PAVING, LIGHTING, AND CLEANSING, OR IMPROVING CITIES OR TOWNS:-BILLS FOR. NOTICES OF APPLICATION. 1, 2, & 3. When any application is intended to be made to the House, for leave to bring in a Bill for Paving, Lighting, Cleansing or Improving, any city, town or place; or for empowering any person or persons to light any city, town or place, with gas, &c.; or for the alteration of existing rates, &c. for any such purpose, Notices must be given, as for BRIDGES, as regards the County Newspapers; and if the place to be paved, lighted, cleansed or improved, is situate within the Bills of Mortality, the said Notices shall in like manner be inserted in The London Gazette:-such Notices must also be affixed to the Church Doors of the respective parishes, for three Sundays in the months of August, September, October, and November, or either of them, as for FERRIES and Docks. COMPLIANCE WITH STANDING ORDERS. 4. The same as for BRIDGES. TOWN-HALLS OR MARKET-PLACES:-BILLS FOR ERECTING OR IMPROVING. The Standing Orders of the House, relating to Bills for Paving, Lighting, Cleansing or Improving any city or town, or for continuing or amending any Act of Parliament passed for any or either of those purposes, shall be extended to Bills for Erecting or Improving any TOWN-HALL or MARKET-PLACE. POOR RATES, MAINTENANCE OR EMPLOYMENT OF THE POOR, AND WORKHOUSES:-BILLS RELATING TO. NOTICES OF APPLICATION. 1, 2, & 3. When any application is intended to be made to the House, for leave to bring in a Bill relating to Poor Rates, or to the Maintenance or Employment of the Poor, or to Workhouses, in any city, town or place, or for the continuing or amending any Act of Parliament passed for that purpose, or for the increase or alteration of the existing rates, Notices must be given, as for Bills for PAVING, LIGHTING, CLEANSING, AND IMPROVING CITIES AND Towns. COMPLIANCE WITH STANDING ORDERS. 4. The Committee to report, the same as for BRIDGES. GENERAL LAW OF SETTLEMENT OF THE POOR NOT TO BE DEPARTED FROM. 5. No Bill shall be presented to the House, relating to Poor Rates, or to the Maintenance or Employment of the Poor, or to Workhouses, containing any clause or clauses whereby the general Law of Settlement of the Poor shall be departed from, or any power of corporal punishment given to any persons employed in the management of the Poor. 6. Nor shall such clause or clauses be inserted by the Committee to whom such Bill may be committed. 7. The Chairman of the Committee, upon the report of every such Bill, shall acquaint the House, whether the said Order has been complied with. SMALL DEBTS:-BILLS for the more EASY RECOVERY OF. LIMITATION OF IMPRISONMENT. 1. In all Bills for constituting Courts for the Recovery of Small Debts, provision shall be made, that no person be committed to prison by such Courts, for more than 20 days, where the debt does not exceed 20 shillings; nor for more than 40 days, where the debt does not exceed 40 shillings; nor for more than 60 days, where the debt does not exceed 60 shillings; nor for more than 80 days, where the debt does not exceed 80 shillings; nor for more than 100 days, where the debt does not exceed 100 shillings: And that every person so committed shall be discharged at the expiration of the said 20, 40, 60, 80, or 100 days respectively, without paying any fees to any gaoler or turnkey. QUALIFICATION OF COMMISSIoners. 2. In all such Bills there shall be inserted a clause, that no person be capable of acting as a Commissioner, unless he be a householder within the county, district, city, liberty or place for which he shall act; and be possessed of a real estate of the annual value of 201., or of a personal estate of the value of 5001. LETTERS PATENT:-BILLS FOR CONFIRMING OR PROLONGING THE TERM OF. NOTICES OF APPLICATION. 1 & 2. When any application is intended to be made to the House, for leave to bring in a Bill for confirming or prolonging the term of Letters Patent granted by His Majesty to any person or persons on account of any invention, Notices must be inserted three times in The London Gazette (and also three times in some one and the same Newspaper printed at Edinburgh, where the Letters Patent extend to Scotland; and also three times in the Dublin Gazette, where they extend to Ireland) 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 and each such notice must have prefixed to it, in capital letters, the name by which the invention is usually distinguished, and contain a distinct description of the invention for which such letters have been obtained, and also an account of the term of their duration. : COMPLIANCE WITH STANDING ORDERS. 3. The same as for BRIDGES. COPY OF LETTERS TO BE ANNEXED TO THE BILL. 4. When any Bill is brought into the House, for confirming of Letters Patent, there must be a true copy of such Letters annexed to the Bill. DIVORCE:-BILLS OF. Before any Bill of Divorce for Adultery do pass this House, evidence must be given before the Committee, that an action for damages has been brought in one of His Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster, or in Dublin, against the persons supposed to be guilty of Adultery, and judgment for the plaintiff had thereupon; or sufficient cause must be shown to the said Committee, why such action was not brought, or such judgment not obtained. RELIGION :-BILLS RESPECTING. No Bill relating to Religion, or the alteration of laws concerning Religion, shall be brought into this House, until the proposition shall have been first considered and agreed to in a Committee of the whole House. TRADE:-BILLS RESPEcting. No Bill relating to Trade, or the alteration of laws concerning Trade, shall be brought into the House, until the proposition shall have been first considered and agreed to in a Committee of the whole House. PUBLIC MONEY:-APPLICATIONS FOR. 1. This House will receive no petition for any sum of money, relating to public service, but what is recommended from the crown. 2. This House will not proceed upon any petition, motion or Bill, for granting any money, or for releasing or compounding any sum of money owing to the crown, but in a Committee of the whole House. 3. This House will not receive any petition for compounding any sum of money owing to the crown, upon any branch of the revenue, without a certificate from the proper officer or officers annexed to the said petition, stating the debt,-what prosecutions have been made for the recovery of such debt, and setting forth how much the petitioner and his security are able to satisfy thereof. TEMPORARY LAWS. The precise duration of every Temporary Law shall be expressed in the title of the Bill, and also in a distinct clause at the end of the Bill, and no where else. PROMULGATION OF STATUTES. An address was agreed to, by both Houses, on June 3d, 1801, containing the following Resolutions: entreating His Majesty to give directions for the more speedy and general promulgation of the statutes of the realm:-And on the 9th of the same month, answer was reported that His Majesty would give directions according to the said resolutions: Res. 1. It is expedient, for the more speedy and general promulgation of the Laws of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, that His Majesty's printer should be authorized and directed to print not less than 5,500 copies of every Public General Statute, and 300 copies of every Public Local and Personal Statute. 2 and 3. That the said printer be authorized and directed to deliver, or transmit (by the post or otherwise), as soon as possible after each Bill has received the Royal Assent, the aforesaid numbers of copies of each statute. 4. That every chief magistrate and head officer of any city, borough, or town corporate in England and Ireland, and of every royal burgh in Scotland, and every sheriff, clerk of the peace, and town clerk, in the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, receiving any such copies, shall preserve them for public use, and transmit them to his successor in office. 5. For the more effectual promulgation of Private Statutes (if the parties interested therein shall think proper) and also for making compensation to the clerk of the parliaments and officers of the House of Lords (in lieu of their annual average emoluments arising from the office copies of such statutes) without bringing any new charge upon the public, the parties interested in every such statute |