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of any district, has not been forgotten. COMMONS, In the case of the Bills now before the

Wednesday, 10th July, 1889.

PROVISIONAL ORDERS BILL.

ELECTRIC LIGHTING PROVISIONAL
ORDERS (No. 2) BILL.
Order for Second Reading read.
Motion made, and Question proposed,
"That the Bill be now read a second
time."

House, my complaint is that we are asked to read them a second time without having had an opportunity of considering the special Report of the Board of Trade with regard to those Orders, in respect to which the objection of the Local Authorities has been overridden. The section of the Act of last year provides that, notwithstanding anything contained in the Electric Lighting Act of 1882, no Provisional Order shall be granted by the Board of Trade without the consent of the Local Authority, or, where the Local Authority refuses its SIR G. CAMPBELL (Kirkcaldy): I assent, without an Order from the Board have no desire whatever to stop the pro- of Trade suspending consent, and statgress of the Bill on account of any ing the grounds upon which the contechnical objection; but I take some sent is suspended. If this section of interest in the Act which was passed the Act of 1888 is to be practically last year, and I wish to be assured superseded, these companies will be let that the section of the Act of 1888, loose upon the Metropolis, and allowed which provides that the consent of the to occupy any district they choose to Local Authority should be obtained take up without the consent of the Local before a Provisional Order is granted Authority. [Mr. RITCHIE dissented.] by the Board of Trade for the lighting I see that the President of the Local VOL. CCCXXXVIII. [THIRD SERIES.] B