EXPLOSIVES BILL [LORDS].

Clauses 1 to 4, agreed to.

New Clause ("Bye-laws as respects dockyard ports") (Mr. Godfrey Locker-Lampson),-brought up, and read the first and second time, and added to the Bill.

Ordered, To Report the Bill, as amended, to the House.

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STANDING COMMITTEE B

ON THE

FEES (INCREASE) BILL

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PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE.

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STANDING COMMITTEE B.

FEES (INCREASE) BILL.-Read a second time and committed to a Standing Committee on the 7th March, and allocated by Mr. Speaker to the Committee on the 8th March.

The Committee was constituted as follows:

Mr. TURTON, appointed Chairman 8th March.

Balfour, Mr.
Barker, Mr.

Bennett, Mr. Albert

Berry, Sir George

*Boyd-Carpenter, Major

*Bridgeman, Mr. Secretary

Brotherton, Mr.

Buchanan, Mr.

Burgess, Mr.

Button, Mr.

Cadogan, Major

Chapman, Sir Samuel
Clarry, Mr.
Clayton, Mr.

Cockerill, Brigadier-General
*Conway, Sir Martin
Duncan, Mr.

Du Pre, Colonel

*Emlyn-Jones, Mr.

Falle, Sir Bertram

Foreman, Sir Henry
Furness, Mr.

Gaunt, Rear-Admiral Sir Guy
George, Major Gwilym
Gosling, Mr.

Grigg, Lieut.-Col. Sir Edward
Guest, Mr. C. H.

Harbord, Mr.

*Hay, Captain John

Hayday, Mr.

Henderson, Mr. Thomas

Hilder, Lieut.-Colonel

Hopkinson, Mr.

*Hudson, Captain
Jephcott, Mr.

Kennedy, Captain
Leigh, Sir John

*Lloyd-Greame, Sir Philip
*Locker-Lampson, Mr. Godfrey
*March, Mr.

*Middleton, Mr.

Moreing, Mr.
Nesbitt, Mr.

Newson, Sir Percy

Nicholson, Brigadier-General
Parker, Mr. Owen
Perring, Mr.

*Raeburn, Sir William

Sexton, Mr.

*Shaw, Mr. Alexander

Shinwell, Mr.
Simms, Dr.

Spencer, Mr. Herbert
Sueter, Rear-Admiral
Thomson, Mr. Trevelyan
*Tillett, Mr.
Tout, Mr.

Vaughan-Morgan, Colonel
White, Mr. Graham
Whitla, Sir William

Wilson, Mr. Cecil
*Wolmer, Viscount

Wood, Major Sir Samuel Hill *Yate, Colonel Sir Charles

Added in respect of the Fees (Increase) Bill.

REPORT.

COMMITTEE B, to whom the FEES (INCREASE) BILL was referred;-Have gone through the Bill and made Amendments thereunto.

STANDING COMMITTEE B.

Tuesday, 20th March, 1923.

MEMBERS PRESENT:

Major BARNETT in the Chair in place of Mr. TURTON.

FEES (INCREASE) BILL.

Clause 1, agreed to.

Clause 2.

Amendment made, in page 2, line 26, at the end, by inserting the words "by the master or owner of the ship -(Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame).

Question put, "That the Clause, as amended, stand part of the Bill."-The Committee divided :

Amendment made, in page 5, line 14, at the end, by

adding the words: