MODE OF PROVING NOTICES AND ALLEGATIONS FOR ACTS OF

INCLOSURE.

36. The Committee to whom any petition or Bill for inclosing lands, or for extinguishing any right of common thereon, shall be referred, may admit proof of the notices required by the Standing Orders, and of the allegations in the preamble of such Bill, by affidavit taken and authenticated, according to the form prescribed in the schedule to the general inclosure act (41 Geo. III. c. 109); unless such Committee shall otherwise order.

THE SAME FOR IRELAND.

37. In all private Bills relating to Ireland, the notices required by the Standing Orders of this House, and the allegations in the preamble of such Bills, may be proved before any Judge of that part of the united kingdom, whose certificate shall be admitted as evidence of such pooof having been made; unless the Committee shall otherwise order.

MODE OF SIGNIFYING CONSENT TO ACTS OF INCLOSURE.

38. All persons interested in any Bill for inclosing lands, or for the extinguishing any right of common thereon, may signify their consent to the same, by affidavit taken and authenticated, according to the form prescribed in the schedule to the general inclosure act (41 Geo. III. c. 109); unless the Committee shall otherwise order.

MODE OF SIGNIFYING CONSENT TO PRIVATE BILLS IN IRELAND.

39. All persons interested in private Bills relating to Ireland, shall personally attend the Committee, to give their consents, or signify the same to one of the Judges of that part of the united kingdom; whose certificate shall be taken as proof of such consent; unless the Committee shall otherwise order.

CONSENTS IN ALL OTHER CASES.

40. In all other instances, persons interested in any private Bill, shall personally attend the Committee, to give their consents; or certificates in writing of their consent must be proved by one or more witnesses before the Committee.

MAPS, &C. TO BE SIGNED BY THE CHAIRMAN.

41. All maps, plans, and schedules or books of reference thereto, which shall be produced before the Committee on any private Bill (whether the same shall have been previously lodged in the Private Bill Office, or not), shall be signed by the Chairman with his name at length; and he shall also mark with his initials every alteration of the same, which shall be agreed upon by the said Committee. Every such map, &c. shall thereafter be deposited in the Private Bill Office.

CERTIFIED MAps, &c. to be pREVIOUSLY Verified.

42. Every map or plan, &c. which shall be certified by the Speaker of the House of Commons, in pursuance of any Act of Parliament, must previously be ascertained, and verified upon oath, to be exactly conformable in all respects to the map or plan, &c. signed by the Chairman of the Committee upon the Bill; including every alteration which may have been made therein, by authority of Parliament.

NOTICE OF THE DAY OF REPORT.

43. One clear day's notice in writing, of the day on which the Bill is to be reported, must be given by the agent soliciting the Bill, to the clerks in the Private Bill Office.

ALLEGATIONS AND CONSENTS TO BE REPORTED BY THE COMMITTEE.

44. The Chairman of the Committee, upon the report of every private Bill, shall acquaint the House, that the allegations of the Bill have been examined; and whether the parties concerned have given their consent, to the satisfaction of the Committee.

MINUTES OF COMMITTEE TO BE LAID ON THE TABLE.

45. The minutes of the Committee, on every contested private Bill, shall be brought up and laid on the table of the House, with the report of the Bill.

TIME BETWEEN THE REPORT AND CONSIDERATION, OF CERTAIN BILLS

46. Seven clear days shall elapse between the day on which every Bill within the Standing Orders, respecting Navigation, Railways, Tunnels, Ferries, and Docks, is reported, and the day on which the report shall be taken into consideration.

BILLS TO BE PRINTED THREE DAYS AFTER BEING REPORTED.

47. Every such Bill, as amended by the Committee, shall be printed, at the expense of the parties applying for the same; and delivered to the members, three clear days at least before the report is taken into consideration.

NOTICE OF THE TIME FOR CONSIDERING REPORTS.

48. In all cases where reports on Bills are ordered to lie on the table, one clear day's notice in writing of the day on which such report is intended to be taken into consideration, must be given by the agent soliciting the Bill, to the clerks in the Private Bill Office, who shall enter the same in the Private Bill Register.

ORDER OF THE INGROSSMENT OF BILLS.

49. All private Bills shall be engrossed, examined, and brought to the table of the House, according to the priority in which they are ordered to be engrossed.

NOTICE OF THE THIRD READING.

50. One clear day's notice, in writing, of the day proposed for the third reading of every private Bill, must be given by the agent to the Clerks in the Private Bill Office.

AMENDMENTS ON REPORT AND THIRD READING.

51. The amendments (if any) which are made upon the report and upon the third reading, shall be entered by one of the clerks in the Private Bill Office, upon the printed copy of the Bill as amended by the Committee; which clerk shall sign the copy so amended, in order to its being deposited and preserved in the said office.

EXAMINATION OF ENGROSSMENTS.

52. To insure the accuracy of the engrossment of all private Bills, the Clerk of the House shall be required to provide a sufficient number of clerks, to be called EXAMINERS OF ENGROSSMENTS.

CERTIFICATE OF THE EXAMINATION OF ENGROSSMENTS.

53. No Bill shall be read a third time, until a certificate be endorsed upon the Paper Bill, and signed by one or more of the examiners of engrossments, declaring that the engrossment thereof has been examined, and agrees with the Bill, as amended by the Committee, and on the report.

BRIDGES:-BILLS FOR BUILDING.

NOTICES OF APPLICATION TO BE GIVEN.

1. Resolved, that when any application is intended to be made to the House, for leave to bring in a Bill for erecting a Bridge, or for the continuing or amending any Act of Parliament passed for that purpose, or for the increase or alteration of the existing tolls, rates, or duties upon any Bridge, Notices of such intended application must be given, as follow:

THE SAME TO CONTAIN NAMES OF PARISHES AND INCREASE OF TOLLs.

2. Such notices must describe the parish or parishes in which the said Bridge is erected or intended to be erected; and if an increase or alteration in any existing tolls, rates, or duties is intended to be proposed, the intention of proposing such increase or alteration must be expressed therein.

NOTICES TO BE INSERTED IN THE NEWSPAPERS.

3. Such Notices must be inserted three times in the months of August, September, October, and November, or either of them, immediately preceding the Session of Parliament in which such application is intended to be made, in some one and the same Newspaper of every county to which such Bridge extends or is intended to extend; or if there be no such paper printed therein, then in the Newspaper of some county adjoining, or near, thereto.

COMMITTEE'S Report of complIANCE WITH STANDING Orders.

4. The Committee to whom such Petition shall be referred, shall examine, in the first place, how far the preceding Orders have been complied with; and shall report the same to the House, on the report of such Petition.

SUBSCRIPTIONs to be paid up, AND TREASURers, &c. to gIVE

SECURITY.

5. In all Bills presented to the House, for any or either of the purposes aforesaid, provision shall be made for compelling the persons who have subscribed any money towards carrying any such work into execution, to make payment of the sums severally subscribed by them; and also to oblige the Company, Commissioners, or Trustees, to take security from their Treasurer, Receiver, or Collector, for the faithful execution of his office.

TURNPIKE ROADS:-BILLS FOR MAKING.

NOTICES OF APPLICATION.

1 and 2. When any application is intended to be made to the House, for leave to bring in a Bill for making a Turnpike road, &c., for widening or diverting any such road, or for altering the tolls thereupon; Notices must be given, containing the names of parishes through which the road passes, as well as the alteration of tolls contemplated, as for BRIDGES.

3. Such Notices must be inserted in the county Newspapers, as for BRIDGES; and if the said Road be situate within the Bills of Mortality, then the Notices must in like manner be inserted in the London Gazette.

MAPS AND BOOKS OF REFERENCE, TO BE DEPOSITED WITH THE CLERK OF THE PEACE.

4. A map or plan of such Road, or intended alteration, upon the scale of not less than three inches to a mile, must be deposited for public inspection at the office of the Clerk of the Peace of every county, riding, or division, through which such road is intended to be carried, on or before the 30th of November previous to the session of parliament in which snch application is intended to be made; together with a book of reference, containing a list of the names of the owners or reputed owners and occupiers of such lands respectively.

SUCH MAPS, &c. TO BE OPEN FOR PUBLIC INSPECTION.

5. The Clerks of the Peace shall make a memorial in writing, upon the map or plan and book of reference deposited with them, denoting the time at which the same were lodged in their respective offices; and must at all seasonable hours of the day permit any person to view and examine the same, and to make copies or extracts therefrom, on paying the usual fees.

APPLICATION TO LAND OWNERS, &c.

6. Before application is made to the House for any of the purposes aforesaid, a previous application must be made to the owners and occupiers of the lands through which such road is intended to be