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December-continued.

Deposits of printed copies of Bills at government offices on or before the

18th December, 33.

Deposit of Estimate and Declaration:

At the Private Bill Office and Vote Office on or before 31st December, 35, 35a, 36.

Deposits of Bills with London County Deposit of Estimate (Works of Local AuthoCouncil on or before 18th December, 34.

Deposit of estimates, &c., in the Private Bill Office on or before 31st December, 35, 36, 36a.

Deposit of documents in regard to Joint Stock Companies Bills in the Private Bill Office on or before 31st December, 35a.

Deposit of statement relating to working class houses in the Private Bill Oflice on or before 21st December, 38.

Declaration and Estimate of Rates:

Printed copies to be deposited in the Vote Ollice and Private Bill Office, 35, 35a, 36.

Cases wherein a declaration may be deposited and wherein deposits of money are not to be required, 58, 59.

Declaration of Agents. See Agents.

Declaration of Members:

Blank form to be transmitted to every member when appointed to serve on a committee, 111.

The name of every member to be reported to the House if he return no answer, 112.

Declaration to be signed by members and no committee to proceed to business until declaration be signed, 17.

Definitions:

Definition of improvement, and limits of improvement area, 45a.

Definitions in orders for the purposes of the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act, 250.

Definitions. See Part II., Heading, p. 55.

Deposit of Bills:

Particulars of, to be stated in the notices, 3.

At the Private Bill Office with petitions on or before 17th December, 32.

At government offices on or before 18th December, 33.

At London County Council on or before 18th December, 34.

With road authorities on or before 18th December, 34a.

Brought from Lords at offices stated in standing orders 33 and 34; 60.

As amended in committee, with the Chairman of Ways and Means, the Counsel to Mr. Speaker, and at various government offices three clear days before consideration, 84.

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At the Private Bill Office, Board of Trade, and Local Government Board on or before 31st December, 36a.

Deposit of Fees:

With the Comptroller General of Patents in case of Bills for restoring Letters Patent, 175.

Deposit of Gazette Notice:

To be made with the plans, sections, and books of reference, 31.

Deposit of Money:

Five per cent. on the amount of the estimate of expense in the case of Railway Bills, and four per cent. in the case of all other Bills, to be deposited with the Paymaster General in England, with the King's and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer in Scotland, or with the Accountant General in Ireland, before 15th January, 57.

Clause to be inserted in every Railway, Tramway, or Subway Bill, providing for application of penalties in compensation to parties injured by non-completion of lines, 158.

In case of abandonment of Railway or Tramway Bill, and release of deposit money, committee on Bill to report to House how recommendations of Board of Trade on the Bill have been dealt with by committee, 158b.

Clause to be inserted in every Railway Bill prohibiting payment of deposits required by the standing orders out of capital raised under existing acts, 168.

Deposit of Petition for Bill :

In the Private Bill Office on or before 17th December, 32.

Deposit of Petitions against Bills:

In the Private Bill Office on or before 12th February, or in the case of provisional order Bills, not later than seven clear days after notice of the day on which the Bill will be examined, 128.

Deposit of Petitions relating to Bills:
In the Private Bill Office, 205.

Deputy Chairman, The:

Appointed member of the court of Referees on Private Bills, 87.

To serve on the committee on unopposed Private Bills, 109.

Destructor. See Crematorium, &c.

Deviation

Deviation, Limits of:

To be defined upon the plan, and all lands included within the same to be marked thereon, 40.

Dispensing with Standing Orders. See Petitions for Dispensing, &c.

Distances:

In plans of railways, to be marked in miles and furlongs from one of the termini, 42.

On the datum line of the section, to correspond with those on the plan, 50. District Council :

Consents in case of Tramway Bills, 22. Deposit of documents, plans, &c., with the clerk of, 29, 61.

Bills charging payments on local rates. in Ireland to be submitted to and approved by, 67.

Estimate of proposed application of money borrowed by, to be recited in Bill,

172.

Diversion, Widening, or Narrowing of Roads, &c. See Public Carriage Roads.

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

Divisions:

In committees on Bills, 124, 139.

Divorce Bills:

Appointment of the select committee on, 189.

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What evidence to be given before the Electricity Supply: committee, 190.

Petitioner for Bill to attend committee,

191.

Committee to report Bill in all cases,

192.

After second reading and commitment to be referred to the select committee on, 208.

To be charged one-half only of the usual fees, p. 123.

Docks, Harbours, Navigations, Piers, and Ports:

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

Printed copy of Bill to be deposited at the office of the Harbour Department of the Board of Trade, 33, 60, 84.

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

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

Notices to specify lands for generating stations, 5.

In cases of Bills relating to, maps to be deposited at Board of Trade on or before 30th November, 25b.

Bills relating to, to be deposited at Board of Trade, 33, 60, 84.

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

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

329.

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Extreme

Embankments-continued.

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 second reading of estate Bills (not being Bills relating to crown, church, or corporation property) and the sitting of the committee thereupon, 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. 123.

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 Private Bill Office on or before 31st December, 35.

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

Form of estimate for works proposed to be authorised 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 and form of estimate of expenditure in case of works to be executed by local authority, 36a.

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, 59.

Examination of Private Bills:

By clerks in the 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.

Examiners of Petitions for Private Billscontinued.

Standing Orders as to the duties of, and practice before, the Examiners, 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 authorising a company to raise money in aid of an undertaking of another company, 66.

To report on Railway Bills containing provisions charging payments on local rates in Ireland, 67.

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

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

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

Examiners of Petitions for Private Billscontinued.

All Reports that the standing orders have not been complied with, and all special reports to be referred to Standing Orders Committee, 199.

May entertain memorials complaining of non-compliance 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.

Daily lists of petitions for Bills, on which they are appointed to sit, to be prepared and hung up in the lobby, 248.

Proofs required before them in the case of substituted Bills under the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act, 256, 257.

February

F.

Fisheries:

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

See also Board of Agriculture and Fisheries.

Forests:

Conservators of, may be heard against a Bill, 134e.

Frontagers. See Tramways.

G.

Gaols or Houses of Correction:

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

Gardens:

Enlarged plan, on a scale of not less than a quarter of an inch to every 100 feet, required in the case of any ground cultivated as a garden, 40.

Petitions against Bills to be deposited Gas or Water Companies:

in the Private Bill Office on or before 12th February, 128.

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First Reading:

Copies of Bills from the Lords and substituted Bills to be deposited at public offices not later than two days after, 60, 258.

Bills from the Lords and Bills to confirm provisional orders and certificates referred to Examiners after, 72.

No Bill for confirming a provisional order or certificate to be read the first time after Whitsuntide, 193a.

Bill when laid upon the Table to be deemed to have been read the first time, 197.

Printed copies of Bills to be delivered at the Vote Office before, 203.

Interval between first and second reading, 204.

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Provision for raising additional capital,

188.

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A copy thereof to be deposited, together with plans, sections, and books of reference, 31.

General List of Petitions :

In cases where the promoters do not. appear petitions to be struck off the, 70.

Petitions for re-insertion in the, to stand referred to the Select Committee on Standing Orders, 200.

To be kept in the Private Bill Office, and each petition numbered, 229.

General Post Office:

Copy of every Bill to be deposited at, on or before 18th December, 33; Bills brought from Lords not later than two days after first reading, 60; Bills as amended in committee three clear days before consideration, 84.

General

General Railway Act:

Clause to be inserted in every Railway Bill, providing that the railway shall not be exempt from any general act, 1686.

General Register Office, Somerset House:

Copy of Bill altering boundary of administrative area, or relating to matter within Births and Deaths Registration Acts, to be deposited at, 33, 60, 84.

Generating Stations. See Electricity.

Good Friday:

No notice to be given or application made on, 21.

No deposit of documents on, to be deemed valid, 23.

Government Contracts:

Chairman of Ways and Means to report on Bills relative thereto previously to second reading, 81.

Gradients:

Proportion or rate of inclination between each change of gradient to be marked upon the section of every railway, 50.

In case of junctions gradient of existing line to be shown on section, 55.

Groups of Bills :

The Committee of Selection or the General Committee on Railway and Canal Bills may group all Bills, and such groups shall be published in the Votes, 103.

Committee on each group to consider that Bill first which the Committee of Selection or the General Committee on Railway and Canal Bills shall have named, and appoint time for consideration of remaining Bills, 125.

See also Committees.

H.

Harbour Department (Board of Trade). See Board of Trade.

Harbours. See Docks, Harbours, &c.

Home Office:

Deposit of plans, &c., on or before 30th November, 30.

Deposit of Bills 33, 60, 84.

Hospital for Infectious Diseases. See Crematorium, &c.

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Bills relative to, unless proposed in connection with a second class work to be authorised by the Bill, included in the 1st Class of Bills, 1.

Intention to levy such charge to be specified in notice for the Bill, 3.

Notice to owners, &c., in respect of lands or houses liable thereto on or before 15th December, 11.

Deposit of documents, plans, &c., in cases of Bills affecting lands or houses liable thereto on or before 30th November 24, 29.

Lands proposed to be subjected thereto, to be described on plans, 40.

Books of reference to contain names of owners, &c., of lands or houses liable thereto, 46.

Improvement, Definition of. See Definitions.

Improvement of Land. See Land, improving, &c.

Improvement of Towns. See Paving, &c.

Inclosure Bills:

Included in the 1st Class of Bills, 1. Notices and allegations to be proved by affidavit, 176.

Copy of Bill, with statement of value of property, and of assents, dissents, and neuters, to be delivered in to the committee, 177.

Clause to be inserted for leaving open space for excercise and recreation, 179.

Consent Bill to contain names of commissioners, &c., 180.

Disqualification of commissioners, umpires, surveyors, or valuers, 181.

Clauses to be inserted for settling pay of commissioners and passing their ac counts, 182.

Committee in certain cases to make a special report, 183.

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