Dividends:

Provision as to preference in payment of, 160. Company not to alter terms of preference unless committee on Bill report that such alteration ought to be allowed, 161.

Not to be authorized on shares until the completion of the line for traffic, 164. Not to be paid on calls, 167.

Divisions:

In committees on Bills, 119, 139.
Divorce Bills:

Appointment of the Select Committee on, 189.
Counsel to be heard and witnesses to be

examined by the committee, 189a.

What evidence to be given before the committee, 190.

Petitioner for Bill to attend committee, 191. Committee to report Bill in all cases, 192. After second reading and committal shall stand referred to the select committee on, 208.

To be charged one-half only of the usual fees, p. 261.

Docks, Harbours, Navigations, Piers, Ports, or Tidal Waters:

Bills relating to, included in the 2nd Class of Bills, 1.

Printed Copy of Bill to be deposited at the office of the Marine Department of the Board of Trade and of the Civil Engineer-in-Chief of the Board of Admiralty, 33, 60, 84.

Form of estimate for works proposed by any Dock or Harbour Bill, 37.

In case of Bills seeking powers to levy tolls, &c., in excess of those already authorized, Ministry of Transport to report and committee on Bill to report specially thereon, 145a.

Railway companies not to acquire any canals, docks, &c., unless committee on Bill report that such restriction ought not to be enforced, 156.

Draft Provisional Orders:

Scotland, 250-252, 255, 257-259.

Drainage

No deposit made on, to be deemed valid, 23. Edinburgh Gazette. See Gazette.

Education. See Board of.

Educational Institutions:

Bills affecting, to be reported on by Attorney
General, 175a.

Electricity Supply:

Bills relating to, included in the 1st Class of
Bills, 1.

Notices to specify lands for generating sta
tions, 5.

In cases of Bills relating to, maps to be deposited at Ministry of Transport on or before 30th November, 256.

Bills relating to, to be deposited at Ministry of Transport, 33, 60, 84.

Ministry of Transport and Office of Works to report, and committee on Bill to report specially on Bills relating to the supply of electricity to persons other than the promoters, 157a.

Embankments:

Bills relating, included in the 2nd Class of
Bills, 1.

The

Embankments-continued.

The section to exhibit the height of every embankment, 47.

Extreme height thereof, when exceeding five feet, to be marked in figures on the section of every railway, and on each side of any intervening bridge or viaduct, 53.

Where viaduct as a substitute for solid embankment is intended, the same to be marked on the section, 54.

Enlarged Plans:

To be added of any building, yard, courtyard, or land within the curtilage of any building, or of any ground cultivated as a garden, 40.

Estate Bills:

Three clear days between the committal of Estate Bills (not being Bills relating to Crown, Church, or Corporation property) and the sitting of the committee, 211.

Committee on Bill to report specially in certain cases, and report to be printed and circulated with the Votes, 188a.

To be charged one-half only of the usual fees, p. 261.

Estimate of Application of Money:

Estimates of proposed application of money borrowed by local authorities to be recited in Bill, and proved before select committee thereon, 172. Estimate of Expense:

To be deposited in Committee and Private Bill Office on or before 31st December, 35.

Printed copies to be delivered at Vote Office and Committee and Private Bill Office on or before 31st December, 36.

Form of estimate for works proposed to be authorized by any Railway, Tramway, Tramroad, Canal, Dock, or Harbour Bill, 37.

In the case of Bills of the 2nd Class, to be made and signed by the person making the same, 56. Deposit

Estimate of Expense-continued.

Deposit and form of estimate of expense in case of works to be carried out by local authority, 36a and Appendix B.

See also Deposit of Money.

Estimate of Rates, &c.:

Declaration and estimate of amount of rates may be deposited, and in such case no deposit of money to be required, 57.

Estimates:

Copies of, deposited under General Order made in pursuance of the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act to be laid before committee on the Bill, 172.

Examination of Private Bills:

By clerks in Committee and Private Bill Office, between the first and second reading, 234.

Printed as amended, with the Bill delivered by the committee clerk, 241.

Printed fair, with the Bill as read the third
time, 245.

Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills:
Appointed by Mr. Speaker, 2.

Standing Orders, compliance with which is to
be proved before them, 3-68, 256.

Standing Orders as to the duties of, and practice before them, 69-78, 256, 257.

Proofs required before them in cases of works altered while Bill is in Parliament, 61.

Bills referred to them, in cases in which a meeting of proprietors is required, 62, 63.

To report in cases of Bills from the Lords in which a meeting of proprietors is required, 64, 65.

Proof required before them of consent of proprietors in cases of Bills authorizing a company to raise money in aid of an undertaking of another company, 66.

Proof required before them of consent of directors, &c., named in a Bill, 68.

To commence the examination of petitions on 18th January, 69.

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Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills-continued. To give at least seven clear days' notice of the day appointed for the examination of each petition; and if the promoters do not appear, to strike the petition off the list, 70.

To certify on each petition whether Standing Orders have or have not been complied with, and when not complied with to report to the House,

71.

Petitions for additional provision, Bills from the Lords, and Bills introduced in lieu of other Bills withdrawn, and Bills to confirm provisional orders, referred to them, and to inquire and report in the case of any Provisional Order Confirmation Bill brought from the Lords to which the Standing Orders of this House would apply if the Bill were a Private Bill, 72.

To give two clear days' notice of examination of petitions for additional provision, and in the case of certain Bills, 73.

To hear parties on memorials complaining of non-compliance with the Standing Orders, 74.

To hear individual proprietors, or shareholders, who dissent at meetings of proprietors called under Orders 62-66; 75.

To admit affidavits in proof of compliance with the Standing Orders, 76.

To report in respect of Bills originating in the Lords, and whether Standing Orders have or have not been complied with, and to report separately any special circumstances connected with a case of non-compliance, 77.

In certain cases to make a special report, 78. All reports that the Standing Orders have not been complied with, and all special reports to be referred to Standing Orders Committee, 199.

To examine Public Bills where it appears that Standing Orders relative to Private Bills may be applicable, 200a.

May entertain memorials complaining of noncompliance with the Standing Orders in reference to petitions for additional provision, to Bills from the Lords, &c., although the parties affected may not have signed the same, 232.

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