Tuesday, 31 October 1961
The House met at half-past Eleven o'clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
I regret to have to inform the House of the death of George Oscar Sylvester, esquire, Member for Pontefract, and I desire on behalf of the House to express our sense of the loss we have sustained...
For Glasgow, Bridgeton, in the room of James Carmichael, esquire (Manor of Northstead).—[Mr. Bowden.]
Ordered,
Ordered,
Ordered,
Bill for the more effectual preventing Clandestine Outlawries; read the First time: to be read a Second time.
Ordered,
I have to acquaint the House that this House has this day attended Her Majesty in the House of Peers, and Her Majesty was pleased to make a Most Gracious Speech from the Throne to both Houses of...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Whitelaw.]
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