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Private Business

Volume 103: debated on Thursday 28 February 1918

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Basingstoke Gas Bill,

"To amend the Basingstoke Gas Act, 1907,with respect to the dividend payable by the Basingstoke Gas Company during the present War," presented, and read the first time; and ordered to be read a second time.

Londonderry Corporation Bill

Order for Second Reading read.

Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Bill be now read a second time"

I understand that the Second Heading of this Bill has been agreed to with the Instruction down on the Paper.

Question put, and agreed to.

I beg to move, "That it be an Instruction to the Committee on the Londonderry Corporation Bill to insert a Clause therein so as to provide that the Corporation shall not borrow for the provision of trolley vehicles and the electrical equipment and the construction of the other works necessary for these vehicles any greater sum that fifty thousand pounds until they shall have taken all the requisite steps to introduce into Parliament in the next Session available for Private Bill legislation, or the next succeeding Session, a Bill for the extension of the City boundaries."

Question put, and agreed to