REPORTS FROM COMMITTEES: N.B.-THE Figures at the beginning of the line, correspond with the N° at the foot of each Report; and the Figures at the end of the line, refer to the MS. Paging 351. REPORT from Select Committee to whom the Petition of Henry and S. Fourdrinier was referred; together with the MINUTES of EVIDENCE 365. REPORT from Select Committee to whom the Petition of the Duke 411. REPORT from Select Committee of the HOUSE of LORDS (of 1835) appointed to inquire into the expediency of substituting DECLARATIONS in lieu of OATHS in certain cases; with MINUTES of EVIDENCE and 547. REPORT from Select Committee (of 1837) appointed to inquire into the expediency of substituting DECLARATIONS in lieu of ОATHS in VOL. XX.-Sess. 1837. (continued.) INTERNAL COMMUNICATION TAXATION : 456. REPORT from Select Committee appointed to consider whether the present Amount of TAXATION collected on INTERNAL COMMUNICA- TION and various modes of Travelling, may not be levied by a more just and equitable Apportionment; together with the MINUTES of 457. REPORT from Select Committee to whom the HIGHWAY RATES BILL 499. REPORT from Select Committee appointed to consider the PAPERS REPORT FROM THE COMMITTEE UPON EXPIRED and EXPIRING LAWS: FOR THE III' Session-XIITH Parliament of the United Kingdom of (7 WILL. IV., Sess. 1837.) Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed, Mercurii 15° die Martii, 1837.. Ordered, THAT a Committee be appointed to inquire what Temporary Laws of a Public and General Nature, made by the Parliaments of England, or Great Britain, or Ireland, or of the United Kingdom, are now in force, and what Laws of the like nature, passed by the English, British, Irish, or United Parliaments, have expired between the First day of the last Session of Parliament and the First day of the present Session; and also, what Laws of the like nature are about to expire in the course or at the end of the present Session, or on or before the 1st day of August 1838, or in the course or at the end of any Session which may commence during that period, or in consequence of any contingent public event : And a Committee is appointed, of— Mr. Baring, Mr. Attorney General, Mr. Solicitor General, 'The Lord Advocate, Mr. Edward John Stanley, Mr. John Parker, Sir Henry Hardinge, Mr. Charles Wood, Mr. Jervis, Sir John Wrottesley, Mr. John Benett, Mr. Guest, Mr. Bernal, Mr. Moore O'Ferrall. Ordered, THAT the Committee do report their Observations; and have power to send for Persons, Papers and Records. Ordered, THAT it be an Instruction to the Committee, That they do report their Opinion from time to time to The House, which of the said Laws are fit to be revived, continued, or inade perpetual. Ordered, THAT Five be the Quorum of the Committee. Ordered, THAT the Committee have power to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of The House. Ordered, THAT the Report dated 15th February 1836, from the Committee on Temporary Laws of a Public and General Nature, be referred to the said Committee. |