STANDING COMMITTEE ON SCOTTISH BILLS.

POOR LAW EMERGENCY PROVISIONS CONTINUANCE (SCOTLAND) BILL-Read a second time, and committed to a Standing Committee on the 10th April, and allocated by Mr. Speaker to the Committee on the 11th April.

The Committee was constituted as follows:

Sir GEORGE MCCRAE, appointed Chairman 5th May.

* Added in respect of the Poor Law Emergency Provisions Continuance (Scotland) Bill.

REPORT.

THE STANDING COMMITTEE ON SCOTTISH BILLS, to whom the POOR LAW EMERGENCY PROVISIONS CONTINUANCE (SCOTLAND) BILL was referred;-Have gone through the Bill and have agreed to report the same without Amendment.

POOR LAW EMERGENCY PROVISIONS CON

TINUANCE (SCOTLAND) BILL.

Clauses 1 and 2, agreed to.

Ordered To Report the Bill, without Amendment, to the House.

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ORDER OF REFERENCE.

[Tuesday, 1st July, 1924]:-Post Office (London) Railway Bill, read a second time :

Bill committed to a Select Committee of Five Members, Three to be nominated by the House and Two by the Committee of Selection.

Ordered, That all Petitions against the Bill presented Five clear days before the meeting of the Committee be referred to the Committee; that the Petitioners praying to be heard by themselves, their Counsel, or Agents, be heard against the Bill, and Counsel or Agents heard in support of the Bill.

Ordered, That the Committee have power to send for persons, papers, and records.

Ordered, That Three be the quorum.-(Mr. Hartshorn.)

[Monday, 7th July, 1924]:-Post Office (London) Railway Bill, Mr. Balfour, Mr. Hartshorn, and Mr. Laverack nominated Members of the Select Committee on the Post Office (London) Railway Bill.-(Mr. Griffiths.)

Committee of Selection :-[Tuesday, 8th July, 1924]:SELECT COMMITTEE ON THE POST OFFICE (LONDON) RAILWAY BILL, Mr. William Jenkins and General Cockerill are nominated Members of the Committee.

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