Railways) Bill, with Amendments. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


London and 
South Westera 
Railway 
(Exeter and 
Crediten « a 
North 0 
Railways) Bill. 


The House being informed, That the Sheriffs Tol! Bride 
of the City of London attended at the door, they pyames) Bill 
were called in; and at the Bar presented,—A 
Petition of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Com- 
mons of the City of London, in Common Council 
assembled :—And then they withdrew. 

And the said Petition, praying that if the House 
should read the Toll Bridges (River Thames) Bill 

a second 








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a second time, it may be referred to a Select Com- | 


mittee, and that the Bill may not pass into a law 
as it now stands, and that they may be heard, by 
themselves, their counsel, agents, and witnesses, 
before the said Select Committee against the | 
Preamble of the Bill, and against such of the 
Clauses and Provisions of the Bill as affect their 
rights and interests, and the rights and interests 
of those whom they represent, and in support of 
such alterations therein and additions thereto, 
as they may consider necessary or proper for the 
protection of their rights and interests; and that 
the Petitioners, and those whom they represent, 
may receive such further and other relief in 





the premises as the nature of the case may re- | 
quire, and to the House may seem meet, was, 


read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Alexandra The Alexandra (Newport) Dock Bill was read 
(Newport) a second time; and committed. 

Dock Bill. 

Bromley Direct The Bromley Direct Railway Bill was read a 
Railway Bill. second time; and committed. 


Plymouth The Plymouth Dock (Devonport) Water Bill 
— — was read a second time ; and committed. 
7 


and Lhe House was moved, That the Report from 
Midhurst © the Select Committee on Standing Orders in 
a respect of the Chichester and Midhurst Railway 
_— (No. 2) Bill, might be read; and the same being 
read ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time. 


Walsall Gas Mr. Beach reported from the Committee on 
Purchase and ~(Group G. of Private Bills; That, in the case of 
Borough Ex- the Walsall Gas Purchase and Borough Exten- 
tension Bill. ‘ ‘ Fs oS. 
sion Bill, they had examined the allegations con- 
tained in the Preamble of the Bill, and amended 
the same by inserting recitals in reference to the 
extension of the School Board for the Borough, 
and otherwise, in order to make it consistent with 
the Provisions of the Bill as sanctioned by the 
Committee, and found the same, as amended, to be 
true; and had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Intoricating The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
~ eee Reading of the Intoxicating Liquors (Scotland) 


Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday the 2nd day of May next. 


Public Several Public Petitions were presented, and 
Petitions. read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Vide Votes, Several Public Petitions were also presented, 
eam and read; and referred to Select Committees. 


ana and =Ordered, That the Return relative to Lostwithiel 
No.1 “4 and New Romney, which was presented upon the 
sos’ 14th day of this instant March, be printed. 


ri (Majors, Ordered, That the Return relative to the Army 

Arillery) (Majors, Royal Artillery), which was presented 

No, 140, Upon the 24th day of this instant March, be 
printed. 


oe lalia Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
8s.) to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 

to give directions, that there be laid before this 

House, a Statement of Accounts of all Charges 

raised by the War Office against the Indian Go- 
vernment on account of Troops on the Indian 


vices performed for the Indian Government, and 
of Repayments made by the Indian Government 
to any Imperial Funds on account of the same, 
and of all outstanding Charges on Army Accounts 
due to Imperial Funds by the Government of India 


(the above being in continuation, and inclusive of 
Vor. 131, 


9th—229th March. 125 


Parliamentary Paper, No. 362, of Session 1860) : 
——And, similar Return, covering the Period in- 
cluded in the above Return, of all Charges for 
Services and Stores raised by the Jndian Govern- 
ment against the Imperial Government, and of 
Repayments made by the Imperial to the Indian 
Government on account of the same, and of Sums 
struck off by the Imperial Government from the 
Amounts claimed by Jndia.—The above Accounts 
being down to the latest year for which the Ac- 
counts have been adjusted. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Adulteration 
a Copy of Resolution passed by the Grand Jury Gaeta 
of the County Roscommon, at the Summer Assizes 
1875, relative to the employment of the Jrish 
Constabulary in carrying out the provisions of the 
Adulteration of Food and Drugs Act, and for- 
warded to the Chief Secretary for Ireland, together 


| with the Reply sent to that Communication. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Message from 
Message had been brought from the Lords by one the Lords. 
of their Clerks, as followeth: 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Sillar’s and 
for rendering valid certain Letters Patent granted patent Bill 
to William Cameron Sillar, Robert George Sillar, (Lords.) 
and George William Wigner, for Improvements in 
deodorizing and purifying Sewage and making 
Manure therefrom; to which the Lords desire the 
concurrence of this House. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being Borough 
put, That the restricted nature of the Borough (ireland) 
Franchise of Ireland as compared with that exist- 
ing in England and. Scotland is a subject deserving 
the best attention of Parliament, with a view of 
establishing a fair and just equality of the Fran- 
chise in the three Countries ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the; Mr. Meldon, 1 166 

Yeas, \ Lord Francis Conyngham:{ * 

Tellers for the {Sir William Dyke, } 

Noes, UMr. Rowland Winn: J 


So it passed in the Negative. 


179. 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Wednesday morning ; 


Wednesday, 29th March, 1876: 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- Irish Church 
posed, That there be laid before this House, Re- Temporalities. 
turns of the Names of the Valuators who have 
fixed the Amount of the Purchase-money payable 
to the Jrish Church Temporalities Commissioners 
on Sales by them of the Fee-simple to the Tenants 
holding under them, said Return to set forth the 
Qualifications required for the Office of such 
Valuators, and to give their Reports on the 
several Holdings valued by them on behalf of 
said Commissioners :—— Ard, of the Names of all 





| Tenants who have purchased the Fee-simple of 
| their Holdings from the said Commissioners, speci- 
fying the Denominations and Acreage of such 
' Holdings, the Amount paid by each Tenant, and 
| the Amount secured to the said Commissioners by 
' Mortgage; and also the Ordnance Valuation of 
'each Holding so purchased, and the Annual Rent 
lof same last theretofore paid by each Tenant to 
| the said Commissioners or those under whom they 


: | derive :—And the said Motion was, with leave of 
Establishment, and of Stores supplied to and Ser- 


the House, withdrawn. 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- Gibraltar 
ag That an humble Address be presented to A ong and 
er Majesty, praying Her Majesty to withhold Catholic 
Her Assent to the Draft Ordinances for creating Church 
Anglican and Roman Catholic Church Bodies at Bodies.) 
R3 Gibraltar, 








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126 


Gibraltar, which have been recently laid upon the 
Table of the House:—And the said Motion was, 
with leave of the House, withdrawn. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee on the 
Poolbeg Lighthouse Bill do consist of Five Mem- 
bers, Three to be nominated by the House, and 
Two to be nominated by the Committee of Selec- 
tion. 

Ordered, That all Petitions presented against the 
Bill be referred to the Select Committee on the 
Bill, provided such Petitions are presented Two 
clear days before the meeting of the Committee, 
and that such of the Petitioners as pray to be heard 
by themselves, their Counsel, or Agents, be heard 
upon their Petitions, if they think fit, and Counsel 
heard in favour of the Bill against the said Peti- 
tions. 

Ordered, That the Committee have Power to 
send for persons, papers, and records. 

Ordered, That Three be the Quorum. 


Poolbe 
house 


Light- 
ill. 


Publicans’ The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
Certificates into a Committee on the Publicans’ Certificates 
(Scotland) Bill. ( ¢-o¢/and) Bill ;’and, after some time spent therein, 
Bill 115. Mr, Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Rathes 
reported, That the Committee had gone through 

the Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill, as amended, be printed. 
Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed toa 
Committee of the whole House, for Tuesday next. 


Small Testate The Small Testate Estates (Scotland) Bill was, 

Estates (Scot- according to Order, read a second time ; and com- 

land) Bill. = mitted to a Committee of the whele House, for 
Tuesday the 2nd day of May next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Criminal Law Evidence Amend- 
ment Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday the 25th day of April next. 


Criminal Law 
Evidence 
Amendment 
Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Crab and Lobster Fisheries (Norfolk) 
Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Crab and 
Lobster 
Fisheries 
(Norfolk) Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Mutiny Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Mutiny Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Marine Mutiny Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Marine Mutiny 
Bill. 


Supreme Court 
of Judicature 
Act (1875) 
Amendment 
Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Supreme Court of Judicature Act 
(1875) Amendment Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday the Ist day of May next. 


Grand Jury ° The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Law Amend- Reading of the Grand Jury Law Amendment 
—y (Ireland) ( Freland) Bill; 
; Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday next. 


House 
Occupiers 
Disqualification 
Removal Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
— the 22nd day of this instant March, That the 

ouse Occupiers Disqualification Removal Bill be 
now read a second time; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Thursday next. 


28th—-29th March. 


1876. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, “ Alberta” 
Papers relating to the Collision between H.M.S. [= ; 
“ Alberta” and the Yacht “ Mistletoe.” — 

Mr. Algernon Egerton accordingly presented the No. 141, 
said Papers. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till half an hour after One of the clock 
on Wednesday morning, adjourned till this 








Wednesday, 29th March, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 
T HE House proceeded to take into considera- Cleator and 
tion the Cleator and Workington Junction joni. 
Rail way Bill, as amended in the Committee. way Bill. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Leicester Im. 
the Leicester Improvement Bill, as amended in Provement Bill. 


the Committee ; and Amendments were made to 
the Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Fynn and 
the Lynn and Fakenham Railway Bill, as amended Fakenham 
in the Committee ; and Amendments were made eine OE. 
to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Sillar’s and Wigner’s Patent Bill was read the Sillar’s and 
first time. —. 
Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- [Zords.) 


miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and Public 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. a 
Vide Twelfth 
Report. 
The following Paper was laid upon the Table Bridges (River 
by the Clerk of the House,—Return to an Order, T™™**) 
dated the 24th day of this instant March, for a 
Return relative to Bridges (River Thames). 


Ordered, That Mr. Synan have leave of absence Leave of 
till Easter, on account of ill health. Absence, 


Land Tenure 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Geisnd) Bi 


Reading of the Land Tenure (Jre/and) Bill ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a second 
time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the word “ now,” and, at 
the end of the Question, adding the words, “upon 
“this day six months.” 

And the Question being proposed, That the 
word “now” stand part of the Question :—And 
a Debate arising thereupon ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be adjourned till 
Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Training 
Reading of the Training Schools and Ships Bill ; ary hy 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time —e 

upon Wednesday the 26th day of April next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Mercantile 


Marine Hos- 
pital Service 
Bill. 


Reading of the Mercantile Marine Hospital Ser- 
vice Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday the 26th day of April next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second tou Bridges 
Reading of the Toll Bridges (River Thames) Bill ; (River | 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time Thames) 


upon Wednesday the 26th day of April next. 





The 











. pov Reading of the Poor Law Suardians Elections 
Blections _  (Jreland) Bill; 
(inland) Bill. "Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 
Intoxicating The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Liquors Reading of the Intoxicating Liquors (Licensing 
on Law Amendment) Bill; 
mot Bill. Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next. 
supply. ‘The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply ; 
Resvlved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 
Ways and The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Means. mittee of Ways and Means ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 
Railway Ordered, That the Select Committee on the 
passenger Railway Passenger Duty do consist of Seventeen 
Duty. Members. 
Ordered, That Sir John Kennaway be discharged 
from further attendance on the Committee. 
Ordered, That Mr. Macdonald, Viscount Crich- 
ton, and Mr. Leighton be added to the Com- 
mittee. 
Nery Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
(Vietualling Statements showing the Number of Gallons of 
Savings.) Rum and Pounds of Meat (distinguishing between 
fresh Meat and salt Meat) paid for as Savings to 
Persons victualled in the Fleet from the Ist day 
of April 1874 to the 3lst day of March 1875: 
-—— Showing the difference between the Average 
Cost and the “ Savings’ Price” paid per Gallon 
and per Pound respectively for the above Provi- 
sions between the same Dates :—— And, showing 
the Dates at which the above Savings’ Prices were 
fixed. 
Civil Services Mr. William Henry Smith presented, by Her 
Estimates § Majesty’s Command,—Estimate of the Amount 
Ee required in the Year ending 31st March 1877, to 
Mission to | repay Advances made from the Civil Contingencies 
Beypt.) Fund to defray the Expenses of the Mission of the 
No. 142, Right Honourable Stephen Cave, M.P., to confer 
with the Khedive and his Government as to Fi- 
nancial Position and Administration of Egypt. 
Ordered, That the said Estimate be referred to 
the Committee of Supply; and be printed. 
Pier = Sir John St. Aubyn reported from the Committee 
on Group H. of Private Bills; That in the case 
of the Hornsea Pier Bill, they had examined the 
allegations contained in the Preamble of the Bill, 
but the same had not been proved to their satisfac- 
tion. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 
Brighton Mr. Backhouse reported from the Committee on 
rin of Group B. of Private Bills; That in the case of the 
Municipal to Brighton Borough Extension of Municipal to Par- 
tae ay liamentary Limits Bill, oy, | had examined the 
allegations contained in the Preamble of the Bill, 
but the same had not been proved to their satisfac- 
tion. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 
a Mr. Beach reported from the Committee on 


Railway Bi 
(Group 4.) 





$9 VicToRIA. 
The Order of the day being read, for the Second 


Group G. of Private Bills; That, for the con- 

venience of Parties, the Committee had ad- 

Journed till Friday next, at One of the clock. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Basil Woodd reported from the Committee 


9th—30th March. 





127 


venience of Parties, the Committee had adjourned 
till Friday next, at half-past Three of the clock. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


The Order for reading a second time, upon ae 
Friday next, the Monastic and Conventual Insti- ;Yijtutions 
tutions Bill, was read, and discharged. Bill. 


Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


The Order for reading a second time, upon Sale of Intoxi- 


Wednesday the 3rd day of May next, the Sale of — 


Intoxicating Liquors on Sunday (Jreland) Bill, (ireland) Bill. 
was read, and discharged. . 


Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 
And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 








Thursday, 30th March, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 


O RDERED, That the Committee on Group 6 Railway Bills 
of Railway Bills have leave to sit this day till (Gtr ©) 
Five of the clock, during the sitting of the House. 


Mr. John Talbot reported from the Committee Metropolitan 
on Group | of Railway Bills; That in the case of Inner Circle 
the Metropolitan Inner Circle Completion Rail- sg 
‘ ‘ - ailway Bill. 

way Bill they had examined the allegations con- 
tained in the Preamble of the Bill, and amended 
the same by striking out certain paragraphs relating 
to contributions by certain public bodies towards 
the Undertaking of the Company, and to the si- 
multaneous commencement of the Company’s 
works at either end of their authorised Line, the 
the Clauses relating to which matters were omitted 
from the Bill as laid before the Committee, and 
found the same, as amended, to he true; and had 
gone through the Bill, and made Amendments 
thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


The Glasgow (City) Union Railway Bill was Glasgow (City) 

read the third time. Union Railway 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. _ 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 

Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Royal Albert Hall Bill was read the third Royal Albert 
time. Hall Bill. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration preston Tram- 
the Preston Tramways Bill, as amended in the ways Bill. 
Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The Order for reading a second time, upon Criminal Law 
Tuesday the 25th day of April next, the Criminal Evidence 
Law Evidence Amendment Bill, was read, and — 
discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday the 3rd day of May next. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Private Bills 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private (Standing 
Bills, That Standing Order, No. 74, has been com- plied with) 
plied with in the case of the following Bill, re- 
ferred on the First Reading thereof, viz. : 

Mid-Hants Railway Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Elementary 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased a = 
to give directions, that there be laid before this jane} ‘4 


House, a Return of the Amount contributed since 





on Group 4 of Railway Bills) That, for the con- 
VoL. 131. 


the year 1839, when the Education Department 
rR4 was 











Army 
(Furlough and 
tiring 


Regulations.) 


Public 
Petitions. 


Vide Votes, 
and Twelfth 
Report. 


Navy (Screw- 
Casing.) 


Navy 
(Victualling 
Savings.) 


Superannua- 
tions. 


County Courts 
(Table of 
Fees.) 


Railway Bills 
(Group 2.) 


Private Bills 
(Group H.) 


Intoxicating 
Liquors 
(Licensing 
Law Amend- 
ment) Bill. 


128 


was formed, (A) towards the Building ; and (B) 
towards the Maintenance of Elementary Schools, 
exclusive of such as have been built and main- 
tained solely by the Church of England or by 
other Religious Bodies :— 

1. By the Church of England: 

2. By the British, Wesleyan, and other Non- 

conformist Bodies ; 
3. By Roman Catholics ; 
4, By the Government. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Returns of the Furlough and Retiring 
Regulations of 1796: Of the Furlough Regu- 
lations published in General Order by the Govern- 
ment of /ndia, 19th November 1868, No. 1064: 

Of the same Furlough Regulations as re- 
published by the Government of Jndia, 25th Fe- 
bruary 1874, No. 171: And, of the Corre- 
spondence between the India Office and the Go- 
vernment of Jndia as regards the alterations in 
Rules XXIII. and XXXIV. inthe latter General 
Order. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Several Public Petitions were also presented, 
and read; and referred to Select Committees. 


Mr. Algernon Egerton presented,—Return to 
an Order, dated the 17th day of this instant March, 
for a Return relative to the Navy (Screw-Casing). 

Return to an Order, dated the 29th day of this 
instant March, for Returns relative to the Navy 
( Victualling Savings). 

Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented, pursuant 
to the directions of several Acts of Parliament,— 
Copy of Treasury Minute, dated 24th March 
1876, awarding a Special Retired Allowance to 
Benjamin Griffiths, Established Shipwright, Sheer- 
ness Dockyard. 

Copy of Treasury Minute, dated 17th March 
1876, awarding a Special Retired Allowance to 
William Brewer, Established Caulker, Portsmouth 
Dockyard. 

Copy of Treasury Order approved by the Lord 
Chancellor, 26th October 1875, regulating Court 
Fees on certain Proceedings in County Courts. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Ordered, That the Committee on Group 2 of 
Railway Bills have leave to sit this day till Five 
of the clock, during the sitting of the House. 


Sir John St. Aubyn reported from the Com- 
mittee on Group H of Private Bills; That the 
Parties opposing the Humber Conservancy Bill 
had stated that the evidence of Dr. Thorne Thorne 
was essential to enable them to establish their case, 
and it having been proved that his attendance 
could not be procured without the intervention of 
the House, he had been instructed to move that 
the said Dr. Thorne Thorne do attend the said 
Committee on Monday next, at Twelve of the 
clock. 

Ordered, That Dr. Thorne Thorne do attend 
the Committee on Group H. of Private Bills upon 
Monday next, at Twelve of the clock. 


The Order for reading a second time, upon 
Wednesday next, the Intoxicating Liquors (Li- 
censing Law Amendment) Bill was read, and 
discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


30th March. 








1876. 


The House was moved, That the Resolution Intoxicat; 
which, upon the 10th day of February last, was Liquors 
reported from the Committee on Intoxicating egy 
Liquors (Licensing Law Amendment), might be — 
read, and the same was read, as followeth: 

That the Chairman be directed to move the 
House, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
amend the Licensing Laws. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Intoxicating 
to amend the Licensing Laws: And that Sir — 
Harcourt Johnstone, Mr. Birley, Sir John Kenna- jaw pee A 
way, and Mr. Pease do prepare, and bring it in. __ ment (No, 2) 

Sir Harcourt Johnstone accordingly presented Bil. 

a Bill to amend the Licensing Laws: And the Bill 116. 
same was read the first time; and ordered to be 

read a second time upon Thursday next; and to 

be printed. 


Mr. Leveson Gower reported from the Committee Whitehaven 
on Group 6 of Railway and Canal Bills; That in Harbour and 
the case of the Whitehaven Harbour and Town 
Improvement Bill, they had examined the allega- 
tions contained in the Preamble of the Bill, and 
amended the same, by striking out the recital as to 
enabling the Trustees to take a further supply of 
Water from Ennerdale Lake, and to supply Water 
by agreement within certain places mentioned in 
the Bill, in order to make it consistent with the 
provisions of the Bill as passed by the Committee, 
and found the same, as amended, to be true; and 
had gone through the Bill, and made Amendments 
thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


own Improve. 
ment Bill, 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Navy (Distri- 
Returns showing the Number of Her Majesty’s bution of 
Ships and Vessels on the different Stations on the f° 
Ist day of April and the lst day of October 1874 
and 1875 respectively, and their Total Complements 
of Seamen, Boys, and Marines: Of the Number 
of Coastzuard Men ashore, and Marines ashore, 
and Steam Reserve and Supernumeraries, and 
Boys in training at the same Dates: And, of 
the Number of Her Majesty’s Ships and Vessels 
at the same Dates in Commission or Reserve not 
included in the List first given; distinguishing 
the Ports and Places at which they were stationed 
(in continuation of Parliamentary Papers, No. 125, 
of Session 1872, and No. 193, of Session 1873). 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented School Boards 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased (Savings 
to give directions, that there be laid before this °*"*? 
House, Returns of the Number of Scholars who, 
in the year ending on the 31st day of March 1876, 
deposited Money in Savings Banks connected 
with School Boards :—--Of the Amount of their 
Deposits : And, of the Amount of School Fees 
paid for the same Scholars from the Date at which 
they respectively became Depositors in those 
Banks. 


That a Mes- Message from 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, omg 
e 


sage had been brought from the Lords, by one of 
their Clerks, as followeth : 

The Lords have agreed to the County Palatine County 
of Loncaster (Clerk of the Peace) Bill, without er 
any Amendment. (Clerk of th 

Peace) Bi 

The Lords have agreed to the Manchester Post wry 
Office Bill, without any Amendment. on sae: 

The Lords have agreed to the Dublin (City) Dublio (City) 
Steam Packet Company Bill, with Amendments ; ae 
to which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act er 
for consolidating, with Amendments, the Acts pin [iords] 
relating to Letters Patent for Inventions ” “4 

whic 








ting 


ng 
end. 


1d’s 
t Bill 


La 


Hall’s Patent 
ng Bill {Lords.] 
rend. 
Yo. 2) 


116, 


Milner’s 
Patent Bill 
(Lords. ] 


aven 

r and 
mprove. 
ill. 


Merchant 
Shipping Bill. 


Distri- 
of 


ge from 
yrds. 


ne of 
ster 

- of the 
) Bill. 
nester 
)ffice 


np (City) 
“Packet 
any Bill. 


ts for 
tions 


Lords.] 





39 Victoria. 


which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
for rendering valid certain Letters Patent granted 
to George Tomlinson Bousfield for Improvements | 
in Lacing Devices and in the mode of Lacing and 
Fastening Wearing Apparel and other Articles 
with the same; to which the Lords desire the 
concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act | 
for rendering valid certain Letters Patent granted | 
to Charles Henry Hall for Improvements in Steam | 
Pumps or Apparatus for elevating Fluids by Steam; | 
to which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act | 
for rendering valid certain Letters Patent granted 
to Edwurd Milner for Improvements in the method 
of producing White Pigments from Lead; to 
which the Lords desire the concurrence of this | 


House. | 
| 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself | 
into a Committee on the Merchant Shipping Bill. | 








(In the Committee.) 


CriauseE, N° 3 (Sending unseaworthy ship to sea 
a misdemeanor. 34 &amp; 35 Vic. c. 110, s. 11, 38 &amp;} 
39 Vic. c. 88, s. 4), 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 1, 1. 17, to 
leave out the words “ unless he proves,” in order 
to insert the words “ if it be proved.” 

Question put, That the words “ unless he} 
proves” stand part of the Clause ; 

The Committee divided. 


Tellers for the; Sir William Dyke, 1 o59 
Yeas, \Mr. Rowland Winn: J ; 
Tellers for the; Lord Eslington, 35 
Noes, \Mr. Mlver: t o 
Another Amendment proposed, in p. 1, 1. 18, 


” 





to leave out from the word “ state ” to the word 
“ justifiable,” in 1. 20. 

Question, That the word “ or” stand part of the | 
Clause-—-— put, and agreed to. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 1, 1. 20, to 
leave out from the word “ justifiable” to the word 
“ witness,” in 1. 22, inclusive. 

Question put, That the words proposed to be | 
left out stand part of the Clause ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the {Sir William Dyke, \ 177 
UMr. Rowland Winn: | lea 





Yeas, 
Tellers for the; Mr. Butt, 40 | 
Noes, {Sir Eardley Wilmot : "| 


Another Amendment proposed, in p. 1, 1. 22,| 
after the word “ witness,” to insert the words' 
“ from and after the first day of January.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there. 
inserted : 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question pro-| 


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129 


after the word “agent,” to insert the words “in 
** the United Kingdom.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted :—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That 
the Chairman do report Progress, and ask leave 
to sit again :—Motion, by leave, withdrawn. 

An Amendment made. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

Criause, N° 5 (Power to detain unsafe ships 
and procedure for such detention. See 36 &amp; 37 
Vie. c. 85, 8. 12). 

To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again, 





And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Friday morning ; 


Friday, 31st March, 1876: 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. 
Raikes reported, That the Committee had made 
Progress in the Bill; and that he was directed to 
move, That the Committee may have leave to sit 
again. 

Resulved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Mutiny Bill. 


into a Committee on the Mutiny Bill. 
(In the Committee.) 


Causes, N° 91 to N° 105, agreed to. 

Cause, N° 106 (Liability of soldier to main- 
tain wife and children). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 63, 1. 30, to leave 
out the word “may,” in order to insert the word 
‘© shall.” 

Question put, That the word “ may ” stand part 
of the Clause; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the; Sir William Dyke, 199 

Yeas, Mr. Rowland Winn: } . 

Tellers for the; Mr. P. A. Taylor, L ge 

Noes, (Mr. Dodds: 

Another Amendment propused, in p. 63, 1. 35, 

to leave out from the word “ decree,” to the end 


of the Clause. 
Question put, That the words proposed to be 
left out stand part of the Clause ; 
The Committee divided. 
Tellers for the; Sir William Dyke, i 195 
Yeas, 1 Mr. Rowland Winn: ‘iif 
Tellers for they Mr. P. A. Taylor, } 80 
Noes, { Mr. Wykeham Martin: : 
Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Chairman do report Progress, and ask leave to sit 
xgain:—-Motion, by leave, withdrawn. 
Clause agreed to. 
Cause, N° 107 (Trial of men in Army Reserve 
for breach of regulation). 
Amendment proposed, in p. 64, 1. 26, to leave 


posed, That the Chairman do report Progress, and | out the words “or of the posting of a letter ad- 


ask leave to sit again:—Motion, by leave, with-| 


drawn. 

Question again proposed, That those words be 
there inserted: — Amendment, by leave, with- 
drawn. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

Cuause, N° 4 (Obligation of shipowner to crew 
with respect to use of reasonable efforts to secure 
seaworthiness. See 38 &amp; 39 Vic. c. 88, s. 9). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 2, 1. 9, to leave out 
the words “ the master or.” 

Question put, That the words proposed to be 
left out stand part of the Clause ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the { Sir William Dyke, } 198 

Yeas, Mr. Rowland Winn: : 

Tellers for the f Mr. Norwood, 134 

Noes, (Mr. Rathbone : ? 


Another Amendment proposed, in p. 2, 1. 14, 
VoL. 131. 


** dressed to him at such place.” 

Question proposed, That the words proposed to 
be left out stand part of the Clause :---Amendment, 
by leave, withdrawn. 

An Amendment made. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

CLAUSE, N° 108, agreed to. 

Schedule agreed to. 

Preamble amended, and agreed to. 

Bill, as amended, to be reported. 








Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. 
Rakes reported, That the Committee had gone 
through the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration this day. 





8 after 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Marine Mutiny 
into a Committe on the Marine Mutiny Bill; and, Bil- 





130 


after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed 
the Chair; and Mr. Raikes reported, That the 
Committee had gone through the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration this day. 


Tle Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day. 


Sheriff Courts 
(Scotland) 
Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Commons Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
the 10th day of April next, resolve itself into the 
said Committee. 


Commons Bill. 


Cattle Disease The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
(Ireland) Bill. mittee on the Cattle Disease (Jreland) Bill; 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Salmon Fishery ( Provisional Order) 
Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday the 27th day of April next. 


Salmon Fishery 
(Pévisional 
Order) Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Poor Law Amendment Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


Poor Law 
Amendment 


Bill. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
take into consideration the Amendment made by 
the Lords to the Council of Jndia (Professional 
cree Appointments) Bill; and the same was twice read, 
and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendment made by their 
Lordships. 


Council of 
India (Pro- 
fessional 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Medical Practitioners Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


Medical 
Practitioners 
Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Municipal Privileges (Jreland) Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Municipal 
Privileges 
(Ireland) Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
upon the 22nd day of this instant March, That the 
House Qccupiers Disqualification Removal Bill 
be now read a second time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till this day. 


House 
Occupiers 
Disqualifica- 
tion Removal 
Bill. 


Market Juries 
(Ireland.) 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to abolish Market Juries in /reland: And that 
Sir Colman O’Loghlen, Mr. Maurice Brooks, and 
Mr. Patrick Martin do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to alter and amend the Law in regard to the 
Management and Maintenance of Roads and 
Bridges in Scotland: And that the Lord Advocate 
and Mr. Secretary Cross do prepare, and bring 
it in. 


Roads and 
Bridges 
(Scotland.) 


Clerk of the Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 

Peace and of to provide for the Union of the Offices of Clerk of 

the — the Peace and Clerk of the Crown in Ireland, 

Gate) and for other rene relating thereto: And that 
Mr. Solicitor General for Jreland and Sir Michael 
Hicks Beach do prepare, and bring it in. 


30th—3 ist March. 





1876. 


Sir Colman O’Loghlen presented a Bill to Markets 
abolish Market Juries in Jreland: And the same (Ireland) By 
was read the first time ; and ordered to be reada_ Bill yy, 
second time upon Tuesday the 9th day of May 
next; and to be printed. 


The Lord Advocate presented a Bill to alter p,,,, 
and amend the Law in regard to the Management Bridges 
and Maintenance of Roads and Bridges in Scot- (Scotland) 
land: And the same was read the first time; “. 
and ordered to be read a second time upon Thurs- Bill ia, 
day the 4th day of May next; and to be printed. 


Mr. Solicitor General for Ireland presented a Clerk ofp 
Bill to provide for the Union of the Offices of Peace and of 
Clerk of the Peace and Clerk of the Crown in = Bee 
Ireland, and for other purposes relating thereto: — 
And the same was read the first time; and or- Bill 11s, 
dered to be read a second time upon Monday 
the 10th day of April next; and to be printed. 


Ordered, That Sir Walter Barttelot have leave Leave of 
of absence till Easter, on account of domestic Absence. 
affliction. 


The Order for the House to resolve itself into Crab and 
a Committee, this day, on the Crab and Lobster Lobster 
Fisheries (Norfolk) Bill, was read, and discharged. (ett) pa 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
the 25th day of April next, resolve itself into the 
said Committee. 


The Order for reading a second time, upon Grand Jury 
Tuesday next, the Grand Jury Law Amendment Law Amend. 
(Ireland) Bill, was read, and discharged. — (aha 

Ordered, That the Bill be reada second time — 
upon Wednesday the 3rd day of May next. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till Two of the clock on Friday morning, 
adjourned till this day. 








Friday, 31st March, 1876. 
PRAYERS. 
y 2 OU SFI ELD’S Patent Bill was read the Bousfielt’s 
first time. Patent Bill 
Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- 4"! 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


Halls Patent Bill was read the first time. Hall’s Patent 
Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- Bil! [Zoré] 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


Milner’s Patent Bill was read the first time. Milner’s Patent 
Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- Bill [Lord] 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence Cheshire Lines 
taken before the Committee on the Cheshire Lines Bill (1875) 
Committee Bill, in Session 1875, be referred to 
the Committee on the Manchester, Sheffield, and 


Lincolnshire Railway Bill. 


Ordered, That the Committee on Group 2 of Railway Bils 


Railway Bills have leave to sit this day till Six of o"™"” 


the clock, during the sitting of the House. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Private Bills 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, aT a. 
That Standing Order, No. 74, has been complied plied with.) 
with in the case of the following Bills, referre 
on the First Reading thereof, viz. : 

Dudley and Oldbury Junction Railway Bill. 
Vale of Clyde Tramways Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bills be read a second time. 


Ordered, That the Committee on Group H. of Private Bills 
Private Bills have leave to sit this day till Five (Group 4.) 
of the clock, during the sitting of the House. - 

r. 








et Jurig 


ind) Bil, 


ll 107, 


) and 


l 148, 


of the 
and of 
Own 


nd) Bill 
| 119, 


ld’s 
Bill 


Patent 
ords.] 


3 Patent 
rds.) 


e Lines 


75.) 


2.) 


Bills 


h.) 





39 Vicroria. 


Mr. Mowbray reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Standing Orders, a Resolution; which 
was read, as followeth : 

That, in the case of the Metropolitan Railway 
(No. 2), Petition for leave to deposit Petition for 
Bill, the Standing Orders ought not to be dispensed 
with, 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Railway 
(No. 2.) 


Mr. Mills reported from the Committee on 
Group 11 of Railway Bills; That in the case of 
the Caledonian Railway (Additional Powers) Bill, 
they had examined the allegations contained in 
the Preamble of the Bill, and amended the same 
by striking out so much thereof as related to the 
construction of certain Railways or sidings at 
Partick, and at Stirling, and to the diversion of 
a stream called South Calder Water, and the sub- 
stitution of an embankment for an authorised 
viaduct there, and to the acquisition of certain 
land at Leith, the construction of a reclamation 
embankment road and pipes there, and the aban- 
donment of a portion of the reclamation embank- 
ment and road authorised by “ The Leith Harbour 
and Docks Act, 1875,” and to the power to the 
Company, the Commissioners for the Harbour and 
Docks of Leith, and the North British Railway 
Company, to enter into agreements in relation 
thereto, and the powers to the Company to use 
the rails and conveniences at the said Harbour 
and Docks, and to the Company, and the said 
Commissioners, to enter into agreements in re- 
lation thereto, and by inserting a recital relating 
to the confirmation of an agreement between the 
Company and the said Commissioners, and by 
otherwise verbally amending the same, in order 
to make the Preamble consistent with the pro- 
visions of the Bill, as submitted to and passed by 
the Committee, and found the same, as amended, 
to be true; and had gone through the Bill, and 
made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Caledonian 
Railway 

( ‘Additional 
Powers) Bill. 


Railway Bills 


Mr. Mills reported from the Committee on 
(Group 11.) 


Group 11 of Railway Bills, That, for’ the conve- 
nience of Parties, the Committee had adjourned 
till Tuesday next, at Twelve of the clock. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table. 


Stafford Mr. Beach reported from the Committee on 
re pit, Group G. of Private Bills; That in the case of 
~ “the Stafford Borough Extension Bill, they had 
examined the allegations contained in the Preamble 
of the Bill, and amended the same by striking out 
the recitals relating to Stafford Common, as the 
same had not been proved to their satisfaction, 
and found the same, as amended, to be true; and 
had gone through the Bill and Amendments 

thereunto. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 

Table. 


london and Mr. Woodd reported the London and South 
South Western, Western, Midland, and Somerset and Dorset Rail- 
Senet ond way Companies Bill, with Amendments. 

DevetRailway Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
naeaies Table; and be printed. 


Dideot, New 
bury, and 
Southampton 
Junction Rail. 
way Bill, 


Mr. Woodd reported from the Committee on 
Group 4 of Railway Bills; That in the case of the 
Didcot, Newbury, and Southampton Junction Rail- 
way Bill, they had examined the allegations con- 
tained in the Preamble of the Bill, and amended 
the same by striking out the words “and South 
Western Railway Company,” the provision autho- 
rising working agreements with that Company 
having been omitted from the Bill, and found the 
same, as amended, to be true; and had gone 

VoL. 131. 


31st March. 











131 


through the Bill, and made Amendments there- 
unto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and Public 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions. 

Several Public Petitions were also presented, Vide Votes, 
and read; and referred to Select Committees. -— — 

eport. 

Ordered, That the Paper relative to the Tele- Telegraph 
graph (Money) Act, 1876, which was presented a ie 
upon the 27th day of this instant March, be Ni 
printed. — 

Ordered, That the Return relative to the Bridges (River 
Bridges (River Thames), which was presented Thame) 
upon the 29th day of this instant March, be N® 143. 
printed. 


Mr. Secretary Cross presented,—Return to an Army (Soldiers 
Address to Her Majesty, dated the 2nd day of in Prisons.) 
August, in the last Session of Parliament, for 
Returns showing the Number of Soldiers under 
Punishment for Civil or Military Offences in any 
Prison, Barrack Cell, or Provost Prison on the 
Ist day of January of each year, from 1869 to 
1875, both inclusive: —-—-Showing the Number of 
individual Soldiers who have passed through such 
Places of Detention during each year, from 1869 
to 1874, both inclusive : Stating the Crime for 
which they were imprisoned, and the Length of 
the Imprisonment: And, stating the Number 
of individual Militiamen who have passed through 
said Places of Detention during each year, from 
1869 to 1874, both inclusive. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 








Mr. William Henry Smith presented, pursuant Court of 
to the directions of several Acts of Parliament,— Probate 
Account of the Annual Salaries of the Judge, Re- (xchat) 
gistrars, Clerks, and all others holding Offices in 
the Court of Probate in Jreland, together with 
an Account of the Fees and Moneys received in 
the year ended 3lst December 1875. 

Copy of Treasury Minute, dated the 21st of guperannua- 
March 1876, awarding aspecial Retired Allowance tions. 
to William Miller, Established Smith, Portsmouth 
Dockyard. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Agricultural 
a Return of all the Reports made to the Eccle- Holdings Act, 
siastical Commissioners by their Surveyors relative 1875 
to “ The Agricultural Holdings Act, 1875.” 


Mr. Evans reported from the Committee on South Eastern 
Group 2 of Railway Bills; That in the case of Railway Bill. 
the South Eastern Railway Bill, they had examined 
the allegations contained in the Preamble of the 
Bill, and amended the same by inserting a para- 
graph relating to the altered line in order to 
make it consistent with the provisions of the Bill 
as passed by the Committee, and found the same, 
as amended, to be true; and had gone through 
the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


Mr. Evans reported the London ‘and Tilbury, pondon and 
Dartford and Kent Coast Junction Railway Bill, Tilbury, Dart- 
with Amendments. ford and Kent 

Coast Junction 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Raitway Bill. 
Table; and be printed. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented ttoxicating 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased Liquors 
to give directions, that there be laid before this ‘Lences-) 
$2 House, 





Turnpike 
Roads (South 
Wales.) 


No, 144. 


Monastic and 
Conventual 
Institutions. 


Mutiny Bill. 


132 


House, a Copy of Memorials to the Secretary of 
State for the Home Department from certain 
Magistrates in England, praying for alterations in 
the Licensing Laws. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, | ' 


a Return showing the Number of Vessels launched 
and added to the Navy in each year from 1855 
and now building; showing the Names of such 
Vessels, their Class, Tonnage, Cost, and Number 
of Guns ; and showing when such Vessels were 
broken ups Sold, whether in Commission or in Re- 
serve, and if in Reserve specifying in which Class 
of Reserve. 


Ordered, That Mr. Frederick Walpole and Mr. 
Conolly have leave of absence till Easter, on 
account of ill-health. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Copy of the Report addressed to the President of 
the Local Government Board by Thomas Codring- 
ton, Esq., ¢.£., the General Superintendent of 
County Roads for South Wales, on the 9th of 
March 1876, with reference to the Receipts and 
Expenditure on account of the Turnpike Roads in 
South Wales during the year 1875, and the Esti- 
mate for the year 1876. 

Mr. Sclater- Booth accordingly presented the said 
Paper. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave 
the Chair; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the 
words “it is expedient that an inquiry be under- 
“taken as to the number, rate of increase, cha- 
** racter, and present position, in relation to the 
** Law, of Monastic and Conventual Institutions in 
* Great Britain,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being proposed, That the 
words proposed to be left out stand part of the 
Question ; 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Saturday morning ; 


Saturday, 1st April, 1876: 


And the Question being put; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the; Mr. Shaw, 1 127 

Yeas, | Captain Nolan: Soe 

Tellers for an Sir Thomas Chambers, 1 x» 

Noes, Mr. Newdegate: ie 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

And the Main Question being proposed, That 
Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair:—The said 
Motion was, with leave of the House, withdrawn. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
take into consideration the Mutiny Bill, as amended 
in the Committee. 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Bill, in p. 14, 1. 9, by inserting, after the word 
“ war,” the words “and may sentence any non- 
* commissioned officer to reduction to the ranks, 
* or be placed at the bottom or in any other place 
“in the list of his rank, or to be reduced to an 
** inferior rank of non-commissioned officer; and, 
“in case of reduction to the ranks, may further 
“‘ sentence him to any punishment to which a pri- 
“ vate soldier is liable.” 


31st March.—1st April. 











1876. 
And the Question being proposed, That those 
words be there inserted:—The said proposed 
Amendment was, with leave of the House, with- 
drawn. 
Then an Amendment was made to the Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Monday next. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded tO Mari 
take into consideration the Marine Mutiny Bill, Bi tr 
as amended in the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 


upon Monday next. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Cattle Diseap 
into a Committee on the Cattle Disease (Jredand) (!eland) Bi, 


Bill. (In the Committee.) 


CrausE, N° 1, agreed to. 

CLAusE, N° 2 (Interpretation). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 1, 1. 15, to leave 
out the words “ Act (Jreland), 1866,” in order to 
insert the words “ (Jreland) Acts, 1866-1874.” 

Question proposed, That the words “ Act (Jre- 
land), 1866,” stand part of the Clause: 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question put, 
That the Chairman do report Progress, and ask 
leave to sit again ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for thes Mr. Mel/on, 7} 

Yeas, Mr. Goldsmid: J 23. 

Tellers for the{ Sir William Dyke, Bias 

Noes, LMr. Rowland Winn: p ils. 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Chairman do now leave the Chair :—Motion, by 
leave, withdrawn, 

To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again, 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had made Progress 
in the Bill; and that he was directed to move, That 
the Committee may have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Poor Law 
mittee on the Poor Law Amendment Bill; Amendment 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday ®™ 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- be and 
mittee of Ways and Means; — 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Sheriff Courts 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second (Sootland) Bil 


Reading of the Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Salmon Fisheries Bill ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
Chair :—It passed in the Negative. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Drugsing 
mittee on the Drugging of Animals Bill; 7 
And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 

Chair ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the (Sir John Astley, 
Yeas, \Sir Charles Legard: 

Tellers for the f Mr. Parnell, 
Noes, \Mr. Callan: 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 


Salmon 
Fisheries Bill 








ne Mutiny 


Disea 
and) Bill 


aw 
[ment 


and 


os Bill. 


Beer Licences 
(Ireland) Bill. 


House 
Occupiers 
Disqualifica- 
tion Removal 
Bill. 


Royal Titles. 


Metropolitan 
Fire Brigade. 


Local Govern- 
ment and Tax- 
ation of Towns 
(Ireland.) 


Bridges (River 
Thames.) 


Post Office 
(Telegraph 
Department.) 


39 Victoria. 31st March.— 


The House accordingly resolved itself into the | 
Committee. 


(In the Committee.) 


Preamble postponed. 

CLAUSE, Ke 1 (Penalty on giving Poisonous 
Drugs to Horses, &amp;c. unlawfully). 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Chairman do report Progress, and ask leave to sit | 
again :—Motion, by leave, withdrawn. 

Clause agreed to. 

Cuiause, N° 2, amended, and agreed to. 

Cravses, N° 3 to N° 6, agreed to. 

Preamble agreed to. | 

Bill, as amended, to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Ruikes 
reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration upon Monday 
next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Beer Licences (Jre/and) Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
upon the 22nd day of March last, That the House 
Occupiers Disqualification Removal Bill be now 
read a second time; 

Ordered, ‘That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Monday next. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid berore this 
House, a List of the several Descriptions of Official 
Instruments and Documents of State issued under 
the Authority of Her Majesty in which the full 
Statutory Style and Title of Her Majesty is cus- 
tomarily set forth. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee on the Me- 
tropolitan Fire Brigade do consist of Twenty-one 
Members :—The Committee was accordingly no- 
minated of Sir Henry Selwin-Ibbetson, Mr. Steven- 
son, Mr. M‘ Lagan, Mr. Clifton, Mr. Kinnaird, Sir 
Henry Pech, Sir Andrew Lush, Lord Lindsay, Mr. 
Herbert, Mr. Fielden, Marquis of Tavistock, Mr. 
Onslow, Mr. Hayter, Mr. Forsyth, Mr. Hankey, 
Sir William Fraser, Mr. Young, Mr. Locke, Mr. 
John Stewart Hardy, Sir James Hogg, and Mr. 


Ritchie; with Power to send for persons, papers, | 


and records, 
Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 





Ist—3rd April. 133 


Ordered, That the Committee do consist of Se- 
veuteen Members:—The Committee was accord- 
ingly nominated of Mr. Sclater-Booth, Mr. Leveson 
Gower, Mr. Cubitt, Dr. Lyon Playfair, Mr. Wat- 
ney, Mr. Holms, Mr. Cavendish Bentinck, Dr. 
Cameron, Mr. Fielden, Mr. Meldon, Mr. Ripley, 
Colonel Alexander, Mr. Watkin Williams, Lord 
Robert Montagu, Mr. Charles Allsopp, Mr. William 
Beckett Denison, and Mr. Goldsmid ; with Power 
to send for persons, papers, and records. 

Ordered, ‘Vhat Five be the Quorum. 


Mr. Bourke presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- Egypt. 
mand,—Copy of Report by Mr. Cave on the Fi- 
nancial Condition of Egypt. 

. _— That the said Paper do lie upon the 
able. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till Two of the clock on Saturday morning, 
adjourned till Monday next. 








Monday, 3rd Apri!, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 
T HE Cleator and Workington Junction Rail- Cleator and 
way Bill was read the third time. Workington 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. vey Bill. eae 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Leicester Improvement Bill was read the Leicester 
third time. Seaguovennent 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act to enable the Mayor, Aldermen, 
and Burgesses of the Borough of Leicester to con- 
struct additional Works for the prevention of 
Floods in the Borough, and for other purposes. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
' the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Preston Tramways Bill was read the third Preston Tram- 
time. ways Bill. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration British Gas 
the British Gas Light Company (Hull Station) Light Company 
° P ANIM, (Hull Station) 

Bill, as amended in the Committee. Bill. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration East London 
‘the East London Railway Bill, as amended in the #!way Bill. 
Committee ; and Amendments were made to the 

Bill. 








The Select Committee on Local Government | 


and Taxation of Towns (Jreland), was nominated 
of Mr. Kavanagh, Mr. Butt, Sir Arthur Guinness, 


Mr. Brooks, Mr. Mulholland, Mr. Collins, Mr. | 
Assheton, Mr. Rathbone, Mr. Gibson, Sir Joseph | 


M‘ Kenna, Mr. Bruen, Mr. O'Shaughnessy, Mr. | 
Charles Lewis, Dr. Ward, and Sir Michael Hicks ' 
Beach; with Power to send for persons, papers, 
and records. 

Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. | 


Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed 
to take into consideration the freeing of the re- 
maining Toll-paying Bridges over the Thames, 
and the most equitable mode of raising the neces- 
sary Funds, and to report to the House. 

Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed | 
to inquire into the Organization and Financial | 
System of the Telegraph Department of the | 
Post Office. 

VoL. 131. 





Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


| The House proceeded to take into consideration Gorleston and 

the Gorleston and Southtown Gas Bill, as amended Southtown Gas 

in the Committee. Ball. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Great Eastern 
the Great Eastern Railway Bill, as amended in Railway Bill. 
the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Great Western 
the Great Western and Bristol and Exeter Rail- 24 Bristol and 
C ° Bill dea i te C Exeter Railway 
way Companies Bill, as amended in the Com- Companies 
mittee. Bill. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration London and 
the London and Blackwall Railway Bill, as amended | eg 
in the Committee. at hae 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 

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North Eastern | The House proceeded to take into consideration 
Railway Bill. the North Eastern Railway Bill, as amended in 
the Committee; and an Amendment was made to 
the Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Padiham and 
Hapton Local | 
Board Bill. 


Ordered, That the Padiham and Hapton Local 
Board Bill, as amended in the Committee, be taken 
into consideration To-morrow. 


Romsey 
Extension and 
Improvement 
Bill. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Romsey Extension and Improvement Bill, as 
amended in the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Rossendale 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
Union Gas Bill. 


the Rossendale Union Gas Bill, as amended in the 
Committee. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Whitehaven. 
Cleator, and 
Egremont 
Railway Bill. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Whitehaven, Cleator, and Egremont Railway 
Bill, as amended in the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Chichester 
and Midhurst 
Railway 
(No. 2) Bill. 


Private Bills 
[ Lords] 

(No Standing 
Orders not 
previously in- 
quired into 
applicable.) 


The Chichester and Midhurst Railway (No. 2) 
Bill was read a second time ; and committed. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private 
Bills, That no Standing Orders not previously in- 
quired into are applicable to the following Bill, 
originating in the Lords, and referred on the First 
Reading thereof, viz. : 

Sillar’s and Wigner’s Patent Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time. 


Public 


nee Several Public Petitions were presented, and 
etitions. 


read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 
Several Public Petitions were also presented, 
and read; and referred to a Select Committee. 


Mr. Secretary Cross presented, by Her Ma- 
jesty’s Command,— Copy of Minutes of Evidence 
taken before the Royal Commission appointed to 


Vide Votes, and 
Thirteenth 
Report. 


Norwich 
Election 
Commission. 


inquire into the existence of Corrupt Practices at | 


Parliamentary Elections for the City of Norwich. 
Copy of the Report of the President of Queen’s 
College, Gulway, for the Session 1874-75. 


Queen's 
College, 
Galway. 
Salmon 
Fisheries 
(England and 
Wales.) 


Intoxicating 
Liquors 
(Licences. ) 


Copy of Fifteenth Annual Report of the In- 
spectors of Salmon Fisheries (England and Wales). 


Mr. Secretary Cross also presented,—Return to 
an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 31st day of 
March last, for a Return relative to Intoxicating 
Liquors (Licences). 

Return to an Order, dated the 28th day of 
March last, for a Return relative to the Adultera- 
tion of Food and Drugs Act. 

Mr. Secretary Cross also presented, pursuant to 
the directions of an Act of Parliament,—Return 
of Alterations in existing Polling Districts, and of 
additional Polling Districts to be constituted in 
the Northern Division of the County of Salop. 


Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Adulteration 
ot Food and 
Drugs Act. 


Polling 
Districts 
(Salop, 
Northern 
Division.) 


Life Assurance 


Sir Charles Adderley presented, pursuant to the 
Companies. ; 


divections of several Acts of Parliament,—Copy 
of Statements and Abstracts of Reports deposited 
with the Board of Trade, under “ The Life As- 
surance Companies Act, 1870,” for the year ended 
31st December 1875. 

Copies of Reports to the Board of Trade, by the 
Trinity House of Deptford Strond, and the Com- 
missioners of Northern Lighthouses, of their In- 
spection of Local Lighthouses, Buoys, and Beacons 
(in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 308, 
of Session 1875). 


Lighthouses, 
&amp;c. (Local 
Inspection.) 


3rd April. 




















1876. 


Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented, pursuant to Government 
the directions of an Act of Parliament,—Accounts | meg and 
of all Moneys received, and of the disposal thereof, - 
and of all Contracts for the Grant of Deferred 
Life Annuities, and for Payments on Death made 
during the year ended 3lst December 1875. 

Ordered, That the said Accounts do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. James Lowther presented,—Return to an Malta, 
Address to Her Majesty, dated the 22nd day of 
February last, for Returns relative to Ma/ta. 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated Ceylon _ 
the 2nd day of March. last, for a Return relative eatin 
to Ceylon (Ecclesiastical Endowments), — 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated Marriage with 
the 27th day of March last, fora Return relative to —— 
Marriage with a Deceased Wife’s Sister (Colonies). (Colonies) 
Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the yo 44, 
Table ; and that the last be printed. Bt se 


Mr, Bourke presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- Postal 
mand,—Copy of Convention between Her Majesty Convention 
and the King of the Belgians, regulating the Com- No. 4 1846) 
munications by Post between the British and Bel-  ° 
gian Dominions. Signed at London, February 17, 

1876. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 

Table. 


The following Papers were laid upon the Table Endowed 
by the Clerk of the House,—Further Return to Charities. 
an Order, dated the 26th day of July, in Session 
1867, for Copies of the General Digest of Endowed 
Charities for the Counties and Cities mentioned in 
the Fourteenth Report of the Charity Commis- 
sioners; and of the Charities vested in various 
London Companies, in so far as such Digests have 
been completed or can be completed, up to the 
time of Publication. 

Return to an Order, dated the 13th day of Yarmouth 
March last, for a Return relative to Yarmouth edo 

“ ght.) 
(Isle of Wight). 


Sir Charles Forster reported from the Select Public 
Committee on Public Petitions; That they had Petitions 
examined the Petitions presented upon the 27th, Report) 
28th, 29th, 30th, and 31st days of March last, and 
had directed him to make a Report thereof to the 
House. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 

Sir Juhn Kennaway reported the Midland Rail- Midland (New 
way (New Works, &amp;c.) Bill, with Amendments. Sma’ ba} 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Bin. 
Table ; and be printed. 


Army (Special 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented pow ee 


to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously 
pleased to give directions, that there be laid before 
this House, a Return of all Special Allowances, 
besides an Allowance for Band Expenses, which 
the Sum of £.13,190, voted for the Foot Guards 
in Vote 1, Sub-head E, of the Army Estimates, 
is intended to defray. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Coolies 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased (Jomaice) 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return showing how many Coolies 
have been brought into Jamaica since the Re- 
sumption of Immigration in 1859, distinguishing 
Males from Females ; 

How many have returned Home, and how 
many are now in the Island; 
What have been the Number of Births and 
Deaths ; 
The 











39 VicTorta. 


The Number of Coolies who have been sent 
to Gaol for Offences against the Person; 
The Number that have been found guilty of 
Murder and sentenced to Death, and the 
Number that have been executed ; 

How many Coolies are now in Gaol for 
different Crimes ; 

What proportion of the Cost of Immigration, 
if any, has been defrayed out of the Public 
Revenue of the Colony. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Copy of the Correspondence between the 
Lord Mayor, the Governor of Newgate, and the 
Chief Clerk of the Justice Room of the Mansion 
House, relating to the Diet of three Prisoners, 
Henry Hervé, Gabriel Hervé, and Nicholas Clause, 
fifteen times remanded and unconvicted of any 
Crime. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
an Account of the Income and Expenditure of the 
British Museum (Special Trust Funds) for the 
financial year ended the 31st day of March 1876: 
And, Return of the Number of Persons 
admitted to visit the Museum in each year from 
1870 to 1875, both years inclusive ; together with 
a Statement of the progress made in the Arrange- 
ment of the Collections, and an Account of Objects 
added to them in the year 1875. 


Henry Hervé 
and others. 


British 
Museum. 





The Order for reading a second time, To-mor- 
row, the Cheques on Bankers Bill, was read, and 
discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday the 25th day of this instant April. 


Cheques on 
Bankers Bill. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- 
sage had been brought from the Lords by one of 
their Clerks, as followeth : 

Sea Insurances Lhe Lords have agreed to the Sea Insurances 
(Stamping of (Stamping of Policies) Bill, without any Amend- 
Policies) BU. ment. 


Message from 
the Lords, 


Derby Gas The Lords have agreed to the Derby Gas Bill, 

Bill without any Amendment. 

Ely, Hadden- The Lords have agreed to the Ely, Haddenham, 
»and = and Sutton Railway Bill, without any Amend- 

Sutton Railway 

Bill, ment. 

Scotswood, The Lords have agreed to the Scotswood, New- 

— anl burn, and Wylam Railway and Dock Bill, without 

ylam Rail- 

way and Dock @ny Amendment. 

Bill. 

Dublin Port The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 


Port and Dock i ; 
an senabling the Dublin Port and Docks Board to 


[Lords,] enlarge or rebuild Carlisle Bridge, and to construct 
eastward thereof an Opening Bridge over the 
Liffey; providing Funds for the execution of those 
Works, and for other purposes; to which the 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 
Alln Glen’s . Lhe Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
Institution, for varying the purposes of the Trust constituted 
a Bill by Allan Glen; for incorporating the Trustees of 
Allan Glen’s Institution, in the City of Glasgow ; 
for conferring Powers upon the Trustees, and for 
other purposes; to which the Lords desire the con- 
currence of this House. 
Edinburgh and The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
A to enable the Edinburgh and District Water 
4%] Trustees to abandon their authorised Edgelaw 
Reservoir, and to construct the same on another 
Site; and also to construct a Reservoir at Rose- 
bery, and other Works, and to make further pro- 
vision for the Supply of Water to their District 
and otherwise, and for other purposes ; to which 
. the Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 
apon‘Tyre The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 


Quayside Li, tO incorporate a Company with powers to erect 
Te Lift ; Me ; 
Bill [Lord.} Machinery for raising and lowering Passengers, 


3rd April. 


135 


Vehicles, Animals, and Goods between the Quay- 
side and the Castle Yard at Newcastle-upon-7yne ; 
to which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Sutton Gas 
for dissolving the Sutton Gas Light and Coke Bill [Lords] 
Company (Limited); for reincorporating the Pro- 
prietors therein with others, and for conferring 
powers on the Company so to be incorporated, 
and for other purposes ; to which the Lords desire 
the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Flookersbrook 
for improving certain Waste Lands called Flookers- poe 
brook, in the Townships of Newton and Hoole and shee 
County of Chester, and for other purposes; to 
which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House. 

The Lords have passsed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
to provide for the Amalgamation of the Deeside Raiiway Bill 
and Aboyne and Braemar Railway Companies [Zords.} 
with the Great North of Scutland Railway Com- 
pany, and for other purposes; to which the Lords 
desire the concurrence of this House. 


Great North 
of Scotland 


The Dublin Port and Docks Board Bill was Dublin Port 


read the first time. So 
Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- j fords.] 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 
The Sutton Gas Bill was read the first time. Sutton Gas 


Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- Bil! [Lords.] 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


The Newcastle-upon-Tyne Quayside Lift Bill Newcastle. 
was read the first time. Gueyside Lif 

Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- Bill [Lords.} 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


The Great North of Scotland Railway Bill was Great North 
read the first time. cr, 
Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- [rora} 

miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


The Mutiny Bill was, according to Order, read Mutiny Bill. 
the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Marine Mutiny Bill was, according to Or- Marine Mutiny 
der, read the third time. Bill. 
Resvlved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into the Committee of Ways and Means. 


(In the Committee.) 


Motion made, and Question proposed, That Income Tax.’ | 
there shall be charged, collected, and paid for one 
year, commencing on the sixth day of April, One 
thousand eight hundred and Seventy-six, in re- 
spect of all Property, Profits, and Gains men- 
tioned or described as chargeable in the Act of 


Ways and 
Means. 








Vou. 131. 





the Sixteenth and Seventeenth years of Her Ma- 
jesty’s reign, chapter thirty-four, the following 
Duties of Income Tax (that is to say): 


For every Twenty Shillings of the annual value or 
amount of all such Property, Profits, and Gains 
chargeable under Schedules (A.), (C.), (D.), or (E.) 
of the said Act, the Duty of Three Pence ; 

And for every Twenty Shillings of the annual value of 
the occupation of Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments, 
and Heritages chargeable under Schedule (B.) of the 
said Act :— 

In England, the Duty of One Penny Halfpenny ; 
d 


an 
In Scotland and Jreland respectively, the Duty of 
One Penny Farthing. 


To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 
Mr. 





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Merchant 
Shipping Bill. 


136 3rd—4th April. 1876. 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had made Progress 
in the matter to them referred, and that he was 
directed to move, That the Committee may have 
leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednes- 
day next, again resolve itself into the said Com- 
mittee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Merchant Shipping 
Bill. 


(In the Committee. ) 


Crause, N° 5 (Power to detain unsafe ships 
and procedure for such detention, See 36 &amp; 37 
Vie. ¢. 85, 8 12). 

Amendment preposed, in p. 2, 1. 19, to leave 
out the word “ /ritish.” 

Question put, That the word “ British” stand 
part of the Clause ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the f Sir Williom Dyhe, 

Yeas, (Mr. Rowland Winn: 

Tellers for thej Mr. Eustace Smith, 1 sy 

Noes, (Mr. Samuda: J ; 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 2, 1. 20, 
after the word “ or” to insert the words “ where 
* any ship is.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted ; 

Amendment proposed to the said proposed 
Amendment, after the word “ ship,” to insert the 
words “wholly or partly loaded in a British Port.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted: — Amendment to the said proposed 
Amendment and Amendment, by leave, with- 
drawn. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 2, 1. 21, 
afier the word “ loading,” to insert the words 
* believed to be.” 

Question proposec, That those words be there 
inserted :— Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 2, 1. 27, to 
leave out the word “may,” in order to insert the 
words “ shall forthwith.” 

Question proposed, That the word “ may ” stand 
part of the Clause :—Amendment, by leave, with- 
drawn. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 2, |. 43, 
after the word “ report,” to insert the words “ and 
* of the proposed order for final detention.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted :—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Amendments made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 3, 1. 10, 


} 159. 


after the word “detained,” to insert the words | 


“ but in all cases where the master of a ship com- 
** plies with the requirements of the local surveyor, 
“then the latter shall have power to release the 
“ ship.” 

Question, That those words be there inserted 
—— put, and negatived. 

Other Amendments made. 

Another Amendment proposed, at the end of the 
Clause, to add the words “ In every case where 
“the Board of Trade shall provisionally detain a 
* ship, such Board shall forthwith deliver to the 
‘owner or master of such ship a statement in 
* writing of the information upon which they have 
*‘ acted, and the name of the person from whom 
** such information was received, and, if such in- 
*‘ formation was given in writing, an entire copy 
*¢ of such writing shall be included in the statement 
* so to be delivered.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
added ; 

Amendment proposed to the said proposed 
Amendment, to oe out from the word “ acted,” 
to the end of the said proposed Amendment. 














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Question, That the words proposed to be left 
out stand part of the said proposed Amendment 

put, and negatived. 

Question proposed, That the words “ In every 
“case where the Board of Trade shall provi- 
“ sionally detain a ship, such Board shall forthwith 
“ deliver to the owner or master of such ship a 
“ statement in writing of the information upon 
“which they have acted,” be there added:— 
Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

Ciause, N° 6 (Constitution of court of survey 
for appeals, see 36 &amp; 37 Vic. c. 85, s. 14). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 4, 1. 13, to leave 
out from the word “ experience” to the word 
“ judge,” in order to insert the words “ and shall 
“be appointed, one by the Board of Trade, either 
“ generally or in each case, out of a list of persons 
periodically nominated for the purpose by the 
“ local marine board of the port, or, if there is no 
“such board, by a body of local shipowners or 
“ merchants approved for the purpose by a Se- 
‘ cretary of State, or, if there is no such body, by 
“ the judge, and the other out of such list by the 
** parties nominating same.” 

Question proposed, That the words “ one of 
“ them shall be appointed by the Board of Trade,” 
stand part of the Clause ; 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question put, 
That the Chairman do report Progress, and ask 
leave to sit again; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the; Mr. Goldsmid, 1: 

Yeas, Mr. Macdonald : f 

Tellers for the {Sir William Dyke, 204 

Noes, Mr. Rowland Winn: : 

Motion made, and Question put, That the Chair- 
man do now leave the Chair ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the; Mr. Edward Jenkins, 

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43. 


Yeas, \ Mr. Pease: 29. 


Tellers for the {Sir William Dyke, 71 
Noes, \Mr. Rowland Winn: J 
8 


To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 


198. 





And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Tuesday morning ; 


Tuesday, 4th April, 1876: 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had made Progress 
in the Bill, and that he was directed to move, That 
the Committee may have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Com- 
mittee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Ecclesiastical 
Reading of the Ecclesiastical Assessments (Scot- (Scotland) Bill. 
land) Bull; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday the 27th day of this instant April. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Local 
into a Committee on the Local Government Pro- —- 
visional Orders Bill; and, after some time spent O,dors Bill. 
therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and 
Mr. Raikes reported, That the Committee had 
gone through the Bill, and directed him to report 
the same, without Amendment. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Maritime - 
Reading of the Maritime Contracts Bill; eT 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 


Monday next. 
upon Monday n The 





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Civil Bill 
(ielan) Bill. 


Cheques Bill 
[Lords.] 


Supply. 


’ Cattle Disease 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Poor Law 
Amendment 
Bill. 


Sheriff Courts 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Coroners 
(Dublin) Bill. 


Newspaper 
Registration, 
&amp;e, Bill. 


Industrial and 
Provident 
Societies Bill. 


Trade Union 
Act (1871) 
Amendment 
Bill. 


Land Tenure 
(Ireland) Bill. 


39 Vicrorta. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Civil Bill Courts (Zreland) Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday the 27th day of this instant April. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Crossed Cheques Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednes- 
day next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Cattle Disease (Jre/and) Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Poor Law Amendment Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday the 27th day of this instant April. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Coroners (Dudiin) Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
the 25th day of this instant April, resolve itself 
into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Newspaper Registration, &amp;c. Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Industrial and Provident Societies 
Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Trade Union Act (1871) Amend- 
ment Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednes- 
day next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Amendment which, 
upon the 29th day of March last, was proposed to 
be made to the Question, That the Land Tenure 
(reland) Bill be now read a second time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Poor Law Guardians Elections 


. Creland) Bill ; 


Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday the 9th day of May next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Medical Practitioners Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday the 25th day of this instant April. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 


_ Inittee on the Municipal Privileges (Jreland) 


Bill; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 


mittee on the Salmon Fisheries Bill; 
VoL. 131, 





3rd—Ath April. 137 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to Drugging of 
take into consideration the Drugging of Animals Animals Bill. 
Bill, as amended in the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming House 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed Occupiers Dis- 
upon the 22nd day of March last, That the House + ry 
Occupiers Disqualification Removal Bill be now 
read a second time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till this day. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, wrexham 
a Copy of the Correspondence between the Guar- Union (Use of 
dians of the Saint George’s Union, Middlesex, and Stimulants.) 
the Guardians of the Wrexham Union, relating to 
the Discontinuance of the use of Stimulants in the 
latter Union. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, consolidated 
an Account of the Estimated Expenditure of the Fund. 
Consolidated Fund during the year 1876-7, as No. 146. 
compared with the actual Issues during 1875-6. 

Mr. William Henry Smith accordingly presented 
the said Account. 

Ordered, That the said Account do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


The Order for the House to resolve itself into pypticans 
a Committee, this day, on the Publicans Certifi- Certificates 
cates (Scotland) Bill, was read, and discharged. 

Resoived, That this House will, upon Thursday 
the 27th day of this instant April, resolve itself 
into the said Committee. 


The Order for reading a second time, upon y,.-hant 
Monday next, the Merchant Shipping Acts shipping Acts 
Amendment Bill, was read, and discharged. Amendment 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 2 
upon Monday the 8th day of May next. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till half an hour after One of the clock 
on Tuesday morning, adjourned till. this 


day. 








Tuesday, 4th April, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 


"e HE House, according to Order, proceeded to Padiham and 
take into consideration the Padiham and ae 
Hapton Local Board Bill, as amended in the - 
Committee; and Amendments were made to the 


Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The Mid-Hants Railway Bill was read asecond Mid-Hants 
time; and committed. Railway Bill. 


Allan Glen’s Institution, Glasgow, Bill was read Allan Glen’s 
the first time. Institution, 
Ordered, That the Bill be referred 1o the Exa- Troe Bil 


miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


The Edinburgh and District Water Bill was Eainburgh and 
read the first time. Distal Water 
Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- ill [Lorde.] 


miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


The Flookersbrook Improvement Bill was read Flookersbrook 
first time. Bil [Lords] 
Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- wate 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 
T A. Petition 


(Scotland) Bill. 











London, 
Brighton, and 
South Coast 
Railway 
(Various 
Powers) Bill. 


Public 
Petitions. 


Vide Votes, and 
Thirteenth 
Report. 
Navy (Screw- 
Casing.) 

No. 147. 


Army (Soldiers 
in Prisons.) 


No. 148, 


Intoxicating 
Liquors 
(Licences.) 


No. 149. 


Life Assurance 
Companies. 


No. 150. 


Lighthouses, 
&amp;c. (Local 
Inspections.) 
No. 151. 
Government 
Insurances and 
Annuities. 


No. 152. 


Malta. 
No, 153. 


Ceylon 

( Ecclesiastical 

Endowments.) 
No. 154. 

Endowed 

Charities. 
No. 155. 


Ottoman Loans 
(Turkey, No. 1, 
1876.) 


Navy (Retire- 
ment of 
Officers. ) 


Railways 
Abandonment. 


Army 
(Special 
Allowances.) 


138 


A Petition of the London, Brighton, and South 
Coast Railway Company, praying that provision 
may be made in the London, Brighton, and South 
Coast Railway ( Various Powers) Bill for enabling 
the Petitioners to undertake the construction of 
certain New Roads, was presented, and read ; and 
referred to the Examiners of Petitions for Private 


Bills. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

A Public Petition was also presented, and read ; 
and referred to a Select Committee. 





(Screw-Casing), which was presented upon the | 
30th day of March last, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Army | 
(Soldiers in Prisons), which was presented upon | 
the 3)st day of March last, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Intoxicat- 
ing Liquors (Licences), which was presented upon | 
the 3rd day of this instant April, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Paper relative to Life As- | 
surance Companies, which was presented upon the | 
3rd day of this instant April, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to Lighthouses, 
&amp;c. (Local Inspections), which was presented upon 
the 3rd day of this instant April, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Accounts relative to Govern- 
ment Insurances and Annuities, which were pre- 
sented upon the 3rd day of this instant April, be 
printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Malta, 
which was presented upon the 3rd day of this in- 
stant April, be printed. 





Ordered, Thatthe Return relative to Ceylon 
(Ecclesiastical Endowments), which was presented 
upon the 3rd day of this instant April, be printed. | 


| 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Endowed | 
Charities, which was presented upon the 3rd day | 
of this instant April, be printed. 

| 

Mr. Bourke presented, by Her Majesty’s Com-' 
mand,—Copy of Correspondence respecting the | 
various Ottuman Loans. 

s ann That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Algernon Egerton presented,—Keturn to an | 
Order, dated the 11th day of February last, for a | 
Return relative to the Navy (Retirement of 
Officers). 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Sir Charles Adderley presented, pursuant to the 
directions of several Acts of Parliament,— Copy 
of Warrant of the Board of ‘Trade, authorising the 
Abandonment of the Bodmin Railway, in pursu- 
ance of “ The Abandonment of Railways Act, 
1850,” and “ The Railway Companies Act, 1867,” 
and Report thereon. 
: ss That the said Paper do lie upon the | 

‘able. 





| 


Mr. Secretary Hardy presented,—Return to an 
Address to Her Majesty, dated the 3rd day of this 
instant April, for a Return relative to the Army 
(Special Allowances). 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 


4th April. 


1876. 


Return to an Order, dated the 20th day 
March last, for a Return relative to Local Autho- 
rities (Loans). 

Ordered, ‘That the said Returns do lie upon the 
Table. 


Of Local 


Authoritj 
(emay 


The following ~—— was laid upon the Table Agricultay 


by the Clerk of the House,--Return to an Order, 
dated the 3lst day of March last, for a Return 
relative to the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1875. 


Holdings Act, 


1875. 


Ordered That there be laid before this House, Nation 


a Return showing the Number of Schools examined 


Education 


by the Six Head Inspectors, their Salaries, Allow- ‘land. 
Ordered, That the Return relative to the Navy | ances, &amp;c., for the year ended the 3lst day of 


March 1875, to be given for each separately :— 





| 
| 


orduring | 
ded 3ist 


| 

Number of Districts | 
— 

cted and 

ry the 

and re- 

on the 


Number of National 
Schools in these Dis- 


tricts. 


Form of Head in- 
spector’s Report, 

Number of Schools 
Examined for Results, 


and Reported upon, 
on the Ordinary Re- 


sults Form. 


Name of Head In- 
spector. 

Schools inspe 

Head Inspec 

the year er 

March 1875, 

ported upon 
Number of Schools 
visited incidentally. 


under the Su 
examined 


dence of eac 





Number of these 


of 


Number of Model 
each Head Inspector. 


Schools under the 
Superintendence 





























Number of Days in the Year ended 31st March 1875 devoted 
by each Head Inspector to 


| 
| 
| 


g same after | 


= | 


Travelling Long Distances. 


ports 
pectors i 


ports, Ke- | 


p-rts upon Schools examined, and 


ining and 
Inspector's 
other Mis- 





Conference of Head Ins: 
Education Office ; exam 


checking 








Annual Re 
District 





Inspection and Examination of ) 
same, 


Examination and Supervision of 


Model Schools. 
for Examinations of Teachers, 


Pupil Teachers, and Monitors, and 


revising and markin, 


Examinations. 
General Official Correspondence. 


National Schools. 

Annual Examination of Teachers, 
Pupil Teachers, and Monitors. 
Preparing Examination Questions | 
Holding Inquiries, writing Re 
Official Records, and 

Vacations and Days off Duty. 
Sundays and Holidays. 


cellaneous Juties. 


on 
| Personal Allowance for Year. 


| Salary for Year. 





| 
| 
| 











P| | 


| Ordered, That the Committee on Group 11 of Railway Bils 
Railway Bills have leave to sit this day till Five (Group 11) 


of the clock, during the sitting of the House. 


Mr. Rathkes reported from the Committee on the Coombe Hill 
Canal Navi- 


Coombe Hili Canal Navigation Bill; That they had 
examined the allegations contained in the Preamble 
of the Bill, and amended the same to make it 
consistent with the provisions of the Bill as sub- 
mitted to, and passed by the Committee, and 
found the same, as amended, to be true; and had 
gone through the Bill, and made Amendments 
thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Raikes reported the Chesterfield Water and Chesterfield 
Water and 


Gas Bill, with Amendments. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on Forth B 
the Forth Bridge Railway Bill; That they had 8!" 


examined the allegations contained in the Preamble 
of the Bill, and amended the same to make it 
consistent with the Bill as submitted to, and 
passed by the Committee, and found the same, as 
amended, to be true, and had made provision in 
the Bill pursuant to the Instruction of the House 
of the 13th day of March last; and had gone 
through the Bill, and made Amendments there- 
unto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


Allowance, and Travelling 


y 


Expenses for Y ear. 


Travellirg Expenses for Year. 
Total of Salar 








gation Bill. 


Bill. 


Bh 


escez Fe3eF 


Se 


and London, 
Brighton, and 


Mr. Raikes reported the London, Brighton, 
South Coast, and Tunbridge Wells and Eastbourne &lt;i, Coast, 


Table. 


Railway Companies Bill, with Amendments. and Tunbridge 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the be 


Table; and be printed. ilway Cot 
° Mr. enice Bil. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented,—Return 
to an Order, dated the 20th day of March last, 
for Returns relative to Excise Licences. 














ities Chatham, and 
') Railway 
Dover 
Bill. 
Redcar and 
Coatham Gas 
tara) Bill. 
BS Act, 
Sutton Bridge 
Dock Bill. 
il 
on 
d. 
Thames Tunnel 
Bill. 
Upper Inny 
a Bill. 
West Kent 
Main Sewerage 
Bill. 
Bills 
1.) 
Hill 
vie 
ll. 
Wilts and 
Berks Canal 
Bill. 
Id 
1 Gas 
ige 
ill. 
Leave of 
Absence. 
Message from 
the Lords 
Shepton Mallet 
ater Bill. 
and Assam 
t, ’ 
ae Cs he 
om 
o 





3 


9 VicTorra. 


Mr. Raikes reported the London, Chatham, and 
Dover Railway Bill, with Amendments. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


Mr. Raikes reported the Redcar and Coatham 
Gas Bill, with Amendments. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on 
the Sutton Bridge Dock Bill; That they had 
examined the allegations contained in the Preamble 
of the Bill, and amended the same, to make it 
consistent with the provisions of the Bill as sub- 
mitted to, and passed by the Committee, and found 
the same, as amended, to be true; and had gone 
through the Bill, and made Amendments there- 
unto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 





Mr. Raikes reported the Thames Tunnel Bill, 


4th—hth April. 





with an Amendment. 


129 


The Assam Company Bill was read the first Assam 


time. 


Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- [4741 


miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being Blending Irish 
proposed, That a Select Committee be appointed Whiskey- 


to inquire into the practice which has been per- 
mitted of late years of mixing Whiskey in Her 
Majesty’s Bonding and Inland Revenue Stores 
with other Spirits ; to report to this House whether 
the practice is injurous to the public and to the 
Manufacturers of Jrish Whiskey, and whether, in 
the opinion of the Committee, the practice ought 
or ought not to be discontinued; and that the 
Committee do also inquire into the effect of using 
new made spirits, and to report whether it would 
be in the interest of the public for the Govern- 
ment to detain all Spirits and Whiskey in Bond 
until it is at least twelve months old; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the | to the end of the Question, in order to add the 


Table. 


Mr. Raikes reported the Upper Inny Drainage | “ cause a 


Bill, without Amendment. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on the 
West Kent Main Sewerage Bill; That a Report 
from the Local Government Board upon the Bill 
and the objects thereof had been referred to the 
Committee, and that they had adopted the recom- 
mendation therein contained. 

Mr. Raikes further reported from the Com- 
mittee; That they had examined the allegations 
contained in the Preamble of the Bill, and amended 
the same by striking out the recital as to the ex- 
pediency of authorising the West Kent Main 
Sewerage Board to acquire additional Land in the 
Parish of Dartford. for the purpose of Sewage 
utilisation, and found the same, as amended, to be 
true; and had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table. 


} 





| 


| 





Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on | 
the Wilts and Berks Canal Bill; That they | 


words “ in the opinion of this House, the practice 
“of ‘blending’ Whiskey does not necessarily 
dulteration, and it is inexpedient to 
“deprive traders in British Spirits of trade 
* facilities that are allowed to traders in Fo- 
‘reign Spirits, Wines and various other bonded 
* articles,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Ques- 
tion ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the; Mr. O’ Sullivan, 1 

Yeas, { Mr. Maurice Brooks: J 

Tellers for the f Mr. Anderson, \ 

Noes, \Mr. M‘Lagan: s* 

So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being proposed, That the 
words ‘‘ in the opinion of this House, the practice 
“of ‘blending’ Whiskey does not necessarily 
** cause adulteration, and it is inexpedient to deprive 
“ traders in British Spirits of trade facilities that 
** are allowed to traders in Foreign Spirits, Wines, 
“and various other bonded articles,” be added, 
instead thereof ; 

The said proposed Ainendment was, with leave 


69. 
45. 


had examined the allegations contained in the | of the House, withdrawn. 


Preamble of the Bill, and amended the same by 
striking out the recital that it was expedient 
that the Canal Company should be enabled to close 


lis 


the branch of their Canal called the Longcot | invite and assist the Sultan of Zanzibar to take 
Branch, and to sell and dispose of the site thereof; | such further steps as may be necessary for the 


and by adding a recital, authorising the said 
Company to sell and transfer their Undertaking 


| 


: total suppression of the Slave Trade within his 


dominions, and that at the same time more 


to the Company proposed to be incorporated by | adequate provision should be made for the care 
the Bill, in order to make it consistent with the , and maintenance of the liberated slaves. 


rovisions of the Bill as submitted to and passed | 
y the Committee, and found the same, as 


, 


Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being peace 
amended, to be true; and had gone through the | proposed, That this House, while viewing with Preservation 
satisfaction the withdrawal from several Counties of (Meland) Act. 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the! /re/andof the proclamations issued under the Peace 


Table. 


Ordered, That Mr. Errington have leave of ab- 
sence till Easter on account of illness in his family. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- 
sage had been brought from the Lords by one of 
their Clerks, as followeth : | 

The Lords have agreed to the Shepton Mallet | 
Water Bill, with Amendments; to which the 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
for the Reduction of the Nominal Capital of the 
Assam Company ; to which the Lords desire the 
concurrence of this House. 

VoL. 131. 








eae 
| VISIONS 5 





Preservation Act, is of opinion that the present 
condition of Jreland does not justify the retention 
of the powers of that Act over so large a portion 
of the Country as still remains subject to its pro- 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Wednesday morning ; 


Wednesday, 5th April, 1876 : 
And the previous Question being put, That 


that Question be now put:—It passed in the 
Negative. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being Serpentine. 


proposed, That the mounds at present being 
T2 erected 








Resolved, That, in the opinion of this House, it Slave Trade 
desirable that Her Majesty’s Government should (#ast Africa.) 


140 


erected on the South of the Serpentine are un- 
sightly, and will, when planted, be detrimental to 
the picturesque character of Hyde Park, and ought 
to be removed:—And a Debate arising there- 
upon; 

Ordered, That the Debate be adjourned till 
Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Colonial Marriages Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday the 9th day of May next. 


Colonial 
Marriages 


Bill. 





Partition Act The House, according to Order, resolved itself | 
(1868) Amend- jnto a Committee on the Partition Act (1868) | 
ens See. Amendment Bill; and, after some time spent | 
therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. 
Raikes reported, That the Committee had gone 
through the Bill, and directed him to report the 
same, without Amendment. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
this day. 


Burglary and 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Forgery Bill. 


Reading of the Burglary and Forgery Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday the 3rd day of May next. 


Notices to Quit |The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
(Ireland) Bill. Reading of the Notices to Quit (Jre/and) Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 


4th—5th Aprié. 








this day. 


Drugging of The Drugging of Animals Bill was, according 
Animals Bill. to Order, read the third time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass, 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


_—_— The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
Occupiers Dis- the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
ene ys upon the 22nd day of March last, That the House 
’ Occupiers Disqualification Removal Bill be now 

read a second time ; 
Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 

till Thursday next. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till a quarter of an hour after One of the 
clock on Wednesday morning, adjourned 
till this day. 


Wednesday, 5th April, 1876. 


PRAYERS, 
Dublin (City) " {.HE House proceeded to take into considera- 
Steam Packet tion the Amendments made by the Lords to 
Company Bill. the Dublin (City) Steam Packet Company Bill; 
and the same were twice read, and agreed to. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 


Lordships. 











London and The House proceeded tc take into consideration | 

ee the London and South Western Railway (/zeter 

(Exeter and and Crediton and North Devon Railways) Bill, as 
amended in the Committee. 


Crediton and 
North Devon Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Railways) Bill. 

Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence 
taken before the Committee on the Longwood Gas 
Bill, in Session 1875, be referred tothe Committee 
on the S/aithwaite Gas Bill. 


Longwood Gas 
Bill (1875.) 


Public 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and 
Petitions. 


read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 
Several Public Petitions were also presented, 
and read; and referred to Select Committees. 





Vide Votes, and 
Fourteenth 
Report. 


1876. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented, by Her Civil servic 
Majesty’s Command,— Estimate showing the 24 Revenge 
several Civil Services and Revenue Departments ropa 
for which a Vote on Account is required for the Account.) 
year ending 31st March 1877. No. 156, 

Ordered, ‘Vhat the said Estimate be referred to 


the Committee of Supply ; and be printed. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second glomen 
Reading of the Elementary Education Act (1870) Education 4g 
Amendment Bill ; (1870) Amend. 

Anda Motion being made, and the Question a 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a 
second time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaviag out the word “ now,” and, at 
the end of the Question, adding the words ‘ upon 
** this day six months.” 

And the Question being put, That the word 
“now,” stand part of the Question ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the{ Mr. George Dizon, 

Yeas, LMr. Mundella: 

Tellers for the { Mr. Sandford, 

Noes, USir John Scourfield : 

So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
“upon this day six months” be added at the end 
of the Question :—It was resolved in the Affirma- 
tive. 

Then the Main Question, so amended, being put ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon this day six months. 


» 160. 


281. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second East India 
Reading of the East India (Chief Justices of (Chief Justices 
High Courts) Bill ; 7 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time — 
upon Wednesday the 3rd day of May next. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Homicide Law 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed a 
upon the 8th day of March last, That the Homi-  ~ 
cide Law Amendment Bill be now read a second 
time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Wednesday the 17th day of May next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Ways and 
mittee of Ways and Means; a 
Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order ofthe day being read, for the Com Supply. 
mittee of Supply ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 

The House, according to Order, resolved itself poy e 
into a Committee on the Trade Union Act (1871) ‘Amendment 
Amendment Biil; and, after some time spent Bill. 
therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and 
the Judge Advocate reported, That the Com- 
mittee had gone through the Bill, and directed 
him to report the same, without Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Friday next. 


The Partition Act (1868 ) Amendment Bill was, Partition Act 
according to Order, read the third time. Sang 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 
Notices to Quit 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second (Ireland) Bill. 


Reading of the Notices to Quit (Jreland) Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday the 16th day of May next. “ 
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stices 
ourts) 


nt 


on 


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ct 
end- 


Quit 
ill. 


89 VicroRia 


Mid-Weles The Earl of March reported the Mid-Wales 
Railway Bill. Railway Bill, with Amendments. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


Golden Valley The Earl of March reported from the Committee 
Railway Bill. on Group 10 of Railway Biils; That, in the case 
of the Golden Valley Railway Bill, they had exa- 
mined the allegations contained in the Preamble of 
the Bill, and amended the same by striking out so 
much thereof as related to powers to all Companies 
and other persons Jawfully using the Railway of 
the Company to work into and use the Pontrilas 
Station of the Great Western Railway Company, 
and also to run over and use a portion of the Rail- 
way of that Company, and found the same, as 
amended, to be true; and had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


Merthyr Tyasl ~"The Earl of March reported from the Com- 
and Rhondda mittee on Group 10 of Railway Bills; That, in 
Valley Junction the case of the Merthyr Tydfiland Rhondda Valley 
Railway Bill. Junction Railway Bill, they had examined the 
aliegations contained in the Preamble of the Bill, 
but the same had not been proved to their satis- 
faction. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 








Thursday, Oth April, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 


Public IR Charles Forster reported from the Select 
Petitions Committee on Public Petitions; That they 
— had examined the Petitions presented upon the 
3rd and 4th days of this instant April; and had 
directed him to make a Report thereof to the 
House. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 
Caledonian Mr. Mills reported the Caledonian Railway 
wv ‘ (Grangemouth Harbour) Bill, with Amendments. 
iabour) Bil, — O7@ered, lhat the Report do lie upon the Table ; 


and be printed. 


British Gas The British Gaslight Company (Hull Station) 
fen sa Bill was read the third time. 
Bill, ) Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


East London =The East London Railway Bill was read the 
luilway Bill. third time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


— and =©6 The Gorleston and Southtown Gas Bill was read 
Bil” 98 the third time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Great Eastem _ The Great Eastern Railway Billwas read the 
uilway Bill. third time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 
arene The Great Western and Bristol and Exeter 
Breer Rail. Railway Companies Bill was read the third time. 
panies Bill,  vesolved, 'That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 
VoL. 131, 








5th—6th April. 141 


The London and Blackwall Railway Bill was London and 

read the third time. ae 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. oe 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 

Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Ordered, That the North Eastern Railway Bill North Eastern 
be read the third time after the other Private Railway Bill. 
Business. 


The Romsey Extension and Improvement Bill Romsey 

was read the third time. ey 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. Bill 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 


Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Rossendale Union Gas Bill was read the Rossendale _ 
third time. Union Gas Bill. 


Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Whitehaven, Cleator, and Egremont Railway Whitehaven, 
Bill was read the third time. oo 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. Railway Bill. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Third North Eastern 
Reading of the North Eastern Railway Bill; Railway Bill. 
And a Motion being made, That the Bill be now 
read the third time; 
Mr. Cowper-Temple, by Her Majesty’s Com- 
mand, acquainted the House, That Her Majesty, 
having been informed of the purport of the Bill, 
gives Her Consent, as far as Her Majesty’s interest 
is concerned, that the House may do therein as 
they shall think fit. 
Then the Bill was read the third time. 
Resolved, Vhat the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Notice being taken, that the Name of Mr. Monastic and 
Newdegate, Member for North Warwickshire, had a 
been affixed without his authority to a Petition gy)" 
from Chatham, in favour of the Monastic and 
Conventual Institutions Bill, presented upon the 
30th day of March last ; 

Ordered, That the Order that the said Petition 
do lie upon the Table be read, and discharged. 

Oi dered, That the Petition be withdrawn. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Private Bills 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private [tors] 
Bills, That no Standing Orders not previously Gomeneus” 
inquired into are applicable in the case of the fol- previously 
lowing Bills, originating in the Lords, and referred a 
on the First Reading thereof, viz. : — 

Bousfield’s Patent Bill. 
Hall's Patent Bill. 
Milner’s Patent Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bills be read a second time. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and Public 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions. 
A Public Petition was also presented, and read ; Vide Votes, and 
and referred to a Select Committee. ee 
eport. 
Ordered, That the Return relative to the Navy Navy _ 
(Victualling Savings), which was presented upon (Victualling 


a 2 Savings.) 
the 30th day of March last, be printed. No. 157. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Yurmouth Yarmouth 
(Isle of Wight), which was presented upon the 3rd (Isle of Wight.) 
day of this instant April, be printed. No, 158. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Navy Navy (Retire- 
(Retirement of Officers), which was presented Gaus 
upon the 4th day of this instant April, be printed. | 1 - 

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Railways 
Abandonment. 
No. 27. 


Excise 
Licences. 


No. 160. 


Manufactures, 
Commerce, &amp;c. 
(Commercial, 
No. 3, 1876.) 


Manufactures, 
Commerce, &amp;c., 
Consular 
Reports, 
(Commercial, 
No. 4, 1876.) 


Prince Edward 
Island, 


Succession 
Duty Act, 
1853, 


Irish Society. 


Railway Bills 
(Group 10.) 


Burghs and 
Populous 
Places (Scot- 
land) Gas 
Supply Bill. 


Burghs (Scot- 
land) Gas 
Supply Bull. 


Bill 120, 


No. 161. 


Private Bills 
(Group K.) 


Public 
Elemevtary 
Schools 
(Religious 


Instruction.) 


Gibraltar 
(Tobacco 
Trade.) 


142 6th April. 1876. 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to Railways 
Abandonment, which was presented upon the 4th 
day of this instant April, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Excise 
Licences, which was presented upon the 4th day 
of this instant April, be printed. 


Mr. Bourke presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- 
mand,—Copy of Reports by Her Majesty’s Secre- 
taries of Embassy and Legation on the Manu- 
factures, Commerce, &amp;c., of the Countries in 
which they reside. Part I. 

Copy of Reports from Her Majesty’s Consuls on 
the Manufactures, Commerce, &amp;c., of their Con- 
sular Districts. Part IT. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. James Lowther presented, by Her Majesty’s 
Command,—Copy of further Correspondence rela- 
tive to the Land Tenure Question in Prince 

fdward Island. (In continuation of Command 
Paper [C. 1351] August 1875.) 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 

Table. 


Mr. Secretary Cross presented,—Return to an 
Address to Her Majesty, dated the 22nd day of 
February last, for a Return relative to the Suc- 
cession Duty Act, 1853. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


The following Paper was laid upon the Table by 
the Clerk of the House,—Return to an Order, 
dated the 27th day of March last, for Returns 
relative to the Irish Society. 


Ordered, That the Committee on Group 10 of 
Railway Bills have leave to sit this day till Five 
of the clock, during the sitting of the House. 


Mr. Massey reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on the Burghs and Populous Places ( Scoé- 
land) Gas Supply Bill; That they had gone 
through the Bill, and made Amendments there- 
unto, and amended the Title as followeth: 

A Bill to make Provision for Lighting Burghs 
in Scotland with Gas. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for Monday the 
8th day of May next. 

Ordered, That the Minutes of the Proceedings 
of the Committee be printed. 


Mr. Orr Ewing reported from the Committee 


on Group K. of Private Bills; That, for the con- | 2, ; ‘ 
scribed as chargeable in the Act of the Sixteenth 


venience of Parties, the Committee had adjourned 
till Tuesday the 25th day of this instant April, at 
Twelve of the clock. 

Ordered, That the Repert do lie upon the 
Table. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 


to give directions, that there be laid before this | 


House, a Return of the Number of Public Ele- 
mentary Schools under the description of National, 
British, Roman Catholic, or Board Schools, in 
which Religious Instruction is given, stating 
whether it is given at the beginning or the end of 
the meeting of the School, and whether before or 
after the Register is taken and closed. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return setting out,—-1. Copies of Orders 








given to the Officer of the Main Guard, and the 
Non-commissioned Officer of the Signal Station 
at Gibraltar, with reference to Guarda Costas 
and Garrison Traders:——2. Average Number 
of Tons of Tobacco daily sold by Auction in the 
Commercial Square (usually known as “ The 
Jews’ Market”), at Gibraltar, Saturdays and 
Sundays excepted :——3. Namesof Houses at Gib- 
raltar importing upwards of 1,000 Tons of Tobacco 
annually : 4. Number of Persons (Residents 
and Non-Residents) employed in the Tobacco 
Trade at Gibraltar. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Navy 
a Copy of the Report of the Admiralty Committee {Wictualing 
appointed in 1870 to inquire into the “ System™ ) 
of Savings of Provisions and Victualling in the 
Royal Navy,” with Appendices attached to the 
Report. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Ways and 
mittee of Ways and Means; Means. 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave 
the Chair ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the 
words “ Local and Imperial Taxation, when they Local and 
‘** have a common incident, should have a common Imperial 
* basis of valuation, and should alike be assessed Tt. 
* upon the net rental or value of Real Property; 
‘and that Imperial Taxation, when levied upon 
“ industrial earnings, should be subject to such 
“an abatement as may equitably adjust the bur- 
“thens thrown upon intelligence and skill, as 
“ compared with property,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Question ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the {Sir William Dyke, 1 156 

Yeas, \Mr. Rowland Winn: = 
Tellers for the Mr. Hubbard, 7 
Noes, (Mr. Sampson Lloyd : sf 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
Chair:—The House accordingly resolved itself 
into the Committee. 


84, 


(In the Committee.) 


1. Question again proposed, That, towards rais- Income Tax. 
ing the Supply granted to Her Majesty, there 
shall be charged, collected, and paid for one year, 
commencing on the Sixth day of April One thou- 
sand eight hundred and Seventy-six, in respect of 
all Property, Profits, and Gains mentioned or de- 


and Seventeenth years of Her Majesty’s reign, 
chapter thirty-four, the following Duties of In- 
come Tax (that is to say): 


For every Twenty Shillings of the annual value or 
amount of all such Property, Profits, and Gains 
chargeable under Schedules (A.), (C.), (D.), or (E.), 
of the said Act, the Duty of Three Pence ; 

And for every Twenty Shillings of the annual value of 
the occupation of Lands. Tenements, Hereditaments, 
and Heritages chargeable under Schedule (B.) of the 
said Act :— 

In England, the Duty of One Penny [alfpenny ; 
and 

In Scotland and Ireland respectively, the Duty of 
One Penny Farthing : 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question put, 
That, towards raising the Supply granted to Her 
Majesty, there shall be charged, collected, and 
paid for one year, commencing on the Sixth day 
of April One thousand eight hundred and Seventy- 
six, in respect of all Property, Profits, and Gains 
mentioned or described as chargeable in the Act 

of 








389 VicTorRIA. 


of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth years of Her 
Majesty’s reign, chapter thirty-four, the following 
Duties of Income Tax (that is to say): 





For every Twenty Shillings of the annual value or 
amount of all such Property, Profits, and Gains 
chargeable under Schedules (A.), (C.), (D ), or (E.) 
of the said Act, the Duty of Two Pence ; 

And for every Twenty Shillings of the annual value of 
the occupation of Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments, 
and Heritages chargeable under Schedule (B.) of the 
said Act :— 

In England, the Duty of One Penny ; and 
In Scotland and Ireland respectively, the Duty of 
One Fenny ; 


The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the; Mr. Charles Lewis, 
Yeas, {Mi r. Monk: 

Tellers for thes Sir William Dyke, 1113 
Noes, \ Mr. Rowland Winn: j ‘ 

Original Question put, and agreed to. 

2. Resolved, That the exemption granted by the 
Act of the Fifth and Sixth years of Her Majesty’s 
reign, chapter thirty-five, to persons whose in- 
comes are respectively less than One Hundred and 
Fifty Pounds a-year, shall be restored, and, in lieu 
of the relief granted by Section Twelve of “ The 
Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1872,” to a 

erson whose income, although amounting to One 
Tanieed Pounds or upwards, is less than Three 
Hundred Pounds, a relief or abatement to the ex- 
tent of Duty upon One Hundred and Twenty 
Pounds shall be given or made to a person whose 
income, although amounting to One Hundred and 
Fifty Pounds or upwards, is less than Four Hun- 
dred Pounds. 

3. Resolved, That, towards raising the Supply 
granted to Her Majesty, the Duties of Customs 
now charged on Tea shall continue to be levied 
and charged on and after the First day of August 
One thousand eight hundred and Seventy-six, 
until the First day of August One thousand eight 
hundred and Seventy-seven, on importation into 
Great Britain or Ireland (that is to say): on 


s. d. 
Tea - - - - - - thelb. - 6 


4. Resolved, That it is expedient to amend the 
Law relating to the Inland Revenue and the Cus- 


toms. 
Resolutions to be reported. 


1 52. 


Income Tax 
(Exemptions 
and Abate- 
ments.) 


Tea. 


laland Revenue 
and Customs, 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had come to several 
Resolutions. 

Ordered, That the Report be received To- 
morrow. 

Mr. Raikes also acquainted the House, that he 
was directed to move, That the Committee may 
have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House wil], To-morrow, 
again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Merchant Shipping Bill. 


(In the Committee.) 


Cause, N° 6 (Constitution of court of survey 
for appeals. See 36 &amp; 37 Vic. c. 85, s. 14). 

Amendment again proposed, in p. 4,1. 13, to 
leave out from the word “ experience ” to the word 
“ judge,” in 1. 20, in order to insert the words 
“and shall be appointed, one by the Board of 
“ Trade, either generally or in each case, out of a 
“list of persons periodically nominated for the 
“ purpose by the local marine board of the port, 
“ or, if there is no such board, by a body of local 
“ shipowners or merchants approved for the pur- 
“pose by a Secretary of State, or, if there is no 
“such body, by the judge, and the other out of 
* such list by the parties nominating same.” 

Question again proposed, That the words “one 
Vou. 131. 


Merchant 
Shipping Bill, 





6th April. 








143 


of them shall be appointed by the Board of Trade ” 
stand part of the Clause; 

Question put, and agreed to; 

Clause agreed to. 


Ciauses, N°7 and N° 8, agreed to. 
Cause, N° 9, amended, and agreed to. 


Crause, N° 10 (Power to require from com- 
plainant security for costs. See 36 &amp; 37 Vic. 
c. 85, 8. 13; 38 &amp; 39 Vie. c. 88, s. 2). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 6, 1. 6, to leave out 
the word “ one-fourth,” in order to insert the word 
** one-half.” 

Question proposed, That the word “ one- 
fourth” stand part of the Clause :—Amendment, 
by leave, withdrawn. 

An Amendment made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 6. Is. 7 
and 8, to leave out the words “ and is not, in the 
* opinion of the Board or officer, frivolous or vexa- 
* tious.” 

Question proposed, That the words proposed to 
be left out stand part of the Clause :—Amend- 
ment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

Cause, N° 11 (Supplemental provisions as to 
detention of ship. 17 &amp; 18 Vic. c. 104, s. 14), 

Amendment proposed, in p. 6, 1. 28, to leave 
out from the words “ one thousand eight hundred 
*‘ and fifty-four” to the word “ closed,” in 1. 29, 
both inclusive. 

Question proposed, That the words proposed to 
be left out stand part of the Clause :—Amend- 
ment, by leave, withdrawn. 

An Amendment made. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

Cravse, N° 12 (Appeal to court of survey on 
survey of passenger steamer or emigrant ship, 17 
&amp; 18 Vic. c. 104, ss. 303, 309, 312; 25 &amp; 26 Vie. 
c. 63, s. 12). 

Amendments made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 7, 1. 34, 
after the word “ is,” to insert the words “ and the 
“ court shall adjudicate on the subject-matter of 
** such appeal on its merits solely, and irrespective 
*‘ of any instructions that may have been issued 
“by the Board of Trade to their surveyors or 
* others bearing on the question appealed.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted :—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Other Amendments made. 

Another Amendment proposed, at the end of the 
last Amendment, to add the words,“ For the purpose 
* of avoiding delay in cases of urgency the owner 
* or master of a ship, in any case in which he might 
“ under any of the provisions of this section appeal 
“to a court of survey, may, instead of so appeal- 
** ing, refer the matter to any two or more referees, 
** being assessors or scientific referees, included in 
* any list in force under this Act. One of the 
“ assessors or referees may be named by the per- 
“son requiring the reference, and the other or 
“ others shall, at the request of such person, be 
** selected in the prescribed manner from the lists 
“in force as aforesaid by the registrar of the 
“ court of survey. Notice of such reference, and 
* of the names of the proposed referees, shall be 
“ given to the prescribed person. The referees 
“may forthwith proceed to determine the matter 
“‘ of the reference, and may make any order which 
* could be made by a court of survey under this 
“ Act, or may, if they think fit, and shall, if so 
“ required by the Board of Trade, in any particu- 
** lar case remit the matter to the court of survey : 
** Provided, that no order of the referees (except 
“ an order for remitting the matter to the court of 
“ survey) shall take effect until the expiration of 
“ twenty-four hours from the giving of notice as 


* aforesaid, unless with the consent of the Board 
“ of Trade or of a detaining officer. The expenses 
T4 


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Valuation Bill. 


Local 
Government 
Provisional 
Orders Bill. 





144 6th—7th April. | 1876. 


** of any such reference shall be ascertained, paid, Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

“and borne as if they were costs of a proceeding} Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to : 

“ before a court of survey.” the Lords, and desire their concurrence. | 
Question proposed, That those words be there 


gar tip acorn by np ae, The Crossed Cheques Bill was, according to Crossed 
ause, as amended, agreed to. Ord il d time: and committed to a Cheves Bu 

Ciause, N° 13 (Reference in difficult cases to ee ee ee 7 : a [Lords,] 

‘sie aga ’ | Committee of the whole House, for Monday the 
crete yorents), . | 24th day of this instant April. 

Amendment proposed, in p. 8, 1. 8, to leave out | 
the word “if,” in order to insert the word | 
‘“* where.” A v : . . 

Question, That the word “ if” stand part of the | mittee on the Cattle Disease (Ireland) Bill; 
Clause put, and agreed to. | Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 


Amendments made. | itself into the said Cummittee. 


Another Amendment proposed, in p. 8, l. 9, te | 
leave out from the word “ difficulty” to the word| ‘The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Poor Lay 
: a 7 gs in vane a | sslttos on the Poor Law Amendment Bill; Amendment 
&lt;n matter shall be referred to a scientific re-| — pesytved, That this House will, this day, resolve 

feree or referees, to be agreed upon by the Board | itself into the said Committee. 

of Trade and the appellant, and selected from a list 


to be nominated and approved, as hereinafter pro- 
: : : The House, according to Order, resolved itself om 
vided, or, incase they cannotagree, to be nominated | »&amp; S ? ences 


by a judge of the Supreme Court of Judicature, | mae a Committee on the Offences against the &gt; ema 
and thereupon the appeal shall be determined by | Person Bill; and, after some time spent therein, 

‘ the referee or referees so agreed upon or nomina- | Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr. Rathes 
reported, That the Committee had made Progress 

‘in the Bill, and that he was directed to move, 

| That the Committee may have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
the 24th day of this instant April, again resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 





The Order of the day being read, for the Com.- Cattle Disease 
% (Ireland) Bil), 


ted instead of by the court of survey ; andthe Board 
* of Trade and the shipowner may, if they think fit, 
‘ refer any question to such referee or referees, 
although such question does not arise out of | 
cases enumerated in the last Clause.” 
Question, That the words “ or important prin- 
ciple” stand part of the Clause —— put, and | 
agreed to. The Order of the day being read, for the Second Parliamentary 
Other Amendments made. | Reading of the Parliamentary and Municipal 24 Municipal 
Clause, as amended, agreed to. | Registration (Boroughs) Bill ; (Boroughs) 
Ciause, N° 14 (Stowage of cargo of grain, &amp;e.| Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time Bill. 
38 &amp; 39 Vic. c. 88, s. 3). upon Monday the 24th day of this instant April. 
An Amendment made. : 


| 
Another Amendment proposed, in p. 8, 1. 25, | ’ . 
pr nif sete | The Order of the day being read, for the Second Intoxicating 


after the word “ ship,” to insert the words “ or “ : : 

- . - i ws | . : icati . . since Liquors 
‘into or out of any port in the United Kingdom | Reading of the Intoxic page | Liquors (Licensing (Licensing 
on board any ship.” | Law Amendment) (No. 2) Bill; ow Aneel 

: Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time ment) (No. 2) 


Question proposed, That those words be there : ; 
Tuesd; 95 ‘ is i F Bill. 
inserted :—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. _upon Tuesday the 25th day of this instant April. 


Another Amendment proposed, in p. 8, 1. 25, 
after the word “ ship,” to insert the words * oron| The Order of the day being read, for the Second Beer Licences 
“ board any foreign ship laden in any port of the Reading of the Beer Licences (Ireland) Bill; (Ireland) Bill. 
“ United Kingdom.” | Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 

Question proposed, That those words be there | this day. 
inserted ; , 

Amendment proposed to the said proposed | The Order of the day being read, for resuming Land Tenure 
Amendment, by adding, at the end thereof, the the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed (Ireland) Bill. 
words “ or laden in any port out of the United | upon the Amendment which, upon the 29th day of 
“ Kingdom, to be discharged in any port of the | March last, was proposed to be made to the 
‘“* United Kingdom.” | Question, That the Land Tenure (Jreland) Bill 

Question proposed, That those words be added | be now read a second time ; 
to the said proposed Amendment :—Amendment Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
to the said proposed Amendment and Amendment, | till Tuesday the 25th day of this instant April. 
by leave, withdrawn. | 


a] &gt; —_  * semi . at | . 
To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. | The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Municipal 
| . “ee +s . ® - ivileges 
And the House having continued to sit till after | aaa endl the Munic ipal Privileges (Ireland) «* - (ieelen) Bill. 
Twelve of the clock on Friday morning ; | _, Kesolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
ve it | the 25th day of this instant April, resolve itself 
Friday, 7th April, 1876: | into the said Committee. 





. ° : | 

Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes | 
reported, That the Committee had made Progress| . y dein ; 
in the Bill, and that he was directed to move, That | mittee on the Salmon Fisheries Bill; 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Salmon 
; = Fisheries Bill. 
the Committee may have leave to sit again. Resolved, That this House will, upon a 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday the Ist day of May next, resolve itself into the 


next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. | said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second! The Order of the day being read, for resuming House - 
Reading of the Valuation Bill; ‘the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed per yore 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time! upon the 22d day of March last, That the House jemoval Bill 
upon Monday next. Occupiers Disqualification Removal Bill be now 
read a second time ; 
The Local Government Provisional Orders! Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 


Ordered, 





Bill was, according to Order, read the third time. | till Monday next. 





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39 Vicronta. 


Ordercd, That the Select Committee on the 


— Local Government and Taxation of Towns (Jre- 
Taxation of | Jand) do consist of Seventeen Members. 


anh) Ordered, That Mr. James Corry and Mr. 
Murphy be added to the Committee. 





school Board «Resolved, That an humble Address be presented | 

Prosecutions +o Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased | 

(Greenwich:) to give directions, that there be laid before this | 
House, a Return from the School Board for 
London, showing— 

J. The Number of Prosecutions in the Green- 
wich Division for Breaches of the Board’s 
Bye-laws during the three following 
Periods :-— 

(a.) During the time Prosecutions were 
ordered by the authority of the Divi- 
sional Committee of Ratepayers ori- 
ginally appointed ; . 

(b.) During the time Prosecutions were 
ordered without the sanction or know- 
ledge of that Committee, but previous | 
to its abolition ; and, 

(c.) During the time that has elapsed 
since the formal dismissal of the Com- 
mittee by vote of the School Board for 
London; 

II. Whether in any instances, and, if so, in how 
many, during the last two periods, Persons 
charged with a violation of the Bye-laws 
have undergone preliminary investigation 
by a less number than three of the Divi- 
sional Members; and whether in any in- 
stances, and, if so, in how many, the Super- 
intendent of Visitors has himself performed 
such preliminary investigation ; 

III. The Number of Cases, if any, during the 
last two periods specified, in which Presecu- 
tions have been ordered— 

(a.) By less than three of the Members 
for the Division ; 

(b.) By the Superintendent of Visitors 
without the authority of one or more of 
the Members for the Division. 





Admiralty Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
‘iand) to amend “ The Court of Admiralty (Jreland) 
‘ Act, 1867,” and confer a more extended Admiralty 
Jurisdiction on the Recorders of Cork and Bel- 

fast: And that Mr. Solicitor General for Jreland 

and Sir Michael Hicks Beach do prepare, and | 


bring it in. 


Local Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
ae to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the 
Orders (No, 2.) Local Government Board under “ The Poor Law 
Amendment Act, 1867,” with reference to the 
Townships of Cumberworth and Cumberworth Half, 
in the West Riding of the County of York, and 
the Borough of King’s Lynn, in the County of 
Norfolk: And that Mr. Salt and Mr. Selater- 


Booth do prepare, and bring it in. 


= Ordered, That Sir Robert Buxton be added to 
** the Select Committee on Oyster Fisheries. 


Admiralty Mr. Solicitor General for Jreland presented a 

(eka) oi Bill to amend ‘‘ The Court of Admiralty (Jreland) 

Bill 121, Act, 1867,” and confer a more extended Admiralty 

* Jurisdiction on the Recorders of Cork and Belfast ; 

And the same was read the first time; and ordered 

to be read a second time upon Monday the 24th 
day of this instant April; and to be printed. 


ann nite The Earl of March reported the Severn Bridge 
Dean Centrat 20d Forest of Dean Central Railway Bill, with 
Railway Bil, Amendments. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table; 
and be printed. 











VoL. 131. 


6th-—7th April. 145 


The Earl of March reported from the Com- North Wales 
mittee on Group 10 of Railway Bills; That in the Narrow Gauge 
case of the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways ®ilways Bill. 
Bill, they had examined the allegations contained 
in the Preamble of the Bill, and verbally amended 
the same, and found the same, as amended, to be 
true; and had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table; 
and be printed. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Message from 
Message had been brought from the Lords by one *8¢ Lords. 
of their Clerks, as followeth: 

The Lords have agreed to the Mutiny Bill, Mutiny Bill. 
without any Amendment. ; 

The Lords have agreed to the Marine Mutiny Marine Mutiny 
Bill, without any Amendment. am. 

The Lords have agreed to the Burgesses ( Scot- Burgesses 
land) Bill, with Amendments; to which the Lords — 
desire the concurrence of this House. ca 

The Lords have agreed to the United Parishes United 
(Scotland) Bill, with Amendments ; to which the —— 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House. ie, 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Galashiels 
to extend the Municipal Boundaries of the Burgh ein 
of Galashiels ; to provide for the maintenance by Police, and 
the Corporation of the Roads and Streets within Water Bill 
the Burgh, and to bring in a Supply of Water tii. 
thereto, and for other purposes; to which the 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act lve! Navigation 
to provide for the closing of the Jvel Navigation, ne 
the extinction of the Commission, and for other 
purposes; to which the Lords desire the concur- 
rence of this House. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Erwood Bridge 
for incorporating the Erwood Bridge Company, me a 
and for empowering them to construct a Bridge 
over the River Wye, with Approaches thereto, in 
the Counties of Brecon and Hadnor, and for other 
purposes ; to which the Lords desire the concur- 
rence of this House. 


‘The Galashiels Municipal Extension, Police, Galashiels 
and Water Bill was read the first time. ee 

Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- Police, and 

miners of Petitions for Private Bills. Water Bill 
[Lords.] 

Ordered, That the Amendments made by the Burgesses 

Lords to the Burgesses ( Scot/and) Bill be taken — 


into consideration this day. 


Ordered, That the Amendments made by the United 


Lords to the United Parishes (Scotland) Bill be (Beotiondl) 
taken into consideration this day. Bill. 


The Order for resuming, upon Monday next, Serpentine. 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
upon the 4th day of this instant April, That the 
Mounds at present being erected on the South of 
the Serpentine are unsightly, and will, when 
planted, be detrimental to the picturesque cha- 
racter of Hyde Park, and ought to be removed, 
was read, and discharged. 
Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Thursday the 27th day of this instant April. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till a quarter of an hour after One of the 
clock on Friday morning, adjourned till 


this day. 









7 


146 
Friday, 7th April, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 
S IR Charles Dilke reported from the Select 


Committee on Parliamentary and Municipal | 
Elections ; That they had considered the matters | 
to them referred, and directed him to make a Re- 
port thereof to the House; together with the Mi- 
nutes of the Evidence taken before them, and an 
Appendix. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table; | 
and be printed. 


Parliamentary 
and Municipal 
Elections. 


No. 162. 





Shepton Mallet The House proceeded to take into consideration | 
Water Bill. the Amendments made by the Lords to the Shep- | 
ton Mallet Water Bill; and the same were twice 
read, and agreed to. | 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the | 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- | 
ships. 
Padiham and The Padiham and Hapton Local Board Bill was | 
i read the third time. 
: Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act for empowering the Local Board | 
for the District of Padiham and Hapton, in the 
County of Lancaster, to acquire the Undertaking 
of the Padiham Gas Light and Coke Company, 
and for other purposes. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the | 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Upper Inny The Upper Inny Drainage Bill was read the 
Drainage Bill. third time. | 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. | 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


{ 
{ 


{ 


| The House proceeded to take into consideration 
South Western, the London and South Western, Midland, and | 
Midland, and = Symerset and Dorset Railway Companies Bill, as 
Somerset and ° " ° 7 
Dorset Railway amended in the Committee. 
Companies Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. | 
ill. | 
The Dudley and Oldbury Junction Railway Bill 

was read a second time; and committed. 


Dudley and 
Oldbury 
Junction Rail- 
way Bill. 

Vale of Clyde The Vale of Clyde Tramways Bill was read a 
Tramways Bill. second time; and committed. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 

Reading of the Northampton and Banbury Junc- 
tion Railway Company and their Sureties Bill; 
Co “ 2 

me — Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
Sureties Bill. ypon Friday the 28th day of this instant April. 


Northampton 
and Banbury 
Junction Rail- 





Stoke-upon- The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Trent Corpora- Reading of the Stoke-upon-7'rent Corporation | 
tion Bill. Bill: © 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 

upon Monday the Ist day of May next. 


Erwood Bridge 


r The LErwood Bridge Bill was read the first 
Bill [ Lords. } 


time. 
Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


7th April. 





Ivel Navigation 


The IJvel Navigation Bill was read the first 
Bill [Lords.]} 


time. 
Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 





Mr. Salt presented a Bill to confirm certain 
Provisional Orders made by the Local Govern- 
g) ment Board under “ The Poor Law Amendment 
Act, 1867,” with reference to the Townships of 
Cumberworth and Cumberworth Half, in the West 
Riding of the County of York, and the Borough of 
King’s Lynn, in the County of Norfolk: And the 


Local 
Government 
Provisional 
Orders (No. 
Bill. 


1876. 


same was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time upon Monday next; and to be 
printed. 


Mr. Raikes reported the Burry Port and North Burry Port yy 
Western Junction Railway Bill, with Amend- North W 
ments, ee Rail 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table; - 
and be printed. 


Mr. Raikes reported the Llanfyllin and Llangy- Lantyliin na 
nog Railway Bill, with Amendments. ianEy O05 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; ®#!¥ay Bit. 
and be printed. 


Mr. Raikes reported the Merionethshire Railway Merionethshix 
Bill, with Amendments. Railway Bill, 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on the Pegwell Bay 
Pegwell Bay Reclamation Bill; That they had Reclamation 
examined the allegations contained in the Preamble 
of the Bill, and amended the same, to make it 
consistent with the provisions of the Bill as sub- 
mitted to, and passed by the Committee, and 
found the same, as amended, to be true; and had 
gone through the Bill, and made Amendments 
thereunto. 

Ordered, Vhat the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on the Rosstrevor 
Rosstrevor Improvement Bill; That, in pursuance ae 
of a Resolution of the House of the 18th day of 
February last, it was proved to the Committee 
that the Grand Jury of the County of Down con- 
sented to the construction of the Tramways men- 
tioned in Clause 22 of the Bill. 

Mr, Raikes further reported from the Com- 
mittee; That they had examined the allegations 
of the Bill, and found the same to be true; and 
had gone through the Bill, and made Amendments 
thereunto. 

Ordered, That ‘he Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Mr. Raikes reported the York New Water Bill, — ro 
with Amendments. ater Bul, 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


A Message was delivered by Lieutenant Colonel Royal Assent. 
Talbot, Serjeant at Arms: 


Mr. Speaker, 


The Lords, authorized by virtue of Her Ma- 
jesty’s Commission, for declaring Her Royal As- 
sent to several Acts agreed upon by both Houses, 
desire the immediate attendance of this Honourable 
House in the House of Peers, to bear the Com- 
mission read. 
Accordingly Mr. Speaker, with the House, went 
up to the House of Peers :—And being returned ; 
Mr. Speaker reported, That the House, at the 
desire of the Lords, authorized by virtue of Her 
Majesty’s Commission, had been at the House of 
Peers, where a Commission under the Great Seal 
was read, giving, declaring, and notifying the 
Royal Assent to the several Acts therein men- 
tioned ; and that the Lords, thereby authorised, 
had declared the Royal Assent to the said Acts, as 
follow : é ; - 
An Act to amend the Law relating to certain Talis (Pret i 


Appointments to the Council of India. sional Appoint- 
ments) Bill. 


An Act to amend the Law relating to the ae i 


Stamping of Policies of Sea Insurance. Policies) 
An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion, Mutiny Bil 
and for the better Payment of the Army and their 
Quarters. 
An 








i. --h.- oh - - e n~- oe 





ort an 


D and 


ta 


thshire 
Bill. 


Bay 
tion 


or 
ment 


Ww 


ill. 


sent. 








39 Vicroria. 


An Act for the Regulation of Her Majesty’s 
Royal Marine Forces while on Shore. 


Marine Mutiny 
re An Act to amend the Act for making Regula- 


oeesiee of tions as to the Office of Clerk of the Peace for the 

Jancaster = County Palatine of Lancaster. 

(Clerk — 

eee An Act to enable Her Majesty’s Postmaster 

Post Offee General to acquire a Site for the Extension of the 

Bil. Manchester General Post Office. 

Derby Gas An Act to confirm the holding of certain Lands 

Bill by the Derby Gas Light and Coke Company to 
enable that Company to raise additional Capital, 
and for other purposes. 

Ely, Hadden- An Act to authorize the Ely, Haddenham, and 

ham, and Sutton Railway Company to extend their autho- 


— Railway vized Railway to the Saint Ives and March Rail- 
“ way of the Great Eastern Railway, to change 
their Name, and for other purposes. 
Scotswood, An Act to authorize the Scotswoud, Newburn, 
Newburn, and and Wylam Railway and Dock Company to abandon 
i pe the Construction of the Dock and Branch Railway 
Bill. near Scotswood Bridge, in the County of North- 
umberland, to change their Name, and for other 
purposes. 


Manchester, Sir John Kennaway reported from the Com- 
Sheffield, and ~yittee on Group 9 of Railway Bills; That in the 
Lincolnshire case of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 


7th April. 








147 


Notice being taken of the language of Petitions Monastic and 
in favour of the Monastic and Conventual Insti- Conventual 
tutions Bill from Kensington and Broadstairs, yit™%™s 
which were presented upon the 28th day of March 
last; and from Avebury, which was presented upon 
the 31st day of March last, and doubts having 
been expressed whether the name of the Honour- 
able Member which appeared upon those Petitions 
had been affixed by his authority ; 

Anda Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Order, That the Petition 
from Kensington in favour of the Monastic and 
Conventual Institutions Bill, which was presented 
upon the 28th day of March last, do lie upon the 
Table, be read, and discharged:—And a Debate 
arising thereupon ; 

A Motion was made, and the Question was 
proposed, That the Debate be now adjourned :— 

And the said Motion was, with leave of the House, 
withdrawn. 

And the original Question being put ; 

Ordered, That the Order, That the Petition 
from Kensington in favour of the Monastic and 
Conventual Institutions Bill, which was presented 
upon the 28th day of March last, do lie upon the 
Table, be read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Petition be withdrawn. 

Ordered, That the Order, That the Petition 
from Broadstairs in favour of the Monastic and 


contained in the Preamble of the Bill, and amended | Conventual Institutions Bill, which was presented 
the same by striking out certain recitals having | upon the 28th day of March last, do lie upon the 


| 
| 





Ordered, That the Petition be withdrawn. 

Ordered, That the Order, That the Petition 
from Avebury in favour of the Monastic and Con- 
ventual Institutions Bill, which was presented 
upon the 3lst day of March last, do lie upon the 
Table, be read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Petition be withdrawn. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, spirits. 
Returns showing the Number of Gallons of Proof 
Spirits distilled in England, Scotland, Ireland, and 
the United Kingdom; the Gallons delivered, Duty 
paid, from Distillers’ Stocks, and the Gallons put 
ito Bond, in the year ended the 31st day of De- 
cember 1875: The Number of Gallons of Proof 
British Spirits on which Duty was paid in each of 
the Three Kingdoms, and in the United Kingdom, 
with the rate per Gallon and the Amount of Duty ; 





also, the Total Number of Gallons and Duty in 
the United Kjngdom: The Number of Gallons 
of Proof British Spirits consumed in each of the 
Three Kingdoms, and in the United Kingdom, and 
the Net Amount of Duty retained thereon: 
The Number of Gallons of Proof British Spirits 
removed, Duty free and Duty paid respectively, 
from each part of the United Kingdom to each of 
the other parts: ——The Number of Gallons of 
Proof Spirits permitted from Distillers’ Stocks and 
Duty-free Warehouses in each of the ‘Three King- 
doms, and in the United Kingdom, to Customs’ 
Warehouses for Exportation, Ships’ Stores, &amp;c., 
and the Amount of Drawback or Allowance paid 
thereon: —-- ‘The Number of Proof Gallons of 
Spirits in Bonded Stores in each of the Three 
Kingdoms, and in the United Kingdom, on the 
31st day of December 1875: The Number of 
Gallons, at Proof Strengthy of Foreign and Colonial 
Spirits respectively, received into Rectifiers’ 











_— Railway Bill, they had examined the allegations 
reference to clauses which were omitted from the | Table, be read, and diseharged. 
Bill as laid before the Committee, and found the 
same, as amended, to be true; and had gone 
through the Bill, and made Amendments there- 
unto. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 
Private Bills Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
a Bodin one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 
Orders not - That no Standing Orders not previously inquired 
previowly into are applicable in the case of the following 
wiiable)” Bill, originating in the Lords, and referred on the 
“First Reading thereof, viz. : 
Dublin Port and Docks Board Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time. 
Private Bills Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
fhantg one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 
Orders not  Lhat the Standing Orders not previously inquired 
previously into, and which are applicable thereto, have been 
cophol with complied with in the case of the following Bills, 
“ originating in the Lords, and referred on the 
First Reading thereof, viz. : 
Great North of Scot/and Railway Bill. 
Newcastle-upon- Tyne Quayside Lift Bill. 
Sutton Gas Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bills be read a second time. 
io Several Public Petitions were presented, and 
__—. read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 
Vide Four. 
teenth Report. 
aiicetaral Ordered, That the Return relative to the 
1875. Act, Agricultural Holdings Act, 1875, which was pre- 
x sented upon the 4th day of this instant April, be 
me 168, printed. 
Irish Society, Ordered, That the Return relative to the Irish 


No, 164, Society, which was presented upon the 6th day of 
this instant April, be printed. ; 


Contagious Mr. Secretary Cross presented,—Return to an 
(Animals Address to Her Majesty, dated the 23rd day of 
Diseased.) March last, for Returns relative to Contagious 


Diseases (Animals Diseased). 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 
VoL. 131. 








Stocks for Rectification, and the Total Number of 
Gallons of Proof British Brandy permitted out of 
Rectifiers’ Stocks in each of the Three Kingdoms, 
and in the United Kingdom, in the year ended the 
31st day of December 1875:—— The Number of 
Proof Gallons of British Compounded Spirits per- 
mitted from Rectifiers’ Stocks, in each of the Three 
Kingdoms, and in the United Kingdom, to Cus- 
soms’ Warehouses for Exportation, Ships’ Stores, 
or Home Consumption, per Act 28 &amp; 29 Vic. c. 98, 

U2 and 





Post Office 
Telegrams 
(Greenock.) 


Hydropkobia 
(West Riding.) 


Norfolk 
(Northern 
Division) Writ. 


Leave of 
Absence. 


Alkali Acts. 
No. 165. 


Boulogne-sur- 
Mer (British 
Consulate. ) 


Public 
Meetings at 
Ipswich, &amp;c. 


Message from 
the Lords. 


Royal Titles 
Bill. 


Drainage and 
Improvement 
of Lands 
(Ireland) Pro- 
visional Orders 
(No. 2) Bill. 


148 7th April. 1876. 


and the Amount of Drawback or Allowance paid 
thereon : And, the Total Number of Gallons 
of Methylic Alcohol sold by the Excise, and the 
Total Number of Gallons of Methylated Spirits 
sent out by Persons licensed to sell the same, under 
the Act 18 &amp; 19 Vic. c. 38, in each of the Three 
Kingdoms, and in the United Kingdom, with the 
Amount of Drawback or Allowance paid thereon, 
for the year ended the 31st day of December 1875 
(in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 217, 
of Session 1875). 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Return of all Telegraph Messages handed in at 
Prince's Pier Railway Station, Greenock, for the 
quarter ending the 3lst day of March; the Time 
each Message was given in, and the Time received 
in the Glasyow Post Office ; the Time occupied in 
Transmission to be stated. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously 
pleased to give directions, that there be laid before 
this House, a Return of the Number of Deaths that 
have arisen from Hydrophobiain the West Riding 
of Yorkshire during the years 1875 and 1876, the 
Names and Ages of the Persons who died, and any 
other Particulars that can be furnished ot the re- 
spective Cases. 


Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant 
to the Clerk of the Crown, to make out a new 
Writ for the electing of a Member to serve in this 
present Parliament for the Northern Division of 
the County of Norfolk, in the room of the Honour- 
able Frederick Walpole, deceased. 


Ordered, That Mr. Hardcastle have leave of 
absence till Easter, on account of domestic afflic- 
tion. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Copy of Intermediate Report of Dr. Angus 
Smith, Chief Inspector under the Alkali Acts, 
1863 and 1874, to the Local Government Board, 
of his Proceedings since the passing of the latter 
Act. 

Mr. Sclater-Booth accordingly presented the 
said Paper. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Boulogne-sur-Mer, 
relative to the British Consulate in that Town, 
having been offered to be presented,— 

A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That the Petition of Inhabitants of Bou- 
logne-sur-Mer, relative to the British Consulate 
in that Town, do lie upon the Table:—And the 
said Motion was, with leave of the House, with- 
drawn. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Copy of Correspondence between Mr. 
Whalley, M.v., and the Secretary of State for the 
Home Department, in reference to Public Meet- 
ings held at Ipswich, Colchester, and Bury Saint 
Edmunds in October last. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- 
sage had been brought from the Lords, by one of 
their Clerks, as followeth: 

The Lords have ygreed to the Royal Titles Bill, 
without any Amendment. 

The Lords have agreed to the Drainage and Im- 
provement of Lands (/reland) Provisional Orders 
(No. 2) Bill, without any Amendment. 








The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Newport 
to define, alter, and extend the Boundaries of the of Wight) 
Borough and Urban Sanitary District of Newport, Te Bill 
: - J 
in the /sle of Wight, and for other purposes; to 
which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Ryde New Pig 
to incorporate the Ryde New Pier and Railway — Railway 
Company, and for other purposes; to which the il [Lords 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Maidenhead 
for incorporating the Maidenhead Gas Company, District Gas 
and for conferring upon them powers for the sup- Bil! [Lond] 
ply of Gas to the Borough of Maidenhead, and 
certain neighbouring Places, in the Counties of 
Berks and Buckingham, and for other purposes ; 
to which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Brighton 
for amending the Act(Local) of the Thirteenth year Pavilion Bill 
of Her present Majesty, chapter Five, commonly ‘+ 
known as the Brighton Improvement (Purchase of 
Royal Pavilion, &amp;c.) Act, and for other purposes ; 
to which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- gupply, 
mittee of Supply ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave 
the Chair ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the 
words “ a Select Committee be appointed to con- Public Schools 
sider whether any alteration is desirable in the A+ 186. 
* existing relations between the Governing Bodies, 
** Head Masters, and Assistant Masters of the 
* Seven Schools under the operation of ‘ The 
* Public Schools Act, 1868,’” instead thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Question: 
—It was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
Chair:—The House accordingly resolved itself 
into the Committee. 


(In the Committee. ) 


Motion made, and Question proposed, That a 
Sum, not exceeding £.218,663, be granted to Her 
Majesty, to defray the Charge which will come 
in course of payment during the year ending on the 
31st day of March 1877, for the Expenses of Her 
Majesty’s Embassies and Missions Abroad : 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question pro- 
posed, That a Sum, not exceeding £. 204,163, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge 
which will come in course of payment during the 
vear ending on the 3lst day of March 1877, for 
the Expenses of Her Majesty’s Embassies and Mis- 
sions Abroad ; 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Chairman do report Progress, and ask leave to sit 
again :—Motion, by leave, withdrawn. 

Question again proposed, That a Sum, not ex- 
ceeding £. 204,163, be granted to Her Majesty, 
to defray the Charge which will come in course of 
payment during the year ending on the 31st day of 
March 1877, for the Expenses of Her Majesty’s 
Embassies and Missions Abroad:— Motion, by 
leave, withdrawn. 

Original Motion, by leave, withdrawn. . 

£. 1,254,650, on account, for the following Civil 
Services, viz.: 

Cuass I. 

Great Britain :— &amp;. 
Royal Palaces - - 6,000 
Royal Parks - - = - 19,000 
Public Buildings - — - 23,000 
Furniture of Public Offices 2,800 
Houses of Parliament - 5,500 








n 


a Bill 


chools 
8. 





$9 Vicroria. 


New Home and Colonial Offices - - 
Sheriff Court Houses, Scotland - - 
National Gallery Enlargement - - 
Post Office and Inland Revenue Buildings 
British Museum Buildings + - 
County Courts on! ee 
Science and Art Department Buildings 
Surveys of the United Kingdom = - 
Harbours of Refuge ° -« 
Metropolitan Fire Brigade = - 
Rates on Government Property 
Wellington Monument - - 
Natural History Museum 
Metropolitan Police Courts 
New Courts of Justice, &amp;c. 
Ramsgate Harbour- -— - - - 
New Palace at Westminster—Acquisition 
Lands, &amp;ce. - - - - - - - 


Ireland :— 
Public Buildings - - - - . ‘ 
Abroad :— 
Lighthouses Abroad ._ e« « © « 
Embassy Houses and Consular Buildings - 


Cuass II. 


£ 


England : — 
Privy Council Office and Subordinate Depart- 
ments - - - - - « * 
Ireland: — 
Local Government Board - - a - 


Crass III. 
England :— 
Chancery Division, High Court of Justice - 


Crass IV. 
Great Britain :— 


Public Education - - 
Science and Art Department 
British Museum - - 
National Gallery - - 
National Portrait Gallery 
Learned Societies, ke. - 
University of London - 
Scotland :— 
Public Education - - 
Board of Education 
Universities, ke. - - 
National Gallery - 
Ireland : — 
Public Education - - - - - - 
Commissioners of Education (Endowed Schools) 
National Gallery - - - - - ° 
Royal Irish Academy 
Queen’s University 


*$e#es8 ess 
et ' ' 1 ' ' 
ees ees sce e 
et @ @ 2 2 4 


Queen’s Colleges - - 

Crass V. 
Diplomatic Services “- ©« «¢ « 
Consular Services - - 2© © - 


Colonies, Grants in Aid - ~ - - 
Orange River Territory and Saint Helena 
Slave Trade, Commissions for Suppression of 
Tonnage Bounties, &amp;e. - - = - 
Emigration - - - - - - 
Treasury Chest - - - - - 


Cuass VI. 


Superannuation and Retired Allowances 
Merchant Seamen’s Fund Pensions, &amp;c. - 
Relief of Distressed British Seamen Abroad 
Hospitals and Infirmaries, Ireland - - 
Miscellaneous Charitable Allowances, Great 
Britain - - - - - - - 
Miscellaneous Charitable Allowances, Ireland - 


Crass VII. 
Temporary Commissions a a eS, os 
Deep Sea Exploring Expedition - 
Miscellaneous Expenses - = &amp; om 


£.1, 


£. 
1,000 
2,000 
500 
3 ',000 
2,500 
10,000 
800 
27,000 
1,500 
2,500 
39,000 
200 
15,000 
1,000 
15,000 
400 


500 
30,900 


2,700 
8,000 


6,500 


22,000 
29,000 


400,C00 
50,000 
19,000 
1,200 
400 
2,100 
1,800 


80,000 
1,000 
3,200 

400 


150,000 
150 
400 
500 
800 

2,000 


37,000 
61,000 
7,000 
600 
700 
2,500 
900 
400 


100,000 
6,000 
6,000 
3,500 


800 
900 


9,500 
500 
1,000 


254,650 





Resolution to be reported. 





And the House having continued to sit till after 


Saturday, 8th April, 1876: 


Twelve of the clock on Saturday morning ; 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. 


VoL. 131. 


Raikes reported, That the Committee had come to 
a Resolution. 











7th—8th April. 149 


Ordered, That the Report be received upon 
Monday next. 

Mr. Raikes also acquainted the House, that he 
was directed to move, That the Commitiee may 
have leave to sit again. 

fesolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Com- 
mittee. 


into a Committee on the Poor Law Amendment 


Bill. 
(In the Committee.) 


Preamble postponed. 
Causes, N° 1 to N° 11, agreed to. 
To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had made Progress 
in the Bill; and that he was directed to move, That 
the Committee may have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Com- 
mittee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Cattle Disease (Ireland) 
Bill; and, after some time spent therein; Mr. 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Ruitkes re- 
ported, That the Committee had made Progress 
in the Bill, and that he was directed tomove, That 
the Committee may have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Com- 
mittee. 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee of 
Ways and Means, several Resolutions; which 
were read, as follow: 

1. That there shall be charged, collected, and 
paid for one year, commencing on ihe Sixth day of 
April, One thousand eight hundred and Seventy- 
six, in respect of all Property, Profits and Gains 
mentioned or described as chargeable in the Act 
of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Years of Her 
Majesty’s Reign, chapter Thirty-four, the follow- 
ing Duties of Income Tax (that is to say) :-— 


For every Twenty Shillings of the annual vatue or 
amount of all such Property, Profits, and Gains 
chargeable under Schedules (A.), (C.), (D.), or (E.) 
of the said Act, the Duty of Three Pence ; 

And for every ‘lwenty Shillings of the annual value 
of the occupation of Lands, ‘Tenements, Heredita- 
ments, and Heritages chargeable under Schedule (B.) 
of the said Act :— 

In England, the Duty of One Penny Halfpenny; and, 
In Scotland and Ireland respectively, the Duty of 
One Penny ‘Farthing. 


2. That the exemption granted by the Act of 
the Fifth and Sixth years of Her Majesty’s Reign, 
chapter Thirty-five, to persons whose incomes are 
respectively less than One Hundred and Fifty 
Pounds a year, shall be restored, and, in lieu of the 
relief granted by Section Twelve of “ The Customs 
and Inland Revenue Act, 1872,” to a person whose 
income, although amounting to One Hundred 
Pounds or upwards, is less than Three Hundred 
Pounds, a relief or abatement to the extent of 
Duty upon One Hundred and Twenty Pounds 
shall be given or made to a person whose income, 
although amounting to One Hundred and Fifty 
Pounds or upwards, is less than Four Hundred 
Pounds. 


to Her Majesty, the Duties of Customs now 
charged on Tea shall continue to be levied and 
charged on and after the First day of August, One 
thousand eight hundred and Seventy-six, until 





the First day of August, One thousand eight 
U3 hundred 





The House, according to Order, resolved itself Poor Law 
5 Amendment 
ill. 


B 


Cattle Disease 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Ways and 


Means. 


Income Tax, 


Income Tax 
(Exemptions 
and Abate- 


ments.) 


3. That, towards raising the Supply granted Tea. 





150 


hundred and Seventy-seven, on importation into 
Great Britain or Ireland (that is to say): on 


s. d. 
= ° ~ - ° thelb. 0 6. 


4, That it is expedient to amend the Law 
relating to the Inland Revenue and the Customs. 

The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That a Bill be brought in upon the 
said Resolutions: And that Mr. Raikes, Mr. 
Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Mr. William 
Henry Smith do prepare, and bring it in. 


Inland Revenue 
and Customs. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Ways and Means ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Ways and 
Means. 


Trade Union 
Act (1871) 
Amendment 
Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Third 
Reading of the Trade Union Act (1871) Amend- 
ment Bull ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Wednesday the 26th day of this instant 
April. 


Beer Licences The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
(Ireland) Bill. Reading of the Beer Licences (Zreland) Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
take into consideration the Amendments made by 
the Lords to the Burgesses (Scotland) Bill; and 
the same were twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


Burgesses 
(Scotland) 
Bill. 


United The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
io) take into consideration the Amendments made by 
; the Lords to the United Parishes (Scotland) Bill ; 

and the same were twice read, and agreed to. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lerd- 

ships. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to amend the Laws relating to Game in Scotland: 
And that Lord Eleho and Sir Graham Mont- 
gomery do prepare, and bring it in. 


Game Laws 
Amendment 
(Scotland.) 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local 
Government Board relating to the Borough of 
Blackburn, and to the Districts of Downham Mar- 
het, Melksham, Milnrow, and Saint Hellens: And 
that Mr. Salt and Mr. Sclater-Bovth do prepare, 
and bring it in. 


Local Govern- 
ment Pro- 
visional Orders 
(No. 3.) 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to amend the Procedure connected with Trial by 
Jury in Jreland: And that Sir Michael Hicks 
Beach and Mr. Solicitor General for Ireland do 
prepare, and bring it in. 


Juries 
Procedure 
(Ireland.) 


Jurors 
Qualification 
(Ireland.) 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to amend the Laws relating to the Qualification of 
Jurors in Jreland: And that Sir Michael Hicks 
Beach and Mr. Solicitor General for Ireland do 
prepare, and bring it in. 


Poolbeg 
Lighthouse 
Bill. 


Sir Henry Wilmot, Mr. Balfour, and Mr. Mel- 
don were nominated Members of the Select Com- 
mitee on the Poolbeg Lighthouse Bill. 


Lord Elcho presented a Bill to amend the Laws 
relating to Game in Scotland: And the same was 
read the first time; and ordered to be read a 


Game Laws 
Amendment 


7th—8th—10th April. 


1876. 
second time upon Thursday the 25th day of this 
instant April; and to be printed. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented a Bill to Customs ang 
grant and alter certain Duties of Customs and jiand Revenue 
Inland Revenue, and to amend the Laws relating "';, 
to Customs and Inland Revenue: And the same 
was read the first time ; and ordered to be read a 
second time upon Thursday the 27th day of this 
instant April; and to be printed. 


Bill 124, 





| Board relating to the Borough of Blackburn, 


| Milnrow, and Saint Hellens: And the same was 


Mr. Salt presented a Bill to confirm certain Local Gover. 
Provisional Orders of the Local Government Wo" 1" 

al Orders 
and (No. 3) Bill, 
to the Districts of Downham Market, Melksham, Bill 125, 


read the first time; and ordered to be read a second 


_time upon Monday next; and to be printed. 


Sir Michael Hicks Beach presented a Bi'l to Juries 
amend the Precedure connected with Trial by Jury rere 
in Ireland: And the same was read the first time; Bin ding 
and ordered to be read a second time upon Mon- ~' 1126, 
day the 24th day of this instant April; and to be 
printed. 


Sir Michael Hicks Beach presented a Bill to Jurors — 
amend the Laws relating to the Qualification of Cooke be 
Jurors in Ireland: And the same was read the © p:) ony 
first time ; and ordered to be read a second time e 
upon Monday the 24th day of this instant April; 
and to be printed. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, emg 
a Copy of an Account rendered by the War eo 1874-5.) 
Office of the “ Loan for Defences” for the year No, 166, 
1874-5, in respect of Fortifications, &amp;c. under the 
Act 23 &amp; 24 Vie. c. 109, &amp;c., with the Report of 
the Comptroller and Auditor General thereon. 

Mr. William Henry Smith accordingly presented 
the said Paper. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Friendly 








a Copy of Treasury Minute, dated the 7th day of pean 
April 1876, respecting Reports from the Actuarial Concmiesion,) 
Commission appointed under the Friendly Socie- No, 467. 
ties Act of 1875, together wih a Copy of the First 
and Second, and of the Second Part of the Third 
of those Reports. 

Mr. William Henry Smith accordingly presented 
the said Paper. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till One of the clock on Saturday morning, 
adjourned till Monday next. 





== 


Monday, 10th April, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 
N R. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report — Bills 
‘I from one of the Examiners of Petitions for $1; 74 com- 
Private Bills, That Standing Order 74 has been plied with.) 
complied with in the case of the following Bill, 
referred on the First Reading thereof, viz. : 
Burnham Tidal Harbour Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time. 





Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Private Bills 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, (47) 5... 
That no Standing Orders not previously inquired &gt;, Jers, not pre« 
into are applicable to the following Bills originating viously in- 
in the Lords, and referred on the First Reading — bie} 
thereof, viz.: — 


Allan Glen’s Institution, Glasgow, Bill. 








Assam Company Bill. 
Edinburgh 











hue 


ne 





39 VicrorIA. 


Edinburgh and District Water Bill. 
F lookersbrook Improvement Bill. 
Galashiels Municipal Extension, Police, and 
Water Bill. | 
Ordered, That the Bills be read a second time. 


Private Bills Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
(standing §=©=—s qn of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 
Onder iwith.) Chat the Standing Orders have not been complied 
with in the case of the Petition for the following 
Bill, viz.: 
Romford Canal Company Bill. 
Ordered, That the Report be referred to the 
Select Committee on Standing Orders. 
London, Mr. Speaker. laid upon the Table,— Report from 
Brighton, and one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 
South Coast That the Standing Orders have not been complied 
Railay __with in the case of the Petition for additional Pro- 
Powers) Bill. vision in the London, Brighton, and South Coast 
Railway (Various Powers) Bill. 
Ordered, That the Report be referred to the 
Select Committee on Standing Orders. 
Public Sir Charles Forster reported from the Select 
— Committee on Public Petitions; That they had 
a examined the Petitions presented upon the 5th, 
6th, and 7th days of this instant April, and had 
directed him to make a Report thereof to the 
House. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 
Romford Cana) A Petition of the Romford Canal Company, for 
Company. leave to bring in a Bill to enable the Romford 
Canal Company to raise additional Capital, was 
presented, and read; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Standing Orders. 
London and The London and South Western Railway 
South Western ( F’xeter and Crediton and North Devon Railways) 
— Bill was read the third time 
(Exeter and " 
Crediton and Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
we, , Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
ways) Bill. ° ° 
Lords, und desire their concurrence. 
Chesterfield The House proceeded to take into consideration 


bl and Gas the Chesterfield Water and Gas Bill, as amended 
, in the Committee. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Coombe Hill Canal Navigation Bill, as amended 
in the Committee ; and Amendments were made 
to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Coombe Hill 
Canal Naviga- 
tion Bill. 


Forth Bridge The House proceeded to take into consideration 
Railway Bill. the Forth Bridge Railway Bill, as amended in the 
Committee. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Golden Valley | The House proceeded to take into consideration 
fuilway Bill. the Golden Valley Railway Bill, as amended in 
the Committee. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


i. The House proceeded to take into consideration 
Soh gy the London, Brighton, and South Coast, and Z'un- 


and Tunbridge bridge Wells and Eastbourne Railway Companies 
_ — Bill, as amended in the Committee. 
Sooner Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Bi o™mPanies 

Mersey Docks | The House proceeded to take into consideration 
oe the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Bill, as 

‘ amended in the Committee. otitis 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 

nd The House proceeded to take into consideration 
Works)” the Midland Railway (New Works, &amp;c.) Bill, as 
Bill. amended in the Committee. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 
Vou. 131. 


Nth April. 





151 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Mid-Wales 
the Mid-/ales Railway Bill, as amended in the Railway Bill. 
Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration sittingbourne 
the Sittingbourne and Sheerness Railway Bill, as and Sheerness 
amended in the Committee. Railway Bill. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration stafford 

the iy Borough Extension Bill, as amended Borough 

in the Committee. Extension Bill, 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Thames Tunnel 
the Thames Tunnel Bill, as amended in the Com- Bi 
mittee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Walsall Gas 
the Walsal] Gas Purchase and Borough Extension Purchase and 
Bill, as amended in the Committee ; and Amend- — Bill. 
ments were made to the Bill. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration West Kent 
the West Kent Main Sewerage Bill, as amended — Sewerage 
‘ , ill, 
in the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Sillar’s and Wigner’s Patent Bill was read a Sillar’s and 


second time; and committed. Wigner’s 
Patent Bill 


[ Lords. ] 
Ordered, That Standing Order 131 be suspended, Private Bills. 
and that the time for depositing Petitions against 
Private Bills, or against any Bill to confirm any 
Provisional Order, or Provisional Certificate, be 
extended to Monday the 24th day of this instant 
April. 

The Newport (Isle of Wight) Borough Bill was Newport (Isle 
read the first time. Boro eh Bill 
Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- [Lords.} 

miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


Ryde New Pier 
and Railway 
Bill [Lords.] 


The Ryde New Pier and Railway Bill was read 
the first time. 

Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


The Maidenhead District Gas Bill was read the Maidenhead 
first time. District Gas 
Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- 2! (“#1 


miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


The Brighton Pavilion Bill was read the first Brighton _ 
tone. tao Bill 
Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- “””"“* 

miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


Ordered, That the Committee on Group 9 of Railway Bills 
Railway Bills have leave to sit this day till Five (uP %) 
of the clock, during the sitting of the House. 


resented, and Public 
able. Petitions. 


Vide Fifteenth 
Report. 
Ordered, That the Return relative to the Army Army (Special 
(Special Allowances), which was presented upon Allowances.) 
the 4th day of this instant April, be printed. No. 168. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Contagious Contagious 


. . . . Di 
Diseases (Animals Diseased), which was presented (.oimals 


Several Public Petitions were 
read; and ordered to lie upon the 


upon the 7th day of this instant April, be printed. Diseased.) 
No. 169. 
Mr. Secretary Cross presented,—Return to an Parliamentary 
Address to Her Majesty, dated the 10th day of Constituencies 
February last, for a Return relative to Parlia- 
mentary Constituencies (Registered Electors). 


(Registered 
Electors.) 


No. 170 





Return 


u4 





Prisoners in 
Gaol. 

No. 171. 
Deaths 
(Starvation, 
&amp;c.), Metro- 
politan Dis- 
trict. 

Royal Titles. 

No, 172. 


Henry Hervé 
and others. 
No. 173. 
Public 
Meetings at 
Ipswich, &amp;c. 
No, 174. 


Civil Service 
Estimates 
(Grants in Aid 
of Local Rates.) 


No. 175. 


Suez Canal 
(Surtax and 
Tonnage.) 


No. 176, 
British 
Museum. 

No. 177. 


Army (Soldiers 
Pensioned in 


India.) 


Military 
Savings Banks. 


No. 178. 


East India 
(Loans raised 
in England.) 


No. 179. 


Navy (Victual- 
ling Accounts, 
1874- 5.) 

No. 180, 


152 10th 


the 2lst day of February last, for a Réturn re- 
lative to Prisoners in Gaol. 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated 
the 6th day of March last, for a Return relative 
to Deaths (Starvation, &amp;c.), Metropolitan District. 


Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated 


to the Royal Titles. 


April. 


| Year 1874-5. 


Mr. Algernon Egerton accordingly }»resented the 


said Return. 


| Ordered, That the said Return do tie upon the 


| Table; and be printed. 
| 


1876. 


Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated {and Manufacturing Accounts for the Financial 


| Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Navy 4 
the 3lst day of March last, for a Return relative ‘a Return of Balance Sheet aud Detailed Accounts (Shipbuilaj 
| of Shipbuilding and other Dockyard Transactions Te Dockyard 


Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated | in the Financial Year 1874-5; showing for each 1874-5.) 
of the Home Dockyards, and for the Foreign 
| Yards, the Amount paid out of the Votes for Dock- 
_yard Services as per Statement of Surpluses and 
| Deficits, and its Appropriation to the Building, 


the 3rd day of this instant April, for a Return 
relative to the case of Henry Hervé and others. 
Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated 
the 7th day of this instant April, for a Return 
relative to Public Meetings at /pswich, &amp;c. 
Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the 


(Starvation, &amp;c.), Metropolitan District, be printed. 


Mr. William Henry Smiih presentel,— Return 
to an Order, dated the lst day of March last, for 


Returns relative to the Civil Service Estimates | in connection with other Services than those pro- 
vided for in the Dockyard Votes (prepared as far 
'as practicable in pursuance of the Recommenda- 


(Grants in aid of Local Rates), 


Return to an Order, dated the 20th day of 
March last, for Returns relative to the Suez Cana 
(Surtax and Tonnage). 


Return to an Order, dated the 3rd day of this 
instant April, for Returns relative to the British 
Museum. 

Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


Address to Her Majesty, dated the 6th day of 
March last, for a Return relative to the Army 
(Soldiers Pensioned in Jndia). 

Mr. Secretary H/ardy also presented, pursuant to 


the directions of an Act of Parliament,— Account 


| Completion, and Maintenance of Her Majesty’s 


| Ships, together with the Accounts showing also 
Table; and, except the Return relative to Deaths | the Value of Lands and Buildings, and Stock of 


| Timber and Stores, at the beginning and end 
_of the year in the Home Yards, and those Foreign 


| Yards from which Expense Accounts have been 


| received; and the Amounts received and expended 


and Accounts of the 27th day of July 1868). 


| Mr. Algernon Egerton accordingly presented the 


said Return. 


| Ordered, 'Vhat the said Return do lie upon the 


|Table; and be printed. 
Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 


a Return of Balance Sheet showing the Cost of 
Mr. Secretary Hardy presented,—Return to an | manufacturing and repairing Articles on Conver- 


sion at the several Dockyards and Factories in the 
| Financial Year 1874-5. 
Mr. Algernon Egerton accordingly presented the 


‘said Return. 


Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 


of the Amount due by the Public to Depositors in | Table ; and be printed. 


Military Savings Banks on the 3lst March 1874, | 


and of the Receipts, Interest, and Disbursements | 
in the said Military Savings Banks during the | 
year next ensuing, ending on the 31st March 1875, | 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Return of Retabulation of the Statement of the 
Surpluses and Deficits upon the Grants for Naval 


| tion of the Select Committee on Admiralty Moneys 


No. 18], 


Navy Accounts 
(Manufactures 
and Repairs in 
Dockyards, 
1874-5.) 
No. 182, 


Navy 
(Surpluses 
and Deficits, 
1874-5.) 


: ‘ ; irae : 
including the Amount due on account of Army | Services for the year ended the 31st day of March yy 49 


Charitable Funds; and of the subsequent Receipts, | 
Interest, and Disbursements on account thereof, to 
the 3lst March 1875.——~Also, an Account of the 
Sums paid over by the Secretary of State for War 
to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the 
National Debt, for investment in Bank Annuities 
on account of the Fund for Military Savings Banks; 
and of the Dividends reported to the Secretary of | 
State for War by the said Commissioners to have 
been received thereon, and invested in further aid 
of the Fund for Military Savings Banks. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table; and that the last be printed. 


Lord George Hamilton presented, pursuant to 
the directions of an Act of Parliament,—Return 
of all Loans raised in England under the provisions 
of any Acts of Parliament, chargeable on the 
Revenues of Jndia, outstanding at the commence- 
ment of the half-year ending on the 31st March 
1876, with the Rates of Interest payable thereon, 


1875. 

Mr. Algernon Egerton accordingly presented the 
said Return. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Return from the Lerds Commissioners of Her 
Majesty’s Treasury, of every Petition of Right 
which up to the Date of the Return has been pre- 
sented to, and fiated by Her Majesty, under the 
Act 23 &amp; 24 Vie. c. 34, showing in each Petition— 
(1.) The Department to which the same has 
been referred for Defence ; 
(2.) The Subject-matter thereof, and the Sum 
of Money (if any) claimed thereby ; 
(3.) The Decree or Judgment (if any) pro- 
nounced, and the Amount of Moneys 
and Costs (if any) paid or received by 
the Crown thereunder. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 








and the Date of the Termination of each Loan, the 
Debt incurred during the half-year, the Moneys 
raised thereby during the half-year, the Loans paid 
off or discharged during the half-year, and the 
Loans outstanding at the close of the half-year ; 
stating, so far as the public convenience will 
allow, the purpose or service for which Moneys 
have been raised during the half-year. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Return of Naval Victualling Valuation Expense 


to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
| to give directions, that there be added to the Re- 
turn relative to Judicial Expenditure (England 
‘and Jreland) (Parliamentary Paper, No. 123, of 
the present Session), another Column showing the 
| Judicial Expenditure in Scotland for the corre- 
sponding Branches so far as they exist; also the 
Total Number of Judges, and the Total Amount 
of their Salaries, in each part of the United King- 
dom, not including the Inferior Courts, namely, 
County Courts in England, Civil Bill Courts in 
Treland, and Sheriff Courts in Scotland, for the 
latest year for which information can be given. 
Ordered, 





Petitions of 
Right. 


Judicial 
Expenditure 
(England and 
Ireland.) 











Ounts 


rs in 


2, 


3. 





10th—11 
H. of 


89 Vicroria. 
Ordered, That the Committee on Grou 


ivate Bills ae our ax 
ep H.) Private Bills have leave to sit this day till Six of 
the clock, during the sitting of the House. 
4 Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his War- 
— rant to the Clerk of the Crown, to make outa 


ivision) Writ. New Writ for the electing of a Member to serve 
in this present Parliament for the Eastern Divi- 
sion of the County of Cumberland, in the room of 
William Nicholson Hodgson, Esquire, deceased. 


Thames Valley Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 





Sewerage. 
No. 184. 


Copy of Report of Lieutenant Colonel Coz, R.E., one 
of the Inspectors of the Local Government Board, 
to the President of the Board, upon an Applica- 
tion from the Improvement Commissioners of 
Surbiton to the Local Government Board to form 
the whole or parts of certain Rural and Urban 
Sanitary Districts into a United District under 
the 279th Section of “ The Public Health Act, 





1875,” for the purpose of carrying into effect a 
System of Sewerage for the use of all such Dis- 
tricts or parts of Districts. 
Mr. Scelater-Booth accordingly presented the | 
said Paper. 
Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave 
the Chair ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the 
“Alberta” and words “ as the Officers appointed by the Admi- 
— “ ralty to inquire into the circumstances attending 

“the Collision between the ‘ Alberta’ aud the 
** * Mistletoe’ appear to have reported, and the 
* Board of Admiralty by compensations have prac- 
“ tically acknowledged that those in charge of the 
“¢ Alberta’ were in the wrong, Her Majesty’s Go- 
“ vernment ought, when life had been lost through 
“ that wrong, to have taken further steps to vindi- 
* cate public justice,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of tho Ques- 


Supply. 





tion; 
The House divided. 
The Yeas to the Right ; 
The Noes to the Left. 
Tellers for the {Sir William Dyke, 187 
Yeas, Mr. Rowland Winn: \ : 
Tellers for the { Mr. Anderson, 65 
Noes, Mr. Seely: } , 
So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 
Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
Chair:—The House accordingly resolved itself 
into the Committee. 


(In the Committee.) 
1. £. 2,634,904, for Wages, &amp;c. to Seamen and 


Marines. 

2. £.1,153,367, for Victuals and Clothing for 
Seamen and Marines. 

3. £. 189,820, for the Admiralty Office. 

Resolutions to be reported. 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That a 
Sum, not exceeding £. 210,230, be granted to Her 
Majesty, to defray the Expenses of the Coast 
Guard Service, Royal Naval Reserve, and Seamen 
and Marine Pensioners Reserve, and Royal Naval 
Artillery Volunteers, which will come in course 
of ha ge during the year ending on the 31st day 
of March 1877. 

To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Tuesday morning ; 
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153 


th April. 
Tuesday, 11th April, 1876: 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Razkes 
reported, That the Committee had come to seve- 
ral Resolutions. 

Ordered, That the Report be received this day, 
at One of the clock. 

Mr. Raikes also reported, That the Committee 
had made Progress in the matter to them referred, 
and that he was directed to move, That the Com- 
mittee may have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
the 24th day of this instant April, again resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee of Supply- 
Supply, a Resolution; which was read, as fol- 
loweth : 

That a Sum, not exceeding £. 1,254,650, be Civil Services 
granted to Her Majesty, on account for, or towards p rennin 
defraying, the Charge for the following Civil Ser- 
vices, to the 3lst day of March 1877; viz. : 


Crass I. 

Great Britain :— £. 
Royal Palaces - - = - - - - 6,000 
Royal Parks - - - - - - 19,000 
Public Buildings - - - - - = 23,000 
Furniture of Public Offices - - - - 2,800 
Houses of Parliament - - - - - 5,500 
New Home and Colonial Offices - - - 1,000 
Sheriff Court Houses, Scotland = - - - 2,000 
National Gailery Enlargement —- er 500 
Post Office and Inland Revenue Buildin - 80,000 
British Museum Buildings - - - - 2,500 
County Courts - - - - = = 10,000 
Science and Art Department Buildings - 800 
Surveys of the United Kingdom - - - 27,000 
Harbours of Refuge - - = - - = 1,600 
Metropolitan Fire Brigade - - - 2,500 
Rates on Government Property - - - 89,000 
Wellington Monument - - - - - 200 
Natural History Museum~= - - - - 15,000 
Metropolitan Police Courts - - - - 1,000 
New Courts of Justice, &amp;c. - - - - 15,000 
Ramsgate Harbour - - - - - 400 
New Palace at Westminster—Acquisition of 

Lands, &amp;c. . - - - - - 500 

Ireland : 

Public Buildings - - - = - = 80,000 

Abroad :— 

Lighthouses Abroad - - - «= = 2,700 
Embassy Houses and Consular Buildings - 8,000 
Cuass II. 

England :— 

Privy Council Office and Subordinate Depart- 
ments - - - - - - - 6.500 

Treland :— 

Local Government Board - - - = 22,000 
Cxiass IIL, 

England :— 

Chancery Division, High Court of Justice - 29,000 
Crass IV. 
Great Britain :— 
Public Education - - - - - - 400,000 
Science and Art Department - - - - 60,000 
British Museum - - - - -  - 19,000 
National Gallery - - - - = = 41,200 
National Portrait Gallery - - - § 400 
Learned Societies, &amp;c. - - - - - 2,100 
University of London’ - - - - - 1,800 
Scotland :— 
Public Education - - - - - - 80,000 
Board of Education - - - - - 1,000 
Universities, &amp;e. = - - - - - - 3,200 
National Gallery - - - - = - 400 
Ireland :— 
Public Education - - - - - - 150,000 
Commissioners of Education ( Endowed Schools) 150 
National Gallery - - - - - = 400 
Royal Irish Academy - - - - - 500 
Queen’s University - - - - - 800 
Queen’s Colleges - - - - - - 2,000 
Cuass V. 
Diplomatic Services - - - - 37,000 
Consular Services - - - - - - 61,000 
Colonies, Grants in Aid - - - - - 7,000 
Orange River Territory and Saint Helena - 600 





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154 


é. 
700 
2,500 
900 
400 


Slave Trade, Commissions for Suppression of - 
Tonnage Bounties, kc. - - - - - 
Fmigration - - - - - - - 
Treasury Chest’ - - - - - - 


Crass VI. 


Superannuation and Retired Allowances - 
Merchant Seamen’s Fund Pensions, &amp;c. - - 
Relief of Distressed British Seamen Abroad - 
Hospitals and Infirmaries, Jreland - - - 
Miscellaneous Charitable Allowances, Great 

Britain . - - - . . - 
Miscellaneous Charitable Allowances, Jreland 


Crass VII. 
Temporary Commissions - - m 
Deep Sea Exploring Expedition - - 
Miscellaneous Expenses - - - . 


- 100,000 
6,000 
6,000 
3,500 


800 
900 


9,500 
500 
1,000 


£. 1,254,650 


The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Ways and Means; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
the 24th day of this instant April, resolve itself 
into the said Committee. 


Ways and 
Means. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Indian Legislation Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
the Ist day of May next, resolve itself into the said 
Committee. 


Indian Legis- 
lation Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Commons Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
the 27th day of this instant April, resolve itself 
into the said Committee. 


Commons Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Clerk of the Peace and of the 
Crown (Jreland) Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday the 24th day of this instant April. 


Clerk of the 
Peace and of 
the Crown 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Maritime 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Contracts Bill. 


Reading of the Maritime Contracts Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday the Ist day of May next. 


Merchant 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Shipping Bill. 


mittee on the Merchant Shipping Bill; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
the 24th day of this instant April, resolve itself 
into the said Committee. 
Valuation Bill. The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Valuation Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday the 4th day of May next. 


The Local Government Provisional Orders 
(No. 2) Bill was, according to Order, read a second 
time ; and committed to a Committee of the whole 
House, for Monday the 24th day of this instant 
April. 


Local Govern- 
ment Pro- 
visional Orders 
(No. 2) Bill. 


Poor Law 
Amendment 


Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Poor Law Amendment Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
the 28th day of this instant April, resolve itself 
into the said Committee. 


Cattle Disease | The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
(Ireland) Bill. mittee on the Cattle Disease (Jreland) Bill; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
the 24th day of this instant April, resolve itself 
into the said Committee. 


10th—11th April. 











1876. 


The Local Government Provisional Orders (No. toc) 
3) Bill was, according to Order, read a second time ; ment Pro. 
and committed to a Camaiibes of the whole House, Visional Orders 
for Monday the 24th day of this instant April. (No. 3) Bill, 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Industrial ang 
mittee on the Industrial and Provident Societies ber 
Bill; —— 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
the 24th day of this instant April, resolve itself 
into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming House 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed Occupiers Dis. 
upon the 22nd day of March last, That the Beene ee 
Occupiers Disqualification Removal Bill be now - 
read a second time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Monday the 24th day of this instant April. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Beer Licences 
Reading of the Beer Licences (Jreland) Bill ; (Ireland) Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday the 24th day of this instant April. 


The Select Committee on Toll Bridges (River Bridges 

Thames) was nominated of Mr. Alderman J/*4r- (River 
thur, Sir Trevor Lawrence, Sir Charles Russell, pamemiae 
Mr. Fortescue Harrison, Mr. Serjeant Spinks, Sir 
James Hogg, Mr. Stansfeld, Sir James Lawrence, 
Mr. Young, Colonel Jervis, Mr. William Holms, Mr. 
Forsyth, Mr. Grantham, Mr. Puleston, and Mr. 
Mundella ; with Power to send for persons, papers, 
and records. 

Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 

Ordered, That the Reports of the following Papers referred 
Select Committees of this House, and the Evi- to the Com. 
dence taken before them, be referred to the Com-™* 
mittee, nameiy, the Committee of 1836 on Metro- 
politan Communications and the Freeing of 
Waterloo and Southwark Bridges; the Committee 
of 1841 on Metropolitan Improvements and the 
¥reeing Waterloo and other Bridges; the Com- 
mittee of 1854 upon the Thames Bridges, including 
the Freeing of the Toll-paying Bridges; the Com- 
mittee of 1855 upon Metropolitan Communica- 
tions, including the Bridges over the Thames; and 
the Committee of 1865 upon the Metropolitan Toll 
Bridges Bill and the Chelsea Toll Abolition Bill. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Treasury 
to incorporate the Solicitor for the Affairs of Her 5% 
Majesty’s Treasury, and make further Provision 
respecting the Grant of the Administration of 
the Estates of Deceased Persons for the use of Her 
Majesty: And that Mr. William Henry Smith, 

Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Mr. At- 
torney General do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Highways. 
to amend the Law relating to the Management of 
Highways in England, and for other purposes: 

And that Mr. Sclater-Booth and Mr. Salt do pre- 
pare, and bring it in. 


Poor Law 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill (Scotland.) 


for the further Amendment and better Administra- 
tion of the Laws relating to the Relief of the Poor 
in Scotland: And that the Lord Advocate and 
Mr. Secretary Cross do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented a Bill to Tressury 
incorporate the Solicitor for the Affairs of Her Pr 
Majesty’s Treasury, and make further Provision _ Bill 126 
respecting the Grant of the Administration of the 
Estates of Deceased Persons for the use of Her 
Majesty: And the same was read the first time; 
and ordered to be read a second time upon Monday 
the 24th day of this instant April; and to be 
printed. 

Mr. 











39 Vicroria. 


ways Bil. Mr. Sclater-Booth presented a Bill to amend the 
pill 129. Law relating to the Management of Highways 
in England, and for other purposes: And the same 
was read the first time ; and ordered to be read a 
second time upon Thursday the 11th day of May 

next; and to be printed. 


The Lord Advocate presented a Bill for the 
further Amendment and better Administration of 
the Laws relating to the Relief of the Poor in 
Scotland: And the same was read the first time; 
and ordered to be read a second time upon Thurs- 
day the 4th day of May next; and to be printed. 


Poor Law 
(Scotland) 
Bill. 


Rill 130. 


Sir John Kennaway reported from the Com- 
mittee on Group 9 of Railway Bills; That, for the 
convenience of Parties, the Committee had ad- 
journed till Tuesday the 9th day of May next, at 
Twelve of the clock. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Railway Bills 
(Group 9.) 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Returns showing, I. For each County in Jreland 
the Number of Persons required as Jurors at 
Sessions and Assizes : 

II. For each County in Jreland, the Number of 
Persons rated in respect of Lands, Tenements and 
Hereditaments at an Annual Value of £.50 and 
upwards : 

And, III. The Number of Persons not included 
under preceding Heading No. II., rated in respect 
of a Dwelling-house, Office, and Curtilage,— 

1. In the Counties of Cavan, Leitrim, and 
Mayo, at an Annual Value of £.6 and 
upwards ; 

2. Inthe Counties of Armagh, Clare, Donegal, 
Fermanagh, Kerry, Londonderry, Longford, 
Monaghan, Queen’s County, Roscommon, 
Sligo, and Tyrone, at an Annual Value of 
£.10 and upwards; 

3. And in the remaining Counties of Jreland 
at an Annual Value of £. 12 and upwards. 

Mr. Solicitor General for Jreland accordingly 
presented the said Returns. 

Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


Jurors 
(Ireland.) 
No. 185. 


Boiler Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
liplosions. ~—_ Papers relating to Experiments concerning Boiler 
No. 186. Explosions, conducted in 1874 under the manage- 
ment of the late Superintendent Inspector Ge- 
neral of Steam Vessels of the Treasury Depart- 
ment at Washington, together with the Statutory 
Rules concerning the working of Boilers in Steam 
Vessels in force in the United States. 
Sir Charles Adderley accordingly presented the 
said Papers. 
Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


Divine The Order for resuming, this day, the adjourned 
Worship Debate on the Question proposed upon the 15th 
Facilities Bill. day of March last, That the Divine Worship 
Facilities Bill be now read a second time, was 
read, and discharged. 
Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Tuesday the 2nd day of May next. 


Sir John St. Aubyn reported from the Com- 
mittee on Group H. of Private Bills; That, for 
the convenience of Parties, the Committee had 
adjourned till Tuesday the 25th day of this instant 
April, at Twelve of the clock. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till One of the clock on Tuesday morning, 
adjourned till this day. 


Private Bills 
(Group H.) 


1Uth—1lith—24th April. 


155 


Tuesday, 11th April, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 
OUSFIELD’S Patent Bill was read @ Bousfeld’s 


second time; and committed. Patent Bill 
[Lords.] 
Hulls Patent Bill was read a second time; and Hall’s Patent 
committed. Bill [Lords.} 


Milner’s Patent Bill was read a second time ; and Milner’s Patent 
committed. Bill [Lords.} 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and Public 


read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions. 
Vide Fifteenth 
Report. 
Mr. Bourke presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- — and the 
mand,—Copy of Correspondence respecting Affairs (Turkey, No. 2, 
in Bosnia and the Herzegovina. 1876.) 


Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Resolved, That this House will, at the rising of Adjournment. 
the House this day, adjourn till Monday the 24th 
day of this instant April. 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee of Supply. 
Supply, several Resolutions ; which were read, as 
follow : 

That a Sum,not exceeding £.2,634,904, be Wages, &amp;c. to 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Expense of — ont 
Wages, &amp;c. to Seamen and Marines, which will —— 
come in course of payment during the year ending 
on the 31st day of March 1877. 

That a Sum, not exceeding £. 1,153,367, be Victuals and 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Expense of es 
Victuals and Clothing for Seamen and Marines, Marines. 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 31st day of March 1877. 

That a Sum, not exceeding £. 189,820, be Admiralty 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Expenses 0° 
of the Admiralty Office, which will come in course 
of payment during the year ending on the 31st 
day of March 1877. 

The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 


And then the House adjourned till Monday 
the 24th day of this instant April. 











Monday, 24th April, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 
TTY HE Chesterfield Water and Gas Bill was read Chesterfield 
the third time. Water and Gas 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. = 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 


Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Coombe Hill Canal Navigation Bill was Coombe Hill 
read the third time. —— 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. — 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Golden Valley Railway Bill was read the Golden Valley 
third time. Railway Bill. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The London and South Western, Midland, and London and 
Somerset and Dorset Railway Companies Bill was a Western, 
- ‘ Midland, and 
read the third time. __ Poem Sp 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. Dorset Railway 


Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the ©™mpanies Bill. 





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Lords, and desire their concurrence. 
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156 24th April. 1876. 


London, The London, Brighton, and South Coast, and 
hea Tunbridge Wells and Eastbourne Railway Com- 
Sot Posbadze panies Bill was read the third time. 

and Tunbridge P 4 

WellsandEast- Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

bourne Railway ()rdered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 


ies Bill. ; j 
Companies DE. 1, Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Mid-Wales The Mid-Wales Railway Bill was read the third 
Railway Bill. time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Sittingbourne The Sittingbourne and Sheerness Railway Bill 
haere was read the third time. 

ii aa Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act to make further Provision with 
respect to the winding-up of the Affairs cf the 
Sittingbourne and Sheerness Railway Company ; 
the Payment of their remaining Debts, and the 
Distribution of any Surplus of Assets; the Dis- 
soluticn of the Company, and for other purpvses. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Stafford The Stafford Borough Extension Bill was read 


—- pi, the third time. 


Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act for extending the Boundaries of 
the Borough of Stafford, in the County of Stafford, 
and for empowering the Mayor, Aldermen, and 
Burgesses of the Borough to construct Water- 
works, and to acquire the Undertaking of the 
Stafford Gas Company, and to execute other Im- 
provements, and for other purposes. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


ThamesTunnel The Jhames Tunnel Bill was read the third 
Bill. time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Walsall Gas The /¥alsall Gas Purchase and Borough Ex- 

poo and tension Bill was read the third time. 

Extension Bill, esolved, ‘That the Bill do pass. ; 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 


Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


West Kent The West Kent Main Sewerage Bill was read 
Main Sewerage the third time. 
—_ Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bull to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Burry Port and The House proceeded to take into consideration 
North Western the Burry Port and North Western Junction Rail- 


Junction Rail- 


way Bill. way Bill, as amended in the Committtee. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


London, The ITouse proceeded to take into consideration 
Chatham, and the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Bill, as 
Dover Railway lad tn the ra 

Bill. amended in the Committee. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Pegwell Bay The House proceeded to take into consideration 
Redlamation the Pegwell Bay Reclamation Bill, as amended in 
oad tie Committee. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Redcar end The House proceeded to take into consideration 
Coatham Gas the Redcar and Coatham Gas Bill, as amended in 
Bill. the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Allan Glen’s Allan Glen’s Institution, Glasgow, Bill was read 


Institution, . F : 
Glasgow, Bill ® second time; and committed, | 


[Lords.] 











_ The Assam Company Bill was read a second Assam 
time ; and committed. Company 
Bill (Lords, 
The Burnham Tidal Harbour Bill was read a Burnham Tida} 
second time; and committed. Harbour Bill, 


Ordered, That the Dublin Port and Docks Board Dublin Por 


§ : and Docks 
Bill be read a second time upon Thursday next. Board Bill 


(Lords, 
The Edinburgh and District Water Bill was Edinburgh and 
read a second time; and committed. District Water 
Bill (Lords,} 
The Flookersbrook Improvement Bill was read rookersbroo, 
a second time ; and committed. Improvement 
Bill [Lords,} 
The Galashiels Municipal Extension, Police, Galashiels 
and Water Bill was read a second time; and com- Municipal 
ted Extension, 
ml ° Police, and 
Water Bill 
(Lords,} 
The Great North of Scotland Railway Bill was Great North 
read a second time; and committed. of Scotland 
Railway Bilt 
: y [ Lords,] 
The Newcastle-upon- Tyne Quayside Lift Bill newcastle. 
was read a second time ; and committed. upon-Tyne 
Quayside Lift 
. Bill [ Lords,} 
The Sutton Gas Bill was read a second time ; Sutton Gas 
and committed. Bill (Lords, 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Private Bills 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, [£074] _ 
That no Standing Orders not previously inquired teteneals 
into are applicable to the following Bills, origi- viously in. 
nating in the Lords, and referred on the First ‘wired into, 
Reading thereof, viz. : naan 

Ivel Navigation Bill. 
Newport (Isle of Wight) Borough Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bills be read a second time. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Private Bills 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, [Lords] 
That the Standing Orders not previously inquired ee 
into, and which are applicable thereto, have been viously in- 
complied with in the case of the following Bill, quretinte, 
originating in the Lords, and referred on the First 7"? ™ ) 
Reading thereof, viz. : 

Maidenhead District Gas Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and Public 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions. 
Several Public Petitions were also presented, Vide Votes, and 
and read; and referred to a Select Committee. soning 
Mr. Sclater-Booth presented,—Return to an Wrexham 
Order, dated the 3rd day of this instant April, for baer 
a Return relative to the Wrexham Union (Use of 
Stimulants). 
Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented,—Return Spirits, &amp;. 
to an Order, dated the 10th day of February last, 
for Returns relative to Spirits, &amp;c. 

Return to an Order, dated the 15th day of Brewers, &amp;. 
February last, for Accounts relative to Brewers, 

&amp;e. 

Return to an Order, dated the 9th day of March Public — 
last, for an Account relative to the Public Income ‘hjsnd) 
(Great Britain and Ireland). 

Mr. William Henry Smith also presented, pur- Superanne, | 
suant to the directions of several Acts of Parlia- ti 4%? 
ment,—Copy of Treasury Minute, dated 4th April 
1876, placing the Office of Surveyor for Buildings, 

London, in the Customs Department, under the 
4th Clause of the Superannuation Act, 1859. 

An Account of the Gross Public Income and ays — 
Expenditure in the year ended the 31st day of ™"P* 
March 1876; together with the Balances in 
the Exchequer at the commencement and at the 

termination 








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Public Works 
Loans Act, 
1875, Regu- 
lations. 

No, 188. 


Merchant 
Shipping 
i on 


(Canada.) 
No, 187. 


Blection. 


Merchant 
Shipping Bill. 


389 Vicronta. 


termination of the year, and the Amount of Funded 
and Unfunded Debt created or redeemed in the 
said year. 

Copy of Regulations made by the Public 
Works Loan Commissioners for carrying into 
effect the Public Works Loans Act, 1875. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table; and that the last be printed. 


Sir Charles Adderley presented, —Return to an 


Address to Her Majesty, dated the 17th day of 


March last, for Returns relative to Merchant 
Shipping Legislation ( Canada). 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


The following Paper was laid upon the Table by 
the Clerk of the House,—Return to an Order, 
dated the 24th day of February last, for a Return 
relative to the Armagh Election. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Merchant Shipping Bill. 


(In the Committee.) 


Crause, N° 14 (Stowage of cargo of grain, &amp;c. 
38 &amp; 39 Vic. c. 88, s. 3). 

Other Amendments made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 8, Is. 27 
and 28, to leave out the words “ boards, bulk- 
“ heads, or otherwise,” in order to insert the words 
“shifting boards not less than two and a half 
“ inches in thickness running from the keelson or 
“ screw tunnel, as the case may be, longitudinally 
“ throughout the part of the ship so loaded, and 
“ up to the underside of the planking of the deck 
“ next above the top of such grain cargo, and also 
“ by having not less than one-fourth of such grain 
“cargo in sacks or bags laid upon the surface of 
“ the remaining three-fourths of such cargo loaded 
“in bulk.” 

Question proposed, That the words proposed to 
be left out stand part of the Clause: —-Amendment, 
by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Amendment made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 8, 1. 29, to 
leave out the word “ knowingly.” 

Question, That the word “ knowingly ” stand 
part of the Clause put, and agreed to. 

Other Amendments made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 8, 1. 31, 
after the word “section,” to insert the words “ or 
“if the master of any ship carries into or loads in 
“any port of the United Kingdom any grain 
“ cargo contrary to the provisions of this section.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted :—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Other Amendments made. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

Cause, N° 15 (Space occupied by certain 
deck cargo to be liable to dues). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 8, 1. 36, to leave 
out the words “If any ship, British or foreign,” 
in order to insert the words “ No British ship.” 

Question put, That the words “If any ship, 
British or foreign,” stand part of the Clause; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the; Sir William Dyhe, 7 

Yeas, \ Mr. Rowland Winn: f 

Tellers for the oe Plimsoll, 1 

Noes, Lord Francis Conyngham: $ 

An Amendment made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 8, 1. 37, to 
leave out the words “as deck cargo,” in order to 
insert the words “ on deck.” 

Question proposed, That the words “as deck 
cargo” stand part of the Clause :—Amendment, 
by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 8, 1. 40, to 
leave out the word “ timber.” 

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157 

Question put, That the word “timber” stand 
part of the Clause ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the {Sir William Dyke, 

Yeas, \ Mr. Rowland Winn: 

Tellers for the; Mr. Ashley, } 91 

Noes, (Mr. Thomas Brassey : ‘ 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 8, 1. 40, to 
leave out the word “ stores.” 

Question, That the word “stores” stand part 
of the Clause—— put, and agreed to. 

Another Amendment made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 9, 1. 2, 
after the word “payable” to insert the words 
‘in respect of the period during which such goods 
“are on board.” 

Question, That those words be there inserted 
——put, and negatived. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 9, 1. 3, after 
the first word “ tonnage,” to insert the word 
** double.” 

Question proposed, That the word “ double” be 
there inserted: — Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 9, 1. 3, 
after the word “ goods ” to insert the words “ Pro- 
** vided always, That it shall not be lawful for a 
* vessel leaving North America between the first 
“ day of September and fifteenth day of April, nor 
* from the North of Europe between the first day 
** of October and the fifteenth day of April to carry 
* deck cargo.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted ; 

Amendment proposed to the said proposed 
Amendment after the word “ carry” to insert the 
words “ timber as.” 

Question proposed, That those words be inserted 
in the said proposed Amendment :—Amendment 
to the proposed Amendment, and Amendment, by 
leave, withdrawn. 

Another Amendment made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 9, 1. 15, 
after the word “logbook,” to insert the words 
* Provided always, That the said dues payable in 
respect of such added space shall be payable only 
“for and during the time that such deck cargo 
“ shall be carried on board the said ship.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted :—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Amendment made. 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Clause, as amended, stand part of the Bill; 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question put, 
That the Chairman do report Progress, and ask 
leave to sit again ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the{ Mr. Macdonald, 7 P 

Yeas, (Mr. O’ Shaughnessy: = 

Tellers for the Sir //illiam Dyke, 1157 

Noes, \Mr. Rowland Winn: — 

Motion made, and Question put, That the Clause, 
as amended, stand part of the Bill; 

The Committee divided. 

} 95. 

Tellers for thes Mr. Plimsoll, \ 58 

Noes, Mr. Maclver: . 


Tellers for the f Sir William Dyke, 
To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 


; 101. 


Yeas, Mr. Rowland Winn: 





And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Tuesday morning ; 


Tuesday, 25th April, 1876: 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had made Progress 
in the Bill, and that he was directed to move, 
That the Committee may have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 

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158 


Cattle Disease The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
(Ireland) Bill. mittee on the Cattle Disease (Jreland) Bill ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon ‘Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Clerk of the Peace and of the 
Crown (Jreland) Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read «% second time 
upon Thursday next. 


Clerk of the 
Peace and of 
the Crown 
(Ireland) Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Appellate Jurisdiction Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


Appellate 
Jurisdiction 
Bill [Lords.} 


Admiralty The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Jurisdiction Reading of the Admiralty Jurisdiction (Ireland) 
(Ireland) Bill. Bill * 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


Juries 
Procedure 
(Ireland) Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Juries Procedure (Ireland) Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next, 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Jurors Qualification (/reland) 
Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


Jurors 
Qualification 
(Ireland) Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednes- 
day next, resolve itself into the said Soonmlaben. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Ways and Means; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednes- 
day next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Ways and 
Means. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Local Government Pro- 
visional Orders (No. 2) Bill; and, after some time 
spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; 
and Mr. Raikes reported, That the Committee had 
gone through the Bill, and directed him to report 
the same, without Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Thursday next. 


Local Govern- 
ment Pro- 
visional Orders 
(No, 2) Bill, 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Local Government Pro- 
visional Orders (No. 3) Bill; and, after some time 
spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; 
and Mr. Raikes reported, That the Committee had 
gone through the Bill, and directed him to report 
the same, without Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Thursday next. 


Local Govern- 
ment Pro- 
visional Orders 


(No. 3) Bill. 


The Treasury Solicitor Bill was, according to 
Order, read a second time; and committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for Thursday 


next. 


Treasury 
Solicitor Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Crossed Cheques Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Crossed 
Cheques Bill 
[ Lords.]} 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Offences against the 
Person Biil. 

(In the Committee.) 


Offences 
against the 
Person Bill. 


Motion made, and Question put, That the 
Chairman do now leave the Chair ; 





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1876, 


The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the { Mr. P. A. Taylor, 7 
Yeas, Sir Charles Dilke: J 

Tellers for the) Mr. Charley, 7} 
Noes, Mr. Whitwell : s 8. 


To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 


43, 


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Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had made Progress 
in the Bill, and that he was directed to move, That 
the Committee may have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee, 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Partiamen 
Reading of the Parliamentary and Municipal Re- and Municigg 
gistration (Boroughs) Bill; Registration 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time (Boroughe) 
upon Monday the 8th day of May next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Industrial ay [0 
mittee on the Industrial and Provident Societies Provident Q 
Bill; Societies Bill 

Resolved, That this Honse will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Comunittee. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming House 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed Occupiers 
upon the 22nd day of March last, That the House ae 
Occupiers Disqualification Removal Bill be now 
read a second time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Thursday next. 


cst = 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Beer Licence 
Reading of the Beer Licences (Jreland) Bill; ({reland) Bill 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


Resolved, That this House will, immediately, Pier and 
resolve itself into a Committee to consider of con- Harbour 
firming certain Provisional Orders made by the —— 
Board of Trade under “ The General Pier and (Aldboroug, 
Harbour Act, 1861”:—The House accordingly &amp;) 
resolved itself into the Committee. 


(In the Committee.) 


Resolved, That the Chairman be directed to 
move the House, That leave be given to bring in a 
Bill for confirming certain Provisional Orders 
made by the Board of ‘Trade under “ The General 
Pier and Harbour Act, 1861,” relating to Ald- 
borough, Cattewater, Gardenstown, and Liandudno. 

Resolution to be reported. 


ea a he 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. 
Raikes reported, That the Committee had come to : 
a Resolution. ( 
Ordered, That the Report be now received. 
Mr. Raikes accordingly reported a Resolution ; 
which was read, as followeth: 
That the Chairman be directed to move the 
House, That leave be given to bring in a Bill for 
confirming certain Provisional Orders made by 
the Board of Trade under ‘* The General Pier and 
Harbour Act, 1861,” relating to &lt;Aldborough, 
Cattewater, Gardenstown, and Llandudno :—And 
he moved the House accordingly. = : 
Ordered, Thatleave be given to bring in the Bili: : 


_And that Sir Charles Adderley and Mr. Edward 


Stanhope do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, pooineg hs 
a Copy of Correspondence with the Board of Lighthouse. (6 
Trade relative to the Repair and Maintenance of No, 18% 
Poolbeg Lighthouse, in the Port of Dublin. 

Sir Charles Adderley accordingly presented the 
said Paper. ; 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. Mr 








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funicipa 


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trial and 
dent 
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alification 
val Bill, 


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ion 


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house. 
. 189. 





Private Bills 
[Lords 
(Standing 
Orders, not 
jously in- 
quired into, not 
complied with.) 


Mersey Docks 
and Harbour 
Board Bill. 


Midland Rail. 
way (New 
Works, &amp;c.) 
Bill. 


imperial G: 
ait as 


Private Bills 
(Group H1,) 


$9 VICTORIA. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented a Bill for 
confirming certain Provisional Orders made by 
the Board of Trade under “ The General Pier 
and Harbour Act, 1861,” relating to Aldborough, 
Cattewater, Gardenstown, and Llandudno: And 
the same was read the first time; and ordered to 
be read a second time upon Thursday next; and 
to be printed. 

And then the House, having continued to sit 
till half an hour after One of the clock 
on Tuesday morning, adjourned till this 


day. 





Tuesday, 25th April, 1876. 
PRAYERS. 

R. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report 
M from one of the Examiners of Petitions for 
Private Bills, That the Standing Orders not pre- 
viously inquired into, and which are applicable 
thereto, have not been complied with in the 
case of the following Bill, originating in the 
Lords, and referred on the First Reading there- 
of, viz.: 

Erwood Bridge Bill. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the 
Select Committee on Standing Orders. 





A Motion being made, That the Mersey Docks 
and Harbour Board Bill be now read the third 
time ; 

Earl Percy, by Her Majesty’s Command, ac- 
quainted the House, That Her Majesty, having 
been informed of the purport of the Bill, gives 
Her Consent, as far as Her Majesty’s interest is 
concerned, that the House may do therein as they 
shall think fit. 

Then the Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Midland Railway (New Works, &amp;c.) Bill 
was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order, That the Imperial Gas Bill be com- 
mitted, was read, and discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


Earl Percy reported from the Committee on 
Group H. of Private Bills; That, at the meeting 
of the Committee this day, a Letter was received 
from Sir John St. Aubyn, one of the Members of 
the said Committee, stating that he was unable, 
= account of illness, to attend the Committee this 

ay 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table. 


Earl Percy reported the Humber Conservancy 
Bill, with pr tes samara 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Orr Ewing reported from the Committee 
on Group K. of Private Bills ; That the Parties 
opposing the Stockton and Middlesbrough Water 
Bill had stated that the evidence of William Gunn 
was essential to enable them to establish their 
case, and it having been — that his attend- 


ance could not be procured without the interven- 
Vou. 131, 


24¢h—25th April. 





159 


tion of the House, he had been instructed to 
move, That the said William Gunn do attend the 
— Committee To-morrow, at Twelve of the 
clock. 

Ordered, That William Gunn do attend the 
Committee on Group K. of Private Bills To- 
morrow, at Twelve of the clock. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and public 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions. 
Vide Fifteenth 
Report. 
Ordered, That the Return relative to the Army Army (Soldiers 
(Solaiers Pensioned in India), which was pre- — 
sented upon the 10th day of this instant April, be "We 
: o. 190. 
printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Spirits, spirits, &amp;c. 
&amp;c., which was presented upon the 24th day of this No, 191, 
instant April, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Brewers, Brewers, &amp;c, 
&amp;c., which was presented upon the 24th day of this No. 192. 
instant April, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return, relative to the Public Public Income 
Income (Great Britain and Ireland), which was (Great way 
presented upon the 24th day of this instant April, ae — 
be printed. eile 


Ordered, That the Account relative to the public Income 
Public Income and Expenditure, which was pre-and Expendi- 
sented upon the 24th day of this instant April, be ™® 
printed. No. 194. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented, pursuant Post Office 
to the directions of several Acts of Parliament,— S#vings Banks. 
An Account of all Deposits received and paid 
under the authority of the Act 24 Vie. c. 14, 
during the year ended 3lst December 1875, and 
of the Expenses incurred from the commencement 
of the Business on 16th September 1861 to 31st 
December 1875, together with a Statement of the 
Total Amount due at the close of the year 1875 
to all Depositors. 

An Account of the Sums received and paid by 
the Commissioners for the Reduction of the Na- 
tional Debt on account of the Fund for the Post 
Office Savings Banks, per Act 24 Vic. c. 14, from 
Ist January 1875 to 3lst December 1875, both 
inclusive. 

Copy of Treasury Minute, dated 10th April Superannua- 
1876, awarding a Special Retired Allowance “™* 
to Thomas Whyborn, Warder, Lewes Naval 
Prison. 

Appropriation Account of the Vote of Credit, Ashantee 
Ashantee Expedition, for the year ended 3lst (eo of Credit) 
March 1875; together with the Report of the (Appropriation 
Comptroller and Auditor General thereon. Account.) 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Clerks ph ye 
a Return, in Tabular Form as under, of the Names, ("pense 
Dates of Appointment, and Emoluments in the (Ireland. 
year 1875 of each Clerk of the Crown in Ire- 


land :— 





City, or County of a 
Date of Appointment, 
Fees received in 1875. 


County, Riding of a 
County, County of a 
Town, 


Name of Officer. 
Total Emolument, 


Salary. 














x4 —And 


* Britannia ”’ 
Cadets. 


Aberdeen 
County 
(Western 
Division) Writ. 


Merchant 
Ships (Timber 
Trade.) 


No. 195. 


Civil Service 
Charges. 


Leave of 
Absence. 


Navy 
(Navi 
Her 


Ships.) 


tion of 
ajesty’s 


160 


—— And, similar Return, in Tabular Form as under | 
as to each Clerk of the Peace in Jreland :— 


~ 
| 


a eee 





| 


» including 


Treasury Allowance under the 


Land Act. 


County of a 


Town, or Borough. 
m other Sources 


| 


‘ 


Riding of a County, 





County of a City, 
ceedings in 18 
Total Emolument. 


Fees received from Civil Bill Pro- 


Date of Appointment. 


Name of Officer. 
Fees received fro 


| County, 




















Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Copy or Extracts of the Report of the Director | 
of Naval Studies at Greenwich on the state of | 
Proficiency of the Cadets of the “ Britannia” who | 
have been appointed under the revised System of 
Nomination without Competition. 


Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his War- 
rant to the Clerk of the Crown, to make out a 
new Writ for the electing of a Member to serve 
in this present Parliament for the Western Division 
of the County of Aberdeen, in the room of William 
M‘ Combie, Esquire, who, since his Election for the 
said County, hath accepted the Office of Steward 
or Bailiff of Her Majesty’s Three Chiltern Hun- 
dreds of Stoke, Desborough, and Bonenham, in the 
County of Buckingham. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Return showing Nationality, Number, and Ton 
nage of Ships importing Timber into the following 
Ports of the United Kingdom, viz., London, Liver- 
pool, Uull, Cardiff, Gloucester, Glasgow, and 
Greenock, in the years 1873, 1874, 1875. 

Sir Charles Adderley accordingly presented the 
said Return. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Return of Civil Charges since 1867-8, as entered 
in the Civil Service Estimates when first submitted 
to Parliament; also of the “ Grants,” as entered 
in the Appropriation Accounts ; also of the Sums 
admitted as expended by Auditor General ; also 
of the Estimated Receipts and of Fees, and Reali- 
sations thereof; also of Differences more or less 
between Estimates and Actuals; the above to be 
divided into the Seven Classes of Civil Charges, 
and under the usual Heads for the Revenue De- 
partments, with respective Total and combined 
Totals :—-——Tabular Statements of Increase to the 
Sums as entered in original Estimates, showing 
the Amounts in Supplemental Estimates approved 
of by Parliament within the respective Financial 
Years, and of Estimates for Excesses approved of 
after the close of the Financial Year: And, 
Explanatory Tables to show the Main Heads of 
Charges that have so largely swelled the Civil 
Estimates within the above period; and of the) 
Main Heads that have been diminished, so as to 
convey a fair view of the great augmentations that 
have taken place in these Civil Charges, und from 
what causes. 








Ordered, That Mr. Conolly have leave of absence 
until Whitsuntide, on account of il] health; and 
Mr. Sullivan until the 15th day of May next, on 
urgent private affairs. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- 
— That, in the — of this House, it having 
een determined gradually to abolish the system of 





25th—26th April. 


| 6é¢ 


1876. 


employing a separate and distinct branch of officer 
for navigating duties, it is desirable that greater 
encouragement and a more extended training than 
at present adopted should be given to the officers 
of the Fleet to obtain practical experience in sur- 
veying, pilotage, and navigation; and that in 
carrying out the intended change due regard should 
be paid to the position and prospects of existing 
class of navigating officers ; . 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to 
the Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the 
words “ considering the greatly increased value ot 
** Her Majesty’s ships of late years, and the im- 
* portance of sesviting for their safe navigation, 
“ this House is of opinion that the training and 
“ instruction, as well as the position cf navigating 
* officers, demands serious attention, but that the 
abolition of a separate and distinct class of 
officers to perform these duties is a step which 
can only be approached with extreme caution 
and under a sense of the gravest responsibility,” 
instead thereof. 

And the Question being proposed, That the 
words proposed to be left out stand part of the 
Question :— 


And Notice being taken, that Forty Members 
were not present:—The House was told by Mr. 
Speaker; and Forty Members not being present, 
and it being then after Four of the clock:—the 
House was adjourned by Mr. Speaker, without a 
Question first put, till To-morrow. 


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Wednesday, 26th April, 1876. 
PRAYERS. 
| ie. Lynn and Fakenham Railway Bill was tynn ani 
read the third time. Fakenham 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. Railway Bill 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Biil to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration North Wales 
the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways Bill, Narrow Gap 
as amended in the Committee. a 

A Clause (Priority of Principal Moneys secured 
by existing Mortgages) was twice read; and made 
part of the Bill. 

Then Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Public 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and Publi 
Petitions. 


read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. ae 
Several Public Petitions were also presented, vide Votes, 


and read; and referred to a Select Committee. —— 
eC) 


a- Army 
n (Education of 
l Officers.) 


Mr. Secretary Hardy presented, by Her M 
jesty’s Command,—Copy of Second Report 0 
the Education of Officers by the Director Genera 
of Military Education. 

Mr. Secretary Hardy also presented, pursuant Militia 
to the directions of an Act of Parliament,—Copies 
of Orders and Regulations relating to the Militia. 

. Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
able. 


Mr. Bourke presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- Diplomatic 

mand,—Statement (in detail) of the — cawee 

under Sub-Heads (C) to (N), of the Vote for No, 4, 1876) 

Diplomatic Services, as charged in the Appropria- 

tion Account for the Year 1874-75. oo” 
Statement showing the Distribution of Second Diplomats 

and Third Secretaries in Her Majesty’s Diplo- (4; 


matic Service on December Ist, 1875. No. 5, 1876) 


Statement (in detail) of the Expenditure under Cont &amp; 


Sub-Heads (C) to (I) of the Vote for Consular €Siscellanets 
Services No. 6, 1876) 








1 and 


way Bill. 


h Wales 
ow Gauge 
vays Bill 


ons. 


Votes, 


ation of 
rs.) 


es Vote 
allaneows, 
1876.) 


natic 
olaneous, 
1876.) 
lar 

es Vote 
ellaneots, 
1876.) 


$y VicToRIA. 


Services (General), as charged in the Appropria- 
tion Account for the year 1874-75. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


ns The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
vesbiities Reading of the Women’s Disabilities Removal 
Removal Bill. P3i}] ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a 
second time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the word “ now,” and, 
at the end of the Question, adding the words 
“ upon this day six months.” 

And the Question being put, That the word 
“ now,” stand part of the Question ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the io Forsyth, i 152 

Yeas, Sir Robert Anstruther: J ' 

Tellers for the ¢ Viscount Folkestone, 239 

Noes, \Mr. Leatham: }2 p 

So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
“upon this day six months,” betadded at the end 
of the Question :—It was resolved in the Affirm- 
ative. 


26th April. 161 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Municipal 
Reading of the Municipal Corporations, &amp;c. Corporations, 
(Funds) Bill; a 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday the 5th day of May next. 


‘The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Crab and 
mittee on the Crab and Lobster Fisheries ( Nor- a 
folk) Bill; Nosfolk) Bill 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday Pee aa 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Cheques on 
Reading of the Cheques on Bankers Bill; Bankers Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Coroners 
mittee on the Coroners (Dublin) Bill ; (Dublin) Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 


next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 
The Order of the day being read, for the Second Medical 
Reading of the Medical Practitioners Bill ; — 


Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Intoxicating 
Reading of the Intoxicating Liquors (Licensing 44%" 





Then the main Question, so amended, being 
put ; P 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon this day six months. 


Elementary The Order of the day being read, for the Second 

Biucation § Reading of the Elementary Education (Applica- 

—, tion for School Board) Bill; 

Board) Bill Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday the 8th day of May next. 


Training The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Schools and ~=Reading of the Training Schools and Ships Bill; 
Ships Bill. Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 


upon Monday the 24th day of May next. 


Mercantile The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Marine Reading of the Mercantile Marine Hospital Service 
ne Bill; 
Service Bill. , 


Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday the 24th day of May next. 
Toll Bridges The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Thame) sie Bae of the Toll Bridges (River Thames) 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday the 24th day of May next. 


Trade Union The Order of the day being read, for the Third 
if (i871) Reading of the Trade Union Act (1871) Amend- 
ent . 
Bill, ment Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Wednesday next. 
Supply. The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 


mittee of Supply ; 
Resolved, Pat this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


—o The Order of the day being read, for the Com- | 


mittee of Ways and Means ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Game Laws 


(Scotland) Bill. mittee on the Game Laws (Scotland) Bill ; 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 


Law Amendment) (No. 2) Bill; keene 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time (No. 2) Bill. 


upon Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Land Tenure 
the adjourned Debate on the Amendment which, (Jeland) Bill. 
upon the 29th day of March last, was proposed to 
be made to the Question, That the Land Tenure 
(Jreland) Bill be now read a second time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Municipal 
mittee on the Municipal Privileges (Jreland) Bill; Privileges 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday “"™™"™ 

next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Game Laws 
Reading of the Game Laws Amendment ( Sco¢- Amendment | 
land) Bill; ace aens 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
To-morrow. 


Resolved, That this House will, immediately, re- gate of Coal. 
solve itself into a Committee to consider the Law 
regulating the Sale of Coal :—The House accord- 
ingly resolved itself into the Committee. 


(In the Committee. ) 


Resolved, That the Chairman be directed to 
move the House, That leave be given to bring in a 
Bill to amend the Law regulating the Sale of 
Coal, Slack, Culm, and Cannel. 


Resolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had come to a Reso- 
lution. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Raikes accordingly reported a Resolution ; 
which was read, as followeth : 

That the Chairman be directed tu move the 
| House, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
‘amend the Law regulating the Sale of Coal, 
| Slack, Culm, and Cannel:—And he moved the 

House accordingly. 
Ordered, That leave be given to bring in the 
| Bill : And that Mr. Gourley, Mr. Palmer, Mr. 





Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- | Hamond, Mr. Dodds, Sir Henry Havelock, and 


solve itself into the said Committee. 
VoL. 131. 


| Mr. Ashbury do prepare, and bring it in. 
Y Ordered, 








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162 Q6th 














April. 


1876. 


dale, in the County of Lancaster: And the same 
was read the first. time; and ordered to be read a 
second time upon Friday next; and to be printed. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented a Bill Kingstown 
further to amend the Acts relating to Kingstown Harbow Buy, 
Harbour: And the same was read the first time; Bill 19, 
and ordered to be read a second time upon Monday 


Ear! Percy reported from the Committee on Private gy, 
Group H. of Private Bills; That the parties op- (Group H) 
posing the Cleveland Water Bill had stated that 








| establish their case, and it having been proved that 
_their attendance could not be procured without 


Ordered, That Nicholas Henry Ground and 
Thomas Taylor do attend the Committee on Group 
H. of Private Bills upon Friday next, at Twelve 





Earl Percy reported from the Committee on Private Bills 
Group H. of Private Bills; That, for the conveni- (Group H) 
ence of the Parties, the Committee had adjourned 
till Friday next, at Twelve of the clock. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Earl Percy reported from the Committee on Private Bills 
Group H. of Private Bills; That Sir John Sé, (Group 1) 
Aubyn, one of the Members of the Committee, 
was not present during the sitting of the Com- 


Ordered, That Sir John St. Aubyn be discharged 
from further attendance on the said Committee. 


The Order made upon the 25th day of this « Britannia” 
instant April, That there be laid before this House, Cadets. 
a Return relative to the “ Britannia” Cadets, was 


Ordered, That there be Jaid before this House, « Britannia” 
Copy or Extracts of the Report of the Director of Cadets. 
Naval Studies at Greenwich on the state of pro- No. 196. 
ficiency of the Cadets of the “ Britannia” who 
have been appointed under the revised System of 
Nomination without Competition: — And, Copy 
of the Report from the Captain of the “ Bri- 
tannia” on the relative Qualifications of Naval 
Cadets entered under the former and present 


Mr. Algernon Egerton accordingly presented the 


Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 


The Patents for Inventions Bill was read the — 
first time ; and ordered to be read a second time pi) [Lords.] 


upon Thursday the 4th day of May next; and to pin 497, 


Chelsea Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
— to extend the provisions of the Exchequer and 
Audit Departments Act, 1866, to the Accounts of 
the Commissioners for the Government of the 
Royal Hospital at Chelsea: And that Mr. Stephen 
Cave, Mr. William Henry Smith, and Mr. Stanley 
do prepare, and bring it in. 
Local Govern. | Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill) next; and to be printed. 
ment Pro- = to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local 
a Government Board relating to the Districts of 
riton Ferry, : “one” 
&amp;c. (No. 4.). Briton Ferry and Clayton, the Rural Sanitary 
District of Coventry Union, the Borough of Not- | &gt;. ¢ 
tingham (two), and the Districts of Oystermouth | the Evidence of Nicholas Henry Ground and 
and Ripley: And that Mr. Salt and Mr. Selater-| Thomas Taylor was essential to enable them to 
Booth do prepare, and bring it in. | 
Local Govern- Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill | the intervention of the House, he had been in- 
ot to confirm a Provisional Order of the Local Go- | structed to move that the said Nicholas Henry 
Sicdmaredale * vernment Board under the provisions of * The Ground and Lhomas Taylor do attend the said 
(No. 5.) Gas and Water Facilities Act, 1870,” and “ ‘The | Committee on Friday next, at Twelve of the 
Public Health Act, 1875,” relating to the District | clock. 
of Skelmersdale, in the County of Lancaster: And 
that Mr. Sa/t and Mr. Sclater- Booth do prepare, 
and bring it in. 9 me 
Kingstown Resolved, That this House will, immediately, re- ae 
Harbour. solve itself into a Committee to consider the Acts | 
relating to Kingstown Harbour :—The House ac- 
cordingly resolved itself into the Committee. 
(In the Committee.) 
Resolved, That the Chairman be directed to 
move the House, That leave be given to bring in a 
Bill further to amend the Acts relating to Kings- 
town Harbour. 
Resolution to be reported. 
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. | mittee this day. 
Raikes reported, That the Committee had come 
to a Resolution. 
Ordered, That the Report be now received. 
Mr, Raikes accordingly reported a Resolution ; 
which was read, as followeth: 
That the Chairman be directed to move the 
House, That leave be given to bring in a Bill d. and discl d 
further to amend the Acts relating to Kingstown | "4% 8ne Msehargec. 
Harbour :— And he moved the House accordingly. 
Oraered, That leave be given to bring in the 
Bill: And that Mr. William Heary Smith and 
Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer do prepare, and 
bring it in. 
Sale of Coal Mr. Gourley presented a Bill to amend the Law 
sad regulating the Sale of Coal, Slack, Culm, and 
Bill 132. Cannel: And the same was read the first time; 
and ordered to be read a second time upon Mon- 
day the 22nd day of May next; and to be printed. Systems. 
Chelsea Mr. Stephen Cave presented a Bill to extend the}. aP 
Hospital _— provisions of the Exchequer and Audit Depart- SMG + Oper. 
Accounts Bill. tents Act, 1866, to the Accounts of the Commis- |, : 
Bill 133. sioners for the Government of the Royal Hospital Table ; and be printed. 
at Chelsea: And the same was read the first time ; 
and ordered to be read a second time upon Thurs- 
day the 4th day of May next; and to be printed. 
Local Govern- Mr. Salt presented a Bill to confirm certain ape 
ment Pro- e printed. 


Provisional Orders of the Local Government 
Board relating to the Districts of Briton Ferry and 
&amp;e. (No.4) Clayton, the Rural Sanitary District of Coventry 
Bill. Union, the Borough of Nottingham (two), and the 

Bill 134. Districts of Oystermouth and Ripley: And the 
same was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time upon Friday next; and to be 
printed. 


visional Orders, 
Briton Ferry, 


Local Govern- Mr, Salt presented a Bill to confirm a Provi- 


— rder, Slonal Order of the Local Government Board 
Skelmersdale under the Provisions of “ The Gas and Water 
(No. 5) Bill. Facilities Act, 1870,” and “The Public Healtn 








The Order for reading a second time, To- Salmon Fishery 
morrow, the Salmon Fishery (Provisional Order) ri 
Bill, was read, and discharged. : 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday the 11th day of May next. 


The Order for the House to resolve itself into a Cotte en 
Committee, To-morrow, on the Cattle Disease 


(Jreland) Bill, was read, and discharged. . 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 








Bill 135. Act, 1875,” relating to the District of Shelmers- | 


next, resolve itself into the said Committee. rh 
e 





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ur Bil}, 
l 136, 


¢ Bills 
p HL) 


96, 









39 VicTorRIA. 2th—2Q7th April 163 


proce Lhe Order for reading a second time, To- 
ire (Ireland) morrow, the Juries Procedure (Jreland) Bill, was 

Bill. read, and discharged. 
Ordered, Tnat the Bill be read a second time 


upon Monday next. 


The Order for reading a second time, To- 
seigcation morrow, the Jurors Qualification (Jreland) Bill, 
(Ireland) Bill. was read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 

upon Monday next. 


The Order for reading a second time, To- 
Courts morrow, the Civil Bill Courts (Jreland) Bill, was 
(Ireland) Bill. yead, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


Civil Bill 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 








Thursday, 27th April, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 
Message from M+; Speaker acquainted the House, That a 
the Lords. a Message had been brought from the Lords 
by one of their Clerks, as followeth : 
Manchester The Lords have agreed to the Manchester and 
and Milford Milford Railway Bill, without any Amendment. 


Railway Bill. 
Folkestone Gas © Lhe Lords have agreed to the Folkestone Gas 


Bill. Bill, without any Amendment. 


Public Sir Charles Forster reported from the Select 
Petitions Committee on Public Petitions; That they had 
ry examined the Petitions presented upon the 10th, 
llth, 24th, and 25th days of this instant April, 
and had directed him to make a Report thereof 
to the House. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Burry Port and The Burry Port and North Western Junction 

— ee Railway Bill was read the third time. 

vay Bill "Resolved, That the Bill do pass. . 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 


the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


London, The London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Bill 
Chatham, and was read the third time. 
~_ Railway —- Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


perl Bay = The Pegwell Bay Reclamation Bill was read 
a" the third time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Redear and The Redcar and Coatham Gas Bill was read the 


_ Gas third time. 
Resolved, 'That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 
Wilts and The House proceeded to take into consideration 


7 Canal the Wilts and Berks Canal Bill, as amended in 
‘ the Committee. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Dublin Port The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
dep Reading of the Dublin Port and Docks Board 
(Lords,) Bill; 
: Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday the 9th day of May next. 


Publi Several Public Petitions were presented, and 
“tons, read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Vide Votes, Several Public Petitions were also presented, 
ind Sixteenth and read; and referred to a Select Committee. 
Report, VoL. 131. 











Ordered, Vuat the Accounts relative to the Post Office 
Post Office Savings Banks, which were presented S*ving* Banks. 
upon the 25th day of this instant April, be No. 197. 
printed. 


Ordered, That the Appropriation Account re- Ashantee Ex. 
lative to the Ashantee Expedition ( Vote of Credit), pedition (Vote 


which was presented upon the 25th day of this Chemeaeelathin 
instant April, be printed. Account.) 
No. 198. 


Mr. Secretary Cross presented, by Her Majesty’s Queen’s 
Command,—Copy of the Report of the President a 
of Queen’s College, Belfast, for the year ending 
October 1875. 

Copy of Twenty-first Annual Report of the Births, Deaths, 
Registrar General on the Births, Deaths, and Mar- 04 Marriages, 
riages registered in Scotland during the year 1875; jaa 
and Eleventh Annual Report on Vaccination. 

Ordered, ‘That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


The following Paper, pursuant to the directions Union of 
of an Act of Parliament, was laid upon the Table Benefices _ 
by the Clerk of the House,—A certified Copy of topolis.) 
a Scheme, sealed by the Ecclesiastical Commis- 
sioners for Evgland, on the 6th day of April 
1876, for effecting an Union of two Benefices, 
situate within the City and Diocese of London; 
to wit, the Benefice (being a Rectory) of Suint 
Mary-le-Bow with Saint Pancras, Soper Lane, 
and All Hallows, Honey Lane, and the Benefice 
(being a Rectory) of All Hallows, Bread Street, 
with Saint John-the- Evangelist. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Navy (Train- 
a Copy of the Revised Instructions for the Entry ig Ships.) 
of Boys to the Training Ships of Her Majesty’s 
Navy, showing in what respects the Qualifications 
of Physique and Education is to be lowered. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Coolies 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased (Jamaica.) 
to give directions, that there may be added to the 
Return relating to Coolies in Jamaica, for which 
an Address was ordered to be presented to Her 
Majesty, upon the 3rd day of this instant April, 
the following Particulars, viz. :— 

Total I:xpenditure for Immigration Purposes; 

Amount paid by Planters who employ 
Coolies ; 

Amount paid from Immigration Revenue ; 

Amount paid from General Revenue; 

Number of Estates in the Island under Culti- 
vation ; 

Number of Estates on which Coolies are em- 
ployed. 


A Message was delivered by Colonel Clifford, Royal Assent. 
Yeoman Usher of the Black Rod: 


Mr. Speaker, 


The Lords, authorised by virtue of Her Ma- 
jesty’s Commission, for declaring Her Royal As- 
sent to several Acts agreed upon by both Houses, 
desire the immediate attendance of this Honour- 
able House in the House of Peers, to hear the 
Commission read. 

Accordingly Mr. Speaker, with the House, went 
up to the House of Peers :—And being returned ; 

Mr. Speaker reported, That the House, at the 
desire of the Lords, authorised by virtue of Her 
Majesty’s Commission, had been at the House of 
Peers, where a Commission under the Great Seal 
was read, giving, declaring and notifying the Royal 
Assent to the several Acts therein mentioned; and 
that the Lords, thereby authorised, had declared 
the Royal Assent to the said Acts, as follow: 

An Act to enable Her Most Gracious Majesty Royal Titles 
to make an addition to the Royal Style and Bil 
Titles appertaining to the Imperial Crown of the 
United Kingdom and its Dependencies, 

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164 
An Act to confirm two Provisional Orders 
ane made under “The Drainage and Improvement 


(Ireland) Pro- Of Lands (Jreland) Act, 1863,” and the Acts 


visional Orders amending the same. 
(No. 2) Bill. : ; 
Manchester An Act to authorise an Extension of Time for 


and Milford purchasing Land and completing the Railway au- 
Railway Bill. thorised by the Manchester and Milford Railway 
(Devil’s Bridge Branch) Act, 1873. 

An Act to authorise the Folkestone Gas and 

Coke Company to acquire further Lands, to ex- 
tend their Works, to raise additional Capital, and 
for other purposes. 
Dublin (City) _ An Act to authorise the City of Dublin Steam 
Steam Packet Packet Company to make further Arrangements 
Company Bill. for the Investment of their Reserve Fund, and for 
other purposes. 

An Act to enable the Shepton Mallet Water- 
works Company to construct additional Works and 
to raise further Capital, and for other purposes. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Copy of the Correspondence between 
Mr. George S. Gibbs and the Home Office relative 
to Return, dated the 5th day of March 1875, re- 
specting Prosecutions under the Vaccination Act, 
1867, with the Digest of the said Return, as en- 
closed in the said Correspondence. 


Drainage and 
Improvement 


Folkestone 
Gas Bill. 


Shepton Mallet 
Water Bill. 


Vaccination 
Act, 1867 (Pro- 
secutions. ) 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That this House do now adjourn :—And 
the said Motion was, with leave of the House, 
withdrawn. 


Adjournment. 


Endowed 
Schools Acts, 
1869, 1873, 
and 1874. 


No. 199. 


Viscount Sundon presented, pursuant to the di- 
rections of several Acts of Parliament,— Copy of 
the following Schemes under the Endowed Schools 
Acts, 1869, 1873, and 1874: 

Schemes for the management of Crewkerne 
Grammar School, Ousley Exhibitions, Hoskyns 
and Wynford Exhibitions, and School Exhibitions. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


Leave of 


Ordered, That Mr. George Browne have leave 
Absence. 


of absence for six weeks, on account of severe 
domestic affliction; Mr. Fielden, until Whitsun- 
tide, on account of ill health; Captain Home, until 
10th May, on account of domestic affliction; and 
Mr. Francis Arkwright, until Whitsuntide, on 
urgent private affairs, 


Mr. Secretary Hardy presented, by Her Ma- 
jesty’s Command,—An Estimate of the Vote “ on 
Account” required for the year ending 31st March 
1877, towards defraying the Charges for the Esta- 
blishment. of, and Expenditure incurred by, the 


Army Purchase 
Commission 
(1876-7) (Vote 
on Account. ) 


No. 200. 


Army Purchase Commissioners, and the Expenses | 


to be incurred in purchasing the remaining Com- 
missions of Gentlemen-at-Arms. 

Ordered, That the said Estimate be referred to 
the Committee of Supply ; and be printed. 


Merchant 
Shipping Bill. jnto a Committee on the Merchant Shipping Bill. 


(In the Committee.) 


CiauseE, N 16 (Entry of deck cargo in official 
log). 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Clause be postponed :—Whereupon Motion made, 
and Question proposed, That the Chairman do 
report Progress, and ask leave to sit again :— 
Motion, by leave, withdrawn. 

Clause postponed. 

Cuiausk, N° 17 (Marking of deck-lines, 38 &amp; 
39 Vic, c. 88, 8. 5). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 10, 1. 1, after the 
word “ Ship” to insert the words “ of a hundred 
** tons, and upwards.” 


Q7th April. 


1876. 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted :—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

An Amendment made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 10, 1. 3, to 
leave out the words “ coasting trade, or in fishing,” 
in order to insert the words “ home trade as de- 
‘fined by Merchant Shipping Act of 1854, and 
“ except fishing boat.” 

Question proposed, That the words “ coasting 
“ trade,” stand part of the Clause :—Amendment, 
by leave, withdrawn. 

Other Amendments made. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

CiausE, N° 18 (Marking of load-line, 38 &amp; 
39 Vic. c. 88, 8. 6). 

An Amendment made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 10, I. 16, 
after the words “ fishing and,” to insert the words 
* billibhoys or.” ; 

Question put, That the words “ billibhoys or” be 
there inserted ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for thef Mr. Eustace Smith, 

Yeas, {Lord Eslington : la 

Tellers for the; Sir William Dyke, } 237 

Noes,- \Mr. Rowland Winn: ” 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 10, 1. 19, 
to leave out the words “ or if that is not practicable 
“ as soon after as may be.” 

Question proposed, That the words proposed to 
be left out stand part of the Clause :—Amend- 
ment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 10, 1. 21, 
after the word “practicable,” to insert the words 
“ regard being had to the object in view.” 

Question, That those words be there inserted 

put, and negatived. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 10, 1. 21, 
after the word “ practicable,” to insert the words 
* or upon the stem and stern.” 





Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted ; 

Amendment proposed to the said proposed 
Amendment, to leave out the word “upon,” in 
order to insert the word “ towards.” 

Question, That the word “ upon” stand part of 
the said proposed Amendment put, and nega- 
tived. 

Question, That the word “ towards” be inserted 
in the said proposed Amendment——put, and 
agreed to. 





The House, according to Order, resolved itself | 


Question, That the words “‘ or towards the stem 
“ or stern” be there inserted ——put, and negatived. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. i0,1]. 26, 
' to Jeave out the first word “ to,” in order to insert 
the word “ beyond.” 

Question, That the first word “to” stand part 
of the Clause: Amendment, by leave, with- 
drawn. 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Chairman do report Progress, and ask leave to sit 
again :—Motion, by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 10, 1. 25, 
to leave out the word “ intends,” in order to insert 
| the words, “ claims to be entitled with safety.” 
Question, That the word “intends” stand part 
| of the Clause—— put, and agreed to. 





Another Amendment proposed, in p. 10, 1. 33, 
after the word “centre,” to insert the words “ and 


| shall transmit a copy of such statement to the 
|« Board of Trade.” é 

| Question put, That those words be there in- 
| serted ; 

The Committee divided. 
Tellers for the f Mr. Plimsoll, 


1 64. 
Yeas, Mr. Macdonald: J 
Tellers for thes Sir William Dyke, } 197. 
Noes, (Mr. Rowland Winn : 


To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. = 
And 


























39 VicTorIA. 165 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Friday morning ; 


Friday, 28th April, 1876: 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Razkes 
reported, That the Committee had made Progress 
in the Bill; and that he was directed to move, That 
the Committee may have leave to sit again. 

Resulved, That this House will, this day, again 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


QT th—2Wth April. 


CiauseE, N 4, amended, and agreed to. 
CrausE, N° 5 (Refusal of new Certificate by 
justices or magistrates to be final.) 

Amendment proposed, in p. 2, 1. 4, to leave out 
from the word “ but” to the end of the Clause, in 
order to insert the words “in counties an appeal 
* shall lie to a standing Committee of the Justices 
** of the Peace (hereafter in this Act called the 
** County Licensing Committee) and in Burghs to 
“a Joint Committee ef the Magistrates of the 
“ Burgh, and the Justices of the Peace of the 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second | « County in which the premises in respect of which 





Cat oe Reading of the Clerk of the Peace and of the |“ the Certificate is applied for are situated (here- 
the Crown = Crown ( Jreland) Bill; “ after in this Act called the Joint Committee for 
(Ireland) Bill. Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time | “ the Burgh).” 
this day. Question proposed, That the words proposed to 
. left out ste yart of the Clause: 
Admiralty The Order of the day being read, for the Second ¥ W tn cS sa =a Question pro- 
Jurisdiction Reading of the Admiralty Jurisdiction (Jreland) I oS P 


(Ireland) Bill. Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day. 
The Order of the day being read, for the Second 


a nal Reading of tie Customs and Inland Revenue 
Revenue Bill. Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 
Ecclesiastical The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Assessments Reading of the Ecclesiastical Assessments (Scot- 


(Seotland) Bill Famed) Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


Sheriff Courts Lhe Order of the day being read, for the Second 
(Scotland) Bill. Reading of the Sheriff Courts ( Scotland) Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Commons Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Commons Bill. 


Appellate The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Jurisdiction Reading of the Appellate Jurisdiction Bill ; 
Bill (Lords. ] Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 
local Govern. Lhe Local Government Provisional Orders 
ment Pro. (No, 2) Bill was, according to Order, read the 
oo third time. 
; ’ Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 
ant Govern The Local Government Provisional Orders 
visionai Orders (No. 3) Bill was, according to Order, read the 
(No.3) Bil. third time. 


Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


as The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Solicitor Bill. mittee on the Treasury Solicitor Bill ; 
Resulved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Pier and The Pier and Harbour Orders Confirmation 

— (Aldborough, &amp;c.) Bill was, according to Order, 

firmation read a second time; and committed to a Com- 

{iitorough, mittee of the whole House, for Friday next. 

— The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
cates 


om” into a Committee on the Publicans Certificates 
™* (Scotland) Bill. 


(In the Committee.) 


Preamble postponed. 
Crausgs, N° 1 to N° 3, agreed to. 


posed, That the Chairman do report Progress, and 


ask leave to sit again :—Motion, by leave, with- 
drawn. 

Question again proposed, That the words pro- 
posed to be left out stand part of the Clause :—~ 
Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Clause agreed to. 

Causes, N° 6 to N° 9, agreed to. 

CiausE, N° 10, amended, and agreed to. 

CriavuseE, N° 11 (Provisions for the case of jus- 
tice or magistrate being disqualified to act as 
such). 

Amendment proposed, in p, 3, 1. 13, to leave 
out the word “ no,” in order to insert the word 
“ any.” 

Question proposed, That the word “no” stand 
part of the Clause :—Amendment, by leave, with- 
drawn. 

Clause agreed to. 

CLAusE, N° 12, agreed to. 

CiauseE, N° 13, amended, and agreed to. 

CLausEs, N° 14 to N° 16, agreed to. 

A Clause added. 

Schedules agreed to. 

Preamble agreed to. 

Bill, as amended, to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Serpentine. 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
upon the 4th day of this instant April, That the 
Mounds at present being erected on the South of 
the Serpentine are unsightly, and will, when 
planted, be detrimental to the picturesque cha- 
racter of Hyde Park, and ought to be removed ; 

And the Question being again proposed :—The 
House resumed the said adjourned Debate :—And 
the said Motion was, with leave of the House, 
withdrawn. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming House 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed a Dis- 
upon the 22nd day of March last, That the House (eee 
Occupiers Disqualification Removal Bill be now 
read a second time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Beer Licences 
Reading of the Beer Licences (Ireland) Bill; (Ireland) Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Game Laws 
mittee on the Game Laws (Scotland) Bill ; (Scotland) Bill . 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 





Vou. 131. 


r3 The 





Game Laws 
Amendment 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Metropolitan 
Fire Brigade. 


Liverymen 
(City of 
London.) 


County Rates 
(Ireland.) 


Crab and 
Lobster 
Fisheries 
(Norfolk) Bill. 


County Rates 
(Ireland) Bill. 
Bill 138. 


Caledonian 
Railway 
(Additional 
Powers, Bill. 


Caledonian 
Railway 
(Grangemouth 
Harbour) Bill. 


166 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Game Laws Amendment ( Scol- 
land) Bill; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a 
second time :—And a Debate arising thereupon ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be adjourned till 
Thursday next. 


Ordered, That Mr. Fielden be discharged from 
further attendance on the Select Committee on 
the Metropolitan Fire Brigade. 

Ordered, That Mr. Hardcastle be added to the 
Committee. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Return of the Number of Liverymen in the 
City of London entitled to vote at the Election of 
Members of Parliament for the City of London by 
reason of their Patrimony, Servitude, or Purchase 
in any of the Companies, arranged in the order of 
their respective Companies : 





Purchase 
or Redemption. 


Name 


of Company. Servitude. 


Patrimony. 














Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 


to make better provision for the apportionment of 
County Rates between Landlord and Tenant in | 


Ireland: And that Mr. Butt, Mr. Downing, and 
Mr. Richard Smyth do prepare, and bring it in. 


The Order for the House to resolve itself into 
a Committee, this day, on the Crab and Lobster 
Fisheries (Norfolk) Bill, was read, and discharged. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Mr. Butt presented a Bill to make better pro- 
vision for the apportionment of County Rates 
between Landlord and Tenant in Ireland: And 
the same was read the first time; and ordered to 
be read a second time upon Tuesday the 9th day 
of May next; and to be printed. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till a quarter of an hour before Two of the 
clock on Friday morning, adjourned till 
this day. 


Priday, 28th April, 1876. 

PRAYERS. 

T HE House proceeded to take into considera- 
tion the Caledonian Railway (Additional 

Powers) Bill, as amended in the Committee. 

A Clause (Article 2 of Agreement of 1867 be- 
tween Company and North British Railway Com- 
yany to apply to traffic conveyed to and from 
Railway No. 5 authorised by this Act) was twice 
read; and made part of the Bill. 

Another Clause (For protection of Salmon Fish- 
ings) was twice read ; and made part of the Bill. 

Then Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 





The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Caledonian Railway (Grangemouth Harbour) 
Bill, as amended in the Committee. 

A Clause (Company not to borrow under this 
Act from Public Works Loan Commissioners) 
was twice read; and made part of the Bill. 

Another Clause ( For protection of Salmon Fish- 
ings) was twice read ; and made part of the Bill. 


Q7th—28th April. 


1876. 


Another Clause (Saving for General Acts re- 
lating to Animals) was twice read ; and made part 
of the Bill. 

Then Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Yor Noy 
the York New Water Bill, as amended in the Water Bi, 
Committee ; and an Amendment was made to the 
Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second y, 
Reading of the Northampton and Banbury Junc- and Band 
tion Railway Company and their Sureties Bill; — Junction Ray, 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. an oa 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. Sureties Bill, 

A Petition of the Gas Light and Coke Com- gy), 

° rar ° ght and 
pany, praying that Provision may be made in the Coke Company 
Gas Light and Coke Company Bill for raising ad- ill 
ditional Capital; for fixing the price of common Gas; 





for creating a Reserve Fund; for regulating the 
‘supply and testing the quality of the Gas, and 
for auditing the Accounts of the Company, was 
presented, and read; and referred to the Exa- 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


| Mr. Mowbray reported from the Select Com- standing 
/mittee on Standing Orders, several Resolutions ; Orders. 
which were read, as follow: 

1. That in the case of the Romford Canal Com- portord Caml 
pany Petition, the Standing Orders ought to be Company, 
dispensed with ; that the parties be permitted to 
proceed with their Bill, 
| 2. That in the case of Gouz’s Patent, Petition Goux’s Patent 
for leave to deposit Petition for Bill, the Stand- 
|ing Orders ought to be dispensed with; that the 
—" be permitted to deposit their Petition for 

ill. 

3. That in the case of the Erwood Bridge Bill, Erwood Bridge 
the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed with ; Bill [Lords] 
that the parties be permitted to proceed with their 
Bill. 

The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 


The House was moved, That the Report from pomford Canal 
the Select Committee on Standing Orders, in Company. 
respect of the Petition for leave to bring in the 
Romford Canal Company Bill, might be read; 
and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to enable the Romford Canal Company to raise 
additional Capital: And that Mr. Kinnaird and 
Captain Price do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from p,ivate Bills 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private (Zerds] (No 
Bills, That no Standing Orders not previously in- ay 
quired into are applicable in the case of the follow- previously 
ing Rill, originating in the Lords, and referred on inquired into, 
the First Reading thereof, viz. : opplicsbia) 

Brighton Pavilion Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time. 


—Report from Private Bills 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Tuble, ; 
(Standing 


one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private (try com 
Bills, That Standing Order, No. 74, has beem pjied with) 
complied with in the case of the following Bill, 
referred on the First Reading thereof, viz. : 
Llyavi and Ogmore, and Cardiff and Ogmore 
Valley Railway Companies Bill. 
Ordered, ‘that the Bill be read a second time. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Private Bills 


7 ° . eae ‘ivate (Standing 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private (hs om. 


Bills, That Standing Order, No. 75, has been we" plied with.) 





plie 








EF 


mpton 
jury 

m Rail. 

7m pany 

eir 

s Bill, 


ght and 
ompany 


d Canal 
1A 


Patent. 


Bridge 
rds. 


Bills 
(No 


ot 
y 


@.) 


; &amp; 


i) 





Kildwick 
Parish Gas 


Offences 
against the 
Person Bill. 


Furness 
Railway Bill. 


Public 
Petitions. 


Vide Votes, 
and Sixteenth 
Report. 


Agricultural 
Statistics 
(Ireland.) 
Metropolitan 
Police. 


Navy 
(Vietualling 


Savings.) 


Supply. 


East India 
(Femine.) 


39 Victoria. 


plied with in the case of the following Bill, 
referred on the First Reading thereof, viz. : 
Bolton-le-Sands, Warton, and Silverdale Re- 
clamation Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time. 


Earl Percy reported from the Committee on 
Group H. of Private Bills; That in the case of 
the Kildwick Parish Gas Bill, they had examined 
the allegations contained in the Preamble of the 
Bill, and verbally amended the same, and found 
the same, as amended, to be true; and had gone 
through the Bill, and made Amendments there- 
unto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Offences against the Person Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday the 
12th day of May next, resolve itself into the said 
Committee. 


Mr. Raikes reported the Furness Railway Bill, 
with Amendments. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table; 
and be printed. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

A Public Petition was also presented, and read ; 
and referred to a Select Committee. 


Mr. Secretary Cross presented, by Her Majesty’s 
Command,—The Agricultural Statistics of Ireland 
for the year 1874. 

Mr. Secretary Cross also presented, pursuant to 
the directions of an Act of Parliament,— Accounts 
showing the Sums received and expended for the 
purposes of the Metropolitan Police, Police Su- 
perannuation Fund, and Police Courts, between 
Ist April 1875 and 3lst March 1876. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Algernon Egerton presented,—Return to an 
Order, dated the 6th day of this instant April, 
for a Return relative to the Navy (Victualling 
Savings). 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave 
the Chair ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to 
the Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the 
words “in the opinion of this House, it is desirable 
“ that a Select Committee be appointed to inquire 
“into the circumstances of the late famine in 
“ India, and into the various systems of relief 
“ adopted,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Question ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right; 

The Noes to the Left. 


Tellers for the {Sir William Dyke, L149 
Yeas, Mr. Rowland Winn: ie 
Tellers for thef Mr. Eustace Smith, } 46 
Noes, Sir George Campbell: 7 


So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
Chair :—The House accordingly resolved itself 
mto the Committee. 


(In the Committee. ) 


1, Motion made, and Question proposed, That 
Vou. 131. 


28th April. 


167 


a Sum, not exceeding £. 1,370,000, be granted to 
Her Majesty, on Account, for or towards defraying 
the Charge for the following Revenue Depart- 
ments to the 3lst day of March 1877; viz. :— 


£. 
Customs ° “ ° . - - - 170,000 
Inland Revenue - - - - - - 300,000 
Post Office - - - - - - - 550,000 
Post Office Packet Service - - - - 150,000 
Post Office Telegraphs - - - - - 200,000 
£. 1,370,000 


Whereupon Motion made, and Question pro- 
posed, That the Chairman do now leave the 
Chair :—Motion, by leave, withdrawn. 

Original Question put, and agreed to. 

2. £. 100,000, on Account, for the Establishment 
of, and Expenditure incurred by, the Army Pur- 
chase Commissioners, and the Expenses to be in- 
curred in purchasing the remaining Commissions 
of Gentlemen at Arms. 

Resolutions to be reported. 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had come to several 
Resolutions. 

Ordered, That the Report be received upon 
Monday next. 

Mr. Raikes also acquainted the House, that he 
was directed to move, That the Committee may 
have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 





Bill. 
- (In the Committee.) 


CLaAusE, N° 18, as amended, agreed to. 

CxiausE, N° 19 (Penalty for offences in relation 
to marks on ships, 38 &amp; 39 Vic. c. 88,8. 7). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 11,1]. 6, after the 
word “ who,” to insert the word “ wilfully.” 

Question, That the word “ wilfully ” be there 
inserted put, and negatived. 

An Amendment made. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

CriausE, N°* 20, amended, and agreed to. 

CiauseE, N° 21 (Assessors and rules of procedure 
on formal investigations into shipping casualties. 
See 17 &amp; 18 Vie. c. 104, s, 434). 

An Amendment made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 12, 1. 14, 
after the word “every” to insert the words “ in- 
© quiry or.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted :—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Amendment proposed, at the end of 
the Clause, to add the words “ and in the absence 
*‘ of any such charge no master or officer shall be 
“ required to give up his certificate.” 

Question put, That those’words be there added; 

The Committee divided. 





Tellers for thes Mr. Wilson, a 66 
Yeas, Mr. Reed: J . 
Tellers for the (Sir William Dyke, 147 
Noes, { Mr. Rowland Winn: } “ 


Clause, as amended, agreed to. 
CuauseE, N° 22, agreed to. 


Cuiause, N° 23 (Power to hold inquiries or 
formal investigations as to stranded and missing 
ships. See 17 &amp; 18 Vic. c. 104, s. 432). 
mendment proposed, in p. 12, 1. 25, to leave 

out the words “ stranded or,” in order to insert the 
word “ materially.” 

Question, That the words “ stranded or” stand 
part of the Clause——put, and agreed to. 

Clause agreed to. 





y4 CLAUSE, 


_ The House, according to Order, resolved itself Merchant 
into a Committee on the Merchant Shipping Shipping Bill. 


Poor Law 
Amendment 


Bill. 


Clerk of the 
Peace and of 
the Crown 


(Ireland) Bill. 


Ways and 
Means. 


Cattle Disease 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Local Govern- 
ment Pro- 
visional Orders, 
Briton Ferry, 
&amp;c. (No. 4) 
Bill. 


Local Govern- 
ment Pro- 
visional Order, 
Skelmersdale 
(No. 5) Bill. 


Admiralty 
Jurisdiction 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Industrial and . 


Provident 
Societies Bill. 


Bill 139. 


Coroners 
(Dublin) Bill. 


Intoxicating 
Liquors 
(Licensing Law 
Amendment) 
(No. 2) Bill. 


168 


Crause, N° 24 (Contribution from Mercantile 
Marine Fund to training ships). 
To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 





And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Saturday morning ; 


Saturday, 29th April, 1876: 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr. Raztkes 
reported, That the Committee had made Progress 
in the Bill ; and that he was directed to move, That 
the Committee may have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Poor Law Amendment Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Clerk of the Peace and of the 
Crown (Jreland) Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Ways and Means ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Cattle Disease (Jre/and) Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Local Government Provisional Orders, 
Briton Ferry, &amp;c. (No. 4) Bill was, according to 
Order, read a second time; and committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for Monday the 
8th day of May next. 


The Local Government Provisional Order, Skel- 
mersdale (No. 5) Bill was, according to Order, 
read a second time ; and committed to a Committee 
of the whole House, for Monday the 8th day of 
May next. 


The Admiralty Jurisdiction (Jreland) Bill was, 
according to Order, read a second time; and com- 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for 
Thursday next. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Industrial and Provi- 
dent Societies Bill; and, after some time spent 
therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and 
Mr. Raikes reported, That the Committee had 
gone through the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Coroners (Dudlin) Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
the 15th day of May next, resolve itself into the 
said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Intoxicating Liquors (Licensing 
Law Amendment (No. 2) Bill; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a 
second time :—And a Debate arising thereupon ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That the Debate be now adjourned ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 


28th—QWyth April.—1st May. 


1876 
The Noes to the Left. 
Tellers for the; Mr. Onslow, 
Yeas, (Mr, Alfred Marten: } 13. 
Tellers for the Sir Harcourt Johnstone, 
Noes, | Mr. Dalrymple : j 40. 
So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 
Ordered, That the Debate be adjourned till Fri- 
day next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Munig 
mittee on the Municipal Privileges (Jredand) Bill ; Privileges 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday (Ireland) Bil, 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to pubticans 
take into consideration the Publicans Certificates Certificates 
(Scotiand) Bill, as amended in the Committee ; (Stand) Bi, 
and an Amendment was made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Monday next. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Navy (Crime 
Returns of the Number of Courts Martial held 24 Punish. 
upon Seamen of the Royal Navy during the year — 
1874; the Offences for which the Men were tried; No. 201, 
the Sentences awarded ; and the Punishments in- 
flicted at Home and Abroad: Gf the Number 
of Summary Punishments inflicted : And, simi- 
lar Returns relating to the Royal Marines. 

Mr. Algernon Egerton accordingly presented the 
said Returns. 

Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


Ordered, That a Message be sent to the Lords, Ecclesiastical 
to request that their Lordships will be pleased to Dilapidations 
give leave to the Lord Bishop of Peterborough to ““ 
attend to be examined as a Witness before the 
Select Committee on the Ecclesiastical Dilapida- 
tions Acts: And that the Clerk do carry the 
said Message. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till a quarter of an hour after One of the 
clock on Saturday morning, adjourned till 
Monday next. 











Monday, 1st May, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 


IR Charles Forster reported from the Select pubiic 

Committee on Public Petitions; That they Petitions 
had examined the Petitions presented upon the — 
26th, 27th, and 28th days of April last, and had 
directed him to make a Report thereof to the 
House. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table; 
and be printed. 


The North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways Bill North pot 


arrow 


was read the third time. Railways Bil 


Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Wilts and Berks Canal Bill was read the Wilts and 
third time. pe 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the - 
Title be, An Act for incorporating the Wilts and 
Berks Canal Company, for the transfer to them of 
the Undertaking of the Wilts and Berks Canal 
Navigation, and for other purposes. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Didcot, 
the Didcot, Newbury, and Southampton Junction eee 
Railway Bill, as amended in the Committee; junction Ral 
and Amendments were made to the Bill. way Bill 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third *. 

e 








z 


ges 
d) Bil, 


ates 
nd) Bill, 


nish- 


201, 


\stical 
ations 


8 
th 


Wales 
s Bill. 





39 Vicroria. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 


ows the Humber Conservancy Bill, as amended in the 


Conservancy “ 
Bill. Committee. ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 

icin The Ivel Navigation Bill was read a second 

irre time; and committed. 

Maidenhead The Maidenhead District Gas Bill was read a 

District Gas second time; and committed. 

Bill (Lords. 

, ise The Newport (Isle of Wight) Borough Bill was 

ec 7 read a second time; and committed. 

Borough Bill 

(Lords. ] ‘ 

Le xpon- The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
That Cor Reading of the Stoke-upon-Trent Corporation Bill; 
poration Bill. Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 

To-morrow. 
Romford Canal A Bill to enable the Romford Canal Company 


Company Bill. to raise additional Capital, was read the first time; 
and referred to the Examiners of Petitions for 
Private Bills. 


Ordered, That the Committee on Group H. of 
Private Bills have leave to sit this day till Six of 
the clock, during the sitting of the House. 


Private Bills 
(Group H.) 


rrood Bridge _ Lhe House was moved, That the Report from 
Bil (Lords.) the Select Committee on Standing Orders in 
respect of the Erwood Bridge Bill, might be read ; 
and the same being read ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Several Public Petitions were also presented, 
and read; and referred to a Select Committee. 


Public 
Petitions. 


Vide Votes, and 


Seventeenth 
Report. 
Wrexham Ordered, That the Return relative to Wrexham 
come)” Union (Use of Stimulants), which was presented 
No, 202, Upon the 24th day of April last, be printed. 
Metropolitan Ordered, That the Accounts relative to the Me- 
Police. tropolitan Police, which were presented upon the 
No. 203. 28th day of April last, be printed. 
Navy Ordered, That the Return relative to the Navy 
{Wietwaling ~(Victualling Savings), which was presented upon 
gs.) S nat . 
No. 204, the 28th day of April last, be printed. 
Turnpike Mr. Secretary Cross presented, pursuant to the 
= (South directions of an Act of Parliament,—Annual 
es.) P ° 
Statements of Receipts and Expenditure on ac- 
count of the Turnpike Roads in South Wales, for 
1875; with Estimates for 1876. 
Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 
meee Mr. Secretary Hardy presented,—Return to 
the Ranks.) 20 Address to Her Majesty, dated the 28th day of 


February last, for a Return relative to the Army 

(Promotion from the Ranks). 

. —— That the said Return do lie upon the 
able. 


Oudh and 


Lord Georye Hamilton presented,—Return to 
Kirwee Prize, 


an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 23rd day of 
July 1874, for a Return of the Amount of all 
Moveable Property of Enemies or Insurgents in 
the Territories of Oudh or Kirwee, or of the Pro- 
ceeds thereof, which may have passed into the 
Possession of the Authorities in India since the 
Outbreak of the War in 1857, distinguishing the 
Funds which have been distributed among the 
Troops and the Funds which have been retained 
or otherwise disposed of by the Local Govern- 
ment. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 

VoL. 131, 


1st May. 





169 


Mr. Salt presented,—Return to an Order, dated 


liament, for Returns showing, as nearly as can be 
ascertained, the Number of Persons born in Eng- 
land, who received with their dependent Children, 
i.e., their Children under sixteen years of age, 
any Relief in Jredand on the 1st day of January 
or on the Ist day of July 1875, classified as fol- 
lows :—The Numbers receiving Relief in Work- 
houses; the Numbers receiving Out-door Relief ; 
and the Numbers receiving Relief in Lunatic 
Asylums, with a Summary :——Of the Number 
of Persons born in Jreland who received with 
their dependent Children, i.e. their Children 
under sixteen years of age, any Relief in England 
as Paupers, either on the Ist day of January or 
the Ist day of July 1875: And, of the Num- 
ber of Orphan and Deserted Children, born of 





same days; the particulars to be presented in the 
following Form, and duly Summarised :— 


the 11th day of August, in the last Session of Par- (= 


Paupers 


§ 
Ireland.) 


Irish Parents, who were in receipt of Relief on the- 


















































Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Return of the Sums paid by way of Poundage 
or Salaries on account of the Collection of Income 
and Property Tax in the years 1872-73, 1873-74, 
1874-75 respectively ; distinguishing the Amounts 
so paid in each of the before-mentioned years, and 
whether by way of Poundage or Salary, to the 
Special Commissioners, to the Clerks of District 
Commissioners, and to the Local Assessors and 
Collectors of Income Tax. 


to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Copy of Financial Despatch, No. 364, 
of the 15th day of July 1875, referred to in Re- 
turns laid before Parliament relating to the Tariff 
of India. 


a Return of the Amounts charged in respect of 
Income Tax in each year from the 5th day of 
April 1842 to the 5th day of April 1875, and the 
Total Amount charged from such Tax in that 
period, stating also in such Return the Rate in 
the Pound at which such Tax was levied in each 
year; the Name of the Chancellor of the Exchequer 
imposing or continuing such Tax; what Incomes 
were wholly exempted from the Tax in each year, 
and in respect of what Annual Income an Abate- 





| 





Z ment 





‘a No. of Irish Poor in receipt of Relief | No. of Zrish Poor in receipt of Relief 

a) on the Ist January 1875. on the Ist July 1875. 

= 

5 

3 a . 

3 a tes 3 = a = 2 = 

2 |) s28|) sb) 4 P|) sae|se| 4 

Pe |e] 3768 / 2 S S}/e®8/ 2 s 

=2 |4#/) 224/32] Zl E22!se2/ 3 

ez jw lsesagi sel BlLelSisesles!l &amp; ie 

22 |F/48°/43]/ 6 | gle /as5}/42) 6 Ig 

zw? {sists a-| 2 jejs|stFis") 3 le 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 

Sir Charles Adderley presented, pursuant to the Railways 
directions of an Act of Parliament,—Copy of 4&gt;sndonment. 
Warrant of the Board of Trade, authorising the No. 27. 
Abandonment of the Hadlow Railway (1863), in 
pursuance of “ The Abandonment of Railways 
Act, 1850,” and * The Railway Companies Act, 

1867,” and Report thereon. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 

Income Tax 


and Collection. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Fast India 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased f- 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Income Tax. 


170 


ment was allowed in assessing tne Tax; and the 
Amount of such Abatement. 


Is¢ May. 1876, 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself yy 
into a Committee on the Merchant Shipping Bill. Shipping py 
Resolved, That an humble Address be poe (In the Committee.) 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 


Royal Naval 
rvo. 


Leave of 
Absence. 


Intoxicating 
Liquors 
Licences 
(Scotland.) 


to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return of Miscellaneous Expenses of 
the Army in detail, during the last year for which 
the Accounts are complete, besides Hospital 
and Recruiting Services, which the Allowance of 
11,0797. 15s., or 1581. 15s. 6d. per Company, given 
to the Guards’ Stockpurse, is intended to defray. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Returns of all Commissioned Officers in the Royal 
Naval Reserve who have arrived at the Age 
when they can be no longer called upon to serve 
in their respective Ranks :——And, of all those 
Commissioned Officers in their respective Ranks 
who have not fulfilled the obligations of their 
Drill, distinguishing those who have received their 
Commissions without having performed any Drill 
at all. 


Ordered, That Mr. Stanley have leave of absence 
for ten days; and Mr. Bell, for the remainder of 
the Session, to undertake, at the request of the 
Lord President of the Council, the office of one of 
the Judges at the International Exhibition at 
Philadelphia. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House,a Return for each Royal and Parliamentary 
Burgh, showing the Number of Convictions for 
breaches of Certificates of Licences to sell Exciseable 
Liquors for the year Whitsunday 1861 to Whit- 
sunday 1862,and Whitsunday 1874 to Whitsunday 
1875, according to the following form, each Column 
to be added up :— 





Royal or 
Parliamentary 


Burgh. 


Public Houses. 


Number of Convictions for Breach of Certificate. 





Whitsunday 1861 to Whitsunday 1862. Whitsunday 1874 to Whitsunday 1875, 





Ale and 
Beer Houses, 


Grocers’ 
Shops. 


Hotels and 
Public Houses. 


Ale and 
Beer Houses. 


Grocers’ 
Shops. 


Hotels and 











Message from 
the Lords. 


South Alloa 
Dock Bill. 


Greencastle 
and Kilkeel 
Railway and 
Pier Eill 
[Lords.} 


Scottish 
Equitable Life 
Assurance 
Society Bill 
[Lords.] 


Greencastle 
and Kilkeel 
Railway and 
Pier Bill 
[Lords.]} 


Scottish 
Equitable Life 
Assurance 
Society Bill 
[Lords.]} 





And, similar Return for each Parish not being 
a Royal or Parliamentary Burgh. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- 
sage had been brought from the Lords, by one of 
their Clerks, as followeth : 

The Lords have agreed to the South Alloa Dock 
Bill, without any Amendment. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
for making a Railway from Greencastle to Kilkee, 
with a Branch to Azlkeel Harbour, and a Pier at 
Greencastle, in the County of Down; to which 
the Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
to amend, vary, and extend the powers of the 
Scottish Equitable Life Assurance Society, and 
for other purposes relating thereto; to which the 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 


The Greencastle and Kilkeel Railway and Pier 
Bill was read the first time. 

Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


The Scottish Equitable Life Assurance Society 
Bill was read the first time. 

Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 








CxiauseEs, N° 24 and N° 25, disagreed to. 


CuiauseE, N° 26 (Enforcing detention of ship, 
See 17 &amp; 18 Vic. c. 104, s. 103.) 


Amendment proposed, in p. 13, 1. 36, to leave 
out from the word “ authority” to the word 
“ shall,” in 1. 37, in order to insert the words 
“the master of the ship, and also the owner and 
“any person who sends the ship to sea, if party 
* or privy to the offence.” 

Question, That the words proposed to be left 
out stand part of the Clause——put, and ne- 
gatived. 

Question proposed, That the words “ the master 
“ of the ship, and also the owner of the ship, and 
‘‘ any person who sends the ship to sea, if party or 
“ privy to the offence ” be there inserted ; 

Amendment proposed to the said proposed 
Amendment, to leave out the words “ if party or 
** privy to the offence.” 

Question, That the words proposed to be left out 
stand part of the said proposed Amendment—— 
put, and agreed to. 

Proposed words inserted. 

Another Amendment made. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

CLAUSE, N° 27 (Ship’s managing owner or ma- 
nager to be registered). 

Amendments made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 14, 1. 21, 
to leave out from the word “and” to the end of 
the Clause, in order to insert the words “ The 
** person whose name is for the time being so re- 
“ gistered in pursuance of this section shall be 
“deemed to be the managing owner within the 
“meaning of this and any other Act relating 
“to Merchant Shipping. If at the time at 
“ which the ship leaves any port in the United 
* Kingdom the name and address of the ma- 
“ naging owner at that time are not registered in 
** accordance with this section, the owner of the 
* ship, or, if there are two or more owners, each 
‘‘ owner shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 
* one hundred pounds.” 

Question, That the words proposed to be left 
out stand part of the Clause put, and ne- 
gatived. 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted ; 

Amendment proposed to the said proposed 
Amendment, in 1. 7, by leaving out the words 
“ each owner,” and inserting the words “ any one 
“ of such owners.” 

Question proposed, That the words “ each 
“ owner” stand part of the said proposed Amend- 
ment :-—Amendment to the proposed Amendment, 
by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Amendment proposed to the said pro- 
posed Amendment, in 1. 4, by leaving out from 
the word “if” to the end of the said proposed 
Amendment. 

Question, That the words “If at the time at 
which the ship leaves any port in the United 
Kingdom the name and address of the managing 
owner at that time are not registered in accordance 
with this section,” stand part of the said proposed 
Amendment——put, and agreed to. 

Another Amendment proposed to the said pro- 
posed Amendment, in |. 7, by leaving out the 
words “not exceeding,” and inserting the words 
“such penalties not to exceed in the aggre- 

” 
gate, 

Question poepened, That the words proposed to 
be left out stand part of the said proposed Amend- 
ment :—Amendment to the proposed Amendment, 
by leave, withdrawn. 

Proposed 















39 VICTORIA. 


Proposed words inserted. 
Clause, as amended, agreed to. 
CLAUSE, N° 28 (Fees, salaries, and costs). 
Amendment proposed, in p. 14, 1. 32, to leave 
out the words “ continue to.” 
Question, That the words “continue to ” stand 
part of the Clause——put, and agreed to. 
Clause agreed to. 
CriausE, N° 29, agreed to. 
CuiauseE, N° 30, amended, and agreed to. 
CiausE, N° 31, agreed to. 
CuLausk, N° 32, amended, and agreed to. 
Postponed Clause, N° 16, disagreed to. 
Three Clauses added. 
Another Clause— 
(Penalty on sliips carrying deck loads of timber 
in winter. ) 
(From and after the _ day of e 
a ship, British or foreign, arriving at any port in 
the United Kingdom, which has sailed from any 
port beyond the limits of the United Kingdom 
after the first day of October or before the six- 
teenth day of March in any year, shall not, while 
subject to British jurisdiction, carrying upon or 
above any part of the upper deck of the ship not 
included within the limits of any permanently 
closed in space which is available for cargo, and 
included ia the registered tonnage of such ship: 
Any pitch pine, mahogany, or other heavy 
wood, nor any timber of any other descrip- 
tion to a height exceeding three feet above 
the deck. 


If any timber is carried by any ship, in contra- 
vention of this section, the master of the ship and 
also the owner, if he is privy to the offence, shall 
be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds 
for every hundred cubic feet of timber so carried, 
and such penalty to an amount not exceeding one 





hundred pounds (whatever may be the maximum | 


penalty recoverable) may be recovered on sum- 
mary conviction. 

Provided, That a master shall not be liable to 
any penalty, under this section, in respect of any 
timber or spars which he has considered it neces- 
sary to place or keep on deck during the voyage 
on account of the springing of any leak or of any 
other damage to the ship received or appre- 
hended. 

Provided also, That nothing in this Ulause shall 
affect any foreign ship coming into any port of 
the United Kingdom under stress of weather, or 
for repairs, or for any other purpose than the 
delivery of her cargo)——brought-up, and read 
the first and second time. 

An Amendment made, by filling up the blank 
with “12th January 1877.” 

Other Amendments made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in I. 10, to leave 
out the words “to a height exceeding three feet 
“ above the,” in order to insert the word “ on,” 

Question put, That the words proposed to be 
left out stand part of the Clause ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the ; Sir William Dyke, 7 


Yeas, | Mr. Rowland Winn: J 142. 
Tellers for the ¢ Mr. Plimsoll, 7 134 
Noes, { Mr Read : a 


Another Amendment proposed, in 1. 12, to leave 
out the words “ if he is privy to the offence.” 

Question proposed, That the words proposed to 
be left out stand part of the Clause :—Amendment, 
by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Amendment proposed, in 1. 12, to leave 
out the words “ if he is privy to the offence,” in 
order to insert the words “ unless the owner shall 
* show that he was not privy to the offence.” 

Question put, That the words proposed to be 
left out ont part of the Clause ; 

VoL, 131. 





\st—2na May. 171 


The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the{ Sir Wiliam Dyke, L199 
Yeas, \Mr. Rowland Winn: J ’ 

Tellers for the Mr. Russell Gurney, 11 
Noes, (Mr. Plimsoll: f 04. 

Another Amendment proposed, in 1. 13, to leave 
out the words “ penalty not exceeding,” in order 
to insert the words “ dock or port charge of.” 

Question, That the words proposed to be left 
out stand part of the Clause——put, and agreed to. 

Another Amendment proposed, in 1. 16, after 
the word “ conviction,” to insert the words “ in 
* the case of a British ship.” 

Question, That those words be there inserted 
put, and negatived. 

Another Amendment proposed, in]. 16, after the 
word “ conviction,” to insert the words “ Provided 
“ that any ship in respect of which such penalty is 
* incurred may be seized and detained by order of 
* the court by or before which such penalty is im- 
“ posed or recovered until such penalty be paid or 
“ security be given for the payment thereof; and 
“ unless payment be made, or satisfactory ‘security 
* be given within thirty days, such ship may, at the 
* expiration thereof, be sold by order of the court, 
*“ and the said penalty, and all the costs paid out of 
“ the proceeds, the surplus, if any, being paid over 
** to the owner of the ship.” 

Question, That those words be there inserted 
put, and negatived. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to, and added. 

Another Clause— 

(Application to foreign ships of provisions as to 
detention. ) 

(Where a foreign ship has taken board all or 
any part of her cargo at a port in the United 
Kingdom and is whilst at that port unsafe by rea- 
son of overloading, the provisions of this Act with 
respect to the detention of ships shall apply to 
that foreign ship as if she were a British ship, with 
the following modifications : 

(1.) Sub-sections (4), (5), (6), and (7), of 
Section 5 of this Act shall not apply ; 

(2.) A copy of order for the provisional de- 
tention of the ship shall be forthwith served 
on the consular officer for the State to 
which the ship belongs at or nearest to the 
place where the ship is detained ; 

(3.) If the owner or master of the ship is 
dissatisfied with the order for provisional 
detention the consular officer may, on his 
request and at any time within twenty-four 
hours after the service of the order on the 
master, appoint some competent person to 
survey the ship; and if on survey that per- 
son decides that the ship ought to be re- 
leased, she shall be released accordingly) 

—pbrought up, and read the first and second 
time. 

Amendment proposed, in 1. 1, after the word 
“ ship,” to insert the words “ except ships be- 
“longing to such States as may from time to time 
* signify their objection to come under this law.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted ; 

To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 














And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Tuesday morning ; 


Tuesday, 2nd May, 1876: 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had made Progress 
in the Bill; and that he was directed to move, That 
the Committee may have leave to sit again. 

‘And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That this House will this day, at 
Two of the clock, again resolve itself into the said 
Committee.” 

zZ2 An 





Poor Law 
Amendment 
Bill. 


Indian 
Legislation 
Bill. 


Maritime 
Contracts Bill. 


Crossed 
Cheques Bill 
[ Lords.) 


Juries 
Procedure 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Jurors 
Qualification 


(Ireland) Bill. 


Civil Bill 
Courts 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Kingstown 
Harbour Bill. 


Customs and 
Inland 
Revenue Bill. 


Commons Bill. 


Supply. 


Revenue 
Departmerts 
(Vote on 
Account.) 


172 


An Amendment was proposed to be made to 
the Question, by leaving out the words “ at Two 
of the clock.” 

And the Question being proposed, That the 
words proposed to be left out stand part of the 
Question :—The said proposed Amendment and 
Motion were severaily, with leave of the House, 
withdrawn. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Poor Law Amendment Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Jndian Legislation Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Maritime Contracts Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday the 15th day of this instant May. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Crossed Cheques Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Juries Procedure (/reland) Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Jurors Qualification (Jreland) 
Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Civil Bill Courts (Jreland) Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Kingstown Harbour Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Customs and Inland Revenue 
Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Commons Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee of 
Supply, several Resolutions ; which were read, as 
follow : 

1, That a Sum, not exceeding £. 1,370,000, be 
granted to Her Majesty, on account, for or to- 
wards defraying the Charge for the following Re- 
venue Departments, to the 3lst day of March 
1877 ; viz.— 

£. 
170,000 
300,000 
550,000 
150,000 
200,000 


Customs - . - 
Inland Revenue - - 
Post Office - - - 
Post Office Packet Service 
Post Office Telegraphs - 


£. 1,370,000 


lst—2nd May. 


1876. 


2, That a Sum, not exceeding £. 100,000, be Army Paris, 
granted to Her Majesty, on account, for or to~ Commission 
wards defraying the Charges for the Establishment oe 
of, and Expenditure incurred by, the Army Pur- 
chase Commissioners, and the Expenses to be in- 
curred in purchasing the remaining Commissions 
of Gentlemen at Arms, for the year ending the 
31st day of March 1877. 

The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 





The Order of the day being read, for the Com- suppiy, 

‘mittee of Supply ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednes- 

day next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Ways and 
mittee of Ways and Means; Means. 
Resolved, That this House will. upon Wednes- 
day next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Supreme Cow 
Reading of the Supreme Court of Judicature Act of Judicatuy 
(1875) Amendment Bill; pets on | 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time Bil, 
upon Wednesday next. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Salmon 
into a Committee on the Salmon Fisheries Bill ; Fisheries Bill 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes reported, 

That the Committee had gone through the Bill, 
and directed him to report the same, without 
Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 

this day. 





The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Municipal 
mittee on the Municipal Privileges (Ireland) Bill; ae 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve ‘“lsn) Bi 
itself into the said Committee. 


The Publicans Certificates (Scotland) Bill was, Publicans 
according to Order, read the third time. (Scotland) BL 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. ( 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
| the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Import Duty 
a Return of the Rates of Import Duty levied in eee te) 
European Countries and the United States upon “995. 
‘the Produce and Manufactures of the United *%* 
Kingdom. 

Sir Charles Adderley accordingly presented the 
said Return. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till a quarter of an hour after One of the 
clock on Tuesday morning, adjourned till 


this day. 


Tuesday, 2nd May, 1876. 
PRAYERS. 
RDERED, That the Select Committee on Turnpike Acts 


i i inuance. 
Turnpike Acts Continuance have leave to ©™ 


sit this day till Six of the clock, during the sitting 
of the House. 


Caledonian 


Railway 


A Motion being made, That the Caledonian Rail- 





way (Additional Powers) Bill be now read the 
third time ; 

Sir John Hay, by Her Majesty’s Command, ac- 
quainted the House, That Her Majesty, having 
been informed of the purport of the Bill, gives 
Her Consent, as far as Her Majesty’s Interest 1s 
concerned, that the House may do therein as they 


( Additional 
Powers) 





shall think fit. 
Then 








Purchay 


on 
it.) 


ind 


ne Court 
cature 
375) 
ment 


es Bill. 


ges 
d) Bill. 


ans 


“ates 
nd) Bill. 


- Duty 


ies, &amp;c.) 
208. 


ke Acts 
uance. 








39 VicToriA. 


Then the Bill was rea the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act for enabling the Caledonian 
Railway Company to make certain Railways and 
other Works, and to acquire certain Lands in the 
Counties of Lanark, Stirling, Edinburgh, Renfrew, 
and Forfar; for abandoning certain authorised 
Works in the County of Forfar; for extending 
the periods limited by certain former Acts; for 
sanctioning certain modifications of a Scheme for 
the Conversion and Consolidation of certain 
Classes of Shares and Stock in the said Company, 
and for other purposes. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 


the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Caledonian A Motion being made, That the Caledonian Rail- 
Railway way (Grangemouth Harbour) Bill be now read 
Creo Till the third time ; 

Sir John Hay, by Her Majesty’s Command, ac- 
quainted the House, That Her Majesty, having 
been informed of the purport of the Bill, gives 
Her Consent, as far as Her Majesty’s Interest is 
concerned, that the House may do therein as they 
shall think fit. 

Then the Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


York New The York New Water Bill was read the third 
Water Bill. time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 
Stoke-upon- The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Trent Corpo- Reading of the Stoke-upon- Trent Corporation Bill; 
nee Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 
Southwold Mr. Raikes reported the Southwold Railway 
Railway Bill. Bill, with Amendments. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 
South Hants Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on the 
Water Bill. South Hants Water Bill; That they had examined 
the allegations contained in the Preamble of the 
Bill, and made verbal Amendments therein, and 
found the same, as amended, to be true; and had 
gone through the Bill, and made Amendments 
thereunto. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 
Assam Mr. Raikes reported the Assam Company Bill, 


ll without Amendment. 
[Lordt.|} Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Bousleli’s Mr. Raikes reported Bousfield’s Patent Bill, 
[Lorde.} without Amendment. 
; Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time, 
Eas Patent Mr. Raikes reported Hall’s Patent Biil, without 
(Lords) Amendment. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Milner’s Patent Mr. Raikes reported Miluer’s Patent Bill, with- 
Bill (Lords.) out, Amendment. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


fillar’s and Mr. Raikes reported Sillar’s and Wigner’s 
Patent Bi, Patent Bill, with Amendments. 

(Lords. Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 
Gas Light and Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table——Report from 


Bi ™P™"Y one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 
That the Standing Orders have not been complied 
with in the case of the Petition for additional Pro- 
"aa in the Gas Light and Coke Company Bill. 

oL. 131. 


Qnd May. 











173 


Ordered, That the Report be referred to the 
Select Committee on Standing Orders. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and Public 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. earns 
Several Public Petitions were also presented, Vide Votes, and 
and read; and referred to a Select Committee. Seventeenth 
Report. 
Ordere!, That the Return relative to Paupers Paupers 
(England and Ireland}, which was presented upon (Bagiand and 


the 1st day of this instant May, be printed. gee 


Mr. Secretary Cross presented,—Return to an Elementary 
Address to Her Majesty, dated the 30th day [ r 
March last, for a Return relative to Elementary Sea 
Schools ( Building and Maintenance). ' 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated —. 
the 6th day of April last, for a Return relative to Schools og 
Public Elementary Schools (Religious Instruc- (Religious 
tion). Instruction.) 

Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the 


Table. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented, pursuant Bankruptcy 
to the directions of an Act of Parliament,—Copy 4 1869. 
of General Report by the Comptroller in Bank- 
ruptey, for the year ended December 3lst, 1875 
(made in pursuance of Section 115 of the Bank- 
ruptey Act, 1869). 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Secretary Hardy presented, pursuant to the Militia Reserve. 
directions of an Act of Parliament,—Copies of. 
further Circulars, Regulations, &amp;c., relative to the 
Militia Reserve. 
Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Cattle Diseases 
Returns of all Certificates of the Chief or Under ‘!eland) Act. 
Secretary of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 
under the 10th section of ‘* The Cattle Diseases 
(Ireland) Act, 1866,” specifying the Date of each 
Certificate, the Poundage specified in such Certi- 
ficate, and the Sum Total to be assessed on all the 
Poor Law Unions of Jreland under its authority : 
——-Of the Amount received and disbursed under 
each of such Certificates : Of the Amount ex- 
pended in each year in carrying into execution the 
purposes of the Cattle Diseases (/reland) Acts, 
specifying the General Heads of Disbursemeni, 
and the Amount expended under each Head; and 
also distinguishing under each Head the Amount 
expended out of the Cattle Plague Account, and 
that expended out of Sums voted by Parliament : 
And, of the Total Amount voted by Parlia- 
ment in each year on account of the Expenditure 
in connection with the prevention of Cattle Dis- 
eases in Ireland. 








Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Greenock 
Returns of each Town with which Greenock had (TelesPhs.) 
direct Telegraph Communication in 1872: 
And, of the Name of each Town with which the 
fullowing Offices have direct Telegraph Com- 
munication, and the Number of Messages during 
1875 forwarded and received for each place named: 
—-Cardiff, Barrow-on-Furness, Grimsby Docks, 
Bridge of Allan, Dumfries, Dunfermline, Forfar, 
Stirling, Stranraer, Lanark, Coatbridge, Hawick, 
and Greenock. 





Sir Nathaniel de Rothschild reported from the Poolbeg 
Select Committee on the Poolbeg Lighthouse Bill; Lighthouse 
That they had examined the allegations of the ~" 311 140 
Bill, and found the same to be true; and had gone —_ 
through the Bill, and made Amendments there- 
unto. = 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended, be printed. 

z3 Ordered, 


Small Testate 
Estates 
(Scotland) Bill. 


North 
Staffordshire 
Railway Bill. 


Soldiers, 
Sailors, and 
Marines (Civil 
Employment.) 


Soldiers, 
Sailors, and 
Marines (Civil 
Employment.) 


River Gambia. 


174 


Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for Thursday 
next. 2 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Copies of a Letter addressed to the Chief Secre- 
tary to the Lord Lieutenant by Mr. Murphy, 
under date April 1875: And, of the Statement 
therein referred on the subject of Admiralty 
Courts for Cork and Belfast. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
upon the 2lst day of March last, That a Select 
Committee be appointed to inquire into the cir- 
cumstances connected with the seizure of the, 
British Steamship “ Talisman” by the Peruvian 
Government, her Employment in the National 
Service of Peru, the impressment of her Crew on 
board Peruvian War Ships, their prolonged Im- 
prisonment without Trial, and the whole circum- 
stances of the case; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Tuesday the 30th day of this instant May. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Small Testate Estates (Scotland) 
Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Sir John St. Aubyn reported from the Com- 
mittee on Group H. of Private Bills; That in the 
case of the S/aithwaite Gas Bill, they had exa- 
mined the allegations contained in the Preamble 
of the Bill, and verbally amended the same, and 
found the same, as amended, to be true; and had 
gone through the Bill, and made Amendments 
thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. O' Reilly reported from the Committee on 
Group 8 of Railway Bills; That the parties pro- 
moting the North Staffordshire Railway Bill had 
stated to the Committee that it was not their 
intention to proceed with the same. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


Qnd—3rd May. 





A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That a Select Committee be appointed to 
inquire,— 

Ist. How far it is practicable that Soldiers, 
Sailors, and Marines who have meritoriously served 
their Country should be employed in such Civil 
Departments of the public service as they may be 
found fitted for ; 

2nd. How far it is practicable, in order to form 
and retain an efficient Reserve Force, for the State 
to become the medium of communication between 
private employers of labour and Soldiers of the 
Army Reserve and Militia Reserve who desire to 
obtain employment: 

And that the Committee be directed to report 
on the best means of carrying these objects into 
effect:—And the said Motion was, with leave of 
the House, withdrawn. 


Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed 
to inquire how far it is practicable that Soldiers, 
Sailors, and Marines who have meritoriously served 
their Country should be employed in such Civil 
Departments of the public service as they may be 
found fitted for. 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That it is expedient that the British Posses- 
sions on the Gambia be placed on a satisfactory 
footing, and that, in the interests of commerce, 


1876. 


communication be opened up by that river with the 
interior of Africa:—And the said Motion was, 
with leave of the House, withdrawn. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being yy. win., 
put, That, in the opinion of this House, it is not force. ~~ 
desirable that Reginald Garton Wilberforce, Esquire, 
should continue on the Bench of Magistrates ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for thef Mr. P. A. Taylor, 

Yeas, 1M Burt: 
Tellers for the; Sir William Dyke, 
Noes, | Mr. Rowland Winn: 
So it passed in the Negative. 


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if 100. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being Privy Council 
put, That an humble Address be presented to (Oaths taken 
Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased bY Members, 
to give directions, that there be laid before this *) 
House, Returns of the Form of the Oath or Oaths 
taken by Persons sworn Members of the Privy 
Council : And, showing the respective Dates 
when the following Persons were sworn in as 
Members of the Privy Council :—The late Edward 
Geoffrey Smith- Stanley Earl of Derby, the late Vis- 
count Palmerston, the Right honourable John Earl 
Russell, the Right honourable Member for Bucks, 
the Right honourable Member for Greenwich, and 
the Right honourable Member for the University 
of London ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the —e* 

Mr. Charles Lewis, 
Tellers for the/ Sir Henry Drummond 
Yeas, | Wolff: 
Tellers for the { Mr. Monk, 
Noes, (Mr. Kay-Shuttleworth: 
So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 


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The Order of the day being read, for the Second Tenant Right 
Reading of the Tenant Right at the Expiration of at the Expim- 
Leases (Ireland) Bill ; (Iveland) Bil 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a second 
time ; 

And Notice being taken, that Forty Members 
were not present:—The House was told by Mr. 
Speaker; and Forty Members not being present, 
and it being then after Four of the clock :—The 
House was adjourned by Mr. Speaker, without a 
Question first put, till To-morrow. 








Wednesday, 3rd May, 1876. 

PRAYERS. 
7 Llynvi and Ogmore, and Cardiff and Og- Liynvi a 
A more Valley Railway Companies Bill was read Oot ad 
Ogmore Valley 
nn 
panies ° 

Several Public Petitions were presented, and public 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions, 

A Public Petition was also presented, and read ; Vide Votes, and 
and referred to a Select Committee. — 

eport. 

Mr. William Henry Smith presented, pursuant og 
to the directions of an Act of Parliament,—Copy 
of Treasury Minute, dated 6th April 1876, award- 
ing a Special Retired Allowance to Mr. Uvedale 
Corbett, Local Government Board Inspector. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second —. 


Reading of the Registration of Voters (Jreland) (,cjgnd) Bill 


a second time; and committed. 





Bill; 
And 








ken 
ers, 


Right 
xpira- 


Bill. 


, and 
Valley 
sill. 


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) Bill. 





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And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a second 
time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the word “now” and, 
at the end of the Question, adding the words 
upon this day six months.” 

And the Question being put, That the word 
“now” stand part of the Question ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the { Mr. Meldon, 

Yeas, _ (Captain Nolan: 

Tellers for thepMr. Gibson, 

Noes, Mr. Charles Lewis: 

And the Tellers having reported the numbers 
Yeas 168, Noes 234 ; 

The House was informed by Mr. Gibson, one of 
the Tellers for the Noes, that Mr. Whalley, one 
of the Members for Peterborough, by inadvertence, 
had not voted in the Division : 

Whereupon Mr. Speaker directed Mr. Whalley 
to come to the Table, and asked him if he had 
heard the Question put; and the honourable 
Member having stated that he had heard the 
Question put, and having declared himself with the 
Noes, Mr. Speaker directed his name to be added 
to the Noes, and declared the numbers, Yeas 168, 
Noes 235: 

So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
“upon this day six months” be added at the end 
of the Question :—It was resolved in the Atfirma- 
tive. 

Then the Main Question, so amended, being 


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put; ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon this day six months. 


Employersand The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Workmen Act Reading of the Employers and Workmen Act 
(1875) Exten- (1875) Extension Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 


upon Tuesday next. 


Criminal Law The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
— Reading of the Criminal Law Evidence Amend- 
mendment rs , 
Bill ment Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday the 17th day of this instant 


May. 


Grand Jury The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
law Amend- Reading of the Grand Jury Law Amendment 
an 84) (Ireland) Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next. 


Burglary and The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Forgery Bill. Reading of the Burglary and Forgery Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next. 


East India The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
hana Reading of the East India (Chief Justices of High 
Courts) Bil, Courts) Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday the 23rd day of this instant May. 


oe: Uni § The Trade Union Act (1871) Amendment Bill 
a, was, according to Order, read the third time. 
Bill, Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 


Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Cheques on The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Paakers Bil Reading of the Gages on Bankers Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next. 
VoL. 131. 








3rd May. 175 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Medical 
Reading of the Medical Practitioners Bill ; Practitioners 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time ®” 
upon Wednesday the 17th day of this instant May. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Beer Licences 
Reading of the Beer Licences &lt;Jreland) Bill; (Ireland) Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- supply. 
mittee of Supply ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Ways and 
mittee of Ways and Means; Means. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Supreme Court 
Reading of the Supreme Court of Judicature Act of Judicature 
(1875) Amendment Bill ; pee cas J 
Ordered, 'That the Bill be read a second time Bill. 


upon Monday next. 


. The Order of the day being read, for the Second net 
eading of the Intoxicating Liquors( Scotland) Bill; 2S" ,, p: 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time “°™"™"» 
upon Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Divine Worship 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed Failities Bill. 
upon the 15th day of March last, That the Divine 
Worship Facilities Bill be now read a second time; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Tuesday the 16th day of this instant May. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Land Tenure 
the adjourned Debate on the Amendment which, (Jreland) Bill. 
upon the 29th day of March last, was proposed to 
be made to the Question, That the Land Tenure 
(Ireland) Bill be now read a second time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming House 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed Occupiers 
upon the 22nd day of March last, That the House pistuslifcstion 
Occupiers Disqualification Removal Bill be now 
read a second time; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till To-morrow. 


The Salmon Fisheries Bill was, according to Salmon 
Order, read the third time. Fuiesin EO. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day ay read, for the Com- Municipal 

— on the Municipal Privileges (/re/and) (rela) Bin. 
Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, 

resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Ordered, That Sir Lawrence Palk have leave of — 
absence for a fortnight, on account of domestic ; 
affliction. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Public Records 
toamend* The Public Records (Ireland) Act, 1867, (reland) | 
Amendment Act, 1875”: And that Mr. Gibson, : 
the Marquis of Hamilton, Mr. Kavanagh, and Mr. 


Mulholland do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Legal _ 
to amend the Law relating to Legal Practitioners a 
in Ireland: And that Mr. Gibson and Mr. Downing ( 
do prepare, and bring it in. 
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176 

Mr. Dodson reported from the Committee of 
Public Accounts; That they had made further 
Progress in the matters to them referred, and 
directed him to make a Report thereof to the 
House ; together with the Minutes of the Evidence 
taken before them, and an Appendix. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


Public 
Accounts 
(Second 
Report.) 


No. 207. 


Earl Percy reported from the Committee on 
Group H. of Private Bills; That in the case of 
the Clevelund Water Bill, they had examined the 
allegations contained in the Preamble of the Bill, 
and verbally amended the same, and found the 
same, as amended, to be true; and had gone 
through tne Bill, and made Amendments there- 
unto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table. 


Cleveland 
Water Bill. 





Public Records Mr. Gibson presented a Bill to amend “ The Public | 
(Ireland ) Records (Ireland) Act, 1867, Amendment Act, | 
aes 1875”: And the same was read the first time ; and | 
Bill 141 ordered to be read a second time upon Wednesday | 

* the 17th day of this instant May; and to be} 

printed. 


Legal Mr. Gibson presented a Bill to amend the Law | 
Practitioners relating to Legal Practitioners in Jreland: And | 
(Ireland) Bill. the same was read the first time; and ordered | 
Bill 142. to be read a second time upon Wednesday next; 
and to be printed. 


The Order for the House to resolve itself into 
a Committee, upon Friday next, on the Crab and 


(Norfolk) Bill, was read, and 


Crab and 
Lobster 
Fisheries 


(Norfolk) Bill. Lobster Fisheries 
discharged. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday | 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


And it being Six of the clock, Mr. Speaker | 
adjourned the House till To-morrow, with- 
out putting the Question. 





Thursday, 4th May, 1870. 
PRAYERS. 
*IR Charles Forster reported from the Select | 
Committee on Public Petitions; That they | 
had examined the Petitions presented upon the | 
Ist, and 2nd days of this instant May, and had | 
directed him to make a Report thereof to the 
House. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 





Public 
Petitions 
(Seventeenth 
Report.) 


Ordered, That the Humber Conservancy Bill 
be read the third time after the other Private 
Business. 


Humber 
Conservancy 
Bill. 


Manchester, The House proceeded to take into consideration 
Sheffield, and the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Rail- 
Lincolnshire i . : nce ae 
Railway Bil. Way Bill, as amended in the Committee; and 
Amendments were made to the Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Whittle Dean 
Waterworks 
Bill (1854), &amp;c 


Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence 
taken before the Committees on the Whittle Dean 
Waterworks Bill, in Session 1854, the Newcastle 
and Gateshead Water Bill, in Session 1863, the 
Newcastle and Gateshead Water Bill, in Session 
1866, and the Newcastle and Gateshead Water 
Bill, in Session 1870, be referred to the Committee 
on the Newcastle and Gateshead Water Bill. 


North East A Petition of Promoters of the North East 
——— Worcestershire Water Bill, praying that provision 
may be made in the Bill to authorize the Pro- 
moters to make and maintain a Well, Pumping 





Srda—Ath May. 


1876. 
Station, and Reservoir in the Parish of Broms- 
grove, in lieu of others proposed, and to make an 
aqueduct, conduit, or line of pipes for connecting 
the substituted Well and Pumping Station with 
the Southernmost of the Reservoirs originally con- 
templated, was presented, and read; and referred 
to the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Third Humber 
Reading of the Humber Conservancy Bill; Conservancy 

And a Motion being made, That the Bill be now &gt;" 
read the third time ; 

Sir John Hay, by Her Majesty’s Command, ac- 
quainted the House, That Her Majesty, having 
been informed of the purport of the Bill, gives 
Her Consent, as far as Her Majesty’s interest is 
concerned, that the House may do therein as they 
shall think fit. 

Then the Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Private Bills 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private (Standing 
Bills, That Standing Order, No. 74, has been plied with)” 
complied with in the case of the following Bill, 
referred on the First Reading thereof, viz. : 

Sedmouth Railway Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and Public 
read; and ordered to lic upon the Table. Petitions. 

Several Public Petitions were also presented, yige 
and read ; and referred to a Select Committee. 


Votes, and 
Eighteenth 
Report. 

Ordered, ‘That the Return relative to Ele- Elementary 
mentary Schools (Building and Maintenance), Schools 
thich w e d h : ¢* (Building and 
which was presented upon the 2nd day of this 


: : Maintenance, 
instant May, be printed. No rom 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Public Public 
Elementary Schools (Religious Instruction), which a 
was presented upon the 2nd day of this instant (Religious 
May, be printed. Instruction.) 

No. 209, 

Ordered, That the Paper relative to the Bank- Bankruptcy 
ruptey Act, 1869, which was presented upon the Ac 186%. 
2nd day of this instant. May, be printed. No. 210, 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented, pursuant to Superannus- 
the directions of an Act of Parliament,—Copy 
of Treasury Minute, dated 20th April 1876, 
awarding a Special Superannuation Allowance to 
Mr. Richard Weld Litton, formerly Examiner to a 
late Master in Ordinary of the Court of Chancery 
in Ireland. 
Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Secretary Hardy presented,—Return to an Army 
Address to Her Majesty, dated the 1st day of this ee 
instant May, for a Return relative to the Army 
(Miscellaneous Expenses). 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Ship Surgeons. 

a Return of the Names, Ages, and Nationalities 
of Persons who have served in the British Mer- 
chant Service as Surgeons whose names do not 
appear in the Medical Register; distinguishing 
those who have been permitted so to serve since 
the date of the Board of Trade’s Circular Letter 
of September 1875, addressed to Marine Super- 
intendents and Shipping Masters (in continuation 
of Parliamentary Paper, No. 240, of Session 
1875). 


Bank of 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, England. 


Returns of the Amount of Bank Notes of the 
Bank 











and 


nd Army (Staff 


Members of 


Parliament, 


Ecclesiastical 
Dilapidations 
Acts, 


Merchant 
Shipping Bill, 





39 VicrorRIA. 


Bank of England held by the Public, and of Bank 
Notes of the Bank of England and Coin held in 
reserve by the Bank of England : Of the Total 
Amount of Bullion : -—Of the Minimum Rate of 
Interest charged by the Bank of England :—— 
Of the Total Amount of Bills Discounted :—— 
Of the Total Amount of Temporary Advances: 
And, of the Total Amount of Deposits, in- 
cluding the Balances on Account of the Exche- 
quer, and the Balances held on Account of the 
London Bankers, on the last day of each week, 
from the Ist day of January 1875 to the 31st day 
of December 1875 (in continuation of Parlia- 
mentary Paper, No. 121, of Session 1875). 








Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Summary of the Returns of Owners of 
Land in England and Wales (exclusive of the 
Metropolis), showing, with respect to each County, 
the following particulars, namely :— 

1. The Number of Owners below an Acre, 

2 ” of 1 Acreand under ‘10 Acres, 
3. 99 of 10 Acres’, 50 5 
4 ” of 50 yy ” 100 ,, 
5. ”» of 100 - 500 ,, 
6. es of 500 , 4, 1,000 ,, 
7 * of 1,000 , 4, 2,000 4, 
8 » of 2,000 ” ” 5,000 ” 
9 id of 5,000 , 4, 10,000 ,, 
10 * of 10,000 ,, 4, 20,000 ,, 
11. . of 20,000 ,, 4, 50,000 ,, 
12, 99 of 50,000 ,, » 100,000 ,, 
13, ” of 100,000 and upwards, 


With the Aggregate Average and Gross Esti- 
mated Rental of each Class :—— And, similar Re- 
turn for Scotland. 


Resolved, ‘Yhat an humble Address be presented 


. Appointments.) to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 


to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return of Names of all Officers who now 
hold and have held Command and Staff Appoint- 
ments during the last Twenty Years at Head 
Quarters; and also the Appointments held by 
these Officers at the Out-stations, together with 
the Designation and Dates of each Appointment, 
indicating those who have passed and have not 
passed the Staff College Examination. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Return of the Names of every Member returned 
to serve in each Parliament from the year 1696 up 
to the present time, specifying the Names of the 
County, City, University, Borough, or place for 
which returned. 


Ordered, That a Message be sent to the Lords, 
to request that their Lordships will be pleased to 
give leave to his Grace the Archbishop of York to 
attend to be examined as a Witness before the 
Select Committee on the Ecclesiastical Dilapida- 
tions Acts: And that the Clerk do carry the said 
Message. 


_ The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Merchant Shipping Bill. 


(In the Committee.) 


Another Clause— 

Foreign Ships, Overloading. 
(Application to foreign ships of provisions as to 
detention. ) 

Where a foreign ship has taken on board all or 
any part of her cargo at a port in the United King- 
dom and is whilst at that port unsafe by reason of 
overloading, the provisions of this Act with respect 
to the detention of ships shall apply to that foreign 
Vou. 131. 


4th May. 177 


ship as if she were a British ship, with the following 
modifications : 

(1.) Sub-sections (4), (5), (6), and (7), of sec- 
tion five of this Act shall not apply ; 

(2.) A copy of order for the provisional deten- 
tion of the ship shall be forthwith served 
on the consular officer for the State to which 
the ship belongs at or nearest to the place 
where the ship is detained ; 

(3.) If the owner or master of the ship is dis- 
satisfied with the order for provisional 
detention the consular officer may, on his 
request and at any time within twenty-four 
hours after the service of the order on the 
master, appoint some competent person to 
survey the ship; and if on survey that per- 
son decides that the ship ought to be released, 
she shall be released accordingly. 

Amendment again proposed, inl. 1, after the 
word “ ship,” to insert the words “except ships 
“ belonging to such states as may from time to time 
“signify their objection to come under this 
‘ law.” 

Question again proposed, That those words be 
there inserted :—Question put, and negatived. 

Another Amendment proposed, in 1. 2, after the 
word “ of” to insert the words “ unseaworthiness 

or. 

Question, That those words be there inserted 
put, and negatived. 














An Amendment made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in 1, 5, to leave 
out from the word “ modifications” to the word 
** apply,” in 1. 7, inclusive. 

Question proposed, That the words proposed to 
be left out stand part of the Clause :—Amend- 
ment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Amendment made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in l. 14, after 
the word “ person,” to insert the words “ to ac- 
* company the Board of Trade surveyor to survey 
“ the ship, and if on survey they agree that the 
“ship ought to be released she shall be released 
“ accordingly, and if they do not agree they shall 
“appoint an assessor under the provisions of 
** Clause 5, Section 6, and the decision of the ma- 
“ jority of them shall be final.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted :—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to, and added. 

Another Clause (Observance of the Lord’s Day) 
—-—brought up, and read the first time. 





Question, That the Clause be read a second 
time——put, and negatived. 

Another Clause (Foreign masters and officers) 
——brought up, and read the first time. 

Question, That the Clause be read a second 
time——put, and negatived. 

Another Clause (Constitution of Local Marine 
Boards )——brought up, and read the first time. 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Clause be read a second time:—Motion and 
Clause, by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Clause (Complaint of unseaworthiness 
to be verified by affidavit)——brought up, and 
read the first time. 

Question, That the Clause be read a second time 
——put, and negatived. 

Another Clause (Surveyor shall not alter struc- 
ture of ship without consent of owner)——brought 
up, and read the first time. 

Question, That the Clause be read a second 
time——put, and negatived. 

Another Clause added. 

Another Clause (Certificate not to be granted 
to passenger ships unless provided with life boats, 
&amp;c. sufficient to save all on board)——brought up, 
and read the first time. 

Motion made, and Question put, That the 
Clause be read a second time; 








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Poor Law 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Treasury 


Solicitor Bill. 


Clerk of the 
Peace and of 
the Crown 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Roads and 


Bridges 


(Scotland) Bill. 


Valuation Bill. 


Chelsea 


Hospital 
ts Bill. 


Accoun' 


178 


The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the { Colonel Beresford, 1 46 
Yeas, Lord Francis Conyngham: { 

Tellers for thej Sir William Dyke, \ 103. 


Noes, | Mr. Rowland Winn: 

Another Clause added. 

Another Clause (Seamen’s dietary )——brought 
up, and read. the first time. 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Clause be read a second time:—Motion and 
Clause, by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Clause (Conditional advance notes 
illegal )}——brought up, and read the first time. 

Motion made, and Question put, That the 
Clause be read a second time; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the; Mr. Ashley, 

Yeas, \ Mr. Thomas Brassey : 

Tellers for the( Sir William Dyke, \ 209 

Noes, { Mr. Rowland Winn: hime 

Another Clause (Conditions of contract of ser- 
vice between seamen and masters of ships) 
brought up, and read the first time. 

Question, That the Clause be read a second 
time——put, and neyatived. 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Chairman do report Progress, and ask leave to sit 
again ; 

The Committee proceeded to divide. 

Mr. Phipps, Member for Northampton, was ap- 
ae one of the Tellers for the Noes; but no 

lember appearing to be a second Teller for the 
Noes, the Chairman declared the Ayes had it. 
To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 


1 
p 143. 





And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Friday morning ; 


Friday, 5th May, 1876 : 

Mr, Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had made Progress 
in the Bill ; and that he was directed to move, that 
the Committee may have leave to sit again. 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Poor Law (Scotland) Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
inty a Committee on the Treasury Solicitor Bill ; 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes reported, 
That the Committee had gone through the Bill, 
and directed him to report the same, without 
Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Clerk of the Peace and of the 
Crown (Jreland) Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
ae of the Roads and Bridges (Scotland) 
sill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Valuation Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Chelsea Hospital Accounts Bill was, ac- 
cording to Order, read a second time; and com- 


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1876. 


mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for 
Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Patents for 
Reading of the Patents for Inventions Bill ; Inventions 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 4rd] 
upon Thursday next. 


The Order of tlie day being read, for the Second Eeclesiastica) 
Reading of the Ecclesiastical Assessments (Sco¢- Assessments 
land) Bill ; (Scotland) Bi 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Sheriff Courts 
Reading of the Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Bill; —_ (Stland) Bil. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Appellate 
Reading of the Appellate Jurisdiction Bill; Bill 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time me 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Admiralty 
mittee on the Admiralty Jurisdiction (Jrelund) Jurisdiction 
Bill ; (Ireland) Bill, 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Poor Law 
mittee on the Poor Law Amendment Bill ; ee 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


The Kingstown Harbour Bill was, according to Kingstown 
Order, read a second time; and committed to a Harbour Bill 
Committee of the whole House, for Thursday 
next. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself pootbeg 
into a Committee on the Poolbeg Lighthouse Bill; Lighthouse 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker ®! 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes reported, 

That the Committee had gone through the Bill, 
and directed him to report the same, without 
Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 

upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Game Laws 
mittee on the Game Laws (Scotland) Bill; (Scotland) Bill, 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Game Laws 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed (aeatiand) Bill 
upon the 27th day of April last, That the Bene ( 

Laws Amendment (Scotland) Bill be now read a 
second time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Beer Licences 
Reading of the Beer Licences (Ireland) Bill; (Ireland) Bill 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming House 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed — 
upon the 22nd day of March last, That the House Removal Bill. 
Occupiers Disqualification Removal Bill be now 
read a second time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 


till this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Municipal 
Committee on the Municipal Privileges (Zreland) asian) Bill. 
Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 

Ordered, 








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(Grain Trade.) 


89 VicTorRiA. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Return of Tables showing the Number of British 
No.21!. Ships carrying Grain reported to the Board of 
Trade as totally lost, with the Tonnage and Num- 
ber of Lives lost, distinguishing the Trade in which 
those Losses occurred, and the Ports at which the 
Ships loaded their Cargoes, during the four and 
a-half years ended the 30th day of June 1875; 
together with the Total Quantities of Grain im- 
ported from various Countries in the years from 
1871 to 1875, inclusive. 

Sir Charles Adderley accordingly presented the 
said Return. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


Merchant Ships 


Burghs The Order for the House to resolve itself into 
(Scotland) Gas into a Committee, upon Monday next, on the 


Supply Bil: Burghs ( Scotland) Gas Supply Bill, was read, and 
discharged. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 
Market Juries The Order for reading a second time, upon 


(Ireland) Bill. Tyesday next, the Market Juries (Jreland) Bill, 
was read, and discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday the 16th day of this instant May. 


Poor Law The Order for reading a second time, upon 

Guardians § Tyesday next, the Poor Law Guardians Elections 

ian) pu, (Zreland) Bill, was read, and discharged. 

- " Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday the 19th day of this instant May. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till a quarter of an hour before One of the 
clock on Friday morning, adjourned till this 
day. 








Friday, 5th May, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 
Assam ' ; ‘HE Assam Company Bill was read the third 
are Bill time. 
‘j 


Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


Bousfeld’s Bousfield’s Patent Bill was read the third time. 
flee Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

; Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the same, without Amendment. 

Hall’s Patent Haill’s Patent Bill was read the third time. 
Bill [ Lords.) Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to | 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the same, without Amendment. 

Milner’s Patent © Milner’s Patent Bill was read the third time. 
Bil (ards. Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the same, without Amendment. 

Bolton-le Ordered, That the Bolton-le-Sands, Warton, 


male and Silverdale Reclamation Bill be read a second 


Reclamation time upon Friday next. 

—, _ The Brighton Pavilion Bill was read a second 
(Lrds,) time; and committed. 

a Oren Ordered, That the Select Committee on the 
ation of Towns Local Government and Taxation of Towns (/re- 
(Ireland) land) have leave to sit this day till Six of the 


clock, during the sitting of the House. 
VoL. 131, 


4th—5th May. 





179 


Ordered, That the Committee on Group K. of Private Bills 
Private Bills have leave to sit this day till Five (tur ©) 
of the clock, during the sitting of the House. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and — 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. nn 
Several Public Petitions were also presented, Vide Votes, 


and read ; and referred to a Select Committee. — 
Ordered, That the Return relative to Local — a 
uthorities 


Authorities (Loans), which was presented upon (Loans.) 
the 4th day of April last, be printed. No. 212. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Oudh and Oudh and 
Kirwee Prize, which was presented upon the Ist “twee Prise. 
day of this instant May, be printed. Ne. ane. 


Mr. Secretary Cross presented, by Her Ma- Marriages, 
jesty’s Command,—Copy of General Abstract of — 
the Numbers of Marriages, Births, and Deaths (Ireland.) 
registered in Ireland in the year 1875. 

Mr. Secretary Cross also presented,—Return to Valuation 
an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 21st day of (Sota) 
February last, for a Return relative to the Valua- : 
tion of Lands (Scotland). 

. — That the said Papers do lie upon the 
able. 


Mr. James Lowther presented, by Her Majesty’s T .,, 
Command,— Copy of Petition from the Inha- — 
bitants of the Gambia, praying that that Settle- 
ment be not ceded to France. (In continuation of 
C. 1409 of 1876.) 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Mowbray reported from the Select Com- Standing 
mittee on Standing Orders, a Resolution ; which O'#™ 
was read, as followeth: 

That, in the case of the London, Brighton, and — 4 
South Coast Railway (Various Powers) Bill, Pe- South peg 
tition for additional Provision, the Standing Or- Railway 
ders ought to be dispensed with; that the Parties Sowers) Bill 
be permitted to introduce their additional Pro- 
vision accordingly, if the Committee on the Bill 
shall think fit. 

The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
| was agreed to. 





| Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on the Tunbridge 

Tunbridge Wells Gas Bill; That they had exa- hg _ 
. . ° ° lil. 

/mined the allegations contained in the Preamble 

| of the Bill, and made a verbal Amendment therein, 

and found the same, as amended, to be true; and 


| had gone through the Bill, and made Amendments 
thereunto. 


| Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on the Stockton-on- 
| Stockton-on-Tees Markets Bill; That a Report oo Markets 
from the Local Government Board upon the Bill, 
and the objects thereof, had been referred to the 
Committee, and considered by them, and that they 
had adopted the recommendations therein con- 
tained. 

Mr. Raikes further reported from the Com- 
'mittee; That they had examined the allegations 
contained in the Preamble of the Bill, and amended 
| the same to make it consistent with the facts which 
| were proved before them, and found the same, as 
amended, to be true; and had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table 





Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on the Paisley Water 
Paisley Water Bill; That they had examined the 
allegations contained in the Preamble of the Bill, 
and made verbal Amendments therein, and found 
the same, as amended, to be true; and had gone 





AA2 through 


180 


through the Bill, and made Amendments there- 


unto. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private 
Bills, That no Standing Orders not previously 
inquired into are applicable in the case of the fol- 
lowing Bill, originating in the Lords, and referred 
on the First Reading thereof, viz. :— 

Scottish Equitable Life Assurance Society 
Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time. 


Private Bills 
{ Lords] (No 
Standing 
Orders, not 
previously 
inguired into, 
applicable.) 


Ordered, That a Message be sent to the Lords, 
to request that their Lordships will be pleased to 
give leave to Lord Houghton to attend to be exa- 
mined as a Witness before the Select Committee 
on the Railway Passenger Duty: And that the 
Clerk do carry the said Message. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- 
sage had been brought from the Lords by one of 
their Clerks, as followeth: 

The Lords have agreed to the Leicester Im- 
provement Bill, with Amendments; to which the 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
to enable the Local Boards for the Districts of 
Leigh and Hindley, both in the County of Lan- 
caster, to construct Waterworks and to supply 
Water, and for transferring to them certain Rights 
of the South Lancashire Waterworks Company, 
and for other purposes; to which the Lords desire 
the concurrence of this House. 


Message from 
the Lords. 


Leicester 
Improvement 
Bill. 


Leigh and 
Hindley Local 
Boards Bill 

[ Lords. ] 


Leigh and 
Hindley Local 
Boards Bill 

[ Lords. } 


The Leigh and [Hindley Local Boards Bill was 
read the first time. 

Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 

Supply. The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave 
the Chair ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the 
words “an humble Address be presented to Her 
“ Majesty, that She will be pleased to give 
‘ directions, that there be laid before this House, 
** Copies of all Correspondence between Her Ma- 
“ jesty’s Government and the Russian Govern- 
“ment respecting the Occupation by Russia of 
“ the Khanate of Ahokhand; and of any Reports 
“of Captain Napier or other Officers on the 
“‘ Frontier States,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Ques- 
tion :—It was resolved in the Affirmative. 

And the Main Question being proposed, That 
Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair ; 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Saturday morning ; 


Saturday, 6th May, 1876: 


The said Motion was, with leave of the House, 
withdrawn. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Pier and Harbour Orders 
Confirmation (Aldborough, &amp;c.) Bill; and, after 
some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the 
Chair; and Mr. Raikes reported, That the Com- 
mittee had gone through the Bill, and directed him 
to report the same, without Amendment. 


Pier and 
Harbour Orders 
Confirmation 
(Aldborough, 
&amp;c.) Bill. 


5th—6th May. 











1876. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
npon Monday next. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Cattle Disease 
_ a Committee on the Cattle Disease ( Zreland) (Ireland) Bi, 
ill. 
(In the Committee.) 


CxiavuseE, N° 2 (Interpretation). 

Amendment again proposed, in p. 1, 1. 15, to 
leave out the words “ Act (Jreland), 1866,” in 
order to insert the words “ (Jreland) Acts, 1866- 
“© 1874.” 

Question again proposed, That the words “ Act 
(Jreland) 1866” stand part of the Clause :—Ques- 
tion put, and negatived. 

Question, That the words * (Jrelund) Acts, 1866- 
1874 ” be there inserted put, and agreed to. 

Another Amendment made. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

CiauseE, N° 3, agreed to. 

CiausE, N* 4 (Power to Lord Lieutenant and 
Privy Council to make orders). 

Amendments made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 2, 1. 7, 
after the word ‘ diseases,” to sert the words “ or 
** in the case of animals that have been in contact 
with animals affected with cattle plague, or with 
any disease supposed to be cattle plague, for the 
* compulsory slaughter and burial of such animals,” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted ; 

Amendment proposed to the said proposed 
Amendment, in |. 2, by inserting, after the word 
* plague,” the words * sheep-pox.” 

Question proposed, That those words be in- 
serted in the said proposed Amendment :—Amend- 
ment to the said proposed Amendment, by leave, 
withdrawn. 

Another Amendment proposed to the said pro- 
posed Amendment, in ls. 2 and 3, by leaving out 
the words “ or with any disease supposed to be 
* cattle plague.” 

Question proposed, That the words proposed 
to be left out stand part of the said proposed 
Amendment :—Amendment to the said proposed 
Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Question, That the words “ or in the case of 
animals that have beenin contact with animals 
affected with cattle plague, or with any disease 
supposed to be cattle plague, for the compulsory 
slaughter and burial of such animals” be there in- 
serted ——put, and agreed to. 

Other Amendments made. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

CiauseE, N° 5 (Effect of order). 

Motion made, and Question put, That the Chair- 
man do report Progress, and ask leave to sit again ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the Mr. Parnell, 

Yeas,  \Mr. Biggar: 
Tellers for the; Sir William Dyke, 
Noes, Mr. Rowland Winn: 


15. 
69. 


1 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Chairman do now leave the Chair :—Motion, by 
leave, withdrawn. 


To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Razhes 
reported, That the Committee had made Progress 
in the Bill, and that he was directed to move, 
That the Committee may have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- ways and 
mittee of Ways and Means; Means. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, again resolve itself into the said — 
e 








i 








39 Vicroria. 


ome The Treasury Solicitor Bill was, according to 
solicitor Bil. Order, read the third time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 


Clerk of the R . 
peaceandof Reading of the Clerk of the Peace and of the 
te) ‘Bl Crown (Jreland) Bill; 


Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


neler The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 

Amendment mittee on the Poor Law Amendment Bill ; 

Bill. Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Municipal The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Corporations, Reading of the Municipal Corporations, &amp;c, 


ke. (Funds) (Funds) Bill; 

mil. Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next. 

Industrial and ~The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 

Provident mittee on the Industrial and Provident Societies 


Societies Bill. Ri)) ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednes- 
day next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 


Intoxicatin i . 

Liquors 5 the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
i upon the 28th day of April last, That the Intoxi- 
an) Bil cating Liquors (Licensing Law Amendment) 


(No. 2) Bill be now read a second time ; 
Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Monday the 15th day of this instant May. 


Small Testate The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Estates (Scot- mittee on the Small Testate Estates (Scotland) 
land) Bill. Bill - 
&gt; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


land Tenure . Lhe Order of the day being read, for resuming 
(Ireland) Bill. the adjourned Debate on the Amendment which, 
upon the 29th day of March last, was proposed to 
be made to the Question, That the Land Tenure 
(Jreland) Bill be now read a second time. 
Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Friday next; 


Game Laws 
Amendment 
(Scotland) Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
upon the 27th day of April last, That the Game 
Laws Amendment (Scotland) Bill be now read a 
second time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Monday next. 


House The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
Occupiers Dis- the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 


nore upon the 22nd day of March last, That the House 
Occupiers Disqualification Removal Bill be now 
read a second time ; 
Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Tuesday next. 
Municipal The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 


tinue’ x1, Mitte on the Municipal Privileges (Ireland) Bill; 
"Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Convention Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 

pecan) Act for the Repeal of the Act of the Irish Parliament, 
the thirty-third George the Third, chapter twenty- 
nine, intituled, “An Act to prevent the Election or 
Appointment of Unlawful Assemblies”: And that 
Mr. P. J. Smyth, Mr. Ronayne, and Mr. O’ Clery 
do prepare, and bring it in. 


5th—6th—8th May. 





181 


Ordered, That a Select Committete be appointed Boulogne-sur- 

to consider a Petition addressed Jo this House ™* Petition, 
by Inhabitants of the Town of Bouaogne-sur-Mer, 
in France, and to report upon the tdvisability of 
the reception of such Petition by he House :— 
The Committee was accordingly nominated of 
Mr. Walpole, Mr. John Bright, Lord Elcho, Mr. 
Whitbread, Mr. Bourke, Sir Charles Forster, Sir 
Henry Drummond Wolff, Mr. O’ Shaughnessy, Sir 
Eardley Wilmot, Mr. Dodson, and Mr. Secretary 
Hardy; with Power to send for persons, papers, 
ond records. 

Ordered, That. Three be the Quorum. 


The Order for reading a second time, upon Wed- Intoxicating 
nesday next, the Intoxicating Liquors (Scot/and) (Stotland) Bill. 
Bill, was read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday the 28th day of June next. 











The Order for reading a second time, upon Mon- Civil Bill 
day next, the Civil Bill Courts (Jreland) Bill, was Courts 
read, and discharged, (Ireland) Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


Mr. Orr Ewing reported from the Committee stockton and 
on Group K. of Private Bills; That, in the case Middlesbrough 
of the Stockton and Middlesbrough Water Bill, Water Bill. 
they had examined the allegations contained in 
the Preamble of the Bill, but the same had not 
been proved to their satisfaction. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. P. J. Smyth presented a Bill for the Repeal Convention 
of the Act of the risk Parliament, the thirty- (Ireland) Act 
third George the Third, chapter twenty-nine, in- ced 
tituled, “ An Act to prevent the Election or Ap- Bill 143. 








pointment of Unlawful Assemblies ”: And the same 
was read the first time ; and ordered to be read a 
second time upon Friday the 26th day of this in- 
stant May ; and to be printed. 








VoL. 13] 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till a quarter of an hour before Two of the 
clock on Saturday morning, adjourned till 
Monday next. 





Monday, 8th May, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 
S IR Charles Forster reported from the Select pubic 
) Committee on Public Petitions; That they had Petitions 
examined the Petitions presented upon the 3rd, 4th, na 
and 5th days of this instant May ; and had directed ‘ 
him to make a Report thereof to the House. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table; 
and be printed. 





The House being informed, That the Sheriffs of Irish Society 
the City of London attended at the door, they were * London. 
called in ; and at the Bar presented,—A Petition 
of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of 
the City of London, in Common Council assem- 
bled :—And then they withdrew. 

And the said Petition, praying the House to 
reject the proposed Motion of the Honourable 
Member for the City, of Londonderry, which is as 
followeth: That, in the opinion of this House, it is 
expedient to carry out substantially the main re- 
commendations of the Royal Commission of 1853, 
with reference to the Jrish Society of London, and 
that a Select Committee be appointed to consider 
and report as to the best mode of doing so, having 
regard to existing circumstances, was read ; and 


ordered to lie upon eae ae 





Forth Bridge 
Railway Bill. 


Caterham and 
Godstone 
Valley Railway 
Bill. 


Sillar’s and 
Wigner’s 
Patent Bill 
[Lords.} 


Southwold 
Railway Bill. 


Erwood Bridge 
Bill [ Lords. | 


Longwood Gas 
Bill (1875.) 


Mersey Rail- 
way Bill. 


Private Bills 
(Group K.) 


North East 
Worcestershire 
Water Bill. 


Public 
Petitions. 


Vide Votes, and 
Nineteenth 
Report. 


Post Office 
Telegrams 
(Greenock.) 


Superannu- 
ations. 


Paupers. 
No. 214. 


is2 

The Forth Bridge Railway Bill was read the 
third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Caterham and Godstone Valley Railway Bill, 
as amended in the Committee; and Amendments 
were made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
Sillar’s and Wigner’s Patent Bill, as amended in 
the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Southwold Railway Bill, as amended in the 
Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The Erwood Bridge Bill was read a second time ; 
and committed. 


Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence 
taken before the Committee on the Longwood Gas 
Bill, in Session 1875, be referred to the Com- 
mittee on the Colne Valley Gas Bill. 


Mr. Ridley reported from the Committee on 
Group 7 of Railway Bills; That the Parties pro- 
moting the Mersey Railway Bill had stated to the 
Committee that it was not their intention to pro- 
ceed with the same. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table; 
and be printed. 


Ordered, That the Committee on Group K. of 
Private Bills have leave to sit this day till Five of 
the clock, during the sitting of the House. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,— Report from 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 
That the Standing Orders have not been complied 
with in the case of the Petition for additional 
Provision in the North East Worcestershire Water 
Bill. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the 
Select Committee on Standing Orders. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Several Public Petitions were also presented, 
and read; and referred toa Select Committee. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented,—Return 
to an Order, dated the 7th day of April last, for a 
Return relative to Post Office Telegrams ( Green- 
ock). 

Mr. William Henry Smith also presented, pur- 
suant to the directions of an Act of Parliament, 
—Copy of Treasury Minute, dated 28th April 
1876, awarding a Special Retired Allowance to 
Mr. Harry Burrard Farrall, c.B., Local Govern- 
ment Board Inspector. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Selater-Booth presented, — Return to an 
Order, dated the 9th day of July, in the last 
Session of Parliament, for a Return, for the under- 
mentioned Years, of the Number of Paupers in 
receipt of Relief in each Union in England on the 
lst of January of each Year respectively, together 
with the Cost of Total Relief to the Poor, showing 
Particulars, according to the subjoined Form; also 
a General Summary of the same Particulars for 


8th May. 














1376. 


the whole of England in each of the specified 


Years :— 





| 
| 


Paupers. 


Popu- 





Year ending Lady Day. 
Number of Paupers per 
1,000 of Population, 


Rate per Head of Cost of 


Total Relief on the 


Population according to 
lation. 


Census for Year, 
Cost of Total Relief to 


the Poor. 


Union Counties and 


Unions. 
Ratio of Out-door 











| 


1850 
1860 
1870 
1874 


1851— 
1861— 
1871— 
1871— 





























Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


Mr. Secretary Cross presented,—Return to an Chancery 
Order, dated the 14th day of March last, for Returns ae Court 
relative to the Chancery Appeal Court (Jreland). cata 

Mr. Secretary Cross also presented, pursuant Peace 
to the directions of several Acts of Parliament, Preservation 
—Copy of Proclamation issued by the Lord (‘eland) Act. 
Lieutenant of Jreland, dated 29th April, revok- 
ing the former Proclamations of certain parts in 
County Donegal. 

Copy of Order in Council by the Lord Lieuten- Registration of 
ant and Privy Council of Jreland passed on 29th Births and 
April, consenting to an alteration in the Medical land) rg 
Certificate of Death (Form D). 

An Account in charge and discharge of Fees County 
received by the Registrar of County Treasurers’ Foal (inka 
Accounts and Receiver of Fee Fund in Ireland for 
the year ended 25th March 1876, pursuant to Ist 
Vic. c. 54, 8. 19. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Sir John St. Aubyn reported from the Committee Dewsbury and 
on Group H. of Private Bills; That in the case of ae 
the Dewsbury and Heckmondwike Water Bill, they ““* 
had examined the allegations contained in the 
Preamble of the Bill, and amended the same, in 
order to correct statements as to the Corporations 
of Dewsbury and Batley being Local Boards of 
Health, and a reference to the Local Government 
Act, 1858, and a statement as to the incorporation of 
the Waterworks Board, and by striking out refer- 
ence to the extension of limits of the Dewsbury 
Corporation for supplying Water, which were 
struck out of the Bill, and found the same, as 
amended, to be true; and had made provision in 
the Bill, pursuant to the Instruction of the House ; 
and that a Report from the Local Government 
Board had been laid before the Committee, and 
considered by them, and that they had adopted 
such of the recommendations therein contained as 
appeared to them applicable to the circumstances 
of the case submitted to them; and that they had 
gone through the Bill, and made Amendments 
thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table. 


Sir John St. Aubyn reported from the Committee Private Bills 
on Group H. of Private Bills; That Mr. Gourley, (Group 8) 
one of the Members of the said Committee, was 
not present during the sitting of the Committee 
this day. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. O'Reilly reported from the Committee on Halesowen and 
Group 8 of Railway Bills; That, in the case of the Broa Rail 
Halesowen and Bromsgrove Branch Railways Bill, ways Bill 
they had examined the allegations contained in 
the Preamble of the Bill, and amended the same 


by 











: oe 


ation. 


|? 


wood 
Forest Railway 
Bill. 
y 
Court 
.) 
tion 
) Acts 
ee Witham 
Tre. (Poor Law 
t, Guardians.) 
rs Fee 
eland,) 
Fast India 
Tariff Act. 
ry and 
ndwike 
ill. 
Private Bills 
(Group F.) 
Message from 
the Lords, 
University of 
Oxford Bill 
(Lorde, 
sills 
H.) 
Sutton Pool 
Harbour Bill 
(Lords,} 
mn. and Ecclesiastical 
ve Dilapidatio i ns 
tail Acts, 





89 VicToRtA. 


by striking out the recitals relating to the con- 
struction of new Railways, the abandonment of 
certain authorised Railways, the extension of time 
for the completion of a certain authorised Rail- 
way, the power to form certain Railways into a 
separate undertaking, and the power to enter into 
agreements with the Midland and Great Western 
Railway Companies, in order to make the same 
consistent with the provisions of the Bill as passed 
by the Committee, and found the same, as amended, 


to be true; and had gone through the Bill, and | 


made Amendments thereunto. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


Mr. O’ Reilly reported from the Committee on 
Group 8 of Railway Bills; That, in the case of the 
Charnwood Forest Railway Bill, they had exa- 
mined the allegations contained in the Preamble 
of the Bill, and amended the same by omitting the 
reference to the running powers sought over the 
Midland Railway, the Clause in the Bill relating 
thereto having been struck out by the Committee, 
and found thesame, as amended, to be true; and had 
gone through the Bill, and made Amendments 
thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Copy of any Correspondence between the Poor 
Law Guardians of Witham, Essex, or any of them, 
and the Local Government Board, relative to the 
Disallowance by the Poor Law Auditor of a Sum 
paid for a Church Rate by such Guardians. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty,that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Copy of the Substance of the Telegram, 
dated the 30th day of September 1875, from the 


Sth May. 





Secretary of State for India to Lord Northbrook 
in reference to the Jndia Tariff Act; together 
with Copy of the Opinions of Members of Council 
on that Telegram. 


Colonel Loyd Lindsay reported from the Com- 
mittee on Group F. of Private Bills; That the 
parties promoting the Campbeltown Burgh and 
Harbour Bill had stated that the evidence of 
James Morris Gale was essential to enable them to 
establish their case, and it having been proved 
that his attendance could not be procured without 
the intervention of the House, he had been in- 
structed to move that the said James Morris Gale 
do attend the said Committee To-morrow, at 
Twelve of the clock. 

Ordered, That James Morris Gale do attend the 
Committee on Group F. of Private Bills To-mor- 
row, at Twelve of the clock. 


Mr. ae acquainted the House, That a 
Message had been brought from the Lords by one 
of their Clerks, as followeth: 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
for making further Provision respecting the Uni- 
versity of Ozford and the Colleges therein; to 
which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
to authorise the Duke of Cornwall and the Sutton 

arbour Improvement Company to enter into and 
carry into effect Agreements for certain purposes ; 
to which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House. 

The Lords give leave tothe Lord Archbishop of 
York to attend, in order to his being examined as a 
Witness before the Select Committee appointed 
by this House on the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations 


Acts, his Grace (in his place) consenting. 
VoL. 131, . — . 











183 

The House, according to Order, resolved itself 

into a Committee on the Merchant Shipping Bill. 
(In the Committee.) 

Another Clause (Registered British ships if dis- 
classed to be deemed unseaworthy until surveyed 
by Board of Trade)——brought up, and read the 
first time. 

Motion made, and Question put, That the Clause 
be read a second time ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the Mr. Plimsoll, } 116 

Yeas, \Mr. Mundella: : 

Tellers for the (Sir William Dyke, 235 

Noes, UMr. Rowland Winn: } : 

Another Clause added. 

Another Clause (Assistance by British vessels 
to vessels in distress),——brought up, and read the 
first time. 

Question, That the Clause be read a second 
time——put, and negatived. 

Another Clause (Danger and distress signals at 
night ),——brought up, and read the first time. 

“Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Clause be read a second time: — Motion and 
Clause, by leave, withdrawn, 

Another Clause (Summary jurisdiction in har- 
boars and ports of call), loought up, and read 
the first time. 

Motion made, and Questicn proposed, That the 
Clause be read a second time :— Motion and Clause, 
by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Clause ( Desertion and kindred offences), 
——pbrought up, and read the first time. 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Clause be read a second time:—Motion and Clause, 
by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Clause (Powers and duties of Consuls 
at foreign ports)——brought up, and read the 
first time. 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Clause be read a second time :— Motion and Clause, 
by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Clause (Survey of provisions and me- 
dicines),—_—brought up, and read the first time. 

Motion made, and Question put, That the 
Clause be read a second time ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the Mr. Plimsoll, } 67 

Yeas,  \Lord Francis Conyngham: : 

Tellers for the f Sir William Dyke, | 114 

Noes, Mr. Rowland Winn: J , 

Another Clause (Action for damages against 
owner in cases of death from default of the owner), 

— brought up, and read the first time. 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Clause be read a second time :— Motion and Clause, 
by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Clause added. 

Schedule amended, and agreed to. 

Bill, as amended, to be reported. 

Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration upon Thursday 
next; and be printed. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave 
the Chair ; 

An Amendment was — to be made to 
the Question, by leaving out from the word “* That” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the 
words “ this House, while approving the pro- 
“gramme of work on iron-clad ships for the 
“ ensuing financial year, is of opinion that the 

AA4 ** present 


Merchant 
Shipping Bill. 
Bill 144. 


Supply. 


Navy (Ship 
building.) 





Commons Bill. 


Poor Law 
Amendment 
Bill. 


Roads and 
Bridges (Scot- 
land) Bill. 


Local Govern- 
ment Fro- 
visional Orders, 
Briton Ferry, 
&amp;c. (No. 4) 
Bill. 


Local Govern- 
ment Pro- 
visional Order 
Skelmersdale 
(No. 5) Bill. 


’ visional Order, Skelmersdale (No. 5) Bill; and, 


184 


“ present is a fitting opportunity for reviewing 
“our shipbuilding policy, and the resources of 
“ the mercantile marine for naval purposes; and 
“this House is further of opinion that such in- 
“ quiry should be held by a Royal Commission,” 
instead thereof. 

And the Question being proposed, That the 
words proposed to be left out stand part of the 
Question:—The said proposed Amendment was, 
with leave of the House, withdrawn. , 

Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
Chair:—The House accordingly resolved itself 
into the Committee. 


(In the Committee.) 


£. 210,230, for the Coast Guard Service, Royal 
Naval Reserve, and Seamen and Marine Pen- 
sioners Reserve, and Royal Naval Artillery Vo- 
lunteers. 

Resolution to be reported. 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That a 
Sum, not exceeding £. 109,194, be granted to Her 
Majesty, to defray the Expenses of the several 
Scientific Departments of the Navy, which will 
come in course of payment during the year ending 
on the 31st day of March 1877. 

To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 





And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Tuesday morning ; 


Tuesday, 9th May, 1876: 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Razhes 
reported, That the Committee had come to a Re- 
solution. 

Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 

Mr. Raikes also reported, That the Committee 
had made Progress in the matter to them referred ; 
and that he was directed to move, That the Com- 
mittee may have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednes- 
day next, again resolve itself into the said Com- 
mittee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Commons Bill; 

Resclred, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resulve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Poor Law Amendment Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday | 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Roads and Bridges (Scotland) 
Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself | 
into a Committee on the Local Government Pro- 
visional Orders, Britun Ferry, &amp;c. (No. 4) Bill; 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes reported, 
That the Committee had gone through the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration upon ‘Thursday 
next. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Local Government Pro- 


after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker re- 
sumed the Chair; and Mr. Ratkes reported, That 
the Committee had gone through the Bill; and 
amended the Title, as followeth : 

A Bill to confirm a Provisional Order of the 
Local Government Board under the Provisions of 


8th—Aath May. 





1876. 


the Gas and Waterworks Facilities Act, 1870, 
and the Public Health Act, 1875, relating to the 
District of Skelmersdale, in the County of Lan- 
caster. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration upon Thursday 
next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Inaian 
mittee on the Zndian Legislation Bill ; Legislation 
Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. _Bill 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Crossed 
mittee en the Crossed Cheques Bill ; Cheques Bill 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday aorta 

next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Juries 
Reading of the Juries Procedure (Jreland) Bill; Procedure 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time (Ireland) Bil 


upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Jurors 
Reading of the Jurors Qualification (Zreland) Bill ; Qualification 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time Ireland) Bill 
upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Customs and 
Reading of the Customs and Inland Revenue Bill; Iland 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time *”™® Bill 
upon Thursday next. 


The Poor Law (Scotland) Bill was, according to Poor Law 
Order, read a second time; and committed to a, (Scotland) Bill 
Committee of the whole House, for Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Valuation Bil. 
Reading of the Valuation Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday the 22nd day of this instant May. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Chelses 

into a Committee on the Chelsea Hospital Ac- Acsunts Bil, 
counts Bill; and, after some time spent therein, 
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill, and directed him to report the same, 
without Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Ecclesiastical 
Reading of the Ecclesiastical Assessments ( Scot- ‘eetand) il 
land) Bill; (Seo 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday the 22nd day of this instant May. 


Sheriff Courts 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second (Scotland) Bil 


Reading of the Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday the 22nd day of this instant May. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second ince 
Reading of the Appellate Jurisdiction Bill; o— (Lords) 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday the 22nd day of this instant May. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- a, 
a on the Admiralty Jurisdiction (Ireland) (Ireland) Bill 
ul; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Poolbeg Lighthouse Bill was, according to 
Order, read the third time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. Th 
e 


Poolbeg 
Lighthouse 


Bill. 








n 
lation 


1es Bil) 
is.] 


lure 
nd) Bill, 


cation 
id) Bill, 


18 and 
1¢ Bill, 


aw 
nd) Bill, 


on Bill, 


s Bill. 


tical 
nts 
1) Bill. 


ourts 
) Bill 





d 
pour Orders 
Confirmation 
(Aldborough, 
&amp;e.) Bill. 


Ways and 
Means. 


Clerk of the 
Peace and of 
the Crown 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Merchant 
Shipping Acts 
Amendment 
Bill. 


Parliamentary 
and Municipal 
Registration 
(Boroughs) 
Bill. 


Elementary 
Education 
(Application 
for School 
Board) Bill. 


Supreme Court 
of Judicature 
Act (1875) 
Amendment 
Bill. 


Small Testate 

Estates (Scot- 

land) Rill. 
Bill 145. 


Game Laws 
Amendment 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Municipal 
Privileges 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Barbadoes 
(Island 
Revenue, &amp;c.) 


39 VicroRtia. 


The Pier and Harbour Orders Confirmation 
(Aldborough, &amp;c.) Bill was, according to Order, 
read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Ways and Means; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednes- 
day next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Clerk of the Peace and of the 
Crown (Jreland) Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Merchant Shipping Acts Amend- 
ment Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday the 22nd day of this instant May. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Parliamentary and Municipal Re- 
gistration (Boroughs) Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday the 22nd day of this instant May. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Elementary Education (Applica- 
tion for School Board) Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Supreme Court of Judicature Act 
(1875) Amendment Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday the Ist day of June next. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Small Testate Estates 
( Scotland) Bill; and, after some time spent therein, 
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
upon the 27th day of April last, That the Game 
Laws Amendment (Scotland) Bill be now read a 
second time; 

Ordered, Tnat the Debate be further adjourned 
till Monday the 22nd day of this instant May. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Municipal Privileges (Ireland) Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Returns of the Revenue of Barbadoes (for 
the last financial year returned), specifying the 
Amounts derived from each description of Tax or 
Rate; and also the Amount derived from each 
Article imported on which Duties are levied :—— 
And, of the Number of Children of the Black and 
Coloured Population in the Island of Barbadoes 
between the Ages of Seven and Thirteen; the 
Number of these who are in regular attendance at 
Day Schools; the Amount which has been paid 
from the Revenue in aid of the Education of this 


— of the Population during the years 1874 and 
Vou. 131. 


8th—9th May. 


185 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously 
pleased to give directions, that there be laid before 
this House, Return of the Number of Writs of 
Summons issued out of the High Court of Justice 
since the lst day of November 1875, allowed to 
be served in Jre/and under the eleventh Order 
contained in the First Schedule to “ The Supreme 
Court of Judicature Act, 1875,” distinguishing 
between Writs allowed to be served in Actions 
where the sole Defendant or all the Defendants 
resided in Ireland, and in Actions where some of 
the Defendants resided in England, and showing 
the nature of the several Actions, and when for a 
Money Claim the Amount claimed: —— And, 
similar Return of all Writs allowed to be served 
in Scotland:——The Returns to be made by 
Schedule, similar to the following :— 








Nature of Claim 
or Action. 


Amount 
claimed. 


Defendants (if any) 


Number. resident in England. 














Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Copy of Correspondence between the 
Education Department of the Privy Council, the 
Cirencester Board of Guardians, and the Managers 
of the Public Elementary School of Watermoor, 
in the Borough of Cirencester, in reference to the 
admission of Pauper Children into that School. 


A Motion being made, That this House will, 
this day, resolve itself into a Committee to con- 
sider of authorising the payment, out of the Con- 
solidated Fund, or out of moneys to be provided 
by Parliament, of any additional Salaries to Re- 
corders whose duties may be increased, and, out of 
moneys to be provided by Parliament, of Salaries 
granted in lieu of Fees to Officers, under any Act 
of the present Session relating to Admiralty 
Jurisdiction in Ireland ; 

Mr. Secretary Cross, by Her Majesty’s Com- 
mand, acquainted the House, That Her Majesty, 
having been informed of the subject-matter of this 
Motion, recommends it to the consideration of the 
House. 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


The Order for reading a second time, upon 
Thursday next, the Civil Bill Courts ( Zre/and) Bill, 
was read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The University of Oxford Bill was read the 
first time; and ordered to be read a second time 
upon Thursday next; and to be printed. 


Ordered, That a Message be sent to the Lords, 
to request that their Lordships will be pleased to 
give leave to the Lord Bishop of Exeter to attend 
to be examined as a Witness before the Select 
Committee on the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations 
Acts: And that the Clerk do carry the said 
Message. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till a quarter of an hour after One of the 
clock on Tuesday morning, adjourned till 
this day. 


High Court of 
Justice (Writs 
of Summons.) 


Watermoor 
oo!, 


Admiralty 
Jurisdiction 
(Ireland) 
[Salaries ] 


Civil Bill 
Courts 
(Ireland) Bill. 


University 
of Oxford 


Bill [Lords.] 


Bill 146. 
Ecclesiastical 
Dilapidations 
Acts, 





Banbury and 
Cheltenham 
Direct Railway 
Bill. 


Standing 
Orders. 


Gas Light and 
Coke Company 
Bill. 


Southampton 
Docks. 


Private Bills 
(Group E.) 


Leicester 
Improvement 
Bill. 


Manchester, 
Sheffield, and 
Lincolnshire 


Railway Bill. 


Sidmouth 
Railway Bill. 


Dublin Port 
and Docks 
Board Bill 
{ Lords. } 


Sutton Pool 
Harbour Bill 
[Lords.] 


Goux’s Patent. 


Private Bills 
[Lords] 
(Standing 
Orders, not 
previously in- 
quired into, 
complied with.) 


186 
Tuesday, 9th May, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 


\ | R. O' Reilly reported from the Committee on 
yt Group 8 of Railway Bills; That in the case 
of the Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway 
Bill they had examined the allegations contained 
in the Preamble of the Bill, but the same had not 
been proved to their satisfaction. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Mr. Mowbray reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Standing Orders, several Resolutions ; 
which were read, as follow : 

That, in the case of the Gas Light and Coke 
Company Bill, Petition for additional Provision, 
the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed with ; 
that the Parties be permitted to introduce their 
additional Provision accordingly, if the Committee 
on the Bill shall think fit. 

That, in the case of the Southampton Docks, 
Petition for leave to deposit a Petition for Bill, 
the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed with; 
that the Parties be permitted to deposit their Pe- 
tition for Bill. 

The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 


Ordered, That the Committee on Group E. of 
Private Bills have leave to sit this day till Five 
of the clock, during the sitting of the House. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Letces- 
ter Improvement Bill; and the same were twice 
read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


The Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Rail- 
way Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, ‘That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Sidmouth Railway Bill was read a second 
time ; and committed. 


The Dublin Port and Docks Board Bill was, ac- 
cording to Order, read a second time ; and committed. 


The Sutton Pool Harbour Bill was read the first 
time. 

Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of the Gourx Manure and Sanitary 
Company, Limited, and of Pierre Nicholas Gouz, 
of Paris, in the Republic of France, for leave to 
bring ina Bill for rendering valid certain Letters 
Patent granted to Pierre Nicholas Goux, for im- 
provements in collecting and in disinfecting human 
excreta, and converting the same into manure, also 
in the apparatus or means employed therein, was 
presented, and read; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Standing Orders. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 
That the Standing Orders not previously inquired 
into, and which are applicable thereto, have been 
complied with, in the case of the following Bill, 
originating in the Lords, and referred on the First 
Reading thereof, viz. : 

Greencastle and Kilkeel Railway and Pier Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time. 


9th May. 











1876, 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 
That the Standing Orders have not been complied 
ag in the case of the Petition for Gouz’s Patent 

ill. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the 
Select Committee on Standing Orders. 


Gour’s 


thai 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and py, 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions, 
Vide Nine. 

2 teenth 
Ordered, That the Return relative to Post Post Otfice 
Office ‘Telegrams (Greenock), which was presented Telegrams 


upon the 8th day of this instant May, be printed, ‘Stenock) 


0. 215 
Mr. Algernon Egerton presented,—Return to Nary - 


an Order, dated the 27th day of April last, fora Shige 
Return relative to the Navy (Training Ships). 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented,—Return Bank of 
to an Order, dated the 4th day of this instant England 
May, for Returns relative to the Bank of Eng- 
land, 

Mr. William Henry Smith also presented, pur- 
suant to the pee of an Act of se se gal = 
Copy of Treasury Minute, dated 3rd May, 1876, 
awarding a Special Retired Allowance to William 
Henry Campion, late Warder, Gibraltar Convict 
Prison. 

Copy of Treasury Minute, dated 29th April, 
1876, awarding a Special Retired Allowance to 
Henry Burden, Established Labourer, Portsmouth 
Dockyard. 

Ordered, Vhat the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Salt presented,—Return to an Order, dated Poor Lav 
the 16th day of March last, for a Return relative Expenditur, 
to Poor Law Expenditure, 1874 and 1875. — 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


The Order for the House to resolve itself into a pions 
Committee, upon Thursday .next, on the Burghs (Scotland 
(Scotland) Gas Supply Bill, was read, and dis- &amp;s Supply 
charged. - 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
the 18th day of this instant May, resolve itself 
into the said Committee. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented gehoot Boaris 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased (Scotland) 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 


.| House, a Return from each School Board in Scot- 


land, for the year commencing at Whitsuntide 
1875, showing the Rate per Pound of Assessment 
imposed ; the Amount of the Rental assessed; the 
estimated Gross Produce of the Assessment; the 
Fixed Income derived from any other Local 
Sources ; the Total Amount of the estimated Local 
Income ; the Sum which will be required, if any, 
to pay Expenses connected with the Election of 
the School Boards; the estimated Sum required 
during the year for the Erection or Repair of 
School Buildings and Schoolmasters’ Houses, 
whether to be defrayed from Local Sources or 
from Loans; the estimated Expenditure for Sala- 
ries of Teachers; the estimated Expenditure for 
the Salaries of other Officials; the estimated Sum 
required for Payment of all other Expenses con- 
nected with the Schools under the charge of 
School Boards (not including Sums payable from 
Government Grants); and the Total Amount of such 
estimated Expenditure; also, separate Columnshow- 
ing the Gross Total estimated Expenditure and 
Liabilities of all kinds incurred during the exist- 
ence of each School Board up to the close of its 
Third year :——The Return to be divided into 


two parts, containing respectively the School 
Boards 








'S Patan, 


(Training 


annua- 


Law 
nditure, 
and 1875. 


hs 


supply 


1 Boards 
land.) 





39 Victoria. 


Boards of Burghs and of Parishes, and to be made 
up in the following Form :— 








Estimated Income and Estimated Expenditure. 












































Rental, 

= 4/13 2 3 ks 

ois sis 3 = - 

3 2 . =3 Ss Saige 

ele legis | 2/32 |@ l2g/#.] &lt;. [2 

ee ea aS |SelSs/es| 8s | Sk 

a\celesls else |S61(S8/S5] $3 |S3 
W1é 38 3§ seo] 8 sz 33 Bs zs so | $= 
3 S2;/Su./m@E] § | See )/52 | 3S) 8S! as [ee 
2/“=|sesiss si 3 g% ce | es =e &amp; | wt 

- 2 aic3 ost ra a 
$19) 22/83/22) 2 | ese) 8s | as] ea] $a | ge 
elela |&amp; |e fm | a a ja ja - o 

Totals - 
scientific Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 


Investigations. g Return with respect to the Amounts voted to the 
Department of the Privy Council Office for 
« Auxiliary Scientific Investigations” in the year 
1875-6; showing in detail the separate Payments 
made out of the Sums so voted in each Year, the 
Persons to whom such Payments were made, and 
the Nature of the Investigations undertaken; to- 
gether with the Dates and Titles of the Reports 
made thereon (in continuation of Parliamentary 
Paper, No. 223, of Session 1875). 


Biinburghand Mr, Raikes reported the Edinburgh and District 
District Water Water Bill, with Amendments. 


Bil (Lards.| Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table. 
But Norfolk § Mr. Ruikes reported from the Committee on 


Railway Bill. the East Norfolk Railway Bill; That they had 
examined the allegations contained in the Pream- 
ble of the Bill, and amended the same to make it 
consistent with the Bill as submitted to and passed 
by the Committee, and found the same to be true; 
and had gone through the Bill, and made Amend- 
ments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 
oo and = Mr. Razhes reported from the Committee onthe 
Joint —. Glasgow and Kilmarnock Joint Line and Cale- 
iedonian  donian Railway Bill; That they had examined the 
tulway Bill. allegations contained in the Preamble of the Bill, 
and amended the same by striking out so much 
thereof as related to the acquisition of additional 
Lands by the Caledonian Railway Company, and 
found the same, as amended, to be true; and had 
gone through the Bill, and made Amendments 
thereunto. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


erry Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on the 

Bil [Lords Maidenhead District Gas Bill; That they had 

examined the allegations contained in the Pream- 

ble of the Bill, and made a verbal Amendment 

therein, and found the same, as amended, to be 

true; and had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 


Table. 
ane Ordered, That Mr. Kavanagh have leave of ab- 
. sence for one week, on account of domestic 
affliction. 
Fie Arts, A Motion was made, and the Question being 


proposed, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, praying that She will be gra- 
ciously pleased to cause to be laid before Parlia- 
ment, a Copy of a late Report on the direction of 
the Fine Arts in France, made by M. Edouard 
Charton to the French Ministry of Public Instruc- 
tion ; and also praying that She will be graciously 
pleased to cause Her Representatives at the Eu- 
VoL. 131. 


9th May. 


187 


ropean Courts to report on the present attitude of 
the State towards the Fine Arts in the various 
Countries of Europe ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the 
words “ in the opinion of this House there is no 
“ground for imputing to the Royal Academy 
“neglect in adopting reforms with the view to 
“ promote the active development of higher Art 
“ Education in England,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being proposed, That the 
words proposed to be left out stand part of the 
Question:—The said proposed Amendment and 
Motion were severally, with leave of the House, 
withdrawn. 


The Metropolis Gas Companies Bill was, ac- Metropolis Gas 
cording to Order, read a second time; and com- Companies 
mitted to a Select Committee. Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Colonial 
Reading of the Colonial Marriages Bill ; Marriages Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second County Rates 
Reading of the County Rates (Jreland) Bill; (Ireland) Bill. 
Anda Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a second 
time :-—And a Debate arising thereupon; 
Ordered, That the Debate be adjourned till 
Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Employers and 
Reading of the Employers and Workmen Act Workman Act 
(1875) Extension Bill ; — Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- crab and 
mittee on the Crab and Lobster Fisheries (Vor- Lobster 
folk) Bill; Fisher 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 4° 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming House __ 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed Occupiers Dis- 
‘ 1 r qualification 
upon the 22nd day of March last, That the House j.noval Bill. 
Occupiers Disqualification Removal Bill be now 
read a second time: 
Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 


till To-morrow. 


Mr. William Henry Smith reported from the gupply. 
Committee of Supply, a Resolution; which was 
read, as followeth: 

That a Sum, not exceeding £. 210,230, be Coast Guard, 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Expenses a 
of the Coast Guard Service, Royal Naval Re- yotunteers. 
serve, and Seamen and Marine Pensioners Reserve, 
and Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers, which will 
come in course of payment during the year end- 
ing on the 3lst day of March 1877. 

The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 


The Chelsea Hospital Accounts Bill was, ac- Chelsea 
cording to Order, read the third time. yon Bill 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. . 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Municipal 
i Committee on the Municipal Privileges Frees... 
into a Committee on nicip SeS (Treland) Bill. 
(Ireland) Bill; and, after some time spent therein, 
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Salt 
reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill. 


Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 





mittee, be taken into consideration To-morrow. 
BB2 The 





Admiralty 
Jurisdiction 
(Treland ) 

[ Salaries. ] 


Stockton and 
Middlesbrough 
Corporations 
Water Bill. 


Slaithwaite 
Gas Bill. 


Scottish 
Equitable Life 
Assurance 
Society Bill 
[Lords.} 
Public 
Petitions. 
Vide Twentieth 
Report. 

Privy Council 
(Oaths taken 
by Members, 
&amp;c.) 


Cattle Diseases 
(Ireland) Act. 


East India 
Tariff Act. 


No. 216. 


185 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on Admiralty Jurisdiction (Jre- 
land) [Salaries]. 


(In the Committee.) 


Resolved, That it is expedient to authorise the 
payment, out of the Consolidated Fund, or out of 
moneys to be provided by Parliament, of any 
additional Salaries to Recorders whose duties 
may be increased, and, out of moneys to be pro-| 
vided by Parliament, of Salaries granted in lieu | 
of Fees to Officers, under any Act of the present | 
Session relating to Admiralty Jurisdiction in Jre-| 
land. 

Resolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr, Salt | 
reported, That the Committee had come to a Re- | 
solution. 

Ordered, 
morrow. 


That the Report be received To. 


Mr. Orr Ewing reported from the Committee 
on Group K. of Private Bills; That in the 
case of the Stockton and Middlesbrough Corpora- 
tions Water Bill, they had examined the allega- 
tions contained in the Preamble of the Bill, and 
amended the same, by stating the amount to be 
borrowed for acquiring the Works and Under- 
taking of the Stockton and Middlesbrough Water- 
works Company, and for the execution of the 
various Works authorised by the Bill in order to 
make it consistent with the provisions of the Bill 
as passed by the Committee, and found the same, 
as amended, to be true; and that a Report from 
the Local Government Board in respect to the 
said Bill had been considered by the Committee ; 
and that they had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table. 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 








Wednesday, 10th May, 1876. 


Qth—-10th May. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented, pursuant Superannys. 
tions, 





PRAYERS. 
rT. HE House proceeded to take into considera- | 
tion the Slaithwaite Gas Bill, as amended 

in the Committee ; and Amendments were made | 

to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. | 


The Scottish Equitable Life Assurance Society | 
Bill was read a second time; and committed. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and | 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Secretary Cross presented,—Return to an | 
Address to Her Majesty, dated the 2nd day of 
this instant May, for Returns relative to the Privy 
Council (Oaths taken by Members, &amp;c.) 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated 
the 2nd day of this instant May, for Returns rela- 
tive to the Cattle Diseases (/reland) Act. 

Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the 


‘Reading of the Towns Rating (Jreland) Bill; 


1876. 


to the directions of an Act of Parliament,—Cop 
of Treasury Minute, dated 5th May 1876, award- 
ing a Special Compensation Allowance to Mr. 
William Dalgleish, Electroty pist, Ordnance Sur- 
vey. 

Copy of Treasury Minute, dated 2nd May 1876, 
awarding a Special Retired Allowance to John 
Rule, Granulating House Man, Royal Gunpowder 
Factory. 


Copy of Treasury Minute, dated 4th May 1876, Superannuation 
lacing the Office of Keeper of the Library and 4¢ 1859, 


erbarium at the Royal Gardens, Kew, under 
the 4th Clause of the Superannuation Act, 1859. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


The Crder of the day being read, for the Second Barristers and 
Advocates 
Fees Bill, 


Reading of the Barristers and Advocates Fees 
Bill ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Questicn 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a 
second time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the word “ now,” and, 
at the end of the Question, adding the words 
* upon this day six months.” 

And the Question being put, That the word 
“ now ” stand part of the Question; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right; 

The Noes to the Left. 

‘Tellers for thes Mr. Norwood, 

Yeas, | Mi Charles Lewis: 

Tellers for the {Sir Henry Jackson, 

Noes, Mr. Wheelhouse: 

So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
“ upon this day six months” be added at the end 
of the Question :—It was resolved in the Affirma- 
tive. 

Then the main Question, so amended, being put; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon this day six months. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 


Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for 
Reading of the Parish Ministers (Scotland) Ex- 
emption from Rates Bill; 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 


Reading of the Local Government in Towns (Jre- ({reland) Bill. 


land) Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday the 27th day of June next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the $ 
Reading of the Burial Grounds Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday the 26th day of July next. 


Towns Rating 
(Ireland) Bill. 


the Second Parish 
Ministers 


(Scotland) Ex- 
emption from 


Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time Rates Bill 
upon Wednesday the 5th day of July next. 


Local Govern- 


Burial Grounds 
econd Fit 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second a 


Reading of the Grand Jury Law Amendment 5 ont ({reland) 

(Ireland) Bill ; _ Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 

upon Friday the 23rd day of June next. 


Table. 





Lord George Hamilton presented,—Return to 
an Address to Her Majesty, dated the Ist day of | 
this instant May, for a Return relative to the East | 
India Tariff. 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated | 
the 8th day of this instant May, for a Return re- 
lative to the East India Tariff Act. 

Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the 
Table; and that the last be printed. 


Jary and 
Burg ry ill 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second ~~ 


Reading of the Burglary and Forgery Bill; 
O- dered, That the Bill be read a second time 


Wednesd ext. 
upon Wednesday nex The 








nn wa- 


inuation 
59, 


-3 a 


ating 
Bill. 


) Ex 
rom 


ern 
owns 
Bill. 


id- 
and) 





39 VicTortia. 10¢h 


Cheques on The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Bankers Bill. Reading of the Cheques on Bankers Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 

upon Wednesday the 31st day of this instant 


May. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Legal Practitioners (Jre/and) Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next. 


May. 1 89 


out of moneys to be provided by Parliament, of 
Salaries granted in lieu of Fees to Officers, under 
any Act of the present Session relating to Admi- 
ralty Jurisdiction in Ireland. 
The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 
Legal 
itioners 
(Ireland) Bill. 


each Sanitary Officer of the Municipal District 
under the control of the Public Health Committee 
of Dublin for each Month from the 22nd day of 
November 1874 to the lst day of May 1876: —— 
z. Number of Houses condemned by the Medical 
Sanitary Officers within the said District as unfit 
for Human Habitation in the same period: 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Beer Licences (Ireland) Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday next. 


Beer Licences 
(Ireland) Bill. 

















Meicgel er . ane — —_— een = — | 3. Number of Houses condemned which have been 
hay oy Rea ee Bill: - ds by the Committee as Uninhabitable: 
Bill. (Fon ri Ph = — d ti 4. Number of Houses so condemned which have 
non ED Re 0 A SE subsequently to Condemnation been rendered fit 
ape Sasa Bees. for Habitation :——5. Number of Houses so con- 
Industrial and The House, according to Order, resolved itself —— as to which wr so _— taken by 
Provident into a Committee on the Industrial and Provident | °, Vommittee: ——— 6. Number of Kiouses re- 
Societies Bille cs oti aan. . - | ported by the Medical Sanitary Officers within the 
ocieties Bill; and, after some time spent therein,| © +4 ict, magne er - : ; 
= : na : ; said istrict once within the period specified in 
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Rutkes| 5. serpin fF clk athe cena 
ted, That the Committee had gone through | + 272S"#P" / as Haunts of Hever and other 4ymotic 
the Bill ' © ©" | Diseases :——7. Number of such Houses so re- 
Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- | ported within the said period twice or oftener. 
mittee, be taken into consideration upon Friday | 
next. Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Local Govern- 
to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local rene 
Supply. The Order of the day being read, for the Com- | Government Board relating to the City of Bristol, Bristol, &amp;e. 
mittee of Supply ; the District of Burslem, the Borough of Hunting- (No. 6.) 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday | don (two), the District of Newton-in-Makerfield, 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. ‘and the Boroughs of Preston and Ryde: And that 
Mr. Salt and Mr. Sclater-Booth do prepare, and 
Ways and The Order of the day being read, for the Com-| bring it in. 
—_ mittee of Ways and Means; Mr. Salt accordingly presented a Bill to con- Local Govern- 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday | firm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Go- ™e* a, 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. vernment Board relating to the City of Bristol, Bristol, — 
| the District of Burslem, the Borough of Hunting- (No. 6) Bill. 
Colonial The Order of the day being read, for the Second | don (two), the District of Newton-in-Makerfield, Bill 147. 
Marriages Bill. Reading of the Colonial Marriages Biil ; | and the Boroughs of Preston and Ryde: And the 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time | same was read the first time; and ordered to be 
upon Tuesday next. | read a second time upon Monday next; and to be 
| printed. 
Employersand The Order of the day being read, for the Second | 
On) Been Reading of the Employers and Workmen Act| Mr. Pease reported from the Committee on Huddersfield 
sion Bill. (1875) Extension Bill; 'Group H. of Private Bills; That in the case of Water and Im- 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time the Huddersfield Water and Improvement Bill, ?™°°™™* = 
upon ‘Tuesday next. they had examined the allegations contained in 
‘the Preamble of the Bill, and amended the same 
= a The Order of the day being read, for the Com- | by omitting therefrom the recital that it was ex- 
Fisheries mittee on the Crab and Lobster Fisheries (Vor-. pedient to confirm the transfers to the Corporation 


(Norfolk) Bill. folk) Bill ; of certain Gas and Water Undertakings purchased 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday | by them; also by altering the recital that it was 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. |expedient that the Corporation should purchase 
| Markets and Fairs, they having, subsequently to 


ae - The Order of the day being read, for resuming | the deposit of the Bill, completed such purchase ; 
Silieie the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed |also by making the recital of the expediency of 


Removal Bill. upon the 22nd day of March last, That the House authorising the Corporation to provide Bonding 
Occupiers Disqualification Removal Bill be now | Warehouses, subject to their being constituted a 
read a second time ; warehousing place under the Customs Inland 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned | Bonding Act, 1860; also by altering the amount 
till Friday next. | of the Estimates in accordance with the evidence 

—_ adduced ; also by adding a recital that the Cor- 

Privlepes The Order of the day being read, for taking into | poration had complied with the provisions of Sec- 

(Ireland) Bil, C°DSideration the Municipal Privileges (Jreland) tion 142 of the Towns Improvement Act, which 

ill, as amended in the Committee ; | is in force within the Borough, and found the 

_ Ordered, That the Bill be taken into considera- | same, as amended, to be true; and that a Report 
tion To-morrow. from the Local Government Board had been laid 
before the Committee, and considered by them ; 


ow ll Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee val aa that they had adopted such of the recom- 
(Ireland) Admiralty J urisdiction (Jreland) [Salaries],a Re- | mendations therein contained as appeared to them 
(Salaries solution; which was read, as followeth: ‘applicable to the circumstances of the case sub- 


That it is expedient to authorise the payment, out | mitted to them; and that they had gone through 
of the Consolidated Fund, or out of moneys to be | the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 
provided by Parliament, of any additional Salaries| Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
to Recorders whose duties may be increased, and, | Table. 

Vou. 131, | BBS Mr. 





Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Sanitary 


turns 


Return of,—1. Number of Reports sent in from (Dublin.) 





Dudley and 
Oldbury 
Junction Rail- 
way Bill. 


Juries 
Procedure 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Jurors 
Qualification 
(Treland) ‘Bill. 


Halifax 


(Vicar’s Rate.) 


Public 
Petitions 
(Nineteenth 
Report.) 


Caterham and 
Godstone 


Valley Railway 


Bill. 


Sillar’s and 
Wigner’s 
Patent Bill 
[ Lords. } 


Southwold 
Railway Bill. 


Furness 
Railway Bill. 


Metropolis Gas 


Companies 


Bill (1875.) 


190 


Mr. O'Reilly reported from the Committee on 
Group &amp; of Railway Bills; That in the case of 
the Dudley and Oldbury Junction Railway Bill, 
they had examined the allegations contained in 
the Preamble of the Bill, and amended the same 
by striking out the recital as to the expediency of 
authorising the Company to issue Preference 
Shares, in order to make the same consistent with 
the Bill as submitted to and passed by the Com- 
mittee, and found the same, as amended, to be 
true; and had gone through the Bill, and made 


‘Amendments thereunto. 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


The Order for reading a second time, To-mor- 
row, the Juries Procedure (Ireland) Bill, was read, 
and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order for reading a second time, To-mor- 
row, the Jurors Qualification (Ireland) Bill, was 
read, and discharged. 

Ordered, Yhat the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


And it being Six of the clock, Mr. Speaker ad- 


journed the House till To-morrow, without putting 


the Question. 








Thursday, 11th May, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 
QRPE RED, That the Select Committee on 
the Halifux (Vicar’s Rate), have leave to sit 
this day till Five of the clock, during the sitting 

of the House. 


Sir Charles Forster reported from the Select 
Committee on Public Petitions; That they had 
examined the Petitions presented upon the 8th and 
9th days of this instant May; and had directed 
him to make a Report thereof to the House. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


The Caterham and Godstone Valley Railway 
Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Sillar’s and Wigner’s Patent Bill was read the 
third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, with Amendments ; to which 
this House doth desire the concurrence of their 
Lordships. 


The Southwold Railway Bill was read the third 
time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Furness Railway Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee; and an Amendment was made to the 
Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence 
taken before the Committee on the Metropolis 
Gas Companies Bill, in Session 1875, be referred 
to the Committee on the South Metropolitan Gas 
Light and Coke Bill. 


10th—11th May. 





1876. 


Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence yor: 
taken before the Committee on the Metropolitan Board of 
Board of Works ( Various Powers) Bill, in Session Works 
1875, be referred to the Committee on the Metro- } oe 


politan Board of Works (Various Powers) Bill. (1875) = 


M r. Woodd reported the Chichester and Midhurst Chichester and 
Railway (No. 2) Bill, with Amendments. Midhurst 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table; ears 
and be printed. ts 


Mr. Woodd reported from the Committee on Groat 
Group 3 of Railway Bills; That, in the case of the Yarmouth ang 
Great Yarmouth and Stalham (Light) Railway ar ; 
Bill, they had examined the allegations contained Naas 
in the Preamble of the Bill, and verbally amended 
the same, and found the same, as amended, to be 
true; and had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table; 
and be printed. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from private Bins 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private [Lords] 
Bills; That the Standing Orders not previously (Standing 
inquired into, and which are are applicable thereto, ede 
have been complied with in the case of the follow- inquired into, 
ing Bill, originating in the Lords, and referred on ™Plicd with.) 
the First Reading thereof, viz. : 

Leigh and Hindley Local Boards Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and public 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions, 


eS 


Vide Twentieth 
, B Report. 
Ordered, That the Return relative to the Bank gank of 


of England, which was presented upon the 9th England. 
day of this instant May, be printed. No. 217, 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Cattle Cattle Diseases 
Diseases (Ireland) Act, which was presented upon (Ireland) Act. 
the 10th day of this instant May, be printed. No. 218, 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented,—Return Income Tax 
to an Order, dated the 1st day of this instant May, and Collection. 
for a Return relative to the Income Tax and Col- 
lection. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Sir Wilfrid Lawson reported from the Com- Private Bills 
mittee on Group L of Railway Bills; That Mr. (Group L.) 
Hildyard, one of the Members of the Committee, 
was not present during the sitting of the Committee 
this day. 

Ordered, That Mr. Hildyard do attend the Com- 
mittee on Group L of Private Bills To-morrow, 
at Twelve of the clock. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Oxford and 


to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased Cambridge 
to give directions, that there be laid before this “™”™""* 
House, a Return from the Universities of Oxford 
and Cambridge separately, stating, so far as pos- 
sible, for each year, from 1870 to 1875 inclusive,— 
The Number, Names, and Description of Pro- 
fessors, and the Mode of Appointment of 
each Professor ; 
The Emoluments of each Professor, dis- 
tinguishing the Amounts accruing from 
Fees, Salary, and other Sources ; 
The Number of Lectures delivered by each 
Professor as such ; 
The Average Number of Auditors present at 
each Lecture ; 
and stating for each year, from 1856 to 1875 
inclusive,— 
The Amount transferred from the Press Fund 
to the General Account of the University ; 
The Amount of Deficit (if any) on the Press 
Account 








d 


Orders of the 
Day. 


Message from 
the Lords. 


Local Govern- 
ment Pro- 


yisional Orders 


Bill. 
Irish Peerage 
Bill (Lords. } 


Ecclesiastical 
Dilapidations 
Acts. 


Royal Titles 
Act Proclama- 
tion. 


Customs 
and Inland 
Revenue Bill. 


Commons Bill. 


Merchant 
Shipping Bill. 


Highways Bill. 


Salmon 
Fishery 


te) 


39 Vicroria. 


Account during any of the above-mentioned 
years (excluding the consideration of In- 
come arising from Endowments) ; 
The Income of the Endowments belonging 
to the Press Fund ; 
The Source from which any such Deficit was 
made good ; 
distinguishing, as regards Ozford University, 
the transactions of the Classical side of the Press 
from the Bible and Prayer Book side. 


Ordered, That the Orders of the Day be post- 
poned until after the Notice of Motion relating to 
the Royal Titles Act Proclamation. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a 
Message had been brought from the Lords by one 
of their Clerks, as followeth: 

The Lords have agreed to the Local Govern- 
ment Provisional Orders Bill, without any Amend- 
ment. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An 
Act to amend the Law concerning the Peerage of 
Ireland; to which the Lords desire the concurrence 
of this House. 

The Lords give leave to the Lord Bishop of 
Exeter to attend, in order to his being examined 
as a Witness before the Select Committee ap- 
pointed by this House on the Ecclesiastical Di- 
lapidations Acts, his Lordship (in his place) con- 
senting. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being 
proposed, That having regard to the declarations 
made by Her Majesty’s Ministers during the pro- 
gress of the Royal Titles Act through Parliament, 
this House is of opinion that the Proclamation 
issued by virtue of that Act does not make ade- 
quate provision for restraining and preventing the 
use of the Title of Empress in relation to the in- 
ternal affairs of Her Majesty’s Dominions other 
than India ; 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Friday morning ; 


Friday, 12th May, 1876: 


And the Question being put ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the; Mr. Adam, } 226 
Yeas, \Lord Kensington: : 

Tellers for the { Sir William Dyke, 
Noes, UMr. Rowland Winn: 

So it passed in the Negative. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Customs and Inland Revenue Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Commons Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
consideration the Merchant Shipping Bill, as 
amended in the Committee ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into considera- 
tion upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Highways Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


The Salmon Fishery (Provisional Order) Bill 
be according to Order, read a second time; and 
OL, 131. 


.| Bill, as amended in the Committee ; 


11¢h—12th May. 191 


committed to a Committee of the whole House, for 
Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Patents for 
Reading of the Patents for Inventions Bill ; pa se 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time — ea 
upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Kingstown 
mittee on the Kingstown Harbour Bill; Harbour Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Poor Law 
mittee on the Poor Law Amendment Bill; Amendment 
, Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve _ 
itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to Local Govern- 
take into consideration the Local Government ™"* Pro- 
Provisional Orders, Briton Ferry, &amp;c. (No. 4) bag can" 
Bill, as amended in the Committee. &amp;e. (No. 4) 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 3“. 


this day. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to Local Govern- 
take into consideration the Local Government pty 
Provisional Order, Skelmersdale (No. 5) Bill, as skelmersdale 
amended in the Committee. (No. 5) Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second University of 
Reading of the University of Oxford Bill; (lenin) 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday the 22d day of this instant May. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Game Laws 
mittee on the Game Laws (Scotland) Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
the 23rd day of this instant May, resolve itself into 
the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Elementary 
Reading of the Elementary Education (Application taaaient 
for School Board) Bill ; for School 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time Board) Bill. 


upon Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Municipal 
consideration the Municipal Privileges (Jreland) Privileges _ 
(Ireland) Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into con- 
sideration this day. 


A Petition of George Wright, Henry Boulton, Horncastle 
Edward Hoare, and John Hindley Wright Scott, Gas Bill. 
trading with others as the Horncastle Gas Com- 
pany, and of the Local Board for the district of 
the Town of Horncastle, in the County of Lincoln, 
praying that provision may be made in the Horn- 
castle Gas Bill to enable the Local Board to pur- 
chase and acquire the undertaking, property, 
rights, and interests of the Horncastle Gas Com- 
pany, was presented, and read; and referred to 
the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


Sir John Kennaway reported from the Committee London and 
on Group 9 of Railway Bills; That, in the case of North Western 
the London and North Western Railway (New — sn 
Lines, &amp;c.) Bill, they had examined the allega- pi.’ ~ 
tions contained in the Preamble of the Bill, and 
amended the same by striking out so much thereof 
as related to the Manchester South Junction and 
Altrincham Railway, the Merthyr Extension Rail- 
way (No. 2), the Abersychan Extension Railway 
(No. 2), the Railway Clearing Superannuation 
BB4 Fund 





(Scotland) Bill. 






















































Local Govern- 
ment and 
Taxation of 
Towns 
(Ireland.) 


Standing 
Orders. 


Goux’s Patent. 


Colne Valley 
Gas Bill. 


Private Bills 
(Group H.) 


Private Bills 
(Group E, ) 


Private Bills 
(Group D.) 


Southampton 
Gas Light and 
Coke Bill. 


Mid-Hants 
Railway Bill. 


192 


Fund Association, and the construction of a Pier 
on Carlingford Lough, and by inserting recitals in 
reference to the Garston Docks and Holyhead Old 
Harbour, and by otherwise amending the same, so 
as to make it consistent with the provisions of the 
Bill as submitted to and passed by the Committee ; 
and had made provision in the Bill pursuant to the 
Instructions of the House of the 6th and 17th 
March last, and found the same, as amended, to 
be true ; and had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till half an hour after One of the clock 
on Friday morning, adjourned till this day. 





Friday, 12th May, 1870. 


PRAYERS. 


Lih—12th May. 





RDERED, That the Select Committee on 
the Local Government and 


Six of the clock, during the sitting of the House. 


Mr. Mowbray reported from the Select Com- | 


which |," *. ae : 
| lecting and in disinfecting human excreta, and con- 


| verting the same into manure, also in the apparatus 
or means employed therein: And that Mr. Gold- 


mittee on Standing Orders, a Resolution ; 
was read, as followeth: 

That, in the case of Gouz’s Patent Petition, 
the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed with ; 


that the Parties be permitted to proceed with | 


} 
| 


The said Resolution, being read a second time, | 


their Bill. 
was agreed to. 


Mr. Fitzwilliam reported from the Committee | 
on Group H. of Private Bills; That in the case of | 
the Colne Valley Gas Bill, they had examined the | 
allegations contained in the Preamble of the Bill, 


but the same had not been proved to their satis- | 
faction. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the | 
Table. 
| 


Mr. Fitzwilliam reported from the Committee 
on Group H. of Private Bills; That, for the con- 
venience of parties, the Committee had adjourned | 
till Tuesday the 30th day of this instant May, at 
half past Three of the clock. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the | 
Table. 


| jesty’s Command,—Return of Accidents which 


1876. 


ceeded to examine the allegations contained in the 
Preamble of the Mid-Hants Railway Bill, but that 
the parties promoting the Bill had stated to the 
Committee that it was not their intention to pro- 
ceed with the same. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration South Hants 
the South Hants Water Bill, as amended in the Water Bill 
Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Bolton-lc. 
Reading of the Bolton-le-Sands, Warton, and 54s, Warm, 
Silverdale Reclamation Bill; Fa eavenll 

Ordered, 'Vhat the Bill be read a second time Bill. 


; upon Tuesday next. 


The House was moved, That the Report from our’s Paton, 
the Select Committee on Standing Orders, in re- 


Taxation of | 8Pect of the Petition for leave to bring in Gouz’s 


Towns (Jreland), have leave to sit this day till P 


atent Bill, might be read; and the same being 
ead ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for rendering valid certain Letters Patent granted 
to Pierre Nicholas Goux for improvements in col- 


ney and Mr. Charles Lewis do prepare, and bring 


it in, 


Colonel Loyd Lindsay reported from the Com- Private Bills 
mittee on Group F. of Private Bills; That, for the (Grp F) 
convenience of the parties, the Committee had ad- 
journed till Tuesday next, at Twelve of the clock. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and Public 
read; and ordered to lie — the Table. Petitions. 


A Public Petition was also presented, and read ; Vide Votes, ani 
and referred to a Select Committee. — 

port. 

Ordered, That the Return relative to the Kast East India 
India Tariff, which was presented upon the 10th T"# 
day of this instant May, be printed. No. 219, 


Railway 
Accidents. 


Sir Charles Adderley presented, by Her Ma- 


have been reported to the Board of Trade during 


Ordered, That the Committee on Group E. of | 
Private Bills have leave to sit this day till Five | 
of the clock, during the sitting of the House. 


| 
Mr. Percy Wyndham reported from the Com- | 
mittee on em D. of Private Bills; That the | 
parties promoting the Plymouth Dock (Devonport) | 
Water Bill had stated that the evidence of Edward | 
Ryde was essential to enable them to establish 
their case, and it having been proved that his 
attendance could not be procured without the in- 
tervention of the House, he had been instructed 
to move that the said Edward Ryde do attend the 
Committee upon Monday next, at Twelve of the 
clock. 

Ordered, That Edward Ryde do attend the 
Committee on Group D. of Private Bills upon 
Monday next, at Twelve of the clock. 


Mr. Percy yndham reported the Southampton 
Gas Light and Coke Bill, with Amendments. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Woodd reported from the Committee on 
Group 3 of Railway Bills; That they had pro- 





the months of January, February, and March 
1876, by the several Railway Companies in the 
United Kingdom, in pursuance of the Regulation 
of Railways Act (1871), 34 &amp; 35 Vic. c. 78. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Navy 


Mr. Algernon Egerton presented,—Return to an (Iroacade) 


Order, dated the 16th day of March last, for 
Returns relative to the Navy (Ironclads). 

Return to Order, dated the 30th day of March on 
last, for Returns relative to the Navy (Distribu- Cr poual 
tion of Forces), 

Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the 
Table. 


Lord George Hamilton presented, pursuant to East India 

the directions of an Act of Parliament,—Finance (Fint™ 

and Revenue Accounts of the Government of 4¢counts) 

India for the year 1874-75, and Estimate of Re- 

venue and Expenditure for 1875-76, with a Com- 

parison of the two years. 
Home Accounts of the Government of Jndia: East India 

—1. An Account of the Receipts and Disburse- (Hom. 

ments of the Home Treasury of the Government 

of India from 1st April 1874 to 3lst — 











39 VicTorra. 12th 


1875:—2. An Estimated Account of the Receipts 
and Disbursements of the Home Treasury of the 
Government of India, from Ist April 1875 to 31st 
March 1876 :—3. An Account of the Debts and 
Credits in England of the Government of India 
on 3lst March 1876:—4. A List of the Establish- 
ment of the Secretary of State in Council of India, 
and the Salaries and Allowances payable in respect 
thereof, on 3lst March 1876:—5. An Account of 
new or increased Salaries, Establishments, or Pen- 
sions granted or created in Great Britain, between 
Ist April 1875 and 3lst March 1876 :—6. Al- 
lowances, Compensations, and Superannuations 
granted between Ist April 1875 and 31st March 
1876, under Acts 21 &amp; 22 Vic. c. 106, and 32 &amp; 33 
Vic. c. 97:—7. Compensations granted to the 
Families of Deceased Officers of the East India 
Company’s late Maritime Service, in the Form of 
Annuities, between the Ist April 1875 and 31st 
March 1876, under Act 3 &amp; 4 Will. 4, c. 85 :—8. Ca- 
ital and Revenue Accounts of the Indo-European 
ieonah to 3lst March 1875 :—9. Account of the 
Receipts and Disbursements of the Indian Troop 
Service during the year ended 31st March 1875: 
—10. Statement showing the Net Expenditure 
incurred on account of the Royal Zndian Engineer- 
ing College during the year ended 3lst March 
1875:—11, A Comparison of the Estimated and 
Actual oe and Disbursements of the Home 
Treasury of the Government of India for the year 
1874-75 :—12. A Comparison of the Original and 
Regular Estimate of the Receipts and Disburse- 
ments of the Home Treasury of the Government 
of India for the year 1875-76. 
Ordered, That the said Accounts do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Salt presented,—Return to an Order, dated 
the 8th day of this instant May, for a Return 
relative to Witham (Poor Law Guardians). 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Copy of a late Report on the direction 
of the Fine Arts in France, made by M. Edouard 
Charton to the French Ministry of Public In- 
struction, and any Correspondence which may 
have taken place in 1866 between Lord John 
Manners, when First Commissioner of Works, 
and the Royal Academy of Arts; and that Her 
Majesty will be graciously pleased to cause Her 
Representatives at the European Courts to for- 
ward all recent Public Documents showing the 
present attitude of the State towards the Fine 
Arts in the various Countries of Europe, in order 
that the same may be laid before this House. 


Bristol United Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on the 


1 Hants 

r Bill, 

n-le. 

, Warton, 

ilverdale 

mation 

3 Patent, 

Bills 

F.) 
Witham 
(Poor Law 
Guardians.) 

. 

es, and Fine Arts 

h (Foreign 
Countries.) 

ia 

19, 

. 
Gas Bill, 

.) 

ion 

) 

nd 


Bristol United Gas Bill; That they had examined 
the allegations contained in the Preamble of the 
Bill, and amended the same to make it consistent 
with the provisions of the Bill as submitted to, 
and passed by the Committee, and found the same, 
as amended, to be true; and had gone through 
the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

. — That the Report do lie upon the 

able. 


ant Northern Mr. Raikes reported the Great Northern Rail- 
y Bil. way Bill, with Amendments. 


Spennymoor 
and Tudhoe 
Gas Bill, 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


Mr. Razhes reported from the Committee on the 
Spennymoor and Tudhoe Gas Bill; That they had 
examined the allegations contained in the Preamble 
of the Bill, and amended the same by reciting 

Vou. 131. 





May. 193 


more accurately the financial position of the Com- 
pany, and found the same, as amended, to be true; 
and had gone through the Bill, and made Amend- 
ments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on the Vale of Clyde 
Vale of Clyde See Bill; That they had Tramways Bill. 
examined the allegations contained in the Preamble 

of the Bill, and amended the same to make it con- 

sistent with the provisions of the Bill as submitted 

to, and passed by the Committee, and found the 

same, as amended, to be true; and had gone 

through the Bill, and made Amendments there- 

unto. 








Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 














Table; and be printed. 


Ordered, That Mr. M*Zaren have leave of ab- Leave of 
sence for one week, on private business ;—and, Sir 4&gt;sence- 
Sydney Waterlow, for the remainder of the Session, 
to undertake, at the request of the Lord President 
of the Council, the Office of one of the Judges at 
the International Exhibition at Philadelphia. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Message from 
Message had been brought from the Lords by one the Lords. 
of their Clerks, as followeth: 

The Lords have agreed to the Local Govern- Local Govern- 
ment Provisional Orders (No. 2) Bill, without any ™ent Pro- 


visional Orders 
Amendment. (No. 2) Bill. 


The Lords have agreed to the Local Govern- pee — 
ment Provisional Orders (No. 3) Bill, without Viisnal Orders 


any Amendment. (No. 3) Bill. 


The Lords have agreed to the British}Gas Light British Gas 
Company (Hull Station) Bill, without any Amend- oon Gan 
ment. Station) Bill. 

The Lords have agreed to the Padiham and Padiham and 


Hapton Local Board Bill, without any Amend- eg 


ment. 

The Lords have agreed to the Romsey Exten- Romsey 
sion and Improvement Bill, with Amendments ; Extension and 
= which the Lords desire the concurrence of this gi, 

ouse. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Fam 
Act for amending the Law relating to Agricul- (g¢otiana) 
tural Holdings in Scotland; to which the Lords Bill [Lords.] 
desire the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An All Saints, 
Act for remedying certain Defects in the Consti- thonie} 
tution of the District of All Saints, Moss, in the : 
County and Diocese of York ; to which the Lords 
desire the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords give leave to the Lord Bishop of Ecclesiastical 
Peterborough to attend, in order to his being exa- )i/sPidations 
mined as a Witness before the Select Committee ~~ 
— by this House on the Ecclesiastical 
Dilapidation Acts, his Lordship (in his piace) con- 
senting. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Supply. 
mittee of Supply ; 
And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave 
the Chair ; 
An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” 
to the end of the , Paton Sa in order to add the 
words “ in the opinion of this House, it is expe- Sale of Intoxi- 
“ dient that the Law which forbids the general cing Tiquors 
“ sale of Intoxicating Liquors during a portion of (Ireland.). 
“ Sunday in Jreland should be amended so as 
“to apply to the whole of that day,” instead 
ede 5 
And the Question being proposed, That the 
words proposed to be left out stand part of the 


Question ; 
: co And 







Supply. 


Kin wn 
Harbour Bill. 


Poor Law 
Amendment 
Bill. 


Admiralty 
Jurisdiction 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Clerk of the 
Peace and of 
the Crown 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Cattle Disease 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Local Govern- 
ment Pro- 
visional Orders, 
Briton Ferry, 
&amp;c. (No. 4) 
Bill. 


Local Govern- 
ment Pro- 
visional Order, 
Skelmersdale 
(No. 5) Bill. 


Offences 


against the 
Person Bill. 


194 


And the House having continued sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Saturday morning ; 


Saturday, 13th May, 1876: 


And the Question being put ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the {Sir William Dyke, 

Yeas, { Me Rowland Winn: 
Tellers for the {i Richard Smyth, 
Noes,’ The O’ Conor Don: 

So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being put, That the words, 
* in the opinion of this House, it is expedient that 
the Law which forbids the general sale of Intoxi- 
cating Liquors during a portion of Sunday in Jre- 
land should be aménded so as to apply to the 
whole of that day,” be added, instead thereof :—It 
was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Then the main Question, so amended, being 

ut; 

: Resolved, That, in the opinion of this House, it 
is expedient that the Law which forbids the general 
sale of Intoxicating Liquors during a portion of 
Sunday in Ireland should be amended so as to 
apply to the whole of that day. 


1 167. 


\ 
f 224. 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the Committee of Supply. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Kingstown Harbour Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thurs- 
day next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Poor Law Amendment Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Admiralty Jurisdiction (Jreland) 
Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Clerk of the Peace and of the 
Crown (Jreland) Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Cattle Disease (Jreland) Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Ways and Means; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Local Government Provisional Orders, 
Briton Ferry, &amp;c. (No. 4) Bill was, according to 
Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence, 


The Local Government Provisional Order, Skel- 
mersdale (No. 5) Bill was, according to Order, read 
the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Offences against the Person Bill; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 


12¢th—13th May. 





1876. 


the 25th day of this instant May, resolve itself into 
the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for resumin 
the adjourned Debate im yf ed wl which, | 
upon the 29th day of March last, was proposed to 
be made to the Question, That the Land Tenure 
(Ireland) Bill be now read a second time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Towns Rating (Ireland) Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


Towns 
(Ireland) Bill, 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Beer Licences (Ireland) Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


Beer Licences 
(Ireland) Bill, 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
&lt; h : I Industri 

take into consideration the Industrial and Pro- Provident ” 
vident Societies Bill, as amended in the Com- Societies Bil, 
— and Amendments were made to the 

1 . 

Ordered, 'That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Crab and 
mittee on the Crab and Lobster Fisheries (Nor- joy 
folk) Bill ; (Norfolk) Bil 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming House 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed Occupiers Dis 
upon the 22nd day of March last, That the House wane A 
Occupiers Disqualification Removal Bill be now 
read a second time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Municipal 
consideration the Municipal Privileges (Zreland) Privileges 
Bill, as amended in the Committee ; Gms 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into considera- 
tion upon Monilay next. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Waterford, 
to enable the Great Southern and Western Rail- aba om 
way Company and the Dublin, Wicklow, and Wez- tion Railway 
ford Railway Company to purchase the Waterford, (Sale-) 

New Ross, and Wexford Junction Railway from 
the Public Works Loan Commissioners, and to 
raise Money for such purpose: And that Mr. 
William Henry Smith and Mr. Chancellor of the 
Exchequer do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant Cork City 
to the Clerk of the Crown in Ireland, to make out ¥"* 
a New Writ for the electing of a Member to serve 
in this present Parliament for the City of Cork, in 
the room of Joseph Philip Ronayne, Esquire, 
deceased. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented a Bill to Waterford, | 
enable the Great Southern and Western Railway ee 
Company and the Dublin, Wicklow, and Wexford sion Rai 
Railway Company to purchase the Waterford, New (Sale) Bill. 
Ross, and ——— J unction Railway from the Bill 148. 
Public Works Loan Commissioners, and to raise 
Money for such purpose: And the same was read 
the first time. 

Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills; and be 
printed. 

The 








ga 


ices 
Bill, 


ill. 


39 VicToRIA. 


Low The Order for reading a second time, upon 
rariians «=» Friday next, the Poor Law Guardians Elections 
Bctions | (Jreland) Bill, was read, and discharged. 

(irelsnd) Bill. "Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday the 26th day of this instant May. 


The Order for reading a second time, upon 
Procedure Monday next, the Juries Procedure (Ireland) Bill, 
(Ireland) Bill. was read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


Juries 


_ The Order for reading a second time, upon 
Qualification Monday next, the Jurors Qualification (Lreland) 
(Ireland) Bill. 51], was read, and discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


county Rates . Lhe Order for resuming, upon Monday next, 
(Ireland) Bill. the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
upon the 9th day of this instant May, That the 
County Rates (Ireland) Bill be now read a second 
time, was read, and discharged. 
Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Monday the 22nd day of this instant May. 


Mr. Ellice reported from the Committee on 
Group E. of Private Bills; That the parties op- 
osing the Chesterfield Borough Extension and 
rane ie Bill had stated that the evidence of 
Francis Joseph Parry and Marriett Ogle Tarbotton 
was essential to enable them to establish their 
case, and it having been proved that their attend- 
ance could not be procured without the interven- 
tion of the House, he had been instructed to move 
that the said Francis Joseph Parry and Marriott 
Ogle Tarbotton do attend the said Committee upon 
Webaudey next, at Twelve of the clock. 
Ordered, That Francis Joseph Parry and 
Marriott Ogle Tarbotton do attend the Committee 
on Group E. of Private Bills upon Wednesday 
next, at Twelve of the clock. 


Private Bills 
(Group E.) 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till One-.of the clock on Saturday morning, 
adjourned till Monday next. 








Monday, 15th May, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 


Private Bills QRDERE D, That the Committee on Group 
(Group E.) E. of Private Bills have leave to sit this day 
= Five of the clock, during the sitting of the 

ouse. 


Wiens Lord Eslington reported from the Select Com- 
No. Rate) mittee on Halifar Vicar’s Rate; That they had 
0. 220. considered the matters to them referred, and di- 
rected him to make a Report thereof to the House, 
together with the Minutes of the Evidence taken 

before them, and an Appendix. 
Ordered, That the ane do lie upon the 

Table ; and be printed. 


Tamer Sir Wilfrid Lawson reported from the Com- 
dl mittee on Group L. of Private Bills; That, in the 
Bill, case of the Lancaster Water and Improvement 
Bill, they had examined the allegations contained 

in the Preamble of the Bill, and amended the same 

by striking out the recitals relative to the borrowing 

of money by certain local authorities, and for extend- 

ing the time for the repayment of moneys borrowed 

by the Corporation, in order to make it consistent 

with the provisions of the Bill as passed by the Com- 

mittee, and found the same, as amended, to be 

true; and that a Report from the Local Govern- 

ment Board in respect to the said Bill had been 
considered by the Committee; and that they had 

Vou. 131. 


12¢h—13th—15th May. 195 


gone through the Bill, and made Amendments 
thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table. 


Sir Charles Forster reported from the Select Public 
Committee on Public Petitions; That they had Chwentieth 
examined the Petitions presented upon the 10th, Report.) 
llth, and 12th days of this instant May; and 
had directed him to make a Report thereof to the 
House. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


The Didcot, Newbury, and Southampton Junc- Didcot, New- 

tion Railway Bill was read the third time. ai 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. Junction Rail 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to way Bill. 

the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Slatthwaite Gas Bill was read the third time. Slaithwaite 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. om 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 

the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Charnwood 
the Charnwood Forest Railway Bill, as amended — Railway 
in the Committee. . 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration East Norfolk 
the East Vorfolk Railway Bill, as amended in the Bway Bill 
Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Kildwick 
the Kildwick Parish Gas Bill, as amended in the Frish Gas 
Committee; and Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Maidenhead 
the Maidenhead District Gas Bill, as amended in Ep Gas 
; [Lords.] 
the Committee. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Stockton and 
the Stockton and Middlesbrough Corporations Middlesbrough 
Water Bill, as amended in the Committee; and water Bil 
Amendments were made to the Bill. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Whitehaven 


the Whitehaven Harbour and Town Improvement —— and 
Bill, as amended in the Committee. ment Bill 


A Clause (As to borrowing from Public Works 
Loan Commissioners), was twice read; and made 
part of the Bill. 

Then Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The Greencastle and Kilkeel Railway and Pier Greencastle 
Bill was read a second time; and committed, ene 
Pier Bill 
[Lords.] 


A Bill for rendering valid certain Letters Pa- Goux’s Patent 
tent granted to Pierre Nicolas Goux for improve- Bill. 
ments in collecting and in disinfecting human 
excreta, and for converting the same into manure ; 
also in the apparatus or means employed therein, 
was read the first time; and ordered to be reada 
second time. 


Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence Wakefield 
taken before the Committee on the Wakefield Water Bill 
Water Bill, in Session 1874, be referred to the oy 
Committee on the Wakefield Water Bill. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Private Bills 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private [¥ora] (No 
Bills, That no Standing Orders not previously in- Orders, not 
quired into are applicable in the case of the follow- previously in. 





ino quired into, 
coe = applicable.) 































































ete tes ee eomedient tenes 


196 


ing Bill, originating in the Lords, and referred on 
the First Reading thereof, viz. : 
Sutton Pool Harbour Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time. 


Horncastle 


ey Mr. mperase laid upon the Table,—Report from 


one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private 
Bills, That the Standing Orders have been com- 
ylied with in the case of the Petition for additional 
Provision in the Horncastle Gas Bill. 

Ordered, That it be an Instruction to the Com- 
mittee on the Bill, that they have Power to make 
Provision therein pursuant to the prayer of the 
said Petition. 


Great Southern 
and Western 
Railway Bill. 


Sir John Kennaway reported from the Com- 
mittee on Group 9 of Railway Bills; That, in the 
case of the Great Southern and Western Railway 
Bill, they had examined the allegations contained 
in the Preamble of the Bill, and amended the same 
by adding a recital as to the confirmation of an 
Agreement with the Cork Harbour Commission- 
ers, and striking out so much thereof as referred to 
the power to enter into agreements and subscrip- 
tions, in order to make it consistent with the pro- 
visions of the Bill as submitted to, and passed by 
the Committee, and found the same, as amended, 
to be true; and had gone through the Bill, and 
made Amendments thereto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table; 
and be printed. 


Public 


- Several Public Petitions were presented, and 
Petitions. 


read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 
Vide Twenty- 
first Report. 
Army 
(Miscellaneous 
Expenses.) 

No, 221. 
Navy (Training 
Ships.) 

No. 222. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Army 
(Miscellancous Expenses), which was presented 
upon the 4th day of this instant May, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Navy 
(Training Ships), which was presented upon the 
9th day of this instant May, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Privy 
Council (Oaths taken by Members, &amp;c.), which 
was presented upon the 10th day of this instant 
May, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Navy 
(Ironclads), which was presented upon the 12th 
day of this instant May, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative tc the Navy 
(Distribution of Forces), which was presented upon 
the 12th day of this instant May, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Accounts relative to East In- 
_—— and dia (Finance and Revenue Accounts), which were 
hesvente) poe upon the 12th day of this instant May, 


No. 226. printed. 


East India 
(Home 
Accounts. ' 


No. 227. 
Loan Fund 


Board 
(Ireland.) 


Privy Council 
(Oaths taken 

by Members, 

&amp;c.) 


No. 223. 


Navy 
(Ironclads. ) 
No. 224, 


Navy 
(Distribution 
of Forces.) 


No. 225. 
East India 


Ordered, That the Accounts relative to East 
India (Home Accounts), ;which were presented 
upon the 12th day of this instant May, be printed. 


Mr. Secretary Cross presented, by Her Ma- 
jesty’s Command,—Copy of Thirty-eighth Annual 
Report of the Commissioners of the Loan Fund 
Board of Ireland, pursuant to the Act 6 &amp; 7 Vic. 
¢c. 91, for 1875. 

7 That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Sable. 


Army (Medical Mr. Secretary Hardy presented, by Her Ma- 
— jesty’s Command,—Copy of the Army Medical 
ane Department Report for the ear 1874, Vol. xv. 
7 a That the said Paper do lie upon the 

able. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented, by Her 
Majesty’s Command,—Copy of Nineteenth Annual 
Report of the Trustees of the National Portrait 
Gallery to the Lords of Her Majesty’s Treasury. 


National 
Portrait 
Gallery. 


15th—16th May. 


1876. 


Mr. William Henry Smith also presented,—Re- Judiciat 
turn to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the Expenditure, 
10th day of April last, for a Return relative to No. 298, 


Judicial Expenditure. 


Mr. William Henry Smith also presented,— Loans on Duss, 
Further Return to an Order, dated the 6th day of hey oes 


August 1874, for Returns under Counties, Towns, 
and Districts, of Moneys borrowed by all Vestries, 
District Boards, Boards of Guardians, Sewers 
Commissioners, Highway Boards, Harbour Au- 
thorities, and other Local Bodies in England and 
Wales, empowered to raise Loans chargeable on 
Dues, Local Taxes, Rates, or Property held by 
them in Trust for local purposes : Under Coun- 
ties, Towns, and Districts, of Moneys borrowed by 
all County and Borough Authorities, Vestries, 
District Boards, Parochial Boards, Sewers Com- 
missioners, Highway Boards, Harbour Autho- 
rities, and other Loca) Bodies in Scotland, em- 
powered to raise Loans chargeable on Dues, Local 
Taxes, Rates, or Property held by them in Trust 
for local purposes; And, similar Return for 
Ireland to that required for Scotland: The 
Return to be made up to the day on which each 
Body makes up its Annual Accounts, and for the 
last completed year ; it is to set forth the Name of 
each Body empowered to borrow, although the 
borrowing power may not have been used, or no 
Debt be outstanding; and it is to be drawn in the 
following form, viz.:— 














Town or District. 

Name of Body. 

Original Amount of Loan, 
and Date of Loan. 

Rate of Interest. 

Terms of Repayment, and 
Period allowed for Re- 

Source from which Money 
was Borrowed. 

Amount due in year for 
Interest and Principal. 

Arrears, if any, of Interest 
outstanding. 


| Security given. 


| 


Amount of Principal out- 
standing on the day on 
which the Account is 
































Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table; and that the Return relative to Judicial 
Expenditure be printed. 





Ordered, That Sir Robert Anstruther have leave Leave of 
of absence for two months, on account of ill health ; Absence. 


and Sir Henry Wilmot for one fortnight, on ac- 
count of domestic affliction. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Customs and 


—s of the Customs and Inland Revenue 
ul; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a second 
time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the 
words ‘ this House regrets that the progressive 
“increase of expenditure recommended by Her 
** Majesty’s Government should have led to a pro- 
“ posal by Her Majesty’s Government to add to 
“the Income Tax in the present year,” instead 
thereof. 

And the Question being proposed, That the 
words proposed to be left out stand part of the 
Question ; 


And the House a continued to sit till after 


Twelve of the clock on 
Tuesday, 16th May, 1876: 


And the Question being put; 
The House divided. 
The Yeas to the Right ; 


uesday morning ; 


Inland 
Revenue Bill. 











39 VicTORIA. 


The Noes to the Left. 
Tellers for the {Sir William Dyke, 263 
Yeas, Mr. Rowland Winn: } : 
Tellers for thef Mr. Rylands, 
Noes, Mr. Muniz: 
So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 
Ordered, That the Bill be now read a second 
time:—The Bill was accordingly read a second 
time; and committed to a Committee of the whole 
House, for Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 


os mittee on the Poor Law Amendment Bill; 

Bil. Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 

Gril Bill The Order of the day being read, for the Second 

Courts Reading of the Civil Bill Courts (Jre/and) Bill; 

(ueland) Bill.  Qydered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 

m The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Maritime 


Cntncts Bil. Reading of the Maritime Contracts Bill; 
, Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


Roads and The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Bridges Reading of the Roads and Bridges (Scotland) 
(Stand) Bill. iN); 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


Crossed The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 

oat mittee on the Crossed Cheques Bill ; 

“ Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Porlaw § The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
(Setland) Bill. -ittee on the Poor Law (Scotland) Bill; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


local Gover- The Local Government Provisional Orders, 
a Bristol, &amp;c. (No. 6) Bill was, according to Order, 


Bristol, &amp;e, read a second time; and committed to a Com- 
(No. 6) Bill. mittee of the whole House, for Thursday the 25th 
day of this instant May. 


Supply. The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply ; : 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednes- 
day next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 
Ca ofthe The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
hot Reading of the Clerk of the Peace and of the 


(Ireland) Bin, Crown (Ireland) Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


Ways and The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Ways and Means ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednes- 
day next, resolve itself into the said Consnitten 
Coroners The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 


(Diba) Bil. mittee on the Coroners (Dublin) Bill; 
_ Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


ieniting The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
(Licensing Law the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
reniment) upon the 28th day of April last, That the Intoxi- 
me) Bill, cating Liquors (Licensing Law Amendment) (No. 
2) Bill be now read a second time ; 
And the Question being again proposed :—The 
House resumed the said adjourned Debate. 
And the Question being put; 
Ordered, That the Bill be now read a second 


time:—The Bill was accordingly read a second 
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15¢h— 16th May. 


*| Reading of the Beer Licences (Jreland) Bill ; 





197 
time, and committed to a Committee of the whole 
House, for Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second @ieland) Bal. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day. 


The Industrial and Provident Societies Bill was, Industrial and 
according to Order, read the third time. Socmernet 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Municipal 
consideration the Municipal Privileges (Ireland) ireland) Bill 
Bill, as amended in the Committee. ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into considera- 
tion this day. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented County Courts 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased ‘P!i**) 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return from every County Court in Eng- 
land and Wales, of the Total Number of Plaints, &amp;c. 
entered in each Court from the lst day of January 
to the 3lst day of December 1875, both days in- 
clusive, distinguishing those not exceeding £. 20, 
those above £.20 and not exceeding £. 50, and 
those by Agreement above £. 50 (in continuation 
of Parliamentary Paper, No. 138, of Session 1875). 


A Motion was made, and the Question being Soldiers, 
proposed, That the Select Committee on Soldiers, Sailors, and __ 
Sailors, and Marines (Civil Employment), do con- Bostemens) 
sist of Nineteen Members ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to 
the Question, by leaving out the word “ Nineteen,” 
in order to insert the words “ Twenty-one,” instead 
thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the word 
* Nineteen” stand part of the Question :—It 
passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
“ Twenty-one” be inserted, instead thereof :—It 
was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Then the Main Question, so amended, being 

ut ; 

Ordered, That the Select Committee do consist 
of Twenty-one Members :—Viscount Hinching- 
brook, Lord Eustace Cecil, General Shute, Mr. 
Gerard Noel, Mr. James Corry, Lord Elcho, Cap- 
tain Price, Mr. John Talbot, Sir Charles Russell, 
Sir Henry Holland, Mr. Childers, Mr. Campbell- 
Bannerman, Mr. Errington, Mr. Hanbury- Tracy, 
Colonel Mure, Mr. John Holms, Sir George Bal- 
four, Mr. Laing, and Sir Henry Havelock were ac- 
cordingly nominated Members of the Committee ; 
with Power to send for persons, papers, and 
records. 

Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 


Mr. Percy Wyndham reported from the Com- Private Bills 

mittee on Group D. of Private Bills; That the (Group D.) 
parties promoting the Plymouth Dock (Devonpurt) 
Water Bill had stated that the evidence of Edward 
Ryde,was essential to enable them to establish their 
case, and it having been proved that his attendance 
could not be procured without the intervention of 
the House, he had been instructed to move that 
the said Edward Ryde do attend the Committee, 
this day, at Twelve of the clock. 

Ordered, That Edward Ryde do attend the 
Committee on Group D. of Private Bills this day, 
at Twelve of the clock. 


The Irish Peerage Bill was read the first time ; Irish Peerage 
and ordered to be read a second time upon Wed- Bil [Lords.} 
nesday next; and to be printed. Bill 149, 





cc3 Ordered, 


Merchant Ships 
(Protests. ) 


No, 229. 


Leave of 
Absence. 


Message from 
the Lords. 


Upper Inny 
Drainage Bill. 
Pegwell Bay 
Reclamation 
Bill. 


Thames Tunnel 
Bill. 


Sillar’s and 
Wigner’s 
Patent Bill 
[Lords.] 


Bodmin and 

Wadebridge 

and Delabole 
Railway Bill 
[ Lords. } 


Cornwall 
Mineral and 
Bodmin and 
Wadebridge 
Junction 
Railway Bill 
[Lords.] 


Bodmin and 

Wadebridge 

and Delabole 
Railway Bill 
[Lords.]} 


Cornwall 
Mineral and 
Bodmin and 
Wadebridge 
Junction 
Railway Bill 
[ Lords. ] 


Local Govern- 
ment and 
Taxation of 
Towns 
(Ireland.) 


Romsvy Ex- 
tension and 
Improvement 
Bill. 


Furness 
Railway Bill. 


South Hants 
Water Bill. 


198 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House: 
a Copy of Letters and Correspondence between 
the Board of Trade and others on the subject of 
Sea Protests. 

Sir Charles Adderley accordingly presented the 
said Paper. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


Ordered, That Mr. Bryan, have leave of absence 
for one month, on account of ill health. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- 
sage had been brought from the Lords by one of 
their Clerks, as followeth: 

The Lords have agreed to the Upper Inny 
Drainage Bill, without any Amendment. 

The Lords have agreed to the Pegwell Bay 
Reclamation Bill, without any Amendment. 

The Lords have agreed to the Thames Tunnel 
Bill, with an Amendment; to which the Lords 
desire the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have agreed to the Amendments 
made by this House to Sillar’s and Wigner’s Patent 
Bill, without any Amendment. 


The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
for extending the Time for the completion of the 
Bodmin and Wadebridge and Delabole Railway, 
and for other purposes; to which the Lords desire 
the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
for extending the Time for the completion of the 
Cornwall Mineral and Bodmin and Wadebridge 
Junction Railway, and for other purposes; to 
which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House. 


The Bodmin and Wadebridge and Delabole Rail- 
way Bill was read the first time. 

Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


The Cornwall Mineral and Bodmin and Wade- 
bridge Junction Railway Bill was read the first 
time. 


Ordered That the Bill be referred to the Exa- 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till One of the clock on Tuesday morning, 
adjourned till this day. 





15th—-16th May. 





Tuesday, 16th May, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 
RDERED, That the Select Committee on 
the Local Government and Taxation of 
Towns (Jreland) have leave to sit this day till Five 
of the clock, during the sitting of the House. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Rom- 
sey Extension and Improvement Bill; and the 
same were twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


Ordered, That the Furness Railway Bill be read 
the third time after the other Private Business. 


The South Hants Water Bill was read the third 
time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 





1876. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Chichester aj 
the Chichester and Midhurst Railway (No. 2) Murat 
Bill, as amended in the Committee. (No.2) Ba, 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded io take into consideration Dy 
the Dudley | Oldbury Junction Railway Bill, Oldbury 
as amended in the Committee. nate 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. way Bil 

The House proceeded to take into consideration Edinburgh xj 
the Edinburgh and District Water Bill, as amended District Water 
in the Committee. ill (Lords) 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Glasgow and 
the Glasgow and Kilmarnock Joint Line Bill, as * 
amended in the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


an 
changed from 
* Glasgow and 
Kilmarnock 
Joint Line ang 
Caledonian 
, Railway.”) 
The House proceeded to take into consideration Stocktonon, 
the Stockton-on-Tees Markets Bill, as amended in Bent Mactat 
the Committee. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Tunbridge 
the Tunbridge Wells Gas Bill, as amended in the Wells Gas Bil, 
Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The Bolton-le- Sands, Warton, and Silverdale Re- Bolton-le. 
clamation Bill was, according to Order, read a Sais, Wainy 
second time ; and committed. Reclamation 
Bill. 
Furness 


The Order of the day being read, for the Third Railway Bi 


Reading of the Furness Railway Bill ; 

And a Motion being made, That the Bill be 
now read the third time; 

Mr. Hubbard, by Her Majesty’s Command, 
acquainted the House, That Her Majesty, having 
been informed of the purport of the Bill, gives 
Her Consent, as far as Her Majesty’s interest is 
concerned, that the House may do therein as they 
shall think fit. 

Then the Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Private Bills 


Mr. Percy Wyndham reported from the Com- (Grew D) 


mittee on Group D. of Private Bills; That Mr. 
Parnell, one of the Members of the Committee, 
was not present within one hour after the time 
ev for the meeting of the Committee this 
a 


y. 
Ordered, That Mr. Parnell do attend the Com- 
mittee on Group D. of Private Bills To-morrow, 
at Twelve of the clock. 


Sir Wilfrid Lawson reported from the Com- Private 4 
mittee on Group .L. of Private Bills; ‘That, for 
the convenience of parties, the Committee had 
adjourned till Thursday next, at Twelve of the 
clock. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and Public 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions. 
Vide Twenty- 
first Report. 
Ordered, That the Return relative to the Income Income et 
Tax and Collection, which was presented upon the and 
11th day of this instant May, be printed. ” 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Loans 
Dues, &amp;c. (Vestries, &amp;c.), which was presented)” 
upon the 15th day of this instant May, be -—? No. 23h 


ON Loans on Dues 
qd &amp;e. (Vestries, 











ills 


Tie oe oe 


31. 





$9 VICTORIA. 


Mr. Algernon Egerton presented,—Return to an 
Order, dated the 17th day of March last, for a 
Return relative to the Navy (Office of Lord High 
Admiral). 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Salt presented,—Return to an Order, dated 
the 9th day of February, in the last Session of 
Parliament, for a Return of Places in the several 
Counties in England and Wales which have adopted 
the Highways Act, 25 &amp; 26 Vic. c. 61 (in con- 
tinuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 505, of 
Session 1867-8); with additional Columns—show- 
ing, 1. With regard to each County in which the 
Act has been only partially adopted, the Number 
and Total Acreage of Parishes which have not 
adopted it; and, 2. The Rate in the Pound levied 
as fighmg Rate in each Highway District during 
the year ending the 25th day of March 1869; 
and with the addition of three fresh Columns, to 
show the Area of each Highway District, whether 
the Area of the Union or of the Petty Sessions 
Division, or any other Area (in continuation of 
Parliamentary Paper, No. 264, of Session 1870). 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Sclater-Booth presented, pursuant to the 
directions of an Act of Parliament,—Copy of Re- 
ports of the Medical Officer of the Privy Council 
and Local Government Board. New Series, No. 
VII." Annual Report to the Local Government 
Board with regard to the year 1875. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Raikes reported the Brighton Pavilion Bill, 
without Amendment. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on 
the Dunfermline Water Bill; That they had exa- 
mined the allegations contained in the Preamble 
of the Bill, and amended the same to make it con- 
sistent with the provisions of the Bill as submitted 
to and passed by the Committee, and found the 
same, as amended, to be true; and had gone 
through the Bill, and made Amendments there- 
unto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Raikes reported the Erwood Bridge Bill, 
with Amendments. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Raikes reported the Felixstowe Railway and 
Pier Bill, with Amendments. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table; 
and be printed. 


Mr. Raikes reported the Flookersbrook Improve- 
ment Bill, with Amendments. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on the 
Kilsyth and Falkirk Railway Bill; That they had 
examined the allegations contained in the Pre- 
amble of the Bill, and amended the same by omit- 
ting therefrom the reference to a proposed Railway 
an = of a Railway which were struck out of 
the Bill as submitted to the Committee, and made 
other Amendments therein to make it consistent 
with the provisions of the Bill as passed by the 
Committee, and found the same, as amended, to be 
true; and had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table; 
and be printed. 

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16th May. 199 


Mr. Rakes reported from the Committee on the London and 
London and South Western Railway (Various South Western 


Powers) Bill; That they had examined the alle- 7y 


gations contdined in the Preamble of the Bill, and Powers) Bill 


amended the same by striking out the recital 
authorising the stopping up of a public bridleway 
and footpath in the parish of Wayford and county 
of Somerset, and olineaie amended the same to 
make it in accordance with the provisions of the 
Bill as submitted to and passed by the Com- 
mittee, and found the same, as amended, to be true; 
and had gone through the Bill, and made Amend- 
ments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table; 
and be printed. 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on the Oldbury Local 
Oldbury Local Board of Health Bill; That a Report Board of 


from the Local Government Board upon the Bill, 
and the objects thereof, had been referred to the 
Committee, and considered by them, and that they 
had adopted such of the recommendations therein 
contained as appeared applicable to the case as 
submitted to them. 

Mr. Raikes further reported from the Com- 
mittee; That they had examined the allegations 
contained in the Preamble of the Bill, and amended 
the same to make it consistent with the provisions 
of the Bill as submitted to and passed by the Com- 
mittee, and found the same, as amended, to be 
true; and had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on the Newport (Isle 


Newport (Isle of Wight) Borough Bill; That a Re- 
port from the Local Government Board upon the 
Bill, and the objects thereof, had been referred to 
the Committee, and considered by them, and that 
they had adopted such of the recommendations 
therein contained as appeared applicable to the 
case as submitted to them. 

Mr. Raikes further reported from the Committee; 
That they had examined the allegations contained 
in the Preamble of the Bill, and amended the same 
by adding a recital that the School Board of the 
Limited District of Carisbrook, a part of which 
District is included within the boundaries of the 
Borough as altered and extended by the Act, have 
consented to the Act, and found the same, as 
amended, to be true; and had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on the gmethwick 
Smethwick Local Board Bill; That a Report from Local Board 
the Local Government Board upon the Bill, and Bill 


the objects thereof, had been referred to the Com- 
mittee, and considered by them, and that they had 
adopted such of the recommendations therein con- 
tained as apppeared applicable to the case as sub- 
mitted to them. 

Mr. Razkes further reported from the Committee; 
That they had examined the allegations contained 
in the Preamble of the Bill, and amended the same 
to make it consistent with the provisions of the 
Bill, as submitted to and passed by the Committee, 
and found the same, as amended, to be true; and 
had gone through the Bill, and made Amendments 
thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Razkes reported from the Committee on the Upper Mersey 
Upper Mersey Navigation Bill; That they had Navigation 
examined the allegations contained in the Pre- Bi 


amble of the Bill, and amended the same to show 
more accurately the present objects of the pro- 
posed Undertaking, and found the same, as 

co4 amended, 





Boulogne-sur- 


Mer Petition. 
No, 232. 


Halifax Water 
and Gas Ex. 
tension Bill. 


Private Bills 
(Group F.) 


200 


amended, to be true; and had gone through the 

Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

. 8 That the Report do lie upon the 
able. 


Mr. Secretary Hardy reported from the Select 
Committee on the Boulogne-sur-Mer Petition; That 
they had examined the matters to them referred, 
and directed him to make a Report thereof to the 
House, together with the Minutes of Evidence 
taken before them, and an Appendix, and the said 
Report was read, as followeth : 

_ Committee, having taken Evidence and 
having searched for precedents, do not advise the 
reception of the Petition by the House. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, 

1. 


a Copy of the following Papers :— 

Despatch of the Governor General in 

Council to the Secretary of State, dated 

the 21st day of December 1870; 

. Despatch of Governor General in Council 
to the Secretary of State, dated Simla, 
the 19th day of August 1872; 

. Memorial of Most Rev. Dr. Steins, de- 
livered to Government of India; 

. Letter and Memorandum addressed to the 
Secretary of State by /.0’ Reilly, Esquire, 
M.P., dated the 28th day of October 
1875; 

. Any Correspondence or Telegrams relative 
to the same between the Jndia Office and 
the Government of India; 

. All Correspondence between the Governor 

General in Council and the Secretary of 

State for India relative to the increase of 

the Allowances to Roman Catholic Priests 

in India (in continuation of Parliamentary 

Paper, No. 181, of Session 1875). 


Mr. Ellice reported from the Committee on 
Group E. of Private Bills; That in the case of 
the Halifax Water and Gas Extension Bill, they 
had examined the allegations contained in the 
Preamble of the Bill, and amended the same by 
striking out certain recitals relating to the Im- 
provement of the Hebble and Ovenden Brooks, and 
the discharge of interest on Money borrowed 
for purposes of the Waterworks Undertaking, the 
provisions relating to those recitals having been 
struck out of the Bill, and by inserting recitals 
as to compliance with the Municipal Corporations 
(Borough Funds) Act, and by making other 
Amendments therein to make it consistent with 
the provisions of the Bill as passed by the Com- 
mittee, and found the same, as amended, to be 
true; and that a Report from the Local Govern- 
ment Board had been laid before the Committee, 
and considered by them; and that they had 
adopted such recommendations therein contained 
as appeared to them applicable to the circum- 
stances of the case submitted to them; and that 
they had gone through the Bill, and made Amend- 
ments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table. 


Colonel Loyd Lindsay reported from the Com- 
mittee on Group F. of Private Bills; That Mr. 
Stephen Moore, one of the Members of the said 
Committee, was not present during the sitting of 
the Committee this day. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table. 


16¢h—17th May. 





1876. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That,a Mes 
: - M 
sage had been brought from the Lords b hele 
= Clerks, as followeth : dinate: 
he Lords have agreed to the Coombe Hill Canal 
Navigation Bill, without any Amendment. ‘ Canal Re, 
tion Bill, 

The Lords have agreea to the Glasgow (City) &amp; 
Union Railway Bill, with Amendments ; to whee Unie Ba 
the Lords desire the concurrence of this House, 

The Lords give leave to the Lord Houghton to Railway 
attend, in order to his being examined as a Wit- Passenger 
ness before the Select Committee appointed by 7 
this House on the Railway Passenger Duty, his 
Lordship (in his place) consenting. 


A Motion was made, and the Question wag Bankers 
8 eee That this House is of opinion that Her Deposits. 
ajesty’s Government should take into its early 
consideration whether it would not be for the ad- 
vantage of the Country that a moderate and gra- 
duated stamp or composition Duty should be 
levied in respect to all interest-bearing deposits 
with bankers in the United Kingdom, and whether 
the scale and incidence of such Duty may not be 
so devised as to encourage the making of such de- 
posits for fixed periods and renewable periods, as, 
for instance, from three months to three months, in 
preference to the system which has grown up and 
now prevails, whereby the greater number and 
amount of the interest-bearing deposits in the 
United Kingdom are held subject to recall ata 
few days’ notice:—And the said Motion was 
with leave of the House, withdrawn. j 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- Merchant 
posed, That it is expedient that voluntary exa- Service 
minations should be held under the Board of 9% 
Trade in modern languages and commercial law, 
and that further inducements should be given 
to merchant officers to study at the Naval Uni- 
versity at Greenwich:—And the said Motion was, 
with leave of the House, withdrawn. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill University 
to make better provision for University Education Education 
in Jreland: And that Mr. Butt, The O’Conor cian 
Don, Mr. Mitchell Henry, Mr. Macarthy, and Mr. 
Sullivan do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill University of 
to make further provision respecting the Univer- Cambridge. 
sity of Cambridge and the Colleges therein: And 
that Mr. Spencer Walpole, Mr. Secretary Cross, 
= Lord John Manners do prepare, and bring 
it in, 


A Motion was made, and the Question being Poor Law 
proposed, That the system of Poor Law Rating in (inet) 
Ireland should be assimilated to that of England ( ; 
by the adoption of Union Rating ; 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Wednesday morning ; 


Wednesday, 17th May, 1876: 


The said Motion was, with leave of the House, 
withdrawn. 


Ordered, That Sir John Hay and Major O’Gor- Soldiers, 
man be added to the Select Committee on Soldiers, —— (Civil 
Sailors, and Marines (Civil Employment.) Employment) 


Notice having been taken of the language con- Monastic and 
tained in the Petition from Newark Street, Leices- comes 
ter, which was presented upon the 28th day of Bill (Newark 
March last, in favour of the Monastic and Con- Street, 
ventual Institutions Bill ; aeet 

Ordered, Thut the Order that the Petition do — 
lie upon the Table be read, and discharged, on 
account of the unbecoming language used — 

e 








far 


fe 


nt 


(Civil 
vent.) 


39 Victoria. 


Notices to Quit The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
(ireland) Bill. Reading of the Notices to Quit (Jreland) Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


+ .worship Lhe Order of the day being read, for resuming 
se Bill. the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
upon the 15th day of March last, That the Divine 
Worship Facilities Bill be now read a second time; 
Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 

till Tuesday next. 


Market Juries, Lhe Market Juries (Jreland) Bill was, accord- 
(Ireland) Bill. ing to Order, read a second time; and committed 
toa Committee of the whole House, for this day. 


small Testate The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
states (Scot- mittee on the Small Testate Estates (Scotland) 
land) Bil. = Bill ; 
Resvlved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Municipal The Order of the day being read, for the Second 

Corporations, Reading of the Municipal Corporations, &amp;c. 

&amp;e (Funds) (Funds) Bill; 

= Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday next. 


Colonial The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Marriages Bill. Reading of the Colonial Marriages Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday next. 


Employers and The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Workman Act Reading of the Employers and Workmen Act 
poy hy “" (1875) Extension Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 


upon Tuesday next. 


Admiralty The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
dried, to a Committee on the Admiralty Jurisdiction 
_— (Jreland) Bill; and, after some time spent therein, 
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, in respect of 
Clause 10, for Thursday next, 


land Tenure © The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
(Ireland) Bill. the adjourned Debate on the Amendment which, 
upon the 29th day of March last, was _pro- 
posed to be made to the Question, That the Land 
Tenure (Jreland) Bill be now read a second time ; 
Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 

till Tuesday next. 


Crab and The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
ne mittee on the Crab and Lobster Fisheries ( Nor- 
isheries . ° 
(Norfolk) Bin, S024) Bill ; ; : . 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


House The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
—~ ah the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
Removal Bill, Upon the 22nd day of March last, That the House 
Occupiers Disqualification Removal Bill be now 

read a second time ; 
Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 


till Monday next. 


— ' The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
lin) Bill. mittee on the Coroners (Dublin) Bill; 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


Beer Licences The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
(land) Bill. Reading of the Beer Licences (Ireland) Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 
VoL. 131. 





16th—17th May. 901 


The Order of the day being read, for taking Municipal 
into consideration the Municipal Privileges (Jre- (reeled) Bill, 
land) Bill, as amended in the sla ecny . 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into considera- 
tion this day. 


Ordered, That in the case of the Waterford, New Waterford, 
Ross, and Wexford Junction Railway (Sale) Bill, ang de 
the Examiner of Petitions for Private Bills have tion Railway 
leave to sit and proceed forthwith. (Sale) Bill. 


Mr. Butt presented a Bill to make better pro- University 
vision for University Education in Jreland: And mee 
the same was read the first time; and ordered _— ) ie . 
to be read a second time upon Tuesday next; and Bill 150, 
to be printed. 


Mr. Spencer Walpole presented a Bill to make University of 
further provision respecting the University of Cambridge 
Cambridge and the Colleges therein: And the ‘Bill 151 
same was read the first time; and ordered to be . 
read a second time upon Tuesday next; and to 
be printed. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till One of the clock on Wednesday morn- 
ing, adjourned till this day. 





Wednesday, 17th May, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 


RDER ED, That the Great Yarmouth and Great 
Stalham (Light) Railway Bill, as amended — and 
in the Committee, ‘be taken into consideration To- (Light) Rail- 


morrow. way Bill. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Huddersfield 
the Huddersfield Water and Improvement Bill, as — and 
amended in the Committee. —" 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Paisley Water 
the Paisley Water Bill, as amended in the Com- Bill. 
mittee ; and an Amendment was made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration sutton Bridge 
the Sutton Bridge Dock Bill, as amended in the Dock Bill. 
Committee. 

A Clause (Company not to borrow from the 
Public Works Loan Commissioners) was twice 
read ; and made part of the Bill. 

Then Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Vale of Clyde 
the Vale of Clyde Tramways Bill, as amended in — 
the Committee. : 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The Leigh and Hindley Local Boards Bill was Leigh and 


‘ a . Hindley Local 
read a second time; and committed. Boards Bill 


[Lords,] 
Several Public Petitions were presented, and Public 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions. 
Vide Twenty- 
second Report. 
The Order of the day being read, for the Second Intoxicating 
Reading of the Intoxicating Liquors (Licensing (Licensing 
Boards) Bill ; Boards) Bill. 
And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a second 
time ; 
An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the word “ now,” and, at 
the end of the Question, adding the words “ upon 
‘ this day six months.” 
And the Question being put, That the word 
“ now” stand part of the Question ; 
The House divided. 
The Yeas to the Right ; 
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202 17th May. 


The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for thej Mr. Joseph Cowen, 1 109 
Yeas, Sir Henry Havelock : ings 

Tellers for the {Sir Walter Barttelot, 274 
Noes, UMr. Pell ; ’ 

So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
“upon this day six months ” be added at the end of 
the Question :—It was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Then the Main Question, so amended, being 

ut ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon this day six months, 


Election of 
Aldermen 
(Cumulative 
Vote) Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Election of Aldermen (Cumula- 
tive Vote) Bill; 

And it: being a quarter of anhour before Six 
of the clock, the further Proceeding on Second 
Reading stood adjourned till To-morrow. 


Protection to | The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Growing Crop’ Reading of the Protection to Growing Crops 
eeeney ae. (Scotland) Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
upon the 8th day of March last, That the Homicide 
Law Amendment Bill be now read a second time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Wednesday next. 


Homicide Law 
Amendment 
ill. 


Criminal Law The Order of the day being read, for the Second 

Evidence Reading of the Criminal Law Evidence Amend- 

Amendment : 

Bill. ment Bull; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 


upon Wednesday next. 


Medical The Order of the day being read, for the Second 

Practitioners Reading of the Medical Practitioners Bill; 

am. Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next. 


Public Records The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
(Ireland) Reading of the Public Records (Jreland ) Amend- 
Amendment . 
Bill. ment Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 


upon Wednesday next. 


Burglary and The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Forgery Bill. Reading of the Burglary and Forgery Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next. 


Legal The Order of the day being read, for the Second 

Practitioners, Reading of the Legal Practitioners (Zreland) Bill ; 

aay Se, Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next. 


Elementary The Order of the day being read, for the Second 

Education Reading of the Elementary Education (Applica- 

—— tion for School Board) Bill; 

Board) Bill. Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next. 


Supply. The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Ways and The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Means. mittee of Ways and Means; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Jrish Peerage Bill was, according to Order, 
read a second time; and committed to a Com- 
mittee of the whole House, for Wednesday next. 








1376. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Market Juries 
mittee on the Market Juries (Jreland) Bill; (Ireland) Bi, 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednes- 
day next, resolve itself into the said Sonndline 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Coroners 
into a Committee on the Coroners (Dublin) Bill; (Dublin) Bal 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker !!! 1é2. 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes reported, 

That the Committee had gone through the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill as a, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Municipal 
consideration the Municipal Privileges (Zreland) a ' 
Bill, as amended in the Committee ; (Ireland) Bill, 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into considera- 
tion To-morrow. 


Ordered, That Sir Percy Burrell have leave of Leave of 
absence for one fortnight, on account of ill health, “sence. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Indian Civil 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased a (Trinity 
to give directions, that there be laid before this Dublin.) 
House, a Copy of all Correspondence between 
the Registrar of Trinity College, Dublin, and the 
Secretary of State for India, relative to selected 
Candidates for the Indian Civil Service. 


Colonel Loyd Lindsay reported from the Com- Private Bills 
mittee on Group F. of Private Bills; That the (Group F) 
Parties promoting the Zyne Improvement Bill 
had stated that the evidence of Theodore Bunning 
was essential to enable them to establish their 
case, and it having been proved that his attend- 
ance could not be procured without the interven- 
tion of the House, he had been instructed to move 
that the said Theodore Bunning do attend the 
Committee To-morrow, at Twelve of the clock. 

Ordered, That Theodore Bunning do attend the 
Committee on Group F. of Private Bills To-mor- 
row, at Twelve of the clock. 


Mr. Ridley reported the Lancashire and York- Lancashire and 
shire Railway Bill, with Amendments. Yorkshire | 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the B#!wsy Bil 
Table ; and be printed. 


Mr. Ridley reported from the Committee on Bolton 
Group 7 of Railway Bills; That, in the case of — 
the Bolton Junctions Railway Bill, they had exa- By *™ 
mined the allegations contained in the Preamble 
of the Bill, but the same had not been proved to 
their satisfaction. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


Mr. Raikes reported the Bundoran and Sligo Bundoran and 
Railway Bill, with Amendments. a Railway 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the™ 
Table ; and be printed. 


The Order for reading a second time, To-mor- Juries 
row, the Juries Procedure (Ireland) Bill, was Crelend) ‘Bill 
read, and discharged. : 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order for reading a second time, To-mor- Jurors 
row, the Jurors Qualification (Jreland) Bill, was Qua 
read, and discharged. , 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 

















es 


harnwood 
frat Railway 
Bill 


fast Norfolk 
Railway Bill. 


Kildwick 
Parish Gas 
Bill. 


Maidenhead 
District Gas 
Bill [Lords.] 


Stockton and 

Middlesbrough 
Corporations 
Water Bill. 


nd 


l Whitehaven 

Harbour and 
Town Improve- 
ment Bill, 





39 VicTorRIAa. 18th 
Thursday, 18th May, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 


S IR Charles Forster reported trom the Select 
Committee on Public Petitions; That they 
had examined the Petitions presented upon the 
15th and 16th days of this instant May, and 
had directed him to make a Report thereof to the 
House. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


The Charnwood Forest Railway Bill was read 
the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The East Norfolk Railway Bill was read the 
third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Kildwick Parish Gas Bill was read the 
third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Maidenhead District Gas Bill was read the 
third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the same, with Amendments; to 
which this House doth desire the concurrence of 
their Lordships. 


A Motion being made, That the Stockton and 
Middlesbrough Corporations Water Bill be now 
read the third time; 

Mr. Hubbard, by Her Majesty’s Command, ac- 
quainted the House, That Her Majesty, having 
been informed of the purport of the. Bill, gives 
Her Consent, as far as Her Majesty’s interest is 
concerned, that the House may do therein as they 
shall think fit. 

Then the Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act for supplying with Water the 
Boroughs of Stockton-on-Tees and Middlesbrough 
and other places adjoining or near thereto, and 
for other purposes. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Whitehaven Harbour and Town Improve- 
ment Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act to amend the Qualification of 
Persons entitled to vote in the Election of 








May. 203 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Merionethshire 
the Merionethshire Railway Bill, as amended in Railway Bill. 
the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Westerham 
the Westerham Valley Railway Bill, as amended Valley Railway 
in the Committee ; and Amendments were made 
to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Great 
consideration the Great Yarmouth and Stalham Yarmouth 
(Light) Railway Bill, as amended in the Com- (a satam 

- ght) Rail- 
mittee ; way Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into considera- 


tion upon Monday next. 


Colonel Loyd Lindsay reported the Newcastle Newcastle and 
and Gateshead Water Bill, with Amendments. Gateshead 
. on That the Report do lie upon the Water Bal. 
able. 


Mr. Ellice reported from the Committee on Private Bills 
Group E. of Private Bills; That, for the conve- (Group E.) 
nience of Parties, the Committee had adjourned 
till Monday next, at Twelve of the clock. 

2 — That the Report do lie upon the 
able. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and Public 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions. 
Vide Twenty- 
: ’ second Report. 
Ordered, That the Return relative to the High- pighways Act. 


ways Act, which was presented upon the 16th day 3. 
of this instant May, be printed. —_— 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented, pursuant fnland 
to the directions of several Acts of Parliament,— Revenue (Fee 
An Account of the Amount received by the In- 5*™ps.) 
land Revenue Department for Fee Stamps in the 
United Kingdom, during the year ended 31st 
March 1876. 

Copy of Treasury Warrant granting Compen- gotails, &amp;. 
sation Allowance to William Pitt Dundas for (Scotland.) 
Loss of Fees sustained by him as Keeper of the 
Register of Entails, &amp;c., year ending 15th Novem- 
ber 1875. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Sir Michael Hicks Beach presented,—Return Clerks of the 
to an Order, dated the 25th day of April last, Crown and of 
for Returns relative to Clerks of the Crown and (Ireland) 
of the Peace (Jreland). 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr Bourke presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- Slave Trade 
mand,— Copy of Circulars respecting Slaves in (No. 2, 1876.) 
Foreign Countries, addressed to British Military 


or Naval Officers. 


Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 


Trustees for the Town and Harbour of White- | Table. 


haven; to extend the periods for the compulsory | 
purchase of Lands, and for the completion of | 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented army (Military 


certain authorised Works ; to authorise and alter} to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously Charges.) 
certain Tolls, Rates, Duties, and Charges; to | pleased to give directions, that there be laid before 
grant further Powers to the Trustees with refer-' this House, a Return of the Actuals of Army 


ence to the Harbour, and with reference to the | 
Supply of Water, and with reference to the Town | counts of Army, Ordnance, 
| gariat, showing, in a uniform manner, the various 
Details, instead of in condensed forms, which 


of Whitehaven, and other purposes. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Lilanfyllin and Liangynog Railway Bill, as 
amended in the Committee ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 

VoL. 131. 








Expenditure since the ye - —m Ac- 
uitia, and Commis- 


the yearly Accounts have sometimes exhibited,— 
Total Grants subject to Audit, classified under 
main Divisions, in a uniform way; Total Ex- 
penditure, as found by Exchequer Audit before 
deducting Appropriations in Aid, but arranged as 
under Grants; Amount of Deductions by Appro- 

DD2 priations 





TRIE TORS 


- BEET BEEPS 


— 











204 


priations in Aid, under main Heads; Net Expen- 
diture after deducting Appropriations in Aid, 
under main Heads; Amount of Exchequer Re- 
ceipts, as per Finance Accounts; Amount of Army 
Receipts, as per Army Accounts; Total Exchequer 
and Army Receipts; Total Appropriations and 
Exchequer and Army Receipts ; Net Amount 
Expenditure for Army Services after deducting 
Appropriations in Aid, Exchequer Receipts, and 
Army Receipts; Explanatory Tables of the vari- 
ous Sums under Appropriations in Aid, Exche- 
quer Receipts, and Army Receipts: Similar 
Return for the Navy, to be separately prepared, 
and arranged under main Heads: Similar Re- 
turns for Estimated Amounts for Army and Navy 
respectively, under main Heads, as first presented 
to oe i ay with additional Columns to show 
Sums, under main Heads, subsequently voted, and 
Total of Original, of Supplemental, of Excess, and 
Special Votes, with Estimates of Appropriations 
in Aid, of Exchequer, and of Army Receipts. 


Mr. Percy Wyndham reported from the Com- 
mittee on Group D. of Private Bills; That the 
Parties promoting the —— ( Monmouthshire) 
Improvement Bill had stated that the evidence of 
Charles Cullum was essential to enable them to 
establish their case, and it having been proved 
that his attendance could not be procured without 
the intervention of the House, he had been in- 
structed to move that the said Charles Cullum do 
attend the Committee To-morrow, at Twelve of 
the clock. 

Ordered, That Charles Cullum do attend the 
Committee on Group D. of Private Bills To- 
morrow, at Twelve of the clock. 


Private}Bills 
(Group,D.) 


Midland Rail. _ Mr. Ridley reported from the Committee on 
way (Further Group 7 of Railway Bills; That in the case of 
Powers) Bill. the Midland Railway (Further Powers) Bill, they 


had examined the allegations contained in the 


Preamble of the Bill, and amended the same by 
striking out so much thereof as related to the Pe- 
terborough, Wisbeach, and Sutton Railway Com- 


pany and the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway 
Company, and by otherwise amending the same, so 
as to make it consistent with the provisions of the 
Bill as submitted to and passed by the Committee, 
and found the same, as amended, to be true; and 
had gone through the Bill, and made Amendments 
thereto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table; 
and be printed. 


Gas Light and _ Mr. Walter reported from the Committee on 
Coke Company Group A. of Private Bills; That in the case of 
Bill. the Gas Light and Coke Company Bill, they had 
examined the allegations contained in the Pre- 
amble of the Bill, and verbally amended the same, 
and found the same, as amended, to be true; and 
had gone through the Bill, and made Amend- 

ments thereunto. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Great Western Mr. Kay Shuttleworth reported from the Com- 
Railway Bill. mittee on Group 12 of Railway Bills; That in the 
case of the Great Western Railway Bill they had 

examined the allegations contained in the Pre- 

amble of the Bill, and amended the same by 

striking out the recitals as to the exchange of 

stock of the Company for shares held by them in 

the Pontypool, Caerleon, and Newport Railway 

Company, and as to the consolidation of the deben- 

ture stocks of the Company, and as to further 

rovisions with reference to the working of mines 

y the Company, and as to the contribution by the 

South Wales Mineral Railway Company towards 

the cost of the proposed new road at Briton Ferry, 

and had also made verbal Amendments therein, in 

order to make it consistent with the provisions of 


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1876. 


the Bill as submitted to and passed by the Com- 
mittee, and found the same, as amended, io be 
true; and had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table; 
and be printed. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Irish Moag 
Copies of all Correspondence between the Trea- Schools. 
sury and the National Education Commissioners of 
Ireland, in the years 1874, 1875, and 1876, re- 
lative to the Increase of the Fees payable by 
Pupils in the Zrish Model Schools, together with 
the Minutes and Resolutions of the Education 
Commissioners thereon: —— And, of all Memorials 
and other Communications addressed to the Com- 
missioners, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, or Her 
Majesty’s Government, by the General Assembly 
of the Jrish Presbyterian Church and any other 
Public Bodies. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, pupji, 
Returns of the Aggregate Amount of Consols, Departments 
Reduced Three per Cents., New Three per Cents., ‘oss, &amp;) 
New Three and a Half per Cents., and New Two 
and a Half per Cents., held by all Public Depart- 
ments on the Ist day of April last:——Of the 
Annual Interest thereon : And, of the corre- 
sponding Annuities for Twenty and Thirty years 
respectively (in continuation of Parliameniary 
in No. 163, of Session 1875), in the subjoined 
orm :— 





3 per Cent.; 
3} per Cent.; 
and 24 per Cent. 
Stocks held. 


Equivalent 
Annuity for 
20 Years, 


Equivalent 
Annuity for 
30 Years. 


Annual 
Interest. 


Department. 





Court of Chancery - - 
Court of Bankruptcy - - 
&amp;e. &amp;e. 

Greenwich Hospital 
Ecclesiastical Commission - 
Charity Commission + 
&amp;e. &amp;e. - - 
Commissioners for the Reduc- 
tion of the National Debt - 
&amp;e. &amp;e. 











Total - - - | | 








Ordered, That there be laid before this House, National Debt. 
a Return of the National Debt for each year from 
1857-58 to 1875-76, inclusive (in continuation of 
Parliamentary Paper, No. 185, of Session 1875). 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, pypic 
a Return of the Public Expenditure (Exchequer fxpenditure. 
Issues) Charges on Taxes, 1857-58 to 1875-76 (in 
continuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 186, of 
Session 1875). 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Public 
a Return of the Revenue for the year 1875-76, (Fermented 
derived from Fermented and Spirituous Liquors and spirituous 
(in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 187, Liquors) 


of Session 1875). 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- Message fre 
sage had been brought from the Lords by one of * #"™* 
their Clerks, as followeth: 

The Lords have agreed to the Rossendale Union Rossendale 
Gas Bill, with Amendments; to which the Lords U™" Ges 
desire the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Tramway 


for confirming a Provisional Order made by the Confirmation 


Board of Trade under “ The Tramways Act, (Wantage) 
1870,” relating to Wantage Tramways; to which Bill (Lords. 
the Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Gas and Water 
for confirming certain Provisional Orders made by poe 
the Board of Trade under “ The Gas and Water- pin [ Lords.) 
works Facilities Act, 1870,” relating to Brentford 
Gas, North Middlesex Gas, North Ormesby Gas, 

Retford Gas, Risca and Pontymister Gas, Saint 
Anne’s-on-the-Sea Gas, Tottenham and —* 
as, 








del 


ents 
, &amp;e,) 


Debt. 


uous 


rom 


e 
; Bill. 


is.) 


Vater 


ion 
is.] 





Willesden 
Local 
Rill [ Lords. ] 


Peterhead 
Harbour Bill 
[ Lords. ] 


Methodist 
Cenference 
Bill (Lords. 


Peterhead 
Harbour Bill 
[Lords.] 


Methodist 
Conference 


Bill [Lords.] 


Orders of the 
Day. 


Elementary 
Education, 


Customs and 
Tnland 
Revenue Bill, 


Income Tax 
Exemptions, 


39 Vicrorta. 


Gas, Worksop Gas, Chiltern Hills Spring Water, 
Flamborough Water, Stockport District Water, 
Wisbech ater, and Clacton-on-Sea Gas and 
Water; to which the Lords desire the concur- 
rence of this House. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
to enable the Board of Waywardens of the Edg- 
ware Highway District to make certain payments 
to the Local Board of the Willesden Urban Sani- 
tary District, out of the Income of Trust Estates 
and Funds vested in them under “ The Metropolis 
( Kilburn and Harrow) Roads Act, 1872”; to vary 
the provisions of the said Act; to discharge the 
said Waywardens from the obligation to maintain 
portions of certain Roads, and for other purposes ; 
to which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
to amend “ The Peterhead Harbours Act, 1873”; 
to confer further Powers upon the Trustees of the 
Harbours of Peterhead, and for other purposes ; 
to which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
to enable the Yearly Conference of the People 
called Methodists to delegate or confer certain 
Powers to or upon Conferences in Australasia and 
elsewhere, and to confirm past Acts in relation 
thereto, and for other purposes; to which the 


. Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 


The Peterhead Harbour Bill was read the first 
time. 

Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


The Methodist Conference Bill was read the 
first time. 

Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


Ordered, That the Orders of the Day be post- 

oned till after the Notice of Motion for leave to 

ae in a Bill-further to provide for Elementary 
Education. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to make further provision for Elementary Educa- 
tion: And that Viscount Sandon, Mr. Chancellor 
of the Exchequer, and Mr. Secretary Cross do 
prepare, and bring it in. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Customs and Inland Revenue Bill; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave 
the Coir ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the 
words “ it is inexpedient to extend the range of 
“absolute exemption from Income Tax to in- 
“comes of £.150, and to extend the limit of 
“ partial exemption from incomes of £.300 to 
* incomes of £.400, inasmuch as these additional 
“exemptions would injuriously affect the equable 
“ proportion in which all incomes of like nature 
* should be assessed,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being proposed, That the 
words proposed to be left out stand part of the 
Question; 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Friday morning ; 


Friday, 19th May, 1876: 
And the Question being put ; 
The House divided. ~ 
The Yeas to the Right; 
VoL. 131, 


18th—19th May. 


205 


The Noes to the Left. 
Tellers for the { Sir William: Dyhe, lo4t 
Yeas, Mr. Rowland Winn: | eeees 
Tellers for the &gt; Mr. Hubbard, 121 
Noes, Mr. Goschen : } ‘ 
So it was tesolved in the Affirmative. 
Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
Chair:—The House accordingly resolved itself 
into the Committee. 


(In the Committee.) 


Preamble postponed. 
Cause, N° 1 (Short Title). 


To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had made Progress 
in the Bill; and that he was directed to move, That 
the Committee may have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Poor Law 
mittee on the Poor Law Amendment Bill; Amendment 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday a 
next, resoive itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Clerk of the 
Reading of the Clerk of the Peace and of the Peer and of 
Crown (Jreland) Bill; _ (Ireland) Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday next. 


mittee on the Commons Bill ; . 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Merchant 
consideration the Merchant Shipping Bill, as Shipping Bill. 
amended in the Committee ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into considera- 
tion upon Monday next. 


Reading of the Highways Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Patents for 
Reading of the Patents for Inventions Bill ; Bil [Lords.] 

Ordered, Vhat the Bill be read a second time : 
upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Kingstown 
mittee on the Kingstuwn Harbour Bill ; Sener Oe 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Crossed _ 
mittee on the Crossed Cheques Bill ; —— 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday ——— 

next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Poor Law 
mittee on the Poor Law (Scotland) Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Admiralty 
into a Committee on the Admiralty Jurisdiction Cieeloedl) Balt 
( lreland) Bill; and, after some time spent therein, : ; 
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, ‘That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the 
Committee, be taken into consideration upon 














| Monday next. 
DD3+ The 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Commons Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Highways Bill. 


(Scotland) Bill. 








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206 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Burghs (Scotland) ‘Gas Supply 
Bill; 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to the 
former Select Committee, with reference to Clauses 
2, 3, 6, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 43, 45, and 57, 
and Schedule B. 


Burghs 
(Scotland) Gas 
Supply Bill. 


Towns Rating © The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
(Ireland) Bill. Reading of the Towns Rating (/relund) Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read asecond time 
upon Wednesday next. 


Intoxicating 
Liquors 
(Licensing 
Law Amend- 
ment) (No. 2) 
Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Intoxicating Liquors (Licensing Law 
Amendment) (No. 2) Bill; 

Resolved, That this, House will, upon Tuesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Notices to Quit The Notices to Quit (/reland) Bill was, accord- 

(Ireland) Bil. ing to Order, read a second time; and committed 
to a Committee of the whole House, for Monday 
next. 


Beer Licences The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
(Ireland) Bill. Reading of the Beer Licences (/reland) Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day. 


Election of 
Aldermen 
(Cumulative 
Vote) Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the further Proceeding on the Sevond Reading 
of the Election of Aldermen (Cumulative Vote) 
Bill; 

Ordered, That the further Proceeding be re- 
sumed upon Tuesday next. 


Municipal 
Privileges 
(Ireland) Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking 
into consideration the Municipal Privileges (re- 
land) Bill, as amended in the Committee ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into considera- 
tion upon Monday next. 


Customs Laws 


Resolved, That this House will, immediately, re- 
Consolidation. 


solve itself into a Committee toconsider of consoli- 
dating the Customs Laws:—The House accord- 
ingly resolved itself into the Committee. 


(In the Committee.) 


Resolved, That the Chairman be directed tomove 
the House, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to consolidate the Customs Laws. 


Resolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. 
Raikes reported, That the Committee had come 
to a Resolution. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Raikes accordingly reported a Resolution ; 
which was read, as followeth: 

That the Chairman be directed to move the 
House, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
consolidate the Customs Laws:—And he moved 
the House accordingly. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in the 
Bill: And that Mr. Raikes, Mr. William Henry 
Smith, and Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer do 
prepare, and bring it in. 


Prevention of 
Crimes Act 
Amendment. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to amend “ The Prevention of Crimes Act, 1871 :” 
And that Sir Henry Selwin-Jbbetson and Mr. Se- 
cretary Cross do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to amend the Law for the Relief of the Poor in 
freland in respect to Rating and Chargeability on 
Poor Law Unions: And that Sir Michael Hicks 


Poor Law 
Rating 
(Ireland.) 


18th—19th May. 





1876. 


Beach and Mr. Solicitor General for Jreland do 
prepare, and bring it in. 


Sir Henry Selwin-Ihbetson presented a Bill to Prevention of 
amend * The Prevention of Crimes Act, 1871 :” a Act 
And the same was read the first time; and ordered gy ™™ 
to be read a second time upon Monday next; and iy 153, 
to be printed. 

Mr. William Henry Smith presented a Bill to Customs Lays 
consolidate the Customs Laws: And the same was ©*lidation 
read the first time; and ordered to be read a. ' 
second time upon Thursday the 15th day of June Bil! 14, 
next; and to ™ printed. 


Viscount Sandon presented a Bill to make fur- Element 
ther provision for Elementary Education: And Education gy, 
the same was read the first time; and ordered to Bill 155, 
be read a second time upon Monday the 12th day 
of June next; and to be printed. 


Sir Michael Hicks Beach presented a Billto amend Poor Law 
the Law for the Relief of the Poor in Jrelund in — ;, 
respect to Rating and Chargeability on Poor Law — 
Unions: And the same was read the first time ; Bil! 156, 
and ordered to be read a second time upon Thurs- 
day the lst day of June next; and to be printed. 


The Order for reading a second time, upon Civil Bill 
Monday next, the Civil Bill Courts (Jreland) Bill, Courts 
was read, and discharged. ates 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday the 29th day of this instant May. 


The Order for the House to resolve itself into a salmon 
Committee, this day, on the Salmon Fishery (Pro-' Fishery 
visional Order) Bill, was read, and discharged. Orden) Bill 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
the 29th day of this instant May, resolve itself 
into the said Committee. 


A Motion being made, That this House will, Poor Law 
upon Monday next, resolve itself into a Committee (S-tland) 
to consider of authorising the payment, out of {slates &amp;] 
Moneys to be provided by Parliament, of one-half 
of the Salaries of Medical Officers and of Medicines 
provided for Poor Persons, and also of the Remu- 
neration and Travelling Expenses of Auditors in- 
curred under the Provisions of any Act of the 
present Session for amending the Law relating to 
the Relief of the Poor in Scotland ; 

The Lord Advocate, by Her Majesty's Com- 
mand, acquainted the House, That Her Majesty, 
having been informed of the subject-matter of this 
Motion, recommends it to the consideration of the 
House. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Tramways Order Confirmation ( Wantage) Tramways 
Bill was read the first time; and ordered to be _—— si 
read a second time upon Monday next; and to be (Wrntan 


° (Wantage) 
printed. Bill [Lords.] 


Bill 157. 

The Gas and Water Orders Confirmation Bill Gas and Water 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read pemetey 
a second time upon Monday next; and to be [ Lords. ] 


printed. | Bill 158. 
And then the House, having continued to sit 


till half an hour after One of the clock on 
Friday morning, adjourned till this day. 








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pon Bil 


Norwich (City) 
Water Bi 


Tipton Local 
Board Bill. 


Private Bills 
ng 

Onder 

complied with.) 


Private Bills 
Sat 
Orders, not 
Previously in. 
quired into, 


In &gt; 
complied with, ) 


Private Bill 
Lords) (No 


finding 
"plicable, ) 


39 Vicroria. 
Friday, 19th May, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 
HE House met; and, being counted by Mr. 
T Speaker, it appeared that Forty Members 
were not present; yet it being Four of the clock, 
Mr. Speaker took the Chair, and again counted the 
House; and Forty Members not being present :— 
The House was adjourned by Mr. Speaker, with- 
out a Question first put, till Monday next. 





Monday, 22nd May, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 
M R. Raikes reported from the Committee on 
1¥i the Burntisland Burgh Bill; That they had 
examined the allegations contained in the Pream- 
ble of the Bill, and amended the same, to make it 
corsistent with the Provisions of the Bill as sub- 
mitted to and passed by the Committee, and found 
the same, as amended, to be true; and had gone 
through the Bill, and made Amendments there- 
unto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Raikes reported the Norwich (City) Water 
Bill, with Amendments. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on 
the Tipton Local Board Bill; That a Report from 
the Local Government Board upon the Bill, and 
the objects thereof, had been referred to the Com- 
mittee, and considered by them, and that they had 
adopted such of the recommendations therein con- 
tained as appeared applicable to the case as sub- 
mitted to them. 

Mr. Raikes further reported from the Com- 
mittee; That they had examined the allegations 
contained in the Preamble of the Bill, and amended 
the same to make it consistent with the provi- 
sions of the Bill as submitted to, and passed by 
the Committee, and found the same, as amended, 
to be true; and had gone through the Bill, and 
made Amendments thereunto. 

_— That the Report do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private 
Bills, That Standing Order, No. 74, has been 
complied with, in the case of the following Bill, 
referred on the First Reading thereof, viz. : 

Romford Canal Company Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private 
Bills, That the Standing Orders not previously 
inquired into, and which are applicable thereto, 
have been complied with, in the case of the fol- 
lowing Bills, originating in the Lords, and re- 
ferred on the First Reading thereof, viz. : 

Bodmin and Wadebridge and Delabole Rail- 

way Bill. 

Cornwall Mineral and Bodmin and Wade- 
bridge Junction Railway Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bills be read a second time. 


Mr. a? laid upon the Table,—Report from 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private 


Bills, That no Standing Orders not previously 

inquired into are applicable in the case of the 

following Bill, originating in the Lords, and re- 

ferred on the First Reading thereof, viz. : 
Peterhead Harbour Bill. 


19th—22nd Muy. 


207 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Waterford, 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Sew Rots and 
Bills, That the Standing Orders have not been ,;,., Railway 
complied with in the case of the Waterford, New (Sale) Bill. 
Ross, and Wezford Junction Railway (Sale) Bill, 
referred on the First Reading thereof. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the 
Select Committee on Standing Orders. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Private Bills 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private es. 
Bills, That the Standing Orders have not been complied with.) 
complied with in the case of the Petition for the 
Southampton Docks Bill. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the 
Select Committee on Standing Orders. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Thames Tunnel 
the Amendment made by the Lords to the Thames Bill. 
Tunnel Bill; and the same was twice read, and 
agreed to. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendment made by their 
Lordships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Glasgow (City) 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Glas- Union Railway 
gow (City) Union Railway Bill; and the same ®” 
were twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Rossendale 

the Amendments made by the Lords to the Ros- U2iom Gas Bill. 
sendale Union Gas Bill; and the same were twice 
read, and agreed to. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


Pag Brighton Pavilion Bill was read the third Pevlion Bil 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. abi 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 

the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 

hath agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


The Chichester and Midhurst Railway (No. 2) Chichester and 
Bill was read the third time. “ss ) Maar 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. (No. 2) Bill. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 

Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Dudley and Oldbury Junction Railway Dudley and 
Bill was read the third time. mong 4 June- 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. —e 





Bill 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Edinburgh and District Water Bill was Edinburgh and 
read the third time. Bill [Lorde.) 
Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 

do pass. : 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 

Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 

agreed to the same, with Amendments ; to which 

this House doth desire the concurrence of their 

Lordships. 


The Glasgow and Kilmarnock Joint Line was Glasgow and 
read the third time. pay nog 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the ; 
Title be, An Act for enabling the Caledonian.and 

the Glasgow and South Western Railway Com- 

panies jointly to acquire certain Lands, and exe- 

cute certain Works in the Counties of Lanark and 





Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time. 
VoL, 131. 


Renfrew; for authorising the diversion of a certain 
pp4 Road, 


















208 


Road, and of certain authorised Tramways in con- 
nection therewith, and for other purposes. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Huddersfield Water and Improvement Bill 
was read the third time; and verbal Amendments 
were made to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act to enable the Mayor, Aldermen, 
and Burgesses of the Borough of Huddersfield to 
abandon the enlargement of Wessenden Reservoir, 
and to construct a new Reservoir in lieu thereof ; 
to make new Streets and Street Improvements ; 
to extend the limits of Gas and Water Supply, 
and to make further provision for the Improvement 
and Government of the Borough, and for other 
purposes. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Huddersfield 
Water and 
Improvement 
Bi 


The Lianfyllin and Liangynog Railway Bill was 
read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Lilanfyllin and 
Llangynog 
Railway Bill. 


The Merionethshire Railway Bill was read the 
third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Merionethshire 
Railway Bill. 


The Paisley Water Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Paisley Water 
Bill. 


The Stockton-on-Tees Markets Bill was read the 


Stockton-on- 5 4 
Tees Markets third time. 


Bill. Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act to empower the Mayor, Alder- 
men, and Burgesses of the Borough of Stockton- 
on~ Tees to erect Cattle and other Markets, and for 
other purposes. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Tunbridge The Tunbridge Wells Gas Bill was read the 
Wells Gas Bill. third time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Vale of Clyde The Vale of Clyde Tramways Bill was read the 
Tramways Bill. third time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Westerham The Westerham Valley Railway Bill was read 

Valley Railway the third time. 

_ Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act to authorise the construction of 
a Railway from Dunton Green to Westerham, both 
in the County of Kent, and for other purposes 
connected with the said Railway. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 

Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Bristol United Gas Bill, as amended in the 
Committee ; and Amendments were made to the 
Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Bristol United 
Gas Bill. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
edenchetns the Dantes vel Hechmondwike Water Bill, as 
Water Bill. amended in the Committee; and Amendments 

were made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


22nd May. 


1876, 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Erwood Brig 
the Erwood Bridge Bill, as amended in the Com- Bill [Loni] 
mittee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Flookersbrog, 
the Flookersbrook Improvement Bill, as amended Baprovement 
in the Committee; and an Amendment was made l 
to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time, 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Great Northen 
the Great Northern Railway Bill, as amended jn Railway Bin 
the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Great Southern 
the Great Southern and Western Railway Bill, *4 Westem 
as amended in the Committee. Railway Ba 

A Clause (Imposing penalty unless Railway 
— was twice read; and made part of the 

ill. 

Another Clause (Providing for application of 
haa was twice read; and made part of the 

ill. 

Another Clause (Company to procure accom- 
modation for persons of labouring classes to be 
— was twice read ; and made part of the 

ill. 

Then an Amendment was made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Lancaster 
the Lancaster Water and Improvement Bill, as Water ad 
amended in the Committee. ~ cas 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration London and 
the London and North Western Railway (New North Wester 
Lines, &amp;c.) Bill, as amended in the Committee. rey 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. _ Bill. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Rosstrevor 
the Rosstrevor Improvement Bill, as amended in Improvement 
the Committee. _ 

A Clause (Not to borrow from Loan Commis- 
sioners) was twice read; and made part of the 
Bill. 

Another Clause (Exemptions from toll) was 
twice read; and made part of the Bill. 

Another Clause (Provision as to “ Cattle 
Diseases (Jreland) Acts 1866 and 1874”) was 
twice read; and made part of the Bill. 

Then Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration er 
the Spennymoor and Tudhoe Gas Bill, as amended ¢° pin, 


in the Committee. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration — oo 
the Upper Mersey Navigation Bill, as amended in 5:7" 
the Committee. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to Great 
take into consideration the Great Yarmouth and — 
Stalham (Light) Railway Bill, as amended in the (yght) Rail- 
eames and Amendments were made to the way Bill 

ill. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Goux’s Patent 
Bill. 


Gouz’s Bill was read a second time; and com- 
mitted. 


The Sutton Pool Harbour Bill was read &amp; Sutton Pool 
second time; and committed. Harbour 





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The Willesden Local Board Bill was read the 


be Board first time. : 
pil (Lords.} = Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- 


miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


— Mr. Kay-Shuttleworth reported the London and 
tani Western North Western Railway (Sirhowy Railway 
pailvay (Sit- Transfer) Bill, with Amendments. 
toe Bill Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
_ Table; and be printed. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and 


bli ° 
Petions. read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 
Vide Twenty~ 
second Report. . . 
Witham Ordered, That the Return relative to Witham 
(Por Law (Poor Law Guardians), which was presented upon 
Gurdians} the 12th day of this instant May, be printed. 

No, 234. 
Navy (Office Ordered, That the Return relative to the Navy 


oflord High (Office of the Lord High Admiral) which was pre- 
Admiral.) sented upon the 16th day of this instant May, be 
printed. 


Inland Ordered, That the Account relative to the 
Revenne (Fee Inland Revenue (Fee Stamps), which was pre- 
Stamps.) sented upon the 18th day of this instant May, be 
No, 236. printed. 


Clerks of the Ordered, That the Return relative to Clerks 
Crown and of of the Crown and of the Peace (Jreland), which 
the Peace was presented upon the 18th day of this instant 


d. 
OTe io. May, be printed. 


Convict Prisons Mr. Secretary Cross presented, by Her Ma- 
(ieland.) — jesty’s Command,—Copy of Twenty-second An- 
nual Report of the Director of Convict Prisons for 
Ireland, for the year ended 31st December 1875; 


with Appendix. 
National Mr. Secretary Cross also presented,—Return to 
Eiueation © an Order, dated the 4th day of April last, for a 
(Ireland.) Return relative to National Education (Ireland). 
Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 
Navy (Ships Mr. Algernon Egerton presented,—Return to an 


Built) Order, dated the 16th day of March last, for a 
Return relative to the Navy (Ships Built). 
Navy (Officers Return to an Order, dated the 17th day of 
par. Civil March last, for a Return relative to the Navy 
mus) (Officers holding Civil Appointments). 
Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the 


Table. 
Friendly Mr. William Henry Smith presented, pursuant 
— Act, to the directions of an Act of Parliament,—Copy 
of further Regulations under the Friendly So- 
cieties Act, 1875, 38 &amp; 39 Vic. c. 60. 
Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. : 
Commereal Mr. Bourke presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- 
tage Frama of Reports from Her Majesty’s 
Reports. Consuls on the Manufactures, Commerce, &amp;c. of 


their Consular Districts, Part III. 
Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 
Adjournment, A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That this House do now adjourn:—And 
the said Motion was, with leave of the House, 
withdrawn. 


dng from Mr. Ew acquainted the House, That a 

‘Message had been brought from the Lords by one 
of their Clerks, as followeth : 

Draetead The Lords have agreed to the Amendments 

Bil (Lords_] made b this House to the Maidenhead District 

——— Gas Bill, without any Amendment. 

Judicature, Lhe Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 

(rt) Bil for the constitution of a Supreme Court of Judi- 

dards Vou. 131. 


22nd May. 209 


cature, and for other purposes relating to the better 
administration of Justice in Ireland; to which 
the Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act New Shoreham 
for enabling the Shureham Harbour Trustees to Harbour Bill 
improve their Harbour by constructing New [4or4] 
Works, and for amending the constitution of the 
Trust, and for other purposes ; to which the Lords 
desire the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Western Bank 
for promoting the winding up of the Western Bank of Scotland 
of Scotland, and providing for the Disposal and Bi! (Lords) 
Discharge of the remaining Assets and Liabilities 
of the Bank, and for other purposes; to which the 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act National 
for transferring to the National Assurance Com- Assurance 
pany of Ireland the Business of the. Liberal An- Company, 
nuity Company of Dublin; for amending the Bill [ Lords.] 
Charter of the first-named Company, and for other 
purposes; to which the Lords desire the concur- 
rence of this House. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act pe Blonay’s 
to Naturalize Roger Oswald Réné de Blonay, and Naturalization 
to grant to and confer upon him all the Rights, i [Lord] 
Privileges, and Capacities of a Natural-born Sub- 
ject of Her Majesty the Queen; to which the 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 


The National Assurance Company of Ireland National 
Bill was read the first time. rs 

Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- foPT hi 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills. [Lords.] 


The Western Bank of Scotland Bill was read Western Bank 
the first time. eaten 

Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- on 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


De Blonay’s Naturalization Bill was read the De Blonay’s 
first time; and ordered to be read a second time. Dil there). 
The Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Bill was Agricultural 

read the first time; and ordered to be read a power 
second time upon Thursday the 8th day of June Bin [Lords.] 
next ; and to be printed. Bill 159. 


Mr. Percy Wyndham reported from the Com- plymouth 
mittee on Group D. of Private Bills; That in the Dock (Devon- 
case of the Plymouth Dock (Devonport) Water 0") — 
Bill, they had examined the allegations contained ~ 
in the Preamble of the Bill, and amended the 
same by altering the recital as to the amount ex- 
pended by the Company in the construction of 
their Works, in order to make it consistent with 
the provisions of the Bill as passed by the Com- 
mittee, and found the same, as amended, to be 
true; and had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Walter reported from the Committee on Metropolitan 
Group A. of Private Bills; That in the case of wo _= 
the Metropolitan Board of Works Bill, they had “°™** Bil 
examined the allegations contained in the Preamble 
of the Bill, and amended the same verbally and 
by striking out the recitals as to Deptford Creek 
Bridge, the provisions relating thereto having been 
struck out of the Bill, and found the same, as 
amended, to be true; that with respect to Stand- 
ing Orders Nos. 186 and 187, the compulsory 

owers of the Bill extend over upwards of fifteen 

ouses occupied by persons belonging to the 
labouring classes, and the Committee have inserted 
a Clause in the Bill requiring the Promoters to 
rocure sufficient accommodation for such persons 
lien exercising the said powers; and had gone 
through the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 

Table. 





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Merchant senor’ 
Shipping Bill. take into consideration the Merchant Shipping 


210 29nd 


The House, according’ to Order, proceeded to 


Bill, as amended in the Committee. 

A Clause was offered to be added to the Bill 
(Provision of signals of distress, inextinguishable 
lights, and life buoys in passenger steamers and 
emigrant ships.—36 &amp; 37 Vic. c. 85, s. 18.—See 17 
&amp; 18 Vic. c. 104, s. 301); and the said Clause was 
brought up, and read the first and second time, and 
amended, and made part of the Bill. 

Another Clause (Nothing in this Act shall ap- 
ply to any ships whilst on the inland waters of 
Canada) was twice read; and made part of the Bill. 

Another Clause was offered to be added to the 
Bill (Observance of the Sabbath); and the said 
Clause was brought up, and read the first time. 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That the said Clause be now read a 
second time :—It passed in the Negative. 

Another Clause was offered to be added to the 
Bill (Foreign masters and officers); and the said 
Clause was brought up, and read the first time. 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That the said Clause be now read a 
second time :—It passed in the Negative. 

Another Clause was offered to be added to the 
Bill (Neglect of taking soundings); and the said 
Clause was brought up, and read the first time. 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That the said Clause be now read a 
second time :—It passed in the Negative. 

Another Clause was offered to be added to the 
Bill (Training schools and ships); and the said 
Clause was brought up, and read the first time. 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That the said Clause be now read a 
second time :—It passed in the Negative. 

‘Another Clause was offered to be added to the 


Bill (Action for damages against owner in case of 


death from default of owner); and the said Clause 
was brought up, and read the first time. 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That the said Clause be now read a 
second time :—It passed in the Negative. 

Another Clause was offered to be added to the 
Bill (Managing owners may require survey of 
vessel); and the said Clause was brought up, 
and read the first time. 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That the said Clause be now read a 
second time :—It passed in the Negative. 

Another Clause was offered to be added to the 
Bill (British passenger ships making long voyages 
to take disciplined men to teach fire drill, &amp;c.); and 
the said Clause was brought up, and read the first 
time. 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That the said Clause be now read a 
second time :—It passed in the Negative. 

Another Clause was offered to be added to the 
Bill (Power to reduce local light dues); and the 
said Clause was brought up, and read the first time. 

A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, Fhat the said Clause be now read a second 
time :—And the said Motion and Clause were 





May. I 876. 
| Another Clause was offered to be added to the 
| Bill (Certificates of classification of British ships) ; 
| and the said Clause was brought up, and read the 
first time. 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That the said Clause be now read a 
second time ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right; 

The Noes to the Left. 


Tellers for the Mr. David Jenkins, 3 
Yeas, Mr. Plimsoll: f 60. 

Tellers for the {Sir William Dyhe, } 
Noes, (Mr. Rowland Winn: f 98. 


So it passed in the Negative. 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Bill, in p. 1, 1. 16, by leaving out the word 
British.” 

And the Question being put, That the word 
“ British” stand part of the Bill:—It was re- 
solved inthe Affirmative. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made 
to the Bill, in p. 1, 1. 20, by leaving out from the 





word “ misdemeanor,” to the word “ conviction,” 
inclusive, in p. 2, l. 8. 
And the Question being put, That the words 


proposed to be left out stand part of the Bill:—It 


was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made 
to the Bill, in p. 2, 1. 24, by leaving out from the 
word “ Where” to the words “as follows,” in 
1. 30, inclusive. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Bill :—It 
was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Then Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made 
to the Bill, in p. 6, 1. 10, by leaving out from the 
word “ mentioned ” to the word “ Where,” in 1. 18. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Bill :—It 
was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made 
to the Bill, in p. 6,1. 19, by leaving out from 
the word “ That” to the word “ cause,” in l. 20, 
inclusive, in order to insert the words “she was 
* not at the time of such complaint unsafe within 
“ the meaning of this Act,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Bill; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the; Mr. Plimsoll, 68 

Yeas,  \Mr. Shaw Lefevre: } : 

Tellers for thes Sir William Dyke, 122 

Noes, \ Mr. Rowland Winn: } : 

So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
** she was not at the time of such complaint unsafe 
within the meaning of this Act” be inserted, in- 
stead thereof :—It was resolved in the Affirmative. 
es other Amendments were made to the 

lil, 





severally, with leave of the House, withdrawn. 
Another Clause was offered to be added to the 
the Bill (Provision for rafts and other appliances 
for safety of life); and the said Clause was Socnahe 
up, and read the first time. 
Anda Motion being made, and the Question being | 
put, That the said Clause be now read a second time ; 
The House divided. 
The Yeas to the Right ; 
The Noes to the Leit. 
Tellers for the {Colonel Beresford, 
Yeas, Sir George Jenkinson : 
Tellers for the { Sir William Dyke, 
Noes, Mr. Rowland Winn: 


} a 
Save. 





So it passed in the Negative. 





Another Amendment was proposed to be made 
to the Bill, by leaving out Clause 15, as amended. 

And the Question being put, That Clause 15, 
as amended, stand part of the Bill :—It was re- 
solved in the Affirmative. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made 
to the Bill, in p. 10, 1. 16, by inserting after the 
word “ otherwise,” the words “in such a manner 
“ in the case of vessels loading at the ports which 
“are reached through the Straits of Gibraltar 
“and those which are in the Baltic Sea as that 
“the grain on the right or starboard side of the 
“ ship shall at the least be securely and entirely 
‘* separated from that on the left or port side, and 
“ that not less than one-third of the grain cargo 
* shall be in sacks, bags, or barrels.” baa 











89 VicTORIA. 


And the Question being put, That those words 
be there inserted :—It passed in the Negative. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made 
to the Bill, in p. 10,1. 17, by leaving out the word 
« British.” 

And the Question being proposed, That the 
word “ British” stand part of the Bill:—The said 
proposed Amendment was, with leave of the House, 
withdrawn. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made 
to the Bill, in p. 10,1. 21, by inserting after the 
word “conviction,” the words “and it shall be 
“the duty of the officer of Customs placed on 
“board any ship carrying grain cargo into any 
“port in the United Kingdom to report to the 
« baw of Trade what proportion of the said grain 
“cargo was in bags or sacks, and whether the 
“ shifting boards were carried down to the keel- 
«‘ son or screw tunnel of the vessel, and if not to 
“‘ what depth they were carried down.” 

And the Question being put, That those words 
be there inserted :—It passed in the Negative. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made 
to the Bill, in p. 10, 1. 21, by inserting after the 
word “conviction,” the words “ Provided, That 
“ nothing in this section contained shall apply to 
“ or affect Canadian vessels not sailing to or dis- 
“ charging at ports of the United Kingdom.” 

And the Question being put, That those words 
be there inserted :—It passed in the Negative. 

Then other Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made 
to the Bill, by leaving out Clause 19, as amended. 

And the Question being put, That Clause 19, 
as amended, stand part of the Bill:—It was re- 
solved in the Affirmative. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made 
to the Bill, in p. 11, 1. 5, by leaving out the word 
“October,” in order to insert the word “ Sep- 
*‘ tember,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being proposed, That the 
word “ October” stand part of the Bill:—The 
said proposed Amendment was, with leave of the 
House, withdrawn. 


continued to sit till after 
uesday morning ; 


And the House havin 
Twelve of the clock on 


Tuesday, 23rd May, 1876: 


Another Amendment was made to the Bill. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made 
to the Bill, in p. 11,1. 9, by leaving out from the 
word “ timber,” to the word “deck,” in 1. 11, in- 
clusive, in order to insert the words “deals or 
battens,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Bill; 

he House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right; 

The Noes to the. Left. 

Tellers for the Sir William Dyke, } 143 

Yeas, { Mr. Rowland Winn: , 

Tellers for the f Mr. Plimsoll, 1 162 

Noes, (Lord Eslington: J : 

So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
“deals or battens” be inserted, instead thereof :— 
It was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made 
to the Bill, in p. 1), 1. 12, by leaving out the word 
“is,” in order to insert the words “deals or 
“ battens be,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being proposed, that the 
word “ is” stand part of the Bill :—And a Debate 
arising thereupon ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That the Debate be now adjourned :— 
It passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being put, That'the word “ is” 
stand part ofthe Bill:—It passed in the Negative. 
VoL. 131. 


29nd—23rd May. 





211 
And the Question being put, That the words 


“ deals or battens” be inserted, instead thereof :-— 
It was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Then other Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made 
to the Bill, in p. 12, 1. 8, by inserting after the 
word “ mark,” the words “in conformity with the 
“ principle of a sufficiency of surplus buoyancy 
“as customary for the description of vessel and 
“ the circumstances of the voyage.” 

And the Question being put, That those words 
be there inserted :—It passed in the Negative. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made 
to the Bill, in p. 12, 1. 13, by inserting “ after the 
word “ centre,” the words “ in a position approved 
“as reasonable either by the builder of the ship or 
“some other independent and competent authority.” 

And the Question being put, That those words 
be there inserted :—It passed in the Negative. 

Then other Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made to 
the Bill, in p. 14, 1. 10, by leaving out the words 
‘one of.” 

And the Question being put, “ That the words 
* one of” stand part of the Bill:—It was resolved 
in the Affirmative. 

Then other Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Ordered, that the Bill be read the third time 
upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Customs 
mittee on the Customs and Inland Revenue Bill; = i 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday “” 


next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Valuation Bill. 
Reading of the Valuation Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday the 8th day of June next. 


Ecclesiastical 
Assessments 
(Scotland) Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Ecclesiastical Assessments ( Scot- 
land) Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Sheriff Courts 
Reading of the Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Bill; Stand) Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Appellate 
Reading of the Appellate Jurisdiction Bill ; Bill (Lene 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the University of Ozford Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon .Thursday next. 


University of 
Oxford Bill 
[Lords.] 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Maritime __ 
Reading of the Maritime Contracts Bill ; Contencts BES. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Roads and 
Reading of the Roads and Bridges ( Scotland) Bill; er Scot- 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time ) 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Juries 
Reading of the Juries Procedure (Ireland) Bill; (rissa Bil 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Jurors 
Reading of the Jurors Qualification (Ireland) Bill ; Qualification 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time ‘#l#24) Bill. 





upon Thursday next. 
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212 
The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 


mittee on the Poor Law Amendment Bill; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Kingstown Harbour Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Harbour Bill 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
take into consideration the Admiralty Jurisdiction 
(Jreland) Bill, as amended in the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read for the Second 
Reading of the Prevention of Crimes Act Amend- 
ment Bull; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


Prevention of 
Crimes Act 
Amendment 
Bill. 


The House, according to Order, resolved it- 
self into a Committee on Poor Law (Scotland) 
[ Salaries, &amp;c. ] 


(In the Committee. ) 


Resolved, That it is expedient to authorise the 
payment, out of Moneys to be provided by Parlia- 
ment, of one-half the Salaries of Medical Officers 
and of Medicines provided for poor persons, and 
also of the remuneration and travelling expenses 
of Auditors, incurred under the provisions of any 
Act of the present Session for amending the Law 
relating to the Relief of the Poor in Scotland. 


Resolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr, Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had come to a Re- 
solution. 

Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 


The Tramways Order Confirmation ( Wantage) 
Bill was, according to Order, read a second time ; 
and committed to a Committee of the whole House, 
for Thursday the Ist day of June next. 


Tramways 
Order Con- 
firmation 
(Wantage) 
Bill [Lords.] 


‘The Gas and Water Orders Confirmation Bill 
was, according to Order, read a second time; and 


committed to a Committee of the whole House, for 
Thursday the Ist day of June next. 


Gas and Water 
Orders Con- 
firmation Bill 
[ Lords. } 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednes- 
day next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Supply. 


:, The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Cattle D y g 
(Ireland) Bilt mittee on the Cattle Disease (Ireland) Bill; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into the Committee of Ways and Means. 


(In the Committee.) 


Motion made, and Question ‘sy emer That, to- 
wards making good the Supply granted to Her 
Majesty for the Service of the year ending the 
31st day of March 1877, the Sum of £. 11,000,000 
be granted out of the Consolidated Fund of the 
United Kingdom : 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question put, 
That the Chchene do report Progress, and ask 
leave to sit again ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the { Mr. O° Sullivan, } 15 

Yeas, (Mr, Callan: . 

Tellers for the {Sir William Dyke, } 87 

Noes, Mr. Rowland Winn: &gt; 


22nd—23rd May. 


1876. 


Original Question again proposed : 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question pro- 
posed, That the Chairman do now leave the 
Chair :—Motion, by leave, withdrawn. 

Original Question put, and agreed to. 

Resolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raihes 
my That the Committee had come toa Re- 
ution. 
Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 
Mr. Raikes also acquainted the House, that he 
was directed to move, That the Committee may 
have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednes- 
day next, again resolve itself into the said Com- 
mittee. 


re 
80. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second sale of cou 

Reading of the Sale of Coal Bill; Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 

upon Tuesday the 13th day of June next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Merchant 
Reading of the Merchant Shipping Acts Amend- Shipping Act 
ment Bill; To 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Parliamentary 
Reading of the Parliamentary and Municipal Re- 4 Municip 
gistration (Boroughs) Bill; (Beroughs) 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time Bill. 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Game Laws 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed Amendment 
upon the 27th day of April last, That the Game (Scotland) Bill 
Laws Amendment (Scotland) Bill be now read a 





second time ; 
Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming County Rates 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed (!elané) Bill 
upon the 9th day of this instant May, That the 
County Rates (/reland) Bill be now read a second 
time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming House _ 
the adjourned Debate on the Question ag 3m aoa 
upon the 22nd day of March last, That the House Removal Bill 
Occupiers Disqualification Removal Bill be now 
read a second time; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 


till this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Coroners 
mittee on the Coroners ( Dudlin) Bill ; (Dublin) Bill 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Notices to Qui 
into a Committee on the Notices to Quit (Jreland) (Ireland) 
Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Bill 160. 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill. . 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking Municipsl 
into consideration the Munici Privileges (Ire- Ctagland) Bill 
land) Bill, as amended in the Committee; _ 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into considera- 





tion this day. The 





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39 VicrorRiA. 


Crab and The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 

Lobster mittee on the Crab and Lobster Fisheries (Vor- 

Fisheries lk) Bill; 

(orl) Bil. J? borne That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


peer Licences The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
(inland) Bill) Reading of the Beer , Prato (Ireland) Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to amend the Law relating to Eiver Fishing: And 
that Mr. Monk and Mr. Price do prepare, and 
bring it in. 


Eiver Fishing. 


Smithfield Ordered, That ieave be given to bring in a Bill 
Prison to authorise the Sale of Smithfield Penitentiary 
(ula) Convict Prison, Dublin: And that Mr. William 
Henry Smith and Sir Michael Hicks Beach do pre- 
pare, and bring it in. 
Elementary The Order for reading a second time, upon W ed- 
—_ nesday next, the Elementary Education oe 
ay or tion for School Board) Bill, was read, and dis- 
Bord) Bil. charged. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday the 12th day of June next. 


Supreme Court The Supreme Court of Judicature (Ireland) Bill 
of Judicature was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 


(itr Bil second time upon Monday next; and to be 


Bill 161. printed. 


Mr. Monk presented a Bill to amend the Law 
relating to Elver Fishing: And the same was read 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time upon Monday next; and to be printed. 


Biver Fishing 
Bill. 
Bill 162. 


Smithfield Mr. William Henry Smith presented a Bill to 

Prison authorise the Sale of Smithfield Penitentiary Con- 

(Dublin) Bill. viet Prison, Dublin: And the same was read the 

Bill 163. grt time; and ordered to be read a second time 
upon Friday next; and to be printed. 

Unseaworthy Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 


Ships a Copy of Circular Despatch addressed by the 
Foreign Office to Her Majesty’s Representatives 
in Maritime Countries relative to the question of 
the Transfer of alleged Unseaworthy Ships to a 
Foreign Flag, together with the Replies thereto 
(in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 136, 
of Session 1875). 

Sir Charles Adderley accordingly presented the 
said Paper. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 
ae The Order for reading a second time, upon Wed- 
Bill, nesday next, the Free Libraries and Museums 
Bill, was read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday the 20th day of June next. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till a quarter of an hour before Two of the 
clock on Tuesday morning, adjourned till 
this day. 


Vou. 131. 


22nd—23rd May. 








213 


Tuesday, 23rd May, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 


O RDERED, That the Select Committee on Local Govern- 
the Local Government and Taxation of Towns ™ent and Tax- 

(Ireland) have leave to sit this day till Five of the Gre) 

clock, during the sitting of the House. , 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Enniskillen and 
the Enniskillen and Bundoran Extension Railway Bundoran Ex- 
Bill, as amended in the Committee. ny we ee 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. from « Beodo- 

ran and Sligo 
Railway.’’) 

The House proceeded to take into consideration Felixstowe 
the Felixstowe Railway and Pier Bill, as amended Railway and 
in the Committee. aes 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Gas Light and 
the Gas Light and Coke Company Bill, as amended Coke Company 
in the Committee. -_ 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Newcastle and. 
the Newcastle and Gateshead Water Bill, as Gateshead 
amended in the Committee. Water Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration gmethwick 
the Smethwick Local Board Rill, as amended in the Local Board 
Comunittee. Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The New Shoreham Harbour Bill was read the New Shoreham 
first time. Harbour Bill 

Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- ‘4°71 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


The Order, That the Bolton-le-Sands, Warton, Bolton-le- 
and Silverdale Reclamation Bill be committed, was poor yet 
read, and discharged. ae re eg 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. Biil. 


A Petition of the Southampton Docks Company, Southampton 
for leave to bring in a Bill for authorising the Docks. 
Southampton Dock Company to construct a Graving 
Dock, was presented, and read; and referred to 
the Select Committee on Standing Orders. 


akefield 


Mr. Ellice reported the Wakefield Water Bill, W 
Water Bill. 


with Amendments. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Ellice reported from the Committee on Private Bills 
Group E. of Private Bills; That Mr. Monckton, (Group E-) 
one of the Members of the Committee, was not 
present during the sitting of the Committee this 
day. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Mowbray reported from the Select Com- Standing 
mittee on Standing Orders, a Resolution; which Orders. 
was read, as followeth: 

That, in the case of the North East Worcester- North East 
shire Water Bill, Petition for additional Provision, Worcestershire 
the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed with, Vt Bil 
that the Parties be permitted to introduce their 
additional Provision accordingly, if the Committee 
on the Bill shall think fit. 

The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 


Mr. Evans reported from the Committee on Burnham 
Group 12 of Railway Bills; That in the case of the Tidal Harbour 
Burnham Tidal Harbour Bill, the Committee had 
examined the allegations contained in the Pre- 
amble of the Bill, but the same had not been 
proved to their satisfaction. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 

EE3 Mr. 














Private Bills 
Lords} (No 


Orders, not 
iously 
into, 
applicable.) 


Public 
Petitions. 
Vide Twenty- 
second Report. 
Navy (Ships 
Built.) 


No. 239. 


Friendly 
Societies Act, 
1875. 


No. 240, 


Mint. 


Civil Service’ 
Charges. 


Prisons (Great 
Britain.) 


Ship “‘ Lily of 
Devon.” 


Tolls on Roads 
(Scotland.) 


914 23rd 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,-—Report from 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 
That no Standing Orders not previously inquired 
into are applicable in the case of the following 
Bill, originating in the Lords, and referred on the 
First Reading thereof, viz. : 

Methodist Conference Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time. 


Several Public Petitions were 


oe. and 
read; and ordered to lie upon the 


able. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Navy 
(Ships Built), which was presented upon the 22nd 
day of this instant May, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to the Friendly 
Societies Act, 1875, which was presented upon the 
22nd day of this instant May, be printed. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented, by Her 
Majesty’s Command,—Copy of Sixth Annual Re- 
port of the Deputy Master of the Mint, 1875. 

Mr. William Henry Smith also presented,— 
Return to an Order, dated the 25th day of April 
last, for Returns relative to Civil Service Charges. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. James Lowther presented, by Her Majesty’s 
Command,—Copy of further Correspondence re- 
lating to the Affairs of certain Native States in 
the Malay Peninsula, in the Neighbourhood of 
the Straits Settlements (in continuation of Com- 
mand Paper 1320 of 1875). 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Secretary Cross presented, by Her Ma- 
jesty’s Command,—Copy of Fortieth Report of 
the Inspectors appointed, under the provisions of 
the Act 5 &amp; 6 Will. 4, c. 38, to visit the different 
Prisons of Great Britain (1. Southern District). 

Mr. Secretary Cross also presented,-—Return 
to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 8th day 
of this instant May, for a Return relative to 
Watermoor School. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


The following Paper, pursuant to the directions 
of an Act of Parliament, was laid upon the Table 
by the Clerk of the House,--Abstract of the 
General Annual Account of the Commissioners 
of the Bridlington Piers and Harbour, from the 
26th day of July 1874 to the 26th day of July 
1875. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Copy of Notes of Evidence taken before 
Mr. Paget, Stipendiary Magistrate at the Thames 
Police Court, im October 1874, in the case of the | 
Master of the Barque “ Lily of Devon,” against 
Three of the Crew of that Vessel charged with 
breaking into and stealing Cargo. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return of the Names of the Counties in 
Scotland in which Tolls have been abolished, or 
are not exacted, giving in respect of each for the 
year 1875-76 (1) the ‘Valuation of the County as 
appearing on the Valuation Roll ; (2) the Assess- 
ment, or where there are Districts the Average 
Assessment per £. levied for Management and 


May. 1876. 


£. for Debt; (4) the Assessment per £. for New 
Works; and (5) the total Assessment per £. for 
Road purposes. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 7, 

a Return of the Tonnage entering the Ports or Ports in 
Harbours of Belfast, Cork, Derry, Dublin, Galway, bland, 
Limerich, and Waterford respectively, for the 
years 1862, 1863, 1864, and 1865; and also for 

the years 1872, 1873, 1874, and 1875, in the 
following Form :— 

Belfast, 





ar 

Tonnage entered. 
Tonnage of Vessels 
calling for Orders, 

Passengers, and Mails, 





From Foreign Countries 


and British Possessions. Consting. 

















Maintenance of Roads; (3) the Assessment per 

















Cork, &amp;e. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Queensland 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased (South Sea 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return of South Sea Islanders intro- 
duced into Queensland from the commencement :— 

1. The Total Number introduced— 

(a.) Number of Males; 
(b.) Number of Females; 

2. The Names of the Islands from which the 
Immigrants were taken ; 

3. The Number of Languages spoken by the 
Immigrants, and if there are Persons in 
Queensland competent to interpret all 
such Languages ; 

4. The Number who have returned to the 
Islands ; 

5. The Number remaining in Queensland. 


Colonel Loyd Lindsay reported from the Com- Private Bills 
mittee on Group F. of Private Bills; That the (Grp F) 
Parties opposing the Tyne Improvement Bill had 
stated that the evidence of Addison Potter was 
essential to enable them to establish their case, 
and it having been proved that his attendance 
could not be procured without the intervention of 
the House, he had been instructed to move that 
the said Addison Potter do attend the Committee 
To-morrow, at Twelve of the clock. 

Ordered, That Addison Potter do attend the 
Committee on Group F. of Private Bills To- 
morrow, at Twelve of the clock. 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on the Colney Hatch 
Colney Hatch Gas Bill; That they had examined Gas Bill. 
the allegations contained in the Preamble of the 
Bill, and amended the same by reciting more 
accurately the financial position of the Company, 
and found the same, as amended, to be true; and 
had gone through the Bill, and made Amendments 
thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 

Mr. Raikes reported the Great North of Scot- oun 
land Railway Bill, without Amendment. Railway Bill 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the [ Lords.] 

Table; and be printed. 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on the mage 
Llynvi and Ogmore and Cardiff and Ogmore Valley Caraitf and 
Railway Companies Bill; That they had examined Ogmore = 
the allegations contained in the Preamble of pill, panies Bi 








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&amp; 


Total, 


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lls 
) 


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39 VicToRIa. 3rd 


Bill, and amended the same by striking out so 
much thereof as related to the declaring and de- 
fining of the capitals of the Liynvi and Ogmore 
Railway Company and the Cardiff and Ogmore 
Valley Railway Company, and found the same, as 
amended, to be true; and had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on the 


Leora and Zondon, Brighton, and South Coast Railway (Va- 


South Coast 

hallway 
arious 

Powers) Bill. 


Newcastle- 


rious Powers) Bill; That they had examined the 
allegations contained in the Preamble of the Bill, 
and amended the same to make it consistent with 
the provisions of the Bill as submitted to them, 
and found the same, as amended, to be true, and 
had made provision in the Bill pursuant to a 
Resolution of the House; and had gone through 
the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto, 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


Mr. Raikes reported the Newcastle-upon- Tyne 


Pa Lit Quayside Lift Bill, with Amendments. 


Bill (Lords. ] 


North British 
Railway (Ad- 
ditional W 
se) Bill. 


North British 
Railway (Fife 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on the 
North British Railway (Additional Works, &amp;c.) 


orks, Bill; That they had examined the allegations con- 


tained in the Preamble of the Bill, and amended 
the same by striking out the recital authorising 
the Company to manufacture gas, and to supply 

as to their own premises, and to the town of 
Silloth; and had made further Amendments 
therein having reference to a supplemental agree- 
ment between the Company and the Leith Dock 
Commissioners set out in a Schedule to the Bill, 
in order to make it consistent with the provisions 
of the Bill as submitted to and passed by the Com- 
mittee, and found the same, as amended, to be true ; 
and had gone through the Bill, and made Amend- 
ments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on the 
North British Railway (Fife Railways) Bill; That 
they had examined the allegations contained in 
the Preamble of the Bill, and amended the same 
to make it consistent with the provisions of the 
Bill as submitted to and passed by the Committee, 
and found the same, as amended, to be true; and 
had gone through the Bill, and made Amend- 
ments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


Tanti, Sully, Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on the 
Ralvay Bil, Lenarth, Sully, and Cadoxton Railway Bill; That, 


in pursuance of the Resolution of the House of the 


18th day of February last, the powers contained | 


in Clause 5 of the Bill for the construction of the 
Railways numbered 2 and 3 had been struck out 
of the same. 

Mr, Raikes further reported from the Com- 
mittee; That they had examined the allegations 
contained in the Preamble of the Bill, and amended 
the same by striking out so much thereof as related 
to the said Railways Nos. 2 and 3, and the running 
powers over portions of certain Railways, and had 
made other Aectuinenta therein, to make it con- 
sistent with the provisions of the Bill as submitted 
to and passed by the Committee, and found the 
same, as amended, to be true; and had gone 





May. 


through the Bill, and made Amendments there- 


unto. 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


215 


Mr. Raikes reported the Stoxehouse Pool Im- 
provement Bill, with Amendments. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


Mr. Raikes reported the Scottish Equitable Life 
Assurance Society Bill, with Amendments. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Raikes reported the 
Bill, with Amendments. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


Wye Valley Railway 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return of all Cases of Extradition of 
Prisoners which have occurred under Treaty be- 
tween Great Britain and the United States, show- 
ing in the case of Prisoners surrendered to Great 
Britain the Charges on which the Prisoner was 
demanded, and those on which he was tried; and 
also stating in each case whether any special sti- 
pulation beyond those contained in the Treaty was 
required or conceded by the Government of either 
Country as a condition of the surrender. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be quuleudhs pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return showing the Total Number of 
Commissioned Officers of each substantive rank 
in Her Majesty’s British Forces and Auxiliary 
Forces who, according to the Official Army Lists 
of the 1st day of January 1870 and of the Ist day 
of January 1876, were in receipt of Non-Effective 
Pay, or who, having commuted Non-Effective 
Pay, were known to be living ; showing in detail 
the Number at each Rate of Daily Pay, the 
Average Annual Pay of each Rank, and the Charge 
per annum for the Total Number of each Rank (as 
shown) at such average Pay; specifying also against 
each Rank whether the Officers are on Retired Full 
Pay or on Half-Pay (whether drawn or commuted), 
and stating how many of each Class are in receipt 
of other Pay from Army Funds, together with the 
Amount per annum of such other Pay, for the 
Years 1870 and 1876, in the same form as given 
on the 5th day of August 1875. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 


House, a Copy of Warrant, or Extract there- 
from, under which the Stock-purse Fund Allow- 
ance of £. 11,079. 5 s. is issued to the Guards. 











VoL. 131. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Copy of a Paper or Memorandum on the sub- 


‘ject of the Supreme Court of Judicature (Ireland) 


Bill, signed by the Common Law Judges of Jre- 
land, and sent by them to the Lord Chancellor of 
Great Britain. 


Ordered, That Committees shall not sit upon 
Thursday, being Ascension Day, until Two of 
the clock, and have leave to sit until Six of the 
clock, notwithstanding the sitting of the House. 


Stonehouse 
Pool Improve- 
ment Bill, x 


Scottish 
Equitable Life 
Assurance 
Society Bill 
[Lords.] 


Wye Valley 
Railway Bill. ’ 


Extradition of 
isoners . 
(Great Britain 
and United 
States.) 


Army 
(Commissioned 
fficers. ) 


Army 
(Stock-purse 
d. 


to give directions, that there be laid before this” 


Supreme Court 
of Judicature 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Committees. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Message from 
Message had been brought from the Lords by one the Lords. 


of their Clerks, as followeth : 


i Drugging of 
The Lords have agreed to the Drugging of ugging of 


Animals Bill, without any Amendment. 


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216 


The Lords have agreed to the Chelsea Hospital 
Son Accounts Bill, without any Amendment. 


The Lords have passed a Bill intituled, An Act 
to extend the Time for making the Waterford and 
Wexford Railway, and for other purposes in rela- 
tion thereto; to which the Lords desire the con- 
currence of this House. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
for granting further Powers to the Commissioners 
acting in execution of the Act relating to Scar- 
borough Harbour ; to alter the Rates leviable under 
that Act, and for other purposes; to which the 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 


Waterford and 
Wexford 
Railway Bill 
'[Lords.] 


Scarborough 
Harbour Bill 
[ZLords.] 


‘Waterford and 
Wexford 
Railway Bill 
[Lords.] 


The Waterford and Wexford Railway Bill was 
read the first time. 

Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


Scarborough 
Harbour Bill 
[Lords.] 


The Scarborough Harbour Bill was read the 
first time. 

Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


City of London 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
Companies. 


osed, That an humble Address be presented to 

Ter Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Return setting forth in detail a Statement 
of the Real and Personal Property vested in the 
City of London Companies respectively ; also a 
detailed Statement of the Charities payable by 
such Companies and of the Income derived from all 
sources; and Statement of Expenditure and Re- 
ceipts during the last three years preceding the 
Ist day of January 1875 :—And the said Motion 
was, by leave of the House, withdrawn. 


_ Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a 
— Bill to confirm certain Poovtienel Orders of the 
visional Orders, | ocal Government Board, relating to the Bo- 
(No7)” ce. roughs of Aberavon, Andover, Brighton, and Burn- 

ley, the Districts of Merthyr Tydvil and Pensarn, 
the Rural'Sanitary District of the Tadcaster Union, 
and the Borough of Truro: And that Mr. Salt 
and Mr. Sclater-Booth do prepare, and bring it in. 


Public Health = Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 

ey to confirm a Provisional Order under “ The Pub- 

(Wemyss.) lic Health (Scotland) Act, 1867,” relating to the 
Parish of Wemyss, in the County of Fife: And 
that the Lord Advocate and Mr. Secretary Cross 
do prepare, and bring it in. 


East India The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
(Chief Justices Reading of the East India (Chief Justices of 
of High Courts) Hich Courts) Bill; 


Bill. 
And Notice being taken, ‘that Forty Members 
were not present:—The House was told by Mr. 
Speaker; and Forty Members not being present, 
and it being then after Four of the clock :—The 
House was adjourned by Mr. Speaker, without 
a Question first put, till To-morrow. 








Wednesday, 24th May, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 


Lancashire and T HE House proceeded to take into considera- 
Yorkshire - tion the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway 
Railway Bill. Bill, as amended in the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


London and The House proceeded to take into consideration 
South Western the London and South Western Railway (Various 
Raley Powers) Bill, as amended in the Committee. 


Powers) Bill Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


23rd—24th May. 





1876, 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Midland Rag 
the Midland Railway (Further Powers) Bill, ag way (Putie 
amended in the Committee. Powers) Bill 

Odrered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Severn Brig 
the Severn Bridge and Forest of Dean Centra] and Pores, 
Railway Bill, as amended in the Committee. — Centr 

A Clause (Power to enter into Agreements with — 
Great Western and Severn Bridge Railway Com- 
—). was twice read; and made part of the 
Bill. 

Another Clause (Tolls on Traffic conveyed 
partly on the Railway and partly on Great West- 
ern and Severn Bridge Railways), was twice read; 
and made part of the Bill. 

Then Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Southampton 
the Southampton Gas Light and Coke Bill, ag Gas Light aj 
amended in the Committee; and Amendments Bill 
were made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Ordered, That, in the case of the Romford Canal Romford Ca 
Company Bill, Standing Order No. 238 be sus- Company Bil, 
ended, and that the Bill be read a second time 
o-morrow. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and Public 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions, 
Vide Twenty. 
. _‘third Report, 
Lord George Hamilton presented,—Return to an East India 
Address to Her Majesty, dated the 16th day of (Christianity, 
this instant May, for Returns relative to Kast 
India (Christianity ). 
Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Training 
Reading of the Training Schools and Ships Bill; Shipe Bil 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday the 21st day of June next. 


The Order of the day aangcees for the Second Mercantile 


: : . Marine 
arine Hospital Ser Hospital 


Service Bill, 


Reading of the Mercantile 
vice Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday the 21st day of June next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Small Testate 
mittee on the Small Testate Estates (Scotland) teed) BAL 
Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Municipal 
mittee on the Municipal Corporations, &amp;c. (Funds) fee Fens)” 
Bill; Bill. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
the 9th day of June next, resolve itself into the 


said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Rapley 
as of the Employers Liability for Injury Tajury Bll 
And a Motion bein made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a second 
time ; 
An Amendment was proposed to be made to 
the Question, by leaving out the word “ now, 
and, at the end of the Question, adding the words 
‘‘ upon this day six months.” 
And the Question er st eee! That the 
word “ now” stand part of the Question :—The 
said proposed Amendment and Motion were 
severally, with leave of the House, withdrawn. 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 





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The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
upon the 23rd day of February last, That the 
Wild Fowl! Preservation Bill be now read a second 


time ; 

And the Question being again proposed :—The 
House resumed the said adjourned Debate. 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the word “ now,” and, 
at the end of the Question, adding the words 
« upon this day six months.” 

And the Question being put, That the word 
“ now ” stand part of the Question ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the f Mr. Chaplin, i 337 

Yeas, {Mr Rodwell: aaa 

Tellers for thej Mr. P. A. Taylor, \ 13 

Noes, Mr. James Barclay: . 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That the Bill be now read a second 
time: —The Bill was accordingly read a second 
time, and committed to a Committee of the whole 
House, for Monday next. 


ql Bridges The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
ae ) Bil Reading of the Toll Bridges (River Thames) Bill; 


Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 
Honicide Law The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
—_ the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
upon the 8th day of March last, That the Homi- 
cide Law Amendment Bill be now read a second 
time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Wednesday the 14th day of June next. 


Criminal Law ‘Che Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Bridenee Reading of the Criminal Law Evidence Amend- 
a ment Bill; 

And it being a quarter of an hour before six of 
the clock, the further Proceeding on Second Read- 
ing stood adjourned tiil To-morrow. 

Medical 


al The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
sationers Reading of the Medical Practitioners Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday the 13th day of June next. 
— The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Amendment eading of the Public Records (Jreland) Amend- 
Bill. ment Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday the 13th day of June next. 


Burglary and The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
"7 Bil. Reading of the Burglary and Forgery Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday next. 


Legal The Order of the day being read, for the Second 

(dnd) a 2 ating of the Legal Practitioners (Ireland) 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
o-morrow. 

ma ee _ The House, according to Order, resolved itself 


into a Committee on the Jrish Peerage Bill. 


(In the Committee.) 


oe 
Preamble postponed. 
To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 


reported, That the Committee had made Progress 
m the Bill, and that he was directed to move, That 
the Committee may have leave to sit again. 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
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217 


the 13th day of June next, again resolve itself into 
the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Market Juries 
mittee on the Market Juries (Jreland) Bill ; (Ireland) Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
the 13th day of June next, resolve itself into the 
said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Towns Rating 
Reading of the Towns Rating (Ireland) Bill ; (otent) BE, 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday the 13th day of June next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Supply. 
mittee of Supply ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Ways and 

mittee of Ways and Means; Means. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 

next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Game Laws 
mittee on the Game Laws (Scoéland) Bill; (Scotland) Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
the 13th day of June next, resolve itself into the 
said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Divine 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed Worship _ 
upon the 15th day of March last, That the Divine Fa#ities Bill. 
Worship Facilities Bill be now read a second 
time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Colonial 
Reading of the Colonial Marriages Bill ; Marriages Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Employers and 
Reading of the Employers and Workmen Act Workmen Act 
(1875) Extension Bill ; —— 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Land Tenure 
the adjourned Debate on the Amendment which, (!eland) Bill. 
upon the 29th day of March last, was proposed to 
be made to the Question, That the Land Tenure 
(Ireland) Bill be now read a second time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second University 
Reading of the University Education (Jreland) Education 
Bill ; (Ireland) Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday the 13th day of June next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second University of 
Reading of the University of Cambridge Bill ; — 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time~ * 
To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Protection to 

Reading of the Protection to Geowing Crops ( Scot- (Seotlend) Bal 

land) Bill; . 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 

upon Wednesday the 21st day of June next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Clerk of the 
Reading of the Clerk of the Peace and of the yg tn = 
Crown (Jreland) Bill ; (Ireland) Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 





upon Friday next. 
? ’ FF The 




















Intoxicating 
Liquors 
(Licensing Law 
Amendment) 
(No. 2) Bill. 


Election of 
Aldermen 
(Cumulative 
Vote) Bill. 


Poor Law 
(Scotland) 
[Salaries, &amp;c.] 


House 
Occupiers Dis- 
qualification 
Removal Bill. 


Coroners 
(Dublin) Bill. 


Municipal 
Privileges 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Beer Licences 
(Ireland) Bill. 


218 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Intoxicating Liquors (Licensing 
Law Amendment) (No. 2) Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the further Proceeding on the Second Reading of 
the Election of Aldermen (Cumulative Vote) 
Bill; 

Ordered, That the further Proceeding be re- 
sumed upon Tuesday next. 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on 
Poor Law (Scotland) [Salaries, &amp;c.], a Resolu- 
tion; which was read, as followeth: 

That it is expedient to authorise the payment, 
out of moneys to be provided by Parliament, of 
one-half of the Salaries of Medical Officers and of 
Medicines provided for poor persons, and also of 
the remuneration and travelling expenses of Au- 
ditors, incurred under the provisions of any Act of 
the present Session for amending the Law relating 
to the Relief of the Poor in Scotland. 

The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee of 
Ways and Means, a Resolution; which was read, 
as followeth : 

That, towards making good the Supply granted 
to Her Majesty for the service of the year ending 
the 3lst day of March 1877, the Sum of 
£.11,000,000 be granted out of the Consolidated 
Fund of the United Kingdom. 

The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 

Ordered, That a Bill be brought in upon the 
said Resolution: And that Mr. Raikes, Mr. Chan- 
cellor of the Exchequer, and Mr. William Henry 
Smith do prepare, and bring it in. 

The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
upon the 22nd day of March last, That the House 
Occupiers Disqualification Removal Bill be now 
read a second time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Friday next. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Coroners (Dudiin) Bill. 


(In the Committee.) 


Premble postponed. 
To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had made Progress 
in the Bill, and that he was directed to move, That 
the Committee may have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow,. 
again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking 
into consideration the Municipal Privileges (Jre- 
land) Bill, as amended in the Committee ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into considera- 
tion To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Beer Licences (Zre/and) Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday next. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to make more effectual provision for the Pre- 
vention of Cruelty to Animals: And that Mr. 
Holt, Mr. Hardcastle, Mr. Wait, and Mr. Wilson 
do prepare, and bring it in. 


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1876. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Burghy 
to amend the Law in Scotland in regard to the (Division ing 
Division of Burghs into Wards: And that the bor 
Lord Advocate and Mr. Secretary Cross do pre- Amendnyg 
pare, and bring it in. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously 
pleased to give directions, that there be laid before 
this House, Returns of the Dates of the several 
Proceedings in the Case of The Queen v. Captain 
Richard Boaden, who in the month of October or 
November 1871 was committed for trial by Mr, 
Paget, at the Thames Police Court, on the Charge 
of unlawful Assault and Imprisonment of a Sea- 
man on board the ship “ Star of Peace,” Australian 
Clipper Ship :——Of the Number of Days’ Im- 
prisonment suffered by the said Richard Boaden : 

And, of the Judgment of the Common Ser- 
jeant on the 21st day of November 1871, directing 
a Verdict of Not Guilty, on the ground that there 
was no Case to go to the Jury. 


Ship “ 
ee af 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Nullum 
to assimilate the Law in /reland to the Law in jm 
England as to quieting Possessions and Titles — 
against the Crown: And that Sir Colman O’Loghlen 
and Mr, Meldon do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Salt presented a Bill to confirm certain Local Goven. 
Provisional Orders of the Local Government ™¢ Pr- 
Board relating to the Boroughs of Aberavon, An- presen y 
dover, Brighton, and Buruley, the Districts of (No. 7) Bil 
Merthyr Tydvil and Pensarn, the Rural Sanitary Bill 164, 
District of the Tadcaster Union, and the Borough 
of Truro: And the same was read the first time; 
und ordered to be read a second time upon Mon- 
day next; and to be printed. 


The Lord Advocate presented a Bill to con- Public Health 
firm a Provisional Order under “The Public (St 
Health (Scotland) Act, 1867,” relating to the Order 
Parish of Wemyss, in the County of Fife: And (Wemyss) Bill 
the same was read the first time; and ordered Bill 166. 
to be read a second time To-morrow ; and to be 
printed. 

The Lord Advocate presented a Bill to amend Burghs _ 
the Law in Scotland in regard to the Division rah) (tot 
of Burghs into Wards: And the same was read the jand) Amené- 
first time ; and ordered to be read a second time ment Bill 
To-morrow ; and to be printed. Bill 168. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented a Bill to aaa 
apply a Sum out of the Consolidated Fund to (£.11,000,000) 
the service of the year ending the Thirty-first Bill 
day of March, One thousand eight hundred and 
seventy-seven: And the same was read the first 
time; and ordered to be read a second time To- 
morrow. 


Mr. Waller reported from the Committee on Private Bills 
Group A. of Private Bills; That, for the con- (Group 4.) 
venience of the Parties, the Committee had ad- 
journed till Thursday next, at Two of the clock. 

. —napia That the Report do lie upon the 
able. 


Sir Colman O’Loghlen presented a Bill to assi- Nullum 
milate the Law in Jreland to the Law in England 7" PM) wy 
as to quieting Possessions and Titles against the © p:y 497, 
Crown: And the same was read the first time ; 
and ordered to be read a second time upon Tues- 
day the 13th day of June next; and to be 
printed. 


Mr. Holt presented a Bill tomake more effectual Cruelty = 
provision for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani- a 168 
mals: And the same was read the first time; and Bi 
ordered to be read a second time upon Tuesday the 


4th day of July next; and to be printed. - 
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_ The Order for the House to resolve itself into a 
Notices oy Committee, upon Friday next, on the Notices to 
(Geld) Sn Quit (Jreland) Bill, was read, and discharged. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
the 13th day of June next, resolve itself into the 
said Committee. 


Girl Bill The Order for reading a second time, _ 
Courts Monday next, the Civil Bill Courts (Jreland) Bill, 
(Ireland) Bill. was read, and discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday the 12th day of June next. 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 











Thursday, 25th May, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 
nal GIB Charles Forster reported from the Select 
Petitions Committee on Public Petitions; That they 
(Iventy- had examined the Petitions presented upon the 
seal Report.) 774 18th, 22nd and 23rd ays of this instant 
May; and had directed him to make a Report 
thereof to the House. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


The Bristol United Gas Bill was read the third 
time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Dewsbury and «= Lhe Dewsbury and Heckmondwike Water Bill 
Heckmondwike was read the third time. 


Water Bill Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 
Ervood Bridge , Lhe Erwood Bridge Bill was read the third 


Bill {Lords.) time. 

Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, with Amendments; to which 
this House doth desire the concurrence of their 
Lordships. 


The Flookersbrook Improvement Bill was read 
the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, with Amendments ; to which 
this House doth desire the concurrence of their 


Lordships. 


Flookersbrook 
Improvement 


Bill [Lords. 


Great Northern 


The Great Northern Railway Bill was read the 
Railway Bill. 


third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, und desire their concurrence. 


Great Southern Lhe Great Southern and Western Railway Bill 
and Western was read the third time. 


tailway Bill. Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 
Great The Great Yarmouth and Stalham (Light) Rail- 


ime uth and way Bill was read the third time. 


(Light) Ra. Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

way Bill, Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 

Lancaster The Lancaster Water and Improvement Bill 


Water and Im. wasr ird ti 
peveneas Bi ead the third time. 

™ Bill. "Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
VoL. 131. 


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219 


Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The London and North Western Railway (New London and 
Lines, &amp;c.) Bill was read the third time. Railway Gow 
Resolved, 'That the Bill do pass. Lines, &amp;.) 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 5i- 


Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


A Motion being made, That the Rosstrevor Im- Rosstrevor 
provement Bill be now read the third time ; ~ orcamane 
Mr. Hubbard, by Her Majesty’s Command, ac- ~ 
quainted the House, That Her Majesty, having 
been informed of the purport of the Bill, gives 
Her Consent, as far as Her Majesty’s interest is 
concerned, that the House may do therein as they 
shall think fit. 
Then the Bill was read the third time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Spennymoor and Tudhoe Gas Bill was read Spennymoor 
the third time. = = 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. eet 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Upper Mersey Navigation Bill was read the Upper Mersey 
third time. — 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the ~ 
Title be, An Act for creating a Commission for 
lighting and buoying the Upper Mersey, for autho- 
rizing that Commission to levy and receive certain 
Rates and Dues, and for other purposes. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Great Western 
the Great Western Railway Bill, as amended in ®vsy Bill 
the Committee; and Amendments were made to 
the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration London and 
the London and Tilbury, and Dartford and Kent Serr sn paar 
Coast Junction Railway Bill, as amended in the Kent Coast 
Committee; and Amendments were made to the Junction 
Bill. Railway Bill. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The Romford Canal Company Bill was, accord- Romford Canal 
ing to Order, read a second time; and com- Company Bill. 
mitted. 

Ordered, That Standing Order, No. 212, be sus- 
pended in the case of the said Bill, and that the 
Committee of Selection have leave to appoint the 
Committee on the Bill to sit and proceed upon 
Tuesday next. 


Mr. Perey Wyndham reported from the Com- Newport 
mittee on Group D. of Private Bills; That in the ‘Monmouth- 
case of the Newport (Monmouthshire) Improvement ~~ 
Bill, they had examined the allegations contained 
in the Preamble of the Bill, and verbally amended 
the same, and found the same, as amended, to be 
true; and had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Lord George Cavendish reported from the Select Turnpike Acts 
Committee on Turnpike Acts Continuance; That Continuance. 
they had considered the matters to them referred, No. 241. 
and directed him to make a Report thereof to the 
House, together with the Minutes of Evidence 
taken before them. 

Ordered, That the Report, together with the 
Minutes of Evidence, do lie upon the Table; 
and that the Report, with the Minutes of the Pro- 
ceedings of the Committee, be printed. 

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220 25th May. 1876. 


Public Several Public Petitions were presented, and 

Petitions. read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Vide Twenty- 

third Report. 

Adulteration Ordered, That the Return relative to the 

ian Adulteration of Food and Drugs Act, which was 
No. 242 presented upon the 3rd day of April last, be 

mo" printed, 


East India Ordered, That the Return relative to East India 
(Christianity-) (Christianity), which was presented upon the 24th 
No. 243. day of this instant May, be printed. 


Limited Mr. Secretary Cross presented,—Return to an 
— Address to Her Majesty, dated the 3rd day of 
(Winting&lt;p) August, in the last Session of Parliament, for a 
Return of the Public Companies established under 
the Acts for limiting Liability which have been 
wound up under the Order of the Court of Chan- 
cery from the Ist day of January 1866 to the 31st 
day of December 1874, stating in each case— 
The Date of the Company ; 
The Date of the Winding-up Order ; 
The Nominal Capital of the Company ; 
The Number of Shares and the Amount of 
each Share ; 
The Subscribed Capital ; 
The Number and Amount of Calls made 
under the Winding-up in each case ; 
The Amount realised by such Calls ; 
The Amount of Debts proved ; 
The Amount of Assets realised otherwise 
than by Calls on Shares ; 
The Amount of Dividends paid ; 
The Date of the Final Proceeding under the 
Winding-up Order ; 
The Cost of the Proceedings to wind-up 
under the heads— 
Solicitor’s Costs ; 
General Charges; and 
Fees to Liquidators. 

School Board Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 
- camewngl 6th day of April last,—for Returns relative to 
“  $chool Board Prosecutions ( Greenwich). 

Police Mr. Secretary Cross also presented, pursuant to 
(Scotland.) the Directions of an Act of Parliament,—Copy of 

Eighteenth Report of Her Majesty’s Inspector of 
Constabulary of Scotland, for the year ended 15th 
March 1876. 
Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Spiirts. Mr. William Henry Smith presented,—Return to 
an Order, dated the 7th day of April last, for 
Returns relative to Spirits. 

Greenock Return to an Order, dated the 2nd day of this 

(Telegraphs.) instant May, for Returns relative to Greenock 
(Telegraphs). 

Ordered, That the saia Returns do lie upon the 

Table. 


a Mr, James Lowther presented, by Her Majesty’s 
—ey Command,—Copy of further Correspondence re- 
lating to the Affairs of certain Native States in the 
Malay Peninsulain the Neighbourhood of the Straits 
Settlements (in continuation of C. 1320 of 1876). 
Coolies, Mr. James Lowther also presented,—Return to 
St. Vincent. an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 23rd day of 
March last, for a Return relative to Coolies, Saint 

Vincent. 
Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 

Table. 


Notices to Quit | The Order for the House to resolve itself into a 
(Ireland) Bill. Committee, upon Tuesday the 13th day of June 
next, on the Notices to Quit (Jre/and) Bill, was 
read, and discharged. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
the 16th day of June next, resolve itself into the 
said Committee. 








A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- Adjounnes 
posed, That this House do now adjourn pull 

the said Motion was, with leave of the House, with- 

drawn. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Customs and 
into a Committee on the Customs and Inland Inland Reve, 
Revenue Bill. Bill, 


(In the Committee. ) 


Crauses, N° 1 and N° 2, agreed to. 

Cuiavuse, N° 3, disagreed to. 

CuiauseEs, N° 4 and No. 5, agreed to. 

Ciause, N° 6 (Grant of duties of income tax), 

Amendment proposed, in p- 2, 1. 38, to leave out 
the words ‘‘ three pence,” in order to insert the 
words “ two pence halfpenny.” 

Question put, That the words “ three pence” 
stand part of the Clause ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the {Sir William Dyke, 1 297 

Yeas, Mr. Rowland Winn: J 7 

Tellers for the ; Mr. Hodgson, 149 

Noes, Mr. Hankey: } . 

Clause agreed to. 

Cause, N° 7, agreed to. 

CrausE, N° 8 (Exemption where income is 
under 15024., and abatement where income is under 
400 1.) 

Amendment proposed, in p. 3, 1. 21, to leave 
out from the word “and,” to the word “ pounds,” 
in line 24, inclusive. 

Question, That the words proposed to be left out 
stand part of the Clause——put, and agreed to. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 3. |. 26, 
to leave out the words “is less than,” in order to 
insert the words “ does not exceed.” 

Question proposed, That the words “is less 
than,” stand part of the Clause :—Amendment, by 
leave, withdrawn. 

Clause agreed to. 

Ciausk, N° 9, disagreed to. 

CriauseEs, N° 10 to N° 13, agreed to. 

A Clause added. 

Another Clause (Gun licences, exemption for 
farmers)——brought up, and read the first time. 

Motion made, and Question put, That the 
Clause be read a second time; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for thef Mr. James Barclay, 

Yeas, LMr. Meldon: 
Tellers for the f Sir William Dyke, 
Noes, (Mr. Rowland Winn: 
Schedule agreed to. 
Bill, as amended, to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Commons Bil 
mittee on the Commons Bill; ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave 
the Chair ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to 
the Question, by leaving out from the word “ That’ 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the 
words “in the opinion of this House, this Bill 
“does not give adequate protection to the in- 
“ terests of the rural labourers, and does not pro- 
“ vide proper securities against the inclosure 0 
‘* those Commons which it is desirable to preserve 
“in their uninclosed condition for the use an 
“ enjoyment of the people,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being proposed, That 4 

wo 








Merchant 
Shipping Bill. 


Orders, 


39 VicTorRtia. 


25th—26th May. 





921 


words proposed to be left out stand part of the! Committee, to be appointed by the Committee of 


Question ; 
And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Friday morning ; 


Friday, 26th May, 1876: | 
| raittee ; and such of the Petitioners as pray to be 


And the Question being put ; 
The House divided. 
The Yeas to the Right ; 
The Noes to the Left. 
Tellers for the{ Sir William Dyke, ¥ 
Yeas, Mr. Rowland Winn: J *| 
Tellers for the (Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice, ) 98 
Noes, Mr. Cowper- Temple: Dp 
So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 





Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the | 
into the Committee. 
(In the Committee.) 
Preamble be postponed : 
Whereupon Motion made, and Question put, 
leave to sit again ; 
The Committee divided. 

Yeas, UMr. Dillwyn: } 89. 
Tellers for the; Sir William Dyke, 7 
Question again proposed, ‘Chat the Preamble be 

postponed : 
That the Chairman do now leave the Chair; 
The Committee divided. 

Yeas, Mr. Monk: \ 79. 
Tellers for thes Sir William Dyke, | 
Question again proposed, That the Preamble be 

postponed : 
That the Chairman do report Progress, and ask 
leave to sit again ; 


Chair:—The House accordingly resolved itself | 
Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 

That the Chairman do report Progress, and ask 
Tellers for the {Sir Charles Dilke, 

Noes, Mr. Rowland Winn: ¢ 185. 
Whereupon Motion made, and Question put, 
Tellers for the (oie Fylands, 

Noes, 1 Mr. Rowland Winn: s 165. 
Whereupon Motion made, and Question put, 
The Committee divided. 


Tellers for the (Captain Nolan, 1 80 
Yeas, LMr. James Barclay : f , 
Tellers for the (Sir William Fraser, 103 
Noes, { Mr. Benett-Stanford : } ” 


Question again proposed, That the Preamble be 


postponed : 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question, That 
the Chairman do now leave the Chair—— put, and 
negatived. 

Question again proposed, That the Preamble be 
postponed. 


To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had made Progress 
in the Bill; and that he was directed to move, That 
the Committee may have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 





The Order of the day being read, for the Third 
Reading of the Merchant Shipping Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 


| Reading of the Patents for Inventions Bill ; 








this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Poor Law Amendment Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Local Government Provisional 
Orders, Bristol, &amp;c. (No. 6) Bill; 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill, so far as it relates to 
the City of Bristol, be committed to a Select 
VoL. 131, 








Selection, asin the case of a Private Bill. 
Ordered, That, subject to the Rules, Orders, 
and Proceedings of this House, all Petitions 
which have been presented during the present 
Session against the Bill be referred to the Com- 


heard by themselves, their Counsel, or Agents, be 


| heard upon their Petitions, if they think fit, and 


Counsel heard in favour of the Bill against the 
said Petitions. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Highways Bill. 
Reading of the Highways Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Patents for 


Inventions 


Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time BY! {4r4-] 
upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Crossea 
mittee on the Crossed Cheques Bill; Cheques Bill 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve (“°° 

itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Poor Law 
mittee on the Poor Law ( Seot/and) Bill; (Scotland) Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second University of 
Reading of the University of Ozford Bill ; Oxford Bil 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time ‘4°! 

upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second University of 
Reading of the University of Cambridge Bill; Cambridge 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 5" 
upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Juries 
Reading of the Juries Procedure (Jreland) Bill; Procedure __ 
Anda Motion being made, and the Question (Ireland) Bill. 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a 
second time :—And a Debate arising thereupon ; 
Ordered, That the Debate be adjourned till this 
day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second jurors 
Reading of the Jurors Qualification (Ireland) Bill ; Qualification 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time (!teland) Bill. 
this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Kingstown 
mittee on the Kingstown Harbour Bill; Harbour Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


The Admiralty Jurisdiction (Jreland) Bill was, admiralty 
according to Order, read the third time. Jurisdiction 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. (Ireland) Bill. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second prevention of 
Reading of the Prevention of Crimes Act Amend- Crimes Act 
ment Bill ; ena 

And a Motion being made, and the Question ° 
being proposed, ‘That the Bill be now read a second 
time :—And a Debate arising thereupon ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be adjourned till 
Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second pubiic Health 
Reading of the Public Health (Scotland) Provi- (Scotland) 
sional Order ( Wemyss) Bill; Se 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time (Wemyss) Bill. 
this day. 


The Order of the — read, for the Second Burghs 
Reading of the Burghs (Division into Wards) (Division into 
(Scotland) Amendment Bill ; und) booed. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time ment Bill. 


this day. 
FF3 The 











Consolidated 

Fund 

(£. 11,000,000) 
ill. 


Offences 
against the 
Person Bill. 


Criminal Law 
Evidence 
Amendment 


Legal 
Practitioners 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Coroners 
(Dublin) Bill. 


Municipal 
Privileges 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Cambridge 
University 
(Report of 
Syndicate.) 


Parliamentary 
Electors 
Registration. 


Medical Act 
(Qualifica- 
tions.) 


Parliamentary 
Electors 
Registration 
Bill. 

Bill 169. 


Medical Act 
(Qualifica- 
tions) Bill. 


Bill 170. 


Poor Law 
Rating 
(Ireland) Bill. 


222 
The Consolidated Fund (£ 11,000,000) Bill 


was, according to Order, read a second time; and 
committed to a Committee of the whole House, for 
this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Offences against the Person Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the further Proceeding on the Second Reading of 
the Criminal Law Evidence Amer. ment Bill ; 

Ordered, That the further Proceeding be re- 
sumed upon Thursday the 8th day of June next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Legal Practitioners (Jreland) Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Coroners (Dublin) Biil; 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes reported, That 
the Committee had gone through the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking 
into consideration the Municipal Privileges (Jre- 
land) Bill, as amended in the id oa 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into considera- 
tion this day. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Copy of the Report, dated the 27th day 
of March 1876, of the Syndicate appointed the 
27th day of May 1875, by the University of Cam- 
bridge, to consider the Requirements of the Uni- 
versity in different Departments of Study, with 
Appendicee. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to amend the Law for the Registration of Parlia- 
mentary Voters in England and Wales: And that 
Mr. Boord, Sir John Lubbock, and Mr. Grantham 


do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to remove Restrictions on the granting of Qualifi- 
cations for Registration under the Medical Act 
on the ground of Sex: And that Mr. Russell Gur- 
ney and Mr. John Bright do prepare, and bring 
it in. 

Mr. Boord presented a Bill to amend the Law 
for the Registration of Parliamentary Voters in 
England and Wales: And the same was read the 
first time ; and ordered to be read a second time 
upon Tuesday the 20th day of June next; and to 
be printed. 


Mr. Russell Gurney presented a Bill to remove 
Restrictions on the granting of Qualifications for 
Registration under the Medical Act on the ground 
of Sex: And the same was read the first time; 
and ordered to be read a second time upon Thurs- 
day next; and to be printed. 


The Order for reading a second time, upon 
Thursday next, the Poor Law Rating (Jreland) 
Bill, was read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday the 12th day of June next. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till half an hour after Two of the clock 
on Friday morning, adjourned till this day. 


25th—26th May. 





1876. 
Friday, 26th May, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 
ORDE RED, That the Select Committee on toca 
the Local Government and Taxation of ment and 
Towns (Zreland) have leave to sit this day till Taxation of 
Five of the clock, during the sitting of the House, (Ireland) 


Mr. Mowbray reported from the Select Com- stangin 
mittee on Standing Orders, several Resolutions ; Orders, 
which were read, as follow: 

That in the case of the Waterford, New Ross, Watertora, 
and Wexford Junction Railway (Sale) Bill, the New Ross, aa 
Standing Orders ought to be dispensed with; Ver Jum. 
that the Bill be permitted to comuell (Saley nt? 

That in the case of the Southampton Docks Southampton 
Petition, the Standing Orders ought to be dis- Docks, 
pensed with; that the Parties be permitted to 
proceed with their Bill. 

The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 


Mr. Maikes reported from the Committee on the Alexandra 
Alexandra (Newport) Dock Bill; That they had (Newport) 
examined the allegations contained in the Preamble 2° Bil 
of the Bill, and amended the same by adding 
recitals of further portions of an Agreement partly 
recited in the Bill as introduced into Parliament, 
and as to alternative modes of raising the unraised 
portion of the capital of the Company, and by 
striking out the recitals as to the expediency of 
authorising the Company to construct a certain 
new road, and to run over, work, and use certain 
Railways and portions of Railways belonging to 
other Companies and persons, the powers relating 
thereto having been struck out of the Bill as 
submitted to the Committee, and found the same, 
as amended, to be true ; and had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Mr. Raikes reported Allan Glen’s Institution, Allan Glen's 
Glasgow, Bill, without Amendment. Institution, 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. fren} 


Mr. Raikes reported the Bromley Direct Railway Bromley Direc 
Bill, with an Amendment. Railway Bill. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table; 
and be printed. 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on Gorsedds 
the Gorsedda Junction and Portmadoc Railways ce 
Bill; That they had examined the allegations Railways I Bill, 
contained in the Preamble of the Bill, and amended 
the same to make it consistent with the provisions 
of the Bill as submitted to, and passed by the 
Committee, and found the same, as amended, to 
be true; and had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table; 
and be printed. 


Kirkcaldy 
Burgh 
Harbour Bill. 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on the 
Kirkcaldy Burgh and Harbour Bill; That they 
had examined the allegations contained in the 
Preamble of the Bill, and amended the same by 
inserting the following recital, viz.: “ And where- 
as the Burgh of Dysart adopted the provisions re- 
lating to lighting and cleaning of the Public 
Health Act, 3 &amp; 4 Will. 4,c. 46, and the said 
burgh was for those purposes divided into four 
wards, whereof part of the first ward, and the 
second, third, and fourth wards are embraced 
within the limits of the Burgh of Kirkcaldy, as ex- 
tended by this Act, and it is expedient that the 
said provisions of the said Act should remain 10 


force within that part which is not so embrace 
within 











39 VICTORIA. 


within the extended Burgh of Kirkcaldy,” and 
found the same, as: amended, to be true; and had 
gone through the Bill, and made Amendments 
thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 


Table. 





Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on the 
eighand _ Leigh and Hindley Local Boards Bill ; That a Re- 
Hindley Local port from the Local Government Board upon the 
Boards Bill and the objects thereof had been referred to 
[Lords the Committee, and considered by them, and that 
they had adopted such of the recommendations 
therein contained as appeared applicable to the 
case as submitted to them. 

Mr. Raikes further reported from the Com- 
mittee; That they had examined the allegations 
of the Bill, and found the same to be true; and 
had gone through the Bill, and made Amendments 
thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table. 


shifies, . 38 


Mr. Raikes reported the Monmouthshire Railway 
and Canal Bill, with Amendments. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


) Monmouth- 
. shire Railway 
and Canal Bill. 


North East 
Worcestershire 
Water Bill, 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on 
the North East Worcestershire Water Bill; That 
they had examined the allegations contained in 
the Preamble of the Bill, and amended the same 
by omitting therefrom the town of Stourbridge; 
and made further Amendments therein to make 
it consistent with the provisions of the Bill as 
submitted to, and passed by the Committee, and 
found the same, as amended, to be true, and 
had made provision in the Bill pursuant to a Reso- 
lution of the House; and had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, ‘hat the Report do lie upon the Table. 


, Queenborough 


Holo Bi, _. Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on the 


Queenborough Harbour Bill; That a Report from 
the Board of Trade upon the Bill had been re- 
ferred to the Committee, and that they had made 
provision in the Bill in pursuance of the recom- 
mendations therein contained, as appeared appli- 
cable to the case as submitted to them. 

Mr. Raikes further reported from the Com- 
mittee; That they had examined the allega- 
tions contained in the Preamble of the Biull, 
and amended the same to make it consistent 
with the provisions of the Bill as submitted to, 
and passed by the Committee, and found the 
same, as amended, to be true; and had gone 
through the Bill, and made Amendments there- 
unto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Bahn and 


i 
Railway Bill, 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on the 
Ruthin and Cerrig-y-Druidion Railway Bill; That 
they had examined the allegations contained in the 
Preamble of the Bill, and verbally amended the 
same, and found the same, as amended, to be true ; 
and had gone through the Bill, and made Amend- 
ments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


Sidmouth 
Railway Bill, 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on 
the Sidmouth Railway Bill; That they had exa- 
mined the allegations contained in the Preamble 
of the Bill, and amended the same to make it 
consistent with the provisions of the Bill as sub- 
mitted to, and passed by the Committee, and found 
the same, as amended, to be true; and had gone 
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26th May. 





223 


through the Bill, and made Amendments there- 
unto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


Mr. Raikes reported the 
with Amendments. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


, oe 
Uppingham W ater Bill, Uppingham 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on the West 
West Bromwich Improvement Bill; That a Report Bromwich 
from the Local Government Board upon the Bill, ee 
and the objects thereof, had been referred to the 
Committee, and considered by them, and that they 
had adopted such of the recommendations therein 
contained as appeared applicable to the case as 
submitted to them. 

Mr. Raikes further reported from the Com- 
mittee; That they had examined the allegations 
contained in the Preamble of the Bill, and amended 
the same to make it consistent with the provisions 
of the Bill as submitted to,and passed by the Com- 
mittee, and found the same, as amended, to be 
true; and had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Walter reported from the Committee on South Metro- 
Group A. of Private Bills; That, in the case of rare Ges 
‘ . ¢ * ght and Coke 
the South Metropolitan Gas Light and Coke gii, 
Company Bill, they had examined the allega- 
tions contained in the Preamble of the Bill, and 
verbally amended the same, and found the same, 





as amended, to be true; and had gone through 
the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table. 


Colonel Loyd Lindsay reported from the Com- Campbeltown 
mittee on Group F. of Private Bills; That, in Burgh and 
the case of the Campbeltown Burgh and Harbour @*our Bill. 
Bill, they had examined the allegations contained 
in the Preamble of the Bill, and amended the 
same by striking out so much of it as related 
to the construction of works for the supply and 





the sale of water to manufactories and distilleries, 
and found the same, as amended, to be true; and 
had gone through the Bill, and made Amend- 
ments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Stansfeld reported from the Select Com- Bridges (River 
mittee on Bridges (River Thames); That they ™™*) 
had considered the matters to them referred, No, 244, 
and directed him to make a Report thereof to the 
House, together with the Minutes of the Evidence 
taken before them, and an Appendix. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


Ordered, That the Committee on Group E. of Private Bills: 
Private Bills have leave to sit this day till Five of (Group E.) 
the clock, during the sitting of the House. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee on the Railway’ 
Railway Passenger Duty have leave to sit this P —— 
day till Five of the clock, during the sitting of ~~" 
the House. 


Sir Wilfrid Lawson reported from the Com- Southport 
mittee on Group L. of Private Bills; That, in the Tmprovement 
case of the Southport Improvement Bill, they had ~~ 
examined the allegations contained in the Pre- 

amble of the Bill, and amended the same by 

striking out the recitals relating to the incorpora- 

tion of Birkdale with Southport, and the construc- 

tion of a new Promenade in Birkdale, and 

otherwise verbally amended the same, in order to 





make it consistent with the provisions of the Bill 
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22 26th May. 


as passed by the Committee, and found the same, 
as amended, to be true ; and had gone through 
the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto; that a 
Report from the Local Government Board had been 
laid before the Committee, and considered by them ; 
and that they had adopted such of the recommen- 
dations therein contained as appeared to them ap- 
plicable to the circumstances of the case te 
mitted to them. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table. 


Enniskillen The Enniskillen and Bundoran Extension Rail- 
and Bundoran way Bill was read the third time. 
Extension Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 


— Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 
Felixstowe A Motion being made, That the Felirstowe Rail- 
ge ga way and Pier Bill be now read the third time ; 
ler Dill. 


Mr, Russell Gurney, by Her Majesty’s Com- 
mand, acquainted the House, That Her Majesty, 
having been informed of the purport of the Bill, 
gives Her Consent, as far as Her Majesty’s in- 
terest is concerned, that the House may do therein 
as they shall think fit. 

Then the Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Gas Light and Coke Company Bill was 
ty tml read the third “time ; and verbal Amendments 
Bill. were made to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 








1876. 
Redoubt) was twice read; and made part of the 
Bill. 

Another Clause (Limiting line where crossing 
property of War Pees was twice read; 


and made part of the Bill. 

Another Clause (An equivalent in land tobe 
provided by the Company for the Battery) was 
twice read ; and made part of the Bill. 

Then Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


That no Standing Orders not previously inquired Orden’ 
; "ss: « Saag ’ : ot 
into are applicable in the case of the following previously 


First Reading thereof, viz. : applicable. 
Western Bank of Scotland Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time. 


Select Committee on Standing Orders, in respect Docks. 
of the Petition for leave to bring in the South- 
ampton Docks Bill, might be read; and the same 
being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring ina Bill 

for authorising the Southampton Dock Company 

to construct a Graving Dock: And that Sir Fre- 
derichPerkins and Mr. Russell Gurney do prepare, 

and bring it in. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and aa 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. ee, 


(Officers holding Civil Appointments), which was i 
presented upon the 22nd day of this instant May, mh) 








The Newcastle and Gateshead Water Bill was 
read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the | 
Title be, An Act to enable the Newcastle and | 
Gateshead Water Company to construct additional 
Works and raise additional Capital, and for other | 
purposes. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Newcastle and 
Gateshead 
Water Bill. 


Smethwick The Smethwick Local Board Bill was read the 
Local Board third time. 
Bill. Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Great North The House proceeded to take into consideration 


of Scotland the Great North of Scotland Railway Bill. 

Railway Bill Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 

[ Lords. } 

Kilsyth Rail- The House proceeded to take into consideration 
way Bill the Kilsyth Railway Bill, as amended in the Com- 
— vt mittee 

“ Kilsyth an : , ‘ * 
Falkirk Rail. Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 
way.”’) 

London and The House proceeded to take into consideration 


North Western the London and North Western Railway ( Sirhowy 
Railway (Sir- 


day of this instant May, be printed. 


an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 17th day 
of this instant May, for a Return relative to the Dublin.) 
Indian Civil Service (Trinity a Dublin). 


be printed. No, 245, 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to the Police Police 
(Scotland), which was presented upon the 25th day (Stand) 
of this instant May, be printed. No. 246 


Ordered, That the Return relative to School school Board 
oard Prosecutions (Greenwich), which was pre- Prosecutions 
sented upon the 25th day of this instant May, be a 
printed. aoe 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Greenock ee. 
(Telegraphs), which was presented upon the 25th ( —s ) 
day of this instant May, be printed. No, 248. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Coolies, Coolies, 


Saint Vincent, which was presented upon the 25th oe 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Spirits, Spirits. 


which was presented upon the 25th day of this No. 260. 
instant May, be printed. 


Lord George Hamilton presented,—Return to Indian Civil 
College, 


Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 


Table. 


Mr. Secretary Cross presented, by Her Ma- Explosives. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Private Bil 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, [4rds] (No 


Bill, originating in the Lords, and referred on the ™4ired int, 


The House was moved, That the Report from the Southampton 


Vide Twenty. 
third Report. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Navy Navy (Officers 


Service (Trinity 






























































hewy Saiouy Railway Transfer) Bill, as amended in the Com- | jesty’s Command,—Copy of Annual Report of 


Transfer) Bill. mittee; and Amendments were made to the Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Metropolitan The House proceeded to take into consideration 
— — the Metropolitan Inner Circle Completion Railway 
Raileay Bil. Dill, as amended in the Committee; and Amend- 
; ments were made to the Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 
South Eastern The House proceeded to take into consideration 
Railway Bill. the South Eastern Railway Bill, as amended in 


the Committee. 
A Clause (No erection to be in front of Grand 


Her Majesty’s Inspector of Explosives up to 31st 
December 1875. 
Mr. Secretary Cross also presented,—Return to Ship “ Lily of 
an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 23rd day of Doves 
this instant May,for a Return relative to the Ship 
“ Lily of Devon.” 
Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented,— Return to Public ve 
an Order, dated the 18th day of this instant May, pen" 
for a Return relative to the Public Expenditure. 

. Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
able. 








Resolved, 













39 Vicroria. 26¢h—27 th May. Qv5 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented| And the Question being put, That the words 


in to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased | proposed to be left out stand part of the Question ; 

(School to give directions, that there be laid before this} The House divided. 

Districts.) House, a Return of all School Districts, whether} The Yeas to the Right; 

Boroughs or Civil Parishes, where a Rate of Three} The Noes to the Left. 
ence in the pound on the Rateable Value willnot| Tellers for thefSir William Dyke, V 60 
vroduce Six shillings per Head of one-sixth of the Yeas, Mr. Rowland Winn: J 228. 
Population of the Parish or School Districts. Tellers for the; Dr. Cameron, 1 
Noes, Mr. Meldon: JS 68. 

Convention The Order of the day being read, for the Second| So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

({reland) - Reading of the Convention (Ireland) Act Repeal Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
ls Repel BY. Bill: Chair:—The House accordingly resolved itself 
No Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time | into the Committee. 

t upon Thursday the 8th day of June next. (la Ge Cieealinns 
. n Saints The All Saints, Moss, Bill was read the first| Motion made, and Question proposed, That a 
cm Bil time; and ordered to be read a second time upon | Sum, not exceeding £. 144,025, be granted to Her 

{Lords.] Thursday next; and to be printed. Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary to defray 

Bill 172. the Charge which will come in course of payment 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Returns of the Names of Railway Companies 
whose Deposits under the Standing Orders of the 
House of Commons of Eight per Cent. were in the 
custody of the Court of Chancery in England and 
Ireland, or the Court of Exchequer of Scotland, 
on the lst day of February 1876; specifying in 
each case the Amount deposited either in Stock, 
Exchequer Bills, or Cash, and the Date on which 
the Deposit was made or accepted :—— Of the 
Names of Railway Companies whose Bonds given 
to the Crown with respect to their Schemes have 
been forfeited; specifying the Amount in each 
case, and what Proceedings have been taken 





during the year ending on the 3lst day of March 
1877, for such of the Salaries and Expenses of 
the Chancery Division of the High Court of 
Justice, of the Court of Appeal, and of the 
Supreme Court of Judicature, as are not charged 
on the Consolidated Fund : 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question, That 
a Sum, not exceeding £. 142,325, be granted to 
Iler Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary to 
defray the Charge which will come in course of 
payment during the year ending on the 3lst day 
of March 1877, for such of the Salaries and Ex- 
penses of the Chancery Division of the High 
Court of Justice, of the Court of Appeal, and of 































* thereon : And, of the Total Number of Rail-| the Supreme Court of Judicature, as are not 
ways and the Amount of Deposits to be given| charged on the Consolidated Fund——put, and 
x separately, and of all unitedly (in continuation of | negatived. 
Parliamentary Paper, No. 21, of Session 1867). Original Questicn put, and agreed to. 
Resolution to be reported. 
Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a 
Message had been brought from the Lords by one Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Razhes 
of their Clerks, as followeth : reported, That the Committee had come to a 
Poolbeg Light- The Lords have agreed to the Poolbeg Light- | Resolution. 
house Bill. house Bill, without any Amendment. Ordered, That the Report be received upon 
| Eiinburgh and The Lords have agreed to the Amendments | Monday next. 
Ba [Lorde] made by this House to the Edinburgh and District! Mr. Raikes also acquainted the House, that he 
“ Water Bill, without any Amendment. was directed to move, That the Committee may 
Blackrod The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act | have leave to sit again. 
Bil [Lede] for empowering the Local Board for the District} Resulved, That this House wiil, upon Monday 
of Blackrod, in the County of Lancaster, to make | next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 
Waterworks, and to supply their Districts with 
Water, and for other purposes; to which the The House, according to Order, proceeded to Customs and 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House. take into consideration the Customs and Inland Inland Revenue 
Anglesey — The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act | Revenue Bill, as amended in the Committee. Bill. 
— to transfer the Undertaking of the AngleseyCentral | Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
(Lords. Railway Company to the London and North| upon Monday next. 
Western Railway Company ; to provide for wind- 
ing-up the Affairs of the Anglesey Central Railway | The Order of the day being read, for the Third Merchant 
Company, and for other purposes; to which the | Reading of the Merchant Shipping Bill ; Shipping Bill. 
y Lords desire the concurrence of this House. And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read the 
Anglesey The Anglesey Central Railway Bill was read the | third time; 
Central Rail- first time. ; . + as 
eal Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa-| ,, And the House having continued to sit till after 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills. Twelve of the clock on Saturday morning ; 
; Saturday, 27th May 1876: 
Supply. The Order of the day being read, for the Com- And the Question being pat ; 


mittee of Supply ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave 
the Chair ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” 


Ordered, That the Bill be now read the third time: 
—The Bill was accordingly read the third time ; 
and a verbal Amendment was made to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered,That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 









to the end of the Question, in order to add the 
words “in the opinion of this House, it is un- 
“ desirable that the benefits intended by Parlia- 
“ment to accrue to any class of Her Majesty’s 
“ subjects from the passing of any statute should 
** be neutralised by the official action of a Member 
“ of the Administration responsible for the enact- 
“ ment of that statute,” instead thereof. 

VoL, 131. 


Statutory 

a. The Order of the day being read, for the Second Clerk of the’ 

Reading of the Clerk of the Peace and of the Peace and of 

Crown (Ireland) Bill; (Ireland) Bill. 
And a Motion being made, and the Question 

being proposed, That the Bill be now read a 


second time ; 
An 








GG 





Poor Law 
Amendment 
Bill. 


Consolidated 
Fund 

(£. 11,000,000) 
Bill. 


Cattle Disease 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Crossed 
Cheques Bill 
[ Lords. ] 


Smithfield 
Prison 
(Dublin) Bill. 


Ways and 
Means. 


Juries 
Procedure 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Jurors 
Qualification 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Kingstown 
Harbour Bill. 


Public Healt! 
(Scotland) Pro- 
visional Order 


(Wemyss) Bill. 


Burghs 
(Division into 
Wards) (Scot- 
land) Amend- 
ment Bill. 


226 


An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the word “now,” and, at 
the end of the Question, adding the words “‘ upon 
** this day six months.” 

And the Question being proposed, That the 
word “now” stand part of the Question:—And a 
Debate arising thereupon ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be adjourned till 
Monday the 12th day of June next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Poor Law Amendment Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 





The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Consolidated Fund | 
(£.11,000,000) Bill; and, after some time spent | 
therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and 
Mr. Raikes reported, That the Committee had 
gone through the Bill; and directed him to report 
the same, without Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Cattle Disease (Jredand) Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday | 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 





The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Crossed Cheques Bill; | 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday | 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Smithfield Prison (Dudlin) Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Ways and Means; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. | 





The Order of the day being read, for resuming | 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
upon the 25th day of this instant May, That the 
Juries Procedure (Jreland) Bill be now read a 
second time; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned | 
till Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Jurors Qualification (Jreland) 
Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Kingstown Harbour Bill; 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. Razkes reported, 
That the Committee had gone through the Bill, 
and directed him to report the same, without 
Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Monday next. 


The Public Health ( Scotland) Provisional Order 
(Vemyss) Bill was, according to Order, read a 
second time; and committed to a Committee of 
the whole House, for Thursday the 8th day of 
June next. 


The Burghs (Division into Wards) (Scotland) 
Amendment Bill was, according to Order, read a 
second time; and committed to a Committee of 
the whole House, for Thursday the 8th day of 
June next. 





26th—27th May. 


1876. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Poor Lay 
Reading of the Poor Law Guardians Elections Sr 
(Ireland) Bill ; (Ireland) Bin 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday the 16th day of June next. 


The Order ofthe day being read, for the Com- Crab ana 
mittee on the Crab and Lobster Fisheries (Vorfolk) Lobster 
Bill ; re 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday ) Bil, 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming House 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed Occupiers Dis. 
upon the 22nd day of March last, That the House ; wren 
Occupiers Disqualification Removal Bill be now 
read a second time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Beer Licences 
Reading of the Beer Licences (Ireland) Bill ; (treland) Bill 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Lega 
Reading of the Legal Practitioners (Zreland) Bill ; Practitioners 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time (land) Bill. 
upon Monday next. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to Coroners 
take into consideration the Coroners (Dublin) Bill, ‘P%™ Bil 
as amended in the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Municipal 
consideration the Municipal Privileges ( Jrelund) re. 
Bill, as amended in the Committee ; a 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into considera- 
tion upon Tuesday next. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Local figit 
to authorise the Reduction of Local Light Dues: ion &lt;1 
And that Mr. Sykes, Mr. Norwood, and Mr. Wil- 
son, do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bil] Gun Licence 
to amend “ The Gun Licence Act, 1870”: And peewee 9 
that Sir Alexander Gordon, Mr. M‘ Lagan, and 
Mr. Mark Stewart do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Sykes presented a Bill to authorise the Lot 
Reduction of Local Light Dues; And the same tion) Bill. 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 4351) 173 
second time upon Tuesday next; and to be 


printed. 


Sir Alexander Gordon presented a Bill to amend Gun Licence 
“The Gun Licence Act, 1870”: And the same peice 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a gin). 
second time upon Wednesday the 12th day of pill 174. 


July next: and to be printed. 


Mr. Ellice reported from the Committee on Chesterfield 
Group E. of Private Bills; That in the case of Borous) 
the Chesterfield Borough Extension and Improve- jyprovement 
ment Bill, they had examined the allegations con- Bill. 
tained in the Preamble of the Bill, but the same 
had not been proved to their satisfaction. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table. 


The Order for reading a second time, upon —_ Fishing 
Monday next, the Elver Fishing Bill, was read, ** 
and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 


upon Monday the 12th day of June next. i. 
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Bill. 


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Bill. 


Bill. 


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39 Victoria. 


tered, The House was moved, That the Report from 
New Ross, and the Select Committee on Standing Orders, in 
Wexford June- rosnect of the Waterford, New Ross, and Wexford 
ton il Junction Railway (Sale) Bill, might be read; and 
the same being read ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order for the House to resolve itself into 
se ‘pro. a Committee, upon Monday next, on the Salmon 
sional Order) Fishery (Provisional Order) Bill, was read, and 
Bill. discharged. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 

next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till a quarter of an hour after One of the 
clock on Saturday morning, adjourned till 
Monday next. 








Monday, 29th May, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 


Public IR Charles Forster reported from the Select 
Petitions Committee on Public Petitions; That they 
(Twenty-third hod examined the Petitions presented upon the 
—_ 24th, 25th, and 26th days of this instant May, 
and had directed him to make a Report thereof to 
the House. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


A Motion being made, That the Great Western 
Railway Bill be now read the third time ; 

Mr. Russell Gurney, by Her Majesty’s Command, 
acquainted the House, That Her Majesty, having 
been informed of the purport of the Bill, gives 
Her Consent, as far as Her Majesty’s interest is 
concerned, that the House may do therein as they 
shall think fit. 

Then the Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Great Western 
Railway Bill. 


Lancashire and 
Yorkshire 
Railway Bill. 


The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Bill was 
read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


London and The Zondon. and South Western Railway 


vn (Various Powers) Bill was read the third time; 


(Vazious and verbal Amendments were made to the Bill. 
Powers) Bill. Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 
Lenton and The London and Tilbury, and Dartford and 
ee Kent Coast Junction Railway Bill was read the 
Kent Coast third time. 
Junction Rail- Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
7. Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 
~~ deg The Midland Railway (Further Powers) Bill 


Powers) Bij, WS read the third time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 
Severn Bridge 


sad Forest A Motion being made, That the Severn Bridge 
Desa Centra, 200 Forest of Dean Central Railway Bill be now 
read the third time ; 

Mr. Russell Gurney, by Her Majesty’s Com- 
mand, acquainted the House, That Her Majesty, 
having been informed of the purport of the Bill, 
gives Her Consent, as far as Her Majesty’s in- 
terest is concerned, that the House may do therein 
as they shall think fit. 

VoL. 131. 


ilway Bill, 





Wth—27th—29th May. 











297 


Then the Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Southampton Gas Light and Coke Bill was Southampton 
read the third time. ——— 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Ordered, That the Sutton Bridge Dock Bill be Sutton Bridge 
read the third time upon Thursday next. Dock Bill. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Burntisland 
the Burntisland Burgh Bill, as amended in the Burgh Bill. 
Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Cleveland 
the Cleveland Water Bill, as amended in the Com- Water Bill. 
mittee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Colney Hatch 
the Colney Hatch Gas Bill, as amended in the © Bill. 
Committee ; and an Amendment was made to the 
Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Dunfermline 
the Dunfermline Water Bill, as amended in the Water Bill. 
Committee ; and Amendments were made to the 
Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Halifax Water 
the Halifax Water and Gas Extension Bill, as ee 
amended in the Committee. ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Llynvi and 
the Liynvi and Ogmore, and Cardiff and Ogmore on fo 
Valley Railway Companies Bill, as amended in Ogmore Valley 
the Committee. Railway Com- 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. P?*™** Bill 


The House proceeded to take into consideration London, 
the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway oe = 
(Various Powers) Bill, as amended in the Com- nie 
mittee. ( Various 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. Powers) Bill. 


The House proceeded to take into censideration Metropolitan 
the Metropolitan Board of Works bill, as amended wey 
in the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration North British 
the North British Railway (Additional Works, — 
&amp;c.) Bill, as amended in the Committee; and &amp;e.) Bill, ao 
Amendments were made to the Bill. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Reilwer (Pile 
the North British Railway (Fife Railways) Bill, as Railways) Bill 
amended in the Committee. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Norwich (City) 
the Norwich (City) Water Bill, as amended in the Water Bill. 
Committee ; and Amendments were made to the 
Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Oldbury Local 


the Oldbury Local Board of Health Bill, as ee 


amended in the Committee; and Amendments 
were made to the Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 
G@G@2 The 


Penarth, Sully, 
and Cadoxton 
Railway Bill. 


Plymouth 
Dock 


(Devonport) 
Water Bill. 


Scottish 
Equitable Life 
Assurance 


Society Bill 
[ Lords. } 


Stonehouse 
Pool Improve- 
ment Bill. 


Tipton Local 
Board Bill. 


Wakefield 
Water Bill. 


Wye Valley 
Railway Bill. 


Bodmin and 
Wadebridge 
and Delabole 
Railway Bill 
[ Lords. } 
Cornwall 
Mineral and 
Bodmin and 
Wadebridge 
Junction Rail- 
way Bill 
[Lords.] 

De Blonay’s 
Naturalization 


Bill [ Lords.] 


Methodist 
Conference 
Bill [Lords.] 


Peterhead 
Harbour Bill 
[ Lords. ] 


Blackrod Local 


Board Bill 
[Lords. } 


Southampton 
Docks Bill. 


Private Bills 
[Lords] 
(Standing 
Orders, not 
previously 
inquired into, 
complied with.) 


228 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Penarth, Sully, and Cadoxton Railway Bill, as 
amended in the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Plymouth Dock (Devonport) Water Bill, as 
amended in the Committee; and Amendments 
were made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Scottish Equitable Life Assurance Society 
Bill, as amended in the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Stonehouse Pool Improvement Bill, as amended 
in the Committee ; and Amendments were made to 


29th May. 


1876. 


originating in the Lords, and referred on the First 
Reading thereof, viz. : 
Waterford and Wexford Railway Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—R eport from Private Bits 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private [Lords] 
Bills, That no Standing Orders not previously in- (N° 
quired into are applicable in the case of the fol- previously jn. 
lowing Bills, originating in the Lords, and referred {Wired into, 
on the First Reading thereof, viz. : applicable.) 

National Assurance Company of Jreland. 
New Shoreham Harbour. 
Ordered, That the Bills be read a second time. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Private Bits 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private [ Lords} 
Bills, That the Standing Orders not previously (Standing 


. ; . . Orders, not 
inquired into, and which are applicable thereto, previously in. 





the Bill. | 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. | 
. . \ 
The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Zipton Local Board Bill, as amended in the 
Committee. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Wakefield Water Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


have not been complied with in the case of the fo!- quired into, not 
lowing Bill, originating in the Lords, and referred °™P!*¢ with) 
on the First Reading thereof, viz. : 
Scarborough Harbour Bill. 
Ordered, That the Report be referred to the 
Select Committee on Standing Orders. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and Public 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions, 
Vide Twenty. 
fourth Report, 
Ordered, That the Return relative to National National 





The House proceeded to take into consideration | 
the Wie Valley Railway Bill, as amended in the | 
Committee. 

A Clause (Release of balance of money de- 
posited) was twice read; and made part of the Bill. 

Another Clause (Power to take easements, &amp;c., 
by agreement) was twice read; and made part of 
the Bill. 

Then Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The Bodmin and Wadebridge and Delubole Rail- 
way Bill was read a second time; and committed. 


The Cornwall Mineral and Bodmin and Wade- 
bridge Junction Railway Bill was read a second 


time ; and committed. | 


Education (Jreland), which was presented upon (Ireland) 
the 22nd day of this instant May, be printed. 


No. 251, 
Ordered, That the Return relative to the Public 
Public Expenditure, which was presented upon /*Pemtiture. 
the 26th day of this instant May, be printed. No, 252, 
Ordered, That the Return relative to the Jndian Indian Civil | 
Civil Service (Trinity College, Dublin), which was ona 
presented upon the 26th day of this instant May, Dublin) 
be printed. No, 253. 


Mr. Secretary Cross presented, by Her Ma- Land Ownes 
jesty’s Command,—Return of Owners of Land of in Ireland. 
One Acre and upwards, in the several Counties, 
) Counties of Cities, and Counties of Towns in 
| Irelund, showing the Names of such Owners, ar- 

ranged Alphabetically in each County ; their Ad- 
| dresses, as far as could be ascertained ; the Extent 
in Statute Acres, and the Valuation in each case ; 





| together with the Number of Owners in each County 


| 


— — : 
De Blonay’s Naturalization Bill was read a 


second time; and committed. | 


The Methodist Conference Bill was read a 
second time; and committed. 


The Peterhead Harbour Bill was read a second 
time ; and committed. | 
| 

The Blackrod Local Board Bill was read the | 
first time. | 


Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- 


of less than One Statute Acre in extent; and the To- 
tal Area and Valuation of such Properties ; and the 
Grand Total of Area and Valuation for all Owners 
of Property in each County, County of a City, or 
| County of a Town; to which is added, a Summary 


| for each Province and for all Jredand. 
| Mr. Secretary Cross also presented,—Return to 


Scientific 
‘an Order, dated the 9th day of this instant May, '™vestss#™ 
for a Return relative to Scientific Investigations. 

Mr. Secretary Cross also presented, pursuant to Poor Relief 
the directions of several Acts of Parliament,— (Ireland) 
Copy of General Order of the Local Government 
Board fer Ireland for Elections to supply Vacan- 


miners of Petitions for Private Bills. ‘cies in Boards of Guardians, for year ending 25th 
| March 1877. 


A Bill for authorising the Southampton Dock | 


Company to construct a Graving Dock was read | 
the first time; and referred to the Examiners of | 
Petitions for Private Bills. 

Ordered, That Standing Order, No. 235, be sus- | 
pended in the case of the said Bill; and that the | 
Examiner of Petitions for Private Bills have leave 
to sit and proceed To-morrow. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 
That the Standing Orders not previously inquired 
into, and which are applicable thereto, have been 
complied with in the case of the following Bill, 





Copy of Order of the Local Government Board Cattle Disease 
for p Ay under the Cattle Disease (Jreland) (iechenl) Ae 
Act, for the Assessment on 163 Contributory Poor 
Law Unions. 

Copy of Order of the Local Government Board 
for Ireland, under the National School Teachers 
(Ireland) Act, 1875, for the Assessment on 70 
Contributory Poor Law Unions. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Bourke presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- 
mand,—Copy of Correspondence respecting Extra- 
dition to the United States. 


National 
Schoel 
Teachers 
(Lreland) Act, 
1875. 


United States 
Extradition, 
( North 


America, 6. 
Copy No. 1, 1876.) 








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$9 Vicroria, 


ufactures, Copy of Reports from Her Majesty’s Secre- 
oan &amp;e. indent Embassy and Legation on pong two 
(Commersg) tures, Commerce, &amp;c., of the Countries in which 
—. they reside. Part IT. 
Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Sir Charles Adderley presented, by Her Ma- 
jesty’s Command,—Copy of Reports of the In- 
specting Officers of the Railway Department to 
the Board of Trade, upon certain Accidents which 


have occurred on Railways during the Months of 
January, February, and March 1876. (Part II.) 


Railway 
Accidents. 


Sir Charles Adderley presented, pursuant to 
the directions of an Act of Parliament,— An 
Abstract of the Accounts of the Receipts and 
Expenditure of the Harwich Harbour Conser- 
vancy Board, from the time of their incorporation 
under “ The Harwich Harbour Act, 1863,” down 
to, and inclusive of, the 3lst August 1875 :—-— 
Also, an Account of their Credits and Liabilities 
(as nearly as the same can be ascertained and 
estimated) down to the 3lst December 1875; 
together with a Report of the Conservancy Board 
on their Proceedings and on the Works executed 
by them, and on the state of Harwich Harbour, 
furnished by the said Conservancy Board to the 
Board of Trade, pursuant to “ The Harwich Har- 
bour Act, 1863,” Section 6. (As returned by the 
Conservancy Board to the Board of Trade.) 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Harwich 
Harbour. 


Union Mr. Sait presented,— Return to an Order, dated 
Workhouses. the 9th day of August, in the last Session of Par- 
liament, for a Return of the Number of Men, 
Women, and Children in the several Union 
Workhouses on the 1st day of January 1875 (or 
on any previous Date for which the Return could 
be made), distinguishing the Number professing 
to belong to the Church of England and the 
Number belonging to all other Religious Com- 
munities. 
Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Returns of the Number of Boys entered for the 
Navy in each year during the last Twenty years: 
——Of the Number of Boys who have ceased to 
be in the Service in each year during the same 
Period, grouped under the Heads of Discharge by 
Purchase, Invaliding, Death, Desertion, and Dis- 
charge with Disgrace : And, of the Number of 
Boys remaining in the Service at the end of each 
year. 


Navy (Boys.) 





Gas Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
ates a Copy of Correspondence between the Board of 
Patent) Trade and the Gas Referees, in reference to Mr. 
Patterson taking out a Patent for Gas Purification, 
and to the alteration of the Position and Duties of 
those Officers. 
Sir Charles Adderley accordingly presented the 
said Paper. 
Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Message from 


pal Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a 


Message had been brought from the Lords by one 

7 of their Clerks, as followeth : 

iw Act The Lords have agreed to the Partition Act 

nent Bil” (1868) Amendment Bill, with Amendments; to 

— the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
ouse, 


Pier and The Lords have agreed to the Pier and Har- 
,. bour Orders Confirmation (Aldborough, &amp;c.) Bill, 
firmatio, With Amendments; to which the Lords desire the 
{Aldborough, concurrence of this House. 

) Bill Vor. 131. 


29th May. 








229 


The Lords have agreed to the Glasgow and Glasgow and 
South Western Railway Bill, with Amendments ; = — 
to which the Lords desire the concurrence of this ee 
House. 

The Lords have agreed to the Royal Albert Royal Albert 
Hall Bill, with Amendments; to which the Lords Hall Bill. 
desire the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have agreed to the Cleator and Cleator and 
Workington Junction Railway Bill, with Amend- ae Rail- 
ae ; a which the Lords desire the concurrence way Bill. 
of this House. 

‘Che Lords have agreed to the Amendments Erwood Bridge 
made by this House to the Erwood Bridge Bill, Bi! (4ords.) 
without any Amendment. 

The Lords have agreed to the Amendments Flookersbrook 
made by this House to the Flookersbrook Improve- }™Provement 
ment Bill, without any Amendment. re 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act statute Law 
to facilitate the Revision of the Statute Law by Revision 
substituting in certain Acts, incorporating Enact- (Sustituted 

a) ? pora 5 ac Enactments) 
ments which have been otherwise repealed, a Bill [Zords.] 
reference to recent Enactments still in force; to 
which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Rochester 
to amend various Acts relating to Rochester Bridge, Bridse Bill 
in the County of Kent, and to make further pro- on 
visions for the Election of Wardens and Assistants 
and Auditors of Rochester Bridge, and for other 
matters relating thereto; to which the Lords 
desire the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Letterkenny 
to authorise the Levy of a Rate in aid of the Pollwiy Bill 
Letterkenny Railway; to extend the Time for ss 
completing that Undertaking ; and to make further 
Provisions with reference thereto; to which the 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 


The Letterkenny Railway Bill was read the first Letterkenny 
time. a Bill 
Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- ee 

miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Third Customs and 
Beating of the Customs and Inland Revenue pyvenuc Bill. 

ill ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read the 
third time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word ‘* That” 
to the end of the Question. in order to add the 
words “ in the opinion of this House, no financial 
“ arrangements can be satisfactory which are so 
“framed as to make no provision for relieving 
“ Ireland from a burden of Taxation beyond her 
“ ability to pay as compared with Great Britain,” 
instead thereof. 

And the Question being proposed, That the 
words proposed to be left out stand part of the 
Question:—The said proposed Amendment was, 
with leave of the House, withdrawn. 

Ordered, That the Bill be now read the third 
time :—The Bill was accordingly read the third 
time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Consolidated Fund (£. 11,000,000) Bill was, Consolidated 
according to Order, read the third time. teil need 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the pi,” ” ) 
Title be, An Act to apply the Sum of Eleven 
million Pounds out of the Consolidated Fund to 
the Service of the year ending the Thirty-first 
day of March One thousand Eight hundred and 
Seventy-seven. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 

GG@3 The 





230 


Commons Bill. The House, according to Order, resolved itself 


into a Committee on the Commons Bill. 
(In the Committee.) 


Question again proposed, That the Preamble be 
postponed ; 

Question put, and agreed to. 

Crause, N° 1, agreed to. 


CuiauseE, N° 2 ( Alternative Provisional Order 
for Regulation or Inclosure of Commons). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 2, 1. 31, to leave 
out from the word “ Common” to the end of the 
Clause, in order to insert the words “ but after the 
“ passing of this Act the Commissioners shall not 
“ entertain an application for the inclosure of any 
“ Common or any part thereof; and notwith- 
“ standing any proceedings taken under any Act 
“ other than this Act, or any Provisional Order of 
“the Commissioners made but not already con- 
“firmed by Act of Parliament, proceedings may 
“be taken under this Act for the regulation of 
“ any Common.” 

Question put, That the words “or for the in- 
“ closure of a Common” stand part of the Clause; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the { Sir William Dyke, } 203 

Yeas, Mr. Rowland Winn: ‘ 

Tellers for the ; Mr. Cowper- Temple, 66 

Noes, Mr. Bristowe: } : 

An Amendment made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 3, lL. 6, 
after the word ‘‘effect” to insert the words 
“unless they are of opinion that such application 
* will be for the benefit of the neighbourhood.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted :—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 3, 1. 5, after 
the word “ application ” to insert the words “ for 
* inclosure.” 

Question, That those words be there inserted 

put, and negatived. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 3, 1. 8, to 
leave out the word “‘such” in order to insert the 
word “ the.” 

Question proposed, That the word “ such” stand 
part of the Clause :—Amendment, by leave, with- 
drawn. 

Another Amendment proposed, at the end of 
the Clause, to add the words “ from and after the 
e ay of this Act any inclosure of a Common, 
«Town Green, or Village Green, existing at the 
“ time of the passing of this Act, or of any part 
“ thereof, shall be unlawful, unless sanctioned by 
« Parliament under the provisions of this Act.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
added ; 

Amendment proposed to the said proposed 
Amendment, in lines 2 &amp; 3, to leave out the 
words “ existing at the time of the passing of this 
*¢ Act.” 

Question, That the words proposed to be left out 
stand part of the said proposed Amendment, 
put, and negatived. 

Question put, That the words “from and after 
“ the passing of this Act any inclosure of a Com- 
«“ mon, Town Green, or Village Green, or of any 
“ part thereof, shall be unlawful, unless sanctioned 
“by Parliament under the provisions of this 
“* Act,” be added at the end of the Clause. 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for ther Mr. Shaw Lefevre, 30 

Yeas, Lord Edmond F: oe . 

Tellers for the (Sir William Dyke, 206 

Noes, Mr. Rowland Winn: , 

Motion made, and Question, That the Chairman 
do report Progress, and ask leave to sit again—— 
put, and negatived. 

Question put, That the Clause, as amended, 
stand part of the Bill; 
The Committee divided. 


29th—30th May. 


1876. 


Tellers for the {Sir William Dyke, 71 


Yeas, Mr. Rowland Winn: if 
Tellers for the ; Captain Nolan, 1 

Noes, {wnt Parnell: 9. 
To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again, 


252. 





And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Tuesday morning ; 


Tuesday, 30th May, 1876: 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had made Progress 
in the Bill; and that he was directed to move, 
That the Committee may have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Reclesisstical 
Reading of the Ecclesiastical Assessments (Sco¢- Assessments 
land) Bill; (Scotland) Bill, 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday the 12th day of June next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Sheriff Courts 
Reading of the Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Bill;  ‘Se»tland) Bi. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday the 12th day of June next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Appellate 
Reading of the Appellate Jurisdiction Bill ; sae 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time aie 
upon Thursday the 8th day of June next. 


Maritime 
Contracts Bill, 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Maritime Contracts Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday the 8th day of June next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Roads and 
Reading of the Roads and Bridges (Scotland) Bridges 
Bill; 7 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday the 12th day of June next. 


Bill 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Supreme Court 
Reading of the Supreme Court of Judicature (Jre- tI a 
land) Bill; {Lords.| 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday the 12th day of June next. 


The Local Government Provisional Orders, Local Govern- 
Aberavon, &amp;c. (No. 7) Bill was, according to ™ 
a F nal Orders, 
Order, read a second time; and committed to a pee &amp;e. 
Committee of the whole House, for Thursday the (No. 7) Bill 


8th day of June next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Highways Bill 
Reading of the Highways Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday the 8th day of June next. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Prevention of 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed [rime in 
upon the 25th day of this instant May, That the piu. 
Prevention of Crimes Act Amendment Bill be 
now read a second time; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 


till Thursday next. 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee of Supply. 
Supply, a Resolution; which was read, as fol- 
loweth: 

That a Sum, not exceeding £. 144,025, be oy 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sam (chancery 
necessary to defray the Charge which will come Division, &amp;e.) 
in course of payment during the year ending on the 
31st day of March 1877, for such of the Salaries 
and Expenses of the Chancery Division of the High 
| Court of Justice, of the Court of Appeal, and = 














tical 
ents 
d) Bill, 


ourts 
1) Bill, 


Court 
ire 
Bill 





Supply. 


Poor Law 
Amendment 
Bill. 


Cattle Disease 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Crossed 
Cheques Bill 
[Lords.] 


Smithfield 
Prison 
(Dublin) Bill. 


Ways and 
Means. 


Juries 
Procedure 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Jurors 
Qualification 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Harbour Bill, 


Waterford, 

New Ross, and 

Wexford Junc- 

tion Railway 

(Sale) Bill, 

Parliamen: 

and Municipcl 
D 


) 


Game Laws 


ent 


(Scotland) Bill. 


39 VicTrorRiA. 


the Supreme Court of Judicature, as are not 
charged on the Consolidated Fund. 

The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply ; 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Poor Law Amendment Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
the 8th day of June next, resolve itself into the 
said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Cattle Disease (Jre/and) Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
the 12th day of June next, resolve itself into the 
said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Crossed Cheques Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
the 12th day of June next, resolve itself into the 
said Committee. 


The Smithfield Prison (Dublin) Bill was, ac- 
cording to Order, read a second time; and com- 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for 
Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Ways and Means; 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
upon the 25th day of this instant May, That the 
Juries Procedure (Jreland) Bill be now read a 
second time ; 

And the Question being again proposed :—The 
House resumed the said adjourned Debate. 

And the Question being put ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be now read a second 
time:—The Bill was accordingly read a second 
time ; and committed to a Committee of the whole 
House, for this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
a of the Jurors Qualification (Jreland) 

ill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day. 


The Kingstown Harbour Bill was, according to 
Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Waterford, New Ross, and Wexford Junc- 
tion Railway (Sale) Bill was, according to Order, 
read a second time; and committed to a Select 
Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Parliamentary and Municipal 
Registration (Boroughs) Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday the 12th day of June next. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
upon the 27th day of April last, That the Game 
Laws Amendment (Scotland) Bill be now read a 
second time ; 

__ Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
a the 8th day of June next. 
OL. 131, 


29th—30th May. 











231 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming County Rates 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed (ielaed) Bill 
upon the 9th day of this instant May, That the 
antag Rates (Jredand) Bill be now read a second 
ime ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Wild Fowl 
mittee on the Wild Fowl Preservation Bill ; Preservation 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday _ 
the 9th day of June next, resolve itself into the 
said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Toll Bridges 
— of the Toll Bridges (River Thames) (°°) gin 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday the 12th day of June next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Intoxicating 
mittee on the Intoxicating Liquors (Licensing Liquors 
Law Amendment) (No. 2) Bill; ——- a , 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday (No 3) Bi 
the 9th day of June next, resolve itself into the 
said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Legal 
——s of the Legal Practitioners (Jreland) (ireland) Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day. 


The Coroners (Dublin) Bill was, according to Coroners 
Order, read the third time. (Dublin) Bill. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Bankers’ Books 
to amend the Law with reference to Bankers’ =¥idene. 
Books Evidence: And that Sir John Lubbock, Mr. 

Backhouse, Mr. Sampson Lloyd, and Mr. Watkin 
Williams do prepare, and bring it in. 


Colonel Loyd Lindsay reported from the Com- Tyne Improve- 
mittee on Group F. of Private Bills; That they ™* Bill 
had proceeded to examine the allegations contained 
in the Preamble of the Tyne Improvement Bill, 
but that the Parties promoting the Bill had 
stated to the Committee that it was not their in- 
tention to proceed with the same. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Sir John Lubbock presented a Bill to amend the Bankers’ Books 
Law with reference to Bankers’ Books Evidence : Evidence Bill. 
And the same was read the first time ; and ordered _ Bill 171. 
to be read a second time upon Thursday the 8th 
day of June next; and to be printed. 


The Order for resuming, this day, the adjourned steamship 
Debate on the Question proposed upon the 21st “ Talisman.” 
day of March last, That a Select Committee be 
appointed to inquire into the circumstances con- 
nected with the seizure of the British Steamship 
“* Talisman” by the Peruvian Government, her 
employment in the National Service of Peru, the 
impressment of her Crew on board Peruvian War 
Ships, their prolonged imprisonment without trial, 
and the whole circumstances of the case, was read, 
and discharged. 


Ordered, That the Amendments made by the Pier and 
arbour 


Lords to the Pier and Harbour Orders Confirma- a Com 
tion (Aldborough, &amp;c.) Bill, be taken into consi- firmation 
deration this day. (Aldborough, 


G4 The &amp;*) Bill 





Cheques on 
Bankers Bill. 


Allan Glen’s 
Institution, 
Glasgow, Bill 
[ Lords. | 


Kilsyth Rail- 
way Bill, 


London and 
North Western 
Railway (Sir- 
howy Railway 
Transfer) Bill. 


Metropolitan 
Inner Circle 
Completion 
Railway Bill. 


South Eastern 
Railway Bill. 


Newport (Mon- 
mouthshire) 
Improvement 


Bill. 


Rochester 
Bridge Bill 
[ Lords.] 


Burgls 
(Scotland) Gas 
Sapply Bill. 


Bill 175. 


No. 254. 


Private Bills 
[Lerds] 

(No Standing 
Orders, not 
previously 
inquired into, 
applicable.) 


232 Wth—S 


The Order for reading a second time, upon | 


Wednesday next, the Cheques on Bankers Bill, 
was read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday the 21st day of June next. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till a quarter of an hour after One of the 
clock on Tuesday morning, adjourned till 
this day. 


Tuesday, 30th May, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 


ALLAN Glen's Institution, Glasgow, Bill was | 


~4 read the third time. 


Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


The Kilsyth Railway Bill was read the third 
time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act for making a Railway from the 
authorised Kelvin Valley Railway to Kilsyth, in 
the County of Stirling, and for other purposes. 


Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to} 


the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The London and North Western Railway (Sir- 
howy Railway Transfer) Bill was read the third 
time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Metropolitan Inner Circle Completion 
Railway Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The South Eastern Railway Dill was read the 
third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Newport (Monmouthshire) Improvement Bill, 
as amended in the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The Rochester Bridge Bill was read the first 
time. 

Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


Mr. Massey reported from the Select Committee 
on the Burghs (Scotland) Gas Supply (Re-com- 
mitted) Bill; That they had made further Amend- 
ments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for Thursday the 
8th day of June next. 

Ordered, That the Minutes of the Proceedings 
of the Committee be printed. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private 
Bills, That no Standing Orders not previously 
inquired into are applicable in the case of the 
following Bill, originating in the Lords, and re- 
ferred on the First Reading thereof, viz. : 

Willesden Local Board Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time. 


/18 


Oth May. 1876. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Private 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, (Standing 
That Standing Order, No. 74, has been complied —~ ike com. 
with in the case of the following Bill, referred on 
the First Reading thereof, viz. : 

Southampton Docks Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time, 





Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Private Bins 
‘one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private aie 
| Bills, That the Standing Orders not previously Orders, we 
inquired into, and which are applicable thereto, previously 

have not been complied with in the case of the re pe 
following Bill, originating in the Lords, and re- with.) sm 
| ferred on the First Reading thereof, viz. : 

Anglesea Central Railway Bill. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the 
Select Committee on Standing Orders. 

_ Ordered, That a Message be sent to the Lords, Ecclesiastical 
| to request that their Lordships will be pleased to Offices and 
| communicate to this House, a Copy of the Report Fees Bill. 
from the Select Committee appointed by their 
Lordships on the Ecclesiastical Offices and Fees 


| Bill: And that the Clerk do carry the said Mes- 


“sage. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and Public 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions. 
Vide Twenty. 
fourth Report, 
Ordered, That the Return relative to Deaths Deaths 
(Starvation, &amp;c.), Metropolitan District, which was (Starvation, 
presented upon the 10th day of April last, be —— 


| 


| printed. 


politan Dis- 
trict. 


| No. 255, 
| Ordered, That the Paper relative to Harwich Harwich 
Harbour, which was presented upon the 29th day Harbour. 
of this instant May, be printed. No. 246, 


| Ordered, That the Return relative to Union Union 
| Workhouses, which was presented upon the 29th Weekhouns, 
'day of this instant May, be printed. 0, 257, 


| Mr. William Henry Smith presented,—Return Coals, Cinders, 
to an Order, dated the 28th day of February last, &amp; 

for Accounts relative to Coal, Cinders, &amp;c. 

| — That tne said Return do lie upon the 

|Table. 


| The following Papers, pursuant to the directions Loan Societies 
| of several Acts of Parliament, were laid upon the 
‘Table by the Clerk of the House,—Abstract of 
| Accounts of Loan Societies in England and Wales, 
|to 3lst December 1875, furnished to the Central 
Office for the Registry of Friendly Societies. 
Richmond Bridge Cash Account for the year Richmond 
75. Bridge. 
Copy of Report of the Comptroller and Auditor Church 
|General upon the Account of the Commissioners a 
of Church Temporalities in Jreland, for the year , 
}ended 3lst December 1875, together with the 
Account for the above period, and that from 26th 
| July 1869 (the commencement of the Commission) 
to 31st December 1875. 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on Galashiels | 
the Galashiels Municipal Extension, Police, and a 
Water Bill; That they had examined the allega~ and Water 
tions contained in the Preamble of the Bill, and Bill (Zords] 
made verbal Amendments therein, and found the 
same, as amended, to be true; and had gone 
through the Bill, and made Amendments there- 
unto. 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon ‘the 
Table. 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee On Goux’s Patent 
Gour’s Patent Bill; That they had examined the Bill. 


allegations contained in the Preamble of the , 
an 











as * 


7, 


ties 


Ex- 
olice, 


' 
is] 


atent 





39 VicTorTA, 


and amended the same to make it consistent with 
the circumstances of the case which were proved 
to the Committee, and found the same, as amended, 
to be true; and had gone through the Bill, and 
directed him to report the same, with Amend- 


ments. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table. 
nomiori Canal Mr. Raikes reported the Romford Canal Com- 


Company Bill. pany Bill, with Amendments. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 


Table. 
gorencaks Gas «= Mr. Raikes reported the Sevenoaks Gas Bill, 
Bill. with Amendments. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table. 


gupreme Court Ordered That there be laid before this House, 

of Judicature g Return showing the Amount of the several 

(Ireland) = Judicial Salaries proposed in the Supreme Court 

_ of Judicature (Jreland) Bill now before the House, 
as brought from the House of Lords, and the 
Amount at present payable in each case under the 
existing Law ; also the proposed and present Scales 
of Judicial Pensions; the Return to be in Columns, 
as follows :— 





- 
oe 
&gt; 
a 


“~. 


under the pro- 
posed Scale. 
Present Scale 
of Judicial 


Proposed Scale 
Pensions. 


of Judicial 


Proposed Scale 
Pensions. 


of Salaries. 
Total Amount 
of Salaries 
present Scale. 


Present Scale 
under the 


Total Amount 
of Salaries. 


of Salaries 




















Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return of all School Districts being 
Boroughs where a Rate of Three Pence in the 
Pound on the Rateable Value will not produce 
Six Shillings per Head of One-sixth of the Popula- 
tion of such School District. 


Elementary 
Education 
(School 
Districts.) 


Adjournment. A Motion was made, and the Question being 


put, That this House, at its rising this day, do 
adjourn until Thursday next; 
The House divided. 
The Yeas to the Right ; 
The Noes to the Left. 
Tellers for the { Sir William Dyke, 71 207 
Yeas, Mr. Rowland Winn: J : 
Tellers for thes Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 118 
Noes, { Mr. Assheton : , 
So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 


Message from 


he eae Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- 


sage had been brought from the Lords by one of 
their Clerks, followeth : 

fwtomsand _ The Lords have agreed to the Customs and In- 
_ _ land Revenue Bill, without any Amendment. 


Consolidated The Lords have agreed to the Consolidated 
(&amp;. 11,000,000) — (£. 11,000,000) Bill, without any Amend- 
ment. 


Local 
ment aes The Lords have agreed to the Local Govern- 


Tsional Orders, ment Provisional Orders, Briton Ferry, &amp;c. (No. 
ie rery, 4) Bill, without any Amendment. 

©. (No, 4) 
Bill. 
Local Gov ern. 
men 


_ The Lords have agreed to the Local Govern- 


ment Provisional Order, Skelmersdale (No. 5) Bill, 


Siemersdale” Without any Amendment. 
(No.5) Bill, 


Whitehaven, 
r, and 
Egremont 
y Bill, 


The Lords have agreed to the Whitehaven, 
Cleator, and Egremont Railway Bill, with Amend- 
VoL. 131. 


S0th—3 1st May. 








233 


ments; to which the Lords desire the concurrence 
of this House. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Inns of Court © 
to make provision for the better Regulation and Bill [Lords.] 
Government of the Inns of Court; to which the 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act General School 
to establish a General School of Law in England; of Law Bill 
to which the Lords desire the concurrence of this “"*] 
House. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Radinburgh 
for acquisition, by the Lord Provost, Magistrates, Improvement 
and Council of the City of Edinburgh, of the — 
West Princes Street Gardens there, for the purpose 
of the same being laid open to the Public; and 
for the acquisition of Lands at Inverleith, for the 
formation of an Arboretum and Public Park and 
Pleasure Ground, and for other purposes; to 
which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House. 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- Royal Irish 
posed, That the punishment inflicted on Mr. os 
John Croker, late Sub-Inspector in the Royal so aay 
Irish Constabulary, by reduction in rank in 1867 
and subsequent dismissal from that Force, for 
offences of which he declared himself to be in- 
nocent, without first affording him an opportunity 
of proving his innocence before an independent 
tribunal, was not just; and, in the opinion of this 
House, such opportunity ought now to be given: 

—And the said Motion was, with leave of the 
House, withdrawn. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being Electoral 
proposed, That, in the opinion of this House, it System. 
would be desirable to adopt an uniform Parlia- 
mentary Franchise for Borough and County Con- 
stituencies ; 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Wednesday morning ; 


Wednesday, 31st Mau, 1876: 


And the Question being put ; 
The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right; 

The Noes to the Left. 


Tellers for thes Mr. T’reve/yan, 1 105 
Yeas, | Sir Charles Dilke : s iS6. 

Tellers for thefSir William Dyke, 1 264 
Noes, UMr. Rowland Winn : } hee 


So it passed in the Negative. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being Exclusion of 
proposed, That the Order of the 31st day of May Strangers. 
1875, relative to the Exclusion of Strangers, be 
made a Sessional Order:—And a Debate arising 
thereupon ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be adjourned till 
Tuesday the 13th day of June next. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Friendly 
toamend “The Friendly Societies Act, 1875”: And Societies Act - 
that Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mr. = — 
William Henry Smith do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill i a 
for consolidating and amending the Acts relating “*™" 2 
to Public Health in Jreiand: And that Sir Michael 
Hichs Beach and Mr. Solicitor General for Ire- 
land do prepare, and bring it in. 

The House, according to Order, resolved itself Small Testate 
into a Committee on the Small Testate Estates end) Bal ~ 
( Scotland) Bill ; and, after some time spent therein, 

Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be takeu into consideration upon Thurs- 


day next. 
HH The 











Burglary and 
Forgery Bill. 


Divine Worship 


Facilities Bill. 


Employers and 
Workmen Act 
(1875) Exten- 
sion Bill. 


Land Tenure 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Election of 
Aldermen 
(Cumulative 
Vote) Bill. 


Crab and 
Lobster 
Fisheries 


(Norfolk) Bill. 


House 
Occupiers Dis- 
qualification 
Removal Bill. 


Beer Licences 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Municipal 
Privileges 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Local Light 
Dues (Reduc- 
tion) Bill. 


Juries 


Procedure 
(Ireland) Bill. 
Bill 176. 


234. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second | 
Reading of the Burglary and Forgery Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday the 9th day of June next. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
= a the 15th day of March last, That the Divine 

orship Facilities Bill be now read a second 
time ; - 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Tuesday the 13th day of June next. 





The Order of the day being read, for the Second | 
Reading of the Employers and Workmen Act | 
(1875) Extension Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday the 9th day of June next. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Amendment which, 
upon the 29th day of March last, was proposed to 
be made to the Question, That the Land Tenure 
(Ireland) Bill be now read a second time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Tuesday the 13th day of June next. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the further Proceeding on the Second Reading of 
the Election of Aldermen (Cumulative Vote) 
Bill; 

Ordered, That the further Proceeding be re- 
sumed upon Friday the 9th day of June next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Crab and Lobster Fisheries (Jor- 
folk) Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
the 16th day of June next, resolve itself into the 
said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 


30th—3 ist May.—1st June. 





the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
upon the 22nd day of March last, That the | 
House Occupiers Disqualification Removal Bill | 
be now read a second time; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Thursday the 8th day of June next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Beer Licences (Jre/and) Bill; | 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday the 13th day of June next. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking 
into consideration the Municipal Privileges (/re- 
land) Bill, as amended in the Committee ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into considera- 
tion upon Tuesday the 13th day of June next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Local Light Dues (Reduction) 
Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday the 8th day of June next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 





The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Ways and Means ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thurs- 
day next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Juries Procedure (Jre- 
land) Bill; and, after some time spent therein, 
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 





1876. 


reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill, as amended, be printed. 
Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for Monday the 
12th day of June next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second yy,545 
Reading of the Jurors Qualification (Jreland) Bill ; Quaiitication 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time (Ireland) Bin, 
upon Monday the 12th day of June next. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
upon the 9th day of this instant May, That the 
County Rates (Jre/and) Bill be now read a second 
time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Tuesday the 13th day of June next. 


County Rates 
(Ireland ) Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Legal 
Reading of the Legal Practitioners (Jreland) Bill ; Practitioners 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time ‘!e!#) Bill 
upon Wednesday the 14th day of June next. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to pier ana 
take into consideration the Amendments made HarbourOrders 
by the Lords to the Pier and Harbour Orders ©frmation 
Confirmation (Aldborough, &amp;c.) Bill; and the Ye) 
same were twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented a Bill to Friendly 
amend “ The Friendly Societies Act (1875) ”: And Societies Act 
the same was read the first time; and ordered to (1875) Amend 
be read a second time upon Thursday the 8th day iy 447, 


of June next; and to be printed. 


Sir Michael Hicks Beach presented a Bill for pubiic Health 
consolidating and amending the Acts relating to (Ireland) Bill 
Public Health in Jreland: And the same was read _ Bill 178. 
the first time ; and ordered to be read a second time 
upon Monday the 19th day of June next; and to 
be printed. 


The Order for reading a second time, upon Eiver Fishing 
Monday the 12th day of June next, the Elver Bill. 
Fishing Bill, was read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday the 19th day of June next. 


Ordered, That the Amendments made by the Partition Act 
Lords to the Partition Act (1868) Amendment — 
Bill be taken into consideration upon Thursday ™™ 
next. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till half an hour after One of the clock on 
Wednesday morning, adjourned till Thurs- 
day next. 








Thursday, 1st June, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 
;F E House proceeded to take into considera- Cleator and 
tion the Amendments made by the Lords to Workington 
the Cleator and Workington Junction Railway 23) 
Bill; and the same were twice read, and agreed to. ’ 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 


hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Royal Albert 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Royal Hall Bill 
Albert Hall Bill; and the same were twice read, 


and agreed to. 
- Ordered, 








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39 Vicrortia. 


Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


The Burntisland Burgh Billi was read the third 
time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act for extending the Boundaries of 
the Burgh of Burntisland for Municipal and Police 
purposes; for transferring to and vesting in the 
Corporation the Undertaking by means of which 
the Burgh is at present supplied with Water; for 
empowering the Corporation to construct additional 
Waterworks, and to supply Water to the extended 
Burgh and Places adjacent, and for other pur- 

oses. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Burntisland 
Burgh Bill. 


The Colney Hatch Gas Bill was read the third 
time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Colney Hatch 
Gas Bill. 


The Dunfermline Water Bill was read the third 


Dunfermline ? 
Water Bill. time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 
Halifax Water ‘Lhe Halifax Water and Gas Extension Bill 
ad Gas = was read the third time. 
Extension Bill. ~— Resylved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 
The Liynvi and Ogmore, and Cardiff and Ogmore 
Liynvi and y J 2 I 
Omar, an Valley Railway Companies Bill was read the third 
Cardiff an ime. 
Soercen Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
panies Bill. Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 
a The London, Brighton, and South Coast Rail- 


Brighton, and way (Various Powers) Bill was read the third 


South Coast time, 

(Vues Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Powers) Bill. Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 

Metropolitan, he Metropolitan Board of Works Bill was read 


Board of Works the third time. 

Bill. Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act for enabling the Metropolitan 
Board of Works to make a new Street from Sun 
Street to Worship Sreet; to undertake certain 
Duties in connection with the Chelsea Embank- 
ment, and for other purposes. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 

Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


North British | A Motion being made, That the North British 
jae (Ad- Railway (Additional Works, &amp;c.) Bill be now 
om” read the third time ; 

Sir Joha Hay, by Her Majesty’s Command, ac- 
quainted the House, That Her Majesty, having 
been informed of the purport of the Bill, gives 
Her Consent, as far as Her Majesty’s interest is 
concerned, that the House may do therein as they 
shall think fit. 

Then the Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act to authorise the Worth British 
Railway Company to make a Railway to connect 
their Adinburgh and Glasgow Line and Glasgow, 
Dumbarton, and Helensburgh Branch, also a Sea 
Wall at Burntisland, and other Works, in the 
Counties of Edinburgh and Lanark; to acquire 

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235 


additional Lands; to stop up certain Streets in 
Glasgow ; to abandon parts of the Undertaking 
authorised by “The North British Railway Act, 
1873 ;” to extend the time for purchase of Land 
and completing other Railways, and for the Sale 
of Superfluous Lands; to confirm an Agreement 
between the Leith Harbour and Dock Commis- 
sioners and the Company; to amalgamate with 
the Company the Peebles, Penicuik, and Berwick- 
shire Railway Companies, to authorise the Com- 
pany to subscribe to the Edinburgh, Loanhead, and 
Roslin Railway Company; to confer various Powers 
upon the Company with respect to their Capital 
and borrowing Powers, and for other purposes. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


A Motion being made, That the North British North British 
Railway (ife Railways) Bill be now read the Railweys) BIL 
third time; 

Sir John Hay, by Her Majesty’s Command, ac- 
quainted the House, That Her Majesty, having 
been informed of the purport of the Bill, gives 
Her Consent, as far as Her Majesty’s interest is 
concerned, that the House may do therein as they 
shall think fit. 

Then the Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, 'That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Norwich (City) Water Bill was read the Norwich (City) 
third time. Water Bill. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Oldbury Local Board of Health Bill was Oldbury Local 
read the third time. Board of | 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the Health Bill 
Title be, An Act to enable the Oldbury Local 
Board of Health to purchase from the Corporation 
of Birmingham so much of the Gas Undertaking 
belonging to them as is situate in the District of 
Oldbury, in the County of Worcester, and to light 
with Gas the said District, and for other purposes. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Penarth Extension Railway Bill was read —— 
the third time. Bill (changed 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the from “Penarth, 
Title be, An Act to incorporate a Company for Sully, and 
the construction of the Penarth Extension Rail- Railway”) 
way, and for other purposes. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 


Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Plymouth Dock ( Devonport) Water Bill was Plymouth 
read the third time. caus —_ 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. Bill, 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 


the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Scottish Equitable Life Assurance Society Scottish __ 
Bill was read the third time. —e 
Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, society Bill 
do pass. [ Lords.] 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the same, with Amendments; to 
which this House doth desire the concurrence of 


their Lordships. 


A Motion being made, That the Stonehouse Pool Stonehouse 
Improvement Bill be now read the third time; oe _— 
And Notice being taken, That the interest of ame 
the Prince of Wales, as Duke of Cornwall, is con- 
cerned therein ; 
Sir John Hay, by Command of His Royal 
Highness, acquainted the House, That His Royal 











HH2 Highness, 





236 


Highness, having been informed of the purport of 
the Lill, gives His consent, as far as His Royal 
Highness’s interest is concerned, that the House 
may do therein as they shall think fit. 

Then the Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act for incorporating a Company, 
and authorising them to make and maintain a 
Quay Wall or Embankment on the Shore of 
Stonehouse Pool, in the County of Devon, and 
other Works for the Improvement of Stonehouse 
Pool, and a short Line of Railway to connect the 
Quay and Works with the Devon and Cornwall 
Railway, and for other purposes. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Wakefield Water Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Fi'ye Valley Railway Bill was read the third 
time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, Thai the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Wakefield 
Water Bill. 


Wye Valley 
Railway Bill. 


Sutton Bridge 


The Sutton Bridge Dock Bill was, according to 
Dock Bill. ° 


Order, read the third time. 

Resoived, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Alexandra 
(Newport) 
Dock Bill. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Alexandra (Newport) Dock Bill, as amended in 
the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Bromley Direct Railway Bill, as amended in 
the Committee. 

Ordered, Vhat the Bill be read the third time. 


Bromley Direct 
Railway Bill. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Campbeltown Burgh and Harbour Bill, as 
amended in the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Campbeltown 
Burgh and 
Harbour Bill. 


Gorsedda 
Junction and 
Portmadoc 
Railways Bill. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Gorsedda Junction and Portmadoc Railways 
Bill, as amended in the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Halesowen and Bromsgrove Branch Railways 
Bill, as amended in the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Halesowen and 
Bromsgrove 
Branch Rail- 
ways Bill. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Airkealdy Burgh and Harbour Bill, as amended 
in the Committee. 

A Clause (No money to be borrowed until esti- 
mate made up), was twice read ; and made part of 
the Bill. 

Another Clause (Saving for General Acts re- 
lating to animals), was twice read; and made part 
of the Bill. 

Then Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Kirkcaldy 
Burgh and 
Harbour Bill. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
Monmouth- : or “ ; 
shire Railway the Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Bill, as 
and Canal Bill. amended in the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Newcastle-upon-‘T'yne Quayside Litt Bill, as 
amended in the Committee; and an Amendment 
was made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Newcastle- 
upon-Tyne 
Quayside Lift 
Bill [Lords. | 


lst June. 





1876. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Newport (Isle 
the Newport (Isle of Wight) Borough Bill, as of Wight) 
amended in the Committee; and Amendments Bush Bil 
were made to the Bill. ts 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration North Bas 
the North East Worcestershire Water Bill, ag Worcestershire 
amended in the Committee. Water Bill 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Ordered, That the Queenborough Harbour Bill, Queenborongh 
as amended in the Committee, be taken into con- Harbour Bill. 
sideration upon Thursday next. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Ruthin ang 
the Ruthin and Cerrig-y-Druidion Railway Bill, as ©erig-y- 
ded ; he C : Druidion Rail. 
amended in the Committee. way Bill, 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Sidmouth 
the Sidmouth Railway Bill, as amended in the Com- 8#lway Bill, 
mitttee ; and Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration South Metro. 
the South Metropolitan Gas Light and Coke Bill, Politan Gas 
as amended in the Committee. Ceke Bil 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 

The House proceeded to take into consideration Uppingham 
the Uppingham Water Bill, as amended in the Water Bill 
Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The Western Bank of Scot/and Bill was read a Western Bank 
i : ] of Scotland 
second time; and committed. | Bill [Lords,} 
The Edinburgh Improvement Bill was read the Edinburgh 
first time. en ame 
Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- Laoag 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


Ordered, That Standing Order 131 be suspended, Private Bills 
and that the time for depositing Petitions against 
Private Bills, or against any Bill to confirm any 
Provisional Order, or Provisional Certificate, be ex- 
tended to Thursday the 8th day of this instant June. 


The Order, That the Walsall Improvement Walsall 
Commissioners Gas Purchase Bill be committed, Improvement 


i Yommissioners 
was read, and discharged. Page 


Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. Bill. 


Mr. Goldney reported from the Select Com- Ecclesiastical 
mittee on the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Acts ; Dilapidations 
That they had considered the matters to them enh 
referred, and directed him to make a Report “*”™ 
thereof to the House, together with the Minutes 
of Evidence taken before them, and an Appendix. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table; 
and be printed. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and public 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions, 


Vide Twenty- 
fourth Report. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Watermoor Watermoor 
School, which was presented upon the 23rd day of School. _ 
May last, be printed. No. 259. 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to Gas Purifi- Gas Purifica 
cation (Patterson’s Patent), which was presented tion (Patter 


’s Patent. 
upon the 29th day of May last, be printed. a 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Coals, Coals, cinder, 
Cinders, &amp;c., which was presented upon the 30th &amp;. 
day of May last, be printed. No. 261. 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to Loan So- Loan Societies 
cieties, which was presented upon the 30th day of No, 262. 
May last, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to the Church Church = 
Temporalities (Ireland), which was presented upon Temper 


land. 
the 30th day of May last, be printed. ote —~ a 





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1976. 


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3y VICTORIA. 
Mr. Bourke presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- 


Italy (Treaty and,—Copy of Declaration prolonging the dura- 
Pr (Com- é tion of the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation 


nercisl, No- 7 j otween Her Majesty and the King of Italy of the 
1976.) 6th of August 1863, signed at Rome 22nd May 1876. 
Copy of Correspondence respecting the Finan- 
Bert (NOP so) Affairs of Egypt. 


we) Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 
pincation Viscount Sandon presented, by Her Majesty’s 


(England and Command,—Copy of Report of the Committee of 


Wales.) Council on Education (England and Wales), 
1875-76. 

Return, showing by Counties, the Number of 

— School Boards which have and which have not 

ob) Schools under their Management; also showing 


No. 264. the Number which have appointed Visitors for 
such Schools, and in the Girls’ Schools Lady 
Managers, together with the Cost of the Staff of 
such Schools, &amp;c. ; 

Copy of Report of the Committee of Council on 


lst June. 





nae Education in Scotland, 1875-76. 
(ete?) Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table ; and that the Return relative to Education 
(School Boards) be printed. 
Mr. Secretary Cross presented,—Return to ari 
mn Address to Hor Majesty, dated the 16th day of 
No.265. March last, for Returns relative to the London 
School Board. 
Hydrophobia Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated 


(West Riding.) the 7th day of April last, for a Return relative to 
Hydrophobia (West Riding). 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated 
the 24th day of May last, for Returns relative to 
the Ship “ Star of Peace.” 


Ship “Star of 
Peace.” 









































Polling Mr. Secretary Cross also presented, pursuant to 

Districts the directions of an Act of Parliament,—Copy of 

Manchester.) 2 Grder of the Council of Manchester for Division 
of the Borough of Manchester into Polling Dis- 
tricts, under the Ballot Act, 1872. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table; and that the first be printed. 

Royal Parks Lord Henry Lennox presented, pursuant to the 

ad Gardens. directions of an Act of Parliament,—Copy of 
Order for Cancellation of Rules for Hyde Park of 
10th February 1873, dated 6th May 1876. 

Copy of Rules for Hyde Park, in connection 
with the Regulations prescribed by “ The Parks 
Regulation Act, 1872,” dated 6th May 1876. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 

Tumpike Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Reeds _ Returns with respect to the Expenditure for Turn- 
Expenditure pike Roads in England and Wales, in the follow- 
No. 26, 12g Form :— 
England and North Wales. South Wales. 
as | , | Be ee jes . | Be |23¢2 
eS | E legzla&amp; jek | 2 | ek |F95 
Bef |dad|s3 [ae | 2 | LEA EST 
3 = wes $ = = y se 
| S22 ‘e Sl senm |] SPs | asics a 
£)228| F | gee | 225 | 228 | &amp; | ses | 2582 
— £. £. £ £. 
1866 
1867 
1868 
1869 
1870 
187] 
1872 
1873 
Average for 9 Years. Years. 
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237 


And, of the Total Sum paid by Parishes to 
Turnpike Trusts in England and North Wales 
unable to maintain their Turnpike Roads, and the 
Amount per Mile thus spent. 
Mr. Sult accordingly presented the said Returns. 
Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 





Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Turnpike 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased (Counties 
to give directions, that there be laid before this Scotland.) 
House, a Return from the Turnpike Road Trusts, 
of the Counties of Renfrew and Lanark, and of 
the other Counties in Scotland in which the Roads 
are maintained by Tolls under Turnpike Trusts, 
of the Annual Revenue and Expenditure of the 
several Trusts for the five years ending the 31st 
day of May 1875, showing— 

1. The Annual Income of each Trust; 

2. The Expenditure on Maintenance ; 

3. The Salaries (separately) of the various 
Officials ; 

4, The Rate and Amount of Interest paid on 
Debt; and 

5. The Amount and Details of any Expen- 
diture of the Funds of the Trusts other 
than the above. 


Sir John St. Aubyn reported from the Com- Horncastle 
mittee on Group H. of Private Bills; That in the Gas Bill. 
case of the Horncastle Gas Bill, they had examined 
the allegations contained in the Preamble of the 
Bill, and amended the same, by striking out so 
much thereof as related to the Deed of Settlement 
and the Capital of the Company, and the Expen- 
diture by the Company upon Improvement and 
Extension of Works, and the expediency of 
empowering the Company to extend their Works, 
and to borrow Money for such purposes, and that 
the Company should be reincorporated, and by 
inserting a recital that it is expedient that the 
Local Board for the District of Horncastle should 
be authorised to purchase the Gas Undertaking ; 
and had otherwise amended the same, in order to 
make it consistent with the provisions of the Bill 


.|as passed by the Committee, and found the same, 


as amended, to be true, and had made provision 
in the Bill, pursuant to the Instruction of the 
House ; and had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereuuto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


A Message was delivered by Colonel Clifford, Royal Assent. 
Yeoman Usher of the Black Rod: 


Mr. Speaker, 


The Lords, authorised by virtue of Her Ma- 
jesty’s Commission, for declaring Her Royal As- 
sent to several Acts agreed upon by both Houses, 
desire the immediate attendance of this Honourable 
House in the House of Peers, to hear the Com- 
mission read. 

Accordingly Mr. Speaker, with the House, 
went up to the House of Peers:—And being re- 














turned ; 

Mr. Speaker reported, That the House, at the 
desire of the Lords, authorised by virtue of Her 
Majesty’s Commission, had been at the House of 
Peers, where a Commission under the Great Seal 
was read, giving, declaring, and notifying the 
Royal Assent to the several Acts therein men- 
ioned; and that the Lords, thereby authorised, 
had declared the Royal Assent to the said Acts, . 
as follow: 

An Act to grant and alter certain Duties of Customs and 
Customs and Inland Revenue, and to amend the — o 
Laws relating to Customs and Inland Revenue. saat Soy 

An Act to apply the Sum of Eleven Million Consolidated 
Pounds out of the Consolidated Fund to the ae 
Service of the Year ending the Thirty-first day of aaa 

HH 3 March, 





238 


March, One thousand eight hundred and seventy- 
seven. 
Burgesses An Act to assimilate the Law of Scotland to 
(Scotland) Bill. that of England respecting the Creation of Bur- 
gesses. 
United Parishes An Act to amend the Act of the Seventh and 
(Scotland) Bill. Eighth years of Her Majesty, Chapter Forty-four, 
relating to the Formation of Quoad Sacra Parishes 
in Scotland. 
Drugging of An Act to prevent the Administration of Poi- 
Animals Bill. ~sonous Drugs to Horses and other Animals. 
Chelsea An Act to extend the Provisions of the Ex- 
Hospital |. chequer and Audit Departments Act, 1806, to the 
eeounss Accounts of the Commissioners for the Govern- 
ment of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea. 

An Act for vesting Poolbeg Lighthouse in the 
Dublin Port and Docks Board, and for other pur- 
poses relating thereto. 

An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of 
the Local Government Board relating to the 


Poolbeg 
Lighthouse 
Bill. 


T »cal Govern- 
ment Pro- 
visional Orders 


_ Rural Sanitary District of the Caistor Union, the 


City of Carlisle, the District of Milton-next-Sitting- 
borne, the Borough of Northampton, and the 

: District of Zorteth Park. 
Local Govern. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders 
ment Pro- made by the Local Government Board under the 
(No.2) a Poor Law Amendment Act, 1867, with reference 

; ’ to the Townships of Cumberworth and Cumber- 
worth- Half, in the West Riding of the County of 
York, and the Borough of King’s Lynn, in the | 
County of Norfolk. 

An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders 
of the Local Government Board relating to the 
Borough of Blackburn, and to the Districts of 
Downham Market, Melksham, Milnrow, and Saint 
Felleus. 

An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders 
of the Local Government Board relating to the 
Districts of Briton Ferry and Clayton, the Rural 
Sanitary District of Coventry Union, the Borough 
of Nottingham (two), and the Districts of Oyster- 


Local Govern- 
ment Pro- 
visional Orders 
(No. 3) Bill. 


Local Govern- 
ment Pro- 
visional Orders, 
Briton Ferry, 
&amp;c. (No. 4) 
Bill. 


Ist June. 


Borough of Arundel, the District of Bacup, the |: 





mouth and Ripley. 
Local Govern. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order of the | 
ment Pro- ocal Government Board under the Provisions of | 
me an the Gas and Water Works Facilities Act, 1870, 
(No. 5) Bill, and the Public Health Act, 1875, relating to the 
District of Skelmersdale, in the County of Lan- 
caster. 
An Act to enlarge the Powers of the South 
Alloa Dock Company. 
An Act for the Reduction of the Nominal 
Capital of the Assam Company. 


South Alloa 
Dock Bill. 


Assam 
Company Bill 
[ Lords. | 
Bousfield’s 
Patent Bill 
[Lords.] 





An Act for rendering valid certain Letters 
Patent granted to George Tomlinson Bousfield, tor 
Improvements in Lacing Devices, and in the Mode 
of lacing and fastening Wearing Apparel and other 
Articles with the same. 

An Act for rendering valid certain Letters 
Patent granted to Charles Henry Hall, for “ Im- 
provements in Steam Pumps, or Apparatus for 
elevating Fluids by Steam.” 

An Act for rendering valid certain Letters | 
Patent granted to Edward Milner, for Improve-| 
ments in the Method of producing White Pig-| 
ments from Lead. 

An Act for empowering the British Gas Light 
Company, Limited, to enlarge their Works, to ex- 
tend their Limits, and to expend further Capital 
at Kingston-upon- Hull, and for other purposes. 
———— An Act for empowering the Local Board for 
Hapton Local the District of Padiham and Hapton, in the County 
Board Bill. of Lancaster, to acquire the Undertaking of the | 
Padiham Gas Light and Coke Company, and for 

ther purposes. 

An Act to enable the Mayor, Aldermen, and 
Burgesses of the Borough of Leicester to construct 
Additional Works for the Prevention of Floods 
in the Borough, and for other purposes. 


Hall’s Patent 
Bill [ Lords. ] 


Milner’s 
Patent Bill 
[ Lords. | 


British Gas 
Light Com- 
pany (Hull 
Station) Bill. 


Leicester 
Improvement 


Bill. 


‘belonging to the Crown now used for the Royal 








1876. 

An Act for extending the Time for the Comple- 
tion of the Works authorised by “ The Besinnns hi 
and Improvement of Lands Supplemental Act 
(Ireland), 1868.” 

An Act for extending the Time limited by the Pegwell Bay 
Pegwell Bay Reclamation and Sandwich Haven Reclamation 
Improvement Act, 1873, for the purchase of Land 2 
and the Completion of Works, and for other pur- 
poses. 

An Act for rendering valid certain Letters sits ang 
Patent granted to William Cameron Sillar, Robert Wigner’s 
George Sillar, and George William Wigner, for Patent Bil 
Improvements in deodorizing and _ purifying a 
Sewage and making Manure therefrom. % 

An Act to provide for the closing of the Coombe Coombe Hi 
Hill Canal Navigation and the Sale of the Site pm 

100 Di 


gee 


&gt; 


thereof, and for other purposes. 
An Act for extending the Boundary of the Romsey 

Borough of Romsey, in the County of Southampton, ¥xtension and 

and for other purposes. Baprorement 


Adj 


An Act for incorporating the Matdenhead Gas Maidenhead 
Company, and for conferring upon them Powers for District Gas 
the Supply of Gas to the Borough of Maidenhead ®! Lr) 
and certain Neighbouring Places in the Counties 
of Berks and Buckingham, and for.other purposes. 

An Act to enable the Edinburgh and District Edinburgh and 
Water Trustees to abandon their authorised District Water 
Edgelaw Reservoir, and to construct the same on BH! [Zora] 
another Site; and also to construct a Reservoir 
at Rosebery and other Works, and to make further 
provision for the Supply of Water to their District, 
and otherwise, and for other purposes. 

An Act for amending the Act (Local) of the Brighton 
Thirteenth Year of Her present Majesty, Chapter Pavilion Bill 
Five, commonly known as the Brighton Improve- : 
ment (Purchase of Royal Pavilion, &amp;c.) Act, and 
for other purposes. 

An Act to confer further Powers on the City Glasgow (City) 
of Glasgow Union Railway Company, the Glasgow — anny 
“ &gt; m ill. 
and South Western Railway Company, and the 
North British Railway Company, and for other 

purposes. 

An Act to grant further Powers to the Rossen- Rossendale 
dale Union Gas Company. Union Ges Bal. 

An Act to amend and extend the Thames Thames Tunnel 
Tunnel Act, 1866, and for other purposes. Bill. 

An Act for incorporating the Erwood Bridge Erwood Bridge 
Company, and for empowering them to construct Bill [Zords,] 
a Bridge over the River Wye, with Approaches 
thereto, in the Counties of Brecon and Radnor, and 
for other purposes. 

An Act for improving certain Waste [ands 
called Flookersbrook, in the Townships of Newton 
and Hoole, and County of Chester, and for other 
purposes. 


ey 


Seas Se 


&gt; 


wees 


Flookersbrook 
Improvement 


Bill (Lords.] 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented aaa 


to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased jon of 
to give directions, that there be laid before this Supervision. 
House, Returns of the Names and Designations of 
the Members of the Board of Supervision in Scot- 
land, distinguishing such as are Members ez 
er the Number of Meetings of the 
Soard relating to the Poor Law held during the 
years from 1866 to 1875, both inclusive: 
And, of the Number of Members present at each 
such Meeting. 


ad eet et Oe et OS OOD tt Ff Ret 


— — eee 


aan tos oe 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Royal Mint. 
a Plan of the Ground and other adjoining Land 


Mint on Tower Hill, on a Scale of Twenty Feet 
to the Half-inch, showing the Total Extent of that 
part now exclusively used for Mint purposes, and 
also showing how the remainder of the Land is 
used, with the Number of superficial Feet so used 
respectively ; and also a Plan of the Ground on 
which it was contemplated to erect a Mint by the | 
Bill of 1871, together with a Ground Plan and the 
superficial Feet of the same. 

Ordered, 


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39 VicrorRia. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Copy of the Correspondence between the Lords 
of the Admiralty and the Committee of Lloyds 
with respect to Her Majesty’s Ships calling at the 
Islands between the Cape of Good Hope and 
Australia, to relieve those shipwrecked upon 


them. 


Islands 
S 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Returns of the Areas within the School 
District of the School Board for London which 
would be constituted Special Divisions by the 
Thirteenth Clause of the Elementary Education 
Bill: And, of the Population and Rateable 
Value of such Special Districts. 


London School 
Board. 





Resolved, That this House will, at the rising of 


Adjournment. . * : 
: the House this day, adjourn till Thursday next. 


Onders of the Ordered, That the Orders of the Day subsequent 

Day. to the Commons Bill be postponed till after the 
Notice of Motion for leave to bring in a Bill for 
amending the Law relating to Prisons. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- 


— . sage had been brought from the Lords by one of 
their Clerks, as followeth : 

Treasury The Lords have agreed to the Treasury Solicitor 

Solicitor Bill. Bill, without any Amendment. 

Mid-Wales The Lords have «greed to the Mid-Wales Rail- 

Railway Bill. way Bill, without any Amendment. 

Furness Rail- The Lords have agreed to the Furness Railway 

way Bil. Bill, without any Amendment. 

East London The Lords have agreed to the East London 

Railway Bill. Railway Bill, with Amendments; to which the 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 

Great Eastern The Lords have agreed to the Great Eastern 


allway Bill. Railway Bill, with Amendments; to which the 

Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 
Chesterfield The Lords have agreed to the Chesterfield Water 
Water and Gas and Gas Bill, with Amendments; to which the 
ual. Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 


London and The Lords have agreed to the Zondon and 
ay Blackwall Railway Bill, with Amendments ; to 
y Bill. . - ~h 

which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House. 

West Kent ‘The Lords have agreed to the West Kent Main 

Miin Sewerage Sewerage Bill, with Amendments; to which the 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 

London, The Lords have agreed to the London, Brighton, 


phy and South Coast, and Tunbridge Wells and East- 
and Tunbridge Lourne Railway Companies Bill, with Amend- 
Wellsand East- ments ; to which the Lords desire the concurrence 


mee of this House. 

Caledonian The Lords have agreed to the Ca/edonian Rail- 
7 (Ad; way (Additional Powers) Bill, with Amendments; 
Powers) Bill. . which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 

ouse. 
bora Caml ,, Lhe Lords have agreed to the Wilts and Berks 
zi, SC Canal Bill, with Amendments; to which the 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 
pee oe The Lords have agreed to the Redcar and 
Bill, Coatham Gas Bill, with Amendments; to which 
the Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 

on The Lords have agreed to the Caledonian Rail- 


(Grangemouth W2Y (Grangemouth Harbour) Bill, with Amend- 
Harbour) Bill. ments; to which the Lords desire the concurrence 
of this House. 
Gorleston and The Lords have agreed to the Gorleston and 
Southtown Gas Southtown Gas Bill. with Amendments; to which 
the Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 
The Lords have agreed to the York New Water 
Bill, with Amendments; to which the Lords 
desire the concurrence of this House. 
Darn Ges The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
4) for dissolving the Blackrod Gas Company, Limited; 
te, pe-ineanpernting the Proprietors therein with 
OL. 131. 


York New 
Water Bill, 


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239 


others, and for conferring Powers on the Company 
so to be incorporated to supply Gas to the Town- 
ship of Blackrod and certain neighbouring Town- 
ships and Places in the County of Lancaster, and 
for other purposes; to which the Lords desire 
the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Leven Harbour 
for the Improvement of the Harbour of Leven, Bill [Lords.] 
and to authorise the construction of a Wet Dock 
and other Works, and for other purposes; to 
which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Northern 
for incorporating the Northern Union Railways Union Railways 
Company of Ireland, and for other purposes; to A ee 
— the Lords desire the concurrence of this 2” '4"*1 

ouse. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Llandudno 
to amend “The Llandudno Improvement Act, Improvement 
1854,” and for other purposes; to which the Lords BY {4074.1 
desire the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Swansea 
to authorise the Swansea Harbour Trustees to Harbour Bill 
enter into Agreements with the Great Western, 4°"! 
the Midland, and the Zondon and North Western 
Railway Companies, for the leasing to those Com- 
panies of Wharves and Railway and other Accom- 
modation at the Docks authorised to be constructed 
by “ The Swansea Harbour Act, 1874,” and for 
other purposes; to which the Lords desire the con- 
curreuce of this House. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Tempest’s 
to enable the Trustees of the Settled Estates of —— 
Sir Charles Henry Tempest, Baronet, to raise a 
Money on Mortgage for the improvement thereof, 
and for other purposes; to which the Lords desire 
the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act East Cornwall 
to authorise the East Cornwall Mineral Railway Mineral Rail- 
Company to extend their Railway to the South Tiords.| 
Devon and Tavistock Railway and to Mormellham 
Quay, on the River Vumar, and to alter the 
Gauge and Levels of their existing Railway, and 
for other purposes; to which the Lords desire the 
concurrence of this House. 

The Lords communicate, a Copy of the Report Ecclesiastical 
of the Select Committee appointed by their Lord- + ane 
ships in the present Session of Parliament, on the 
Ecclesiastical Offices and Fees Bill, with the 
Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evi- 


dence, and Appendix, as desired by this House. 


The Leven Harbour Bill was read the first time. Leven Harbour 
Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- Bil! (Zoré.] 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


The Llandudno Improvement Bill was read the Llandudno 
first time Improvement 
a . Bill [ Lords.] 
Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


The Swansea Harbour Bill was read the first Swansea 
time. pers Bill 
Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- '“"*] 

miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


Tempest’s Estate Bill was read the first time. — Tempest’s 
Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- pe 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills. (Lerde.} 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Commons Bill. 
into a Committee on the Commons Bill. 


(In the Committee.) 


CrauseE, N° 3, agreed to. 
Ciause, N° 4 (Explanation of adjustment of 
rights). 
An Amendment made. 
Another Amendment proposed, in p. 3, 1. 30, 
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240 


before the word “modification,” to insert the word 
« or.” 

Question proposed, That the word “or” be 
there inserted: — Amendment, by leave, with- 
drawn. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 4, 1. 11, 
after the word “land,” to insert the words “ the 
“confirmation of any exchange of any portion of 
** any Common for any adjoining land of equal or 
*‘ greater value, or any sale of any portions of any 
** Common for the purpose of purchasing adjoining 
“land of equal or greater value out of the pro- 
* ceeds of such sale: Provided the Commissioners 
“ are satisfied that such exchange is beneficial to 
“the interests in the Common affected by such 
“sale or exchange, and that such exchange has 
“been or shall be approved by the vestry or 
‘‘ vestries of the parish or parishes in which such 
“Common is situate, and provided that, in the 
case of any such sale as aforesaid, land of equal 
or greater value adjoining the Common has been 
or shall be purchased and thrown into the Com- 


“e 
«&lt; 
“ce 
“cc 


** the Common carried out.” 


Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted :—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 
Another Amendment proposed, at the end of the 


Clause, to add the words, “ Provided always, | 


“ that no such adjustment of rights shall prohibit 
*‘ the use of any Common or unenclosed land for 
“ the free passage of a person or persons thereupon 


“ for the purpose of going from place to place, or | 
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* for the enjoyment of air, exercise, or scenery on 


“foot or on horseback, in such manner, freedom, | 


“and extent as such person or persons or other 
“persons have heretofore been accustomed to 
enjoy.” 

Question, That those words be there added—— 
put, and negatived. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

Cuiause, N° 5, amended, and agreed to. 

Criause, N° 6, agreed to. 

Cxiausk, N° 7 (Provisions for the benefit of a 
neighbourhood applicable alike to orders for regu- 
lation and orders for inclosure). 

Amendments made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 5, l. 3, to 
leave out from the word “ secured” to the word 
“ and,” in l. 4, in order to insert the words, “ for 
“ the enjoyment of the views of the scenery upon 
* or from the Common.” 

Question proposed, That the second word “ to,” 
stand part of the Clause :—Amendment, by leave, 
withdrawn. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 5, 1. 14, 
after the word “ footpaths,” to insert the words, 
“with grass margin not less than fifteen feet in 
* breadth on either side.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted ; 

Amendment proposed to the said proposed 
Amendment, by inserting, after the word “mar- 
“gin,” the words “ in the case of roads.” 

Question proposed, That those words be inserted 
in the said proposed Amendment :—Amendment 
to the proposed Amendment, and Amendment, 
by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Amendment made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 5, 1. 16, 
after the word “neighbourhood,” to insert the 
words, “and to the visitors frequenting such 
* Common.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted :—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Amendment made. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

CiauseE, N° 8 (Sanitary authorities to be re- 

presented in the case of commons in the neigh- 
ourhood of towns). 


lst June. 


mon, or an equivalent improvement or benefit to | 


1876. 


Amendments made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 5, 1. 26, 
after the word “town” to insert the words “ or 
‘* urban or rural sanitary district.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted :—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 5, 1, 38, 
after the word “aforesaid” to insert the words 
* Provided, That after the passing of this Act the 
** Commissioners shall not entertain an application 
** for the inclosure of a suburban common.” 

Question put, That those words be there in- 
serted ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the { Mr. Cowper-Temple, 

Yeas, (Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice : | 91. 

Tellers for the {Sir William Dyke, 

Noes, {M r. Rowland Wiun: 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 6, |. 34, 





} 180. 


|after the word “ expedient” to insert the words, 


| where any Common (whether situate within six 
miles of any town or not) is situate within six 
' miles of any village or villages, or other populous 
| place or places, containing in the aggregate not 
* less than five thousand inhabitants, but not 
“ constituting a town, notice of any application 
under this Act in relation to such Common shall 
be served as soon as may be on the urban sani- 
tary authority or authorities, or the rural sani- 
tary authority or authorities having jurisdiction 
over any such village or populous place, and all 
or any of the powers conferred by this section 
upon the urban sanitary authority having juris- 
diction over any town may be exercised by any 
urban sanitary authority or rural sanitary autho- 
rity having jurisdiction over any such village or 
* populous place. When more than one sanitary 
“ authority is entitled to exercise the powers con- 
“ferred by this section in respect of the same 
| * Common, the Inclosure Commissioners may con- 
sign the future management of such Common, 
under any order for its regulation, to a body 
composed in such proportions as they deem 
advisable, of representatives of all or any of such 
“ sanitary authorities, and may decide that certain 
* parts of the parish or parishes in or near which 
such Common is situate shall be a contributory 
** district for the purposes of this Act, and may 
“ make such rules for the election or nomination 
of such representatives by such sanitary autho- 
rity as they think fit.” 

Question put, That those words be there in- 
serted ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the ¢ Mr. Stanton, 

Yeas, (Mr. Whitwell: 
Tellers forthe te William Dyke, \ 79 
Noes, Mr. Rowland Winn: Poa 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 6, 1. 41, to 
leave out the word “ five” in order to insert the 
word “ three.” 

Question put, That the word “ five” stand part 
of the Clause ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the (Sir William Dyke, 

Yeas, { Mr. Rowland Winn: 

Tellers for the) Mr. Whitwell, 

Noes, UMr. Rylands : 

Another Amendment proposed, in p, 7, l. 3, to 
leave out the words “outer boundary of the town,” 
in order to insert the words “town hall or post 
** oftice.” 

Question proposed, That the words proposed to 
be left out stand part of the Clause :—Amend- 
ment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Amendment proposed, at the end of the 
Clause, to add the words “the powers conferred 
« by this section upon the urban sanitary authority 
“ of acquiring by gift and holding any suburban 
“ Common, and any rights in such Common, and of 

“ purchasing 


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« purchasing and holding any saleable rights of 
« common or any tenement of a commoner having 
« annexed thereto rights of common, may be exer- 
« cised by the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses 
« acting by the council of any borough constituted 
“such either before or after the passing of this 
« Act (whether they are the urban sanitary 
« authority or not), with respect to any Common 
« within seven miles of such borough, whether the 
« horough have a population of not less than five 
« thousand inhabitants or not.” 

Question proposed, That these words be there 
added :—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

CuiavuseE, N° 9, agreed to. 

Criause, N° 10, amended, and agreed to. 

CxiavusE, N° 11 (Rules as to local inquiry). 

Amendments made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 10, 1. 5, 
to leave out the first word “ the,” in order to insert 
the word “ every.” 

Question proposed, That the first word “ the” 
stand part of the Clause :—Amendment, by leave, 
withdrawn. 

Other Amendments made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 10, 1. 18, 
after the word “ inquiry,” to insert the words 
«whether such persons have any legal estate or 
“interest in the Common to which the application 
“* relates or not.” 

Question, That those words be there inserted 
— put, and negatived. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

Cuiause, N° 12 (Rules as to Provisional Orders). 

Amendments made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 12, 1. 25, 
after the word ‘ order,” to insert the words “ for 
*‘ the inclosure of a Common.” 

Question put, That those words be there in- 
serted ; 

The Committee divided. 





Tellers for thes Mr. Shaw Lefevre, 1 43 
Yeas, | Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice: { ~~" 
Tellers for the ( Sir William Dyke, Lng 
t 74. 


Noes, |Mr. Rowland Winn: | 
Another Amendment proposed, in p. 14, 1. 24, 
after the word “ Common,” to insert the words 
“with such modifications, if any, as to Parliament 
“seem fit.” 

Question put, That those words be there in- 
serted ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the{ Mr. Shaw Lefevre, } 

Yeas, Mr. Bristowe: f 

Tellers for the (Sir William Dyke, 1 

Noes, | Mr. Rowland Winn: J 

Clause, as amended, agreed to, 

Ciauses, N° 13 to N° 15, agreed to. 

CiauseE, N° 16 (Expenses of clearing, draining, 
and fencing field gardens). 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Chairman do report Progress, and ask leave to sit 
again :— Motion, by leave, withdrawn. 

Clause agreed to. 

CiausE, N° 17, agreed to. 

To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Rakes 
reported, That the Committee had made Progress 
in the Bill; and that he was directed to move, That 
the Committee may have leave to sit again. 

Resulved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 





A Motion was made, and the Question being 
eeeees, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
or amending the Law relating to Prisons; 


continued to sit till after 
riday morning ; 


And the House pants 
Twelve of the clock on 
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241 
Friday, 2nd June, 1876: : 


And the Question being put; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in the 
Bill: And that Mr. Secretary Cross and Sir 
Henry Selwin-Ibbetson do prepare, and bring it in. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Prevention of 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed i 
upon the 25th day of May last, That the Preven- piu. 
tion of Crimes Act Amendment Bill be now read 
a second time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Thursday next. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Tramways 
into a Committee on the Tramways Order Con- —— 
firmation (Wantage) Bill; and, after some time (Wantage) 
spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; Bill [Lords.] 
and Mr. Raikes reported, That the Committee had 
gone through the Bill, and directed him to report 
the same, without Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 


upon Thursday next. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Gas and Water 
into a Committee on the Gas and Water Orders Orders Con- 
Confirmation Bill; and, after some time spent [Lords] _ 
therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. : 
Raikes reported, That the Committee had gone 
through the Bill, and had directed him to report 
the same, without Amendment. 

Ordered, ‘That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Patents for 
Reading of the Patents for Inventions Bill ; ea eal 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time ~ aaa 
upon Thursday the 15th day of this instant June. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Poor Law 
into a Committee on the Poor Law (Scotland) — 
Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Bill o 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes re- !! 179 
ported, That the Committee had gone through the 
Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for Monday the 
12th day of this instant June. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second University of 
Reading of the University of Ozford Bill; rs eek ae 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time “"! 
upon Monday the 12th day of this instant June. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second University of 
Reading of the University of Cambridge Bill ; — 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time ~” 
upon Monday the 12th day of this instant June. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- salmon 
mittee on the Salmon Fishery (Provisional Order) Fishery (Pro- 
Bill; =— Order) 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday ~ 
the 15th day of this instant June, resolve itself into 
the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second All Saints, 
Reading of the All Saints, Moss, Bill ; Moss, Bill 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time “1 
upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- smithfiela 
mittee on the Smithfield Prison (Dublin) Bill; Prison 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday (Dublin) Bill. 
the 12th day of this instant June, resolve itself 
into the said Committee. 
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The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Ways and Means ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Supreme Court _ The Order of the day being read, for the Second 

of Judicature Reading of the Supreme Court of Judicature Act 

Act (1875) (1875) Amendment Bill ; 

Amendment : ° 

Bill. Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday the 14th day of this instant 
June. 


Offences 
against the 
Person Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Offences against the Person Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
the 12th day of this instant June, resolve itself 
into the said Committee. 


Medical Act The Order of the day being read, for the Second 

(Qualifications) Reading of the Medical Act (Qualifications) Bill ; 

Bill. Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday the 13th day of this instant June. 


Small Testate The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
Estates (Scot- take into consideration the Small Testate Estates 
land) Bill. (Scotland) Bill, as amended in the Committee. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Monday the 12th day of this instant June. 


Partition Act The House, according to Order, proceeded to 

(1868) Amend- take into consideration the Amendments made by 

ment Bill. the Lords tu the Partition Act (1868) Amendment 
Bill; and the same were twice read, and agreed 
to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


Colonial The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Marriages Bill. Reading of the Colonial Marriages Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday the 13th day of this instant June. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to facilitate the assembling and training of cer- 
tain Army Corps: And that Mr. Secretary Hardy, 
Mr. Stanley, and Mr. William Henry Smith do 
prepare, and bring it in. 


Army Corps 
Training. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to confirm a Scheme under “ The Metropolitan 
Commons Act, 1866,” and “ The Metropolitan 
Commons Amendment Act, 1869,” relating to 
Barnes Common: And that Sir Henry Selwin- 
Ibbetson and Mr. Secretary Cross do prepare, and 
bring it in. 


Metropolitan 
Commons 
( Barnes.) 


Waterford, Ordered, That the Select Committee on the 
New Ross, and JVaterford, New Ross, and Wexford Junction Rail- 
— Rail. Way (Sale) Bill do consist of Five Members, 
y (Sale) Three to be nominated by the House, and Two to 
Bill. be nominated by the Committee of Selection. 
Ordered, That all Petitions presented against 
the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on 
the Bill, subject to the decision of the Court of 
Referees on questions of locus standi if any objec- 
tion be raised to the locus standi of any Peti- 
tioner, and provided such Petitions are presented 
three clear days before the meeting of the 
Committee; and that such of the Petitioners as 
pray to be heard by themselves, their Counsel, or 
agents, be heard upon their Petitions, if they think 
fit, and Counsel heard in favour of the Bill against 
the said Petitions. 


1lst—2nd—8th June. 


1876, 

Ordered, That the Committee have Power to 
send for persons, papers, and records. 

Ordered, That Three be the Quorum of the 
Committee. 

Then Mr. Ridley, Captain Hood, and Mr. Blen- 
nerhassett were nominated Members of the Com- 
mittee. 


The Order for reading a second time, upon Appellate 
Thursday next, the Appellate Jurisdiction Bill, Jurisdiction 
was read, and discharged. Bill [Lords 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday the 12th day of this instant June. 


The Order for reading a second time, upon Elemen 
Monday the 12th day of this instant June, the Education py, 
Elementary Edneation Bill, was read, and dis- 
charged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday the 15th day of this instant June. 


The Order for resuming, upon Thursday next, Criminal Lay 
the further Proceeding on the Second Reading Evidence 
of the Criminal Law Evidence Amendment Bill, 37°™™ 
was read, and discharged. ; 

Ordered, That the further Proceeding be re- 
sumed upon Wednesday the 26th day of July next. 





Sir Henry Selwin-Ibbetson presented a Bill for prisons pit, 
amending the Law relating to Prisons: And the  gjI] 199 
same was read the first time; and ordered to be y 
read a second time upon Thursday the 22nd day 

| of this instant June; and to be printed. 


| 


Sir Henry Selwin-Ibbetson presented a Bill to Metropolitan 
confirm a Scheme under “ The Metropolitan Com- Commons _ 
mons Act, 1866,” and “ The Metropolitan Com- (Bas) Bill 
mons Amendment Act, 1869,” relating to Barnes _ Bill 181. 
Common: And the same was read the first time ; 
and ordered to be read a second time upon Thurs- 
day next; and to be printed. 


Mr. Stanley presented a Bill to facilitate the Army Corps 
assembling and training of certain Army Corps: Training Bill 
And the same was read the first time; and ordered Bill 182. 
to be read a second time upon Thursday next; 
and to be printed. 


The Statute Law Revision (Substituted Enact- Statute Law 
ments) Bill was read the first time ; and ordered (Substituted 
to be read a second time upon Thursday next; fnactments) 
and to be printed. Bill [ Lords.] 


And then the House, having continued to sit Bill 168. 


till half an hour after One of the clock 
on Friday morning, adjourned till Thursday 
next. 








Thursday, 8th June, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 


‘HE House proceeded to take into considera- Glasgow and 
tion the Amendments made by the Lords to a 

the Glasgow and South Western Railway Bill; — 
and the same were twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration whitehaven, 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the — 
Whitehaven, Cleator, and Egremont Railway Bill; péijway Bill 
and the same were twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 


agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 





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The Cleveland Water Bill was read the third 


time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


veland 
oe Bill. 


. _ The Newport (Monmouthshire) Improvement 

oa Bill was read the third time. 

Improvement = =©Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Bill. Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 


iel rae : - 
mice the Galashiels Municipal Extension, Police, and 
Extension, ©». Water Bill, as amended in the Committee. 
Nin Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 
{Lords. } 
Gou’s Patent The House proceeded to take into consideration 
Bill Gouz’s Patent Bill, as amended in the Com- 

mittee. ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 

Romford Canal The House proceeded to take into consideration 


Company Bill} the Romford Canal Company Bill, as amended in 
the Committee. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


serenoaks Gas ~=©='The House proceeded to take into consideration 
Bill. the Sevenoaks Gas Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 
Southport The House proceeded to take into consideration 


Improvement the Southport Improvement Bil), as amended in 
Bill. the Committee. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


West The House proceeded to take into consideration 

Bromwich = the West Bromwich Improvement Bill, as amended 

Improvement; ° 

Bill, in the Committee. ; 7 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Queenborough The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
Harbour Bill. take into consideration the Queenborough Harbour 
Bill, as amended in the Committee. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


National The National Assurance Company of Ireland 

onal Bill was read a second time ; and committed. 

Ireland Bill 

(Lords. 

me Shoreham The New Shoreham Harbour Bill was read a 

(lenis. second time; and committed. 

eathempton The Southampton Docks Bill was read a second 
time ; and committed. 

aria and The Waterford and Wexford Railway Bill was 

- Rail- read a second time; and committed. 

(Lords, ] 

Willesden The Willesden Local Board Bill was read a 


at arg second time ; and committed. 


Blackrod Gas 


i The Blackrod Gas Bill was read the first time. 
ill [Lords.} 


Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


wit Cornwall The East Cornwall Mineral Railway Bill was 

my bi read the first time. 

(Lords. Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 

a. The Northern Union Railways of Ireland Bill 


of Ireland Bil, WS read the first time. 
(Lords,} 


Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 
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243 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Private Bills 
one of the Examiners of Petition$’ for Private [Zerds] (No 
Bills, That no Standing Orders not previously in- Orie Sot 
quired into are applicable in the case of the fol- previously 
lowing Bills, originating in the Lords, and referred quired into, 
on the First Reading thereof, viz. : mnie: 

Blackrod Local Board Bill. 
Rochester Bridge Bill. 


Ordered, That the Bills be read a second time. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Private Bills 

one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, [£974] 
° 7 - i (Standing 
That the Standing Orders not previously inquired Orders, not pre- 
into, and which are applicable thereto, have been viously in- 
complied with in the case of the following Bill, (et iis. ) 
originating in the Lords, and referred on the” 
First Reading thereof, viz. : 
Letterkenny Railway Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and Public 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions. 





Vide Twenty- 
fourth Report. 


Mr. Secretary Cross presented,—Return to an Justices of the 
Address to Her Majesty, dated the 6th day of ery emer 
March last, for a Return relative to Justices of (gcotland.) 
the Peace Small Debt Courts ( Scotland). 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated Cambridge 
the 25th day of May last, for a Return relative to University 


Cambridge University (Report of Syndicate). ens) 


Return to an Order, dated the 10th day of May Sanitary 
last, for Returns relative to Sanitary Returns poem 
(Dublin). — 

Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented,—Return Copper, &amp;e. 
to an Order, dated the 3rd day of March last, for 
a Return relating to Copper, &amp;c. 

Mr. William Henry Smith also presented, pur- Public Works 
suant to the directions of several Acts of Parlia- 10a Board. 
ment,—Copy of First Annual Report of the Public 
Works Loan Board (1876). 

Account of the Commissioners for the Reduc- Sinking Fund 
tion of the National Debt, showing the Amounts Accounts. 
received and applied in the Financial Year ended 
31st March 1876, in respect of the Old and New 
Sinking Funds. 

Copy of Treasury Minute, dated the 2nd of Superannua- 
June 1876, awarding a Special Retired Allowance tins. 
to John Kelly, Established Smith, Portsmouth 
Dockyard. 

Copy of Treasury Minute, dated the 2nd of 
June 1876, awarding a Special Retired Allowance 
to Henry Crusoe, Established Shipwright, Ports- 
mouth Dockyard. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


The following Paper, pursuant to the directions Patents for 
of an Act of Parliament, was laid upon the Table ™ventions- 
by the Clerk of the House,—Copy of a Rule or 
Regulation made the 17th day of May 1876, by 
the Commissioners of Patents for Inventions. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Local Light 
Reading of the Local Light Dues (Reduction) Bill ; Dves (Redue- 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time “™ Bi 


upon Monday next. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Commons Bill. 
into a Committee on the Commons Bill. Bill 184. 


(In the Committee.) 


Crause, N° 18 (Situation of allotments for 
recreation grounds and field gardens, 8 &amp; 9 Vic. 
c. 118, 8. 74). 

An Amendment made. 


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244 


Another Amendment proposed, in p. 16, 1. 4, to 
leave out from the word “ appropriated” to the 
end of the Clause, in order to insert the words 
“‘ and the Inclosure Commissioners shall require, 
‘“‘ and in their Provisional Order for the inclosure 
“of the waste lands of any manor specify as one 
‘of the terms and conditions of the inclosure 
thereof, the appropriation free of all charge for 
the purpose of a recreation ground or recreation 
grounds, or a field garden or field gardens, or 
partly for one purpose and partly for the other, 
of an allotment not less in extent than one- 
tenth part of the whole of such waste lands ; and 
whenever the waste lands of a manor proposed 
to be inclosed shall exceed Five hundred acres 
it shal] be open to the Commissioners to make 
such allotment as they shall think fit, having 
regard to the special circumstances of the neigh- 
bourhood, provided only that no such allotment 
shall be more than one-tenth of the said waste 
lands, nor of less extent than Fifty acres: Pro- 
vided always, that notwithsianding anything in 
“the Inclosure Acts, 1845 to 1868, contained, it 
“ shall not be necessary to drain and level more 
‘“‘ than twelve acres of any allotment or allotments 
“for the purpose of a recreation ground or recrea- 
“ tion grounds.” 

Question proposed, That the words proposed to 
be left out stand part of the Clause :—Amend- 
ment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 16, 1. 4, 
after the word “ appropriated,” to insert the words 
‘‘and the Inclosure Commissioners shall require, 
* and in their Provisional Order for the inclosure 
“ of the waste lands of any manor specify as one 
“of the terms and conditions of the inclosure 
** thereof, the appropriation free of all charge for 
* the purpose of a recreation ground or recreation 
“ srounds, or a field garden or field gardens, or 
* partly for one purpose and partly for the other, 
* of an allotment not less in extent than One-tenth 
“part of the whole of such waste lands; and 
“ whenever the waste lands of a manor proposed 
“to be inclosed shall exceed Five hundred 
“acres it shall be open to the Commissioners 
**to make such allotment as they shall think fit, 
‘* having regard to the special circumstances of the 
* neighbourhood, provided only that no such allot- 
* ment shall be more than One-tenth of the said 
* waste lands, nor of less extent than Fifty acres: 
‘** Provided always, that notwithstanding anything 
“in the Inclosure Acts,1845 to 1868, contained, it 
** shall not be necessary to drain and level more than 
** Twelve acres of any allotment or allotments for 
‘“‘ the purpose of a recreation ground or recreation 
* grounds.” 

Question put, That those words be there in- 
serted ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for thes Mr. Shaw Lefevre, 1 

Yeas, \ Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice : J 

Tellers for the{ Sir William Dyke, Lilo 

Noes, (Mr. Rowland Winn: J " 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

CiauseE, N° 19, amended, and agreed to. 

Ciause, N° 20 (Application of surplus rents of 
recreation grounds and field gardens, 8 &amp; 9 Vic. 
c. 118, ss. 73, 112). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 17, 1. 11, after the 
word “ enacted,” to insert the words “ except as 
“ hereinafter provided.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted :—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Amendments made. 


Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

CLAUSE, N° 21, agreed to. 

CLAUuSsE, N° 22, (Amendment of Law as to town 
and village greens, 20 &amp; 21 Vie. c. 31, 8. 12). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 17, 1. 40, after the 


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word “ disturbance ” to insert the words « 
‘ interference with or occupation.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted :—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn, 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 18, 1, 7 
after the word “ mentioned ” to insert the words 
“ But no public meeting held on such village 
* green or recreation ground shall be deemed 
‘‘ public nuisance under this Act.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted :—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Clause agreed to. 

CuLausEs, N° 23 and N° 24, agreed to. 

Cause, N° 25, amended, and agreed to. 

Ciauses, N° 26 to N° 28, agreed to. 

A Clause added. 

Another Clause (Repeal of statute called the 
**Provisions of Merton,” and of other statutes )—— 
brought up, and read the first time. 

Motion made, and Question put, That the Clause 
be read a second time ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the f Lord Edmond oo 9 

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or any 


Yeas, (Mr. Shaw Lefevre : 8. 

Tellers for the f Sir William Dyke, 

Noes, LMr. Rowland Winn: 

Another Clause added. 

Another Clause (Proof of ancient rights over 
town and village greens) brought up, and read 
the first time. 

Question, That the Clause be read a second 
time —— put, and negatived. 

Two other Clauses added. 

Another Clause (Unlawful inclosure shall be 
deemed a public nuisance)——brought up, and 
read the first time. 

Motion made, and Question put, That the Clause 
be read a second time; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the; Sir Charles Ditlke, 1 

Yeas, (Mr. Sandford : 
Tellers for thes Six William Dyke, } 
Noes, (Mr. Rowland }Vinn: J 

Another Clause added. 

Preamble. 

Amendments made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p, 2, Ll. 16, 
after the word ‘‘ Whereas,” to insert the words 
“it is no longer expedient, as recited by ‘ The 
* General Inclosure Act, 1845,’ to facilitate the 
* inclosure of Commons, but.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted :—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Preamble, as amended, agreed to. 


Bill, as amended, to be reported. 


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Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration upon Monday 
the 19th day of this instant June; and be 
printed. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- supply. 


mittee of Supply ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave 
the Chair ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the 


words “the annually increasing congestion of Hyde Park 
“traffic in the approaches to Hyde Park Corner Co™™ 


“has become the source of hindrance, annoyance, 
“ and danger to the public, and merits the early 

* attention of this House,” instead thereof. 
And the Question being proposed, That the 
words proposed to be left out stand part of the 
Question : 





39 Vicroria. 


Question :—The said proposed Amendment was, 
with leave of the House, withdrawn. 
Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 


Chair :—Ihe House accordingly resolved itself 


into the Committee. 
(In the Committee.) 


1. £.26,303, to complete the Sum for the 
Maintenance and Repair of Royal Palaces. 

2. £. 95,105, to complete the Sum for the Royal 
Parks and Pleasure Gardens. 

3. £.112,938, to complete the Sum for the 
Maintenance and Repair of Public Buildings. 

4, £.13,440, to complete the Sum for the Supply 
and Repair of Furniture in the Public Depart- 
ments. 

5. £. 25,569, to complete the Sum for the 
Buildings of the Houses of Parliament. 

6. £.4,360, to complete the Sum for the Erec- 
tion of New Offices in Downing-street for the 
Secretaries of State for the Home and Colonial 
Departments and Local Government Board. 

7. £.9,506, to complete the Sum for one-half 
of the Expense of Erecting or Improving Court 
Houses or Offices for the Sheriff Courts in Sevt- 
land. 

8. £. 2,084, to complete the Sum for Works for 
the Enlargement of the National Gallery. 

9. £. 143,718, to complete the Sum for the Post 
Office and Inland Revenue Buildings. 

10. £.11,573, to complete the Sum for the 
Maintenance and Repair of the British Museum 
Buildings. ; 

11. £.46,050, to complete the Sum for New 
Buildings for County Courts, Maintenance and 
Repair of Courts, supply of Furniture, Fuel, &amp;c., 
and other Charges attendant thereon. 

12. £.4,043, to complete the Sum for erecting 
and maintaining New Buildings, including Rents, 
&amp;c., for the Department of Science and Art. 

13. £.105,500, to complete the Sum for the 
Survey of the United Kingdom, including the re- 
vision of the Survey of Jreland, Maps for Landed 
Estates Court, Ireland, publication of Maps, and 
engraving the Geological Survey. noes 

14. £.7,405, to complete the Sum for maintain- 
ing certain Harbours, &amp;c. under the Board of 
Trade. 

15. £.7,500, to complete the Sum for the Con- 
tribution to the Funds for the Establishment and 
Maintenance of a Fire Brigade in the Metropolis. 

16. £. 194,991, to complete the Sum for Rates 
and Contributions in lieu of Rates in respect of 
Government Property, and for Salaries and Ex- 

enses of the Rating of Government Property 
Depastencnl. 

17. £.951, to complete the Sum for the Wel- 
lington Monument. 

18. £.65,000, to complete the Sum for the 
Erection of a Natural History Museum. 

19. £.4,644, to complete the Sum for New 
Buildings, Maintenance and Repair of Buildings, 
and other Expenses connected therewith, of the 
Metropolitan Police Courts. 

20. £.65,325, to complete the Sum for the 
Purchase of a Site, Erection of a Building, and 
other Expenses for the New Courts of Justice and 
Offices belonging thereto. 

21. £.1,951, to complete the Sum for a Grant 
in Aid of the Expenses of Ramsgate Harbour. 

22. £.2,100, to complete the Sum for the ac- 
quisition of Lands for the purpose of the New 
Palace at Westminster, and for the further Em- 
bankment of the River Thames. : 

23. £.12,960, to complete the Sum for certain 
Lighthouses Abroad. 

24. Motion made, and Question proposed, That 
a Sum, not exceeding £.37,330, be granted to Her 
Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary to defray 


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during the year ending on the 31st day of March 
1877, for the British Embassy Houses, Consular 
and Legation Buildings, &amp;c. in China and Japan, 
Constantinople, Therapia, Madrid, Paris, Teheran, 
Vienna, and Washington: 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question pro- 
posed, ‘That the Chairman do report Progress, and 
ask leave to sit again:—Motion, by leave, with- 
drawn. 

Original Question put, and agreed to. 

Resolutions to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had come to several 
Resolutions. 

Ordered, That the Report be received To-mor- 
row. 

Mr. Raikes also acquainted the House, that he 
was directed to move, That the Committee may 
have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, again 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Poor Law 
into a Committee or the Poor Law Amendment 4™c™dment 
Bill. Bill. 

(In the Committee.) 

Cause, N° 12 (Paupers not to vote at election 
of guardians). 

An Amendment made. 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Chairman do report Progress, and ask leave to sit 
again :—Motion, by leave, withdrawn. 

Other Amendments made. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 


To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had made Progress 
in the Bill, and that he was directed to move, 
That the Committee may have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon ‘Tuesday 
next, at Two of the clock, again resolve itself into 
the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Highways Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


Highways Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuMiN¢g Prevention of 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed Crimes Act 
upon the 25th day of May last, That the Prevention —— 
of Crimes Act Amendment Bill be now read a 
second time; 

And the Question being again proposed :—The 
House resumed the said adjourned Debate. 

And the Question being put; 

Ordered, That the Bill be now read a second 
time :—The Bill was accordingly read a second 
time ; and committed to a Committee of the whole 
House, for Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Valuation Bill, 
Reading of the Valuation Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Friday morning ; 


Friday, 9th June, 1876: 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Agricultural 
Reading of the Agricultural Holdings ( Scotland) Holdings 
bi Sn, 

And a Motion being made, and the Question fe 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a 
second time :—And a Debate arising thereupon ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be adjourned till 


the Charge which will come in course of payment | Monday next. 
Vou. 131. 


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246 


Public Health The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
Pro” into a Committee on the Public Health ( Scotland) 
(Wemyss) Bill. Provisional Order ( Wemyss) Bill; and, after some 
time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the 
Chair; and Mr. Raikes reported, That the Com- 
mittee had gone through the Bill, and directed him 

to report the same, without Amendment. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 

this day. 


Burghs The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
eneye into into a Committee on the Burghs ( Division into 
Mate Anear Wards) (Scotland) Amendment Bill; and, after 
ment Bill. some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the 
Chair; and Mr. Raikes reported, That the Com- 
mittee had gone through the Bill, and directed 
him to report the same, without Amendment. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
this day. 


Maritime The Order Of the day being read, for the Second 
Contracts Bill. Reading of the Maritime Contracts Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


Local Govern- The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
wo al into a Committee on the Local Government Pro- 
Aberavon, &amp;c. Visional Orders, Aberavon, &amp;c. (No. 7) Bill; and, 
(No. 7) Bill. after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker re- 
sumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes reported, That 
the Committee had gone through «he Bill, and 
directed him to report the same, without Amend- 
ment. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Monday next. 


The Friendly Societies Act (1875) Amend- 
ment Bill was, according to Order, read a second 
time; and committed to a Committee of the 
whole House, for Thursday next. 


Friendly 
Societies Act 
(1875) Amend- 
ment Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Third 
Reading of the Tramways Order Confirmation 
( Wantage) Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Monday next. 


Tramways 
Order Con- 
firmation 
(Wantage) 
Bill [ Lords.] 


The Order of the day being read, for the Third 
Reading of the Gas and Water Orders Confirma- 
tion Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Monday next. 


Gas and Water 
Orders Con- 
firmation Bill 
[ Lords. ]} 


The All Saints, Moss, Bill was, according to 
Order, read a second time; and committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for Thursday 
next. 


All Saints, 
Moss, Bill 
[ Lords. } 


Ways and 
Means, 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Ways and Means ; 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


Metropolitan 
Commons 


(Barnes) Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Metropolitan Commons (Barnes) 
Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


Army Corps 


Traizing Bill The Order of the day being read, for the Second 


Reading of the Army Corps Training Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Statute Law Revision (Substituted 
Enactments) Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day. 


Statute Law 
Revision 
(Substituted 
Enactments) 
Bill [ Lords. } 


8th—QOth June. 


1876. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Convention 
Reading of the Convention (Ireland) Act Repeal (Ireland) Act 
Bill ; _ —_— 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday the 22nd day of this instant June. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Game Lays 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed Amendment 
upon the 27th day of April last, That the Game (Stland) Bil, 
Laws Amendment (Scotland) Bill be now read a 
second time ; 

Urdered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Tuesday next. 


The Bankers’ Books Evidence Bill was, accord- 
ing to Order, read a second time; and committed 
to a Committee of the whole House, for Thursday 
next. 


Bankers’ Books 
Evidence Bill, 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Burghs 
into a Committee on the Burghs (Scot/and) Gas Soctend Gas 
Supply Bill; and, after some time spent therein, a 
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration this day. 














The Order of the day being read, for resuming House 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed ——— 
‘upon the 22nd day of March last, That the House aan emer 
| Occupiers Disqualification Removal Bill be now Bill 
'read a second time ; 
And the Question being again proposed :—The 
House resumed the said adjourned Debate. 
And a Motion being made, and the Question 
| being put, That the Debate be now adjourned ; 
The House divided. 
| The Yeas to the Right ; 
| The Noes to the Left. 
Tellers for the ; Mr. Hayter, 
Yeas, \ Lord Robert Montagu : 


Tellers for the [rig 
: &gt; 
Noes, \ Mr. Onslow: 


So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Original Question being put ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be now read a second 
'time:—The Bill was accordingly read a second 
time ; and committed to a Committee of the whole 
House, for Monday next. 


| 
| 
} 


1s, 


Henry Drummond l 


f 57. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Pollution of 
to make further Provision for the better Prevention Rivers. 
of the Pollution of Rivers: And that Mr. Selater- 
Booth and Mr. Salt do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill To? 
for the Improvement of the Navigation of the °°" 
Lough and River £rne: And that Mr. William 
Henry Smith and Sir Michael Hicks Beach do 
prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Bishopric of 
to provide for the Foundation of a New Bishopric —_— 
out of a part of the Diocese of Exeter: And that 
Mr. Secretary Cross and Sir Henry Selwin-Lbbet- 
son do prepare, and bring it in. 











| Mr. Secretary Cross accordingly presented a Bishopric of 
Bill to provide for the Foundation of a New gs a 
Bishopric out of a part of the Diocese of Exeter: Bill 189 
And the same was read the first time ; and ordered 

'to be read a second time upon Monday the 19th 

day of this instant June ; and to be printed. 


Mr. Sclater-Booth presented a Bill to make Pollution of 
further Provision for the better Prevention of the ~ Bil 18, 
Pollution of Rivers: And the same was read the . 
first time; and ordered to be read a second time 

upon 








~ 





39 Vicroria. 


upon Thursday the 22nd day of this instant June ; 
and to be printed. 


ne Lough Mr. William Henry Smith presented a Bill for 
wd River Bill.” the Improvement of the Navigation of the Lough 
pill 187. and River Erne: And the same was read the 
first time. 
Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills; and be 
printed. 


ical The Order for reading a second time, upon 
assessments Monday next, the Ecclesiastical Assessments 
(Scotland) Bill. ( S-o¢/and) Bill, was read, and discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


and The Order for reading a second time, upon 
Bridges (Scot- Monday next, the Roads and Bridges (Scotland) 
lund) Bil. Bill, was read, and discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


Sittings of the Resolved, That whenever the House shall meet 

House. at Two of the clock, the Sitting of the House shail 
be held subject to the Resolutions of the House 
of the 30th day of April 1869. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till a quarter of an hour after One of the 
clock on Friday morning, adjourned till 
this day. 





Friday, 9th June, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 

East London T HE House proceeded to take into considera- 

Railway Bill. tion the Amendments made by the Lords to 
the East London Railway Bill; and the same were 
twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


Great Eastern . Ordered, That the Amendments made by the 
Railway Bill. Lords to the Great Eastern Railway Bill be taken 
into consideration upon Wednesday next. 


London and 
Blackwall 
Railway Bill. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the London 
and Blackwall Railway Bill; and the same were 
twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


London, The House proceeded to take into consideration 
ey dig the Amendments made by the Lords to the London, 
ad Tunbridge Brighton, and South Coast and Tunbridge Wells 


Wells and and Eastbourne Railway Companies Bill; and 

Babvey Com the same were twice read, and agreed to. 

panies Bill,  _ Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 

West Kent The House proceeded to take into consideration 


. Sewerage the Amendments made by the Lords to the West 
Kent Main Sewerage Bill; and the same were 
twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
“~ Amendments made by the Lords to the Wilts 
OL. 131. 


and 
rks Canal 


Pre 


sth—Oth June. 


247 


and Berks Canal Bill; and the same were twice 
read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


The Alexandra (Newport) Dock Bill was read Alexandra 
the third time. (Newport) 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the P° Bill 
Title be, An Act to further extend the Time limited 
for the purchase of Lands for, and for the comple- 
tion of, the Railways authorised by the Alexandra 
(Newport) Dock Act, 1865, and to confer further 
Powers upon the Company, and for other purposes. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


A Motion being made, That the Campbeltown Campbeltown 
Burgh and Harbour Bill be now read the third Burgh and 
time ; Harbour Bill. 

Sir John Hay, by Her Majesty’s Command, ac- 
quainted the House, That Her Majesty, having 
been informed of the purport of the Bill, gives 
Her Consent, as far as Her Majesty’s interest is 
concerned, that the House may do therein as they 
shall think fit. 

Then the Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 





The Gorsedda Junction and Portmadoc Railways Gorsedda Junc- 
Bill was read the third time. | one — 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. Railways Bill 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Billtothe 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Halesowen and Bromsgrove Branch Rail- Halesowen and 


ways Bill was read the third time. a orem 
Resolved, 'That the Bill do pass. Railways Bill. 


Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Kirkcaldy Burgh and Harbour Bill was Kirkcaldy 
read the third time. te ecto 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Bill was Monmouth- 
read the third time. peer yey: 3 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. ; 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Newcastle-upon-Tyne Quayside Lift Bill Newcastle- 
was read the third time. etie tit 
Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, Bin [Zords.] 
do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the same, with Amendments; to 
which this House doth desire the concurrence of 


their Lordships. 


The Newport (Isle of Wight) Borough Bill was Newport (Isle 
read the third time. of Wight) 
Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, thon) Bill 
do pass. 
Sodtevel That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the same, with Amendments ; 
to which this House doth desire the concurrence 
of their Lordships. 


The North East Worcestershire Water Bill was North Fast 
read the third time. orcestershire 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. oe 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 





I14 The 





Sidmouth Rail- 
way Bill. 


South Metro- 
politan Gas 
Light and 
Coke Bill. 


Uppingham 
Water Bill. 


Leeds School 
Board Bill 


Public 
Petitions. 
Vide Twenty- 
fourth Report. 
Ecclesiastical 
Officers and 
Fees Bill. 
No. 267. 


Copper, &amp;c. 
No, 268 


Public Works 
Loan Board. 


No. 269, 


Sinking Fund 
Accounts. 


No, 270. 


Soldiers, &amp;c. 
(Families in 
receipt of 


Relief.) 


Army (Stock- 
purse Fund.) 


County Rates 
(England.) 


Metropolitan 
Board of 
Works 


948 
The Sidmouth Railway Bill was read the third 


time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The South Metropolitan Gas Light and Coke 
Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Uppingham Water Bill was read the third 
time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 


Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order, That the Leeds School Board Bill 
be committed, was read, and discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to the Eccle- 
siastical Officers and Fees Bill, which was com- 
municated from the Lords upon the Ist day of 
this instant June, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Copper, | 
&amp;c., which was presented upon the 8th day of this | 
instant June, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to the Public 
Works Loan Board, which was presented upon 
the 8th day of this instant June, be printed. 


Oth June. 





Ordered, That the Account relative to the Sink- 
ing Fund Accounts, which was presented upon | 
the 8th day of this instant June, be printed. 

Mr. Seeretary Hardy presented,—Return to | 
an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 29th day | 
of July, in the last Session of Parliament, for 
Returns from each Union of England and Wales, 
and from each Parochial Board in Scotland, of | 
the Number of Wives and Children of Soldiers 
and Marines in receipt of Poor Relief at any time 
during the Parochial Year 1875 :——Similar Re- | 
turn as to the Wives and Children of Militia | 
Men:——Returns of all Payments made under | 
the 107th Clause of the Mutiny Act to Wives | 
and Children of Soldiers, and for the Support of | 
Illegitimate Children, in compliance with any 
Order made under the Poor Law Acts and Bas- 
tardy Acts: ———-And, of Payments to Wives or 
Children under the 177th Article of War. 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated 
the 23rd day of May last, for a Return relative to 
the Army (Stock-purse Fund). 

Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr, Salt presented, pursuant to the directions 
of an Act of Parliament,-—Abstract of the County 
Treasurer’s Accounts (County Rates, Enyland), 
year ended with Michaelmas 1875. 

* Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented, pursuant 
to the directions of several Acts of Parliament,— 
Returns from the Metropolitan Board of Works, 
showing,— 

I. Up to 3lst December 1875: 

1. The Amount of Consolidated Stock ; 

2. The Application of the Money raised by 
such Stock ; 

3. The Sums carried to the Consolidated 
Loans Fund ; 








1876. 


4. The Application of the Consolidated Loans 
Fund; and 

5. An Estimate of the Expenditure of the 
Board, for all purposes, for the year ending 
the 31st December 1876: 

And, II. Showing, up to 31st December 1875: 

1, All Money raised by the Board, under this 
or any further Act, for purposes men- 
tioned in this Act ; 

2. In rejiation to every Parish, District, 
Union, or Place in respect whereof a Loan 
is obtained from the Board under this or 
any further Act,— 

(1.) The Annual Rateable Value of the 
Property therein ; 

(2.) As nearly as can be, the actual In- 
debtedness of each Parish, District, 
Union, or Place, in respect of Loans 
previously contracted. 


Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the 
Table. 


The following Paper, pursuant to the directions 
of an Act of Parliament, was laid upon the Table 
by the Clerk of the House,—Statement of the 
Receipts and Payments made by the Board of 
Trade, for the year ending 3lst March 1875, 
together with an Account of the Receipt and 
Issue of Stores; and also Receipts and Payments 
on account of the Benefit fund. 


Ramsgate 
Harbour. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Contagious 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased Diseases Acts. 


to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Copy of Annual Report, for 1875, of 
Captain Harris, Assistant Commissioner of Police 
of the Metropolis, on the operation of the Con- 
tagious Diseases Acts. 


Ordered, That Mr. Bentinck have leave of ab- 
sence for one month, on account of ill-health. 


Leave of 
Absence. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- gupply. 


mittee of Supply ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave 
the Chair; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” 


to the end of the Question, in order to add the Mr. Charles 
words “ a Select Committee be appointed to in- Henwood. 


** quire jnto the case of Mr. Charles Henwood,” 
instead thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Question: 
—It was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
Chair:—The House accordingly resolved itself 
into the Committee. 


(In the Committee. ) 


1. £.370,400, for Commissariat and Ordnance 
Store Establishments, Wages, &amp;c. 
2. £.2,997,000, for Provisions, Forage, Fuel, 
Transport and other Services. 
3. £.800,600, for Clothing Establishments, 
Services, and Supplies. 
4. Motion made, and Question proposed, That 
a Sum, not exceeding £. 1,229,000, be granted to 
Her Majesty, to defray the Charge for Supply, 
Manufacture, and Repair of Warlike and other 
Stores, which wili come in course of payment from 
the Ist day of April 1876 to the 31st day of 
March 1877, inclusive : 
Wereupon Motion made, and Question proposed, 
That a Sum, not exceeding £. 1,143,146, be 
ranted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge for 
Supply, Manufacture and Repair of Warlike and 
other Stores, which will come in course of pay- 
ment 





89 VicTroRia. 


ment from the Ist day of April 1876 to the 31st 
day of March 1877, inclusive :—Motion, by leave, 
withdrawn. 

Original Question put, and agreed to. 

5. Motion made, and Question proposed, That a 
Sum, not exceeding £.845,100, be granted to 
Her Majesty, to defray the Charge for Superin- 
tending Establishment of, and Expenditure for, 
Works, Buildings, and Repairs at Home and 
Abroad, which will come in course of payment 


from the lst day of April 1876 to the 31st day of 


March 1877, inclusive : 
Whereupon Motion made, and Question put, 
That the Item of £.17,000, for the Re-construc- 


tion of the Hyde Park Cavalry Barracks, be} 


omitted from the proposed Vote ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the; Mr. Reginald Yorke, 
Yeas, (Mr. Morsyth : 
Tellers for the; Sir William Dyke, 

Noes, \Mr. Rowland Winn: 

Original Question put, and agreed to. 

6. £. 144,100, for Military Education. 

7. £.36,600, for Miscellaneous Services. 

8. £.214,700, for the Administration of the 
Army. 

9. £.35,500, for Rewards for Distinguished 
Services, &amp;c. 

10. £. 89,000, for Pay of General Officers. 

11. £.505,800, for Full Pay of Reduced and 
Retired Officers, and Half Pay. 

12. £. 144,600, for Widows’ Pensions, &amp;c. 

13. £. 16,500, for Pensions for Wounds. 

14. £.45,400, for Chelsea and Kilmainham 
Hospitals (In-Pensions). 

15. £. 1,220,000, for Out-Pensions, 

16. £. 164,200, for Superannuation Allowances. 

17. £.34,300, for Militia, Yeomanry Cavalry, 
and Volunteer Corps. 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That a 
Sum, not exceeding £. 181,663, be granted to Her 
Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary to defray 
the Charge which will come in course of payment 
during the year ending on the 3lst day of March 
1877, for the Expenses of Her Majesty’s Embassies 
and Missions Abroad: 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question pro- 
posed, That the Chairman do report Progress, and 
ask leave to sit again :—Motion, by leave, with- 
drawn. 

Original Motion, by leave, withdrawn. 

18. £.33,164, to complete the Sum in aid of 
Colonial Local Revenue, and for the Salaries and 
Allowances of Governors, &amp;c. 

19. £.2,590, to complete the Sum for the 
Orange River Territory and the Island of Saint 
Helena. 

20. £. 3,282, to complete the Sum for the Ex- 
penses of the Mixed Commissions established under 
the Treaties with Foreign Powers for suppressing 
the Traffic in Slaves. 

21. £. 12,007, tocomplete the Sum for Tonnage 
Duties, Bounties on Slaves, and Expenses of the 
Liberated African Department. 

22. £.4,017, to complete the Sum for the Emi- 
gration Board, and for certain other Expenses 
connected with Emigration from this Country. 

23. £. 1,600, to complete the Sum on account 
of the Treasury Chest. 

24. £. 333,210, to complete the Sum for Super- 
annuation and Retired Allowances to Persons 
formerly employed in the Public Service. 

25. £. 28,900, to complete the Sum tor Pensions 
to Masters and Seamen of the Merchant Service, 
and to their Widows and Children. 

26. £.27,000, to complete the Sum for the 
Relief of Distressed British Seamen Abroad. 

27. £.3,738, to complete the Sum for Miscel- 
laneous Charitable and other Allowances in Great 
Britain. 

VoL, 131. 


14. 


(195, 
J 





 Oth—10th June. 





249 


28. £.44,901, to complete the Sum for Tem- 
porary Commissions. 

29. £. 2,430, to complete the Sum for an Expe- 
ditiou for the purpose of pursuing a course of 
Physical and Biological Investigations of the 
Oceanic Regions of the Globe. 

30. £.4,516, to complete the Sum for certain 
Miscellaneous Expenses. 

31. £.828,530, to complete the Sum for the 
Customs Department. 

32. £, 1,431,304, to complete the Sum for the 
Inland Revenue Department. 

33. £. 2,570,406, to complete the Sum for the 
Post Office Services, the Expenses of Post Office 
Savings Banks, and Government Annuities and 
| Insurances. 

34. £.701,930, to complete the Sum for the 
| Post Office Packet Service. 
| 35. £. 928,148, to complete the Sum for the 
Post Office Telegraph Service. 


Resolutions to be reported. 











| And the House having continued to sit till after 
| Twelve of the clock on Saturday morning ; 


Suturday, 10th June, 1876: 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. 
Raikes reported, That the Committee had come to 
several Resolutions, 

Ordered, That the Report be received upon 
Monday next. 

Mr. fakes also acquainted the House, that he 
was directed to move, That the Committee may 
have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Com- 
mittee. 


the Report from the Committee of Supply ; 
Ordered, That the Report be received upon 
Monday next. 


The Public Health (Seot/and) Provisional Order 
(Wemyss) Bill, was, according to Order, read the 
third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Third 
Reading of the Burghs (Division into Wards) 
(Scotland) Amendment Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Tuesday next, at Two of the clock. 


mittee of Ways and Means ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Reading of the Statute Law Revision (Substituted 
Enactments) Bill; 

Ordered, Tnat the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 








'Reading of the Municipal Corporations, &amp;c. 
(Funds) Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday next. 


Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. 

Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes re- 

ported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 

K K mittee, 











The Order of the day being read, for receiving supply 


[8th June. ] 


Public Health 
(Scotland) Pro- 
visional Order 
( Wemyss) Bill. 


Burghs 
( Division into 


Wards) (Scot- 
land) Amend- 


ment Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Ways and 
Means. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second gtatute Law 
Revision 

(Substituted 
Enactments) 
Bill [ Lords.] 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second yunicipal 
Corporations, 
&amp;c. (Funds) 
Bill. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Wild Fowl 
into a Committee on the Wild Fowl Preservation — 





ee Se ee See eee a 


TOI Tire 32 


eee sane 


Burghs (Scot- 
land) Gas 
Supply Bill 


Customs Duties 
Consolidation. 


250 


mittee, be taken into consideration upon Monday 
next. 


Intoxicating The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
a mittee on the Intoxicating Liquors (Licensing 
a Law Amendment) (No. 2) Bill; 

(No. 2) Bill. Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Burglary and The Order of the day being read, for the Second | 
Forgery Bill. Reading of the Burglary and Forgery Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday next. 





Employersand The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Workmen Act 


Reading of the Employers and Workmen Act | 

1875) Exten- ploy 

ee” (1875) Extension Bill ; | 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 

upon Tuesday next. 


sion Bill. 


Election of The House, according to Order, resumed the 


Gth—101h—12th June. 


1876. 


consolidating the Duties of Customs:—And he 
moved the House accordingly. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring ina Bill; 
And that Mr. Raikes, Mr. William Henry Smith, 
and Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer do prepare, 
and bring it in. 

Mr. William Henry Smith accordingly presented Customs Duties 
a Bill for consolidating the Duties of Customs; Consolitation 
And the same was read the first time; and ordered ™- 
to be read a second time upon Thursday next; Bill 188, 
and to be printed. 


The Order for reading a second time, upon gyi pin 
Monday next, the Civil Bill Courts (Jretand) Bill, Courts 
was read, and discharged. (Ireland) Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday the 19th day of this instant June. 


The Order for resuming, upon Monday next, Cer of th, 
the adjourned Debate on the Amendment which, Peace and of 
upon the 26th day of May last, was proposed to be the Crown 








Aldermen 
(Cumulative 
Vote) Bill. 


further Proceeding on the Second Reading of the 
Election of Aldermen (Cumulative Vote) Bill. 

And a Motion being made, and the Question | 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a 
second time :—And a Debate arising thereupon ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That the Debate be now adjourned ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

, Mr. Mundella, 

Tellers for the Y eass| St yer criti 
J Mr, Wheelhouse, 
*\ Mr. Tennant: 

So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being again proposed, That 
the Bill be now read a second time; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That this House do now adjourn ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right; 

The Noes to the Left. 


Tellers for the Tonio } as 


lef the Noy tie 


So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being again proposed, That 
the Bill be now read a second time:—And a 
Debate arising thereupon; 

Ordered, That the Debate be adjourned till 
Tuesday next. 


Tellers for the Noes 


\ 
jy 47. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
take into consideration the Burghs (Scotland) Gas 
Supply Bill, as amended in the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Friday next. 


Resolved, That this House will, immediately, 
resolve itself into a Committee to consider of con- 
solidating the Duties of Customs:—The House 
accordingly resolved itself into the Committee. 


(In the Committee.) 


Resolved, That the Chairman be directed to 
move the House, That leave be given to bring in 
a Bill for consolidating the Duties of Customs. | 


atesolution to be reported. 











Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr. Ruthes | 
re orted, That the Committee had come to a Re- 
solution. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Raikes accordingly reported a Resolution ; | and Water Bill was read the third time. 


which was read, as followeth : 


That the Chairman be directed to move the | do pass. 


made to the Question, That the Clerk of the (Ireland) Bill 
Peace and of the Crown (Jreland) Bill be now 
read a second time, was read, and discharged. 
Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Monday the 19th day of this instant June. 


Sir Henry Selwin-Ibbetson presented,— Return Contagious 
to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 9th day Diseases Acts, 
of this instant June, for a Return relative to the 
Contagious Diseases Acts. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till One of the clock on Saturday morning, 
adjourned till Monday next. 








Monday, 12th June, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 


T HE House proceeded to take into considera- Caledonian 
tion the Amendments made by the Lords to the a 
Caledonian Railway (Grangemouth Harbour) Bill; Harbour) Bill. 
and the same were twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Chesterfield 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Ches- =" atte 
terfield Water and Gas Bill; and the same were * 
twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, ‘That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration York New 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the York Water Bill. 
New Water Bill; and the same were twice read, 
and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


The Bromley Direct Railway Bill was read the Bromley Direct 
third time. Sing SS 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 


the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Galashiels Municipal Extension, Police, Galashiels 
Municipal 
tension, 


Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, hen ond 
Water Bill 


House, That leave be given to bring in a Bill for} Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the _— [Lords.] 
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39 Victoria. 


the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the same, with Amendments; to 
which this House doth desire the concurrence of 


their Lordships. 


Gouz’s Patent Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do nass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Goux’s Patent 
Bill. 


Romford Canal The Romford Canal Company Bill was read the 
Company Bill. third time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Ruthin and The Ruthin and Cerrig-y-Druidion Railway 
Cerig-y- _ Bill was read the third time. 
oy Bil Rail- ~~ Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 


Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


sevenoaks Gas 40 Lhe Sevenoaks Gas Bill was read the third time. 


Bill Resvlved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 

Lords, and desire their concurrence. 

Southport A Motion being made, That the Southport Im- 

Improvement provement Bill be uow read the third time ; 

Bill. Mr. Russell Gurney, by Her Majesty’s Com- 
mand, acquainted the House, That Her Majesty, 
having been informed of the purport of the Bill, 
gives Her Consent, as far as Her Majesty’s inte- 
rest is concerned, that the House may do therein 
as they shall think fit. 

Then the Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 

Title be, An Act to enable the Mayor, Aldermen, 
and Burgesses of the Borough of Southport to 
construct new Streets and other Works, to con- 
struct anew Promenade, to purchase the Under- 
taking of the Southport Tramways Company, Li- 
mited, to make further Provisions for the Improve- 
ment of the Borough, and for other purposes. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 

Lords, and desire their concurrence. 

West The West Bromwich Improvement Bill was read 

oe the third time; and verbal Amendments were 

i = made to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 

Lords, and desire their concurrence. 

Horncastle The House proceeded to take into consideration 

Gas Bill. the Horncastle Gas Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 
Southampton Ordered, That, in the case of the Southampton 
Docks Bill. Docks Bill, Standing Orders 212 and 239 be sus- | 

pended, and that the Committee of Selection have 
leave to appoint the Committee on the Bill to sit 
and proceed To-morrow. 

Tempest’s Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table-—Report from 

ork one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 

; That no Standing Orders are applicable in the 
case of the following Bill, referred on the First 
Reading thereof, viz. : 
Tempest’s Estate Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time. 
zante Bils | Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
Kett) (No one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 
Orders, not That no Standing Orders not previously inquired 
Previously in- into are applicable in the case of the following 
wpicable} Bill, originating in the Lords, and referred on the 


First Reading thereof, viz. : 
Edinburgh Improvement Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time. 


12th. 


June. 251 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Private Bills 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, [£94] 
That the Standing Orders not previously inquired Gute asteue: 
into, and which are applicable thereto, have not viously in- 
been complied with in the case of the following panne bees 
Bills, originating in the Lords, and referred on the ay 
First Reading thereof, viz. : 

East Cornwall Mineral Railway Bill. 
Swansea Harbour Bill. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the 

Select Committee on Standing Orders. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and Public 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions. 





Vide Twenty- 
fifth Report. 
Ordered, That the Return relative to Civil Civil Service 
Service Charges, which was presented upon the Charges. 
23rd day of May last, be printed. No. 271. 
Cambridge 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Cambridge Cambrid 
University (Report of Syndicate), which was pre- choral 
sented upon the 8th day of this instant June, be Syndicate.) 
printed. No, 272. 


County Rates 
(England. ) 


No. 273. 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to County 
Rates (England), which was presented upon the 
9th day of this instant June, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to the Metro- 
politan Board of Works, which was presented upon 
the 9th day of this instant June, be printed. 


Metropolitan 
oard of 
Works. 


No. 274. 


Ordered, That the Account relative to Rams- Ramsgate 
gate Harbour, which was presented upon the 9th — 
day of this instant June, be printed. 0. 275. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Con- Contagious 
tagious Diseases Acts, which was presented upon a Acts. 
the 9th day of this instant June, be printed. No, 276, 


Mr. Secretary Cross presented,—Return to an London School 
Address to Her Majesty, dated the 1st day of this 34 
instant June, for Returns relative to the London 
School Board. ; 

Return to an Order, dated the 23rd day of May —_ Loney 
last, for a Return relative to the Supreme Court (Ireland) Bill. 
of Judicature (/reland) Bill. 

Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. MWilliam Henry Smith presented, — Return Post Office 
to an Order, dated the 27th day of March last, for Gedee) 
a Return relative to the Post Office (Money 
Orders). 7 

Return toan Order, dated the 10th day of April ‘ ea 
last, for Returns relative to Petitions of Right. _ 

Return to an Order, dated the 30th day of May 
last, for a Return relative to the Supreme Court 
of Judicature (Jreland) Salaries. 


Mr. William Henry Smith also presented, pur- 
suant to the directions of an Act of Parliament,— 
A Statement of the Expenses incurred under the 
Acts for the Redemption of the Land Tax, and for 
discharging the Incidental Expenses attending the 
execution of those Acts, from the 3lst March 
1875 to the 3lst March 1876. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Supreme Court 
of Judicature 
(Ireland) 
Salaries. 


Land Tax 
Redemption 
Acts. 


Mr. Algernon Egerton presented,—Return to an Navy 
Order, dated the 9th day of March last, for a Re- pyar ot Creal.) 
turn relative to the Navy (Admiralty Trial of 
Coal), 

Return to an Order, dated the Ist day of this Islands 
instant June, for a Return relative to the Islands (Southern 
(Southern Ocean). anit 

Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the 
Table. 


The following Paper, pursuant to the directions Union of 
of an Act of Parliament, was laid upon the Table Benefices 








VoL. 131. 


KK 2 y ( Metropolis.) 





Public 
Petitions 


(Twenty-fourth examined the Petitions presented upon the 29th 


Report.) 


Navy (Corporal . 
Punishment.) a Return showing the N 


Privilege. 


Appellate 
Jurisdiction 


Bill [ Lords. ] 


University of 
Oxford Bill 
[ Lords.) 


952 
by the Clerk of the House,—A certified Copy of 


a Scheme, sealed by the Ecclesiastical Commis- | 
sioners for England on the 18th day of May 1876, 
for effecting an Union of two Benefices situate 
within the City and Diocese of London, to wit, the 
Benefice (being an united Rectory) of All Hallows, 
Lombard Street, with Saint Benet, Gracechurch, and 
Saint Leonard, Eastcheap,and the Benefice (being 
a Rectory) of Saint Dwnis Backehurch. 


Sir Charles Forster reported from the Select | 
Committee on Public Petitions; That they had 


and 30th days of May last, and the 2nd, 8th, and 
9th days of this instant June; and had directed 
him to make a Report thereof to the House. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Yumber of Corporal Punish- 
ments inflicted in the Navy from the years 1869 | 
to 1874, both inclusive. 


| 
| 
| 





Complaint being made by Sir Wi//iam Fraser, | 
Baronet, Member for Kidderminster, of a Letter | 
addressed by Mr. Lewis Morris, Acting Secretary | 
of the Political Committee of the Reform Club, to | 
Henry William Ripley, Esquire, Member for Brad- | 


ford, in breach of the Privileges of this House; | 


The said Letter was deiivered in, and read, as | 
followeth : 
Reform Club, Pall Mail, 
Sir, May 26th, 1876. 

I am desired by the Political Committee to 
inform you that a statement has been laid before 
them (copy of which I enclose) showing the party | 
votes given by you during the Sessions 1874, 1875, | 
and 1876, to which they would invite your serious | 
consideration, as they are of opinion that it would | 
be unfortunate if any proceedings should have to | 
be taken under Rule 29 of the Club. 

I am Sir, 
Your obedient Servant, 
Lewis Morris, 
Acting Secretary pro tem. of the Political 
Committee of the Reform Club. 
H. W. Ripley, Esq., M.P., 
21, Queen’s Gate, S. W. 

A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- | 
posed, That Mr. Lewis Morris, the writer of the | 
said Letter, do attend at the Bar of this House upon 
Monday next, at a quarter past Four of the clock: 
—And the said Motion was, with leave of the | 
Ilouse, withdrawn. 





The Appellate Jurisdiction Bill was, according 
to Order, read a second time; and committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for Monday next. | 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the University of Ozford Bill; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a second 
time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the 
words, “in view of the large legislative powers 
“entrusted to the University of Ozford Commis- 
‘ sioners by this Bill, this House is of opinion that | 
‘the Bill does not sufficiently declare or define 
“the principles and scope of the changes which | 
“such Commissioners are empowered to make in | 
‘that University and the Colleges therein,” in- 
stead thereof. | 

And the Question being proposed, That the | 
words proposed to be left out stand part of the | 
Question :—And a Debate arising thereupon ; | 

A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- | 





1 2th—13th June. 


1876. 


| posed, That the Debate be now adjourned :—And 


the said Motion was, with leave of the House, with- 
drawn. 

And the Question being again proposed, That 
the words proposed to be left out stand part of the 
Question :—The said proposed Amendment was, 
with leave of the House, withdrawn. 

Ordered, That the Bill be now read a second 
time:—The Bill was accordingly read a second 
time ; and committed to a Committee of the whole 
House, for Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second University of 
Reading of the University of Cambridge Bill; Cambridge 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time ®! 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Army Co 
Reading of the Army Corps Training Bill; Training Bill, 
And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a 
second time ; 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Tuesday morning ; 


Tuesday, 13th June, 1876: 


And the Question being put; 

Ordered, That the Bill be now read a second 
time:—The Bill was accordingly read a second 
time; and committed to a Committee of the whole 
House, for this day, at Two of the clock. 


The Jurors Qualification (/re/and) Bill was, ac- Jurors 
cording to Order, read a second time; and com- Qualification 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for ‘#4 Bill 
Thursday next. 


The Supreme Court of Judicature (Jreland) Bill supreme Court 
was, according to Order, read a second time: and of Judicature 
committed to a Committee of the whole House, \Torde = 
for Thursday next. 


Mr. William Henry Smith reported from the Supply 
Committee of Supply, several Resolutions ; which [8th June] 
were read, as follow : 

1. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 26,363, be Roval Palaces. 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum — 
necessary to defray the Charge which will come 
in course of payment during the year ending on 
the 3lst day of March 1877, for the Maintenance 
and Repair of Royal Palaces. 

2. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 95,105, be Royal Parks 


| granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum and Pleasure 


. . Ss. 
necessary 10 defray the Charge which will come “""™ 


in course of payment during the year ending on 
the 3lst day of March 1877, for the Royal Parks 
and Pleasure Gardens. 
3. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 112,938, be public Build- 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum ings, &amp;. 


/necessary to defray the Charge which will come 


in course of payment during the year ending on 
the 31st day of March 1877, for the Maintenance 
and Repair of Public Buildings; for providing the 
necessary Supply of Water; for Rents of Houses 
hired for the temporary Accommodation of Public 
Departments, and Charges attendant thereon. 

4. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 13,440, be public 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum ——— 
necessary to defray the Charge which will come sees 
in course of payment during the year ending on 
the 3lst day of March 1877, for the Supply and 
Repair of Furniture in the Public Departments. 

5. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 25,569, be Houses of 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum ——— 
necessary to defray the Charge which will come “™ _ 
in course of payment during the year ending on 
the 3lst day of March 1877, for the Buildings of 
the Houses of Parliament. 

6. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 4,360, be New Offices 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum as 

necessary 





BeeSs 


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389 Vicrortia. 


necessary to defray the Charge which will come 
in course of payment during the year ending on 
the 3lst day of March 1877. for the Erection of 
New Offices in Downing Street for the Secretaries | 
of State for the Home and Celonial Departments | 
and Local Government Board. 
sg Court 7. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 9,506, be | 
ae granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum | 
ofices (Seot- necessary to defray the Charge which will come | 
isu) in course of payment during the year ending on | 
the 31st day of March 1877, for one-half of the | 
expense of Erecting or Improving Court Houses | 
or Offices for the Sheriff Courts in Sevtland, and | 
the Expense of Maintaining Courts so Erected or 
Improved. 
a 8. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 2,084, be | 
Gallery granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum | 
Ealargement- necessary to defray the Charge which will come | 
in course of payment during the year ending on 
the 3lst day of March 1877, for Works for the 
Enlargement of the National Gallery. 
9. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 143,718. be 


Put Offca ) 
wiinnd = granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum 
aioe necessary to defray the Charge which will come 


in course of payment during the year ending on 
the 3lst day of March 1877, for the Post Office 
and Inland Revenue Buildings. 

British 10. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 11,573, be 
Museum Build- granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum 
ings, &amp;c. necessary to defray the Charge which will come 
in course of payment during the year ending on 
the 31st day of March 1877, for the Maintenance 
and Repair of the British Museum Buildings, for 
Rents of Premises, Supply of Furniture, and otber 
Charges attendant thereon. 


12¢h—13¢h June. 





County Courts, 11, That a Sum, not exceeding £. 46,050, be 
Buildings, &amp;¢. oranted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum 
necessary to defray the Charge which will come 
in course of payment during the year ending on 
the 3lst day of March 1877, for New Buildings 
for County Courts, Maintenance and Repair of 
Courts, Supply of Furniture, Fuel, &amp;c., and other 
Charges attendant thereon. 

12. That a Sum, not exceeding £.4,043, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum 
necessary to defray the Charge which will come 
in course of payment during the year ending on 
the 3lst day of March 1877, for Erecting and 
Maintaining New Buildings, including Rents, &amp;c., 
for the Department of Science and Art. 

13. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 105,500, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum 
necessary to defray the Charge which will come 
in course of payment during the year ending on 
the 3lst day of March 1877, for the Survey of the 
United Kingdom, including the Revision of the 
Survey of J/reland. Maps for Landed Estates 
Court, Zreland, Publication of Maps, and Engray- 
ing the Geological Survey. 

14, That a Sum, not exceeding £.7,405, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum 
necessary to defray the Charge which will come 
in course of payment during the year ending on 
the 3lst day of March 1877, for maintaining cer- 
tain Harbours, &amp;c., under the Board of Trade. 

15. That a Sum, not exceeding £.7,500, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum 
necessary to defray the Charge which will come 
m course of payment during the year ending on 
the 31st day of March 1877, for the Contribution 
to the Funds for the Establishment and Mainten- 
ance of a Fire Brigade in the Metropolis. 

Rates on 16. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 194,991, be 
emment granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum 
»&amp;. necessary to defray the Charge which will come 

in course of payment during the year ending on 

the 31st day of March 1877, for Rates and Con- 
tributions in lieu of Rates in respect of Govern- 

ment Property, and for Salaries and Expenses of 

the Rating of Government Property Department. 


Science and Art 


Department, 
New Buildings. 


Survey, &amp;c, 


Harbours, &amp;c, 


Fire Bri 
(etropelin) 





VoL. 131. 


253 


17. That a Sum, not exceeding £.951, be ‘Vellington 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum Monument. 
necessary to defray the Charge which will come 
in course of payment during the year ending on 
the 3lst day of March 1877, for the Wellington 
Monument. 

18. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 65,000, be Natural 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum — 
necessary to defray the Charge which will come = 
in course of payment during the year ending on 
the 31st day of March 1877, for the Erection of a 
Natural History Museum. 

19. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 4,644, be Metropolitan 


|granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum Police Courts. 


necessary to defray the Charge which will come 
in course of payment during the year ending on 
the 3lst day of March 1877, for New Buildings, 
Maintenance and Repair of Buildings, and other 
Expenses connected therewith, of the Metropolitan 
Police Courts, 

20. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 65,325, be New Courts 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum of Justice and 
necessary to defray the Charge which will come ~~ 
in course of payment during the year ending en 
the 31st day of March 1877, for the Purchase of a 
Site, Erection of Building, and other Expenses 
for the New Courts of Justice and Offices belong- 
ing thereto. 

21. That a Sum, not exceeding £.1,951, be Ramsgate 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum Harbour. 
necessary to defray the Charge which will come 
in course of payment during the year ending on 
the 3lst day of March 1877, of a Grant in Aid of 
the Expenses of Ramsgate Harbour. 

22. That a Sum, not exceeding £.2,100, be New Palace at 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum oe 
necessary to defray the Charge which will come Sf ya. and 
in course of payment during the year ending on River Thames 
the 31st day of March 1877, for the acquisition of Embankment.) 
Lands for the purpose of the New Palace at West- 
minster, and for the further Embankment of the 
River Thames. 

23. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 12,960, be Lighthouses 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum Abroad. 
necessary to defray the Charge which will come 
in course of payment during the year ending on 
the 3lst day of March 1877, for erecting and 
maintaining certain Lighthouses Abroad. 

24. That a Sum, not exceeding £.37,330, be Embassy 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum /puse* 
necessary to defray the Charge which will come . 
in course of payment during the year ending on 
the 3lst day of March 1877, for the British im- 
bassy Houses, Consular and Legation Buildings, 

&amp;c., in China and Japan, Constantinople, Therapia, 
Madrid, Paris, Teheran, Vienna, and Washington. 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the said Resolutions be now 
read a second time ; 

A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That this House do now adjourn :—And 
the said Motion was, with leave of the House, 
withdrawn. 

And the Original Question being put; 

Ordered, That the said Resolutions be new read 
a second time:—The said Resolutions were ac- 
cordingly read a second time, and agreed to. 


Mr. William Henry Smith reported from the Supply 
Committee of Supply, several Resolutions ; which {th June.] 


were read, as follow: 

1. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 370,400, be Commissariat 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge Se 
for Commissariat and Ordnance Store Establish- ments, Wages, 
ments, Wages, &amp;c., which will come in course of «ce. 
payment from the Ist day of April 1876 to the 
31st day of March 1877, inclusive. 

2. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 2,997,000, be Provisions, 
eranted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge Forage, &amp;c. 
for Provisions, Forage, Fuel, Transport, and other 

KK3 Services, 

















Clothing Esta- 
blishments, 
Services, and 
Supplies. 


Warlike and 
other Stores. 


Works, Build- 
ings, and 
Repairs. 


Miscellaneous 
Services 
(Army.) 


Administration 
of the Army. 


Rewards for 
Distinguished 
Services, &amp;c. 


Pay of General 
Officers. 


Pay of Reduced 


and Retired 
Officers. 


Widows’ 
Pensions, &amp;c. 


Pensions for 
Wounds. 


Chelsea and 
Kilmainham 
Hospitals 
(1n-Pensions.) 


Out- Pensions. 


Army (Super- 
annuation 
Allowances. ) 


Q54 


Services, which will come in course of payment 
from the lst day of April 1876 to the 3lst day of 
March 1877, inclusive. 

. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 800,600, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge 
for Clothing Establishments, Services, and Sup- 
plies, which will come in course of payment from 
the Ist day of April 1876 to the 3lst day of March 
1877, inclusive. 

4, That a Sum, not exceeding £. 1,229,000, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge 
for the Supply, Manufacture, and Repair of War- 
like and other Stores, which will come in course of 
payment from the Ist day of April 1876 to the 


12th—13th June. 


1876. 


17. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 34,300, be mititis, 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge for Yeomanry 
Militia, Yeomanry Cavalry, and Volunteer Corps, Varaley, and 
which will come in course of payment from the jue 
Ist day of April 1876 to the 31st day of March 
1877, inclusive. 

18. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 33,164, be Colonics 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum (Grants in 
necessary to defray the Charge which will come ““) 
in course of payment during the year ending on 
the 3lst day of March 1877, in aid of Colonial 
Local Revenue, and for the Salaries and Allow- 
ances of Governors, &amp;c., and for other Expenses 
in certain Colonies. 

19. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 2,590, be Orange River 








31st day of March 1877, inclusive. 
5. That a Sum, not exceeding £.845,100, be | granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum go ba 
. S . .. ° f - Helena, 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge | necessary to defray the Charge which will come 
for Superintending Establishment of, and Ex-| in course of payment during the year ending on 
penditure for, Works, Buildings, and Repairs, at! the 3lst day of March 1877, for the Orange River 
Home and Abroad, which will come in course of | Territory and the Island of Saint Helena. 
payment from the Ist day of April 1876 to the | 20. That a Sum, not exceeding £.3,282, be Slave Trade 
31st day of March 1877, inclusive. granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum Coumissions, 
6. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 144,100, be | necessary to defray the Charge which will come 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge in course of payment during the year ending on 
for Establishments for Military Education, which | the 31st day of March 1877, for the Expenses of 
will come in course of payment from the Ist day | the Mixed Commissions established under the 
of April 1876 to the 31st day of March 1877, in- Treaties with Foreign Powers for suppressing the 
clusive. | Traffic in Slaves, and towards defraying the cost 
7. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 36,600, be | of the Agency and Consulate General at Zanzi- 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge | bar. 
for Miscellaneous Services, which will come in 21. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 12,007, be Tonnage 
course of payment from the lst day of April 1876| granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum Bounties on 
to the 3lst day of March 1877, inclusive. | necessary to defray the Charge which will come 8! &amp;* 
8. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 214,700, be| in course of payment during the year ending on 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge | the 3lst day of March 1877, for Tonnage Duties, 
for the Administration of the Army, which will} Bounties on Slaves, and Expenses of the Liberated 
come in course of payment from the Ist day of | African Department. 
April 1876 to the 31st day of March 1877,inclusive.| 22. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 4,017, be Emigration. 


9. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 35,500, be| granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge | necessary to defray the Charge which will come 
for Rewards for Distinguished Services, &amp;c., which | in course of payment during the year ending on 
will come in course of payment from the Ist day of! the 3lst day of March 1877, for the Emigration 


April 1876 to the 31st day of March 1877, inclusive. | Board, and for certain other Expenses connected 
10. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 89,000, be | with Emigration from this Country. 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge; 23. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 1,600, be TreasuryChest 
for Pay of General Officers, which will come in| granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum 
course of payment from the Ist day of April 1876! necessary to defray the Charge which will come 
to the 3lst day of March 1877, inclusive. in course of payment during the year ending on 


11. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 505,800, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge 
for Full Pay of Reduced and Retired Officers, 
and Half Pay, which will come in course of pay- 
ment from the Ist day of April 1876 to the 31st 





day of March 1877, inclusive. 
12. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 144,600, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge for | 


the 3lst day of March 1877, on account of the 
Treasury Chest. 

24. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 333,210, be Superannus- 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum a 

. . etired 

necessary to defray the Charge which will come 4jjowances. 
in course of payment during the year ending on 
the 3lst day of March 1877, for Superannuation 
and Retired Allowances to Persons formerly em- 


Widows’ Pensions, &amp;c., which will come in course | ployed in the Public Service. 
of payment from the lst day of April 1876 to the| 25. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 28,900, be 
31st day of March 1877, inclusive. ‘granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum 

13. That a Sum, not exceeding £.16,500, be| necessary to defray the Charge which will come 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge for} in course of payment during the year ending on 
Pensions for Wounds, which will come in course|the 3lst day of March 1877, for Pensions to 
of payment from the 1st day of April i876 to the | Masters and Seamen of the Merchant Service, 
31st day of March 1877, inclusive. and to their Widows and Children. 

14. That a Sum, not exceeding £.35,400, be| 26. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 27,000, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge for | granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum 
Chelsea and Kilmainham Hospitals (In-Pensions), | necessary to defray the Charge which will come 
which will come in course of payment from the |in coarse of payment during the year ending on 


Pensions, 
Merchant 
Service. 


Distressed 
British Seamen 


Ist day of April 1876 to the Slst day of March 
1877, inclusive. 

15. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 1,220,000, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge for 
Out-Pensions, which will come in course of pay- 
ment from the lst day of April 1876 to the 31st 
day of March 1877, inclusive. 

16. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 164,200, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge for 
Superannuation Allowances, which will come in 
course of payment from the Ist day of April 1876 
to the 3lst day of March 1877, inclusive. 


the 3lst day of March 1877, for the Relief of 
Distressed British Seamen Abroad. 

27. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 3,738, be Miscellancons 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum a Allow. 
necessary to defray the Charge which will come ances (Great 
in course of payment during the year ending on Britain.) 
the 31st day of March 1877, for Miscellaneous 
Charitable and other Allowances in Great Britain. 

28. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 44,901, be Tomporery 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum ~_ 
necessary to defray the Charge which will come 
in course of payment during the year ending on 





the 











36 VicToria. 


the 3lst day of March 1877, for the Salaries and 
Incidental Expenses of Temporary Commission. 

29. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 2,430, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum 
necessary to defray the Expenses which will come 
in course of payment during the year ending on 
the 3lst day of March 1877, of an Expedition for 
the purpose of pursuing a course of Physical and 
Biological Investigations of the Oceanic Regions 
of the Globe. 

30. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 4,516, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum 
necessary to defray the Charge which will come 
in course of payment during the year ending on 
the 3lst day of March 1877, for certain Miscel- 
laneous Expenses. 

31. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 828,530, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum 


Vit 


Miscellaneous 


Customs 
Department. 


12th—13th June. 






255 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- smithfield 
mittee on the Smit/field Prison ( Dublin) Bill ; Prison 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, at Two (Dublin) Be, 
of the clock, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Highways Bill. 
Reading of the Highways Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Agricultural 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed (Booted) 
upon the 8th day of this instant June, That the Bin [Zoras.] 
Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Bill be now read 
a second time; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 


till Thursday next. 





necessary to defray the Charge which will come 
in course of payment during the year ending on | 
the 3lst day of March 1877, for the Salaries and | 
Expenses of the Customs Department. 

32. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 1,431,304, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum 
necessary to defray the Charge which will come in 
course of payment during the year ending on the 
3lst day of March 1877, for the Salaries and Ex- 


penses of the Inland Revenue Department. 


Revenue 
Department. 


| 


\read the third time. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Maritime 
Reading of the Maritime Contracts Bill; Contracts Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day, at T'wo of the clock. 


The Local Government Provisional Orders, Local Govern- 
Aberavon, &amp;c. (No.7) Bill was, according to Order, ment Pro- 
visional Orders, 


Aberavon, &amp;c. 


Resolved, That the Bill do pass. (No. 7) Bill. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 


Lords, and desire their concurrence. 





33. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 2,570,406, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum 
necessary to defray the Charge which will come | 
in course of payment during the year ending on 
the 3lst day of March 1877, for the Salaries and 


Post Office 
Services, Post 
Office Savings 
Banks, &amp;c. 


The Tramways Order Confirmation (Wantage) Tramways 
Bill was, according to Order, read the third time. ——— 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. (Want ~ 





Expenses of the Post Office Services, the Ex-_ 

penses of Post Office Savings Banks and Govern- | 
ment Annuities and Insurances, and the Collection 
of the Post Office Revenue. 

Post Office 34. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 701,930, be | 

Pucket Service. granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum | 
necessary to defray the Charge which will come | 

in course of payment during the year ending on | 

the 3lst day of March 1877, for the Post Office | 


Packet Service. 





— 35. That a Sum, not exceeding £, 928,148, be 

ine ~=Ss granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum 
necessary to defray the Charge which will come | 
in course of payment during the year ending on 
the 31st day of March 1877, for the Salaries and | 
Expenses of the Post Office Telegraph Service. 

The said Resolutions, being read a second time, | 

were agreed to, 

Poor Law 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second | 
tsa pn, Reading of the Poor Law Rating (Jreland) Bill; 
‘Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time } 


upon Friday next. | 





Sa Conte The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
) Bill. Reading of the Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 
fae Disease The Order of the day being read, for the Com- | 
)Bill. mittee on the Cattle Disease (Ireland) Bill ; 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, at Two 
of the clock, resolve itself into the said Committee. 
wend pi) _ Lhe Order of the day being read, for the Com- | 
(Lor mittee on the Crossed Cheques Bill; 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, at Two | 
of the clock, resolve itself into the said Committee. 
Ii 


Prasad ‘The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
(ltdand) Biy, Mttee on the Juries Procedure (Ireland) Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


~ ld The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Poor Law (Scotland) Bill; 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, at Two 


of the clock, resolve itself into the said Committee. 
Vou. 131, 








ta 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the Bill ee 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


The Gas and Water Orders Confirmation Bill Gas and Water 

was, according to Order, read the third time. poet 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. [Lords.] 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 

Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 

agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


The Metropolitan Commons (Barnes) Bill was, a 
according to Order, read a;second time ; and com- (Barnes) Bill. 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for 


Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Supply. 
mittee of Supply ; 

Resolved, ‘that this House will, upon Wednesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Ways and 
mittee of Ways and Means; Means 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Statute Law 
Reading of the Statute Law Revision (Substi- Revision i 
tuted Enactments Bill ; Sentenane 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time Bill [Lords.] 


this day, at Two of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second any 
Reading of the Elementary Education (Applica- Caaniieatian 
tion for School Board) Bill; for School 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time Board) Bill. 


upon Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Parliamentary 
Reading of the Parliamentary and Municipal #4 Municipal 
Registration (Boroughs) Bill ; (Beenghe) 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time Bill. 


this day, at Two of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Tol! Bridges 
Reading of the Toll Bridges (River Thames) Pill ; Thames) Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


KK4 The 


Offences 
against the 
Person Bill. 


Small Testate 
Estates 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Local Light 
Dues (Reduc- 
tion) Bill. 


House 
Occupiers Dis- 
qualification 


Removal Bill. 


Wild Fowl 
Preservation 


Bill. 


Prison 
Expenditure 


(Ireland. ) 


Suez Canal 
(Shares.) 


Suez Canal 
(Shares) Bill. 


Bill 189, 


Pembroke 
County Writ. 


University 
Education 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Towns Reting 
(Ireland) Biil. 


Colonial 


“Marriages Bill. 


256 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Offences against the Person Bill ; 

Resulved, That this House will, this day, at Two 
of the cleck, resolve itself into the said Com- 
mittee. 


The Small Testate Estates (Scotland) Bill was, 
according to Order, read the third time; and 
verbal Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act for the Relief of the Executors 
of Testates in Scotland where the Personal Estate 
is of small Value. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Local Light Dues (Reduction) Bill was, 
according to Order, read a second time; and com- 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for 
Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the House Occupiers Disqualification 
Removal Bill; 

Resvived, That this House will, this day, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
take into consideration the Wild Fowl Preserva- 
tion Bill, as amended in the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
this day, at Two of the clock. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Return of the Amount contributed by each 
County and each other Local Jurisdiction in 
Irciand towards Prison Expenditure in the year 
1875, stating what proportion euch Sums bear to 
the Annual Valuation of such Counties and Local 
Jurisdictions. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring a Bill 
for making provision respecting Shares in the 
Capital of the Universal Company of the Mari- 
time Canal of Suez, acquired on behalf of the 
Crown: And that Mr. Chancellor of the Exche- 
quer and Mr. William Henry Smith do prepare, 
and bring it in. 

Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer accordingly 
presented a Bill for making provision respecting 
Shares in the Capital of the Universal Company 
of the Maritime Canal of Suez, acquired on behalf 
of the Crown: And the same was read the first 
time; and ordered to be read a second time upon 
Monday next; and to be printed. 


Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his War- 
rant to the Clerk of the Crown, to make out a 
new Writ for the electing of a Member to serve 
in this present Parliament for the County of Pem- 
broke, in the room of Sir John Henry Scourfield, 
Baronet, deceased. 


The Order for reading a second time, this day, 
the University Education (Jredand) Bill, was read, 
and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday next. 


The Order for reading a second time, this day, 
the Towns Rating (Jreland) Bill, was read, and 


discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 


upon Tuesday next. 


The Order for reading a second time, this day, 
the Colonial Marriages Bill, was read, and dis- 
charged. 


12th—13th .June. 








‘upon the 12th day of this instant June, 





1876. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday next. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till a quarter of an hour after Two of the 
clock on Tuesday morning, adjourned til] 
this day. 


Tuesday, 13th June, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 
HE Tipton Local Board Bill was read the Tipton Loca 
third time. Board Bill, 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Biil to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 





The Blackrod Local Board Bill was read &amp; Blackrod Logg 


second time; and committed. Board Bill 
[ Lords} 


The Letterkenny Railway Bill 


Was read a Jott, 
; P rk 
second time ; and committed. a! 


Railway Bill 
[Lords,} 


Ordered, That, in the case of the Horncastle Horeca 
Gas Bill, Standing Order, No. 246, be suspended, Gas Bill. 
and that the Bill be now read the third time:— 

The Bill was accordingly read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and Public 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions, 
Vide Twenty. 
fifth Report. 
Ordered, Vhat the Return relative to the Poor Poor Law 
Law Expenditure, 1874 and 1875, which was !xpenditure, 
1874 and 1875, 
presented upon the 9th day of May last, be te 43 
printed. ate 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Su- Supreme Cout 
preme Court of Judicature (Jreland) Bill, which Ciselnd) Bi 
was presented upon the 12th day of this instant “yo yi 
June, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Su- Supreme Court 
preme Court of Judicature (Jreland) Salaries, pies 
which was presented upon the 12th day of this 


' Salaries. 
instant June, be printed. No. 279. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Navy Navy 


(Admiralty Trial of Coal), which was presented Hep 


é No. 280. 
printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Lon- London Seto 
don School Board, which was presented upon the Board. 
12th day of this instant June, be printed. No, 261. 

Ordered, That the Return relative to the Post Ofice 
Post Otlice (Money Orders), which was presented en 
upon the 12th day of this instant June, be No, 202 
printed. 


Sugar Industry 


Mr. Bourke presented, by Her Majesty's Com- a 


mand,—Copy of Reports on the Sugar Industry Countries 
in Foreign Countries. (Commerc 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the No.8, 18° 
Table. 


) 


Mr. Secretary Cross presented, by Her Ma- Fusitive 


jesty’s Command,—Copy of Report of the Royal — 
Commission on Fugitive Slaves, Minutes of the 

Evidence, and Appendix, with General Index. 
Copy of Fortieth Report of the Inspectors 
ointed, under the provisions of the Act 5 
Will. 4, c. 38, to visit the different Prisons of 
Great Britain (II. Northern District), M 
r. 


ap- Prisons (Gest 
&amp; 6 Britain.) 








Loa 


ns, 
Twenty. 
Leport, 
Law 


diture, 
nd 1875, 


» 277. 


me Court 
icature 
nd) Bill. 
. 278, 


me Court 
icature 
nd) 


os. 


. 279. 


ralty 
of Coal.) 
. 280, 


n School 
, 281. 


)ffice 
y 
3.) 


. 282. 


Industry 
ries) 


nercial, 
1876.) 


ve 


s (Great 
a.) 





Artizans 
Dwellings Act. 


Court of 
Bankruptcy 
(Ireland.) 


Metropolitan 
Board of 
Works. 


Tramways 
(Ireland) Acts. 


Education 
(Scotland.) 


Army 
(Furlough 
and Retiring 
Regulations.) 


River 
Conservancy 
Boards, 


Dockyards 
(Increase of 
Establish- 
ment.) 


No. 283. 


Southampton 
Docks Bill. 


39 Vicroria. 


Mr. Secretary Cross also presented,— Return 
to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 21st day 
of February: last, for Returns relative to the 
Artizans Dwellings Act. 

Mr. Secretary Cross also presented, pursuant 
to the directions of several Acts of Parliament,— 
Annual Returns of the Official Assignees of the 
Court of Bankruptcy and Insolveucy in Ireland, 
showing the state of every Bankruptcy and Insol- 
vency under their charge, for the year ending on 
the 3lst day of December 1875. 

Copy of Report of the Metropolitan Board of 
Works, 1875 :— 

Account, in Abstract, showing the Receipt and 
Expenditure under the several distinct Heads, 
for the year ended 3lst December 1875; also, a 
summary Statement of all Contracts entered into 
during such period, and of the Moneys owing to, 
and Debts and Liabilities owing by, the Board on 
the 31st December 1875. 

Copy of General Rules for the Regulation of 
the Procedure on Appeals to the Lord Lieutenant 
in Council, under “ The Tramways (Jreland) Act, 
1860,” and “ The Tramways (/reland) Amendment 
Act, 1861.” 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Viscount Sandun presented, by Her Majesty’s 
Command,—Copy of Third Annual Report of the 
Board of Education for Scotland to the Committee 
of Council on Education in Scotland, 1875. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Lord George Hamilton presented,—Return to 
an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 30th day 
of March last, for Returns relative to the Army 
(Furlough and Retiring Regulations). 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Copy of a Dissent to the Second Report 
of the Royal Sanitary Commission, Vol. II., page 
339, being a Paper “On Watershed or Conser- 
vancy Boards for River Basins,” dated the 28th 
day of April 1870. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Copy of the Circular Letter, dated the 13th 
day of May 1876, addressed by the Admiralty to 
the Superintendents of the Dockyards, showing 
the manner in which the Increase to the Establish- 
ment of Workmen in the Dockyards is to be 
effected. 

Mr. Algernon Egerton accordingly presented the 
said Paper. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on the 
Southampton Docks Bill; That they had exa- 
mined the allegations contained in the Preamble 
of the Bill, and amended the same to make it con- 
sistent with the provisions of the Bill as submitted 
to, and passed by, the Committee, and found the 
same, as amended, to be true; and had gone 
through the Bill, and made Amendments there- 
unto. 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Raihes reported the Peterhead Harbour 
Bill, with Amendments. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Raikes reported the Sutton Pool Harbour 
Bill, without Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 
VoL. 131. 





13th June. 














257 


Mr. Raikes reported De Blonay’s Naturalization De Blonay’s 
Bill, without Amendment. —— 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. Pi! {4er¢*-] 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table-—Report from Private Bills 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, [Lorde] 
That the Standing Orders not previously inquired bon wage 
into, and which are applicable thereto, have been previously in- 
complied with in the case of the following Bill, quired into, 
originating in the Lords, and referred on the First °™P!ed with.) 
Reading thereof, viz. : 

Leven Harbour Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Private Bills 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, [Lords] 
That the Standing Orders not previously inquired br cae 
into, and which are applicable thereto, have not been previously 
complied with in the case of the following Bill, mquired into, 
originating in the Lords, and referred on the =e 
First Reading thereof, viz. : 

Northern Union Railways of Ireland Bill. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the 

Select Committee on Standing Orders. 


Ordered, That Mr. Fielden have leave of absence Leave of 
for one month, on account of severe indisposition. Absence. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- Message from 
sage had been brought from the Lords by one of the Lords. 
their Clerks, as followeth: 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Gas and Water 
for confirming certain Provisional Orders made by Orders Con- 
the Board of ‘Trade under “ The Gas and Water- indents 
works Facilities Act, 1870,” relating to Chapel- Frith, &amp;c.) 
en-le-Frith Gas, Cromer Gas, Hythe and Sandgate Bill (Lords.] 
Gas, Poole Gas, Neath Water, Newbury Water, 

Wantage Water, Connah’s Quay Gas and Water, 
and Flint Gas and Water; to which the Lords 
desire the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act pocnfour 
to authorise the Sale of certain portions of the Estate Bill 
Lands of Dochfour, in the County of Inverness, [Lords.] 
being parts of the Entailed Estates now held by 
Evan Baillie, of Dochfour, and to authorise the 
purchase of other Lands to be entailed; to excamb 
portions of said Entailed Estates in the Parish 
of Laggan for Dunain Ness Castle and others, in 
the Parish of Inverness, and for other purposes ; to 
which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House. 


The Dochfour Estate Bill was read the first Dochfour 


Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- [Lords.] 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Poor — ; 
into a Committee on the Poor Law Amendment 57°" = 


Bill. Bill 190 
(In the Committee.) — 
Cuiatses, N° 13 to N° 15, amended, and agreed 
to. 
Criausss, N° 16 and N° 17, agreed to. 
Cxiause, N° 18, amended, and agreed to. 
Cause, N* 19, agreed to. 


Cravusss, N° 20 and N° 21, amended, and agreed 
to. 

Cxause, N° 22 (Recovery of Costs by Guardians 
of a Parish). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 6, 1. 16, after the 
word “‘ Guardians,” to insert the words “ after the 
“ sanction of the Local Government Board has 
* been obtained.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted :—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Clause agreed to. 

Ciavuse, N° 23, amended, and agreed to. 

LL CLAUSE, 


Poor Law 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Maritime 
Contracty Bill. 


Army Corps 
Training Bill. 


258 13th 


Criause, N° 24, agreed to. 

Crause, N° 25, amended, and agreed to. 

Cuiauses, N° 26 and N° 27, agreed to 

Crause, N° 28 (Settlement for /rish persons by 
residence). 

An Amendment made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 7, 1. 31, 
to leave out the words “ three years” in order to 
insert the words “ one year.” 

Question proposed, That the words “ three 
** years” stand part of the Clause :—Amendment, 
by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Amendment made. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

Cxiauses, N° 29 to N° 33, disagreed to. 

Causes, N° 34 and N° 35, agreed to. 

Ciauses, N° 36 and N° 37, amended, and agreed 
to. 

Cuiauses, N° 38 and N° 39, agreed to. 

Seven Clauses added. 

Another Clause (Local Government Board may 
authorise election of Guardians to hold office for 
three years)——brought up, and read the first 
time. 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Clause be read a second time :—- Motion and Clause, 
by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Clause (Notice to parishioners of 
persons relieved)-——brought up, and read the 
first time. 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Clause be read a second time:— Motion and Clause, 
by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Clause (Husbands and wives in work- 
houses) brought up, and read the first time. 

Motion made, and Question put, That the 
Clause be read a second time; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the ; Mr. Serjeant Simon, 

Yeas, \ Mr. Macdonald : 

Tellers for the {Sir William Dyke, 

Noes, LMr. Rowland Winn: 

Another Clause added. 

Schedule agreed to. 

Preamble agreed to. 

Bill, as amended, to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration upon Friday 
next; and be printed. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Poor Law ( Scotland) Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Maritime Contracts Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Army Corps Training 


Bill. 
(In the Committee.) 
Preamble postponed. 
Crause, N° 1, amended, and agreed to. 
Crause, N° 2, postponed. 
Cuausk, N° 3, agreed to, 
Ciauss, N 4, postponed. 
Cause, N° 5, agreed to. 
CiauseE, N° 6, postponed. 
CriavuseEs, N° 7 to N° 12, agreed to. 
To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 








June. 1876. 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had made Progress 
in the Bill, and that he was directed to move, That 
the Committee may have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee, 


The Burghs (Division into Wards) (Scotland) Burghs 
Amendment Bill was, according to Order, read the (Division into 
third time. Wards 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


land) Amend. 
ment Bill, 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Cattle Disease 
mittee on the Cattle Disease (Jre/and) Bill ; (Ireland) Bill 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Crossed 
mittee on the Crossed Cheques Bill ; Cheques Bill 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday (Lends) 

next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Smithfield 

into a Committee on the Smithfield Prison (Dub- (Dublin) Bill 
lin) Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. 
Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr. Raikes re- 
ported, That the Committee had gone through the 
Bill, and directed him to report the same, without 
Amendment. 

Ordered, Vhat the Bill be read the third time 
To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being 
Reading of the Statute Law Revision (Substituted (substituted 
Enactments) Bill; Enactments) 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time Bill [Lords 
upon Thursday next. 


read, for the Second Statute Law 
Revision 


The Parliamentary and Municipal Registration Parliamentary 
(Boroughs) Bill was, according to Order, read —— 
. ‘ . . gistration 
second time ; and committed to a Committee of the 


‘ (Boroughs) 
whole House, for Monday next. Bill. 


Offences 
against the 
Person Bill. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Offences against the Per- 
son Bill. 

(In the Committee.) 


Cuiavuse, N° 1 (Short Title). 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Clause stand part of the Bill; 

To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. 
Raikes reported, That the Committee had made 
Progress in the Bill; and that he was directed to 
move, That the Committee may have leave to sit 
again. 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, again 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Third Wild Fow! 
Reading of the Wild Fowl] Preservation Bill; — 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time ~ 
To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Market Juries 
mittee on the Market Juries (Jreland) Bill ; (Ireland) Bill 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
the 27th day of this instant June, resolve itself 
into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Medical 
Reading of the Medical Practitioners Bill; — 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday next. T 
e 












39 VicToRIA. 13th —l4th June. 


259 


sand Tenure The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
(Ireland) Bill. the adjourned Debate on the Amendment which, 
upon the 29th day of March last, was proposed to 
be made to the Question, That the Land Tenure 
(Zreland) Bill be now read a second time; 
Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second public Records 
Reading of the Public Records (Jreland) Amend- (Ireland) 
ment Bill; — 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Irish Peerage 
mittee on the Jrish Peerage Bill; Bill [Lords.] 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 


Corps A Motion being made, That this House will, | _ t ; 
“ sy ec re itself into the said Committee. 


“te Training (Com- To-morrow, resolve itself into a Committee to con- 
peasition-] sider of authorising the payment, out of Moneys 
to be provided by Parliament, of Compensation to} The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Game Laws 
Persons whose lands may be damaged by the | mittee on the Game Laws (Scotland) Bill; (Scotland) Bill. 
passage of Troops, and of Persons accompanying | Aesolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
them, and by their supplying themselves with the 23rd day of this instant June, resolve itself into 
ase water, and of Compensation to the Members of | the said Committee. 
the Court of Arbitration to be appointed, in pur- 
suance of any Act of the present Session, to 
facilitate the assembling and training of certain 
Army Corps; 
Mr. Secretary Hardy, by Her Majesty’s Com- 
! mand, acquainted the House, That Her Majesty, 
having been informed of the subject-matter of this 
Motion, recommends it to the consideration of the 
House. 





_ The Nullum Tempus (Ireland) Bill was, accord- Nullum 

ing to Order, read a second time; and committed Tempus __ 
to a Committee of the whole House, for Monday (eel a 
next. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Exclusion of 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed Strangers. 
upon the 30th day of May last, That the Order of 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- | the 3lst day of May 1875, relative to the Exclu- 

solve itself into the said Committee. sion of Strangers, be made a Sessional Order ; 
. A Motion was made, and the Question was 
Ordered, That there be laid before this House, | proposed, That the Debate be further adjourned 


Hiucation a Return of the Cost of Public Elementary Edu- | till Tuesday next; _ 
(Cost.) cation, and Sources from which defrayed, in Great; And a Motion being made, and the Question 
No, 284. Britain and Ireland, for 1874-75. being put, That this House do now adjourn :—It 
Mr. William Henry Smith accordingly presented | was resolved in the Affirmative. 
the said Return. And tt bles Gan 6 
. . g a quarter of an hour before 
, gpa ge the AH aid Return do lie upon the One of the clock on Wednesday morning, 
Table ; and be printed. the House accordingly adjourned till this 
day. 
Local Governe Mr. Grant Duff reported from the Select Com- - 


oe mittee on the Local Government a —=—=—_—_ = oo 
Le * Orders, Bristol, &amp;c. (No. 6) Bill, (so far as relates ; - 
Rs Bi to the City of Bristol); That they had considered Wednesday, 14th June, 1876. 
(Bristol Pro- the matters therein contained, of the confirmation! pp yyprs 
visional Order.) 6 the Order in the Schedule thereto, in respect of ° i 
the City of Bristol, that the Provisional Order - HE Order of the day being read, for taking Great Eastern 
relating thereto ought to be confirmed ; and that into consideration the Amendments made by Railway Bill. 
they had directed him to report the Bill in respect | the Lords to the Great Eastern Railway Bill ; 
thereof, without Amendment, to the House. Ordered, That the said Amendments be taken 
Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to a} into consideration upon Monday next. 
Committee of the whole House, for Thursday next. 








a= 


The Rochester Bridge Bill was read a second Rochester 
A Motion was made, and the Question was pro-| time; and committed. fie) 
sed, That the Reform of the Government of the | 
[etropolis, with a view to its more efficient, uni-| _ Ordered, That, in the case of the Southampton southampton 
form, and economical administration, is a question Docks Bill, Standing Orders 93, 215, 216, and Docks Bill. 


of primary importance, and deserves the early | 242 be suspended, and that the Bill, as amended 


— 
unicipal 
Government. 





attention of Her Majesty’s Government ; 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Wednesday morning ; 


Wednesday, 14th June, 1876 : 


The said Motion was, with leave of the House, 
withdrawn. 
Bow Street Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
= Court to authorise the Acquisition of a Site in Bow 
Street for the Erection of a New Police Court and 
Police Station and Offices: And that Mr. William 
Henry Smith and Mr. Secretary Cross do prepare, 
and bring it in. 


a 
‘Onuments 
Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Ancient Monuments Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday the 23rd day of this instant June. 


Sale of Coal 
Bill, 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Sale of Coal Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday next. 
VoL. 131. 





in Committee, be taken into consideration To- 
morrow. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and Puplic 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions. 


Vide Twenty- 
sixth Report. 
Ordered, That the Return relative to the Ship ship « Star of 
“ Star of Peace,” which was presented upon the Peace.” 
Ist day of this instant June, be printed. No. 2835. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Army Army 
(Furlough and Retiring Regulations), which was (¥urlough 
presented upon the 13th day of this instant June, Regubttoas 
be printed. No. 286. 

Lord George Hamilton presented, by Her Ma- Indian Tariff 
jesty’s Command,—Copy of Correspondence in Bill, 1875. 
continuation of Return relating to the Indian 
Tariff Bill of 1875. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Ordered, That Mr. John Talbot have leave of Leave of 
absence for three weeks, on account of domestic 482°. 
affliction. 

LL2 The 








Permissive 
Prohibitory 
Liquor Bill. 


Irish Church 
Act (1869) 
Amendment 
Bill. 


Homicide Law 
Amendment 


Bill. 


Legal 
Practitioners 


(Ireland) Bill. 


Supreme Court 
of Judicature 
Act (1875) 
Amendment 
Bill. 


Supply. 


Ways and 
Means 


Elementary 
Education 
(Application 
for School 
Board) Bill. 


Smithfield 
Prison 


(Dublin) Bill. 


Wild Fowl 
Preservation 
Bill. 


260 14th 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Permissive Prohibitory Liquor 
Bill; 

Anda Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a 
second time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to 
the Question, by leaving out the word “ now,” 
and, at the end of the Question, adding the words 
** upon this day three months.” 

And the Question being put, That the word 
* now” stand part of the Question ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the{ Sir Wilfrid Lawson, ) 8] 

Yeas, UMr. Jacob Bright: | ies 

Tellers for thef Mr. Wheelhouse, } 

Noes, UMr. Goldsmid : f 

So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
“upon this day three months” be added at the 
end of the Question:—It was resolved in the 
Affirmative. 

Then the Main Question, so amended, being 
put; 


299. 


upon this day three months. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the ZJrish Church Act (1869) Amend- 


ment Bill; | 


Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 


June. 1876. 


| proposed, That the Bill be now read the third 
time :—And a Debate arising thereupon; 

| And it being a quarter of an hour before Six of 

the clock, the Debate stood adjourned till To- 

| morrow. 


| The House, according to Order, resolved itself Army 
into a Committee on the Army Corps Training Training (Com, 
| [Compensation]. pen 


sation. ] 


(In the Committee. ) 


| Resolved, That it is expedient to authorise the 
| 7 j j 

| payment, out of moneys to be provided by Parlia- 
/ment, of Cempensation to Persons whose lands 


| 
| 


_may be damaged by the passage of Troops, and of 
| persons accompanying them, and by their supply- 
{ing themselves with water, and of Compensation 
_to the Members of the Court of Arbitration to be 
appointed, in pursuance of any Act of the present 
_ Session to facilitate the assembling and training of 
certain Army Corps. 

| Resolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
‘reported, ‘That the Committee had come to a Re- 
solution. 

Ordered, That the Report be received To-mor- 
row. 


| 

| The Order of the day being read, for the Second public Reconis 
| Reading of the Public Records (Ireland) Amend- (Ireland) 
‘ment Bill; a 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 


Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time | upon Tuesday next. 


upon Wednesday the 28th day of this instant | 


June. 


the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed | 


upon the 8th day of March last, That the Homicide | 
Law Amendment Bill be now read a second time ; | 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second | 
Reading of the Legal Practitioners ( Zreland) Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Supreme Court of Judicature Act 
(1875) Amendment Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Ways and Means; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Elementary Education (Applica- 
tion for School Board) Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
To-morrow. 


The Smithfield Prison (Dublin) Bill was, ac- 
cording to Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Third 
Reading of the Wildfowl Preservation Bill ; 
Anda Motion being made, and the Question being 


| mittee on the Jrish Peerage Bill; 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Irish Peerage 
Bill [Lords.] 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming | 


Resolved, That this Hoase will, upon Tuesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming pivine 


the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed Worship 


upon the 15th day of March last, That the Divine FHities Bill 
Worship Facilities Bill be now read a second 
time ; 
Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Tuesday the 27th day of this instant June. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Beer Licences 
Reading of the Beer Licences (Ireland) Bill; (Treland) Bill 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking Municipal 
into consideration the Municipal Privileges (Jre- Privilegss 
land) Bill, as amended in the Committee ; ae 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into considera- 
tion upon Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming County Rates 
the adjourned Debate ‘on the Question proposed (Ireland) Bill 
upon the 9th day of May last, That the County 
Rates (Jreland) Bill be now read a second time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Medical Act 
Reading of the Medical Act (Qualifications) Bill; —s 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time ~ 
upon Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Game Laws 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed ‘eatand) 
upon the 27th day of April last, That the Game 
Laws Amendment (Scotland) Bill be now read a 
second time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Intoxicating 
mittee on the Intoxicating Liquors (Licensing Uisvensing Law 
Law Amendment) (No. 2) Bill; Amendment 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday (No. 2) Bill 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 





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39 Vicroria. 


guployersand The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Workmen Acé Reading of the Employers and Workmen Act, 
(1875) Exten- (1875) Extension Bill; 
nme Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 





— the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 

(Cumulative upon the 9th day of this instant June, That the 

‘Vote) Bik Election of Aldermen (Cumulative Vote) Bill be 
now read a second time; | 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned | 
till To-morrow. | 

| 
see The Order of the day being read, for the Com- | 
Qecupiers Dis- mittee on the House Occupiers Disqualification 
ery Removal Bili; 
—— Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 
Offences The Order of the day being read, for the Com- | 
inst the ~~ mittee on the Offences against the Person Bill; | 
em Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday | 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 
Convicted Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
Children. to enable Courts and Justices to send to a certified | 
Reformatory School, without previous Imprison- | 
ment, young Children of tender age when convicted | 
of certain Felonies and Misdemeanors: And that 
Sir Eardley Wilmot, Mr. Floyer, and Mr. Serjeant 
Simon do prepare, and bring it in. 
| 
Settled Estates Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill | 
Act (1856) to amend the Settled Estates Act of 1856: And | 
Amendment. “that Mr. Marten, Sir Henry Jackson, and Mr. 
Gregory do prepare, and bring it in. 
Suleof Intoxi- Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
cating Tiauors to prohibit the general Sale of Intoxicating Liquors 
(Ireland) on Sunday in Jreland: And that Mr. Richard 
(No. 2.) Smyth, The O’Conor Don, Mr. Charles Lewis, 
Mr. James Corry, Mr. William Johnston, Mr. 
Dease, Mr. Thomas Dickson, and Mr. Redmond 
do prepare, and bring it in. 
ey all Mr. William Henry Smith presented a Bill to 
(Site) Bil, authorise the acquisition of a Site in Bow Street 
Bill191, for the erection of a new Police Court and Police 
Station and Offices: And the same was read the 
first time. 

Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills; and be 
printed. 

Ordered, That the Examiner have leave to sit 
and proceed forthwith. 

Convicted Sir Eardley Wilmot presented a Bill to enable 
Children Bill. Courts and Justices to send to a certified Reforma- 
Bill 192. tory School, without previous Imprisonment, young 
Children of tender age when convicted of certain 
Felonies and Misdemeanors: And the same was read 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second time 
upon Wednesday the 28th day of this instant June; 
and to be printed. 
oe” Mr. Marten presented a Bill to amend tke 
Munieae Settled Estates Act of 1856: And the same was 
Bill. read the first time ; and ordered to be read asecond 
Bill 193, time upon Thursday the 22nd day of this instant 
June; and to be printed. 
Sale of Intoxi. Mr. Richard Smyth presented a Bill to prohibit 
om Sentvrs the general Sale of Intoxicating Liquors on Sunday 
(Irland)  inJreland And the same was read the first time ; 
(No.2) Bill, and ordered to be read a second time upon Tues- 
Bill194, day next; and to be printed. 
Jurors The Order for the House to resolve itself into a 
ay Committee, To-morrow, on the Jurors Qualifica- 


tion (Ireland) Bill, was read, and discharged. 
VoL, 131. 


14th—15th June, 


a 








261 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order for the House to resolve itself into a Juries 
Committee, To-morrow, on the Juries Procedure (lrelend) Bill 
(Jreland) Bill, was read, and discharged. _ ” 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 





Thursday, 15th June, 1876, 


PRAYERS, 
IR Charles Forster reported from the Select Public 
. . er mr otiti 
Committee on Public Petitions; That they Crweney-fifth 
had examined the Petitions presented upon the Report) 


12th and 13th days of this instant June, and had 


directed him to make a Report thereof to the 


House. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table; 
and be printed. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Caledonian 


'the Amendments made by the Lords to the Cale- Railway 


donian Railway (Additional Powers) Bill; and Gwers) Bill 


the same were twice read, and agreed to. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 


| Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 


agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 


| ships. 


Ordered, That the Queenborough Harbour Bill Queenborough 
be read the third time To-morrow. Harbour Bill. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to Southampton 
ake into consideration the Southampton Docks Docks Bill. 
Bill, as amended in the Committee. 

Ordered, That Standing Orders 224 and 246 be 
suspended in the case of the said Bill, and that the 
Bill be now read the third time:—The Bill was 
accordingly read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Ordered, That Mr. Neville-Grenville be added Standing 
to the Select Committee on Standing Orders. Ges. 


Ordered, That Mr. Neville-Grenville be added Committee of 
to the Committee of Selection. Selection. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and public 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions. 
Vide Twenty- 
sixth Report. 
Ordered, That the Return relative to Scientific Scientific 
Investigations, which was presented upon the 29th Investigations. 
day of May last, be printed. No. 287. 





Ordered, That the Return relative to Petitions Petitions of 
of Right, which was presented upon the 12th day Right. 
of this instant June, be printed. No. 288, 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Islands Islands 
(Southern Ocean), which was presented upon the (Southern 


ss ° cean.) 
12th day of this instant June, be printed. No. 289. 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to the Metro- Metropolitan 
politan Board of Works, which was presented Board of 
upon the 13th day of this instant June, be printed. ba ote 

Mr. Secretary Cross presented,—Return to an High Court of 
Address to Her Majesty, dated the 8th day of Justice (Writs 
May last, for Returns relative to the High Court * S™™™"*) 
of Justice (Writs of Summons). 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the Elementary 
40th day of May last, for a Return relative to Education 
Elementary Education (School Districts). ents) 

Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the 





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Table. 
Mr. 





262 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented, —Return 
to an Order, dated the 18th day of May last, for 
a Return relative to the National Debt. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


National Debt. 


Supreme Court 
of Judicature 
Act, 1875. 


Viscount Sandon presented, pursuant to the 
directions of an Act of Parliament,—Copy of 
Order in Council, dated 17th May 1876, revoking 
so much of the Order in Council of 5th February 
1876, as limits the duration of the Arrangements 
therein contained as to Circuits; and as to 
Sessions holden under Commissions for the dis- 
charge of Civil and Criminal Business in the 
County of Surrey. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Navy (Vessels Mr. Algernon Egerton presented,—Return to an 
completed since Qrder, dated the 3lst day of March last, for a 
weet.) Return relative to the Navy (Vessels completed 
since 1855). 
Navy (Corporal Return to an Order, dated the 12th day of this 
Punishment.) instant June, for a Return relative to the Navy 
(Corporal Punishment). 
Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the 
Table. 


Sir Charles Adderley presented, pursuant to the 
directions of several Acts of Parliament,—Ac- 
counts of the Metropolitan Gas Companies for the 
year 1875. 

Abstract of Returns relating to Pilots and Pi- 
lotage in the United Kingdom, for year ended 
3lst December 1875 (in continuation of Parlia- 
meniary Paper, No. 276, of Session 1875). 

Copy of amended General Order made and issued 


Gas Companies 
( Metropolis.) 
No. 291. 


Pilotage. 
No. 292. 


Regulation of 
Railways Act, 
1873. 


lative to the Registrar’s Office. 
Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table ; and that the first two be printed. 


Usk Elver 


sk Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
Fishing. 


to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Copy of ail Correspondence between the 
Usk and Ebbw Board of Conservators, the Fishery 
Inspectors, and the Home Office, on the subject 
of Klver Fishing in the River Usk. 


Metropolitan 
Commons 
(Barnes) Bill. 


The Order for the House to resolve itself into a 
Committee, upon Tuesday next, on the Metro- 
politan Commons (Barnes) Bill, was read, and dis- 
charged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 

Gas and Water = TheGasand Water Orders Confirmation ( Chapel- 
Orders Con-,  en-le-Frith, &amp;c.) Bill was read the first time; and 
(Chapel-en-le. ordered to be read a second time upon Monday 


Frith, &amp;c.) next; and to be printed. 
Bill [Lords.] ne 


Bill 195. 
Message from 


mg ag Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- 


sage had been brought from the Lords by one of 
their Clerks, as followeth ; 

The Lords have agreed to the Salmon Fisheries 

Bill, without any Amendment. 
Act (1871) The Lords have agreed to the Trade Union 
‘Amendment ct (1871) Amendment Bill, with Amendments ; 
Bill. to which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House. 

The Lords have agreed to the Amendments 
made by this House to the Galashiels Municipal 
Extension, Police, and Water Bill, without any 
Amendment. 


Salmon 
Fisheries Bill. 


Trade Union 


Galashiels 
Municipal 
Extension, 
Police and 
Water Bill 
[Lords.] 


Newport (Isle 
of Wight) 
Borough Bill 
[Lords. | 


The Lords have agreed to the Amendments 
made by this House to the Newport (Is/e of Wight) 
Borough Bill, without any Amendment. 


154h—16th June. 








by the Railway Commissioners, pursuant to Section | 
29 of the Regulation of Railways Act, 1873, re- | 





1876. 


The Lords have agreed to the Amendments Seottis, 
made by this House to the Scuttish Equitable Life Equitable Lis, 
Assurance Society Bill, without any Amend- 
ment. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Oyeter nd 
to confirm an Order made by the Board of Trade Mussel 
under “ The Sea Fisheries Act, 1868,” relating to heries Onde 
Truro; to which the Lords desire the concurrence Bill (lone 
of this House. ’ 


The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Belfast, Holy. 


for the Arrangement of the Affairs of the Belfast, ¥°% and 

Holywood, and Bangor Railway Company; to —— 

— the Lords desire the concurrence of this [Zords.] 
ouse, 

The Oyster and Mussel Fisheries Order Confirm- Oyster ana 
ation Bill was read the first time ; and ordered to be Mussel 
read a second time upon Monday next; and to be Onder Co. 
printed. ~ Bill 

{ Lords, 
‘The Belfast, Holywood, and Bangor Railway Belfast, Holy. 
Bill was read the first time. Wood, and 

Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- mon, 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills. [Lords 

The Order of the day being read, for the Second Elementary 
Reading of the Elementary Education Bill; Education Bill, 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a second 
time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That,” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the 
words “ in the opinion of this House, it is desirable 
that the recommendations contained in the 
“recent Report of the Factory and Workshops 
* Acts Commission, relating to the enforcement 
* of the attendance of children at school, should 
“ be introduced in any measure for improving the 
“elementary education of the people,” instead 
thereof. 

And the Question being proposed, That the 
words proposed to be left out stand part of the 
Question :—And a Debate arising thereupon ; 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Friday morning ; 


Friday, 16th June, 1276: 


Ordered, That the Debate be adjourned till 
Monday next. 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on Army Corps 
Army Corps Training [Compensation], a Reso- ae 
lution; which was read, as followeth: _—" 

That it is expedient to authorise the payment, 
out of moneys to be provided by Parliament, of 
Compensation to Persons whose Lands may be 
damaged by the passage of Troops, and of Per- 
sons accompanying them, and by their supplying 
themselves with water, and of Compensation to 
the Members of the Court of Arbitration to be 
appointed, in pursuance of any Act of the present 
Session to facilitate the assembling and training of 
certain Army Corps. 

The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 


The House. according to Order, resolved itself Army Corps 
into a Committee on the Army Corps Training Bill. 


(In the Committee.) 
Postponed Clauses, N° 2, N° 4, and N° 6, 


agreed to. 
The first Schedule amended, and agreed to. 
The second Schedule agreed to. 
Preamble agreed to. 
Bill, as amended, to be reported. 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. 
Raikes reported, That the Committee had gone 
through the Bill. 

Ordered, 








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Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration this day. 


im The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
anno Bil. Reading of the Maritime Contracts Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Customs Laws Consolidation Bill was, ac- 


in cording to Order, read a second time ; and com- 
Bill. mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for 
Thursday the 29th day of this instant June. 
The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Patents for ° ; : ° 
inventions Reading of the Patents for Inventions Bill; 
Bill [Lords.] Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 
Salmon The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Fishery mittee on the Salmon Fishery (Provisional Order) 
(Provisional = Bill ; 
Order) Bil. Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 
prevention of . Lhe House, according to Order, resolved itself 
Crimes Act into a Committee on the Prevention of Crimes Act 
Amendment Amendment Bill; and, after some time spent 
- therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and 
Mr. Raikes reported, That the Committee had 
gone through the Bill, and directed him to report 
the same, without Amendment. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
this day. 
Valuation Bill. The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Valuation Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday the 26th day of this instant June. 
Friendly The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 


Societies Act mittee on the Friendly Societies Act (1875) 
(1875) Amend- A mendment Bill ; 


— Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 

All Saints, The House, according to Order, resolved itself 

Moss, Bill into a Committee on the All Saints, Moss, Bill; 

[lerds.} and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes reported, 
That the Committee had gone through the Bill, 
and directed him to report the same, without 
Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 

this day. 

Ecclesiastical The Order of the day being read, for the Second 

Assessments : 


(Scotland) Bill Reading of the Ecclesiastical Assessments (Scot- 
land) Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 

upon Thursday the 29th day of this instant June. 


Roads and The Order of the day being read, for the Second 

ate, (tent Reading of the Roads and Bridges ( Scvéland) Bill ; 

jane Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 

upon Thursday next. 

Customs The Customs Duties Consolidation Bill was, 

geal according to Urder, read a second time ; and com- 

‘ mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for 
Thursday the 29th day of this instant June. 

5 Court The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 

(Irland) mittee on the Supreme Court of Judicature (TIre- 


Bill (Lords. ] land) Bill : 
; Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


Sheriff Comrts The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
) Bill, Reading of the Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 


upon Monday the 26th day of this instant June. 
VoL. 131. 


15th—16th June. 








263 
The Order of the day being read, for the Second Highways Bill. 
Reading of the Highways Bill; 


Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Agricultural 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed (Beetle) 
upon the 8th day of this instant June, That the Bill [Zords.] 
Agricultural Holdings (Scotlaad) Bill be now read 
a second time; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 


till Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Poor Law 
mittee on the Poor Law ( Scotland) Bill ; Guten ee 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Crossed 
mittee on the Crossed Cheques Bill ; o 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
next, at Two of the clock, resolve itself into the 
said Committee. 


The Statute Law Revision (Substituted Enact- ——— Law 
ments) Bill was, according to Order, read a second (Substituted 
time; and committed to a Committee of the whole Enactments) 


House, for this day. Bill [ Lords. ] 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Local Govern- 
into a Committee on the Local Government Pro- pew ey a 
visional Orders, Bristol, &amp;c. (No. 6) Bill; and, Bristol, &amp;e. 
after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker re- (No. 6) Bill. 
sumed the Chair; and Mr. Razkes reported, That 
the Committee had gone through the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 


mittee, be taken into consideration this day. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Bankers’ 
into a Committee on the Bankers’ Books Evidence —— 
. . ° - ill. 
Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes re- 
ported, That the Committee had made Progress 
in the Bill; and that he was directed to move, 
That the Committee may have leave to sit again. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 


next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Toll Bridges 
Reading of the Toll Bridges (River Thames) Bill; Thames) Bill 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 


this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Local Light 
mittee on the Local Light Dues (Reduction) Bill; Dues (Hedue- 
And a Motion being made, and the Question f 
being put, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
Chair; - 
The House divided. 
The Yeas to the Right ; 
The Noes to the Left. 
Tellers for the; Mr. Sykes, 98 
Yeas, (Mr. Neville-Grenville : } . 
Tellers for the; Mr. James, 93 
Noes, (Mr. Gourley : } ‘ 
So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 
The House accordingly resolved itself into the 
Committee. 
(In the Committee.) 


Motion made, and Question put, That the Chair- 
man do report Progress, and ask leave to sit again ; 
The Committee divided. 


Tellers for the f Mr. Dodds, \ 10. 
Yeas, Mr. James: ; ae 
Tellers for the) Mr. Sykes, 196 


Noes, Mr. Neville-Grenville: | 
Cause, N° 1 agreed to. 


Cause, N° 2 (Power to reduce Local Light 
Dues). 
Amendment 


UL4 





Elementary 
Education 
(Application 
for School 
Board) Bill. 


Wild Fowl 
Preservation 
Bill. 


Election of 
Aldermen 
(Cumulative 


Vote) Bill. 


House 
Occupiers Dis- 
qualification 
Removal Bill. 


Quit Rent 
Claims 
(Ireland). 


Mr. D. R. 
Pigot, junior. 


Prisons 
(Treland.) 


Sale of Intoxi- 
cating Liquors 
on Sunday 
(Ireland) 
(No. 2) Bill. 


Land Tenure 
(Ireland) Bill. 


264. 


Amendment proposed, in p. 1,1. 10, to leave | 
out the words “ such local authority ” in order to 
insert the words “the imperial and local au- 
* thorities.” 

Question proposed, That the words proposed to 
be left out stand part of the Clause: —Amendment, 
by leave, withdrawn. 

Clause agreed to. 


Bill to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Rathes | 


reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill; and directed him to report the same, 
without Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Elementary Education (Applica- 
tion for School Board) Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Question propose: 
upon the 14th day of this instant June, That the 
Wild Fowl Preservation Bill be now read the 
third time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
upon the 9th day of this instant June, That the 
Election of Aldermen (Cumulative Vote) Bill be 
now read a second time; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the House Occupiers Disqualification 
Removal Bill; 

Resolved, Vhat this House will, this day, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Copy of a Letter, dated the 28th day of June 
1875, addressed by Mr. L. Counsel, Collector of 
Inland Revenue, Athlone, to Michael Wallace, 
Esquire, of Springfield, in the King’s County, Ire- 
land, a Purchaser in the Landed Estates Court of 
the Townland of Ballyegan, claiming, on behalf of 
the Quit Rent Office in Dublin, a Quit Rent of 
£.1. 6 s. 10} d. out of the said Lands of Ballyegan, 
and £. 285. 2s. 7d. for 183 years’ arrears of the 
same, up to the 25th day of March 1875, and 
£.9. 3s. 2d. Acquittance Fees. 


Ordered, That the Petition of Mr. D. R. Pigot, 
junior, relative to the Supreme Court of Judi- 
cature Act, which was presented upon the 30th 
day of May last, be printed with the Votes. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to alter and amend the Law relating to Prisons in 
Ireland: And that Sir Michael Hicks Beachand Mr. 
Solicitor General for Jre/and do prepare, and bring 
it in. 


The Order for reading a second time, upon 
Tuesday next, the Sale of Intoxicating Liquors on 
Sunday (Ireland) (No. 2) Bill, was read, and dis- 
charged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday the 12th day of July next. 


The Order for resuming, upon Tuesday next, 
the adjourned Debate on the Amendment which, 
upon the 29th day of March last, was man 
to be made to the Question, That the Land ‘Tenure 


15th—16th June. 





1876. 


(/reland) Bill be now read a second time, was 
read, and discharged. 

Ordered, Tnat the Debate be further adjourned 
till Thursday the 29th day of this instant June. 


Sir Michael Hicks Beach presented a Bill to Prisons 
alter and amend the Law relating to Prisons jn (feland) Bin, 
Ireland: And the same was read the first time ; Bill 197, 
and ordered to be read a second time upon Thurs- 
day next; and to be printed. 


A Motion being made, That this House will, Appellate 
this day, resolve itself into a Committee to con- Jurisdiction 
sider of authorising the payment, out of the Con- — - 
solidated Fund of the United Kingdom, of the” 
Salaries and Pensions of every Lord of Appeal in 
Ordinary, to be appointed under the provisions of 
any Act of the present Session relating to the 
Appellate Jurisdiction of the House of Lords; 

Sir Michael Hicks Beach, by Her Majesty’s Com- 
mand, acquainted the House, That Her Majesty, 
having been informed of the subject-matter of this 
Motion, recommends it to the consideration of the 
House. | 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


A Motion being made, That this House will, Supreme Cour 
this day, resolve itself into a Committee to con- a 
sider of authorising the payment, out of the Con- tSalares, 
solidated Fund of the United Kingdom, of the Pensions, &amp;.) 
Salaries and Pensions of certain existing and 
future Judges, and of Allowances in respect of 
Circuit; also the payment, out of moneys to be 
provided by Parliament, of all Salaries, Allow- 
ances, and Expenses, and of Compensation to 
Officers whose services are no longer required, 
which may become payable under the provisions 
of any Act of the present Session for the constitu- 
tion of a Supreme Court of Judicature, and for 
other purposes relating to the better administration 
of Justice in Ireland ; 

Sir Michael Hicks Beach, by Her Majesty’s Com- 
mand, acquainted the House, That Her Majesty, 
having been informed of the subject-matter of this 
Motion, recommends it to the censideration of the 
House. 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Butter 
a Copy of a Report made to the Board of Inland sane. 
Revenue by the Principal of the Chemical La- No. 293. 
horatory, Somerset House, on Experiments con- 
ducted by him for the Analysis of Butter. 

Mr. William Henry Smith accordingly presented 
the said Paper. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till a quarter of an hour before Two of the 
clock on Friday morning, adjourned till 
this day. 





Friday, 16th June, 1870. 


PRAYERS. 

TY. HE House proceeded to take into considera Gorleston n. 
tion the Amendments made by the Lords to — 

the Gorleston and Southtown Gas Bill; and the ~~ 
same were twice read, and agreed to. ; 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. ‘ 


De Blonay’s Naturalization Bill was read the De Baw 
third time. Bill (Lords.] 
Resolved, 





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Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


A Motion being made, That the Sutton Poo! 


‘iar Bil Harbour Bill be now read the third time ; 


(Lords. } 


And Notice being taken, That the interest of 
the Prince of Wales, as Duke of Cornwall, is con- 
cerned therein ; 

The Lord Advocate, by Command of His Royal 
Highness, acquainted the House, That His Royal 
Highness, having been informed of the purport of 
the Bill, gives His Consent, as far as His Royal 
Highness's interest is concerned, that the House 
may do therein as they shall think fit. 

Then the Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


Queenborough ‘The Order of the day being read, for the Third 
Harbour Bill. Reading of the Queenborough Harbour Bill ; 


Company of 
I ill 
(Lords, 


Waterford, 


ree and on the Waterford, New Ross, and Wexford Junc- 
then Raikes tion Railway (Sale) Bill; That they had examined 
(Sale) Bill, 


Bill 198, 


And a Motion being made, and the Questicn 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read the 
third time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the 
words “having regard to the fact that a Royal 
“Commission has lately been appointed to in- 
“vestigate the affairs of Unreformed Corporations, 
“it is not desirable to proceed with a Bill con- 
“ferring fresh borrowing and taxing powers upon 
“a Corporation which has been bankrupt under 
“circumstances disclosed in a Memorial ordered 
“by the House of Commons to be printed 30th 
“ July 1875,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Question; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right; 

The Noes to the Left. 


‘Tellers for the Mr. Pemberton 1 143 
Yeas, | Mr Gorst : =— 
Tellers for the { Sir Charles Dilke, 1 84 
Noes, UMr. Dillwyn : J ; 


So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That the Bill be now read the third 
time:—The Bill was accordingly read the third 
time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Mr. Raikes reported the Dublin Port and Docks 
Board Bill, with Amendments. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Raikes reported the Methodist Conference 
Bill, without Amendment. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time, 


Mr. Raikes reported the National Assurance 
Company of /reland Bill, with Amendments. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Select Committee 


the allegations of the Bill, and found the same to 
be true; and had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 
Ordered, That the Bill, as amended, be printed. 
Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to a 


June. 


read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


the 13th day of this instant June, be printed. 


printed. 





265 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and Public 


Petitions. 


Vide Twenty- 
sixth Report. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Arti- Artizans 
zans Dwellings Act, which was presented upon Pvellings Act. 


No. 294, 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Elementary Elementary 
Edueation (School Districts), which was pre- 
sented upon the 15th day of this instant June, be pistricts.) 


ucation 
(School 


No. 295. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Na- National Debt. 


day of this instant June, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Navy 
(Vessels completed since 1855), which was pre- 
sented upon the 15th day of this instant June, be 
printed. 


the 15th day of this instant June, be printed, 


Mr. Secretary Cross presented, by Her Ma- 


jesty’s Command,—Copy of Reports of the In- 


spectors of Mines for 1875. 





Mr. Secretary Cross also presented,—Return to 


an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 26th day of 


May last, for a Return relative to Elementary 


| Education (School Districts). 
Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated Usk Elver 


the 15th day of this instant June, for a Return re- 


lative to the Usk Elver Fishing. 


Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 


Table ; and that the two last be printed. 


tional Debt, which was presented upon the 15th No. 296. 


Navy (Vessels 
completed since 
1855.) 

No. 297. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Navy Navy (Corporal 
(Corporal Punishment), which was presented upon Pum'shment.) 


No. 298. 


Mines’. 


Elementary 
Education 
(School 
Districts.) 


No. 299. 


Fishing. 
No. 300. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented, pursuant Land Tax 
to the directions of an Act of Parliament,—Copy (Glasgow.) 


of Letter from the Inland Revenue Commissioners; 
and of Appointment of Wi/liam Gibb and John 


Craig as Inspectors of Land ‘lax in Glasgow. 


Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 


Table. 


Mr. James Lowther presented, by Her Majesty’s Malay 


Command,-—Copy of further Correspondence re- 
lating to the Affairs of certain Native States in 
the Malay Peninsula in the neighbourhood of the 
Straits Settlements——(In continuation of C. 1505 
of 1876.) 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Ordered, That Mr. Hope Johnstone have leave 
of absence for six weeks, on account of ill 
health. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- 


Peninsula, 


Leave of 
Absence. 


Message from 


sage had been brought from the Lords by one of the Lords. 


their Clerks, as followeth: 

The Lords have agreed to theGreat Western and 
Bristol and Exeter Railway Companies Bill, with 
Amendments; to which the Lords desire the con- 
currence of this House. 

The Lords have agreed to the Burry Port and 
North Western Junction Railway Bill, with 
Amendments; to which the Lords desire the con- 
currence of this House. 

The Lords have agreed to the Amendments 
made by this House to the Neweastle-upon-Tyne 
Quayside Lift Bill, without any Amendment. 


The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An 
Act for authorising the Great Northern London 
Cemetery Company to dispose of their superfluous 
Lands, and for other purposes; to whieh the 





Committee of the whole House, for Monday next. 
Vou. 131. 


Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 
MM 


The 


Great Western 
and Bristol and 
Exeter Railway 
Companies Bill. 


Burry Port and 

orth Western 
Junction Rail- 
way Bill. 


Newcastle- 
upon-Tyne 
Quayside Lift 
Bill [Lords.] 


Great Northern 
London 
Cemetery Bill 
[{ Lords. } 





London 
Cemetery Bill 
[Lerds. | 


Supply. 


Malta (Duty 


on Grain and 
Cattle.) 


266 


read the first time. ' 
Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Cum- 
mittee of Supply ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave 
the Chair ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the werd “ That” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the 
words “in the opinion of this House, it is in- 
“expedient in policy, and mischievous as an 


»?% “ " ‘ 
“‘ example to other Nations on the Shores of the 


‘“* Mediterranean, to continue to levy ten shillings 
“ quarter on wheat imported into the Island of 
* Malta, and other high Duties of a protective 
‘“‘ character on grain and cattle,” instead thereof. 
And the Question being put, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Question ; 
he House divided. 
The Yeas to the Right ; 
The Noes to the Left. 
Tellers for the{ Sir William Dyke, 
Yeas, UMr. Row/and Winn: 
Tellers for the/ Mr. Potter, 
Noes, | Mr. Anderson: 
So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 
Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
Chair:—The House accordingly resolved itself 
into the Committee. 


} 84, 


(In the Committee.) 


Question again proposed, That a Sum, not ex- 
ceeding £. 109,194, be granted to Her Majesty, to 
defray the Expenses of the several Scientific De- 
partments of the Navy, which will come in course 
of payment during the year ending on the 31st 
day of March 1877: 

Vhereupon Motion made, and Question pro- 
posed, That the Chairman do report Progress, 
and ask leave to sit again:—Motion, by leave, 
withdrawn. 

Original Motion, by leave, withdrawn. 

£. 364,200 (in addition to the Sum of £. 100,000 
already voted on account), for the Establishment 
of, and Expenditure incurred by, the Army Pur- 
chase Commissioners, and of the Expenses to be 
incurred in purchasing the remaining Commissions 
of Gentlemen at Arms. 


Resolution to be reported. 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr. Razkes 
reported, That the Committee had come toa Reso- 
lution. 

Ordered, That the Report be received upon 
Monday next. 

Mr. Ratkes also acquainted the House, that he 
was directed to move, That the Committee may 
have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Com- 
mittee. 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Saturday morning ; 


Saturday, 17th June, 1876: 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
take into consideration the Army Corps Training 
Bill, as amended in the Committee. 

A Clause (Appointment of Special Commis- 
sioners by Lords Lieutenant) was twice read ; and 
made part of the Bill. 

Then Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Monday next. 


16¢h—17th June. 


Great Northern The Great Northern London Cemetery Bill was 














1876. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Poor Lay 
consideration the Poor Law Amendment Bill, as Amendment 
amended in the Committee ; Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into con- 
sideration upon Monday next. 


The Poor Law Rating (Jreland) Bill was, accord. Poor Lay 
ing to Order, read a second time ; and committed Rating 
to a Committee of the whole House, for Thursday (Ireland) Bil, 
next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Cattle Disease (Jreland) Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Cattle Disease 
(Ireland) Bill, 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Ways and Means; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Comauittee. 


Ways and 
Means, 


The Prevention of Crimes Act Amendment Bill Prevention of 
was, according to Order, read the third time. Crimes Act 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. ae 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the ~ 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The All Saints, Moss, Bill was, according to All Saints, 
Order, read the third time. Moss, Bill 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. aoe 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Supreme Cout 
into a Committee on the Supreme Court of Judi- — 
: . &gt; ° reland) 
cature (Jreland) [Salaries, Pensions, &amp;c. ] 


[ Salaries, 
(In the Committee.) 


Pensions, &amp;c.] 

Resolved, That it is expedient to authorise the 
payment, out of the Consolidated Fund of the 
United Kingdom, of the Salaries and Pensions of 
certain existing and future Judges, and of Allow- 
ances in respect of Circuit ; also the payment, out 
of moneys to be provided by Parliament, of all 
Salaries, Allowances, and Expenses, and of Com- 
pensation to Offivers whose services are no longer 
required, which may become payable under the 
provisions of any Act of the present Session for 
the constitution of a Supreme Court of Judica- 
ture, and for other purposes relating to the better 
administration of Justice in Jreland. 

Resolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had come to a Reso- 
lution. 

Ordered, That the Report be received upon 
Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- supreme Court 
mittee on the Supreme Court of Judicature (Jre- of Judicat 
A (Lreland) Bill 
land) Bill; [ Lords.) 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself statute Law 
into a Committee on the Statute Law Revision Revetr 4 
(Substituted Enactments) Bill; and, after some aeerenee 
time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed _ the Bill [Lord] 
Chair; and Mr. Rakes reported, That the Com- 
mittee had gone through the Bill, and directed 
him to report the same, without Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Monday next. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to Local ene 
take into consideration the Local Government vee 
Provisional Orders, Bristol, &amp;c, (No. 6) Bill, a8 Bristol, &amp;. 
amended in the Committee. (No. 6) Bill 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Monday next. 7 

e 








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nt 


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39 VicroriA. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 





sieietion into a Committee on Appellate Jurisdiction [Sa- 

{salaries ¥ laries and Pensions]. 
— (In the Committee.) 

Resolved, That it is expedient to authorise the 

ayment, out of the Consolidated Fund of the 

Waited Kingdom, of the Salaries and Pensions of 

every Lord of Appeal in Ordinary to be appointed 

under the provisions of any Act of the present 

Session relating to the Appellate Jurisdiction of 
the House of Lords. 

Resolution to be reported. 

Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Razkhes 
reported, That the Committee had come to a Reso- 
lution. 

Ordered, That the Report be received upon 
Monday next. 

Xutiees to Quit The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
(Ireland) Bill. into a Committee on the Notices to Quit (Ireland) 
Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had made Progress 
in the Bill; and that he was directed to move, 
That the Committee may have leave to sit again. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 
Poor Law The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
— Reading of the Poor Law Guardians Elections 
ons . 
(Ireland) Bill. (Lreland) Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next. 

Crab and The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Labster mittee on the Crab and Lobster Fisheries (Vor- 
Torii) Ba, SV) Bill ; 

: " Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 

next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 

Municipal The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Corporations, Reading of the Municipal Corporations, &amp;c. 
ae (Funds) Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday next. 

Burglaryand Lhe Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Forgery Bill. Reading of the Burglary and Forgery Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next. 

Burghs (Scot. Lhe Burghs (Scotland) Gas Supply Bill was, 
nd) Gas_ according to Order, read the third time. 
Supply Bill. Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 

Metical Act _ Lhe Order of the day being read, for the Second 


(Qalifcations Reading of the Medical Act (Qualifications) Bill ; 


Toll Bridges 
River 
) Bill, 


si 
Mon) Bill, 


Wild Pow! 
reservation 


Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
pam of the Toll Bridges (River Thames) 

ill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Third 
Pa of the Local Light Dues (Reduction) 

Ul 5 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
* adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
OL. 131. 


i6¢ch—17¢h June. 








267 
upon the 14th day of this instant June, That the 
Wild Fowl Preservation Bill be now read the 
third time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- House __ 
mittee on the House Occupiers Disqualification a 
Removal Bill; Removal Bill 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Queen’s Bench, 
a Copy of all Correspondence between the Trea- Ireland (Mr. 
sury and the Lord Chief Justice of Ireland with eats 
respect to the Appointment of Mr. Blackham to 
an Office in the Court of Queen’s Bench in Jre- 
land, 


The Order for reading a second time, upon Civil Bill 
Monday next, the Civil Bill Courts (/reland) Bill, Cours | = 
was read, and discharged. os 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday the 26th day of this instant June. 


The Order for resuming, upon Monday next, Clerk of the 

the adjourned Debate on the Amendment which, Peace and of 
. the Crown 

upon the 26th day of May last, was proposed to be (jreland) Bill. 
made to the Question, That the Clerk of the 
Peace and of the Crown (Jreland) Bill be now 
read a second time, was read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Monday the 26th day of this instant June. 


The Order for taking into consideration, upon Commons Bill. 
Monday next, the Commons Bill, as amended in 
the Committee, was read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into considera- 
tion upon Tuesday next, at Two of the clock. 


The Order for the House to resolve itself into a Jurors Qualifi- 
Committee, upon Monday next, on the Jurors een 
Qualification (Jreland) Bill, was read, and dis-~" 
charged. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
next, at Two of the clock, resolve itself into the 
said Committee. 


The Order for reading a second time, upon Imprisonment 
Tuesday next, the Imprisonment for Debt Aboli- fr Debt | 
tion Bill, was read, and discharged. a 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


The Order for the House to resolve itself into a Bankers’ Books 
Committee, upon Monday next, on the Bankers’ Evidence Bill. 
Books Evidence Bill, was read, and discharged. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order for the House to resolve itself into a ofrences 
Committee, upon Monday next, on the Offences against the 
against the Person Bill, was read, and dis- Person Pill. 
charged. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
next, at Two of the clock, resolve itself into the 
said Committee. 


A Motion being made, That this House will, public Works 
upon Monday next, resolve itself into a Committee [Consolidated 
to consider of authorising a further Advance, out 41 
of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom, 
to enable the Public Works Loan Commissioners 
to make Advances for the Promotion of Public 
Works; 

Mr. Secretary Cross, by Her Majesty’s Com- 
mand, acquainted the House, That Her Majesty, 
having been informed of the subject-matter of 
this Motion, recommends it to the consideration of 
the House. 





MM2 Resolved, 


268 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till One of the clock on Saturday morning, 
adjourned till Monday next. 














Monday, 19th June, 1876. 
PRAYERS. 


HE House, according to Order, proceeded to 

take into consideration the Amendments 
made by the Lords to the Great Eastern Railway 
Bill; and the same were twice read, and agreed 
to; and a consequential Amendment was made 
to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships, and hath made a consequential Amendment 
to the Bill; to which this House doth desire the 
concurrence of their Lordships. 


Great Eastern 
Railway Bill. 


Edinburgh Ordered, That the Edinburgh Improvement Bill 


Improvement be read a second time upon Thursday next. 
Bill [ Lords. ] 


Leven Harbour The Leven Harbour Bill was read a second 
Bill [Lords.] time; and committed. 


Tempest’s 
Estate Bill 
[Lords.; 


Tempest’s Estate Bill was read a second time ; 
and committed. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Public 
Petitions. 

Vide Twenty- 
sixth Report. 
Army (Soldiers 


appointed to 
Civil Offices.) 


No. 301. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Army 
(Soldiers appointed to Civil Offices), which was 
presented upon the 8th day of April, in the last 
Session of Parliament, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Return relative to Justices 
of the Peace Small Debts Court (Scotland), which 


was presented upon the 8th day of this instant 
June, be printed. 


Justices of the 
Peace Small 
Debts Court 
(Scotland.) 
No. 302. 
High Court of | Ordered, That the Return relative to the High 
Justice (Writs Court of Justice (Writs of Summons), which was 
of mee presented upon the 15th day of this instant June, 
No. 303. be printed. 


Mr. Secretary Cross presented,—Return to an 
Address to Her Majesty, dated the Ist day of this 
instant June, for Returns relative to the Poor 
Law ( Scotland) Board of Supervision. 

Ordered, 'That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


Poor Law 
(Scotland) 
Board of 
Supervision. 


No, 304, 


Public 
Revenue 
(Fermented 
and Spirituous 
Liquors.) 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented,—Return to 
an Order, dated the 18th day of May last, for a 
Return relative to the Public Revenue( Fermented 
and Spirituous Liquors). 


Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Embassies and 
Legations 
(Houses.) 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return showing the following particulars, 
viz.2— 

1. Embassies and Legations at which Houses have 
been built or purchased by Her Majesty’s 
Government ; 

2. Embassies and Legations where Houses have 
been leased by Her Majesty’s Government, 
with Dates of Original Leases, or Renewals of 
Leases, the Terms of Years for which they 
have to run, and the annual Rents paid in 
respect thereof; also specifying if accom- 


16zh-—17th—19th Jwie. 




















1876, 

modation for Residence is given to any 

Secretaries or Attachés ; 

3. Embassies and Legations at which an Allow- 
ance is made to the Ambassador or Minister 
for House Rent, with Amount of such A]. 
lowance. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Dochf 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Estate Bil 
Bills, That no Standing Orders are applicable ‘0rd 
in the case of the following Bill, referred on the 
First Reading thereof, viz. : 

Dochfour Estate Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time, 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Private Bi: 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, (Lords 
That the Standing Orders not previously inquired Onder 
into, and which are applicable thereto, have been previously 
complied with in the case of the following Bills, ™te ints 
originating in the Lords, and referred on the "i ¥t) 
First Reading thereof, viz. : 

Blackrod Gas Bill. 
Belfast, Holywood, and Bangor Railway Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bills be read a second time. 


Notice being taken of an informality in a Peti- Vivisection 
tion which was presented upon the 26th day of 
May last, from Magistrates and others in the 
County of Kent, for the Prevention of Vivisec- 
tion ; 

Ordered, That the Order, That the said Petition 
do lie upon the Table be read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Petition be withdrawn. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Stafford 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased ita 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Copy of any Reports or Correspondence 
between the War Department, the Local Govern- 
ment Board, or the Sanitary Authorities of Lich- 
field, in pursuance of which two Battalions of the 
Ist Regiment of Stafford Militia were placed under 
Canvas without Notice instead of into Billets at 
Lichfield. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, pilotage 
Returns of Sub-Commissioners or Agents ap- (Yarmouth to 
pointed by the 7’rinity House with respect to Pilotage * ™™*) 
from Yarmouth (inclusive) to the Thames (ex- 
clusive ) :— 








Name. | Profession. 


Date of Appointment. | For what District, 


| 


And, of Pilots licensed or authorised by the 
Trinity House for the North Channel, and from 
Yarmouth (inclusive) to the Thames (exclusive) :— 


Where Residing. 











Amount of Poundage paid 
on Earnings 
between Ist January 1875 and 
31st December 1875. 


For | By what Sub-Com- 


When 
Appointed, 


Names. what District} 


Licensed. 


Lee 


The Order for reading a second time, 
morrow, the University Education (Ireland) Bill 
was read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday the 2nd day of August next. 


Age. missioners or Agents 


recommended. 











To- University 
Education 
&gt; (Ireland) Bill 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Poor Law 

a Return showing the effect of the Charge contained (irelas 4) 
in the Poor Law Rating (Jreland) Bill on the 
highest rated Electoral Division in each Union in 
Ireland, taking as the basis of Calculation the 
Annual Expenditure for the year ending the 29th 
day of September 1875, and giving only the Cases 
in which the Poundage for In-maintenance and 
Clothing 








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I with.) 


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th to 
1¢s,) 


Bill. 





Adjournment. 


Elementary — 
Education Bill. 


39 VicTortia. 


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to One shilling and sixpence, in the following 
Form :— 





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A Motion was male, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That this House do now adjourn :—And 
the said Motion was, with leave of the House, 
withdrawn. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Amendment which, 
upon the 15th day of this instant June, was pro- 
posed to be made to the Question, That the Ele- 


. mentary Education Bill be now read a second time ; 


Public Health 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Bishopric of 
Truro Bill. 


Appellate 
Jurisdiction 
Bill [Lords.] 


and which Amendment was, to leave out from the 
word “ That” to the end of the Question, in order 
to add the words “ in the opinion of this House, it 
“ is desirable that the recommendations contained 
“ inthe recent Report of the Factory and Workshops 
« Acts Commission, relating to the enforcement of 
« the attendance of children at school, should be in- 
“ troduced in any measure for improving the ele- 
“mentary education of the people,” instead 
thereof ; 

And the Question being again proposed, That 
the words proposed to be left out stand part of the 
Question: —The House resumed the said adjourned 
Debate. 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Tuesday morning ; 


Tuesday, 20th June, 1876: 


And the Question being put ; 
The House divided. 
The Yeas to the Right; 
The Noes to the Left. 
Tellers for the Sir William Dyke, 
Yeas, Mr. Rowland Winn: 
Tellers for thes Mr. Mundella, 1 
Noes, { Mr. Ashley: 
So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 
Then the Main Question being put ; 
The House divided. 
The Yeas to the Right ; 
The Noes to the Left. 
Tellers for the {Sir William Dyke, } 356 
Yeas, (Mr. Rowland Winn: aaa 
Tellers for the {Sir Charles Dilke, } -8 
Noes, (Mr. Dixon: _ 
So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 
The Bill was accordingly read a second time, 
and committed to a Committee of the whole House, 
for Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Public Health (Zreland) Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Bishopric of Truro Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Appellate Jurisdiction Bill ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 
VoL. 131. 


19¢h—20th June. 





269 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second University of 
Reading of the University of Cambridge Bill ; Cambridge. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 54 
upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the University of 
Committee on the University of Oxford Bill; Oxford Bill 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday (Lords. 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second guez Canal 
Reading of the Suez Canal (Shares) Bill; (Shares) Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday the 29th day of this instant June. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Juries 
mittee on the Juries Procedure (Ireland) Bill; Procedure 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, at Two cei 
of the clock, resolve itself into the said Com- 
mittee. 


The Gas and Water Orders Confirmation Gas and Water 
( Chape!l-en-le-Frith, &amp;c.) Bill was, according to Orders Con- 
Order, read a second time; and committed to a frpaton 
Committee of the whole House, for Thursday the ithe ke) 
29th day of this instant June. Bill [Lords.] 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second yfaritime 
Reading of the Maritime Contracts Bill ; Contracts Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Friendl 
mittee on the Friendly Societies Act (1875) Societies Act 
Amendment Bill ; (1875) Amend- 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday ™"* 3" 


next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Oyster and Mussel Fisheries Order Con- Oyster and 
firmation Bill was, according to Order, read a Mussel 
second time; and committed to a Committee of Fisheries Order 

Confirmation 


the whole House, for Thursday the 29th day of pin [Zords.] 
this instant June. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Waterfora, 
intv a Committee on the Waterford, New Ross, New Ross, and 
and Wexford Junction Railway (Sale) Bill; and, sag 
after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker re- (gale) Bill. 
sumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes reported, That 
the Committee had gone through the Bill; and 
directed him to report the same, without Amend- 
ment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 


this day, at Two of the clock. 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee of supply. 
Supply, a Resolution; which was read, as fol- 
loweth: 

That a Sum, not exceeding £. 364,200, be granted Army Purchase 
to Her Majesty (in addition to the Sum of Commission. 
£. 100,000 already voted on account), towards de- 
fraying the Charge for the Establishment of, and 
Expenditure incurred by, the Army Purchase 
Commissioners, and of the Expenses to be incurred 
in purchasing the remaining Commissions of 
Gentlemen at Arms, which will come in course of 
payment from the Ist day of April 1876 to the 
31st day of March 1877, inclusive. 

The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- supply. 
mittee of Supply ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 

next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Army Corps Training Bill was, according Army Corps 
to Order, read the third time. Training Bill. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 

the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 





The 


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270 
The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
consideration the Poor Law Amendment Bill, as 
amended in the Committee ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be taken into considera- 
tion this day, at Two of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Ways and Means; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednes- 
day next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Supreme Court 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on the 
of Judicature 


(Ireland) Supreme Court of Judicature (Jreland) [ Salaries, 
[Salaries, Pensions, &amp;c. |, a Resolution; which was read, as 
Pensions, &amp;c.] followeth : 
That it is expedient to authorise the payment, 
out of the Consolidated Fund of the United 
Kingdom, of the Salaries and Pensions of certain 
existing and future Judges, and of Allowances in 
respect of Circuit; also the payment, out of 
moneys to be provided by Parliament, of all Sala- 
ries, Allowances, and Expenses, and of Compen- 
sation to Officers whose services are no longer re- 
quired, which may become payable under the pro- 
visions of any Act of the present Session for the 
constitution of a Supreme Court of Judicature, 
and for other purposes relating to the better ad- 
ministration of Justice in Jreland. 
The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 


Supreme Court The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
of Judicature mittee on the Supreme Court of Judicature (Jre- 
ede) land) Bill ; 
ras, . . 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Statute Law Revision (Substituted Enact-. 
ments) Bill was, according to Order, read the third 
time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


Statute Law 
Revision 
(Substituted 
Enactments) 
Bill [Lords.] 


The Local Government Provisional Orders, 
Bristol, &amp;c. (No. 6) Bill was, according to Order, 
read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 


Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Local Govern- 
ment Pro- 
visional Orders, 
Bristol, &amp;c. 
(No. 6) Bill. 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on 
Appellate Jurisdiction {Salaries and Pensions], a 
Resolution; which was read, as followeth ; 

That it is expedient to authorise the payment, 
out of the Consolidated Fund of the United King- 
dom, of the Salaries and Pensions of every Lord 
of Appeal in Ordinary to be appointed under the 
eee of any Act of the present Session re- 
ating to the Appellate Jurisdiction of the House 
of Lords. 

The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 


Appellate 
Jurisdiction 
[Salaries and 
Pensions. ] 


Public Works 
[Consolidated 
Fund.] 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on Public Works [Consolidated 
Fund]. 

(In the Committee.) 


Resolved, That it is expedient to authorise fur- 
ther Advances, out of the Consolidated Fund of the 
United Kingdom, of any Sum or Sums of Money, 
not exceeding £.4,000,000, to enable the Public 
Works Loan Commissioners to make Advances for 
the promotion of Public Works, pursuant to the 
provisions of any Act of the present Session relating 
to Loans for Public Works. 

Resolved, That it is expedient to amend “ The 
Public Works Loans Act, 1875.” 

Resolutions to be reported. 





19th—20th June. 


1876, 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had come to several 
Resolutions. 

Ordered, That the Report be received this day, 
at Two of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second five; Fishing 
Reading of the Elver Fishing Bill; Bill, 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Parliemen 
mittee on the Parliamentary and Municipal Regis- and Municipal 
tration (Boroughs) Bill ; Registration 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday (Boroughs) 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Nullum 
mittee on the Nullum Tempus (Ireland) Bill; Tempus 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday (Ireland) Bill 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Notices to Quit 
mittee on the Notices to Quit (Jreland) Bill; (Ireland) Bill, 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Crab ana 
mittee on the Crab and Lobster Fisheries ( Norfolk) Lobster 
Bill; Ceshin 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday —_o 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Toll Bridges (River Thames) Bill was, ac- Toll Bridges 
cording to Order, read a second time; and com- _— - 
mitted to a Select Committee. —_ 


The Order of the day being read, for the Third Local Light 
Reading of the Local Light Dues (Reduction) Dues (Reduc- 
Bill; tion) Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Wild Fowl 
the adjourned Debate upon the Question pro- Preservation 
posed upon the 14th day of this instant June, That 
the Wild Fowl Preservation Bill be now read the 
third time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till this day, at Two of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- House 
mittee on the House Occupiers Disqualification a 
Removal Bill; Removal Bill. 

Resolved, That this-House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


Resolved, That this House will, immediately, re- Arklow 
solve itself into a Committee to consider of Im- assis 
proving the Harbour of Arklow:—The House 
accordingly resolved itself into the Committee. 


(In the Committee.) 


Resolved, That the Chairman be directed to 
move the House, That leave be given to bring in a 
Bill for the Improvement of the Harbour of Ark- 
low, in the County of Wicklow. 


Resolution to be reported. 








Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. 
| Raikes reported, That the Committee had come to 
a Resolution. 
Ordered, That the Report be now received. 
| Mr. Raikes accordingly reported a Resolution ; 
'which was read, as followeth : 
| That the Chairman be directed to move the 
| House, That leave be given to bring in a Bill for 
|the Improvement of the Harbour of Ark/ow, in 
the County of Wicklow:—And he moved the 
House accordingly. 
Ordered, 











it 








39 Vicroria. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in the 
Bill: And that Mr. William Henry Smith and 
Sir Michael Hicks Beach do prepare, and bring 


it in. 
Ardglass Resolved, That this House will, immediately, re- 
Harbour. solve itself into a Committee to consider of Im- 


proving the Harbour of Ardglass:—The House 
accordingly resolved itself into the Committee. 


(In the Committee.) 


Resolved, That the Chairman be directed to 
move the House, That leave be given to bring in 
a Bill for the Improvement of the Harbour of 
Ardglass, in the County of Down. 


Resolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. 
Raikes reported, That the Committee had come to 
a Resolution. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Raikes accordingly reported a Resolution ; 
which was read, as followeth : 

That the Chairman be directed to move the 
House, That leave be given to bring in a Bill for 
the Improvement of the Harbour of Ardglass, in 
the County of Down :—And he moved the House 
accordingly. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in the 
Bill: And that Mr. William Henry Smith and Sir 
Michael Hicks Beach do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 


Dublin CY. for the better Government of the City of Dublin, 
and for the enlargement of the Municipal Bound- 
aries thereof: And that Mr. Sullivan, Dr. Ward, 
and Mr. Arthur Mvore do prepare, and bring it in. 

Justices of the .O7dered, That there be laid before this House, 

"Peace a Return of the Number and the Names of the 

(Ireland.) Gentlemen appointed to the Commission of the 
Peace in each County in Jrelend from the Ist day 
of January 1874 to the lst day of June 1876. 

Arklow Mr. William Henry Smith presented a Bill for 

Harbour the Improvement of the Harbour of Arklow, in 


Improvement the County of Wicklow: And the same was read 
the first time. 


Bill 199. Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills; and be 
printed. 

Ordered, That the Examiner have leave to sit 
and proceed forthwith. 

Ardglass Mr. William Henry Smith presented a Bill for 
wall Oe the Improvement of the Harbour of Ardglass, in the 

a County of Down: And the same was read the 
first time. 

Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills; and be 
printed. 

Ordered, That the Examiner have leave to sit 
and proceed forthwith. 

a City Sir Michael Hicks Beach presented a Bill for 


: the better Government of the City of Dublin, and 
Bill 201. for the enlargement of the Municipal Boundaries 
thereof: And the same was read the first time. 

Urdered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills; and be 
printed. 


Bankers’ Books 


r The Order for the House to resolve itself into a 
Evidence Bill, 


Committee, this day, on the Bankers’ Books Evi- 
dence Bill, was read, and discharged. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Poor Law Sir Michael Hicks Beach presented,—Return 
(l relaed.) to an Order, dated the 19th day of this instant 
N : June, for a Return relative to Poor Law Rating 
9305. (Ireland). 
VoL, 131, 








| Bill, with Amendments. 





19¢h—20th June. 971 


Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till a quarter of an hour after One of the 
clock on Tuesday morning, adjourned till 
this day. 


Tuesday, 20th June, 1876. 
PRAYERS. 


M® Raikes reported from the Committee on Willesden 
the Willesden Local Board Bill; That a Local Board 
Report from the Local Government Board upon ®! [4er4] 
the Bill, and the objects thereof, had been referred 
to the Committee, and considered by them, and 
that they were of opinion that the Bill, as sub- 
mitted to them, carried out the suggestions of the 
said Board without being further amended. 
Mr. Raikes further reported from the Committee ; 
That they had examined the allegations of the 
Bill, and found the same to be true; and had 
gone through the Bill, and had directed him to 
report the same, without Amendment. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Mr. Ratkes reported the Ivel Navigation Bill, Ivel Naviga- 
with Amendments, tion Bill 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. on 


Mr. Raikes reported the Letterkenny Railway Letterkenny 
Railway Bill 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table; _— 


and be printed. 


Mr. Raikes reported the Western Bank of Western Bank 
Scotland Bill, without Amendment. of Scotland 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. Pi! 4rd] 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Burry Port and 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Burry North Western 
Port and North Western Junction Railway Bill ; way Bill _ 
and the same were twice read, and agreed to. ; 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Great Western 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Great and Bristol and 
Western and Bristol and Exeter Railway Com- — re 

° ‘ ‘ ‘ompanies Bill. 
panies Bill; and the same were twice read, and 
agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
og to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


The Methodist Conference Bill was read the Methodist 

third time. Conference 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. ad ates 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 

the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 

hath agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


Several Public Petitions were en and Public 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions. 


Vide Twenty- 
; sixth Report. 
Ordered, That the Return relative to the Public public Revenue 
Revenue (Fermented and Spirituous Liquors), (Fermented 


which was presented _ the 19th day of this —— 
instant June, be printed. No. 306 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Revenue 
Returns of all Taxes and Imposts from which the (United 
Imperial Revenue of the United Kingdom was _— 
raised, together with the Gross Revenue, in the 
year ending the 3lst day of March 1876, with Cost 

MM4 or 





Railways 
(Share and 
Loan Capital.) 


Commons Bill. 


272 20th June. | 1876, 


or Charge for collecting the same under each Head, 
these Charges being deducted, and leaving the 


Then an Amendment was made to the Bill. 
Another Amendment was proposed to be made 


Net Amount of Revenue :——And, of the Aggre- | to the Bill, in p. 7, 1. 4, by inserting, after the word 


gate Revenue collected in each of the nine pre- | “ 
vious years. ” 
ce 
Ordered, That there be laid before this House, | “ 
a Return of Capital in Shares and by Loans re- 
spectively proposed to be raised by Railway and 
other Bills brought before Parliament in the pre- | 
sent Session, and the Aggregate Amount of such 
Capital and Loans; together with the Gross 
Aggregate Returns for the previous ten years. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
take into consideration the Commons Bill, as 
amended in the Committee. 

A Clause was offered to be added to the Bill 
(Illegal Inclosures); and the said Clause was 
brought up, and read the first time. 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That the said Clause be now read a 
second time ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the Sir Charles Dilke, 


Common,” the words, “ Provided, That the In- 
closure Commissioners shall not entertain an 
application for the inclosure of a Common or a 
part of a Common which is situate— 
‘In or within one mile of any town com- 
“ prising a population which exceeds five 
* thousand; or 
“In or within two miles of any town com- 
“ prising a population which exceeds ten 
* thousand ; or 
* In or within three miles of any town com- 
‘* prising a population which exceeds twenty 
*“ thousand; or 
“ In or within four miles of any town com- 
“ prising a population which exceeds fifty 
* thousand; or 
* Tn or within five miles of any town com- 
“ prising a population which exceeds one 
“ hundred thousand; or 
In or within six miles of any town com- 
* prising a population which exceeds two 
“ hundred thousand. 
** When part only of any Common subject to be 


“ inclosed is situate within the aforesaid distance 


Yeas, (Mr. Whitwell: *| from a town, such part shall be deemed for the 


Tellers for the{ Sir William Dyhe, as 

Noes, (Mr. Rewland Winn: * | 6 
So it passed in the Negative. " 
Another Clause was offered to be added to the 


purposes of this Act to be a distinct Common 
from the part which is not situate within the 
aforesaid distance from the town.” 

And the Question being put, That those words 


Bill (Prevention of Tilegal Inclosures); and the | be there inserted ; 


said Clause was brought up, and read the first time. 

And a Motien being made, and the Question 
being put, That the said Clause be now read a 
second time ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for thes Mr. Bristowe, 

Yeas, \ Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice: 
Tellers for the; Sir William Dyhe, 


} 95. 


The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the; Mr. Cowper-Temple, } 131 
Yeas, \ Mr. Beresford Hope: 7 

Tellers for the (Sir Wiliam Dyke, \ 993 
Noes, \ Mr. Rowland Winn: j . 

So it passed in the Negative. 

Then another Amendment was made to the Bill. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made 


| 
Noes, ) Mr. Rowland Winn: J 188. to the Bill, in p. 13, 1. 30, by inserting, after the 


So it passed in the Negative, w 








Another Clause was offered to be added to the | 
Bill (Notice of Approvements or Inclosures); and | 
the said Clause was brought up, and read the first | “ 
time. 

Anda Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That the said Clause be now read a 
second time ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the / Mr. Sandford, ns 

Yeas, | Mr. Beresford Hope: 155. | 

Tellers for the (Sir William Dyke, PM in: 

Noes, Mr. Rowland Winn: J 189. | &amp;&lt; 

So it passed in the Negative. | « 

Another Clause ( Allotments for Recreations and | “ 
Gardens) was twice read; and made part of the | " 
Bill. ‘ 

Another Clause was offered to be added to the | “ 
Bill (Gravel digging); and the said Clause was | “ 
brought up, and read the first and second time, | “ 
and amended ; and made part of the Bill. 





ord * fit,” the words, “(7a.) On a request in 
writing signed by twelve inhabitant ratepayers 
of the parish in which the Common is situate 
to which a draft Provisional Order relates 
(whether such ratepayers are persons legally 
interested in the Common or not), the Inclosure 
Commissioners shall cause a public meeting to 
to be held by an Assistant Commissioner at a 
suitable time and place for securing the attend- 
ance of the neighbouring inhabitants to consider 
such draft Provisional Order; and the provi- 
sions in this Act contained relating to the notice 
to be given of public meetings held by the 
Assistant Commissioner, the conduct of such 
meetings, and the report to be made to the 
Inclosure Commissioners respecting such meet- 
ings, shall apply to meetings held to consider 
a draft Provisional Order: Provided, That, if 
it be so requested in the aforesaid written re- 
quest, the said meeting shall be held in the 
evening between the hours of seven and ten of 
the clock.” 

And the Question being put, That those words 


Another Clause (Field Gardens to be free of | be there inserted :—It passed in the Negative. 


rent-charge) was twice read; and made part of 


Then other Amendments were made to the 


the Bill. Bill. 


Another Clause (Allotments for Recreation 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 


Grounds to be vested in Churchwardens and | upon Thursday next. 


Overseers) was twice read ; and made part of the 
Bill, 

Another Clause was offered to be added to the 
Bill (Six Months’ notice of claim to inclose to be 
given inthe “ London Gazette,” and local papers); | 
and the said Clause was brought up, and read the | 
first and second time, and amended; and made | 





into a Committee on the Jurors Qualificatio 


(Jreland) Bill. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Jurors 


(In the Committee. ) 


Preamble postponed. 
Ciavsrs, N° 1 and N° 2, amended, and agreed 


part of the Bill. to. 


CLAUSE, 


Qualification 
(Ireland) Bill 





Poor Law 
Amendment 
Bill, 


Crossed 
Cheques Bill 
[Lords.} 


Juries 
Procedure 
(Ireland) Bill, 


Waterford, 
New Ross, and 
Wexford Junc- 
tion Railway 
(Sale) Bill. 


Public Works 


(Consolidated Public Works 


Fund.) 


Offences 


against the 
Person Bill. 


40 Vicrorta. 


CLAusE, N° 3, agreed to. 


20th June. 
in the Bill; and that he was directed to move, That 





273 


Cuavuses, N° 4 and N° 5, amended, and agreed | the Committee may have leave to sit again. 


to. 
Ciavse, N° 6, agreed to. . 

The First Schedule. 

Amendment proposed, in p. 5, 1. 6, to leave out 
the word “ fifty,” in order to insert the word 


| 


“« forty.” : 
Question proposed, That the word “ fifty” stand upon the 14th day of this instant June, That the _ 


part of the Schedule: 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Thurs- 
day next, again resolve itself into the sid Com- 
mittee. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Wild Fowl 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed Preservation 


| Wild Fowl Preservation Bill be now read the 


Whereupon Motion made, and Question pro-; third time; 


posed, That the Chairman do report Progress, and 


And the Question being again proposed :—The 


ask leave to sit again:—Motion, by leave, with-| House resumed the said adjourned Debate. 


drawn. ; | 
Question again proposed, That the word “ fifty” | 


And the Question being put ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be now read the third 


stand part of the Schedule :—Amendment, by time :—The Bill was accordingly read the third 


leave, withdrawn. 
Schedule postponed. 
The Second Schedule agreed to. 
The Third Schedule. 
Amendments made. 


To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Razkhes | 
reported, That the Committee had made Progress 
in the Bill; and that he was directed to move, 
That the Committee may have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking 
into consideration the Poor Law Amendment 
Bill, as amended in the Committee ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into considera- 
tion upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Crossed Cheques Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 





The Order of the day being read, for the Com- | 


mittee on the Juries Procedure (Jreland) Bill ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Waterford, New Ross, and Wexford Junc- 
tion Railway (Sale) Bill was, according to Order, 
read the third time. 

Resolved, 'That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on 
[Consolidated Fund], several Re- 


solutions ; which were read, as follow: 

1. That it is expedient to authorise further 
Advances, out of the Consolidated Fund of the 
United Kingdom, of any Sum or Sums of Money, 
not exceeding £. 4,000,000, to enable the Public 
Works Loan Commissioners to make Advances 
for the promotion of Public Works, pursuant to 
the provisions of any Act of the present Session 
relating to Loans for Public Works. 

2. That it is expedient to amend “ The Public 
Works Loans Act, 1875.” 

The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That a Bill be brought in upon the 
said Resolutions: And that Mr. Raikes, Mr. 
William Henry Smith, Mr. Chancellor of the 
Exchequer, and Mr. Sclater- Booth do prepare, and 
bring it in. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Offences against the 
Person Bill; and, after some time spent therein, 
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had made Progress 


| 














VoL. 131. 





' time. 


Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 


| . . 
| the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented River wyo 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased (Bye-laws.) 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Copies of Bye-laws inquired into and re- 
ported against by Messrs. Waplole, Buckland, and 
Paterson, relating to the River Wye :—--And, of 
fresh Bye-laws submitted by the Board of Con- 
servators to the Secretary of State, which were 
referred to the Earl of March and Lord Win- 
marleigh. 


Mr. Whitbread reported from the Select Com- standing 
mittee on Standing Orders, several Resolutions ; Orders. 
which were read, as follow : 

That in the case of the Scarborough Harbour scarborough 
Bill, the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed Harbour Bill 
with ; that the parties be permitted to proceed 4°74 
with their Bill. 

That in the case of the Anglesey Central Rail- Anglesey _ 
way Bill, the Standing Orders ought to be dis- —— 
pensed with; that the parties be permitted to [ Lords. 
proceed with their Bill. 

That in the case of the East Cornwall Mineral past Cornwall 
Railway Bill, the Standing Orders ought to be Mineral _ 
dispensed with; that the parties be permitted to tte} 
proceed with their Bill, provided that the powers ; 
conferred upon the South Devon Railway Com- 
pany, by Clause 63, be struck out of the Bill; 
that the Committee on the Bill do report how far 
such Order has been complied with on the Report 
of the Bill. 

That in the case of the Swansea Harbour Bill, g..neoa 
the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed with ; Harbour Bill 
that the parties be permitted to proceed with their (Zords.] 
Bill. 

That in the case of the Northern Union Rail- northern 
ways of Ireland Bill, the Standing Orders ought to Union Rail- 
be dispensed with ; that the Parties be permitted to tal (rede) 
proceed with their Bill, provided the power to run ‘ 
over the Banbridge, Lisburn, and Belfast Railway, 
contained in Clauses 54 and 55, and the power to 
enter into traffic arrangements with the Dublin 
and Antrim Junction Railway Company ; the Ban- 
bridge, Lisburn, and Belfast Railway Company ; 
the Banbridge Extension Railway Company; the 
Belfast and County Down Railway Company ; the 
Belfast, Holywood, and Bangor Railway Gon any ; 
the Belfast Tramway Company, and the Lagan 
Navigation Company, contained in Clause 56, be 
struck out of the Bill; that the Committee on 
the Bill do report how far such Order has been 
complied with on the Report of the Bill. 


That in the case of the Southern Railway Bill, _— 


the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed with ; Railway Bill 
that the Parties be permitted to proceed with [Zords.| 
their Bill, provided that Clauses from 5 to 14, 
both inclusive, be struck out of the Bill; that 
the Committee on the Bill do report how far such 

NN 


Order 


Public Works 
Loans Bill. 


Bill 202. 


Towns Rating 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Free Libraries 
and Museums 
Bill. 


Message from 
the Lords. 


Vale of Clyde 
Tramways Bill. 


Tramways 
Orders 
Confirmation 
(Bristol, &amp;c.) 
Bill [ Lords. } 


East Cornwall 
Mineral 
Railway Bill 
if 


Lords.) 


Northern 
Union Rail- 
ways of 
Ireland Bill 
[ Lords. ] 


Scarborough 
Harbour Bill 
[Lords.] 


Navy 
(Punishment 
of Flogging.) 


Q7 4 


Order has been complied with on the Report of 
the Bill. 

The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented a Bill to 

rant Money for the purpose of Loans by the 

ublic Works Loan Commissioners, and to amend 
“ The Public Works Loan Act, 1875:” And the 
same was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time upon Monday next; and to be 
printed. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Towns Rating (Jreland) Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Free Libraries and Museums 
Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday the 3d day of July next. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a 
Message had been brought from the Lords by one 
of their Clerks, as followeth : 

The Lords have agreed to the Vale of Clyde 
Tramways Bill, without any Amendment. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
for confirming certain Provisional Orders made by 
the Board of Trade under “ The Tramways Act, 
1870,” relating to Bristol Tramways, Corsham 
Tramways, Landport, Southsea, and Portsea Tram- 
ways, Shepherd’s Bush and Priory Road, Acton, 
Tramway, and Southport Tramways; to which the 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 


The House was moved, That the Report from 
the Select Committee on Standing Orders, in re- 
spect of the East Cornwall Mineral Railway Bill, 
might be read; and the same being read. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time. 


The House was moved, That the Report from 
the Select Committee on Standing Orders, in re- 
spect of the Northern Union Railways of Jreland 
Bill, might be read ; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time. 


The House was moved, That the Report from 
the Select Committee on Standing Orders, in re- 
spect of the Scarborough Harbour Bill, might be 
read; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being 
proposed, That, in the opinion of this House, the 
time has arrived when the punishment of Flogging 
in the Navy should be abolished ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ House ” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the 
words “ corporal punishment in the Navy having 
“ been abolished in 1871 for all offences which do 
* not require prompt and immediate punishment, 
“and being only now retained for the case of 
“ mutiny and for offences which may imperil the 
“ safety of the ship on the high seas, it is inex- 
“ nedient to take further steps for the total abo- 
« lition of the punishment,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being proposed, That the 
words proposed to be left out stand part of the 
Question :—The said proposed Amendment was, 
with leave of the House, withdrawn. 

And the main Question being put ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right; 

The Noes to the Left. 


20th—21st June. 





1876. 


1 62, 
} 120, 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Wednesday morning ; 


Wednesday, 21st June, 1876 : 


And Notice being taken, that Forty Members 
were not present:—The House was told by Mr. 
Speaker; and Forty Members not being present, 
and it being then a quarter of an hour after Twelve 
of the clock on Wednesday morning :—The House 
was adjourned by Mr. Speaker, without a Question 
first put, till this day. 


Tellers for the { Mr. Peter Taylor, 
Yeas, \ Mr. Hopwood : 
Tellers for the (Sir ¥ illiam Dyke, 
Noes, \Mr. Rowland Winn: 
So it passed in the Negative. 








Wednesday, 21st June, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 


, ee E House proceeded to take into considera- National 

tion the National Assurance Company of Jre- Assurance 

land Bill, as amended in the Committee. Cemapany of 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. [ual 
The House was moved, That the Report from Anglesey 

the Select Committee on Standing Orders, in Centra Rail. 

respect of the Anglesey Central Railway Bill, might Hy hes: 

be read ; and the same being read; “ . 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time. 


The House was moved, That the Report from swansea 
the Select Committee on Standing Orders, in Harbour Bill 
respect of the Swansea Harbour Bill, might be 4°"! 
read; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time. 


The Tramways Orders Confirmation ( Bristol, &amp;c,) Tramways 
Bill was read the first time; and ordered to be — Con- 
read a second time upon Friday next; and to be (Bristol, &amp;e,) 
printed. Bill (Lords.} 

Bill 203. 

Several Public Petitions were presented, and Public 

read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions. 
Vide Twenty- 
seventh Report. 

Mr. William Henry Smith presented,—Return Savings Banks, 
to an Order, dated the 21st day of March last, for 
a Return relative to Savings Banks. 

. _— That the said Return do lie upon the 
able. 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- Adjournment. 
posed, That this House do now adjourn :—And 
the said Motion was, with leave of the House, 
withdrawn. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Banns of 
aang of the Banns of Marriage (Scotland) (Scotland) Bill. 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a 
second time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to 
the Question, by leaving out the word “ now,” 
and, at the end of the Question, adding the words 
** upon this day three months.” 

And the Question being put, That the word 
“now” stand part of the Question ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the {in Cameron, 1141 

Yeas, Mr. M*Laren: _ 
Tellers for thef Mr. Orr Ewing, 1166 
Noes, Sir William Cuninghame: J" 

So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being put, That the words 

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upon this day three months” be added at the 
end of the Question:—Ilt was resolved in the 
Affirmative. 

Then the main Question, so amended, being 


ut 5 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon this day three months. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 


a al Reading of the Landlord and Tenant (Jreland) 

(Ireland) Act Act Amendment Bill; 

— And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a second 
time :—And a Debate arising thereupon; and it 
being a quarter of an hour before Six of the 
clock, the Debate stood adjourned till ‘To-morrow. 

Legal The Order of the day being read, for the Second 

Practitioners Reading of the Legal Practitioners Bill; 

Bill. Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
To-morrow. 

Training The Order of the day being read, for the Second 

Schools and Reading of the Training Schools and Ships Bill; 

Ships Bill Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday the 26th day of July next. 

Mercantile The Order of the day being read, for the Second 

Marine Reading of the Mercantile Marine Hospital Service 

Hospital = Bill; 

— Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday the 26th day of July next. 

Protection to The Order of the day being read, for the Second 

Growing Crops Reading of the Protection to Growing Crops 

(Gotland) Bul. ¢otland) Bill ; 7 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday the 5th day of July next. 

Cheques on The Order of the day being read, for the Second 

Bakers Bill. Reading of the Cheques on Bankers Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next. 

Homicide Law The Order of the day being read, for resuming 

oa the adjourned Debate on the Question _—— 
upon the 8th day of March last, That the Homicide 


Law Amendment Bill be now read a second time; 
Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Wednesday next. 


Supreme Court ‘The Order of the day being read, for the Second 

‘agen Reading of the Supreme Court of Judicature Act 

pate aad (1875) Amendment Bill ; 

Bill. Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday next. 


Beer Licences _ The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
(Irland) Bill. Reading of the Beer Licences (Jreland) Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next. 


County Rates 


Th : : 
(ieland) Bil. e Order of the day being read, for resuming 


the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
upon the 9th day of May last, That the County 
Rates (Ireland) Bill be now read a second time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Wednesday next. 


ye —_ The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
(Scotland) Bin, the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
upon the 27th day of April last, That the tea 
Laws Amendment (Scotland) Bill be now read 
a second time ; 
Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Wednesday next. 
Intoxicating 
Liquors 
(Licensin 


‘The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Law mittee on the Intoxicating Liquors (Licensing 


feeninen) Law Amendment) (No. 2) Bill; 


Bil. Vou. 131. 








Q1st June. 


Q75 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Employers and 
Reading of the Employers and Workmen Act (1875) mete 
(1875) Extension Bill; sion Bal. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Elementary 


Reading of the Elementary Education (Applica- Education 
tion for School Board) Bill; (orp ——— 


Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time Board) Bill. 
upon Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Poor Law 
Reading of the Poor Law Guardians Elections ——— 
(Ireland) Bill ; (Ireland) Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday the 30th day of this instant June. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Burglary and 
Reading of the Burglary and Forgery Bill; Feguy 5. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Supply. 
mittee of Supply ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Ways and 
mittee of Ways and Means ; Means. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Crab and 
mittee on the Crab and Lobster Fisheries (Nor- Lobster 
folk) Bill; (Norfolk) Bill 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 

next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Parliamentary 
Reading of the Parliamentary Electors Registra- ae 
tion Bill; , 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 

upon Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Colonial 
Reading of the Colonial Marriages Bill ; Marriages Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 

upon Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Medical 
Reading of the Medical Practitioners Bill; Practitioners 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 5" 
To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Sale of Coal Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


Sale of Coal 
Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Legal _ 
Reading of the Legal Practitioners (Jreland) Bill ; (Ireland) Bil 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time ° 
To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second public Records 
Reading of the Public Records (Zreland) Amend- (Ireland) 
ment Bill ; — 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Irish Peerage 
mittee on the Irish Peerage Bill; _ Bill [Lords.] 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 





The 


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Municipal 
Privileges 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Election of 
Aldermen 
(Cumulative 
Vote) Bill. 


Medical Act 


276 


The Order of the day being read, for taking 
into consideration the Municipal Privileges (Jre- 
land) Bill, as amended in the Comanietes ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into considera- 
tion upon Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
upon the 9th day of this instant June, That the 
Election of Aldermen (Cumulative Vote) Bill be 
now read a second time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 


(Qualifications) Reading of the Medical Act (Qualifications) Bill ; 


Bill. 


Notices to Quit 


(Ireland) Bill. 


Local Light 
Dues (Reduc- 
tion) Bill. 


House 
Occupiers Dis- 
qualification 


Removal Bill. 


Metropolis Gas 
(Surrey Side.) 


Elementary 
Education 
[Additional 
Grant. | 


Metropolis Gas 
(Surrey Side) 
Bill. 

Bill 204, 


Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Notices to Quit (/reland) Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, To morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


The Local Light Dues (Reduction) Bill was, 
according to Order, read the third time; and 
Verbal Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the House Occupiers Disqualification 
Removal Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to amend the Laws regulating the Supply of Gas 
by the Phenix Gas Light and Coke Company, 
the London Gas Light Company, and the Surrey 
Consumers’ Gas Company; and to grant further 
Powers to those Companies: And that Sir Charles 
Adderley and Mr. Edward Stanhope do prepare, 
and bring it in. 


A Motion being made, That this House will, To- 
morrow, resolve itself into a Committee to con- 
sider of authorising an additional Grant, out of 
Moneys to be provided by Parliament, to School 
Districts in certain cases, in pursuance of the pro- 
visions of any Act of the present Session to make 
further provision for Elementary Education ; 

Viscount Sandon, by Her Majesty’s Command, ac- 
quainted the House, That Her Majesty having been 
informed of the subject-matter of this Motion, re- 
commends it to the consideration of the House. 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


Sir Charles Adderley presented a Bill to amend 
the Laws regulating the Supply of Gas by the 
Phenix Gas Light and Coke Company, the London 
Gas Light Company, and the Surrey Consumers’ 
Gas Company; and togrant further Powers to those 
Companies: And the same was read the first time. 

Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills; and be 
printed. 

Ordered, That the Examiner have leave to sit 
and proceed forthwith. 


And then the House adjourned till To-mor- 
row. 


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13876, 


Thursday, 22nd June, 1876. 
PRAYERS. ‘ 


IR Charles Forster reported from the Select Public 

Committee on Public Petitions; That they Petitions 
had examined the Petitions presented upon the on 
14th, 15th, 16th, 19th, and 20th days of this 
instant June, and had directed him to make a 
Report thereof to the House. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Private Bills 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private [Lords] 
Bills, That no Standing Orders not previously jie Stnlng 
: : . . . 0 , not 
inquired into are applicable in the case of the fol- previously in. 
lowing Bill, originating in the Lords, and referred 4uited into, 
on the First Reading thereof, viz.: applicable.) 

Great Northern London Cemetery Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Dublin Port 
the Dublin Port and Docks Board Bill, as amended and Docks 
in the Committee. (honk 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. ; 


The Edinburgh Improvement Bill was, accord- Edinburgh 


ing to Order, read a second time ; and committed, Improvement 
Bill [Lords,} 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and public 


read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions. 


Vide Twenty- 
seventh Report. 
Mr. William Henry Smith presented, by Her Civil Services 
Majesty’s Command,—An Estimate showing the (Further Vote 
several Civil Services for which a Further Vote ™ — 
“ On Account” is required for the year ending No. 307, 
31st March 1877. 
Ordered, That the said Estimate be referred to 
the Committee of Supply ; and be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Savings sayings Banks. 
Banks, which was presented upon the 21st day of No, 308, 
this instant June, be printed. 


Mr. Secretary Cross presented,—Return to an Tolls on Roads 
Address to Her Majesty, dated the 23rd day of (Scotland) 
May last, for a Return relative to Tolls on Roads No. 309. 
(Scotland). 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


Mr. James Lowther presented, by Her Majesty’s Barbados. 
Command,—Copy of Papers relating to the late 
Disturbances in Barbados, 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Bourke presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- portugal _ 
mand,—Copy of Correspondence respecting Com- (Commerc, 
mercial Negotiations with Portugal (in continua- X” ean: 
tion of Correspondence presented to Parliament 
in 1872, C. 634). 

Copy of Communications from Dr. Kirk relat- 
ing to the Suppression of the Land Slave Traffic 
in the Dominions of the Sultan of Zanzibar. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Slave Trade, 
No. 3, 1876 
(Zanzibat.) 


The Order for reading a second time, upon Tues- Colonial 
day next, the Colonial "Sieetiane Bill, was read, Mares’ - 
and discharged. , 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday the 4th day of July next. 


Ordered, 








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Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return in tabular form as under, up to the present 
Date, of the Public Bills, Session 1876 :— 


Public Bills. 





English Bills. Irish Bills. Scotch Bills. 


SS 
United Kingdom Bills. 





Brought in by, 
and when. 
Progress. 

Title of Bill. 
Brought in by 
and when. 

Progress. 
Title of Bill 
Brought in by, 
and when, 
Progress. 
Title of Bill 
Brought in by, 
and when. 
Progress. 











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Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Copy of the Opinions of Members of the 
Council of India on the Despatches of the Secretary 
of State, dated the 3lst day of May 1876, and 
published in the further Correspondence recently 
laid upon the Table of the House, relating to the 
Indian Tariff Act of 1875. 


India Tariff 
Act, 1875. 


Message from 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a 
the Lords. ‘ 


Message had been brought from the Lords by one 

of their Clerks, as followeth : 

Forth Bridge The Lords have agreed to the Forth Bridge 

Railway Bill. Railway Bill, with Amendments; to which the 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 

London, The Lords have agreed to the London, Chatham, 

Chatham, and and Dover Railway Bill, with Amendments; to 

a Railway hich the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House. 

The Lords have agreed to the Consequential 
Amendment made by this House to the Great 
Eastern Railway Bill, without any Amendment. 
West Ham The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An 
Bit (Lords. Act to enable the Local Board of West Ham, in 
' "’ the County of Essex, and the Board of Works for 
the District of Poplar,in the County of Middlesex, 
to make Composition with the Owners, &amp;c. of 
Stratford Langthorne Abbey, for the Maintenance 
and Repair of Bridges and Roads between Bow, 
in the County of Middlesex, and Stratford, in the 
County of £ssex, and for other purposes; to 
which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House. 


Great Eastern 
Railway Bill. 


Dublin(South) The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An 

City Markets Act to incorporate a Company for the Establish- 

Bill (Lords.] ment, Maintenance, and Regulation of a Market 
on the South Side of the City of Dublin, and for 
facilitating the approach thereto by the opening 
of New Streets and the Improvement and Altera- 
tion of existing Streets adjoining or near thereto, 
and for other purposes; to which the Lords desire 
the concurrence of this House. 

West Ham The West Ham Local Board Bill was read the 

Bilt ser first time. 

‘J Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the 

Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills. 

Dublin (South) _ Lhe Dublin (South) City Markets Bill was read 


City Markets the first time. 


Bill (Lords) Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the 
Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills. 

Birmingham Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant 

=. to the Clerk of the Coven to make out a new 


Writ for the electing of a Member to serve in this 
present Parliament for the Borough of Birming- 
ham, in the room of George Dizon, Esquire, who, 
since his Election for the said Borough, hath 
accepted the Office of Steward or Bailiff of Her 
Majesty’s Three Chiltern Hundreds of Stoke, 
Desborough, and Bonenham, in the County of 
Buckingham. 

Vou. 131. 


22nd June. 





277 
Resolved, 'That an humble Address be presented a Elver 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased &gt; 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Copy of the Report of the Fishery In- 
spectors respecting Elver Fishing in the River 
Severn. 


Ordered, That Mr. Samuelson have leave of Leave of 
absence for one month, and Mr. Nevrille-Grenville, Absence- 
till the end of the Session, on account of ill health. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Pa “ 
into a Committee on the Jurors Qualification (Ireland) Bill 


(Ireland) Bill. 
(In the Committee.) 


The Third Schedule. 

Other Amendments made. 

Schedule, as amended, agreed to. 

Postponed First Schedule. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 5, 1. 6, to 
leave out the word “ fifty,” in order to insert the 
words “ forty-five.” 

Question, That the word “ fifty” stand part of 
the Schedule——put, and negatived. 

Question proposed, That the words “ forty- 
“ five” be there inserted ; 

Amendment proposed to the said proposed 
Amendment, to leave out the word “ five.” 

Question put, That the word “ five ” stand part 
of the said proposed Amendment ; 

The Committee divided. 





Tellers for the; Sir William Dyke, 1195 
Yeas, UMr. Rowland Winn: f _ 

Tellers for the ; Mr. Downing, 1 105 
Noes, {Mr. Mitchell Henry : EY 


The words “ forty-five ” inserted. 

Another Amendment made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 5, 1. 25, to 
leave out the word “ fifty,” in order to insert the 
words “ forty-five.” 

Question, That the word “ fifty” stand part of 
the Schedule——put, and negatived. 

Question proposed, That the words “ forty-five” 
be there inserted ; 

Amendment proposed to the said proposed 
Amendment, by leaving out the word “ five.” 

Question, That the word “ five” stand part of 
the said proposed Amendment —— put, and nega- 
tived. 

Question, That the word “ forty ” be there in- 
serted—— put, and agreed to. 

Another Amendment made. 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Chairman do report Progress, and ask leave to sit 
again :—Motion, by leave, withdrawn. 

Schedule, as amended, agreed to. 

Preamble agreed to. 

Bill, as amended, to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Razhes 
reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the 
Committee, be taken into consideration To-morrow, 
at Two of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Prisons Bill. 
Reading of the Prisons Bill ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a 
second time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to 
the Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the 
words “ this House, whilst recognising the necessity 
‘¢ of measures being adopted to secure economy and 
‘‘ efficiency in the management of Prisons, is of 
“ opinion that it would be inexpedient to transfer 
‘the control and management of Prisons from 

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Q78 
“Local Authorities to the Secretary of State,” 
instead thereof. 

And the Question being proposed, That the 


words proposed to be left out stand part of the 
Question :—And a Debate arising thereupon ; 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Friday morning ; 


Friday, 23rd June, 1876: 


Ordered, That the Debate be adjourned till this 
day, at Two of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking 
into consideration the Poor Law Amendment Bill, 
as amended in the Committee ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into considera- 
tion upon Monday next. 


Poor Law 
A mendment 
Bill. 


Pollution of 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Rivers Bill. 


Reading of the Pollution of Rivers Bill; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a second 
time :— And a Debate arising thereupon ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be adjourned till 
Monday next. 

Commons Bill. The Commons Bill was, according to Order, 
read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Bishopric of 


\ The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Truro Bill. “ 


Reading of the Bishopric of Truro Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


Friendly 
Societies Act 
(1875) Amend- 
ment Bill. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Friendly Societies Act 
(1875) Amendment Bill. 

(In the Committee.) 

CLAuSsEs, N° 1 and N° 2, agreed to. 

Cause, N° 3, amended, and agreed to. 

CuiauseEs, N° 4 to N° 6, agreed to. 

CriauseE, N° 7 (Certificates of deaths at sea not 
required). 

Amendment proposed, at the end of the Clause, 
to add the words, “ but in all cases of death or 
“drowning at sea reported by British Consuls to 
“the Board of Trade, the latter shall, at the 
“earliest opportunity, transmit to the relatives of 
‘the deceased a certificate of death free of 
“ charge.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
added :— Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Amendment proposed, at the end of 
the Clause, to add the words, “nor shafl payment 
“upon the death of any member ional on the 
“ production of the certificate of the registrar of 
“ deaths if a certificate of death be produced under 
“ the hand of the medical officer of the society to 
“which the deceased member belonged, whose re- 
“port would be the foundation of the registrar’s 
* certificate.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
added ; 

Amendment proposed to the said proposed 
Amendment, in |. 2, by inserting, after the word 
“‘member,” the words “above the age of eighteen 
“ years.” 

Question proposed, That those words be inserted 
im the said proposed Amendment :—Amendment 
to the said proposed Amendment, by leave, with- 
drawn. 

Another Amendment proposed to the said pro- 
posed Amendment, in 1. 2, by inserting, after the 


word “member,” the words “of a Friendly 
“ Society.” 


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1876 

Question proposed, That those words be inserted 
in the said proposed Amendment :—Amendment 
to the said proposed Amendment and Amend- 
ment, severally by leave, withdrawn. 

Clause agreed to. 

Criausss, N° 8 to N° 11, agreed to. 

Schedule agreed to. 

Preamble agreed to. 

Bill, as amended, to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration upon Monday 
next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Roads ana 
Reading of the Roads and Bridges ( Scotland) Bridges 
Bill ; ” (Scotland) Bi, 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next, 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Highways Bin, 
Reading of the Highways Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second prisons 
Reading of the Prisons (Jreland) Bill ; (Ireland) Bill, 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Poor Law 
mittee on the Poor Law Rating (TZreland) Bill; — Rating 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday (Ireland) Bill 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Public Health 
Reading of the Public Health (Jreland) Bill ; (Ireland) Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day, at ‘Two of the clock. 


read, for the Com- Appellate 
Jurisdiction 
Bill [Lords.] 


The Order of the day bein 
mittee on the Appellate J alotlation Bill; 

Resotved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second University of 
Reading of the University of Cambridge Bill; Cambridge 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the University of Ozford Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


University of 
Oxford Bill 
[ Lords.) 


Maritime 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second nie 


Reading of the Maritime Contracts Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- supreme Court 
mittee on the Supreme Court of Judicature (Jre- &lt; "as 
land) Bill ; Gin [ Lords.) 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, at Two 
of the clock, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Crossed Cheques Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Crossed 
Cheques Bill 
[ Lords.) 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- juries 
mittee on the Juries Procedure (Jreland) Bill; Process) Bill: 
Resolved, That this House will, this da » at ( 
Two of the clock, resolve itself into the said Com- 
mittee. The 











Bill, 





Blementary 
catlon 

Mion 

Grant.) 


Patents for 
Inventions 


» Bill (Lords.] 


Agricultural 
Holdings 
(Scotland) 
Bill (Lords. ] 


Poor Law 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Convention 
(Ireland) Act 
Repeal Bill. 


Settled Estates 
Act (1856) 
Amendment 


Parliamentary 
and Municipal 
Registration 
(Boroughs) 
Bill. 


Bankers’ Books 


Evidence Bill. 
Bill 205, 


Offences 
against the 
Person Bill, 


Landlord and 
Tenant 


(Ireland) Act 
Amendment 
Bill. 


40 Vievrorta. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on Elementary Education [ Ad- 
ditional Grant]. 


(In the Committee.) 


Resolved, That it is expedient to authorise an 
additional Grant, out of moneys to be provided by 
Parliament, to School Districts in certain cases, in 

ursuance of the provisions of any Act of the pre- 
sent Session to make further provision for Ele- 
mentary Education. 

Resolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had come to a Reso- 
lution. 

Ordered, That the Report be received this day, 
at Two of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Patents for Inventions Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
upon the 8th day of this instant June, That the 
Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Bill be now 
read a second time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Poor Law (Scotland) Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Convention (Ireland) Act Repeal 
Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Settled Estates Act (1856) Amendment 
Bill was, according to Order, read a second time ; 
and committed to a Committee of the whole 
House, for this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Parliamentary and Municipal Re- 
gistration (Boroughs) Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, at Two 
of the clock, resolve itself into the said Com- 
mittee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Bankers’ Books Evidence 
Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes re- 
— That the Committee had gone through the 

ill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration upon Monday 
next; and be printed. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Offences against the Person Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, at Two 
of the clock, resolve itself into the said Com- 
mittee. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
upon the 21st day of this instant June, That the 
Landlord and Tenant (Jreland) Act Amendment 
Bill be now read a second time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Monday next. 

VoL. 131. 


22nd —23rd June. 











279 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Legal _ 
Reading of the Legal Practitioners Bill ; — 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day, at Two of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Medical 
Reading of the Medical Practitioners Bill ; Practitienass 


Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time - 
this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Legal — 
Reading of the Legal Practitioners (Jreland) Bill ; Practitioners 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time eee 
this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Public Records 
Reading of the Public Records (Ireland) Amend- —,, 
ment Bill; Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Notices to Quit 
mittee on the Notices to Quit (Ireland) Bill; (Ireland) Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Ordered, That a.Select Committee be appointed Employers 
to inquire whether it may be expedient to render Liability for 
masters liable for injuries occasioned to their ser- ap nce 
vants by the negligent acts of certificated managers 
of collieries, managers, foremen, and others to 
whom the general control and superintendence of 
workshops and works is committed, and whether 
the term “common employment” could be defined 
by legislative enactment more clearly than it is 
by the law as it at present stands, 

The Committee was accordingly nominated of Mr. 

Attorney General, Mr. Lowe, Mr. Percy Wyndham, 
Sir Henry Jackson, Mr. W. Stanhope, Mr. Shaw 
Lefevre, Sir Daniel Gooch, Mr. Macdonald, Mr. 
Tennant, Mr. Mundella, Mr. Knowles, Mr. Eus- 
tace Smith, Mr. Gibson, Mr. Meldon, and Mr. 
Cawley; with Power to send for persons, papers, 
and records. 


Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill War Depart- 
to amend the Law for the Payment of Remunera- ment and Post 
tion and the Grant of Superannuation Allowances Sanetes 
and Gratuities to certain Persons employed under 7 
Her Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the 
War Department and Her Majesty’s Postmaster 
General: And that Mr. William Henry Smith, Mr. 

Secretary Hardy, and Lord John Manners do pre- 
pare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bil] Tramways 
to amend “* The Tramways (Jrelund) Act, 1860,” peo gy 
and “* The Tramways (Jreland) Amendment Act, (Dubiin.) 
1861,” as regards the application of the same to 
the County and the County of the City of Dubiin: 
And that Sir Michael Hicks Beach and Mr. So- 
licitor General for Jreland do prepare, and bring 
it in. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee on the Toll Bridges 

Toll Bridges (River Thames) Bill do consist of = _ 
Eleven Members, Six to be nominated by the pence: 
House, and Five by the Committee of Selection : 
—Mr. Coope, Mr. Cubitt, Sir James Hogg, Sir An- 
drew Lusk, Sir Charles Russell, and Mr. Alderman 
M‘ Arthur were accordingly nominated Members 
of the said Committee. 

Ordered, That all Petitions presented during 
this Session against the Bill be referred to the 
Committee, and that such of the Petitioners as 
pray to be heard by themselves, their Counsel, 
or Agents, be heard upon their Petitions, if they 
think fit, and Counsel heard in favour of the Bill 
against the said Petitions. 


NN4 Ordered, 


War Depart- 

ment and Post 
Office (Remu- 
neration, &amp;c.) 


Bill. 
Bill 206, 


Tramways 
(Ireland) Acts 
Amendment 


(Dublin) Bill. 
Bill 207. 


Bodmin and 

Wadebridge 

and Delabole 
Railway Bill 
[Lords.]} 


Cornwall 
Mineral and 
Bodmin and 
Wadebridge 
Junction 
Railway Bill 
[Lords.] 


Blackrod Local 
Board Bill 
[Lords.] 


Rochester 
Bridge Bill 
[Lerds.] 


Western Bank 
of Scotland 
Bill [Lords.] 


Willesden 
Local Board 
Bill [Lords.] 


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Ordered, That the Committee have Power to 
send for persons, papers, and records. 
Ordered, That Three be the Quorum. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented a Bill to 
amend the Law for the Payment of Remuneration 
and the Grant of Superannuation Allowances and 
Gratuities to certain Persons employed under Her 
Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the 
War Department and Her Majesty’s Postmaster 
General: And the same was read the first time; 
and ordered to be read a second time upon Monday 
next; and to be printed. 


Sir Michael Hicks Beach presented a Bill to 
amend * The Tramways (Ireland) Act, 1860,” 
and “ The Tramways (/re/and) Amendment Act, 
1861,” as regards the application of the same to 
the County and the County of the City of Dublin: 
And the same was read the first time. 

Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills; and be printed. 

Ordered, That the Examiner have leave to sit 
and proceed forthwith. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till half an hour after One of the clock on 
Friday morning, adjourned till this day. 


Friday, 23rd June, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 
N R. Raikes reported the Bodmin and Wade- 
bridge and Delabole Railway Bill, without 
Amendment. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 





Mr. Raikes reported the Cornwall Mineral and 
Bodmin and Wadebridge Junction Railway Bill, 
without Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


Mr. Razkes reported from the Committee on the 
Blackrod Local Board Bill; That a Report from 
the Local Government Board upon the Bill, and 
the objects thereof, had been referred to the Com- 
mittee, and considered by them, and that they had 
adopted such of the recommendations therein con- 
tained as appeared applicable to the case as sub- 
mitted to them. 

Mr. Raikes further reported from the Com- 
mittee; That they had examined the allegations 
contained in the Preamble of the Bill, and amended 
the same by striking out the recital that it was 
expedient that the time limited for paying off the 
existing Loan of the Local Board should be ex- 
tended, in order to make it consistent with the 
provisions of the Bill as submitted to them, and 
found the same, as amended, to be true; and had 
gone through the Bill, and made Amendments 
thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Raikes reported the Rochester Bridge Bill, 
with Amendments. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table. 


The Western Bank of Scotland Bill was read 
the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


The Willesden Local Board Bill was read the 
third time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 


29nd—23rd .June. 




















1876. 


Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Leigh and 
the Leigh and Hindley Local Boards Bill, ag Hindley Loy 
amended in the Committee; and Amendments Boards Bill 
were made to the Bill. (Lords 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and Public 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions, 
A Public Petition was also presented, and read; y 


h ide Vote 
and referred to a Select Committee. wt 


Twenty. 
Seventh Report, 
Sir Charles Adderley presented, by Her Ma- Railway 

jesty’s Command,—Copy of Reports of the In. 4*idents. 
specting Officers of the Railway Department to 
the Board of Trade upon certain Accidents which 
have occurred on Railways during the months of 
April and May 1876. Part III. 

Return of all Vessels ordered to be surveyed Merchant 
by the Board of Trade or its Officers under the Shipping set, 
12th Section of the 36th and 37th Vie. c. 85, and (Veush 
the Ist and 2nd Sections of the 38th and 39th Surveyed) 
Vic. c. 88, from Ist January to 31st March 
1876; together with a Summary showing the Total 
Number of Vessels ordered to be surveyed under 
the same Acts, from 5th August 1873 to 3lst 
March 1876. In continuation of Parliamentary 
Paper (C. 1433). 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Algernon Egerton presented,—Return to an Navy (Boys) 
Order, dated the 29th day of May last, for Returns No. 310, 
relative to the Navy (Boys). 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


Mr. James Lowther 
Command,— Further 
provement in Prison Discipline in the Colonies 
(in continuation of C. 1338 of 1875). 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


semanas by Her Majesty’s Prison 


. . Discipline 
apers relating to the Im (Colonies) 


Mr. William Henry Smiti presented, by Her Public Works 
Majesty’s Command,— Summary of Statements -, 
sent in by intending Borrowers to the Public “5, 
Works Loans Commissioners, pursuant to Sections “*""" 
13 and 54 of the Public Works Loans Act, 1875, 
in respect of New Loans and Instalments of Loans 
already granted, for which the Senders expected 
to apply during the Quarter and Financial Year 
ending on the undermentioned Dates. 

Copy of Twentieth Report of the Commissioners Customs. 
of Her Majesty’s Customs on the Customs (for the 
year ended 3lst December 1875). 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table ; and that the first be printed. 


Rast India 
(Trade and 
Navigation.) 


Lord George Hamilton presented, by Her Ma- 
jestys Command,—Copy of Statement of the Trade 
and Navigation of British India with British Pos- 
sessions and Foreign Countries for the five years 
1870-71 to 1874-75. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Her Ma- National 
Cross presented, by need, 


(Ireland.) 


Mr. Secretar 
jesty’s Command,—Copy of the Forty-second Re- 
port of the Commissioners of National Education in 
Ireland (for the year 1875). 

Copy of Report by the Inspectors of Salmon Severn Eiver 
Fisheries on the provisions of the 15th Section of Fishing. 
the Salmon Fishery Acts, 1873, relating to Elver 
Fishing on the Severn. ; 

Mr. Secretary Cross also presented,—Return to — 
an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 13th ~—s Boards. 











it 
5 Acts, 


joys.) 
310, 


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orks 


ll. 


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40 Vicroria. 


this instant June, for a Return relative to River 
Conservancy Boards. 
Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated 
) the 20th day of this instant June, for Returns re- 
lative to the River Wye (Bye-Laws). 
Mr. Secretary Cross also presented, pursuant to 
ay ‘ket) the directions of several Acts of Parliament,—Ac- 
counts of the Receipts and Expenditure under the 


Dogs Regulation (Jreland) Act (1865) for the | 
|posed to be made to the Question, That the 


year ending 31st December 1875. 7” 
Polling Copy of an Order of the Council for the Divi- 
sion of Gateshead into Polling Districts. 
Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 


Table. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously 
pleased to give Suaiioen that there be laid before 
this House, Copies of all Applications or renewed 
Applications made by Officers of the Royal Artil- 
lery whilst serving in the United Kingdom for 
Arrears of Pay due to them by the Govern- 
ment of Jndia, which have been forwarded to 
the Deputy Adjutant General, Royal Artillery, 


Army (Arrears 
of Pay.) 





Horse Guards, since the lst day of April 1875: 
And, of any Acknowledgment of or Replies 
thereto. 
Jurors The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
ed) Bil take into consideration the Jurors Qualification 


(Jreland) Bill, as amended in the Committee ; and 
Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be now read the third 
time :—The Bill was accordingly read the third 
time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Supreme Court ‘The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
of Judicature mittee on the Supreme Court of Judicature (Jre- 
Sil (Lede) and) Bill; 

: And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That ‘Mr. Speaker do now leave 
the Chair ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the 
words “ in the opinion of this House, it is desirable 
“ that in any Bil intended toconstitute a Supreme 
* Court of Judicature in Jreland the rules of pro- 
*‘ cedure should be settled and defined in the Act 
“ constituting the Court, in the same manner and 
“to the same extent as they have been in the 
“ Acts constituting the English Court,” instead 
thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Question: 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the (Sir William Dyke, 71 244 

Yeas, \(Mr. Rowland Winn:  ananaae 

Tellers for the{ Mr. Butt, \ 76 

Noes, Lord Francis Conyngham:) ‘"* 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

And the Main Question being proposed, That 
Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair :—And a De- 
bate arising thereupon ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That the Debate be now adjourned ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the f Mr. O’ Connor Power, 

Yeas, \Mr. Richard Power: 

Tellers for the {Sir William Dyke, 

Noes, LMr. Rowland Winn : 

So it passed in the Negative. 

VoL. 131. 


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23rd June. 














281 


And the Main Question being again proposed, 
That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair ; 

And it being Ten minutes before Seven of the 
clock, the further Proceeding thereon stood ad- 
journed till this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Prisons Bill. 
the adjourned Debate on the Amendment which, 
upon the 22nd day of this instant June, was pro- 


risons Bill be now read a second time ; 
__ Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Monday the 3rd day of July next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second public Health 
Reading of the Public Health (Ireland) Bill; (Ireland) Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Juries 
mittee on the Juries Procedure (Zreland) Bill; Procedure 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday cee 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on Elementary 
Elementary Education [ Additional Grant], a Re- TAdditional 
solution ; which was read, as followeth: Grant.] 

That it is expedient to authorise an additional 
Grant, out of Moneys to be provided by Parlia- 
ment, to School Districts in certain cases, in pur- 
suance of the Provisions of any Act of the present 
Session to make further provision for Elementary 
Education. 

The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Parliamentary 
mittee on the Parliamentary and Municipal Re- 2"4 Municipal 
° ° ° Registration 
gistration (Boroughs) Bill ; (Boroughs) 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday Bill. 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Offences 
mittee on the Offences against the Person Bill ; — L-4 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
next, at Two of the clock, resolve itself into the 

said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Legal 
Reading of the Legal Practitioners Bill ; —— 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday next, at Two of the clock. 


Mr. Rodwell reported from the Select Com- Railway 
mittee on the Railway Passenger Duty ; That they Passenger 
had considered the matters to them referred, and ?“Y- 
directed him to make a Report thereof to the No. 312. 
House ; together with the Minutes of Evidence 
taken before them, and an Appendix. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table; 
and be printed. 


Ordered, That the Amendments made by the Trade Union 
Lords to the Trade Union Act (1871) Amend- a, 
ment Bill be taken into consideration upon Mon- gin, 


day next; and be printed. Bill 298. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- Message from 
sage had been brought from the Lords by one of the Lords. 
their Clerks, as followeth: 

The Lords have agreed to the Mersey Docks Mersey Docks 
and Harbour Board Bill, without any Amendment. as ag 


The Lords have agreed to the Glasgow and Glasgow and 
Kilmarnock Joint Line Bill, without any Amend- Kilmarnock 
Joint Line 
ment. Bill. 
The Lords have agreed to the Plymouth Dock Plymouth 


(Devonport) Water Bill, without any Amend- per) — 


ment. 
O00 The 





Sutton Bridge 
Dock Bill. 


South Hants 
Water Bill. 


Humber 
Conservancy 
Bill. 


Ecclesiastical 
Offices and 
Fees Bill 

[ Lords.] 


Belfast and 
County Down 
Railway Bill 
{ Lords. ] 


Saint 
Werburgh’s 
Church, 
Bristol, Bil 
(Lords. ] 


Parliamentary 
Agency. 


Belfast and 
County Down 
Railway Bill 
[ Lords.] 


Saint 
Werburgh’s 
Church, 
Bristol, Bill 
[ Lords.] 


Poor Law 
(Scotland) Bill. 


282 


The Lords have agreed to the Sutton Bridge 
Dock Biil, with pan secur to which the Lords 
desire the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have agreed to the South Hants 
Water Bill, with Amendments; to which the 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have agreed to the Humber Con- 
servancy Bill, with Amendments; to which the 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An 
Act to reform certain Ecclesiastical Offices, and 
to regulate Ecclesiastical Fees; to which the 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An 
Act enabling the Belfast and County Down Rail- 
way Company to raise Preference Capital for the 
discharge of their Liabilities, and making other 
provisions with relation to the same Company and 
their Undertaking ; to which the Lords desire the 
concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An 
Act to provide for the uniting the Parish of Saint 
Werbergh, in the City of Bristol, to the adjoining 
Parish of A// Saints, and forthe removing the Parish 
Church of Saint Werburgh, and the re-erecting 
the same in a new Parish to be formed in the said 
City, and for other purposes; to which the Lords 
desire the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have appointed a Committee of Five 
Lords to join with a Committee of the Commons, 
to consider the expediency of gen further 
regulations concerning the admission and practice 
of Parliamentary Agents, and to report their 
opinion thereon; and the Lords request that the 
Geasees will be pleased to appoint an equal 
number of Members to be joined with the Members 
of the Lords. 


The Belfast and County Down Railway Bill was 
read the first time. 

Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


The Saint Werburgh’s Church, Bristol Bill was 
read the first time. 

Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


The Order for the House to resolve itself intoa 
Committee, upon Monday next, on the Poor Law 
( Scotland) Bill, was read, and discharged. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
next, at Two of the clock, resolve itself into the 
said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That ‘Mr. Speaker do now leave 
the Chair 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Saturday morning ; 


Saturday, 24th June 1876 : 


And Notice being taken, that Forty Members 
were not present:—The House was told by Mr. 
Speaker; and Forty Members not being present, 
and it being then a quarter of an hour after Twelve 
of the clock on Saturday morning: —The House 
was adjourned by Mr. Speaker, without a Question. 
first put, till Monday next. 





23rd— 24th—26th June. 


Monday, 26th June, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 


T HE House proceeded to take into considera- Forth Bridge 
tion the Amendments made by the Lords Railway Bil, 
to the Forth Bridge Railway Bill; and the same 
were twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration London 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Zon- Chatham, ana 
don, Chatham, and Dover Railway Bill; and the ae Railway 
same were twice read, and agreed to. - 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


The Dublin Port and Docks Board Bill was Dublin Port 
read the third time. and Docks 
Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, Pt" il 
do pass. bose 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, with Amendments ; to which 
this House doth desire the concurrence of their 
Lordships. 


The National Assurance Company of Ireland National 
Bill was read the third time. aes 
Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 27"), 
do pass. (Lords. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, with Amendments; to which 
this House doth desire the concurrence of their 
Lordships. 


The Anglesey Central Railway Bill was read a Anglesey 
d ti ° d itted Central 

second time; and committed. Rai . 
ilway Bill 

[ Lords.] 
The Belfast, Holywood, and Bangor Railway . P 
; eign . *  . 
Bill was read a second time ; and committed. jw 
Bill [ Lords.] 


Blackrod Gas 


The Blackrod Gas Bill was read a second time; 5.1 [ Lords.| 


and committed. 


The Dochfour Estate Bill was read a second Dochfour 


Pee ‘ Estate Bill 
time ; and committed. [Lords] 


The East Cornwall Mineral Railway Bill was ao 


read a second time ; and committed. way Bill 


[Lords.] 


Ordered, That the Northern Union Railways Northern 


of Ireland Bill be read a second time To-morrow. pr a 


Bill (Lords.] 


Scarborough 
Harbour Bill 
[ Lords. } 


The Searborough Harbour Bill was read a second 
time; and committed. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report Private Bills 
from one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private io ne 
Bills; That the Standing Orders not previously Orders, not 
inquired into, and which are applicable thereto, previously 
have been complied with in the case of the follow- ing with) 
ing Bill, originating in the Lords, and referred on 
the First Reading thereof, viz. : 

Dublin (South) City Markets Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time. 


: +48 Public 
Several Public Petitions were en 


read; and ordered to lie upon the 


a and 
able. pane 
Several Public Petitions were also presented, Vide Votes, and 


and read; and referred to a Select Committee. pines ; 


Ordered, 











40 VicToria. 


‘ Ordered, That the Return relative to River 
er Conservancy Boards, which was presented upon 
Boards. , the 23rd day of this instant June, be printed. 

No, 31s. 

Ordered, That the Accounts relative to the 
Doe need) Dogs Regulation ( Jreland) Act (1865), which were 
et (1865) presented upon the 23rd day of this instant June, 

No. 314. be printed. 


Sir Charles Adderley presented, by Her Ma- 

Meteor°6-  Sesty’s Command,—Copy of Report of the Meteor- 

ological Committee of the Royal Society for the 
year ending 31st December 1875. 

Sir Charles Adderley also presented, Return to 


_— an Order, dated the Ist day of May last, for 
No. 315. Returns relative to the Royal Naval Reserve. 
ship Return to an Order, dated the 4th day of May 


last, for a Return relative to Ship Surgeons. 


Surgeons. 
No, 316. 

See Fisheries Sir Charles Adderley also presented, pursuant to 

Act, 1968. the directions of an Act of Parliament,—Copy of 
Report of the Board of Trade of their Proceed- 
ings under Part III. of the Sea Fisheries Act, 
1868. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 

Table; and that the Returns relative to the Royal 
Naval Reserve and Ship Surgeons, be printed. 

Army Purchase Mr, Secretary Hardy presented, by Her Ma- 


Commission. jesty’s Command,—Returns of the Sums awarded 
to Officers by the Army Purchase Commissioners, 
in each year, from the lst November 1871 to the 
31st October 1875. 

Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the 


Table. 
— Mr. William Henry Smith presented, pursuant 
Accounts. tothe directions of an Act of Parliament,—Finance 
Accounts of the United Kingdom of Great Bri- 
tain and Jreland, for the Financial Year 1875-76, 
ended 31st; March 1876. 
Ordered, That the said Accounts do lie upon 
the Table. 
Blucation Viscount Sandon presented, by Her Majesty’s 
Department. Command,—Papers relating to the refusal of an 
Annual Grant to the British School at Keynsham. 
Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 
Public Records Mr, Secretary Cross presented, by Her Ma- 
(Irdand,) _ jesty’s Command,—Copy of the Eighth Report of 
the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records in Jre- 
land [9th March 1876]. 
Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 
roe - Ordered, That Lord Ernest Bruce have leave 
, of absence for a month, on account of domestic 
affliction. 
Manage from © Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- 
nis. sage had been brought from the Lords by one of 
their Clerks, as followeth: 
Ta The Lords have agreed to the Army Corps 


Training Bill, without any Amendment. 
Meionethshire The Lords have agreed to the Merionethshire 
prone Bill. Railway Bill, without any Amendment. 

oat’ ‘The Lords have agreed to the Lianfyllin and 
Ruilway Bil, Llangynog Railway Bill, without any Amend- 
t 


_ ‘ment. 
etopoltan The Lords have agreed to the Metropolitan 


Works Bu, Board of Works Bill, without any Amendment. 
Norwich (Ci The Lords have agreed to the Norwich (City) 
Vater Bill. “" Water Bill, without any Amendment. 

Rathin and The Lords have agreed to the Ruthin and 


Didi Rail Cerrig-y-Druidion Railway Bill, without any 
my Bi, | Amendment. 
Great The Lords have agreed to the Great Yarmouth 
ne and and Stalham (Light) Railway Bill, without any 
(Light) Rai. “Stendment. 
vy Bill, Vou. 131. 





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283 


The Lords have agreed to the Stafford Borough Stafford 
Extension Bill, with Amendments; to which the ——. Bill. 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have agreed to the Amendments,Dublin Port 
made by this House to the Dublin Port and Docks er 
Board Bill, without any Amendment. [Lords.] 

The Lords have agreed to the Amendments National 
made by this House to the National Assurance Assurance 


Company of Ireland Bill, without any Amend- perry 
ment. [Lords.] 


The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Trade Marks 
for the Amendment of the Trade Marks Registra- Resistration 
mendment 


tion Act, 1875; to which the Lords desire the pi [ Lords.] 
concurrence of this House. 


Resolved, That this House will, immediately, re- guppiy. 
solve itself into the Committee of Supply. 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave 
the Chair ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 

Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the 
words “ considering the present administration of tration. 
“ the Admiralty is practically that introduced and 
* adopted by this House in 1833, on the recom- 
* mendation of Sir James Graham; and, consi- 
*‘ dering the advance made in Naval armaments 
*‘ and the unsatisfactory condition of the personnel 
“and matériel of Her Majesty’s Navy, it is desi- 
*‘ rable that a Royal Commission be appointed to 
“inquire and report whether the present system 
“under which the Navy is administered is the 
“ most efficient and most economical, and what 
“improvements or amendments, if any, it would 
“be desirable should be introduced,” instead 
thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Question : 

—It was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
Chair:—The House accordingly resolved itself 
into the Committee. 


(In the Committee.) 


1. Motion made, and Question proposed, That a 
Sum, not exceeding £. 109,194, be granted to Her 
Majesty, to defray the Expenses of the several 
Scientific Departments of the Navy, which will 
come in course of payment during the year ending 
on the 31st day of March 1877: 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question pro- 
posed, That the Sub-head, £. 38,051, Royal Naval 
College, Greenwich, be reduced by the Sum of 
£. 2,000 :— Motion, by leave, withdrawn. 

Original Question put, and agreed to. 

2. Motion made, and Question proposed, That a 
Sum, not exceeding £. 1,323,750, be granted to 
Her Majesty, to defray the Expenses of the Dock- 
yards and Naval Yards at Home and Abroad, 
which will come in,course of payment during the 
year ending on the 31st day of March 1877: 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question pro- 
posed, That a Sum, not exceeding £. 1,073,750, 
be granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Ex- 
penses of the Dockyards and Naval Yards at Home 
and Abroad, which will come in course of payment 
during the year ending on the 31st day of March 
1877 :—Motion, by leave, withdrawn. 

Original Question put, and agreed to. 

3. £. 76,400, for the Victualling Yards at Home 
and Abroad. 

4. £.65,830, for the Medical Establishments at 
Home and Abroad. 

5. £. 20,053, for the Expenses of Marine Divi- 
sions. 

6. £. 1,261,320, for the Expense of Naval Stores 
for Building, Repairing, and Outfitting the Fleet 
and Coast Guard. 

002 7. £.1,353,600, 


Naval Adminis- 


Poor Law 
Amendment 
Bill. 


284, 96th—27th June. 1876. 


7. £. 1,353,600, for Steam Machinery and Ships| The House divided. 
built by Contract. The Yeas to the Right ; 

&amp;. £. 569,249, for New Works, Buildings, Ma-| The Noes to the Left. _ 
chinery, and Repairs. Tellers for thes Sir William Dyke, } 144 

9. £. 76,230, for Medicines, Medical Stores, &amp;c. Yeas, Mr. Rowland Winn: . 

10. £.15,114, for Martial Law and Law); Tellers for the {Me Serjeant Simon, "9 
Charges. Noes, Mr. Walter: . 

11. Motion made, and Question proposed, That} So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

a Sum, not exceeding £. 135,547, be granted to| And the said Clause was made ae of the Bill, 
Her Majesty, to defray the Expense of various| _ Another Clause was offered to be added to the 
Miscellaneous Services, which will come in course | Bill (Local Government Board may authorise 
of payment during the year ending on the 3lst| election of guardians to hold office for three 
day of March 1877: years); and the said Clause was brought up, and 
ate Motion made, and Question proposed, | read the first time. 

That a Sum, not exceeding £. 135,147, be granted; A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
to Her Majesty, to defray the Expense of various | posed, That the said Clause be now read a second 
Miscellaneous Services, which will come in course | time:—And the said Motion and Clause were 
of payment during the year ending on the 31st | severally, with leave of the House, withdrawn. 

day of March 1877:—Motion, by leave, with-| Another Clause was offered to be added to the 
drawn. Bill (Payment of church rates by poor law guar- 

Original Question put, and agreed to. dians); and the said Clause was brought up, and 

12. £. 888,472, for Half-Pay, Reserved, and| read the first time; _ 

Retired Pay to Officers of the Navy and Royal; And a Motion being made, and the Question 
Marines. being put, That the said Clause be now read a 

13. £.726,136, for Military Pensions and Al- | second time; 
lowances. The House divided. 

14, £. 282,176, for Civil Pensions and Allow-! The Yeas to the Right ; 
ances. | The Noes to the Left. 

15. £.197,480, for the Freight of Ships, and Tellers for the { Mr. Morgan Lloyd, } 80 
for the Conveyance of Troops on account of the Yeas, — (Mr. Osborne Morgan: . 
Army Department. Tellers for the; Sir William Dyke, 

16. £.145,752, for the Expenses of Greenwich _ Noes, ; Mr. Rowland Winn: 
Hospital and School. So it passed in the Negative. 

Resolutions to be reported. Another Clause was offered to be added to the 
Bill (Religious instruction of inmates of work- 
houses) ; and the said Clause was brought up, and 
read the first time. 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
Tuesday, 27th June, \876: being put, That the said Clause be now read a 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr. Raikes = ye divided 
reported, That the Committee had come to several The ere th — h 
Resolutions. e Yeas to the Right ; 


Ordered, That the Report be received this day, ed on ak hard 
at Two of the clock. ’ Y. = Bim a lew Hill: } 81. 
Mr. Raikes also acquainted the House, that he Tell “to, the (Si - Wits ey Di he 
was directed to move, That the Committee may . om Mr me d Wien: } 107. 
have leave to sit again. , aT . : ’ 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, at Two| 5° it passed in the Negative. 


of the clock, again resolve itself into the said Com- And ak — ae made, and the — 
mittee. being put, That the further consideration of the 


Bill be now adjourned ; 

The House divided. 

The House, according to Order, proceeded to} The Yeas to the Right; 
take into consideration the Poor Law Amendment| The Noes to the Left. 
Bill, as amended in the Committee. Tellers for the ;Mr. Biggar, } 

A Clause was offered to be added to the Bill Yeas, \ Mr. Downing : 
(Husbands and wives in workhouse.) (When| Tellers for thef Sir William Dyke, hh 
any two persons being husband and wife shall Noes, (Mr. Rowland Winn: 
be admitted into any workhouse, and either of} So it passed in the Negative. 
them shall be infirm, sick, or disabled by any| An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
injury, or above the age of sixty years, it shall be | Bill, in p. 5, 1. 3, by inserting after the word 
lawful for the guardians of any union or — to| “away,” the words “ The Justices to hear the 

ermit in their discretion such man and wife to| “ complaint against a husband, under the Thirty- 
five together, and every such case shall be reported | “ third Section of the Act of the Thirty-first and 
forthwith to the Local Government Board); and | “ Thirty-second years of Her Majesty, chapter 
the said Clause was brought up, and read the first | “ One hundred and twenty-two, may be other than 
and second time. | * those who summoned him to appear before them, 

An Amendment was proposed to be made there- | “ but acting for the same Petty Sessional Divi- 
unto by leaving out from the word “ wife,” in | “ sion.” 
1. 1, to the end of the Clause, in order to add the; And the Question being proposed, That those 
words “ both of whom shall be above the age of | words be there inserted; 
“ fifty-five years, shall be received into any work- A Motion was made, and the Question was o 
“ house, such two persons shall not be compelled to posed, That this House do now adjourn :—And 
“live separate and apart from each other in such the said Motion was, with leave of the House, 
** workhouse; and any rule, order, or regulation, withdrawn. 
* and any — of any Act to the contrary is| And the Question being again proposed, That 
“and are hereby respectively rescinded and re-| those words be there inserted :— a Debate 
“* pealed.” arising thereupon ; ; 

And the Question being put, That the words | Ordered, That the Debate be adjourned this day, 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Clause; | at Two of the clock. The 


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And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on ‘Tuesday morning ; 


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40 Vicroria. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Public Works Loans Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day, at Two of the clock. 


Public Works 
Loans Bill. 


The House, according to Order, resumed the 
oodicatare further Proceeding on the Main Question which 
(Ireland) was proposed, upon the 23rd day of this instant 
bill (Lords-] June, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair 

(for Committee on the Supreme Court of Judica- 
ture (Ireland) Bill). 

And the Main Question being put ; 

Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
Chair:—'he House accordingly resolved itself 
into the Committee ; and, after some time spent 
therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr. 
Raikes reported, That the Committee had made 
Progress in the Bill; and that he was directed to 
move, that the Committee may have leave to sit 
again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
the 6th day of July next, again resolve itself into 
the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Valuation Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


Valuation Bill. 


Sheriff Courts The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
(Scotland) Bill. Reading of the Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. ~ 


Civil Bill The Order of the day being read, for the Second 

Courts __—- ‘Reading of the Civil Bill Courts (Jreland) Bill; 

(Ireland) Bill. Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day, at Two of the clock. 

Clerk of the The Order of the day being read, for resuming 


=" the adjourned Debate on the Amendment which, 
and) Bil, UPOn the 26th day of May last, was proposed to be 
_ made to the Question, That the Clerk of the Peace 
and of the Crown (Jrleand) Bill be now read a 
second time ; 
Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Monday next. 


Elementary The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Hiucation Bill. mittee on the Elementary Education Bill ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
upon the 22nd day of this instant June, That 
the Pollution of Rivers Bill be now read a second 
time; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Thursday next. 


Pollution of 
Rivers Bill. 


res The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
(9S) haa. consideration the Friendly Societies Act (1875) 


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285 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Agricultural 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed Holdings 
upon the 8th day of this instant June, That the fil (Lerde.] 
Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Bill be now read 
a second time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Thursday next. 


The War Department and Post Office (Remu- War Depart- 
neration, &amp;c.) Bill was, according to Order, read a ment and Post 


; ‘ ‘ Offi - 
second time; and committed to a Committee of pa a 
the whole House, for Thursday next. &amp;c.) Bill. 


Public Health 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second (Ireland) Bill. 


Reading of the Public Health (Jreland) Bill ; 








ment Bil, | Amendment Bill, as amended in the Committee ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be taken into considera- 
tion this day, at Two of the clock. 
— The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
(ind) Bill. Reading of the Prisons (Jreland) Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 
Maritime The Order of i for th 
Con ; e Order of the day being read, for the Second 
a Reading of the Maritime Contracts Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 
— pin. Lhe Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
(Lords. mittee on the Crossed Cheques Bill ; 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 
Vo. 131. 





Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 


| this day, at Two of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Juries 
mittee on the Juries Procedure (Ireland) Bill; (rend) Bill 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Cattle Disease 
mittee on the Cattle Disease (Jreland) Bill; (Ireland) Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Tramways Orders Confirmation ( Bristol, Tramways 
&amp;c.) Bill was, according to Order, read a second Orders Con- 
time ; and committed to a Committee of the whole (Bristol, &amp;e.) 
House, for Thursday the 6th day of July next. __ Bill [Zords.] 

The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Ways and 
mittee of Ways and Means; Means. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednes- 
day next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Ever Fishing 

Reading of the Elver Fishing Bill ; Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 

upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Nullum 
mittee on the Nullum Tempus (Ireland) Bill ; er ae 

Resvlved, That this House will, upon Monday ‘#4 Bill. 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Crab and 
mittee on the Crab and Lobster Fisheries (Norfolk) Lobster 
Bill : power 
3 folk) Bill. 
Resolced, That this House will, this day,at Two" 
of the clock, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Sale of Coal Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


Sale of Coal 
Bill. 


House 
Occupiers Dis- 
qualification 
Removal Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the House Occupiers Disqualification 
Removal Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Convention 
Reading of the Convention (Ireland) Act Repeal (Ireland) Act 
Bill ; Repeal Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Bankers’ Books 
consideration the Bankers’ Books Evidence Bill, "idence Bill. 
as amended in the Committee; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now taken into 
consideration ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the word “now,” and at 
the end of the Question adding the words “ upon 


“ Monday next.” 
003 And 





Landlord and 
Tenant 
(Ireland) Act 
Amendment 
Bill. 


Notices to Quit 


(Ireland) Bill. 


Parliamentary 
and Municipal 
Registration 
(Boroughs) 
Bill. 


Trade Union 
Act (1871) 
Amendment 
Bill. 


Grand Jury 
Law Amend- 
ment (Ireland) 
Bill. 


Ancient 
Monuments 
Bill. 


Game Laws 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Municipal 
Corporations, 
&amp;c. (Funds) 
Bill. 


Irish Peerege 
Bill [ Lords. } 


Medical Act 


¥36 


And the Question being proposed, That the 
word “now” stand part of the Question :—The 
said proposed Amendment and Motion were 
severally, with leave of the House, withdrawn. 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into considera- 
tion upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Question — 
upon the 21st day of this instant June, That the 
Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Act Amendment 
Bill be now read a second time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Wednesday the 5th day of July next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Notices to Quit (Jreland) Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Parliamentary and Municipal Regis- 
tration (Boroughs) Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, at 
Two of the clock, resolve itself into the said Com- 
mittee. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
take into consideration the Amendments made by 
the Lords to the Trade Union Act (1871) Amend- 
ment Bill; and the same were twice read, and 
agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Grand Jury Law Amendment 
(Ireland) Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Ancient Monuments Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Game Laws ( Scotland) Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Municipal Corporations, &amp;c. (Funds) 
Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Jrish Peerage Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednes- 
day next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Medical Act (Qualifications) Bill was, 


(Qualifications) according to Order, read a second time; and com- 


Bill. 


Settled Estates 
Act (1856) 
Amendment 
Bill. 


mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for 
‘Thursday next. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Settled Estates Act 
(1856) Amendment Bill; and, after some time 
spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; 
and Mr. Raikes reported, That the Committee had 
gone through the Bill; and directed him to report 
the same, without Amendment. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
this day, at Two of the clock. 


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1876. 


The Medical Practitioners Bill was, according Medical 
to Order, read a second time; and committed to Practitioners 
a Committee of the whole House, for Wednesday - 
next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Lega 
Reading of the Legal Practitioners (/re/and) Bill ; Practitioners 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time (#4) Bil 
upon Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Public Reconis 


Reading of the Public Records (Zreland) Amend- (Ireland) 

ment Bill; ce 
Ordered, That the Bill be read. a second time 

upon Wednesday next. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Divorce guits 
a Return of the Number of Cases in which the (Intervention 
Queen’s Proctor intervened in Divorce Suits men 
during the years 1874 and 1875, and the Number , 
of Cases in which such intervention was unsuccess- 
ful; and showing in such last-mentioned Cases 
respectively the Costs incurred by such interven- 
tion, distinguishing from the other Costs the Fees 
and Charges received by the Queen’s Proctor. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Turnpike Acts 
to continue certain Turnpike Acts in Great ,ontum. 
Britain, and to repeal certain other Turnpike ~ 
Acts, and for other purposes connected therewith : 

And that Mr. Salt and Mr. Selater-Bovth do pre- 
pare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Limited 
to further amend “ The Limited Owners Resi- Owners 
dences Act (1870)”: And that Sir Patrick O’ Brien, (Inland) 
Sir Arthur Guinness, Mr. Herbert, and Mr. Gibson, 
do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Salt presented a Bill to continue certain Turnpike Acts 
Turnpike Acts in Great Britain, and to repeal Continuance, 
certain other Turnpike Acts, and for other purposes Bill 209 
connected therewith: And the same was read the ~~’ 
first time ; and ordered to be read a second time 
upon Monday next; and to be printed. 


Sir Patrick O’Brien presented a Bill to further Limited 
amend “The Limited Owners Residences Act — 
(1870)”: And the same was read the first time ; (Ireland) Bill 
and ordered to be read a second time upon Monday "pi a0, 


next; and to be printed. 


Ordered, That the Reports of the following Toll Bridges 
Select Committees of this House, and the Evidence (River on. 
taken befure them, be referred to the Select Com- ” 
mittee on the Toll Bridges (River Thames) Bill, 
namely :— 

The Committee of 1836 on Metropolitan 
Communications, and the freeing of Water- 
loo and Southwark Bridges ; 

The Committee of 1841 on Metropolitan Im- 
provements, and the freeing Waterloo and 
other Bridges ; 

The Committee of 1854 upon the Thames 
Bridges, including the freeing of the Toll- 
paying Bridges ; 

The Committee of 1855 upon Metropolitan 
Communications, including the Bridges 
over the Thames ; 

The Committee of 1865 upon the Metropo- 
litan Toll Bridges Bill, and the Chelsea 
Toll Abolition Bill; and 

The Committee of 1876 upon the Toll-paying 
Bridges over the Thames. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till a quarter of an hour after Two of the 
clock on Tuesday morning, adjourned till 
this day. 





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Tuesday, 27th June, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 


MESSAGE was delivered by Colonel 
eel A Clifford, Yeoman Usher of the Black Rod: 


Mr. Speaker, 


The Lords, authorised by virtue of Her Ma- 
jesty’s Commission, for declaring Her Royal As- 
sent to several Acts agreed upon by both Houses, 
desire the immediate attendance of this Honour- 
able House in the House of Peers, to hear the 
Commission read. 

Accordingly Mr. Speaker, with the House, went 
up to the House of Peers :—And being returned ; 

Mr. Speaker reported, That the House, at the 
desire of the Lords, authorised by virtue of Her 
Majesty’s Commission, had been at the House of 
Peers, where a Commission under the Great Seal 
was read, giving, declaring and notifying the Royal 
Assent to the several Acts therein mentioned; and 
that the Lords, thereby authorised, had declared 
the Royal Assent to the said Acts, as follow: 

Treasury An Act to incorporate the Solicitor for the 

fuicitor Bill. Affairs of Her Majesty’s Treasury, and make 
further provision respecting the Grant of the Ad- 
ministration of the Estates of deceased Persons for 
the use of Her Majesty. 


Partition Act An Act to amend the Partition Act, 1863. 
(1868) Amend- 


— An Act to amend the Law relating to Salmon 


el pil, Fisheries in England and Wales. 

Statute Law An Act to facilitate the Revision of the Statute 

Resin Law by substituting, in certain Acts, incorporating 

(Substituted ~Enactments which have been otherwise repealed, 

Rnactments) . pidge 

Bill [Lord] &amp; reference to recent Enactments still in force. — 

Amy An Act to facilitate the assembling and training 

Tnining Bil. of certain Army Corps. 

All Saints, An Act for remedying certain defects in the 

Mos, Bil Constitution of the District of All Saints, Moss, 

(rds) in the County and Diocese of York. 

Pier and An Act for confirming certain Provisional 

tutor ,. Orders made by the Board of Trade under the 

imation General Pier and Harbour Act, 1861, relating to 

(Aldborough, Aldborough, Cattewater, Gardenstown, and Llan- 

&amp;) Bil. == dudno. 

Gusand Water An Act for confirming certain Provisional 

pero a Orders made by the Board of Trade under the 

(Lords,} Gas and Waterworks Facilities Act, 1870, relating 
to Brentford Gas, North Middlesex Gas, North 
Ormesby Gas, Retford Gas, Risca and Pontymister 
Gas, Saint Anne’s-on-the-Sea Gas, Tottenham and 
Edmonton Gas, Worksop Gas, Chiltern Hills Spring 
Water, Flamborough Water, Stockport District 
Water, Wisbech Water, and Clacton-on-Sea Gas 
and Water. 

— An Act for confirming a Provisional Order made 

Confirmation DY the Board of Trade under the Tramways Act, 

(Wantage) 1870, relating to Wantage Tramways. 

Bill (Lords,] 

en Gants An Act for varying the purposes of the Trust 

Ghsgow, Buy CONStituted by Allan Glen; for incorporating the 

(Lords, Trustees of Allan Glen’s Institution in the City of 
Glasgow; for conferring Powers upon the Trustees, 
and for other purposes. 

Mid-Wales An Act for the abandonment of the Railway 

lulmay Bill. authorised to be made by the “ Mid-Wales Rail- 
way (Western Extensions) Act, 1865.” 

a. An Act for conferring further Powers on the 

y Bill. Furness Railway Company for the Construction of 

Works, the acquisition of Lands, the raising of 
Money, and otherwise in relation to their Under- 
taking, and for other purposes. 

naan An Act for pegs ny Caledonian Railway 

on Company to make a Wet Dock Timber Basin 

Harbour) Bil, Quays and other Works at Grangemouth, and to 
improve the Navigation of the River Carron; for 
altering the Rates leviable at the Harbour of 
a 2 for extending the period limited for 

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the acquisition by the said Company of Lands near 
that Port, and for other purposes. 


An Act to grant further Powers to the Chester- Chesterfield 
field Waterworks and Gas Light Company. — and Gas 
An Act for empowering the York New Water- York New 
works Company to construct additional Works ; ¥* Bill 

to raise additional Capital, and for other pur- 

ses. 
we Act to authorise the Construction of Rail- Cleator and 
ways in Cumberland, to be called the Cleator and jVorkinston 
Workington Junction Railway. way Bill. 

An Act to enable the East London Railway fast London 
Company to make a new Junction with the Main Railway Bill. 
Line of the Great Eastern Railway Company, and 
for other purposes. 

An Act for conferring further Powers on the Glasgow and 
Glasgow and South Western Railway Company [uth Weste 
for the Construction of Works and the acquisition ~~ ~ 
of Lands; for converting and consolidating the 
several classes of their Shares and Stocks, and for 
other purposes. 

An Act to authorise the widening of parts of the London and 
London and Blackwall Railway and the enlarge- tg 
ment of some of the Stations, to authorise Agree- ““""*Y ®# 
ments with other Companys, and for other pur- 

oses. 
An Act to vest in the London, Brighton, and London, 
South Coast Railway Company the Undertaking son a 
of the Tunbridge Wells and Eastbourne Railway and Tunbridge 
Company, and to make better provision for Railway Wells and East- 


Communication to Eastbourne. Coden 
An Act to make better provision for the Mainte- Royal Albert 
nance of the Royal Albert Hall. Hall Bill. 


An Act for authorising a Deviation of the Line West Kent 
of a Sewer to be constructed in pursuance of the oa Sowernge 
West Kent Main Sewerage Act, 1875, and for ~~“ 
amending that Act, and for other purposes. 

An Act to authorise the Whitehaven, Cleator, Whitehaven, 
and Egremont Railway Company to make New 4st and 
Railways in the County of Cumberland, to raise Railway Bill. 
further Capital, and for other purposes. 

An Act for incorporating the Wilts and Berks Wilts and 
Canal Company, for the transfer to them of the — Canal 
Undertaking of the Wilts and Berks Canal Naviga- 
tion, and for other purposes. 

An Act to extend the Municipal Boundaries of Galashiels 
the Burgh of Galashiels, to provide for the Municipal 
Maintenance by the Corporation of the Roads and Police, and 
Streets within the Burgh, and to bring in a Supply Water Bill 
of Water thereto, and for other purposes. ae, 

An Act to define, alter, and extend the Bound- Newport (Isle 
ries of the Borough and Urban Sanitary District ne 5 
of Newport, in the Isle of Wight, and for other pur- [ lode 

ose, 
F An Act to amend, vary, and extend the Powers Scottish 


of the Scottish Equitable Life Assurance Society, — 
and for other purposes relating thereto. Society Bill 
[ Lords. ] 


An Act to incorporate a Company, with Powers Newcastle- 
to erect Machinery for raising and lowering Pas- (Or I). in 
sengers, Vehicles, Animals, and Goods between Bill | Lords.] 
the Quayside and the Castle Yard at Newcastle- 
upon- Tyne. 

An Act for enabling the Caledonian Railway Caledonian 
Company to make certain Railways and other (Addition al 
Works, and to acquire certain Lands in the Coun- powers) Bill. 
ties of Lanark, Stirling, Edinburgh, Renfrew, and 
Forfar; for abandoning certain authorised W orks 
in the County of Forfar; for extending the Pe- 
riods limited by certain former Acts; for sanc- 
tioning certain Modifications of a Scheme for the 
Conversion and Consolidation of certain Classes of 
Shares and Stock in the said Company, and for 
other purposes. 

An Act to amend “ The Vale of Clyde Tram- Vale of Clyde 
ways Act, 1871.” Tramways Bill 
An Act to authorise the Duke of Cornwall and Sutton Pool 
the Sutton Harbour Improvement Company to H2rbour Bill 





O04 enter (4°r4#.].. 


288 WW7th 


enter into and carry into effect Agreements for’ 


certain purposes. 
An Act for dissolving the Gorleston and South- 


Gorleston and 

Southtown 

Gas Bill. ° ? ° ° ° 
re-incorporating the Proprietors therein with 


others, and for conferring Powers on the Com- 
pany so to be incorporated, and for other purposes. 

An Act for authorising the Great Eastern Rail- 
way Company to make several Railways and other 
Works, and for conferring on them further Powers 
in relation to their Undertaking and the Under- 
takings of certain other Companies, and for other 
purposes. 


Great Eastern 
Railway Bill. 


Mersey Docks 
and Harbour 


Board Bill. Harbour Board to improve the River Entrance 


to the Canada Basin, and for other purposes. 
An Act for enabling the Caledonian and the 


Glasgow and 

Kilmarnock 

Joint Line Bill. .~, . “ 
jointly to acquire certain Lands and execute cer- 


tain Works in the Counties of Lanark and Ren- 
frew; for authorising the Diversion of a certain 
Road, and of certain authorised Tramways in con- 
nection therewith, and for other purposes. 
An Act for conferring further Powers on the 
“4 (&lt;*o" Company of Proprietors of the Plymouth Dock 
Bill. Waterworks for the Supply of Water, and other- 
wise in relation to their Undertaking, and for 
other purposes. 

An Act to enable the Yearly Conference of the 
People called Methodists to delegate or confer 
certain Powers to or upon Conferences in Austral- 
asia and elsewhere, and to confirm past Acts in 
relation thereto, and for other purposes. 

An Act to authorise the Construction of a Rail- 
way from the Burry Port and Gwendreath Valley 
Railway to the Line of the Central Wales and 
Carmarthen Junction Railway Company, and for 
other purposes. 

An Act to amalgamate the Undertakings of the 


Plymouth 


Methodist 
Conference 


Bill [ Lords.] 


Burry Port and 
North Western 
Junction Rail- 
way Bill. 


Great Western 


and Bristol and Great Western and Bristol and Exeter Railway 


Exeter Railway ~ 4 

Companies Bill, Companies, and for other purposes. 

Western Bank | An Act for promoting the Winding-up of the 
of Scotland = Western Bank of Scotland, and providing for the 
Bill (/ords.] Disposal and Discharge of the remaining Assets 
and Liabilities of the Bank, and for other pur- 
poses. 

An Act to enable the Board of Waywardens 
of the Edgware Highway District to make certain 
Payments to the Local Board of the Willesden 
Urban Sanitary District out of the Income of 
Trust Estates and Funds vested in them under 
*“ The Metropolis (Kilburn and Harrow) Roads 
Act, 1872”; to vary the Provisions of the said 
Act, to discharge the said Waywardens from the 
Obligation to maintain Portions of certain Roads, 
and for other purposes. 

An Act to extend the Time for the Completion 
of the Merionethshire Railway. 

An Act for the Abandonment of the Lianfyllin 
and Llangynog Railway. 


Willesden 
Local Board 


Bill [Lords.] 


Merionethshire 
Railway Bill. 


Tlanfyllin and 
Llangynog 
Railway Bill. 
Me‘ropolitan Av Act for enabling the Metropolitan Board of 
Bordof Works Works to make a new Street from Sun Street to 

. Worship Street; to undertake certain Duties in 
connection with the Chelsea Embankment, and for 
other purposes. 

An Act to authorise the City of Norwich 
Waterworks Company to raise additional Capital, 
and to extend their Limits of Supply, and for 
other purposes. 

An Act for making a Railway from Ruthin to 
Cerrig-y-Druidion, in the County of Denbigh. 


Norwich (City) 
Water Bill. 


Ruthin and 
Cerrig-y- 
Druidion 
Railway Bill. 
Great An Act for making a Railway from Great Yar- 
a ggg and mouth, in the County of Norfolk, to Stalham, in 
(Light) Rail. the same County, and for other purposes. 
way Bill. 

An Act to extend the Time for the Purchase of 
Lands for, and for the Construction of the Forth 


Bridge Railway. 


Forth Bridge 
Railway Bill. 


town Gas Light and Coke Company, Limited, for | 


An Act to authorise the Mersey Docks and | 


Glusgow and South Western Railway Companies ! 


June. 1876. 
An Act for conferring further Powers on th 
| London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company, Cea os 
and for other purposes. Baye Bailey 
An Act enabling the Dublin Port and Docks Dublin P 
Board to enlarge or rebuild Carlisle Bridge, and aud po ag 
to construct eastward thereof an Opening ridge Board Bill 
over the Liffey; providing Funds for the Execu- (Lords,] 
tion of those Works, and for other purposes. 
An Act for transferring to the National Assur- Nationa 
ance Company of Jreland the Business of the Assurance 
Liberal Annuity Company of Dublin, for amend- nner at 
,ing the Charter of the first-named Company, and [Lorde ” 
for other purposes. 

An Act to naturalize Roger Oswald Réné de De Blonay’s 
Blonay, and to grant to pm confer upon him al] Naturalization 
the Rights, Privileges, and Capacities of a Natu- Bill (Lords 
ral-born Subject of Her Majesty the Queen. 


| Mr. Raikes reported the Sutton Gas Bill, with Sutton Gas 

, Amendments. Bill (Lords) 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 

Table. 

| Mr. Raikes reported Tempest’s Estate Bill, with- Tempest’s 

( out Amendment. Estate Bill 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. ““"*! 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Sutton Bridge 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Sutton 2° Bill 
Bridge Dock Bill; and the same were twice read, 
and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


The Leigh and Hindley Local Boards Bill was Leigh and 
read the third time. eos! gg 
| Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, [ords.) 

do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the same, with Amendments; to 
whch this House doth desire the concurrence of 
their Lordships. 


The Great Northern London Cemetery Bill was Great Northen 


read a second time; and committed. London 
Cemetery 


Bill [Lords.] 
The Swansea Harbour Bill was read a second swansea _ 
time ; and committed. Harbour Bill 
(Lords.] 
The Order of the day being read, for the Second Northen 
Reading of the Northern Union Railways of Jre- pee - 
land Bill; Bill [Lords.) 
And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a 
second time ; 
An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the word “ now,” and, at 
the end of the Question, adding the words “ upon 
‘*‘ this day three months.” 
And the Question being put, That the word 
“now” stand part of the Question ; 
The House divided. 
The Yeas to the Right; 
The Noes to the Left. 
Tellers for the /Mr. Sherriff, 1 
Yeas, \Mr. Crawford: i 
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102. 


Tellers for thef Sir Thomas Bateson, 
Noes, \Mr. Thomas Dickson: 

So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
“upon this day three months” be added at the 
end of the Question:—It was resclved in the 
Affirmative. 

Then the Main Question, so amended, being put; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon this day three months. 


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jamentary 
Agency: 


Private Bills 

| Lords] 

(Standing 

Orders, not 
jously in- 

a into, 

complied with.) 


Private Bills 
[Lords] (No 
Standing 
Orders, not 
previously in- 
quired into, 
applicable.) 


Public 

Petitions. 

Vide Twenty- 
seventh 

Report. 

Land Tenure 
(Ireland) Bill 
(Petitions from 
Corporations.) 


Poor Law 
Amendment 
Bill. 


Poor Law 
(Scotland) Bill. 


40 Vicioria. 


Ordered, That so much of the Message from 
the Lords of the 23rd day of this instant July, as 
relates to the appointment of a Joint Committee 
with respect to Parliamentary Agents, be taken 
into consideration To-morrow, at the time of 
Private Business. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Biils, 
That the Standing Orders not previously inquired 
into and which are applicable thereto, have been 
complied with in the case of the following Bill, 
originating in the Lords, and referred on the First 
Reading thereof, viz. : 

Belfast and County Down Railway Bill. 

Ordered, ‘\hat the Bill be read a second time. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,— Report from 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 
That no Standing Orders not previously inquired 
into are applicable in the case of the following 
Bills, originating in the Lords, and referred on the 
First Reading thereof, viz. : 

Saint Werburgh’s Church, Bristol, Bill. 
West Ham Local Board Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bills be read a second time. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and 
read; and ordered to lie upon the ‘Table. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Nominal Return of the Municipal Corporations 
and Boards of Guardians in /reland that have sent 
Petitions to this House in favour of the Land 
Tenure (Jreland) Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Amendment which, 
upon the 26th day of this instant June, was _— 
posed to be made on consideration of the Poor 
Law Amendment Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee; and which Amendment was, to insert in 
p. 5, 1. 3, after the word “ away,” the words 
“The justices to hear the complaint against a 
‘‘ husband, under the thirty-third section of the 
“ Act of the thirty-first and thirty-second years of 
“ Her Majesty, chapter one hundred and twenty- 
“two, may be other than those who summoned 
“him to appear before them, but acting for the 
“ same petty sessional division.” 

And the Question being again proposed, That 
those words be there inserted:—The House re- 
sumed the said adjourned Debate. 

And the Question being put :—-It was resolved 
in the Affirmative. 

Then other Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made 
to the Bill, by inserting, in p. 6, 1. 34, after the 
word “ orders,” the words “ And any board of 
‘‘ cuardians may, where medical relief is granted 
“on loan, declare that the same is so granted, and 
“they may recover in any county court having 
*“ jurisdiction in the union, or any part thereof, 
“ from the person to whom such relief is granted, 
* the reasonable cost of the same.” 

And the Question being proposed, That those 
words be there inserted: — The said proposed 
Amendment was, with leave of the House, with- 
drawn. 

Then other Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Poor Law ( Scotland) Bill; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave 
the Chair ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” 
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2389 


to the end of the Question, in order to add the 
words “this House will, upon this day three 
“ months, resolve itself into the said Committee,” 
instead thereof. 

And the Question being proposed, That the 
words proposed to be left out stand part of the 
Question :—And a Debate arising thereupon ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be adjourned till 
Thursday next. 


The Public Works Loans Bill was, according Public Works 
to Order, read a second time; and committed toa lems BM. 
Committee of the whole House, for Thursday 
next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- supply. 
mittee of Supply ; 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee of Supply 
Supply, several Resolutions; which were read, as [26th June.] 
follow : 

1. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 109,194, be Scientific 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Expenses Departments 
of the several Scientific Departments of the Navy, wy) 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 31st day of March 1877. 

2. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 1,323,750, be Dockyards and 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Expenses Naval Yards at 
of the Dockyards and Naval Yards at Home and — 
Abroad, which will come in course of payment 
during the year ending on the 31st day of March 
1877. 

3. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 76,400, be Victualling 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Expense of Yards at Home 
the Victualling Yards at Home and Abroad, which —_— 
will come in course of payment during the year 
ending on the 3lst day of March 1877. 

4, That a Sum, not exceeding £. 65,830, be Medical 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Expense of — 
the Medical Establishments at Home and Abroad, ” 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 3lst day of March 1877. 

5. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 20,053, be Marine 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Expenses Divisions. 
of Marine Divisions, which will come in course of 
payment during the year ending on the 31st day 
of March 1877. 

6. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 1,261,320, be Naval Stores, 

granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Expense of &amp;e- 
Naval Stores for Building, Repairing, and Out- 
fitting the Fleet and Coastguard, which will come 
in course of payment during the year ending on 
the 31st day of March 1877. 

7. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 1,353,600, be Steam 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Expense of ae ae. 
Steam Machinery and Ships built by Contract, ary) 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 3lst day of March 1877. 

8. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 569,249, be New Works, 
a to Her Majesty, to defray the Expense of ee ke. 

ew Works, Buildings, Machinery, and Repairs, “ avy-) 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 31st day of March 1877. 

9. That a Sum, not exceeding £.76,230, be Medicines, 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Expense of er Stores, 
Medicines, Medical Stores, &amp;c., which will come ~~ ‘ me 
in course of payment during the year ending on 
the 3lst day of March 1877. 

10. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 15,114, be Martial Law 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Expense of x4 Law 
Martial Law and Law Charges, which will come (New) 
in course of payment during the year ending on 
the 31st day of March 1877. 

11. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 135,547, be Miscellancous 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Exnense of Services 
various Miscellaneous Services, which will come ‘**Y) 
in course of payment during the year ending on 
the 31st day of March 1877. 


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12. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 888,472, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Expense of 
Half-Pay, Reserved, and Retired Pay to Officers 
of the Navy and Royal Marines, which will come 
in course of payment during the year ending on 
the 31st day of March 1877. 

13. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 726,136, be 

granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Expense of 
Military Pensions and Allowances, which will 
come in course of payment during the year ending 
on the 3lst day of March 1877. 
Civil Pensions 14. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 282,176, be 
and Allowances granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Expense of 
(Navy:) Civil Pensions and Allowances, which will come 
in course of payment during the year ending on 
the 31st day of March 1877. 

15. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 197,480, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Expense for 
the Freight of Ships, and for the Conveyance of 
Troops on account of the Army Department, 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 31st day of March 1877. 
Greenwich 16. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 145,752, be 
Hospital and granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Expenses 
of Greenwich Hospital and School, which will 
come in course of payment during the year ending 
on the 3lst day of March 1877. 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the said Resolutions be now 
read a second time :—And a Debate arising there- 
upon ; 

“iederel, That the Debate be adjourned till To- 
morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Civil Bill Courts (Jreland) Bill; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a se- 
cond time :—And a Debate arising thereupon ; 
and it being ‘len minutes before Seven of the 
clock, the Debate stcod adjourned till this day. 


Half-Pay, &amp;c. 
(Navy.) 


Military 
Pensions and 
Allowances 
(Navy.) 


Freight of 
Ships and 
Conveyance 
of Troops. 


Civil Bill 
Courts 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Friendly The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
Societies Act take into consideration the Friendly Societies Act 
_ (1875) Amend- (1875) Amendment Bill, as amended in the Com- 
ment Bill. ° 

mittee. 

A Clause (Amount in fees payable on certifi- 
cates of births and deaths), was twice read; and 
made part of the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
To-morrow. 


Public Health The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
(Ireland) Bill. Reading of the Public Health (Zreland) Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Offences against the Person Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Offences 
against the 
Person Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Practitioners Reading of the Legal Practitioners Bill ; 
” Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Crab and Lobster Fisheries 
( Norfolk) Bill; and, after some time spent therein, 
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration To-morrow. 


Crab and 
Lobster 
Fisheries 
(Norfolk) Bill. 


Parliamentary The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
and Municipal mittee on the Parliamentary and Municipal Re- 


Registration 


(Beroughs) istration (Boroughs) Bill ; 
Bill. 


Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


With June. 








1876. 


The Settled Estates Act (1856) Amendment Settleg 
Bill was, according to Order, read the third time, ct (1856) 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. mendment 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Sanitary Sanitary 
Returns (Dudlin), which was presented upon the Returns 


8th day of this instant June, be printed. ame 
4 0. 317. 
Ordered, That the Paper relative to the Sea Sea oat 


Fisheries Act, 1868, which was presented upon Act, 1868, 
the 26th day of this instant June, be printed. No. 318, 


Ordered, That the Finance Accounts, which finance 
were presented upon the 26th day of this instant Accounts, 
June, be printed. No. 319, 


Mr. Secretary Cross presented, by Her Ma- Marriages 
jesty’s Command,—Copy of Eleventh Detailed Births, and 
Annual Report of the Registrar Géneral of Mar- oe 
riages, Births, and Deaths in Jre/and, 1874. aaa 

Mr. Secretary Cross also presented,—Return 4amira) 
to an Order, dated the 2nd day of May last, for Courts (Cork 
Returns relative to the Admiralty Courts (Cork 4 Beliast.) 
and Belfast). 

_ Return to an Order, dated the 12th day of this pyison 
instant June, for a Return relative to Prison Ex- Expenditure 
penditure (Jreland). (Inelend.) 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Secretary Hardy presented,—Return to an Army 
Address to Her Majesty, dated the 19th day of Milita) 
this instant June, for a Return relative to the 
Army ( Stafford Militia). 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented,—Return 
to an Order, dated the lst day of May last, for a es 
Return relative to the Income Tax. 
» — That the said Return do lie upon the 

able. 


Mr. Bourke presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- Deck Loads 
mand,——Copy of Representation from the Swedish (Commercial, 
and Norwegian Governments respecting the pro- i 
posed legislation on the subject of Deck Loads. 

2 a That the said Paper do lie upon the 
able. 


The following Paper was laid upon the Table by Land Tenure 
the Clerk of the House,—Return to an Order, re = 
dated the 27th day of this instant June, for desman 
Return relative to the Land Tenure (Jreland) No, 32¢. 
Bill (Petitions from Corporations). 


Ordered, That that the said Return be printed. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- Message from 
sage had been brought from the Lords by one of the Lords. 
their Clerks, as followeth: 

The Lords have agreed to the Burghs (Division Burghs 
into Wards) (Scotland) Amendment Bill, with an Wants) tGont 
Amendment; to which the Lords desire the con- land) Amend- 
currence of this House. ment Bill. 

The Lords have agreed to the Kingstown Har- Kingstown 
bour Bill, with an Amendment; to which the 2 = 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have agreed to the Smithfield Prison Smithfield 
(Dublin) Bill, with Amendments; to which the (Dublin) Bill. 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have agreed to the Coroners (Dublin) Coroners 
Bill, with Amendments; to which the Lords (Publix) Bill 
desire the concurrence of this House. “ 

The Lords have agreed to the Kildwick Parish ——. , 
Gas Bill, with Amendments; to which the Lords pi, F 
desire the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have agreed to the London and South London and 
Western Railway (Lzeter and Crediton and North South Wester 
Devon Railways) Bill, with Amendments; to (Bxcter and 


which the Lords desire the concurrence of this Crediton and 
House North Devon 
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40 Vicrortia. 


and The Lords have agreed to the London and South 
south Western, Western, Midland, aad Somerset and Dorset Rail- 
aoa por way Companies Bill, with Amendments; to which 
pe Railway ghe Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 


Companies Bill. 


pisey Water ‘The Lords have agreed to the Paisley Water 
Bill, with Amendments ; to which the Lords desire 
the concurrence of this House. 

Whitehaven The Lords have agreed to the Whitehaven Har- 

ae and bour and Town Improvement Bill, with Amend- 

Til, ments ; to which the Lords desire the concurrence 
of this House. 

Caterham and ~6©6 The Lords have agreed to the Caterham and 

Gxstone — Godstone Valley Railway Bill, with Amendments ; 

- to which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House. 

Huddersfield © The Lords have agreed to the Huddersfield 

Water = Water and Improvement Bill, with Amendments ; 

_— to which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House. 

North Eastem The Lords have agreed to the North Eastern 


Railway Bill. Railway Bill, with Amendments; to which the 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have agreed to the Sauthampton 
Gas Light and Coke Bill, with Amendments; to 
which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House. 

Upper Mersey ‘The Lords have agreed to the Upper Mersey 

Navigation = Navigation Bill, with Amendments; to which the 

Bill. Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 

FmisandWest Lhe Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 

Clare Railway for the Abandonment of the Railways authorised 

Bill (Lords) by “The Ennis and West Clare Railway Act, 
1871,” and “ The Hanis and West Clare Railway 
Act, 1873,” and for other purposes ; to which the 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 


Southampton 
Gas Light and 
Coke Bill. 


Ennis and West 
Clare Railway 
Bill [Lords.] 


The Ennis and West Clare Railway Bill was 
read the first time. 

Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 
China, A Motion was made, and the Question being 
proposed, That, having regard to the unsatisfactory 


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291 


And that Mr. Chadwick, Sir Henry Jackson, Mr. 
Sampson Lloyd, Mr. Rylands, Mr. Hopwood, and 


Mr. Benjamin JWhitworth do prepare, and bring 
it In. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Local Govern. 
Reading of the Local Government in Towns (Jre- 77; wotige ny 
land) Bill ; oy OT ee 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Market Juries 
mittee on the Market Juries (Jreland) Bill; (ireland) Ee. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
the 7th day of July next, resolve itself into the 
said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming the Divine Worship 
adjourned Debate on the Question proposed upon F*iities Bill. 
the 15th day of March last, That the Divine Wor- 
ship Facilities Bill be now read a second time ; 

Ordered, That. the Debate be further adjourned 
till this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second (relend) Bit 
Reading of the ‘Towns Rating (Zreland) Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Supreme Court 
. ce dicature 
Reading of the Supreme Court of Judicature Act ict (1875) 
(1875) Amendment Bill; Amendment 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 2 


upon ‘Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Intoxicating 
mittee on the Intoxicating Liquors (Licensing (Lneeain lew 
Law Amendment) (No. 2) Bill; lawson 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday (No. 2) Bill. 
next, resolve itself into. the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second sg 
Reading of the Burglary and Forgery Bill; acids 
Ordered,'Vhat the Bill be read a second time 





nature of our relations with China, and to the 
desirability of placing those relations on a per-| 
manently satisfactory footing, this House is of| 
opinion that the existing Treaty between the two | 
Countries should be so revised as to promote the | 
interests of legitimate Commerce, and to secure 
the just rights of the Chinese Government and 
People; 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Wednesday morning ; 


Wednesday, 28th June, 1876: 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That this House do now adjourn; and the 
said Motion was, with leave of the House, with- | 
drawn. 

And the original Question being again proposed : 
—The said Motion was, with leave of the House, 
withdrawn. 








Constabulary 
Pensioners 
(Ireland. ) 


A Motion was made, and the Question being 
put, That a Select Committee be appointed to 
inquire into the justice of the claims of the Royal 
Irish Constabulary Pensioners who retired before 
the month of August 1874, and to report thereon ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the i Biggar, 

Yeas, Mr. Parnell: 

Tellers for the (Sir William Dyke, 

Noes; (Mr. Rowland Winn: 

So it passed in the Negative. 


— eT eH 
I 
A 


Companies 
Acts (1862 
and 1867) 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to amend the Companies Acts, 1862 and: 1867: 
VoL. 131. 





upon Tuesday the 11th day of July next. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into rac 
consideration the Municipal Privileges (Jreland) (Ireland) 

‘ . ° ) Bill. 
Bill, as amended in the Committee ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into considera- 


tion upon Tueslay next. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Election of 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed iouaanabe 
upon the 9th day of this instant June, That the Vote) Bull. 
Election of Aldermen (Cumulative Vote) Bill be 
now read a second time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming — 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed (Ireland) Bill. 
upon the 27th day of this instant June, That the 
Civil Bill Courts (Ireland) Bill be now read a 
second time; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Monday next. 


Mr. Chadwick presented a Bill to amend the Copan i 
Companies Acts, 1862 and 1867: And the same }g¢7) Amend. 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a ment Bill. 


second time upon Friday next; and to be printed. Bill 211. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till a quarter of an hour before Two of the 
clock on Wednesday morning, adjourned 


till this day. 


PP2 


292 28th June. 1876. 


Wednesday, 28th June, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 


Letterkenny HE House proceeded to take into considera- 
Railway Bill tion the Letterkenny Railway Bill,as amended 
[Lords.] in the Committee; and an Amendment was made 
to the Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Rochester The House proceeded to take into consideration 
Bridge Bill the Rochester Bridge Bill, as amended in the Com- 
(kts.] mittee. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Parliamentary The House, according to Order, proceeded to 

Agency. take into consideration that part of the Message 
from the Lords of the 23rd day of this instant 
June, wherein their Lordships acquaint the House, 
‘That they have appointed a Committee of Five Lords 
to join with a Committee of the Commons, to con- 
sider the expediency of making further regulations 
concerning the admission and practice of Parlia- 
mentary Agents, and to report their opinion 
thereon; and the Lords request that the Commons 
will be pleased to appoint an equal number of 
Members to be joined with the Members of the 
Lords. 

Ordered, That a Select Committee of Five 
Members be appointed to join with the Committee 
appointed by the House of Lords, as mentioned in 
their Lordships’ Message of the 23rd day of this 
instant June, to consider the expediency of making 
further regulations concerning the admission and 
practice of Parliamentary Agents, and to report 
their opinion thereon :—And a Committee was 
appointed of Mr. Dodson, Mr. Basil Woodd, 
Mr. O'Reilly, Mr. Bathurst, and Mr. Raikes: 
with Power to send for persons, papers, and re- 
cords. 

Ordered, That Three be the Quorum. 

Ordered, That a Message be sent to the Lords, 
to acquaint their Lordships, that this House, 
having considered their Lordships’ Message, has 
appointed a Select Committee of Five Members to 
join with the Committee appointed by the House 
of Lords, as mentioned in their Lordships’ Mes- 
sage of Friday the 23rd day of this instant June, 
to consider the expediency of making further 
regulations concerning the admission and practice 
of Parliamentary Agents, and to report their 
opinion thereon; And that the Clerk do carry the 
said Message. 


Public Several Public Petitions were presented, and 
Petitions. read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Vide Votes.and A Public Petition was also presented, and read ; 
Twenty-eighth and referred to a Select Committee. 

Report. 

Real Estate. The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Intes‘acy Bill. Reading of the Real Estate Intestacy Bill; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a second 
time; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the word “ now,” and, at 
the end of the Question, adding the words “ upon 
** this day three months.” 

And the Question being put, That the word 
**now ” stand part of the Question ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the { Mr. Potter, liz 

Yeas, Mr. Leatham: ee 

Tellers for the{ Mr. Gregory, }210 

Noes, (Mr. Beresford Hope: ‘ 

So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
“ upon this day three months” be added at the 











end of the Question:—It was resolved in the 
Affirmative. . 

Then the Main Question, so amended, being 
ut; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon this day three months. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Waste Lands 
Reading of the Waste Lands (Jreland) Reclama- (Ireland) 
tion Bill; paclamation 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


- The Order of the day being read, for the Second Intoxiating 
: f er oe 

+ Pi of the Intoxicating Liquors ( Scotland) be) 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 

upon Wednesday the 12th day of July next. 


The Order of the y being read, for the Second Irish Church 
Reading of the Jrish Church Act (1869) Amend- 4+t (1869) 
2 Amendment 
ment Bill ; Bill 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time — 
To-morrow. 


The Convicted Children Bill was, according to Convicted 
Order, read a second time; and committed to Children Bill 
Committee of the whole House, for Wednesday 
next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Cheques on 
Reading of the Cheques on Bankers Bill ; Bankers Bill 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday the 19th day of July next. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Homicide Law 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed Amendment 
upon the 8th day of March last, That the Homi- *" 
cide Law Amendment Bill be now read a second 
time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Beer Licences 
Reading of the Beer Licences (/reland) Bill; —_!*elan¢) Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming County Rates 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed (Ireland) Bill 
upon the 9th day of May last, That the County 
Rates (Jre/and) Bill be now read a second time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Game Laws 
the adjourned Debate on the Question pro osed Amendment 
upon the 27th day of April last, That the Game 
Laws Amendment (Scotland) Bill be now read a 
second time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 


till Friday next. 


: loyers and 
The Order of the day being read, for the Second 9 oma 


Reading of the Employers and Workmen Act (1975) gxten- 
(1875) Extension Bill ; sion Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next. 

The Order of the day being read, for the Second Elemestity 
Reading of the Elementary Education (Applica- (pplication 
tion for School Board) Bill; for a 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time Board) &gt; 


upon Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second ——_ 
Reading of the Parliamentary Electors Registra~ tration Bill 
tion Bill; : 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 


To-morrow. 


The 











urch 
9) 
ent 


Bill. 


mn 
Bill. 


Law 
nt 


nces 
Bill. 





40 Vicrorta. Wrth 


Ways and The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Means. mittee of Ways and Means, 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


rish Peerage = =©‘The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
il (ords-] mittee on the Jrish Peerage Bill; 
Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


Medical The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 

Practitioners mittee on the Medical Practitioners Bill ; 

Bill Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


Lee The Order of the day being read, for the Second 

Practitioners Reading of the Legal Practitioners (Zreland) Bill; 

(Ireland) Bill. = (dered, That the Bill be read a second time 
To-morrow. 


publie Records The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
(Ireland) Reading of the Public Records ( lreland) Amend- 
Amendment ment Bill; 


” Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
To-morrow. 
Poor Law The Poor Law Amendment Bill was, according 


Amendment to Order, read the third time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence, 


Supply. The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Supply The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
(20th June.} the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
upon the 27th day of this instant June, That the 
Resolutions which, upon that day, were reported 
from the Committee of Supply, be now read a 

second time ; 
Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 


till 'To-morrow. 


Friendly The Friendly Societies Act (1875) Amendment 
phe 1 Bill was, according to Order, read the third time. 
ment Bill. Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 


Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Crab and The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
andl take into consideration the Crab and Lobster 
(Norfolk) Bil, Fisheries ( Norfolk) Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
To-morrow. 


Parliamentary The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
and Municipal mittee on the Parliamentary and Municipal Re- 
_amrey gistration (Boroughs) Bill; 

Bill. Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 


solve itself into the said Committee. 


rd The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
i, py, the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
" upon the 15th day of March last, That the Divine 
Worship Facilities Bill be now read a second time ; 
Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 

till Wednesday next. 


_a River Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
(Lincolnshire,) ¢°, amend the Law relating to Sea Banks and 
“ River Banks in the County of Lincoln: And that 
Mr. Chaplin and Mr. Turnor do prepare, and bring 
it in. 
Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
J to alter the Justiciary District of the County of 
patie (Scot. Peebles: And that the Lord Advocate and Mr. 
) Secretary Cross do prepare, and bring it in. 
VoL. 131 








June. ¥93 


The Lord Advocate accordingly presented a Bill County of 
to alter the Justiciary District of the County of jee = 
Peebles: And the same was read the first time ; District (Scot- 
and ordered to be read a second time To-morrow; land) Bill. 


and to be printed. Bill 212. 


Mr. Chaplin presented a Bill to amend the Law Sea and River 
relating to Sea Banks and River Banks in the (Lincolnshire) 
County of Lincoln: And the same was read the Bill. 
first time. Bill 213. 

Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills; and be 
printed. 

Ordered, That the Examiner have leave to sit 
and proceed forthwith. 


A Motion being made, That this House will, Loc! Loans 
: ° ° ° (Ireland) [Ex- 

To-morrow, resolve itself into a Committee to tinguishment 
consider of authorising the Commissioners of Her of Debts, &amp;c.] 
Majesty’s Treasury to extinguish certain Debts 
due in Jreland to the Consolidated Fund, and all 
Arrears of Interest thereon, and to amend the 
Law with respect to Loans to Local Authorities 
in Jreland out of the said Fund ; 

Mr. Hunt, by Her Majesty’s Command, ac- 
quainted the House, That Her Majesty, having 
been informed of the subject-matter of this Motion, 
recommends it to the consideration of the House. 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order for resuming, To-morrow, the ad- Pollution of 
journed Debate onthe Question proposed upon the Rivers Bill. 
22nd day of this instant June, That the Pollution 
of Rivers Bill be now read a second time, was 
read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Thursday the 6th day of July next. 


The Order for the House to resolve itself into a War Depart- 
Committee, To-morrow, on the War Department ment and Post 
‘ P Office (Re- 
and Post Office (Remuneration, &amp;c.) Bill, was read, juneration, 
and discharged. &amp;e.) Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
the 6th day of July next, resolve itself into the 
said Committee. 


The Order for the House to resolve itself into a Cattle Disease 
Committee, To-morrow, on the Cattle Disease (sland) Bill. 
(Ireland) Bill, was read, and discharged. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order for the House to resolve itself into a Juries 
Committee, To-morrow, on the Juries Procedure ae 
(Ireland) Bill, was read and discharged. ee 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order for reading a second time, To-mor- Public Health 
row, the Public Health (Jreland) Bill, was read, (Ireland) Bill. 
and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 


upon Monday next. 


The Order for the House to resolve itself into a Poor Law 
Committee, To-morrow, on the Poor Law Rating Rating 
(Ireland) Bill, was read, and discharged. ay Se 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Ordered, That the Amendments made by the Coroners 
Lords to the Coroners (Dublin) Bill be taken into (Dublin) Bill. 
consideration upon Friday next; and be printed. _ Bill 214. 


Ordered, That in the case of the Erne Lough krne Lough 
and River Bill the Examiner of Petitions for and River Bill. 
Private Bills have leave to sit and proceed forth- 
with. 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 
PP3 





Ivel Navigation 
Bill [Lords.] 


Public 
Petitions. 


Vide Votes, and 
Twenty-eighth 
Report. 


Admiralty 
Courts (Cork 
and Belfast.) 


No. 321. 


Prison 
Expenditure 
(Ireland.) 


No. 322. 
Income Tax. 


No. 323. 


Manufactures, 
Commerce, &amp;c. 
(Consular 
Reports) 
(Commercial, 


No. 9, 1876.) 


Queen’s Bench, 
Ireland (Mr. 
Blackham.) 


Isle of Man. 


Woods, Forests, 
and Land 
Revenues. 


East India 
(Loans raised 


in India.) 


204 


Thursday, 29th June, 1876. 


PRayERS. 

IR Charles Forster reported trom the Select 

Committee va Public Petitions; That they 
had examined the Petitions presented upon the 
2lst, 22nd, 23rd, 26th, and 27th days of this 
instant June, and had directed him to make a Re- 
port thereof to the House. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Jvel Navigation Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee ; and Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

A Public Petition was also presented, and read ; 
and referred to a Select Committee. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Admi- 
ralty Courts (Cork and Belfast), which was pre- 
sented upon the 27th day of this instant June, be 
printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Prison 
Expenditure (Jreland), which was presented upon 
the 27th day of this instant June, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the In- 
come Tax, which was presented upon the 27th 
day of this instant June, be printed. 


Mr. Bourke presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- 
mand,—Copy of Reports from Her Majesty’s Con- 
suls on the Manufactures, Commerce, &amp;c. of their 
Consular Districts. Trade Reports. Part IV. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented, —Re- 
turn to an Order, dated the 16th day of this 
instant June, for a Return relative to the Queen’s 
Bench, Jreland (Mr. Blackham). 

Mr. William Henry Smith also presented, pur- 
suant to the directions of several Acts of Parlia- 
ment,—Account of the Revenue and Expenditure 
in respect of the Duties of the Customs of the Js/e 
of Man, and General Account of the Accumulated 
Fund for the year ending 3lst March 1876, to- 
gether with the Report of the Comptroller and 
Auditor General thereon. 

The Fifty-fourth Report of the Commissioners 
of Her Majesty’s Woods, Forests, and Land Re- 
venues, in obedience to the Acts of 10 Geo. 4, ¢. 
50, and 2 Will. 4, c. 1, being the Twenty-fifth Re- 
port under the Act of the 14 &amp; 15 Vic. c. 42, dated 
29th June 1876. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Lord George Hamilton presented, pursuant to 
the directions of several Acts of Parliament,—Re- 
turn of all Loans raised in Jndia chargeable on the 
Revenues of Jndia, outstanding at the commence- 
ment of the half-year ending on the 3lst March 
1876, with the Rates of Interest payable thereon, 
and the Date of the Termination of each Loan, the 
Debt incurred during the half-year, the Moneys 
raised thereby during the half-year, the Loans 
paid off or discharged during the half-year, and 
the Loans outstanding at the close of the half-year, 
stating, so far as the public convenience will * “som 
the purpose or service for which Moneys have 
been raised during the half-year. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Quth June. 








1876. 

Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant Worcester 
to the Clerk of the Crown, to make out a New County 
Writ for the electing of a Member to serve in this Division) We 
present Parliament for the Western Division of ” 
the County of Worcester, in the room of William 
Edward Dowdeswell, Esquire, who, since his elec- 
tion for the said Division of the said County, hath 
accepted the Office of Steward or Bailiff of Her 
Majesty’s Three Chiltern Hundreds of Stoke, Des- 
borough, and Bonenham, in the County of Buck- 
ingham. 


Mr. Dodson reported from the Committee on Public 
Public Accounts; That they had made further nnate 
Progress in the matters to them referred, and ‘hit Report) 
directed him to make a Report thereof to the No. 324, 
House, together with the Minutes of the Evidence 
taken before them, and an Appendix. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


Ordered, That Mr. Ernest Noel have leave of Leave of 
absence for a fortnight, on account of illness in his Absence. 


family. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Message from 
Message had been brought from the Lords by one ‘2? Lords 
of their Clerks, as followeth: 

The Lords have agreed to the Jurors Qualifica- Jurors 


tion (Ireland) Bill, without any Amendment. (ireland) aie. 


The Lords have agreed to the Local Government Local Govern. 
Provisional Orders, Aberavon, &amp;c. (No. 7) Bill, visions] Onde, 
without any Amendment. som Ss 

0. lu, 

The Lords have agreed to the Slaithwatte Gas Slaithwaite 
Bill, without any Amendment. vepieane 

The Lords have agreed to the Publicans Certi- Publicans 
cates (Scotland) Bill, with Amendments; to which (Sootand) BL 
the Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have agreed to the Walsall Gas Pur- 
chase and Borough Extension Bill, with Amend- 
ments; to which the Lords desire the concurrence 
of this House. 

The Lords have agreed to the Felixstowe Rail- Felixstowe | 
way and Pier Bill, with Amendments; to which pier Bu 
the Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have agreed to the Southampton southampton 
Docks Bill, with Amendments; to which the Lords Docks Bill. 
desire the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have agreed to the Amendments Leigh and 
made by this House to the Leiyh and Hindley Hindley Loal 


Local Boards Bill, without any Amendment. tord.) 


The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Cruelty to 
Act to amend the Law relating to Cruelty to Ani- oe 
mals; to which the Lords desire the concurrence 
of this House. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act North Dublin 
to empower the North Dublin Street Tramways — 
Company to construct new Tramways, and for ; Lords.] 
other purposes; to which the Lords desire the 
concurrence of this House. iN 

The Lords request that this House will be ee 
pleased to communicate to their Lordships, a Copy 4c 
of the Report from the Select Committee ap- 

ointed by this House in the present Session of 
Parliament on the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations 
Acts, together with the Proceedings of the Com- 
mittee, Minutes of Evidence, and Appendix. 

The Lords propose that the Joint Committee 
appointed to consider the expediency of making 
further regulations concerning the admission and 
practice of Parliamentary Agents do meet in the 
Chairman of Committees’ Committee Room To- 
morrow, at Three of the clock. : 

Ordered, That the Select Committee appointed 
to join with the Committee appointed by the 
Lords, “ to consider the expediency of making 
further regulations concerning the admission and 
practice of Parliamentary Agents,” do meet the 
Lords’ Committee in the Chairman of Committees 

Committee 


Walsall Gas 
Purchase and 
Borough Ex. 
tension Bill. 


Parliamentary 
Agency. 








) Writ. 


port.) 
24, 





North Dublin 
Street Tram- 
ways Bill 
(Lorde 


Land Tenure 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Public Works 
Loans Bill, 


Appellate 
Jurisdiction 
Bill [Lords,] 


quad 
eques Bill 
[Lords] 


Customs Duties 


Consolidati 
Bill lidation 


40 VictoRtia, 


Committee Room To-morrow, at Three of the 
clock. 

Ordered, That a Message be sent to the Lords, 
to acquaint their Lordships that this House hath 
directed the Select Committee appointed by them | 
to join with a Committee of the Lords “ to con-} 
sider the expediency of making further regulations 
concerning the admission and practice of Parlia- 
mentary Agents,” to meet the Committee appointed 
by their Lordships in the Chairman of Committees’ } 
Committee Room To-morrow, at Three of the 
clock, as desired by their Lordships: And that 
the Clerk do carry the said Message. 

Ordered, That the Select Committee appointed 
to join with the Committee of the Lords have 
power to agree in the appointment of a Chairman of 
such joint Committee. 





The North Dublin Street Tramways Bill was 
read the first time. 

Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 





The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Question oe 
upon the 29th day of March last, That the Land 
Tenure (Jredund) Bill be now read a second time ; 
and which Amendment was, to leave out the word 
“ now,” and, at the end of the Question, to add | 
the words ** upon this day six months” ; 

And the Question being again proposed, That 








‘the word “ now” stand part of the Question :— The 


House resumed the said adjourned Debate. 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Friday morning ; 


Friday, 30th June, 1876: 


And the Question being put; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for they Mr. Richard Power, 


Yeas, Captain Nolan: | = 
Tellers for thes Mr. George Clive, 1 290 
Noes, \Mr. Gibson: eee 


So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
“upon this day six months” be added at the 
end of the Question:—It was resolved in the 
Affirmative. 

Then the Main Question, so amended, being | 
put ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upou this day six months. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Public Works Loans Bill; ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
next, at Two of the clock, resolve itself into the | 
said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Appellate Jurisdiction Bill; 


29th—30th June. 





Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
next, at Two of the clock, resolve itself into the | 


said Committee. | 


| 
The Order of the day being read, for the Com- | 
mittee on the Crossed Cheques Bill ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- | 


mittee on the Customs Duties Consolidation Bill ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


customs hone The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Bill, 





mittee on the Customs Laws Consolidation Bill ; 
VoL. 131. 





295 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Highways Bill. 
Reading of the Highways Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday the 10th day of July next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Beate ao 
Pia of the Roads and Bridges (Scotland) land) Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday the 10th day of July next. 


Suppl 


The Order of the day being read, for resumin ratte Sune.) 


the adjourned Debate on the Question propose 
upon the 27th day of this instant June, That the 
Resolutions which upon that day were reported 
from the Committee of Supply, be now read a 
second time ; 

And the Question being again proposed :—The 
House resumed the said adjourned Debate. 

And the Question being put; 

Ordered, 'That the said Resolutions be now read 
a second time :—The said Resolutions were ac- 
cordingly read a second time, and agreed to. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second aes 
. . . : sse: Ss 
eat) Ba the Ecclesiastical Assessments (Scot- (scotland) Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday the 17th day of July next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Suez Canal 
Reading of the Suez Canal (Shares) Bill ; alates 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday the 13th day of July next. 


Ordered, That the Gas and Water Orders Con- Gas and Water 
firmation ( Chapel-en-le-Frith, &amp;c.) Bill, and the — 
Oyster and Mussel Fisheries Order Confirmation (Chapel-en-le- 
Bill, be committed to the same Committee. Frith, &amp;c.) 

The House, according to Order, resolved itself a am . 
: . ° . ryster 
into a Committee on the said Bills; and, after and Mussel 
some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed Fisheries Order 
the Chair; and Mr. Raikes reported, That the Bill (Lords) 
Committee had gone through the Gas and Water «.. «3 Water 
Orders Confirmation (Chapel-en-le-Frith, &amp;c.) Orders Con- 
Bill; and directed him to report the same, with- firmation 
out Amendment. ia ney 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time pin [Lords.] 
this day. 

Mr. Raikes also reported, That the Committee Oyster and 
had gone through the Oyster and Mussel Fisheries Mussel in 
Order Confirmation Bill; and directed him to rom aos - 
report the same, without Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 


this day. 


onfirmation 
Bill [Lords.] 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Bishopric of 
Reading of the Bishopric of Truro Bill ; neo 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second University of 
Reading of the University of Cambridge Bill; Conetige 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time - 
upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- University of 
mittee on the University of Ozford Bill; b= wer Bill 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday ae 

next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Patents for 
Reading of the Patents for Inventions Bill ; Bill (Lord 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time _— 
upon Thursday next. 
PP4 The 


296 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
ill [Lords.) “POM the 8th day of this instant June, That the 
Agricultural Holdings ( Scotland) Bill be now read 
a second time ; 
Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till this day. 


Poor Law The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
(Scotland) Bill. the adjourned Debate on the Amendment which, 
upon the 27th day of this instant June, was pro- 
posed to be made to the Question, That Mr. 
Speaker do now leave the Chair (for Committee 
on the Poor Law (Scotland) Bill) ; ; 
Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Thursday next. 


County ot The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Peebles Justi- Reading of the County of Peebles Justiciary Dis- 
(Sertland) Bill trict (Scotland) Bill; 
’ Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day. 


Local Loans The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
(Ireland) {Ex- into a Committee on Local Loans ( freland) [Ex- 
Oe et tinguishment of Debts, &amp;c.] 


of Debts, &amp;c.]} 
(In the Committee.) 


Resolved, That it is expedient to authorise the 
Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury to ex- 
tinguish certain Debts due in Jreland to the Con- 
solidated Fund, and all arrears of interest thereon, 
and to amend the Law with respect to Loans to 
Local Authorities in Jreland out of the said Fund. 








Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Rathes 
— That the Committee had come to a Re- 
solution. 

Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 


The Elver Fishing Bill was, according to Order, 
read a second time; and committed to a Com- 
mittee of the whole House, for Monday next. 


Elver Fishing 
Bill. 


Bankers’ Books The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
Evidence Bill. ¢onsideration the Bankers’ Books Evidence Bill, 
as amended in the Committee; 
Ordered, That the Bill be taken into considera- 
tion upon Monday next. 


Notices to Quit The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
(Ireland) Bill. mittee on the Notices to Quit (Jreland) Bill; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 


29th-—30th June. 





next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 
The Order of the day being read, for the Com- | 

mittee on the Medical Act (Qualifications) Bill; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday | 


next, resolve itself into the said Committee. | 


Medical Act 
(Qualifications) 
Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- | 
mittee on the Offences against the Person Bill; | 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday | 
next, at Two of the clock, resolve itself into the | 


Offences 
against the 
Person Bill. 


said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second | 


Legal 
Practitioners 


Reading of the Legal Practitioners Bill ; 
Bill. 


upon Monday next. 


Irish Church 
Act (1869) 
Amendment 
Bill. 


Beer Licences The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
(Ireland) Bill. Reading of the Beer Licences (Ireland) Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time | 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second | 
Reading of the Zrish Church Act (1869) Amend- | 
ment Bull; | 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day. 





1876. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Par 
Reading of the Parliamentary Electors Registra- Electors Regy 
tion Bill; tration Bill, 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Jrish Peerage Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Medical 
into a Committee on the Medical Practitioners Practitioners 
Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. il, 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes re- 
ee That the Committee had gone through the 
Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second regal 
Reading of the Legal Practitioners (Ireland) Bill ; Practitioners 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time (!ela4) Bill 
this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second public Recon 
Reading of the Public Records (Ire/and) Amend- (Ireland) 
ment Bill; ene 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time ” 
this day. 


The Crab and Lobster Fisheries ( Norfolk) Bill Crab and 

was, according to Order, read the third time. —— 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. (Norfolk) Bill 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 

Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Parliamentary 
mittee on the Parliamentary and Municipal Regis- #4 Municipal 
tration (Boroughs) Bill; (Boroughs) 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve Bill. 
itself into the said Committee. 


Resolved, ‘That an humble Address be presented Register of 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased pear 
to give directions, that there be laid before this ” 
House, a Return of the Total Cost and other 
Charges connected with the Printing of the Re- 
gister of Electors in the Counties and Boroughs in 
the United Kingdom during the year 1875, ac- 
cording to the annexed Form (in continuation of 
Parliamentary Paper, No. 436, of Session 1875):— 





| 


Expenses of Printing. 








Total Number of Registers 


Printed. 
Total Amount received on 


Name of County, &amp;c., o7 
Borough. 
Total Number of Registers 
Cost of Printing. 

| Other Charges 

| as to Printing. 
Net Cost. 














| 


\ | 














Ordered, That there be laid before this House, wit ofice 
Copies of all Correspondence between the Trea- (Ireland.) 
sury and the Jrish Government, and the Lords 


| Chief Justices and Chief Baron, the Master of the 


Court of Exchequer, and the Officers of the Con- 
solidated Writ Office in Ireland, with regard to 
the Appointment to Vacancies in that Office since 
October last : Of the Warrant appointing Mr. 
Teeling, Clerk of Writs, dated the 26th day of 
October 1875: And, of the Appointments of 
the Second Assistant in the Writ Office to be First 
Assistant, of the Junior Clerk to be Second As- 
sistant, and of Mr. D. R. Pigot, junior, to be 
Junior Clerk in his stead. 

Ordered, 








itioners 


tioners 
nd) Bill, 


Records 
d) 
ment 


nd 


28 
k) Bill 


entary 
nicipal 
ation 


ths) 


(Cost 
ng.) 





40 Vicroria. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to make provision respecting the Superannuation 
Allowances or Pensions of Persons employed in 
the Service of Her Majesty in the Government of 
the Isle of Man: And that Sir Henry Selwin- 
Ibbetson and Mr. Secretary Cross do prepare, and 
bring it in. 





Isle of Man 
(Officers) 


Linen and Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 

Hempen and .. to consolidate and continue the Laws relating to 

cand) Linen, Hempen, and other Manufactures in Jre- 
land: And that Sir Michael Hicks Beach and Mr. 
Solicitor General for Ireland do prepare, and bring 
it in. 


Isle of Man Sir Henry Selwin-Ibbetson presented a Bill to} 

(Oficers) Bill. make provision respecting the Superannuation 

Bill 215. Allowances or Pensions of Persons employed in 
the Service of Her Majesty in the Government 
of the Isle of Man: And. the same was read the 
first time; and ordered to be read a second time 
upon Monday next; and to be printed. 


Amy Pensions A Motion being made, That this House will, 

Commutation. this day, resolve itself into a Committee to con- 
sider of exempting certain Officers of the Army on 
half pay retiring under “ The Regulation of the 
Forces Act, 1871,” from the operation of the tenth 
section of “ The Pensions Commutation Act, 
1871”; 

Mr. Hunt, by Her Majesty’s Command, ac- 
quainted the House, That Her Majesty, having 
been informed of the subject-matter of this Motion, 
recommends it to the consideration of the House. 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


Linen and Sir Michael Hicks Beach presented a Bill to 
——— consolidate and continue the Laws relating to 
factures Linen, Hempen, and other Manufactures in Jre- 


(Ireland) Bill. Jand: And the same was read the first time; and 
Bill 216. ordered to be read a second time upon Monday 
next; and to be printed. 


Post Office 
(Admission.) 


No. 325. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Copy of List of Persons irregularly admitted to 
the service of the Post Office between the date of 
the transfer of the Telegraphs of the 29th day of 
January 1870 and the 30th day of September 
1874. 

Mr. William Henry Smith accordingly presented 
the said Paper. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


Elementary The Order for the House to resolve itself into a 
Education Bill. Committee, upon Monday next, on the Elementary 
Education Bill, was read, and discharged. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
the 10th day of July next, resolve itself into the 
said Committee. 


Trade Marks . Lhe Trade Marks Registration Amendment 
Registration Bill was read the first time; and ordered to be 
Bill [Lords] read a second time upon Monday next; and to be 


Bill 217. printed. 


Publicans Ordered, That the Amendments made by the 
(Seotleed) Bi Lords to the Publicans Certificates (Scotland) 
Bil Bill be taken into consideration upon Monday 
ill 218, p 
next; and be printed. 
County The Order for reading a second time, wpon 
hfirmaries 


Wednesday the 12th day of July next, the County 
Infirmaries (Ireland) Bill, was read, and dis- 
charged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday the 13th day of July next. 


(Ireland) Bill, 


29th—30th June. 





297 


The Order for reading a second time, upon Sale of Intoxi- 
Wednesday the 12th day of July next, the Sale “tits a 
of Intoxicating Liquors on Sunday Bill, was read, or 
and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


The Order for reading a second time, upon Gun Licence 
Wednesday the 12th day of July next, the Gun =, 
Licence Act (1870) Amendment Bill, was read, Bill. 
and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday the 14th day of July next. 


The Order for reading a second time, upon Burglary and 
Tuesday the 11th day of July next, the Burglary Forgery Bill 
and Fergery Bill, was read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday the 12th day of July next. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till a quarter of an hour after Two of the 
clock on Friday morning, adjourned till 
this day. 








Friday, 30th June, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 
' i ‘HE House proceeded to take into considera- Caterham and 


tion the Amendments made by the Lords to Got" ; 
the Caterham and Godstone Valle Railway Bill; Bill.” sa 
and the same were twice read, and agreed to. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to ihe Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Huddersfield 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Hud- Water and 
dersfield. Water and Improvement Bill; and the gi, 
same were twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, ‘Yhat the Clerk do curry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Kildwick 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Kild- Parish Gas 
wick Parish Gas Bill; ana the same were twice . 
read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration North Eastern 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the North Railway Bill. 
Eastern Railway Bill; and the same were twice 
read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Paisley Water 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Paisley Bill. 
Water Bill; and the same were twice read, and 
agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Upper Mersey 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Upper Navigation 
Mersey Navigation Bill; and the same were twice ®! 
read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 





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QQ hath 





298 


hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


Whitehaven The House proceeded to take into consideration 
Harbour and =the Amendments made by the Lords to the White- 
Town wat.” haven Harbour and Town Improvement Bill ; and 
the same were twice read; and agreed to. 
Ordered, ‘That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


Tempest’s Estate Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


Tempest’s 
Estate Bill 
[Lerds.] 


Ordered, That the Select Committee on the 
Toll Bridges (River Thames) Bill have leave to 
sit this day till Five of the clock, during the sitting 
of the House. 


Toll Bridges 
(River 
Thames) 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,-—Report from 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private 
Orders =, Bills, That the Standing Orders not previously 
previously inquired into, and which are applicable thereto, 
inquired into, have been complied with in the case of the follow- 
complied with.) ing Bill, originating in the Lords, and referred on 
the First Reading thereof, viz. : 

Llandudno Improvement Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time. 


Private Bills 
[Lords] 
(Standing 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 
That the Standing Orders have not been complied 
with in the case of the following Bill, referred on 
the First Reading thereof, viz. : 

Arklow Harbour Improvement Bill. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the 

Sclect Committee on Standing Orders. 


Arklow 
Harbour 
Improvement 
Bill. 


Ecclesiastical 
Dilapidations 
Acts, 


The House prenenes to take into consideration 
t 


that part of the Message from the Lords of the 
29th day of this instant June, wherein their Lord- 
ships request that this House will communicate to 
their Lordships, a Copy of the Report from the 
Select Committee on the Ecclesiastical Dilapida- 
tions Acts, together with the Proceedings of the 
Committee, Minutes of Evidence, and Appendix. 

Ordered, That a Printed Copy of the said 
Report be communicated to the Lords, as desired 
by their Lordships: And that the Clerk do deliver 
the same. 


Leven Harbour Mr. Raikes reported the Zeven Harbour Bill, 
Bill (Lords.] with Amendments. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


Greencastleand Mr. Raikes reported the Greencastle and Kilkeel 

Kilkeel Rail- Railway and Pier Bill, with Amendments. 

Bil tlords] Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table; 
and be printed. 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on 
the Dochfour Estate Bill; That they had exa- 
mined the allegations contained in the Preamble 
of the Bill, and made verbal Amendments therein, 
and found the same, as amended, to be true; and 
lad gone through the Bill, and directed him to 
report the same, with Amendments. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table. 


A Message was delivered by Colonel Clifford, 
Yeoman Usher of the Black Rod: 
Mr. Speaker, 


The Lords, authorised by virtue of Her Ma- 
jesty’s Commission, for declaring Her Royal Assent 


Dochfour 
Estate Bill 
[ Lords. } 


Royal Assent. 


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1876, 


to several Acts agreed upon by both Houses, desire 
the immediate attendance of this Honourable House 
in ie House of Peers, to hear the Commission 
read. 

Accordingly Mr. Speaker, with the House, 
went up to the House of Peers :—And being re- 
turned ; 

Mr. Speaker reported, That the House, at the 
desire of the Lords, authorised by virtue of Her 
Majesty’s Commission, had been at the House of 
Peers, where a Commission under the Great Seal 
was read, giving, declaring and notifying the Royal 
Assent to the several Acts therein mentioned ; and 
that the Lords, thereby authorised, had declared 
the Royal Assent to the said Acts, as follow: 

An Act to amend the Trade Union Act, 1871. trade Union 


An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Jurors 
Qualification of Jurors in Ireland. Seetieston 

An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders Local : 
of the Local Government Board relating to the ment Pro. 
Boroughs of Aberavon, Andover, Brighton, and — 
Burnley, the Districts of Merthyr Tydvil and Pen- (No. 7) Bal” 
sarn, the Rural Sanitary District of the Tudcaster 
Union, and the Borough of Truro. 

An Act for conferring further Powers on the sutton Bridge 
Sutton Bridge Dock Company, for the construction Dock Bill, 
of Works, the raising of Money, and otherwise in 
relation to their Undertaking, and for other pur- 

ses. 

An Act to enable the Local Boards for the Dis~ Leigh ana 
tricts of Leigh and Hindley, both in the County of Hindley Local 
Lancaster, to construct Waterworks, and to supply om Bill 
Water, and for transferring to them certain Rights _— 
of the South Laucashire Waterworks Company, 
and for other purposes. 

An Act for dissolving and re-incorporating the Slaithwaite 
Slaithwaite Gas Light Company, Limited, and “° Bill 
granting Powers for supplying with Gas the Town- 
ship of Slaithwaite, and certain neighbouring 
Townships and Places in the West Riding of the 
County of York. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and Public 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. Seana, 
Vide Twenty- 
eighth Report. 
Ordered, That the Account relative to the Jsle Isle of Man. 
of Man, which was presented upon the 29th day of No. 326, 
this instant June, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to the Woods, Woods, Forests, 
Forests, and Land Revenues, which was presented — 


upon the 29th day of this instant June, be yw, g97 
printed. sc 


Mr. Secretary Cross presented, by Her Ma- Wye River 
jest’s Command,—Copy of Report of the Commis- ®¥*""* 
sioners appointed to inquire into certain Bye-laws 
proposed for the Fisheries of the River Wye. 

Mr. Secretary Cross presented,—Return to an jy stices of 
Order, dated the 19th day of this instant June, for the Peace 
a Return relative to Justices of the Peace (Jre- (Ireland.) 
land). 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented, pursuant Civil List 
to the directions of an Act of Parliament,—A List Pesio® 
of all Pensions granted during the year ended 
the 20th June 1876, and charged upon the Civil 
List. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Coast Survey» 
a Return of all Surveys of the Coasts of Ireland 
and Scotland published by authority of the Hydro- 
graphical Department of the Admiralty, = 
when 











40 Vicrorra. 


when each Survey was begun, by whom conducted, 
when published, and on what Scale; and, in case 
uf Re-Surveys, stating by whom conducted and 
when published. 


Message from Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- 
the Lords. gage had been brought from the Lords by one of 
their Clerks, as followeth : 
paainlty The Lords have agreed to the Admiralty Juris- 
Jurisdiction diction (Jreland) Bill, with Amendments; to 
(Ireland) Bill. which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House. 
pablie Health The Lords have agreed to the Public Health 
(Gotland) Pro- (Scot/and) Provisional Order (Wemyss) Bill, with 
visional Order Amendments; to which the Lords desire the 
(Wemyss) Bill. ¢ neurrence of this House. 
Sittingbourne _ Lhe Lords have agreed to the Sittingbourne and 
and Sheerness Sheerness Railway Bill, with Amendments; to 
Railway Bill) which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House. 
Stockton-on- The Lords have agreed to the Stockion-on- Tees 
Tees Markets Markets Bill, with Amendments; to which the 
= Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 
Hlementary The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
Biucation Pro- to confirm a Provisional Order made by the Educa- 
—— tion Department under “ The Elementary Educa- 
(london) Bill tion Act, 1870,” to enable the School Board for 
[Lords] London to put in force “ The Lands Clauses Con- 
solidation Act, 1845,” and the Acts amending the 
same; to which the Lords desire the concurrence 
of this House. 


Provisional The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An 
(irand) Act for confirming certain Provisional Orders of 


Confirmation the Local Government Board for Jreland relating 

Bill [Lords.] to the Township of Dalkey, the Galway Union, 
the City of Londonderry, the Newtownards United 
Burial Grounds District, the Omagh Waterworks, 
and to the Wexford Waterworks; to which the 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 


Supply. The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, Tiat Mr. Speaker do now leave 
the Chair ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That ” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the 

Irish words ‘‘a Select Committee be appointed to inquire 

Parliament.  «* into and report upon the nature, the extent, and 
“ the grounds of the demand made by a large pro- 
“ portion of the Jrish people for the restoration to 
 Treland of an Irish Parliament, with power to 
“control the internal affairs of that Country,” 
instead thereof. 

And the Question being proposed, That the 
words proposed to be left out stand part of the 
Question ; 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Saturday morning ; 


Saturday, 1st July, 1876: 


And the Question being put ; 
The House divided. 
The Yeas to the Right; 
The Noes to the Left. 
Tellers for the (Sir William Dyke, \o01 
Yeas, { Mr. Rowland Winn: ; 
Tellers for thef Mr. Richard Power, 
Noes, Captain Nolan: 
So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 
Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
Chair:—The House accordingly resolved itself 
into the Committee. 


(In the Committee. ) 


Motion made, and Question proposed, That a 
further Sum, not exceeding £. 436,410, be granted 
to Her Majesty, on account, for or towards defray- 
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30th June.—I1st July. 229 


ing the Charge for the following Civil Services, 
to the 31st day of March 1877 :— 


Cuass I, 

Ireland :— &amp;. 
Public Buildings - - - = - = 15,006 
Crass II. 

Englund :— 
Privy Council Office and Subordinate Depart- 
ments - - - - - ~ - 98,250 
Ireland : — 
Local Government Board - - - - 11,000 
Crass IV, 
England :— 
Public Education - - - - - - 200,000 
Science and Art Department - - - = 25,000 
British Museum - - - - - - 9,500 
National Gallery - - - « « ‘ 600 
National Portrait Gallery - - - os 200 
Learned Societies - - - - - - 1,050 
University of London’ - - - - - 900 
Scotland :— 
Public Education - - - - = = 70,000 
Board of Education a a a 500 
Universities, &amp;c. —- - - - - - 1,600 
National Gallery - - -— - - - 200 
Ireland :— 
Public Education - - - - - - 75,000 
Commissioners of Education ( Endowed Schools) 60 
National Gallery - - - - - = 200 
Royal Irish Academy - - - = &amp; 250 
Queen’s University eee 400 
Queen’s Colleges - ete a et - - 1,000 
Crass V 
Diplomatic Services - = + = «© 18,500 
Crass VI. 
Hospitals and Infirmaries, Ireland - - - 1,750 
Miscellaneous Charitable and other Allowances, 
Ireland - - - - - - - 450 
£. 436,410 


Whereupon Motion made, and Question pro- 
posed, That the Chairman do report Progress, and 
ask leave to sit again:—Motion, by leave, with- 
drawn. 

Original Question put, and agreed to. 


Resolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Razkes 
reported, That the Committee had come to a 
Resolution. 

Ordered, That the Report be ‘received upon 
Monday next. 

Mr. Raikes also acquainted the House, that he 
was directed to move, That the Committee may 
have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Cattle Disease 
mittee on the Cattle Disease (/reland) Bill ; nee 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Gas and Water Orders Confirmation Gas and Water 


( Chapel-en-le-Frith, &amp;c.) Bill was, according to Orders Con- 


Order, read the third time. {Chapel eno 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. Frith, &amp;c.) 


Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the Bil! (Lords.] 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


The Oyster and Mussel Fisheries Order Con- Oyster and 
firmation Bill was, according to Order, read the Mussel 
third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass, 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, without Amendment. 

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Confirmation 
Bill [ Lords, ] 


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800 30th June.—-\st July. 1876. 


Bishopric of The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Truro Bill. © Reading of the Bishopric of Truro Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
ine the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
(Scotland) upon the 8th day of June last, That the Agricul- 
Bill [Lords] tural Holdings (Scotland) Bill be now read a 

second time ; 
Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Thursday next. 


County of The County of Peebles Justiciary District (Scot- 
Peebles land) Bill was, according to Order, read a second 
Justiciary § time; and committed to a Committee of the whole 
oe House, for Monday next. 
— Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on 
(Ireland) [Ex- Local Loans (Jre/and) ‘ Extinguishment of Debts, 
- ~~ &amp;c.], a Resolution ; which was read, as followeth ; 
_ hat it is expedient to authorise the Commis- 
sioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury to extinguish 
certain Debts due in Jreland to the Consolidated 
Fund, and all arrears of Interest thereon, and to 
amend the Law with respect to Loans to Local 
Authorities in Jreland out of the said Fund. 
The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 
Ordered, That a Bill be brought in upon the 
said Resolution: And that Sir Michael Hicks 
Beach and Mr. Solicitor General for Ireland do 
prepare, and bring it in. 


Army Pensions ‘Lhe House, according to Order, resolved itself 
Commutation. into a Committee on Army Pensions Commutation. 


(In the Committee. ) 


Resolved, That it is expedient to exempt certain 
Officers of the Army on or retiring under 


“ The Regulation of the Forces Act, 1871,” from 
the operation of the Tenth Section of “ The Pen- 
sions Commutation Act, 1871.” 

Resolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Ratkes 
reported, That the Committee had come to a 
Resolution. 

Ordered, That the Report be received upon 
Monday next. 


Ways and The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Means. mittee of Ways and Means; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Poor Law The Order of the day being read, for the Second 

Soe ag Reading of the Poor Law Guardians Elections 

“lections 4 

Ireland) Bin, (2reland) Bill; ; 

— Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday next. 


eu The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Occupiers Dis- mittee on the House Occupiers Disqualification 
Gualification, Removal Bill; 
‘Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Convention The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
(Ireland) Act Reading of the Convention (/reland) Act Repeal 
Repeal Bill. = Rj) ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday next. 


Companies The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Acts (1862 and Reading of the Companies Acts (1862 and 1867) 
een Amendment Bill ; ’ 
F Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday next. 








The Order of the day being read, for resuming gy, 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed Pree 
upon the 27th day of April last, That the Game (Sotland) Bip 
Laws Amendment (Scotland) Bill be now read a 
second time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Elementary 
Reading of the Elementary Education ( Application Education 
for School Board) Bill; (Application 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time Beard) bn 


upon Friday next. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to Coroners 
take into consideration the Amendments made by (Dublin) Bin, 
the Lords to the Coroners (Dud/in) Bill; and the 
same were twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
oe to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second trish Church 
Reading of the Irish Church Act (1869) Amend- Act (1869) 
ment Bill ; Surat 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a secondtime 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- ;,;., p 
mittee on the Jrish Peerage Bill ; Bill [Lorde] 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednes- 
day next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to Medical 
take into consideration the Medical Practitioners Prtitioners 
Bill, as amended in the Committee. — 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Legal | 
Reading of the Legal Practitioners (Jreland) Bill; (Ireland) Bil 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time ; 
upon Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Public Records 
Reading of the Public Records (Ireland) Amend- — 
ment Bill; Bil = 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 


upon Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Parliamentary 
mittee on the Parliamentary and Municipal Regis- sn¢ Municip 
tration (Boroughs) Bill ; (Boroughs) 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday Bil. 


next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Mr. Stansfeld reported from the Select Com- Ton Bridges 
mittee on the Toll Bridges (River Thames) Bill ; (River - 
That they had considered the said Bill, and taken ae “4 
Evidence thereon, which they had agreed to a 
report to the House; and had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the No,328. 
Table ; and be printed. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for Tuesday next. 

Ordered, That the Parties who appeared before 
the Committee have leave to print the Minutes 
of the Evidence taken before the Committee, 
from the Committee Clerk’s copy, if they think 
fit. 


The Order for the House to resolve itself into a Juries 
Committee, upon Monday next, on the Juries Pro- (irglend) Bill: 
cedure (Jreland) Bill, was read, and discharged. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
next, at Two of the clock, resolve itself into the 


said Committee. 
The 





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Bill, 


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The Order for reading a second time, upon 
Hempen and Monday next, the Linen and Hempen and other 
ee reand) Manufactures (Jreland) Bill, was read, and dis- 
Bill charged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


Linen and 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till a quarter of an hour after Two of the 
clock on Saturday morning, adjourned till 
Monday next. 








Mo nday, 3rd July, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 


Felixstowe T H E House proceeded to take into considera- 

Railway and tion the Amendments made by the Lords to 

has the Felixstowe Railway and Pier Bill; and the 
same were twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. ° 


Southampton 


The House proceeded to take into considera- 
Docks Bill. 


tion the Amendments made by the Lords to the 


=| tive to Soldiers, &amp;c. (Families in receipt of Re- 


st—3rd July. 301 


The Saint Werburgh’s Church, Bristol, Bill was a h 

e 4 . er s 

read a second time; and committed. Church, Bristol 

Bill [ Lords.] 
The West Ham Loca! Board Bill was read a West Ham 


second time ; and committed. Bill 


Several Public Petitions were 


resented, and Public 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the 


‘able. Petitions. 


Vide Twenty- 
eighth Report. 


Ordered, That an Abstract of the Return rela- Soldiers, &amp;c. 
(Families in 
receipt of 


lief), which was presented upon the 9th day of Relief.) 
June last, be printed. No, 329. 


' Ordered, That the Paper relative to the Educa- — ‘ 
tion Department, which was presented upon the N one 
26th day of June last, be printed. — 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to the Civil Civil List 
List Pensions, which was presented upon the 30th "No. 331 
day of June last, be printed. tia 


Lord George Hamilton presented,—Return to India Tariff 
an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 22nd day ““ _— 
of June last, for a Return relative to the India 
Tariff Act, 1875. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 


Svuthampton Docks Bill; and the same were twice 
read, and agreed to. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
‘aT the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


Table. 







































Mr. William Henry Smith presented,—Return Quit Rent 
to an Order, dated the 15th day of June last, for a (Ireland.) 
Return relative to Quit Rent Claims (/reland). 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Ivel Navigation Table. 


The Ivel Navigation Bill was read the third 
Bill [Lords.] 


time. 

Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, with Amendments ; to which 
~ this House doth desire the concurrence of their 
Lordships. 


™ Mr. Secretary Cross presented,—Return to an Industrial and 


Address to Her Majesty, dated the 14th day of Provident 
February last, for Returns relative to Industrial 
and Provident Societies. 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated Owners of 
the 4th day of May last, for Returns relative to = 
Owners of Land. . 

Mr. Secretary Cross also presented, pursuant to Education 
the directions of an Act of Parliament,— Annual (oceas, 


Letterk i j ae ites 
- tama Pe ore ee Railway Bill was read the Report of the Commissioners of Education in Jre- 


, : land, for the year 1875-76. 
Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, | * Or dered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
able. 


Mr. James Lowther presented, by Her Majesty’s New Guinea. 
Command,—Copy of Correspondence relating to 
New Guinea. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 





do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, with Amendments; to which 
this House doth desire the concurrence of their 
Lordships. 


The Rochester Bridge Bill was read the third 
time. 

Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
do pass. 
| Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
i. Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, with Amendments; to which 


Bs 


Rochester 


[Lords Mr. Bourke presented, by Her Majesty’s Com Suez Canal 
mand,—Copy of further Correspondence respect- (sypt. 
ing the Suez Canal. ee 
Mr. Bourke also presented,—Return to an Ad- Embassies and 
dress to Her Majesty, dated the 19th day of June Legations 
last, for Returns relative to Embassies and Lega- C - oo 
this House doth desire the concurrence of their | tions (Houses). No. 7, 1876.) 
Lordships. “ i That the said Papers do lie upon the 
. able. 
Blackrod Local The House proceeded to take intoconsideration|  q. 
Board Bill the Blackrod ee Board Bill, as amended in the | . Sir Charles Adderley presented, by Her Ma- Navigation and 
Committee; and Amendments were made to the |J°*YS Command,—-Copy of Annual Statement of Shipping. 
Bill, ‘ the Navigation and Shipping of the United King- 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. | 4o™ for the year 1875, compiled by the Registrar 
, General of Shipping and Seamen. Parts I. and II. 
General Tables for the year 1875. Part III. 
Comparative Tables for the years 1871 to 1875. 
. — That the said Paper do lie upon the 
able. 


Mr. Salt presented, pursuant to the directions Municipal 
of several Acts of Parliament,—Abstract of the Borough Rates 
Muncipal Borough Accounts, year ended 31st Au- (22gland.) 
gust 1875. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Bi Era * The House proceeded to take into consideration 


e Sutton Gas Bill, as amended in the Committee. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The Belfast and County Down Railway Bill 


County D. “ } 
m7 Down was read a second time; and committed. 


ll. Railway Bill 
[Lords : 


Dub! * 
Cty Meet) ~The Dublin (South) City Markets Bill was read 
Bill (Lords.] second time ; and committed. 

Vou. 131. 





QQ3 Ordered, 


Erne Lough 
and River Bill, 
and Ardglass 
Harbour Bill. 


Provisional 
Orders 
(Ireland) 
Confirmation 
Bill [Lords.] 
Bill 220. 
Elementary 
Education Pro- 
visional Order 
Confirmation 
(London) 
Bill [Lords.] 
Bill 221, 
Admiralty 
Jurisdiction 
(Ireland) Bill. 
Bill 222. 


Smithfield 
Prison 
(Dublin) Bill. 


Kingstown 
Harbour Bill. 


302 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Copy of Correspondence between the Admiralty, 
Rear Admiral Macdonald, and Captain G. Sulivan, 
relative to the Removal of Captain Sulivan from 
Her Majesty’s Ship “ London,” in 1875. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be queleeie pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Copy of a Memorial forwarded by the 
General Medical Council to Her Majesty’s Govern- 
ment respecting a Bill, intituled, An Act to pre- 
vent Cruel Experiments on Animals. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return showing the Amount of the Ori- 

inal Share Capital of the Madras Irrigation and 
ram Company, with Date of Subscription, and 
with Explanation of the Arrangements under 
which a Seonntenl Interest of Five per Cent. on 
this Capital was agreed to be paid from the Indian 
Treasury :—~—-Statements of Interest paid by the 
Government of Jndia on the Share Capital of the 
Irrigation and Canal Company up to the present 
Date : —— Of the Amount of Money subsequently 
advanced to the said Company secured by Deben- 
tures, and exhibiting any Sums repaid, with Expla- 
nation of the Authority under which this Advance 
of Money was made, and showing the Interest 
which has accrued on this Debenture Debt, and 
which remains unpaid at the present date: -——Of 
any further Sums advanced by the Government 
of India for working the Canals or for other sub- 
sidiary purposes up to the present year :——Of 
the Expenses of Management and Repair of the 
Canal for the last Five Years, with Return of 
the Revenue received from the Canal and Irriga- 
tion Works during that period: And, showing 
all other known Liabilities of the Irrigation and 
Canal Company secured by Debentures held by 
private Parties, with Explanation if there be any 
Security for Payment of Principal or Interest of 
these Debts other than the Deniion from the 
Works themselves. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Reports from 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private 
Bills, That the Standing Orders have not been 
complied with in the case of the following Bills, 
referred on the First Reading thereof, viz. : 

Erne Lough and River Bill. 
Ardglass Harbour Bill. 

Ordered, That the Reports be referred to the 

Select Committee on Standing Orders. 


The Provisional Orders (Jreland) Confirmation 
Bill was read the first time ; and ordered to be 
read a second time upon Thursday next; and to 
be printed. 


The Elementary Education Provisional Order 
Confirmation (London) Bill was read the first 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time upon 
Thursday next; and to be printed. 


Ordered, That the Amendments made by the 
Lords to the Admiralty Jurisdiction (Jreland) Bill 
be taken into consideration upon Thursday next; 
and be printed. 


Ordered, That the Amendments made by the 
Lords to the Smithfield Prison (Dublin) Bill be 
taken into consideration To-morrow, at Two of 
the clock. 


Ordered, That the Amendment made by the 
Lords to the Kingstown Harbour Bill be taken 
into consideration ‘l'o-morrow, at Two of the clock. 


3rd July. 














1876. 


Ordered, That the Amendments made by the Burghy 
Lords to the Burghs (Division into Wards) (Scot- (Division ing 
land) Amendment Bill be taken into consideration Mar (Scot. 
To-morrow, at Two of the clock. a Bill, 

Ordered, That the Amendments made by the Public Health 
Lords to the Public Health ( Scotland) Provisional (Scotland) Pry, 
Order (Wemyss) Bill be taken into consideration (Wemyortt 
To-morrow, at Two of the clock. ves) Bil 


Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his War- Leitrim 
rant to the Clerk of the Crown in Jreland, to make (County) Writ 
out a new Writ for the electing of a Member to 
serve in this present Parliament for the County of 
Leitrim, in the room of Major William Richard 
Ormsby Gore, now Baron Harlech, called up to the 
House of Peers. 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- Adjournment, 
posed, That this House do now adjourn :—And the 
said Motion was, with leave of the House, with. 
drawn. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- Message from 
sage had been brought from the Lords by one of the Lords, 
their Clerks, as followeth: 

The Lords have agreed to the Prevention of Prevention of 
Crimes Act Amendment Bill, without any Amend- Crimes Act 


Amendment 
ment. Bill 


The Lords have agreed to the Spennymoor and Spennymoor 
Tudhoe Gas Bill, with an Amendment; to which 2d Tudh 
the Lords desire the concurrence of this House. °** Bil 

The Lords have agreed to the North Wales North Wales 
Narrow Gauge Railways Bill, with Amendments ; Narrow Gauge 
to which the Lords desire the concurrence of this ®#!¥ys Bill 
House. 

The Lords have agreed to the Romford Canal Romford Canal 
Company Bill, with Amendments; to which the “ompany Bill. 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House, 

The Lords have agreed to the Southport Im- Southport 
provement Bill, with Amendments; to which the Improvement 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House. - 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Elementary 
to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the —— 
Education Department under “ The Elementary Confirmation 
Education Act, 1870,” to enable the School Boards (Hailsham, &amp;c.) 
for Hailsham, Ilchester, Ingham, Slaugham, Swansea Bill [Lorde] 
(United District), and Swansea Parish, Higher 
and Lower, to put in force “ The Lands Clauses 
Consolidation Act, 1845,” and the Acts amending 
the same ; to which the Lords desire the concur- 
rence of this House. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Elementary 
to confirm a Provisional Order made by the Edu- a 
cation Department under “ The Elementary Edu- Confirmation 
cation Act, 1870,” to enable the School Board for (Hornsey) 
Hornsey to put in force “ The Lands Clauses Con- Bil! (Zerd] 
solidation Act, 1845,” and the Acts amending the 
same ; to which the Lords desire the concurrence of 
this House. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Prudential 
to amend “ The Prudential Assurance Company eee 
Act, 1875 ;” to which the Lords desire the concur- pi) [ Lords.) 
rence of this House. 


The Elementary Education Provisional Orders 
Confirmation (Hailsham, &amp;c.) Bill was read the vin) Orders 
first time; and ordered to be read a second time Confirmation 


upon Thursday next; and to be printed. es) ) 


Bill 223. 
The Elementary Education Provisional Order Blementary 
Confirmation (Hornsey) Bill was read the first woreney 
time; and ordered to be read a second time UpOD Confirmation 


Thursday next; and to be printed. Comet j 


Bill 224 
The Prudential Assurance Company Bill was Protsatia 
read the first time. 
Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills. a 


ce 
Company Bill 
{ Lords. ] 








) Writ, 


nent, 


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10e 


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jauge 
Bill 


Canal 


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Customs Duties 


tion 


Bill. 


40 Vicroria. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Amendment which, 
upon the 22nd day of June last, was proposed to 
be made to the Question, That the Prisons Bill be 
now read a second time ; and which Amendment 
was, to leave out from the word “ That” to the end 
of the Question, in order to add the words “ this 
« House, whilst recognising the necessity of mea- 
“ sures being adopted to secure economy and effi- 
“ciency in the management of Prisons, is of 
“ opinion that it would be inexpedient to transfer 
a the control and management of Prisons from 
« Local Authorities to the Secretary of State,” 
instead thereof ; 

And the Question being again proposed, That 
the words ee to be left out stand part of the 
Question: The House resumed the said adjourned 
Debate. 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on ‘Tuesday morning ; 


Tuesday, 4th July, 1876: 


And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That the Debate be now adjourned ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 


Tellers for the ;Sir Zhomas Chambers, \ 199 
Yeas, © (Mr. Whalley: J : 
Tellers for the; Sir William Dyke, 1 298 
; 298. 


Noes, iMr. Rowland Wiun: 

So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being again peepee That 
the words proposed to be left out stand part of the 
Question ; 

A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That this House do now adjourn:—And 
the said Motion was, with leave of the House, 
withdrawn. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Ques- 
tion; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the {Sir William Dyke, 1 


Yeas, Mr. Rowland Winn: nies 
Tellers for the ¢ Mr. Rylands, VL 96 
Noes, Mr. Pease: ae 


So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That the Bill be now read a second 
time:—The Bill was accordingly read a second 
time; and committed to a Committee of the whole 
House, for Monday the 17th day of this instant 
July. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Crossed Chequas Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, at Two 
of the clock, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Customs Duties Conso- 
lidation Bill; and, after some time spent therein, 
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Maikes 
reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration upon Thursday 
next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Customs Laws Consolidation Bill; 


And a Motion being made, and the Question 
r 


being proposed, That 
the Chain. ; 

A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That the Debate be now adjourned :—And 
the said Motion was, with leave of the House, 
withdrawn. 

VoL. 131. 


. Speaker do now leave 


3rd—4th July. 





303 


And the original Question being put ; 

Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
Chair: --The House accordingly resolved itself 
into the Committee; and, after some time spent 
therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr. 
Raikes reported, That the Committee had gone 
through the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 


mittee, be taken into consideration upon Thursday 
next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Valuation Bill. 
Reading of the Valuation Bill: 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upop Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Sheriff Courts 
Reading of the Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Bill; _ (Seotland) Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Clerk of the 
the os eo? on the Amendment which, Pesce and of 
upon the 26th day of May last, was proposed to be 
made to the Goetiin, ‘Ties the: Clerk of the sac ciieaee 
Peace and of the Crown (Jreland) Bill be now 
read a second time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Prisons 
Reading of the Prisons (Jre/and) Bill ; (Ireland) Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Maritime 
Reading of the Maritime Contracts Bill ; Contracts Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Turnpike Acte 
Reading of the Turnpike Acts Continuance, &amp;c, Continuance, 
Bill ; &amp;c. Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Civil Bill 
the adjourned Debate on the Question pro a Courts 
upon the 27th day of June last, That the Civil Bill “"#4) Bil- 
Courts (Ireland) Bill be now read a second time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Public Health 
Reading of the Public Health (Jreland) Bill ; (Ireland) Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day, at Two of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Poor Law 
mittee on the Poor Law Rating (/reland) Bill ; (ireland) am. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday - 
uext, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Isle of Man. 
Reading of the Isle of Man (Officers) Bill ; (Officers) Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Trade Marks 
Reading of the Trade Marks Registration Amend- Registration 
ment Bill; Bil [Lords] 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time , 
this day, ut Two of the clock. 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee of Supply- 
Supply, a Resolution; which was read, as fol- 
loweth : 

That a further Sum, not exceeding £. 436,410, Civil Services 
be granted to Her Majesty, on account, for or (Further Vote 
towards defraying the Charge for the follow-"4°™ 

QQ4 i 


ing 









































i 





304 


ing Civil Services, to the 3lst day of March 
1877 :— 
Crass I. 


Ireland :— £. 
Public Buildings - - - - 15,000 
Cxass IT. 
England :— 


Privy Council Office and Subordinate Depart- 
ments ee sh ee ee ee 


Ireland :— 
Local Government Board - 


Crass IV. 


11,000 


England :— 


Public Education - - 
Science and Art Department 
British Museum - - 
National Gallery -  - 
Nationa] Portrait Gallery 
Learned Societies - - 
University of London - 


Scotland :— 
Public Education - 
Board of Education 
Universities, ke. - 
National Gallery - 

Ireland :— 


Public Education - 
Commissioners of Education (Endowed Schools) 
National Gallery - -— - e sat) 2 
Royal Jrish Academy - - - = 
Queen’s University - - - - - 
Queen’s Colleges - = - - = - 


200,000 
25,000 
9,500 
600 
200 
1,050 
900 


70,000 
500 
1,600 
200 


¢ ‘s&amp;s oD 
60 
200 
250 
400 
1,000 


Crass V. 


Diplomatic Services - - 18,500 


Cuass V1. 


Hospitals and Infirmaries, Jreland - - = 
Miscellaneous Charitable and other Allowances, 
Ireland - - - - ‘ ‘ 


1,750 
450 
£. 436,410 


The said Resolution, being read a second time, 


was agreed to. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednes- 
day next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Supply. 


Cattle Disease = The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
(Ireland) Bill. mittee on the Cattle Disease (Jreland) Bill ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Bishopric of Truro Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day, at Two of the clock. 


Bishopric of 
Truro Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the County ef Peebles Justiciary District 
(Scotland) Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednes- 
day next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


County of 
Peebles 
Justiciary 
District (Scot- 
land) Bill. 


Army Pensions Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on 
Commutation. Army Pensions Commutation,a Resolution ; which 
was read, as followeth : 

That it is expedient to exempt certain Officers 
of the Army on Half-Pay retiring under “ The 
Regulation of the Forces Act, 1871,” from the 
operation of the Tenth Section of “The Pen- 
sions Commutation Act, 1871.” 

The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 

Ordered, That a Bill be brought in upon the 
said Resolution: And that Mr. Raikes, Mr. Secre- 
tary Hardy, and Mr. William Henry Smith do 
prepare, and bring it in. 


3rd—A4th July. 














1876. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Ways and Means; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednes- 
day next, resolve itself into the said Committee, 


Ways and 
Means, 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Free Libraries 

Reading of the Free Libraries and Museums Bill ; 2»4 Museums 
Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. a. 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Nullum 
mittee on the Nullum Tempus (Ireland) Bill; Tempus 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday (Treland) Bil, 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Sale of Coal 

Reading of the Sale of Coal Bill; Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 

upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Limited 
Reading of the Limited Owners Residence (Jre- Owners 
land) Bill; (Irland Bil 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Intoxicating 
mittee on the Intoxicating Liquors (Licensing 1 wae 
Law Amendment) (No. 2) Bill; coe 


Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve (No.2) Bill. 
itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Elver Fishing 
into a Committee on the Elver Fishing Bill; and, 2, 
after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker re- Bill 226. 
sumed the Chair; and Mr. Ratkes reported, That 
the Committee had gone through the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration upon Thursday 
next; and be printed. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to Bankers’ Books 
take into consideration the Bankers’ Books Evi- Evidence Bill 
dence Bill, as amended in the Committee; and 
Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made 
to the Bill, in p. 1, 1. 20, by inserting, after the 
words “ chapter thirty-two,” the words “ and any 
* savings bank certified under the Act of 1863.” 

And the Question being proposed, That those 
words be there inserted:— The said proposed 
Amendment was, with leave of the House, with- 
drawn. 

A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That the further Proceeding on considera- 
tion of the Bill, as amended, be now adjourned :— 

And the said Motion was, with leave of the House, 
withdrawn. 

Then other Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Thursday next. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Notices to 
into a Committee on the Notices to Quit (Jre/and) my (Ireland) 
Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. ‘Bill 296. 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes re- : 
pesos. That the Committee had gone through the 
Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to a Com- 
mittee of the whole House, for Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Medical Act 
mittee on the Medical Act (Qualifications) Bill ; (a Bill 
And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave 
the Chair:—And a Debate arising thereupon ; 
Ordered, That the Debate be adjourned till this 
day, at Two of the clock. H 
e 








sibrarieg 
useums 


8 
id) Bil, 


Coal 


nce 
d) Bill 


ating 


ing Law 
nent) 
Bill. 


ishing 
225, 


’ Books 
&gt; Bill. 


26. 


Act 





Pract 
le Bl 


Publicans 
ificates 
(eeotinnd) Bill. 


House 
Occupiers 
Disqualifica- 
tion Removal 
Bill. 


Irish Church 
Act (1869) 
Amendment 
Bill. 


Parliamentary 
and Municipal 
Registration 
(Boroughs) 
Bill. 


Convict 
Prisons 
(Returns, ) 


Convict 

Prisons 

(Returns) Bill. 
Bill 227. 


Dochfour 
Estate Bill 
(Lords. 


Tunbridge 
Wells and 
Eastbourne 
Railways Bill, 


Public 
Petitions, 

Vide Twenty- 
eighth Report. 
Queen’s Bench, 


Ireland (Mr, 
Blackham.) 


No. 332, 
India Tariff 
Act, 1875,, 

No. 333. 


Quit Rent 
ms 


(Ireland, ) 
No, 334, 
Owners of 
Land. 
No. 335, 


40 VicTORIA. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Legal Practitioners Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking 
into consideration the Amendments made by the 
Lords to the Publicans Certificates (Scotland) 
Bill; 

Ordered, That the said Amendments be taken 
into consideration this day, at Two of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the House Occupiers Disqualification 
Removal Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, at Two 
of the clock, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Irish Church Act (1869) Amend- 
ment Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Parliamentary and Municipal Regis- 
tration (Boroughs) Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, at Two 
of the clock, resolve itself into the said Com- 
mittee. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to amend the Law respecting certain Returns 
from Convict Prisons: And that Sir Henry Selwin- 
Ibbetson and Mr. Secretary Cross do prepare, and 
bring it in. 

Sir Henry Selwin-Ibbetson accordingly presented 
a Bill to amend the Law respecting certain Returns 
from Convict Prisons: And the same was read the 
first time ; and ordered to be read a second time 
upon Monday next; and to be printed, 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till half an hour after Two of the clock 
on Tuesday morning, adjourned till this 
day. 








Tuesday, 4th July, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 
oo House proceeded to take into conside- 
ration the Dochfour Estate Bill, as amended 
in the Committee. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The Order, That the Tunbridge Wells and East- 
bourne Railways Bill be referred to the Examiners 
of Petitions for Private Bills, was read, and dis- 
charged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Queen’s 
Bench, Ireland (Mr. Blackham), which was pre- 
sented upon the 29th day of June last, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the India 
Tariff Act, 1875, which was presented upon the 
3rd day of this instant July, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Quit Rent 
Claims (Jreland), which was presented upon the 
3rd day of this instant July, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Owners of 
of Land, which was presented upon the 3rd day of 
this instant July, be printed. 

VoL. 131. 


3rd—4th July. 








305 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to Education Education 
(Jreland), which was presented upon the 3rd day (Ireland.) 
of this instant July, be printed. No, 336, 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to Municipal Municipal 
Borough Rates (England), which was presented (ingle Rates 


upon the 3rd day of this instant July, be printed. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented, pursuant Superannua- 
to the directions of an Act of Parliament,—Copy tios- 
of Treasury Minute, dated 30th June 1876, 
awarding a special Retired Allowance to Daniel 
Frederick Price, Established Shipwright, Sheer- 
ness Dockyard. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Bourke presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- Extradition 
mand,—Copy of Further Correspondence respect- (North 
ing Extradition. No.3, 1876.) 
Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the ~° 
Table. 


Sir Charles Adderley presented,—Further Re- ship « Mary,” 
turn to an Order, dated the 23rd day of March, in 
the last Session of Parliament, for a Copy of 
Correspondence which the Board of Trade has 
received on the subject of the Ships “ Marie,” 
* Mary,” and “ Chusan” (being Correspondence 
on the subject of the Ship “ Mary”). 
Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


The following Paper was laid upon the Table Public Bills. 
by the Clerk of the TientaBoter to an Order, 

dated the 22nd day of June last, for a Return re- 

lative to Public Bills. 

The following Paper, pursuant to the Report of Temporary 
the Select Committee on Expiring Laws, in Ses- 4™* 
sion 1866, was also laid upon the Table by the 
Clerk of the House,— Register of Temporary 
Laws for the Third Session, Twenty-first Parlia- 
ment of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and 
Ireland (39 &amp; 40 Victoria, 1876). 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Board of 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased (Srodand) 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Copy of the Circular issued by the Board 
of Supervision ( Scot/and) respecting “ Assessment 
Deductions,” dated the 10th day of December 
1868 :——And, of any Circular of later Date, if 
there be any such, modifying the same: And, 
of the Minutes of each Meeting of the Board of 
Supervision for the Twelve Months ending at 
Whitsunday 1876, in so far as they show what 
Members of the Board attended each of these 
Meetings. 








Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Private Bills 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, [2074s] (No 
That no Standing Orders not previously inquired poo ay 
into are applicable in the case of the following previously 
Bill, originating in the Lords, and referred on the ‘navired into, 
First Reading thereof, viz. : a acteaentee 

North Dublin Street Tramways Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from sea and River 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, Banks (Lin- 
That no Standing Orders are applicable in the case °s4i¢) Bill. 
of the following Bill, referred on the First Reading 
thereof, viz: 

Sea and River Banks (Lincolnshire) Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
To-morrow. 

RR Mr. 








306 4th 


Central 
Railway Bill 
[Lerds.] 







way Bill, with an Amendment. 


Table ; and be printed. 














wood, and Bangor Railway Bill, without Amendment. 











[ Lords.] Table; and be printed. 

















Blackrod Ges Mr, Raikes reported the Blackrod Gas Bil 
Bill (Lords.) with Amendments. 























Table. 














Bill (Lords) ment Bill, without Amendment. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 























Harbour : ° 
Bill {Lords} Bill, with Amendments. 











Table. 






















































































and the Number Pardoned or Acquitted :— 














1870. | 1871. | 1872. | 1873. | 1874. 











: Sergeants - - - 
Numberof Men! &gt; 
tried « .\ Corporals - 


Privates, Drummers, &amp;c. - 




















Total - - « 

















{ Assault 
Robber 





| Drunkenness and Riot - - 
Offences for Felony - - - e 
which tried - Fraudulent Enlistment 
Indecent Offences - 
Murder and Homicide - ° 
\ Miscellaneous - + -~ 






































Total - 




















Fines - - - 
Punishment Penal Servitude ~- 
inflicted -\ Imprisonment - - 

Capital Punishment = - 


Total - - « 























Acquitted or Pardoned - ~~ 





























Poor Relief Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Volcines:) a Nominal Return from the Unions and Parishes 




















and Wales, excluding the Metropolis, showing :— 
1. Whether the Guardians supply Cod-liver 
Oil, Quinine, and other expensive Medi- 
cines ; and, if so, at what date they began 
to do so; and 
2. Whether they supply all Medicines, either 
to Paupers in the Workhouse, or to those 
receiving Outdoor Medical Relief; and, 
if so, at what date they began to do so. 






























































Public Works The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Loans Bill. mittee on the Public Works Loans Bill; 

Bill 228. | Anda Motion being made, and the Question 
— proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave 
the Chair ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” 
to the end of the Guestion, in order to add the 
words, “in the opinion of this House, an unduly 









































Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 


‘vil. to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
— to give pe kta that there ty laid before this 
House, a Return showing the Number of Non- 
Commissioned Officers and Men serving in the| Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday Bill [Lord 
Army at Home on the 31st day of August 1875, 
who had been tried by the Civil Power during the | said Committee. 
previous five years, specifying the Offences for 
which they were tried, the Punishments inflicted, 






July. 1876, 


Anglesey Mr. Raikes reported the Anglesey Central Rail- “ large proportion of the charge involved in the 


| &amp;6 


payment of the interest and capital of the loans 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the “ which are raised by local authorities falls upon 


|“ the occupiers, as distinguished from the owners, 
“of land, houses, and other rateable property,” 


Belfast, Holy- Mr. Raikes reported the Belfast, Holywood, and | instead thereof. 


And the Question being proposed, That the 


Bailey Bill Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the} words proposed to be left out stand part of the 


Question: —The said proposed Amendment was, 
with leave of the House, withdrawn. 

1| Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
Chair ; 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the| The House accordingly resolved itself into the 


Committee ; and, after some time spent therein, 
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 


Edinburgh Mr. Raikes reported the Edinburgh Improve-| reported, That the Committee had gone through 


the Bill. 


Ordered, That the Bill, as amended, be printed. 
Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to a 


Scarborough Mr. Raikes a on the Scarborough Harbour |Committee of the whole House, for Thursday 


next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Appellate 


aoe mittee on the Appellate Jurisdiction Bill ; Jurisdiction 
— = , Ordered, That Sir William Welby-Gregory have And a Motion being made, and the Question Bil! (Zord] 
eave of absence for the remainder of the Session, | pein proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave 
on account of domestic affliction. the Chair :—And a Debate arising thereupon; 
Ordered, That the Debate be adjourned till 
a trica _ 2esolved, That an humble Address be resented | Friday next, at Two of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Crossed 
mittee on the Crossed Cheques Bill ; Cheques 


next, at Two of the clock, resolve itself into the 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Bishoprie of 
Reading of the Bishopric of Truro Bill; Traro Bill 
And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a se- 
cond time :—And a Debate arising thereupon ; 
And it being ten minutes before Seven of the 
clock, the Debate was adjourned till this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Juries 
mittee on the Juries Procedure (Jreland) Bill ; (Inelead) Bill 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to Smithfield 
take into consideration the Amendments made by (Debi) Bill. 
the Lords to the Smithfield Prison (Dublin) Bill; 
and the same were twice read, agreed to. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


The House, neo | to Order, proceeded to Kingstown 
take into consideration the Amendment made by ~™ 


under separate Boards of Guardians in England|the Lords to the Kingstown Harbour Bill; and 


the same was twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendment made by their 
Lordships. 








The House, according to Order proceeded to Burghs | -_ 
take into consideration the Amendment made by {Pi"% (Scot- 
the Lords to the Burghs a into Wards) jand) Amend- 
(Scotland) Amendment Bill; and the same was ment Bill 
twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendment made by their 
Lordships. 


The House, see samy | to Order, proceeded to Public Health 
take into consideration &lt;cGonal 

the Lords to the Public Health (Scotland) —_ (Wemyss) Bill 
sion 





e Amendments made by (Scotland) Er 


te So be J 


— es 








40 Vicroria. 


sional Order (Wemyss) Bill; and the same were 
twice read, and ed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


Health Lhe Order of the day eins read, for the Second 
(ireland) Bill. Reading of the Public Health (Jre/and) Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


The Trade Marks Registration Amendment 
Bill was, according to Order, read a second time ; 
and committed to a Committee of the whole House, 
for Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Offences against the Person Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Trade Marks 

i on 
Amendment 
Bill (Lords. 


par wry 
inst the 
Person Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 


Medical Act 

(Qualifica- 

tions) Bill. 
Speaker do now leave the Chair (for Committee 
on the Medical Act (Qualifications) Bill) ; 


And the Question being again proposed :—The 
House resumed the said adjourned Debate. 
And the Question being put ; 


4th July. 


upon the 3rd day of this instant July, That Mr. | 


| 


Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the | 


Chair:—The House accordingly resolved itself 
into the Committee; and, after some time spent 
therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. 
Raikes reported, That the Committee had made 
Progress in the Bill, and that he was directed to 
move, That the Committee may have leave to sit 
again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Publicans 
; ., take into consideration the Amendments made b 
(Scotland) Bill. +1¢ Lords to the Publicans Certificates (Scotland) 
Bill; and the same were twice read, and, with 
Amendments thereto, agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships, with Amendments; to which this House 
doth desire the concurrence of their Lordships. 


Dis- mittee on the House Occupiers Disqualification 
Removal Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Parliamentary The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
aud Municipal into a Committee on the Parliamentary and Mu- 
(Boroughs). nicipal Registration (Boroughs) Bill; and, after 
Bill. some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed 
Bill229, the Chair; and Mr. Razkes reported, That the 
Committee had gone through the Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill, as amended, be printed. 
Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed toa 


Committee of the whole House, for Monday next. 


OwnersofLand Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
(Ireland.) a Summary of the Returns of Owners of Land in 
Ireland, showing, with respect to each County, the 

following Particulars, namely,— 

1, The Number of Owners below an Acre. 


2. o of 1 Aereaudunder 10 Acres, 
3. * of 10 Acres, 50 ,, 
4, a : ieee 100 ,, 
5. 2 of 100 ” 500 ,, 
6. “ a 2. « as 
7. “ of 1,000 , 4 2000 ,, 
8. * of 2,000 ,, » 5,000 ,, 
9. “ of 5,000 , ,, 10,000 ,, 
10. m of 10,000 ,, 4 20,000 ,, 
1. = of 20,000 ,, 4 50,000 ,, 
12. a of 50,000 ,, yw 100,000 ,, 
13. of 100,000 and upwards, 


VoL. 131. 








| 
! 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to | 


307 


With the aggregate Acreage and Valuation of 
each Class. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented a Bill to pensions 
amend “ The Pensions Commutation Act, 1871 :” Commutation 
And the same was read the first time ; and ordered = —_ 
to be read a second time upon Thursday next; “Bill 230. 
and to be printed. f 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented a Bill to Local Loans 
amend the Law with respect to Loans to Local (land) Bill. 
Authorities in [reland, out of the Consolidated Bill 231. 
Fund, and to remit sundry of such Loans: And 
the same was read the first time; and ordered to 
be read a second time upon Thursday next; and 
to be printed. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Message from 
Message had been brought from the Lords by one *he Lords. 
of their Clerks, as followeth : 
The Lords have agreed to the Uppingham Uppingham 
Water Bill, without any Amendment. Water Bill. 
The Lords have agreed to the Bristol United — 
as . 


fu) 


Gas Bill, without any Amendment. 


The Lords have agreed to the Dewsbury and Dewsbury and 


Hechmondwike Water Bill, with Amendments ; to | wan - 


which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House. 

The Lords have agreed to the Dudley and Old- Dudley and 
bury Junction Railway Bill, with Amendments ; O!4&gt;wy 
to which the Lords desire the concurrence of this ee on 
House. ; tet 

The Lords have agreed to the Halesowen and Halesowen and 
Bromsgrove Branch Railways Bill, with Amend- ag 

. . ranc - 

ments; to which the Lords desire the concurrence ways Bill. 
of this House. 

The Lords have agreed to the Horncastle Gas Horncastle Gas 
Bill, with Amendments; to which the Lords de- 5“ 
sire the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have agreed to the North British North British 


Railway (Additional Works, &amp;c.) Bill, with Saeed Woske, 


| Amendments ; to which the Lords desire the con- &amp;c.) Bill. 
| currence of this House. 
| 


| 
' 
} 





| 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- | concurrence of this House. 





The Lords have agreed to the North British North — 
Railway (Fife Railways) Bill, with Amendments; Saliees) Bill. 
to which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 

ouse. 

The Lords have agreed to the London and North London — 
Western Railway (Sirhowy Railway Transfer) Bill, anew =“ 
with Amendments; to which the Lords desire the jowy Railway 
Transfer) Bill. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Southern — 
for conferring further Powers on the Southern ed a 
Railway Company, and for other purposes; to ‘ 
which the Lords desire the coucurrence of this 


House. 


The Ecclesiastical Offices and Fees Bill was Ecclesiastical 
read the first time; and ordered to be read NS nt 
second time upon Wednesday the 12th day of this 5 Zords.] 


instant July; and to be printed. Bill 232. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Toll Bridges 
mittee on the Toll Bridges (River Thames) Bill; (River. 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, —— 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Notice being taken, that Forty Members were 
not present:— The House was told by Mr. 
Speaker; and Forty Members not being present, 
and it being then after Four of the clock :—The 
House was adjourned by Mr. Speaker, without a 
Question first put, till To-morrow. 


RR2 


London and 
South Western, 
Midland, and 
Somerset and 
Dorset Railway 
Companies 
Bill. 


London and 
South Western 
Railway 
(Exeter and 
Crediton and 
North Devon 
Railways) Bill. 


Sittingbourne 
and Sheerness 
Railway Bill. 


Stockton-on- 
Tees Markets 
Bill. 


Walsall Gas 
Purchase and 
Borough Ex- 
tension Bill. 


Llandudno 
Improvement 


Bill [ Lords.) 


Southern Rail- 
way Bill 
[Lords.] 


Public 
Petitions. 
Vide Twenty- 
ninth Report. 


Prisons 
(Ireland.) 


Superannua- 
tions. 


Madras 
Irrigation and 
Canal Com- 


pany. 


306 


Wednesday, 5th July, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 
HE House proceeded to take into considera- 
tion the Amendments made by the Lords to 
the London and South Western, Midland, and 
Somerset and Dorset Railway Companies Bill; 
and the same were twice read, and agreed to. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the London 
and South Western Railway (Exeter and Crediton 
and North Devon Railways) Bill; and the same 
were twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the 
Sittingbourne and Sheerness Railway Bill; and 
the same were twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill ‘to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the 
Stockton-on-Tees Markets Bill; and the same 
were twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the /Valsall 
Gas Purchase and Borough Extension Bill; and 
the same were twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


The Llandudno Improvement Bill was read a 
second time ; and committed. 


The Southern Railway Bill was read the first 
time. 

Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the 
Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Secretary Cross presented, by Her Ma- 
jesty’s Command,—Copy of Fifty-fourth Report 
of the Inspectors General on the General State of 
the Prisons of Ireland, 1875, with Appendix. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented, pursuant 
to the directions of an Act of Parliament,—Copy 
of Treasury Minute, dated 28th June 1876, award- 
ing a special Compassionate Allowance to William 
Woodford, Auxiliary Letter Carrier, London. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Lord George Hamilton presented,—Return to 
an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 3rd day of 


5th July. 








1876, 


this instant July, for Returns relative to the 

Madras Irrigation and Canal Company. 

" naan hat the said Return do lie upon the 
able. 


The Order for the House to resolve itself into Offences 
a Committee, To-morrow, on the Offences against *sainst the 
the Person Bill, was read, and discharged. Person Bill, 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, at Two of the clock, resolve itself into the 
said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Colonial 
Reading of the Colonial Marriages Bill; Marriages 
Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


Bill 


The Orphan and Deserted Children (Zreland) Orphan ana 
Bill was, according to Order, read a second time ; Deserted 


and committed to a Committee of the whole House, (Ireland) Bill. 
for Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Medical Act 
Reading of the Medical Act Amendment ( Foreign Amendment 
Universities) Bill; em 
And a Motion being made, and the Question Bill. ™ 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a second 
time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to 
the Question, by leaving out the word “ now,” 
and, at the end of the Question, adding the words 
** upon this day three months.” 

And the Question being put, That the word 
“now” stand part of the Question:—The said 
proposed Amendment and Motion were severally, 
with leave of the House, withdrawn. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Increase of the 

the adjourned Debate on the Previous Question — 
: ill. 

proposed upon the 16th day of February last, 
That that Question be now put; and which 
Question was, That the Increase of the Episcopate 
Bill be now read a second time; 

And the Previous Question being again pro- 
posed :—The House resumed the said adjourned 
Debate. 

And the Previous Question being put:—It 
passed in the Negative. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Protection to 
Reading of the Protection to Growing Crops Growing Crops 
(Scotland) Bill; (Seotland) BA. 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a second 
time :—And a Debate arising thereupon ; 

And it being a quarter of an hour before Six of 
the clock, the Debate stood adjourned till To- 
morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Landlord and 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed oe Act 
upon the 21st day of June last, ‘That the Lantos ae 
and Tenant (Jrelund) Act Amendment Bill be now Bill. 
read a second time ; 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Convicted _ 
mittee on the Convicted Children Bill; Children Bill. 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


Homicide Law 


The Order of the day being read, for resumi 
Amendment 
Bill. 


the adjourned Debate on the Question propose 
upon the 8th day of March last, That the Homicide 
Law Amendment Bill be now read a second time ; 
Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 

till Wednesday next. - 
e 








he 
ill, 


3 Bill, 


nd 


rops 
Bill. 


d 


aw 





Blectors Regis- 
tration Bill. 


Medical 
Practitioners 


itioners 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Public Records 
(Ireland) 
Amendment 
Bill. 


Supply. 


County of 
Peebles 
Justiciary 
District (Scot- 
land) Bill. 


Ways and 
Means. 


Sea and 

River Banks 
(Lincolnshire) 
Bill. 


Toll Bridges 
River 


Thames) Bill. 


Cruelty 
Prevention Bill. 


Grand Jury 
law Amend- 
ment (Ireland) 
Bill, 


Ancient 
Monuments 
Bill, 


Game Laws 


(Scotland) Bin, 


) Bill, 


40 VicrorRia. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Parliamentary Electors Regis- 
tration Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
To-morrow. 


The Medical Practitioners Bill was, according 
to Order, read the the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Legal Practitioners (Jreland) Bill was, 
according to Order, read a second time ; and ¢om- 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for 
To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Public Records (/reland) Amend- 
ment Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the County of Peebles Jus- 
ticiary District (Scotland) Bill; and, after some 
time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the 
Chair; and Mr. Razkes reported, That the Com- 
mittee had gone through the Bill, and directed 
him to report the same, without Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Ways and Means ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committce. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Sea and River Banks (Lincoln- 
shire) Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Toll Bridges (River Thames) Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, at Two of the clock, resolve itself into the 
said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Cruelty Prevention Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Grand Jury Law Amendment 
(Ireland) Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Ancient Monuments Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Game Laws (Scotland) Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 
the 19th day of this instant July, resolve itself into 
the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Local Government in Towns (Jre- 
land) Bill; 

Vou. 131, 


5th July. 


309 


Ordered; That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Towns Rating 
Reading of the Towns Rating (Jreland) Bill; (Trelend) BE 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Supreme Court 
Reading of the Supreme Court of Judicature Act aa den) 
(1875) Amendment Bill; y peed 2s I 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time Bill. 


upon Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Municipal 
consideration the Municipal Privileges (Zreland) Privileges 
Bill, as amended in the Committee ; (echt) SS 

Ordered,’.That the Bill be taken into considera- 
tion upon Friday next, at Two of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming flection of 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed Aldermen 
upon the 9th day of June last, That the Election ee) Bil 
of Aldermen (Cumulative Vote) Bill be now read 
a second time; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming County Rates 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed (Ireland) Bill. 
upon the 9th aay of May last, That the County 
Rates (Ireland) Bill be now read a second time; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Poor Law 
Reading of the Poor Law Guardians Elections Guardians 
Creland) Bill; (ireland Bill 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time . 
To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Companies 
Reading of the Companies Acts (1862 and 1867) Acts (1362 and 
Amendment Bill ; —a 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Intoxicating 
mittee on the Intoxicating Liquors (Licensing 4%". 
— gf tg &gt; (Licensing Law 
Law Amendment) (No. 2) Bill; Amendment) 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday (No. 2) Bill. 


next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Legal __ 
Reading of the Legal Practitioners Bill ; — 

Ordered, That the Bill be read asecond time — 
To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Bishopric of 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed Truro Bill. 
upon the 4th day of this instant July, That the 
Bishopric of Truro Bill be now read a second 
time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till To-morrow. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Notices to Quit 
a Return of the Number of Stamps for Notices to — 
Quit issued by each Stamp Distributor in Ireland - 
from the time of the adoption of the Distinctive 


Die to the 1st day of last June. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Canada 

to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously (Extradition of 
pleased to give directions, that there be laid before Prisoners.) 
this House, a Copy of Correspondence between 

the English Government and the Government of 

Canada in the matter of the Extradition of a 

Prisoner of the Name of Caldweil to the United 

States in the years 1870 and 1871; And, of 














RR3 any 


































































































































































































































































































































































































Valuation of 
Property — 
(Metropolis) 
Act (1869) 
Amendment 
Bill. 


Medical Act 


(Qualifications) a9 Committee, To-morrow, on the Medical Act 


Bill. 


Depreciation 
of Silver. 


No. 338. 


Public 
Petitions 


(Twenty- 


eighth Report.) 


Spennymoor 
and Tudhoe 
Gas Bill. 


Humber 
Conservancy 
Bill. 


North Wales 
Narrow Gauge 
Railways Bill. 


Redcar and 
Coatham Gas 
Bill. 


310 


any Correspondence in the case of another Prisoner 
of the Name of Burley, surrendered at an earlier 
period. 


Ordered, That the Valuation of Property (Me- 
tropolis) Act (1869) Amendment Bill be read a 
second time upon Wednesday the 19th day of this 
instant July. 


The Order for the House to resolve itself into 


(Qualifications) Bill, was read, and discharged. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Mr. Goschen reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on the Depreciation of Silver; That they 
had considered the matters to them referred, and 
directed him to make a Report thereof to the 
House ; together with the Minutes of the Evidence 
taken before them, and an Appendix. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 








Thursday, 6th July, 1876. 
PRAYERS. 


SIR Charles Forster reported from the Select 
Committee on Public Petitions; That they 
had examined the Petitions presented upon the 
28th, 29th, and 30th days of June last, and the 
3rd and 4th days of this instant July, and had 
directed him to make a Report thereof to the 
House. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendment made by the Lords to the Spenny- 
moor and Tudhoe Gas Bill; and the same was 
twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendment made by their 
Lordships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Humber 
Conservancy Bill. 

The said Amendments being read a second 
time, several were agreed to; and one was dis- 
agreed to; and a Clause was inserted in the Bill, 
instead of the Amendment disagreed to. 

Ordered, That a Committee be appointed to 
draw up Reasons to be assigned to the Lords for 
disagreeing to the Amendment to which this 
House hath disagreed:—And a Committee was 
appointed of Sir Charles Forster, Mr. Raikes, Mr. 
Backhouse, Sir William Edmonstone, Sir William 
Dyke, and Mr. Hanbury:—And they are to with- 
draw immediately. 

Ordered, That Three be the Quorum. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the North 
Wales Narrow Gauge Railways Bill; and the same 
were twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Red- 
car and Coatham Gas Bill; and the same were 
twice read, and agreed to. : 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 


5th—6th July. 






1876. 


the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration South 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the South- Improvement 
port Improvement Bill; and the same were twice ” 
read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


The Blackrod Local Board Bill was read the Blackrod Log 
third time. Board Bill 
Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, {“°rés.] 
do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the same, with Amendments; to 
which this House doth desire the concurrence 
of their Lordships. 


The Great North of Scotland Railway Bill was Great North of 
read the third time. Scotland 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. om Bill 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill oe 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


The Sutton Gas Bill was read the third time. Sutton Gas 
Resolved, ‘That the Bill, with the Amendments, Bill {Zords,] 
do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the same, with Amendments; to 
which this House doth desire the concurrence of 
their Lordships. 


Mr. Backhouse reported the Waterford and Wea- Waterford and 
ford Railway Bill, with an Amendment. Wexford Rail- 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table; F?,s] 

and be printed. 


Mr. Backhouse reported from the Committee Railway Bills 
on Group 13 of Railway Bills; That, for the con- (Group 13.) 
venience of parties, the Committee had adjourned 
till Monday next, at Twelve of the clock. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Sir Charles Forster reported from the Committee yumber 
appointed to draw up eeun to be assigned to Conservancy 
the Lords for disagreeing to one of the Amend- i 
ments made by their Lordships to the Humber Con- 
servancy Bill; That they haddrawn up a Reason 
accordingly, which they had directed him to re- 

port to the House; and the same was read, as 
followeth : 

The Commons disagree to so much of the Lords’ 
Amendments as proposes, after Clause 46, to in- 

sert Clause 46 a, for the following Reason: 

Because Borrowers from the Public Works 
Loan Commissioners, under the Public Works 
Loan Act, 1875, can give special priorities to the 
Public Works Loan Commissioners in pre- 
judice of other mortgagees ; and the Commons 
consider it inexpedient that such Powers 
should be given in a Private Bill ; 

But the Commons propose to insert another Clause 
instead of Clause 46 a to which they disagree. 
The said Reason, being read a second time, was 
agreed to. 

Urdered, That a Message be sent to the Lords, 
to communicate the said Reason (with the Bill 
and Amendments): And that the Clerk do carry 
the same. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from sfetropolis Gas 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, (Surrey Side) 








That the Standing Orders have not been — — 
wi 












ort 
vement 


Bill 
] 


Bill 


rds,] 


ills 
.) 





Public 
Petitions. 
Vide Twenty- 
ninth Report. 
Justices of 


No. 359. 
Ship “ Mary.” 
No. 340. 


Public Bills. 
No, 341. 
Temporary 
laws. 
No. 342. 
Madras Irriga- 
tion and Canal 


Company. 
No. 343. 


Sulivan. 


Peace 


(Ireland) Acts. 


Railway 
Returns. 


40 VicTORIA. 


with in the case of the following Bill, referred on 
the First Reading thereof, viz. : 
Metropolis Gas ( Surrey Side) Bill. 
Ordered, That the Report be referred to the 
Select Committee on Standing Orders. 


Several Public Petitions were 
read; and ordered to lie upon the 


resented, and 
able. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Justices of 
the Peace (Ireland), which was presented upon 
the 30th day of June last, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Ship 
“ Mary,” which was presented upon the 4th day 
of this instant July, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Public 
Bills, which was presented upon the 4th day of 
this instant July, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to Temporary 
Laws, which was presented upon the 4th day of 
this instant July, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Ma- 
dras Irrigation and Canal Company, which was 
presented upon the 5th day of this instant July, 
be printed. 


Mr. Algernon Egerton presented,—Return to an 
Order, dated the 3rd day of this instant July, for 
a Return relative} to the case of Captain Sulivan. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Secretary Cross presented, pursuant to the 
directions of several Acts of Pasiiemanie~Cene 
of an Order in Council by the Lords Justices 
and Privy Council of Ireland, dated 27th June 
1876, revoking certain Proclamations in respect 
to Parts of the Counties of Dublin and Water- 
ord. 

, Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Sir Charles Adderley presented, by Her Ma- 
jesty’s Command,—Return of the authorised Share 
and Loan Capital of the several Railway Com- 
panies in England and Wales, Scotland, and Ire- 
land, and of their Paid-up Ordinary, Guaranteed, 
and Preferential Capital, and Debenture Stock or 
Funded Debt, on the 31st day of December 1875 ; 
Return showing the Number of Passengers and 
Quantity of Goods conveyed and the Receipts 
therefrom during the Year 1875; Return showing 
the Amount of the Working Expenditure, and of 
the Net Receipts, &amp;c., and Number of each kind 
of Rolling Stock for the Year 1875 ; Statement of 
the Receipts from each Class of Season and 
Periodical Tickets ; including Workmen’s Weekly 
Tickets with Third-class. 

- _— That the said Return do lie upon the 
able. 


Mr. Bourke presented,—Return to an Address 
to Her Majesty, dated the 12th day of May last, 
for a Return relative to the Fine Arts (Foreign 


; Countries). 


Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Ordered, That Mr. Cogan have leave of absence 
“ad remainder of the Session, on account of ill 
ealt 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Copies of a Letter from Mr. Henry Rundle, Col- 
lector of Inland Revenues at Waterford, dated the 
30th of January 1875, to Sir John Esmonde, Ba- 
ronet, claiming 184 years Arrears of Quit Rents, 
wt . 309. 6s. 34d., alleged to be due 

OL. . 


6th July. 





3i1 
out of the Lands of Slieveroe, in the County of 
Waterford, together with £.9.4s.2d., Acquit- 
tance Fees :—— And, of a Letter from Mr. George 
Sackville Smythe, Senior Clerk in the Quit Rent 
Office, Dublin, dated 22nd June, 1876, to Sir John 
Esmonde’s Agents, stating that ten years’ Arrears 


would be accepted in discharge of the 184 years’ 
Arrears due. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Gacls (Roman 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased Chaplains.) 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Returns of the Names of the Counties in 
which Roman Catholic Chaplains have been ap- 
pointed by the Magistracy for the Gaols under 
their charge: And, of the Number of Roman 
Catholics in each Government Prison, and specify- 
ing the Prisons in which Roman Catholic Chap- 
lains are appointed. 


Ordered, That lord Lindsay have leave of abe Leave of 
sence till the end of the Session, on account of il] Absence. 
health. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- Message from 
sage had been brought from the Lords by one of the Lords. 
their Clerks, as followeth : 

The Lords have agreed to the Small Testate Small Testate 


Estates (Scotland) Bill, without any Amendment. i=) oa 


The Lords have agreed to the Kilsyth Railway Kilsyth Rail- 
Bill, without any Amendment. way Bill. 
The Lords have agreed to the Chichester and Chichester and 
Midhurst Railway (No. 2) Bill, without any Midhurst 
Amendment. (No 3) Bill 


The Lords have agreed to the Golden Valley Golden Valley 
Railway Bill, with Amendments; to which the Railway Bill. 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have agreed to the Great Southern Great Southern 
and Western Railway Bill, with Amendments ; pe Bata 
to which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House. 

The Lords have agreed to the Burntisland Burgh Burntisland 
Bill, with Amendments ; to which the Lords desire Burgh Bill. 
the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have agreed to the Great Western Great Western 
Railway Bill, with Amendments; to which the ®#i!wsy Bill 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have agreed to the West Brom- West — 
wick Improvement Bill, with Amendments; to Bromwich 
which the Lords desire the concurrence of this git" 
House. 

The Lords have agreed to the London, Brighton, London, 
and South Coast Railway (Various Powers) Bill, Brighton, and 
with Amendments ; to which the Lords desire the Railway 
concurrence of this House. (Various 


Powers) Rill. 

The Lords have agreed to the Queenborough Queenborough 
Harbour Bill, with Amendments; to which the Harbour Bill. 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have agreed to the Tipton Local Tipton Local 
Board Bill, with Amendments; to which the Board Bill. 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have agreed to the Colney Hatch coicy Hatch 
Gas Bill, with Amendments; to which the Lords Gas Bill. 
desire the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have agreed to the Midland Railway Midland Rail- 
(New Works, &amp;c.) Bill, with Amendments; to vy —- 
which the Lords desire the concurrence of this pi,” “) 
House. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Slave Trade 
for more effectually punishing Offences against Bi! (Zords.] 
the Laws relating to the Slave Trade; to which 
the Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Elementary 
to confirm a Provisional Order made by the Edu~ Biuestion Pro- 
cation Department under “ The Elementary Edu- Confirmation 
cation Act, 1870,” to enable the School Board for (Tolleshunt 
Tolleshunt Major, in the County of Essex, to put fee Bill 
in force “ The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, ''"! 





1845,” and the Acts amending the same ; to which 
the Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 
RR4 


The 


312 6th—7Tth July. 1876, 


Sane Police The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
‘Seo. to confirm a Provisional Order under “ The 

ment (Scot- ; 

land) Pro- | General Police and Improvement ( Scotland) Act, 

Tisional Order 1862,” relating to the Burgh of Paisley; to which 

(Paisley) pill the Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 


Lords. | 


General Police The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
~~ a to confirm a Provisional Order under ‘“ The 
dand) Pro- | General Police and Improvement (Scotland) Act, 
— Order 1862,” relating to the Burgh of Perth ; to which 
(Perth) 1 mil the Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 
Lords. 
Local Govern- | The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
ment Pro- —_ to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local 
tay *’ Government Board relating to the Borough of 
&amp;e.) Bill ' Carnarvon, and the Districts of Long Eaton, 
[Lords.] Saint Neots, Shepton Mallet, Tenbury Wells, Tun- 
bridge Wells, Walton-on-the-Naze, Withington, and 
Whitwood; 1o which the Lords desire the con- 
currence of this House. 
Metropolitan The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
ee ., to confirm a Scheme under the Metropolitan 
f Lords) Bill Commons Act, 1866, and the Metropolitan Com- 
mons Amendment Act, 1869, relating to Barnes 
Common; to which the Lords desire the con- 
currence of this House, 
+ cr, The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
(Ireland) for confirming certain Provisional Orders of the 
Confirmation Local Government Board for Jreland relating to 
Sil thors)” Waterworks in the Towns of Coleraine, Dungannon, 
—— Keady, Portrush, and Waterford; to which the 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 
— Health = The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
eet so” to confirm a Provisional Order made under “ The 
(Irvineand Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1867,” relating to 
— the Burgh of Jrvine and Parish of Dundonald, in 
EN ds County of Ayr; to which the Lords desire the 


concurrence of this House. 


ee of The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
— Reading of the University of Cambridge Bill ; 


And a Motion being made, and the Question | 


being proposed, That the Bill be now read a 
second time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the 
words “in view of the large legislative powers 


entrusted to the University of Cambridge Com- | 


“ missioners by this Bill, this House is of opinion 
“that the Bill does not sufficiently declare or 
‘* define the principles and scope of the changes 
‘‘ which such Commissioners are empowered to 
“make in that University and the Colleges 
“ therein,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being proposed, That the 
words proposed to be left out stand part of the 
Question ; 

And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Friday morning ; 


Friday, 7th July, 1876: 


The said proposed Amendment was, with leave 
of the House, withdrawn. 

Ordered, That the Bill be now read a second 
time:—The Bill was accordingly read a second 
time ; and committed to a Committee of the whole 
House, for Monday next. 


University of | The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 

_— Bill mittee on the University of Ozford Bill ; 

ie Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


ante The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
me the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
upon the 4th day of this instant July, That the 
Bishopric of Truro Bill be now read a second time; 
Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 

till this day, at Two of the clock. 














The Order of the day being read, for resuming P 
the adjourned Debate on the Amendment which, (Bootle, fan 
upon the 27th day of June last, was proposed to 
be made to the Question, That Mr. Sect do 
now leave the Chair (for Committee on the Poor 
Law (Scotland) Bill); 
Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Monday the 17th day of this instant July. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Agr 
the adjourned Debate oo the Question proposed Holdings 
upon the 8th day of June last, That the Agricul- pe. 
tural Holdings( Scotland) Bill be now read a second ane 
time ; 

And the Question being again proposed :—The 
House resumed the said adjourned Debate. 

Anda Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That the Debate be now adjourned :— 
It passed in the Negative. 

And the original Question being put; 

Ordered, That the Bill be now read a second 
time:—The Bill was accordingly read a second 
time ; and committed to a Committee of the whole 
House, for Monday next. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Public Works 
into a Committee on the Public Works Loans Bill; 1s Bill. 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. Razkes reported, That 
the Committee had gone through the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration this day, at 
Two of the clock. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Trade Marks 
into a Committee on the Trade Marks Registration Peace 
mendmen 


Amendment Bill. Bill [Lords.] 
(In the Committee. ) 
Preamble postponed. 
Criause, N° 1 (Amendment of s. 1 of the prin- 
cipal Act). 
Amendments made. 
Another Amendment proposed, in p. 2, 1. 4, to 


| leave out from the word “ Act ” to the end of the 


Clause. 

Question proposed, That the words proposed 
to be left out stand part of the Clause :—Amend- 
ment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

Cause, N° 2, disagreed to. 

Cause, N° 3, amended, and agreed to. 

CrauseE, N° 4, disagreed to. 

CiauseE, N°” 5, agreed to. 

Preamble agreed to. 

Bill, as amended, to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration upon Tuesday 
next, at Two of the clock. 


d Linen and 
Hempen 


The Order of the day being read, for the Secon 


| Reading of the Linen and Hempen and other other Manu 


Manufactures (/reland) Bill; _— factures 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time (Ireland) Bil 


upon Monday next. 


The Provisional Orders (Ireland) Confirmation oa 
Bill was, according to Order, read a second time } /freland) 
and committed to a Committee of the whole House, Confirmation 


ed e ds.) 
for Friday next. Bill [Lor 
Elementary 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Education Pro- 


Reading of the Elementary Education Provisional yisional —_ 
Order Confirmation (Zondon) Bill; ; CLesies) 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time }) [ Lords.) 


this day, at Two of the clock. The 





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40 Victoria. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking 
jurisdiction into consideration the Amendments made by the 
(irdnd) Bill Tords to the Admiralty Jurisdiction (Ireland) 

Bill; 

Ordered, That the said Amendments be taken 

into consideration upon Monday next. 


Flementary The Elementary Education Provisional Orders 
pincation F™, Confirmation (Hailsham, &amp;c.) Bill was, according 
ation to Order, read a second time; and committed to a 
(Hsilsham,&amp;c-) Committee of the whole House, for Friday next. 
pill (Lords. ] 
The Elementary Education Provisional Order 
Piucation Pro- Confirmation (Hornsey) Bill was, according to 
risional Over Order, read a second time; and committed to a 
Confirmation &gt;, 5) . 
(Horsey) _ Committee of the whole House, for Friday next. 
Bill (Lords-] 
CustomsDuties The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
Consolidation take into consideration the Customs Duties Con- 
Bill. solidation Bill, as amended in the Committee. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
this day, at Two of the clock. 


Customs Laws The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
Consolidation take into consideration the Customs Laws Con- 
Bil. solidation Bill, as amended in the Committee ; 
and an Amendment was made to the Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
this day, at Two of the clock. 


eCout Lhe Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
ofJudicature mittee on the Supreme Court of Judicature (Jre- 
(ee Bill Jand) Bill; 
108 Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee.’ 


Tramways The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
OniersCon- into a Committee on the Tramways Orders Con- 
Ctl, te) firmation (Bristol, &amp;c.) Bill; and, after some time 
Bill [Lords.) spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed theChair; and 
Mr. Raikes reported, That the Committee had 
gone through the Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration this day, at 
Two of the clock. 


oe The Order of the day being read, for resumin 
ers Bill. : bad ° | 
the adjourned Debate on the Question propose 
upon the 22nd day of June last, That the Pollu- 
tion of Rivers Bill be now read a second time; 
Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till this day. 


War Depart- § The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
pat and Post mittee on the War Department and Post Office 
muneration, (Remuneration, &amp;c.) Bill; 

&amp;c.) Bill. And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave 
the Chair :—And a Debate arising thereupon; 

Ordered, That the Debate be adjourned till this 
day, at Two of the clock. 


Patents for The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Bill (Lords, Reading of the Patents for Inventions Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


panation The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Valuation Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


— .. _. The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
4) Bill. Reading of the Prisons (Jreland) Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day. 
Maritime _ The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Contracts Bill Reading of the Maritime Contracts Bill; 


Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 
VoL. 131, 


Gth—7th July. 313 


The Turnpike Acts Continuance, &amp;c., Bill was, Turnpike Acts 
according to Order, read a second time ; and com~- fomimanc® 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for ~ 
this day. 


The Order of the. day being read, for the Com- Poor Law 
mittee on the Poor Law Rating (Ireland) Bill; a B Bat 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday tea ha 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Isle of Man (Officers) Bill was, according Isle of Man 
to Order, read a second time ; and committed to a (Officers) Bill, 
Committee of the whole House, for this day, at 
Two of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Cattle Disease 
mittee on the Cattle Disease (Jreland) Bill ; (Ireland) Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Juries 
mittee on the Juries Procedure (Ireland) Bill; (Irelend) Bill 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, at Two 


of the clock, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second public Health 
Reading of the Public Health (Zre/and) Bill ; (Ireland) Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day, at Two of the clock. 


The Pensions Commutation Act«Amendment Pensions — 
Bill was, according to Order, read a second time ; Commutation 
: s Act Amend- 
and committed to a Committee of the whole House, went Bill. 


for Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Local Loans 
Reading of the Local Loans (Ireland) Bill ; (Ireland) Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The County of Peebles Justiciary District ( Scot- county of 
land) Bill was, according to Order, read the third —- 
time 7 ery 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. land) Bill. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Nultum 
mittee on the Vudlum Tempus (Ireland) Bill; Tempus 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve (Ireland) Bill. 
itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Limited 
Reading of the Limited Owners Residence (Jre- Owners 
land) Bill; (ireland) Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to river Fishing 
take into consideration the Elver f ishing Bill, Bill. 
as amended in the Committee; and Amendments 
were made to the Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time, 
this day, at Two of the clock. 


The Bankers’ Books Evidence Bill was, accord- Bankers’ Books 
ing to Order, read the third time. Evidence Bill. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Notices to Quit 

into a Committee on the Notices to Quit (Jreland) (Ireland) Bill. 
Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill, and directed him to report the same, 
without Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
this day, at Two of the clock. 





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314 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the House Occupiers Disqualification 
Removal Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, at Two 
of the clock, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


patedtion née Regs: Order — the day “ae te for ice 
ng V"P* the adjourned Debate on the Question propose 
caren upon the 5th day of this instant July, That the 
Protection to Growing Crops (Scotland) Bill be 
now read a second time; 
Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Parliamentary Electors Registra- 
tion Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day, at Two of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Legal Practitioners (Jreland) Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


The Sea and River Banks (Linculnshire) Bill 
was, according to Order, read a second time; and 
committed to a Committee of the whole House, 
for Monday next. 


Legal 
Practitioners 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Sea and River 
Banks (Lin- 
colnshire) Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Poor Law Guardians Elections 


Elections | (Ireland) Bill ; 


Poor Law 
Guardians 


Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day. 


Legal The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Practitioners Reading of the Legal Practitioners Bill; 

Bill. Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to amend the Law relating to the Registry of 
Deeds in Jreland: And that Mr. William Henry 
Smith and Mr. Solicitor General for Ireland do 
prepare, and bring it in. 


Registry of 
Deeds (Ire- 
land.) 


Appellate A Motion being ‘made, That this House will, 

Jurisdiction this day, resolve itself into a Committee to con- 

[Salaries, &amp;c.] sider of authorising the payment, out of the Con- 
solidated Fund of the United Kingdom, of the 
Salary, Pension, and Expenses on Circuit of any | 
additional Judge of the Gees of Appeal ; and of 
any increase of the Allowance to retired Indian 
and Colonial Judges attending the Judicial Com- 
mittee of the Privy Council, in pursuance of the 
yrovisions of any Act of the present Session re- 
idles to Appellate Jurisdiction ; 

Mr. Secretary Cross, by Her Majesty’s Command, 
acquainted the House, That Her Majesty, having 
been informed of the subject-matter of this Motion, 
recommends it to the consideration of the House. 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


A Motion being made, That this House will, 
this day, resolve itself into a Committee to consider 
of authorising the payment, out of Moneys to be 
provided by Parliament, of all Expenses incurred 
in respect of the Maintenance of Prisons and of 
Prisoners therein, of the Salaries of Prison Com- 
missioners, Assistant Commissioners, and Officers 
and Servants of the Prison Commissioners, of 
Annuities by way of Superannuation Allowance, 
and of Gratuities to existing Officers of Prisons ; 
also the payment of any continuous Contract or 
dealing whish may become payable under the pro- 
visions of any Act of the present Session for 
amending the how relating to Prisons ; 

Mr. Secretary Cross, by Her Majesty’s Com- 
mand, acquainted the House, That Her Majesty, 





6th—7th July. 








1876. 


having been informed of the subject-matter of this 
Motion, recommends it to the consideration of the 
House. 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented a Bill to Registry of 
amend the Law relating to the Registry of Deeds Deeds (Ire. 
in Ireland: And the same was read the first time ; ' 
and ordered to be readasecond time upon Monday Bill 288, 
the 17th day of this instant July; and to be printed, 


The Order for the House to resolve itself into Market Jutig 
a Committee, this day, on the Market Juries ( Jre- (Ieland) Bin 
land) Bill, was read, and discharged. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
the 28th day of this instant July, resolve itself into 
the said Committee. 


The Order for reading a second time, this day, Supreme 
the Supreme Court of Judicature Act (1875) of Judicatuy 
Amendment Bill, was read, and discharged. i. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time Bill, 


upon Wednesday next. 


The Metropolitan Commons (Barnes) Bill was Metropolitan 
read the first time; and ordered to be read a Commons 


second time upon Monday next; and to be printed. {tera = 


Bill 234, 
The General Police and Improvement { Scot- General Police 
land) Provisional Order Confirmation (Paisley) 4 Improve 
Bill was read the first time; and ordered to be land) - 
read a second time upon Monday next; and to be sional Order 
printed. Confirmation 
(Paisley) Bill 
[Lords,] 
Bill 235, 
The General Police and Improvement (Scot- General Police 
land) Provisional Order Confirmation (Perth) a4 Improve. 
Bill was read the first’time; and ordered to be innd) Pret 
read a second time upon Monday next; and to be sional Order 
printed. Confirmation 
(Perth) Bill, 
[Lords] 
Bill 236, 
The Public Health (Scotland) Provisional Or- Public Health 
der (Irvine and Dundonald) Bill was read the first (Scotland) ft 
time; and ordered to be read a second time upon cuiall 
Monday next; and to be printed. Dundonald) 
Bill [Lords.] 
Bill 237, 
The Elementary Education Provisional Order Etementary 
Confirmation ( Tolleshunt Major) Bill was read the meer enad 
first time; and ordered to be read a second time gnier Confirm. 


upon Monday next; and to be printed. ation (Tolles- 
hunt Major) 
Bill [Lords.] 


Bill 238. 


The Local Government Provisional Orders — 
(Carnarvon, &amp;c.) Bill was read the first time ; and yisional Orders 
ordered to be read a second time upon Monday ati 

Cc. 


next; and to be printed. [ Lords.] 
Bill 239. 


The Provisional Orders (Zreland) Confirmation Provisional 
(Coleraine, &amp;c.) Bill was read the first time ; and (Ireland) 
ordered to be read a second time upon Monday ¢onfirmation 


, : Coleraine, 
next; and to be printed. Bil 


And then the House, having continued to sit [Lords.] 
till Two of the clock on Friday morning, Bill 240. 
adjourned till this day. 








Friday, 7th July, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 
M R. Raikes reported from the Committee on Swansea | 
the Swansea Harbour Bill; That they had tarde 
examined the allegations contained in the Preamble 
of the Bill, and amended the same by reciting that 
it was expedient to confirm certain agreements 


entered into between the Swansea Harbour — 
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Halesowen and 
Bromsgrove 
Branch Rail- 
ways Bill. 


Horncastle 
Gas Bill. 


North British 
Railway 
(Additional 
Works, &amp;c.) 
Bill. 


North British 
Railway (Fife 
Railways) Bill. 


Southampton 
Gas Light and 
Coke Bill. 


Estate Bill 
[Lords.] 


Bdinburgh 
Improvemen: 
Bill (Lords, ] 


40 VicTORIA. 


tees and the Great Western Railway Company ; 
and also between the said Trustees and the Mid- 
land Railway Company, which A ents were 
scheduled to the Bill, and found the same, as 
amended, to be true; and had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Hales- 
owen and Bromsgrove Branch Railways Bill; and 
the same were twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
—_ to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Horn- 
castle Gas Bill; and the same were twice read, and 
agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
— to the Amendments,made by their Lord- 
ships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the London 
and North Western Railway (Sirhowy Railway 


* Transfer) Bill; and the same were twice read, 


and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the North 
British Railway (Additional Works, &amp;c.) Bill; 
and the same were twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the North 
British Railway (Fife Railways) Bill; and the 
same were twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
sag to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the South- 
ampton Gas Light and Coke Bill ; and the same were 
twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
ag to the ‘Deonaieente made by their Lord- 
ships. 


The Dochfour Estate Bill was read the third 
time. 
‘ Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
O pass. 
dered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, with Amendments; to which 


this House doth desire the concurrence of their 
Lordships. 


A Motion being made, That the Edinburgh Im- 
provement Bill be now read the third time; 

Mr. Disraeli, by Her Majesty’s Command, ac- 
quainted the House, That =. Majesty, having 
been informed of the pu of the Bill, gives 
Her Consent, as far as Her Majesty’s interest is 
concerned, that the House may do therein as they 
shall think fit. 

Vou. 131. 


7th July. 








315 


Then the Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Greencastle 
the Greencastle and Kilkeel Railway and Pier Bill, a 
as amended in the Committee; and Amendments pier Bill 
were made to the Bill. [Lords.] 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and Public 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions. 
Vide Twenty- 
ninth Report. 
Ordered, That the Return relative to the case of Captain 
Captain Sulivan, which was presented upon the Sulivan. 
6th day of this instant July, be printed. No, 344. 


Mr. Secretary Cross presented,—Return to an Turnpike 
Address to Her Majesty, dated the lst day of June Conntt 
last, for a Return relative to Turnpike Roads Scotland} 
(Counties, Scotland).' 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Sir Charles Adderley presented,—Return to an Tonnage at 
Order, dated the 23rd day of May last, for a Re- Portsin 
turn relative to Tonnage at Ports in Ireland. cai 

— That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented, by Her public Works 
Majesty’s Command,—Copy of Forty-fourth Re- (Ireland) 
port from the Commissioners of Public Works in 
lreland, with Appendices, 1875-76. 

Mr. William Henry Smith also presented,—Re- Writ Office 
turn toan Order, dated the 29th day of June last, (!eland.) 
for Returns relative to the Writ Office, Ireland. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Viscount Sandon presented, pursuant to the di- Pilotage. 
rections of several Acts of Parliament,—Copy of 
an Order in Council, dated 27th June 1876, con- 
firming certain Bye-laws made by the Pilotage 
Authority of Hartlepool. 

Copy of an Order in Council, dated 27th of June gupreme Court 
1876, for assigning the Number of Revising Bar- of Judicature 
risters to he appointed to each of the newly con- 4“ 
stituted Circuits. 

Copy of an Order in Council, dated 27th June Standards of 
1876, j enon certain Measures of Length to be —— 
legal Secondary Standards of Length. Coinage Act, 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 1866. 
Table. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented School Boards 

to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously ena mag - 
pleased to give directions, that there be laid before Teaching.) 
this House, Return of the Provisions, if any, made 
by each School Board in England and Wales re- 
specting Religious Teaching of Children and Re- 
ligious Observances by Children in School Board 
Schools, stating Cases in which no such Provision 
is made by the Board.—— And, Copy of the Bye- 
Laws, if any, by which such Provisions are enacted 
or regulated.—This Return to be in continuation 
of Parliamentary Paper, No. 471, of Session 1875, 
but to be made by every School Board in England 
and Wales, whether such Board’s Return was in- 
cluded in the said Parliamentary Paper or not. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Volunteers. 
to Her Majesty, that She will be —— pleased to 
give directions, that there be laid before this House, 
a Return of the Total Number of Volunteers ex- 
clusive of those now serving, who have joined and 
passed through the Force from its re-establishment 
in 1859 down tothe present time. 
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Resolved, 


316 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return showing the Number of Indi- 
viduals enlisted in each Sub-district, year by year, 
between their formation on the lst day of April 
1873, and the 3st day of March 1876, both Dates 
inclusive, and the Number of the above who were 
passed into the Ranks, distinguishing Men who 
were posted to the Sub-District Brigade by which 
they were enlisted and those enlisted by it for 
other Brigades :— 

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 





Total 
Number 
Enlisted. 


Posted to other 
Sub- District 
Brigade. 


A. B. C. 


Posted to 
Sub- District 
Brigade. 


Passed 
into 
Sub-District, the Ranks. 


A. B. C. A. B. C. A 8B G 





Newcastle-upon-Tyne 


Carlisle - - - 


Chester County 
(Mid-Division) rant to the Clerk of the 


Writ. 


Appellate 
Jurisdiction 
Bill [Lords.] 





Ist. 


2nd, 














Note.—A. means the year ending the 3lst day of March 1874. 
B. ” ” 1875. 


Cc. ” ” 1876. 
The figures in Columns 4 and 5, added together, should agree with the figures 
in Column 3. 


Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his War- 

Scere to make ont a new 
Writ for the electing of a Member to serve in this 
present Parliament for the Mid-Division of the 
County of Chester, in the room of Egerton Leigh, 
Esquire, deceased. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
upon the 4th day of this instant July, That Mr. 
Speaker do now leave the Chair (for Committee 
on the Appellate Jurisdiction Bill) ; 

And the Question being again proposed :—The 
House resumed the said adjourned Debate. 

And the Question being put ; 

Ordered, That Mr. tk wd do now leave the 
Chair:—The House, accordingly resolved itself 
into the Committee. 


(In the Committee.) 


Crauses, N° 1 and N° 2, agreed to. 

CiauseE, N* 3 (Cases in which appeal lies to 
House of Lords). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 1, 1. 16, after the 
word “ England,” to insert the words “ and of 
“ Her Majesty’s High Court of Justice in Eng- 
“‘ land, or of any judges or judge thereof, from 
‘which an appeal would lie to Her Majesty’s 
* Court of Appeal in England, and so that the 
** final appeal to the House of Lords may be made 
“ immediately without recourse to the Court of 
“ Intermediate Appeal.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted :—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Clause agreed to. 

CLAUuSE, N° 4, agreed to. 

Crausk, N° 5 (Attendance of certain number of 
Lords of Appeal required at hearing and deter- 
mination of Appeals). 

An Amendment made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 2, 1. 5, 
after the word “ being,” to insert the words “ if a 
* Peer of Parliament.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted :—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p- 2, 1. 10, 
after the word “ offices,” to insert the words “ such 
“ Peers of Parliament as have held the office of 
** Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted :—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

Cxause, N° 6 (Appointment of Lords of Ap- 
peal in Ordinary by Her Majesty). 


7th July. 


1876. 


Amendment proposed, in p. 2, 1.15, after the 
word “ Act,” to insert the words “ and shall then 
* only take effect, in case the number of Peers of 
‘* Parliament for the time being holding, or who 
*‘ shall have held, any of the offices in this Act 
“ described as high judicial offices, shall not exceed 
** five.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted :—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 2, 1. 17, 
after the word “ he,” to insert the words “ is at 
“the time of his appointment a Peer of Parlia- 
‘* ment or.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted :—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 2, 1. 20, to 
leave out from the word “ offices” to the word 
“ Scotland ” in line 22, inclusive. 

Question proposed, That the words proposed to 
be left out stand part of the Clause :—Amend- 
ment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 2, 1. 26, 
after the word “ Parliament,” to insert the words 
** There shall be paid to every Lord of Appeal in 
** Ordinary a salary of six thousand pounds a 
‘ year.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted ; 

Amendment proposed to the said proposed 
Amendment, by leaving out the word “ six,” and 
inserting the word “ eight.” 

Question proposed, That the word “ six” stand 
part of the said proposed Amendment——put, and 
agreed to. 

Question, That the words “ There shall be paid 
* to every Lord of Appeal in Ordinary a salary of 
** six thousand pounds a year” be there inserted 
—— put, and agreed to. 

Motion made, and Question put, That the 
Chairman do report Progress, and ask leave to sit 


again ; 
The Committee divided. 
Tellers for the (Mr. Serjeant Simon, \ 29 
Yeas, {Mr Torrens: ; 
Tellers for the {Sir William Dyke, } 156 
Noes, \Mr. Rowland Winn: . 
To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had made Progress 
in the Bill, and that he was directed to move, That 
the Committee may have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, again 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Crossed 
Cheques Bill 
[Lords.] 


mittee on the Crossed Cheques Bill ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 








The Order of the day being read, for resuming Bishopric of 


the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
upon the 4th day of this instant July, That the 
Bishopric of Truro Bill be now read a second 
time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till this day. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to Public Works 
take into consideration the Public Works Loans ** 


Bill, as amended in the Committee. F 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Monday next. 


The Elementary Education Provisional Order Elementary 
Confirmation (London) Bill was, according to Bivonl O 
Order, read a second time; and committed t0 4 Confirmation 


Committee of the whole House, for Monday ae 





17th day of this instant July. Th 
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40 VIcToRIA. 


castomsDuties The Customs Duties Consolidation Bill was, 


Consolidation 
Bill. 


Laws 
Bill. 


ways 
Ores Co 


Les) 
Bill [Lords.] 


War Depart- 
ment and Post 
Office (Re- 
muneration, 
&amp;c,) Bill. 


Isle of Man 
(Officers) Bill. 


Juries 


Procedure 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Public Health 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Offences 
against the 
Person Bill, 


Toll Bridges 
River 
Thames) Bill. 


Manici 
‘a 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Elver Fishin 
Bill. g 


Notices to Quit 


(Ireland) Bill, 


House 


Occupiers Dis- 


according to Order, read the third time. 
- Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Customs Laws Consolidation Bill was, 


Consolidation according to Order, read the third time. 


Resolved, That the Bill do pass. : 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
take into consideration the Tramways Orders 
Confirmation (Bristol, &amp;c.) Bill, as amended in 
the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
upon the 6th day of this instant July, That Mr. 
Speaker do now leave the Chair (for Committee 
on the War Department and Post Office Remu- 
neration, &amp;c.) Bill); 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Monday next. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Isle of Man Officers Bill; 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. Razkes reported, 
That the Committee had made Progress in the 
Bill, and that he was directed to move, That the 
Committee may have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Juries Procedure (Ireland) Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Public Health (Jreland) Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day. 


The Order of the day being read, fer the Com- 
mittee on the Offences against the Person Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
next, at Two of the clock, resolve itself into the 
said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Toll Bridges (River Thames) Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
next, at Two of the clock, resolve itself intu the 
said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking 
into consideration the Municipal Privileges (Jre- 
land) Bill, as amended in the Committee ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into considera- 
tion upon Monday next. 


The Elver Fishing Bill was, according to Order, 
read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Notices to Quit (Jreland) Bill was, accord- 
ing to Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the House Occupiers Disqualification 
Removal Bill; 

VoL, 131. 





7th July. 317 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second paniamentary 

Reading of the Parliamentary Electors Regis- Electors Regis- 

tration Bill; tration Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 

upon Wednesday next. 


Sir Charles Legard reported from the Select Oyster 
Committee on Oyster Fisheries; That they had Fisheries. 
considered the matters to them referred, and di- No. 345. 
rected him to make a Report thereof to the House, 
together with the Minutes of the Evidence taken 
before them, and an Appendix. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


Mr. Mowbray reported from the Select Com- Standing 
mittee on Standing Orders, several Resolutions ; Orders. 
which were read, as follow: 

That, in the case of the Arklow Harbour Im- Arklow 
provement Bill, the Standing Orders ought to be {mprovement 
dispensed with; that the Bill be permitted topu 
proceed, provided that Notice of the intended 
application to Parliament for the said Bill be 
forthwith published once in the “ Dublin Gazette” 
and three times in a Dublin daily newspaper, 
and in some one and the same newspaper pub- 
lished in the district to which the Bill relates; 
that the Committee on the Bill do report how far 
such Order has been complied with on the Report 
of the Bill. 

That, in the case of the Ardglass Harbour Ardglass 
Bill, the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed Harbour 
with; thatthe Bill be permitted to proceed, pro- Bi 
vided that Notice of the intended application 
to Parliament for the said Bill be forthwith 
published once in the “ Dublin Gazette,’ and 
three times in a Dublin daily newspaper, and 
in some one and the same newspaper published 
in the district to which the Bill relates; that 
the Committee on the Bill do‘report how far 
such Order has been complied with on the Report 
of the Bill. 

That, in the case of the Erne Lough and River Erne Lough 
Bill, the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed 24 River Bill. 
with; that the Bill be permitted to proceed, 
provided that Notice of the intended applica- 
tion to Parliament for the said Bill be forthwith 
published once in the “ Dublin Gazette,” and 
three times in a Dublin daily newspaper, and in 
some one and the same newspaper published in 
the district to which the Bill relates; that the 
Committee on the Bill do report how far such 
— has been complied with on the Report of 

ill. 

The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 


The House was moved, That the Report from Arklow 
the Select Committee on Standing Orders, in re- Harbour 
spect of the Arklow Harbour Improvement Bill, — 
might be read; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 


upon Monday next. 


The House was moved, That the Report from Ardgiass 
the Select Committee on Standing Orders, in re- Harbour 
spect of the Ardglass Harbour Bill, might be 5 
read; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The House was moved, That the Report from Erne Lough 
the Select Committee on Standing Orders, in re- 4 River Bill 
spect of the Erne Lough and River Bill, might be 
read; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 





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318 7Tth—10th July. 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday . Monday, 10th Jul 7 
next, resolve itself into a Committee on the Jrish p J J» 1aa6 
RAYERS. 


Peerage Bill. 
T HE House proceeded to take into considera- ae 
tion the Amendments made by the Lords to ay —y 

the Burntisland Burgh Bill; and the same were : 
twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
—— to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


1876. 


Irish Peerage 
Bill [Lords.] 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- 
sage had been brought from the Lords, by one of 
their Clerks, as followeth : 

The Lords have agreed to the Rosstrevor Im- 


provement Bill, without any Amendment. 


The Lords have agreed to the Lynn and Faken- 
ham Railway Bill, with Amendments; to which 
the Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 
The Lords have agreed to the Westerham Valley 
ailway Bill, with Amendments; to which the 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have agreed to the Amendments 
made by this House to the Letterkenny Railway 
Bill, without any Amendment. 

The Lords have agreed to the Amendments 
made by this House to the Rochester Bridge Bill, 
without any Amendment. 

Ivel Navigation The Lords have agreed to the Amendments 
Bill Lords.) made by this House to the Jvel Navigation Bill, 
without any Amendment. 

Wiese . Lhe Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
per cee one to confirm a Provisional Order of one of Her Ma- 
Improvement jesty’s Principal Secretaries of State, for the im- 
Scheme Comj, Provement of an unhealthy Area in the Whitechapel 
[ Lords. 5 District, and an unhealthy Area in the Limehouse 

District, within the Metropolis; to which the Lords 
desire the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
to confirm a Provisional Order under “ The Ge- 

an neral Police and Improvement (Scotland) Act, 
—a 1862,” relating to the Burgh of Lerwick; to which 
Bill [Zords.} the Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 


Message from 
the Lords. 


Rosstrevor 
Improvement 
Bill. 


Lynn and 
—s 
mane The House proceeded to take into consideration ¢,1, 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Colney Gas Ae 
Hatch Gas Bill; and the same were twice read, 
and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
— to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


Westerham 
Valley Railway R 
Bill. 


Letterkenny 
Railway Bill 
[Lords.] 
Rochester 
Bridge Bill 
[Lords.] The House proceeded to take into consideration goijen y, 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Golden Railway Bil? 
Valley Railway Bill; and the same were twice 
read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
— to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


Metropolis 


The House proceeded to take into consideration g,ax¢ gous 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Great and Wester 
Southern and Western Railway Bill; and the Railway Bill 
same were twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


General Police 
and Improve- 
ment (Scot- 
land) Pro- 


(Whitechapel The Metropolis (Whitechapel and Limehouse) 


and Limehouse) Improvement Scheme Confirmation Bill was read 
anaes the first time ; and ordered to be read a second 
firmation Bill time upon Monday next; and to be printed. 
[Lords.] 


Bill 241. 


General Police 
and Improve- 
ment (Scot- 
land) Pro- 
visional Order 
(Lerwick) Bill 
[ Lords. } 

Bill 242. 


Private Bills 
[Lorde] 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Great Westen 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Great Railway Bill 
Western Railway Bill; and the same were twice 
read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 

Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
The General Police and Improvement ( Scotland) | ships. 
Provisional Order (Lerwick) Bill was read the 
first time; and ordered to be read a second time 
upon Monday next; and to be printed. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration London, 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Lon- Brighton, and 
don, Brighton, and South Coast Railway (Various —— 
Powers) Bill; and the same were twice read, and (Various 
agreed to. Powers) Bill. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
(Standing one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 
Orders not § That the Standing Orders have not been complied 
complied with.) with in the case of the following Bill, originating 


in the Lords, and referred on the First Reading 
thereof, viz. : 
Prudential Assurance Company Bill. 
Ordered, That the Report be referred to the 
Select Committee on Standing Orders. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave 
the Chair ; 


And Notice being taken, that Forty Members 
were not present:—The House was told by Mr. 
Speaker; and Forty Members not being present, 
and it being then after Four of the clock: ~The 
House was adjourned by Mr. Speaker, without a 
Question first put, till Monday next. 





The House proceeded to take into consideration Midland 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Mid- Railway (New 
land Railway (New Works, &amp;c.) Bill; and the = eat 
same were twice read, and agreed to. ° 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Anglesey 
the Anglesey Central Railway Bill, as amended in ny gas 
the Committee. i Lords.) 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The aang + tamer to take into consideration Belfast, Holy- 


the Belfast, Holywood, and Bangor Railway Bill. vo% # 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. yay Bill 
[ Lords.) 
The House proceeded to take into consideration Leven Harbow 
the Leven Harbour Bill, as amended in the Com- Bi! [ Lords.] 
mittee; and an Amendment was made to the Bill. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration sere 
the Peterhead Harbour Bill as amended in the (Zords.) 


Committee. 
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40 Vicroria. 


A Clause (Provision as to Loans by Public 
Works Loan Commissioners) was twice read, and 
made part of the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


h The House proceeded to take into consideration 
Harbour Bill the Scarborough Harbour Bill, as amended in the 
[Lords] Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 
North Dublin The North Dublin Street Tramways Bill was 
—— read a second time; and committed. 
mays 
ee Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 


one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 
= ag dh That the Standing Orders not previously inquired 
oe into, and which are applicable thereto, have been 
inquired into, complied with in the case of the following Bill, 
ied with.) &gt;icinating in the Lords, and referred on the First 
Reading thereof, viz. : 
Southern Railway Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 
That the Standing Orders have been complied 
with in the case of the following Bill, referred on 
the First Reading thereof, viz. : 

Bow Street Police Court (Site) Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 

To-morrow, at T'wo of the clock. 


Bow Street 
Police Court 
(Site) Bill. 


East Cornwall Mr. Backhouse reported from the Committee on 
Mineral Rail- Group 13 of Railway Bills; That, in the case of 
Toa. the East Cornwall Mineral Railway Bill, they had, 
pursuant to the Resolution of the House of the 
20th day of June last, struck out of Clause 63 of 
the Bill the Powers relating to the South Devon 

Railway Company. 

Mr. Backhouse further reported from the Com- 
mittee; That they had examined the allega- 
tions contained in the Preamble of the Bill, and 
amended the same by striking out the recital as to 
the expediency of authorising the Company to 
enter into working and other agreements with the 
South Devon Railway Company, in order to make 
the same consistent with the Bill as submitted to 
and passed by the Committee, and found the same, 
as amended, to be true; and had gone through 
the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


Irish Peerage The Order for the House to resolve itself into 
Bill [Lords.] a Committee upon Wednesday next, on the Jrish 
Peerage Bill, was read, and discharged. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
the 25th day of this instant July, resolve itself into 
the said Committee. 


Public Several Public Petitions were —— and 
— _ read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Vide Twenty- 

ninth Report. 

Turnpike 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Turnpike 
(Counties,  Jtoads (Counties, Scotland), which was presented 


—. upon the 7th day of this instant July, be printed. 

0. 346. 

Munici Mr. Secretary Cross presented,—Return to an 

Ofc Soper Address to Her Majesty, dated the 2lst day of 
February last, for a Return relative to Municipal 
Officers’ Superannuation. 

yeiehta and = =©&gt;_- Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 

“sures, 24th day of February last, for a Return relative 

a to Weights and Measures. 

Cambridge Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated 

Universities, the 11th day of May last, for Returns relative to 


Oxford and Cambridge Universities. 

Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the 
Table. 

VoL. 131. 


10th July. 


319 


Viscount Sandon presented, by Her Majesty’s Veterinary _ 
Command,—Copy of Annual Report of the Veteri- Department. 
nary Department of the Privy Council Office for 
the year 1875, with an Appendix. 
- — That the said Paper do lie upon the 

able. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented, pursuant Superannus- 
to the directions of an Act ef Parliament,—Copy “°™* 
of Treasury Minute, dated 6th July 1876, grant- 
ing a Special Retired Allowance to William Still- 
well (alias Farnden), Established Hammerman. 
. — That the said Paper do lie upon the 
able. 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- Adjournment, 
posed, That this House do now adjourn:—And 
the said Motion was, with leave of the House, 
withdrawn. 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- Adjournment. 
posed, That this House do now adjourn:—And 
the said Motion was, with leave of the House, 
withdrawn. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Drunkenness 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased S°"4) 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return of the Number of Persons ar- 
rested as (1) Drunk and Incapable; and (2) Drunk 
and Disorderly in the different Burghs and Counties 
in Scotland during the Year ending the 30th day 
of June 1876, distinguishing between those ar- 
rested between the hours of 8 a.m. on Sunday and 
8 p.m. on Monday, and those arrested during the 
rest of the week. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Publicans and 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased Grocers’ 
to give directions, that there be laid before this (Seotland.) 
House, Returns showing separately the Number 
of Publicans and of Grocers’ Certificates granted 
in the various Burghs and Counties in Scotland 
during the year ending the 30th day of June 1876, 
by the Licensing Justices or Magistrates at their 
general Meetings for the granting and renewal of 
Licences in respect of Premises not previously 
certificated :———And, the Number of such Cer- 
tificates which were during that year granted on 
Appeal to Quarter Sessions, after being refused by 
the Licensing Justices and Magistrates. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Message from 
Message had been brought from the Lords by one ** Lords. 
of bre ne as a - - aati 

he Lords have eed to the Bromi. irect Bromley Di 
Railway Bill, weakens Amendment. Seine Be. 

The Lords have agreed to the Industrial and Industrial and 
Provident Societies Bill, with Amendments; to ne 
which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House. 

‘he Lords have agreed to the Charnwood Forest Charnwood 
Railway Bill, with Amendments; to which the — Railway 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have agreed to the Lancashire and —_ and 
Yorkshire Railway Bill, with Amendments; to way Bill, —_ 
which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House. 

The Lords have agreed to the Dunfermline Dunfermline 
Water Bill, with Amendments ; to which the Lords Water Bill. 
‘desire the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have agreed to the Tunbridge Wells Tunbridge _ 
Gas Bill, with Amendments; to which the Lords ¥@!s 9 Bill. 
desire the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have agreed to the Campbeltown Campbeltown 
Burgh and Harbour Bill, with Amendments ; to Burgh and 





which the Lords desire the concurrence of this @*°°™ Bil 
House. 

The Lords have agreed to the Smethwick Local Smethwick 
Board Bill, with Amendments; to which the — 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 





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320 


The Lords have agreed to the Amendments 
made by this House to the Blackrod Local Board 
Bill, without any Amendment. 

Sutton Gas The Lords have agreed to the Amendments 
Bill [Lords.] made by this House to the Sutton Gas Bill, with- 

out any Amendment. 

Elementary The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
Education Pro- to confirm a Provisional Order made by the Edu- 
So cation Department under “ The Elementary Edu- 
(Cardiff) Bill ‘cation Act, 1870,” to enable the School Board for 
[ Lords.] Cardiff to put in force ‘* The Lands Clauses Con- 
solidation Act, 1845,” and the Acts amending the 
same; to which the Lords desire the concurrence 
of this House. 


Blackrod Local 
Board Bill 
[Lords.} 


Elementary The Elementary Education Provisional Order 
Education Pro- Confirmation ( Cardiff’) Bill was read the first time ; 
visional Order ° 

Confirmation 2nd ordered to be read a second time upon Thurs- 


(Cardiff) Bill day next; and to be printed. 
[ Lords. ] 


Bill 243. 


Elementary The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Education Bill. mittee on the Elementary Education Bill; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave 
the Chair ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question by leaving out from the word “ That” to 
the end of the Question, in order toadd the words 
“in the opinion of this House, the principle of 
“ universal compulsion in Education cannot be 
“ applied without great injustice, unless provision 
‘** be made for placing public Elementary Schools 
“ under public management,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Question; 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Tuesday morning ; 


Tuesday, 11th July, 1876: 


The House divided. 
The Yeas to the Right ; 
The Noes to the Left. 
Tellers for the; Sir William Dyke, 
Yeas, | Mr. Rowland Winn: 
Tellers for the{ Mr. Richard, 
Noes, (Mr. Edward Jenkins: 
So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 
Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
Chair:—The House accordingly resolved itself 
into the Committee ; and, after some time spent 
therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and 
Mr. Raikes reported, That the Committee had 
made Progress in the Bill, and that he was di- 
rected to move, That the Committee may have 
leave to sit again. 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, at Two 
of the clock, again resolve itself into the said 
Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on Appellate Jurisdiction [Sa- 
laries, &amp;c. | 


Appellate 
Jurisdiction 
(Salaries, &amp;c.] 


(In the Committee.) 


Resolved, That it is expedient to authorise the 

ayment, out of the Consolidated Fund of the 
Daited Kingdom, of the Salary, Pension, and 
Expenses on Circuit of any additional Judge of 
the Court of Appeal; and of any increase of the 
Allowance to Retired Indian and Colonial Judges 
attending the Judicial Committee of the Privy 
Council, in pursuance of the provisions of any 
Act of the present Session relating to Appellate 
Jurisdiction. 

Resolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr. Razkes 
reported, That the Committee had come to a Re- 
solution. 


10¢h—11th July. 


.| mittee on the University of Cambridge Bill; 


1876. 


Ordered, That the Report be received this day, 
at Two of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Appellate 
mittee on the Appellate Jurisdiction Bill ; piraiction 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday (Lords) 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Highways piu, 
Reading of the Highways Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Roads ana 
Reading of the Roads and Bridges ( Scotland) Bill ; Bridges (Scot. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time “™® Bill 

upon Monday next. 


Sheriff Courts 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second (Scotland) Bill, 


Reading of the Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Clerk of the 
the adjourned Debate on the Amendment which, eae of 
upon the 26th day of May last, was proposed to be (Ireland) Bil 
made to the Question, That the Clerk of the Peace 
and of the Crown (Jreland) Bill be now read 
a second time ; 


Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Civil Bill 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed Courts 
upon the 27th day of June last, That the Civil (Ireland) Bill. 
Bill Courts (Zreland) Bill be now read a second 
time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Thursday next. 


The Convict Prisons (Returns) Bill was, accord- Convict 
ine to Ord 1 d time: d itted Prisons 
ing to Order, read a second time; and committe (Returns) Bill. 
to a Committee of the whole House, for Thursday 
next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- University of 
Cambridge 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday - 


next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the University of Ozford Bill; 

Resolved, That this Reuse will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


University of 
Oxford Bi 
[Lords.] 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Agricultural 
mittee on the Agricultural Holdings ( Scotland) Bill; rooted) 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday pin (Lords) 


next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Linen and 
Reading of the Linen and Hempen and other Ma- Himpct a 
nufactures (Jre/and) Bill; factures 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time (Ireland) Bill 
this day, at Two of the clock. 

The Order of the day being read, for taking into Admiralty 
consideration the ieuhene made by the Lords ireland) Bl 
to the Admiralty Jurisdiction (Jreland) Bill; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That the said Amendments be now 
taken into consideration ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the {Sir William Dyke, 

Yeas, LMr. Rowland Winn: 

Tellers for the = Dillwyn, 

Noes, Mr. Anderson: 


\ 139. 


1 ss 
So it was resolved in the Affirmative :— The 





House 











(Gpecial Entry-) 


Patents for 
Inventions 


Bill [Lords.] 


Valuation Bill. 


Poor Law 
Rating 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Pensions 
Commutation 
Act Amend- 
ment Bill. 


Local Loans 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Metropolitan 
Commons 

(Barnes) Bill 
[Lords. } 


General Police 
and Improve- 
tent (Scot- 
land) Pro- 
Visional Order 
tion 


(Paisley) Bill 
(Lords. } 


General Police 
and Improve. 
ment (Scot- 
land) Pro- 
visional Order 
ation 
(Perth Bill 
{Lords.} 


Public Health 


40 Vicroria. 


House accordingly proceeded to take the said 
Amendments into consideration. 

The first Amendment being read a second time ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That this House doth agree with 
the Lords in the said Amendment; 

A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That this House do now adjourn:—And 
the said Motion was, with leave of the House, with- 
drawn. 

And the Question being again proposed, That 
this House doth agree with the Lords in the said 
Amendment :—And a Debate arising thereupon ; 

A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That the Debate be now adjourned :—And 
the said Motion was, with leave of the House, 
withdrawn. 

And the Question being put, That this House 
doth agree with the Lords in the said Amend- 
ment :—It was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Then the subsequent Amendments, being read a 
second time (and it appearing that the Amend- 
ments in p. 4, lines 14 and 15, were to carry into 
effect the intentions of this House), were agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Patents for Inventions Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Valuation Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Poor Law Rating (Jreland) Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Pensions Commutation Act Amend- 
ment Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Local Loans (Jreland) Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Metropolitan Commons (Barnes) Bill was, 
according to Order, read a second time ; and com- 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for 
Tuesday next, at Two of the clock. 


The General Police and Improvement ( Scotland) 
Provisional Order Confirmation (Paisley) Bill was, 
according to Order, read a second time ; and com- 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for 
Tuesday next, at Two of the clock. 


The General Police and Improvement (Scotland) 
Provisional Order Confirmation (Perth) Bill was, 
according to Order, read a second time ; and com- 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for 
Tuesday next, at Two of the clock. 


The Public Health (Scotland) Provisional Order 


win Order” (vine and Dundonald) Bill was, according to 
Deal) 
Bill (Lords. ] 





Order, read a second time; and committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for Tuesday next, 
at Two of the clock. 

VoL. 131. 


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321 


The Elementary Education Provisional Order Elementary 
Confirmation ( Tolleshunt Major) Bill was, accord- Education Pro- 
° A ° visional Order 
ing to Order, read a second time; and committed Confirmation 
to a Committee of the whole House, for Tuesday (Tolleshunt 
next, at Two of the clock. Major) Bill 

[Lords.] 

The Local Government Provisional Orders toca) Govern- 
(Carnarvon, &amp;c.) Bill was, according to Order, ment Pro. 
read a second time; and committed to a Committee visional Orders 
of the whole House, for Tuesday next, at Two of te) Bat 
the clock. [Lords.} 


The Provisional Orders (Zreland) Confirmation provisional 
( Coleraine, &amp;c.) Bill was, according to Order, read Orders 
a second time; and committed to a Committee of (Ireland) 


the whole House, for Tuesday next, at Two of the (Colweina dea) 
clock. Bill [Lords.] 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Crossed 
mittee on the Crossed Cheques Bill ; Cheques Bill 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday [Lords.] 

next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Third Public Works 
Reading of the Public Works Loans Bill; Loans Bill. 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to a 
Committee of the whole House in respect of an 
Amendment to Clause 6:—The House immediately 
resolved itself into the Committee; and, after 
some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the 
Chair; and Mr. Raikes reported, That the Com- 
mittee had amended Clause 6 of the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be now taken into consideration :—The 
House accordingly proceeded to take the Bill into 
consideration. 

Ordered, That the Bill be now read the third 
time:—The Bill was accordingly read the third 
time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Tramways Orders Confirmation (Bristol, Tramways 


&amp;c.) Bill was, according to Order, read the third Orders Con- 
time. firmation 


Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, Gmrteds} 


do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acyuaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the same, with Amendments; to 
which this House doth desire the concurrence of 
their Lordships. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming war Depart- 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed ment and Post 
upon the 6th day of this instant July, That Mr. ane 
Speaker do now leave the Chair (for Committee gc.) Bin.” 
on the War Department and Post Office (Re- 
muneration, &amp;c.) Bill) ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Thursday next. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Isle of Man 
into a Committee on the Isle of Man (Officers) (Officers) Bill, 
Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. 

Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Razkhes 
reported, That the Committee had made Progress 
in the Bill; and that he was directed to move, 
That the Committee may have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, at Two 
of the clock, again resolve itself into the said Com- 
mittee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Arklow 
Reading of the Arklow Harbour Improvement Harbour Im- 
Bill; provement Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day, at Two of the clock. 

TT The 

















Erne Lough 
and River Bill. 


Metropolis 
(Whitechapel 
and Lime- 
house) Im- 
provement 
Scheme Con- 
firmation Bill 
[Lords. } 


General Police 
and Improve- 
ment (Scot- 
land) Pro- 
visional Order 
(Lerwick) 
Bill [Lords.] 


Pollution of 
Rivers Bill. 


Cattle Disease 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Ways and 
Means. 


Prisons 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Turnpike Acts 
Continuance, 
&amp;c. Bill. 


Prisons 
[Maintenance 
of Prisons, 
Salaries, &amp;c.] 


32% 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Ardgluss Harbour Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day, at Two of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Erne Lough and River Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day, at Two of the clock. 


The Metropolis (Whitechapel and Limehouse) 
Improvement Scheme Confirmation Bill was, ac- 
cording to Order, read a second time; and com- 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for 
Tuesday next, at Two of the clock. 


The General Police and Improvement (Scot- 
land) Provisional Order (Lerwick) Bill was, ac- 
cording to Order, read a second time; and com- 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for 
Tuesday next, at Two of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
upon the 22nd day of June last, That the Pollu- 
tion of Rivers Bill be now read a second time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Cattle Disease (Jreland) Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House wiil, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Ways and Means; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednes- 
day next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Prisons (Jreland) Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day, at Two of the clock. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Turnpike Acts Continu- 
ance, &amp;c. Bill; and, after some time spent therein, 
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill, 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration this day, at 
Two of the clock. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on Prisons [Maintenance of 
Prisons, Salaries, &amp;c.] 


(In the Committee.) 


Resolved, That it is expedient to authorise the 
payment, out of Moneys to be provided by Parlia- 
ment, of all Expenses incurred in respect of the 
Maintenance of Prisons and of Prisoners therein, 
of the Salaries of Prison Commissioners, Assistant 
Commissioners, and Officers and Servants of the 
Prison Commissioners, of Aunuities by way of 
Superannuation Allowance, and of Gratuities to 
existing Officers of Prisons; also the payment of 
any continuous Contract or dealing which may 
became payable under the provisions of any Act 
of the present Session for amending the Law 
relating to Prisons. 

Resolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Razkes 


_reported, That the Committee had come to a Re- 


solution. 
Ordered, That the Report be received this day, 
at Two of the clock. 


10¢h—11th July. 





1876. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Bishops; 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed Troe Bil 
upon the 4th day of this instant July, That the 
Bishopric of Truro Bill be now read a second 
time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Juries 
mittee on the Juries Procedure (Jreland) Bill; Procedure 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday (Ireland) Bill, 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Public Health 
Reading of the Public Heath (Jre/and) Bill; (Ireland) Bill, 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day, at Two of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Sale of Coal Bill; 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


Sale of Coal 
Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Parliamentary 
mittee on the Parliamentary and Municipal Re- and Municipal 
gistration (Boroughs) Bill; Registration 

Resclved, That this House will, upon Thursday {Beroughe) 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 

The House, according to Order, resolved itself Medical Act 
into a Committee on the Medical Act (Quali- (Qualitica. 
fications) Bill; and, after some time spent therein, °°") 5H! 
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Rakes 
reported, That the Committee had made Progress 
in the Bill, and that he was directed to move, 

That the Committee may have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 

next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Sea and 
into a Committee on the Sea and River Banks River Banks 
(Lincolnshire) Bill; and, after some time spent irc 
therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; ond Mr. ~ 
Raikes reported, That the Committee had gone 
through the Bill. 

Oraered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration upon Thursday 


next. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking Municipal 
into consideration the Municipal Privileges (Zre- (ireland) Bill 
land) Bill, as amended in the Committee ; - 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into considera- 
tion this day, at Two of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second —s , 
Reading of the Convention (/reland) Act Repeal a Bill. 
Bill; 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


County Rates 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Cieelaa) Bill 


the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
upon the 9th day of May last, That the County 
Rates (Ireland) Bill be now read a second time ; 

And the Question being again proposed :—The 
House resumed the said adjourned Debate. __ 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That the Debate be now adjourned :— 
It passed in the Negative. 

And the Original Question being put; 

Ordered, That the Bill be now read a second 
time:—The Bill was accordingly read a second 
time ; and committed to a Committee of the whole 
House, for this day. 

ies 

facts’ (1862 and 


1867) Amend- 
ment Bill. 


The Order of the day rg read, for the Second 


Reading of the Companies Acts (1862 and 1867) 


Amendment Bill ; 


And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being 








Bill. 


alth 
Bill. 





40 Victoria. 


being proposed, That the Bill be now read a second 
time :—And a Debate arising thereupon ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be adjourned till this 
day. 


Nullam The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
qemps __— into a Committee on the Nullum Tempus (Ireland) 
(ireland) Bill. 41), and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes reported, 
That the Committee had gone through the Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration this day, at, 
Two of the clock. 





The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Legal Practitioners) Jre- 
land) Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes re- 
ported, That the Committee had gone through the 
Bill, and directed him to report the same, without 
Amendment. 

Ordered, that the Bill be read the third time 
this day. 


Poor Law The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Guardians = Reading of the Poor Law Guardians Elections 
fielind) pil. (Jreland) Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


Legal 
Practitioners 
(Ireland) Bill. 





| 


Legal The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Practitioners Reading of the Legal Practitioners Bill ; 
a Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 


upon Friday next. 


Norwich and Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 

sll to suspend for a limited period the holding of an 

Von} Election of a Member or Members te serve in Par- 
liament for the City of Norwich, and to disfran- 
chise certain Voters of the said City, and also 
certain Voters for the Borough of Bostun:.And | 
that Mr. Attorney General and Mr. Secretary 
Cross do prepare, and bring it in. 

Norwich and Mr. Attorney General accordingly presented 

Boston a Bill to suspend for a limited period the holding 





(eens) Bil of an Election of a Member or Members to serve 
Bill 944. 12 Parliament for the City of Norwich, and to dis- 
franchise certain Voters of the said City, and also 

certain Voters for the Borough of Boston : And the 

same was read the first time; and ordered to be 

read a second time upon Thursday next; and to 
be printed. | 

Supply. Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednes- 


day next, resolve itself into the Committee of 
Supply. 
And then the House, having continued to sit 


till half an hour after Two of the clock on 
Tuesday morning, adjourned till this day. 








Tuesday, 11th July, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 
R. Raikes reported the New Shoreham Har- 


New Shoreham 


[lores - bour Bill, with Amendments. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 
ll ” Mr. Raikes reported the Saint Werburgh’s 
Church.” * Church, &amp;ristol, Bill, without Amendment. 
— Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 
— — The House proceeded to take into consideration 
Railway Bi, the Amendments made by the Lords to the Lynn 


and Fakenham Railway Bill; and the same were 
twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 

VoL. 131. 


1Oth—1V1th July. 





323 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Queenborough 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Queen- Hsrbour Bill. 
borough Harbour Bill; and the same were twice 
read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Tipton Local 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Tipton Board Bill. 
Local Board Bill; and the same were twice read, 
and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration West 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Wes¢ Bromwich 
Bromwich Improvement ‘Bill; and the same were ,uP7°ve™"™* 
twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 


Lordships. 


The Greencastle and Kilkeel Railway and Pier Greencastle 
Bill was read the third time. and Kilkeel 
Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, — 
do pass. [Lords.] 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, with Amendments; to which 
this House doth desire the concurrence of their 


Lordships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Waterford 
the Waterford and Weazford Railway Bill, as and Wexford 
amended in the Committee. (led) 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. ~ : 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and Public 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions, 
Vide Twenty- 
ninth Report. 
Ordered, That the Return relative to Tonnage Tonnage at 
at Ports in Jre/and, which was presented upon the Ports in 


7th day of this instant July, be printed. er 47. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Weights Weights and 
and Measures, which was presented upon the 10th yap 
day of this instant July, be printed. No. 348, 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Oxford Oxford and 
and Cambridge Universities, which was presented esa: 
upon the 10th day of this instant July, be printed. No, 349, 

Mr. Secretary Cross presented, by Her Ma- turnpike 
jesty’s Command,—An Abstract of the General Trusts (Scot- 
Statements of the Income and Expenditure of the #™“) 
several Turnpike Trusts in Scotland, between the 
term of Whit-Sunday 1874 and the term of Whit- 

Sunday 1875, pursuant to the Act 12 &amp; 13 Vie.c.31. 

Copy of the Thirty-seventh Annual Report of public 
the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records. [9th Records. 
March 1876. | 

Mr. Secretary Cross also presented,—Return to Board of 
an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 4th day of (Seotland.) 
this instant July, for Returns relative to the Board - ceases 
of Supervision ( Scotland). 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Stephen Cave presented, pursuant to the Army Prize 
directions of an Act of Parliament,—The Account ™¢y- 
of Army Prize Money paid.over to the Commis- 
sioners of Chelsea Hospital, from 18th January 
1809 to 3lst March 1876. 
Ordered, That the said Account do lie upon the 
Table. 














TT2 Viscount 





Captain 
Sulivan. 


No. 350. 


Public Records 
(Ireland) 
Amendment 
Bill. 


Leave of 
Absence. 


Weather 
Intelligence. 


No. 351. 


Elementary 
Education Bill. 


324 


Viscount Sandon presented, by Her Majesty’s 
Command,—Copy of Twenty-third Report of the 
Science and Art Department of the Committee of 
Council on Education. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Copy of a Letter dated the 27th day of February 
1875, addressed by the Reverend E. L. Penny,M.A., 
to Captain LZ. J. Sulivan, of Her Majesty’s Ship 


“« London” {in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, | 


No. 344, of Session 1876). 

Mr. Algernon Egerton accordingly presented the 
said Paper. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


The Order for reading a second time, To-morrow, 
the Public Records (Jreland) Amendment Bill, was 
read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday the 25th day of this instant July. 


Ordered, That Mr. Benett-Stanford have leave 
of absence for one week, on account of ill health. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Returns showing the List of Places to which 
Telegraphic Weather Intelligence was sent in 
1875, arranged according to Coasts: And, 
showing the Number of Telegrams sent to each 
Station, and the Storms reported on the Coasts 
of the British Islands in 1875 (in continuation of 
Parliamentary Paper, No, 210, of Session 1875). 

Sir Charles Adderley accordingly presented the 
said Returns. 

Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself | 


into a Committee on the Elementary Education 


Bill. 
(In the Committee.) 


Preamble postponed. 

CLauseEs, N° 1 and N° 2, agreed to. 

Cause, N°3 (Commencement of Act). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 1, 1. 13, after the 
word “shall” to insert the words “ except as is 
“ hereinafter provided.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted :—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Clause postponed. 

CuiauseE, N° 4 (Regulation as to employment of 
child under 10, and certificate of education or pre- 
vious school attendance being condition of employ- 
ment of child over 10). 

Amendment proposed, in p.1, 1.21, after the 
word “ years” to insert the words “ unless any 
‘such authority as is hereinafter in this Act re- 
“ ferred to as the local authority shall have granted 
“a certificate in writing certifying that such child 
“ has attained the age of nine years, and that the 
“ employment of such child is upon grounds which 
“the said local authority has investigated and 
“found sufficient: Provided, That the employ- 
** ment into which such child is taken is such that 
“the child while employed will attend school half 
“* time.” 


11th July. 











1876. 


Question, That those words be there inserted 
—— put, and negatived. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 1, 1. 21, to 
leave out from the word “ years” to the end of the 
Clause. 

Question, That the words “ or who” stand 
part of the Clause——put, and agreed to. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 1, 1. 23, 
after the word “ certificate,” to insert the words 
** of age and.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted :— Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Amendments made. 

Another Amendment proposed, at the end of 
the Clause, to add the words: “ Provided, That 
“a list of public elementary and other schools 
“ where efficient elementary instruction is given 
“‘ (whether such schools are or are not in receipt 
*‘ of grants provided by Parliament) shall be an- 
“ nually published by the Committee of Council 
“ on Education ; and that the, list so published, or 
“any supplementary list published during the 
‘* year, on the request of the local authority, or of 
“ the managers of aschool, shall be sufficient evi- 
*‘ dence that every school so named is an efficient 
“ elementary school.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
added :—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

CuiauseE, N° 5 (Enforcement of Act by existing 
local authority or inspectors of factories or mines), 

Amendments made. 

Another Amevdment proposed, in p. 2, 1. 13, 
after the word “ known” to insert the words “ it 
“ shall be the duty of such local authority to report 
“to the Education Department any infraction of 
“ the provisions of section seven of ‘ The Ele- 
“mentary Education Act, 1870,’ in any public 
* elementary school within their district which 
“may come to their knowledge; and also to 
** forward to the Education Department any com- 
* plaint which they may receive of the infraction 
‘« of these provisions.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted ; 

Amendment proposed to the said proposed 
Amendment, in |. 2, by leaving out from the word 
“ authority ” to the word “ also” in 1. 5. 

Question proposed, That the words proposed to 
be left out stand part of the said proposed Amend- 
ment :—Amendment to the said proposed Amend- 
ment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Proposed words inserted. 

Other Amendments made. 

Another Amendment proposed, at the end of 
the Clause, to add the words “ and provided that 
** all children employed under the Acts regulating 
** factories, workshops, and mines shall be deemed 
*‘ to be necessarily and beneficially employed.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
added :— Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had made Progress 
in the Bill, and that he was directed to move, That 
the Committee may have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 





Question, That those words be there inserted 

put, and negatived. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 1, 1. 21, 
after the word “ years” to insert the words “ unless 
“ the child being of the age of nine years had made 
** 250 school attendances in each of the four pre- 
“« vious years, and since it reached the age of nine 
** years, made 250 school attendances, or had re- 
“ ceived acertificate fixed by Standard 4 of the 
“ Code of 1876.” 


i Trade Marks 
The House, according to Order, proceeded to we thar 


take into consideration the Trade Marks Regis- (ren anont 
tration Amendment Bill, as amended in the Com- gin [Lords.] 
mittee ; and an Amendment was made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Thursday next. 


The Bow Street Police Court (Site) Bill was, 
according to Order, read a second time; and com- 
mitted to a Select Committee. M 

r. 


7 


Bow Street 
Police 
(Site) Bill. 

















llate 
Teisdiction 


[Salaries, &amp;e.] 


Linen and 
Hempen and 
other Manu- 


factures 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Isle of Man 


(Officers) Bill. 


Arklow 
Harbour 
Improvement 
Bill. 


Ardglass 
Harbour Bill. 


Erne Lough 


and River Bill. 
Prisons 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Turnpike Acts 


Continuance, 
&amp;c. Bill, 


Prisons 
[Maintenance 
of Prisons, 


Salaries, &amp;c. J 


Public Health 
(Ireland) Bill, 


40 Victoria. Lith 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on 
Appellate Jurisdiction [Salaries, &amp;c.], a Resclu- 
tion; which was read, as followcth: 

That it is expedient to authorise the payment, 
out of the Consolidated Fund of the United King- 
dom, of the Salary, Pension, and Expenses on 
Circuit of any additional Judge of the Court of 
Appeal; and of any increase of the Allowance to 
Retired Indian and Colonial Judges attending the 
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, in pur- 
suance of the provisions of any Act of the present 
Session relating to Appellate Jurisdiction. 

The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 


The Order of the day being read, fur the Second | 


Reading of the Linen and Hempen and other Ma- 
nufactures (Jreland) Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Jsle of Man (Officers) 
Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes re- 
ported, That the Committee had gone thrcugh the 
Bill, and directed him to report the same, without 
Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Thursday next. 


The Arklow Harbour Improvement Bill was, 
according to Order, read a second time ; and com- 
mitted to a Select Committee. 


The Ardglass Harbour Bill was, according tu 
Order, read a second time; and committed to a 
Select Committee. 


The Erne Lough and River Bill was, according 
to Order, read a second time; and committed to a 
Select Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Prisons (Jreland) Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
take into consideration the Turnpike Acts Con- 
tinuance, &amp;c., Bill, as amended in the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Thursday next. 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on 
Prisons [Maintenance of Prisons, Salaries, &amp;c. | ; 
a Resolution ; which was read, as followeth : 

That it is expedient to authorise the payment, 
out of moneys to be provided by Parliament, of 
all Expenses incurred in respect of the Mainte- 
nance of Prisons and of Prisoners therein, of the 
Salaries of Prison Commissioners, Assistant Com- 
missioners, and Officers and Servants of the Pri- 
son Commissioners, of Annuities by way of Super- 
annuation Allowance, and of Gratuities to existing 
Officers of Prisons; also the payment of any con- 
tinuous Contract or dealing which may become 
payable under the provisions of any Act of the 
present Session for amending the Law relating to 
Prisons. 

The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Public Health (Zreland) Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 


July. 325 


| Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
| next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


| The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Toll Bridges 
|mnittee on the Toll Bridges (River Thames) Bill; (River 

| Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday aay ae 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Municipal 
consideration the Municipal Privileges ( Ireland) Privileges 
Bill, as amended in the Committee ; aes aeares 
| _ Ordered, That the Bill be taken into considera- 

tion this day. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to Nullam 
take into consideration the Nullum Lempus (Ire- Tempus 
land) Bill, as amended in the Committee. (Irelend) Bill. 

Ordered, ‘That the Bill be read the third time 
To-morrow. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Mr. J. Sheehy: 
_a Copy of Correspondence between the Local Go- 
_vernment Board in Jreland and the Guardians 
of the Rathkeal Union, relative to the Removal of 
John Sheehy, Esquire, one of the Coroners for the 
County of Limerick, from the Office of Collector 
| of Poor Rates for that Union. 


at That an humble Address be presented some 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased “XPenattre 
| to give emtions, that there be laid before a“ 
House, a Return showing the Local Expenditure 
‘in every County in Scotland for maintaining Pri- 
sons for each of the last Two years for which the 
| Information can be given, and distinguishing the 
| Burgh Expenditure in each County from tbe other 
Expenditure; together with a Summary of the 
Results. 





The Order for reading a second time, upon Norwich and 
Thursday next, the Norwich and Boston (Corrupt —— , 
Voters) Bill, was read, and discharged. Voters} Bil. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 

Ordered, ‘That a printed Copy of the Norwich 
and Boston (Corrupt Voters) Bill, and of the 
Order for reading the said Bill a second time, be 
served upon the Returning Officers for the City 
of Norwich and the Borough of Boston. 





Mr. Mowbray reported from the Committee on Standing 
Standing Orders, several Resolutions; which were 2°" 
read, as follow: 

1, That, in the case of the Metropolis Gas( Surrey Metropolis Gas 
Side) Bill, the Standing Orders ought to be dis- (Surrey Side) 
pensed with; that the Bill be permitted to pro- °” 
ceed, 

2. That, in the case of the Prudential Assurance Prudential 
Company Bill, the Standing Orders ought to be Assurance 
dispensed with; that the parties be permitted to tLondey ’ 
proceed with their Bill. 

The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 


The House was moved, That the Report from Metropolis Gas 
the Select Committee on Standing Orders in (Surrey Side) 
respect of the Metropolis Gas (Surrey Side) Bill, = 
might be read ; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
To-morrow. 


The House was moved, That the Report from Prudential 
the Select Committee on Standing Orders in Assurance 
respect of the Prudential Assurance Company tLoede} - 
Bill, might be read; and the same being read ; 


Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time. 


Sir Michael Hicks Beach reported from the Local Govern- 
Select Committee on the Local Government and ment and 
Taxation of Towns (Ireland); That they had con- —— “ 








mittee on the Offences against the Person Bill ; 
VoL. 131. 


sidered the matters to them referred, and directed (Ireland.) 
TT3 him No, 352. 
















326 


him to make a Report thereof to the House, toge | 
ther with the Minutes of the Evidence taken 
before them, and an Appendix. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table; 
and be printed. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- 
sage had been brought from the Lords by one of 
their Clerks, as followeth : 

The Lords have agreed to the Local Light Dues 
(Reduction) Bill, without any Amendment. 


Message from 
the Lords. 


Local Light 
Dues (Reduc- 
tion) Bill. 
Local Govern- 
ment Pro- 
visional Orders 
Bristol, &amp;c. 


The Lords have agreed to the Local Govern- 
ment Provisional Orders, Bristol, &amp;c. (No. 6) Bill, 
without any Amendment. 
(No. 6) Bill. 


Waterford, The Lords have agreed to the Waterford, New 
New Ross, and Ross, and Wexford Junction Railway (Sale) Bill, 


Wexford Junc- _ - 
tion Railway without any Amendment. 


(Sale) Bill. . 
Stonehouse The Lords have agreed to the Stonehouse Pool 


Pool Improve- Improvement Bill, without any Amendment. 
ment Bill. 


Gorsedda 
Junction and 
Portmadoc 
Railways Bill. 


Didcot, New- 
bury, and 
Southampton 
Junction Rail- 
way Bill. 
Kirkcaldy 
Burgh and 
Harbour Bill. 


The Lords have agreed to the Gorsedda Junc- 
tion and Portmadoc Railways Bill, without any 
Amendment. 


The Lords have agreed to the Didcot, New- 
bury, and Southampton Junction Railway Bill, 
with an Amendment; to which the Lords desire 
the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have agreed tothe Kirkcaldy Burgh 
and Harbour Bill, with Amendments ; to which 
the Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have agreed to the Manchester, 
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Bill, with 
Amendments; to which the Lords desire the con- 
currence of this House. 

The Lords have agreed to the London and 
Western Railway (New Lines, &amp;c.) Bill, 
with Amendments; to which the Lords desire the 
concurrence of his House. 

The Lords have agreed to the Amendments made 
by this House to the Dochfour Estate Bill, with- 
out any Amendment. 

The Lords have agreed to the Amendments 
made by this House to the Amendments made by 
their Lordships to the Publicans Certificates 
(Scotland) Bill, without any Amendment. 

The Lords do not insist on their Amendment 
to the Humber Conservancy Bill, to which this 
House disagrees, and agree to the Consequential 
Amendment made by this House to the Bill, 
without any Amendment. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
to make Provision for the Government of the 
Islands of Saint Vincent, Tobago, and Grenada, 
and their Dependencies; to which the Lords desire 
the concurrence of this House. 


Manchester, 
Sheffield, and 
Lincolnshire 
Railway Bill. 


London and 
North Western N 4; 
Railway (New North 
Lines, &amp;c.) 
Bill. 


Dochfour 
Estate Bill 
[Lords.} 


Publicans 
Certificates 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Humber 
Conservancy 


Bill. 


Saint Vincent, 
Tobago, and 
Grenada Con- 
stitution Bill 
[ Lords. | 


Resolved, That further legislation is desirable 
with regard to the qualification and ee 
of Coroners, and the mode of holding Inquests. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being 
proposed, That, in the opinion of this House, 
Captain Sulivan should not have been removed 
from the command of one of Her Majesty’s ships 
for any alleged error, shortcoming, or neglect of 
duty, without having been given an opportunity, 
if he desired it, of explaining or defending his 
conduct before a competent court ; 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Wednesday morning ; 


Wednesday, 12th July 1876: 


And the Question being put ; 
The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 


Navy (Captain 
Sulivan.) 


11th—i2th July. 








1876. 
91. 
} 103, 


A Motion was made, and the Question being Blackwater 
proposed, That, without desiring to infringe upon Fishery 
private rights of several fishery in the Blackwater, ‘**land,) 
this House is of opinion that it is the duty of the 
Government to watch over and protect the rights 
of the public in respect to Sihery in the tidal 
waters of that and other /rish rivers ; 


And Notice being taken, that Forty Members 
were not present :—The House was told by Mr. 
Speaker; and Forty Members not being present, 
and it being then a quarter of an hour after One 
of the clock on Wednesday morning :—The House 
wasadjourned by Mr. Speaker, without a Ques- 
tion first put, till this day. 


Tellers for the{ Mr. Ashley, 
Yeas, Sir Alezander Gordon: 
Tellers for the on William Dyke, 
Noes, Mr. Rowland Winn: 
So it passed in the Negative. 








Wednesday, 12th July, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 

T HE House proveeded to take into considera- Westerham 
tion the Amendments made by the Lords to Valley Railway 

the Westerham Valley Railway Bill; and the 2! 
same were twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Blackrod Gas 
the Blachrod 


\ as Bill, as amended in the Com- Bill [Lords] 
mittee. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and Public 
read; and ordered to lie upon the ‘Table. Petitions, 
Vide Thirtieth 
Report. 
Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Thames 
a Copy of Statement of the result of the Notices Conservancy 
served by the Conservators of the River Thames, *** 
under the 7'hames Conservancy Acts, for the dis- Ho. O08, 
continuance of the passing of sewage or any other 
offensive or injurious matter into the River above 
the intake of the Water Companies supplying the 
Metropolis. 
Mr. Sclater-Booth accordingly presented the 
said Paper. 
Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


The Sale of Intoxicating Liquors on Sunday Sale of | 
(Ireland) (No, 2) Bill was, according to Order, yen 
read a second time; and committed to a Com- gunday (Ir- 


mittee of the whole House, for To-morrow. ll (No. 2) 
lil. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second aon 
vag of the Intoxicating Liquors (Scotland) (Srotland) Bill. 
And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a second 
time ; 
An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the word ‘‘ now,” and, 
at the end of the Question, adding the words 
*‘ upon this day three months.” 
nd the Question being proposed, That the 
word “now” stand part of the Question :—And 
a Debate arising thereupon ; 
And it being a quarter of an hour before Six of 
the clock, the Debate stood adjourned till To- 


morrow. 
The 








lway 





4O Victoria. 


purglary and The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
poser Bills Reading of the Burglary and Forgery Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 

upon Wednesday next. 

solesnstical «= The Order of the day being read, for the Second 

firs and Reading of the Ecclesiastical Offices and Fees 

Fees Bi Bill: 

(Led. Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next. 

—_ The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
er) into a Committee on the Orphan and Deserted 
cilia = =©Children (Ireland) Bill ; and, after some time spent 
(ielsnd) Bill. therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr. 

Raikes reported, That the Committee had gone 
through the Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration To-morrow. 
gonicide law _ Lhe Order of the day being read, for resuming 
imendment the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
Bill. upon the 8th day of March last, That the Homi- 
cide Law Amendment Bill be now read a second 
time ; 
Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Wednesday next. 
ealdey The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
twwAmend- Reading of the Grand Jury Law Amendment 


nent (Ireland) ( Jreland) Bill; 
Bil Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday next. 


Bection of The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
Ademen the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
(Cumlative upon the 9th day of June last, That the Election 
— iii (Cumulative Vote) Bill be now read a 
second time; 
Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Wednesday next. 


Puliamentary The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Blectors Reading of the Parliamentary Electors Registra- 
—_— tion Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
To-morrow. 
Ways and ‘The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Means. mittee of Ways and Means ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 
Supply. ‘The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 
Nallum The Order of the day being read, for the Third 
(ea) - Reading of the Nullum Tempus (Ireland) Bill ; 


And a Motion being made, That the Bill be 
now read the third time ; 

Sir Michael Hicks Beach, by Her Majesty’s 
Command, acquainted the House, That Her Ma- 
jesty, having been informed of the purport of the 
Bill, gives Her Consent, as far as Her Majesty’s 
interest is concerned, that the House may do 
therein as they shall think fit. 

Then the Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Metropolis Gas The Metropolis Gas ( Surrey Side) Bill was, ac- 
Bi? Ste) cording to Order, read a second time; and com- 
mitted to a Select Committee of Five Members, 
Three to be nominated by the House, and Two 
to be nominated by the Committee of Selection. 
Ordered, That all Petitions presented against 
the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on 
the Bill, provided such Petitions are presented 
VoL, 131, 


12th July. 





327 


one clear day before the meeting of the Com- 
mittee ; and that such of the Petitioners as pray 
to be heard by themselves, their Counsel, or 
‘Agents, be heard upon their Petitions, if the 
think fit, and Counsel heard in favour of the Bill 
against the said Petitions. 

Ordered, That the Committee have Power to 
send for persons, papers, and records. 

Ordered, That Three be the Quorum. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Cruelty Pre- 
Reading of the Cruelty Prevention Bill ; vention Bal. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday next. ' 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Ancient 

Reading of the Ancient Monuments Bill; Monuments 
Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 3 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Local Govern- 
Reading of the Local Government in Towns (Jre- ment in Towns 
land) Bill ; caer denee 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Intoxicating 
mittee on the Intoxicating Liquors (Licensing Liqers 
Law Amendment) (No. 2) Bill; See 
Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- (No. 2) Bill. 


solve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- County Rates 
mittee on the County Rates (Jreland) Bill ; (irelend) BUR. 
Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Companies 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed }&lt;ts (1862 and 
upon the 10th day of this instant July, That the nent tan “ane 
Companies Acts (1862 and 1867) Amendment Bill 
be now read a second time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 


till Friday next. 


The Legal Practitioners (Jreland) Bill was, Legal 
according to Order, read the third time. eemeey 4 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. tame ianns 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking Municipal 
into consideration the Municipal Privileges (Zre- Privileges | 
land) Bill, as amended in the Committee ; date 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into considera- 
tion To-morrow. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Jurors 
to provide for the Remuneration of Jurors on ®™uneration- 
Coroners Inquests and in Criminal Cases: And 
that Mr. Henry B. Sheridan, Mr. Whitwell, Mr. 
Macdonald, Mr. Joseph Cowen, and Mr. Burt do 


prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Winter Assizes. 
to amend the Law respecting the holding of 
Winter Assizes: And that Mr. Secretary Cross 
and Mr. Attorney General do prepare, and bring 
it in. 

Mr. Secretary Cross accordingly presented a Winter Assizes 
Bill to amend the Law respecting the holding of 
Winter Assizes: And the same was read the first Bill 245. 
time; and ordered to be read a second time upon 
Monday next ; and to be printed. 





Mr. Henry B. Sheridan presented a Bill to pro- Jurors 
vide for the Remuneration of Jurors on Coroners Remuneration 
Inquests and in Criminal Cases: And the same 





TT4 was Bill 246. 








Bow Street 
Police Court 
(Site) [Ex- 
penses of Com- 
missioners. } 


Arklow 
Harbour 
Improvement 
[ Expenses of 
Works. | 


Ardglass 
Harbour 
[ Expenses of 
Works. ] 


Erne Lough 
and River 
{Expenses of 
Works. | 


Navy and Army 


Expenditure, 
1874-5. 


Papers 
referred. 


Clerk of the 
Peace and®of 
the Crown 


(Ireland) Bill. 


328 


was read the first time; and ordered to be read 
a second time upon Wednesday next; and to be 
printed, 


A Motion being made, That this House will, 
To-morrow, resolve itself into a Committee to 
consider of authorising the payment, out of Moneys 
to be provided by Parliament, of all Expenses in- 
curred by the Commissioners of Works under the | 
provisions of any Act of the present Session re- | 
lating to the acquisition of a Site in Bow Street for 
the erection of a new Police Court and Police 
Station and Offices ; 

Viscount Sandon, by Her Majesty’s Command, | 
acquainted the House, That Her Majesty, having | 
been informed of the subject-matter of this Motion, 
recommends it to the consideration of the House. 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 








A Motion being made, That this House will, | 


'lo-morrow, resolve itself into a Committee to| - 


consider of authorising the Commissioners of Public | 
Works in Jreland to make Advances by way of | 
Grant for the completion of any Works which may | 
be authorised by any Act of the present Session | 
relating to the Improvement of the Harbour of | 
Arklow, in the County of Wicklow ; | 

Viscount Sandon, by Her Majesty’s Command, | 
acquainted the House, That Her Majesty, having | 
been informed of the subject-matter of this Motion, 
recommends it to the consideration of the House. 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- | 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


A Motion being made, That this House will, 
To-morrow, resulve itself into a Committee to 
consider of authorising the Commissioners of Public 
Works in Jreland to make Advances by way of 
Grant for executing any Works which may be | 
authorised by any Act of the present Session re- | 
lating to the Improvement of the Harbour of | 
Ardglass, in the County of Down ; 

Viscount Sandon, by Her Majesty’s Command, 
acquainted the House, That Her Majesty, having | 
been informed of the subject-matter of this Motion, 
recommends it to the consideration of the House. | 

Resolved, ‘Vhat this House will, To-morrow, re- | 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


A Motion being made, That this House will, 
To-morrow, resolve itself into a Committee to 
consider of authorising the Commissioners of Public 
Works in Jreland to make Advances by way of 
Grant for executing any Works which may be 
authorised by any Act of the present Session 
relating to the Improvement of the Navigation of 
the Lough and River Erne ; 

Viscount Sandon, by Her Majesty’s Command, 
acquainted the House, That Her Majesty, having 
been informed of the subject-matter of this Motion, 
recommends it to the consideration of the House. 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into a Committee to consider 
the Savings and Deficiencies upon the Grants for 
Navy and Army Services in the year ended the 
31st day of March 1875, and the temporary sanc- 
tion obtained from the Treasury by the Navy and 
Army Departments to Expenditure not provided 
for in the Grants for that year. 

Ordered, That the Appropriation Accounts for 
the Navy and Army Departments, which were 
presented upon the 16th and 17th days of February 
last, be referred to the Committee. 


The Order for resuming, To-morrow, the ad- 
journed Debate on the Amendment which, upon 
the 26th day of May last, was proposed to be made 





1Q¢th—13th July. 


1876. 


to the Question, That the Clerk of the Peace and 
of the Crown (Jreland) Bill be now read a second 
time, was read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Monday next. 


The Order for resuming, To-morrow, the ad- civit Bin 
journed Debate on the Question proposed upon the Courts 
27th day of June last, ‘That the Civil Bill Courts (“lan¢) Bit. 
(Jreland) Bill be now read a second time, was read, 
and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Monday next. 


The Order for the House to resolve itself into a Cattle Disease 
Committee, To-morrow, on the Cattle Disease (Ireland) Biy, 
(Jreland) Bill, was read, and discharged. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 





Vhursday, 13th July, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 


ry. HE House proceeded to take into considera- Campbeltown 
tion the Amendments made by the Lords to Burgh and 
the Campbeltown Burgh and Harbour Bill; and ##*bour Bill 
the same were twice read, and agreed to. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 

ords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
— to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Charnwood 
e Amendments made by the Lords to the Forest Railway 
Charnwood Forest Railway Bill; and the same Bi 
were twice read, and agreed to. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
— to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Dunfermline 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Water Bill 
Dunfermline Water Bill; and the same were twice 
read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
— to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Lancashire and 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Yorkshire 
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Bill; and the Railway Bill 
same were twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
— to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration gmethwick 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Local Board 
Smethwick Local Board Bill ; and the same were 
twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
_— to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


The Anglesey Central Railway Bill was read the Anglesey Cen- 


tral Railway 


third time. Bill [Lords.] 


Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendment, 
do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, with an Amendment; to which 
this House doth desire the concurrence of their 
Lordships. 

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Bill. 


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jill. 


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40 Vicroria. 13th 


past, Holy- The Belfast, Holywood, and Bangor Railway 
wo, nd_ = Bill was read the third time. 

Bogor Rall Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

‘Lait Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 


Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


jan Harbour A Motion being made, That the Leven Harbour 
pil (Zord-] Pill be now read the third time ; 

Sir John Hay, by Her Majesty’s Command, ac- 
quainted the House, That Her Majesty, having 
been informed of the purport of the Bill, gives 
Her Consent, as far as Her Majesty’s interest is 
concerned, that the House may do therein as they 
shall think fit. 

Then the Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the same, with Amendments ; 
to which this House doth desire the concurrence 
of their Lordships. 


Peterhead A Motion being made, That the Peterhead Har- 

Harbour Bill bour Bill be now read the third time; 

(Lords. . Sir John Hay, by Her Majesty’s Command, ac- 
quainted the House, That Her Majesty having 
been informed of the purport of the Bill, gives 
Her Consent, as far as Her Majesty’s interest 
is concerned, that the House may do therein as they 
shall think fit. 

Then the Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, with Amendments ; to which 
this House doth desire the concurrence of their 
Lordships. 


Scarborough 
Harbour Bill 
{Lords,] 


The Scarborough Harbour Bill was read the 
third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, with Amendments; to which 
this House doth desire the concurrence of their 
Lordships. 


Swansea The House proceeded to take into consideration 
fn Bil the Swansea Harbour Bill, as amended in the 
Committee. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


a Sir Charles Forster reported from the Select 
(Iventy-ninth Committee on Public Petitions; That they had 
Report. examined the Petitions presented upon the 5th, 
6th, 7th, 10th, and 11th days of this instant July, 
and had directed him to make a Report thereof to 
the House. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 
Site Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 


Disqualification S0lVe itself into a Committee on the House Oc- 
al Bill, Cupiers Disqualification Removal Bill. 


ll Several Public Petitions were presented, and 
— read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Vide Thirtieth 

Report, 

Al Ordered, That the Return relative to the Board 
(Scotland. of Supervision (Scotland), which was presented 
No, 354, Upon the llth day of this instant July, be 

printed. 
Amy Prize 


Meaty. Ordered, That the Account relative to Army 
No. 355, Prize Money, which was presented upon the 11th 
day of — instant July, be printed. 
OL, 131. 


329 


July. 


Mr. Secretary Cross presented,—Return to an Beer Licences, 
Address to Her Majesty, dated the 8th day of 
July, in the last Session of Parliament, for a Re- 
turn of the Number of new Certificates or 
Licences granted by Justices for the Sale of Beer 
not to be consumed on the Premises, for the 
years 1872, 1873, and 1874: And, of the 








Number of additional Licences granted by the 
Justices for Consumption on the Premises during 
the same years. 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated Medical 
the 3rd day of this instant July, for a Return aces 
relative to the Medical Council. 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated Prisons 
the 11th day of this instant July, for a Return (Sodend) 
relative to Prisons Expenditure (Scotland). 

Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Childers reported from the Select Com- Soldiers, 
mittee on Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines (Civil — and 
“ 2 , . arines (Civil 
Employment); That they had considered the Employment.) 
matters to them referred, and directed him to No, 356, 
make a Report thereof to the House, together 
with the Minutes of the Evidence taken before 
them, and an Appendix. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


A Message was delivered by Colonel Clifford, Royal Assent. 
Yeoman Usher of the Black Rod: 


Mr. Speaker, 


The Lords, authorised by virtue of Her Ma- 
jesty’s Commission, for declaring Her Royal As- 
sent to several Acts agreed upon by both Houses, 
desire the immediate attendance of this Honourable 
House in the House of Peers, to hear the Com- 
mission read. 

Accordingly Mr. Speaker, with the House, 
went up to the House of Peers:—And -being re- 
turned ; 

Mr. Speaker reported, That the House, at the 
desire of the Lords, authorised by virtue of Her 
Majesty’s Commission, had been at the House of 
Peers, where 2 Commission under the Great Seal 
was read, giving, declaring, and notifying the 
Royal Assent to the several Acts therein men- 
tioned; and that the Lords, thereby authorised, 
had declared the Royal Assent to the said Acts, 
as follow : 

An Act to amend the Prevention of Crimes Prevention of 


Act, 1871. Crimes Act 
; Amendment 
Bill. 
An Act for the Relief of the Executors of ~— Testate 
states 


Testates in Scotland where the Personal Estate 
is of small Value. 
An Act to amend the Law in Scotland in Burghs 


regard to the division of Burghs into Wards. Words) (Sout. 


land) Amend- 
ment Bill. 


An Act to assimilate the Law of Scotland re- —— 
lating to the granting of Licences to sell Intoxi- (Scotland) Bill. 
cating Liquors to the Law of England. 

An Act to authorise the Reduction of Local 1ocal Light 


j Dues (Reduc- 
Light Dues. ues (Reduce 


(Scotland) Bill. 


tion) Bill. 


An Act to amend the Court of Admiralty Admiralty 
(Ireland) Act, 1867, and confer a more extended pn eg 
Admiralty Jurisdiction on the Recorders of Cork (7) Bill 
and Belfast. 

An Act to amend the Law relating to Coroners a _ 
in the County of the City of Dublin. (Dublin) Bill. 
An Act further to amend the Acts relating to Kingstown. 
Kingstown Harbour. Harbour Bill. 
An Act to authorise the Sale of Smithfield Smithfield 


-eathce - a 
Penitentiary Convict Prison, Dublin. acces 


An Act to enable the Great Southern and Waterford, 
Western Railway Company and the Dubiin, Laban tea 
Wicklow, and Wexford Railway Company, to pur- tion Railway 


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chase ihe Waterford, New Ross, and Wexford | 


1876. 


An Act for making a Railway from the author- ki 


Junction Railway from the Public Works Loan | ised Kelvin Valley Railway to Kilsyth, in the way Bill 
Commissioners, and to raise Money for such | County of Stirling, and for other purposes. 
An Act for authorising the London, Brighton, Chichester ang 


and South Coast Railway Company to make a Midhurst 
Wi 


ay 
2) Bill, 


purpose. 

An Act for confirming certain Provisional Orders 
made by the Board of ‘Trade under the Gas and 
Waterworks Facilities Act, 1870, relating to 


Gas and Water 
Orders Cun- 
firmation 
(Chapel-en-le- 
Frith, &amp;c.) Bill . 
[Lords.] Sandgate Gas, Poole Gas, Neath Water, Newbury 
Water, Wantaye Water, Connah’s Quay Gas and 
Water, and Flint Gas and Water. 

An Act to confirm an Order made by the Board 
of Trade under the Sea Fisheries Act, 1868, 


relating to Truro. 


Oyster and 
Mussel 
Fisheries Order 
Confirmation 
Bill [ Lords. ] 


Public Health 
(Scotland) 


An Act to confirm a Provisional Order made 
——, under the “ Public Health ( Scotland) Act, 1867,” 
Order relating to the Parish of Wemyss, in the County 
(Wemyss) Bill. of Fife. 
Local Govern» An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders 
ment Pro- of the Local Government Board relating to the 
ee Oley of Bristol, the District of Burslem, the 
(No. 6) Bill. Borough of Huntingdon (two), the District of 
Newton-in-Mahkerfield, and the Boroughs of Pres- 
ton and Ryde. 

An Act for making a Railway in the County of 
Surrey, to be called ** The Caterham and Godstone 
Valley Railway.” 

An Act to enable the Mayor, Aldermen and 
Burgesses of the Borough of Huddersfield to 
abandon the enlargement of MWessenden Reservoir, 
and to construct a new Reservoir in lieu thereof, 
to make new Streets and Street Improvements, to 
extend the Limits of Gas and Water Supply, and 
to make further provision for the Improvement 
and Government of the Borough, and for other 
purposes. 


Caterham and 
Godstone 
Valley Railway 
Bill. 


Huddersfield 
Water and 
Improvement 
Bill. 


Kildwick 
Parish Gas Bill. Ga; Company, and authorising them to supply 
Gas in the Parish of Kildwichk, in the West Riding 
of the County of York, and for other pur- 
poses. 

An Act for enabling the North Eastern Railway 
Company to make new Railways and Works, and 
for conferring additional Powers on the Company in 
relationto their own Undertaking and the Under- 
takings of other Companies, and for other purposes. 

An Act for extending the Time for the comple- 
tion of Works authorised to be constructed by the 
Paisley Waterworks Commissioners, for reviving 
the Powers of compulsory purchase of Lands for 
the’ purposes of certain of those Works, for autho- 
rising those Commissioners to construct additional 
Works, to supply Water by measure, and to borrow 
further Money for the prevention of Waste of the 
Water supplied by them, and for other purposes. 
Upper Mersey An Act for creating a Commission for Light- 
Navigation Bill. ing and Buoying the Upper Mersey, for author- 
ising that Commission to levy and receive certain 
Rates and Dues, and for other purposes. 

An Act to amend the Qualification of Persons 
entitled to vote in the Election of Trustees for the 
Town and Harbour of Whitehaven, to extend the 
Periods for the compulsory Purchase of Lands, 
and for the completion of certain authorised 
Works; to authorise and alter certain Tolls, 
Rates, Duties, and Charges; to grant further 
Powers to the Trustees, with reference to the 
Harbour and with referenne to the Supply of 
Water, and with reference to the Town of White- 
haven, and for other purposes. 

An Act for better supplying with Water the 
Parish of Uppingham, in the County of Rutland, 
and for other purposes. 

Bristol United An Act to authorise the Bristol United Gas 

Ges Bill. Light Company to purchase additional Lands and 
erect Works for the manufacture and storage of 
Gas and residual Products thereon, and to con- 
struct two Bridges across Avon Street. Amend- 
ment of Acts. 


North Eastern 
Railway Bill. 


Paisley Water 
Bill. 


Whitehaven 
Har our and 
Town Improve- 
ment Bill. 


Uppingham 
Water Bill. 


An Act for incorporating the Kildwick Parish | 











Railway from their Railway at Chichester to their On 
Mid-Sussex and Midhurst Junction Railway at 


Chapel-en-le-Frith Gas, Cromer Gas, Hythe and | Midhurst, and for other purposes. 


An Act to authorise the levy of a Rate in aid Letterkenny 
of the Letterkenny Railway, to extend the Time for Railway Bil, 
completing that Undertaking, and to make further eras.) 
Provisions with reference thereto. 

An Act to amend various Acts relating to Ro- Rochester 
chester Bridge. in the County of Kent, and to make pe Bill 
further Provisions for the Election of Wardens ae 
and Assistants and Auditors of Rochester Bridge, 
and for other matters relating thereto. 

An Act to authorise the Felixstowe Railway and Felixstowe 
Pier Company to construct a Tidal Basin or Dock, Railway ang 
and other Works at Felixstowe, in the County of Fier Bill 
Suffolk, and tor other purposes. 

An Act for authorising the Southampton Dock Southampton 
Company to construct a Graving Dock. Docks Bill. 

An Act to provide for the closing of the Ivel Ivel Navigation 
Navigation, the extinction of the Commission, and Bill (Lords) 
for other purposes. 

An Act for vesting the Somerset and Dorset London and 
Railway in the London and South Western and poe 

. . . \ 
Midland Railway Companies by way of Lease, Semen 
and for other purposes. Dorset Rail- 


bs Companies 
il, 

An Act to authorise the purchase by the London London and 
and South Western Railway Company of the South Westem 
Exeter and Crediton Railway, and the removal of 3) 3(Eee 

. ‘ in 
the Broad Gauge Rails on that and other Railways and North 


in North Devon, and for other purposes. Devon Rail- 
ways) Bill. 


An Act to make further Provision with respect sittingvoune 
tothe winding-up of the Affairs of the Sittingbourne and Sheerness 
and Sheerness Railway Company, the payment Railway Bil 
of their remaining Debts, and the distribution of 
any Surplus of Assets, the dissolution of the Com- 
pany, and for other purposes. 

An Act to empower the Mayor, Aldermen, and Stockton-on. 
Burgesses of the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees, to Tees Markets 
erect Catttle and other Markets, and for other 
purposes. 

An Act for extending the Boundaries of the Walsall Gas 

Municipal Borough of Walsall, in the County of heen 
Stafford, and for transferring to the Mayor, Alder- tension Bill. 
men and Burgesses of the Borough the Powers, 
Duties, and Property of the Commissioners acting 
under the Walsall Improvement and Market Act, 
1848 ; and for authorising the Purchase by the 
Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of so much of 
the Gas Undertaking, late of the Birmingham and 
Staffordshire Gas Light Company, as relates to 
the Supply of Gas within the Borough, and for 
other purposes. 

An Act to authorise the construction of a Pier, Rosstrevor 
Carriage Road, or Promenade, Tramway, and cas 
Water Works at or near Rosstrevor,in the County ~ 
of Down. 

An Act to extend the Time limited by “ The Bromley Direct 
Bromley Direct Railway Act, 1874,” for the com- Railway = 
pletion of the Railway and Works connected there- 
with. 

An Act for empowering the Local Board for Blackred Loe! 
the District of Blackrod, in the County of Lan- Tord] 
caster, to make Waterworks, and to supply their 
District with Water, and for other purposes. 

Ano Act for dissolving the Sutton Gas Light and menage 
Coke Company (Limited), for re-incorporating the 
Proprietors therein with others, and for pamoret 
Powers on the Company so to be incorporated, 
and for other purposes. 

An Act to provide for the Amalgamation of the Great North 
Deeside and Aboyne and Braemar Railway Com- pee Bil 
panies with the Great North of Scotland Railway [ Lords.) 
Company, and for other purposes. ‘ 

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331 


An Act to authorise the Abandonment of the | existing diverted portions of Railway in the Pa- 
Railway, No. 1, authorised by “ The North Wales | rishes of Yuyscynhaian and Llanfihangel-y-Pen- 
Narrow Gauge Railways Act, 1872,” and to enable | zan¢, in the County of Carnarvon, and to make a 


the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways Com-; Siding in the said Parish of Ynyscynhaiarn, and 
pany to raise further Capital, and for other pur-| to raise further Capital, and for other purposes. 


Wales 
uge 
Na Bil 
ore . , ‘ , 
a An Act for dissolving and re-incorporating the 
en Gs Redcar Gas Company (Limited), and granting 
Bill. Powers for supplying with Gas the Town ot Redcar, 
and certain neighbouring Townships and Places, 
in the North Riding of the County of York, and 
for other purposes. 

gouthport An Act to enable the Mayor, Aldermen, and 

Improvement ~Byrgesses of the Borough of Southport to construct 

Bill. new Streets and other Works; to construct a new 
Promenade; to purchase the Undertaking of the 
Southport Tramways Company, Limited; to make 
further Provisions for the Improvement of the 
Borough, and for other Purposes. 

gemymoor An Act for incorporating and conferring Powers 

a on the Spennymoor and Tudhoe Gas Company. 

Humber An Act to extend and amend the Humber Con- 

conservancy gervancy Acts, 1852, 1868, and 1871, and to con- 

= fer further Powers on the Humber Conservancy } 
Commissioners, and for other purposes. 

Biinburgh An Act for the Acquisition by the Lord Pro- 

Improvement ost, Magistrates, and Council of the City of Edin- 

iti burgh of the West Princes Street Gardens there 
for the purpose of the same being laid open to 
the Public, and for the Acquisition of Lands at 
Inverleith for the formation of an Arboretum and 
Public Park and Pleasure Ground, and for other 
purposes. 

fhiesowen and An Act to confer further Powers on the Hales- 

poe el owen and Bromsgrove Branch Railways Company, 

ny Bil, | and for other purposes. 

Horncastle An Act for better supplying with Gas the 

Gs Bill Parish or Township of Horncastle, in the County 
of Lincoln. 

London and An Act for vesting in the Zondon and North 
eee” Western Railway Company the Undertaking of 
way (Sir- ve : 5 

tony Railway the Sirhowy Railway Company. 

Transfer) Bill. 

North British An Act to authorise the Worth British Railway 
himy 4, Company to make a Railway to connect. their 
Works, &amp;e.) Edinburgh and Glasgow Line, and Glasgow, 
Bill. 


Dumbarton, and Helensburgh Branch, also a Sea 
Wall at Aurntisland, and other Works in the 
Counties of Edinburgh and Lanark; to acquire 
additional Lands; to stop up certain Streets in 
Glasgow; to abandon parts of the Undertaking 
authorised by “ The Worth British Railway Act, 
1873”; to extend the Time for Purchase of Land 
and completing other Railways, and for the Sale 
of superfluous Lands; to confirm an Agreement 
between the Leith Harbour and Dock Commis- 
sioners and the Company; to amalgamate with 
the Company the Peebles, Penicuik, and Berwich- 
shire Railway Companies; to authorise the Com- 
pany to subscribe to the Edinburgh, Loanhead, 
and Roslin Railway Company; to confer various 
Powers upon the Company with respect to their 
Capital and Borrowing Powers, and for other pur- 
. poses. 
nan Bete An Act to authorise the North British Railway 
hain Ri), Company to make certain Railways and Works in 
Fifeshire, and to provide for the vesting of one of 
such Railways in the Forth Bridge Railway Com- 
pany, with working Powers to the Worth British 
Railway Company ; to provide for the Construc- 
tion of certain portions of the Forth Bridge Under- 
taking; to reduce the Capital and borrowing 
Powers of the Dunfermline and Queensferry Rail- 


Se way Company, and for other purposes. 
caer An Act to extend the Limits of Supply of the 
tte at nd ppty 


Southampton Gas Light and Coke Company, and 
to enable them to raise additional Capital. 


loge An Act to enable the Gorsedda Junction and 
Pirtmaioe © Portmadoe Railways Company to maintain two 
Kim Bil, == Von, 131. 


| Embankment on the Shore of Stonehouse Pool, in 


An Act for incorporating a Company, and autho- Stonehouse 
rising them to make and maintain a Quay Wall or ——— 
the County of Devon, and other Works for the 
Improvement of Stonehouse Pool, and a short Line 
of Railway to connect the Quay and Works with 
the Devon and Cornwall Railway, and for other 
purposes. 

An Act for extending the Boundaries of the 
Burgh of Burntisland for Municipal and Police 
purposes; for transferring to and vesting in the 
Corporation the Undertaking by means of which 
the Burgh at present is supplied with Water ; for 
empowering the Corporation to construct addi- 
tional Waterworks, and to supply Water to the 
extended Burgh and Places adjacent, and for other 
purposes. 

An Act to empower the Colney Hatch Gas Com- Colney Hatch 


Burntisland 
Burgh Bill. 


| pany to raise additional Capital, and for other pur- Geo Bil. 


poses. 

An Act to incorporate a Company for making Golden Valley 
a Railway in the County of Hereford from the ®!wsy Bill 
Great Western Railway at Pontrilas to Dorstone, 
and for other purposes. 

An Act for enabling the Great Southern and Great Southern 
Western Railway Company to construct a new ag 
Road or Street at Cork; to acquire additional 
Lands; to raise additional Capital, and for other 
purposes, 

An Act for conferring further Powers on the Great Western 
Great Western Railway Company in relation to Railway Bill. 
their own Undertaking and the Undertakings of 
other Companies, and for other purposes. 

An Act for conferring further Powers on the London, 


London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Com- Brighton, ond 
an South Coast 
siti da Railway 
(Various 
Powers) Bill. 


An Act for enabling the Midland Railway Com- Midland Rail- 
pany to construct new Railways and other Works; bo Fae ) 
to acquire additional Lands; to raise further Ca- pia 
pital, and for other purposes. 

An Act to authorise the construction of Rail- Lynn and 
ways between King’s Lynn and Fakenham, in the Raheny Bel. 
County of Norfolk, and for other purposes con- 
nected with the said Undertaking. 

An Act to enable the Corporation of Queen- Queenborough 
borough to lay down or erect Buoys and Lights, to #rbour Bill. 
place Moorings to regulate the use and Navigation 
of West Swale, to regulate Tolls, Dues, and Duties, 
to borrow Money, and for other purposes. 

An Act to enable the Local Board for the Tipton Local 
District of Tipton, in the County of Stafford, to Beard Bill. 
purchase from the Corporation of Birminghum so 
much of the Gas Undertaking acquired by them 
as is situate in the Parish of Tipton, and to light 
with Gas the said Parish, and for other purposes. 

An Act to enable the West Bromwich Improve- west 
ment Commissioners to purchase from the Cor- Bromwich 
poration of Birmingham so much of the Gas }yProvement 
Undertaking acquired by them as is situate in ~ 
the Parish of West Bromwich, in the County of 
Stafford, and to light with Gas the said Parish, 
and for other purposes. 

An Act to enable the Trustees of the settled Tempest’s 
Estates of Sir Charles Henry Tempest, Baronet, zope _ 
to raise Money on Mortgage for the Improvement ~” " 
thereof, and for other purposes. 

An Act to authorise the Sale of certain portions Dochfour 
of the Lands of Dochfour, in the County of Jnver- Pstate 7 
ness, being parts of the Entailed Estates now held ai 
by Evan Baillie, of Dochfour; and to authorise the 
purchase of other Lands to be entailed; to 
excamb portions of said Entailed Estates in the 
Parish of Laggan for Dunain Ness Castle, and 














uu2 others, 


Navy (Ships 
paid off.) 


Army 
(Chaplains, 
&amp;c.) 


Post Office 
(Telegraph 
Department.) 


No. 357. 


Message from 
the Lords, 


Friendly 
Societies Act 
(1875) Amend- 
ment Bill. 


Lancaster 
Water and 
Improvement 
Bill. 


Union of 
Benefices Bill 
[ Lords. ] 


Elementary 
Education Bill. 


$32 13th 


Others, in the Parish of Inverness, and for other 
purposes. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Return of the Number of Ships which were put 
out of Commission and Crews paid off during 
the years 1873, 1874, and 1875; how many of 
those Ships’ Crews were paid off during those 
three years in England; how many were paid off 
in Jreland; and how many were paid off in Scot- 
land; and the Total Amount paid to those Ships’ 
Crews during those three years. 


Resolved, ‘hat an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, I. Tabular Return of allcommissioned Army 
Chaplains (Episcopalian Protestant) serving in 
Ireland ; specifying (1.) the Duties which they 
perform ; (2.) the Salaries and Allowances which 
they receive ; (3.) the Pensions, if any, to which 
they may become entitled; and (4.) the Number 
of Soldiers to whom they officiate: And, II. 
Tabular Return of the Number of Parochial Clergy 
(Episcopalian Protestant) officiating to Her Ma- 
jesty’s Troops in Jreland; specifying (1.) the 
Duties which they perform; (2.) the Salaries and 
Allowances which they receive ; (3.) the Pensicns, 
if any, to which they may become entitled; and 
(4.) the Number of Soldiers to whom _ they 
officiate. 


Dr. Lyon Playfair reported from the Select 
Committee on the Post Office (Telegraph Depart- 
ment): That they had considered the matters to 
them referred, and directed him to make a Report 
thereof to the House, together with the Minutes of 
the Evidence taken before them, and an Appendix. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- 
sage had been brought from the Lords by one of 
their Clerks, as followeth : 

The Lords have agreed to the Friendly Societies 
Act (1875) Amendment Bill, with Amendments ; 
to which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House. 

The Lords have agreed to the Lancaster Water 
and Improvement Bill, with Amendments; to 
which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
to make better provision for the Union of con- 
tiguous Benefices; to which the Lords desire the 
concurrence of this House. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Elementary Education 
Bill. 

(In the Committee.) 


Cravuse, N° 6 (Existing local authorities to 
have like powers with school boards of enforcing 
by bye-law attendance of children). 

Amendment proposed in p. 2, 1. 21, to leave out 
the words “ if it is a borough, the council,” in 
order to insert the words “ the local authority.” 

Question proposed, That the words proposed to 
be left out stand part of the Clause :—Amend- 
ment, by leave, withdrawn, 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 2, 1. 21, 
after the word “ council,” to insert the words “ and 
“if it isan urban district other than a borough, 
“‘ the urban authority.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted :—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 2, 1. 21, to 
leave out the words ‘‘ may, if they think fit.” 

Question put, That the words proposed to be 
left out stand part of the Clause ; 


July. 


The Committee divided. 
Tellers for the; Sir William Dyke, 
Yeas, Mr. Rowland Wina: 
Tellers for the) Mr. Knowles, 
Noes, LMr. Hamond: 

An Amendment made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 2, Is. 22 
and 23, to leave out the words “ on the requisition 
“ of the parish, but not otherwise.” 

Question, That the words proposed to be left 
out stand part of the Clause:—Amendment, by 
leave, withdrawn. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 2, ls. 22 
and 23, to leave out the words “ on the requisition 
** of the parish.” 

Question, That the words ‘ on the requisition 
of the parish,” stand part of the Clause——put. 
and agreed to. 

Anvther Amendment proposed, in p. 2, 1. 23, to 
leave out the words “ but not otherwise.” 

Question put, ‘That the words proposed to be 
left out stand part of the Clause ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the; Sir William Dyke, 12 

Yeas, \Mr. Rowland Winn: J 5. 

Tellers for the f Mr. Mundell, 86 

Noes, Mr. Hayter: } . 

Another Amendment made. 

Another Amendment proposed, at the end of the 
Clause, to add the words ** Provided, That any bye- 
“law made under this section shall not apply to 
* any child whose parent has delivered to the clerk 
“of the local authority an objection in writing 
“signed by such parent, and objecting to 
* the compulsory attendance at school of such 
© child.” 

Question, That those words be there added —— 
put, and negatived. 

Another Amendment proposed, at the end of the 
Clause, to add the words «Provided, That no bye- 
“law made under this section shall compel any 
| child to attend at any school with regard to 
*‘ which an objection, on grounds of conscience, 
“made in writing and signed by the parent of 
* such child, has been lodged with the clerk of 
** the local authorities.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
added ; 

Amendments made to the said proposed Amend- 
ment. 
| Question put, That the -vords “ Provided, That 
** no bye-law made under this section or any sec- 
* tion of ‘ The Elementary Edcation Act, 1870,’ 
*‘ shall compel any child to attend at any school, 
* whether board school or otherwise, with regard 
“ to which an objection, on grounds of conscience, 
“ made in writing and signed by the parent of 
** such child, has been lodged with the secretary 
“of the school board or the clerk of the local 
* authorities,” be there added. 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the { Sir Henry Havelock, 
Yeas, UMr. Richard: 
Tellers for the) Sir William Dyke, 

Noes, Mr. Rowland Winn: 


1876, 


} 206. 


\ 
j 165. 


1 




















; 2%. 
} 128. 

Another Amendment proposed, at the end of 
the Clause, to add the words “ Provided always, 
‘That where the majority of parishes in any 
“union are under bye-laws, the Board of Guar- 
“dians may, if they think fit, make bye-laws 


“ which shall ¢ pPly to the remainder, or any part 
*¢ of the remainder, of the union.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
added :—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

Cxiause, N° 7 (Provision as to order of court 
for attendance at school of child continuously and 
habitually neglected by parent, or habitually wan- 
dering and consorting with criminals or disorderly 








persons). i 





40 Vierorta,. 


An Amendment made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 2, 1. 27, 
after the word “ either,” to insert the words “ The 
* parent of any child between five and ten years 
“of age neglects, without reasonable excuse, to 
“provide such elementary instruction for his 
* child; or.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted :—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Other Amendments made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 2, 1. 30, 
to leave out the words “ habitually and.” 

Question, That the words “ habitually and”) 
stand part of the Clause——-put, and agreed to. 

Other Amendments made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 2, 1. 37, 
to leave out from the word “ authority” to the | 
word “ may,” in 1. 39. | 

Question proposed, That the words “ after due 
warning to the” stand part of the Clause:— 
Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 2, 1. 38, to 
leave out from the first word “ to” to the word 
* fit,” in ]. 39, inclusive. 

Question, That the words “ complain to a court” | 
stand part of the Clause——put, and agreed to. | 

Other Amendments made. | 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 2, 1. 41, to! 
leave out the words “ willing to receive him, and.” | 

Question proposed, That the words pruposed to | 
be left out stand part of the Clause :—Amendment, 
by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Amendment made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 3, 1. 2, after 
the word “ expedient,” to insert the words “ any 
‘* order so made shall contain the provision in the 
“ Elementary Education Act, section seven, sub- 
* section one, that the child is not required to attend 
“any religious observance or any instruction in 
“ religious subjects, or to attend school on any day | 
‘ exclusively set apart for religious observance | 
“by the religious body to which his parent 
‘* belongs.” 

Question put, That those words be there in- 
serted ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the ¢ Mr. Hayter, | 116 

Yeas, Sir Henry Havelock : | ine 

Tellers for the; Sir William Dyke, 1 189 

Noes, \Mr. Rowland Winn: _— 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 3, 1. 2, after 
the word “ expedient” to insert the words “ Pro- 
*‘ vided, That no member of the local authority | 
‘** shall sit in the court of summary jurisdiction at 
* the hearing of such complaint.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted :—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 3, 1. 4, to 
leave out the words “ two miles,” in order to insert 
the words “ one mile.” 

Question proposed, That the words “ two miles” 
stand part of the Clause :—Amendment, by leave, 
withdrawn. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 3, 1. 5, after 
the word “ road,” to insert the words “ or fvot- 
“ way.” 

Question proposed, That the words “ or footway’ 
be there inserted :—Amendment, by leave, with- 
drawn. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 3, 1.7, after | 
the word “ attend,” to insert the words “ but this | 
“reason shall not apply in the case of children 
* living on board canal boats.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted :—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Amendment made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 3, 1. 9, 
after the word “ sickness,” to insert the words “ or 
“any other cause which, in the opinion of the 
** Court, is sufficient.” 

Vor. 131. 











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&gt; 

















13th July. 333 


Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted :— Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

CrauseEs, N°8 to N° 10, postponed. 

CxiausE, N° 11 (Exception to prohibition of 
employment of children). 

Amendments made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 4, 1. 31, 
to leave out from the word “manner” to the end 
of the Clause, in order to insert the words— 

*¢ The local authority may, if it thinks fit, issue 
“a notice declaring the restrictions of this 
* Act on the employment of children to 
*‘ be suspended, for the necessary opera- 
“tions of husbandry and the in-gathering 
“ of crops, for the period to be named in 
“such notice, and during such period such 
“restrictions shall not (save as to any 
* proceedings commenced before the date 
* of the notice) be of any force within the 
“ jurisdiction of such local authority: Pro- 
*‘ vided, That the period or periods so 
“named by any such local authority shall 
“nor exceed in the whole eight weeks 
* between the first day of January and the 
“ thirty-first day of December in any year. 
The local authority shall cause a copy of 
“ every notice so issued to be sent to the 
** overseer of every parish within its juris- 
** diction, and the overseers shall affix the 
*‘ same to the door of the principal church 
*¢ in the parish, and the local authority may 
*“ further advertise any such notice in such 
“ manner (if any) as it may think fit.” 

Question proposed, That the words “ That the 
** employment is in the hay harvest, corn harvest, 
‘or hop picking” stand part of the Clause :— 
Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 4, 1. 32, to 
leave out from the word “is” to the end of the 
Clause, in order ta insert the words “ within the 
“ notice of the loéal, authority hereinafter next 
** mentioned (that is to say): 

** The local authority may, if it thinks fit, 
** issue a notice declaring the restrictions 
** of this Act on the employment of children 
** to be suspended, for the necessary opera- 
** tions of husbandry and the in-gathering 
** of crops, for the period to be named in 
* such notice, and during such period such 
restrictions shall not (save as to any pro- 
* ceedings commenced before the date of 
“the notice) be of any force within the 
* jurisdiction of such local authority : Pro- 
“vided, That the period or periods so 
** named by any such local authority shall 
* not exceed in the whole six weeks be- 
“ tween the first day of January and the 
“ thirty-first day of December in any 
** year. 
The local authority shall cause a copy of 
“ every notice so issued to be sent to the 
“ overseer of every parish within its juris- 
“ diction, and the overseers shall affix 
‘the same to the door of the principal 
** church in the parish, and the local au- 
“ thority may further advertise any ‘such 
** notice in such manner (if any) as it may 
* think fit.” 

Question proposed, That the words “ in the hay 
“ harvest, corn harvest, or hop picking” stand 


part of the Clause : 
Whereupon Motion made, and Question put, 
That the Chairman do report Progress, and ask 


leave to sit again ; 
The Committee divided. 


‘ 


n 


cal 
“ 


Tellers for the Mr. Pease, 1 67 
Yeas, | Mr. Mundella : ; 
Tellers for the{ Sir William Dyke, 904 


Noes, \Mr. Rowland Winn: J 
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Pollution of 
Rivers Bill. 
































Appellate 
Jurisdiction 
Bill [ Lords.]} 





























Crossed 
Cheques Bill 
[ Lords. | 




































Bishopric of 
Truro Bill. 












































Suez Canal 
(Shares) Bill. 
































Supreme Court 
of Judicature 
(Ireland) Bill 

[ Lords. | 
































Elementary 
Education Pro- 
visional Order 
Confirmation 
(Cardiff) Bill 

[ Lords. | 



































Convict Prisons 
(Returns) Bill. 






























































War Depart- 
ment and Post 
Office (Remu- 
neration, &amp;c.) 
Bil. 























334 


Question again proposed, That the words “in 
“the hay harvest, corn harvest, or hop picking” 
stand part of the Clause : 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question put, 
That the Chairman do now leave the Chair; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the {Mr. Alexander Brown, 


Yeas, (Mr. Biggar: f 46. 
Tellers tor the{ Sir Wiliam Dyke, \aig 
Noes, UMr. Rowland Winn: { . 


Question again proposed, That the words “ in 
*‘ the hay harvest, corn harvest, or hop picking” 
stand part of the Clause ; 

To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 





And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Friday morning ; 


Friday, 14th July, 1876: 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had made Progress 
in the Bill; and that he was directed to move, That 
the Committee may have leave to sit again. 

Resvlved, That this House will, this day, at Two 
of the clock, again resolve itself into the said Com- 
mittee. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
upon the 22nd day of June last, That the Pollu- 
tion of Rivers Bill be now read a second time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Appellate Jurisdictien Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Crossed Cheques Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 





The Order of the day being redd, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
upon the 4th day of this instant July, That the 
Bishopric of Truro Bill be now read a second time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Suez Canal (Shares) Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Supreme Court of Judicature (Jre- 
land) Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Elementary Education Provisional Order 
Confirmation (Cardiff) Bill was, according to 
Order, read a second time; and committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for Friday next, 
at Two of the clock, 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee’on the Convict Prisons (Returns) 
Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes re- 
ported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill; and directed him to report the same, 
without Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
this day, at Two of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
upon the 6th day of this instant July, That Mr. 


13¢h—14th July. 







1876, 


| Speaker do now leave the Chair (for Committee 
on the War Department and Post Office (Remu- 
neration, &amp;c.) Bill); 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Juries 
mittee on the Juries Procedure (Jreland) Bill; —_ Procedure 

Resolved, ‘That this House will, upon Monday (ln) Bil 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Trade Marks Registration Amendment Bill trade Marys 
was, according to Order, read the third time. Registration 
Resolved, ‘That the Bill, with the Amendments, Amewiment 
do pass. sha 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the same, with Amendments; to 
which this House doth desire the concurrence of 





their Lordships. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Linen ana 
Reading of the Linen and Hempen and other Hempen and 
Manufactures (Jreland) Bill; &gt; wrataonpees 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time ({reland) Bill, 


this day, at Two of the clock. 


The Isle of Man (Officers) Bill was, according to Isle of Man 
Order, read the third time. (Officers) Bill. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 








The Order of the day being read, for the Second Prisons _ 
Reading of the Prisons (Zreland) Bill; (iectend) BM. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day, at Two otf the clock. 


The Turnpike Acts Continuance, &amp;c. Bill was, Turnpike Acts 
according to Order, read the third time. a 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. ne) 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Public Health 
Reading of the Public Health (Jre/and) Bill ; —- 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day, at two of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Bow Street 
mittee on the Bow Street Police Court (Site) [ Ex- Police _ 
penses of Commissioners] ; he te 

And a Motion being made, and the Question missioners.] 
being put, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
Chair ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the {Sir William Dyhe, 1 125 

Yeas, UMr. Rowland Winn: J ‘ 
Tellers for the f Mr. Anderson, 1 30 
Noes, Mr. Earp: f . 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

The House accordingly resolved itself into the 
Committee. 


(In the Committee. ) 


Motion made, and Question proposed, That it 
is expedient to authorise the payment, out of 
moneys to be provided by Parliament, of all Ex- 
penses incurred by the Commissioners of Works 
under the provisions of any Act of the present 
Session relating to the acquisition of a Site in 
Bow Street for the erection of a new Police Court 
and Police Station and Offices : 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question pro- 
posed, That the Chairman do report Progress, and 
ask leave to sit again:—Motion, by leave, with- 
drawn. 

Original Question put, and agreed to. 

Resolution to be reported. 








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ee 








Arklow 
ill, Harbo' 
|mprovement 
[Expenses of 
Works.) 


Ardglass 
Harbour 


[Expenses of 
Works. ]: 


Eme Lough 
and River 
[Expenses of 
Works.} 


County 
Infirmaries 
(Ireland) Bill, 


Limited 


Residen 
(Ireland) Bin, 


40 VICTORIA. 13th—i 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Ruihes 
reported, That the Committee had come to a Re- 
solution. 

Ordered, That the Report be received this day, 
at Two of the clock. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on Arklow Harbour Improve- 
ment [Expenses of Works]. 


(In the Committee.) 


Resolved, That it is expedient to authorise 
the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland 
to make Advances by way of Grant, to an 
amount not exceeding in the whole the Sum of 
Thirteen thousand pounds, for the completion of 
any Works which may be authorised by any Act 
of the present Session relating to the Improvement 
of the Harbour of 4rklow, in the County of 
Wicklow. 

Resolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had come to a Re- 
solution. 

Ordered, That the Report be received this day, 
at Two of the clock. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on Ardglass Harbour [Ex- 
penses of Works]. 


(In the Committee. ) 


Resolved, That it is expedient to authorise the 
Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland to 
make Advances by way of Grant, to an amount 
not exceeding in the whole the sum of Fifteen 
thousand pounds, for executing any Works which 
may be authorised by any Act of the present 
Session relating to the Improvement of the Har- 
bour of Ardglass, in the County of Down. 


Resolution to be reported. 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Razkes 
reported, That the Committee had come to a Re- 
solution. 

Ordered, That the Report be received this day, 
at Two of the clock. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on Zrne Lough and River 
[Expenses of Works]. 














(In the Committee.) 


Resolved, That it is expedient to authorise the 
Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland to 
make Advances by way of Grant, to an amount 
not exceeding in the whole the sum of Fifteen 
thousand pounds, for executing any Works which 
may be authorised by any Act of the present 
Session relating to the Improvement of the Navi- 
gation of the Lough and River Erne. 


Resolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr. Razkes 
reported, That the Committee had come to a Re- 
solution. 

Ordered, That the Report be received this day, 
at Two of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the County Infirmaries (Ireland) Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Limited Owners Residence (Jre- 
land) Bill ; 

Ordered, {That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 





VoL. 131. 





4th July. 355 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Parliamentary 
mittee on the Parliamentary and Municipal Regis- = Municipal 
tration (Boroughs) Bill; some 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday Bil. 


next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


_ The House, according to Order, resolved itself Medical Act 
into a Committee on the Medical Act (Qualifica- ag 
tions) Bill; and, after some time spent therein, -iaarees 
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration this day, at 
Two of the clock. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to Sea and River 
take into consideration the Sea and River Banks Banks (Lin- | 
(Lincolnshire) Bill, as amended in the Committee. °™shite) Bill 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
this day, at Two of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second poor Law 
Reading of the Poor Law Guardians Elections Guardians 
(Ireland) Bill; Elections 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time “"@lané) Bill 
upon Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Offences 
mittee on the Offences against the Person Bill;  gainst the 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday eae 
next, at Two of the clock, resolve itself into the 
said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Toll Bridges 
mittee on the Toll Bridges (River Thames) Bill; gta 

Resolved, That this ‘House will, upon Monday eaten 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Sale of Intoxi- 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- “#e of h 
cating Liquors 


mittee on the Sale of Intoxicating Liquors on on sunday 
Sunday (Jreland) (No. 2) Bill; (Ireland) 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday (N° 2) Bill. 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to take Orphan and 
into consideration the Orphan and Deserted Children er nt 
; ° ° ildren 
(Ireland) Bill, as amended in the Committee. (Ireland) Bill, 
An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Bill, in p. 1, l. 14, by inserting, after the word 
“ nurse,” the words “ or in an industrial school.” 
And the Question being proposed, That those 
words be there inserted ; 
A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That this House do now adjourn :—And the 
said Motion was, with leave of the House, withdrawn. 
And the Question being again proposed, That 
those words be there inserted :—The said proposed 
Amendment was, with leave of the House, with- 
drawn. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
this day, at Two of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Parliamentary 
Reading of the Parliamentary Electors Registra- a 
tion Bill; — 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day, at Two of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Intoxicating 
mittee on the Intoxicating Liquors (Licensing Liquors 
Law Amendment) (No. 2) Bill; nage 1 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday ment) (No. 2) 

Bill. 


next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking Municipal 
into consideration the Municipal Privileges (Zre- Frivilegcs, 
land) Bill, as amended in the Committee ; pe 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into considera- 


tion this day. 
uu4 Ordered, 















Exhausted 
Parish Lands 
Bill. 


Metropolitan 
Board of 
Works 
(Loans. ) 


Bow Street 
Police Court 
(Site) Bill. 


Arklow 
Harbour 
Improvement 


Bill. 


Ardglass 
Harbour Bill 
and Erne 
Lough and 
River Bill. 


336 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for amending the Law relating to Prisons in Scot- 
land: And that the Lord Advocate and Mr. Secre- 
tary Cross do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to make provision for the Disposal of Lands appro- 
priated for the Supply of Materials for the Repair 
of Public and Private Roads: And that Mr. 
Sclater-Booth and Mr. Salt do prepare, and bring 
it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for further amending the Acts relating to the 
raising of Money by the Metropolitan Board of 
Works, and for other purposes relating thereto : 
And that Mr. William Henry Smith and Mr. 
Chancellor of the Exchequer do prepare, and bring 
it in. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being 
proposed, That the Select Committee on the Bow 
Street Police Court (Site) Bill do consist of Five 
Members, Three to be nominated by the House, 
and Two to be nominated by the Committee of 
Selection: —And a Debate arising thereupon ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That the Debate be now adjourned ; 

The House divided. 

‘The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the {Captain Nolan, 

Yeas, LMr. Jichard Power: 

Tellers for the} Sir William Dyke, 

Noes, \Mr. Rowland Winn : 

So it passed in the Negative. 

And the original Question being put ; 

Ordered, ‘That the Select Committee on the 
Bow Street Police Court (Site) Bill do consist of 
Five Members, ‘Three to be nominated by the 
House, and Two to be nominated by the Com- 
mittee of Selection:—Colonel Blackburne, Mr. 
Spencer Stanhope, and Mr. Richard Smyth were 
accordingly nominated Members of the Com- 
mittee. ; 

Ordered, That all Petitions presented against 
the Bill be referred to the Committee on the Bill, 
provided such Petitions are presented one clear 
day before the Meeting of the Committee, and that 
such of the Petitioners as pray to be heard by them- 
selves, their Counsel, or Agents, be heard upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit, and Counsel 
heard in favour of the Bill against the said Peti- 
tions, 


13th—14th July. 











Ordered, That the Committee have Power to 
send for persons, papers, and records, 
Ordered, That Three be the Quorum. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee on the 
Arklow Harbour Improvement Bill do consist of | 
Five Members, Three to be nominated by the 


1876. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being Adjournment, 
put, That this House do now adjourn ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for thefSir William Dyke, 1 
\ 
| 


Yeas, (Mr. Rowland Winn : 68. 


Tellers for the f Captain Nolan, 
Noes, Mr. Richard Power: 
So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 


ll, 


And it being then a quarter of an hour before 
‘Three of the clock on Friday morning, the 
House accordingly adjourned till this day, 





Friday, 14th July, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 


O RDERED, That the Amendments made by Didcot, New. 
the Lords to the Didcot, Newbury, and South- by, and 
ampton Junction Railway Bill be taken into con- eum 
sideration upon Monday next. way Bill, 
The House proceeded to take into consideration Kirkcaldy 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Kirk- Burgh and 
caldy Burgh and Harbour Bill; and the same #*bour Bill. 
were twice read, and agreed to. 
Ordered, ‘That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration London and 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Lon- North Westen 
den and North Western Railway (New Lines, rey A 
&amp;c.) Bill; and the same were twice read, and Bill.’ 
agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Manchester, 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Man- rare 
chester, Shejfield, and Lincolnshire Railway Bill ; Railway Bill. 
and the same were twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
— to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Romford Canal 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Rom- Company Bill. 
ford Canal Company Bill; and the same were 
twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
— to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Tunbridge 


House, and Two to be nominated by the Com-| the Amendments made by the Lords to the Twun- Wells Gas Bill 
mittee of Selection:—Mr. Basil Woodd, Mr. |\ bridge Wells Gas Bill; and the same were twice 


Assheton,and Mr. O’ Shaughnessy were accordingly 
nominated Members of the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Ardglass Harbour Bill and 
the Erne Lough and River Bill be referred to the 
Committee. 

Ordered, That all Petitions presented against 
the Bills be referred to the Select Committee on 
the Bills, provided such Petitions are presented 
two clear days before the Meeting of the Com- 
mittee, and that such of the Petitioners as pray 
to be heard by themselves, their Counsel, or agents, 
be heard upon their Petitions, if they think fit, 
and Counsel heard in favour of the Bills against 
the said Petitions. 

Ordered, That the Committee have Power to send 
for persons, papers, and records. 

Ordered, That Three be the Quorum. 


read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
gy to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


The Saint Werburgh’s Church, Bristol, Bill was saint 

read the third time. bony 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. Bill [Lords] 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 

Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 

agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


The Waterford and Wexford Railway Bill was Vente 
read the third time. way Bill 
Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendment, [Zords.) 





do pass. 
Ordered, 





wees ow we a UCU SS 


ee ee Lee ee ES el 





ent, 


tern 
ew 


ill. 


Bill. 


stol, 


and 


ail- 


Public 
Petitions. 
Vide Votes, 
and Thirtieth 
Report. 
Medical 
Council. 

No. 358. 


Pies ing 

D e 

(end) 
No. 369. 


International 
§ 

Convention 
Commercial, 


No, 13, 1876.) 


Canada 
(Extradition of 


Prisoners) 
(North 





40 Vicroria. 14th July. 337 


Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, with an Amendment; to 
which this House doth desire the concurrence of 
their Lordships. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Several Public Petitions were also presented, 
and read; and referred to a Select Committee. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the 
Medical Council, which was presented upon the 
13th day of this instant July, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Prisons 
Expenditure (Scotland), which was presented upon 
the 13th day of this instant July, be printed. 


Mr. Bourke presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- 
mand,—Copy of Correspondence between Great 
Britain, France, Belgium, and Holland respecting 
the International Sugar Convention. 

Mr. Bourke also presented,— Return toan Address 
to Her Majesty, dated the 5th day of this instant 
July, for Returns relative to Canada (Extradition 


America, Nos.3 Of Prisoners) (Worth America, Nos. 3 and 4, 1876). 


and 4, 1876.) 


Quit Rent 
Claims 
(Ireland.) 


Intoxicating 
Liquor 
(Licensing) 
Act, 1874. 


Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented,—Return 
to an Order, dated the 6th day of this instant July, 
for Returns relative to Quit Rent Claims (Jre- 
land). 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Secretary Cross presented,—Return to an 
Address to Her Majesty, dated the 15th day of 
July, in the last Session of Parliament, for a 
Return for the year ending the 29th day of 
September 1874, showing the Number of Per- 
sons taken into Custody for Drunkenness, or on 
Charges including a Charge of Drunkenness; the 
Number of Convictions of Licensed Persons for 
Offences against the tenor of their Licences or 
Certificates, or against the Licensing Acts; and 
the Number of Convictions for selling, or having in 
Possession, Intoxicating Liquor without a Licence, 
in each Licensing District in England and Wales 
(excluding the Metropolitan Police District), in 
a Tabular Form :—(For Form, see Votes.) 

Note.—In the case of any Licensing District 

which includes a part of the Metropolitan Police 
District, a Return is to be made for that part only 
of the Licensing District which is not included in 
the Metropolitan Police District: 
Similar Return for the Metropolitan Police 
District, considered as one Licensing District: 
Returns for the same Year, showing the Number 
of Licences and Certificates for the Sale of Intoxi- 
cating Liquors granted or renewed by Justices in 
each Licensing District in England and Wales, in 
a Tabular Form :—(For Form, see Votes.) 

Note—In the case of a Licensing District 
which includes any part of the Metropolitan Police 
District, the Return is to be made, so far as is 
practicable, so as to show the above particulars 
separately for 

a. So much of the Licensing District as is 
not included in the Metropolitan Police 
District, and 

b. So much of the Licensing District as is 
included in the Metropolitan Police 
District : 

—And, for the same year, showing the Number 

of Licences of each kind issued by the Commis- 

sioners of Inland Revenue in each Licensing Dis- 

trict in England and Wales (in continuation of 

Parliamentary Paper, No. 335, of Session 1874), 
VoL. 131, 











Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated Summary 
the 7th day of August, in the last Session of Parlia- Convictions 
: - (Act 25 &amp; 26 

ment for Returns, showing the Number of Summary Vic. c. 68,) 
Convictions made under the Act 25 &amp; 26 Vie. 
c. 68, giving Names of the Prosecutors and De- 
fendants, the Amount of Fines inflicted, and the 
term of Imprisonment in default of Payment : 
And, showing the Number of Summary Orders 
made under the Act 25 &amp; 26 Vic. c. 68, for the 
Recovery of Sums of Money for the use of Persons 
aggrieved, the Names of the Complainants and of 
en and the Amounts ordered to be 

aid. 
. aie That the said Returns do lie upon the 

able. 


The Lord Advocate presented a Bill for amend- Prisons 
ing the Law relating to Prisons in Scotland: And (Scotland) Bill. 
the same was read the first time; and ordered to _ Bill 247. 
be read a second time upon Thursday next; and 
to be printed. 





The Union of Benefices Bill was read the first Union of 
time; and ordered to be read a second time upon Benefices Bill 
Thursday next; and to be printed. —? m 

Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on the Belfast and 
Belfast and County Down Railway Bill; That County Down 
they had examined the allegations contained in fords} 
the Preamble of the Bill, and made a verbal ; 
Amendment therein, and found the same, as 
amended, to be true; and had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


Ordered, That the Amendments made by the Friendly 
Lords to the Friendly Societies Act (1875) Amend- ye - 
ment Bill be taken into consideration upon Mon- eat? — ' 


day next; and be printed. Bill 249. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Elementary 
into a Committee on the Elementary Education E4ucation Bil. 
Bill. 

(In the Committee.) 


CxiausE, N° 11 (Exception to prohibition of 
employment of children). 

Amendment again proposed, in p. 4, 1. 32, to 
leave out from the word “ is” to the end of the 
Clause, in order to insert the words “ within the 
* notice of the local authority hereinafter next men- 
“ tioned (that is to say): 

* The local authority may, if it thinks fit, 
‘* issue a notice declaring the restrictions of 
“ this Act on the employment of children 
** to be suspended, for the necessary opera- 
* tions of husbandry and the in-gathering 
“ of crops, for the period to be named in 
“ such notice, and during such period such 
‘* restrictions shall not (save as to any pro- 
** ceedings commenced before the date of the 
*‘ notice) be of any force within the juris- 
** diction of such local authority : Provided, 
“ That the period or periods so named by 
“ any such local authority shall not exceed 
‘in the whole six weeks between the first 
“ day of January and the thirty-first day 
** of December in any year.” 
The local authority shall cause a copy of 
“ every notice so issued to be sent to the 
** overseer of every parish within its juris- 
* diction, and the overseers shall affix the 
“« same to the door of the principal church 
* in the parish, and the local authority may 
*‘ further advertise any such notice in such 
* manner (if any) as it may think fit.” 

Question again proposed, That the words “ in 
“the hay harvest, corn harvest, or hop-picking,” 
stand part of the Clause ; 

Question put, and negatived. 

Question, That the words “ or is otherwise ne- 

xx * cessary 


€ 


Pal 






































338 


“* cessary for the in-gathering of crops,” stand part 
of the Clause —— put, and negatived. 
Question proposed, That the words “ within the 
* notice of the local authority hereinafter next 
“ mentioned (that is to say) : 
* The local authorit 
issue a notice deck 
“this Act on, the employment of children 
“ to be suspended, for the necessary opera- 


may, if it thinks fit, 


“ tions of husbandry and the in-gathering of 


“ crops, for the period to be named in such 


‘notice, and during such period such | 


** restrictions shall not (save as to any pro- 
“ceedings commenced before the date of 
“the notice) be of any force within the 
** jurisdiction of such local authority : 
* vided, That the period or periods so 


* named by any such local authority shall | 


“ not exceed in the whole six weeks be- 
“tween the first day of January and the 
* thirty-first day of December in any year. 
“ The local authority shall cause a copy of 
** every notice so issued to be sent to the 
“* overseer of every parish within its juris- 
‘** diction, and the overseers shall affix the 
‘same to the door of the principal church 


‘in the parish, and the local authority may | 
“ further advertise any such notice in such | 


“ manner (if any) as it may think fit,” be 
there inserted ; 

Amendment proposed to the proposed Amend- 
ment, in |, 4, after the word “ children,” to insert 
the words “ above the age of eight years.” 

Question put, That those words be there inserted ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the{ Mr. Clure Read, 1 

Yeas, LSir Walter Barttelot : J 

Tellers for the; Sir Charles Dilke, 1101 

Noes, | Mr. Muntz: eee 

Other Amendments made to the proposed 
Amendment. 

Question put, That the words “ within the notice 
“ of the local authority hereinafter next mentioned 
“&lt; (that is to say): 

“ The local authority may, if it thinks fit, issue 
* a notice declaring the restrictions of this 
* Act on the employment of children above 
“the age of eight years to be suspended, 
*¢ for the necessary operations of husbandry 
“and the in-gathering of crops, for the 
*‘ period to be named in such notice, and 
“ during such period such restrictions shall 
“not (save as to any proceedings com- 
“‘menced before the date of the notice) be 
“of any force within the jurisdiction of 
* such local authority: Provided, That the 
* period or periodssonamed by any such local 
* authority shall not exceed in the whole 
“* six weeks between the first day of Janu- 
“ ary and the thirty-first day of December 
“in any year. 
The local authority shall cause a copy of 
“‘ every notice so issued to be sent to the 
“* Education Department and the overseer 
** of every parish within its jurisdiction, and 
“the overseers shall cause such notice to 
“ be affixed to the door of all churches and 
“chapels in the parish, and the local au- 
“thority may further advertise any such 
* notice in such manner (if any) as it may 
* think fit,” be there inserted. 

The Committee divided. 
Tellers for the {Sir William Dyke, 

Yeas, Mr. Rowland Winn: 


194. 


14th July. 


aring the restrictions of 





Pro-| stand part o 











1876. 


Amendment proposed, in p. 4, 1. 35, to leave out 
the words “ not being resident in the district of a 
* school board.” 

Question proposed, That the words proposed to 
be left out stand part of the Clause :—Amend. 
ment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 4, 1. 37, to 
leave out the word “ ordinary.” 

Question proposed, That the word “ ordinary” 
stand part of the Clause :—Amendment, by leave, 
withdrawn. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 4, 1. 38, to 
leave out the word “ Guardians,” in order to in- 
sert the words “ local authority.” . 

Question pant That the word “ Guardians” 

‘the Clause :—Amendment, by leave, 
withdrawn. 

An Amendment made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 4,1. 41, to 
leave out the word ‘ threepence,” in order to in- 
sert the word ‘‘ fourpence.” 

Question proposed, That the word “ three- 
pence” stand part of the Clause :—Amendment, 


| by leave, withdrawn. 


Other Amendments made. 

Question put, That the Clause, as amended, 
stand part of the Bill; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the { Sir William Dyke, ] 

Yeas, \Mr. Rowland Winn: Js 242. 

Tellers for the Mr. Alexander Brown, \ 

Noes, (Mr. Richard: J 

Crause, N° 13, postponed. 

Cxrause, N° 14 (Contribution for fees of chil- 
dren who obtain certificates). 

Amendments made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 6, 1. 19, to 
leave out the words, “and also such certificate of 
“ previous due attendance at a public elementary 
** school.” 

Question proposed, That the words proposed to 
be left out stand part of the Clause :—Amend- 
ment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 6, 1. 23, to 
leave out the words “not exceeding the ordinary 
“fee charged at such school.” 

Question proposed, That the words proposed to 
be left out stand part of the Clause :—Amend- 
ment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Amendment made. 

Question put, That the Clause, as amended, 
stand part of the Bill; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the {Sir William Dyke, 1166 
Yeas, { Mr. Rowland Winn: * Foes 
Tellers for the; Mr. Kay-Shuttleworth, } 99 
Noes, (Mr. Harter : : 

To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 


49, 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Razkes 
reported, That the Committee had made Pro- 
gress in the Bill, and that he was directed to 
move, That the Committee may have leave to sit 
again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Convict Prisons (Returns) Billi was, ac- Convict 


cording to Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Tellers for the Mr. Dillwyn, 
Noes, |Mr. Rylands: 
Clause, as amended, agreed to. 
Cause, N° 12 (Payment of school fees for 
os parents. See 35 &amp; 36 Vic. c. 62 (Scotch 
Uducation Act) s. 69). 


as read, for the Second Linen and 


Hempen 
Hempen and other je Manu. 


} 255. 
\ 
J 


The Order of the day bein 
Reading of the Linen an 
Manufactures (Jreland) Bill ; ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. rh 

e 


factures 
(Ireland) Bill 











Bill. 


Bill. 





Fela) Bill. 


Public Health 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Bow Street 
Police Court 
(Site) [Ex- 
penses of Com- 
csissioners. ] 


Arklow 
Harbour 
Improvement 


[Expenses of 
Works. 


Ardglass 
Harbour 
{Expenses of 
Works. ] 


Eme Lough 
and River 
[Expenses of 
Works, ] 


Medical Act 
(Qualifica- 
Hons) Bill. 


a River 
Colnshire} Bill, 


40 VicrorRia. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Prisons (Jreland) Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday next, at Two of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Public Health (Jreland) Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday next, at Two of the clock. 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on 
Bow Street Police Court (Site) [Expenses of Com- 
missioners], a Resolution; which was read, as 
followeth : 

That it is expedient to authorise the payment, 
out of moneys to be provided by Parliament, of 
all Expenses incurred by the Commissioners of 
Works under the provisions of any Act of the 
present Session relating to the acquisition of a Site 
in Bow Street for the erection of a new Police 
Court and Police Station and Offices. 

The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on 
Arklow Harbour Improvement [Expenses of 
Works], a Resolution; which was read, as fol- 
loweth : 

That it is expedient to authorise the Commission- 
ers of Public Works in /reland to make Advances 
by way of Grant, to an amount not exceeding in 
the whole the sum of Thirteen thousand pounds, 
for the completion of any Works which may be 
authorised by any Act of the present Session re- 
lating to the Improvement of the Harbour of Ark- 
low, in the County of Wicklow. 

The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on 
Ardglass Harbour [Expenses of Works], a Re- 
solution; which was read, as followeth: 

That it is expedient to authorise the Commission- 
ers of Public Works in Jreland to make Advances 
by way of Grant, to an amount not exceeding in 
the whole the sum of Fifteen thousand pounds, for 
executing any Works which may be authorised 
by any Act of the present Session relating to the 
Improvement of the Harbour of Ardglass, in the 
County of Down. 

The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on 
Erne Lough and River [Expenses of Works], 
a Resolution; which was read, as followeth : 

That it is expedient to authorise the Commision- 
ers of Public Works in Ireland to make Advances 
by way of Grant, to an amount not exeeeding in 
the whole the sum of Fifteen thousand pounds, for 
executing any Works which may be authorised by 
any Act of the present Session relating to the 
Improvement of the Navigation of the Lough and 
River Erne. 

The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
take into consideration the Medical Act (Qualifi- 
cations) Bill, as amended in the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Tuesday next, at Two of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Third 
Reading of the Sea and River Banks (Lincolnshire) 
Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Monday next. 

VoL, 131. 


14th July. 








539 
The Orphan and Deserted Children (Jreland) Orphan and 
Bill was, according to Order, read the third time, Deserted 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. ps 


Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the aa aia 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Parliamentary 
Reading of the Parliamentary Electors Regis- Electors | 
tration Bill; — — 
Ordered, That the Bill be read asetond time — 


upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Cattle Disease 
mittee on the Cattle Disease (Ireland) Bill; aaa 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented a Bill for Metropolitan 
further amending the Acts relating to the raising — ¢ 
of Money by the Meiropolitan Board of Works, Bill. roe 
and for other purposes relating thereto: And the Bij] 951. 
same was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time upon Thursday next; and to 
be printed. 


_Mr. Sclater-Booth presented a Bill to make pro- Exhausted 
vision for the Disposal of Lands appropriated to Parish Lands 
: ° . ; " . Bill. 
the Supply of Materials for the Repair of public Bi 
and private Roads: And the same was read the ~ 
first time ; and ordered to be read a second time 


upon Monday next; and to be printed. 


I] 252. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- Message from 
sage had been brought from the Lords by one of a 
their Clerks, as followeth : 

The Lords have agreed to the Crab and Lobster Crab and 
Fisheries (Norfolk) Bill, without any Amend- ,2)3* 


Fisheries 
ment. (Norfolk) Bill. 


The Lords have agreed to the Oldbury Local a» ea 
Board of Health Bill, with Amendments; to which jj R: 

t Health Bill. 
the Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have agreed to the Cleveland Water Cleveland 
Bill, with Amendments; to which the Lords desire Water Bill. 
the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have agreed to the Amendments made ———— 
by this House to the Tramways Orders Confirma- gimation 
tion (Bristol, &amp;c.) Bill, without any Amendment. (Bristol, &amp;.) 

Bill [Lords.] 


The Lords have agreed to the Amendments Greencastle 
made by this House to the Greencastle and Kilkeel ecea 
Railway and Pier Bill, without any Amendment. Pier Bill 

[Lords.1 

The Lords request, that this House will be ——— 
pleased to communicate to their Lordships, a Copy iene 
of the Report from the Select Committee appointed 
by this House in the present Session of Parliament 
on the Depreciation of Silver, together with the Pro- 
ceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence, 
and Appendix. 

Ordered, That a Printed Copy of the said Re- 
port be communicated to the Lords, as desired by 
their Lordships: And that the Clerk do deliver 


the same. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Supply. 
mittee of Supply ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave 
the Chair; 

And Notice being taken, that Forty Members 
were not present:—The House was told by Mr. 
Speaker; and Forty Members not being present, 
and it being then after Four of the clock :—The 
House was adjourned by Mr. Speaker, without a 
Question first put, till Monday next. 








540 
Monday, 17th July, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 
Parliamentary N R. Raikes reported from the Select Com- 
oy mittee appointed to join with the Committee 
No. 360. appointed by the Lords on Parliamentary Agency ; 
That they had considered the matters to them re- 
ferred, and directed him to make a Report thereof 
to the House; together with the Minutes of the 
Evidence taken before them, and an Appendix. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
take into consideration the Amendment made by 
the Lords to the Didcot, Newbury, and Southamp- 
ton Junction Railway Bill; and the same was 
twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendment made by their 
Lordships. 


Didcot, New- 
bury, and 
Southampton 
Junction Rail- 
way Bill. 


Dewsbury and 
Heckmondwike 
Water Bill. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Dews- 
bury and Heckmondwike Water Bill; and the same 
were twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


Lancaster 
Water and 
Improvement 
Bill. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Lan- 
caster Water and Improvement Bill; and the same 
were twice read, and agreed to. 


Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to} 


the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the South 
Hanis Water Bill; and the same were twice read, 
and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 


Lordships. 


South Hants 
Water Bill. 


The Blackrod Gas Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Lill, with the Amendments, 
do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the same, with Amendments; to 
which this House doth desire the concurrence of 
their Lordships. 


Blackrod Gas 
Bill [ Lords. } 


The Swazxsea Harbour Bill was read the third 
time. 

Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
do pass: And that the Title be, An Act to con- 
firm Agreements between the Swansea Harbour 
Trustees and the Corporation of Swansea, the 
Great Western and the Midland Railway Com- 
panies, for the leasing to that Corporation, and to 
those Companies, of Wharves and other accommo- 
dation at the Docks authorised to be constructed 
by the Swansea Harbour Act, 1874, and for other 
purposes. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the same, with Amendments; to 
which this House doth desire the concurrence of 
their Lordships. 


Swansea 
Harbovr Bill 
[Lords.] 


The Prudential Assurance Company Bill was 
read a second time ; and committed, 


Prudential 
Assurance 
Com: 


Bill [ords.] 


17th July. 


1876. 


The Southern Railway Bill was read a second Southern 
Railway Bij} 
[Lords] 


time; and committed. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and pypj; 
bd Ls bl c 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions, 
Several Public Petitions were also presented, and yja, v7 
- ; Votes, 
read; and referred to Select Committees. and Thirtieth 
Report. 
Ordered, That the Return relative to the Intoxi- tntoxicas 
cating Liquor (Licensing) Act, 1874, which was Liquor 
—— upon the 14th day of this instant July, (Licensing) 


e printed. Act, 1874, 
No. 362, 


Mr. Secretary Cross presented, by Her Ma- Reformatory 
jesty’s Command,—Copy of Nineteenth Report 4 Industrial 
of the Inspector appointed, under the provisions oe ‘ane 
of the Act 5 &amp; 6 Will. 4. ce. 38, to visit the certi- ’ 
fied Reformatory and Industrial Schools of Great 
Britain. 

Copy of the Twenty-fifth Report on the Dis- Lunatic 
trict, Criminal, and Private Lunatic Asylums in Asylums 
Ireland; with Appendices. (aay) 

Mr. Secretary Cross also presented,—Return to School Boards 
an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 30th day (Savings 
of March last, for Returns relative to School 
Boards (Savings Banks), 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 





Mr. Secretary Hardy presented,—Return to an Army (Stat 
Address to Her Majesty, dated the 4th day of Appoint. 
May last, for a Return relative to the Army (Staff ™"* 
Appointments). 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 





Sir Charles Adderley presented, by Her Ma- Wrecks and 
jesty’s Command,—Abstracts of the Returns made Casualties, &amp;. 
to the Board of Trade, of Wrecks, Casualties, and 
Collisions which occurred on and near the Coasts 
of the United Kingdom from the 1st July 1875 to 
the 30th June 1876, with particulars of Lives 
lost : Also, of the Returns made to the Board 
of Trade, during the year 1875-6, of the Wrecks, 
Casualties, and Collisions which occurred on and 
near the Coasts of the Channel Islands and the 
British Possessions Abroad :——And, of the Re- 





turns made to the Board of Trade, during the 
| year 1875-6, of the Wrecks, Casualties, and Col- 
lisions which occurred to British Vessels at Sea, 
and on and near the Coasts of Foreign Countries ; 
together with Statements of the Official Inquiries 
| in the United Kingdom into the Causes of Wrecks, 
| &amp;c., held by order of the Board of Trade during 
|the year 1875-6:——And, of the Official In- 
quiries Abroad, instituted by Consular and 
Colonial Officers and others, into the Causes of 
| Wrecks, &amp;c. of which the Reports were received 
at the Board of Trade during the year 1875-6; 
and Statements showing the Lives ‘saved on the 
Coasts of the United Kingdom, together with the 
| Amounts granted out of the Mercantile Marine 
Fund as Rewards for the Salvage of Life, Con- 
tributions towards the Maintenance of Life-boats, 
and Expenses in connection with the Rocket and 
Mortar Apparatus for saving Life during the year 
1875-6, with Charts. 
Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. James Lowther presented, by Her Majesty’s Barbados. 
Command,—Further Papers relating to the late 
Disturbances in Barbados (in continuation of 
[C, 1539] of 1876.) 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 

Arctic 
Expedition, 
1875. 


Mr. Algernon Egerton presented, by Her Ma- 
jesty’s Command,—Further Papers and Corres- 
pondence relating to the Arctic Expedition, 1875 





(in 














British 
Museum. 


ting 
ng 
4, 
361, 


tory 
(Great 


Kent (Eastern 
Division) Writ. 


Message from 
the Lords. 


County of 
Peebles Justi- 
ciary District 
(Scotland) Bill. 
Newcastle and 
Gateshead 
id Water Bill. 
_ Anglesey 
Central Rail- 
way Bill 
[Lords.} 
Leven 
Harbour Bill 
[Lords. } 


Peterhead 
Harbour Bill 
(Lords. j 


Scarborough 
Harbour Bill 
[Lords.] 


Local Govern- 
ment Board’s 
Provisional 
Orders Con- 
firmation 
(Bingley, &amp;c.) 
Bill [Lords.] 


Elementary 
Education Bill. 





40 Vicroria, 


(in coatinuation of Parliamentary Paper, C. 1153 
of 1875). 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Returns of Abstracts of Amount expended on the 
British Museum up to the 31st day of March 1875: 
Of the Number of Visitors in each year (in 
continuation of Parliamentary Papers No. 458, of 
Session 1847; Nos. 418 and 419, of 1860; No. 
455, of 1863; and No. 157, of 1874):——And, of 
the General Total from the Opening of the Mu- 
seum, under each Heading of which the Annual 
Details have been given in previous Returns. 





Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his War- 
rant to the Clerk of the Crown, to make out a 
New Writ for the electing of a Member to serve 
in this present Parliament, for the Eastern Divi- 
sion of the County of Kent, in the room of Sir 
Wyndham Knatchbull, Baronet, who, since his 
Election for the said Division of the said County, 
hath accepted the Office of Steward or Bailiff of 
Her Majesty’s Three Chiltern Hundreds of Stoke, 
Desborough, and Bonenham, in the County of 
Buckingham. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- 
sage had been brought from the Lords, by one of 
their Clerks, as followeth : 

The Lords have agreed to the County of Peebles 
Justiciary District (Scotland) Bill, without any 
Amendment. 


The Lords have agreed to the Newcastle and 
Gateshead Water Bill, with Amendments; to which 
the Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have agreed to the Amendment made 
by this House to the Anglesey Central Railway 
Bill, without any Amendment. 

The Lords have agreed to the Amendments made 
by this House tothe Leven Harbour Bill, without 
any Amendment. 

The Lords have agreed to the Amendments made 
by this House to the Peterhead Harbour Bill, 
without any Amendment. 

The Lords have agreed to the Amendments made 
by this House to the Scarborough Harbour Bill, 
without any Amendment. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the 
Local Government Board relating to the Im- 
provement Act District of Bingley (two), the 
Borough of Brighton, the Districts of Chatham 
and Gillingham, the Special Drainage District of 
Norton, the District of North Bierley, the Borough 
of Nottingham, the Improvement Act District of 
Ramsgate, the Borough of Stoke-upon- Trent (two), 
and the Rural Sanitary District of the Ulverstone 
Union; to which the Lords desire the concurrence 
of this House. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
a a Committee on the Elementary Education 
ill. 
(In the Committee.) 


CiauseE, N* 15 (Supplemental provisions as to 
certificates of proficiency and previous attendance 
at school). 

Amendments made. 

Another Amendment proposed, at the end of 
the last Amendment, to add the words “such 
“ certificates shall be given by Her Majesty’s In- 
“spectors of Schools at the examination of each 
** school.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
added :—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Other Amendments made. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

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34 I 


CuiausE, N° 16 (Certificates of birth for pur- 
poses of Act). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 7, 1. 5, to leave out 
the words ‘‘one shilling,” in order to insert the 
word “ sixpence.” 

Question proposed, That the words “one 
shilling” stand part of the Clause :—Amendment, 
sy leave, withdrawn. 

An Amendment made. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

_ Crause, N° 17 (Penalty for employing a chili 
in contravention of Act). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 7,1. 10, after the 
word “ Act,” to insert the words “after due 
* warning in writing from the local authority.” 

Question, That those words be there inserted 
—— put, and negatived. 

Clause agreed to. 

Cause, N° 18, agreed to. 

CrausE, N° 19 (Failure of local authority to 
perform their duty under this Act, 33 &amp; 34 Vic. 
c. 75, 8. 63; see Public Health Act (38 &amp; 39 Vic. 
c. 55) s. 299). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 7,1. 31, to leave 
out the word “any,” in order to insert the words 
“the registrar of births and deaihs of the districts 
* or other.” 

Question proposed, That the word “any” 
stand part of the Clause :—Amendment, by leave, 
withdrawn. 

Amendments made. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

CLAusE, N° 20 (Provision as to requisition of 
parish). 

An Amendment made. 

Another Amendment proposed in p. 8, 1. 17, to 
leave out from the word “ Board” to the end of 
the Clause. 

Question put, That the words “ The requisition 
“may be accompanied by representations, made 
“ by a resolution passed in like manner, as to the 
“ nature of the bye-laws desired by the parish,” 
stand part of the Clause ; 

The Committee divided. 


Tellers for thes Sir William Dyke, 1 125 
Yeas, | Viscount Crichton : J . 
Tellers for thes Mr. Kay-Shuttleworth,  \ 62 
Noes, | Mr. Bristowe: | Ps 


Another Amendment made. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

CLausE, N° 21, amended, and agreed to. 

CrauseE, N° 22, agreed to. 

Ciause, N° 23 (Expenses of local authority 
other than School Board). 

Amendments made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 8, 1. 33, 
after the word “ Act ” to insert the words “ except 
“ as hereinafter provided.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted :—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Other Amendments made. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

CLAUSE, N° 24, postponed. 

CuiausE, N° 25, amended, and agreed to. 


Crausk, N* 26 (Effect of subsequent appoint- 
ment of School Board). 

Amendment proposed at the end of the Clause 
to add the words “ Provided, That, after the 
** passing of this Act, a School Board shall not be 
“formed for any school district in which there 
‘“‘ exists efficient and suitable provision for the 
“ elementary education of all the children re- 
“ sident in such district.” 

Question, That those words be there added 
put, and negatived. 

Clause agreed to. 
CrausE, N° 27(Application of 36 &amp; 37 Vic. 








c. 86, ss. 23-4, to penalties, &amp;c.) 
xx3 Amendment 





$42 


Amendment proposed, in p. 9, 1. 40, after the 
word “ thereto,” to insert the words “ and every 
‘ person who shall fraudulently obtain, or enable 
“ or procure any other person to obtain, from any 
“ School Board or local authority, payment or re- 
“ mission of payment, or an order for payment or 
“ remission of payment, of any school fees, shall be 
“liable on summary conviction to imprisonment 
“ for a period not exceeding three months, with 
“ or without hard labour.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted ; 

Amendment proposed to the said proposed 
Amendment, by leaving out the words “ with or 
* without hard labour.” 

Question proposed, That the words “ with or 
** without hard labour” stand part of the said pro- 
posed Amendment :—Amendment to the said pro- 
posed Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Amendment made to the said proposed Amend- 
ment. 

Question, That the words “ and every person 
“who shall fraudulently obtain, or enable or 
“ procure any other person to obtain, from any 
“ School Board or local authority, payment or re- 
‘“‘ mission of payment, or an order for payment or 
* remission of payment of any school fees, shall be 
“ liable on summary conviction to imprisonment 
“ fora period not exceeding fourteen days,” be 
there inserted ——put, and agreed to. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

CLAusE, N° 28 (Exemption of employer on proof 
of guilt of some other person. See Factory Act, 
7 &amp; 8 Vic. c. 15, 8.41). 

An Amendment made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 10, 1. 30, 
toleave out the words “ gives all facilities in his 
“ power,” in order to insert the words “ offers no 
** obstacles.” 

Question proposed, ‘That the words proposed to 
be left out stand part of the Clause :—Amend- 
ment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

CrauseE, N° 29 (Adaptation of 36 &amp; 37 Vic. c. 
86, s. 3, respecting pauper children, to this Act). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 11, 1. 3, after the 
word “ who,” to insert the words “ has not passed 
“the standard of reading, and elementary arith- 
“ metic fixed by Standard Three of the Education 


i7th—18th July. 


1876. 
leave out the word “ fourteen,” in order to insert 
the word “ thirteen.” 
Question put, That the word “ fourteen ” stand 
part of the Clause ; 
The Committee divided. 
Tellers for the (Sir William Dyke, 7 
Yeas, | Viscount Crichton: s 197. 
Tellers for the (Mr. Rodwell, 
Noes, Mr. Chaplin: 
Another Amendment made. 
Clause, as amended, agreed to. 
CiausE, N° 35, agreed to. 


Cause, N° 36 (Construction of this Act with 
other enactments). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 12, 1. 33, to leave 
a from the word “ default” to the word “ Act,” 
in |, 38. 

Question proposed, That the words “ and any 
“ bye-law made” stand part of the Clause :— 
Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Clause agreed to. 

CiauseE, N° 37, amended, and agreed to. 

Cause, N° 38, agreed to. 

To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 


} 108. 





And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Tuesday morning ; 


Tuesday, 18th July, 1876: 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had made Progress 
in the Bill, and that he was directed to move, 
That the Committee may have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, at Two 
of the clock, again resolve itself into the said Com- 
mittee. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Poltution ot 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed Rivers Bill, 


upon the 22nd day of June last, That the Pollu- 
tion of Rivers Bill be now read a second time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Appellate 


mittee on the Appellate Jurisdiction Bill; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


“ Code of 1876, or who.” 
Question put, That those words be there in- 


serted ; 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Crossed 


into ¢ i : heques Bill 
into a Committee on the Crossed Cheques Bill. tLotde 


The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the { Lord Frederick Cavendish, | 108 
Yeas, UMr. Kay-Shuttleworth: sf 

Tellers for the; Sir William Dyke, \ 18] 
Noes, \ Viscount Crichton : eas, 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 11, 1. 9, 
after the word “* child,” to insert the words “ un- 
“less such cause can be shown to the contrary, 
‘as, in the opinion of the guardians, may be sufti- 
* cient.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted :—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Clause agreed to. 

Cxiause, N° 30, amended, and agreed to. 

Criausss, N° 31 and N° 32, agreed to. 

Cause, N° 33 (Definition of employment in 
case of parent; compare Workshop Act, 30 &amp; 31 
Vic. c. 146, s. 4). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 12, 1. 3, to leave 
out the word ‘“ employs,” in order to insert the 
words “ after due warning continues to employ.” 

Question, That the word “ employs” stand part 
of the Clause put, and agreed to. 

Cuiause, N° 34 (General definitions, 33 &amp; 34 
Vie. c. 75, 36 &amp; 37 Vie. c. 86). 

An Amendment made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 12, 1.7, to 








(In the Committee.) 


Crausss, N° 1 to N° 3, agreed to. 

Ciause, N° 4 (General and special crossings). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 1, 1. 20, to leave 
out the words “ or of two parallel transverse lines 
* simply.” 

Question, That the words proposed to be left 
out stand part of the Clause——put, and agreed 
to. 

Clause agreed to. 

CiausE, N° 5 (Crossing after issue). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 2, 1. 4, after the 
word “ specially,” to insert the words “where a 
“ cheque is crossed generally or specially a lawful 
“holder may add to the crossing the words ‘for 
“account of,’ or any abbreviation thereof, fol- 
*‘ lowed by the names of the persons or company 
“to whose account he wishes the cheque to be 
** credited.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted :—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 2, 1. 4, to 
leave out from the word “ specially ” to the word 
** collection,” in l. 7, inclusive. 

Question proposed, That the words proposed to 
be left out stand part of the Clause :—Amend- 


ment, by leave, withdrawn. 
Clause 











40 Vicroria. 


Clause agreed to. 

CiausE, N* 6 (Crossing material part of 
cheque). 

Motion made, and Question put, That the 
Chairman do report Progress, and ask leave to sit 


in ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the Mr. Dillwyn, 1 43 
Yeas, { Mr Whalley : J : 

Tellers for thes Sir William Dyke, 1 123 
Noes, Viscount. Crichton: f . 


Motion made, and Question put, That the Chair- 
man do now leave the Chair; 
The Committee divided. 


Tellers for the; Mr. Edward Jenkins, 11 
Yeas, {Captain Nolan: ; 
Tellers for the {Fi William Dyke, li29 
Noes, Viscount Crichton : or 


Motion made, and Question, That the Chair- 
man do report Progress, and ask leave to sit 
again--—put, and negatived. 

Clause agreed to. 

Cause, N° 7 (Payment to banker only). 

An Amendment made. 

Another Amendment proposed, at the end of 
the last Amendment, to add the words “ any 
“banker who shall pay a crossed cheque other- 
“wise than as above provided shall not be dis- 
“ charged from his liability to pay such cheque to 
“the true owner according to the directions of the 
crossing.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
added ; 


To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had made Progress 
in the Bill, and that he was directed to move, That 
the Committee may have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


XwyandArmy The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
1874-5, "re, mittee on the Navy and Army Expenditure, 1874-5 ; 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, at Two 

of the clock, resolve itself into the said Com- 


mittee. 


Supreme Court The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 


(indeed mittee on the Supreme Court of Judicature (Ire- 


Lords. land) Bill; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


mora The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
(Scotland) Bil Reading of the Ecclesiastical Assessments (Scot- 
land) Bill; 
Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


Prisons Bill. The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Prisons Bill; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Poor Law The Order of the day being read, for resumin 

(Scotland) Bill. +h g adjourned Debate pe the Amendment wake, 
upon the 27th day of June last, was proposed to 
be made to the Question, That Mr. Speaker do 
now leave the Chair (for Committee on the Poor 
Law ( Scotland) Bill); 
_ Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Monday next. 


Det? The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
(Irdand) Bin, Reading of the Registry of Deeds Ireland) Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 


upon Monday the 31st day of this instant July. 
VoL. 131, 





17th—18¢th July. 343 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- meter 
mittee on the Elementary Education Provisional Sineation Bt 
Order Confirmation (Zondon) Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday Corde} Bill 


next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Highways Bill. 
Reading of the Highways Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


- The Order of the day being read, for the Second Rooke and 
eading of the Roads and Bridges ( Scotland) Bill ; &lt;'°8°s 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time =" Bi 
upon Monday the 31st day of this instant July. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Sheriff Courts 
Reading of the Sheriff Courts ( Scotland) Bill ; (Seotend) Ba. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- University 
mittee or the University of Oxford Bill; Bill [Lor ds.) 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday , 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- University of 
mittee on the University of Cambridge Bill; + sees 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Agricultural 
mittee on the Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) (oNjaS%) 
Bill; Bill [Lords.] 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Patents for 
Reading of the Patents for Inventions Bill; Inventions 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time *™ “ords] 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Valuation Bill. 
Reading of the Valuation Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Poor Law 
mittee on the Poor Law Rating (Jre/and) Bill; = Rating 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday ‘!eland) Bil. 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Come Pensions — 
mittee on the Pensions Commutation Act Amend- ee 
‘ mend- 
ment Bill ; . ment Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Local Loans 
Reading of the Local Loans ([reland) Bill; (Ireland) Bi. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Norwich and 


| Reading of the Norwich and Boston (Corrupt a 


orrupt 


Voters) Bill; _ Voters) Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 


upon Thursday the 27th day of this instant July. 


The Winter Assizes Bill was, according to Winter _ 
Order, read a second time; and committed to a Assizes Bill 
Committee of the whole House, for this day, at 
Two of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Clerk of the 
the adjourned Debate on the Amendment which, pe and of 
upon the 26th day of May last, was proposed to be (Ireland) Bill. 
made to the Question, That the Clerk of the Peace 
and of the Crown (Jreland) Bill be now read a 
second time ; 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 


Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 





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RE A Ee Oe RENN ss — 








344. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
upon the 27th day of June last, That the Civil Bill 
Courts (Jreland) Bill be now read a second time; 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


Civil Bill 
Courts 
(Ireland) Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Juries Procedure (Jre/and) Bill; 

Resolved, ‘That this House will, upon ‘Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Juries 
Procedure 


(Ireland) Bill. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
take into consideration the Amendments made by 
the Lords to the Friendly Societies Act (1875) 
Amendment Bill; and the same were twice read, 
and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed tothe Amendments made by their Lordships. 


Friendly 
Societies Act 
(1875) Amend- 
ment Bill. 


Exhausted 
Parish Lands 


Bill. 


The Exhausted Parish Lands Bill was, according 
to Order, read a second time; and committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for ‘Thursday next. 


Ordered, That the Provisional Orders (Jreland) 
Confirmation Bill, the Elementary Education Pro- 
visional Orders Confirmation (Hailsham, &amp;c.) Bill, 
and the Elementary Education Provisional Order 
Confirmation (Hornsey) Bill, be committed to the 
same Committee. 

The House, according to Order, resolved itself 

into a Committee on the said Bills; and, after 
there), and Some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed 
the Elementary the Chair; and Mr. Raikes reported, That the 
Education Pro- Committee had gone through the Provisional Or- 
a se ders (Ireland) Confirmation Bill, and directed him 
(Hornsey) Bill to report the same, without Amendment. 
(Lords. | Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time, 
7 ono this day, at Two of the clock. 
a 9 a Mr. Razkes also reported ; That the Committee 
firmation Bill had gone through the Elementary Education Pro- 
{ Lords. | visional Orders Confirmation (Hailsham, &amp;c.) Bill, 
Elementary and directed him to report the same, without 
Education Pro- 
visional Orders Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
) this day, at ‘Iwo of the clock. 
: Mr. Latkes also reported; That the Committee 
Elementary 7 . ° 
Education Pro. had gone through the Elementary Education Pro- 
visional Order visional Order Confirmation (Hornsey) Bill, and 
cs directed him to report the sume, without Amend- 
Bill [Lords.] ™ment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time, 


this day, at Two of the clock. 


Provisional 
Orders (Ire- 
land) Confir- 
mation Bill 

{ Lords], the 
Elementary 
Education Pro- 
visional Orders 
Confirmation 
(Hailsham, 


Confirmation 
(Hailsham,&amp;e 
Bill [Lords.] 


Ways and 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Means. 


mittee of Ways and Means; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednes- 
day next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Limited The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Owners 


Reading of the Limited Owners Residence (Jre- 
Residence land) Bill: 
(Ireland) Bill, °@7!¢ ) Bil; : : 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


Parliamentary © The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
and Municipal mittee on the Parliamentary and Municipal Re- 
Registration ° ° ° 

(Boroughs)  gistration (Boroughs) Bill ; 

Bill. Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 


next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Toll Bridges (River Thames) Bill; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 


next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Toll Bridges 
(River 
Thames) Bill. 


Sea and River | Lhe Order of the day being read, for the Third 
Banks (Lin- Reading of the Sea and River Banks (Lincolnshire) 
colnshire) Bill. }3j]] ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
this day, at Two of the clock. 


L7th—18th July. 





1876, 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Legal 
Reading of the Legal Practitioners Bill ; ractitioners 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Grand Jury 
Reading of the Grand Jury Law Amendment law Ament, 
(Ireland) Bill ; Ba and) 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day, at Two of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Companies 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 6) ee 
upon the 10th day of this instant July, That the ment pi, 
Companies Acts (1862 and 1867) Amendment 
Bill be now read asecond time; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 


till Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- House 
mittee on the House Occupiers Disqualification Occupiers Dis. 
: . qualification 
Removal Bill ; ; Removal Bill, 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into ea 
consideration the Municipal Privileges ({reland) (neler) Bad 
Bill, as amended in the Committee ; ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into considera- 


tion upon Wednesday next. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Reverend 
a Copy of Correspondence between the Local = 
Government Board in Ireland and the Reverend ‘ 
Robert O’ Keeffe, relating to the dismissal of Mr. 
O’ Keeffe from the Chaplaincy of the Callan Union 
Workhouse. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Waste Lands 
to provide for the purchase of Waste Lands and 14 Tcssants 
7 ° . ° wellings 
the Erection of Peasants Dwellings in [reland out ({reland.) 
of the Surplus Funds of the Commissioners of 
Church Temporalities in Ireland: And that Mr. 
Biggar, Mr. Joseph Cowen, and Mr, O’ Sullivan do 


prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Garnier, Mr. Goulding, and Mr. Stevenson Metropolis Gas 
were nominated Members of the Select Committee ted Side) 
on the Metropolis Gas (Surrey Side) Bill. 

Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence taken 
before the Committee on the Metropolis Gas 
Companies Bill, the Commercial Gas Company’s 
Bill, and the Imperial Gas Company’s Bill, in 
1875, be referred to the Select Committee on the 
Metropolis Gas (Surrey Side) Bill. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee on the Arklow 
Arklow Harbour Improvement Bill do consist of fomeoveasi 
Seven Members. Bill 

Ordered, That Sir George Balfour be added to 
the Committee ; 

Ani a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That Colonel Makins be added to the 
Committee ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the (Sir William Dyke, 

Yeas, (Mr. Wheelhouse: 

Tellers for the Captain Nolan, 

Noes, {Me Richard Power : 


Vie. 
Iu. 


And it appearing, upon the Report of the 
Division by the Tellers, that Forty Members were 
not present ; and it being then half an hour after 
Two of the clock on Tuesday morning :—The 
House was adjourned by Mr. Speaker, without a 
Question first put, till this day. 





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Petitions. 

Report. 

peer Licences. 
No, 362. 


gchool Boards 
(Savings 
Banks.) 

No. 363. 


Army (Staff 
Appoint- 
ments.) 

No, 364. 


fishery Board 
(Seotland.) 


Statistical 
Abstract 
(1861 to 1875.) 


Statistical 
Abstract 
(Colonies.) 


Supreme Court 
of Judicature 
Act, 1875, 


Chamber of 
Londo: 


Supply. 


Cruelty to 
Bill 
Lorde 
Bill 250, 
Saint Vi 
Tilagn, and.” 
Constitution 
Bill (Lords, ] 
Bill 253, 
Industrial 
Provident - 
Societies Bill, 
Bill 254. 


Education Bill. 


40 Victoria. 
Tuesday, 18th July, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 


EVERAL Public Petitions were presented, 
and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Beer 
Licences, which was presented upon the 13th day 
of this instant July, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to School 
Boards (Savings Banks), which was presented 
upon the 17th day of this instant July, be 
printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the 
Army (Staff Appointments), which was presented 
upon the 17th day of this instant July, be 
printed. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented, pursuant 
to the directions of an Act of Parliament,—Copy 
of Report by the Commissioners of the Fishery 
Board, Scotland, of their Proceedings in the year 
ended 3lst December 1875, being for Fishing, 
1875. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Sir Charles Adderley presented, by Her Ma- 
jesty’s Command,—Statistical Abstract for the 
United Kingdom in each of the last Fifteen years, 
from 1861 to 1875, Twenty-third Number. 

Statistical Abstract for the several Colonial and 
other Possessions of the United Kingdom in each 
year from 1860 to 1874, Twelfth Number. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Attorney General presented, pursuant to 
the directions of an Act of Parliament,—Copy of 
New Rules (and alterations of existing Rules) of 
the Supreme Court of Judicature unanimously 
agreed to at a meeting of the Judges held on the 
26th of June 1876, and ordered to be in force on 
and after the 17th day of July 1876. 

. Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
able. 


The following Paper, pursuant to the directions 
of an Act of Parliament, was laid upon the Table 
by the Clerk of the House,— Annual Accounts of 
the Chamberlain of the City of London. 


Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the Committee of Supply. 


The Cruelty to Animals Bill was read the first 
time; and ordered to be read a second time upon 
Monday next; and to be printed. 


The Saint Vincent, Tobago, and Grenada Con- 
stitution Bill was read the Rect time ; and ordered 
to be read a second time upon Thursday next; 
and to be printed. 


Ordered, That the Amendments made by the 
Lords to the Industrial and Provident Societies 
Bill be taken into consideration upon Thursday 
next; and be printed. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 


— a Committee on the Elementary Education 
ill. 


(In the Committee.) 


ae Clause, N° 3 (Commencement of 
ct ie 


Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Vou. 131, 


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345 


Chairman do report Progress, and ask leave to sit 
again :— Motion, by leave, withdrawn. 

Clause agreed to. 

Postponed Clause, N° 8 (Proceedings on dis- 


obedience to order of Court for attendance at 
school). 


Amendments made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 3, L. 24, after 
the word “ school,” to insert the ous “ but, if the 
“ court shall consider that the parent of a child has 
‘** shown reasonable excuse for non-attendance, the 
“ court may at its discretion grant such compensa- 
** tion to the parent as it may think fit, such com- 
“pensation to be paid for by the summoning 
“ authority.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted :—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 3, 1. 24, after 
the word “ school” to insert the words “ or for not 
“ more than three months to a workhouse school.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted :—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Other Amendments made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 3, 1. 28, to 
leave out the words “ such penalty as aforesaid,” in 
order to insert the words “ penalty not exceeding, 
“ with the costs, ten shillings.” 

Question, That the words proposed to be left out 
stand part of the Clause——put, and agreed to. 

Other Amendments made. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

Postponed Clause, N°9, (Duty of local autho- 
rity as to taking proceedings under this Act or 
29 &amp; 30 Vie. c. 118). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 4, 1. 6, to leave out 
from the word “ accordingly” to the end of the 
Clause. 

Question proposed, That the words proposed to 
be left out stand part of the Clause :—Amendment, 
by leave, withdrawn. 

Clause agreed to. 

Postponed Clause, N° 10, amended, and agreed 
to. 
Postponed Clauses, N* 13 and N° 24, disagreed 


A Clause,— 

(Day Industrial School. 
(Establishment, &amp;c. of day industrial schools. ) 
If a Secretary of State is satisfied that, owing to 
the circumstances of any class of population in an 
school district, an industrial school in which chil- 
dren are not lodged is necessary or expedient for 
the proper training and control of the children of 
such class, he may, in like manner as under “ The 
Industrial Schools Act, 1866,” certify any such 
industrial school in the neighbourhood of the said 
population to be a certified day industrial school. 

Any child authorised by “ The Industrial Schools 

Act, 1866,” or by this Act, to be sent to a certi- 
fied industrial school, may, if the court before 
whom the child is brought think it expedient, be 
sent to a certified day industrial school, and may 
during the period specified in the order be there 
detained during such hours as may be authorised 
by the rules of the school approved by the said 
Secretary of State. 

A certified day industrial school shall be deemed 
to be a certified efficient school within the meaning 
of this Act. 

In the case of a day industrial school,— 

(l.) A prison authority within the meaning 
of ‘“*' The Industrial Schools Act, 1866,” 
and a school board shall respectively have 
the same powers in relation to a certified 
day industrial school as they have in rela- 
tion to a certified industrial school; and 

(2.) There may be contributed out of moneys 
provided by Parliament towards the cus- 
tody, maintenance, and training of children 
sent by an order of a court to a certified 


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day industrial school such sums not exceed- 
ing one shilling per head per week, and on 
such conditions as a Secretary of State 
from time to time recommends; and 

(3.) Where a court of summary jurisdiction 
orders a child to be sent to a certified day 
industrial school, the court shall also order 
the parent of such child, if liable to main- 
tain him, to contribute to his maintenance 
and training in the school such sum not ex- 
ceeding two shillings per week as is named 
in the order; it shall be the duty of the 
local authority to obtain and enforce the 
said order, and every sum paid under the 
order shall be paid over to the local autho- 
rity in aid of their expenses under this Act; 
if a parent is unable to pay the sum re- 
quired by the said order to be paid, he 
shall apply to the guardians, who, if satis- 
fied of such inability, shall give him such 
relief as will enable him to pay the said sum 
cr so much thereof as they consider him 
unable to pay; and 

(4.) The managers of a'certified day indus- 
trial school may, upon the request of a local 
authority and of the parent of a child, and 
upon the undertaking of the parent to pay 
towards the maintenance and training of 
such child such sum not less than one shil- 
ling a week, as a Secretary of State from 
time to time fixes, receive such child into 
the school without an order of a court; and 
there may be contributed out of moneys 
provided by Parliament in respect of that 
child such sum, not exceeding sixpence a 
week and on such conditions as a Secretary 
from time to time recommends. 

It shall be lawful for Her Majesty from time to 
time, by Order in Council, to apply to a certified 
day industrial school the provisions of “ The In- 
dustrial Schools Act, 1866,’° and the Acts amend- 
the same, with such modifications as appear to Her 
Majesty to be necessary or proper for adapting 
such provisions to a day industrial school, and 
bringing them into conformity with this section ; 
and such Order may provide that a child may be 
punished for an offence by being sent to a certified 
industrial in lieu of a certified reformatory school, 
or may otherwise mitigate the punishment imposed 
by the said Act. 

It shall be lawful for Her Majesty from time to 
time, by Order in Council, to revoke and vary 
“ Order in Council made under this section. 

“very such Order shall be laid before both 
Houses of Parliament within one month after it 
is made if Parliament be then sitting, or, if not, 
within one month after the beginning of the then 
next Session of Parliament, and while in force shall 
have effect as if it were enacted in this Act)—— 
brought up, and read the first and second time. 

Amendment proposed, in 1. 19, to leave out from 
the word “and” to the word “and” in ], 24, in- 
clusive. 

Question proposed, That the words proposed to 
be left out stand part of the Clause :—Amend- 
ment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Amendment proposed, in |. 24, after 
the word “recommends,” to insert the words 
** one of which conditions shall be, that at least a 
“like sum shall be contributed by the managers 
“ of such schools.” 

Question proposed, that those words be there 
inserted :—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Amendment proposed, in 1. 28, after the 
word “ not,” to insert the words, “ nor less than one 
“ shilling nor.” 

Question proposed, that those words be there 
inserted :— Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

An Amendment made. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to, and added. 





1876. 


Another Clause added. 

Another Clause (Declaration of duty of parent 
to educate child.) (It shall be the duty of the 
parent of every child above the age of five years to 
cause such vhild to receive efficient elementary 
instruction in reading, writing, and arithmetic, and 
if such parent fail to perform such duty, he shall 
be liable to such orders and penalties as are pro- 
vided by this Act) brought up, and read the 
first and second time. 

Amendment proposed, in 1. 1, to leave out the 
words “above the age of five years.” 

Question, That the words “above the age of 
five years” stand part of the Clause——put, and 
negatived. 

Question put, That the Clause, as amended, be 
added to the Bill: 

The Committee proceeded to divide. 

Mr. Leatham was appointed one of the Tellers 
for the Noes, but no endne appearing to be a 
second Teller for the Noes, the Chairman declared 
the Ayes had it. 


To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had made Progress 
in the Bill, and that he was directed to move, 
That the Committee may have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 





The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Navy and Army 
mittee on the Navy and Army Expenditure, Expenditure, 
1874-5 » 1874-5, 

&gt; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave 
the Chair; 

And a Debate arising thereupon; and it being 
ten minutes before Seven of the clock, the Debate 
was adjourned till this day. 


Ordered, That the Metropolitan Commons Metropolitan 

(Barnes) Bill, the General Police and Improve- Commons 
ment (Scotland; Provisional Order Confirmation Billet Lorde] 
(Paisley) Bill, the General Police and Improve- 
ment (Scotland) Provisional Order Confirmation 
(Perth) Bill, the Public Health (Scotland) Provi- 
sional Order (Irvine and Dundonald) Bill, the 
Elementary Education Provisional Order Con- 
firmation ( Tolleshunt Major) Bill, the Local Go- 
vernment Provisional Orders (Carnarvon, &amp;c.) 
Bill, the Provisional Orders (Jreland) Confirma- 
tion (Coleraine, &amp;c.) Bill, the Metropolis ( White- 
chapel and Limehouse) Improvement Scheme 
Confirmation Bill, and the ms | Police and 
Improvement (Scotland) Provisional Order ( Ler- 
wick) Bill, be committed to the same Committee. 

The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the said Bills; and, after 
some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed 
the Chair; and Mr. Raikes reported, That the 
Committee had gone through the Metropolitan yfetropolitan 
Commons ( Barnes) Bill, and directed him to report Commons 
the same, without Amendment. (verde 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Thursday next. 

Mr. Raikes also reported, That the Committee General Police 
had gone through the General Police and Improve- oe ‘ 
ment (Scotland) Provisional Order Confirmation jgnq) Pro- 
(Paisley) Bill, and directed him to report the same, visional 0 
without Amendment. (Paisley) Bil 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time } Zords,) 
upon Thursday next. 

Mr. Raikes also reported, That the Committee General 
had gone through the Gouanat Police and Improve- ere 
ment (Scotland) Provisional Order Confirmation (scotland) Pr 
(Perth) Bill, and directed him to report the same, ee 
without Amendment. . _ (Perth) Bill 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time [ Lords.) 
upon Thursday next. Mr 





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piblic Health Mr, Raikes also reported, That the Committee 
(Geotiand) Pro- had gone through the Public Health (Scotland) 
risional Onder Provisional Order (Irvine and Dundonald) Bill, 
(iriveld) and directed him to report the same, without 
ill [Lords.] Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 

upon Thursday next. 

Mr. Raikes also reported, That the Committee 
een Pre had gone through the Elementary Educational 
risional Order Provisional Order Confirmation ( Tolleshunt Major) 


my Bill, and directed him to report the same, without 
oe) pil Amendment. 


(Lords.] Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Thursday next. 
tol Goven- Mr. Raikes also reported, That the Committee 
ment Pro- had gone through the Local Government Provi- 
visional Orders signal Orders (Carnarvon, &amp;c.) Bill, and directed 


sl him to report the same, without Amendment. 


(Lords.] Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Thursday next. 

Provisional Mr. Raikes also —— That the Committee 

Orders had gone through the Provisional Orders (Ireland) 

oe Confirmation (Coleraine, &amp;c.) Bill, and directed 


(Coleraine,&amp;c.) him to report the same, without Amendment. 

Bill (Lords. ] Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Thursday next. 

Metropolis Mr. Raikes also reported, That the Committee 

(Whitechapel had gone through the Metropolis (Whitechapel and 


andLimehouse) 7 &gt;nehouse) Improvement Scheme Confirmation 
Improvement i 


Scheme Con- 3 ‘ 
firmation Bill Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 


(Lords.] mittee, be taken into consideration upon Thursday 
next. 

Goneral Police . Mr. Raikes also reported, That the Committee 

and Improve- had gone through the General Police and Improve- 

ment (Seot- ment (Scotland) Provisional Order (Lerwick) 

obey Order Dill, and directed him to report the same, without 

(Lerwick) Amendment. 

Bill [Lords.] Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Thursday next. 


_— The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
(Ireland) Bill. Reading of the Prisons (JZreland) Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


Public Health .. Lhe Order of the day being read, for the Second 
(Ireland) Bil. Reading of the Public Health (Jrelund) Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday next, at Two of the clock. 


Winter Assizes The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Bill. mittee on the Winter Assizes Bill; 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


Provisional The Provisional Orders (/reland) Confirmation 

= Bill was, according to Order, read the third time. 

cand), Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Bill [Lords.] Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 


hath agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


Elementary The Elementary Education Provisional Orders 
&gt; rary Pro- Confirmation (Hailsham, &amp;c.) Bill was, according 
Confrmetine”® to Order, read the third time. 
(Hailsham, Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
— Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
J the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


Elementary The Elementary Education Provisional Order 

Hveation Pro- Confirmation (Hornsey) Bill was, according to 

Conirmain:” Order, read the third time. 

(Hornsey ) Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Bil (Lord.} — Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


al The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Person Bill, — on the Offences against the Person Bill; 
OL. 131. 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, at Two of the clock, resolve itself into the 
said Committee. 


The Medical Act (Qualifications) Bill was, ac- Medical Act 
cording to Order, read the third time. (Qualifications) 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. _ 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Third Sea and River 
ma of the Sea and River Banks (Lincolnshire) a nie) Bill 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Grand Jury 
Reading of the Grand Jury Law Amendment ( Jre- Law Amend- 
land) Bill ; men Con 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


Ordered, That the Parliamentary Electors Re- Parliamentary 
gistration Bill be read a scond time To-morrow. pen . 


‘ , Bill. 
The Order for the House to resolve itself into ioe of Intoxi 
“ : ntoxi- 
a Committee, To-morrow, on the Sale of Intoxi- cating Liquors 
cating Liquors on Sunday (Ireland) (No. 2) Bill, on Sunday 
was read, and discharged. ae 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednes-~ ~ 
day the 2nd day of August next, resolve itself 
into the said Committee. 


Mr, Speaker acquainted the House, That a Message from 
Message had been brought from the Lords by one the Lords. 
of their Clerks, as followeth : 

The Lords have agreed to the Wild Fowl Pre- wia pow 
servation Bill, without any Amendment. Preservation 

ill. 

The Lords have agreed to the Settled Estates settled Estates 

Act (1856) Amendment Bill, without any Amend- Act (1856) 


ment. a 
The Lords have agreed to the Customs Duties Customs Duties 
Consolidation Bill, without any Amendment. — 


The Lords have agreed to the Customs Laws Customs Laws 
Consolidatiou Bill, without any Amendment. — 
ul, 


The Lords have agreed to the Sevenoaks Gas Sevenoaks 
Bill, without any Amendment. Gas Bill. 

The Lords have agreed to the Enniskillen and Enniskillen 
Bundoran Extension Railway Bill, with Amend- ——— 
ments; to which the Lords desire the concurrence Salbowy Bill. 
of this House. 

The Lords have agreed to the Zlynvi and Og- Liynvi and 
more, and Cardiff and Ogmore Valley Railway Osmore, and 


Companies Bill, with Amendments; to which the } sey 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House. Railway Com- 
panies Bill. 


The Lords have agreed to the Great Northern Great Northern 
Railway Bill, with Amendments; to which the Railway Bill. 
Lords ) rw the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have agreed to the Amendment made Waterford 
by this House to the Waterford and Wexford Rail- snd Wexford 
way Bill, without any Amendment. uaa 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Local Govern- 
to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local ™e"* yo 
Government Board relating to the Districts of (Chelmsford, 
Chelmsford and Merthyr Tydvii, and the Borough &amp;c.) Bill 
of Peterborough (two); to which the Lords desire [“°ré.] 


the concurrence of this House. 


The Local Government Board’s Provisional Local Govern. 
Orders Confirmation (Bingley, &amp;c.) Bill was read pent Board's 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second Orders Cone 
time upon Thursday next; and to be printed. firmation 

(Bingley, &amp;c,) 
Bill (Lords.] 
Bill 255. 

The Local Government Provisional Orders Local Govern- 

(Chelmsford, &amp;c.) Bill was read the first time; ™ent Pro- 


and ordered to be read a second time upon Thurs- ae 
day next; and to be printed. &amp;ec.) Bill 
[ Lords. ] 








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Belfast and 
County Down 
Railway Bill 
[Lords.] 


Ennis and 
West Clare 
Railway Bill 
[Lords.] 


Public 
Petitions. 
‘Vide Thirtieth 
Report. 
Pilotage 
(Yarmouth to 
the Thames.) 


Railways 
(Share and 
Loan Capital.) 


Suez Canal. 


Public 
Departments 
(Consols, &amp;c.) 


High Court of 
Justice. 


Adjournment, 


Strangers. 


348 


Notice being taken, that Forty Members were 
not nee :— The House was told by Mr. 


Speaker; and Forty Members not being present, 
and it being then after Four of the clock :—The 
House was adjourned OM 
Question first put, till 


Mr. Speaker, without a 
-morrow. 








Wednesday, 19th July, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 

} ee House proceeded to take into considera- 

tion the Amendments made by the Lords to 
the Oldbury Local Board of Health Bill; and the 
same were twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Belfast and County Down Railway Bill, as 
amended in the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The Order, That the Ennis and West Clare 
Railway Bill be referred to the Examiners of Pe- 
titions for Private Bills, was read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Sir Charles Adderley presented,—Return to an 
Order, dated the 19th day of June last, for Re- 
turns relative to Pilotage (Yarmouth to the 
Thames). 

Return to an Order, dated the 20th day of June 
last, for a Return relative to Railways (Share and 
Loan Capital). 

Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented, by Her 
Majesty’s Command,—Copy of ‘lreasury Minute, 
dated July 17th, 1876, relative to Articles 24 and 
28 of the Statutes of the Suez Canal Company. 

Mr. William Henry Smith also presented,—Re- 
turn to an Order, dated the 18th day of May last, 
for Returns relative to Public Departments (Con- 
sols, &amp;c.) 

Mr. William Henry Smith also presented, pur- 
suant to the directions of several Acts of Parlia- 
ment,—Annual Account of Receipts and Payments 
in respect of the Queen’s Bench, Common Pleas, 
Exchequer, and the Probate, Divorce, and Admi- 
ralty Divisions of the High Court of Justice, and 
of the Land Registry, in the years ended 31st 
March 1875 and 1876. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


The following Paper, pursuant to the directions 
of an Act of Parliament, was laid upon the Table 
by the Clerk of the House,—General Report of 
the Conservators of the River Thames, from the 
[st of January to the 3lst December 1875, with 
Accounts of Moneys received and expended by 
the Conservators of the River Z’hames, for the 
year ending 3lst December 1875. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being 
proposed, That this House do now adjourn ; 

And Notice being taken that Strangers were 
present ; 

Mr. Speaker reminded the House of the Reso- 
lution of the 3lst May 1875, and stated that he 


18¢h—19th July. 





1876. 


had, on a previous occasion during the present 
Session, explained that he considered himself 
bound to follow the practice prescribed by that 
Resolution, until otherwise instructed by the 
House; and that as no such instruction had since 
been given, he should proceed to put the Question, 
in pursuance of that Resolution, 

And thereupon Mr. Speaker having forthwith 
put the Question, That Strangers be ordered to 
withdraw :—It passed in the Negative. 

And the original Motion was, with leave of the 
House, withdrawn. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Contagious 
Reading of the Contagious Diseases Acts Repeal Diseases Acs 
Bill; Repeal Bill, 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a second 
time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the 
words, “considering the time which has elapsed 
“ since the Report of the Royal Commission, it is 
“desirable that the subject of the Contagious 
“Diseases Acts be referred to a Select Com- 

* mittee,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being proposed, That the 
words proposed to be left out stand part of the 
Question:—The said proposed Amendment was, 
with leave of the House, withdrawn. 

And the Main Question being again proposed, 

That the Bill be now read a second time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the word “now,” and, 
at the end of the Question, adding the words 
* upon this day two months.” 

And the Question being put, That the word 
“now” stand part of the uation; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the{ Sir Aarcourt Johnstone, | 102 

Yeas, Mr. Whitbread: —* 

Tellers for thef Sir Charles Legard, 

Noes, Captain Home : 

So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
“upon this day two months” be added at the 
end of the Question:—It was resolved in the 
Affirmative. 

Then the Main Question, so amended, being 


\ 
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put ; : 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon this day two months. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second —— a 
Reading of the Cheques on Bankers Bill; se 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
To-morrow. 


Game Laws 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Cseotland) Bil 


mittee on the Game Laws (Scotland) Bill; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Valuation of 
Reading of the Valuation of Property (Metropolis) (Meeropol) 
Act (1869) Amendment Bill; _ Act (1869) 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time aa 


upon Wednesday next. . 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Homicide Let 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 3i™ 
upon the 8th day of March last, That the Homi- 
cide Law Amendment Bill be now read a second 
time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Wednesday next. The 





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40 Vicroria. 


piction of The Order of the day being read, for ee 
adermen §~=©=&gt;- the: adjourned Debate on the Question propose 
(Cumulatv? upon the 9th day of June last, That the Election 
Vee) of Aldermen (Cumulative Vote) Bill be now read 
a second time ; 
Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


Jurors The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Remuneration Reading of the Jurors Remuneration Bill ; 


Bill. Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday the 27th day of this instant 
July. 

Poor Law The Order of the day being read, for the Second 

Guardians Reading of the Poor Law Guardians Elections 


Blections |. (Ireland) Bill; 
ll. 4 
(Irland) Bi Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
To-morrow. 


Intoxicating The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 

Liquors mittee on the Intoxicating Liquors (Licensing 

phase * Law Amendment) (No. 2) Bill; 

(No. 2) Bill. Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Ways and The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Means. mittee of Ways and Means ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Municipal The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
Privileges consideration the Municipal Privileges (Jreland) 
(Ireland) Bill. Bi}], as amended in the Committee ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be taken into considera- 
tion upon Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply ; 

Resolved, ‘That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Supply. 


Parliamentary Lhe Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Electors Regis- Reading of the Parliamentary Electors Registra- 
tration Bill. tion Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
To-morrow. 


Cruelty The Order of the day being read, for the Second 

Prevention Reading of the Cruelty Prevention Bill; 

Bill Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


Local Govern. The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
ment in Towns Reading of the Local Government in Towns (Jre- 
(Ireland) Bill’ Zand) Bill ; 
Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


Navy and The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
Army Expendi- the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
‘we, 1874-5. yon the 18th day of this instant July, That Mr. 
Speaker do now leave the Chair (for Committee 

on the Navy and Army Expenditure, 1874-5) ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 

till To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 


Winte 
pond Bill. mittee on the Winter Assizes Bill ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 
Arklow Ordered, That Colonel Makins be added to the 
nc Select Committee on the Ark/ow Harbour Im- 
mprovement P 
Bill, provement Bill. 
Inns of Court Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 


— to provide for the Election of Masters of the Bench 
ment. of the Inns uf Court, and to amend the Procedure 


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349 


by which Members of the Bar are disbarred: And 
that Mr. Henry B. Sheridan, Mr. Ingram, and Mr. 
Dillwyn do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given tv bring in a Bill Forfeiture 
to amend the Law of Relief againat Forfeiture for Belieé 
Breach of Covenant or Condition: And that Mr. 

Alfred Marten, Mr. Osborne Morgan, and Mr. 
Gregory do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Spencer Stanhope reported from the Select Bow Street 
Committee on the Bow Street Police Court (Site) Police Court 
Bill; That they had examined the allegations of (tite) Sem. 
the Bill, and found the same to be true; and had Bill 257. 
gone through the Bill, and made Amendments 
thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for Friday next, 

at Two of the clock. 


Mr. Henry B. Sheridan presented a Bill to pro- Inns of Court 
vide for the Election of Masters of the Bench of Procedure 
the Inns of Court, and to amend the Procedure cea, 
by which Members of the Bar are disbarred: And Bill 258. 
the same was read the first time; and ordered to 

be read a second time upon Wednesday next; and 

to be printed. 


Mr. Alfred Marten presented a Bill to amend Forfeiture 
the Law of Relief against Forfeiture for Breach of Relief Bill. 
Covenant or Condition: And the same was read Bill 259. 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second 

time upon Monday the 3lst day of this instant 

July; and to be printed. 


The Order for the House to resolve itself’ into Poor Law 

a Committee, To-morrow, on the Poor Law Rating Rating 

(Jreland) Bill, was read, and discharged. oo 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 

next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order for reading a second time, upon Public Health 
Friday next, at Two of the clock, the Public (Ireland) Bill. 
Health (Jreland) Bill, was read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


And then the House adjourned till To-mor- 
row. 








Thursday, 20th July, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 

o 4 HE House proceeded to take into considera~ Newcastle and 
tion the Amendments made by the Lords to Gateshead 

the Newcastle and Gateshead Water Bill; and the Wer Bill 
same were twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


Several Public Petitions were or mga and Public 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions. 


Vide Thirtieth 
Re 


Ordered, That the Accounts relative to the eine at 
Chamber of London, which were presented upon London, 
the 18th day of this instant July, be printed. No. 365. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Pilotage Pitotage 
Yarmouth to the Thames), which was presented (Yarmouth to 


thie; , the Thames. 
upon the 19th day of this instant July, be printed. ‘No. ee 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Railways Railways 
(Share and Loan Capital), which was presented (Share and 
upon the 19th day of this instant July, be printed. Loan Capital.) 





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350 20th July. 1876, 


Public Ordered, That the Return relative to Public | with reference to the Mobilization of the Second 
Departments Departments (Consols, &amp;c.), which was pre-| and Fifth Army Corps :— 





Justice. 


Thames 
Conservancy. 


Licences 


Army (Soldiers 
tried before 
Civil Power.) 


Arklow 
Harbour 


Harbour Bill. 


an" sented upon the 19th day of this instant July, be 
" : 
. printed. 


High Court of Ordered, That the Account relative to the High 
Court of Justice, which was presented upon the 
No. 369. 19th day of this instant July, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to the Thames 
Conservancy, which was presented upon the 19th 


No. 370. day of this instant July, be printed. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented, by Her 
Majesty’s Command,— Copy of Report of the 
Commissioners for the Chanrel Tunnel and Rail- 


way. 

Mr. William Henry Smith also presented, pur- 
suant to the directions of an Act of Parliament,— 
Copy of Treasury Minute, dated 14th July 1876, 
awarding a Special Retired Allowance to Frederick 
Plashett, Established Fourth Class Smith, Ports- 
mouth Dockyard. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Intoxicating 


Mr. Secretary Cross presented,—Return to an 
Liquors 


Address to Her Majesty, dated the lst day of May 
last, for Returns relative to Intoxicating Liquors 
Licences (Scotland). 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


(Scotland.) 


Mr. Secretary Hardy presented,—Return to an 
Address to Her Majesty, dated the 4th day of this 
instant July, for a Return relative to the Army 
(Soldiers tried before Civil Power). 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Basil Woodd reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on the Arklow Harbour Improvement Bill ; 
That, it having been stated that it was not intended 
to proceed with the Bill, they had agreed to report 
the same, without Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


Improvement 
Bill. 


Ardglass Mr. Basil Woodd reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on the Ardglass Harbour Bill; That they 
had examined the allegations of the Bill, and found 
the same to be true, and that the Resolution of 
the House of the 7th day of this instant July had 
been complied with; and that they had directed 
him to report the said Bill, without Amendment, 
to the House. 

Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for To-morrow, at 
Two of the clock. 


Erne Lough Mr. Basil Woodd reported from the Select Com- 
and River Bill. mittee on the Erne Lough and River Bill; That 
they had examined the allegations of the Bill, and 
found the same to be true, and that the Resolution 
of the House of the 7th day of this instant July 
had been complied with; and that they had di- 
rected him to report the said Bill, without Amend- 
ment, to the House. 

Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for To-morrow, 
at Two of the clock. 


Army Reserve. Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return showing Strength of the First 


Class Army Reserve on the Ist day of July 1876 





| 


Number 
excused 
Attendance at 
Training. 


Number Summoned for Training. 





Found Unfit. 


known to have emigrated or left 


the Country, or other Cause, 





In Government 
2nd Army Corps. 


Employ. 
Absent without Leave, supposed or 


Number Summoned for Training. 


| Pension District. 

| Strength on lat July. 
In Civil Employ. 
Absent without Leave. 
Joined Regiments— 


Temporarily, 



































Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Militia and 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased — 
to give directions, that there be laid before this “""” 
House, a Return showing Strength of Militia Re- gry 
giments belonging to Second and Fifth Army Votes.) 
Corps trained and mobilized with their respective 
Army Corps, between the 3rd and 29th days of 
July 1876; also, Strength of Militia Reserve in 
such Regiments :—--Similar Return for Great 
Britain and Ireland relating to those Militia Regi- 
ments trained in 1876, but not mobilized (in 
Tabular Form) :—— Similar Return for Scotland: 

—— And, similar Return for Ireland. 


Sir Henry Selwin-Ibbetson reported from the Metropolitan 
Select Committee on the Metropolitan Fire Bri- Fire Brigade, 
gade; That they had considered the matters to No. 871. 
them referred, and directed him to make a Report 
thereof to the House, together with the Minutes 
of the Evidence taken before them, and an Ap- 

endix. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 

Table; and be printed. 


Ordered, That the Parties appearing before the Metropolis Gas 
Select Committee on the Metropolis Gas (Surrey (Surrey Side) 
Side) Bill have leave to print the Minutes of the ®" 
Evidence taken before the Committee, day by day, 
from the Committee Clerk’s copy, if they think fit. 

Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence taken 
before the Committee on the South Metropolitan 
Gas Light and Coke Bill of the present Session, 
be referred to the Committee on the Metropolis 
Gas (Surrey Side) Bill. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Indian 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased Museum. 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Copy of the Resolution or Resolutions 
of the Secretary of State for Jmdia in Council re- 
specting the transfer of the Indian Museum to 
South Kensington, with the Opinions of the Mem- 
bers of Council recorded thereon. 


The Order for reading a second time, upon University 
Wednesday the 2nd day of August next, the Uni- (ireland) Bill 
versity Education (Jre/and) Bill, was read, and 
discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday the 9th day of August next. 


Ordered, That Mr. Chapman and Mr. Mont- — = 
gomerie have leave of absence until the end of the ' 
Session, on account of ill health; and Lord Fran- 
cis Conyagham, until the endof the Session, on 
account of domestic affliction. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Building 


a Return of the Building Societies incorporated 5°" 
under 





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by orm, 
votes.) 


Message from 
the Lords. 


Public Works 
Loans Bill. 


1 Southwold 
Railway Bill. 


Goux’s Patent 
Bill. 


Swansea 
Harbour Bill 
{ Lords. 


Local Govern- 
ment Board’s 
Provisional 
Orders Con- 
firmation 
(Artizans and 
Labourers 
Dwellings) 
Bill [Lords.] 


. Local Govern- 
ment Board’s 
Provisional 
Orders Con- 
firmation 
(Artizans and 
Labourers 
Dwellings) 
Bill [Lords.} 


Bill 260. 
Elementary 


40 Vicrortia. 


under the Building Societies Acts, 1874 and 1875, 
showing (in a Tabular Form) :— 

A. The Date of Incorporation ; 

B. The Name of the ‘Society : 

C. The Chief Office, or Place of Meeting of 
the Society ; 

D. Abstract of Accounts furnished (in pur- 
suance of 37 &amp; 38 Vic. c. 42,s. 40), relating 
to the last Financial Year of the Society. 

Indicating the Societies, the Rules of which 
have been amended in accordance with 
“ The Building Societies Act, 1874.” 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a 
Message had been brought from the Lords by one 
of their Clerks, as followeth : 

The Lords have agreed to the Public Works 
Loans Bill, without any Amendment. 

The Lords have agreed to the Southwold Rail- 
way Bill, without any Amendment. 

The Lords have agreed to Gouz’s Patent Bill, 
with Amendments; to which the Lords desire 
the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have agreed to the Amendments 
made by this House to the Swansea Harbour Bill, 
without any Amendment. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An 
Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the 
Local Government Board relating to the Boroughs 
of Birmingham, Liverpool, Nottingham, and Swan- 
sea; to which the Lords desire the concurrence of 
this House. 


The Local Government Board’s Provisional 
Orders Confirmation (Artizans and Labourers 
Dwellings) Bill was read the first time; and or- 
dered to be read a second time upon Monday 
next; and to be printed. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 


Education Bill.into a Committee on the Elementary Education 


Bill. 
(In the Committee.) 


(Amendment of 33 &amp; 34 Vic. c. 75, s. 97, as to 
conditions of annual Parliamentary Grant. ) 
(So much of Section ninety-seven of “ The Ele- 
mentary Education Act, 1870,” as enacts that the 
conditions required to be fulfilled by an elemen- 
tary school in order to obtain the annual Parlia- 
mentary Grant shall provide that the Grant shall 
not for any year exceed the income of the school 
for that year which was derived from voluntary 
contributions and from school fees, and from any 
sources other than the Parliamentary Grant, shall 
be repealed as from the thirty-first day of March 
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven. 
After the Thirty-first day of March One thou- 
sand eight hundred and seventy-seven, the condi- 
tions required to be fulfilled by an elementary 
school in order to obtain the annual Parliamentary 
Grant shall provide that,— 

(1.) Such Grant shall not in any year be re- 
duced by reason of its excess above the 
income of the school if the Grant do not 
exceed the amountof seventeen shillings and 
sixpence per child in average attendance 
at the school during that year, but shall not 
exceed that amount per child, except by the 
same sum by which the income of the 
school, derived from voluntary contribu- 
tions, rates, school fees, endowments, and 
any source whatever other than the Parlia- 
mentary Grant exceeds the said amount per 
child ; and 

(2.) Where the population of the school dis- 
trict in which the school is situate, or the 

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351 


population within two miles, measured ac- 
cording to the nearest road, from the school 
is less than three hundred, and there is no 
other public elementary school recognised 
by the Education Department as available 
for the children of that district, or that po- 
—— (as the case may be), a special 
arliamentary Grant may be made annually 
to that school to the amount, if the said po- 
pulation exceeds two hundred, of ten pounds, 
and, if it does not exceed two hundred, of 
fifteen pounds; and 
(3.) The said special Grant shall be in addi- 
tion to the ordinary annual Parliamentary 
Grant, and shall not be included in the cal- 
culation of that grant for the purpose of de- 
termining whether it does or not exceed the 
amount before in this section mentioned), 
brought up, and read the first time. 
Motion made, and Question put, That the 
Clause be read a second time ; 
} 188. 





The Committee divided. 
Tellers for the {ir William Dyke, 


Yeas, Mr. Rewland Winn: 
Tellers for thef Mr. Adam, L100 
Noes, (Lord Kensington: Biting 


Amendment proposed, in 1. 15, to leave out from 
the word “ child” to the end of the Clause. 

Question, That the words proposed to be left 
out stand part of the Clause put, and agreed to. 

Another Amendment proposed, at the end of the 
Clause, to add the following words :— 

“If in any public elementary school the in- 
“come arising from subscriptions or rates 
“do not amount to at least one-sixth part 
* of the total income of such school, there 
** shall be deducted from the annual Par- 
“ liamentary Grant payable to such school 
“a sum equal in amount to the difference 
* between the said one-sixth part of the 
* total income of such school, and the said 
“income arising from subscriptions or 
“ rates.” 

Question put, That those words be there added ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the f Lord Edmond paar eg 83 

Yeas, | Lord Frederick Cavendish: ' 

Tellers for the (Sir William Dyke, 

Noes, { Mr. Rowland Winn: 

Clause agreed to, and added. 

Another Clause— 

(Power to authorise appointment of school attend- 
ance committee by urban sanitary authority.) 
(On the application of the urban sanitary autho- 

rity of an urban sanitary district which is not a 

borough, and which is co-extensive with any parish 

or parishes not within the jurisdiction of a School 

Board, containing according to the last published 

Census for the time being a population of not less 

than five thousand, the Education Department 

may by order authorise the sanitary authority of 
that district to appoint, and thereupon such autho- 
rity may appoint, a school attendance committee 
as if they were the council of a borough, and that 
committee, to the exclusion of the school attend- 
ance committee appointed by the guardians, shall 
enforce the provisions of this Act in the sanitary 
district, and be in that district the local authority 
for the purposes of this Act, and on the requisition 
of the parish but not otherwise shall make bye- 
laws as such local authority, and all the provisions 
of this Act shall, save as before provided with re- 
spect to the making of bye-laws, apply accordingly 

as if the sanitary authority were the council of a 

borough. 

Provided, That the expenses (if any) of a school 
attendance committee appointed by an urban sani- 
tary authority shall be paid out of a fund to be 
raised out of the poor rate of the parish or parishes 
comprised in such district, sauliog to the rate- 

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352 


able value of each parish, and the urban sanitary 
authority shall, for the purpose of obtaining pay- 
ment of such expenses, lao the same power as a 
board of guardians have for the purpose of obtain- 
ing contributions to their common tund under the 
Acts relating to the relief of the poor, and the ac- 
counts of such expenses shall be audited as the 
accounts of other expenses of the sanitary autho- 
rity. 

om bye-laws in force in an urban sanitary dis- 
trict, or any part thereof, before the appointment 
of a school attendance committee by the sanitary 
authority of such district shall continue in force, 
subject nevertheless to be revoked or altered by 
the school attendance committee of the sanitary 
authority. 

Where an urban sanitary district is not a bo- 
rough, and not wholly within the jurisdiction of 
a School Board, and is not within the foregoing 
provisions of this section, the urban sanitary autho- 
rity of that district may from time to time appoint 
such number as the Education Department allow, 
not exceeding three, of their own members to be 
members of the school attendance committee for 
the union in which the district or such part thereof 
not within the jurisdiction of a School Board is 
situate, and such members, so long as they are 
members of the sanitary authority, and their ap- 
ointment is not revoked by that authority, shall 
be members of the school attendance committee, 
and have the same powers and authorities as if they 
had been unl te the guardians. 

Where a School Board is appointed after the 
commencement of this Act for any parish which 
forms or comprises the whole or part of an urban 
sanitary district in which the school attendance 
committee is appointed by the urban sanitar 
authority, such school attendance committee shall, 
at the expiration of two months after the election 
of the School Board, cease to act for the urban 
sanitary district, and the school attendance com- 
mittee appointed by the guardians shall be the 
local snthealty for so much of the urban sanitary 
district as is not under the School Board. 

All bye-laws in force at the expiration of the 
said two months shall continue in force, subject to 
being revoked or altered by the local authority, 
in pursuance of section seventy-four of “ The Ele- 
mentary Education Act, 1870,” as amended by 
this Act),—— brought up, and read the first and 
second time. 

Amendment proposed, in 1. 9, after the word 
* —— to insert the words “ make bye-laws 
“ for and,” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted :— Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Clause agreed to, and added. 

Another Clause added. 

Another Clause (Copy of time tables, &amp;c., to 
be supplied to local authority)——brought up, 
and read the first time. 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Clause be read a second time: — Motion and 
Clause, by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Clause (Compensation in case of 
reasonable non-attendance)——-brought up, and 
read the first time. 

Question, That the Clause be read a second 
time——-put, and negatived. 

Another Clause (Provision for blind and deaf- 
mute children) —— brought up, and read the first 
time. 

Motion made, and Question put, That the 
Clause be read a second time ; 

The Committee divided. 





Tellers for thes Mr. Wheelhouse, a 54 
Yeas, { Mr. Mundella: ees 
Tellers for the (Sir Wiliam Dyke, 1 903 
Noes, \|Mr. Rowland Winn: re 


Another Clause added. 


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1876. 


Another Clause— 

(Dissolution of School Board under certain circum- 
stances. ) 

(Where application for the dissolution of a 
School Board is made to the Education Depart- 
ment by the like persons and in the like manner 
as an application for the formation of a School 
Board, under section twelve of “ The Elementary 
Education Act, 1870,” and the Education De- 
partment are satisfied that no school and no site 
for a school is in the possession or under the con- 
trol of the School Board, and that there is a suffi- 
cient amount of public school accommodation for 
the district of the School Board, the Education 
Department may, after such notice as they think 
sufficient, order the dissolution of the School Board. 

The Education Department by any such order 
shall make provision for the disposal of all money, 
furniture, books, documents, and property belong- 
ing to the School Board, and for the discharge 
out of the local rate of all the liabilities of the 
Board, and such other provisions as appear to the 
department necessary or proper for carrying into 
effect the dissolution of the Board. 

The Education Department shall publish the 
order in manner directed by “ The Elementary 
Education Act, 1873,” with respect to the publi- 
cation of notices, and after the date of such publi- 
cation or any later date mentioned in the order, 
the order shall have effect as if it were enacted by 
Parliament, without prejudice nevertheless to the 
subsequent formation of a School Board in the 
same school district. All bye-laws previously 
made by the School Board shall continue in force, 
subject nevertheless to be revoked or altered by 
the local authority under this Act)——brought 
up, and read the first time. 

Question put, That the Clause be read a second 
time ; 

To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 





And the House having continued to sit till after 

Twelve of the clock on Friday morning ; 
Friday, 21st July, 1876: 

Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had made Progress 
in the Bill, and that he was directed to move, That 
the Committee may have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, at Two 
of the clock, again resolve itself into the said Com- 
mittee. 


‘The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Prisons Bill 
mittee on the Prisons Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Pollution of 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed Rivers Bill. 
upon the 22nd day of June last, That the Pollu- 
tion of Rivers Bill be now read a second time; 

And the Question being again proposed :—The 
House resumed the said adjourned Debate. 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till this day, at Two of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Bishopric of 
the adjourned Debate on the Question Pc ge Truro Bill 
upon the 4th day of this instant July, That the 
Bishopric of Truro Bill be now read a second time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till this day, at Two of the clock. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Cattle Disease 
into a Committee on the Cattle Disease (/reland) (Ireland) 
Bill. 

(In the Committee.) 


Cravses, N° 5 and N° 6, agreed to. 








Cause, N° 7, amended, and agreed to. 
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CuavusE, N° 8 (Appointment of inspectors and 
other officers, 32 &amp; 33 Vic. c. 70, s. 12). 

Amendments made. 

Another Amendment 
to leave out from the wor 
the Clause. 

Question, That the words ‘‘ but so” stand part 
of the Clause—— put, and agreed to. 

Other Amendments made. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

Ciauses, N° 9 and N° 10, amended, and agreed 


roposed, in p. 4, 1. 1, 
fs made” to the end of 


to. 
CiauseEs, N° 11 and N° 12, agreed to. 
Ciause, N° 13 (Mode of payment of compensa- 
tion). 

Amendments made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 5, 1. J, 
after the word “ half ” to insert the words “ or, in 
“ the case of animals slaughtered at a sea-port, 
“for which compensation has been paid to an 
“ owner not residing within the union in which 
“ guch animal was slaughtered, or to an owner 
“ residing within the union for an animal which he 
“has had in his possession for less than one 
« month, the whole.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted and si by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Amendment made. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

CiavusE, N° 14, agreed to. 

A Clause added. 

Preamble agreed to. 


Bill, as amended, to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Ravkes 
reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration upon Monday 
next. 


The Metropolitan Board of Works (Loans) Bill 
was, according to Order, read second time; and 
committed to a Committee of the whole House, 
for this day, at Two of the clock. 


Metropolitan 
Board of 

Works (Loans) 
Bill, 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Appellate Jurisdiction Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Appellate 
Jurisdiction 
Bill [Lords.] 


Suez Canal 


(Shares) Bill The Order of the day being read, for the Second 


Reading of the Suez Canal (Shares) Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday the 31st day of this instant July. 


ae The Order of the day being read, for a 


Office (Remu. the adjourned Debate on the Question propose 
a” **-) upon the 6th day of this instant July, That Mr. 
Speaker do now leave the Chair (for Committee 
on the War Department and Post Office (Re- 
muneration, &amp;c.) Bill); 
Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Monday next. 


Prisons (Scot- 


land) Bill The Order of the day being read, for the Second 


Reading of the Prisons ( Scotland) Bill; : 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 

upon Monday next. 

an ond 

ther Manu 

factures 

(Ireland) Bill, 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Linen and Hempen and other 
Manufactures (Ireland) Bill; 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


an. The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
visional Order Mittee on the Elementary Education Provisional 
foafrmation Order Confirmation ( London) Bill; 


Loran) Bill Vor, 131. 


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353 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Agricultnral 
he on the Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) (Sled) Bil 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. a 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Pensions _ 
mittee on the Pensions Commutation Act Amend- (ovation 
ment Bill; ment Bill. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Local Loans 
Reading of the Local Loans (Ireland) Bill; ae 
And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being propesed, That the Bill be now read a 
second time :—And a Debate arising thereupon; 
Ordered, That the Debate be adjourned till 
Monday next. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Juries 
into a Committee on the Juries Procedure ( Ireland) an 
Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker ( Bill ion - 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes reported, ~— ae 
That the Committee had gone through the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for Monday next. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Exhausted 
into a Committee on the Exhausted Parish Lands Parish Lands 
Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. ~ . 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr Rutkes re- 
ported, That the Committee had gone through the 
Bill, and directed him to report the same, without 
Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
this day, at Two of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Saint Vincent, 
Reading of the Saint Vincent, Tobago, and Grenada Tobago, and 
Constitution Bill ; ponent 9 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time [Lords.} 
this day, at Two of the clock. 


The Metropolitan Commons (Barnes) Bill was, Metropolitan 


according to Order, read the third time. Commons 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. (rors Bill 


Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


The General Police and Improvement (Scot- General Police 
land) Provisional Order Confirmation (Paisley) 4 Improve- 
Bill was, according to Order, read the third time. land) — 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. visional Order 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the Comfrmation 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 


(Paisley) Bill 
i [Lords.] 
agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


The General Police and Improvement (Scof- General Police 
land) Provisional Order Confirmation (Perth) Bil] 4 Improve- 
was, according to Order, read the third time. jand) ag 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. visional Order 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the a 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath trond. ] - 
agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


The Public Health (Scotland) Provisional Or- Public Health 
der (Irvine and Dundonald) Bill was, according oreery 5 Sing 
to Order, read the third time. (lreine and 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. Dundonald) 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the B!! [4ord#.] 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, without Amendment. 

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S54 
Elementary 


The Elementary Education Provisional Order 
Education Pro- ©,,ntirmation (T'olleshunt Major) Bill was, accord- 
visional Order . ° ° 
Confirmation ing to Order, read the third time. 

(Pelton Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Linde - Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
[ , Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


Local Govern. | The Local Government Provisional Orders(Car- 

ment Pro- narvon, &amp;c.) Bill was, according to’‘Order, read the 

visional Orders third time wi 

(Carnarvon, 4 . . 

&amp;c.) Bill Htesolved, That the Bill do pass. 

[Lords.} Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


Provisional 
Orders 
(Ireland) 
Confirmation 
(Coleraine,&amp;c.) 
Bill [ Lords.) 


The Provisional Orders (Ireland) Confirmation 
(Coleraine, &amp;c.) Bill was, according to Order, 
read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, ‘That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquain¢ them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


Metropolis The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
(Whitechapel take into consideration the Metropolis (White- 
ay wd chapel and Limehouse) Improvement Scheme Con- 
provement firmation Bill, as amended in the Committee. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 


Scheme Con- 
firmation Bill this day, at Two of the clock. 


[ Lords.} 


General Police 
and Improve- 
ment (Scot- 
land) Pro- 
visional Order 
(Lerwick) 
Bill [ Lords.] 


The General Police and Improvement ( Scot- 
land) Provisional Order (Lerwick) Bill was, ac- 
cording to Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Prisons (Jreland) Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day. 


Prisons 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Local Govern- 
ment Board’s 
Provisional 
Orders Con- 
firmation 
(Bingley, &amp;c.) 
Bill [ Lords.) 


The Local Government Board’s Provisional 
Orders Confirmation (Bingley, &amp;c.) Bill was, ac- 
cording to Order, read a second time; and com- 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for 
Monday the 31st day of this instant July. 


Local Govern- 
ment Pro- 
visions! Orders 
(Chelmsford, 
&amp;c.) Bill 

[ Lords. } 


The Local Government Provisional Orders 
(Chelmsford, &amp;c.) Bill was, according to Order, 
read a second time; and committed to a Com- 
mittee of the whole House, for Monday the 31st 
day of this instant July. 


Navy and Army 
Expenditure, 
1874-5. 


The Order of the day being read, for resumin 
the adjourned Debate on the Question meal 


upon the 18th day of this instant July, That Mr. 
Speaker do now leave the Chair (for Committee 
on the Navy and Army Expenditure, 1874-5); 
Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till this day, at Two of the clock. 
Limited The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
+ oa all Reading of the Limited Owners Residence (Jre- 
(Ireland) Bill, Zand) Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


Toll Bridges 
(River 
Thames) Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Toll Bridges (River Thames) Bill; 
Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills to inquire whe- 
ther the Amendments which have been introduced 
by the Select Committee on the Bill involve any 
infraction of the Standing Orders of the House. 

Ordered, That the Examiner have leave to sit 
and proceed forthwith. 


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1876. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Industrial ana 
consideration the Amendments made by the Lords Provident 
to the Industrial and Provident Societies Bill;  5ities Bil, 

Ordered, That the said Amendments be taken 
into consideration this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Third Sea and Rive 
Reading of the Sea and River Banks (Lincolushire) Banks (Li 
Bill; colmshire) Bil 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
this day, at Two of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Poor Law 
Reading of the Poor Law Guardians Elections Guardians 
(Ireland) Bill ; (Inclaca} - 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Intoxicating 
mittee on the Intoxicating Liquors (Licensing Law Liquors 
Amendment) (No. 2) Bill; {Licensing Lae 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday (no, 2) = 


next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Parliamentary Electors Registration Bill partiamentary 
was, according to Order, read a second time; and Electors Regis 
committed to a Committee of the whole House, for ‘tion Bill. 
Monday next. 


The House was moved, That the Order made Liverymen 
upon the 27th day of April last, That there be (City of 
laid before this House, a Return of the Number of a) 
Liverymen in the City of London entitled to 
vote at the Election of Members of Parliament 
for the City of London by reason of their Patri- 
mony, Servitude, or Purchase in any of the Com- 
panies, might be read; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That so much of the said Return as has 
not been made, be laid before this House forthwith. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Owners of 
a Copy of “a Return of the Names of Proprietors 144 (Ireland) 
and the Area and Valuation of all Properties in the 
several Counties in Jreland held in Fee or Per- 
petuity or on long Leases at chief Rents,” prepared 
for the use of Her Majesty’s Government and 
printed by Alexander Thom, 87 and 88, Abbey- 
street, Dublin, by the direction of the Jrish 
Government, and at the expense of the Treasury. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Public Record 
to amend “ The Public Record Office Act, 1838 ”: ft 
And that Mr. William Henry Smith and Mr. 
Attorney General do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill superannuation 
to make further provision respecting the Super- (Unhealthy 
annuation Allowance to be granted to Civil *"™ 
Servants serving in unhealthy Climates: And that 

Mr. William Henry Smith and Mr. Chancellor of 

the Exchequer do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented a Bill to Public Record 
amend “ The Public Record Office Act, 1838” ; ffice Bill. 
And the same was read the first time ; and ordered _ Bill 262 
to be read a second time upon Monday next ; and 
to be printed. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented a Bill to guperannastion 
make further provision respecting the Superannua- (Unhealthy 
tion Allowance to be granted to Civil Servants ye 
serving in unhealthy Climates: And the same Bill 2 
was read the first time ; and ordered to be read a 
second time upon Monday next; and to be 
printed. 


Ordered, That the Legal Practitioners Bill be Legal _ 


read a second time this day. — 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till half an hour after Two of the clock on 
Friday morning, adjourned till this day. 





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Friday, 2\st July, 1876. 


HE House being met, the Clerk at the Table 
— T informed the House of the unavoidable absence 
of Mr. Speaker, on account of indisposition :— 
Whereupon Mr. Ratkes, the Chairman of the Com- 
mittee of Ways and Means, proceeded to the Table 
as Deputy Speaker, and after Prayers counted the 


— House, and, Forty Members being present, took 
the Chair, pursuant to the Standing Order. 
Dublin (South) Mr. Yorke reported from the Committee on the 


City Markets Dublin (South) City Markets Bill; That with re- 

Bil (Lords-] snect to Standing esa Nos. 186 and 187, the 
compulsory Powers of the Bill extend over upwards 
of fifteen houses in one parish occupied by persons 
belonging to the Jabouring classes, and the Com- 
mittee have inserted a Clause in the Bill requiring 
the promoters to provide sufficient accommoda- 
tion for such persons before exercising the said 
powers. 

Mr. Yorke further reported from the Com- 
mittee; That they had examined the allegations 
of the Bill, and found the same to be true; and had 

one through the Bill, and made Amendments 
thereunto. 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Great Northen Mr Yorke reported the Great Northern London 


London Cemetery Bill, without Amendment. 

tors} Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 

North Dublin Mr. Yorke reported the North Dublin Street 

Street Tram- Tramways Bill, with Amendments. 

uye Oa Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table; 

[Lords.} db dated 
and be printed. 

West Ham Mr. Yorke reported from the Committee on the 

tae West Ham Local Board Bill; That a Report from 

Wards] the Local Government Board upon the Bill, and 

the objects thereof, had been referred to the Com- 
mittee, and considered by them, and that they were 
of opinion that the Bill, as submitted to them, 
sufficiently carried out the suggestions of the said 
Board without being further amended. 

Mr. Yorke further reported from the Com- 
mittee; That they had examined the allegations 
of the Bill, and found the same to be true; and 
had gone through the Bill, and directed him to 
report the same, without Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 

Cleveland The House proceeded to take into consideration 

Water Bill. © the Amendments made by the Lords to the Cleve- 
land Water Bill; and the same were twice read, 
and with Amendments thereto, agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships, with Amendments; to which this House 
doth desire the concurrence of their Lordships. 

Enniskillen The House proceeded to take into consideration 
ad Bundoran the Amendments made by the Lords to the Ennis- 
Railway Bill hillen and Bundoran Extension Railway Bill; and 


the same were twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
&gt; 1 to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


Great Northern The House proceeded totake into consideration 
“4 Bill. the Amendments made by the Lords to the Great 
Northern Railway Bill; and the same were twice 

read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 

ordships. 2 

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2st July. 





355 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Liynvi and ” 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Llynvi Ogmore and » 
and Ogmore and Cardiff and Ogmore Vulley Rail- Ogmore Valley 
way Companies Bill; and the same were twice Railway Com- 
read, and agreed to. panies Bill. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to ) 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Stafford 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Stafford BrUS2 5... 
Borough Extension Bill; and the same were twice ; 
read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


Mr. Lowe reported from the Select Committee Employers 

on Employers Liability for Injuries to their Ser- ae fe 
e Juries to 

vants; That they had considered the matters to their Servants: 
them referred, and directed him to make a Report No. 372, 
thereof to the House, together with the Minutes 
of the Evidence taken before them. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Several Public Petitions were 


saga and Public 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the 


able. Petitions. 
Vide Thirtieth 
Report. 

Mr. Bourke presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- Turkey (No. 3 
mand,—Copy of Correspondence respecting the 1876.) 
Affairs of Turkey and the Insurrection in Bosnia 
and the Herzegovina (m continuation of Papers 
presented to Parliament, Turkey, No. 2, 1876). 

. — That the said Paper do lie upon the 
able. 


Mr. Secretary Cross presented, by Her Ma- Factories. 
jesty’s Command,—Copy of Reports of the In- 
spectors of Factories to Her Majesty’s Principal 
Secretary of State for the Home Department, for 
the half-year ending 30th April 1876. 

Mr. Secretary Cross also presented—Further Coals and 
Return to an Order, dated the 9th day of February, Coke. 
in the last Session of Parliament, for an Account of 
all Dues, Duties, and Taxes, Local and Imperial, 
levied on the Importation and Exportation of 
Coals and Coke in any Port of the United King- 
dom in each of the years 1863 and 1873 :——And, 
similar Return of Dues and Taxes on all Coals 
and Coke brought by Railroad to any Port, Town, 
or City of the United Kingdom for the same 
_— (in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, 

0. 11, of Session 1854). 

Return to an Order, dated the 18th day of May Irish Model 
last, for Returns relative to Zrish Model Schools, Schools. 

— That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Sir Charles Adderley presented,—Return to an Merchant 
Order, dated the 24th day of February last, for a Ships detained 
Return relative to Merchant Ships detained for 1" nse 
Unseaworthiness. 

Return to an Order, dated the 10th day of Training Ships. 
March last, for a Return relative to Training 
Ships. 

Sir Charles Adderley also presented, pursuant Railways 
to the directions of several Acts of Parliament,— 4&gt;*donment- 
Copy of Warrant of the Board of Trade, autho- 
rising the abandonment of the Scarborough and 
Whitby Railway (1865), in pursuance of “ The 
Abandonment of Railways Act, 1850,” and “ The 
Railway Companies Act, 1867,” and Report 
thereon. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


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Resolved, 


356 21st July. 


alae Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
aoe next, resolve itself into a Committee on the House 


1876. 


was directed to move, That the Committee may 
have leave to sit again. 


Mails (Cape of 
Good Hope.) Copy or Extracts of Correspondence between 


Elementary — 
Education Bill. into a Committee on the Elementary Edacation 





oval Bill, Occupiers Disqualification Removal Bill. 
Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 


the Postmaster General, Colonial Office, and Go- 
vernor of the Cape of Good Hope; and also the 
“Union” and other Steam Shipping Companies 
relative to the Renewal of Contracts for the Con- 
veyance of Mails between the United Kingdom 
and Cape Colonies. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Copies of Reports of the Committee appointed to 
inquire into an Invention of Mr. Dillon for simpli- 
fying the System of Registry of Deeds, Ireland : 

And, of Reports of the Registrar of Deeds, 
Ireland, upon the same subject. 


Ordered, That Major O'Reilly have leave of 
absence till the end of the Session, on urgent 
private affairs. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 


Bill. 
(In the Committee.) 


Another Clause— 
(Dissolution of School Board under certain 
circumstances. ) 

(Where application for the dissolution of a 
School Board is made to the Education Depart- 
ment by the like persons and in the like manner 
as an application for the formation of a School 
Board, under section twelve of “ The Elementary 
Education Act, 1870,” and the Education Depart- 
ment are satisfied that no school and no site for a 
school is in the possession or under the control of 
the School Board, and that there is a sufficient 
amount of public school accommodation for the 
district of the School Board, the Education De- 
partment may, after such notice as they think 
sufficient, order the dissolution of the School 
Board. 

The Education Department, by any such order, 
shall make provision for the disposal of all money, 
furniture, books, documents, and property belong- 
ing to the School Board, and for the sa Bi out 
of the local rate of all the liabilities of the Board, 
and such other provisions as appear to the depart- 
ment necessary or proper for carrying into effect 
the dissolution of the Board. 

The Education Department shall publish the 
order in manner directed by “ The Elementary 
Education Act, 1873,” with respect to the publi- 
cation of notices, and after the date of such publi- 
cation or any later date mentioned in the order, 
the order shall have effect as if it were enacted by 
Parliament, without prejudice nevertheless to the 
subsequent formation of a School Board in the 
same school district. All bye-laws previously made 
by the School Board shall continue in force, subject 
nevertheless to be revoked or altered by the local 
authority under this Act.) 

Question again proposed, That the Clause be 
read a second time ; 

Motion made, and Question put, That the Chair- 
man do report Progress, and ask leave to sit again; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the f Mr. Mundella, a 

Yeas, LMr. Alexander Brown: J 

Tellers for the; Sir William Dyke, li7s 

Noes, (Mr. Rowland Winn : ” aoe 


To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 


120. 





Mr. Deputy Speaker resumed the Chair; and 
Mr. William Ilenry Smith reported, That the Com- 
mittce had made Progress in the Bill, and that he 








Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee, 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Bishops; 
the adjourned Debate on the Question net. Truro Bil” 
upon the 4th day of this instant July, That the 
Bishopric of Truro Bill be now read a second 
time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till this day, 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- glemen 
mittee on the Elementary Education Provisional Education Pw 
Order Confirmation ( Cardiff) Bill ; tional Onder 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, re- (Cardin 
7 i 


solve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Bow street 
mittee on the Bow Street Police Court (Site) Police Court 
Bill; (Site) Bill, 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Ardglass 
mittee on the Ardglass Harbour Bill; Harbour Bil, 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- gn, Lough 
mittee on the Erne Lough and River Bill; and River Bill, 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming potjation of 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed Rivers Bil. 
upon the 22nd day of June last, That the Pollu- 
tion of Rivera Bill be now read a second time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- yfotropoi 
mittee on the Metropolitan Board of Works Board of Works 


(Loans) Bill ; (Loans) Bill 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 


itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Third Exhausted 
Reading of the Exhausted Parish Lands Bill; _ Parish Lands 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time ®" 
this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Saint Vincent, 
Reading of the Saint Vincent, Tobago, and Grenada | Sa 
Constitution Bill; Constitution 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time Bill [Lord:.| 
this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Third aes 
Reading of the Metropolis ( Whitechapel and Lime- oo 
house) Improvement Scheme Confirmation Bill; _ house) Im- 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time provement 
this day. Confirmation 
Bill {Lords.] 

Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- Message from 
sage had been brought from the Lords by one of the Lords. 
their Clerks, as followeth: 

The Lords have agreed to the Elver Fishing Elver Fishing 
Bill, without any Amendment. _ 

The Lords have agreed to the Commons Bill, commons Bill 
with Amendments ; to which the Lords desire the 
concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have agreed to the Merchant Ship- Merchant _ 
ping Bill, with Amendments; to which the Lords Shippi"é 
desire the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have agreed to the Midland Railway Midland Ral 
(Further Powers) Bill, with Amendments; to pt Bill. 
which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House. 

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40 VictTORIA. 


The Lords have agreed to the Amendments 
made by this House to the Trade Marks Regis- 
tration Amendment Bill, without any Amendment. 

The Lords have agreed to the Amendments 
made by this House to the Blackrod Gas Bill, 
without any Amendment. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An 
Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the 
Local Government Board relating to the Bo- 
roughs of Bath and Birmingham, the District of 
Brentford, the Special Drainage District of Bur- 
gess Hill, the Rural Sanitary District of the Cais- 
tor Union, the District of Castleford, the Bo- 
roughs of Guildford, Hanley, Liverpool, Rochester, 
and Warwick, and the District of Worthing ; to 
which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House. 


The Local Government Board’s Provisional 
Orders Confirmation (Bath, &amp;c.) Bill was read 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time upon Monday next ; and to be printed. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply ; 

Anda Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That Mr. Deputy Speaker do 
now leave the Chair ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving cut from the word “ That” 
to the end ofthe Question, in order to add the 
words “an humble Address be presented to Her 
“ Majesty, praying that Her Majesty will direct 
*‘ that a communication may be made to the Pre- 
** sident of the French Republic, in order to ascer- 
“ tain whether the French Government will unite 
*‘ with the Government of Her Majesty in press- 
“ing upon the Government of Turkey the com- 
“ plete fulfilment of the conditions upon which 
“the Turkish Loan of 1854 was subscribed for,” 
instead thereof. 

And the Question being proposed, That the 
words proposed to be left out stand part of the 
Question ; 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Saturday morning ; 


Saturday, 22nd July, 1876: 


The said proposed Amendment and Motion 
were severally, with leave of the House, with- 
drawn. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
upon the 4th day of this instant July, That the 
Bishopric of Truro Bill be now read a second time ; 

And the Question being again proposed :—The 
House resumed the said adjourned Debate. 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to 
the Question, by leaving out the word “ now,” 
and, at the end uf the Question, adding the words 
** upon this day three months.” 

And the Question being put, That the word 
“now” stand part of the Question ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the{ Sir William Dyke, } 75 

Yeas, (Mr. Rowland Winn : - 

Tellers for the ing Dillwyn, \ 23 

Noes, Sir Henry Havelock: ‘ 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

_ Ordered, That the Bill be now read a second 
time:—The Bill was accordingly read a second 
time ; and committed to a Committee of the whole 
House, for Monday next. 

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357 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself stn oom on 
into a Committee on the Ardglass Harbour Bill, “*°™ 


(In the Committee.) 


Preamble postponed. 

Ciavses, N° 1 to N° 15, agreed to. 

Preamble. 

Question proposed, That this be the Preamble 
of the Bill: 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question pro- 
posed, That the Chairman do report Progress, and 
ask leave to sit again:—-Motion, by leave, with- 
drawn. 

Preamble agreed to. 


Bill to be reported. 





Mr. Deputy Speaker resumed the Chair; and 
Sir Henry Selwin- 1bbetson reported, That the Com- 
mittee had gone throngh the Bill, and directed 
him to report the same, without Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Erne Lough 

mittee on the Erne Lough and River Bill; and River Bill, 
And a Motion being made, and the Question being 

proposed, That Mr. Deputy Speaker do now leave 

the Chair:—And a Debate arising thereupon ; 

And a Motion being made, and the ”, oe 
being put, That the Debate be now adjourned ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for thes Mr. Dillwyn, } 8 

Yeas, Sir Charles Dilke: , 

Tellers for the {Sir William Dyke, } 53 

Noes, Mr. Rowland Winn: . 

So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Original Question being put; 

Ordered, That Mr. Deputy Speaker do now 
leave the Chair. 

The House accordingly resolved itself into the 
Committee ; and, after some time spent therein, 
Mr. Deputy Speaker resumed the Chair; and Sir 
Henry Selwin-Ibbetson reported, That the Com- 
mittee had gone read the Bill, and directed 
him to report the same, without Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Prisons _ 
Reading of the Prisons (Jrelund) Bill ; (Ireland) Bill. 
Ordered, 'That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day Leing read, for the Com- Ways an 
mittee of Ways and Means; Means. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Elementary 
into a Committee on the Elementary Education — 
Provisional Order Confirmation (Cardiff) Bill; je aoe 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Deputy firmation 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Sir Henry Selwin- 7 Bill 
Ibbetson reported, That the Committee had gone | nl 
through the Bill, and directed him to report the 
same, without Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 


upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Bow Street 
mittee on the Buw Street Police Court (Site) Police Court 
Bill; (Site) Biil. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Pollution of 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed Fivers Bill. 
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558 
upon the 22nd day of June last, That the Pollu- | 
tion of Rivers Bill be now read a second time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Monday next. 


Metropolitan The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
Board of Works into a Committee on the Metropolitan Board of 
(Loans) Bill. Works (Loans) Bill; and, after some time spent 
therein, Mr. Deputy Speaker resumed the Chair ; 
and Sir Henry Selwin- Ibbetson reported, That the 
Committee had gone through the Bill, and directed 
him to report the same. without Amendment. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Monday next. 


The Exhausted Parish ands Bill was, accord- 
ing to Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 


the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Exhausted 
Parish Lands 
Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Saint Vincent, Tobago, and Grenada 
Constitution Bill; 

Ordered, Tinat the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


Saint Vincent, 
Tobago, and 
Grenada Con- 
stitution Bill 
(Lords. ] 


The Metropolis (Whitechapel and Limehouse) 
Improvement Scheme Confirmation Bill was, ac- 
cording to Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendment, 
do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the same, with an Amendment; to 
which this House doth desire the concurrence of 
their Lordships. 


Metropolis 
(Whitechapel 
and Lime- 
house) Im- 
provement 
Scheme Con- 
firmation Bill 
[Lords.] 


The Order of the day being read, for resumin 
the adjourned Debate on the Question aenneil 
upon the 18th day of this instant July, That Mr. 
Speaker do now leave the Chair (for Committee 
on the Navy and Army Expenditure, 1874-5) ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Monday next. 


Navy and Army 
Expenditure, 
1874-5. 


The Order of the day being read, for resumin 
the adjourned Debate on the Question caenealll 
upon the 10th day of this instant July, That the 
Companies Acts (1862 and 1867) Amendment 
Bill a now read a second time; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Friday next. 


Gee Laws The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
(Scotland) Bill. mittee on the Game Laws (Scot/and) Bill ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Companies Acts 
(1862 and 
1867) Amend- 
ment Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
consideration the Municipal Privileges (Jreland) 
Bill, as amended in the Committee ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into considera- 
tion upon Tuesday next. 


Municipal 
Privileges 
(Ireland) Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
consideration the Amendments made by the Lords 
to the Industrial and Provident Societies Bill; 

Ordered, That the said Amendments be taken 
into consideration upon Monday next. 


Industrial and 
Provident 
Societies Bill. 


Legal being read, for the Second 
ractitioners Bill ; 


made, and the Question 


5 The Order of the day 
~ Reading of the Legal P 
And a Motion bein 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a se- 

cond time ; 


And Notice being taken, That Forty Members 
were not present:—The House was told by Mr. 
Deputy Speaker; and Forty Members not being 


Q1st—22na —24th July. 





1876. 


present, and it being then half an hour after One 
of the clock on Saturday morning :—The House 
was adjourned by Mr. Deputy Speaker, without 
a Question first put, till Monday next. 








Monday, 24th July, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 


V R. Speaker having taken the Chair, begged Mr. Speaker's 
iV to acknowledge the kindness and considera- !disposition, 
tion of the House during his late indisposition ; 

and trusted that the House had not suffered incon- 

venience from his absence. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration g,,,, 
the Amendments made by the Lords to Gouz’s Bill 
Patent Bill; and the same were twice read, and 
agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


8 Patent 


The Belfast and County Down Railway Bill Belfast ana 
was read the third time. County Down 

Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, B+ilway Bil 
do pass. n, 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the same, with Amendments; to 
which this House doth desire the concurrence of 
their Lordships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the New rao Harbour Bill, as amended in nee 
the Committee; and Amendments were made to LZré] 
the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and Public 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions. 


Vide Thirtieth 
Report. 
Ordered, That the Return relative to Coals and Coals and 
Coke, which was presented upon the 21st day Coke. 
of this instant July, be printed. No, 373, 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Merchant Merchant | 
Ships detained for Unseaworthiness, which was Ships detained 


ape wes upon the 21st day of this instant July, worthiness, 
e printed. No. 374. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Training Training 
Ships, which was presented upon the 21st day of Ships. 
this instant July, be printed. No. 375. 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to Railways Railways 
Abandonment, which was presented upon the 21st Abandonment. 
day of this instant July, be printed. No, 27, 


Mr. Bourke presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- Turkey 
mand,—Copy of Correspondence respecting the (No 4 1876) 
Murder of the French and German Consuls at Manders) 
Salonica. 

Copy of Correspondence respecting the Non- North America 
admission of Fish and Fish Oils, the produce of ‘Fish and 
British Columbia, into the United States free of (No. 5 1876.) 
— under the Treaty of Washington, 8th May’ 

Copy of Correspondence respecting the Naviga- North America 
tion of the United States’ Canals ly Canadian ‘Navigation 
Vessels. one IB 


(No. 6, 1876.) 
Copy of Correspondence respecting the Imposi- North America 
tion of | Duty by the United States Authorities on an e78) 
. Cans containing Fish from Canada. see 
opy of Correspondence respecting the Treaty Japan 
between Japan and Corea. ¥ . (No. 1, 1876) 
Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 
Mr. 











40 VicrTorRIA. Q4th 


Govern. , Mr Secretary Cross presented, by Her Ma- 
ory Heln jesty’s Command,—Uopy of Annual Report cf the 
Local Government Board for Ireland, being the 
Fourth Report under the ‘“ Local Government 
Board (Ireland) Act,” 35 &amp; 36 Vic. c. 69, with 
Appendices. 
Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Secretary Hardy presented, pursuant to the 
directions of an Act of Parliament,—Copies of 
Royal Warrants, Regulations, &amp;c., issued relative 
to the Militia. 

Ordered, That the suid Papers do lie upon the 
Table. ; 


Mr. Algernon Egerton presented, by Her Ma- 
ere jesty’s Command,—Copy of Reports received by 
the Admiralty from Captain H. Fairfaz, R.N., of 
Her Majesty’s Ship “ Volage,” upon the condition, 
&amp;c., of the Welsh Colony of Chupat, in Patagonia. 

Mr. Algernon Egerton also presented, pursuant 
to the directions of an Act of Parliament,—An 
Account showing the Keceipt and Expenditure of 
Naval Prize, Bounty, Salvage, and other Moneys, 
between the lst April 1875 and the 3lst March 
1876. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Ordered, That the Union of Benefices Bill be 
read a second time upon Thursday next. 


Naval Prize 
Money, &amp;c. 


Union of 
Benefices 
Bill [Lords.] 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Copy of Statistical Report of the Health of the 
Navy for the year 1875. 

r. Algernon Egerton accordingly presented the 

said Paper. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


Navy (Health.) 
No. 376. 


A Message was delivered by Colonel Clifford, 
Yeoman Usher of the Black Rod: 


Mr. Speaker, 


The Lords, authorised by virtue of Her Ma- 
jesty’s Commission, for declaring Her Royal 
Assent to several Acts agreed upon by both Houses, 
desire the immediate attendance of this Honour- 
able House in the House of Peers, to hear the 
Commission read. 

Accordingly Mr. Speaker, with the House, went 
up to the House of Peers :—And being returned ; 

Mr. Speaker reported, That the House, at the 
desire of the Lords, authorised by virtue of Her 
Majesty’s Commission, had been at the House of 
Peers, where a Commission under the Great Seal 
was read, giving, declaring, and notifying the 
Royal Assent to the several Acts therein men- 
tioned; and that the Lords, thereby authorised, 
had declared the Royal Assent to the said Acts, 
as follow : 

An Act for the Preservation of Wild Fowl. 


Royal Assent. 


Wild Fow! 


Bill 

Settled Estates An Act to amend the Settled Estates Act of 
Act (1856) 1856. 

Amendment 


Bill. 

CustomsDuties An Act for consolidating the Duties of Customs. 
Consolidation 

Customs Laws! An Act to consolidate the Customs Laws. 
Consolidation 


Friendly An Act to amend the Friendly Societies Act, 
Societies Act 1875. 

(1875) Amend- 

ment Bill. 


Public Works | An Act to grant Money for the purpose of Loans 
Bill. by the Public Works Loan Commissioners, and to 
amend the Public Works Loans Act, 1875. 
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359 


An Act for the amendment of the Trade Marks Trade Marks , 


July. 


Registration 
Amendment 
Bill [Lords.] 
An Act to amend the Law relating to Elver Elver Fishing 
Fishing. Bill. 


Registration Act, 1875. 


An Act to preserve the Crab and Lobster crap ana 
Fisheries on the Coast of Norfolk. Lobster 
Fisheries 

(Norfolk) Bill, 


An Act to alter the Justiciary District of the County of 
County of Peebles. Pesblan Justia 
° ciary District 
(Scotland) Bill. 
An Act for — certain Provisional Tramways 
Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Orders Con- ~ 


Tramways Act, 1870, relating to Bristol Tram- (Bristol, &amp;.) 


ways, Corsham Tramways, Landport, Southsea, Bill [Lords.] 
and Portsea Tramways, Shepherd’s Bush and 

Priory Road, Acton, Tramway, and Southport 
Tramways. 

An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders Elementary 
made by the Education Department under “ The oe 
Elementary Education Act, 1870,” to enable the Confirmation 
School Boards for Hailsham, Ilchester, Ingham, (Hailsham,&amp;c.) 
Slaugham, Swansea( United District), and Swansea Bill Lords. 
Parish, Higher and Lower, to put in force “ The 
Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845,” and the 
Acts amending the same. 

An Act to confirm a Provisional Order made Elementary 
by the Education Department under “ The Ele- —_—— &gt; 
mentary Education Act, 1870,” to enable the Govirmation. 
School Board for Hornsey to put in force “ The (Hornsey) 
Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845,” and the Bill [Zords.] 
Acts amending the same. 

An Act for confirming certain Provisional Or- Provisional 
ders of the Local Government Board for Ireland, “reland) 
. . \ 
relating to the Township of Dalkey, the Galway Confirmation 
Union, the City of Londonderry, the Newtownards Bill [Lords.) 
United Burial Groands District, the Omagh 
Waterworks, and to the Wezford Waterworks. 

An Act to confirm a Scheme under the Metro- Metropolitan 


: . . Commons 
politan Commons Act, 1806, and the Metropolitan (Barnes) Bill 


Commons Amendment Act, 1869, relating 10 [ Zords.| 
Barnes Common. 

An Act to confirm a Provisional Order under General Police 
“ The General Police and Improvement ( Scotland) Sa 
Act, 1862,” relating to the Burgh of Paisley. land) Pro- 
visional Order 
Confirmation 
(Paisley) Bill’ 
[ Lords. ] 

An Act to confirm a Provisional Order under General Police 
“‘ The General Police and Improvement ( Scotland) ee 
Act, 1862, relating to the Burgh of Perth. land) Pro- 
visional Order 
Confirmation 
(Perth) Bill 
[Lords.] 

An Act to confirm a Provisional Order made Public Health 
under the “ Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1867,” ae con 
relating to the Burgh of Irvine and Parish of (fryine and. 
Dundonald, in the County of Ayr. Dundonald) 

Bill [ Lords.] 

An Act to confirm a Provisional Order made by Elementary 
the Education Department under “ The Elemen- Péucation Pro- 
tary Education Act, 1870,” to enable the School pm mele nig 
Board for Tolleshunt Major, in the County of (Tolleshunt 


he Lands Clauses Con- Maior) Bill 


b ce 
Essex, to put in force « Lorde.) 


solidation Act, 1845,” and the Acts amending the 
same. 

An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders Local Govern 
of the Local Government Board relating to the ment Pro- 
Borough of Carnarvon and the Districts of Long } ne a 
Eaton, Saint Neots, Shepton Mallet, Tenbury Wells, &amp;c.) Bill 4 
Tunbridge Wells, Walton-on-the- Naze, Withington, (Lords. 
and Whitwood. 

An Act for confirming certain Provisional Or- Provisional 
ders of the Local Government Board for Jreland, Orders 
relating to Waterworks in the Towns of Cole- ates A 
raine, Dungannon, Keady, Portrush, and Water- (Coieraine,&amp;c.) 
ford. Bill [Lords.] 
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360 


An Act to confirm a Provisional Order under 
*“* The General Police and Improvement (Scot- 
e Burgh of Ler- 


General Police 
and Improve- 
ment (Scot- land) Act, 1862,” relating to 
_ a) 1Order Wick. 
ck) Bill 

Lords.) ° ° 

and An Act for making a Railway from Greencastle 
Kilkee! Rail- to Kilkeel, with a Branch to Kilkeel Harbour, and 
A | and Pier Pier at Greencastle, in the County of Down. 


[ Lords.] 

Belfast, Holy- An Act for the arrangement of the Affairs of 

wood, and | the Belfast, Holywood, and Bangor Railway Com- 

way Bill pany. 

[Lords.] 

Westerham An Act to authorise the construction of a Rail- 

ha Railway way from Dunton Green to Westerham, both in the 
County of Kent, and for other purposes connected 
with the said Railway. 

Campbeltown An Act to provide for the Local Government 

Burgh and of the Royal and Parliamentary Burgh of Camp- 

Harbour Bill. Seltown, in the County of Argyll, for the Improve- 
ment of the Harbour thereof, and for supplying 
Gas and Water to the Burgh, and for other pur- 
poses. 

Charnwood An Act to authorise the Charnwood Forest 

— Railway Railway Company to make Branch Railways near 
Coalville, and for other purposes. 

An Act for providing an additional Supply of 
Water to the Burgh of Dunfermline and Fines 
adjacent, and for other purposes. 

An Act for conferring further Powers on the 
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, with 
relation to their Undertaking. 

An Act to authorise the Smethwick Local 
Board of Health to manufacture and supply Gas 
within their District, and for other purposes. 
Anglesey An Act to transfer the Undertaking of the 
Central Rail- Anglesey Central Railway Company to the Lon- 


Tierds.) don and North Western Railway Company, to 


Dunfermline 
Water Bill. 


Lancashire and 
Yorkshire 
Railway Bill. 


Smethwick 
Local Board 
Bill. 


— for winding-up the Affairs of the Anglesey 


entral Railway Company, and for other purposes. 
Leven Harbour An Act for the Improvement of the Harbour 
Bill [Lords.) of Leven, and to authorise the construction of a 
Wet Dock and other Works, and for other pur- 
poses. 

An Act to amend “ The Peterhead Harbours 

Act, 1873,” to confer further Powers upon the 
Trustees of the Harbours of Peterhead, and for 
other purposes. 
Scarborough An Act for granting further Powers to the Com- 
Harbour Bill missioners acting in execution of the Act relating 
[Lords.) to Scarborough hong to alter the Rates levi- 
able under that Act, and for other purposes. 

An Act for dissolving the Sevenoaks Gas Com- 
pany, Limited; for re-incorporating the Proprietors 
therein with others, and for conferring on the Com- 
pany so to be incorporated Powers to supply Gas 
to the Parish of Sevenoaks and certain neighbour- 
ing Parishes and Places in the County of Kent, 
and for other purposes. 

Waterford and An Act to extend the Time for making the 
Wexford Rail- Waterford and Wexford Railway, and for other 


herds.) purposes in relation thereto. 


Saint An Act to provide for the uniting the Parish 
Werburgh’s = of Saint Werburgh, in the City of Bristol, to the ad- 
——_ pi) joining Parish of Ali Saints, and for the removing 
[Lords.] the Parish Church of Saint Werburgh, and the re- 

erecting the same in a new Parish to be formed 
in the said City, and for other purposes, 

An Act for extending the Municipal and Police 
Boundaries of the Burgh of Kirkcaldy, for em- 
powering the Corporation to a the Under- 
taking of the Kirkcaldy Gas Light Company, and 
to supply Gas for extending the compulsory 
limits of Water Supply, and for other purposes. 
a An Act for conferring additional Powers on the 
North Western London and North Western Railway Company in 
Railway (New relation to their own Undertaking and the Under- 
hi’ **) takings of other Companies, me for other pur- 


poses. 


Peterhead 
Harbour Bill 
[Lords.] 


Sevenoaks 
Gas Bill. 


Kirkcaldy 
Burgh and 
Harbour Bill. 


4th July. 


1876. 


An Act for authorising the Manchester, Sheffield, Manchester 
and Lincolnshire Railway Company to make new Sheffield, and 
Branch Railways and other Works, for conferring Railway By 
upon them additional Pewers, and for other pur- ~~ 


8. 

An Act to enable the Romford Canal Company Rom 
to raise additional Capital. y 7 Congany at 

An Act to authorise the Tunbridge Wells Gas Tunbridge 
Company to acquire a new Site for the erection Wells Gas Bu, 
of Gas Works, and -to confer further Powers upon 
that Company, and for other purposes. 

An Act to authorise the extension of Time to Didcot, Ney. 
the Didcot, Newbury, and Southampton Junction bury, and 
Railway Company, for purchasing Land and com- a 
pleting their Raiiwa , and for other purposes, way Bill, = 

An Act to consolidate and amend the Acts re- Dewsbury and 
lating to the Dewsbury and Heckmondwike Water- Heckmondwike 
works and to authorise the construction of New Water Bill 
Works, and for other purposes. 

An Act for enabling the Corporation of the Lancaster 
Borough of Lancaster to extend their Waterworks Water and 
and to make Street Improvements, and for other pipovement 
purposes, 

n Act for incorporating the South Hants south Hants 
Waterworks Company, and for other purposes. Water Bill. 

An Act to confirm Agreements between the gwanses 
Swansea Harbour Trustees and the Corporation of Harbour Bill 
Swansea, the Great Western and the Midland [4or4.] 
Railway Companies, for the leasing to that Cor- 
poration and to those Companies of Wharves and 
other Accommodation at the Docks authorised to 
be constructed by the Swansea Harbour Act, 

1874, and for other purposes. 

An Act for making a Railway from Halesworth Southwold 
to Southwold, with Branches therefrom, all in the ®ail!way Bill. 
County of Suffolk. 

An Act for dissolving the Blackrod Gas Com- Blackrod Gas 
pany, Limited, for re-incorporating the Proprietors Bill [Lords] 
therein with others, and for conferring Powers on 
the Company so to be incorporated, to supply Gas 
to the Township of Blackrod and certain neigh- 
bouring Seenchies and Places in the County of 
Lancaster, and for other purposes. 

An Act to enable the Oldbury Local Board of Oldbury Local 
Health to purchase from the Corporation of a 
Birmingham so much of the Gas Gohenshing 
belonging to them as is situate in the District of 
Oldbury, in the County of Worcester, and to 
light with Gas the said District, and for other 
purposes. 

An Act to enable the Newcastle and Gateshead Newcastle and 
Water Company to construct additional Works Gateshead 
and raise additional Capital, and for other pur- ¥* 3” 

ses. 

An Act for making Railways in the Counties Enniskillen 
of Donegal, Leitrim, and Sligo, to be called the — 
Enniskillen and Bundoran Extension and Branch Railway Bill. 
Railways, and for other purposes. 

An Act to grant further oe to the Great Great Northem 
Northern Railway Company with relation to their Railway Bill 
Undertaking. 

An Act for the amalgamation of the Cardiff Liyaviand 
and Ogmore Valley Railway Company with the Cones at 
Llynvi and Ogmore Railway Company, and for Ogmore Valley 
other purposes. , — _ 

An Act for extending the Boundaries of the Stafford 
Borough of Stafford, in the County of Stafford, Boroug*, Bil. 
and for empowering the Mayor, Aieruen, and 
Burgesses of the Borough to construct Waterworks 
and to acquire the Undertaking of the Stafford 
Gas Company, and to execute other Improvements, 
and for other purposes. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Charlotte | 
a Copy of Evidence taken at the Inquiry held by #3™™™ om 
the Teapester of the Local Government Board No 37% 
into the circumstances attending the Death of 
Charlotte Hammond, a Pauper in the Saint George's 





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pector, 





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tile 
Marine (Steam 
ips.) 


Sbips. 
No. 378. 


Irish Peerage 
Bill (Lords.] 


Public Records 


d) 
ll 


Toll Bridges 
(River 
Thames) Bill. 


Leave of 
Absence. 


Message from 
the Lords. 


Poor Law 
Amendment 
Bill. 


Medical 
Practitioners 
Bill, 


Sidmouth 
Railway Bill, 


Local Govern. 
ment Board’s 
isional 
Con- 


(Bilbrough 


ke.) Bill 
(Lords. 


Local Govern. 
ment Pro. 
Visional Ord 
(Birmin “" 
&amp;e.) Bill 
(Lords,} 


™ of Birmingham, the Rural Sanitary District of the 


40 Vicrorta. 24th—25th July. 361 


Inspector, and the Official Letter of the Local | 


Government Board, announcing their Decision in | 
the case. 

Mr. Sclater-Booth accordingly presented the 
said Paper. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 





Ordered, That there be laid before this House, | 


a Copy of Report made to the Board of Trade 
upon the bursting by hydraulic pressure of a 
Boiler and Superheater taken out of the Steam 
Ship “ Ban Righ.” 

Sir Charles Adderley accordingly presented the 
said Paper. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


The Order for the House to resolve itself into a 
Committee, To-morrow, on the Jrish Peerage Bill, 
was read, and discharged. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednes- 
day next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order for reading a second time, To-mor- 
row, the Public Records (Jreland) Amendment 
Bill, was read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private 
Bills, That the Standing Orders have not been 
complied with in the case of certain of the Amend- 
ments made in the Toll Bridges (River Thames) 
Bill by the Select Committee to whom the Bill 
was referred. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the 
Select Committee on Standing Orders. 


Crdered, That Mr. Cunliffe Brooks have leave 
of absence till the end of the Session, on account 
of domestic bereavement. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- 
sage had been brought from the Lords by one of 
their Clerks, as followeth: 

The Lords have agreed to the Poor Law Amend- 
ment Bill, with Amendments; to which the Lords 
desire the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have agreed to the Medical Practi- 








tioners Bill, with Amendments; to which the 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have agreed to the Sidmouth Rail- 
way Bill, with Amendments; to which the Lords 
desire the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local 
Government Board relating to the District of 
Bilbrough, the Improvement Act Districts of 
Bournemouth and Cirencester, the Districts of Clay 
Lane, Eccleshill, Felling, Nelson, and Normanton, 
the Improvement Act District of Runcorn, and the 
Districts of Stow-on-the- Wold, Sunderland, and Tor- 
moham ; to which the Lords desire the concurrence 
of this House. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
for confirming certain Provisional Orders of the 
Local Government Board relating to the Borough 


Chesterfield Union, the Districts of Dawlish and 
Keswick, the Rural Sanitary District of the Leek 
Union, the Borough of Maidstone, the Districts of 
Mistley, Moss Side, and Southend, the Rural Sani- 
tary District of the Tadcaster Union, and the 
Districts of Wallasey and Weston-super-Mare ; to| 
which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 

ouse, 

Vou, 131. 








The Local Government Board's Provisional Or- Local Govern- 
ders Confirmation ( Bilbrough, &amp;c.) Bill was read ae 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second Orders Con- 


time upon Thursday next; and to be printed. firmation (Bil- 
brough, &amp;c.) 
Bill [ Lords. ] 


Bill 268. 
The Local Government Provisional Orders Local Govern. 
(Birmingham, &amp;c.) Bill was read the first time ; ™em* Pro- 


and ordered to be read second time upon Thurs- je wn 
day next; and to be printed. &amp;c.) Bill 
[Lords.] 
Bill 266, 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Elementary 
intva Committee on the Elementary Education Bill. "4m Bill 


(In the Committee. ) 

Another Clause — 

(Dissolution of School Board under certain cir- 
cumstances. ) 

(Where application for the dissolution of a 
School Board is made to the Education Depart- 
ment by the like persons and in the like manner 
as an application for the formation of a School 
Board, under section twelve of “ The Elementary 
Education Act, 1870,” and the Education De- 
partment are satisfied that no school and no site 
for a school is in the possession or under the con- 
trol of the School Board, and that there is a suffi- 
cient amount of public school accommodation for 
the district of the School Board, the Education 
Department may, after such notice as they think 
sufficient, order the dissolution of the School 
Board. 

The Education Department by any such order 
shall make provision for the disposal of all money, 
furniture, books, documen‘s, and property belong- 
ing to the School Board, and for the discharge out 
of the local rate of all the liabilities of the Board, 
and such other provisions as appear to the depart- 
ment necessary or proper for carrying into effect 
the dissolution of the Board. 

The Education Department shall publish the 
order in manner directed by “ The Elementary 
Education Act, 1873,” with respect to the publi- 
cation of notices, and after the date of such publi- 
cation or any later date mentioned in the order, 
the order shall have effect as if it were enacted by 
Parliament, without prejudice nevertheless to the 
subsequent formation of a School Board in the 
same school district. All bye-laws previously 
made by the School Board shall continue in force, 
subject nevertheless to be revoked or altered by 
the local authority under this Act.) 

Question again proposed, That the Clause be 
read a second time ; 

Question put ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the { Mr. Pell, 29] 

Yeas, (Mr. Wilbraham Egerton: } eine 

Tellers for the ; Mr. Adam, 1 140 

Noes,  \Lord Kensington: Sar 

Amendment proposed, at the beginning of the 
Clause, to insert the words “ Where a School 
‘** Board has been formed under sub-section one of 
“section twelve of ‘The Elementary Education 
* Act, 1870, and.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted ; 

Amendment proposed to the said proposed 
Amendment, to leave out the words “ sub-section 
one of.” 

Question proposed, That the words “sub-section 
one of” stand part of the said proposed Amendment; 

To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 





And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Tuesday morning ; 


Tuesday, 25th July, 1876: 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
3A reported, 























Pollution of 
Rivers Bill. 


Bishopric of 
Truro Bill. 


Crossed 
Cheques Bill 
[Lords.} 


Bil 267. 


362 


reported, That the Committee had made Progress 
in the Bill, and that he was directed to move, 
That the Committee may have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, at 
Two of the clock, again resolve itself into the said 
Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
upon the 22nd day of June last, That the Pollution 
of Rivers Bill be now read a second time; 

And the Question being again proposed :—The 
House resumed the said adjourned Debate. 

A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That the Debate be now adjourned :—And 
the said Motion was, with leave of the House, 
withdrawn. 

And the Original Question being put ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be now read a second 
time:—The Bill was accordingly read a second 
time, and committed to a Committee of the whole 
House, for this day, at Two of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Bishopric of Truro Bill; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave 
the Chair: —And a Debate arising thereupon ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, ‘That the Debate be now adjourned :— 
It passed in the Negative. 

And the Original Question being put; 

Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
Chair:—The House accordingly resolved itself 
into the Committee. 


(In the Committee. ) 


Preamble postponed. 

Causes, N° 1 to N° 3, agreed to. 

Cause, N° 4, amended, and agreed to. 

Crause, Ne 5, agreed to. 

CrausE, N°6 (Appointment of Bishop of 
Truro). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 3, 1. 9, to leave out 
the words “ So long as there is not a Dean and 
“ Chapter of Truro.” 

Question proposed, That the words proposed to 
be left out stand part of the Clause ; 

To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Razkes 
reported, That the Committee had made Progress 
in the Bill, and that he was directed to move, [hat 
the Committee may have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, at Two 
of the clock, again resolve itself into the said Com- 
mittee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Crossed Cheques Bill. 


(In the Committee.) 


Cause, N° 7 (Payment to banker only). 

Amendment again proposed at the end of the 
last Amendment to add the words “ any banker 
** who shall pay a crossed cheque otherwise than as 
“above provided shall not be discharged from 
* his liability to pay such cheque to the true owner 
* according to the directions of the crossing.” 

Question again proposed, That those words be 
there added —henthene, by leave, withdrawn. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

CrausE, N° 8, amended, and agreed to. 

Cause, N° 9 (Title of holder of cheque crossed 
specially). 

An Amendment made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 2, 1. 30, to 
leave out from the word “ had ” to the end of the 
Clause ; 


v4th—2)th July. 








1876. 
Question put, That the words proposed to be 
left out stand part of the Clause; 

Tellers for the { Sir William Dyke, } 

Yeas, Mr. Rowland Winn: 90. 

Tellers for the ;Mr. Hubbard, 

Motion made, and Question put, That the 
Chairman do report Progress, and ask leave to sit 
again ; 

Tellers for the {Captain Nolan, 

Yeas, LThe O’ Conor Don: 

Tellers for the; Sir William Dyke, 

Other Amendments made. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 
Three Clauses added. 


The Committee divided ; 

Noes, Mr. Christopher Denison a 27. 
The Committee divided ; 

Noes, (Mr. Rowland Winn: 
Another Clause (A banker not to receive the 


' amount of a cheque crossed to another banker)—— 


brought up, and read the first time. 

Question, That the Clause be read a second 
time——put, and negatived. 

Another Clause (Crossing not to affect the Act 
relating to endorsement )——brought up, and read 
the first time. 

Question, That the Clause be read a second 
time-—— put, and negatived. 

Another Clause (Mode of accounting for pro- 
ceeds of crossed cheques) brought up, and read 
the first time. 

Question, That the Clause be read a second 
time——put, and negatived. 

Schedule agreed to. 

Bill, as amended, to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Razhes 
reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration upon Thursday 
next; and be printed. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Prisons Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, at Two 
of the clock, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Poor Law Rating (Jreland) Bill; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave 
the Chair ; 

A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That this House do now adjourn:—And 
the said Motion was, with leave of the House, 
withdrawn. 

And the Original Question being put ; 

Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
Chair:—The House accordingly resolved itself 
into the Committee. 


(In the Committee.) 


Preamble postponed. 
Crauses, N° 1 and N° 2, agreed to. 


CuiausE, N° 3 (Expenses of deaf-and-dumb, 
and blind, to be engi upon union). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 2,1. 4, after the first 
word “ in,” to insert the words “ or out of.” 

Question proposed, That the words “ or out of” 
be there inserted :—Amendment, by leave, with- 
drawn. 

Clause agreed to. 

CurauseE, N° 4 (Limitation of rate upon electoral 
divisions in certain cases). 

Amendments made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 2. 1. 30, 
after the word “ rate,” to insert the words “ Pro- 
*‘ vided, however, that the poundage rate on any 

* electoral 


Prisons Bill, 


no hang 
(Irelend) Bil, 











40 Vicroria. 24th—Vsth July. 363 


* electoral division shall not in any case exceed 
“ two shillings in the pound; and when the aver- 
“ age union rate does exceed eightpence, and one 
«half thereof added shall exceed two shillings 
“ in the pound on any electoral division, then the 
“ excess over two shillings shall be borne by and 
‘“‘ be charged to the union at large.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted :—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

CrausE, N° 5, disagreed to. 

Cavs, N° 6, agreed to. 

A Clause added. 

Preamble agreed to. 

Bill, as amended, to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration this day, at 
Two of the clock. 


Supreme Court ‘The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 

dJudicature mittee on the Supreme Court of Judicature (Jre- 

(Ireland) Bill d) Bill: 

Lords land) ; 

| Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


_—a The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
(Sotland) Bill. the adjourned Debate on the Amendment which, 
upon the 27th day of June last, was proposed to 
be made to the Question, That Mr. Speaker do 
now leave the Chair (for Committee on the Poor 
Law (Scotland) Bill); 
Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


Highways Bul, Lhe Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Highways Bill; 
Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


Sheriff Courts The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
(Scotland) Bill. Reading of the Sheriff Courts ( Scotland) Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


University of Lhe Order of the day being read, for the Com- 

Orford Bill mittee on the University of Ozford Bill; 

ard.) Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


University of The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
— mittee on the University of Cambridge Bill ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Hints fer The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Bil [Lorde Reading of the Patents for Inventions Bill ; 
: Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


Valuation Bil. The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Valuation Bill ; 
Ordered, That thé Bill be read a second time 
this day. 


pon " The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
[lds] Reading of the Cruelty to Animals Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 


upon Monday next. 


Ms Assizes The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Winter Assizes Bill; 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, at 
Two of the clock, resolve itself into the said Com- 
mittee. 


in lic Health The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
) Bill, mane of the Public Health (Jreland) Bill; 
OL, 131, 





Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


The Local Government Board’s Provisional Local Govern- 
Orders Confirmation (Artizans and Labourers = 
Dwellings) Bill was, according to Order, read a Orders Con- 
second time; and committed to a Committee of —— - 
the whole House, for Tuesday next. oo 
Dwellings) 
Bill [Lords.] 
_ The Order of the day being read, for taking Cattle Disease 
into consideration the Cattle Disease (Jreland) ™el84) _ 
Bill, as amended in the Committee ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into considera- 

tion this day, at Two of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Appellate 
mittee on the Appellate Jurisdiction Bill; — ‘ Lords.] 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 

next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming ——, 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed Office (Re- 
upon the 6th day of this instant July, That Mr. muneration, 
Speaker do now leave the Chair (for Committee *) Bil 
on the War Department and Post Office (Remu- 
neration, &amp;c.) Bill) ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till this day, at Two of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Prisons 
Reading of the Prisons ( Scotland) Bill ; (Seottend) BUR. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 

upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Elementary 

mittee on the Elementary Education Provisional a 

Order Confirmation (London) Bill: _ Confirmation 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, at Two (London) Bill 


of the clock, resolve itself into the said Committee. [4274-1] 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Pensions 
mittee on the Pensions Commutation Act Amend- Commutation 
ment Bill; — Bill, - 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, at Two 


of the clock, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Local Loans 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed ('eland) Bill. 
upon the 20th day of this instant July, That the 
Local Loans (/re/and) Bill be now read a second 
time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Juries 
mittee on the Juries Procedure (Jreland) Bill ; Pewee 9 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday a, 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Public Record Office Bill was, according to — — 
Order, read a second time; and committed to a=” ”* 
Committee of the whole House, for Thursday 
next. 


The Superannuation (Unhealthy Climates) Bill Superannua- 
was, according to Order, read a second time; and alr —id 
committed to a Committee of the whole House, for 
Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Local Govern- 
Reading of the Local Government Board’s Pro- ment Board's 
visional Orders Confirmation (Bath, &amp;c.) Bill; Orders Con- 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time ‘imation 


upon Wednesday next. Sin tLerde] 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Supply. 
mittee of Supply ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 











3a2 The 





















304 


Ardglass The Order of the day being read, for the Third 
Harbour Bill. Reading of the Ardglass Harbour Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
this day, at Two of the clock. 


Erne Lough The Erne Lough and River Bill was, according 
and River Pill. tg Order, read the third time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Prisons The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
(Ireland) Bill. Reading of the Prisons (/redand) Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Ways and Means; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Ways and 
eans. 


Elementary The Elementary Education Provisional Order 


Education Pro- Confirmation (Cardiff) Bill was, according to 
Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
nyreed to the same, without Amendment. 


visional Order 
Confirmation 
(Cardiff) Bill 
[ Lords. } 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Bow Street Police Court (Site) Bill; 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, at Two 
of the clock, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Bow Street 
Police Court 
(Site) Bill. 


Metropolitan The Metropolitan Board of Works (Loans) Bill 
Board of Works was, according to Order, read the third time. 
(Loans) Bill. Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Saint Vincent, 


The Saint Vincent, Tobago, and Grenada Con- 
Tobago, and 


stitution Bill was, according to Order, read a se- 
Grenada : ° = “A ° 
Constitution cond time; and committed to a Committee of the 
Bill [Lords.} whole House, for this day, at Two of the clock. 


Navy and Army 
Expenditure, 
1874-5. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
upon the 18th day of this instant July, That Mr. 
Speaker do now leave the Chair (for Committee on 
the Navy and Army [:xpenditure, 1874-5) ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till this day, at ‘'wo of the clock. 


Parliamentary 
and Municipal 
Registration 

(Boroughs) 
Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Parliamentary and Municipal Re- 
gistration (Boroughs) Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Cruelty The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Prevewion Bill. Reading of the Cruelty Prevention Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


Limited 
Owners 
Residence 
(Ireland) Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Limited Owners Residence (Jre- 
land) Bill; 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


Intoxicating The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 

Liquors mittee on the Intoxicating Liquors (Licensing 

) omen a Law Amendment) (No. 2) Bill; 

(No. 2) Bill. Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Parliamentary | The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Electors Regis- mittee on the Parliamentary Klectors Registration 
tration Bill. Bill: ' 
Kesolved, That this Louse will, upon Thursday 
next, resulve itself into the said Committee. 


24th—25th July. 














1876. 


_ The Order of the day being read, for taking Industrial nq 
into consideration the Amendments made by the Provident 
—_ to the Industrial and Provident Societies °°" Bill. 
Bill; 

Ordered, Tnat the said Amendments be taken 
into consideration upon Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Offences 
mittee on the Offences against the Person Bill; — 2gainst the 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednes- Person Bill, 
day next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Third Sea and River 
Reading of the Sea and River Banks (Lincolnshire) Banks (Lin. 
Bill ; colnshire) Bill, 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
this day, at Two of the clock. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, trish 

a Return of the Total Number and Strength of Constabulary, 
the Constabulary Force in Jreland—Constables, 
Acting Constables, and Sub-Constables, on the 
Ist day of July 1876; showing the Number of 
the quota allotted to each County at last Alloca- 
tion, the Number of Permanent Extra Force, the 
Strength of the Free Force and Extra Force, and 
the Number of Vacancies in augmented Force in 
each County on the Ist day of July 1876; also, 
similar Particulars with respect to the Number of 
Men added to the Constabulary Force for Revenue 
Duty and for the Formation of Special Stations; 

as well as the Reserve Force and Recruits in 
Training at Depot on same date, with the Total 
Cost to each County for Extra Force in respect of 
the year to the 3lst day of March 1876 (in the 
same form as, and in continuation of Parliamentary 
Paper, No. 355, of Session 1875). 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Police 
to continue for one year “ The Police (Expenses) so 
Act, 1875”: And that Mr. William Henry Smith : 
and Mr. Secretary Cruss do prepare, and bring 
it in, 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill savings Banks 
to amend the Law respecting the Powers and (Barrister) 
Duties vested in the Barrister appointed to certify 
the Rules of Savings Banks: And that Mr. 

William Henry Smith and Mr. Attorney General 
do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Provisional 
a Return of all Bills confirming Provisional Orders ai 
introduced into this House during the present’ 
Session, with a Statement of the Places included 
in each Bill respectively, and the Date of its Intro- 
duction; the Date of the Delivery of Printed 
Copies to Members, and the Date of the Second 
Reading of each, as in the House of Lords Re- 
turn, No. 155. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented a Bill to Police 
continue for one year “ The Police (Expenses) a 
Act, 1875”: And the same was read the first time; yi. 
and ordered to be read a second time upon Thurs- pi) 968. 
day next; and to be printed. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented a Bill to Savings Banks 


‘amend the Law respecting the Powers and Duties (Barste?) 


vested in the Barrister appointed to certify the - 9269, 
Rules of Savings Banks: And the same was read 

the first time; and ordered to be read a second 

time upon Thursday next; and to be printed. 


The Slave Trade Bill was read the first time ; Slave pe 
and ordered to be read a second time upon Thurs- = il 70 
day next; and to be printed. uh 2i 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till a quarter of an hour before Three of the 
clock on Tuesdzy morning, adjourned till 
this day. 











River 


in. 
) Bill, 


) Act 


Ce, 


inks 


ils 





Midland 
Railway 


(Further 
Powers) Bill. 


Manchester 
South District 
Railway Bill. 


Public 
Petitions. 

Vide Thirtieth 
Report. 
Seamen’s 
Savings Banks 
and Money 
Orders, 


Lunacy. 


Male Persons 

im 
om, 

and 1871.) 


Post Office 
Savings Bank, 
&amp;e, 


1851 


4 Vicrorta. 25th July. | 365 


Tuesday, 25th July, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 

ee. House being informed, That the Lord 

Mayor of the City of Dublin attended at the 
door, he was called in; and at the Bar presented, 
—A Petition of the Right Honourable the Lord 
Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of Dublin :— 
And then he withdrew. 

And the said Petition, alleging that the present 
system of Private Bill Legislation entails on the 
promoters and opponents of Private Bills, costs 
and charges so heavy as to present serious ob- 
stacles to social progress and local improvements, 
and tends to prevent the introduction into Parlia- 
ment of many desirable and useful measures; that 
the cost of the carriage of Private Bills bears 
especially hardly on the people of Ireland; and 

raying the House to make Amendments in the 
Lome relating to the granting and confirming of 
Provisional Orders, and the enquiry into, and the 
hearing of evidence relative to Private Bills, and 
afford such relief in the premises as to the House 
shall seem meet, was read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Mid- 
land Railway (Further Puwers) Bill; and the same 
were twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


The Order, That the Manchester South District 
Railway Bill be referred to the Examiners of Pe- 
titions for Private Bills, was read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Algernon Egerton presented, pursuant to 
the directions of an Act of Parliament,—Account 
of all Deposits received and repaid by the Board 
of Trade, under the authority of the Seamen’s 
Savings Bank Act, 1856, during the year ended 
20th November 1875, and of the Interest thereon: 
—Also, Statement showing the Number and 
Amount of Seamen’s Money Orders issued at 
Ports in the United Kingdom and at Ports Abroad, 
and paid at Ports in the United Kingdom, from 
1855 to 1875 inclusive. 

Ordered, That the said Account do lie upon the 
Table. 


The following Paper, pursuant to the directions 
of an Act of Parliament, was laid upon the Table 
by the Clerk of the House,—Thirtieth Report of 
= Commissioners in Lunacy to the Lord Chan- 
cellor. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Returns of the Number of Male Persons, 
of the Ages of Eighteen and Twenty-five, inclusive, 


in the United Kingdom, according to the Census 
of 1851 :——And, of the same according to the 


Census of 1871. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Returns of the Amount of Money deposited in the 
Post Office Savings Bank and other Savings Banks, 
with the Number of Depositors, in each of the last 
Ten years: Of the Number of Societies re- 





gistered under the Friendly Societies Acts, Num- 
Vou. 131. 








bers of Members, and Capital : Of the Number 
of Registered Co-operative Societies, with the 
Amount of Capital subscribed for each year ‘as far 
as known) since 1867: Of the Number of 
Registered Burial Societies, Number of Members, 
and Capital, for the year 1875:——Of Trade 
Unions registered since 1871, Names, Numbers, 
and Capital: Of the Number of Children of 
educational Age, of the Number of Cases where 
Attendance has been enforced, and of the Amount 
expended upon Primary Education from Parlia- 
mentary Votes, during the last Ten years: -—Of 
the Number of Paupers in the United Kingdom 
m each year during the last Ten years ; the Annual 
Cost of the Paupers for the same period: Of 
the Number of Criminals each year during the last 
Ten years, and the Cost of their Maintenance, 
whether paid from Local or Imperial Funds to be 
distinguished :——And, of the Number of Emi- 
grants from the United Kingdom during the last 
Ten years, their Occupations, and Ports of Desti- 
nation :——Jn cases in which the Return requires a 
Statement of Cost, such Statement to include the 
Cost of Staff, whether Local or Central. 











Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant New Shoreham 
to the Clerk of the Crown, to make out a new Writ. 
Writ for the electing of a Member to serve in this 
present Parliament for the Borough of New Shore- 
ham, in the room of Sir Percy Burrell, Baronet, 
deceased. 


Ordered, That the Amendments made by the Merchant 
Lords to the Merchant Shipping Bill be taken Shipping Bill. 
into consideration upon Monday next; and be Bill 271. 
printed. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended by the 
Lords, be printed. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- Message from 
sage had been brought from the Lords by one of the Lords. 
their Clerks, as followeth ; 

The Lords have agreed to the Penarth Exten- Penarth 
sion Railway Biil, with an Amendment; to which oma 
the Lords desire the concurrence of this House. gears 

The Lords have agreed to the Severn Bridge Severn Bridge 
and Forest of Dean Central Railway Bill, with 2d Forest of 
Amendments; to which the Lords desire the con- allway Bill 
currence of this House. 

The Lords have agreed to the Preston Tram- Preston __ 
ways Bill, with Amendments; to which the Lords T=+™ways Bill. 
desire the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have agreed to the London and London and 
South Western Railway (Various Powers) Bill, a 
with Amendments; to which the Lords desire the (Various 
concurrence of this House. Powers) Bill. 


The Order for the House to resolve itself into a Tatentonting 
~ ° Wi -j. Liquors 
Committee, upon Tuesday next, on the Intoxi (Licensing Law 
cating Liquors( Licensing Law Amendment)( No.2) Amendment) 
Bill, was read, and discharged. (No. 2) Bill. 


Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Elementary _ 
intoa Committee on the Elementary Education Bill. 4ucation Bill. 


(In the Committee.) 


Another Clause,— 

(Dissolution of School Board under certain cir- 

cumstances. ) 

(Where application for the dissolution of a 
School Board is made to the Education Depart- 
ment by the like persons and in the like manner 
as an application for the formation of a School 
Board, under section twelve of “ The Elementary 
Education Act, 1870,” and the Education Depart- 
ment are satisfied that no school and no site for a 
school is in the possession or under the control of 
the School Board, and that there is a sufficient 
amount of public school accommodation for the 
district of the School Board, the Education De- 

343 partment 














366 Q5th 


partment may, after such notice as they think suffi- 
cient, order the dissolution of the School Board. 

The Education Department by any such order 
shall make provision for the disposal of all money, 
furniture, books, documents, and property belong- 
ing to the School Buard, and for the Nischar e out 
of the local rate of all the liabilities of the board, 
and such other provisions as appear to the depart- 
mént necessary or proper for carrying into effect 
the dissolution of the board. 

The Education Department shall publish the 
order in manner directed by “ The Elementary 
Education Act, 1873,” with respect to the publi- 
cation of notices, and after the date of such publi- 
cation or any later date mentioned in the order, 
the order shall have effect as if it were enacted by 
Parliament, without prejudice nevertheless to the 
subsequent formation of a School Board in the 
same school district. All bye-laws previously 
made by the School Board shall continue in force, 
subject nevertheless to be revoked or altered by 
the local authority under this Act.) 

Amendment again proposed, at the beginning 
of the Clause, to insert the words ‘‘ Where a 
“ School Board has been formed under sub-sec- 
“ tion one of section twelve of ‘ The Elementary 
«“ ¢ Education Act, 1870,’ and.” 

Question again proposed, That those words be 
there inserted ; 

Amendment again proposed to the said proposed 
Amendment, by leaving out the words “ Sub-sec- 
“ tion one of.” 

Question again proposed, That the words “ Sub- 
** section one of” stand part of the said proposed 
Amendment ; 

Question put, and negatived. 

Question put, That the words “ Where a School 
“ Board has been formed under section twelve of 
«¢ The Elementary Education Act, 1870, and” 
be there inserted ; 

The meuse 

ord Kensington, 
— for the! yyy" William Henry Glaa-| 114. 
om stone: J 
Tellers for the (Sir William Dyke, lize 
Noes, \Mr. Rowland Winn: , 

Another Amendment proposed, in 1. 2, to leave 
out from the word “ by” to “ 1870,” in 1. 3, in- 
clusive, in order to insert the words “ nine-tenths 
“© of the ratepayers of the district.” 

Question proposed, That the words proposed to 
be left out stand part of the Clause :—Amend- 
ment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Amendments made. 

Another Amendment proposed, at the end of 
the last Amendment, to add the words “ and no 
“action has been taken by such School Board 
“under the provisions of this Act or of ‘ The 
“ «Elementary Education Act, 1870.’” 

Question put, That those words be there inserted ; 

The Committee divided. 

Lord Kensington, 

Tellers for the| Mr. William Henry Glad. 121. 
Yeas, | stone: J 

Tellers for the {Sir William Dyke, a 190 

Noes, Mr. Rowland Winn: ‘Sagan 

Another Amendment proposed, at the end of 
the last Amendment, to add the words “ it shall 
*‘ be their duty to take the circumstances of the 
* case into consideration, and if they shall be of 
* opinion that the maintenance of a School Board 
* is not necessary for the purposes of education in 
“ the district, it shall be lawful for.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
added ; 

Amendment proposed to the said proposed 
Amendment, by leaving out the word “ neces- 
** sary ”’ and inserting the word “ advantageous.” 

Question proposed, That the word “ necessary” 
s‘and part o. ihe said proposed Amendment :— 





July. 1876. 


Amendment to the said proposed Amendment, 
by leave, withdrawn. 

An Amendment made to the said proposed 
Amendment. 

Question, That the words “it shall be their 
** duty to take the circumstances of the case into 
** consideration, and if they shall be of opinion 
* that the maintenance of a School Board is not 
* required for the purposes of education in the 
** district, it shall be lawful for” be there inserted 

put, and agreed to. 

Another Amendment proposed, in 1. 9, after 
the word “ Board,” to insert the words “ Pro- 
“ vided, That no School Board shall be dissolved 
** by whom bye-laws for the attendance of children 
* have heen put in force.” 

Question put, That those words be there in- 
serted ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the, Mr. Kylands, 7} 

Yeas, Mr. Leatham: s 110. 

Tellers for the j Sir William Dyke, 7 

Noes, (Mr. Rowland Winn: p 188. 

Another Amendment proposed, in 1. 9, after the 
word “ Board” to insert the words ‘‘ Provided 
“ always, That no application shall be made for the 
* dissolution of a School Board except within 
“ three months before the expiration of the period 
“for which the School Board has been elected; 
* and no order for. the dissolution of such School 
“ Board shall take effect until after the expiration 
* of such period.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted ; 

To report Progress, and ask leave to-sit again. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had made Progress 
in the Bill; and that he was directed to move, That 
the Committee may have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, ‘To-morrow, 
again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Pollution of 
into a Committee on the Pollution of Rivers Bill ; Rivers Bill. 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker Bill 272. 


resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes reported, 
That the Committee had gone through the Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill, as amended, be printed. 
Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for Thursday 
next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Prisons Bill 


mittee on the Prisons Bill ; 
Resolved, ‘Vhat this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
take into consideration the Cattle Disease (Jre- 
land) Bill, as amended in the Committee; and 
Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into considera- 
tion To-morrow. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself winter Asse 
into a Committee on the Winter Assizes Bill ; and, Bill. 


after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker re- 
sumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes reported, That 
the Committee had made Progress in the Bill; and 
that he was directed to move, That the Committee 
may have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, again 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Notice being taken, that Forty Members were 
not present: — The House was told by Mr. 
Speaker; and Forty Members not being present, 
and it being then after Four of the clock :—The 
House was adjourned by Mr. Speaker, without a 
Question first put, till To-morrow. 








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Wednesday, 26th July, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 
Dolley and ‘HE House proceeded to take into considera- 
oldbury tion the Amendments made by the Lords to 


junction, the Dudley and Oldbury Junction Railway Bill; 
-_ and the same were twice read, and agreed to. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 


Lordships. 


Dadley and The Order, That the Dudley and Oldbury 
odbwy Junction Railway (Abandonment) Bill be re- 
junction Rail- forred to the Examiners of Petitions for Private 


a Bills, was read, and discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 
Public Several Public Petitions were mama and 
Puitions. read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 
Vide Thirty- 
first Report. 
Manufactures, Mr. Bourke presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- 


Commerce, &amp;¢- mand,—Copy of Reports by Her Majesty’s Secre- 
(cme) taries of Embassy and Legation on the Manu- 
factures, Commerce, &amp;c. of the Countries in which 
they reside. (Trade Reports.) Part III. 
Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


fast India Lord George Hamilton presented, by Her Ma- 
(Gave Trade.) jesty’s Command,—Copy of Despatches with re- 
spect tothe Practice of the Slave Trade by the 
Subjects of the Native Princes of India. 
Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Caledonian The following Paper, pursuant to the direc- 
Canal. tions of an Act of Parliament, was laid upon the 
No.379. Table by the Clerk of the House,—Seventy-first 
Report of the Commissioners of the Caledonian 
Canal. 
Ordered, That the said Paper be printed. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Burial Grounds Bill; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a second 
time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the word “ now,” and, 
at the end of the Question, adding the words 
** upon this day two months.” 

And the Question being proposed, That the 
word “ now ” stand part of the Question :—And 
a Debate arising thereupon ; 

A Motion was made, and the Question was 
proposed, That the Debate be now adjourned :— 
And the said Motion was, with leave of the House, 
withdrawn. 

And the Question being again proposed, That 
the word “ now” stand part of the Question :— 
The said proposed Amendment and original Mo- 
tion were severally, with leave of the House, 
withdrawn. 


Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


Burial Grounds 
Bill. 


Gtiminal Law The House, according to Order, resumed the 
Amendment further roceeding on the Second Reading of the 


Bill, Criminal Law Evidence Amendment Bill ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a 
second time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to 
the Question, by leaving out the word “ now,” 
and, at the end of the Question, adding the words 
* upon this day two months.” 

And the Question being proposed, That the 
word “now” stand part of the Question :—The 

VoL, 131, 


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367 


said proposed Amendment and Motion were 
severally, with leave of the House, withdrawn. 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Training 

Reading of the Training Schools and Ships Bill ; Schools and 
Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. — 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Mercantile 
— of the Mercantile Marine Hospital Service ——, 
ill; —— 
Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. peecaie 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Valuation of 
Reading of the Valuation of Property (Metropolis) Property . 
Act (1869) Amendment Bill ; oat (1863). 

A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- Amendment 
posed, That the Bill be now read a second time : Bi 
-—And the said Motion was, with leave of the 
House, withdrawn. 


Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Homicide Law 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed Amendment 
upon the 8th day of March last, That the Homicide 2" 

Law Amendment Bill be now read a second time ; 

And the Question being again proposed :— 
The House resumed the said adjourned Debate. 

And it being a quarter of an hour before Six of 
the clock, the Debate stood adjourned till To- 
morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Inns of Court 
Reading of the Inns of Court Procedure Amend- Procedure 
ment Bill ; = 

Urdered, That the Bill be read a second time 


upon Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Irish Peerage 
mittee on the Jrish Peerage Bill; se ee 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Public Records 
Reading of the Public Records (/reland) Amend- oer 
ment Bill ; — 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 


To-morrow. 


The Local Government Board’s Provisional Local Govern. 


Orders Confirmation ( Bath, &amp;c.) Bill was, accord- Ss ; 


ing to Order, read a second time ; and committed to Orders Con- 
a Committee of the whole House, for Thursday firmation 
the 3rd day of August next. earn 
The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Supply. 
mittee of Supply ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Ways and 
mittee of Ways and Means; Mesne. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to Industrial and 
take into consideration the Amendments made by Frovideat 
the Lords to the Industrial and Provident Societies S°tes Bil 
Bill; and the same were twice read, and, with 
Amendments thereto, agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships, with Amendments; to which this House 
doth desire the concurrence of their Lordships. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Offences 
mittee on the Offences — the Person Bill; against th» 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday Ferson Bill, 





next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 
3A4 The 








HLlementary 
Education Bill. 


Cattle Disease 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Game Laws 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Municipal 
Privileges 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Valuation Bill. 


Prisons 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Winter 
Assizes Bill. 


Poor Law 
Rating 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Bishopric of 
Truro Bill. 


War Depart- 
ment and Post 
Office (Re- 
muneration, 
&amp;c.) Bill, 


Elementary 
Education Pro- 
visional Order 
Confirmation 
(London) Bill 
[ Lords. } 


Pensions Com- 
mutation Act 
Amendment 
Bill. 


368 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Elementary Education Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
take into consideration the Cattle Disease ( Jreland) 
Bill, as amended in the Committee; and an 
Amendment was made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into further 
consideration To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 

mittee on the Game Laws ( Sevtland) Bill; 
Ordered, ‘That the said Order be discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
consideration the Municipal Privileges (/reland) 
Bill, as amended in the Committee ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into considera- 
tion upon Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Valuation Bill; 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Prisons (Jrelund) Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
To-morrow. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Winter Assizes Bill; and, 
after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker re- 
sumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes reported, That 
the Committee had gone through the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
consideration the Poor Law Rating (Jreland) Bill, 
as amended in the Committee ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into considera- 
tion ‘To-morrow. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Bishopric of 7ruro Bill; 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. Ratkes reported, 
That the Committee had made Progress in the 
Bill; and that he was directed to move, That the 
Committee may have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, 
again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
upon the 6th day of this instant July, That Mr. 
Speaker do now leave the Chair (for Committee 
on the War Department and Post Office (Re- 
muneration, ¥c.) Bill); 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Friday next, at ‘'wo of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
on the Elementary Education Provisional Order 
Confirmation (Zondon) Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, at Two of the clock, resolve itself into the 
said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Pensions Commutation Act Amend- 
ment Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, at Two of the clock, resolve itself into the 
said Committee. 


6th—27th July. 





1876. 


according to Ardglass 
Harbour Bil, 


The Ardglass Harbour Bill was, 
Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Bow § 
mittee on the Bow Street Police Court (Site) Bill; Police Court 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, (Sit) Bil, 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Saint Vincent, 

mittee on the Saint Vincent, Tobago, and Grenada Tago, and 

Constitution Bill ; — 0 
Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, fled 


resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed whey ‘ 
upon the 18th day of this instant July, That Mr, 1874-5. 
Speaker do now leave the Chair (for Committee 
on the Navy and Army Expenditure, 1874-5); 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Friday next, at Two of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Third gea ana Rix 
Reading of the Sea and River Banks ( Lincolnshire) Banks (la 
Bill; colnshire) Bill, 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
To-morrow. 


Ordered, That the Amendments made by the Commons Bil, 
Lords to the Commons Bill be taken into con- Bill 273, 
sideration upon Monday next; and be printed. 


_ And it being Six of the clock, Mr. Speaker ad- 
journed the House till To-morrow, without putting 
the Question. 





Thursday, 27th July, 1876. 
PRAYERS. 

M R Kinnaird reported from the Select Com- Public 
_mittee on Public Petitions; That they had Petitions 

examined the Petitions presented upon the 12th, owen 

13th, 14th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 24th, and 

25th days of this instant July; and had directed 

him to make a Report thereof to the House. 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Sidmouth 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Sid- Railway Bill 
mouth Railway Bill; and the same were twice 
read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


Ordered, That the New Shoreham Harbour Bill New Shoreham 


be read the third time To-morrow. [ a " 


Bodmin and 

Wadebridge 

and Delabole 
Railway Bill 
[Lords.] 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
_ Bodmin and Wadebridge and Delabole Railway 

ill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Cornwall 
the Cornwall Mineral and Bodmin and Wadebridge poamin and 
Junction Railway Bill. Wadebridge 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Junction 
way Bill 
[Lords.] 
Public 
Petitions. 
Vide Thirty- 
first Report. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Jrish Irish = 
Model Schools, which was presented upon the 21st Sehes 
day of this instant July, be printed. ne. 
Ordered, 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 








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Naval Prize Ordered, That the Account relative to Naval | 
Money, &amp;- Prize Money, &amp;c., which was presented upon the | 
No. 381. 24th day of this instant July, be printed. | 


-~ Ordered, That the Account relative to Seamen’s 
nee Banks Savings Banks and Money Orders, which was pre- | 
lo sented upon the 25th day of this instant July, be | 


No. 382 printed. 


Lemey. Ordered, That the Paper relative to Lunacy, 
No. 383, Which was presented upon the 25th day of this 
: instant July, be printed. 


Agricultural Sir Charles Adderley presented, by Her Ma- 
Returns jesty’s Command,—Copy of Agricultural Returns 
ere ana Of Great Britain, with Abstract Returns for the 
= United Kingdom, British Possessions, and Foreign 
countries.) Countries, 1876. 
Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Poor Laws in 
Foreign 
Countries. 


Mr. Secretary Cross presented, by Her Ma- 
jesty’s Command,—Copy of Report prepared by 


Board Inspector), on the Laws relating to the 
Relief of the Poor in Holland, being a Supplement | 
to the Reports on Poor Laws in Foreign Countries, 
communicated to the Local Government Board, 
by Her Majesty’s Secretary of State for Foreign 
Affairs, and presented to Parliament in 1875. 

Mr. Secretary Cross also presented,—Return to 
an Order, dated the 11th day of this instant July, 
for a Return relative to the case of Mr. J. 
Sheehy. 

Mr. Secretary Cross also presented, pursuant to 
the directions of several Acts of Parliament,—An 
Abstract of the Accounts of all Fines and other 
Penal Sums accounted for under the Acts 14 &amp; 15 
Vic. c. 90, and 21 &amp; 22 Vie. c. 100, for the year 
ending 3lst December 1874. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Nery (Lifting Ordered,:That there be laid before this House, 

ad a Copy of the Report made by the Captain of 

topline) MS, « Briton” upon the Trial in that Ship 
of Admiral Sir William King Hall’s Plans for 
lifting Screw Propellers in Vessels not fitted with 
Screw-wells. 


Mr. J, Sheehy, 


Fines, &amp;c. 
(Ireland. ) 


Message from 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- 
the Lords. 


sage had been brought from the Lords by one of 
their Clerks, as followeth: 

Bankers’ Books The Lords have agreed to the Bankers’ Books 
Evidence Bill. Evidence Bill, with an Amendment; to which the 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 


Burghs (Scot- The Lords have agreed to the Burghs ( Scot- 

ce mn. land) Gas Supply Bill, with Amendments; to 
which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House. 

Belfast and The Lords have agreed to the Amendments 

ed hewn made by this House to the Belfast and County 

[Lords ill Down Railway Bill, without any Amendment. 

Cleveland The Lords have agreed to the Amendments 

Water Kill, © made by this House to the Amendments made by 
their Lordshipe to the Cleveland Water Bill, 
without any Amendment. 

Queen Anne’s = The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 

ma for amending the Law relating to the Governors 

of the Bounty of Queen Anne for the Augmenta- 

tion of the Maintenance of the Poor Clergy ; to 
which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House. 

Burghs (Scot. Ordered, That the Amendments made by the 

lmd)Gas Lords to the Burghs (Scotland) Gas Supply Bill 

Supply Bil. be taken into consideration upon Monday next; 

Bill 274, and be printed. 

Bankers’ Books _ Ordered, That the Amendment made by the 


Eridence Bil, Lords to the Bankers’ Books Evidence Bill be 
taken into consideration To-morrow. 
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369 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Elementary 


into a Committee on the Elementary Education Bi 
(In the Committee.) 


Another Clause— 
(Dissolution of School Board under certain 
circumstances. ) 
(W here application for the dissolution of a School 
Board is made to the Education Department by 
the like persons and in the like manner as an 
application for the formation of a School Board, 
; under section twelve of “ The Elementary Edu- 
' cation Act, 1870,” and the Education Department 
‘are satisfied that no school and no site for a school 
is in the possession or under the control of the 
| School Board, and that there is a sufficient amount 
_of public school accommodation for the district of 
| the School Board, the Education Department may, 
| after such notice as they think sufficient, order the 
| dissolution of the School Board. 
| The Education Department by any such order 
| shall make provision for the disposal of all money, 


Walter J. Sendall, Esquire (Local Government | furniture, books, documents, and ony belong- 


‘ing to the School Board, and for the discharge out 
| of the local rate of all the liabilities of the Board, 
and such other provisions as appear to the depart- 
ment necessary or proper for carrying into effect 
the dissolution of the Board. 

The Education Department shall publish the 
order in manner directed by “ The Hansuy 
Education Act, 1873,” with respect to the publi- 
cation of notices, and after the date of such pub- 
lication or any later date mentioned in the order, 
the order shall have effect as if it were enacted by 
Parliament, without prejudice nevertheless to the 
subsequent formation of a School Board in the 
same schgol district. All bye-laws previously 
made by the School Board shall continue in force, 
subject nevertheless to be revoked or altered by 
the local authority under this Act.) 

Amendment again proposed, in |. 9, after the 
word “ Board” to insert the words “ Provided 
“ always, That no application shall be made for 
“ the dissolution of a School Board except within 
*‘ three months before the expiration of the period 
*‘ for which the School Board has been elected ; 
“and no order for the dissolution of such School 
** Board shall take effect until after the expiration 
* of such period.” 

Question again proposed, That those words be 
there inserted ; 

Question put, and agreed to. 

Another Amendment proposed, at the end of 
the Clause, to add the words “ In every case 
“ where a School Board shall be dissolved under this 
« Clause all the powers conferred upon it by and 
“ under ‘ The Elementary Education Act, 1870, 
“ shall be transferred to and continued under the 
“local authority of the parish or district for edu- 
* cational purposes created under this Act.” 

Question put, That those words be there added ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the {re Adam, 71 

Yeas, Lord Kensington: s 

Tellers for the; Sir William Dyke, : Vy 

Noes, Mr. Rowland Winn: J 

Other Amendments made. 

Question put, That the Clause, as amended, be 
added to the Bill; 

The Committee divided. 

} 122. 
} 81. 


63. 


00 


Tellers for the f Sir William Dyke, 
Yeas, Mr. Rowland Winn: 
Tellers for thef Mr. Adam, 
Noes, Lord Kensington: 


Another Clause (Power to officers to enter 
places of employment)——brought up, and read 
the first time. 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Clause be read a second time:— Motion and 
Clause, by leave, withdrawn. 

3B Another 











ll Education Bill. 





Bishopric of 
Truro Bill. 


370 


Another Clause (Provision for accommodation 
of pupil teachers) brought up, and read the 
first time. 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Clause be read a second time:— Motion and 
Clause, by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Clause added. 

Another Clause (Exemption of buildings used 
as school houses from rates)——brought up, and 
read the first time. 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Clause be read a second time: — Motion and 
Clause, by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Clause (Section seventy-six of Ele- 
mentary Education Act, 1870, shall apply to 
School Board schools)—---brought up, and read 
the first time. 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Clause be read a second time: — Motion and 
Clause, by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Clause (Power to divide parishes)—— 
brought up, and read the first time. 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Clause be read a second time:— Motion and 
Clause, by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Clause (Instruction in Seripture)—— 
brought up, avd read the first time. 

Motion made, and Question put, That the Clause 


be read a second time; 
The Committee divided. 
Tellers for the( Mr. Hall, } 96 
Yeas, | Viscount Emlyn: ‘ 
Tellers for the (Sir William Dyke, 190 
Noes, (Mr. Rowland Winn: } ; 
To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 





And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Friday morning ; 


Friday, 28th July, 1876: 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Ratkhes 
reported, That the Committee had made Progress 
in the Bill; and that he was directed to move, 
That the Committee may have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, at Two 
of the clock, again resolve itself into the said Com- 
mittee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Bishopric of 7’ruro Bill. 


(In the Committee. ) 


CrausE, N° 6 (Appointment of Bishop of 
Truro). 

Amendment again proposed, in p. 3, 1. 9, to leave 
out the words “so long as there is not a Dean and 
“ Chapter of Truro.” 

Question again proposed, That the words pro- 
posed to be left out stand part of the Clause ; 

Question put ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the (Sir William Dyhe, 

Yeas, \ Mr. Rowland Winn: 

Tellers for the (Sir John Lubbock, 

Noes, Mr. Monk: 

Clause agreed to. 

Causes, N° 7 and N° 8, agreed to. 

Cause, N° 9, amended, and agreed to. 


Crauses, N°’ 10 and N° 11, agreed to. 
Preamble agreed to. 
Bill, as amended, to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr. Razkes 
reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee be taken into consideration this day, at Two 
of the clock. 


Q7th—28th July. 





Reading of the Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Bill ; 





1376. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Norwich ana 
Reading of the Norwich and Boston (Corrupt Boston 
Voters) Bill; {Corps 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time oters) Bal. 
upon Monday next. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to Cattle pj 
take into further consideration the Cattle Disease (Ireland) Bip, 
(Jreland) Bull, as amended in the Committee. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made to 

the Bill, in p. 2, by adding, after the word “ Funds,” 
at the end of the last Amendment, the words 
“ Provided always, That in every order so made 
“atime shall be specified, not exceeding three 
** months, during which period and no longer such 
* order shall be in force; but it shall be lawful 
“for the Lord Lieutenant, with the like advice, 
* at any time before the expiration of the order, to 
** make an order renewing same for any period not 
* exceeding three months, and so from time to 
“‘ time to renew the order so long as he shall think 
“it necessary to continue same; and so long as 
** it shall be so renewed the original order shall be 
** deemed to be and continue in force. 

* All appointments made under and by virtue 
“of such order shall absolutely cease and deter- 

* mine so soon as such order shall cease to be in 
“ force.” 

And the Question being put, That those words 
be there added ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the{ Mr. Biggar, \ 

Yeas, (Mr. O'Shaughnessy : 

Tellers for the ;Sir William Dyke, } 

Noes, \Mr. Rowland Winn: 

So it passed in the Negative. 

Then other Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
this day, at Two of the clock. 


45. 
97. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking Crossed _ 
into consideration the Crossed Cheques Bill, a = 
amended in the Committee ; ii 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into considera- 
tion upon Thursday next. 


The Local Government Board’s Provisional Or- Local Govern 
ders ( Bilbrough, &amp;c.) Bill was, according to Order, ment Boart’s 


A ( ete 
read a second time; and committed to a Com- orders Con 


mittee of the whole House, for Friday next. firmation 
(Bilbrough, 
&amp;c.) Bill 
[Lords.] 

The Local Government Provisional Orders Local Gover 
( Birmingham, &amp;c.) Bill’ was, according to Order, preety SoM 
read s second time; and committed to a Committee (girmingham, 
of the whole House, for Friday next. &amp;e.) Bill 

[ Lords.] 

The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Supreme Court 
mittee on the Supreme Court of Judicature (Jre- ‘aa 
land) Bill; 


Bill [Lords.] 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 


‘| next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second sheriffs Courts 
(Scotland) Bil 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Universiy of 
mittee on the University of Ozford Bill; Lorde] 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 


next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- ne 
mittee on the University of Cambridge Bill; Bill, 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. “ 
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40 Vicroria. 


appellate The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 

juiaiction mittee on the Appellate Jurisdiction Bill ; 

pill (Lords.] Resolved, That this House will, this day, at Two 
of the clock, resolve itself into the said Com- 
mittee. 


pions _ The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
(Scand) Bill. Reading of the Prisons ( Scotland) Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


Local Loans The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
(ireland) Bil. the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
upon the 20th day of this instant July, That the 
Local Loans (Jreland) Bill be now read a second 
time ; 
Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Thursday next. 


Juries The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
Pt Bil into aCommittee on the Juries Procedure (Ireland) 
relan' 1, 


Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes re- 
ported, That the Committee had gone through the 
Bill, and directed him to report the same, without 
Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
this day, at Two of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Public Record Office Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Public Record 
Office Bill. 


Superannua- The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
— intv a Committee on the Superannuation (Un- 
Climates) Bil. healthy Climates) Bill; and, after some time 
spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; 
and Mr. Raikes reported, That the Committee had 
gone through the Bill; and directed him to report 
the same, without Amendment. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
this day, at Two of the clock. 


Police The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
(Expenses) Act Reading of the Police (Expenses) Act Continuance 
Continuance Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day, at Two of the clock. 


Sevings Banks © The Savings Banks (Barrister) Bill was, accord- 

(Bamnster) Bill. ing to Order, read a second time ; and committed 
to a Committee of the whole House, for this day, 
at Two of the clock. 


Slave Trade The Slave Trade Bill was, according to Order, 
Bill Lords.) read a second time; and committed to a Com- 
mittee of the whole House, for this day, at Two of 
the clock. 
Rulution of | ‘The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
ves Bill. mittee on the Pollution of Rivers Bill ; 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, at Two 
of the clock, resolve itself into the said Committee. 
Prisons Bill. The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Prisons Bill; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 
Prisons The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
(land) Bill, Reading of the Prisons (Ireland) Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 
Winter The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
Astizes Bill. take into consideration the Winter Assizes Bill, as 


amended in the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
this day, at Two of the clock. 
Vou. 131. 


27 th—98th July. 





371 

The House, according to Order, proceeded to poor Law 
take into consideration the Poor Law Rating (/re- Rating 
land) Bill, as amended in the Committee; and (!eland) Bill. 
Amendments were made to the Bill. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
this day, at Two of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Bow Street 
mittee on the Bow Street Police Court (Site) (Site) so 
Bill; . 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, at Two 
of the clock, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- gaint Vincent, 
mittee on the Saint Vincent, Tobago, and Grenada Tobago, and 
Constitution Bill; ae 

Resclved, That this House will, this day, at Two pin [ Lords} 


of the clock, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Jurors 
Reading of the Jurors Remuneration Bill ; Remuneration 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time Bi 
upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Union of 
Reading of the Union of Benefices Bill ; Benefices Bill 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time (4°71 

upon Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- p,jiamen 
mittee on the Parliamentary Electors Registration Electors _ 
Bill; Registration 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 8" 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second public Records 
Reading of the Public Records (Ireland) Amend- (Ireland) 
ment Bill ; _ 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. ” 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Third Sea and River 
Reading of the Sea and River Banks (Lincoln- anghice) Balt 
shire) Bill; : 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
this day, at Two of the clock. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, ¢yiminal 
a Return for each County in Ireland, of the Prosecutions 
Amount expended at each Assizes for the last (ieland.) 
Three Years in Feces to Counsel in Criminal Pro- 
secutions (excluding the Amount of Fees paid to 
Special Counsel); and the Number of Cases in 
which such Fees were paid :——And, similar Re- 
turn, for the same period, for each Commission at 
Green Street for the County of Dublin and the 
County of the City of Dublin, and for the 
Sessions of the City of Dublin held before the 
Recorder. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Tralee Savings 
to provide for the Collection and Distribution of Bank. 
the Assets of a former Savings Bank at Tralee: 
And that Mr. William Henry Smith and Sir Michael 
Hicks Beach do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That Mr. Goulding be discharged from Metropolis Gas 
further attendance on the Select Committee on (Surrey Side) 
Metropolis Gas (Surrey Side) Bill. Bill. 

Ordered, That Mr. Onslow be added to the Com- 
mittee. 


Ordered, That the Amendments made by the Medical 
Lords to the Medical Practitioners Bill be now Practitioners 
taken into consideration :—The House accordingly - 
proceeded to take the said Amendments into con- 
sideration; and the same were twice read, and 
agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and acquaint them, that this House 

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372 


hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


Tralee Savings Mr. William Henry Smith presented a Bill to 
Bank Bill. provide for the Collection and Distribution of the 
Bill 275. Assets of a former Savings Bank at 7ralee: And 
the same was read the first time ; and ordered to 
be read a second time upon Monday next; and to 

be printed. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till a quarter of an hour before Two of the 
clock on Friday morning, adjourned till this 


day. 


Friday, 28th July, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 

M R. Raikes reported from the Committee on 

the Llandudno Improvement Bill; That a 
Report from the Local Government Board upon 
the Bill and the objects thereof had been referred 
to the Committee, and considered by them, and 
that they had adopted such of the Recommendations 
therein contained as appeared applicable to the 
case as submitted to them. 

Mr. faikes further reported from the Com- 
mittee; That they had examined the allegations 
contained in the Preamble of the Bill, and amended 
the same, to make it consistent with the Pro- 
visions of the Bill as submitted to and passed by 
the Committee, and found the same, as amended, 
to be true; and had gone through the Bill, and 
made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 








Llandudno 
Tmprovement 


Bill [Lords.} 


Prudential 
Assurance 
Company 
Bill [Lords.] 


Mr. Raikes reported the Prudential Assurance 
Company Bill, without Amendment. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendment made by the Lords to the Penarth 
Extension Railway Bill; and the same was twice 
read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 


hath agreed to the Amendment made by their 
Lordships. 


Penarth 
Extension 
Railway Bill. 


Londen end The House proceeded to take into consideration 
South Western the Amendments made by the Lords to the Lon- 
(Warlors don and South Western Railway ( Various Powers) 
Powers) Bill. Bill; and the same were twice read, and agreed to. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
—_— to the Amendments made by their Lord- 

8 Ips. 


Preston Tram- 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
ways Bill. 


the Amendments made by the Lords to the Pres- 
ton Tramways Bill; and the same were twice read, 
and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


New Shoreham 
Harbour Bill 
[Lords.] 


The Order of the day being read, for the Third 
Reading of the New Shoreham Harbour Bill; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read the 
third time ; 

An Amendment was ny eee to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the 
words “the Bill be not further proceeded with 
“until a Clause is inserted to provide for all the 
* accounts for the past six years relating to the 
“ receipts and expenditure of this locality and of 


27th—28th July. 





1876. 


‘its harbour, be submitted to the Local Govern- 
“ ment Board, and duly certified to as having been 
“ rendered in a satisfactory manner, and also requir- 
“ ing the accounts in the future to be rendered on 
* a fixed date to the Local Government Board, or 
** such other department as may in future be en- 
“ trusted with the duty of examining local returns 
‘¢ ofreceiptand expenditure, and requiring the whole 
“ of the income and outgoings of moneys to be sub- 
** jected in future to such audit, examination, and 
“ retrenchments as may from time to time be 
‘“‘ prescribed by the Government Department,” 
instead thereof. 

And the Question being proposed, That the 
words proposed to be left out stand part of the 
Question :—The said proposed Amendment was, 
with leave of the House, withdrawn. 

Then the main Question being put ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be now read the third 
time :—The Bill was accordingly read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, with Amendments; to which 
this House doth desire the concurrence of their 
Lordships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration puttin (south) 
the Dublin (South) City Market Bill, as amended City Market 
in the Committee. Bill [ Lords] 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time.  {“hrged from 
(South City 

arkets, 

The House proceeded to take into consideration yorth Dublin 
the North Dublin Street Tramways Bill,as amended Street Tram. 
in the Committee. rey 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. mee 


Mr. William Edward Forster reported from Metropolis Gas 
the Select Committee on the Metropolis Gas — -_ 
(Surrey Side) Bill; That they had proceeded to N 984 
examine the allegations of the Bill; but the Com- “*”* 
mittee having been informed that it was not in- 
tended to proceed with the same, they had agreed 
to report the Bill without Amendment, together 
with the Minutes of Evidence taken before them, 
to the House. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table; 
and be printed. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


resented, and Public 
Petitions. 


Several Public Petitions were 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. a 
Vide Thirty- 
first Report. 
Ordered, That the Paper relative to Fines, &amp;c. Fines, &amp;e. 
(Ireland), which was presented upon the 27th day (Ireland.) 
of this instant July, be printed. No. 385. 


Mr. Bourke presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- —. 
mand,—Copy of Reports from Her Majesty’s (Commercial 
Consuls on the Manufactures, Commerce, &amp;c. of No. 15, 1876.) 
— — Districts. Part vie _—* 

opy of Treaty between Her Majesty and the ("8": 
King of the Belgians, for the Matnal Surveniee of coaeen, 
Fugitive Criminals. (Signed at Brussels, May No. 2, 187.) 
20, 1876). . 

Copy 7 Further Correspondence respecting the Mo 8, 1876) 
Determination of the Boundary between Canada (North 
and the United States (in continuation of North +e ol 
America, No. 1, 1875). 

, 4 ° ° : General Postal 

Copy of Declaration recording the Adhesion of prion (Mis 
British India to the General Postal Union of cetianeous, 
October 9, 1874. (Signed at Berne, July 1, 1876). No. 8, 1876.) 
. ~ s/t That the said Papers do lie upon the 

able. 


Act, 
Sir Charles Adderley presented, by Her Ma-Trnwicy 
jesty’s Command,—Report by the Board of Trade ee ome 


t, works Facilities 
of their Proceedings under ‘‘ The ere Act, 1870. 





th 


ct ot 





ey 
ECs 
: 

) 





Blementary 
Biucation Bill. 


40 Vicrorta. 


1870,” and “ The Gas and Waterworks Facilities 
Act, 1870,” during the Session of 1876. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private 
Bills, That the Standing Orders have not been 
complied with in the case of the following Bill re- 
ferred on the First Reading thereof, viz. : 

Tramways (Jreland) Acts Amendment ( Dub- 
lin) Bill. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the 
Select Committee on Standing Orders. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Elementary Education 
Bill. 

(In the Committee.) 


Another Clause added. 

Another Clause (Religious education in schools 
supported mainly by Parliamentary grants and 
school fees) —— brought up, and read the first time. 

Motion made, and Question put, That the Clause 
be read a second time : 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question pro- 
posed, That the Chairman do report Progress, and 
ask leave to sit again :—Motion, by leave, with- 
drawn. 

Question put, That the Clause be read a second 
time ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for thef Mr. Shaw Lefevre, 

Yeas, Mr. Mundella: 

Tellers for the{ Sir William Dyke, 

Noes, (Mr. Rowland Winn: 

Another Clause (Local authority to have same 
powers as School Board with regard to educational 
endowments)—— brought up, and read the first 
time. 

Motion made, and Question put, That the Clause 
be read a second time ; 

The Committee divided. 


Tellers for the~ Mr. Alexander Brown, 108 
Yeas, Mr. Monk: f F 
Tellers for thes Sir William Dyke, i 187 
Noes, Mr. Rowland Winn: J 


Another Clause (Assisted schools to render ac- 
counts to the local authorities)——brought up, and 
read the first time. 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Clause be read a second time:—Motion and 
Clause, by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Clause (Age of children)——brought 
up, and read the first time. 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Clause be read a second time :— Motion and Clause, 
by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Clause (Alteration of Rules)—— 
brought up, and read the first time. 

Motion made, and Question, That the Clause 
be read a second time put, and negatived. 

Another Clause (Religious instruction in schools 
transferred to School Board)——brought up, and 
read the first time. 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Clause be read a second time :— Motion and Clause, 
by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Clause added. 

Another Clause (List of efficient schools to be 
published by Education Board)——brought up, 
and read the first time. 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Clause be read a second time:—Motion and Clause, 
by leave, withdrawn. 


To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 








Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair and Mr. Raikes 
VoL, 131. 


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373 


reported, That the Committee had made Progress 
in the Bill; and that he was directed to move, That 
the Committee may have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, again 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Pollution of 
into a Committee on the Pollution of Rivers Bill ; Rivers Bill. 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes reported, 

That the Committee had made Progress in the 
Bill; and that he was directed to move, That the 
Committee may have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, agaim 

resolve itself into the said Committee. 


‘The Order of the day being read, for the Cont 4 ppettate 
mittee on the Appellate Jurisdiction Bill ; Jurisdiction 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday Bill [Lords.] 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Juries Procedure (Ireland) Bill was, ac- 
cording to Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Juries 
Procedure 
(Ireland) Bill. - 


The Police (Expenses) Act Continuance Bill p,);.. 
was, according to Order, read a second time; and (Expenses) Act 
committed to a Committee of the whole House, for — 
Monday next. = 


The Order of the day being read, for taking pishopric of 
into consideration the Bishopric of Truro Bill, as Truro Bill. 


-| amended in the Committee ; 


And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now taken into 
consideration :—And a Debate arising thereupon ; 

And it being Ten minutes before Seven of the 
clock, the Debate was adjourned till this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Third Cuttie Disease 
Reading of the Cattle Disease (Jreland) Bill ; (Ireland) Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
this day. 


The Superannuation (Unhealthy Climates) Bill superannua- 
was, according to Order, read the third time. tion (Un- 
Resolved, 'That the Bill do pass. healthy 


; ‘a 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the on 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself savings Banks 
into a Committee on the Savings Banks (Barrister) (Barrister) 
Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Bill. 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes re- 
ported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill; and directed him to report the same, 
without Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
To-morrow. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself slave Trade 
into a Committee on the Slave Trade Bill; and, Bill [Zords.] 
after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker re- 
sumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes reported, That 
the Committee had gone through the Bill; and 
directed him to report the same, without Amend- 
ment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 


To-morrow. 


The Winter Assizes Bill was, according to Winter Assizes 
Order, read the third time. Bul. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 
3B3 The 








Bow Street 
Police Court 
(Site) Bill. 


Saint Vincent, 
Tobago, and 
Grenada 
Constitution 
Bill ( Lords.) 


War Depart- 
ment and Post 
Office (Remu- 
neration, &amp;c.) 
Bill. 


Elementary 
Education Pro- 
visional Order 
Confirmation 
(London) Bill 
(Lords. ] 


Pensions 
Commutation 
Act Amend- 
ment Bill. 


Navy and Army 


Expenditure, 
1874-5. 


Sea and River 
Banks (Lin- 
colnshire) Bill. 


Message from 
the Lords. 


Nullum 
Tempus (Ire- 
land) Bill. 
Turnpike Acts 
Continuance, 
&amp;c. Bill. 


Orphan and 
Deserted 
Children 
(Ireland) Bill. 
Legal 
Practitioners 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Stockton and 
Middlesbrough 
Corporations, 
Water Bill. 


Legal 
Practitioners 
(Ireland) Bill. 


374 

The Poor Law Rating (Jreland) Bill was, ac- 
cording to Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Bow Street Police Court (Site) 
Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Saint Vincent, Tobago, 
and Grenada Constitution Bill; and, after some 
time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the 
Chair; and Mr. Raikes reported, That the Com- 
mittee had gone through the Bill; and directed 
him to report the same, without Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
upon the 6th day of this instant July, That Mr. 
Speaker do now leave the Chair (for Committee 
on the War Department and Post Office (Re- 
muneration, &amp;c.) Bill) ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Elementary Education Provisional 
Order Confirmation (Zondon) Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Pensions Commutation Act Amend- 
ment Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
upon the 18th day of this instant July, That Mr. 
Speaker do now leave the Chair (for Committee 
on the Navy and Army Expenditure, 1874-5) ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Third 
Reading of the Sea and River Banks (Lincolnshire) 
Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Monday next. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- 
sage had been brought from the Lords by one of 
their Clerks, as followeth : 

The Lords have agreed to the Nullum Tempus 
(Ireland) Bill, without any Amendment. 


The Lords have agreed to the Turnpike Acts 
Continuance, &amp;c. Bill, without any Amendment. 


The Lords have agreed to the Orphan and 
Deserted Children (Jre/and) Bill, without any 
Amendment. 

The Lords have agreed to the Legal Practi- 
tioners (Jreland) Bill, with Amendments; to 
which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House. 

The Lords have agreed to the Stockton and 
Middlesbrough Corporations Water Bill, with 
Amendments; to which the Lords desire the 
concurrence of this House. 


Ordered, That the Amendments made by the 
Lords to the Legal Practitioners (Jreland) Bill 
be now takem into consideration: —The House 
accordingly proceeded to take the said Amend- 


Wth—29ch July. 








1876. 


ments into consideration; and the same were twice 
read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 

Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on the 
Southern Railway Bill; That it was proved to the Railway By 
Committee, that the Resolution of the House of ) 
the 20th day of June last had been complied with, 

Mr. Raikes further reported from the Com- 
mittee; That they had examined the allegations of 
the Bill, and found the same to be true; and had 
gone through the Bill, and directed him to report 
the same, without Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


Ordered, That the Legal Practitioners Bill be Legal 
read a second time To-morrow. Practitioner 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented, by Her Civit serviees 
Majesty’s Command,— Supplementary Estimate and Revenue 
of Sums required, in addition to those provided in Cee me 
the Estimates of 1876 ; Katina.) 
No. 386, 

Estimate of Sum required on account, to repay War Ottice 
to the War Office, Charges defrayed on behalf of (Charges 
the India Office. ow 


Ordered, That the said Estimates be referred to India) 
the Committee of Supply; and be printed. No. 387, 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- guppiy, 
mittee of Supply ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That ‘Mr. Speaker do now leave 
the Chair ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the 
words “ the great loss of life and property annually pra pour of 
* occurring to our shipping on the north-east coast Refuge 
* of England shows that there is a deficiency of ade- (North East 
* quate Harbour accommodation in that district; and England) 
* this House urges on Her Majesty’s Government 
“ the construction on that coast of a suitable Har- 
*‘bour of Refuge and for strategic purposes,” 
instead thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Question: 
-——It was resolved in the Affirmative. 

And the Main Question being proposed, That 
Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair; 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Saturday morning ; 


Saturday, 29th July, 1876: 


The said Motion was, with leave of the House, 
withdrawn. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself natn? 
into a Committee on the Pollution of Rivers Bill. 


Bill 276. 
(In the Committee.) 


Preamble postponed. 

Motion made, and Question, That the Chair- 
man do report Progress, and ask leave to sit again 

put, and negatived. 

Curauses, N° 1 to N° 4, agreed to. 

Ciause, N° 5 (Prohibition as to drainage into 
streams of sewers). 

Amendment proposed, at the end of the Clause, 
to add the words “ That existing drainage or 
“sewage works discharging drainage or sewage 
‘** matter into any navigable stream where the tide 
* ebbs and flows shall not be subject to the pro- 


* visions of this Act.” : 
Question 








ices 
nts 


on. 
ate.) 


7 





40 VicTorRia. 


Question ret mes That those words be there 
added : —Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Clause agreed to. 

CxausE, N° 6 (Prohibition as to drainage into 
streams from manufactories). 

Amendments made. 

Another Amendment proposed, at the end of 
the Clause, to add the words “ or that such liquid 
“has not rendered the stream more poisonous, 
“ noxious, or polluted than it would have been 
“ if such liquid had not been discharged into the 
“ same.” 

Question, That those words be there added —— 
put, and negatived. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

Cuiause, N° 7, agreed to. 

CriavseE, N°8 (Restriction on proceedings under 
this part of the Act). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 3,1. 39, to leave out 
the words “ a sanitary authority,” in order to insert 
the words “an inspector appointed by the Local 
‘*¢ Government Board.” 

Question, That the words “a sanitary authority” 
stand part of the Clause put, and agreed to. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 3, 1. 29, 
after the word “authority,” to insert the words 
“or by any riparian owner or occupier.” 

Question, That those words be there inserted 
——put, and negatived. 

Amendments made. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 


Cause, N° 9, amended, and agreed to. 
Curauses, N° 10and N° 11, agreed to. 


CiausEes, N° 12 and N° 13, amended, and 
agreed to. 


CuiavuseEs, N° 14 and N° 15, agreed to. 
Ciause, N° 16 (Powers of Act cumulative). 


Amendment proposed, in p. 7, 1. 8, to leave out 
from the word “ passed” to the end of the Clause, 
in order to insert the words “ But where any party 
“ against whom an order has been given under 
“ this Act has carried out the works ordered by 
“the court, such party shall not be liable to be 
“ proceeded against under any other Act or at 
* common law for the same nuisance.” 

Question, That the words proposed to be left 
out stand part of the Clause —— put, and agreed to. 

Clause agreed to. 

Cxiauss, N° 17, agreed to. 

Cause, N° 18, amended, and agreed to. 

Crause, N° 19, agreed to. 

A Clause (Provision for acquiring lands)—— 
brought up, and read the first time. 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Clause be read a second time:— Motion and 
Clause, by leave, withdrawn. 

Preamble agreed to. 

Bill, as amended, agreed to. 








Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Rathes 
reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration upon Monday 
next; and be printed. 


Notice being taken, that Forty Members were 
not present: —The House was told by Mr. Speaker; 
and Forty Members not being present, and it 
being then half an hour after Two of the clock on 
Saturday morning :—The House was adjourned by 
Mr. Speaker, without a Question first put, till 
this day. 


Vot. 131. 





28th—29th July. 375 


Saturday, 29th July, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 


S£ VERAL Public Petitions were presented, Public 


and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Elementary 
into a Committee on the Elementary Education Eucation Bill. 


Bill. 
(In the Committee.) 


Another Clause added. 

Another Clause (No prosecutions to be under- 
taken except with the authority of at least three 
members of a School Board, School Attendance 
Committee, or Local Committee)——brought up, 
and read the first time. 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Clause be read a second time:—Motion and Clause, 
by leave, withdrawn. 

First Schedule. 

Amendment proposed, in p. 14, 1. 11, to leave 
out the words “ of 1876,” in order to insert the 
words “ for the time being.” 

Question, That the words proposed to be left 
out stand part of the Schedule——put, and 
agreed to. 

An Amendment made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 14, 1. 21, 
to leave out the word “two,” in order to insert 
the word “ three.” 

Question proposed, That the word “two” stand 
part of the Schedule——Amendment, by leave, 
withdrawn. 

Another Amendment made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 14, 1. 22, 
to leave out the words “in not more than two 
* schools.” 

Question proposed, That the words “in not 
more than two schools” stand part of the Schedule 
—— Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 14, 1. 23, 
after the words “or not,” to insert the words, 
* Provided, That school attendance [under sen- 
“tence | in an industrial or workhouse school may 
* be reckoned to make up the two hundred and fifty 
“ attendances at school.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted——-Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Other Amendments made. 

Schedule, as amended, agreed to. 

Second Schedule disagreed to. 

Third Schedule and Fourth Schedule, amended, 
and agreed to. 

New Schedule added. 

Preamble agreed to. 

Bill, as amended, to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration upon Thursday 
next, and be printed. 


The Order of the day being read for resuming pishopric of 
the adjourned Debate on the Question propose Truro Bill. 


upon the 28th day of this instant July, ‘That the 
Bishopric of Truro Bill be now taken into con- 
sideration ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Monday next. 


The Savings Banks (Barrister) Bill was, accord- Savings Banks’ 
(Barn 


ing to Order, read the third time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 
3B4 The 





376 
Slave Trade The Slave Trade Bill was, according to Order, 
Bill (Lords) read the third time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do-carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


Cattle Disease The Cattle Disease (Jreland) Bill was, according 
(Ireland) Bill. tg Order, read the third time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Bow Street Police Court (Site) Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Bow Street 
Police Court 
(Site) Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
upon the 18th day of this instant July, That Mr. 
Speaker do now leave the Chair (for Committee 
on the Navy and Army Expenditure, 1874-5); 

And the Question being again proposed :—The 
House resumed the said adjourned Debate. 

Ordered, That the Debate be adjourned till 
Monday next. 


Navy and Army 
Expenditure, 
1874-5. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Ways and Means; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Ways and 
Means. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Legal Practitioners Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


Legal 
Practitioners 
Bill. 


CompaniesActs . Lhe Order of the day being read, for resuming 
(1862and 1867) the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
—_— upon the 10th day of this instant July, That the 
a Companies Acts (1862 and 1867) Amendment 
Bill be now read a second time; 
Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Friday next. 


Bankers’ Books he Order of the day being read, for taking into 
Evidence Bill. consideration the Amendment made by the Lords 
to the Bankers’ Books Evidence Bill; 

Ordered, That the said Amendment be taken into 
consideration upon Monday next. 


The Order for the House to resolve itself into 
a Committee, upon Monday next, on the Supreme 
Court of Judicature (Jre/and) Bill, was read, and 
discharged. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


And then the House adjourned till Monday 
next. 


Supreme Court 
of Judicature 
(Ireland Bill 
[Lords.] 








Monday, 31st July, 1876. 


PRAYERS, 

i ~ House proceeded to take into considera- 

tion the Amendments made by the Lords to 
the Severn Bridge and Forest of Dean Central-Rail- 
way Bill; and the same were twice read, and 
agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


Severn Bridge 
and Forest of 
Dean Central 
Railway Bi'l. 


The Bodmin and Wadebridge and Delabole Rail- 
way Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 


Bodmin and 
Wadebridge 
and Delabole 
Railway Bill 
[ Lords.] 


29th—31st July. 





1876, 


the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


The Cornwall Mineral and Bodmin and Wade- Co 
bridge Junction Railway Bill was read the third Mineral ea 
time. Bodmin and 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. Wadebe 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the wy in , 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath [Zerds] 
agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


The Dublin (South) City Market Bill was read Dublin (Sout) 
the third time. City Market 
Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, Bi! (Lord) 
do pass: And that the Title be, An Act to incor- 
porate a Company for the Establishment, Mainte- 
nance, and Regulation of a Market on the South 
Side of the City of Dublin, and for facilitating 
the Approach thereto by the Alteration, Diver- 
sion, and Widening of existing Streets adjoining 
or near thereto, and for other purposes. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the same, with Amendments ; to 
which this House doth desire the concurrence of 
their Lordships. 


The Great Northern London Cemetery Bill was Great Northen 
read the third time. London 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. Bill [Levée) 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


The North Dublin Street Tramways Bill was North Dublin 
read the third time. Street Tram. 
Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, Tarde} 

do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, with Amendments; to which 
this House doth desire the concurrence of their 


Lordships. 


The Prudential Assurance Company Bill was Prudential 
read the third time. Peay 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. (Lords. i 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


The West Ham Local Board Bill was read the west Ham 
third time ; and a verbal Amendment was made Local Board 
to the Bill. me (hong 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, with an Amendment; to which 
this House doth desire the concurrence of their 
Lordships. 


The Order, That the Ryde New Pier and Rail- Ryde New Pier 
way Bill be referred to the Examiners of Petitions = Lords) 
for Private Bills, was read, and discharged. 


Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


Public 
Petitions. 


Vide Thirty- 
first Report. 
Mr. Secretary Hardy presented,—Return to an Army Reser 
Address to Her Majesty, dated the 20th day of 
this instant July, for a Return relative to the 
Army Reserve. 
Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Sir Charles Adderley presented, by Her Ma-Railway | 
jesty’s qa | of General Report, by 4c" 


Captain Tyler, to the Board of Trade upon the 
Accidents 


resented, and 
able. 


Several Public Petitions were 
read; and ordered to lie upon the 








- 


Bill 


r Pier 
ay 
ds.) 





Bill (Lords 


. 40 Vicroria. 


Accidents which have occurred on the Railways 
of the United Kingdom during the year 1875. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Algernon Egerton presented,—Return to an 
Order, dated the 27th day of this instant July, for 
a Return relative to the Navy (Lifting Screw 
Propellers). 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Navy (Lifting 
propeller.) 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented,—Return 
to an Order, dated the Ist day of June last, for a 
Return relative to the Royal Mint. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Births, Deaths, Mr. Secretary Cross presented, by Her Ma- 
sod Marriages jesty’s Command,—Copy of Thirty-seventh Annual 
(Eng Report of the Registrar General of Births, Deaths, 
and Marriages in England (Abstracts of 1874). 
Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Royal Mint. 


Prisovers 
(Corporal 


Resolved, That an humble Address be ape ames 
Punishment.) 


to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Returns of the Number of Prisoners 
punished since the 14th day of April 1871, under 
the Act 26 &amp; 27 Vic. c. 44, by Whipping; the 
Place of Punishment, and the Number of Strokes 
ordered and inflicted in each Case, and by what 
Instrument, and by sentence of what presiding 
or other Judge, at what Assizes or other Court, and 
the Age of each Prisoner so punished :——Of all 
Cases in each Gaol and House of Correction in the 
United Kingdom in which Corporal Punishment 
has been inflicted ky Orders or Sentence of the 
Visiting Justices, or by Courts of Assize and 
Quarterly Sessions, since the said 14th day of 
April 1871 to the present Time ; and of the Names 
of the Visiting Justices or presiding Judge, in 
each Case, by whose Orders any Corporal Punish- 
ment has been inflicted in each Gaol and House 
of Correction; specifying the Offence for which 
such Punishment was given, and the Number of 
Lashes, and how and by what Instrument applied ; 
the Age and Name of each Person punished; 
the Date of each Warrant or Order; and the 
Names of the Justices, Surgeons, and other Per- 
sons present when the Punishment was inflicted : 
— And, of all Cases in each Gaol or House of 
Correction in England and Wales, and in Ireland, 
in which Corporal Punishment has been inflicted 
by Whipping, under the authority of the Act 10 &amp; 
11 Vic. c. 82, of the Act 13 &amp; 14 Vie. c. 37, and of 
the Acts 24 &amp; 25 Vic. c. 96, 24 &amp; 25 Vie. c. 100, 
and 25 &amp; 26 Vic. c. 18, any or either of them, or 
any other Act or Acts, and the Age of each Per- 
son punished, from the said 14th day of -April 
1871, to the present ‘Time; specifying the par- 
ticular Offences for which, and the Names of the 
Justices by or before whom, each of them had been 
summarily convicted and sentenced; the Dates 
of each Conviction and Punishment; the Number 
of Lashes in each Case, and by what Instrument, 
and the Names of the Persons present when the 
Punishment was inflicted. 
ie from Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- 
sage had been brought from the Lords, by one 

of their Clerks, as followeth ; 

The Lords have agreed to the Medical Act 
Qualifications) Bill, without any Amendment. 


The Lords have agreed to the Amendments 
made by this House to the Amendments made by 
their Lordships to the Industrial and Provident 
Societies Bill, without any Amendment. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An 

VoL. 131. 


Metical Act 
{Quulifcations) ( 
Industrial and 
Providen 

Societies Bil, 


Clean Rivers 


31st July.—1st August. 





S77 
Act for making further Provision against the Pol- 
lution of Rivers hitherto free from Pollution ; 


to which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House. 


_ Queen Anne’s Bounty Bill was read the first Queen Anne's 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time upon mee Bill 
Thursday next; and to be printed. [Lo ‘ ‘J 

Bill 278. 

The Clean Rivers Bill was read the first time; Clean Rivers 
and ordered to be read a second time upon Thurs- Bill [Lords.]’ 
day next; and to be printed. Bill 279. 


Ordered, That the Orders of the Day be post- Orders of the 
poned until after the Notice of Motion relating to Day- 
the Insurrection in Bosnia and Herzegovina. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being Insurrection in 
see That this House is of opinion that Her mn 
ajesty’s Government, while maintaining the re- 6 
spect due to existing Treaties, should exercise all 
their influence with the view of securing the 
common welfare and equal treatment of the various 
races and religions which are under the authority 
of the Sublime Porte ; 
An Amendment was proposed to be made to 
the Question, by leaving out from the words 
*‘ opinion that” to the end of the Question, in 
order to add the words “ it is the duty of the 
‘© British Government, as one of the Powers which, 
** under the Treaty of 1856, guaranteed the inde- 
** pendence of the Ottoman Empire, in any steps 
** that may be taken with the view to the restora- 
*‘ tion of peace between the Ottoman Porte and 
“ her Slavonic Provinces to obtain for those Pro- 
“ vinces adequate and effectual guarantees for good 
*‘ and impartial government irrespective of race or 
“ creed,” instead thereof. 
And the Question being proposed, That the 
words proposed to be left out stand part of the 
Question ; 


And the House havin 
Twelve of the clock on 


Tuesday, 1st August, 1876: 


The said proposed Amendment and Motion were 
severally, with leave of the House, withdrawn. 


continued to sit till after 
uesday morning ; 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Bishopric of 
the adjourned Debate on the Question roposed Truro Bill. 
upon the 28th day of this instant July, That the 
Bishopric of Truro Bill be now taken into con- 
sideration ; 

And the Question being again proposed :—The 
House resumed the said adjourned Debate. 

And the Question being put ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be now taken into con- 
sideration :—The House accordingly proceeded to 
take the Bill into consideration. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
this day, at Two of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Navy and Army 
the adjonrned Debate on the Question propose me 
upon the 18th day of July last, That Mr. Speaker ““"™ 
do now leave the Chair (for Committee on the 
Navy and Army Expenditure, 1874-5); 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till this day, at Two of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second suez Canal 
Reading of the Suez Canal Shares Bill ; (Shares) Bill. 
Ordered, ‘That the Bill be read a second time 

upon Thursday next. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Local Govern- 
into a Committee on the Local Government Board’s ment Board’s 





Provisional Orders Confirmation (Bingley, &amp;c.) pene oa 
3c Bill ; 





Confirmation 
(Bingley, &amp;c.) 
Bill [ Lords. } 


Local Govern- 
ment Pro- 


visional Orders 


(Chelmsford, 
&amp;e.) Bill 
[Lords.] 


Cruelty to 
Animals Bill 
[Lords.] 


Merchant 
Shipping Bill. 


Commons Bill. 


Norwich and 
Boston 
(Corrupt 
Voters) Bill. 


Sheriff Courts 


(Scotland) Bill. 


University of 
Oxford Bill 
[Lords.] 


University of 
Cambridge 
Bill. 


Public Record 
Office Bill. 


Prisons Bill. 


Prisons 


(Ireland) Bill. 


Tralee Savings 
Bank Bill. 


Appellate 
Jurisdiction 
Bill [Lerds.] 


37% 


Bill; and, after some timespent therein, Mr. Speaker 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes reported, 
That the Committee had gone through the Bill, and 
directed him to report the same, without Amend- 
ment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
this day, at Two of the clock. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Local Government Pro- 
visional Orders ( Chelmsford, &amp;c.) Bill; and, after 
some time spent thereir, Mr. Speaker resumed the 
Chair; and Mr. Raikes reported, That the Com- 
mittee had gone through the Bill, and directed 
him to report the same, without Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
this day, at Two of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Cruelty to Animals Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
consideration the Amendments made by the Lords 
to the Merchant Shipping Bill ; 

Ordered, That the said Amendments be taken 
into consideration upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
cousideration the Amendments made by the Lords 
to the Commons Bill ; 

Ordered, That the said Amendments be taken 
into consideration upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Norwich and Boston (Corrupt 
Voters) Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day, at Two of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 

mittee on the University of Ozford Bill; 
Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 

mittee on the University of Cambridge Bill; 
Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Public Record Office Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Prisons Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Prisons (Jreland) Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


The 7ralee Savings Bank Bill was, according 
to Order, read a second time; and committed to 
a Committee of the whole House, for this day, 
at Two of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Appellate Jurisdiction Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Sist July—ist August. 








1876. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Police 
into a Committee on the Police (Expenses) Act (Expenses) 
Continuance Bill; and, after some time spent there- rood 
in, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr, 

Raikes reported, That the Committee had gone 
through the Bill, and directed him to report the 
same, without Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Thursday next. 


The Saint Vincent, Tobago, and Grenada Con- Saint Vin 
stitution Bill was, according to Order, read the Tobago, ang 
third time. | pre 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


Constitution 
Bill [Lords,] 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming w,, p, 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed ment and Post’ 
upon the 6th day of July last, That Mr. Speaker Oftice (Re., 
do now leave the Chair (for Committee on the ge) Bi,” 
War Department and Post Office (Remuneration, 
&amp;c.) Bill) ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
tll this day, at Two of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Elementary 
mittee on the Elementary Education Provisional Education Pro 
Order Confirmation (Zondon) Bill ; presen 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, at Two (London) Bill 


of the clock, resolve itself into the said Committee, (£or4.] 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Pensions _ 
mittee on the Pensions Commutation Act Amend- Commutation 
2 Act Amend. 
ment Bill; ment Bill, 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Supply. 
mittee of Supply ; 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, at Two 
of the clock, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking pottution of 
into consideration the Pollution of Rivers Bill, as Rivers Bill, 
amended in the Committee ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into considera- 
tion this day, at Two of the clock. 


read, for the Com- Bow Street 
olice Court (Site) Police Court 
( ) (Site) Bill, 


The Order of the day bein 
mittee on the Bow Street P 
Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, at Two 
of the clock, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Ways and 
mittee of Ways and Means; Mess. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Registry 
Reading of the Registry of Deeds (Jreland) Bill; o we Bit. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time “* 
upon Monday next. 


Roads and 
Bridges (Scot. 
land) Bill 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Roads and Bridges { Scotland) Bill; 
Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


The Forfeiture Relief Bill was, according to Forfeiture 
Order, read a second time; and committed to a Relief Bi 
Committee of the whole House, for Wednesday 
next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Parliamentary 
mittee on the Parliamentary and Municipal Regis- phe 
tration (Boroughs) Bill; (Boroughs) 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, at Bill. 

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cent, 


on 


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Bill. 


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Two of the clock, resolve itself into the said Com- 
mittee. 


Pree The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Bil. Reading of the Cruelty Prevention Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


jrsh Peerage The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Jrish Peerage Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
+ - mittee on the Offences against the Person Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, at Two 
of the clock, resolve itself into the said Com- 
mittee. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
ln) Gas = take into consideration the Amendments made by 
"the Lords to the Burghs (Scotland) Gas Supply 
Bill; and the same were twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 


ships. 
Saand River The Order of the day being read, for the Third 
buks (Lin, Reading of the Sea and River Banks (Lincoln- 
colnshire) Bill. “|. } 

shire) Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 

this day, at Two of the clock. 
legal Practi- § The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
tioners Bill. 


Reading of the Legal Practitioners Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day. 


Buikers’Books The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
Tridence Bil. take into consideration the Amendment made by 
the Lords to the Bankers’ Books Evidence Bill; 
and the same was twice read, and agreed to. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendment made by their Lord- 
ships. 

And then the House, having cdntinued to sit 
till a quarter of an hour before Two of the 
clock on Tuesday morning, adjourned till 
this day. 








Tuesday, 1st August, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 
ll S EVERAL Public Petitions were presented, 
and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Vide Thity. 
int Report. 
er (Goldior Ordered, That the Return relative to the Army 
Civil Power.) (Soldiers tried before Civil Power), which was 


No, 388, presented upon the 20th day of July last, be 
printed. 


31st July.—-1st August. 





Pott Office, Mr. William Henry Smith presented, by Her 
Majesty’s Command,—Copy of Twenty-second 
Report of the Postmaster Denenih on the Post 
' ce. 
meaty . Mr. William Henry Smith also presented,—Re- 
(Irland,) turn to an Order, dated the 21st day of July last, | 
for Returns relative to the Registry of Deeds | 
(Jreland). 
jit Cour of Mr. William Henry Smith also presented, pur-' 
(Chancery  SUant to the directions of an Act of Parliament,— 
Division.) Account of the Receipts and Expenditure of the 


Paymaster General on behalf of the Chancery 
— of the High Court of Justice during the 
OL. 131. 


379 


period from 1st September 1874 to 3lst August 

1875; together with the Report of the Comp- 

troller and Auditor General thereon. 

‘ =, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
able. 


_ Sir Charles Adderley presented, by Her Ma- statistical 
a's Senile oer Abstract for the ‘ae 
rincipal Foreign Countries in each year from \°°8" 
1861 to 1874. Third Number. ” a 
. — That the said Paper do lie upon the 

able. ; 


The following Paper was laid upon the Table b aad 
the Clerk of the , Y Provisional 


dated the 24th day of July last, for a Return re- tion Bills. 
lative to Provisional Order Confirmation Bills. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, vivisection 
a Return of Petitions presented to this House (Petitions.) 
during the present Session against Vivisection, 
arranged under the following Heads :— 








| Number of 
Petitions. 


— 


Number of 


Signatures, 





Petitions in favour of total suppression | 
Petitions in favour of restriction - 
Other Petitions (if any)- - - 





Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Revenue 
a Return (in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, (Spitits, &amp;c.) 
No. 472, of Session 1875) giving an Analysis of 
the Revenue Return whet by the House to be 
— on the 20th June 1876, respecting the 

uties on Spirits, Malt, Wine, &amp;c. to show the 
Proportions of the several Items of Revenue in 
that Return which were chargeable against Eng- 
land, Scotland, and Ireland respectively, with the 
Duty on Tobacco added thereto, and a Summary 
of the separate Results for each of the three King- 
doms : And, Return to be divided in the same 
manner between England, Scotland, and Ireland 
respectively, of the Net Produce of each of the 
other Sources of Revenue derived from Taxation, 
after deducting the Expenditure on the Post 
Office and Telegraph Departments :——The Re- 
venue derived from the Property and Income Tax 
not to include the Tax on the Salaries of Persons 
in the Service of Government :——In Schedule 
D., the Payments made in London through Spe- 
cial Commissioners on account of Property and 
Income Tax arising in Scotland or Ireland (if any) 
to be placed to the account of these Countries, 








The House, according to Order, resolved itself Supply. 
into the Committee of Supply. 


(In the Committee.) 


1. £. 1,107,055, to complete the Sum for Public 
Education in England and Wales. 

2. £. 226,673, to complete the Sum for the 
Salaries and Expenses of the Science and Art 
Department. 

3. £. 80,447, to complete the Sum for the British 
Museum. 

4. £.1,400, to complete the Sum for the National 
Portrait Gallery. 

5. £. 7,610, to complete the Sum for the Uni- 
versity of London. 

6. £. 288,227, to complete the Sum for Public 
Education in Scotland. 

7. £.4,207, to complete the Sum for the Salaries 
and Expenses of the Board of Education for Scot- 
land. 

8. £. 13,754, to complete the Sum for Grants 
to Scottish Universities. 

9. £. 1,500, to complete the Sum for the Annuity 
to the Board of Trustees in Scotland, in aa 

3c 2 oO 





ouse,—Return to an Order, Order Confirm- 


380 


of Equivalents under the Treaty of Union, to be 
applied in maintenance of the National Gallery, 
Schoo! of Art, and Antiquarian Museum, Scotland, 
ard for the Exhibition of the Torrie Collection of 
Works of Art. 


ist August. 


1876. 


Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till this day. 


The Local Government Board’s Provisional Local 
| Orders Confirmation (Bingley, &amp;c.) Bill was, ac- ment Boar's 
Pro: es 


10. £.420,949, to complete the Sum for the: cording to Order, read the third time. 


Expenses of the Commissioners of National Educa- 
tion in Jreland. 

11. £.430, to complete the Sum for the Ex- 
penses of the Commissioners of Education in Jre- 
land. 

12. £. 1,739, to complete the Sum for the Na- 
tional Gallery of Jreland. 

13. £. 1,731, to complete the Sum for the Royal 
Trish Academy. 

14, £.3,587, to complete the Sum for the 
Queen’s University in Ireland. 

15. £.8,822, to complete the Sum for the 
Queen’s Colleges in /reland. 


Resolutions to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had come to several 
Resolutions. 

Ordered, That the Report be received To- 
morrow. 

Mr. Raikes also acquainted the House, that he 
was directed to move, That the Committee may 
have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, again 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking 
into consideration the Pollution of Rivers Bill, as 
amended in the Committee. 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now taken into 
consideration :—And a Debate arising thereupon ; 

A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That the Debate be now adjourned :—And 
the said Motion was, with leave of the House, 
withdrawn. 

And the Original Question being put; 

Ordered, That the Bill be now taken into con- 
sideration :—The House accordingly proceeded to 
take the Bill into consideration. 

A Clause (Application of this Act to Ireland) 
was twice read ; and made part of the Bill. 

Then Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made 
to the Bill, in p. 3, 1. 13, by leaving out the words 
* at a reasonable cost.” 

And the Question being proposed, That the 
words proposed to be left out stand part of the 
Bill: —And a Debate arising thereupon ; 


And it being ten minutes before Seven of the 
clock, the Debate was adjourned till this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Third 
Reading of the Bishopric of Truro Bill; 

And a Motion being made, That the Bill be 
now read the third time; 

Mr. Secretary Cross, by Her Majesty’s Com- 
mand, acquainted the House, That Her Majesty, 
having been informed of the purport of the Bill, 
give Her Consent, as far as Her Majesty’s in- 
terest is concerned, that the House may do therein 
as they shall think fit. 

Then the Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


ArmyandNavy The Order of the day being read, for resuming 


the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
upon the [8th day of July last, That Mr. Speaker 
do now leave the Chair (for Committee on the 
Army and Navy Expenditure, 1874-5); 











Orders Con. 


(Bi ley 
in 


Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


The Local Government Provisional Orders Loca 
(Chelmsford, &amp;c.) Bill was, according to Order, ment Provi. 
read the third time. (Chee 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. ke) Bil 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the [Zords.) 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Sheriff courts 
Reading of the Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Bill; (Scotland) By, 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Tralee Savings 

mittee on the Tralee Savings Bank Bill; Bank Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, re- 

solve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming War Deput- 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed ment and 
upon the 6th day of July last, That Mr. Speaker xenon 
do now leave the Chair (for Committee on the tion, &amp;.) Bill 
War Department and Post Office (Remuneration, 

&amp;c.) Bill) ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 

till this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Elementary 
mittee on the Elementary Education Provisional a. 
Order Confirmation (London) Bill; lieten 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, re- firmation 
solve itself into the said Committee. (onde ml 

The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Bow Street 
mittee on the Bow Street Police Court (Site) Police Court 
Bill; (Site) Bill. 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Parliamentary and Municipal Re- pr ition 
gistration (Boroughs) Bill; (Boroughs) 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday Bill. 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Parliamentary 
and Municipal 


Offences 
against the 
Person Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Offences against the Person Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Third Ses and Rive 
Reading of the Sea and River Banks (Lincoln- pe Bil. 
shire) Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
this day. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return of the Number of Prisoners who 
were detained in the several Gaols of England 
and Wales awaiting their Trial between the Dates 
the Ist day of January 1875 and the Istday of July 
1876, for Periods exceeding Two Weeks, exceeding 
One Month, exceeding Six Weeks, exceeding 
Two Months, exceeding Ten Weeks, exceeding 
Three Months, exceeding Fourteen Weeks, ex- 
ceeding Four Months, exceeding Eighteen Weeks, 
exceeding Five Months, exceeding Twenty-two 
Weeks, and exceeding Six Months. 


ed Prisoners 
resent detained #2 


Gaol. 


Resolved, 





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40 Vicroria. Ist—Znd 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 

— 1875 to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 

1876. to give directions, that there be laid before this 

House, a Return for the Summer Circuits in the 

years 1875 and 1876 of the Dates at which each 

Circuit commenced and terminated; the Number 

of Judges and of Days set apart for the Business 

at each Assize Town; the Time actually em- 

ployed at each Town in the trying of Prisoners 

ae the hearing of Causes, together with the 

Number of Prisoners tried and of Causes dis- 

posed of; also the Number of Days and portions 

of Days during which each Judge of Assize sat 

for the trying of Prisoners and hearing of Causes 

on Circuit, and the Number of Days on which 

each Judge was unemployed during the Period 
set apart for Circuit. 


&amp; 


Mr. Mowbray reported from the Select Com- 


- mittee on Standing Orders, several Resolutions ; 
which were read, as follow: 

Toll Bridges That in the case of certain of the Amendments 

(River _., made in the Toll Bridges (River Thames) Bill, 

Thames) Bill. D 


by the Select Committee to whom the Bill was 
referred, the Standing Orders ought to be dis- 
pensed with; that the Bill be permitted to proceed. 
Tramways That in the case of the Tramways (/re/and) 
(Ireland) Acts Acts Amendment (Lublin) Bill, the Standing 


cba) Bill Orders ought to be dispensed with ; that the Bill 
be permitted to proceed. 
The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 
Toll Bridges The House was moved, That the Report from 
(River the Select Committee on Standing Orders, in re- 
Thames) Bil. sect of the Toll Bridges (River Thames) Bill, 
might be read; and the same being read ; 
Resolved, That this House will, ‘To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into a Committee on the Bill. 
Tramwa The House was moved, That the Report from 


(Ireland) Acts the Select Committee on Standing Orders, in re- 
(Dublin) Bill. spect of the Tramways (Jreland) Acts Amendment 
(Dublin) Bill, might be read ; and the same being 
read ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
To-morrow. 


Waste Lands 


oi Pests Mr. Biggar —— a Bill to provide for the 


Dwellings Furchase of Waste Lands and the Erection of 
(Irland) Bill. Peasants Dwellings in Jre/and out of the Surplus 
Bill 280, Funds of the Commissioners of Church Tempo- 
ralities in Jreland: And the same was read the 
first time ; and ordered to be read a second time 
upon Tuesday next; and to be printed. 


-~ ~amaaaae Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
No 389, Copy of Memorandum, dated 20th day of No- 


vember 1875, by the Deputy Keeper of the Public 
Records, on the subject of the Destruction of use- 
less Documents now preserved in the Public Re- 
cord Office. 

Mr. William Henry Smith accordingly presented 
the said Paper. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


me from Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- 
sage had been brought from the Lords by one of 
their Clerks, as followeth : 

ConvictPrisons The Lords have agreed to the Convict Prisons 

)Bill. (Returns) Bill, without any Amendment. 
ee The Lords have agreed to the Isle of Man 

- veers) Bill. (Officers) Bill, without any Amendment. 
a. The Lords have agreed to the Notices to Quit 
* CTreland) Bill, with Amendments; to which the 
Sone ords desire the concurrence of this House. 
and Gas” +The Lords have agreed to the Halifax Water 
Extension Bil], 2nd Gas Extension Bill, with Amendments; to 
— the Lords desire the concurrence of this 

ouse. 


August. $81 


The Lords have agreed to the Monmouthshire yonmouth- 

Railway and Canal Bill, with Amendments ; to shire any 

+ na the Lords desire the concurrence of this *4 Canal 
ouse. 

The Lords have agreed to the Wakefield Water Wakefield 

Bill, with Amendments; to which the Lords desire Water Bill. 

the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have agreed to the Amendments New Shoreham 

made by this House to the New Shoreham Har- Harbour Bill 

bour Bill, without any Amendment. Lacan 

The Lords have agreed to the Report from the Parliamentary 

Joint Select Committee of the House of Lords and Agency. 

the House of Commons on Parliamentary Agency. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being Irish Political 
proposed, That, in the opinion of this House, the Prisoners. 
time has come when Her Majesty’s gracious par_ 

don may be advantageously extended to the pri 

soners, whether convicted before the civil tribunals 

or by courts martial, who are and have been for 

many years undergoing punishment for offences 

arising out of insurrectionary movements con- 

nected with Jreland ; 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Wednesday morning ; 


Wednesday, 2nd August, 1876: 


And the Question being put; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the{ Mr. O’ Connor Power, | 
Yeas, Captain Nolan: j 

Tellers for the! Sir Wiiliam Dyhe, ly 
Noes, Mr. Rowland Winn: f 

So it passed in the Negative. 


51. 
17. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill gxpiring Laws 
to continue various Expiring Laws: And that Mr, Continuance, 
William Henry Smith and Mr. Secretary Cross do 
prepare, and bring it in. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Local Govern- 
mittee on the Local Government Board’s Pro- ment Board’s 
visional Orders Confirmation (Artizans and La- Provisimal 
bourers Dwellings) Bill; firmation 

Ordered, ‘That the said Order be discharged. (Artizans and 

Ordered, That the Bill, so far as it relates to the Dwellings} 
Boroughs of Birmingham and Swansea, be com- Bill [Lo 

oroughs 0 9g ’ Bill [Lords.} 
mitted to a Select Committee, to be appointed by 
the Committee of Selection, as in the case of a 
Private Bill. 

Ordered, That, subject to the Rules, Orders, and 
Proceedings of this House, all Petitions which 
have been presented during the present Session 
against the Bill be referred to the Committee ; 
and such of the Petitioners as pray to be heard by 
themselves, their counsel, or agents, be heard upon 
their Petitions if they think fit, and counsel heard 


in favour of the Bill against the said Petitions. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking Municipal 
into consideration the Municipal Privileges ( Zre- Privileges __ 
land) Bill, as amended in the Coaminess ; (Ireland) Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into considera- 
tion upon Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming pojtution of 
the adjourned Debate on the Amendment which, Rivers Bill, 
upon the Ist day of this instant August, was pro- 
posed to be made to the Pollution of Rivers Bill, 
on consideration of the Bill, as amended; and 
which Amendment was, in p. 3,1. 13, to leave out 
the words “ at a reasonable cost ”; 

And the Question being again proposed, That 
the words proposed to be left out stand part of 
the Bill: —The House resumed the said adjourned 
Debate. 

And the Question being put:—It was resolved 








VoL. 131. 








in the Affirmative. 
3c3 Then 





Navy and Army 


Expenditure, 
1874-5. 


Sheriff Courts 


$82 


Then another Amendment was made to the Bill. 
Another Amendment was proposed to be made 
to the Bill, in p. 3,1. 42, by leaving out from the 
word “ locality ” to the word “ manufacture,” in 
. 4, 1. 8. 
. And the Question being put, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Bill :—It 
was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made 
to the Bill, in p. 5,1. 14, by hades out from the 
word “ senuanliions ” to the word “ offence,” in 1. 
16, both inclusive. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Bill :—It 
was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Then other Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
upon the 18th day of July last, That Mr. Speaker 
do now leave the Chair (for Committee on the 
Navy and Army Expenditure, 1874-5); 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 


(Seotiend) Bill, Reading of the Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Bill ; 


Tralee Savings 


Bank Bill. 


War Depart- 


Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the 7ralee Savings Bank Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 


ment and Post the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 


Office (Remu- 
neration, &amp;c.) 
Bill. 


Elementary 


Education Pro- 


visional Order 
Confirmation 
(London) 

Bill [Lords.] 


Bow Street 
Police Court 
(Site) Bill. 


Sea and River 
Banks (Lin- 
colnshi . 


Expiring Laws 


Continuance 
Bill. 
Bill 281. 


upon the 6th day of July last, That Mr. Speaker 
do now leave the Chair (for Committee on the 
War Department and Post Office (Remuneration, 
&amp;c.) Bill) ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Elementary Education Provisional 
Order Confirmation (London) Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day bein 
mittee on the Bow Street 
Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Third 
Reading of the Sea and River Banks (Lincoln- 


read, for the Com- 
olice Court (Site) 


Bill. shire) Bill; 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
this day. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented a Bill to 
continue various Expiring Laws: And the same 
was read the first time: and ordered to be read a 
second time upon Thursday next; and to be 
printed. 


And then the House, ape ene to sit 


till Two of the clock on 


ednesday morn- 
ing, adjourned till this day. 


lst—2nd August. 





1876. 
Wednesday, 2nd August, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 


T H E House proceeded to take into considera Southern 
tion the Southern Railway Bill. Railway Bil 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time, ‘"#l 


A Motion was made, and the Question being Parliamen 
— That this House, having considered the Agency. 

eport of the Joint Committee on Parliamentary 
Agency, is of opinion that it is desirable to la 
down more definite rules respecting the practice 
of Parliamentary Agency and the regulation of 
the conduct of Parliamentary Agents ; 

An Amendment was proposed tu be made to the 
Question, by leaving out em the word “ That” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the 
words, “at this late period of the Session, and 
** without further time for consideration of the 
“ Report of the Joint Committee, it is not expe- 
“ dient to delegate the powers of Parliament for 
“the purpose of constituting Parliamentary 
“ Agency as a distinct profession,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being proposed, That the 
words proposed to be left out stand part of the 
Question :—The said proposed Amendment and 
Motion were severally, with leave of the House, 
withdrawn. 


Several Public Petitions were 


resented, and Public 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the 


able. Petitions, 
Vide Thirty. 
first Report. 
Viscount Sandon presented, pursuant to the Fugitive 
directions of several Acts of Parliament,—Copy Criminals 
of Order in Council, dated 21st July 1876, for (Belsimm) 
carrying into eftect a Treaty between Her Majest 
and the King of the Belgians for the Mutual Ex- 
tradition of Fugitive Criminals. 
Copy of Order in Council, dated 21st July 1876, India Office 
approving a Statement of the Marquess of Salis- 
bury for making certain Alterations of Salaries 
and New Appointments in the Office of the Secre- 
tary of State for Zndia in Council. 
. he That the said Papers do lie upor the 
able. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented,—Return Revenue 
to an Order, dated the 20th day of June last, (United 
for Returns relative to the Revenue (United —_ 
Kingdom). 

Mr. William Henry Smith also presented, pur- High Court 
suant to the directions of several Acts of Parlia- Fc 
ment,—Accounts prepared in pursuance of thepivision) and 
28th section of the Act 38 &amp; 39 Vic. c. 77, showing, Court of 
in the manner directed in the 24th, 26th, 27th, and Bankrupt 
28th Sections of the Salaries and Funds Act, 1869 
(32 &amp; 33 Vic. c. 91), the Receipts and Expendi- 
ture of the Chancery Division of the High Court 
of Justice, and of the Court of Bankruptcy, also 
the Deficit or Surplus of Receipts as compare 
with Expenditure, for the year ended 31st March 
1876. 

An Account of Moneys paid out of the Consoli- Greek Lom. 
dated Fund, under the Acts 2 &amp; 3 Will, 4, c. 121, 
and 6 &amp; 7 Will. 4, c. 94, for Interest and Sinking 
Fund on that part of the Greek Loan which is 
guaranteed by this Country under the authority 
of the said Acts, and of the Amount repaid by the 
Greek Government on account of the same, up to 
31st December 1875. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 


Table. 
The Order of the day being read, for the Com- #¢ — 


mittee on the Sale of Intoxicating Liquors 0D oy sunday 
Sunday (Ireland) No. 2) Bill; rou) Bl 

And a Motion bein ~— 
being proposed, That 
the Chair ; 


made, and the Question 
. Speaker do now leave 


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40 Victoria. 


An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 

- Question by leaving out from the word “ That” 

to the end of the Question, in order to add the 

words ‘‘ this House will, upon this day two 

«“ months, resolve itself into the said Committee,” 
instead thereof. 

And the Question being proposed, That the 
words proposed to be left out stand part of the 
Question :—And a Debate arising thereupon ; 

And it being a quarter of an hour before Six 
of the clock, the Debate stood adjourned till To- 
morrow. 


jmsof Court § The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Procedure Reading of the Inns of Court Procedure Amend- 


Aneninent ment Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday the 10th day of this instant Au- 
gust. 

Ways and The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Means. mittee of Ways and Means; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 
Forfeiture The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
Relief Bil. into a Committee on the Forfeiture Relief Bill; 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes reported, That 
the Committee had gone through the Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration To-morrow. 
Supply The Order of the day being read, for receiving 
(ist August.) the Report from the Committee of Supply ; 
Ordered, That the Report be received To-mor- 
row. 
Supply. The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply ; 
Resolved, What this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 
Toll Bridges The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
ee) _ mittee on the Toll Bridges (River Thames) Bill; 
* Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 
Tramways The Tramways( Ireland) Acts Amendment ( Dub- 


— —" lin) Bill was, according to Order, read a second 
(Dublin) Bill, time; and committed to a Select Committee of 
Five Members, Three to be appointed by the 


House, and Two by the Committee of Selection. 


Pollution of 


ollution The Order of the day being read, for the Third 
Rivers Bill. Reading of the Pollution of Rivers Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
To-morrow. 
NavyandArmy The Order of the day being read, for — 
ae the adjourned Debate on the Question propose 
, upon the 18th day of July last, That Mr. Speaker 
do now leave the Chair (for Committee on the 
Navy and Army Expenditure, 1874-5) ; 
Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till To-morrow. 
Tralee Savings The House, according to Order, resolved itself 


Bill. into a Committee on the Tralee Savings Bank 
Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes re- 

rted, That the Committee had gone through the 
ill, and directed him to report the same, without 


endment. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 

To-morrow. 
wa, Depart. The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
Post Otice the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 


(Rem 
ge a the 6th day of July last, That Mr. — 


VoL. 131. 


Qnd—-3rd August. 





383 


do now leave the Chair (for Committee on the 
War Department and Post Office (Reniuneration, 
&amp;c.) Bill) ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Elementary 
mittee on the Elementary Education Provisional Baucation 
Order Confirmation (Zondon) Bill ; Osi Genter 
Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- ation (London) 


solve itself into the said Committee. Bill (Lords. } 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Bow Street 
mittee on the Bow Street Police Court (Site Pay — 
Bill ; ( ite) Bill. 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Third Sea and River 
Reading of the Sea and River Banks (Lincolnshire) Banks (Lin- 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
To-morrow. 


Ordered, That the Union of Benefices Bill be Union of 
read a second time To-morrow. Benefices Bill 
[Lords.]} 
Ordered, That the Legal Practitioners Bill be Legal 
read a second time To-morrow. —e 
Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- Parliamentary 
solve itself into a Committee on the Parliamentary Electors — 
Electors Registration Bill. —_— 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 








Thursday, 3rd August, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 
S EVERAL Public Petitions were presented, Public 
\? and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions. 
Vide Thirty- 
first Report. 
Ordered, That the Accounts relative to the High nigh Court of 
Court of Justice (Chancery Division), which were Justice 


presented upon the Ist day of this instant August, Navision} 
be printed. No. 390. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Provisional Provisional 
Order Confirmation Bills, which was presented Order Con. 
upon the Ist day of this instant August, be a 

PY y gust, No. 391. 
printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Re- Revenue 
venue (United Kingdom), which was presented (United 


upon the 2nd day of this instant August, be Kingdom.) 
printed. No, 392. 


Ordered, That the Accounts relative to the High High Court 
Court of Justice (Chancery Division ) and Court of = 
Bankruptcy, which were presented upon the 2nd }yivision) and 


day of this instant August, be printed. Court of Bank- 
ruptcy. 


No, 393, 

Ordered, That the Account relative to the Greek Greek Loan. 

Loan, which was presented upon the 2nd day of No, 394, 
this instant August, be printed. 


Mr. James Lowther presented, by Her Majesty’s Nobility of 
Command,—Copy of pee. Ye in reference Malta. 
to certain Grievances complained of by the No- 
bility of Malta. 
Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Secretary Cross presented, by Her Majesty’s Local Govern- 
Command,—Fifth Annual Report of the Local mest 8 ard. 








Government Board, 1875-76. 
304 Mr. 





3rd August. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Re. 
ag Education By 


Mr. Secretary Cross also presented,—Return to 
an Order, dated the 20th day of July last, for a 
Return relative to Owners of Land (/reland). 

Return to an Order, dated the 24th day of July 

Constabulary. last, for a Return relative to the Jrzsh Con- 

stabulary. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Greenwich 


Mr. Algernon Egerton presented, pursuant to the 
Hospital. 


directions of an Act of Parliament,—Accounts of 
the Receipt and Expenditure of the Capital and 
of the Income derived from the Lands and other 
Property held for the benefit of Greenwich Hospital, 
with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor 
General thereon, 1874-5. 

. _—_ That the said Accounts do lie upon the 

able. 


Local Taxation 
Returns 
(England.) 


Mr. Sclater-Booth presented, pursuant to the 
directions of several Acts of Parliament,—Ab- 
stract of Local Taxation Returns for the year 
1874-75. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


The following Paper was laid upon the Table 
by the Clerk of the House,—Return to an Order, 
dated the Ist day of this instant August, for a 
Return relative to Vivisection (Petitions). 


Vivisection 
(Petitions. ) 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Copy of Letter from the Admiralty to Com- 
modore Hoskins, conveying their views on the 
alleged introduction of Measles into Fiji by the 
Officers of Her Majesty’s Ship “ Didv.” 


Fiji (Measles.) 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Copy of the Letter from the Secretary of 


Fiji (Measles. ) 


State for the Colonies to the Governor of Fiji, | P 


communicating the views of Her Majesty’s Govern- 
ment as to the Responsibility of the Administrator 
of the Colony and the Acting Colonial Secretary 
for the introduction of Measles into Fiji. 


Ordered, That the Amendments made by the 
Lords to the Poor Law Amendment Bill be taken 
into consideration upon Monday next; and be 
printed. 


Poor Law 
Amendment 
Bill. 


Bill 282. 
A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 


posed, That this House do now adjourn :—And the 
said Motion was, with leave of the House, withdrawn. 


Adjournment. 


Message from 


ore 2 Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- 


sage had been brought from the Lords by one of 
their Clerks, as followeth : 

The Lords have agreed to the Metropolitan 
Inner Circle Completion Railway Bill, with 
Amendments; to which the Lords desire the 
concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have agreed to the Alexandra ( New- 
port) Dock Bill, with Amendments; to which 
the Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have agreed to the Amendment 
made by this House to the Metropolis (Whitechapel 
and Limehouse) Improvement Scheme Confirma- 
tion Bill, without any Amendment. 


Metropolitan 
Inner Circle 

(Completion) 
Railway Bill. 


Alexandra 
(Newport) 
Dock Bill. 
Metropolis 
(Whitechapel 
and Lime- 
house) Im- 
rovement 
heme Co.1- 
firmation Bill 
[Lords.] 
The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
to amend the Law relating to Parochial Records ; 
to which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House. 


The Parochial Records Bill was read the first 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time To- 


Bill 283, morrow, at Two of the clock; and to be printed. 





1876. 


consideration the Elementary Education Bill, 
amended in the Committee ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now taken into 
consideration ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to 
the Question, by leaving out from the word 
“ That” to the end of the Question, in order to 
add the words “in the opinion of this House, 
“principles have been introduced into this Bill 
** since its Second Reading which were not then 
‘either mentioned to or contemplated by the 
‘© House, which tend to disturb the basis on which 
‘* Elementary Education now rests, to impede the 
*‘ formation of new schools, to introduce discord 
** and confusion into the election of School Boards, 
*“‘ and to place the management of schools in the 
** hands of persons who neither contribute to their 
“‘ support nor are elected by the ratepayers,” in- 
stead thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Question ; 

he House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the (Sir William Dyke, 

Yeas, { 

Tellers for the; Mr. Adam, 

Noes, \Lord Kensington: 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That the Bill be now taken into con- 
sideration :—The House accordingly proceeded to 
take the Bill into consideration. 

A Clause (Returns of registrars of births and 
deaths to School Boards) was twice read; and 
made part of the Bill. 

Another Clause (Power of officer of local au- 
thority to enter place of employment. See 30 and 
31 Vie. c. 146, 8. 9) was twice read; and made 
art of the Bill. 

Another Clause (Application of the Act to 
— was twice read; and made part of the 

ill. 

Another Clause was offered to be added to the 
Bill (No prosecutions to be undertaken except with 
the authority of at least two members of a School 
Board, School Attendance Committee, or Local 
Committee):—And the said Clause was brought 
up, and read the first and second time, and amended; 
and made part of the Bill. 

Another Clause was offered to be added to the 
Bill (Statement of income of schools in receipt of 
an annual grant):—And the said Clause was 
brought up, and read the first time. 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That the said Clause be now read a 
second time; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the fom Shaw Lefevre, 

Yeas, Mr. Kay-Shuttleworth : 

Tellers for thef Sir William Dyke, 

Noes, Mr. Rowland Winn: 

So it passed in the Negative. 

Then an Amendment was made to the Bill. 

Auother Amendment was proposed to be made 
to the Bill, in p. 1, 1. 16, by leaving out the words 
‘it shall be the duty of.” 

And the Question being proposed, That the 
words a pen to left out stand part of the Bill: 
—The said proposed Amendment was, with leave 
of the House, withdrawn. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made 
to the Bill, in p. 1, 1. 25, by inserting, after the 
word “ years,” the words “ unless the child, nang 
« of the age of nine years, had made two hundre 
“ and fifty school attendances in each of the four 


“ previous years, and, since it reached the age of 
s* nine 


1 182, 


Mr. Rowland Winn: f 
} 120. 


\ 67. 


} 82. 











40 Victoria. 


“nine years, made two hundred and fifty school 
“ attendances, or had received a certificate fixed 
« by Standard Four of the Code of one thousand 
« eight hundred and seventy-six.” 

And the Question being proposed, That those 
words be there inserted:—The said proposed 
Amendment was, with leave of the House, with- 
drawn. 

Then other Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made 
to the Bill, in p. 3, 1.29, by inserting, after the 
word “ attend,” the words “ but this excuse shall 
not be held to apply in the case of children 
“ Jiving on board canal boats.” 

And the Question being proposed, That those 
words be there inserted: — The said proposed 
Amendment was, with leave of the House, with- 
drawn. 

Then other Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made 
to the Bill, in p. 5, 1. 20, by leaving out the word 
“ two,” in order to insert the word “ three,” in- 
stead thereof. 

And the Question being proposed, That the 
word “ two” stand part of the Bill:—The said 
proposed Amendment was, with leave of the House, 
withdrawn. 

Then other Amendments were made to the 
Bill. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made 
to the Bill, in p. 6, 1. 17, by inserting, after the 
word “ pay,” the words “If the parent of any 
“ child who is resident in the district of a School 
“Board is unable, by reason of poverty, to pay 
“the fees of such child at a public elementary 
“ school, or any part of such fee, and if the School 
“ Board fails to make regulations, under Clauses 
‘“‘ twenty-five and seventy-four of the Elementary 
“ Education Act of 1870 for the payment of the 
“same, it shall be the duty of the guardians, if 
“satisfied of such inability, to pay the same in 
“ accordance with the provisions of this section.” 

And the Question being proposed, That those 
words be there inserted :—And a Debate arising 
thereupon ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That the Debate be now adjourned ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the; Mr. Zeatham, 7 

Yeas, | Mr. Dillwyn : J 

Tellers for thef Sir William Dyke, } 

Noes, Mr. Rowland Winn: 

So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being again proposed, That 
those words be there inserted ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That this House do now adjourn ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 


91. 
192. 


Tellers for thej Sir Charles Dilke, 91 
Yeas, (Sir Henry Havelock : } : 
Tellers for the; Sir William Dyke, \ 195 
Noes, { Mr. Rowland Winn: oo 


So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being again proposed, That 
those words be there inserted:—And a Debate 
arising thereupon ; 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Friday morning ; 


Friday, 4th August, 1876: 


And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That the Debate be now adjourned ; 
The House divided. 
The Yeas to the Right; 
The Noes to the Left. 
Vou, 131. 





Srd—A4th August. 





385 


Tellers for the (Sir Charles Forster, 82 
Yeas, (Mr. Leith: = 
Tellers forthe {Sir William Dyke, } 179 
Noes, Mr. Rowland Winn: ‘ 
So it passed in the Negative. 
And the Question being again proposed, That 
those words be there inserted ; 
And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That this House do now adjourn ; 
The House divided. 
The Yeas to the Right ; 
The Noes to the Left. 


Tellers for the ( Mr. Mundella, 77 
Yeas, Sir John Lubbock : } . 

Tellers for the {Sir William Dyke, 
Noes, LMr. Rowland Winn: i 170. 


So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being again proposed, That 
those words be there inserted:—And a Debate 
arising thereupon ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That the Debate be now adjourned ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for _ Mr. Osborne Morgan, ) 79 

Yeas, Mr. Alderman M*Arthur,f ‘~ 

Tellers for ny Sir William Dyhe, } 160 

Noes, Mr. Rowland Winn: hoes 

So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being again proposed, That 
those words be there inserted ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That this House do now adjourn ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the; Mr. Blake, 7 

Yeas,  \Mr. Brogden: f 

Tellers for the{ Sir William Dyhe, 7 

Noes, LMr. Rowland Winn: f . 

So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being again proposed, That 
those words be there inserted:—And a Debate 
arising thereupon ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That the Debate be now adjourned ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 


68. 
56. 


Tellers for the { Mr. Monk, 1 64 
Yeas, LMr. John Maitland: es, 

Tellers for the; Sir William Dyke, } 
Noes, Mr. Rowland Winn: 153. 


So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being again proposed, That 
those words be there inserted ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That this House do now adjourn ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for thes Mr. Bristowe, 63 

Yeas, \ Mr. Hayter: } : 

Tellers for the{Sir William Dyhe, \ 48 

Noes, LMr. Rowland Winn: J : 

So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being again proposed, That 
those words be there inserted:—And a Debate 
arising thereupon ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That the Debate be now adjourned ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 


Tellers for the; Mr. Serjeant Simon, } 61 
Yeas, -_ James : ; 

Tellers for thefSir William Dyhe, | 
Noes, {Mr Rowland Winn: js 144. 


So it passed in the Negative. 
3D And 


Pollution of 
Rivers Bill. 


Supply. 


Cruelty to 
Animals Bill 
[ Lords. } 


Local Govern- 
ment Board’s 
Provisional 
Orders Con- 
firmation 
(Bath, &amp;c.) 
Bill [ Lords.) 


Crossed 
Cheques 


Bill [ Lords. ] 


Prisons 


(Scotland) Bill. 


J.ocal Loans 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Supreme Court 


of Judicature 
(Ireland) Bill 
[{ Lords. } 


Suez Canal 
(Shares) Bill. 


386 


And the Question being again proposed, That 
those words be there inserted ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made tu the 
said proposed Amendment, in |. 1, by leaving out 
the words “ who is,” in order to insert the words 
** not being,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being proposed, That the 
words “ who is” stand part of the proposed Amend- 
ment :—And a Debate arising thereupon ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That the Debate be now adjourned ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for thes Sir Charles Dilke, 1 

Yeas, Mr. Dillwyn: f 

Tellers for the {Sir William Dyke, 1 

Noes, LMr. Rowland Winn: J 

So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being again proposed, That 
the words “ who is” stand part of the proposed 
Amendment; 

A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That this House do now adjourn:—And 
the said Motion was, with leave of the House, 
withdrawn. 

And the Question being again proposed, That 
the words “who is” stand part of the proposed 
Amendment :--And a Debate arising thereupon ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be adjourned till this 
day, at Two of the clock. 


57. 


140. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Third 
Reading of the Pollution of Rivers Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
this day, at Two of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply ; 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, at 
Two of the clock, resolve itself into the said Com- 
mittee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Cruelty to Animals Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day, at Two of the clock. 

The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Local Government Board’s Provi- 
sional Orders Confirmation ( Bath, &amp;c.) Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, at 
Two of the clock, resolve itself into the said Com- 
mittee. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking 
into consideration the Crossed Cheques Bill, as 
amended in the Committee ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into considera- 
tion upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Prisons ( Scotland) Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
upon the 20th day of July last, That the Local 
Loans (Jre/and) Bill be now read a second time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Supreme Court of Judicature 
(Jreland) Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Suez Canal (Shares) Bill; 


3rd—4th August. 











1876. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day, at Two of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
consideration the Amendments made by the Lords 
to the Commons Bill; 

Ordered, That the said Amendments be taken 
into consideration this day, at Two of the clock. 


Commons Bill, 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Norwicy and 
Reading of the Norwich and Boston (Corrupt Boston 
Voters) Bill 4 (Corrupt 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time overs) Bill. 


upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Public Record Office Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Public Record 
Office Bill, 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Prisons Bill 
mittee on the Prisons Bill; , 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, at Two 
of the clock, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Prisons 
Reading of the Prisons (Jreland) Bill ; (Ireland) Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day, at ‘Two of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Appellate 
mittee on the Appellate Jurisdiction Bill; ee 

Resolved, That this House will, thisday, at Two =~ = 
of the clock, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Third Police 
Reading of the Police (Expenses) Act Continu- (@xpenses) Act 
ance Bill; — 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time ~ 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- pensions 
mittee on the Pensions Commutation Act Amend- Commutation 
ment Bill; mols ag 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, at Two ; 
of the clock, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Sheriff Courts 
Reading of the Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Bill; —_Setlan¢) Bill. 
Ordered, 'Vhat the Bill be read a second time 
this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Expiring Laws 
Reading of the Expiring Laws Continuance Bill ; Continuance 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time Bill. 
this day, at Two of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for receiving supply 
the Report from the Committee of Supply ; [1st August] 
Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 


Navy and Army 
Expenditure, 
1874-5. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming the 
adjourned Debate on the Question proposed upon 
the 18th day of July last, That Mr. Speaker do 
now leave the Chair (for Committee on the Navy 
and Army Expenditure, 1874-5); 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till this day. 


The Tralee Savings Bank Bill was, according to a 
Order, read the third time. - 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. , 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


War Depart- 
ment and Post 


e (R 
upon the 6th day of J uly last, That Mr. Speaker poneaech ~ 
do now leave the Chair (for Committee on the War gc.) Bill 
Department 


The Order of the day being read, for pene. 
the adjourned Debate on the Question propose 








} Bill. 


Bill. 


on 


3) Act 
nce 


tion 
id- 


yurts 


) Bill. 


Laws 


ce 


ist.] 


Army 
ure, 


wings 
l, 


Flementary 
Faducation 
Provisional 
(Order Confirm- 
ation (London) 
Bill [Lords. } 


Bow Street 
Police Court 
(site) Bill. 


Jurors Remu- 
neration Bill. 


Queen Anne’s 
Bounty Bill 
(Lords. } 


Clean Rivers 
Bill (Lords. } 


Cruelty 
Prevention 
Bill. 


Offences 
against the 
Person Bill. 


Sale of Intoxi- 
cating Liquors 
on Sunday 
(Ireland) 

(No. 2) Bill. 


Forfeiture 
Relief Bill. 


Toll Bridges 
iver 


Thames) Bill, 


Union of 
Benefices 


Bill (Lords, ] 


Practitioners 
Bill, 


Tramways 
(Ireland) Acts 
‘Amendment 
(Dublin) Bill. 


40 Victoria. 


Department and Post Office (Remuneration, &amp;c.) 
Bill; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till this day, at Two of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Elementary Education Provisional 
Order Confirmation (London) Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, at Two 
of the clock, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Bow Street Police Court (Site) Bill; 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, at Two 
of the clock, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Jurors Remuneration Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Queen Anze’s Bounty Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day, at Two of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Clean Rivers Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Cruelty Prevention Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day, at Two of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Offences against the Person Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, at 
Two of the clock, resolve itself into the said Com- 
mittee. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Amendment which, 
upon the 2nd day of this instant August, was pro- 
posed to be made to the Question, That Mr. 
Speaker do now leave the Chair (for Committee 
on the Sale of Intoxicating Liquors on Sunday 
(Ireland) (No. 2) Bill); 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking 
into consideration the Forfeiture Relief Bill, as 
amended in the Committee ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into considera- 
tion this day, at Two of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Toll Bridges (River Thames) Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Union of Benefices Bill; 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Legal Practitioners Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day, at Two of the clock. 


Mr. Solicitor General for Jreland, Mr. Gibson, 
and Mr. Maurice Brooks were nominated Members 


of the Select Committee on the Tramways ( /reland) 
Acts Amendment (Dublin) Bill. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till half an hour after Four of the clock on 
Friday morning, adjourned till this day. 


VoL. 131. 


3rd—4th August. _ §87 


Friday, 4th August, 1870. 


PRAYERS. 


N R. Solicitor General for Ireland reported Tramways 
LVI from the Select Committee on the Tramways —— Ache 
(Ireland) Acts Amendment (Dublin) Bill; That ‘Dublin) Bill. 
they had examined the allegations of the Bill, and — 
found the same to be true; and directed him to 
report the same, without Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to a 


Committee of the whole House, for To-morrow. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Monmouth- 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Mon- pone gees 
mouthshire Railway and Canal Bill; and the same” sate 
were twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 


Lordships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Wakefield 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Wake- Water Bill. 
field Water Bill; and the same were twice read, 
and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 


Lordships. 


Several Publie Petitions were presented, and Public 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions. 





Vide Thirty- 
first Report. 
Ordered, That the Accounts relative to Green- Greenwich 
wich Hospital, which were presented upon the 3rd Hospital. 
day of this instant August, be printed. No. 395. 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to Local Taxa- Local Taxation 
tion Returns (England), which was presented upon Returns 


he 3 ; "she. s . ’ (England.) 
the 3rd day of this instant August, be printed Ne. 208 


Mr. Algernon Egerton presented,—Return to an Navy (Ships 
Order, dated the 13th day of July last, for a Re- Paid off.) 
turn relative to the Navy (Ships paid off). 

Return to an Order, dated the 3rd day of this Fiji (Measles.) 
instant August, for a Return relative to Fiji 
( Measles). 

Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the 


Table. 


Mr. Bourke presented,—Return to an Address Extradition of 
to Her Majesty, dated the 23rd day of May last, Prisoners 
for a Return relative to the Extradition of Pri- (Great Britain 
toy ae 4 . , and United 
soners {Great Britain and United States), (Worth states) (North 
America, No. 9, 1876). America, 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the ** 9, 1876.) 
Table. 


Mr. Secretary Cross presented, by Her Ma- Charitable 
jesty’s Command,—Copy of Thirty-first Annual —— oa 
Report of the Commissioners of Charitable Dona- (Ireland.) 
tions and Bequests for Jreland. 

Copy of Report of the Inspectors of Irish Fisheries 
Fisheries on the Sea and Inland Fisheries of Jre- (reland.) 
land, for 1875. : 

Copy of Report of the Commissioner of Police potice 
of the Metropolis, for the year 1875. ( Metropolis.) 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Lord George Hamilton presented, by Her Maz- East India 
jesty’s Command,—Copy of Report to the Secre- ‘*#!™4*) 
tary of State for Jndia in Council on Railways in 
India, for the year 1875-76, by Juland Danvers, 
Esquire, Government Director of the Indian Rail- 
way Companies. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 








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388 4th August. 1876. 


. Sir Charles Adderley presented,—Return to an 
oe Order, dated the 2nd ae of March last, for a Re- 
Unseaworthi- turn relative to Merchant Ships detained for 
_ Unseaworthiness. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Sheriff Courts Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
(Scotland) = to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return for the year ending the 31st day 
of December 1875, giving in separate Columns,— 

(1.) List of the several Sheriffs in Scotland ; 

(2.) The Counties within which they have 
respectively Jurisdiction ; 

(3.) The Places where they hold their Courts; 

(4.) Number of Cases in ordinary Court, if 
any, disposed of by each Sheriff in the first 
instance ; 

(5.) Number of Cases in ordinary Court dis- 
posed of by each Sheriff on Appeal ; 

(6.) Number of Cases in Debts Recovery 
Court disposed of by each Sheriff in the first 
instance ; 

(7.) Number of Cases in Debts Recovery 
Court disposed of by each Sheriff on Ap- 
veal ; 

(8.) Number of Cases in Small Debts Court 
disposed of by each Sheriff; 

(9.) Number of Criminal Cases (including 
Prosecutions for Crimes, Prosecutions for 
Offences, and statutory Prosecutions for 
Penalties) disposed of by each Sheriff ; 

(10.) Number of Days on which each Sheriff 
held Courts Civil (exclusive of Registration 
of Voters) or Criminal within his Sheriff- 
dom ; 

(11.) Number of Days on which each Sheriff 
held Registration of Voters Courts within 
his Sheriffdom ; 

(12.) The Salary of each Sheriff: 

— The same Return in regard to the Sheriffs’ 
Substitute in Scotland, except under Headings (5) 
and (7): Return for the same Period, giving,— 

(1.) List of the several Sheriff Clerks and 
Commissary Clerks in Scotland ; 

(2.) The Salaries and Emoluments of each 
thereof ; 

(3.) The Sums paid for Staff and other Office 
Expenditure where these are separated 
from the Salaries and Emoluments of each 
thereof: 

— Return for the same Period, giving,— 

(1.) A List of the Procurators Fiscal of 
Sheriff Courts in Scotland ; 

(2.) The Salaries and Emoluments of each 
thereof; 

(3.) The Sums paid for Staff and other Office 
Expenditure where these are separated 
from the Salaries and Emoluments of each 
thereof : 

Return for the same Period giving the Fees 
paid to each Sheriff Clerk and Commissary Clerk 
in Scotland, and accounted for by him to Ex- 
chequer: And, a Summary of the foregoing 
Returns, in so far as they consist of Statements of 
Receipts and Expenditure. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Returns of the Names of the Unions in England 
and Wales, exclusive of the Metropolis, showing 
in which of them the Valuation Lists have been 
completely revised and returned approved of, up 
to April 1875, together with the Total Amount of 
the Rateable Value upon which the Contributions 
to the Common Fund were calculated at Lady 
Day 1874, and the Amount of the Rateable Value 
as settled by the Assessment Committee in the 
Lists in force at Lady Day 1875, with the Differ- 
ence between the Two; with the Amounts of the 





Gross Estimated Rental as settled in the same 
Lists in force at Lady Day 1874 and 1875, with 
the Difference between the Two: Of the 
Amount of the Expenses incurred in each Union 
in respect of these Vists during the year ending 
at April 1875, the Amount paid to the Clerk of 
the Assessment Committee being shown sepa- 
rately :——-Of the Number of Appeals for the 
year ending at Lady Day 1875, which have been 
made against the Valuation Lists under Section 
32 of the Union Assessment Committee Act, or 
to the General Assessment Sessions in the Metro- 
polis, and the Number of Cases in which the 
Valuation Lists were altered on Appeal :——Of 
the Number of Appeals which have been made 
to the Quarter Sessions against Rates made upon 
Valuations finally approved of by the Committee 
after Notice to the Committee, and the Number of 
Cases in which such Rates were altered on Ap- 
peal during the same Period:——Like Return in 
regard to Unions and Parishes in the Metropolis 
to which “ The Valuation Metropolis Act, 1869,” 
applies :——And, Return of the Gross Estimated 
Rental and of the Rateable Value of the Unions 
and Parishes in Eugland and Wales out of the 
Metropolis to which ‘* The Union Assessment 
Committee Act, 1862,” did not apply, according 
to the Poor Rates in force at Lady Day 1874 and 
1875 respectively (in continuation of Parliamentary 
Paper, No. 395, of Session 1875). 

Mr. Salt accordingly presented the said Returns. 

Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Return showing the Number, Ages, Ratings, 
and Causes of Death of Seamen reported to the 
Board of Trade during the year 1875 as having 
died in the British Merchant Service (in continu- 
ation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 312, of Session 
1875). 

Sir Charles Adderley accordingly presented the 
said Return. 

Ordered, ‘Vhat the said Return do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Amendment which, 
upon the 3rd day of this instant August, was pro- 
posed to be made to the Amendment which, upon 
that day, was proposed to be made to the Element- 
ary Education Bill (on consideration of the Bill, 
as amended), and which Amendment was, in p. 6, 
1. 17, to insert after the word “ pay” the words 
if the parent of any child who is resident in the 
** district of a School Board is unable, by reason 
“ of poverty, to pay the fees of such child at a 
** public elementary school, or any part of such 
* fee, and if the School Board fails to make regu- 
“ lations, under Clauses twenty-five and seventy- 
** four of the Elementary Education Act of 1870, 
** for the payment of the same, it shall be the duty 
* of the guardians, if satisfied of such inability, to 
*€ pay the same in accordance with the provisions of 
“this section ;” and which Amendment to the 
proposed Amendment was, to leave out the words 
‘‘ who is,” in l. 1, in order to insert the words 
* not being,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being again proposed, That the 
words “ who is” stand part of the proposed Amend- 
ment:—The House resumed the said adjourned 
Debate. 

And the Amendment to the proposed Amend- 
ment, and the proposed Amendment, were severally, 
with leave of the House, withdrawn. 

Then another Amendment was made to the Bill. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made 
to the Bill, in p. 6, 1. 10, by Jeaving out the words 
“not being resident in the district of a School 
** Board.” 

And 


Merchant 
Service, 


No, 398, 


Elementary 
Education Bill. 





j 
Bill. 





40 Victoria. 


proposed to be left out stund part of the Bill; 
The House divided. 
The Yeas to the Right; 


The Noes to the Left. | 


Tellers for the { Mr. Hayter, Loy 
Yeas, UMr. Hopwood : | ees 

Tellers for the {Sir William Dyke, lizs 
Noes, UMr. Rowland Winn: imo 


So it passed in the Negative. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made 
to the Bill, in p. 6, 1. 14, by leaving out the words 
“ it shall be the duty of.” 

And the Question being put, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Bill; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the {Sir William Dyke, 1 

Yeas, Mr. Rowland Winn: J 

Tellers for thef Mr. Chamberlain, \ 

Noes. \ Mr. Hopwood : J 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made 
to the Bill, in p. 6, ]. 15, by inserting, after the 
word “ inability,” the words “ subject to such 
“ yegulations as they may make from time to time 
“ with the approval of the Education Department.” 

And the ovation being proposed, That those 
words be there inserted: — The said proposed 
Amendment was, with leave of the House, with- 
drawn. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made 
to the Bill, in p. 6, 1. 18, by leaving out the words 
“ The parent shall not by reason of any such pay- 
“ ment made under this section be deprived of any 
“franchise, right, or privilege, or be subject to 
“ any disability or disqualification.” 

And the Question being put, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Bill; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the {Sir William Dyke, 1159 

Yeas, \Mr. Rowland Winn: Y vee 

Tellers for thef Mr. Hopwood, } 49 


Noes, UMr. Anderson: 
So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 
And it being after Ten minutes before Seven of 
the clock, the further proceeding on Consideration 
of the Bill was adjourned till this day. 


176. 


72. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- 
sage had been brought from the Lords by one of 
their Clerks, as followeth : 


Message from 
the Lords. 


Newport(Mon- ‘Ihe Lords have agreed to the Newport (Mon- 
—. mouthshire) Improvement Bill, with Amendments ; 
Bil. ment to which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House. 
South Eastern The Lords have agreed to the South Eastern 
Railway Bill Railway Bill, with Amendments; to which the 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 
tena The Lords have agreed to the East Norfolk 
™y Bil. Railway Bill, with Amendments; to which the 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House, 
Wye Valley The Lords have agreed to the Wye Valley 


Railway Bill. Railway Bill, with Amendments; to which the 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 

= days The Lords have agreed to the South Metro- 

Light and Coke POlitan Gas Light and Coke Bill, with Amend- 

Bill. ments; to which the Lords desire the concurrence 

a of this House. . 

Coke ieee he Lords have agreed to the Gas Light and 

Bill. Coke Company Bill, with Amendments ; to which 
the Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 


nies and The Lords have agreed to the London and Til- 
spud bury, and Dartford and Kent Coast Junction 
Kent Coast Railway Bill, with Amendments; to which the 





“9 Rail- Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 
VoL. 131, 








4th—ith August. 380 


And the Question being put, That the words | 
by this House, to the West Ham Local Board Local Board 


The Lords have agreed to the Amendment made West Ham 


Bill, without any Amendment. i tas 

The Lords request, that this House will be Soldiers, 
pleased to communicate to their Lordships, a Copy Sailors, and 
of the Report from the Select Committee ap- Supienacalt 
pointed by this House in the present Session of 
Parliament on Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines 
(Civil Employment), together with the Pro- 
ceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence, 
and Appendix. 

The Lords request, that this House will be Employers 
pleased to communicate to their Lordships, a Copy Liability for 
of the Report from the Select Committee ap- a 7 

: ° ° Pgs. eir Servants. 
pointed by this House in the present Session of 
Parliament on Employers Liability for Injuries to 
their Servants, together with the Proceedings of 
the Committee, and Minutes of Evidence. 

Ordered, That Printed Copies of the said Re- 
ports be communicated to the Lords, as desired by 
their Lordships: And that the Clerk do deliver 
the same. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- supply. 
mittee of Supply ; 

A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair: 
—And the said Motion was, with leave of the 
House, withdrawn. 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resumed the Elementary 
further Proceeding on consideration of the Ele- Education Bill, 
mentary Education Bill, as amended; and other 
Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made 
to the Bill, in p. 8, by inserting after the word 
** proficiency,” at the end of the last Amendment, 
the words “and shall provide that the amount 
* of the contribution shall be dependent upon the 
* results of such examination.” 

And the Question being put, That those words 
be there inserted :—It passed in the Negative. 

Then other Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made 
to the Bill, in p. 13,1]. 11, by inserting after the 
word “ Act,” the words “ nor shall any member of 
* such local committee sit as a member of the 
* court of summary jurisdiction in any proceeding 
* instituted at the instance of such local com- 
** mittee.” 

And the Question being proposed, That those 
words be there inserted:—The said proposed 
Amendment was, with leave of the House, with- 
drawn. 

Then other Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Third Pollution of 
Reading of the Pollution of Rivers Bill ; Rivers Bilt 
And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read the 
third time ; + 
An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the word “ now,” and, at 
the end of the Question, adding the words ‘“ upon 
“ this day month.” 
And the Question being proposed, That the 
word “ now,” stand part of the Question ; 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Saturday morning ; 


Saturday, 5th August, 1876: 


And the Question being put:—It was resolved 
in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That the Bill be now read the third 
time:—The Bill was accordingly read the third 


time. 
3D3 Resolved, 





Ways and 
Means. 


Local Govern- 
ment Board’s 
Provisional 
Orders Con- 
firmation (Bil- 
brough, &amp;c.) 
Bill [ Lords], 


and Local Government Provisional Orders (Birmingham, &amp;c.) Bill [Lords.] 


Local Govern- 
ment Board’s 
Provisional 
Orders Con- 
firmation (Bil- 
brough, &amp;c.) 
Bill [ Lords. 


Local Govern- 
ment Pro- 
visional Orders 
(Birmingham, 
&amp;c.) Bill 
[Lords.] 


Sheriff Courts 
(Scotland) Bill 


Supply. 


Public Educa- 
tion (England 
and Wales.) 


Science and 
Art Depart- 
ment. 


British 
Museum 
(including 
Furniture, &amp;c.) 


National 
Portrait 
Gallery. 


390 


Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Ways and Means; 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


Ordered, That the Local Government Board’s 
Provisional Orders Confirmation ( Bilbrough, &amp;c.) 
Bill, and the Local Government Provisional Or- 
ders ( Birmingham, &amp;c.) Bill, be committed to the 
same Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the said Bills; and, after some 
time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed _ the 
Chair; and Mr. Raikes reported, That the Com- 
mittee had gone through the Local Government 
Board’s Provisional Orders Confirmation ( Bil- 
brough, &amp;c.) Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration upon Monday 
next. 

Mr. Raikes also reported, That the Committee 
had gone through the Local Government Provi- 
sional Orders (Birmingham, &amp;c.) Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration upon Monday 
next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Bill; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, Tat the Bill be now read a second 
time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to 
the Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the 
“ words “it is inexpedient to legislate on this 
“matter without extending the jurisdiction of the 
“ Sheriff Courts,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being proposed, That the 
words proposed to be left out stand part of the 
Question :—The said proposed Amendment was, 
with leave of the House, withdrawn. 

Then the Main Question being put ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be now read a second 
time :—The Bill was accordingly read a second 
time ; and committed to a Committee of the whole 
House, for Monday next. 


Mr. William Henry Smith reported from the 


4th—5th August. 





Sommittee of Supply, several Resolutions; which 
were read, as follow: 

1. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 1,107,055, be | 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum 
necessary to defray the Charge which will come 
in course of payment during the year ending on | 
the 3lst day of March 1877, for Public Education | 
in England and Wales. 

2. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 226,673, be | 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum | 
necessary to defray the Charge which will come in 
course of payment during the year ending on the 
31st day of March 1877, for the Salaries and Ex- 
penses of the Science and Art Department, and of | 
the Establishments connected therewith. 

3. That a Sum, not exceeding £.80,447, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum 
necessary to defray the Charge which will come 
in course of payment during the year ending on 
the 3lst day of March 1877, for the Salaries and 
Expenses of the British Museum, including the 
Amount required for Furniture, Fittings, &amp;c. 

4. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 1,400, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum 
necessary to defray the Charge which will come in 





1876. 


course of payment during the year ending on the 
31st day of March 1877, for Salaries and Expenses 
connected with the Formation of the National 
Portrait Gallery. 

5. That a Sum, not exceeding £.7,610, be London 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum University, 
necessary to defray the Charge which will come in 
course of payment during the year ending on the 
31st day of March 1877, for the Salaries and Ex- 
penses of the University of London. 

6. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 288,227, be p,,; 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum Education 
necessary to defray the Charge which will come in Scotland, ' 
course of payment during the year ending on the 
31st day of March 1877, for Public Education in 
Scotland. , 

7. That a Sum, not exceeding £.4,207, be Board of 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum Education, 
necessary to defray the Charge which will come 54. 
in course of payment during the year ending on 
the 3lst day of March 1877, for the Salaries and 
Expenses of the Board of Education for Scotland. 

8. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 13,754, be Scottish 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum Universities, 
necessary to defray the Charge which will come in 
course of payment during the year ending on the 
31st day of March 1877, for Grants to Scottish 
Universities. 

9. That a Sum, not exceeding £.1,500, be National 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum Mallery, &amp;e. 
necessary to defray the Charge which will come ve 
in course of payment during the year ending on 
the 31st day of March 1877, of the Annuity to the 
Board of Trustees in Scotland, in discharge of 
Equivalents under the Treaty of Union, to be 
applied in Maintenance of the National Gallery, 

School of Art, and Antiquarian Museum, Scotland, 
and for the Exhibition ot the Zorrie Collection of 
Works of Art, and for other purposes. 

10. That a Sum, not exceeding £.420,949, be National 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum Education, 
necessary to defray the Charge which will come 1 
in course of payment during the year ending on 
the 31st day of March i877, for the Salaries and 
Expenses of the Commissioners of National Edu- 
cation in Ireland. 

11. That a Sum, not exceeding £.430, be Commissioners 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum of Education, 
necessary to defray the Charge which will come monis 
in course of payment during the year ending on 
the 31st day of March 1877, for the Expenses of 
the Office of the Commissioners of Education in 
freland. 

12. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 1.739, be National 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum Gallery 

: . . ° - Ireland. 
necessary to defray the Charge which will come in 
course of payment during the year ending on the 
31st day of March 1877, for the Salaries and Ex- 
penses of the National Gallery of Zreland, and for 
the purchase of Pictures. 

13. That a Sum, not exceeding £.1,731, be Royal Irish 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum 4°" 
necessary to defray the Charge which will come 
in course of payment during the year ending on 
the 3lst day of March 1877, for the Royal Jrish 
Academy. 

14. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 3,587, be Queen’s 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum oo ig 
necessary to defray the Charge which will come “*""" 
in course of payment during the year ending on 
the 31st day of March 1877, for the Queen’s Uni- 
versity in Jreland. 

15. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 8,822, be Queen’s 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum Colles 


‘necessary to defray the Charge which will come 


in course of payment during the year ending on 
the 3lst day of March 1877, in aid of the Ex- 
penses of the Queen’s Colleges in Jreland. 
The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 
The 








n, 


ers 





40 Victoria. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
organ *™Y the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
174-5. ’ upon the 18th day of July last, That Mr. Speaker 

do now leave the Chair (for Committee on the 
Navy and Army Expenditure, 1874-5) ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 

till this day. 


— The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
‘sure) Bill. Reading of the Suez Canal (Shares) Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Cruelty to Animals Bill; 
| Lords] Ordered, That the Bill be’ read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
nent Board’s into a Committee on the Local Government Board’s 


Provisional = Provisional Orders Confirmation (Bath, &amp;c.) Bill; 
pan og and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
(Bath, &amp;.) resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes reported, 


Bil (Lords.] That the Committee had gone through the Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration upon Monday 
next. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking 
‘ into consideration the Amendments made by the 
Lords to the Commons Bill; 
Ordered, That the said Amendments be taken 
into consideration upon Monday next. 


Commons Bill 


Prisons Bill. 
Bill 284. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Prisons Bill ; and, after 
some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed 
the Chair; and Mr. Razkes reported, That the 
Committee had gone through the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for Wednesday 
next. 


a The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
(Irland) Bil. Reading of the Prisons (Ireland) Bill; 
Ordered, ‘That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


Appellate The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
ree mittee on the Appellate Jurisdiction Bill ; 
(lords.] Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 
Pensions The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 


Commutation mittee on the Pensions Commutation Act Amend- 


Act Amend- ° 

ment Bill, ment Bill; 
_ Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 

Erpiring Laws The Expiring Laws Continuance Bill was, ac- 

i” ~=—s cording to Order, read a second time; and com- 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for 
Monday next. 

War Depart. The Order of the day being read, for resuming 


ment and Pyst the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
Ofice (Re- upon the 6th day of July last, That Mr. Speaker 


cae 

te) Bil” do now leave the Chair (for Committee on the 
War Department and Post Office (Remuneration, 
&amp;e.) Bill); 
_ Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till this day. 

— The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 


Biueation Pro. Mittee on the Elementary Education Provisional 
— Order Order Confirmation (Zondon) Bill ; 
(london) Bill _ Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
(ord,] ‘itself into the said Committee. 

Vou. 131. 


4th—5ith August. 








391° 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Ld Street 
mittee on the Bow Street Police Court (Site) (Site) -— 
Bill; : 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


Queen Anne’s Bounty Bill was, according to Queen Anne’s 
Order, read a second time; and committed to &amp; fiorde . 
Committee of the whole House, for Monday next. ‘ 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Companies 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed Act (1862 and 
upon the 10th day of July last, That the Com- a 
panies Act (1862 and 1867) Amendment Bill be 
now read a second time; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Municipal 
consideration the Municipal Privileges (Ireland) (relacdl) Bill. 
Bill, as amended in the Committee ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into considera- 


tion this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Toll Bridges 
mittee on the ‘Toll Bridges (River Thames) Bill; Thames) Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second — 
Reading of the Parochial Records Bill ; (Lede} 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Cruelty 
Reading of the Cruelty Prevention Bill; — 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time ~ 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Offences 
mittee on the Offences against the Person Bill; jen = 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to Forfeiture 
take into consideration the Forfeiture Relief Bill, Relief Bill. 
as amended in the Committee ; 


And Notice being taken, that Forty Members 
were not present:—The House was told by Mr. 
Speaker ; and Forty Members not being present, 
and it being then a quarter of an hour after One 
of the clock on Saturday morning:—The House 
was adjourned by Mr. Speaker, without a Ques- 
tion first put, till this day. 








Saturday, 5th August, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 
EVERAL Public Petitions were presented, Public 
and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions. — 
Vide Thirty- 
first Report. 
Ordered, That the Return relative to Fiji (Mea- ,... 
sles), which was presented upon the 4th day of i ager 
this instant August, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Merchant Merchant | 
Ships detained for Unseaworthiness, which was Ships detained. 


— upon the 4th day of this instant August, a 


e printed. No. 374. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented,—Return Harbours. 
to an Order, dated the 3rd day of March, in the 
last Session of Parliament, for a Return showing, 
as far as they can be stated, the Amounts ex- 
ended (Exchequer Issues) out of Moneys voted 
y Parliament, upon the Harbours in the United 
K ngdom in each year of this Century, stating 
each Harbour separately, and the Moneys yearly 
3D4 expended 


Lighthouses 
Abroad. 


3Y2 


expended thereon; the Harbours being classified 
under the Divisions of England and Wales, Chan- 
nel Islands, Isle of Man, Scotland, and Ireland, 
with the Yearly Totals for each Division, and 
of all the Divisions, and with a Grand Total for 
the whole period : Similar Returns of the Ex- 
penditure on Piers, Harbours, &amp;c., for Fishery 
Purposes:——And, of the Harbours on which 
the Amounts advanced, by way of Loan for their 
Improvement, have been compounded or re- 
mitted. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Sir Charles Adderley presented, pursuant to the 
directions of several Acts of Parliament,—Sup- 
plementary Statement, for the year 1874-75, 
showing additional Receipts and Payments to 
31st March 1875, in respect of the Maintenance 


5th August. 


1376, 
Tellers for the ;Sir William Dyke, ) 
Yeas, | Mr. Rowland Winn: f 
Tellers for thef Mr. Richard, 1 
Noes, UMr. Joseph Cowen: J 46. 
So it was resolved in the Affirmative :—The 
Bill was accordingly read the third time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


119, 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave 
the Chair; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to 
the Question, by leaving out from the word 
* That” to the end of the Question, in order to 


add the words “ it is inexpedient to consider any War Office 
and Construction of Lighthouses in British Pos- | more Estimates, such as that for the War Office (Charges 


sessions Abroad, for which Tolls are levied under 


Merchant 
Seamen’s Fund. 


Metropolitan 
Board of Works 
(Parliamentary 
Expenses.) 


Margate Picr 
and Harbour. 


Forfeiture 
Relief Bill. 


Registry of 
Deeds 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Notices to Quit 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Bill 285. 


Elementary 
Education Bill. 


the Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Act 
(18 &amp; 19 Vie. ce. 91). 

Account of the Receipt and Expenditure under 
the Seamen’s Fund Winding-up Act, from Ist 
January to 3lst December 1874, with an Account 
of the Sums received and paid for the Wages and 
Iffects of deceased Seamen in the year 1874. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


The following Papers were laid upon the Table 
by the Clerk of the House,—Return tv an Order, 
dated the 22nd day of March, in the last Session 
of Parliament, for Returns from the Metropolitan 
Board of Works, of all Sums expended during the 
last Five Years : And, of all Sums expended in 
promoting and opposing any Bills in Parliament, 
or in complying with the Standing Orders of the 
Houses of Parliament as to Bills introduced, or 
opposing or supporting Bills before Committees of 
Parliament, or as to Inquiries before Select Com- 
mittees of both Houses of Parliament; specifying 
Date of the Session, the Object promoted, the In- 
quiry before Parliament, and the Result of such 
Bills promoted or opposed, whether withdrawn or 
yassed, 

; The following Paper, pursuant to the directions 

of several Acts of Parliament, was also laid upon 

the Table by the Clerk of the House,—A True 

Account of the Receipt and Application of all 

Moneys which have been received by the Direc- 

tors of the Margate Pier and Harbour Company, 

from the 6th day of April 1875 to the 21st day of | 
April 1876, both days inclusive. 


Ordered, That the Forfeiture Relief Bill, as 
amended in the Committee, be taken into con- 
sideration upon Monday next. 


The Order for reading a second time, upon 
Monday next, the Registry of Deeds (Jreland) 
Bill, was read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


Ordered, That the Amendments made by the 
Lords to the Notices to Quit (Jreland) Bill be 
taken into consideration upon Thursday next ; and 
be printed. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Third 
Reading of the Elementary Education Bill ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question | 
being put, That the Bil be now read the third 
time ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 





“(Charges defrayed by India), until it is satis- ice 


** factorily proved by proper statements as to how 
*‘ the funds previously advanced during the past 
“five or six years by the Jndia Office, on ac- 
“count of the Military Charges defrayed by the 
“ War Office for India, have been used by the 
* Treasury, whether in payment of War Office 
“ claims or in swelling the Revenue of the King- 
*“ dom,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Question : 
—It was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
Chair:—The House accordingly resolved itself 
into the Committee. 


(In the Committee.) 


1. £. 2,200, for Repayment of Advances made 
from the Civil Contingencies Fund to defray the 
Expenses of the Mission of the Right honourable 
Stephen Cave to confer with the Khedive and his 
Government as to the Financial Position and Ad- 
ministration of Lyypt. 

2. £.9,200, for purchasing the Qualifying Shares, 
and for defraying the Salaries and Expenses of 
the Three Representatives of Her Majesty’s Go- 
vernment on the Council of Administration of the 
Suez Canal Company. 

3. £. 129,922, to complete the Sum for the De- 
partment of the Commissioners of Public Works 
in Ireland. 

4, £.27,493, to complete the Sum for the De- 
partment of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable 
Privy Council, and Subordinate Departments. 

5. £. 93,292, to complete the Sum for the Local 
Government Board, /reland. 

6. £.10,098, to complete the Sum for the Na- 
tional Gallery, and for the purchase of Pictures. 

7. £. 12,400, to complete the Sum for Grants 
in aid of the Expenditure of certain Learned 
Societies in Great Britain and Ireland. 

8. £. 163,163, to complete the Sum for the Ex- 
penses of Her Majesty’s Embassies and Missions 
Abroad. 

9. £. 184,896, to complete the Sum for the Con- 
sular Establishments Abroad, and for other Ex- 
penditure chargeable on the Consular Vote. 

10. £. 13,243, to complete the Sum for the sup- 
port of certain Hospitals and Infirmaries, Ireland. 

11. £.3,476, to complete the Sum for certain 
Miscellaneous Charitable and other Allowances in 
Ireland. 

12. £. 170,000, on account, for the Repayment 
to the War Office of Charges which it has defrayed 
on behalf of the India Office. 

13. £.3,500 (Supplementary Sum), year ending 
on the 3lst day of March 1877, for Erecting and 
Maintaining New Buildings, including Rents, &amp;c., 
for the Department of Science and Art. 

14, £.15,000 (Supplementary Sum), year end- 


ing 








Ways and 


Consolidated 


(Shares) Bill. 


Navy and Army 


1874-5, 


40 Vicrortia. 


ing on the 31st day of March 1877, for the Ex- 
penses of the Metropolitan Police Courts. 

15. £. 2,545, for the Erection of a New Build- 
ing on the Site of the Wings, and on a portion of 
the Courtyard of Burlington House, for the occu- 
pation of various Learned Bodies. 

16. £.4,900, for the purchase of Property at 
Inverleith, in the City of Edinburgh, with a view 
to the formation of an Arboretum in connection 
with the Royal Botanic Gardens. 

17. £. 35,000 (Supplementary Sum), year end- 
ing on the 3lst day of March 1877, in Aid of| 
Colonial Local Revenue, and for defraying the | 
Salaries and Allowances of Governors, &amp;c., and 
other Expenses, in certain Colonies. 

18. £. 29,101, for enabling the Commissioners 
of Her Majesty’s Treasury to commute, in ac- 
cordance with the provisions of the Act 36 and 37 
Vic. c. 57, that portion of the Schomberg Pension 
which is payable to the Duke of Leeds. 

19. £. 67,000 (Supplementary Sum), year end- | 
ing on the 3lst day of March 1877, for the Salaries | 
and Expenses of the Post Office Services, the Ex- | 
penses of Post Office Savings Banks and Govern- 
ment Annuities and Insurances, and the Collection 
of the Post Office Revenue. 

20. £. 33,000 (Supplementary Sum), year end- 
ing on the 3lst day of March 1877, for the Salaries 
and Expenses of the Post Office Telegraph Ser- 
vice. 


Resolutions to be reported. 








| 








Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair: and Mr. 
Raikes reported, That the Committee had come to 
several Resolutions. 

Ordered, That the Report be received upon 
Monday next. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into the Committee of Ways and Means. 


(In the Committee.) 


Resolved, That, towards making good the Supply 
granted to Her Majesty, for the Service of the 
year ending on the 3lst day of March 1877, the 
Sum of £. 28,703,043 be granted, out of the Con- 
solidated Fund of the United Kingdom. 

Resolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. 
Raikes reported, That the Committee had come 
to a Resolution. 

Ordered, That the Report be received upon 
Monday next. 


The Suez Canal (Shares) Bill was, according to 
Order, read a second time; and committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
upon the 18th day of July last, That Mr. Speaker 
do now leave the Chair (for Committee on the 
Navy and Army Expenditure, 1874-5) ; 

And the Question being again proposed :—The 
House resumed the said adjourned Debate. 

And the Question being put ; 

Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
Chair:—The House accordingly resolved itself 
into the Committee. 


(In the Committee. ) 


1. Resolved, That it appears by the Navy Ap- 
prpesation Account, for the year ended 31st 
arch 1875, that the Balances unexpended in 
— of certain Votes for Navy Services for the 
sald year amounted to the Sum of £. 83,574. 0s. 7d. 


2. Resolved, That the Commissioners of Her 
M ajesty’s Treasury have temporarily authorised the 


oth August. 





application of the said Sum of £. 83,574. Os. 7 d. 
OL, 131. 


3Y3 


to provide in part for the Expenditure incurred in 
excess of certain other Votes for Navy Services 
for the said year. 

_ 3. Resolved, That the said Application be sanc- 
tioned. 

4. Resolved, That it appears by the Army Ap- 
propriation Account, for the year ended 31st March 
1875, that the Balances unexpended in respect of 
certain Votes for Army Services for the said year 
amounted to the Sum of £. 302,839. 9s. 7d., and 
that the Sum of £.78,605. 15s. 5d. has been 
realised in excess of the estimated Appropriations 
in Aid; amounting together to the Total Sum of 
£. 381,445. 5s. 

5. Resolved, That the Commissioners of Her Ma- 
jesty’s Treasury have temporarily authorised the 
application of £.281,213. 11s. out of the said 
Total Sum, to provide for the Expenditure incurred 
in excess of certain other Votes for Army Ser- 
vices for the said year. 

6. Resolved, That the said Application be sanc- 
tioned. 

Resolutions to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, ‘That the Committee had come to several 
Resolutions. 

Ordered, That the Report be received upon 
Monday next. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Tramways 
into a Committee on the Tramways (Ireland) Acts ya so 
Amendment (Dublin) Bill; and, after some time (publin) Bill. 
spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; 
and Mr. Raikes reported, That the Committee had 
gone through the Bill, and directed him to report 
the same, without Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 


upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Pensions _ 
mittee on the Pensions Commutation Act Amend- peyton ag 
ment Bill ; cent Bill. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming War Depart- 
the adjourned Debate on the Question propose a - Post 
upon the 6th day of July last, That Mr. Speaker Otice (te 
do now leave the Chair (for Committee on the &amp;c.) Bill. 
War Department and Post Office (Remuneration, 

&amp;c.) Bill) ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 

till Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Elementary 
mittee on the Elementary Education Provisional —— 
Order Confirmation (London) Bill; Cantenetin 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday (London) Bill 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. [Lords.] 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Bow Street 
mittee on the Bow Street Police Court (Site) Bill; pp -— 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday ‘ oo 

next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Companies Acts 
the adjourned Debate on the Question propose ~ . 
upon the 10th day of July last, That the Companies jont Bill. 
Acts (1862 and 1867) Amendment Bill be now read 
a second time; 

And the Question being again proposed :—The 
House resumed the said aiennies Debate. 

And the Question being put; 

Ordered, That the Bill be now read a second 
time :—The Bill was accordingly read a second 
time ; and committed to a Committee of the whole 
House, for Monday next. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to Municipal 
take into consideration the Municipal Privileges (Irelaed) Bill 
(Jreland) Bill, as amended in the Committee. , 

3E A Clause 





Toll Bridges 
(River 
Thames) Bill. 


Offences 
against the 
Person Bill. 


Legal 
Practitioners 
Bill. 


Chairmen’s 
Jurisdiction 
(Ireland.) 


Juries 
(Dublin.) 


Chairmen’s 

Jurisdiction 

(Ireland) Bill. 
Bill 286. 


Sheriff Courts 
(Scotland) 
[Salaries and 
Allcwances. ] 


$94. 


A Clause was offered to be added to the Bill 
(Persons to be excluded from being sheriff or 
honorary burgesses):—And the said Clause was 
brought up, and read the first and second time, 
and amended ; and made part of the Bill. 

Then Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made 
to the Bill, in p. 3, 1. 42, by inserting, after the 
word “ privilege,” the words, “or to be elected 
**to any corporate office.” 

And the Question being proposed, That those 
words be there heuadtedo-uinal a Debate arising 
thereupon ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be adjourned till 
Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Toll Bridges (River Thames) Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 

mittee on the Offences against the Person Bill ; 
Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


The Legal Practitioners Bill was, according 
to Order, read a second time ; and committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for Monday next. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to amend the Laws relating to the Jurisdiction 
of Chairmen of Quarter Sessions in Jreland: And 
that Mr. Solicitor General for Jreland and Sir 
Michael Hicks Beach do prepare, and bring it in. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being 


to amend the Laws with respect to Juries in the 
County and the County of the City of Dublin :— 
And a Debate arising thereupon ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be adjourned till 
Monday next. 


Sir Michael Hicks Beach presented a Bill to 
amend the Laws relating to the Jurisdiction of 
Chairmen of Quarter Sessions in /reland: And 
the same was read the first time; and ordered to 
be read a second time upon Tuesday next; and to 
be printed. 


Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant 
to the Clerk of the Crown, to make out a New 
Writ for the electing of a Member to serve in 
this present Parliament for the Borough of Leeds, 
in the room of Robert Meek Carter, Esquire, who, 
since his election tor the said Borough, hath ac- 
cepted the Office of Steward of Her Majesty’s 
Manor of Northstead. 


A Motion being made, That this House will, 
upon Monday next, resolve itself into a Com- 
mittee to consider of authorising the payment, out 
of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom, 
of additions to the Salaries of Sheriffs of United 
Counties, at present defrayed out of Moneys pro- 
vided by Parliament ; ms ¢ out of Moneys to be 
provided by Parliament, of Salaries, Allowances, 
and Expenses of Sheriffs’ Clerks, in pursuance of 
the provisions of any Act of the present Session 
relating to Sheriff Courts ( Scotland) ; 

The Lord Advocate, by Her Majesty’s Com- 
mand, acquainted the House, That Her Majesty, 
having been informed of the subject-matter of this 
Motion, recommends it to the consideration of the 
House. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


And then the House adjourned till Monday 
next. 


5th—7Tth August. 








1876. 


Monday, 7th August, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 

Sik Charles Forster reported from the Select pypiic 
Committee on Public Petitions; That they Petitions 

had examined the Petitions presented upon the (Thirty-fme 
28th, 29th, and 31st days of July last, and on the Ist, ae 
2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th days of this instant August, 
and hud directed him to make a Report thereof 
to the House. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table; 
and be printed. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Alexandra 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the (Newport) 
Alexandra (Newport) Dock Bill; and the same 2k Bill 
were twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration East Norflk 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the East Railway Bill 
Norfolk Railway Bill; and the same were twice 
read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Gas Light and 


‘the Amendments made by the Lords to the Gas Coke Company 


Light and Coke Company Bill; and the same were &gt; 


twice read, and agreed to. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 


proposed, That leave be given to bring in a Bill | the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 


hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Metropolitan 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Inner Circe 
Metropolitan Inner Circle Completion Railway failvey Bil 
Bill; and the same were twice read, and agreed 
to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Newport (Mo 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the New- pemwwees ! 
port (Monmouthshire) Improvement Bill; and the yy)" 
same were twice read, and agreed to, 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration South Easten 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the South Railway Bil 
Eastern Railway Bill; and the same were twice 
read, and agreed to. 

‘Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration South Metro- 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the South Peght and Coke 
Metropolitan Gas Light and Coke Bill; and the gi, 
same were twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration ey 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Stock- sooth Cn 


ton and Middlesbrough Corporations Water Bill ; porations 
and Water Bill 








ns 


t) 


ort) 
Bill, 


‘orfolk 
y Bill, 


ght and 
ompany 


olitan 
Yircle 
tion 


rt (Mon- 
hire) 
ement 


y Bill. 


Metro- 
Gas 
nd Coke 


Bee 





40 Victoria. 


and the same were twice read, and, with an 
Amendment thereto, agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships, with an Amendment; to which this 
House doth desire the concurrence of their Lord- 


ships. 
The House proceeded to take into consideration 


7th August. 





395 


General Abstracts of Agricultural Statistics in agricultural 
Ireland, showing the Acreage under the several Statistics and 
Crops, and the Number of Live Stock in each (nee) 
County and Province, for the year 1876 ; and the 
Emigration from Jrish Ports, from 1st January to 
30th June, in 1875 and 1876. 

Mr. Secretary Cross also presented,—Return Sheriff Courts 
to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 4th day (Scotland) 
of this instant August, for Returns relative to the 
Sheriff Courts (Scotland). 

- ~ ae That the said Papers do lie upon the 
able. 


Lord George Hamilton presented, by Her Ma- fast India 
jesty’s Command,—Statistical Abstract relating (Statistical 
to British India from 1865-6 to 1874-5 (as far as “&gt;s*ct) 
particulars can be stated), compiled from Official 
Records and Papers presented to Parliament. 

Tenth Number. 

Copy of Report on Sanitary Measures in Jndia, East India 
1874-5, together with Miscellaneous Information isan) 
up to June 1876. Pree 

Lord George Hamilton also presented, pursuant East India 
to the directions of an Act of Parliament,— (Progress and 
Statement exhibiting the Moral and Material se 
Progress and Condition of India during the year 





1874-5. 
Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Secretary Hardy presented, by Her Ma- Army _ 
jesty’s Command,—Copy of Report of the Royal ean, 
Commission on Army Promotion and Retire- 
ment. 

Mr. Secretary Hardy also presented,—Return Army (Arrears 
to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 23rd day ° Pv) 
of June last, for Returns relative to the Army 
(Arrears of Pay). 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented,—Return Notices to Quit 
to an Order, dated the 5th day of July last, for a (Ireland) 
Return relative to Notices to Quit (Jreland) _— 
Stamps. 

Mr. William Henry Smith also presented, pur- Fortifications, 
suant to the directions of several Acts of Parlia- ©“ 
ment,—An Account of the Moneys raised under the 
authority of the Acts 23 &amp; 24 Vic. c. 109, 25 &amp; 26 
Vie. c. 78, 26 &amp; 27 Vic. c. 80, 27 &amp; 28 Vie. c. 109, 





yes the Amendments made by the Lords to the Wye 
Valley Railway Bill; and the same were twice read, 
and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 

tut Comvall © The House proceeded to take into consideration 

Viner! Rail- the East Cornwall Mineral Railway Bill, as 

a) amended in the Committee. 

' A Clause (Separate undertaking of the Com- 
pany constituted) was twice read; and made part 
of the Bill, 

Then Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 

Llandudno The House proceeded to take into consideration 

Improvement the Llandudno Improvement Bill, as amended in 

Bil (Lards:) the Committee. 

A Clause (Saving rights of the Crown) was 
twice read; and made part of the Bill. 

Then an Amendment was made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 

Standing Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed 

Orders to revise the Standing Orders. 

aati, The Committee was accordingly nominated of 
Mr. Stephen Cave, Sir Charles Forster, Mr. Gold- 
ney, Mr. Hankey, Mr. Gibson, Mr. Monk, Sir 
Henry Holland, Mr. Anderson, Viscount Galway, 
Sir Joseph M‘ Kenna, Colonel North, Mr. Serjeant 
Simon, Sir Henry Drummond Wolff, Mr. Bristowe, 
and Mr. Raikes ; with Power to send for persons, 
papers, and records. 

Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 

Public Several Public Petitions were presented, and 

Paitions. “read ; and ordered to lie upon the ‘Table. 

Vide Supple- 

ment to Thirty- 

first Report. 

East India Ordered, That the Return relative to East India 

ma (Loans raised in /ndia), which was presented upon 

No, 4¢0, the 29th day of June last, be printed. 

Harbours. Ordered, That the Return relative to Harbours, 

No.401. which was presented upon the 5th day of this 
instant August, be printed. 

br Ordered, That the Account relative to the Mer- 

— chant Seamen’s Fund, which was ——— upon 

* 402. the 5th day of this instant August, be printed. 

— Mr. Secretary Cross presented, by Her Ma- 

(Ragland and jesty’s Command, — Judicial Statistics, 1875; 

Wales), 1975, england and Wales: Part I. Police, Criminal 
Proceedings, Prisons; Part IT. Common Law, 
Equity, Civil, and Canon Law. 

Judicial Copy of Eighth Report on the Judicial Statistics 

(eae) of Scotland, rendered to the Right Honourable 
the Secretary of State for the Home Department, 
in terms of the Judicial Statistics (Scotland) Act, 
1869, and of the Instructions of the Secretary of 
State, being for the year 1875. 

(radon Returns of Local Taxation in Ireland, for the 

Returns, year 1875, corrected and compiled under the di- 


rection of the Local Government Board, by desire 
of his Grace the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. 
ous =» Copy of Report of the Royal Commissioners 
Onlin Shipe, appointed to inquire into the g 
bustion of Coal in Ships. 


pontaneous Com- 


28 &amp; 29 Vic. c. 61, 30 &amp; 31 Vie. c. 145, and 32 
&amp; 33 Vie. c. 76, to provide for the Expenses of 
Fortifications, &amp;c.; the Amount of Annuities 
created in respect of the same; the Moneys issued 
out of the Consolidated Fund for the said Ex- 
penses; and the Sums remaining to be raised and 
issued, under the authority of the said Acts, on the 
Ist April 1876. 

- Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. James Lowther presented, — Return to an Fiji (Measles.) 
Address to Her Majesty, dated the 3rd day of 
this instant August, for a Return relative to Fiji 
( Measles). 
Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Mails (East 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased ost of 
to give directions, that there be laid before this san) 
House, a Copy or Extracts of the Reports which 
have been received from Zanzibar and Mozambique, 
or either place, as to the manner in which the 
Mail Contract Services have been performed on 
the East Coast of Africa — two Companies 
respectively carrying Her Majesty’s Mails be- 
tween Zanzibar and Aden, and between Zanzibar 
and Natal. 





VoL. 131. 


3E2 Resolved, 





396 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be added to the Return, 
for which an Address was ordered to be presented 
on the lst day of August, a Return of the Number 
of Days on which Commissioners sat in the place 
of Judges. 


Summer 
Circuits, 1875 
and 1876, 


Carmarthen 


Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his War- 
Borough Writ. 


rant to the Clerk of the Crown, to make out a 
New Writ for the electing of a Member to serve 
in this present Parliament for the County of the 
tema of Carmarthen, in the room of Charles 
William Nevill, Esquire, who, since his election 
for the said County of the said Borough, hath 
accepted the Office of Steward or Bailiff of Her 
Majesty’s Three Chiltern Hundreds of Stoke, Des- 
borough, and Bonenham, in the County of Buck- 
ingham. 


Local Govern- 
ment Board’s 
Provisional 
Orders 
Confirmation 


Mr. Hubbard reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on the Local Government Board’s Provi- 
sional Orders Confirmation (Artizans and Labour- 
po . ers’ Dwellings) Bill; That the Provisional Order 
Laboaean’ relating thereto ought to be confirmed; and that 
Dwellings) Bill they bad directed him to report the Bill in respect 
{ Lords. | thereof, as amended, to the House. 

Bill 287. Ordered, That the Bill, as amended, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for To-morrow. 


Message from 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- 
the Lords. 


sage had been brought from the Lords by one of 
their Clerks, as followeth : 

The Lords have agreed to the Winter Assizes 
Bill, with Amendments ; to which the Lords desire 
the concurrence of this House. 


Winter Assizes 
Bill. 


Winter Assizes 
Bill. 
Bill 288. 


Ordered, That the Amendments made by the 
Lords to the Winter Assizes Bill be taken into 
consideration upon Wednesday next; and be 
printed. 


Business of the 


em A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- 


‘a That upon Tuesdays Orders of the Day 
1ave precedence over Notices of Motion, Govern- 
ment Orders having priority, and that Govern- 
ment Orders have priority upon Wednesdays ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the words “ and that 
«‘ Government Orders have priority upon Wed- 
“ nesdays.” 

And the Question being put, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Question; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for thef Sir William Dyke, 

Yeas, \Mr. Rowland Winn: 
Tellers for thef Mr. Butt, 
Noes, LMr. Mundella : 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Then the Main Question being put ; 

Ordered, That upon Tuesdays Orders of the 
Day have precedence over Notices of Motion, 
Government Orders having priority, and that 
Government Orders have priority upon Wednes- 
days. 


Mr. William Henry Smith reported from the 
Committee of Supply, several Resolutions; which 
were read, as follow : 

1. That a Sum, not exceeding £.2,200, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 3lst day of March 1877, for 
Repayment of Advances made from the Civil 
Contingencies Fund to defray the Expenses of 
the Mission of the Right honourable Stephen Cave 
to confer with the Khedive and his Government 


Supply. 


Mr. Cave's 
Mission to 
Egypt. 


Tth August. 











1876. 


as to the Financial Position and Administration 


of Egypt. 

2. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 9,200, be Suez Cana 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge (Qualifying 
which will come in course of payment during the Shes, &amp;c) 
year ending on the 3lst day of March 1877, for 
purchasing the Qualifying Shares and for defray- 
ing the Salaries and Expenses of the Three Re- 
presentatives of Her Majesty’s Government on 
the Council of Administration of the Suez Canal 
Company. 

3. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 129,922, be Public 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum Buildings “1p, 
necessary to defray the Charge which will come 
in course of payment during the year ending on 
the 3lst day of March 1877, for the Erection, 
Repairs, and Maintenance of the several Public 
Buildings in the Department of the Commissioners 
of Public Works in Ireland. 

4, That a Sum, not exceeding £. 27,493, be Privy Cound 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum Oftce. 
necessary to defray the Charge which will come 
in course of payment during the year ending on 
the 3lst day of March 1877, for the Salaries and 
Expenses of the Department of Her Majesty’s 
Most Honourable Privy Council, and Subordinate 
Departments. 

5. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 93,292, be Local Govem. 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum 7ut Bou 
necessary to defray the Charge which will come — 
in course of payment during the year ending on 
the 3lst day of March 1877, for the Salaries and 
Expenses of the Local Government Board, Ireland. 

6. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 10,098, be National 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum “ley. 
necessary to defray the Charge which will come 
in course of payment during the year ending on 
the 3lst day of March 1877, for the Salaries and 
Expenses of the National Gallery, and for the 
purchase of Pictures. 

7. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 12,400, be Learned 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum ‘vieties 
necessary to defray the Charge which will come 
in course of payment during the year ending on 
the 3lst day of March 1877, for Grants in aid of 
the Expenditure of certain Learned Societies in 
Great Britain and Ireland. 

8. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 163,163, be Embassies 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum and Missions 
necessary to defray the Charge which will come 4° 
in course of payment during the year ending on 
the 31st day of March 1877, for the Expenses of 
Her Majesty’s Embassies and Missions Abroad. 

9. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 184,896, be Consular 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum Pstsblishmets 
necessary to defray the Charge which will come 
in course of payment during the year ending on 
the 3lst day of March 1877, for the Consular 


* | Establishments Abroad, and for other Expenditure 


chargeable on the Consular Vote. 

10, That a Sum, not exceeding £. 13,243, be Hospitals _ 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum pote pe 
necessary to defray the Charge which will come sats, 
in course of payment during the year ending on 
the 31st day of March 1877, for the support of 
certain Hospitals and Infirmaries, Jredand. 

11. That a Sum, not exceeding £.3,476, be Misce 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum Cheritble 
necessary to defray the Charge which will come ‘Allowances 
in course of payment during the year ending on (Ireland.) 
the 3lst day of March 1877, for certain Miscel- 
on Charitable and other Allowances in Jre- 
and, 

12. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 170,000, be War Office 

ranted to Her Majesty, on account, to defray the — 

harge which will come in course of payment defrayed for 
during the year ending on the 3lst day of March India.) 
1877, for the Repayment to the War Office of 
Charges which it has defrayed on behalf of the 
India Office. 


Miscellaneous 


13. That 








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ings (Ire. 


Council 


ies 
ssions 


r 
hments 


a 
= 


neous 
le 


gcience and 
art Depart- 
nent (New 

sidings) 
(Supplemen- 
tary) 


etropolitan 
(Supplemen- 
tary-) 


Burlington 
House (New 
Buildings: ) 


Bdinburgh 
Arboretum. 


Colonies, 
Grants in Aid 
(Supple- 
mentary.) 


Schomberg 
Pension Com- 
mutation. 


Post Office 
Services, 
Savings Banks, 
&amp;e, (Supple- 
mentary.) 


om Office 
elegraph 
Service (Sup- 
plementary.) 


Ways and 
Means 


Fund, 


40 Victoria. 


13. That a Supplementary Sum, not exceeding 
£.3,500, be granted to Her Majesty, to defray 
the Charge which will come in course of payment 
during the year ending on the 31st day of March 
1877, for Erecting and Maintaining New Build- 
ings, including Rents, &amp;c., for the Department of 
Science and Art. 

14. That a Supplementary Sum, not exceeding 
£.15,000, be granted to Her Majesty, to defray 
the Charge which will come in course of payment 
during the year ending on the 31st day of March 
1877, for the Expenses of the Metropolitan Police 
Courts. 

15. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 2,545, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 31st day of March 1877, for 
the Erection of a New Building on the Site of the 
Wings, and on a portion of the Courtyard of 
Burlington House, for the occupation of various 
Learned Bodies. 

16. That a Sum, not exceeding £.4,900, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 31st day of March 1877, for 
the Purchase of Property at Inverleith, in the City 
of Edinburgh, with a view to the formation of an 
Arboretum in connection with the Royal Botanic 
Gardens. 

17. That a Supplementary Sum, not exceeding 
£.35,000, be granted to Her Majesty, to defray 
the Charge which will come in course of payment 
during the year ending on the 31st day of March 
1877, in Aid of Colonial Local Revenue, and for 
defraying the Salaries and Allowances of Gover- 
nors, &amp;c., and other Expenses, in certain Colonies. 

18. That a Sum, not exceeding £.29,101, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 31st day of March 1877, for 
enabling the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s 
Treasury to Commute, in accordance with the pro- 
visions of the Act 36 &amp; 37 Vic. c. 57, that portion 
of the Schomberg Pension which is payable to the 
Duke of Leeds. 

19. That a Supplementary Sum, not exceeding 
£.67,000, be granted to Her Majesty, to defray 
the Charge which will come in course of payment 
during the year ending on the 31st day of March 
1877, for the Salaries and Expenses of the Post 
Office Services, the Expenses of Post Office Sa- 
vings Banks and Government Annuities and 
Insurances, and the Collection of the Post Office 
Revenue. 

20. That a pe reer Sum, not exceeding 
£. 34,000, be granted to Her Majesty, to defray 
the Charge which will come in course of payment 
during the year ending on the 31st day of March 
1877, for the Salaries and Expenses of the Post 
Office Telegraph Service. 

The first Seven Resolutions, being read a second 
time, were agreed to. 

The Eighth Resolution, being read a second 
time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made 
thereunto, by leaving out “ £.163,163,” in order 
to insert “ £. 161,163,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being proposed, That 
“ £. 163,163 ” stand part of the Resolution :—The 
said proposed Amendment was, with leave of the 
House, withdrawn. 

And the said Resolution was agreed to. 

Then the subsequent Resolutions, being read a 
second time, were agreed to. 


Mr. William Henry Smith reported from the 
Committee of Ways and Means, a Resolution; 
which was read, as followeth ; 

That, towards making good the Supply granted 
to ~ Majesty for the service of the year ending 

‘OL. 131. 





7th August. 397 


on the 3lst day of March 1877, the Sum of 
£. 28,703,043 be granted, out of the Consolidated 
Fund of the United Kingdom. 

The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to, 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill consolidated 
to apply a Sum, out of the Consolidated Fund, to Fund (Appro~ 
the service of the year ending the Thirty-first P44) 


day of March One thousand eight hundred and 
seventy-seven, and to appropriate the Supplies 
granted in this Session of Parliament: ie that 
Mr. Raikes, Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, and 
Mr. William Henry Smith do prepare, and bring 
it In. 


_ The House, according to Order, resolved itself Appellate 
into a Committee on the Appellate Jurisdiction — 


Bill. 
(In the Committee.) 


CiausE, N°6 (Appointment of Lords of Ap- 
peal in Ordinary by Her Majesty). 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 2, 1. 33, 
to leave out from the word “ shall” to the word 
“ longer,” in 1]. 34. 

Question put, That the words proposed to be 
left out stand part of the Clause ; 

The Committee divided. 


Tellers for the {Sir William Dyke, 

Yeas, UMr. Rowland Winn: \ 107. 
Tellers for the{ Mr. Serjeant Simon, 

Noes, (Mr. Torrens: } 30. 


Another Amendment proposed, in p. 2, 1. 36, 
after the word “heirs” to insert the words *‘ Pro- 
** vided always, That when under the provisions 
*‘ of this Act, or at any time hereafter, a Judge of 
“ the High Court of Justice shall, while he is such 
“ Judge, be appointed a Lord of Appeal in Or- 
“ dinary, he shall not receive a less salary than he 
“‘ was entitled to receive while Judge of the High 
* Court of Justice.” 

Question, That those words be there inserted 
—— put, and negatived. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 3, 1. 4, 
after the word “Council” to insert the words 
‘ nothing in the Order of Council of the twentieth 
*‘ day of February, one thousand six hundred and 
* twenty-seven, or in any other Order in Council, 
“ rule, or practice of the Privy Council, or of the 
“ Judicial Committee of the Privy Council ghall, 
“for the future, be construed to prevent any 
“ member or members of the said Judicial Com- 
* mittee, when sitting at the hearing of any appeal 
“ or petition, from delivering publicly his or their 
“separate opinion or judgment as to the report 
“ which shall be made to Her Majesty upon the 
* said appeal or petition.” 

Question, That those words be there inserted 
——put, and negatived. 

Another Amendment proposed, at the end of the 
Clause, to add the words “ Provided always, That 
“ the appointment of Lords of Appeal in Ordinary 
“ under the provisions of this Act shall in no way 
*¢ affect or alter the duty of such peers of Parlia- 
** ment as have held any of the high judicial offices 
“aforesaid to attend at the hearing and deter- 
* mination of appeals in the House of Lords.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
“ added :—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

CuiauseE, N’7 (Hearing and determination of 
appeals during prorogation). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 3, 1. 25, after the 
word “ appeals” to insert the words “and also for 
“the purpose of Lords of Appeal in Ordinary 
“ taking their seats and the oaths.” 

Question proposed. That those words be there 
inserted ; 

Amendment proposed to the said proposed 

3E3 Amendment, 













































































































































































































































































































































































398 7th—8th 


Amendment, by inserting after the first word 
*¢ of,” the words “ Peers and.” 






August. 13876. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into y,.,., 


Question, That the words “ Peers and” be in- | to the Merchant Shipping Bill; 





serted in the said proposed Amendment 
and negatived. 

Question, That the words “ and -also for the 
purpose of Lords of Appeal in Ordinary taking 
their seats and the oaths,” be there inserted—— 
put, and agreed to. 

Other Amendments made. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 


put, 


Ordered, That the said Amendments be taken 
into consideration this day. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to Poor Lay 
take into consideration the Amendments made by Amendment 
the Lords to the Poor Law Amendment Bill; ang 2 
the same were twice read, and, with Amendments 


Cuiause, N° 8 (Hearing and determination of thereto, agreed to. 


appeals during dissolution). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 3, 1. 39, to leave out 
the words “ Lords of Appeal,” in order to insert 
the words “ House of Lords.” 

Question proposed, That the words “ Lords of 
Appeal” stand part of the Clause :—Amendment, 
by leave, withdrawn 

Clause agreed to. 

CLAUSE, N° 9, agreed to. 

CrausE, N° 10, amended, and agreed to. 

CiauseEs, N° 11 and N°” (2, agreed to. 

Crause, N° 13 (Amendment of the Act of 34 
&amp; 35 Vic. c. 91, relating to the constitution of the 
Privy Council). 

An Amendment made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 5. 1. 21, to 
leave out from the word “ Majesty,” to the end of 
the Clause. 

Question put, That the words proposed to be 
left out stand part of the Clause ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the {Sir William Dyhe, 

Yeas, Mr. Rowland Winn: 

Tellers for the; Mr. Beresford Hope, 45 

Noes, (Colonel Makins : 7 

And, the numbers being equal, the Chairman 
stated that, as the House weuld have another 
opportunity of considering the Question before the 
Committee, upon the Report of the Bill, he accord- 
ingly declared himself with the Ayes. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

Cause, N° 14, disagreed to. 

CuiausE, N° 15, agreed to. 

CLaAusE, N° 16 (Repeal of certain sections of 
the Church Discipline Act and of the Supreme 
Court of Judicature Acts). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 6, 1. 32, after the 
word “two,” to insert the words “ and paragraph 
‘seven of section five.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted :—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 
“lause agreed to. 

CxLauseE, N° 17, amended, and agreed to. 
A Clause added. 
To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 


} 
i 45. 
\ 
f 





And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Tuesday morning ; 


Tuesday, 8th August, 1876: 
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 


reported, That the Committee had made Progress 
in the Bill; and that he was directed to move, That 
the Committee may have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, again 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Expiring Laws The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
ee mittee on the ene, at Continuance Bill ; 
; Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


Suez Canal The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
(Shares) Bill. mittee on the Suez Canal (Shares) Bill ; 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 


Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships, with Amendments; to which this House doth 
desire the concurrence of their Lordships. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking Crosse 
into consideration the Crossed Cheques Bill, ag Cheques Bin 
amended in the Committee. [Lords.] 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into considera- 
tion this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Prisons 
Reading of the Prisons ( Scotland) Bill. (Scotland) 
Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. ® 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 

the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed (Ireland) Bi 
upon the 20th day of July last, That the Local 

Loans (Jrelund) Bill be now read a second time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 

till Thursday next. 


mittee on the Supreme Court of Judicature (Jre- of Judicature 

land) Bill; ‘iat 
P “ ‘ rds. 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 

itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Norwich 

Reading of the Norwich and Boston (Corrupt "4 Boston 
— (Corrupt 

Voters) Bill; Voters) Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 

this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Public Record 
mittee on the Public Record Office Bill ; Otee ES. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 

next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Police (Expenses) Act Continuance Bill Police 

was, according to Order, read the third time. ae ge 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. Bill. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 

Lords, and desire their concurrence. 





The Order of the day being read, for taking Local Gover- 
into consideration the Local Government Board’s = — 
Provisional Confirmation (Bilbrough, &amp;c.) Bill, Oraers 

as amended in the Committee ; Confirmation 
Ordered, That the Bill be taken into considera- oy 
tion this day. [ Lords.] 
The House, according to Order, proceeded to Local Govern- 
take into consideration the Local Government ment Provi- 
Provisional Orders (Birmingham, &amp;c.) Bill, as Senciegiatn 
amended in the Committee. &amp;c.) Bill 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time [/ords.] 
this day. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself sheriff Courts 
into a Committee on the Sheriff Courts (Scotland) (Scotland) Bill. 
Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Bill 289. 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Razkes re- 

a That the Committee had gone through the 

ill. 





itself into the said Committee. 





Ordered, That the Bill, as amended, be printed. 
Ordered, 


consideration the Amendments made by the Lords Shipping Ba 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Supreme Court 






oo tee 





int 


6 Bill. 


iw 
nent 


Bill 


ourt 
ill 


40 Vicroria. 


Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed toa 
Committee of the whole House, for this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 


on Bil Reading of the Cruelty to Animals Bill; 
(Lords.] Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 


this day. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
ats take into consideration the Local Government 
no Board’s Provisional Orders Confirmation (Bath, 
orders  § &amp;c.) Bill, as amended in the Committee. 
ose) Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
il [Lords] this day. 


provisional 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
Commons Bill. tai¢ into consideration the Amendments made by 
the Lords to the Commons Bill. 

The said Amendments, as far as the Amend- 
ment in p. p. 22, l. 33, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

P, 22, 1. 33, after the word “ situate,” to insert 
the words, “ but the provisions of this section shall 
* not apply to any commons or waste lands where- 
“on the rights of common are vested solely in the 
“ lord of the manor,” the next Amendment, being 
read a second time; 


And a Motion being made, and the Question! ment Bill; 


being put, That this House doth agree with the 
Lords in the said Amendment; 
The House divided. 
The Yeas to the Right ; 
The Noes to the Left. 
Tellers for the {Sir William Dyke, lL gy 
Yeas, Mr. Rowland Winn: Pew 
Tellers for the) Mr. Shaw Lefevre, } 18 
Noes, Mr. Ernest Noel : . 
So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 
Then the subsequent Amendment, being read a 
second time, was agreed to. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 


hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
a, pi, 2¢2ding of the Prisons (Jreland) Bill; 
(Ireland) Bill. Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 


Queen Anne’s into a Committee on Queen Anne’s Bounty 
Bounty Bill 


(Lords.] Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. | 


Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Razkes re- 
ported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill; and amended the Title, as followeth :-— 
An Act for amending so much of the Agricultural 
Holdings (Eng- Holdings (Zngland) Act, 1875, as relates to the 
land) Act, 1875, Grovernors of the Bounty of Queen Anne for the 


Amendment Augmentation of the Maintenance of the Poor 
Bil (Lords.] Clergy. 
Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration this day. 
—_— Mr. Ruazkes reported from the Committee on the 
a ma Navy and Army Expenditure, 1874-5, several 
1874-5. | Resolutions; which were read, as follow: 


1. That it appears by the Navy Appropriation 
Account, for the year ended 3lst March 1875, 
that the balances unexpended in respect of certain 
Votes for Navy Services for the said year amounted 
to the Sum of : £. 83,574 0s. 7d. 

2. That the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s 
Treasury have temporarily authorised the applica- 
tion of the said Sum of £. 83,574 0s. 7 d. to pro- 
vide in part for the expenditure incurred in excess 
of certain other Votes for Navy Services for the 
said year. 

3. That the said application be sanctioned. 

4, That it appears by the Army Appropriation 
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Account, for the year ended 31st March 1875, that 
the balances unexpended in respect of certain 
Votes for Army Services for the said year amounted 
to the Sum of £.302,839 9s. 7 d., and that the 
Sum of £. 78,605 15s. 5d. has been realised in 
excess of the estimated Appropriations in 
aid; amounting together to the total Sum of 
£.381,445 5s. 

5. That the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s 
Treasury have temporarily authorised the applica- 
tion of £. 281,213 11s. out of the said Total Sum, 
to provide for the expenditure incurred in excess 
of certain other Votes for Army Services for the 
said year. 

6. That the said application be sanctioned. 

The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 


The Tramways (Jreland) Acts Amendment Tramways 
( Dublin) Bill was, according to Order, read the &lt;a oo 
third time. (Dublin) Bill. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 


the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Pensions _ 
mittee on the Pensions Commutation Act Amend- Commutation 
Act ——- 

, . ‘ t Bi 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve “aie 


itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming War Depart- 
the adjourned Debate on the Question propose oie: thane 


| upon the 6th day of July last, That Mr. Speaker neration, &amp;c.) 


do now leave the Chair (for Committee on the Bill. 
War Department and Post Office (Remuneration, 
&amp;c.) Bill); 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Elementary 
mittee on the Elementary Education Provisional pron a ta 
Order Confirmation (Zondox) Bill; peer 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve —- Bill 


itself into the said Committee. Lords.] 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Bow Street 
mittee on the Bow Street Police Court (Site) Bill; Police Court 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve “*e) Bill. 

itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Juries(Dublin.) 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
upon the 5th day of this instant August, That 
leave be given to bring in a Bill to amend the 
Laws with respect to Juries in the County and 
the County of the City of Dublin ; 
Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till this day. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself yoo sne Gute 
into a Committee on Sheriff Courts (Scotland) felarion nd 


[Salaries and Allowances]. Allowances. } 
(In the Committee.) 

Resolved, That it is expedient to authorise the 
payment, out of the Consolidated Fund of the 
United Kingdom, of additions to the Salaries of 
Sheriffs of United Counties, at present defrayed 
out of Moneys provided by Parliament; and out 
of Moneys to be provided by Parliament, of 
Salaries, Allowances, and Expenses of Sheriffs’ 
Clerks, in pursuance of the provisions of any Act 
of the present Session relating to Sheriffs Courts 
( Scotland). 

Resolution to be reported. 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had come to a Re- 
solution. ; 

Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 

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The Order of the day being read, for the Com-; The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Legal Prac. 


Irish Peerage p ‘ . 
mittee on the Jrish Peerage Bill ; mittee on the Legal Practitioners Bill; titioners Bill, 


Bill [Lords.} 


Parliamentary 
and Municipal 
Registration 
(Boroughs) 
Bill. 


Clean Rivers 
Bill [Lords.] 


Parochial 
Records Bill 
[Lords.] 


Cruelty Pre- 
vention Bill. 


Forfeiture 
Relief Bill. 


Companies 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday | 


next, resolve itself intu the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Parliamentary and Municipal Regis- 
tration (Boroughs) Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Clean Rivers Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


The Parochial Records Bill was, according to 
Order, read a second time; and committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Cruelty Prevention Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 


this day. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
take into consideration the Forfeiture Relief Bill, 
as amended in the Committee. 

A Clause (Act not to apply in certain cases), was 
twice read; and made part of the Bill. 

Then an Amendment was made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be now read the third 
time:—The Bill was accordingly read the third 
time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 


Acts (1862 and into a Committee on the Companies Acts (1862 and 


1867) Amend- 
ment Bill. 


Municipal 
Privileger 


(Ireland) Bill. 


1867) Amendment Bill. 
(In the Committee.) 


Cause, N° 1 (Short Title). 

Question proposed, That the Clause stand part 
of the Bill: 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question pro- 
posed, That the Chairman do now leave the Chair: 
—Motion, by leave, withdrawn. 

To report Progress and ask leaye to sit again. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr. Razkes 
reported, That the Committee had made Progress 
in the Bill, and that he was directed to move, That 
the Committee may have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, again 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Amendment which, 
upon the 5th day of this instant August, was pro- 

osed to be made to the Municipal Privileges 
(Ireland) Bill, on consideration of the Bill, as 
amended ; and which Amendment was in p. 3, 1. 42, 
after the word “ Privilege” to insert the words 
* or to be elected to any corporate office ” ; 

And the Question being again proposed, That 
those words be there inserted:—The House re- 
sumed the said adjourned Debate. 

And the Question being put :—It was resolved 
in the Affirmative. 

Then another Amendment was made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be now read the third 
time:—The Bill was accordingly read the third 
time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


And a Motion being made, and the Question 


hoy, pepe, That Mr. Speaker do now leave 
| the Chair ; 


The House divided. 
The Yeas to the Right ; 
The Noes to the Left. 


| &gt; {Mr. Charley, 7 
Tellers for the Yeas, (Mr. WilliamGordon: 36. 


| , 

| 7 Mr. Monk, 

| Tellers for the Noes,{ 34" y pemeenn \ 11. 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

The House accordingly resolved itself into the 

| Committee ; and, after some time spent therein, 

Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 

reported, That the Committee had made Progress 

in the Bill; and that he was directed to move, That 

the Committee may have leave to sit again. 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, again 

resolve itself into the said Committee. 

| Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Winter Assizes 

to provide for the holding of Winter Assizes in (land) 

Ireland: And that Sir Colman O’Loghlen and Mr. 

Stacpoole do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented a Bill to Consolidatea 
grant a Sum, out of the Consolidated Fund, to Fund (Appro. 
the Service of the year ending the Thirty-first day Prt) Bill 
of March One thousand eight hundred and Se- 
venty-seven, and to appropriate the Supplies 
granted in this Session of Parliament: And the 
same was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time this day. 


Sir Colman O’Loghlen presented a Bill to pro- winter Assizes 
vide for the holding of Winter Assizes in Zreland: (Ireland) Bill. 
And the same was read the first time; and ordered _ Bill 290. 
to be read a second time upon Wednesday next; 
and to be printed. 


A Motion being made, That this House will, Cruelty to Ani. 
this day, resolve itself into a Committee to con- ™#s (Salaries) 
sider of authorising the payment, out of moneys 
to be provided by Parliament, of the Salaries of 
_any Special Inspectors appointed under the provi- 
sions of any Act of the present Session to amend 
| the Law relating to Cruelty to Animais: 

Mr. Secretary Cross, by Her Majesty’s Com- 
mand, acquainted the House, That Her Majesty, 
having been informed of the subject-matter of this 
Motion, recommends it to the consideration of the 
House. 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


And then the House, having continued to git 
till a quarter of an hour after Two of the 
clock on Tuesday morning, adjourned till 
this day. 








Tuesday, 8th August, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 

T HE House proceeded to take into considera- Halifax Water 
tion the Amendments made by the Lords to and os 

the Halifax Water and Gas Extension Bill; and“ "" 
the same were twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, ‘That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
- ships. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee on the —— 
Standing Orders Revision have leave to sit this virion. 
day till ‘Six of the clock, during the sitting of the 


House. 
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Several Public Petitions were presented, and 


ll read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 
U) le- 

vin to Thirty 

— Ordered, That the Return relative to Municipal 

ee Officers Superannuation, which was presented upon 

unui. the 10th day of July last, be printed. 
0, 400. 

Lo Ordered, That the Paper relative to East India 

(Progress and (Progress and Condition), which was presented 

Condition.) upon the 7th day of this instant August, be 

No. 406. printed. 
fortifications, Ordered, That the Account relative to Fortifica- 
&amp;e. tions, &amp;c., which was presented upon the 7th day 
No. 407. of this instant August, be printed. 
Fiji (Measles.) Ordered, That the Return relative to Fiji 
No. 408. (Measles), which was presented upon the 7th day 
of this instant August, be printed. 

Notices to Quit © Ordered, That the Return relative to Notices to 

(Irland) Quit (Jreland) Stamps, which was presented upon 

"is the 7th day of this instant August, be printed. 

0. . 

ane Mr. aeegiay’ | Hardy presented,—Return to 

(Chaplains, an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 13th day 

ac.) of July last, for Returns relative to the Army 
(Chaplains, &amp;c.) 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 

County Courts Mr. William Henry Smith presented,— Return 

(Plaints. to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 15th 
day of May last, for a Return relative to County 
Courts (Plaints). 

British Return to an Order, dated the 17th day of July 

ueam. last, for Returns relative to the British Museum. 

QuenAnne’s Mr. William Henry Smith also presented, pur- 

Bounty. suant to the directions of an Act of Parliament,— 
Annual Account, together with the Report of the 
Governors of Queen Anne’s Bounty, and the Ba- 
lance Sheet of the Corporation to the 31st day of 
December 1875. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 

Tukey (No.5, Mr. Bourke presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- 

1876.) mand,— Copy of Further Correspondence respect- 
ing the Affairs of Turkey (in continuation of 
Papers presented to Parliament ( Turkey, No. 3, 
1876). 

Slave Trade Copy of Correspondence relating to the Slave 

(No.4, 1876.) Trade in 1875. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 

East India Lord George Hamilton —_——- pursuant to 

Council. the directions of an Act of Parliament, —Minute, 
dated 8th August 1876, by the Secretary of State 
for India, relative to the Appointment of Sir Henry 
Sumner Maine, K.C.8.1., as Sinsins of the Council 
of India. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 

Barbados, Mr. James Lowther presented, by Her Majesty’s 
Command,—Further Papers relating to the late 
Disturbances in Barbados (in continuation of 
[C. 1559] of July 1876). 

Colonial Papers relating to Her Majesty’s Colonial Pos- 

Possessions, sessions, 1876. 

Fiji Copy of further Correspondence respecting the 
Colony of Fiji (in continuation of [C. 1404], Fe- 
bruary 1876). 

that Kong Copy of Further Correspondence relating to the 

ier.) Complaints of the Mercantile Community\in Hong 
Kong against the action of certain Revenue Cruisers 
in the neighbourhood of the Colony (in continua- 
tion of (C. 1189] of April 1875). 
South Africa, 


Copy of Further Correspondence relating to 
OL. 131. 


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401 


the Affairs of South Africa (in continuation of 

[C. 1401] of February 1876). 

* cre That the said Papers do lie upon the 
able. 


Mr. Secretary Cross presented,—Return to an Male Persons 
Address to Her Majesty, dated the 25th day of (United King. 
July last, for Returns relative to Male Persons po pone 
(United Kingdom, 1851 and 1871). . 

Return to an Order, dated the 17th day of July Reverend 
last, for a Return relative to the case of the Robert 
Reverend Robert O’ Keeffe. ees 


Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the 
Table. 


The following Paper, pursuant to the directions Lunatic Asy- 
of an Act of Parliament, was laid upon the Table lms (England 
by the Clerk of the House,—General Statements “@ ) 
of the Receipts and Payments on account of the 
County and Borough Lunatic Asylums in England 
and Wales, from 1st January to 3lst December 
1875. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Police Ex- 
a Copy of Treasury Minute containing Regulations P®s*- 
for the Administration of the Vote for Police No. 403. 
Expenses. 

Mr. William Henry Smith accordingly presented 
the said Paper. 

Ordered, Vhat the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second Pend (Apex 
= ‘ - Fand (Appro- 
roms - the Consolidated Fund (Appropria- priation) Bill, 
And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a 
second time ; 
An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the 
words “ the action of the War Office with refer- Plumstead and 
“ ence to Plumstead Common, in the County of Wormholt 
* Kent, and Wormholt Common, in the Manor of somes 
“* Fulham, is such as to imperil the use of those 
“ open spaces for recreation by the people of the 
** Metropolis,” instead thereof. 
And the Question being proposed, That the 
words proposed to be left out stand part of the 
Question:—The said proposed Amendment was, 
with leave of the House, withdrawn. 
And the main Question being put ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be now read a second 
time :—The Bill was accordingly read a second 
time ; and committed to a Committee of the whole 
House, for To-morrow. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Suez Canal 

into a Committee on the Suez Canal (Shares) (States) Bill. 
Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Razkes re- 
ported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill, and directed him to report the same, with- 
out Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming War Depart- 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed ——, 
upon the 6th day of July last, That Mr. Speaker (henna 
do now leave the Chair (for Committee on the War tion, &amp;c.) Bill. 
Department and Post Office (Remuneration, &amp;c.) 

Bill); 

And the Question oo again proposed :—The 
House resumed the said a homveah Debate. 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” 
to the end of the Cosson in order to add the 
words “ this House will, upon this day two months, 

3F “ resolve 





Appellate 
Jurisdiction 
Bill [ Lords.] 


402 


“ resolve itself into the said Committee,” instead 
thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
ee to be left out stand part of the Question : 
—The said proposed Amendment was, with leave 
of the House, withdrawn. 

And the main Question being put ; 

Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
Chair :—The House accordingly resolved itself into 
the Committee; and, after some time spent there- 
in, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill, and directed him to report the same, with- 
out Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
To-morrow. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Appellate Jurisdiction Bill. 


(In the Committee.) 


Another Clause— 

(Amendment of the Supreme Court of Judicature 
Acts in relation to Her Majesty’s Court of 
Appeal.) 

(Whereas it is expedient to amend the constitu- 
tion of Her Majesty's Court of Appeal in manner 
hereinafter mentioned: Be it Enacted, That there 
shall be repealed so much of the fourth section of 
“The Supreme Court of Judicature Act, 1875,” 
as provides that the ordinary judges of Her Ma- 
jesty’s Court of Appeal (in this Act referred to as 
“the Court of Appeal ”) shall not exceed three at 
any one time. 


In addition to the number of ordinary judges of | 


the Court of Appeal authorised to be appointed 
by “ The Supreme Court of Judicature Act, 1875,” 
Her Majesty may appoint three additional ordi- 
nary judges of that Court. 

The first three appointments of additional 
judges under this Act shall be made by such 
transfer to the Court of Appeal as is in this sec- 
tion mentioned of three judges of the High Court 
of Justice, and the vacancies so created in the 
High Court of Justice shall not be filled up, 
except in the event and to the extent hereinafter 
mentioned. 

Her Majesty may by writing, under Her sign 
manual, either before or after the commencement 
of this Act, but so as not to take effect until the 
commencement thereof, transfer to the Court of 
Appeal from the following Divisions of the High 
Court of Justice, that is to say, the Queen’s 
Bench Division, the Common Pleas Division, and 
the Exchequer Division, such of the judges of the 
said Divisions, not exceeding three in number, as 
to Her Majesty may seem meet, each of whom 
shall have been a judge of any one or more of such 
Divisions for not less than two years previously to 
his appointment, and shall not be an ez officio judge 
of the Court of Appeal, and every judge so trans- 
ferred shall be deemed an additional ordinary judge 
of the Court of Appeal, in the same manner as if 
he had been appointed such judge by letters patent. 
No judge shall be so transferred without his own 
consent. 

Every additional ordinary judge of the said 
Court of Appeal appointed in pursuance of this 
Act shall be subject to the provisions of sections 
twenty-nine and thirty-seven of ‘‘ The Supreme 
Court of Judicature Act, 1873,” and shall be 
under an obligation to go circuits and to act as 
Commissioner under commissions of assize or other 
commissions authorised to be issued in pursuance 
of the said Act, in the same manner in all respects 
as if he were a Judge of the High Court of Justice. 

There shall be paid to every additional ordinary 
judge appointed in pursuance of this Act, in addi- 
tion to the salary which he would otherwise re- 
ceive as an ordinary judge of the Court of Appeal, 
such sum on account of his expenses on circuit or 


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1876. 


under such commission as aforesaid, as may be 


approved by the Treasury upon the recommenda- 
tion of the Lord Chancellor. 

Each ef the judges of the High Court of Justice 
who is, in pursuance of this Act, transferred to 
the Court of Appeal, by writing under the sign 
manual of Her Majesty, shall retain such officers 
as are attached to his person as such judge, 
and are appointed and removable by him at his 
pleasure, in pursuance of “The Supreme Court 
of Judicature Act, 1873,” and the officers so at- 
tached shall have the same rank, and hold their 
offices by the same tenure, and upon the same 
terms and conditions, and receive the same sala- 
ries, and if entitled to pensions, be entitled to the 
same pensions, and shall as nearly as may be per- 
form the same duties as if the judges to whom they 
are attached had not been transferred to the Court 
of Appeal. 

Subject as aforesaid, the provisions of the Su- 
preme Court of Judicature Acts, 1873 and 1875, 
for the time being in force in relation to the 
appointment of ordinary judges of Her Majesty’s 
Court of Appeal, and to their tenure of office, and 
to their precedence, and to their salaries and pen- 
sions, and to the officers to be attached to such 


| judges, and all other provisions relating to such 


ordinary judges, shall apply to the additional or- 
dinary judges appointed in pursuance of this sec- 
tion in the same manner as they apply to the other 
ordinary judges of the said Court. 

For the purpose of a transfer to the Court of 
Appeal under this section service as a judge in a 
Court whose jurisdiction is transferred to the High 
Court shall be deemed to have been service as a 
judge in any one or more of such Divisions of the 
High Court as are in this section in that behalf 
mentioned, and for the purpose of the pension of 
any person appointed under this Act, an additional 
ordinary judge of appeal service in the High Court 
of Justice, or in any Court whose jurisdiction is 
transferred to the High Court of Justice or to the 
Court of Appeal, shall be deemed to have been 
service in the Court of Appeal),——brought up, 
and read the first and second time. 

Amendment proposed, in 1. 11, to leave out the 
word “ shall,” in order to insert the word “ may.” 

Question put, That the word “ shall” stand part 
of the Clause ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the William Dyke, 

Yeas, Mr. Rowland Winn : 

Tellers for the /Mr. Gregory, 

Noes, Mr. Grantham : 

Clause agreed to, and added. 

Another Clause added. 

Another Clause,— 

(Regulations as to business of High Court of Jus- 
tice and divisional Courts of High Court.) 

On and after the First day of December One 
thousand eight hundred and Seventy-six, every 
action and proceeding in the High Court of Jus- 
tice, and all business arising out of the same, ex- 
cept as is hereinafter provided, shall, so far as is 
practicable and convenient, be heard, determined, 
and disposed of before a single judge, and all pro- 
ceedings in an action subsequent to the hearing or 
trial, and down to and including the final judg- 
ment or order, always excepting any proceedings 
on appeal in the Court of A peal, shall, so far as 
is practicable and convenient, be had and taken 
before the judge before whom the trial or hearing 
of the cause took place: Provided, nevertheless, 
That divisional courts of the High Court of Jus- 
tice, may be held for the transaction of any busi- 
ness which may for the time being be ordered by 
rules uf court to be heard by a divisional court ; 
and any such divisional court, when held, shall 
be constituted by two judges of the court and no 
more, unless the president of the division to which 











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40 Victoria. 


such divisional court belongs, with the concurrence 
of the other judges of such division, or a majority 
thereof, is of opinion that such divisional court 
should be constituted of a greater number of judges 
than two, in which case such court may be consti- 
tuted of such number of judges as the president, 
with such concurrence as aforesaid, may think ex- 
pedient ; nevertheless the decisions of a divisional 
court shall not be invalidated by reason of such 
court being constituted of a greater number than 
two judges; and 

Rules of court for carrying into effect the enact- 
ments contained in this section shall be made in 
manner provided by “ The Supreme Court of Ju- 
dicature Act, 1875,” on or previously to the First 
day of December One thousand eight hundred and 
Seventy-six, but may afterwards be altered in 
manner provided by the said Act; and 

There shall be repealed on and after the Eleventh 
day of January One thousand eight hundred and 
Seventy-seven, so much of sections forty, forty- 
one, forty-two, forty-three, forty-four, and forty- 
six of “ The Supreme Court of Judicature Act, 
1873,” as is inconsistent with the provisions of 
this section) ——brought up, and read the first and 
second time. 

Amendment proposed, in 1. 3, to leave out the 
words “* so far as is practicable and convenient.” 

Question proposed, That the words “ so far as is 
“ practicable and convenient,” stand part of the 
Clause put, and agreed to. 

Amendments made. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to, and added. 

Three other Clauses added. 

Another Clause (Appointment of deputy by 
district registrars)——brought up, and read the 
first time. 

Motion made, and Question put, That the Clause 
be read a second time ; 

The Committee divided. 





Tellers for the (Sir William Dyke, 1 68 
Yeas, Mr. Rowland Winn: J ° 
Tellers for the Mr. Gregory, \ 40 
Noes, Sir Colman O’Loghlen : 7; ™ 


Amendments made. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to, and added. 

Two other Clauses added. 

Another-Clause (Enforcing payment of costs) 
brought up, and read the first time. 

Question, That the Clause be read a second 
time——put, and negatived. 

Another Clause (Writs of Assistance to be 
issued to all the Judges of the Supreme Court)—— 
brought up, and read the first time. 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Clause be read a second time:— Motion and Clause, 
by leave, withdrawn. 

Bill, as amended, to be reported. 








And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Wednesday morning ; 


Wednesday, 9th August, 1876: 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr. Razhes 
reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Cruelty to Animals Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day. 


_ The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on Cruelty to Animals [ Salaries ]. 
(In the Committee.) 


Resolved, That it is expedient to authorise the 
payment, out of moneys to be provided by Parlia- 
OL. 131. 


8th—9th August. 





403 


ment, of the Salaries of any Special Inspectors 
appointed under the provisions of any Act of the 
present Session to amend the Law relating to 
Cruelty to Animals. 


Resolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had come to a 
Resolution. 

Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- supreme Court 
mittee on the Supreme Court of Judicature (Jre- of Judicature 
land) Bill; Fem | ma 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve —— 
itself into the said Committee. 








The Order of the day being read, for the Second Norwich and 
Reading of the Norwich and Boston (Corrupt tore: 
Voters) Bill ; _ 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Bow Street 
mittee on the Bow Street Police Court (Site) Police Court 
Bill (Site) Bill. 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Expiring Laws 
mittee on the Expiring Laws Continuance Bill; Continuance 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve , 
itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Pensions Com- 
mittee on the Pensions Commutation Act Amend- ™utation Act 
ment Bill ; ccc 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on sheriff Courts 
Sheriff Courts (Scotland) [Salaries and Allow- (Scotland) 
ances|, a Resolution; which was read, as fol- eaend 
loweth : : 

That it is expedient to authorise the payment, 
out of the Consolidated Fund of the United King- 
dom, of additions to the Salaries of Sheriffs of 
United Counties, at present defrayed out of moneys 
provided by Parliament; and, out of moneys to be 
provided by Parliament, of Salaries, Allowances, 
and Expenses of Sheriffs’ Cierks, in pursuance of 
the provisions of any Act of the present Session re- 
lating to Sheriff Courts (Scotland). 

The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 





The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Sheriff Courts 
mittee on the Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Bill; = 
And a Motion being made, and the Question ™ 
being put, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
Chair ; 
The House divided. 
The Yeas to the Right ; 
The Noes to the Left. 
Tellers for the; Sir William Dyke, 1 
Yeas, (Mr. Rowland Winn: J 
Tellers for the { Mr. Ernest Noel, i 
Noes, \Sir Sydney Waterlow: J 
So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 
The House accordingly resolved itself into 
a Committee on the Bill; and, after some time 
spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; 
and Mr. Raikes reported, That the Committee 
had gone through the Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration this day. 
3F 2 The 


63. 
24. 








Chairmen’s 
Jurisdiction 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Local Govern- 
ment Board's 
Provisional 
Orders Con- 
firmation 
(Artizans and 
Labourers 
Dwellings) 
Bill [ Lords.] 


Merchant 
Shipping Bill. 


Crossed 
Cheques Bill 
[Lords.] 


Local Govern- 
ment Board’s 
Provisional 
Orders Con- 
firmation (Bil- 
brough, &amp;c.) 
Bill [Lords.} 


Local Govern- 
ment Provi- 
sional Orders 
(Birmingham, 
&amp;c.) Bill 
[Lords.] 


Local Govern- 
ment Board's 
Provisional 
Orders Con- 
firmation 
(Bath, &amp;c.) 
Bill [Lords.] 


Agricultural 


404 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Chairmen’s Jurisdiction (Ireland) 
Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Local Government Board’s 
Provisional Orders Confirmation (Artizans and 
Labourers Dwellings) Bill; and, after some time 
spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; 
and Mr. Raikes reported, That the Committee had 
gone through the Bill, and directed him to report 
the same, without Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
consideration the Amendments made by the Lords 
to the Merchant Shipping Bill ; 

Ordered, That the said Amendments be taken 
into consideration upon Thursday next. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
take into consideration the Crossed Cheques Bill, 
as amended in the Committee; and Amendments 
were made to the Bill. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made 
to the Bill, in p. 3, 1. 13, by leaving out the words 
“ by reason only of having received such payment.” 

And the Question being proposed, That the 
words proposed to be left out stand part of the 
Bill :—The said proposed Amendment was, with 
leave of the House, withdrawn. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
this day. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
take into consideration the Local Government 
Board’s Provisional Order Corfirmation (Bil- 
brough, &amp;c.) Bill, as amended in the Committee: 
—And an Amendment was made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be now read the third time: 
—The Bill was accordingly read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the same, with Amendments; to 
which this House doth desire the concurrence of 
their Lordships. 


The Local Government Provisional Orders 
(Birmingham, &amp;c.) Bill was, according to Order, 
read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the same, with Amendments; to 
which this House doth desire the concurrence of 
their Lordships. 


The Local Government Board’s Provisional 
Orders Confirmation (Bath, &amp;c.) Bill was, ac- 
cording to Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the same, with Amendments; to 
which this House doth desire the concurrence of 
their Lordships. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to 


Holdings (Eng- take into consideration the Agricultural Holdings 


8th—-Qth August. 

















1876. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Fiemen 
mittee on the Elementary Education Provisional] Education 
Order Confirmation (London) Bill ; oe 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve Semen ¢ 
itself into the said Committee. (London) Bil] 

[Lords,} 

The Order of the day being read, for resuming Juries 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed (Dublin,) 
upon the 5th day of this instant August, That 
leave be given to bring in a Bill to amend the 
Laws with respect to Juries in the County and 
the County of the City of Dublin ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Toll Bridges 
mittee on the Toll Bridges (River Thames) Bill; (RiverThames) 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday * 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Parochial 
into a Committee on the Parochial Records Bill ; Records Bill 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker — 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes reported, 

That the Committee had gone through the Bill, 
and directed him to report the same, without 
Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 

this day. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself ne 
into a Committee on the Companies Acts (1862 1967) Ane 
and 1867) Amendment Bill. 


ment Bill, 
(In the Committee. ) 


CuiavuseE, N°’ 1 (Short Title). 

Question again proposed, That the Clause stand 
part of the Bill; 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question, That 
the Chairman do now leave the Chair——put, and 
negatived. 

Question, That the Clause stand part of the 
Bill put, and agreed to. 

CiausEs, N° 2 to N° 4, agreed to. 


CxiausE, N° 5 (Repeal of 30 &amp; 31 Vic. c. 131, 
s. 38, and provisions in reference to prospectus in 
lieu thereof). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 2, 1. 11, after the 
word “Company,” to insert the words, “ It shall 
‘“‘ state whether the directors are to be in the 
* position of fellow partners or trustees.” 

(Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted :— Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Clause agreed to. 

CriausEs, N° 6 to N° 10, agreed to. 

Bill to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill, and directed him to report the same, 
without Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
this day. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Legal Prac- 
into a Committee on the Legal Practitioners Bill; 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes reported, 

That the Committee had gone through the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the 

Committee, be taken into consideration this day. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Parliament 


to consolidate and amend the Law relating to oy 


pen trent Ly (England) Act, 1875, Amendment Bill,as amended 


(changed from in the Committee. 
Queen’s Anne’s Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 


thorde) ” upon Thursday next. 


Election Petitions and the inquiry into and pre- Practices. 

vention of Corrupt Practices at Parliamentary 

Elections: And that Mr. Attorney General and 

Mr. Secretary Cross do prepare, and bring it in. 
Ordered, 














tary Public Bills. 
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nal 
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hames) the House. 
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Select Com- 
mittees. 
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40 Victoria. 8th—9th 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Return of the Number of Public Bills, distin- 
guishing Government from other Bills, introduced 
into this House, or brought from the House of 
Lords, during the present Session ; showing the 
Number which received the Royal Assent; the 
Number which were passed by this House but 
not by the House of Loras; the Number passed 
by the House of Lords but not by this House ; 
and distinguishing the stages at which such Bills 
as did not receive the Royal Assent were dropped 
or postponed and rejected in either House of Par- 
liament (in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, 
No. 0.144, of Session 1875). 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Return of the Number of Divisions of the House 
in the Session of 1876; stating the subject of the 
Division, and the Number of Members in the 
Majority and Minority, Tellers included ; also the 
aggregate Number in the House on each Division; 
distinguishing the Divisions on Public Business 
from Private; and also the Number of Divisions 
before and after Midnight (in continuation of 
Parliamentary Paper, No. 0.139, of Session 1875.) 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Return of the Number of Select Committees 
appointed in the Session of 1876; the Subjects of 
Inquiry ; the Names of the Members appointed to 
serve on each, aad of the Chairman of each; the 
Number of Days each Committee met, and the 
Number of Days each Member attended; the 
Total Expense of the Attendance of Witnesses at 
each Select Committee, and the Name of the 
Member who moved for such Committee; also, 
the Total Number of Members who served on 
Select Committees (in continuation of Parlia- 
mentary Paper, No. 0.138, of Session 1875). 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Returns of the Number of Private Bills intro- 
duced and brought from the House of Lords, and 
of Acts passed in the Session of 1876, classed 
according to the following subjects :—Railways ; 
Roads and Bridges; Waterworks; Ports, Piers, 
Harbours and Docks; Canals and Navigations ; 
Churches, Chapels, and Burying Grounds; Paving, 
Lighting, and Improving; Gaols and other County 
Buildings ; Inclosures; Small Debts Courts; and 
all other Bills and Acts:—— Of all the Private 
Bills, and Bills for confirming Provisional Orders, 
which in the Session of 1876, have been treated 
as Opposed Bills; specifying those which have 
been classified in Groups by the Committee of 
Selection, or by the General Committee on Rail- 
way and Canal Bills; together with the Names 
of the Selected Members who served on each 
Committee ; the first and also the last Day of the 
sitting of each Committee ; the Number of Days 
on which each Committee sat; the Number of 
Days on which each selected Member has served ; 
the Bills the Preambles of which were reported to 
have been proved; the Bills the Preambles of 
which were reported to have been not proved; 
and in the case of Bills for confirming Provisional 
Orders, whether the Provisional Orders ought or 
ought not to be confirmed; the Bills referred 
back to the Committee of Selection, or to the 
General Committee on Railway and Canal Bills, 
as having become unopposed, and the Bills with- 
drawn, or not proceeded with by the Parties: 
And, of all Private Bills which, in the Session of 
1876, have been referred by the Committee of 
Selection, or by the General Committee on Rail- 
way and Canal Bills, to the Chairman of the Com- 
mittee of Ways and Means, together with the 
Names of the Members who served on each Com- 
mittee ; the Number of Days on which each Com- 
mittee sat; and the Number of Days on which 
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405 


each Member attended (in continuation of Parlia- 
mentary Paper, No. 0.137 of Session 1875). 


August. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Joint Stock 
a Return of Joint Stock Companies, to be made ©™panies- 
up to June 1876 (in continuation of Parliamentary 
Paper, No. 394, of Session 1875). 


The Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Standing 
Means reported from the Select Committee on Orders Re- 
Standing Orders Revision; That they had con- "“°™ 
sidered the matters to them referred, and directed No. 404. 
him to make a Report thereof to the House. 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into con- 
sideration upon Thursday next, at the time of 
Private Business ; and be printed. 


Mr. Attorney General presented a Bill to con- Parliamentary 
solidate and amend the Law relating to Election Elections and 
Petitions and the inquiry into and prevention of Seeetiien Bill. 
Corrupt Practices at Parliamentary Elections: pj} 99). 
And the same was read the first time ; and ordere 
to be read a second time upon Thursday next; 


and to be printed. 


A Motion being made, That this House will, Chairmen’s 
this day, resolve itself into a Committee to consider Jurisdiction 
of authorising the payment, out of moneys to be (Golaries 
provided by Parliament, of additional Salaries to 
Chairmen of Quarter Sessions of any vacant 
Counties in Ireland, in respect of increased Duties 
imposed upon them under the provisions of any 
Act of the present Session relating to the Juris- 
diction of Chairmen of Quarter Sessions in Jre- 
land; 

Sir Michael Hicks Beach, by Her Majesty’s: 
Command, acquainted the House, That Her Ma- 
jesty, having been informed of the subject-matter 
of this Motion, recommends it to the consideration 
of the House. 


Salaries. ] 








Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


Ordered, That the several Accounts and Papers East India 
which have been presented to this House in this Revenue 
Session of Parliament, relating to the Revenues of Senet, 
India, be referred to the Consideration of a Com- 
mittee of the whole House. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, reselve itself into the said Committee. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till haif an hour after One of the clock 
on Wednesday morning, adjourned till this 
day. 








Wednesday, 9th August, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 
EVERAL Public Petitions were presented, Public 
S and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table, Petitions. 


Vide Supple- 
ment to Thirty- 
: . tirst Report. 
Viscount Sandon presented, by Her Majesty’s pancation 


Command,—Copy of Minute of the Committee of (Refusal of 
Council on Education, dated 7th August 1876, re- Grants.) 
specting the refusal of Grants to unnecessary 
Schools. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented, pursuant Superannua- 
to the directions of an Act of Parliament,—Copy io 
of Treasury Minute, dated 3rd August 1876, 
awarding a Special Compensation Allowance to Mr. 
John Thomas Gilbert, Secretary, Public Record 
Office (Jreland). 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 

Mr, 





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406 


ace &amp;&gt;. Mr. Bourke presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- 


(Consular mand,—Copy of Reports from Her Majesty’s Con- 
Reports) (Com- sy]s on the Manufactures, Commerce, &amp;c. of their 


1876.) ®™ Consular Districts. (Trade Reports.) Part VI. 


a Copy of Reports by Her Majesty’s Secretaries 


(Commercial, of Embassy and Legation, on the Manufactures, 
No. 17,1876.) Commerce, &amp;c., of the Countries in which they 
In reside. (Trade Reports.) Part 1V. 
Sugar Con- Copy of further Correspondence respecting the 
vention (Com- International Sugar Convention (in continuation 
—- 18, of Commercial, No. 13, 1876). 

) Ordered, That tne said Papers do lie upon the 

Table. 


Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant 
to the Clerk of the Crown, to make out a new Writ 
for the electing of a Member to serve in this pre- 
sent Parliament for the County of Rutland, in the 
room of the Right honourable Gerard James Noel, 
who, since his election for the said County, hath 
accepted the office of First Commissioner of Her 
Majesty’s Works and Public Buildings. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Expiring Laws Continu- 
ance Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes re- 
i That the Committee had gone through the 

ill, 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 

mittee, be taken into consideration To-morrow. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
take into consideration the Appellate Jurisdiction 
Bill, as amended in the Committee. 

A Clause was offered to be added to the Bill 
(Application for new trial in cases tried at the 
Assizes); and the said Clause was brought up, and 
read the first time. 

A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That the said Clause be now read a second 
time:—And the said Motion and Clause were 
severally, with leave of the House, withdrawn. 

Then an Amendment was made to the Bill. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made 
to the Bill, in p. 4, lL. 3, by leaving out the words 
“ in the same manner in all respects as.” 

And the Question being proposed, That the 
words proposed to be left out stand part of the 
Bill:—The said proposed Amendment was, with 
leave of the House, withdrawn. 

Then other Amendments were made to the 
Bill. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made 
to the Bill, in p. 4, 1. 19, by leaving out the words 
* except so far as may be authorised by Orders of 
* the House of Lords.” 

And the Question being proposed, That the 
words proposed to be left out stand part of the 
Bill:—The said proposed Amendment was, with 
leave of the House, withdrawn. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made 
to the Bill, in p. 5, lL. 21, by leaving out from the 
word * Majesty” to the word “ Whereas,” in p. 6, 
1, 3. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
ee to be left out stand part of the Bill ; 

he House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right; rt 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the {Sir William Dyke, 7 

Yeas, | Mr. Rowland Winn: — S 

Tellers for the; Mr. Beresford Hope, } 

Noes, (Colonel Makins: 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 
— another Amendment was made to the 

ill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be now read the third 


9th August. 


55 
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1876. 


time:—The Bill was accordingly read the third 
time. 

Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, with Amendments; to which 
this House doth desire the concurrence of their 
Lordships. 


The Cruelty to Animals Bill was, according to Cruelty to 
Order, read a second time; and committed to a Animals Bill 
Committee of the whole House, for To-morrow. vee.) 


The Norwich and Boston (Corrupt Voters) Bill Norwich 
was, according to Order, read a second time ; and °%4 Boston 
committed to a Committee of the whole House, for Voters) - 


To-morrow. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Bow Street 
into a Committee on the Bow Street Police Court roma Court 
(Site) Bill; and, after some spent therein, Mr. = 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Sir Henry Sel- 
win-Ibbetson reported, That the Committee had 
gone through the Bill, and directed him to report 
the same, without Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 


To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- supreme Court 
mittee on the Supreme Court of Judicature (Jre- of Judicature 
“1, (Ireland) Bill 
land) Bill; [ Lords. 
Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Elementary 
mittee on the Elementary Education Provisional Education Pro. 
Order Confirmation (Zondon) Bill ; a 

° : ° ation 

And a Motion being made, and the Question (London) Bill 
being proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave [Zrds.] 
the Chair :—And a Debate arising thereupon ; 

And it being a quarter of an hour before Six of 
the clock, the Debate stood adjourned till To- 
morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Consolidated 
mittee on the Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) Fund (Appro- 
Bill ; priation) Bill. 

Resolved, That this House will, 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


To-morrow, 


The Suez Canal (Shares) Bill was, according to Suez Canal 
Order, read the third time. (Shares) Bill 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The War Department and Post Office (Remu- War Depart- 
neration, &amp;c.) Bill was, according to Order, read ment and 
the third time. a 

Resvlved, That the Bill do pass. tion, &amp;c.) Bill. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Pensions Com- 
mittee on the Pensions Commutation Act Amend- mutation Act 
: Amendment 
ment Bill; Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- prisons Bill. 
mittee on the Prisons Bill 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to winter Assizes 
take into consideration the Amendments made by Bill 
the Lords to the Winter Assizes Bill; and the 
same were twice read, and agreed to. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill 
the 








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40 Victoria. 


the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


to Ani- 


sss [Salaries] Committee on Cruelty to Animals [Salaries], a 
Resolution ; which was read, as followeth: ' 


iff Courts 
sei cot 


Chairmen’s 
Jurisdiction 
(Ireland) 
[Salaries. ] 


Winter Assizes 
land) Bill, 
Bill 292, 


the Salaries of any Special Inspectors appointed 
under the provisions of any Act of the present 


Animals. 


take into consideration the Sheriff Courts (Scot- 


Mr. William Henry Smith reported from the 


That it is expedient to authorise the payment, 
out of moneys to be provided by Parliament, of 


Session to amend the Law relating to Cruelty to 


The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to 


land) Bill, as amended in the Committee; and an 
Amendment was made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
To-morrow. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on Chairmen’s Jurisdiction 
(Ireland) [Salaries |. 


(In the Committee. ) 


Resolved, That it is expedient to authorise the 
payment, out of moneys to be provided by Parlia- 
ment, of Additional Salaries to Chairmen of 
Quarter Sessions of any vacant counties in Jreland, 
in respect of increased duties imposed upon them 
under the provisions of any Act of the present 
Session relating to the Jurisdiction of Chairmen 
of Quarter Sessions in Ireland. 


Resolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Razkes 
reported, That the Committee had come to a Re- 
alien 

Ordered, That the Report be received To- 
morrow. 


The Chairmen’s Jurisdiction (Jreland) Bill was, 
according to Order, read a second time ; and com- 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for 
To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Third 
Reading of the Local Government Board's Pro- 
visional Orders Confirmation (Artizans and La- 
bourers Dwellings) Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Third 
Reading of the Crossed Cheques Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
ang of the University Education (Jreland) 
ill ; 
Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Jrish Peerage Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Parliamentary and Municipal Re- 
gistration (Boroughs) Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Winter Assizes Bill was, according to Or- 
der, read a second time ; and committed to a Com- 
mittee of the whole House. 


9th August. 





407 


Resolved, That this House will, immediately, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee :—The House 
accordingly resolved itself into the Committee ; 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes reported, 
That the Committee had gone through the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended, be printed. 
Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for To-morrow. 


The Parochial Records Bill was, according to Parochial 
Order, read the third time. Records Bill 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. —— 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 

the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 

hath agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


The Companies Acts (1862 and 1867) Amend- Companies 


ment Bill was, according to Order, read the third eet 
time. ment Bill. 


Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


roceeded to Legal Prac- 


The House, according to Order, 
ae titioners Bill. 
ractitioners 


take into consideration the Legal 
Bill, as amended in the Committee. 
Ordered, That the Bill be now read the third 
time :—The Bill was accordingly read the third 
time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Civilians 

a Return showing the Number of, and Charge for, employed by 
the Persons employed in the Service of the Crown“ “""™ | 
in a Civil Capacity in the year ending the 31st 
day of March 1876, distinguishing,— 

1. The Civil Service proper; 

2. Judicial, &amp;c., Establishments: 

3. Revenue Departments ; 

4. Civilians employed in the Naval and Mi- 

litary Departments ; 

in same Form as the Return furnished in com- 
pliance with the Order of this House, dated the 
9th day of July 1868. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, sittings of the 

a Return of the Number of Days on which the House. 
House sat in the Session of 1876, stating, for each 

Day, the Date of the Month, and Day of the 
Week, the Hour of the Meeting, and the Hour of 
Adjournment; and the Total ‘Number of Hours 
occupied in the Sittings of the House, and the 
Average Time; and showing the Number of 
Hours on which the House sat each Day, and 

the Number of Hours after Midnight; and the 
Number of Entries in each Day’s Votes and Pro- 
ceedings (in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, 

No. 0.410, of Session 1875). 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Leitrim County 
a Return of the Names of the Personation Agents Election. 
appointed by each of the Candidates at each of 
the Polling Places at the last Election for the 
County of Leitrim. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Message from 
Message had been brought from the Lords by one *#e Lords. 
of their Clerks, as followeth: 

The Lords have agreed to the Poor Law Rating Poor Law 


- : aa 
(Ireland) Bill, without any Amendment. (reed) on 


The Lords have agreed to the Savings Banks savings Banks 
(Barrister) Bill, without any Amendment. Genes 
The Lords have agreed to the Superannuation superannua- 
(Unhealthy Climates) Bill, without any Amend- Cimue) Bae 











VoL. 131, 





ment. 
3r4 The 





408 9th—10th August. 


The Lords have agreed to the Bishopric of 
Truro Bill, without any Amendment. 

The Lords have agreed to the Juries Procedure 
(Ireland) Bill, with Amendments; to which the 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have agreed to the Amendments 
made by this House to the Dublin (South) City | repealed. 

Market Bill, without any Amendment. Then the Orders relating to Private Bills, as 

The Lords have agreed to the Amendments | reported by the Committee, were agreed to. 
made by this House to the North Dublin Street| Ordered, That the said Orders be Standing Or- Standing 
‘lramways Bill, without any Amendment. ders of this House; and be printed. Orders, 


The Lords have agreed to the Amendment 
made by this House to the Amendments made} 


1876. 


ing Orders of the House; and the same was again 
read. 

The House was moved, That the present Stand- 
ing Orders of the Hvuse relative to Private Bills 
might be read; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That the said Standing Orders be 


Bishopric of 
Truro Bill. 
Juries 
Procedure 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Dublin (South) 
City Market 
Bill [Lords] 





North Dublin 
Street Tram- 
ways Bill 
[Lords.} 
Stockton and 
Middlesbrough 
Corporations 
Water Bill. 


No, 41], 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and Public 
Petitions, 


by their Lordships to the Stockton anid Middles-' read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 





brough Corporations Water Bill, without any 
Amendment. | 
| 


Ordered, That the Amendments made by the Lords | 


to the Juries Procedure (Ireland) Bill be taken into | 


consideration upon Friday next; and be printed. | 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, | 
an Abstract of the Grants made during the Session | 
of 1876 for Civil Services, and for the Revenue | 
Departments, for 1876-7, compared with the Total 
Original and Supplementary Grants for 1875-6. | 

Mr. William Henry Smith accordingly presented | 
the said Paper. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon 
Table ; and be printed. 


the 


And then the House adjourned till To-mor- 








Thursday, 10th August, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 


MOTION being made, That the East Corn- 
wall Mineral Railway Bill be now read the 
third time ; 

And Notice being taken, That the Interest of 
the Prince of Wales, as Duke of Cornwall, is con- 
cerned therein ; 

Sir Charles Adderley, by Command of His Royal 
Highness, acquainted the House, That His Royal 
Highness, having been informed of the purport of 
the Bill, gives His Consent, as far as His Royal 
Highness’s interest is concerned, that the House 
may do therein as they shall think fit. 

Then the Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, with Amendments; to which 
this House doth desire the concurrence of their 
Lordships. 


A Motion being made, That the Llandudno Im- 
provement Bill be now read the third time ; 

Sir Charles Adderley, by Her Majesty’s Com- 
mand, acquainted the House, That Her Majesty, 
having been informed of the purport of the Bill, 
gives ‘Her Consent, as far as Her Majesty’s inte- 
rest is concerned, that the House may do therein 
as they shall think fit. 

Then the Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, with Amendments; to which 
this House doth desire the concurrence of thei 
Lordships. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to take 
into consideration the Report which, upon the 8th 
day of this instant August, was made from the 
Select Committee appointed to revise the Stand- 








Vide Suppie. 
ment to Thirty. 
? first Report, 
Ordered, That the Return relative to Owners Owners of 


of Land (Jre/and), which was presented upon the (Ieland.) 
3rd day of this instant August, be printed. No. 412, 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Army Army (Arrears 
(Arrears of Pay), which was presented upon the ° Pay.) 
7th day of this instant August, be printed. No, 413; 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Army Army (Chap. 
(Chaplains, &amp;c.), which was presented upon the is &amp;.) 
8th day of this instant August, be printed. No, 414, 


Ordered, That the Return relative to County County Courts 
Courts (Plaints), which was presented upon the (Flaints.) 
8th day of this instant August, be printed. No. 416, 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the British British 
Museum, which was presented upon the 8th day Museum. 
of this instant August, be printed. No. 416, 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to Queen Queen Anne’s 
Anne’s Bounty, which was presented upon the 8th Bounty. 
day of this instant August, be printed. No, 417, 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Male Male Persons 
Persons (United Kingdom, 1851 and 1871), which te _ 
was presented upon the 8th day of this instant ; 


| and 1871.) 
August, be printed. No. 418, 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the case Reverend 
of the Reverend Robert O’ Keeffe, which was pre- sak 
sented upon the 8th day of this instant August, °°" 
be printed. 


Mr. Secretary Hardy presented,—Return to an Army Enlist. 
Address to Her Majesty, dated the 7th day of ™™* 
July last, for a Return relative to Army Enlist- 
ments. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Secretary Cross presented, by Her Maz Queen's 
jesty’s Command,—Copy of Report on the Con- (rrelen} 
dition and Progress of the Queen’s University in - 
Ireland, for the year 1875-76, by his Grace the 
Duke of Leinster, Chancellor of the University. 

Copy of Fourteenth Report of the Inspector Reformatory 
— to visit the Reformatory and Industrial 24 Industrial 
Schools of Jre/and, certified under the 21st and (Ireland.) 
22nd Vic. c. 103; 3lst &amp; 32nd Vie. c. 59; 
and 31st Vic. c. 25. 

Criminal and Judicial Statistics (Zreland), Criminal and 

1875. Part I. Police.—Criminal Proceedings.— a, 

a II. Common Law.—Equity and (jreland.) 
ivil Law. 

Copy of Eighteenth detailed Annual Report Births, Deaths 
of the “Ruseter General of Births, Deaths, and ‘cndel)” 
Marriages in Scotland. (Abstracts of 1872.) 

Mr. Secretary Cross also presented, pursuant to 5 I" i, 
the directions of several Acts of Parliament,— (England and 
Return of Cases in which the Secretary of State’s Wales.) 
Certificate to the Lords Commissioners of Her 
Majesty’s Treasury of the efficiency of the Police 
of Boroughs in England and Wales has been with- 
held for the year ended the 29th of September 
1875. 


Police of 


Return 











Police of 
(Scotland. ) 


Poor Law 
Unions. 


Owners of Land 


(Ireland.) 


Building 
Societies. 


Sittings of the 
House. 


Friendly 
Societies and 
Trade Unions. 


Exchequer 
Division of the 
High Court of 
Justice 
ODere v. . 

er an 
others, ) 


Valuation of 
Land (| 
(Abetace 


40 VicTORIA. 


Return of Cases in which the Secretary of 
State’s Certificate to the Lords Commissioners of 
Her Majesty’s Treasury of efficiency of the Police 
of Burghs in Scotland has been withheld, for the 
year ended the 15th of March 1875. 

ae That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Sclater-Booth presented,—Return to an 
Order, dated the 4th day of June, in the last 
Session of Parliament, for Returns showing the 
Number of Parishes in every Union, formed under 
the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834; the 
Number of Guardians for each Parish and for 
each combination of Parishes, and for every Ward 
in a Parish when divided into Wards: The 
Number of Contests at the Annual Elections 
during the last Three years :——The Number of 
Voting Papers delivered to the Electors; the 
Number collected, and the Number of Votes re- 
corded in the Return for each separate Contest: 
And, the Cost of each Election, showing the 
Clerk’s Remuneration separately. 

Return to an Order, dated the 4th day of July 
last, for a Summary of the Returns relative to 
Owners of Land (Ireland). 

Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the 
Table. 








The following Papers were laid upon the Table 
by the Clerk of the House,—Return to an Order, 
dated the 20th day of July last, for a Return 
relative to Building Societies. 

Return to an Order, dated the $th day of this 
instant August, for a Return relative to the 
Sittings of the House. 


The following Paper, pursuant to the directions 
of an Act of Parliament, was also laid upon the 
Table by the Clerk of the House,—Reports of the 
Chief Registrar of Friendly Societies, for the year 
ending 31st December 1875, on Friendly Societies 
and Trade Unions. 


A Petition of P. Burrowes Sharkey, of No. 6, 
Cannon Row, Parliament Street, Westminster, So- 
licitor and Parliamentary Agent, was presented, 
and read, setting forth, that an action is now 
pending in the Exchequer Division of the High 
Court of Justice, wherein the Petitioner is the 
Plaintiff, and Patrick John O’ Dwyer, and others, are 
the Defendants; that the Petitioner is advised 
that it will be necessary to produce as evidence in 
support of his case, on the trial of the said action: 
(1.) The Petition deposited in the Private Bill 
Office of the House, in the month of December 
1870, for leave to bring in the Ennis and West 
Clare Railway Bill, in the Session of 1871; and 
(2.) The transcript of the Shorthand Writers 
Notes of the Evidence given, in the Session of 
1873, before the Select Committee of the House 
to whom the Ennis and West Clare Railway Bill 
was referred ; and praying that the proper Officer 
or Officers of the Sean may have leave to attend 
at the Trial of the said Action, and to produce the 
said Petition for leave to: bring in the Ennis and 
West Clare Railway Bill, in the Session 1871, 
and the said transcript of the Shorthand Writer’s 
Notes of the Evidence given in the Session 1873, 
before the Select Committee of the House to 
whom the Ennis and West Clare Railway Bill 
was referred. 

Ordered, That leave be given to the proper 
Officer to attend accordingly. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
an Abstract of the Return presented to this House 
on the 3rd day of August as tothe Names of Pro- 
prietors and Area and Valuation of Property in 
Iretand, specifying in each County, and also for 

VoL. 131. 


10th August. 











409 


the whole of Ireland, the Number of Proprietors 
appearing by the said Return to hold Land in 
Ireland, classified in the following manner :— 
ar holding Property valued at and under 
. 50; 
Those holding Property valued at more than 
£. 50 and not more than £. 200 ; 
Those holding Property valued at more than 
£. 200 and not more than £. 500; 
Those holding Property valued at more than 
£. 500 and not more than £. 1,000; 
Those holding Property valued at more than 
£. 1,000 and not more than £. 5,000 ; 
Those holding Property valued at more than 
£. 5,000 and not more than £. 10,000; 
Those holding Property valued at more than 
£. 10,000 : 
Specifying in each Class the Number of Indi- 
viduals holding the Property, the Number of 
Acres held by them in the aggregate, and also the 
Valuation in the aggregate of the Property held. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Wrentham 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased School Board. 


to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Copies of the Correspondence between 
the Education Department and the Correspondent 
ot the Wrentham British School in 1874 and 1875: 
—— Of the Correspondence between the Depart- 
ment and the Clerk of the Blything Union and 
others respecting the Election of the School 
Board at Wrentham in 1875: Of the Cor- 
respondence between the British School Cor- 
respondent and the Department preliminary to 
the Arrangements for the Transfer of the School 
to the Board in 1875: And, of the Correspond- 
ence between the Clerk of the School Board and 
the Department relating to the transfer of the 
School. 








Resolved, That an humble Address be ree — &lt;9 
'y pleased 


to Her Majesty, that She will be gracious 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return showing the incidence of the 
School Rate levied in the 186 classified Parishes 
in Scotland referred to in the Report of the Board 
of Supervision (p. v), distinguishing the Rates 
laid on the Tenants of Dwelling-houses from the 
Rates laid on the Tenants of Agricultural Sub- 
jects in each Parish, thus :— 

1. The per-centage of deduction (if any) made 
from the Real Rent, under the Lands Va- 
luation Act, in imposing the School Rate 
on the Tenants of Dwelling-houses; and 
the Rate per Pound of Assessment charged 
on such Dwelling-houses ; 

2. The per-centage of deduction (if any) made 
from the Real Rent, under the Lands Va- 
luation Act, in imposing the School Rate 
on the Tenants of Agricultural Subjects: 
and the Rate per Poand of Assessment 
charged on such Agricultural Subjects ; 

3. The Gross Rental, according to the Lands 
Valuation Act, of all the Dwelling-houses 
in each Parish ; 

4. The Gross Rental, according to the Lands 
Valuation Act, of all the Agricultural 
Subjects in each Parish. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be soc see Workhouse 


to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 


to give directions, that there be laid before this (Diseases.) 


House, Returns of General Diseases and of Vene- 
real Diseases from the Workhouse of each Union 
in England and Wales, during the first week in 
January 1876 :— 
1. Population of the Union ; 
2. Total Number of Cases of Disease of every 
description entered in the Medical Relief 
Books during the week :— 
Number of the above Cases which are 
36 entered 








10th August. 


entered as Gonorrhea, Primary Sy- 
philis, Secondary Syphilis, or simply 
** Venereal Diseases, including Gonor- 
rhea;” if the particular form of the 
Disease is not entered in the Medical 
Relief Book : 
——And, of Deaths in each such Workhouse 
during the period of Twelve months ending the 
31st day of December 1875, as follows, viz. : 
Total Number of Deaths from every cause ; 
Number registered as being due to Primary 
Syphilis, Secondary Syphilis, or Gonor- 
rhea. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Return of the Names, Addresses, and Dates of 
commencing Practice, of the Firms and Individuals 
practising as Parliamentary Agents in connection 
with this House; specifying also, as far as pos- 
sible, whether the Parties so practising are Bar- 
risters-at-Law, Solicitors, or Writers of the Signet 
in Scotland. 


Parliamentary 
Agents. 


Municipal 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
Boroughs. f 


to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return of Municipal Boroughs, whether 
named in the Act of 1835 or since incorporated, in 
which since their incorporation there has been— 

1, Any alteration uf Boundaries; 

2. Re-arrangement of Wards; 

3. Re-apportionment of Councillors ; 
And, whether such changes have been carried 
out under Special Acts or under a General Act. 


Message from 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- 
the Lords. 


sage had been brought from the Lords, by one of 
their Clerks, as followeth : 

Cattle Disease 
(Ireland) Bill. ( Jreland) Bill, without any Amendment. 
Metropolitan The Lords have agreed to the Metropolitan 
Board of Works Board of Works (Loans) Bill, without any Amend- 
(Loans) Bill. ment, 

Tralee Savings The Lords have agreed to the Zralee Savings 
Bank Bill. Bank Bill, without any Amendment. 

Erne Lough The Lords have agreed to the Erne Lough and 
and River Bill. River Bill, with Amendments; to which the Lords 
desire the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have agreed to the Ardglass Harbour 
Bill, with Amendments ; to which the Lords desire 
the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have agreed to the Exhausted Parish 
Lands Bill, with Amendments; to which the Lords 
desire the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have agreed to the Amendments 
made by this House to the Local Government 
Board’s Provisional Orders Confirmation (Bath, 
&amp;c.) Bill, without any Amendment. 


Ardglass 
Harbour Bill, 


Exhausted 
Parish Lands 
Bill, 


Local Govern- 
ment Board’s 
Provisional 
Orders Con- 
firmation 
(Bath, &amp;c.) 
Bill [Lords.] 
Local Govern- 


The Lords have agreed to the Amendments 
ment Board’s 


ee made by this House to the Local Government 
Onder Con. Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (Birming- 


firmation (Bir- ham, &amp;c.) Bill, without any Amendment. 
mingham, &amp;c.) 
Bill (Lords, } 
Local Govern- 
ment Board’s 
Provisional 
Orders Con- 
firmation 
(Bilbrough, 
&amp;c.) Bill 
[Lords.] 7 ’ 
Consolidated The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
Fund (Appro- into a Committee on the Consolidated Fund (Ap- 


priation) Bill. propriation) Bill. 
(In the Committee.) 
Preamble postponed. 
CLAusEs, N° 1 to N° 3, agreed to. 


Cause, N° 4 (Treasury may, in certain cases 
of exigency, authorise expenditure unprovided 


The Lords have agreed to the Amendments 
made by this House to the Local Government 
Board’s Provisional Orders Confirmation (Bil- 
brough, &amp;c.) Bill, without any Amendment. 





The Lords have agreed to the Cattle Disease | 











1876. 


for; provided that the aggregate grants for the 
Navy Services and for the Army Services re- 
spectively be not exceeded). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 3, 1. 4, to leave out 
the word “ with,” in order to insert the words, 
*‘ within ten days after such sanction shall have 
*‘ been given, if Parliament be then sitting, and if 
“not, within ten days after the next meeting of 
** Parliament, and shall be further included in.” 

Question proposed, That the word “ with” 
stand part of the Clause :—Amendment, by leave, 
withdrawn. 

Clause agreed to. 

CriauseEs, N° 5 and N° 6, agreed to. 

Schedules (A.) and (B.) agreed to. 

Preamble agreed to. 

Bill to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. 
Raikes reported, That the Committee had gone 
through the Bill, and directed him to report the 
same, without Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Norwich ana 
mittee on the Norwich and Boston (Corrupt Voters) Boston 
Bill; oe 

Resolved, That this House will, after the Order ses 
of the day for the Committee on Last India Re- 
venue Accounts, resolve itself into the said Com- 
mittee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Third Bow street 
Reading of the Bow Street Police Court (Site) Police Court 
Bill ; (Site) Bill, 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
after the Order of the day for the Committee on 
East India Revenue Accounts. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Elementary 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed a, 
upon the 9th day of this instant August, That Mr. Order Con- 
Speaker do now leave the Chair (for Committee firmation _ 
on the Elementary Education Provisional Order ns fo 
Confirmation (London) Bill) ; ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till after the Order of the day for the Committee on 


East India Revenue Accounts. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Pensions _ 
woners the Pensions Commutation Act Amend- Compulstia 
ment Bill; ment Bill 

Resolved, That this House will, after the Order 
of the day for the Committee on East India Re- 
venue Accounts, resolve itself into the said Com- 
mittee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Third Sheriff Court 
Reading of the Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Bill; ——_‘Seo##an4) 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
after the Order of the day for the Committee on 
East India Revenue Accounts. 


The Order of the ~ being read, for receiving Chairmen’s 


the Report from the Committee on Chairmen’s —- 

Jurisdiction (Ireland) [Salaries] ; (eclaree. 
Ordered, That the Report be received after the 

Order of the day for the Committee on East India 


Revenue Accounts. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Chairmen’s 
Jurisdiction 


| mittee on the Chairmen’s Jurisdiction (Jreland) (Ireland) Bill. 


Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, after the Order 
of the day for the Committee on East India Re- 
venue Accounts, resolve itself into the said Com- 
mittee. 

The 





emt 





on 


jill. 





Bast India 
Accounts. 


40 Vicrortia. 
The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 


mittee on the East India Revenue Accounts ; 
And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave 
the Chair; 
An Amendment was proposed to be made to 


the Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” | 


to the end of the Question, in order to add the 
words “ this House views with apprehension the 
* constant additions which are a to the debt 
“ of India, and is of opinion that, considering the 


‘* serious loss that has been caused, and may con- | 


** tinue to be caused to India, by the depreciation 
“in the value of Silver, no new public works 
“ should be undertaken which would necessitate 
“ the raising of fresh loans; and that, in order to 
“place the Finances of Jndia on a more satis- 


“ factory basis, the distinction which is now made | 


“ between ordinary and extraordinary expenditure 
‘¢ should be discontinued,” instead thereof. 


And the Question being proposed, That the | 


words proposed to be left out stand part of the 
Question ; 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Friday morning ; 


Friday, 11th August, 1876: 


The said proposed Amendment was, with leave 
of the House, withdrawn. 

Then the Main Question being put; 

Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
Chair :-—-The House accordingly resolved itself 
into the Committee. 


(In the Committee. ) 


Resolved, That it appears by the Accounts laid 
before this House that the total Revenue of India 
for the year ending the 31st day of March 1875 
was £. 50,570,171; the Charges in Jndia, including 
the collection of the Revenue, Interest on Debt, 
and Public Works ordinary, were £.40,760,583 ; 
the Charges in £ngland (including £.1,595,878, 
the Value of Stores supplied to India) were 
£. 8,245,829 7.; the Guaranteed Interest on the 
Capital of Railway and other Companies, in Jndia 
and in England, deducting net Traffic Receipts, 
was £. 1,244,562, making a total Charge for the 
same year of £. 50,250,974; and there was an 
excess of Income over Expenditure in that year 
amounting to £.319,197; that the Charge for 
Public Works extraordinary was £. 4,249,571, 
and that, including that Charge, the Excess of 
Expenditure over Income was £. 3,930,374. 

Resolution to be reported. 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had come to a Re- 
solution. 

Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 





The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Norwich and Boston (Cor- 
rupt Voters) Bill. 


(In the Committee. ) 


Preamble postponed. 
CiauseE, N° 1, agreed to. 


Crausge, N° 2 (Disfranchisement of certain 
voters for the City of Norwich and Borough of 
Boston). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 2, 1. 22, after the 
word “Commissioners,” to insert the words, 
“George Alden Stevens, Wm. Robertson, Alfred 
“ Kent, George E. Brock, James Nichols, Wm. Alex. 
“ Miller, Saml. Easter, Saml. Bennett, Robt. Breese, 
** Wm. Hunter.” 

Question, That those words be there inserted 
—— put, and negatived. 

Vou, 131. 





10¢th—11th August. 


411 


Another Amendment proposed, in p. 2, 1. 30, 
| after the word “Commissioners,” to insert the 
| words, “ except John Maltby.” 

Question, That those words be there inserted 
| ——put, and negatived. 
| An Amendment made. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to, 
Crauses, N° 3 and N° 4, agreed to. 
| Preamble agreed to. 

| Bill, as amended, to be reported. 


} 
| 


| 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. 
Raikes reported, That the Committee had gone 
through the Bill. 


| Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration this day. 


The Bow Street Police Court (Site) Bill was, Bow Street 
according to Order, read the third time. Police Court 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. a es 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
| Lords, and desire their concurrence, 
| The Order of the day being read, for resuming Elementary 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed Education Pro- 
upon the 9th day of this instant August, That Ysional Order 


: - Confirmati 
Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair (for Com- (London) Bill 


| mittee on the Elementary Education Provisional [Zords-.] 
| Order Confirmation (London) Bill) ; 


Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 


| till this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Pensions Com- 
| mittee on the Pensions Commutation Act Amend- ™utation Act 
ment Bill; — 

Resolved, That this House wiil, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


The Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Bill was, accord- Sheriff Courts 
ing to Order, read the third time. (Scotland) Bill. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on Chairmen’s 
Chairmen’s Jurisdiction (Jreland) [Salaries], a Jurisdiction 
Resolution ; which was read, as followeth : tSolarion) 

That it is expedient to authorise the payment, 
out of moneys to be provided by Parliament, of 
additional Salaries to Chairmen of Quarter Ses- 
sions of any vacant counties in Ireland, in respect 
of increased Duties imposed upon them under the 
provisions of any Act of the present Session re- 
lating to the Jurisdiction of Chairmen of Quarter 
Sessions in Ireland. 

The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to, 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Chairmen’s 
into a Committee on the Chairmen’s Jurisdiction (ireland) Bill 
(Ireland) Bill; and, after some time spent therein, 

Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration this day. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Cruelty to ™ 
into a Committee on the Cruelty to Animals Bill. thorde| 
(In the Committee.) 


Preamble a ag 
To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again, 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had made Progress 
in the Bill, and that he was directed to move, 
That the Committee may have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, again 








resolve itself into the said Committee. 
3@2 The 




















412 10th—11th August. 


Local Loans The Order of the day being read, for pene 
(Ireland) Bill. the adjourned Debate on the Question propose 
upon the 20th day of July last, That the Local 
Loans (Jreland) Bill be now read a second time ; 
Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 


1876. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself partiam 
into a Committee on the Parliamentary and and Muni? 
Municipal Registration (Boroughs) Bill; and, Registration 
after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker (Boroughs) 


resumed the Chair; and Mr. Aathes reported, Bill 294 


Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 

mittee on the Public Record Office Bill; 
Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


Public Record 
Office Bill. 


Merchant The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
Shipping Bill. consideration the Amendments made by the Lords 
to the Merchant Shipping Bill; 
Ordered, That the said Amendments be taken 
into consideration this day. 


Agricultural 
Holdings (Eng- 
land) Act(1875) 
Amendment 
Bill (changed 
Jrom “ Queen 
Anne’s 

Bounty ” Bill 
[Lords.] 


The Agricultural Holdings( England) Act (1875) 
Amendment Bill was, according to Order, read the 
third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, with Amendments; to which 
this House doth desire the concurrence of their 
Lordships. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
upon the 5th day of this instant August, That 
leave be given to bring in a Bill to amend the 
Laws with respect to Juries in the County and 
the County of the City of Dub/in; 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 


Juries 
(Dublin.) 


The Order of the day being read, for the Second 
Reading of the Parliamentary Elections and Cor- 
rupt Practices Bill ; 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


Parliamentary 
Elections and 
Corrupt Prac- 
tices Bill. 


Expiring Laws (The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
Continuance take into consideration the Expiring Laws Con- 
Bill. tinuance Bill, as amended in the Committee. 
Ordered, That the Bill be now read the third 
time:—The Bill was accordingly read the third 
time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Local Govern The Order of the day being read, for the Third 

ment Board’s Reading of the Local Government Board’s Pro- 

—_ visional Orders Confirmation (Artizans and La- 
ers Con- . 

firmation (Ar- bourers Dwellings) Bill ; 


tizans and Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
Labourers this day 
Dwellings) Bill ay. 
[ 

The Order of the day being read, for the Third 
Reading of the Crossed Cheyues Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
this day. 


Crossed 
Cheques Bill 
[ Lords.) 


NoticestoQuit The Order of the day being read, for taking 
(Ireland) Bill. jnto consideration the Amendments made by the 
Lords to the Notices to Quit (Jreland) Bill; 
Ordered, That the said Amendments be taken 
into consideration this day. 


Clean Rivers 
Bill (Lords.] Reading of the Clean Rivers Bill; 
Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


The Order of the pe, Seem. read, for the Second 


Toll Bridges | The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 

(RiverThames) mittee on the Toll Bridges (River Thames) Bill ; 

Bil. Resolved, That this en will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


That the Committee had gone through the Bill, 
and amended the Title, as followeth: 

A Bill to amend the Law relating to Parlia- 
mentary and Municipal Registration in certain 
Boroughs. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to a 
ommittee of the whole House, for Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Winter Assizes 


mittee on the Winter Assizes (Jreland) Bill; 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


Ordered, That the Amendments made by the pyhausted 
Lords to the Exhausted Parish Lands Bill be now Parish Lands 
taken into consideration :—The House accordingly Bill 


proceeded to take the said Amendments into con- 
sideration; and the same were twice read, and 
agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


Ordered, That the Amendments made by the Ere Lough 
Lords to the Erne Lough and River Bill be now 4 River Bill 


taken into consideration: —The House accordingly 
proceeded to take the said Amendments into con- 
sideration; and the same were twice read, and 
agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


Ordered, That the Amendments made by the Ardglass 
Lords to the Ardglass Harbour Bill be now taken Harbour Bill 


into consideration :—The House accordingly pro- 
ceeded to take the said Amendments into con- 
sideration; and the said Amendments being 
read a second time (and it appearing 


sum of £.5,000 to be raised by local sub- 
scriptions and Contributions of persons interested 
in the works should be so raised and subscribed 
before the grant from the Public Works Loan 
Commissioners was advanced) were agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till a quarter of an hour after Two of the 
clock on Friday morning, adjourned till this 
day. 














" Friday, 11th August, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 


M* Speaker acquainted the House, That a Message from 


Message had been brought from the Lords 
by one of their Clerks, as followeth : 
The Lords have agreed to the Amendments 
made by this House to the Appellate Jurisdiction 
Bill, without any Amendment. 


A Message was delivered by Colonel Clifford, Reyel Asem 


Yeoman Usher of the Black Rod: 


Mr. Speaker, 


The Lords, authorised by virtue of Her Ma- 


jesty’s Commission, for declaring Her Royal wal 
sen 





that the (Special 
Amendment in p. 4, 1. 8, was to provide that the 2s"y-) 





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40 Vicrorta, 


sent to several Acts agreed upon by both Houses, 
desire the immediate attendance of this Honour- 
able House in the House of Peers, to hear the 
Commission read. 

Accordingly Mr. Speaker, with the House, went 
up to the House of Peers :—And being returned ; 

Mr. Speaker reported, That the House, at the 
desire of the Lords, authorised by virtue of Her 
Majesty’s Commission, had been at the House of 
Peers, where a Commission under the Great Seal 
was read, giving, declaring and notifying the Royal 
Assent to the several Acts therein mentioned; and 
that the Lords, thereby authorised, had declared 
the Royal Assent to the said Acts, as follow: 

An Act to assimilate the the Law in Ireland to 


Nullum 

Tempus — the _Law in England, as to quieting Possessions 

(ireland) Bill. ond Titles im the reheat ‘ 

Tumpike Acts An Act to continue certain Turnpike Acts in 

Continuance, Great Britain, and to repeal certain other Turn- 

se. Bill pike Acts, and for other purposes connected 
therewith. 

Orphan and An Act to extend the Limits of Age up to which, 

Deserted. With the assent of Boards of Guardians, Orphan 

en "and Deserted Pauper Children may be supported 
out of Workhouses in Jreland. 

Medical Pras ~=9An Act for enabling legally qualified Medical 

titioners Bill. Practitioners to hold certain Public Medical Ap- 
pointments, and for amending the Medical Act. 

industrial and An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws re- 

Pevdent lating to Industrial and Provident Societies. 

jieties Dill. 
on Act An Act to remove Restrictions on the granting 


quilifica- of Qualifications for Registration under the Medi- 


tions) Bill. = gal Act on the ground of Sex. 
Slave Trade An Act for more effectually punishing Offences 
Bill [Lords.] goainst the Laws relating to the Slave Trade. 


Legal An Act to amend the Law relating to Legal 


Practitioners Practitioners in Jreland. 
(Ireland) Bill. . Ss 
Convict Prisons _ An Act to amend the Law respecting certain 


(Returns) Bil. Returns from Convict Prisons. 

Isle of Man An Act to make provision respecting the Su- 

(Oficers) Bill. perannuation Allowances or Pensions of Persons 
employed in the Service of Her Majesty in the 
Government of the Isle of Man. 


Saint Vineent, An Act to make provision for the Government 
ee of the Islands of Saint Vincent, Tobago, and 
titution Bill Grenada, and their Dependencies. 

Burghs (Scot- An Act to make provision for lighting Burghs 
land) Gas in Scotland with Gas. 

Supply Bill. 

Bankers’ Books An Act to amend the Law with reference to 


Bridence Bill. Bankers’ Books Evidence. 

Commons Bil. An Act for facilitating the Regulation and Im- 
provement of Commons, and for amending the 
Acts relating to the Inclosure of Commons. 





Poor Law An Act to amend the Law for the Relief of the 
sory og Poor in Jreland in respect to Rating and Charge- 
) Bill, =n - 5 5 

ability on Poor Law Unions. 
Sirings Banks An Act to amend the Law respecting the 
(Barrister) Powers and Duties vested in the Barrister ap- 
-™ pointed to certify the Rules of Savings Banks. 
Superannua- An Act to make further provision respecting the 
vw _ Superannuation Allowance to be granted to Civil 
Climates) Bil, Servants serving in unhealthy Climates. 
Bishopric of An Act to provide for the Foundation of a New 
Tru Bill. Bishopric out of a part of the Diocese of Ezeter. 
Parochial | An Act to amend the Law relating to Parochial 
fea Records. 
Winter Assizes An Act to amend the Law respecting the | 
holding of Winter Assizes. 
Cattle Disease An Act to amend the Acts relating to Cattle 


(Ireland) Bill. Disease in Ireland. 





Appellate An Act for amending the Law in respect of the 

fn Appellate Jurisdiction of the House of Lords, and 
for other purposes. 

petroplitan An Act for further amending the Acts relating 

lems) = to the raising of Money by the Metropolitan 


Board of Works, and for other purposes relating 
thereto. 


11th August. 





Vou. 131. 





413 


_An Act to provide for the Collection and Dis- qyalee Savings 
tribution of certain Assets of a former Savings Bank Bill. 
Bank at Tralee. 

An Act to confirm a Provisional Order made Elementary 
by the Education Department under “ The Ele- Education Pro- 
mentary Education Act, 1870,” to enable the perme —— 

&amp; 2 ‘ rmation 
School Board for Cardiff to put in force “ The (Cardiff) Bill 
Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845,” and the [Lords.] , 
Acts amending the same. 

An Act to confirm a Provisional Order of one Metropolis 
of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State (Whitechapel 
for the Improvement of an unhealthy Areain the Pg = 
Whitechapel District, and an unhealthy Area in provement 


the Limehouse District, within the Metropolis. Scheme Con- 
firmation Bill 


[Lords. ] 

An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders Local Govern- 
of the Local Government Board, relating to the ment Board’s 
Improvement Act District of Bingley (two), the —s 
Borough of Brighton, the Districts of Chatham firmation 
and Gillingham, the Special Drainage District of (Bingley, &amp;e.) 
Norton, the District of North Bierley, the Borough on 
of Nottingham, the Improvement Act District of 
Ramsgate, the Borough of Stoke-upon-Trent (two), 
and the Rural Sanitary District of the Ulversione 
Union. 

An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of Local Govern- 
the Local Government Board relating to the Dis- ment Pre- 
tricts of Chelmsford and Merthyr lydfil, and the (Cholmaioed, “4 


Borough of Peterborough (two). a _ 
Lords. 

An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders Local Govern- 
of the Local Government Board relating to the ment Board’s 
Boroughs of Bath and Birmingham, the District ——_ 
of Brentford, the Special Drainage District of firmation 
Burgess Hill, the Rural Sanitary District of the (Bath, &amp;c.) Bill 
Caistor Union, the District of Castleford, the 
Boroughs of Guilford, Hanley, Liverpool, Ro- 
chester, and Warwick, and the District of Worthing. 

An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders Local Govern- 
of the Local Government Board relating to the ™t Pro- 
Borough of birmingham, the Rural Sanitary (Birelnghene 
District of the Chesterfield Union, the Districts of &amp;c.) Bill 
Dawlish and Keswick, the Rural Sanitary District {4°r4-] 
of the Zeek Union, the Borough of Maidstone, the 
Districts of Mistley, Moss Side, and Southend, the 
Rural Sanitary District of the ‘“’adcaster Union, 
and the Districts of Wallasey and Weston-super- 

Mare. 

An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders Local Govern- 
of the Local Government Board relating to the ment Board’s 
District of Bilbrough, the Improvement Act Dis- | ea 
tricts of Bournemouth and Cirencester, the Dis- pe i nf 
tricts of Clay Lane, Eccleshill, Felling, Nelson, (Bilbrough, 
and Normanton, the Improvement Act District of re a 
Runcorn, and the Districts of Stow-on-the- Wold, ' on 
Sunderland, and Tormoham. 

An Act for extending the Limits within which Cleveland 
the Cleveland Water Company may supply Water, Wter Bill. 
and for empowering them to construct additional 
Works, and to raise additional Capital, and for 
other purposes. 

An Act for rendering valid certain Letters Goux’s Patent 
Patent granted to Pierre Nicholas Goux for Im- Bill. 
—— in collecting and in disinfecting 

uman Excreta, and converting the same into 
Manure, also in the Apparatus or means employed 
therein. 

An Act enabling the Be/fast and County Down Belfast and 
Railway Company to raise Preference Capital for County Down 
the discharge of their Liabilities and making other [rang)"" 
provisions with relation to the same Company and 
their Undertaking. 

An Act to authorise the Dudley and Oldbury Dudley and 
Junction Railway Company to construct a New Oldbury June- 
or Deviation Railway, and for other purposes. — 

An Act for conferring further Powers on the midiand Rail- 
Midland Railway Company, in relation to their way (Further 
own Undertaking and the Undertakings of other Powers) Bill. 
Companies, and for raising additional Capital, and 
for other purposes. 

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414 


An Act for enabling the Sidmouth Railway 
Company to extend their Railway to Budleigh 
Salterton and Exmouth, and for other purposes. 

An Act for enabling the Shoreham Harbour 
Trustees to improve their Harbour by construct- 
ing New Works, and for amending the constitu- 
tion of the Trust, and for other purposes. 

An Act to incorporate a Company for the con- 
struction of the Penarth Extension Railway, and 
for other purposes. 

London and An Act to confer further Powers upon the 
South Western [.ondon and South Western Railway Company in 
-— seared respect of their Undertaking and of the Under- 
(Various ° 
Powers) Bill. takings of other Companies, and to empower that 
Company and the London, Brighton, and South 
Coast Railway Company to purchase additional 
Lands for the purposes of the Tooting, Merton, and 
Wimbledon Railway, and for other purposes. 

An Act to incorporate the Preston Tramways 
Company, and to authorise the Construction of 
‘Tramways in the Borough of Preston and the adja- 
cent Township of Fulwood, both in the County of 
Lancaster, and for other purposes. 

An Act for extending the Time for the Com- 
pletion of the Bodmin and Wadebridge and Delabole 
Railway, and for other purposes. 


Sidmouth 
Railway Bill 


New Shoreham 
Harbour Bill 


Penarth 
Extension 
Railway Bill. 


Preston Tram- 
ways Bill. 


Bodmin and 
Wadebridge 
and Delabole 
Railway Bill 
[ Lords.) 
Cornwall 
Minera) and 
Bodmin and 
Wadebridge 
Junction 
Railway Bill 
[ Lords.} 
Great Northern 
London 
Cemetery Bill 
(Lords. | 


Prudential 
Assurance 
Company Bill 
[Lords a 
Severn Bridge _ An Act to extend the Time granted to the 


and Forest of Severn Bridge and Forest of Dean Central Railway 
Dean Central (Company for the Purchase of Lands and Completion 
yee of dale Railway, and to authorise them to make 
another short Railway, and for other purposes. 

An Act to enable the Local Board ot West Ham, 
in the County of Essex, and the Board of Works 
for the District of Poplar, in the County of Mid- 
dlesex, to make Composition with the Owners, &amp;c. 
of Stratford Langthorne Abbey, for the Mainte- 
nance and Repair of Bridges and Roads between 
Bow, in the County of Middlesex, and Stratford, 

in the County of Essex, and for other purposes. 
Monmouth- An Act to grant further Powers to the Mon- 
ew mer y~ A mouthshire Railway and Canal Company, and for 
other purposes with reference to the Undertaking 
of the Company. 

An Act to authorise the Wakefield Waterworks 
Company to make anew Pumping Station and 
other Works, and to raise more Money, also to 
extend their Limits of Supply, and for other pur- 
poses. 

An Act to further extend the Time limited for 
the Purchase of Lands for, and for the Completion 
of the Railways authorised by the Alezandra 
( Newport) Dock Act, 1865, and to confer further 
Powers upon the Company, and for other pur- 
08es, 

An Act for authorising the East Norfolk Rail- 
way Company to construct a Branch Railway to 
Aylsham, in the County of Norfolk, and a Wharf 
on the River Bure, and a Branch Railway, and for 
other purpeses. 

GasLightand An Act for granting further Powers to the 
= Company Gas Light and Coke Company, and for other pur- 
poses. 

An Act to extend the respective periods limited 
by “ The Metropolitan Inner Circle Completion 
Act, 1874,” for the Compulsory Purchase of 
Lands for and for the Completion of the Works 
by that Act authorised, and to revise and extend 
in certain cases the Powers of the Metropolitan 


An Act for extending the Time for the Com- 
pletion of the Cornwall Mineral and Bodmin and 
Wadebridge Junction Railway, and for other pur- 
poses. 


An Act for authorising the Great Northern 
London Cemetery Company to dispose of their 
Superfluous Lands, and for other purposes. 


An Act to amend “ The Prudential Assurance 
Company Act, 1875.” 


West Ham 
Local Board 
Bill [Lords.] 


Wakefield 
Water Bill. 


Alexandra 
(Newport) 
Dock Bill. 


East Norfolk 
Railway Bill. 


Metropolitan 
Inner Circle 
Completion 
Railway Bill. 


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1876. 


Inner Circle Completion Railway Company for 
the Purchase of —~ under that Act, and to 
authorise that Company to acquire additional 
Lands in the City of London, and for other purposes, 

An Act to extend the Borough of Newport, in y, 

‘ port 
the County of Monmouth, and to enable the Mayor, (Monmouth. 
Aldermen, and Burgesses thereof to improve *Hite) Improve. 
Streets, and to construct a new Street and other” 
Works within the same, and to make further Pro- 
visions for the Improvement and good Govern- 
ment of the Borough, and for other purposes. 

An Act to authorise the South Eastern Rail- gout, 
way Company to extend the Hythe and Sandgate Railway Bil, 
Branch Railway to Folkestone ; to widen a portion 
of their Charing Cross Line; to acquire addi- 
tional Lands, and for other purposes. 


An Act to grant further Powers to the South South Metro. 
Metropolitan Gas Light and Coke Company, _Politan Gas 

ase 

An Act for supplying with Water the Boroughs Stockton and 
of Stockton-on-Tees and Middlesbrough and other Middlesbrough 
Places adjoining or near thereto, and for other a tag 
purposes. 

An Act to enable the Wye Valley Railway Wye Valley 
Company to construct new Railways and other Railway Bil, 
Works, and for other purposes. 

An Act to incorporate a Company for the Es- Dublin (South) 
tablishment, Maintenance, and Regulation of a City Market 
Market on the South Side of the City of Dublin, Bil! ord.) 
and for facilitating the Approach thereto by the 
Alteration, Diversion, and Widening of existing 
Streets adjoining or near thereto, and for other 
purposes. 

An Act to empower the North Dublin Street North Dablin 
Tramways Company to construct new Tramways, Street Tram. 


ways Bill 
and for other purposes. [Lords.] 


An Act for enabling the Mayor, Aldermen and Halifax Water 
Burgesses of the Borough of Halifax to construct 4S 
ta A . © ° Extension Bill, 
new Works in extension of their Waterworks, and 
for extending their Limits of Water Supply, and 
for authorising them to extend their Gasworks, 
and for other purposes. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration London and 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the London —— 
and Tilbury, and Dartford and Kent Coast Junc- Kent Coot 
tion Railway Bill; and the same were twice read, Junction Rail- 
and agreed to. wey 50. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


The Southern Railway Bill was read the third Southern 
time. Railway Bill 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. saat 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


Several Public Petitions were a and Public 


Petitions. 


—— 


read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 
Vide Supple- 
ment to 
first Report. 
Mr. Secretary Hardy presented, by Her Ma- Amy. 
jesty’s Command,—General Annual Return of the 
British Army for the year 1875. os 
Copy of Report of the Board of Visitors ap- Repel Military 
ie for the year 1876, to inspect the Royal {nny 


ilitary Academy, Woolwich. 


Copy of Army Medical Department Report for Army Medical 
the year 1875. . Dgatae 
Copy of Report on the Discipline and Manage- Military 
ment of the Military Prisons, 1875. wean 

Mr. Secretary Hardy also presented,—Return Militia and 
to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 20th day Militia Reserve. 
of July last, for Returns relative to the Militia 
and Militia Reserve. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. - 

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40 Vicroria. 


Mr. Secretary Cross presented, by Her Ma- 


Daposl jesty’s Command,—Copy of Report of a Committee 
appointed by the President of the Local Govern- 
ment Board, to inquire into the several modes of 
treating Town Sewage. 

queen’sCollege Copy of the Report of the President of Queen’s 

(Cork.) College, Cork, for the Academic Session, 1875-6 ; 
with Appendices. 

poorRelief,and Copy of Thirty-first Annual Report of the 


Public Health Board of Supervision for the Relief of the Poor, 
(Scotland-) and of Public Health in Scotland, 1875-76. 

Convict Copy of Report of the Directors of Convict 
es as ) Prisons on the Discipline and Management of 
Gagiane, “&lt;-) Millbank and Pentonville Prisons, and of Borstal, 
Briaton, Chatham, Dartmoor, Parkhurst, Portland, 
Portsmouth, Woking, and Wormwood Scrubs Pri- 
sons for Male Convicts, with Fulham and Woking 
Prisons for Female Convicts; also the Convict 
Establishments at Gibraliar and in Western Aus- 
tralia, for the year 1875. 

Mr. Secretary Cross also presented,—Return 
to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 24th day 
of May, in the last Session of Parliament, for a 
Return of the Number of Lay Vicars or Clerks in 
each Cathedral or Collegiate Church, stating 
whether or not they form separate Corporations ; 
also specifying the Maximum and Minimum Num- 
ber enjoined by the Statutes or Charters, their 
present Number, Ages, and Stipends, whether 
Statutable or Supplementary; also the Number 
of required Attendances, and Number of Omis- 
sions of Duty, for the year ending 25th March 
1875; and, whether there are any, if so, how 
many, paid Supernumeraries, and from what 
source they are paid. 

Register of Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated 
Bectors (Cost the 29th day of June last, for a Return relative 
Printing.) to the Register of Electors (Cost of Printing). 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated 

the 6th day of July last, for Returns relative to 


Cathedral and 
Collegiate 
Churches (Lay 
Vicars and 


Clerks.) 


Gaols (Roman 
Catholic 


Chaplains.) Gaols (Roman Catholic Chaplains). 
Drunkenness Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated 
(Seotland.) the 10th day of July last, for a Return relative to 
Drunkenness ( Scotland). 
Publicans and =Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated 
i the 10th day of July last, for Returns relative to 
(Sotland.)  Publicans and Grocers Certificates ( Scotland). 
S&amp;hool Rate Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated 
(Scotland.) the 10th day of this instant August, for a Return 
relative to the School Rate (Scotland). 
Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 
China (No.2, Mr. Bourke presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- 


1876.) mand,—Copy of Report by Sir B. Robertson, 
respecting his Visit to Haiphong and Hanoi, in 
Tonquin. 

Copy of Instructions réspecting the reception of 
Fugitive Slaves on board Her Majesty’s Ships. 


Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Slave Trade 
(No, 5, 1876.) 


Sir Charles Adderley presented, pursuant to the 
directions of an Act of ciuemh.-Dene of Tenth 
Annual Report of the Warden of the Standards on 
the Proceedings and Business of the Standard 
Weights and Measures Department of the Board 
of Trade, for 1875-76. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Act, Mr. William Henry Smith presented, pursuant 
to the directions of an Act of Parliament,—Copy 
of further Regulations approved by the Treasury 
under the Friendly Societies Act, 1875. 

. — pgaage That the said Paper do lie upon the 
able. 


Mr. James Lowther presented, by Her Majesty’s 
i. “eed of Annual Financial Reports 
® on. 131, 


11th August. 











415 


for 1874 and 1875, by the Auditor General of 
Barbados. 

Mr. James Lowther also presented,—Return to Gibraltar 
an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 6th day of rede)” 
April last, for a Return relative to Gibraltar “““ 
(Tobacco Trade). 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated Barbados 
the 8th day of May last, for Returns relative to (Island 
Barbados (Island Revenue, &amp;c.) sealer ete 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated Queensland 
the 23rd day of May last, for a Return relative to (South Sea 
Queensland (South Sea Islanders). saapeaeeies 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated Mails (East 
the 7th day of this instant August, for a Return Afsion) 
relative to the Mails (East Coast of Africa). 

" — That the said Papers do lie upon the 
able. 


The following Papers were laid upon the Table Divisions of 
by the Clerk of the House,—Return to an Order, the House. 
dated the 8th day of this instant August, for a 
Return relative to Divisions of the House. ‘ 

Return to an Order, dated the 8th day of this Public Bills, 
agg August, for a Return relative to Public 

ills, 

Return to an Order, dated the 8th day of this Private Bills. 
instant August, for Returns relative to Private 
Bills. 

Return to an Order, dated the 8th day of this Select 
instant August, for a Return relative to Select Committees. 
Committees. 

Ordered, That the said Returns be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Army Army 
Enlistments, which was presented upon the 10th Enlistments. 
day of this instant August, be printed. No. 420, 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Poor p,o. Law 
Law Unions, which was presented upon the 10th Unions. 
day of this instant August, be printed. No. 421. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Owners Owners of 
of Land (Jreland), which was presented upon the — 
10th day of this instant August, be printed. No. 422. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Building Building 
Societies, which was presented upon the 10th day Societies. 
of this instant August, be printed. No, 423, 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Sit- sittings of the 
tings of the House, which was presented upon the House. 
10th day of this instant August, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to Friendly Friendly 
Societies and Trade Unions, which was presented Societies and 
upon the 10th day of this instant August, be 74° Unions. 
printed. No. 424, 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Board of Trade. 

a Return specifying the different Departments 
of the Public Service placed under the Control 
and Administration of the Board of Trade, with 
the Names and Salaries of the Secretaries or other 
Officials superintending each Department, and 
the Total Cost of administering the Business of 
the Board of Trade. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Public Bills. 

a Return of Public Bills from the 22nd day of 
June, Session 1876, to the end of the Session, in 
Tabular Form of Return No. 341, with Summary 
of United Kingdom Bills, English Bills, Irish 
Bills, and Scotch Bills, for the Session 1876 
(in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 341, 
of the present Session). 


The Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) Bill was, Consolidated 
according to Order, read the third time. + = 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. tion) Bill. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 
3a4 The 





Cruelty to 
Animals Bill 
{Lords.} 


416 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Cruelty to Animals Bill. 


(In the Committee. ) 

Cravse, N°1, agreed to. 

CriauskE, N° 2 (Prohibition of painful experi- 
ments on animals). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 1, 1. 12, to leave 
out the words “ give pain,” in order to insert the 
word “ torture.” 

Question, That the words “ give pain” stand 
part of the Clause——put, and agreed to. 

Clause agreed to. 

CriausE, N° 3 (General restrictions as to per- 
formance of painful experiments on animals). 

Amendments made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 1, 1. 30, 
after the word “ performed,” to insert the words 
“‘ by a physician or surgeon, or.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted ; 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question, That 
the Chairman do now leave the Chair put, and 
negatived. 

Question put, That those words be there in- 
serted ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for wast {3 Whalley, 7 

Yeas, Mr. Morgan Lloyd: af 

Tellers for the{ Sir William Dyke, \ 

Noes, LMr. Rowland Winn: J 

Another Amendment made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 2, 1. 20, to 
leave out the words “on such certificate being 
“ given as in this Act mentioned, that,” in order to 
insert the word “ if.” 

Question proposed, That the words proposed to 
be left out stand part of the Clause :—Amend- 
ment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Other Amendments made. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

Cause, N° 4 agreed to. 

CiauseE, N° 5, amended, and agreed to. 

CLAvsE, N° 6, agreed to. 

Cause, N° 7, amended, and agreed to. 

CiausE, Ne 8 (Licence by Secretary of State). 

Amendment proposed in p. 4, 1. 1, to leave out 
from the word “ revoked” to the end of the 
Clause. 

Question proposed, That the words proposed to 
be left out stand part of the Clause :—Amend- 
ment, by leave, withdrawn. 

An Amendment made. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

CriausEs, N° 9 to N° 11, amended, and agreed 
to. 

Cravssz, N° 12, agreed to. 

Cause, N° 13, amended, and agreed to. 

Causes, N° 14 to N° 17, agreed to. 

CLaAvsE, N° 18, amended, and agreed to. 

Cause, N° 19, agreed to. 

A Clause added. 

Another Clause (Act not to apply to certain 
animals), This Act shall not apply to cold- 
blooded animals——brought up, and read the 
first time : 

Question proposed, That the Clause be read a 
second time. 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question, That 
the Chairman do now leave the Chair——put, 
and negatived. 

Question, That the Clause be read a second 
time ——put, and agreed to. 

Amendment proposed, to leave out the word 
** cold-blooded,” in order to insert the word “ in- 
“* vertebrate.” 

Question put, That the word “cold-blooded ” 
stand part of the Clause ; 


27. 
82. 


11th—12th August. 








1876. 
The Committee divided. 
Tellers for the{ Dr. Playfair, 

Yeas, Dr. Ward: } 20. 


Mr. William Edward} 
— for - Forster, } 57. 
oes, 


Mr. P. A. Taylor: 

Question, That the word “invertebrate” be 
there inserted——-put, and agreed to. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to, and added. 

Another Ulause added. 

Another Clause (Penalty for torturing animals 
when there is no experiment)——brought up, and 


read the first time. 
Motion made, and Question put, That the Clause 
be read a second time ; 

Tellers for the {f Mr. Lowe, \ 29 

Yeas, Dr. Ward: . 

Tellers for thef Sir William Dyke, 

Another Clause (Exception in case of any ani- 
mal from which the head has been removed )—— 
brought up, and read the first time. 

Clause be read a second time:—Motion and 
Clause, by leave, withdrawn. 
Preamble agreed to. 


The Committee divided. 

Noes, Mr. Rowland Winn: } 51. 
Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Bill, as amended, to be reported. 





And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Saturday morning ; 


Saturday, 12th August, 1876: 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes 
reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration this day. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to Norwich and 
take into consideration the Norwich and Boston eon 
(Corrupt Voters) Bill, as amended in the Com- Sar Bill. 
mittee; and an Amendment was made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be now read the third 
time :—The Bill was accordingly read the third 
time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Elementary 
the adjourned Debate on the Question yy Education Pro- 


upon the 9th day of this instant August, That Mr. poner meg 


Speaker do now leave the Chair (for Committee (London) 
on Elementary Education Provisional Order Con- Bill [Lords] 
firmation (London) Bill) ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Pensions _ 
mittee on the Pensions Commutation Act Amend- Comput 
ment Bill ; ment Bill. 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to Chen 
take into consideration the Chairmen’s Jurisdic- (reland) Bil 
tion (/reland) Bill, as amended in the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be now read the third 
time :—The Bill was accordingly read the third 
time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. ; 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 


the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Mr. Raikes reported from the Committee on East East India 
India Revenue Accounts, a Resolution; which was yvonne A 
read, as followeth ; u 

That it appears by the Accounts laid before this 

House, 





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40 Victoria. 


House, that the Total Revenue of Jndia for the 
year ending the 3lst day of March 1875 was 
£. 50,570,171 ; the Charges in India, including the 
Collection of the Revenue, Interest on Debt, and 
Public Works ordinary, were £. 40,760,583 ; the 
Charges in England (including £. 1,595,878, the 
value of Stores supplied to India) were £. 8,245,829 ; 
the Guaranteed Interest on the Capital of Railway 
and other Companies, in Jndia and in England, 
deducting Net Traffic Receipts, was £. 1,244,562, 
making a Total Charge for the same year. of 
£. 50,250,974; and there was an excess of Income 
over Expenditure in that year amounting to 
£.319,197; that the Charge for Public Works 
extraordinary was £. 4,249,571, and that, including 
that Charge, the excess of Expenditure over 
Income was £. 3,930,374. 

The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 


Merchant The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
Shipping Bill. consideration the Amendments made by the Lords 
to the Merchant Shipping Bill; 
Ordered, That the said Amendments be taken 
into consideration this day. 


Juries Proce- The House, according to Order, proceeded to 

dure(Ireland) take into consideration the Amendments made b 
tne Lords to the Juries Procedure (Jreland) Bill; 
and the same were twice read, and, with an Amend- 
ment thereto, agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 

Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships, with an Amendment; to which this House 
doth desire the concurrence of their Lordships. 


Jocal Govern. _ Lhe Order of the day being read, for the ‘Third 
ment Board’s Reading of the Local Government Board’s Pro- 
— visional Orders Confirmation (Artizans and La- 
frmation-«- WOurers Dwellings) Bill ; 
(Artizans and Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 
Dwelings) Bil Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to a 
[Lords,} Committee of the whole House:—The House im- 
mediately resolved itself into the Committee ; and, 
after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker re- 
sumed the Chair; and Mr. Raikes reported, That 
the Committee had gone through the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be now taken into consideration:—The 
House accordingly proceeded to take the Bill into 
consideration. 

Ordered, That the Bill be now read the third 
time :—The Bill was accordingly read the third 
time. 

Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the same, with Amendments; to 
which this House doth desire the concurrence 
of their Lordships. 


Crossed The Order of the day being read, for the Third 
— Bil Reading of the Crossed Cheques Bill ; 
‘ Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
this day, 


Irish Peerage The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Bill [Lords.) mittee on the Irish Peerage Bill ; 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


Noticesto Quit Lhe House, according to Order, proceeded to 

(Ireland) Bill, take into consideration the Amendments made by 
the Lords to the Notices to Quit (Zreland) Bill; 
and the same were twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 

the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 

Vou. 131, 


1Lith—12th August. 





417 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- winter Assizes 


mittee on the Winter Assizes (Jreland) Bill; (Ireland) Bill. 
Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 


Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


_ Ordered, That the Return relative to the Re- Registry 
gistry of Deeds (Jreland), which was presented (lrelend.) 
upon the Ist day of this instant August, be printed. © y, 45; 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Metropolitan 
a Statement of Accounts of the Metropolitan Game 
Water Companies for the year 1875, which have yy. 496 
been prepared in pursuance of “ The Metropolis i a 
Water Act, 1871.” 
Mr. Sclater- Booth accordingly presented the said 
Paper. 
Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 
And then the House, having continued to sit 
till Three of the clock on Saturday morning, 
adjourned till this day. 








Saturday, 12th August, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 
EVERAL Public Petitions were presented, Public 
and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions. 
Vide Supple- 
ment to Thirty- 


. first Report. 
Ordered, That the Return relative to the Militia ana 


Militia and Militia Reserve, which was presented Militia 
upon the 11th day of this instant August, be Rr 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Cathedral Cathedral and 
and Collegiate Churches (Lay Vicars and Clerks), Collesiate 
which was presented upon the 11th day of this yicars —— 
instant August, be printed. Clerks.) 

No. 428, 

Ordered, That the Return relative to the Re- Register of 
gister of Electors (Cost of Printing), which was sh 
presented upon the 1lth day of this instant ° N . oo 
August, be printed. — 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Gaols Gaols (Roman 
(Roman Catholic Chaplains), which was presented are 
ee plains.) 
upon the 11th day of this instant August, be wo, 439, 
printed, 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Drunken- Drunkenness 
ness (Scotland), which was presented upon the (Scotland. 
11th day of this instant August, be printed. No. 431. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Publicans Publicans and 
and Grocers Certificates (Scotland), which was Grocers 
presented upon the llth day of this instant (Gentian) 


August, be printed. No. 432 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the School School Rate 
Rate (Scotland), which was presented upon the (Scotland.) 
11th day of this instant August, be printed. No. 433. 

Ordered, That the Paper relative to the Friendly Friendly 
Societies Act, 1875, which was presented upon the — Act, 


11th day of this instant August, be printed. No. 434. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Gibraltar 
Gibraltar (Tobacco Trade), which was presented Frode)” 
upon the 11th day of this instant August, be ““\.°” |, 

° No, 435. 
printed. 


Mr. Secretary Cross presented, by Her Ma- Agricultural 
jesty’s Command,—The Agricultural Statistics of irebend) 
Ireland for the year 1875. ; 

Copy of Report ov an Explosion of Dynamite at Explosions. 
Cymner, Glamorganshire, on 21st April 1876, by 
Major V. D. Majendie, R.A., Her Majesty’s In- 














spector of Explosives. 

Copy of Report on an Explosion of Gunpowder, 
at a Gunpowder Factory, at Herodsfoot, Liskeard, 
Cornwall, on 12th May 1876, by Major V. D. Ma- 
jendie, R.A., Her Majesty’s Inspector of Explo- 
sives, 


3H Copy 





418 


Copy of Report on an Explosion of Fulminate 
of Seca, at Hinks’ Chemical Works, Small 
Heath, Birmingham, on 14th May 1876, by Major 
A. Ford, 8.4., Her Majesty’s Inspector of Ex- 
plosives. 

Local Government Board, Highways. Abstracts 
of the General Statements of the Receipts and 
Expenditure on account of the Highways of the 
several Parishes, Townships, &amp;c., in England and 
Wales, for the year 1874. 

Local Government Board, Turnpike Trusts. An 
Abstract of the General Statements of the Income 
and Expenditure of the several Turnpike Trusts 
in England and Wales, from 1st January 1874 to 
31st December 1874, inclusive, pursuant to the 
Act 3&amp;4 Will. 4, ¢. 80. 

Copy of Twelfth Detailed Annual Report of 
the Registrar General of Marriages, Births, and 
Deaths in Jreland, 1875. 


Mr. Secretary Cross also presented,—Return to 
an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 24th day of 
June, in the last Session of Parliament, for a Re- 
turn from each Library established under “ The 
Free Libraries Acts,” containing the following 
particulars :— 

I. Balance Sheet (if any): 

II. Particulars of Receipts and Expenditure for 

year ending at last Report: 

III. Table showing (separately for Lending and 

Reference Libraries),— 

(a.) Classification of Books in the Library 
according to Subjects ; 

(b.) Number of Volumes in each Class in 
the Library ; 

(c.) Total Number of Volumes issued in 
each Class during last Twelve Months; 

(d.) Average Number of Times that each 
Volume in each Class has been issued 
during the year ; 

(e.) Per-centage of the Total Issues of each 
Class of Books to the Total Number of 
Volumes issued during the year: 

IV. Number of Volumes issued to Borrowers : 

V. Number of Borrowers, classified according 

to Occupation : 

VI. Table showing— 

(a.) Population according to the Census of 
1871; 

(b.) Date of adoption of the Act; 

(c.) Date of opening of the Library ; 

(d.) Date of opening of the Museum (if 
any ); 

(e.) Than in Reference and Lending Li- 
braries respectively ; 

(f.) Number of Borrowers in each ; 

(g.) Total Issues for last year in each ; 

(h.) Average Times per annum each Vo- 
lume is issued ; 

(i.) Average Number of Volumes per an- 
num issued to each Borrower : 

Summary of the above Returns for— 

(a.) Corporate Towns ; 
(b.) Places other than Corporate Towns. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. William Henry Smith presented, pursuant 
vo the directions of an Act of Parliament,—Copy 
cf Treasury Minute, dated 2nd August 1876, 
a the Office of Actuary in the Registry of 

‘riendly Societies under the provisions of the 4th 
Section of the Superannuation Act, 1859. 


Highways 
(England and 
Wales.) 


(England and 
Wales.) 


Marriages, 
Births, and 
Deaths 
(Ireland.) 


Free Libraries 
Acts. 


Superannua- 
tion Act, 1859, 


TradeUnions, | The following Paper, pursuant to the directions 

&amp;e, (Scotland.) of an Act of Parliament, was laid upon the Table 
by the Clerk of the House,—Report for the year 
1875 by the Assistant Registrar of Friendly So- 
cieties for Scotland, as Registrar of Trade Unions, 
on Trade Unions in Scotland. 


12th August. 








1876. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Message from 
Message had been brought from the Lords by one the Lords, 
of their Clerks, as followeth: 

The Lords have agreed to the Police (Expenses) Police 
Act Continuance Bill, without any Amendment. ony ma 

tinuance Bill, 

The Lords have agreed to the Tramways (Jre- Tramways 
land) Acts Amendment (Dublin) Bill, without any (Iteland) Acts 


mendment 
Amendment. (Dublin) Bin, 


The Lords have agreed to the Elementary Edu- Flemen 
cation Bill, with Amendments; to which the 4ucation Bin, 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have agreed to the Pollution of Pollution of 
Rivers Bill, with Amendments; to which the vers Bill. 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 

The Lords have agreed to the Municipal Pri- Municipal 
vileges (/reland) Bill, with Amendments; to rm ’ 
which the Lords desire the concurrence of this a oe 
House. 

The Lords have agreed to the Amendments Agricultural 
made by this House to the Agricultural Holdings ae 
(England) Act (1875) Amendment Bill, without (9fi") 4# 


(1875) Amend- 
any Amendment. ment Bill 


[Lords.} 
The Lords have agreed to the Amendments East Cornwall 
made by this House to the East Cornwall Mineral Mineral 


Railway Bill, without any Amendment. lord} 


The Lords have agreed to the Amendments Liandudno 
made by this House to the L/andudno Improve- Improvement 
ment Bill, without any Amendment. Bill [Lords.] 

The Lords have agreed to the Amendments Poor Law 
made by this House to the Amendments made by Amendment 
their Lordships to the Poor Law Amendment Bill, na 
without any Amendment. 


Ordered, That the Amendments made by the Elementary 
Lords to the Elementary Education Bill be taken Education Bill 
into consideration upon Monday next; and be Bill 295, 
printed. 


Ordered, That the Amendments made by the Pollution of 
Lords to the Pollution of Rivers Bill be taken into Rivers Bill. 
consideration upon Monday next; and be printed. _ Bill 297. 


Ordered, That the Amendments made by the Municipal 
Lords to the Municipal Privileges (Zreland) Bill (Irelad) Bill 
be taken into consideration upon Monday next; © pi 995 
and be printed. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Pensions — 
into a Committee on the Pensions Commutation — 
Act Amendment Bill; and, after some time spent ment Bil. 
therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and 
Mr. Raikes reported, That the Committee had 
gone through the Bill, and directed him to report 
the same, without Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be now read the third 
time :—The Bill was accordingly read the third 
time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to Cruelty to 
take into consideration the Cruelty to Animals Animals Bill 
Bill, as amended in the Committee. (Lords.| 

Ordered, That the Bill be now read the third 
time:—The Bill wasaccordingly read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the same, with Amendments ; 
to which this House doth desire the concurrence 
of their Lordships. 


The Order of the day being read, for — into Merchant _ 


consideration the Amendments made by the Lords Shipping Bill 


to the Merchant Shipping Bill ; 
And 











40 Vicroria. 


And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being Se peng: That the said Amendments be 
now taken into consideration ; 

An Amendment waz proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the word “ now,” and, 
at the end of the Question, adding the words 
“ upon this day month.” 

And the Question being proposed, That the 
word “now” stand part of the Question :—The 
said proposed Seonlvant was, with leave of the 
House, withdrawn. 

Ordered, That the said Amendments be now 
taken into consideration :—The House accordingly 
proceeded to take the said Amendments into con- 
sideration. 

The said Amendments, as far as the Amendment 
in p. 5, 1. 27, being read a second time, were 
agreed to. 

P. 5, 1. 27, leave out from “ that,” to the second 
“ the,” in]. 28, and insert “* there was not reason- 
“able and probable cause by reason of the con- 
‘‘ dition of the ship, or the act or default of the 
“owner for the provisional detention of the 
“ ship,” the next Amendment, being read a second 
time ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, that this House doth agree with the 
Lords in the said Amendment; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 


Tellers for the (Sir William Dyke, 68 
Yeas, { Mr. Rowland Winn: } ; 

Tellers for the; Mr. Eustace Smith, gy 
Noes, ) Mr. Norwood: f 


So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Then the Amendments, as far as the Amend- 
ment in p. 8, 1. 37, being read a second time, were 
agreed to. 

P. 8, 1. 37, leave out the last paragraph of 
Clause 13, and insert “ Where ihe survey of a 
“‘ ship is made for the purpose of a declaration or 
“ certificate under the above recited enactments, 
‘* the person appointed to make the survey shall, 
“ if so required by the owner, be accompanied on 
“the survey by some person appointed by the 
“ owner, and in such case, if the said two persons 
“ agree, there shall be no appeal to the Court of 
“ Survey in pursuance of this section,” the next 
Amendment, being read a second time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made there- 
unto, by leaving out from the word “ owner,” in 
1, 5, tothe end of the Lords’ Amendment, in order 
to insert the words “ and by a third person, to be 
“named in such manner and on such conditions 
“as the Board of Trade from time to time pre- 
“ scribe (whether by general regulations or in the 
“* particular case); and, if such two last-mentioned 
*‘ persons agree, their report shall have the same 
“effect as if it were a report made on appeal by 
“a Court of Survey under this section,” instead 
thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Lords’ 
Amendment :—It was resolved in the Affirma- 
tive, 

And the said Amendment was agreed to. 

Then the Amendments, as far as the Amend- 
ment “after Clause 17, insert Clause (A),” being 
read a second time, were agreed to. 

“After Clause 17, insert Clause (A) (Provision 
as to survey of foreign passenger steamer or emi- 
grant ship),” the next Amendment, being read a 
second time, was amended. 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That this House doth agree with the 
Lords in the said Amendment, as amended ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

VoL. 131. 








12th August. 419 


Tellers for the (Sir William Dyke, l 49 
Yeas, \Mr. Rowland Winn: ia, 
Tellers for the; Mr. Eustace Smith, at 36 
Noes, \ Mr. Plimsoll: Por 


So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Then the Amendments, as far as the Amend- 
ment “ pages 11 and 12, leave out Clause 21 and 
* insert Clause (C),” being read a second time, 
were, with an Amendment to the Lords’ Amend- 
ment, in p. 11, 1. 3, agreed to. 

“* Pages 11 and 12, leave out Clause 21, and 
insert Clause (C) (Penalty for carrying deck loads 
of timber in winter),” the next Amendment, being 
read a second time, was amended. 

Another Amendment was proposed, to be made 
thereunto, in Sub-section (C) of the Clause, by 
leaving out the words “ to a height exceeding 
** three feet above the deck,” 

And the Question being put, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Lords’ 
Amendment ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 


Tellers for the {Sir William Dyke, 7 55 
Yeas, UMr. Rowland Winn: ~ 
Tellers for the the Plimsoll, i 29 
Noes, Mr. Reed: J . 


So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That this House doth agree with the 
Lords in the said Amendment, as amended ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the; Sir William Dyke, } 49 

Yeas, (Mr. Rowland Winn: 7 

Tellers for the ; Mr. Norwood, 26 

Noes, \ Mr. David Jenkins : } 4 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

P. 12, 1. 24, leave out “under eighty tons 
register,” the next Amendment, being read a 
second time ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, ‘hat this House doth agree with 
the Lords in the said Amendment:—And a 
Debate arising thereupon ; 

A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That the Debate be now adjourned :—And 
the said Motion was, with leave of the House, 
withdrawn. 

Then the original Question being put:—It 
passed in the Negative. 

P. 12, 1. 26, leave out “all,” the next Amend- 
ment, being read a second time, was agreed to. 

P. 12, ls. 38 and 39, leave out “under eighty 
tons register,” the next Amendment, being read a 
second time, was disagreed to. 

Then the subsequent Amendments, being read a 
second time, were agreed to. 

Ordered, That a Committee be appointed to 
draw up Reasons to be assigned to the Lords for 
disagreeing to the Amendments to which this 
House hath disagreed:—And a Committee was 
appointed of Sir Charles Adderley, Mr. Chancellor 
of the Exchequer, Mr. Attorney General, Mr. 
Bates, Mr. Plimsoll, Mr. Eustace Smith, and Sir 
William Edmonstone :—And they are to withdraw 
immediately. 


Ordered, That Three be the Quorum. 


The Order of the day being read, for resumin 
the adjourned Debate on the Question propose 
upon the 9th day of this instant August, That Mr. 
Speaker do now leave the Chair (for Committee 
on the Elementary Education Provisional Order 
Confirmation (Lovdon) Bill) ; 

And the Question being again proposed :—The 
House resumed the said adjourned Debate. 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 

31 Question, 


Elementary 
Education Pro- 
visional Order 
Confirmation 
(London) Bill 
[Lords.] 


420 


Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the 
words “ this House will, upon this day two months, 
“ resolve itself into the said Committee,” instead 
thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words 

roposed to be left out stand part of the Question : 
Tt was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
Chair : —The House accordingly resolved itself into 
the Committee; and, after some time spent therein, 
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr. William 
Henry Smith reported, That the Committee had 
gone through the Bill, and directed him to report 
the same, without Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be now read the third time: 
—The Bill was accordingly read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


Sir Charles Adderley reported from the Com- 
mitete appointed to draw up Reasons to be assigned 
to the Lords for disagreeing to certain of the Amend- 
ments made by their Lordships to the Merchant 
Shipping Bill; That they had drawn up a Reason 
accordingly, which they had directed him to report 
to the House; and the same was read, as fol- 
loweth : 

The Commons disagree to the omission of the 
words “under eighty tons register,” in p. 12, 
]. 24, and p. 12, ls. 38 and 39, because it is desirable 
that the Provisions relating to deck and load lines 
should be made applicable to coasting vessels above 
eighty tons. 

The said Reason, being read a second time, was 
agreed to. 

Ordered, That a Message be sent to the Lords 
to communicate the said Reason (with the Bill 
and Amendments): And that the Clerk do carry 
the same. 


Merchant 
Shipping Bill. 


being read, for the Third 
Cheques Bill; 


The Order of the da 
Reading of the baa | 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Monday next. 


Crossed 
Cheques Bill 
[ Lords. } 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Jrish Peerage Bill. 


(In the Committee.) 


Irish Peerage 
Bill [Lords.] 


Notice taken, that Forty Members were not 
= :—Committee counted ; and Forty Mem- 
ers not being present, the Chairman left the 
Chair. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and the 
House being told by Mr. Speaker; and Forty 
Members not being present; and it being then 
after Four of the clock:—The House was ad- 
journed by Mr. Speaker, without a Question first 
put, till Monday next. 


Monday, 14th August, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 
EVERAL Public Petitions were presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Public 
Petitions. 


Vide Supple- 
ment to Thi - 
first Report. 
Education 
(Refusal of 
Grants.) 

No. 437. 
Barbados Ordered, That the Return relative to Barbados 
(Island (Island Revenue, &amp;c.), which was presented upon 


— “Ww the 11th day of this instant August, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to Education 
(Refusal of Grants), which was presented upon the 
9th day of this instant August, be printed. 


12¢th—14th August 





1876. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Free Free Litms 
Libraries Acts, which was presented upon + _ 
12th day of this instant August, be printed. No, 439, 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to Trade Trade Up; 
Unions (Scotland), which was presented upon the (Scotland 
12th day of this instant August, be printed. No. 440, 


Sir Charles Adderley presented, by Her Ma- Agri 
jesty’s Command,— Agricultural Returns of Great Revue of 
Britain, 1875. County Summary. Acreage under °° Britain 
each kind of Crop, and Number of Live Stock, in 
each County on 25th June in each of the years 
1875 and 1876. 

Copy of General Report by Captain Tyler, in Rai 
regard to the Share a | Leen Chptedl the Traffic 7 
in Passengers and Goods, and the Working Ex- 
penditure and Net Profits, from Railway Working 
of the Railway Companies of the United Kingdom, 
for the year 1875. i 

Copy of Reports of the Inspecting Officers of Railway 
the Railway Department to the Board of Trade, 4*cidents 
upon certain Accidents which have occurred on 
Railways during the Months of May and June 
1876. (Part Fourth.) 

Copy of —— of the Inspecting Officers of 
the Railway Department to the Board of Trade 
upon certain Accidents which have occurred on 
Railways during the Months of July and August 
1876. (Part Fifth.) . 

Return of Accidents and Casualties which Railway 
have been reported to the Board of Trade during Accidents and 
the Months of April, May, and June 1876, by the “™ 
several Railway Companies in the United King- 
dom, in pursuance of the Regulation of Railways 
Act (1871), 34 &amp; 35 Vie. e. 78. ’ 

Return of Accidents and Casualties which have 
been reported to the Board of Trade during the 
Months of July, August, and September 1876, by 
the several Railway Companies in the United 
Kingdom, in pursuance of the Regulation of Rail- 
ways Act (1871), 34 &amp; 35 Vic. c. 78. 

_Returns by Railway Companies in the United Railways 
Kingdom relative to (1) the Interlocking and Con- ‘Sis! 


. . ° A n! 
centrating of Signal and Point Levers, &amp;c.; and to ana‘ ome 


(2) the System or Systems upon which the Lines Working.) 
of Railway under their control are worked. 

Copy of Annual Statement of the Trade of the Trade (Foreign 
United Kingdom with Foreign Countries and Sout 
British Possessions, for the year 1875. Soon 
Sir Charles Adderley also presented,—Return to Joint Stock 
an Order, dated the 8th day of this instant August, Companies. 
for a Return relative to Joint Stock Companies. 

Sir Charles Adderley also presented, pursuant to Mercantile 
the directions of several Acts of Parliament,—Ac- Marine Fun 
count of the Mercantile Marine Fund under the “+ 
Act 17 &amp; 18 Vie. c. 104, showing the Balance of 
Cash and Amount of Exchequer Bills held on 31st 
March 1874, with the Income and Expenditure 
from that date to 31st March 1875. 

_ Copy of Warrant of the Board of Trade, autho- Railways 
rising the Abandonment of the Cowbridge Railway, Abandonment. 
in pursuance of “ The Abandonment of Railways 
Act, 1850,” and “ The Railway Companies Act, 

1867,” and Report thereon. 
. ~ joa That the said Papers do lie upon the 
able. 


Mr. Algernon Egerton presented,—Return to an Navy (Sale of 
Order, dated the 17th day of February last, for a Stores.) 
Return relative to the Navy (Sale of Stores). 

Return to an Order, dated the 30th day of June Coast Surveys 
last, fora Return relative to the Coast Surveys. 

Mr. Algernon Egerton also presented, pursuant Naval Savings 
to the directions of an Act of Parliament,—An = 
Account of Deposits in Naval Savings Banks, and 
the Payments thereof, and of Interest thereon; 
of all Investment under “ The Naval Savings 
Banks Act, 1866,” and the application of the In- 
terest or Dividends accruing in respect thereof; 

and 











440, 


ritain, 


's and 
08, 


ments, 
tems of 
6) 


Foreign 
es and 


ions). 


tock 
ies. 


tile 
Fund 
).) 


8 
nment. 


jurveys: 


Savings 





Indi 
Fransports) 


Indian 
Museum. 


Pawnbrokers 
(Ireland.) 


Inland 
Revenue. 


Civil Service. 


Post Office 
Savings Bank, 
&amp;e. 


Revenue 
(Spirits, &amp;c.) 


Superannua- 
tion Act, 1859. 


China (No. 3, 
1876.) 


Japan (No, 2, 
1876.) 


Siam (No, 1, 
16 


Spain (No. 3, 
1876) ‘Murder 


of Mr. Robert.) 


Peru (Im- 
Prisonment of 
British 
Subjects.) 


(Jamaica, ) 


Public Health. 


40 VicToRIa. 


and of the Proceeds of any Sale of any Stocks, 
Annuities, or Securities, during the Financial year 
1874-5. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Lord George Hamilton presented,— Further 
Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 
9th day of August, in the last Session of Parlia- 
ment, for Returns, in eontinuation of Parlia- 
mentary Paper, No. 222, of Session 1874, relating 
to East India Transports for 1873-4 and for 
1874-5 (to be presented separately), supplying the 
Information in No, 222, of Session 1874, but 
omitted from Return, No. 413, of Session 1874; 
with an additional Table to exhibit the Increases 
in the Items making up the Cost of Crews from 
£. 35,194 in 1867-8 to £. 69,270 in 1872-3. 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated 
the 20th day of July last, for a Return relative to 
the Indian Museum. 

Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Secretary Cross presented, pursuant to the 
directions of an Act of Parliament,—Return from 
City Marshal of Dublin of Abstract of Pawn- 
brokers Returns for the year 1875. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. William Ilenry Smith presented, by Her 


Majesty’s Command,—Copy of Nineteenth Report | 


of the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Inland 
Revenue on the Inland Revenue for the year 
ended 31st March 1876. 

Copy of Twentieth Report of Her Majesty’s 
Civil Service Commissioners, together with Ap- 

endices. 

Mr. William Henry Smith also presented,—Re- 
turn to an Order, dated the 25th day of July last, 
for Returns relative to the Post Office Savings 
Bank, &amp;e. 

Return to an Order, dated the Ist day of this 
instant August, for Returns relative to the Re- 
venue (Spirits, &amp;c.) 

Mr. William Henry Smith also presented, pur- 
suant to the directions of an Act of Parliament,— 
Copy of Treasury Minute, dated 12th August 
1876, placing certain offices under the Commis- 
sioners of Works under the 4th Clause of the 
Superannuation Act, 1859. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Bourke presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- 
mand,—Copy of Commercial Reports from Her 
Majesty’s Consuls in China, 1875. 

Copy of Commercial Reports by Her Majesty’s 
Consuls in Japan, 1875. 

Copy of Commercial Reports by Her Majesty’s 
Consular Officers in Siam for the year 1875. 

Copy of Correspondence respecting the Murder 
of Mr. Robert at San Juan del Puerto in Spain. 


Mr. Bourke also presented,—Return to an Ad- 
dress to Her Majesty, dated the 19th day of July, 
in the last Session of Parliament, for a ~— or 
Extracts of Correspondence and Despatches relative 
to the Imprisonment of British Subjects since the 
year 1872, inclusive, addressed to and received 
from the Representatives of Her Majesty in that 
Country. 

Return to several Addresses to Her Majesty, 
dated the 3rd and 27th days of April last, for 
Returns relative to Coolies (Jamaica). 

- Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
able. 


Viscount Sandon presented, by Her Majesty’s 
a lid of Reports of the Medical 
OL, 131. 


14th August. 











421 


Officer of the Privy Council and Local Govern- 

ment Board. New Series, No. VIII. Report to 

the Lords of the Council on Scientific Investiga- 

tions, made under their direction, in aid of Patho- 

logy and Medicine. 

. es That the said Paper do lie upon the 
able. 


The following Paper was laid upon the Table by Public Bills. 
the Clerk of the House,—Return to an Order, No. 441. 
dated the 11th day of this instant August, for a 
Return relative to Public Bills. 

The following Paper, pursuant to the directions Patents for 
ofan Act of Parliament, was also laid upon the Inventions. 
Table by the Clerk of the House,—Patent Law 
Amendment Act, 1852. Copy of Report of the 
Commissioners of Patents for Inventions, pur- 
suant to the Act 15 &amp; 16 Vie. c. 83, 1875. 

Ordered, That the Return relative to Public 
Bills be printed. 


Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his War- Donegal Writ. 
rant to the Clerk of the Crown in Ireland, to make 
out a new Writ for the electing of a Member to 
serve in this present Parliament for the County of 
Donegal, in the room of Thomas Conolly, Esquire, 
deceased. 


The Order made upon the 10th day of this Valuation of 
instant August, That there be laid before this Land (Ireland) 
House, an Abstract of the Return relative to the eee 
Valuation of Land in Jreland, which was presented 
upon the 3rd day of this instant August, was 
read, and discharged. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Valuation of 
an Abstract of the Return, which was presented aaa 
upon the 3rd day of this instant August, as to the 
Names of Proprietors and Area and Valuation of 
Property in Jreland, showing, with respect to each 


County, the following particulars, namely,— 


1, The Number of Owners below an Acre. 
2 ‘ of 1 Acreand under 10 Acres, 
3. ” of 10 Acres ,, 50 
4, 9 of SO in = 100 ,, 
5 ‘ ¢. fis. « 500 4 
6 a =. Bis. o&gt; ire 
7 i of 1,000 , 4 2,000 , 
8, - of 2,000 ,, o aaa 
9. of 5,000 » 4 10,000 ,, 
10. a of 10,000 4, 4 20,000 , 
11. ye of 20,000 ,, » 50,000 ,, 
12. a of 50,000 100,000 ,, 


13, ” of 100,000 and upwards, 


With the Aggregate Acreage and Valuation of 
each Class. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented East India 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased a 
to give directions, that there be laid before this * ae 
House, a Return showing the Minimum and Maxi- 
mum Cash Balances at Credit of Her Majesty’s 
Secretary of State for India for each Month of the 
Indian Financial Years 1872-3, 1873-4, 1874-5, 
and 1875-6, in the following form :— 














1872-3. 
Minimum Maximum 
—— Cash Balance. Cash Balance. 
April - - - 
May - - - 
June - - - 
July - - - 
August - - e 
September - - 
October - - - 
November - - - 
December - - - 
January - &gt; - 
February - - - 
March - - - 
312 Ordered, 


422 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, | 
a Copy of the Correspondence which has passed 
between the Admiralty and the Superintendents 
of Her Majesty’s Dockyards concerning the Cut- 
ting of Ventilating Apertures in the Water-tight | 
Bulkhead of Her Majesty’s Ships. | 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Copies of a Letter of Instructions addressed by 
the Local Government Board to WW. J. Sendall, 
Esquire, Local Government Board Inspector, and 
submitted to the Guardians of the Keighley Union 
at their Meeting on the 26th day of July 1876, 
relative to the prosecution of Defaulters under the 
Vaccination Acts :——And, of the Resolution on 
the subject moved at that Meeting, and of a 
Statement showing the results of the voting 
thereon. 

Mr. Sclater-Booth accordingly presented the 
said Paper. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Third 
Reading of the Crossed Cheques Bill; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, \That the Bill be now read the 
third time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the words “ Bill 
* be,” to the end of the Question, in order to add 
the word “ re-committed,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Ques- 
tion :—It passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being proposed, That the 
word “ re-committed ” be added instead thereof. 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
said proposed Amendment, by adding at the end 
thereof the words “in respect of Clauses 4, 5, 
* and 12.” 

And the Question being put, That those words 
be there added:—It was resolved in the Affirma- 
tive. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
‘* re-committed, in respect of Clauses 4, 5, and 12,” 
be added after the words “ Bill be” in the Ori- 
ginal Question :—It was resolved in the Affirma- 
tive. 

Then the Main Question, so amended, being 

ut; 

Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to a 
Committee of the whole House in respect of 
Clauses 4, 5, and 12:—The House immediately 
resolved itself into the Committee. 


(In the Committee.) 


CriausEs, N° 4 and N° 5, amended, and agreed 
to 


14th August. 





CuausE, N 12 (Title of holder of cheque 
crossed specially ). 

An Amendment made. 

Question proposed, That the Clause, as amended, 
stand part of the Bill : 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question proposed, 
That the Chairman do report Progress, and ask 
leave to sit again :—Motion, by leave, withdrawn. 

Question again proposed, That the Clause, as 
amended, stand part of the Bill:—Question put, 
and agreed to. 

Bill, as amended, to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. William 
Henry Smith reported, That the Committee had 
amended Clauses 4, 5, and 12 of the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be now taken into consideration :—The 
House accordingly proceeded to take the Bill into 
consideration. 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Bill, in p. 3, 1. 8, by leaving out from the word 





(876. 
“had” to the word “payment,” in 1. 13, inclu- 
sive. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Bill ; 

he House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the Sir William Dyke, 

Yeas, \Mr. Rowland Winn: 

Tellers for the; Mr. Butt, 

Noes, \ Mr. Hubbard: 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That the Bill be now read the third 
time:—The Bill was accordingly read the third 
time. 

Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the same, with Amendments; to 
which this House doth desire the concurrence of 
their Lordships. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- Message from 
sage had been brought from the Lords by one of the Lords, 
their Clerks, as followeth: 

The Lords have agreed to the Chairmen’s Juris- Chairmen’s 


diction (Jreland) Bill, without any Amendment. nana) 


The Lords have agreed to the Norwich and Norwich and 
Boston (Corrupt Voters) Bill, without any Amend- (Conept 
ment. Voters) Bill. 

The Lords have agreed to the Pensions Com- Pensions 
mutation Act Amendment Bill, without any Commatation 


Act Amend. 
Amendment. ment Bill. 


The Lords have agreed to the Bow Street pow street 
Police Court (Site) Bill, without any Amend- Police Court 
ment. (Site) Bill. 

The Lords have agreed to the Expiring Laws Expiring Laws 


Continuance Bill, without any Amendment. — 


The Lords have agreed to the Sheriff Courts Sheriff Courts 
(Scotland) Bill, without any Amendment. (Scotland) Bill 
The Lords have agreed to the Legal Practi- Legal 


tioners Bill, without any Amendment. ne 


The Lords have agreed to the Suez Canal Suez Canal 
(Shares) Bill, without any Amendment. (Shares) Bill. 
The Lords have agreed to the War Department War Depart. 
and Post Office (Remuneration, &amp;c.) Bill, without pm and Post 
ce (Re- 
any Amendment. eneniien, 
&amp;c.) Bill. 
The Lords have agreed to the Consolidated rant 
Fund (Appropriation) Bill, without any Amend- Fund (Appro- 
ment. priation) Bill. 
The Lords have agreed to the Amendments Cruelty to 
made by this House to the Cruelty to Animals vo 
Bill, without any Amendment. 
The Lords have agreed to the Amendments 
made by this House to the Local Government aon oes 
Board’s Provisional Orders Confirmatiou (Artizans oy ders Con- 
and Labourers Dwellings) Bill, without any firmation 


(Artizans and 
Amendment. Labourers 


Dwellings) Bill 
[Lords.] 

The Lords have agreed to the Amendment Juries 
made by this House to the Amendments made by sacar 
their Lordships to the Juries Procedure (/reland) (Ireland) 
Bill, without any Amendment. 

The Lords have agreed to the Amendments Merchant 
made by this House to the Amendments made by Shipping Bill. 
their Lordships to the Merchant Shipping Bill, 
without any Amendment; and do not insist on 
their Amendments to the said Bill to which this 
House disagrees; and have made a Consequential 


Local Govern- 


-| Amendment thereto; to which the Lords desire 


the concurrence of this House. 


Ordered, That the Consequential Amendment Merchant 
made by the Lords to the Merchant Shipping Bill Shipping 
be now taken into consideration:—The House 
accordingly proceeded to take the said Amendment 
into 








‘om 


vern- 


e 
| Bill. 





40 Victoria. 144h—15th August. 423 


into consideration; and the same was read, and 
agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendment made by their Lord- 
ships. 


Flementary The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
Biucation Bill. take into consideration the Amendments made by 
the Lords to the Elementary Education Bill; and 
the same were twice read, and agreed to. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


Pollution of The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
Rivers Bill. take into consideration the Amendments made by 
the Lords to the Pollution of Rivers Bill; and the 
same were twice read, and agreed to. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill'to the 
Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


Toll Bridges The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
me) pil, Mittee on the Toll Bridges (River Thames) Bill; 
"Ordered, ‘That the said Order be discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


Parliamentary # The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 

ad Municipal mittee on the Parliamentary and Municipal Regis- 

Rewgis). tration (Boroughs) Bill ; 

Bill. Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


Municipal The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
hon take into consideration the Amendments made by 
(reland) BY. the Lords to the Municipal Privileges (Jreland) 
Bill; and the same were twice read, and agreed to. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 

ships. 


Phenix Park © QOsrdered, That there be laid before this House, 
— Copies of any Correspondence between the Lords 
of the Treasury and the Commissioners of Public 
Works in Ireland on the subject of letting White- 
field Lodge, in the Phenix Park: Of any 
Minutes of the Commissioners of Public Works 
relating thereto: -—Of the’ Advertisement offering 
the Lands for letting :——And, of any Proposals 

made for the taking of the House and Lands. 


Notice being taken, that Forty Members were 
not present:— The House was told by Mr. Speaker; 
and Forty Members not being present, and it 
being then after Four of the clock :—The House 
was adjourned by Mr. Speaker, without a Question 
first put, till To-morrow, 








Tuesday, 15th August, 1876. 


PRAYERS. 


_—. S EVERAL Public Petitions were presented, 


— and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 
Vide Supple. 


ment to Thirty. 
first Report. 
mera Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
No, 442, Returns of the Joint Stock Companies which have 
failed to make the Annual Return of their Mem- 
bers and the Number of Shares held by each in 
the last Seven Years. 
Sir Charles Adderley accordingly presented the 
said Returns. 
Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 
VoL. 131. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Joint Stock 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased Companies in 
to give directions, that there be be laid before this M44" 
House, a Return of the Names of each Joint Stock 
Company which has been placed in Liquidation, 

and, whether official or voluntary, during the last 

Seven Years; and showing the subscribed Capi- 

tal, paid-up Capital, Amount of Debts owing at 

Date of Liquidation, Amount called up and paid 

upon said Liquidation, and Amount paid to 
Creditors and Rate in the Pound, Amount paid 

for Law Expenses, Liquidation Charges, Total 
Expenses and Rate in the Pound of such Ex- 

penses, Date of Liquidation, and Date of clos- 

ing Liquidation or estimated Balance, and further 
Dividend and further Expenses to close Liquida- 

tion. 


The Order made upon the 10th day of this in- Parliamentary 
stant August, That there be laid before this House, 48°"** 
a Return relative to Parliamentary Agents, was 
read, and discharged. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Message from 
Message had been brought from the Lords by one the Lords. 
of their Clerks, as followeth: 

bag ee have agreed to the Amendments emi 
made by this House to the Crossed Cheques S2eqes 
Bill, without any Amendment. hes Bill [Lords 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Army Army Reserve. 
Reserve, which was presented upon the 3lst day No. 457. 
of July last, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Joint —_ Stock 
Stock Companies, which was presented upon the ap 
14th day of this instant August, be printed. —— 

Ordered, That the Account relative to the Mer- —— 4 
cantile Marine Fund (1874-5), which was pre- (1874-5. 
sented upon the 14th day of this instant August, No. 444, 
be printed. 

Ordered, That the Paper relative to Railways yon lle 
Abandonment, which was presented upon the 14th yy 27. 
day of this instant August, be printed. cis 

Ordered, That the Return relative to the Navy = “ 
(Sale of Stores), which was presented upon the yo. 445 
14th day of this instant August, be seheak its 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Coast ©9st Surveys. 
Surveys, which was presented upon the 14th day No. 446. 
of this instant August, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Account relative to Naval Naval Savings 
Savings Banks, which was presented upon the "Me 
14th day of this instant August, be printed. 405. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to East India 7 India 
(Transports), which was presented upon the 14th maa eg 
day of this instant August, be printed. O 119% 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Indian I=dianMuseum. 


Museum, which was presented upon the 14th day No. 448. 
of this instant August, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Post Post Office 
Office Savings Bank, &amp;c., which was presented ; 7 Bank. 


upon the 14th day of this instant August, be yo 449 
printed. iow: 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Re- Revenue 
venue (Spirits, &amp;c.), which was presented upon Spirits, &amp;c.) 
the 14th day of this instant August, be printed, No 450 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to Patents for Patents for 
Inventions, which was presented upon the 14th ventions. 
day of this instant August, be printed. No, 451. 


Mr. Secretary Cross presented,—Return to an School Boards 
Address to Her Majesty, dated the 7th day of (Provisions for 
July last, for Returns relative to School Boards Tecan ) 
(Provisions for Religious Teaching). No. 452 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the a 
Table; and be printed. 





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Mr. William Henry Smith presented,—Return 


(Cash Balances to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 14th day 


at Home.) 


Navy (Water- 

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partments.) 
No. 453. 


Liverymen 
(City of 
London.) 


No. 454. 


Joint Stock 

Companies in 

Liquidation. 
No. 455. 


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of this instant August, for a Return relative to 

East India (Cash Balances at Home). 

- Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
able. 


Mr. Algernon Egerton presented,—Return to an 
Order, dated the 14th day of this instant August, 
for a Return relative to the Navy (Water-tight 
Compartments). 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


The following Paper was laid upon the Table 
by the Clerk of the Toka-cihunn to an Order, 
dated the 27th day of April last, for a Return re- 
lative to the Liverymen (City of London). 
Ordered, That the said Return be printed. 


Sir Charles Adderley presented,—Return to an 
Address to Her Majesty, dated the 15th day of 
this instant August, for a Return relative to Joint 
Stock Companies in Liquidation. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


Mr. James Lowther presented, by Her Majesty’s 


(Extradition of Command,—Further Return relating to Cases of 


Prisoners.) 


Murder of Mr. 


Margary 
(China, No. 4, 
41876.) 


Parliamentary 
Papers. 


No. 456. 


Common Pleas 
(Ireland) 
Resignation of 
Chief Justice. 


Royal Assent. 


Consolidated 
Fund (Appro- 
priation) Bill. 


Extradition of Prisoners under Treaty between 
Great Britain and the United States. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Bourke presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- 
mand,—Copy of Further Correspondence respect- 
ing the Attack on the Jndian Expedition to 
Western China and the Murder of Mr. Margary 
(in continuation of China, No. 1, 1876). 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—. Lists of the 
Bills, Reports, Estimates, and Accounts and Papers 
printed by Order of the House, and of Papers pre- 
sented by Command, Session 1876, with a General 
Alphabetical Index thereto, 21st Parliament, 3rd 
Session, 39th &amp; 40th Vic. 8th February to 15th 
August. 

Ordered, That the said Paper be printed. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being 
proposed, That there be laid before this House, a 
Copy of the Letter of Resignation of the late Lord 
Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, Ireland ;— 


A Message was delivered by Colonel Clifford, 
Yeoman Usher of the Black Rod: 


Mr. Speaker, 


The Lords, authorised by virtue of Her Ma- 
jesty’s Commissions, for declaring Her Royal Assent 
to several Acts agreed upon by both Houses, and 
for proroguing the present Parliament, desire the 
immediate attendance of this Honourable House in 
the House of Peers, to hear the Commissions read. 

Accordingly Mr. Speaker, with the House, 
went up to the House of Peers, where a Commis- 
sion under the Great Seal was read, giving, de- 
claring and notifying the Royal Assent to the 
several Acts therein mentioned; and the Lords, 
thereby authorised, declared the Royal Assent to 
the said Acts, as follow: 

An Act to apply a Sum out of the Consolidated 
Fund to the Service of the year ending the Thirty- 
first day of March One thousand eight hundred 
and seventy-seven, and to appropriate the Supplies 
granted in this Session of Parliament. 

An Act to make provision for the disposal 
of certain Lands appropriated for the Supply of 


15th August. 





1876, 


eatale for the Repair of Public and Private 
oads, 

An Act to provide for the better Arrangement poo, La 
of divided Parishes and other Local Areas, and to Amendment 
make sundry Amendments in the Law relating to ®!. 
the Relief of the Poor in Zngland. 

An Act for amending so much of the Agricul- Agricy 
tural Holdings (England) Act, 1875, as relates to Holdings (Rpg. 
the Governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne, for — Act 
the Augmentation of the Maintenance of the Poor aa Bi 
Clergy. [ Lords.) 

An Act to continue for one year the Police Police (Rx. 
(Expenses) Act, 1875. Penses) Act 


Continuance 
Bill. 


An Act to amend the Law relating to Legal Legal Pre. 
Practitioners. titioners Bill, 
An Act for making Provision respecting Shares guez Cang) 
in the Capital of the Universal Company of the (Shares) giu, 
Maritime Canal of Suez, acquired on behalf of 
the Crown. 
An Act to amend the Law for the Payment of War Depart. 
Remuneration, and the Grant of Superannuation Gert and Post 
ar . ce (Remu. 
Allowances and Gratuities to certain Persons neration &amp;e) 
employed under Her Majesty’s Principal Secre- Bill. * 
tary of State for the War Department and Her 
Majesty’s Postmaster General. 
n Act for amending the Law relating to Crossea 
Crossed Cheques. — Bil 
ords, 
An Act to amend the Procedure connected with Juries 
Trial by Jury in Ireland. a. 
relan 
An Act to render necessary in Ireland a Year’s Notices to Quit 
Notice to Quit, to determine a Tenancy from Year (Ireland) Bill. 
to Year, and otherwise to amend the Law as to 
Notices to Quit. 
An Act to amend the Merchant Shipping Acts. Merchant 
Shipping Bill, 
An Act to make further Provision for Elemen- Elementary 
tary Education. Biucetion BS. 
An Act for making further Provision for the Pollution of 
Prevention of the Pollution of Rivers. Bivens Gm. 
An Act to extend the Privileges of Municipal Nunicipal 


A ° Privileges 
Corporations in Ireland. (Ireland) Bill. 


An Act to alter and amend the Law relating to Sheriff Courts 
the Administration of Justice in Civil Causes in “°tné Bill 
the ordinary Sheriff Courts in Scotland, and for 
other purposes relating thereto. 


An Act to continue various Expiring Laws. Expiring Laws 


Continuance 
Bill. 
An Act to amend the Law relating to Cruelty pore 


to Animals. - = 


An Act to amend the Pensions Commutation Pensions 


Commutation 
Act, 1871. Act Amend- 


ment Bill. 

An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Chairmen’s 
Jurisdiction of Chairmen of Quarter Sessions in Juristictior 
Ireland. aaa 

An Act to suspend for a limited Period the Norwich and 
holding of an Election of a Member or Members ren 
to serve in Parliament for the City of Morwich, 
and to disfranchise certain Voters for the said 
City, and also certain Voters for the Borough of 
Boston. 

An Act for the Improvement of the Navigation Erne vam, " 
of the Lough and River Erne. a 

An Act for the Improvement of the Harbour Ardglass m 
of Ardglass, in the County of Down. Hartes 5 

An Act to authorise the Acquisition of a Site Bow Street 
in Bow Street for the Erection of a new Police ‘me oo 
Court and Police Station and Offices. ( 

An Act to amend the Tramways (Jreland) Act, ere 9 
1860, and the Tramways (Jre/and) Amendment Amendment 
Act, 1861, as regards the application of the same to (Dublin) Bill 
the County and the County of the City of Dublin. 

An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of Local Govert- 
the Local Government Board relating to the ment Bow 
Boroughs of Birmingham, Liverpool, Nottingham, (, Jers Con- 
and Swunsea. firmation 


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An Act to confirm a Provisional Order made by 


tary 
Bination Pros the Education Department under “ The Ele- 


Confirmation 
(London) Bill 
Lords. } 


Cornwall 
[Lords.] 


Llandudno 


Jmprovement 
Bil [Lords.] 


Coast Junction 
Railway Bill, 


Queen’s 
Speech. 


* mentary Education Act, 1870,” to enable the 


School Board for London to put in force “ The 
Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845,” and the 
Acts amending the same. 

An Act to authorise the East Cornwall Mineral 
Railway Company to extend their Railway to the 
South Devon and Tavistock Railway and to Mor- 
wellham Quay, on the River Tamar, and to alter 
the Gauge and Levels of their existing Railway, 
and for other purposes. 

An Act to amend the Llandudno Improvement 
Act, 1854, and for other purposes. 


An Act for conferring further Powers on the 
Southern Railway Company, and for other pur- 
oses. 
. An Act for making Railways in the Counties 
of Essex and Kent to connect the London, Tilbury, 
and Southend Railway with the South Eastern and 
London, Chatham, and Dover Railways, and for 
other purposes. 


And afterwards, Her Majesty’s most gracious 
Speech was delivered to both Houses of Parlia- 
ment by the Lord High Chancellor, in pursuance 
of Her Majesty’s Commands, as followeth : 


My Lords, and Gentlemen, 


I am happy to be able to release you from your 
attendance in Parliament. 

My relations with all Foreign Powers are of a 
friendly character, and I look forward confidently 
to the maintenance of the good understanding 
which now prevails, 

The efforts which, in common with other Powers, 
I have made to bring about a settlement of the 
differences unfortunately existing between the 
Porte and its Christian Subjects in Bosnia and 
Herzegovina have hitherto been unsuccessful, and 
the conflict begun in those Provinces has been 
extended to Servia and Montenegro. Should a 
favourable opportunity present itself, I shall be 
ready, in concert with My Allies, to offer My good 
offices for the purpose of mediation between the 
contending parties; bearing in mind alike the 
duties imposed upon Me by Treaty obligations and 
those which arise from considerations of humanity 
and policy. 

A difference has arisen between My Government 
and that of the United States as to the proper 
construction of that Article of the Treaty of 9th 
August 1842, which relates to the mutual sur- 
render of persons accused of certain offences. ‘The 
inconveniences to both countries which would 
follow on a cessation of the practice of extradition 
are great and obvious, and I entertain the hope 
that a new arrangement may soon be arrived at, 
by which this matter may be placed on a satisfac- 
tory footing. 

I am deeply thankful that My dear Son, the 
Prince of Wales, has returned in good health from 
his lengthened journey through Jndia. His pre- 
sence in that part of My Dominions has given 
occasion for the expression of feelings of loyalty 
and devotion to My Throne which I highly 
value. 

In pursuance of the power conferred upon Me, 
Ihave, by Proclamation, assumed the Title of Em- 
press of India. In making, as regards India, this 
addition to the ancient style of My Crown, I have 
desired to record, on an occasion of peculiar in- 
terest to Me, the earnest solicitude which I feel 
for the happiness of My Indian people. 

I trust that peace and order are re-established 
in the Malay Pesinssha, and that the Rulers of 
the Native States will cheerfully accept the re- 
commendations and assistance of My Officers for 
the better government of their Territories. 

The visit to this Country of the President of the 


15th August. 











425 


Orange Free State has resulted in a satisfactory 
settlement of the long controversy which has 
existed with reference to the Province of Griqua 
Land, and an important advance has thus been 
made towards that friendly and cordial co-opera- 
tion of neighbouring States which is essential to 
the interests of South Africa. 

The Conference on South African Affairs, with 
regard to which Papers have already been laid 
before you, is now sitting in London, and cannot 
fail to contribute largely to the settlement of 
various important questions. 


Gentlemen of the House of Commons, 


I thank you for the liberal Supplies which you 
have voted for the Public Service. 

The additional outlay required to place My 
Army and Navy upona proper footing of efficiency, 
and the check whi as been given to the ad- 
vance of the revenue by the comparative stagna- 
tion of trade, have compelled Me to propose to you 
an increase of taxation. I desire to acknowledge 
the readiness with which you have responded to 
that appeal, and at the same time to assure you 
that no effort shall be wanting to keep the ex- 
penditure of the Country within the bounds of 
moderation. 

I notice with satisfaction the increasing atten- 
tion paid by you to the question of Local Finance, 
and your greater watchfulness over the cost of ser- 
vices which are every year becoming more im- 
portant, and the consideration of which ought not 
to be dissevered from that of Imperial expendi 
ture. 


My Lords, and Gentlemen, 


The Act which you have passed for the amend- 
ment of the Laws relating to Merchant Shipping 
will, I trust, promote the safety of our ships an 
seamen, without imposing unnecessary restrictions 
upon the conduct of a service in the prosperity of 
which our national interests are in so many ways 
involved. 

The measure for making further provision re- 
specting the Elementary Education of the Country 
is one of great importance, and will complete the 
work on which successive Parliaments have for 
many years been engaged, by securing a due at- 
tendance at School of the Children for whose benefit 
the means and the machinery of Education have 
been so largely supplied. 

I have readily given My Assent to a Bill for 
facilitating the Regulation and Improvement of 
Commons, and for making such Amendments in 
the Inclosure Acts as will, I hope, tend to the 
Preservation of Open Spaces in the neighbourhood 
of large Towns, and to the increase of the health 
and comfort of My People. 

The serious evils arising from the Pollution of 
Rivers have long been the subject of public com- 
plaint, and I rejoice that you have passed a Mea- 
sure which, by checking those evils, will improve 
the Sanitary condition of the Country. 

I have observed with much satisfaction the ar- 
rangements which you have mae for maintain- 
ing and increasing the efficiency of the Tribunal 
of Ultimate Appeal for the United Kingdom, by 
which, at the same time, the Judicial Committee 
of My Privy Council and My Intermediate Court 
of Appeal will be improved and strengthened. 

I anticipate the best results from the Act which 
you have passed providing safeguards against pain- 
ful experiments upon Living Animals. 

I regret that pressure of other business has pre- 
vented the completion of your labours upon several 
measures of much importance. Among these I 


specially notice the Bills relating to the Univer- 
sities of Ozford and Cambridge, to the Adminis- 
tration of Prisons, and — Law affecting Mari- 

314 


time 





Parliament 
Prorogued. 


496 


time Contracts. I trust, however, that the attention 
which you have given to these questions in the past 
Session may facilitate their settlement in the 
next. 

In bidding you farewell, I pray that the bless- 
ing of Providence may rest on your recent labours, 
and accompany you in the discharge of all your 
duties. 


Then a Commission for proroguing the Parlia- 
ment was read. 


15th August. 





1876. 


After which the Lord Chancellor said :— 
My Lords, and Gentlemen, 


By virtue of Her Majesty’s Commission, under 
the Great Seal, to us and other Lords directed, 
and now read, we do, in Her Majesty’s Name, and 
in obedience to Her Commands, prorogue this 
Parliament to Tuesday the Thirty-first day of 
October next, to be then here holden; and this 
Parliament is accordingly prorogued to Tuesday 
the Thirty-first day ot October next. 























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