HOUSE OF LORDS, TUESDAY, 12TH JUNE, 1883.

REPRESENTATIVE PEERS (SCOTLAND) BILL.

"DISSENTIENT:

"1. Because, while purporting to be A Bill to regulate Procedure at the "Elections of Representative Peers for Scotland,' it is personal and invidious "in its bearing and character.

"2. Because Clause 2 gives retrospectively a legal effect to the Protest of "one Peer, whereas by the 10 and 11 Vict., c. 52, it was enacted that the action "by Protest of 'two or more Peers' voting at an Election should be requisite "before it was open to the House of Lords to call upon anyone claiming his " right to vote to establish such right—the said Act 10 & 11 Vict., c. 52, remaining "unrepealed.

"3. Because, by this retrospective action of Clause 2, one Peer, and one "Peer only, whose vote has been received at various Elections of Representative "Peers for Scotland will be excluded from the Election Roll, as first to be pre"pared by the Lord Clerk Register.

"4. Because, in making up this new Election Roll, either the ancient Earl"dom of Mar, which remained untouched by the Order or Resolution of the "House of Lords relative to a title of Mar decided to have been created in 1565, "will disappear from the Roll; or, if it is placed upon the new Roll in its present position upon the Union Roll, a higher order of precedency will be given to "the modern Earldom than that to which it has been decided to be entitled.

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"5. Because, under Clause 2, any Peer of Scotland, other than a Represen"tative Peer or a Peer who has had his right established by Order or Resolution "of the House of Lords, may at any time be struck off the Election Roll by the "Protest of one Peer only, and may be kept off the said Roll until he has pro"ceeded by Petition to the Crown and established his right before the House "of Lords.

"6. Because it is proposed, by the peculiar wording of part of Clause 7, for "the first time to recognize a claim to an order of precedency lower than that assigned on the Union Roll in virtue of the Decreet of the Commissioners of "Ranking appointed by King James VI. in 1605-6.

"7. Because, by Clause 8, it is proposed to be enacted that any Peer whose right to one Peerage on the Roll of Scottish Peers shall have been established "before or after the passing of this Act by any Order or Resolution of the "House of Lords, upon any Petition referred to the House of Lords by Her Majesty,' shall not be liable to protest against his vote or claim to vote being "recorded upon any other Peerage to which his right shall not have been so "established.

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HANSARD'S PARLIAMENTARY

PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES,

VOLUME CCLXXX.

FIFTH VOLUME OF SESSION 1883.

EXPLANATION OF THE ABBREVIATIONS.

In Bills, Read 1o, 2o, 3o, or 1a, 2a, 3a, Read the First, Second, or Third Time.-In Speeches,
1R., 2R., 3R., Speech delivered on the First, Second, or Third Reading.-Amendt., Amend-
ment. Res., Resolution.-Comm., Committee.-Re-Comm., Re-Committal.-Rep., Report.-
Consid., Consideration.-Adj., Adjournment or Adjourned.-—cl., Clause.--add. cl., Additional
Clause.-neg., Negatived.-M. Q., Main Question.-O. Q., Original Question.-0. M., Original
Motion.-P. Q., Previous Question.-R. P., Report Progress.-A., Ayes.-N., Noes.-M., Ma.
jority.-1st. Div., 2nd. Div., First or Second Division.-l., Lords.-c., Commons.

When in this Index a* is added to the Reading of a Bill, it indicates that no Debate took
place upon that stage of the measure.

When in the Text or in the Index a Speech is marked thus, it indicates that the Speech
is reprinted from a Pamphlet or some authorized Report.

When in the Index a † is prefixed to a Name or an Office (the Member having accepted or
vacated office during the Session) and to Subjects of Debate thereunder, it indicates that the
Speeches on those Subjects were delivered in the speaker's private or official character, as the
case may be.

Some subjects of debate have been classified under the following "General Headings : "-
ARMY-NAVY-INDIA-IRELAND SCOTLAND PARLIAMENT - POOR LAW-POST OFFICE-
METROPOLIS - CHURCH OF ENGLAND-EDUCATION - CRIMINAL LAW-LAW AND JUSTICE
TAXATION, under WAYS AND MEANS.

ABERDEEN, Earl of

Criminal Law Amendment, Comm. cl. 3,
1383; cl. 6, 1390, 1391, 1392

ACLAND, Mr. C. T. D., Cornwall, E. Div.
Army Estimates-Works, Buildings, &c. at
Home and Abroad, 1787, 1794

Parliamentary Elections (Corrupt and Illegal
Practices), Comm. cl. 2, 839; cl. 3, 1155;
cl. 6, 1504

Afghanistan-Reported Capture of Convoy
Question, Mr. Ashmead-Bartlett; Answer,
Mr. J. K. Cross June 29, 1869

Africa (South)

LORDS

Basutoland, Question, Observations, Lord
Emly; Reply, The Earl of Derby; short
debate thereon June 14, 520

The Transvaal Convention of 1881-A Special
Commissioner, Question, Observations, Earl
Cadogan; Reply, The Earl of Derby June 15,
654

VOL. CCLXXX. [THIRD SERIES.]

Cetewayo, Question, Mr. Guy Dawnay; An-
swer, Mr. Evelyn Ashley June 14, 538
The Transvaal

Bechuanaland, Question, Mr. A. M'Arthur ;
Answer, Mr. Evelyn Ashley June 14, 546;
Question, Mr. Ashmead-Bartlett; Answer,
Mr. Evelyn Ashley June 26, 1553
The War between the Boers and Mapoch, Ques-
tions, Mr. Ashmead-Bartlett; Answers, Mr.
Evelyn Ashley June 21, 1143; Questions,
Mr. Ashmead-Bartlett, Mr. Gorst; Answers,
Mr. Evelyn Ashley June 26, 1556; Ques-
3 U

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