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. "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. INDEX то HANSARD'S 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, When in this Index a* is added to the Reading of a Bill, it indicates that no Debate took When in the Text or in the Index a Speech is marked thus, it indicates that the Speech When in the Index a † is prefixed to a Name or an Office (the Member having accepted or Some subjects of debate have been classified under the following "General Headings:' ARMY-NAVY — INDIA — IRELAND SCOTLAND - - - PARLIAMENT - POOR LAW-POST OFFICE- - ABERDEEN, Earl of - Criminal Law Amendment, Comm. cl. 3, ACLAND, Mr. C. T. D., Cornwall, E. Div. Parliamentary Elections (Corrupt and Illegal Afghanistan-Reported Capture of Convoy Africa (South) LORDS Basutoland, Question, Observations, Lord The Transvaal Convention of 1881-A Special VOL. CCLXXX. [THIRD SERIES.] Cetewayo, Question, Mr. Guy Dawnay; An- [cont. 280. Army Examination Papers, Question, Viscount Army Medical Arrangements, Question, Colonel Army Pay Department-The Committee on Army Retirement-Captain Mossman, Ques- The Royal Military Hospitals, &c.—The Com- Barracks at Newcastle-on-Tyne, Question, Earl Corporal Punishment, Explanation, Lord Ellen- [cont. ARMY-cont. 280. Life Assurance for Soldiers, Questions, Sir Ordnance Department-Mr. Lynal Thomas, Ordnance Store Department, Question, Lord Purchase of Supplies, Question, Dr. Cameron ; Recruiting for the Army and Militia, Observa- tions, Lord Ellenborough; Reply, The Earl State of the Army-Recruiting and Organiza- Riot at the Curragh Camp, Question, Sir Withdrawal of the Royal Marines from Special 201 The Auxiliary Forces Militia Majors, Question, Sir Henry Fletcher; Army (Auxiliary Forces)-Militia Sur- Amendt. on Committee of Supply June 8, To ARNOLD, Mr. A., Salford Inland Revenue-Inhabited House Duty, 94, 96 Intervention of Great Britain with France, Parliamentary Elections (Corrupt and Illegal Sir Robert Peel's Settled Estates, 3R. 1265, ASHLEY, Hon. E. M. (Under Secretary Africa (South)-Transvaal-Questions Mapoch, 1143, 1699, 1868, 1869;-War Africa (South)-Zululand-Questions Murder of a Missionary, 1132, 1142 Australian Colonies-Governorship of Queens- Ceylon-Native Magistrates, 1134 Jamaica Cost of the Commission of Inquiry, New South Wales-Disappearance of an Ex- Africa (South)-Transvaal-Questions Mapoch, 1143, 1868, 1869;-War between India-Ameer of Afghanistan, 1143 Criminal Code Procedure An.endment, 583, Ireland-Law and Justice-M. Justice Law- Lord Wolseley's Grant, Comm. cl. 1, 312, 313 Parks (Metropolis)- Regent's Park, 1124 Public Buildings (Doors), 2R. 1831 ATTORNEY GENERAL, The (Sir H.JAMES), Court of Criminal Appeal Bill-Report from Parliamentary Elections (Corrupt and Illegal |