[370:3] Until 1903 the division of bills between the two Houses was not made until after Parliament met. Ibid., Qs. 166-68, 197. But the committee of 1902 recommended a change which was made (Ibid., Report Sect. 18 S.O.P.B. 79).
[371:1] S.O.P.B. 91-97. There is a committee with similar powers in the House of Lords, composed of forty peers, besides the Chairman of Committees who with any two other members forms a quorum. May, 796.
[371:2] S.O.P.B. 197. This is a change made in accordance with the report of the Select Committee of 1902. Before that time a vote, though a formal one, took place on the first reading.
[371:3] Clifford, I., 70-71, 256; II., 821-43. Rep. of Com. on Priv. Bill Leg., Com. Papers, 1888, XVI., 1, p. xix.
[372:1] In the Lords the committees on opposed bills consist of five members and the chairman has no casting vote. In the Commons he has both an ordinary and a casting vote, S.O.P.B. 124. In the Lords there is no Committee on Railway and Canal Bills.
[372:2] S.O.P.B. 98, 103, 105-6, 108, 110-13, 116-17, 208. Until a few years ago there was a paid referee who could sit on the committee with an advisory voice but no vote. May, 728. There were formerly two paid referees, and later only one.
[372:3] Clifford, I., 117.
[372:4] S.O.P.B. 98-106, 115, 208.
[373:1] May, 767. Ilbert, "Manual," § 92, and p. 294. It is appointed by the Committee of Selection.
[373:2] S.O.P.B. 127-28. If the bill is brought from the House of Lords, or delayed in any other way, the petition must be filed within ten days of the first reading.