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Commons Hansard for 23 February 1903 (Volume 118)

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Commons Chamber

Record of debates that happened in the House of Commons main chamber.

House Of Commons (item number 1) (id efddafb0-1b46-4f2c-a9f9-a274484de4a2)
The Chairman Of Ways And Means (item number 2) (id dd4c8db2-487c-49a3-81c5-14b385118589)

Private Bill Business

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Private Bills Lords (item number 1) (id 2be3700d-5318-4565-a79e-6f268b09b7e9)
Private Bill Petitions Lords (Standing Orders Not Complied With) (item number 1) (id 81ac3d1e-75c8-4661-8b24-8c1794c2b1f4)
Private Bill Petitions (Standing Orders Not Complied With) (item number 1) (id 77441f71-d984-48f1-998f-0aac99617ccc)
Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act, 1899 (item number 1) (id 5f0c6a0f-ced6-4827-803c-45d84e1d477a)
Broadstairs Gas (item number 1) (id 0e112f49-b51c-4634-8aa4-ac6227196a84)
City And South London Railway (item number 1) (id e40570d8-7a54-46a4-b6f3-f7512fa066b5)
Crystal Palace District Gas (item number 1) (id 4ca89e11-ff7d-443d-af85-b7223de942ad)
Dublin Improvement (Bull Alley Area) (item number 1) (id be808b83-3fd0-49b9-9797-c11879d35048)
East Ham Improvement (item number 1) (id 33758822-e9ab-43eb-a414-188e92f96d12)
Gas Light And Coke Company's Acts Amendment (item number 1) (id 82cba9e9-82b1-44a1-ab2c-5a879c0e748d)
Great Northern, Piccadilly, And Brompton Railway (New Lines And Extensions) (item number 1) (id 6aee7adb-8222-443b-a2e8-5c08784b4dc4)
Great Northern, Piccadilly, And Brompton Railway (Various Powers) (item number 1) (id 40443f90-ee9d-4d9e-ab5e-6045ef1ee4d5)
Great Northern Railway (item number 1) (id 08997af5-09ce-4586-8434-52d6e1c3b47c)
Hainault Forest (item number 1) (id d655f9e4-88a7-44b7-aa78-e144396e48f4)
Ipswich Gas (item number 1) (id 5493ef83-d979-42ff-8733-b8303c2ddfd5)
Kent Water Board (item number 1) (id e2c38c35-8c2a-4687-b0da-053118684dda)
Leigh Corporation (item number 1) (id 3b91b5ad-bf59-4410-a579-a23d8854e393)
Llandrindod Wells Improvement (item number 1) (id 208e99ab-84a3-4858-a673-8784a7f8f2de)
London Building Acts (Amendment) (item number 1) (id 4fee3d2e-6098-4b1f-9f99-70ce96aff456)
London County Council (General Powers) (item number 1) (id 5dc27150-58d5-4dee-a617-5abe798c621e)
London, Tilbury, And Southend Railway (item number 1) (id d28e277d-16c7-4214-9060-083245f37ddd)
Maidstone Gas (item number 1) (id b406eb21-29a8-44cd-a2ac-eda4dab00bfc)
Metropolitan District Railway (Works) (item number 1) (id 4115f8fa-02ff-4fef-b764-d8e23b4ca54f)
Mullingar, Kells, And Drogheda Railway (item number 1) (id c3dfa207-5ae7-4677-8320-db6aeae61cab)
Nantyglo And Blaina Water (item number 1) (id 4e4a0ea0-b50e-4237-881c-82385cef2c5e)
New Hunstanton Improvement (item number 1) (id 15d636f6-867e-4d0e-ae57-4bc97df75978)
Stroud District And Cheltenham Tramways (item number 1) (id e38c532c-ca5a-49fa-b5a9-5f1875b0cbec)
Watford And Edgware Railway (item number 1) (id 567a5637-31d3-4952-965b-dd139753ecd0)
Western Valleys (Monmouthshire) Sewerage Board (item number 1) (id 5fe56052-ac9d-46cc-b4cf-066df6f832fa)
West Sussex Water (item number 1) (id 9071398f-e252-4bc9-810a-f3b5ebac5aff)
Wood Green Urban District Council (item number 1) (id 58b6d801-afca-43aa-b545-ab9661cc43fb)

Questions And Answers Circulated With The Votes

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Workmen's Compensation Act—Master Potters' Scheme (item number 1) (id 84f69b88-4259-47e5-b7e9-3aa439d23935)
South Africa — Native Labour In The Mines (item number 1) (id ddd54095-44a9-451e-a078-bf0a8c19d3fe)
Official Recognition Of Postal Employees Associations (item number 1) (id 504b0fe3-1586-4861-afc6-faa78ad818f5)
Elementary Education—Suggested Alteration In Physical Training (item number 1) (id 92675907-8b75-4297-ad80-7ce8f0fb243c)
Local Municipal Constractors As Members Of Education Committees (item number 1) (id 80ede777-827e-4312-8d21-840751f1a94a)
Indian Irrigation Commission Report (item number 1) (id 100db094-7c14-4d26-89db-dc4e16f35613)
French Bonds—Stamp Duties (item number 1) (id b1ff0e8c-6bfe-4095-a141-e2b1ceefa665)
Licensing Act, 1902—Reduction Of Licences (item number 1) (id 894deab2-ce18-4ab5-b7bd-e73dd0326c1a)
Ichthyological Committee—Recommendations (item number 1) (id c5f85faf-59b9-4ccf-8f62-ecbf4690a20b)
Railway In Southern Persia (item number 1) (id 75e17e13-bbad-448f-adec-d591942e4210)
Ireland—Ancient Monuments—Hill Of Tara (item number 1) (id 67945dea-765a-4708-948b-7ba3f02f4d83)
Crimes Act In Ireland—Case Of Messrs Lohan And Finnerty (item number 1) (id c64840cd-7e4f-41ea-bdcf-59a4fc3c521a)
Census Of Ireland—Cost Of Printing (item number 1) (id 500f756b-f7ea-405e-874d-82b47935392d)
Volunteers For South Africa—Gratuities (item number 1) (id e0f57246-e7bc-4915-aea8-e85797f89f90)
Service Dress For Volunteers—Government Grant (item number 1) (id 76205c5f-b57b-4a5d-984a-668f47fa983f)
British Army—Publication Of Preliminary And Annual General Return (item number 1) (id ade69c33-ccd6-495f-bb40-7f29bdeb4aaa)
Garrison Regiments And Line Battalions—Relative Married Establishment (item number 1) (id 9bd45f9f-e4e8-462f-9ce9-249e750b85c1)

Questions In The House

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Co-Ordination Of Imperial Defence (item number 1) (id a21ea247-fe5d-48c3-8271-63ea3ecddfa4)
South African War—Medals For Kaffirs (item number 1) (id c2cbb62c-6d38-4600-9ea8-11b8a156286a)
The Volunteer Force (item number 1) (id f28fcfc1-220b-4f4f-8b75-3b6c7dce1397)
Cape Town—Alleged Military Scandal (item number 1) (id a6496aa7-1ac0-4b49-abbd-b513bb8eed28)
Salutes To The Secretary For War (item number 1) (id b6a16d22-a08e-4c3a-a365-001407183304)
Ministers As Company Directors (item number 1) (id 7c8e418a-40b8-4490-8492-412780e8bdb5)
Mr Brodrick's Visit To Malta—Inspection Of Troops (item number 1) (id f15c85ff-f879-4548-8be5-21c09a0f6de0)
Navy Ships' Stores (item number 1) (id 864e1c06-0a21-4413-a14f-b162d86b8fcb)
Australasian Squadron (item number 1) (id 42bb6bf1-57fa-4662-8a4b-f24298084ffa)
Alaskan Boundary Tribunal (item number 1) (id b69388ba-d105-4139-805c-0daa2a4e6f78)
Australian Sugar Bounties (item number 1) (id 45e1a5c5-ae32-4b99-84dd-ca7c33f6e73d)
Southern Nigeria (item number 1) (id db615a58-7c4e-4130-94dd-6846fab2fac1)
Brussels Sugar Convention (item number 1) (id 36cc1608-ea15-461e-8d06-d8431eb88acf)
The Dardanelles (item number 1) (id 9fbe4cd3-9dd6-404c-956f-e0e55c763d9e)
American Claims Against Venezuela (item number 1) (id e6da2aaf-b3fe-42a9-b694-74b6464c4394)
Russian Commercial Treaty With Persia (item number 1) (id 55f51dd5-0224-4b69-8c34-ca4eee2b6ede)
British Trade With Cuba (item number 1) (id ae584ba6-e184-4783-a09d-6735d55ff22e)
Foreign Trawlers In The Moray Firth (item number 1) (id 75924080-11d6-4c81-8fcc-b4ecd07c970b)
Export Duty On Coal—Patent Fuel (item number 1) (id 4a853123-6039-4858-9a02-ba7842c8769d)
Export Duty On Coke (item number 1) (id 0c51c3cd-9c6b-457c-bcc2-81a9d05955d5)
Income Tax Demands—P O Surcharges (item number 1) (id 1b08741f-3073-4d54-8e7c-62033ca0adf1)
Public House Licences (item number 1) (id 3e1a4c67-fff2-40d8-9fde-51a594da5735)
Atlantic Shipping Combine (item number 1) (id b011c18f-e1db-45d0-914e-2b2976d34eda)
Port Of London—Inspection Of Food Imports (item number 1) (id aab51bde-af56-403a-b756-c5ed037d3987)
Sergeant Hyde, Royal Irish Constabulary (item number 1) (id 11aa5d08-8a64-4d63-9d48-15bce660e46b)
Land Purchase In Queen's County—Mr Walker's Farm At Towlerton (item number 1) (id d862cfe0-9296-4a44-913e-81bb2ae9fd90)
Imprisonment For Contempt Of Court—M'elligott's Case (item number 1) (id d6da9d4d-7f01-49fd-84e4-47dfe91ca32c)
Irish Royal College Of Science—Lecturer In Organic Chemistry (item number 1) (id 997aa2d8-30fb-4e28-86c8-3fdc591881e6)
Rural Libraries (Ireland) Act (item number 1) (id 5f3e119e-96d6-42cb-9eea-30374f4d3704)
Liscannar Harbour (item number 1) (id 2519b6bf-7fd0-4fe3-9bdd-1461cb35ed7d)
Irish Proclaimed Districts (item number 1) (id 90022860-b9aa-4a78-bf4b-1ae7a8dc5da2)
Religious Disturbances At Thurles (item number 1) (id 30e7b1f9-1fe7-4c18-90fd-f338f8fb69ce)
Irish Land Conference Report (item number 1) (id 361eccf5-6abe-444b-a89f-befa68d4abc9)
Prosecution Under The Crimes Act—Disqualified Councillors (item number 1) (id 2678abd8-42a9-49ea-8e43-0ba94be87206)
Dr Long (item number 1) (id 2919e876-21dd-4097-baaa-c12d17183702)
Belfast Betting Prosecution (item number 1) (id e9407127-4915-4fef-abea-ab53992c279a)
Dublin Post Office—Split Duty Grievance (item number 1) (id c3ef07d6-9b13-47c6-8449-1d5f8dff04f5)
Dublin Post Office—Stamping Duties (item number 1) (id a675e60a-832f-42b6-ae41-cba79ea78450)
Pay Of Irish Telegraph Learners (item number 1) (id e2a43557-e240-4070-b91e-48f55f6e385f)
Tory Island Cable (item number 1) (id 9ef4b681-da4e-4342-8b90-8bafd6a2eb09)
International Automobile Race (item number 1) (id 265c6459-0d0b-4e1a-9ecb-ae303f4cba91)
Irish University Education Commission (item number 1) (id fd442c80-dd40-4de1-ae7e-003fd1c6de64)
Marine Insurance Bill (item number 1) (id 1389a121-3db8-43e4-a594-b56d0315bed9)
Commissioners Of Woods And Forests—Grants To Denominational Schools (item number 1) (id be95c206-3fb2-4bd7-9da3-e7a2c93672ce)
Distribution Of Parliamentary Papers (item number 1) (id 3a3e8a87-525e-4417-bb0e-1930935dfa11)

Evening Sitting

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Private Bill Business

Baker Street And Waterloo Railway (Transfer) (item number 1) (id bcdd02fd-e356-48d1-b038-54b6e6c1d950)
Barnsley Corporation (Water) (item number 1) (id 0abc0915-0dc0-4a81-a343-70078b2b0ddf)
Bath Corporation Water (item number 1) (id ecab5c54-99c7-4e38-afbf-d97a6a26c682)
Beckenham Urban District Council (item number 1) (id 0caedbd1-1962-4860-98b5-24bec6837258)
Billingshurst And District Gas (item number 1) (id 78c91284-fe2b-47ba-9399-4b9df9da250e)
Blackheath And Greenwich District Electric Light (item number 1) (id 93e25076-9f70-4385-85b8-4f0588c64800)
Bridgwater Gas (item number 1) (id bb83ca22-377b-4aae-b3f1-4c4240ac176d)
Bristol, London, And Southern Counties Railway (item number 1) (id f95d419c-b41e-421f-8478-0d85d4ce5af2)
Burgess Hill And St John's Common Gas (item number 1) (id 4c9c94a2-3eb4-4500-ac2f-60009fdf1bc3)
Castleblayney, Keady, And Armagh Railway (Extension Of Time) (item number 1) (id eb3294ef-3d69-4c84-9420-550a755abd8e)
Central London Railway (item number 1) (id 985bff8f-e2bb-40d3-8851-1c3fd7161404)
Charing Cross, Euston, And Hampstead Railway (item number 1) (id af1bcadc-02f3-4ac6-b6ff-6a0904b1f14e)
Cheshire Lines Committee (item number 1) (id b785619b-7727-479c-bf56-e4dd130ac443)
City And North East Suburban Electric Railway (item number 1) (id 0786ea7a-555e-4dab-867e-6fcf0c0b0801)
Clapham Junction And Marble Arch Railway (No 1) (item number 1) (id 4d3c4408-d8f3-4262-b7ab-ad28360b0e2a)
Commercial Gas (item number 1) (id 4aac44bf-c6ea-426f-8292-d396b6a06615)
Cork Harbour (item number 1) (id 5ff96733-1adb-4120-8651-09aac76d3889)
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Coventry Electric Tramways (item number 1) (id 5a5f9c27-e63b-46c4-83c6-7de6b7af2f1f)
Dover Corporation (item number 1) (id ad95c017-52d2-41ad-97be-870a2fd7407b)
Dublin, Wicklow, And Wexford Railway (item number 1) (id 2300f508-9d7e-4e73-a54d-f1a08c91728c)
East Ardsley Gas (item number 1) (id 771578f7-e7c3-4add-a977-00f1f28e4fb7)
Ebbw Vale Water And Improvement (item number 1) (id 54bab4f1-f6fa-4c12-a396-dfcc5b513535)
Erith Tramways And Improvement (item number 1) (id 4c896842-2938-48fe-91e0-48c4f7303c29)
Fishguard And Rosslare Railways And Harbours (item number 1) (id 84c1f03f-2454-495e-baec-871f12d50b69)
Gas Light And Coke Company (item number 1) (id a0225717-d8a1-4bb2-bc2f-f16edc83d89c)
Gateshead Corporation (item number 1) (id e6c146a3-6e32-40ff-8f65-b35ba289b518)
Gorleston And Southtown Gas (item number 1) (id 5e621805-ed2c-46a1-abf1-a1224a11c23d)
Great Central Railway (item number 1) (id 516524f4-3633-465f-8b4a-72915e5e7209)
Great Eastern Railway (No 1) (item number 1) (id 902ed1f8-2a8e-49e5-b1ad-b7f71b25a31f)
Great Eastern Railway (No 2) (item number 1) (id 82320476-f459-4aab-be91-f1ddb123b3d2)
Great Northern And City Railway (item number 1) (id 74a537ba-05e7-43c4-a7ad-7b65acac2052)
Great Southern And Western Railway (item number 1) (id d08446be-7d37-4438-8ddd-b9fe2f3d7e25)
Great Western Railway (item number 1) (id 5d80e256-51f8-476c-8a4b-6cf00f3c41e7)
Great Western Railway (Pension Fund) (item number 1) (id cc29e7ad-b14e-49e6-83aa-b0311ef3cf4c)
Grindleford, Baslow, And Bakewell Railway (item number 1) (id 4974d91d-d848-4aa4-8da2-5f7dd9924af4)
Hampton Court Gas (item number 1) (id c7fddc83-3f02-4e3b-acc9-e010161f852e)
Highland And Invergarry And Fort Augustus Railway Companies (Substituted Bill) (item number 1) (id ef3381e0-74de-4767-83c1-fc5f11de65a5)
Humber Commercial Railway And Dock (item number 1) (id 3aef458f-1675-4412-9d7c-71f04888b1c6)
Hyde Corporation (item number 1) (id 7b24a734-ff90-46c7-8f7b-f3a2b8e6d36e)
Kingston-Upon-Hull Corporation (item number 1) (id 432dcb4a-8856-4bd5-b495-89996741848f)
Lancashire And Yorkshire And London And North Western Railways (Steam Vessels) (item number 1) (id 1c6c97ca-b3a5-443d-a1fe-ebac1cd831c9)
London County Council (Electric Supply) (item number 1) (id 075b0f4a-df05-49a8-9bc2-68fe5f936e61)
London Hydraulic Power (item number 1) (id 7cb6e604-831e-4335-9101-d03eef77ee25)
London United Tramways (item number 1) (id 18a2dd34-87f8-452a-90de-e09d8218ced3)
Market Drayton Gas (item number 1) (id d044ba46-5c92-497f-b22d-9a2e4f5c3fdf)
Merthyr Tydvil Urban District Council (item number 1) (id 55013741-7a4e-48ff-9efb-705a0ee27a04)
Middlesbrough Corporation (item number 1) (id a574098d-7e49-471b-89e2-20756a204a1e)
Midland And Belfast And Northern Counties Railways (item number 1) (id 4dc421d7-7312-462a-9295-ed75cddea571)
Midland Great Western Railway Of Ireland (item number 1) (id 20f3e908-f343-4cc3-8cb2-b381310e8a3b)
Midland Railway (item number 1) (id 1bb96623-4f12-44f5-8f0a-dac371725c98)
Neath, Pontardawe, And Brynaman Railway (item number 1) (id c556d445-62ee-4b85-b3f8-601f5664bb37)
Nelson Corporation (item number 1) (id 5e33ec95-1417-4d49-b18c-7a1b1487a3da)
Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Electric Supply (item number 1) (id 034722f0-7203-40d0-b0b3-b6e38edc8c61)
North-Eastern Railway (item number 1) (id 9d711743-b768-4cef-b13f-cea0e8ed9904)
North Middlesex Gas (item number 1) (id d2f60fa6-5861-43a9-bf02-53f906146a53)
North-West London Railway (item number 1) (id 257dc30a-9f3e-4fea-be8b-646de3ba38b9)
Plymouth Corporation (item number 1) (id bc16c2e9-8e3d-4a3c-bac0-2a68b78aaf19)
Scarborough Gas (item number 1) (id 5d5816a9-ee60-454e-bd1e-d852e1f592bc)
Seaforth And Sefton Junction Railway (item number 1) (id a4395c6a-2884-4fe9-a45d-c6e7e1c88c4a)
Sittingbourne District Gas (item number 1) (id 450336ed-0d73-4dc0-a620-598e093a3888)
South Shields Corporation (item number 1) (id 0e7c462a-deec-4957-971a-18c55a6759a4)
South Shields, Sunderland And District Tramways (item number 1) (id 26c5f414-53e4-4a5e-81b7-61b3dcb6d754)
South Yorkshire Joint Railways (item number 1) (id fe278a16-123b-406e-9da5-68aa92bc8c49)
Stoke Newington Borough Council (item number 1) (id ae6c4d5c-9b75-4091-bae7-bfff24df624f)
Sutton District Water (item number 1) (id 6dff03de-7345-48ad-ae55-071463b21e5e)
Thames Conservancy (item number 1) (id 7d221e6c-5926-4e52-bc45-b0a5f7999a6e)
Thames Steamboat Trust (item number 1) (id 5f46c321-30dc-4c5f-8c5b-d1acbdebfd8f)
Ulster And Connaught Light Railways (item number 1) (id 7b8f5ce1-0fe8-4a7c-8f4c-595a60aefdde)
Walker And Wallsend Union Gas (item number 1) (id 32fb639d-c51b-480c-9615-361c4e2ab1e5)
Wellingborough And District Tramroads (item number 1) (id 8d934e85-c502-48f7-886a-9862d4d84f66)
West Cumberland Electric Tramways (item number 1) (id d1f885ae-52d7-4407-9d65-cb5733a8c5e4)
West Ham Corporation (item number 1) (id ce8b8a5d-cf07-436a-bef2-118380150528)
Winchester Water And Gas (item number 1) (id fbbb07a8-fd8c-493d-89b6-ad8896f93c74)
Wolverhampton And Cannock Chase Railway (Extension Of Time) (item number 1) (id 92232dfe-4d3a-441a-9ec7-f268144965b0)
Woolwich Borough Council (item number 1) (id 93aa33ec-8667-4d24-adfe-dd5ff1755467)
Croydon And District Electric Tramways (item number 1) (id 536ee314-d695-42df-b9a3-b9db4c27ae8a)
Harrow Road And Paddington Tramways (item number 1) (id 3fcd4372-b451-46f4-a6f9-0e798d0b79ec)
Metropolitan District Railway (Various Powers) (item number 1) (id af20cc3f-8f22-4ea4-a091-063e355d1f3c)
Sheffield Corporation (item number 1) (id 7a1ccfdd-3d31-46ed-8d0f-f20cc3a0d6d3)
Strabane And Letterkenny Railway (item number 1) (id 5efec284-b99a-4fa9-a31f-296ce52c214c)
Thames River Steamboat Service (item number 1) (id f6277500-d861-44b7-be8d-b3d9e591e9e4)
Wigan Corporation Tramways (item number 1) (id 69254bc4-3959-4342-96fb-49296e8aab27)

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