UNIVERSITY 
 
 OF CALIFORNIA 
 
 LOS ANGELES 
 
 SCHOOL OF LAW 
 LIBRARY
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE.
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 A GUIDE 
 
 PROCEDURE UPON PRIVATE BILLS : 
 
 TODKTHKR WITH 
 
 FORMS 
 
 STANDING OEDERS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, 
 
 CONDENSED STANDING ORDERS OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS, 
 
 TABLES OF FEES, RULES, &c. 
 
 BY 
 
 CYRIL DODD, Q.C. 
 
 (Formerly Member of Parliament for the Maldon Division of Essex), 
 
 AND 
 
 H. W. W. WILBERFORCE 
 
 (Qf the Timer Temple, Barrister-at-Law). 
 
 EYRE & SPOTTISWOODE, 
 
 Government, Legal, end General Publishers, 
 EAST HARDING STREET, FLEET STREET, E.G. 
 1898. 
 
 Price 7s. iSd.
 
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 PREFACE. 
 
 In preparing the present work for publication it 
 has been the aim of the authors to provide for 
 the practitioner, within the limits of a book of 
 moderate size, such information as is ordinarily 
 required in the conduct of the business of private 
 bill legislation, and to furnish him with sufficient 
 examples of the petitions, notices of objection 
 to locus standi, and other documents ordinarily 
 required to enable him to frame the documents 
 which he needs for the particular bill he may be 
 engaged in promoting or opposing. 
 
 The general scheme of the book is, that chapters 
 dealing with the distinction between private and 
 public bills, the classification of bills, the procedure 
 to introduce bills into Parliament, and the mode 
 in which private bills are passed through com- 
 mittee, and through Parliament come first, and 
 then comes a chapter dealing in some detail with 
 questions of loons standi, followed by short 
 chapters on Provisional Orders, Costs, Parliamen- 
 tary Agents, and on the drafting of Bills, and at 
 the conclusion of this part of the book the 
 
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 VI PREFACE. 
 
 Standing Orders of the two Houses (those of the 
 Commons at full length with its index), Reso- 
 lutions and Rules for Practice, &c, are placed, 
 with occasional notes and with references to the 
 earlier portion of the book, in an Appendix, in 
 which also the forms of the various documents 
 commonly required in Parliamentary practice 
 will he found, supplemented by like notes and 
 references. 
 
 The authors have to acknowledge with grati- 
 tude the assistance they have derived from 
 Sir Erskine May's most accurate work on Parlia- 
 mentary Practice, which contains a valuable 
 account of the system of Private Legislation in 
 Parliament, and of the practice of the two Houses 
 both in relation to public and to private business. 
 They would likewise refer to Mr. Smethhurst's 
 little treatise on locus standi, of which they have 
 to some extent availed themselves, and which in 
 any difficult question of locus standi the practi- 
 tioner would do well to consult, notwithstanding 
 tin- fact that many alterations have been made 
 in the Standing Orders and many fresh eases 
 have been reported since the last edition of it 
 was written. The thanks of the authors are 
 specially due to the Right Honourable the 
 Speaker of the House of Commons, to the Right 
 Honourable Sir John Mowbray, M.P., to Mr. 
 Ferguson- Davie and other officials of Parliament, 
 to Messrs. Sherwood & Co., Messrs. Grahames,
 
 PREFACE. vil 
 
 Currey & Spens, and Messrs. Lock & Co., all of 
 Great George Street, Westminster, parliamentary 
 agents; to Messrs. Martin & Leslie, of Abingdon 
 Street, Westminster, and to Messrs. Dyson & Co., 
 of Parliament Street, Westminster, parliamentary 
 agents. 
 
 It is beyond the scope of the present work to 
 consider the suggestions which have at various 
 times been made, whether for simplifying the 
 procedure in regard to private bills, or for 
 entrusting some portion of the work of private 
 legislation so far as relates to Scotland or to 
 Ireland to local commissions, or other bodies, in 
 lieu of the present Parliamentary Committees, or 
 to discuss the propriety of giving to the Examiners 
 of Standing Orders or to the Court of Referees 
 further powers enabling them to amend mistakes 
 or errors at the cost of the party in fault, or to 
 consider the desirability of lessening the number 
 of instances in Avliicli a bill keenly fought before 
 a Committee of one House is again fought before 
 a similar Committee of the other House, by 
 providing that opponents in whichever may be 
 the second of the two Houses should be liable to 
 pay the costs of the promoters in the second 
 House, unless their continued opposition should be 
 justified by a success of a complete, or at least 
 of a substantial character. The present book deals 
 with none of these questions, but is confined to 
 a consideration of the procedure as it now exists.
 
 vin PBEFACE. 
 
 It is intended for the practical use of those 
 engaged in private bill legislation, and is submitted 
 to them by the authors with a full appreciation 
 of the magnitude, value, and importance of the 
 work done by the Committees of both Houses 
 of Parliament. 
 
 C. D. 
 
 H. W. W. W. 
 
 2, Harcourt Buildings, Temple, 
 Jan a art/ 1S98.
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 Chapteb 
 
 I. Private Bills, their subject-matter 
 II. Classification of Private Bills .... 
 
 III. Introduction into Parliament .... 
 
 IV. Progress of Bill through the Commons up to am 
 
 including the Committee Stage 
 V. Report, Third Reading, Sending Bill to the Lords 
 VI. Instructions 
 VII. Locus Standi — Inquiry before the Court of Referees 
 as to Locus Standi 
 VIII. House of Lords 
 IX. Personal Bills . 
 X. Provisional Orders . 
 XI. Costs .... 
 XII. Parliamentary Agents and Drafting 
 
 Page 
 1 
 
 6 
 
 8 
 
 18 
 
 28 
 32 
 
 34 
 04 
 67 
 71 
 
 77 
 81 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 Standing Orders of House of Commons, with Index . 85 
 
 Standing Orders of House of Lords .... 224 
 Forms : — 
 
 Petitition for Bill, and Agent's Declaration . . 246 
 
 Memorials 24 i) 
 
 Statements of Proof ...... 259 
 
 Affidavit in Support ....... 263 
 
 Petitions against Bill ...... 265 
 
 Notices of Objection to Locus Static!? . . . 2SH
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 A.PPENDIX — cont. 
 
 Table of Fees in House of Commons 
 
 Table of Fees in House of Lords . 
 
 List of Charges for Agents in House of Commons 
 
 Rules as to Petitions against Private Bills 
 
 Kales as to Proof of Compliance with Standing Or 
 
 Regulations as to Deposit of Petitions 
 
 Xotice as to Hearing of Petitions by Examiners 
 
 Resolutions of Standing Orders Committee 
 
 Rules for Referees 
 
 Rules for Agents . 
 
 Time-table .... 
 
 List of Model Bills and Clauses 
 
 Statutes: — 
 
 lu & 11 Vict. c. 60 
 
 12 & 13 Vict. c. 7b 
 28 Vict. c. 27 
 Regulations for Posting Parliamentary Notices 
 
 lei: 
 
 Page 
 200 
 203 
 296 
 321 
 321 
 322 
 323 
 324 
 326 
 32tf 
 331 
 333 
 
 334 
 338 
 344 
 347 
 
 General Index 
 
 340
 
 ( I ) 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 Private Bills— Their Subject Matter. 
 
 It will be convenient, in the first instance, to indicate 
 the distinctions between those schemes which are con- 
 sidered by Parliament proper to be promoted by public 
 bill, and those for which a private bill is the appropriate 
 method of procedure. The keynote of the distinction 
 between the subject matter proper for a private bill and 
 that for a public bill is to be found in the Resolution of 
 the House of Commons of June 4th, 1751, which is as 
 follows : — 
 
 " Every bill for the particular interest or benefit of 
 any person or persons, whether the same be brought in 
 upon petition, or motion, or report from a committee, or 
 brought from the Lords, has been and ought to be 
 deemed a private bill within the meaning of the Table of 
 Fees." 
 
 This distinction of the private bill as one " for the 
 particular interest or benefit of any person or persons," 
 as contrasted with the public bill intended for the 
 general or public benefit, or dealing with a general or 
 public interest, is to be regarded as the principal criterion. 
 
 Estate Bills, Divorce Bills, Naturalization and Name 
 Bills are, in all cases, necessarily private bills, being " for 
 the particular interest or benefit '* of certain persons. 
 
 In the Standing Orders of the House of Lords, 
 Estate, Divorce, Naturalization and Name Bills are all
 
 1'RlVATi: BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 classed as, or termed "Personal Bills"; and it may be 
 observed that all "Personal Bills," within the meaning 
 of that expression as used in those Orders, must be 
 private hills.O 
 
 The difficulty which occasionally arises in determining 
 whether a scheme should be proposed as a private bill, 
 >r whether it must be made the subject of legislation by 
 public bill, arises in relation to those matters which, if 
 dealt with by private bill, would be embodied in a bill of 
 the character denominated in the Standing Orders of the 
 House of Lords as a " Local Bill," a term which includes 
 all private bills other than " Personal Bills" ( 2 ). 
 
 " Local Bills " frequently affect the general or public 
 interests of particular localities; and in some cases, from 
 the extent to which such interests are affected, measures 
 proposed as private bills have been declared unfit for 
 private legislation, and the parties have been required to 
 proceed by public bill. 
 
 A bill incorporating or giving powers to a particular 
 company would in general be required to be a private 
 bill ; SO would a bill authorising the making of a particular 
 railway, or a particular bridge, or street; whilst a bill 
 amending the law applicable to railways in general, or 
 giving to all towns in a particular district or of a par- 
 ticular size additional powers of police or other local 
 regulation, would be required to be promoted as a public 
 bill. 
 
 Bills relating to the management or government of 
 particular provincial cities or boroughs, promoted by the 
 Corporations of such cities or boroughs, are treated in 
 genera] as private bills: and this rule is usually applied 
 to bills dealing with the City of London when promoted 
 by the City Corporation, but it is not applied to bills 
 promoted by the London County Council affecting the 
 
 (i, S. 0. 1, 149, II. I-. ( 2 ) S.O. 1. ILL.
 
 PRIVATE KILLS — THECR SUBJECT MATTER. 3 
 
 whole of* the metropolitan area other than those bills 
 specially mentioned in the Standing Orders, 194 to 
 194 D C). 
 
 Thus., upon the City of London (Inclusion of South- 
 wark) Bill, Mr. Speaker Gully, on March 22nd, 1897, 
 declined to rule that the bill, which was promoted by 
 the City Corporation, was improperly brought in as a 
 private bill, its main object being to extend the bounda- 
 ries of a borough, a subject matter considered proper in 
 general to be dealt with by private bill. (-) Whilst upon 
 the debate in the House of Commons of February 14th, 
 1895, upon the London Valuation Assessment Bill — a bill 
 introduced as a private bill, promoted by the London 
 County Council — Mr. Speaker Peel gave his reasons to 
 the House for holding that it was a bill which ought to 
 be introduced as a public bill, pointing out that the 
 magnitude of its scope, the area touched upon, and the 
 extent of the interests implicated were such that full 
 publicity ought to be given to the bill, and that it ought 
 to go through all the stages of a public bill, and when 
 placed upon the Statute Book it ought to be placed 
 among the Public Acts so as to be accessible to all, and 
 not placed amongst those which were merely Local and 
 Personal Acts. He further said that though it did not 
 quite follow from all the precedents that a bill affecting 
 the entire Metropolis must necessarily be introduced as a 
 public bill, still he thought that a review of the prece- 
 dents established the conclusion that bills affecting the 
 whole Metropolis should, as a rule, be introduced as public 
 bills. He referred to a Thames Navigation Bill, which in 
 1857 was introduced as a private bill, and to a Weighing 
 of Corn Bill in 18(34 which was introduced — and in his 
 opinion properly so — as a public bill ; and also to the Coal 
 
 (») See S. 0. 194 — 194 D, post, p. 153. 
 (-) Pari. Deb., 4th Series, Vol. 47, p. 1078.
 
 4 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Duties Bill, which in the year 1889 was similarly dealt 
 with as a public bill, as precedents in support of his 
 views. (') 
 
 Upon the second reading of the Weighing of Corn 
 Bill in 1864, Mr. Speaker Denison stated to the House 
 that the policy of late years had been to introduce bills 
 relating to the Metropolis as public bills on account of 
 the great extent and the general interests involved, though 
 if those bills had related to other towns they would have 
 
 I ii ngarded as proper to be dealt with by private bill 
 
 Legislation. (-) 
 
 Bills involving questions of general policy, though 
 limited in their application to particular areas, are in 
 general to be introduced as public bills. Thus, bills 
 relating to the sale of liquors in Cornwall, in Durham, 
 in Yorkshire, &c, have been introduced as public bills ( 3 ); 
 and upon a private bill brought in, in 1865, to alter the 
 licensing system in Liverpool, the House of Commons, 
 upon the second reading, carried an amendment to the 
 motion for the reading, that the granting of licenses was 
 a subject which ought not, at the then present time, to 
 be dealt with by private bill. ( 4 ) 
 
 In the House of Lords, upon objection being taken, on 
 May 1 4th, 1897, during the progress of the Dublin Corpo- 
 ration Bill, that some of its clauses dealt with a question of 
 genera] policy, by giving a municipal franchise to women 
 in Dublin, and that such a question was not proper to be 
 dealt with by a private bill, the clauses giving rise to the 
 objection were struck out by the House. ( 5 ) 
 
 In cases where it is doubtful whether the bill should 
 be public or private, the doubt is often to be solved by 
 
 ; Pari. Deb., 4th Series, Vol.30, p. 707. 
 arl. Deb., 3rd Series, Vol. 170, p. 171. 
 I | May, p. 640. 
 
 ('• I May, p. 640 ; 120 C. ■). 92 ; Pari. Deb., 3rd Series, Vol. 177, p. 642. 
 ( ■> Pari. Deb., 4th Series, Vol. 4!), p. 154.
 
 PRIVATE BILLS — THEIR SUBJECT MATTER. 5 
 
 a consideration of the extent to which the bill affects 
 general public matters or interests. 
 
 When the Belfast Corporation Bill (a private bill) 
 was before the House of Commons, March 6th, 1896, 
 Mr. Speaker Gully said of that bill: "The clauses relating 
 to public matters are not so great in number or importance 
 as to make it necessary to introduce it as a public bill. 
 It is always a question of degree whether the quantity 
 of matter bearing on Public Acts is such as to make it 
 necessary to bring in the bill as a public bill." (*) 
 
 Where a public bill is found to affect private rights it 
 is what is termed a " hybrid " bill, and the House, upon 
 sending it to a Committee after the second reading, may 
 empower the Committee to hear evidence, and permit the 
 attendance of counsel in the same way as if it had been 
 brought in originally as a private bill ; and then, when 
 reported from that Committee to the House, it is recom- 
 mitted to a Committee of the whole House, thus passing 
 through the two Committees — the one as though a private 
 bill, and the other as though an ordinary public bill — 
 before becoming what is virtually a Public Act. 
 
 (») Pari. Deb., 4th Series, Vol. 38, p. 335.
 
 ( 6 ) 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 Classification of Private Bills. 
 
 The Standing Orders of the House of Lords conveniently 
 divide private bills into two kinds, " Personal Bills" and 
 " Local Bills," and then sub-divide " Local Bills " into two 
 distinct classes. ( x ) 
 
 In the Standing Orders of the House of Commons, the 
 expressions " Personal Bills " and " Local Bills " are not 
 used, but private bills are therein divided into two classes, 
 which correspond almost exactly with the two divisions 
 into which " Local Bills " are sub-divided in the Standing 
 Orders of the House of Lords ; whilst the difficulty which 
 might otherwise arise from the absence of any mention of 
 " Personal Bills " in the Standing Orders of the House of 
 Commons is removed by special provision being made, so 
 far as is necessary, for bills not falling within the two 
 classes into which that House thus divides bills. 
 
 Divorce, Estate, Naturalization and Name Bills are not 
 within either of the two classes into which private bills 
 arc divided by the Standing Orders of the House of 
 Commons, but provision is made for them, so far as is 
 necessary, by subsequent Orders of that House. (-) These 
 bills are in the Standing Orders of the House of Lords, 
 termed " Personal Bills," and they are required by the 
 practice of Parliament to be brought in, in the first instance, 
 
 (i) S.O. l, H. I- 
 
 h) 6. 0. I, po»t, p. &J; s - °- 188b— 192, 208, 211. post, pp. 152, 158, 159.
 
 CLASSIFICATION OF PRIVATE BILLS. 7 
 
 in the House of Lords.(') This practice doubtless furnishes 
 the explanation of the somewhat curious fact that the 
 Standing Orders of the House of Commons in dividing 
 private bills, as above stated, into two classes, place bills of 
 the kind termed in the House of Lords " Personal Bills " 
 in neither class. The object of the division into two classes 
 thus made by the Standing Orders of the House of Commons 
 would seem to be to enable each class to be more readily 
 referred to in subsequent Standing Orders than if on each 
 occasion a particular description of the bills intended to be 
 dealt with had to be given.( 2 ) Class 2 appears to be con- 
 fined to bills which authorize the making, maintaining or 
 varying, railways, tramways, or works of an engineering or 
 structural character, whilst in Class 1 bills not partaking 
 of that character are placed, though there are placed with 
 them many bills which involve the construction of works, 
 such as gas bills, market bills, and drainage of land bills.(' 3 ) 
 
 To the practitioner this division is of importance, 
 because the Standing Orders prescribe various steps to be 
 taken by reference to the Class in which the bill is. and 
 because, with the petition for the bill to the Lower House, 
 a declaration signed by the agent for the bill has to be 
 deposited in the Private Bill Office, stating to which of the 
 two the bill, in the judgment of the agent, belongs. ( 4 ) 
 
 Estate, Divorce, Naturalization and Name, and all 
 other private bills, not specified in Order J of the Standing 
 Orders of the House of Lords as " Local Bills," are, in the 
 Standing Orders of that House, termed " Personal Bills:"( 5 ) 
 
 (!) S. 0. 1, 149, H. L. ; and see post, p. 9. 
 
 ( 2 ) See S. 0. 1, 4, 11. 24, &c, pos?, pp. 85, 87, 9] , 95. 
 
 ( 3 ) S. 0. 1. post, p. 85, which sets out the classes in extenso. 
 
 ( 4 ) S. 0. 32, post, p. 98. 
 
 ( 5 ) S. 0. 149, H. L. 
 
 B 2
 
 ( 8 ) 
 
 CHAPTER III 
 
 Introduction into Parliament. 
 
 Private bills falling within either of the two classes into 
 which private bills are divided by the Standing Orders of 
 the House of Commons,(') or, which is practically the same 
 thing, within the description of " Local Bills " as used in 
 the Standing Orders of the House of Lords,( 2 ) may, it 
 would seem, be lawfully brought in, in the first instance, 
 in either House of Parliament, but the practice is to com- 
 mence them by the presentation of a petition to the House 
 of Commons for leave to bring in the bill, and afterwards, 
 when the session commences, the Chairman of the Com- 
 mittee of Ways and Means, on behalf of the Lower House, 
 and the Chairman of Committees of the House of Lords, 
 on behalf of that House, meet and arrange in which House 
 each of such bills should be first considered, thus securing 
 a proper distribution of the business of private legislation 
 between the two Houses.( 3 ) 
 
 Estate, Divorce, Naturalization, and Name Bills, and 
 any other bills not falling within the description of "Local 
 Bills" as used in the Standing Orders of the House of 
 Lords are " Personal Bills," and are in the first instance 
 brought into the House of Lords. ( 4 ) They are not within 
 either of the classes into which the Standing Orders of the 
 House of Commons divide bills,( 5 ) and are commenced by 
 petition to the Lords for leave to bring in the bill( 8 ) 
 
 (') S. 0.1, poet, p. 85 ; and see mte, p. 6. (<) See S. 0. 1, 149, H. L. 
 
 ( 2 ) S. 0. 1, H. L. («) S. O. I, post, p. 85, and see 
 
 (»■) S. 0. 70, post, \>. 121. ante, p. 6. 
 
 («) S. O. 150, H. L.
 
 INTRODUCTION INTO PARLIAMENT. 9 
 
 The petition required by the Standing Orders of the 
 House of Commons for leave to bring in a bill to that 
 House, must be signed by the parties, or some of them, 
 who are " suitors for the bill.'X 1 ) A printed copy of the 
 bill is annexed, and these documents are accompanied by a 
 declaration, signed by the agent, stating to which of the 
 two classes into which the Standing Orders of the House 
 of Commons divides private bills, the bill proposed, in his 
 judgment belongs,( 2 ) and if the proposed bill gives power 
 to effect any of certain objects specified in Standing Order 
 32 (post, p. 98), the declaration must state which of such 
 powers are given, and further expressly state that the bill 
 gives no power to effect any of the named objects other 
 than those thus stated. ( :i ) 
 
 If the proposed bill contains no power to effect any of 
 the named objects, the declaration must so state. The 
 declaration must in any case contain a statement that the 
 bill does not give any powers other than those in the 
 notices for the bill.( 4 ) 
 
 Forms of petition and declaration will be found post, 
 pp., 246, 248. 
 
 The petition must be written, not printed or litho- 
 graphed. It must contain a prayer, and be signed, as 
 before stated, by at least one person, or sealed, on the skin 
 or sheet on which the prayer is written. No erasures or 
 interlineations may be made in the petition. It is to be 
 addressed " To the Honourable the Commons of the United 
 Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament 
 assembled."( 5 ) Except as above, no particular formalities 
 are prescribed or required. " Personal Bills " are originated 
 in the House of Lords by petition, to which a printed copy 
 
 (!) S. 0. 193, post, p. 153. 
 C 2 ) S. O. 32, 193, pout, pp. 98, 153. 
 C a ) S. 0. 32,^o^, p. 98. 
 
 C) S. O. 32, pod. p. 9« ; as to notices see post, pp. 87 — 91. 
 (, 5 ) See Rules as to Petitions against Private Bills, House of Commons, post, 
 p. 321, and see Form, post, p. 246.
 
 10 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 of the bill is annexed. That House requires that the 
 petition should be signed by one or more " of the parties 
 principally concerned in the consequences of the bill."(') 
 No declaration of objects, it will be observed, is required 
 by the House of Lords, either in the case of Personal or 
 other bills ; and in the case of " Local Bills," no petition 
 for leave to bring in the bill is presented to that House if 
 a petition has been presented to the Commons for leave to 
 bring it in to the Lower House. ( 2 ) 
 
 Where the legislation is initiated in the House of Lords, 
 as is the case with " Personal Bills," as has been already 
 stated, the petition, which is then to the House of Lords, 
 is, with the bill annexed, deposited at the offices of that 
 House ; and where, as is ordinarily the case with all bills 
 other than " Personal Bills," it is initiated in the Commons, 
 the petition, which is then one to the Commons, is depo- 
 sited, with the bill annexed, and with the declaration, in 
 the Private Bill Office at Westminster. ( 3 ) 
 
 A register is kept at the Private Bill Office upon which 
 the petition is, upon payment of the required fees, entered, 
 and a general list of petitions is afterwards made out in 
 that office ami printed.^) 
 
 The Standing Orders of both Houses contain a number 
 of requirements as to notices, advertisements, deposits, &c, 
 which have to be complied with before bills of the two 
 classes dealt with by the Standing Orders of the Commons, 
 or " Local Bills," as the House of Lords terms them, can be 
 introduced into those Houses( 5 ) ; and in order to ascertain 
 whether such requirements, and the similar requirements 
 which may arise at later stages, have or have not been 
 complied with, officials, termed Examiners, have been 
 
 f 1 ) 8. 0. 150, 151, H. L. 
 
 (2) See 8. 0. 8G, H. L. 
 
 ( 3 ) S. 0. 32, )'.)'.i, post, pp. 98, 153. 
 
 ( 4 J S. I 1. 227, 221), past, p. 1C2 ; Table of Fees, post, p. 290 ; Regulations 
 for the Deposit of Petitions, post, pi 322. 
 
 ( 6 ) See S. O. 3—59, post, pp. 87—109 ; 8: O. 3—59, H. L.
 
 INTRODUCTION INTO PARLIAMENT. 11 
 
 appointed by both Houses, whose duty it is to inquire into 
 compliance with the Standing Orders, and report to the 
 Houses the result arrived at.(*) 
 
 The same Examiners act for both Houses. Their 
 sittings are fixed by the Standing Orders. Under the 
 present Orders they commence Jan. 18th.( 2 ) Their pro- 
 cedure is regulated by the Standing Orders and by the 
 Speaker's Regulations.( 3 ) 
 
 It is at this stage of the proceedings, when compliance 
 with Standing Orders has to be proved, that the first 
 opportunity for opposition to the bill arises Promoters, 
 whether opposed or not, have to prove compliance with 
 Standing Orders. Opponents of a bill desiring to oppose 
 at this stage, do so by depositing at the Private Bill Office 
 a " Memorial " complaining of non-compliance with such of 
 the Standing Orders of either House as they allege have 
 not been complied with. 
 
 Under the present Standing Orders the depositing of 
 Memorials is as follows : if they relate to bills numbered 
 in the general list of petitions published by the Private 
 Bill Office— 
 
 From 1 — 100 \ They must be depo- r Jan. 9th 
 
 101—200 - sited before two-' „ 16th 
 
 201 and upwards - o'clock on ' „ 23rd 
 
 These memorials are the notices of objection taken by 
 the opponents of the proposed legislation on the ground of 
 non-compliance with Standing Orders. A Memorial, where 
 there is one, is addressed to the Examiner. It must state 
 specifically what the non-compliance with the Standing 
 Orders is which is complained of.( 4 ) As soon as the time 
 for depositing Memorials has expired, the petition is marked 
 
 (') S. O. 2, 71, post, pp. 86, 119 ; S. O. 2, 76, H. L. 
 
 ( 2 ) S. 69, post, p. 119 ; S. O. 70, H. L. 
 
 (, 3 ) S. O. 69— 78,post,vp. 119— 121 ; S. 0. 70— 79 H. L. ; Notice, &c, post, 
 p. 323. 
 
 ( 4 ) S. 0. 7i,post, p. 120 ; S. 0. 230, post, p. 162 ; 8. 0. 73, H. L. See for 
 a Form of Memorial, post, p. 249.
 
 12 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 in the general list " opposed " or " unopposed," as the case 
 may be, and it is heard in its order as it stands in the list, 
 precedence being given, when necessary, to unopposed peti- 
 tions^ 1 ) Daily lists are made out in the Private Bill Office 
 shewing the order in which the petitions will be taken.( J ) 
 
 The promoters, whether their petition is opposed or 
 unopposed, must appear at the time appointed for the 
 hearing, otherwise their petition will be struck out of the 
 list : and there is a special provision in the Standing Orders 
 of the House of Commons, that the Examiner shall not 
 re-insert it except by order of that House. ('-) Upon the 
 hearing, the agent supporting the petition— that is to 
 say, the agent in favour of the bill — brings before the 
 Examiner a " Statement of Proofs," shewing that the 
 Standing Orders have been complied with, and giving the 
 name of each witness opposite each proof, who is to prove 
 each of the matters therein stated.( 3 ) The witnesses thus 
 named will, where the Examiner does not admit of proof 
 by affidavit, be examined viva voce by the agent in the 
 order in which they appear in the Statement of Proofs ; 
 and where the Examiner does admit of proof by affidavit, 
 the affidavit of such witnesses will in like order be handed 
 in. By the Standing Orders of both Houses, the examiners 
 are empowered to admit affidavits in proof of compliance 
 with Standing Orders, or to require further evidence, as 
 they may think most desirable.( 4 ) Where the petition is 
 unopposed, the examiner will, in general, be satisfied by 
 proof by affidavit ; but where there appears likely to be a 
 serious conflict upon any material matter of fact, the wit- 
 nesses will usually be examined vivd voce. 
 
 By the Standing Orders any parties are entitled to 
 appear and be heard, by themselves, their agents and wit- 
 
 ('; See Notice as to the Hearing of Petitions, poxt, \>. 323. 
 
 3. 0, 70, post, p. 119. 
 ( 3 ) May, G8o. For form of Statement of Proof see fjost, p. 259. 
 {*) S. I >. 76, pogt,-p. 120 ; S. O. 77, H. L. ; see form of affidavit, post, p. 263.
 
 INTRODUCTION INTO PARLIAMENT. 13 
 
 nesses, upon a Memorial addressed to the examiner, com- 
 plaining of a non-compliance with the Standing Orders, 
 provided the matter complained of be specifically stated 
 in such Memorial, and the -party (if any) specially affected 
 by the non-compliance have signed such Memorial, and not 
 withdrawn his signature thereto, and such memorial have 
 been duly deposited in the Private Bill Office.(') 
 
 Where the petition is opposed by the deposit of a 
 Memorial, and the agent opposing has entered his appear- 
 ance as agent upon the appearance paper at the Private Bill 
 Office, the examiner, after taking the formal statement of 
 proofs from the promoters of the bill, or their agent, will hear 
 the matters specifically complained of in the Memorial. 
 
 Though the Standing Orders of both Houses make pro- 
 vision permitting Examiners to receive proof by affidavit 
 of compliance with Standing Orders, no such provision is 
 made as to proof of non-compliance.( 2 ) 
 
 If it is necessary to resort to compulsion to bring any 
 particular witness or documents before the Examiner, it 
 would seem that this must be done by an order of the 
 House, and that in general such an order will be made when 
 the Examiner reports to the House that such a course 
 is necessary.( 3 ) 
 
 If any preliminary objection exists to the right of the 
 memorialists to be heard, as, for example, that the Memorial 
 has not been signed duly, or the like, such objection should 
 be taken before the memorialists or their agent commence 
 their case. The preliminary points, if any, having been 
 disposed of, the complaints specified in the Memorial will 
 be dealt with seriatim, and finally the Examiner will decide 
 whether he should certify that the Standing Orders have 
 
 (*) S. 0. 74, post, p. 120 ; S 73, H L ; Rules as to proof of compliance, 
 post, p. 321. 
 
 ( 2 ) S. 0. 76, post, p. 120 ; S. 0. 77, H. L. 
 
 ( :i ) May, 687 ; Wandle Water AVorks Bill, 1853, 108 C. J. 257 ; 121 ih. 114, 
 127.
 
 14 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 been complied with or not, or whether, instead of deciding 
 that matter himself, he should make a special report to the 
 House.( 1 ) 
 
 If the Examiner decides that the Standing Orders have 
 been complied with, he endorses the petition with his cer- 
 tificate to that effect, and it is then returned to the Private 
 Bill Office, from which the agent will obtain it, and arrange 
 for its presentation to the House of Commons by a member, 
 upon which being done the bill is ordered to be brought 
 in ;( 2 ) whilst, if the bill is one to be first considered in the. 
 House of Lords, the petition remains in the Private Bill 
 Office, no petition to the House of Lords being necessary 
 in the case of a " Local Bill " for which a petition has been 
 presented to the Commons. ( 3 ) 
 
 If he finds that the Standing Orders have not been 
 complied with, he so endorses the petition, and reports the 
 facts to the House and any special circumstances there may 
 be.( 4 ). If he makes the special report above mentioned, 
 instead of himself deciding definitely one way or the other, 
 he reports the facts to the House and endorses the petition 
 accordingly. ( 5 ) 
 
 Where he decides that the Standing Orders have not 
 been complied with, or makes a special report without 
 coming to a definite decision himself, the report is referred 
 to " The Select Committee on Standing Orders," who, after 
 the petition has been presented to the Commons, consider 
 whether the Bill, or any portion of it, should be proceeded 
 with, and then report to the House the opinion they have 
 arrived at, and whether the Standing Orders ought or 
 ought not to be dispensed with.( G .) Where the Examiner 
 has definitely found that any Standing Order has not been 
 
 ('; S. 0. 71, 77, 78,po8t, p. 11«J— 121 ; S. O. 76, 78, II. L. 
 -, 8.0. 195, 196, post, p. 156. 
 O 8. O. 86, H. L. 
 
 ( 4 ) S, 0. 71, port, p. 11 'J; S. O. 76, II. L. 
 t 5 ) S. 0. 78, post, p. 121; S. O. 78, H. L. 
 ('') S.O.91—95, post, p.123; 8. 0. 80— 85, H. L. ; S.0. 199, 200, post, p. 1571
 
 INTRODUCTION INTO PARLIAMENT. 15 
 
 complied with, or has found definitely any matter of fact, 
 the Select Committee will not question his finding. But 
 where he has not decided whether the particular Standing 
 Order, as to which question arose, was complied with or 
 not, but has made a special report, they will themselves 
 deal with the matter and report the result to the House of 
 Commons, and that even in the case of bills originating in 
 the Lords^ 1 ) There is a similar committee in the House 
 of Lords to deal with the cases where the Examiner has 
 not certified compliance with their Standing Orders. ( 2 ) 
 
 Where the parties opposing the bill desire to contend 
 before the Select Committee on Standing Orders of the Com- 
 mons upon a Special Report referred to them that the facts 
 therein stated show that the Standing Orders have been 
 complied with, they must prepare a written or printed state- 
 ment of their argument strictly confined to that question 
 for the use of the committee, and deliver copies of it to the 
 chairman and members of the committee, at their residences, 
 twenty-four hours before the meeting of the committee.( 3 ) 
 
 The promoters desiring to raise the opposite contention 
 should prepare a similar statement of their argument, and 
 similarly deliver it to the chairman and members. 
 
 If the committee comes to the conclusion that there has 
 not been a compliance with the Standing Orders, the further 
 consideration of the case is adjourned in order to give time 
 for the promoters and opponents to prepare and deliver 
 similar statements upon the question of a dispensation 
 with the Standing Orders being granted. ( 4 ) 
 
 Upon these statements the committee may hear argu- 
 ments, but they only hear one counsel on each side.( 5 ) 
 The procedure before the Standing Orders Committee of 
 
 (') S. 0. 92, 93, post, p. 123; nnd see Resolutions, post, p. 32+. 
 
 ( 2 ) S. 0. 80—85, H. L. 
 
 ( 3 ) Resolutions, post, p. 324. 
 
 ( 4 ) Resolutions, 2>ost, p. 324. 
 
 ( 5 ) Resolutions, ]wsf, p. 325.
 
 1(J PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 the House ot" Lords is practically the same as that before 
 the Select Committee on Standing Orders of the House of 
 Commons, except that before the Lords' Committee the 
 statements must in all opposed cases be printed.^) 
 
 Upon questions of dispensation with Standing Orders, it 
 is open to either side to present a petition to the House 
 by depositing it with the Private Bill Office, and paying 
 the required fees, in favour of or against a dispensation.^) 
 Every such petition, when deposited, stands referred to the 
 Committee on Standing Orders.( 3 ) Copies of such petitions 
 must be delivered to the members of the committee and at 
 the Committee Office.( 4 ) 
 
 The petitions must set forth the grounds on which 
 dispensation is prayed, and should contain in fact the 
 statement of the case relied on, since, where there is a 
 petition, no statement in addition to the case set forth in 
 the petition is received.;/ 1 ) 
 
 The decisions of the committee are, when arrived at, 
 reported to the House in the form of a resolution, which is 
 read. In the House of Commons, if the resolution is 
 favourable to the bill, it is read a second time, agreed to, 
 and the bill ordered to be brought in ; if it is unfavourable 
 the report is ordered to lie on the table. In the House of 
 Lords the practice is to agree with the resolution in either 
 case. The shape of the resolution depends upon the way 
 the matter has come before the committee. If it is upon a 
 report (or certificate, as it is called in the House of Lords) 
 of the Examiner that the Standing Orders have not been 
 complied with, the resolution runs that the Standing Orders 
 ought not to be dispensed with, or that they ought to be 
 dispensed with and the parties be permitted to proceed 
 with their bill either unconditionally or with some con- 
 dition to be fulfilled by them. If there has been a special 
 
 (») S. 0. 85, H. L. 
 
 (■) &.0.2QQ,post,-p. 157; Resolutions, post, p. 325; Table6f'Fees,j>osf,p.290. 
 
 -.O. 200, post, p. LOT. 
 ( 4 ) Resolutions, post, p. 325.
 
 INTRODUCTION INTO PARLIAMENT. 17 
 
 report by the Examiner the resolution first states whether 
 or not the Standing Orders have been complied with. 
 
 Where the resolution is unfavourable to the bill and has 
 been ordered to lie upon the table, it is still open to the pro- 
 moters to procure a motion that the report be referred back 
 to the committee for reconsideration, and this has occasion- 
 ally been done. For instance, in the case of the Felixstowe 
 Ipswich and Midlands Railway Bill the report of the Ex- 
 aminer that the Standing Orders had not been complied with 
 was referred to the Standing Orders Committee. They re- 
 solved that the Standing Orders ought not to be dispensed 
 with, and their report was ordered to lie upon the table^ 1 ) 
 
 Subsequently it was moved that the report be referred 
 back to the committee to inquire whether special circum- 
 stances existed which rendered it just and expedient that 
 the Standing Orders should be dispensed with.(-) In the 
 debate upon this motion it was urged that great distress 
 existed in Essex, owing to want of employment, which 
 would be materially alleviated by the works proposed in 
 the bill, and that fresh plans had been prepared, which 
 could be substituted for those deposited which conflicted 
 with the Standing Orders. ( 3 ) The motion was carried, and 
 ultimately the committee resolved that the Standing Orders 
 ought to be dispensed with, and the parties ought to be per- 
 mitted to proceed with the bill, provided that proof was 
 given before the Examiner that amended plans and sections 
 had been deposited. This resolution was agreed to by the 
 House, and leave was given to bring in the bill.( l ) 
 
 It may be here stated that the sanction of the Chairman 
 of Ways and Means is required to every notice of motion 
 for dispensing with any Sessional or Standing Order of the 
 House of Commons. 
 
 O 141 C. J. 36, 52. 
 ( 2 ) 141 C. J. 196. 
 
 ( :i ) Pari. Deb., 3rd series, vol. 305, p. 722. 
 
 ( 4 ) 141 C. J. 205. Ultimately the committee on the bill reported that 
 the preamble was not proved. 3. 279.
 
 ( i* ) 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 Progress of Bill through the Commons, up to and including 
 the Committee Stage. 
 
 When a private bill has been ordered to be brought into 
 the House of Commons, as above described, it must be pre- 
 sented to the House by depositing it in the Private Bill 
 Office ( J ) not later than one clear day after the presentation 
 to the House of the petition for the bill, unless there has 
 been a reference to the Standing Orders Committee, in 
 which case the deposit must be not later than one clear day 
 after the House has given leave to proceed.(^) It must be 
 printed on paper of a size to be determined by the Speaker 
 (at present it is folio), with a cover of parchment attached 
 to it, upon which the title is to be written.^) The names 
 of the members who are bringing in the bill (who must not 
 be less than two nor more than six in number) should ap- 
 pear on the back of it. If the clauses of the bill contain 
 any charges in any way affecting the public revenue, such 
 charges must be printed in italics.( '*) Printed copies of the 
 bill are to be delivered to the Vote Office for the use of 
 members.! 5 ) 
 
 Winn everything is thus in order, one of the clerks of 
 the Private Bill Office takes the bill from that office and 
 lays it on the table of the House for the first reading, 
 which is a matter of course. The bill is at the time of first 
 reading ordered to be read a second time, and the next 
 
 ( ! ; S. o. 196, post, p. 156. (<) S. 0. 202, post, p. 157. 
 
 <- , 8. 0. 197, post, p. 156. O S. 0. 203, post, p. 157. 
 
 - 0. 201, post, p. 157.
 
 PROGRESS OF BILL THROUGH THE COMMONS. 19 
 
 stage of the bill, except in the cases of company bills, bills 
 brought from the Lords, or other bills specially directed by 
 the Standing Orders to be referred to the Examiners after 
 having been read a first time, is the second reading. 
 
 The Standing Orders 62-68 and 72 specify the cases in 
 which the bill has after the first reading to be brought before 
 the Examiner, in order that he may see that the Standing 
 Orders not already shewn to have been complied with 
 have in fact been complied with. It will be seen that it is 
 at this stage that he examines into the consents of share- 
 holders or proprietors of companies where their consents 
 are required^ 1 ) 
 
 The second reading, where there is no reference needed 
 to the Examiner, takes place not less than three clear days 
 nor more than seven after the first reading. ( 2 ) 
 
 Where there has to be a reference to the Examiner 
 under Standing Orders 62-68 or 72 the second reading takes 
 place not later than seven clear days after the Examiner or 
 the Select Committee on Standing Orders, as the case may 
 be, has reported on it.( 3 ) 
 
 It is the duty of the clerks of the Private Bill Office 
 between the first and second reading of all private bills to 
 themselves examine whether they are in conformity with 
 the rules and orders of the House. ( 4 ) The bill is in the 
 custody of the clerks of the Private Bill Office until laid 
 upon the table for the second reading.( 5 ) The agent for 
 the bill must give three clear days' notice in writing to the 
 clerks in the Private Bill Office of the day proposed for the 
 second reading. He may not give such notice until the 
 day after the order for the second reading.( 6 ) If there is no 
 opposition the bill is read a second time on the day fixed, 
 
 (i) S. 0, 62-68, post, pp. Ill- C 4 ) S. 0. 234, post, p. 163. 
 
 118 ; S. 0. 12,post, p. 119. ( 5 ) S. 0. 233, post, p. 163. 
 
 (2) S. O. 204, post, p. 157. ( 6 ) S. 0. 235, post, p. 163. 
 
 ( 3 ) S. 0. 204,^0*/, p. 157.
 
 20 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 but if it is then opposed the second reading is adjourned 
 to the day on which the House next sits.( a ) 
 
 The House does not profess to decide upon the second 
 reading as to the truth or otherwise of the allegations of 
 fact upon which a proposed bill is based, and in conceding 
 a second reading to a private bill the House is regarded as 
 merely giving its sanction to its general principle on the 
 hypothesis that the committee to which it afterwards is re- 
 ferred finds those allegations proved. It is usual, therefore? 
 to allow a second reading, except where the bill enunciates 
 some principle which the House is not prepared to affirm.( 2 ) 
 
 A recent instance of the rejection by the House of a 
 private bill upon the second reading is to be found in the 
 case of the Petersham and Ham Lands and Footpaths Bill, 
 1896, where an amendment to the proposal for a second 
 reading was carried to the effect that the House was not 
 prepared to entertain a bill for the enclosure of metropoli- 
 tan common lands.(' 5 ) 
 
 Where the principle of the bill is one of novelty which 
 appears to any considerable body of members objectionable a 
 division is usually taken against the second reading, or some 
 instruction is moved to modify the portion of the bill objected 
 to. If the bill is read a second time it is, as a matter of 
 course, ordered to be committed, and then stands referred to a 
 committee. Where an instruction has been carried it stands 
 so referred with the instruction to guide the committee.( 4 ) 
 After the interval required by Standing Order 211 from 
 the second reading the bill is taken before the committee.( 5 ) 
 
 In the case of opposed bills important questions often 
 arise at this stage as to the locus standi of parties desiring 
 to oppose before the committee on the bill, those only being 
 
 I 1 ) S. (>. 207, post,?. 158. 
 ( 2 ) Pari. Deb., 4th series, vol. 37, p. 1053. 
 ( :1 ) Pari. Deb., 4th series, vol. 38, p. 729, et seq. 
 ( 4 ) See " Instructions," post, p. 32. 
 0. 211, post, p. 159.
 
 PROGRESS OF BILL THROUGH THE COMMONS. 21 
 
 allowed to be heard, in general, who have taken the proper 
 steps for that purpose, and who have not been objected to 
 upon the ground of having no such interest as entitles 
 them to a locus standi, or who have, notwithstanding 
 objection, established their locus standi.( l ) It is before 
 the committee to which the bill is referred that the oppo- 
 nents of the bill, if they have taken the proper steps and 
 are persons entitled to be heard, have the opportunity of 
 contesting the proposed legislation by submitting evidence 
 and attacking that produced in favour of the bill. 
 
 Whether the bill is opposed or unopposed it will have 
 been examined by the chairman of the Committee of Ways 
 and Means, for the purpose of calling the attention of the 
 House or the chairman of the committee to which, as above 
 stated, it is referred, to any point which may seem to him 
 to require it ; and in order to enable him, with the assist- 
 ance of the Speaker's counsel, to fulfil this duty, the agent 
 for the bill is required, at an earlier stage, namely, the day 
 after the Examiner of Petitions has endorsed the petition 
 for the bill at the latest, and again two clear days before 
 the committee meets, to lay copies of the bill before the 
 chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, and also 
 before the Speaker's counsel. (-) 
 
 Opposed bills are bills against which a petition has been 
 presented, not later than ten clear days after the first read- 
 ing, containing a prayer to be heard, and bills which the 
 Chairman of Ways and Means has reported as proper, to 
 be treated as opposed. ( 3 ) The composition of the com- 
 mittees appointed to deal with opposed bills is prescribed 
 by the Standing Orders,^ 4 ) as is also that for dealing with 
 unopposed bills. ( 5 ) For the purpose of dealing with 
 
 (') As to Locus Standi, see post, pp. 34 — 63. 
 ( 2 ) S. 0. 80, 82, post, p. 121. 
 C) S. 0. 107, pout, p. 126. 
 
 ( 4 ) S. 0. 108, 110, 116, 117, post, pp. 126, 127. 
 
 ( 5 ) S. O. 104, 109, 1 10, post, pp. 125, 126.
 
 22 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 railway and canal bills a committee called "The General 
 Committee on Railway and Canal Bills " is appointed at 
 the commencement of every Session by the Committee of 
 Selection. Their principal functions are to appoint from 
 among themselves the chairmen to preside over the com- 
 mittees dealing with such bills, and to refer such bills 
 when not opposed, if they think fit, to the Chairman 
 of Ways and Means together with two other members not 
 locally interested, or to him with one such member and a 
 referee to be nominated by the Committee of Selection.(') 
 
 The parties desirous of opposing the bill in committee 
 must present a petition against it. This is done by de- 
 positing it in the Private Bill Office not later, in general 
 than ten clear days after the first reading, except in the 
 case of bills to confirm a provisional order or certificate 
 where the time is by the Standing Orders to be not later than 
 seven clear days after the Examiner has given notice of the 
 day on which such bill for confirmation will be examined. (-) 
 The petition against the bill is not to be heard before the 
 committee on the bill unless it has been prepared and 
 signed in strict conformity with the Rules and Orders of 
 the House and duly presented within the proper time,( :i ) 
 and if any contest as to the locus standi of the petitioners 
 is raised by the promoters before the Court of Referees, 
 the body appointed to deal with objections to locus 
 fftcmd/L,^) that body deals with the rights of the 
 petitioners only which are stated on or sufficiently appear 
 from the petition itself. ( s ) It is, therefore, of the utmost 
 importance to see that the petition is in all respects in 
 conformity with the requirements of the House. 
 
 (') S. 0. 99, 101, 101, post, ]>. 125; see further S. ( >. 208, 208a, post, 
 p. 158. 
 
 3.0. 107. 129,210, post,??. 120, 129, 159. See as to Provisional 
 I irders, post, pp. 71 7''>. 
 
 ( 3 ) S. 0. 128, 129, post, ]>. 129. 
 
 (') S. o. HI, post, p. 123 ; and see as to Locus Standi, post, p. 34. 
 
 (') See post, pp. 26, 4G.
 
 PROGRESS OF BILL THROUGH THE COMMONS. 23 
 
 There must be endorsed on the petition the name or 
 short title of the bill, and a statement that the petition is 
 against the bill, together with the name of the member, 
 party, or agent thus depositing it.(') It may be with- 
 drawn on a requisition to that effect being deposited in the 
 Private Bill Office, signed by the petitioner or the agent who 
 deposited it.( 2 ) If the promoters of the bill intend to 
 object to the right of the petitioners to be heard against 
 the bill, they must give notice of their intention and of 
 the grounds of their objection to the clerk to the Referees 
 and to the petitioner's agents not later than the eighth day 
 after the day on which the petition was deposited in the 
 Private Bill Office : this time may, however, be extended 
 by the Referees. The notice must be endorsed with the 
 name of the petitioner's agents.^ 3 ) Notice of objection 
 may be withdrawn by giving notice of withdrawal to the 
 same persons.^ 1 ) In the absence of such withdrawal the 
 objection will be heard before the above-mentioned Court 
 of Referees. 
 
 When the bill is committed it is taken charge of by the 
 committee clerk, and remains in his custody until re- 
 ported.^) Provision is made by the Standing Orders for 
 notice to be given of the first meeting of the committee, or 
 of any postponement by the committee clerk to the clerks 
 in the Private Bill Office,( 6 ) and for a hlled-up bill as pro- 
 posed to be submitted to the committee, signed by the 
 agent for the bill, to be deposited in the Private Bill Office 
 two clear days before the meeting of the committee, and 
 for copies of proposed amendments to be supplied to oppo- 
 nents applying therefor.( 7 ) The agent for the bill must also 
 
 C 1 ) S. 0. 205, post, p. 158. As to the contents of the petition see Locus 
 Standi, post, p. 46, and for a form jjost, p. 265. 
 (-) S. 0. 206, post, p. 158. 
 ( a ) R. 1 of Rules for Referees, post, p. 326. 
 
 ( 4 ) R. 3. ib. 
 
 ( 5 ) S. (). 233, post, p. 163. 
 
 (") See S. O. 126, 236, 238, post, pp. 128, 163, 161. 
 ( 7 ) S. O. 237, post, p. 164. 
 
 c 2
 
 24 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 lay signed copies of the bill as proposed to be submitted 
 to the committee two clear days at least before the day ap- 
 pointed for the hearing in committee before the Chairman 
 of Ways and Means, and before the Speaker's Counsel^ 1 ) 
 If a Referee is a member of the committee a similar 
 cop}' must be similarly deposited at the Referee's Office.( 2 ) 
 The reason for requiring the deposit of these copies would 
 seem to be found in the fact that promoters not un- 
 Erequently find it expedient to alter in some particular the 
 clauses of the bill as originally deposited before placing it 
 before the committee on the bill. It may, however, be 
 notice* I that alterations cannot be permitted which go 
 beyond, or are at variance with, the order giving leave to 
 introduce the bill, or which contravene Standing Orders, or 
 which are excessive in extent ( 3 ) 
 
 The agents opposing the bill must, in order that their 
 petitions in opposition may be heard before the committee, 
 enter their appearances at the Private Bill Office,( 4 ) and 
 those promoting must likewise enter similar appear- 
 ances.^) Petitioners in favour of bills are not heard on 
 their petitions, though where they have any evidence to 
 give they may, of course, be called as witnesses by the 
 promoters in whose charge the conduct of the case for the 
 bill before the committee is.( 5 ) The petitioners against 
 the bill supply the committee with printed copies of their 
 petitions, and the promoters supply the committee with 
 Bigned copies of the bill as proposed to be submitted to 
 tlieiu.(' ; ) 
 
 A list is prepared daily in the Private Bill Office of all 
 private bills in the House of Commons upon which any 
 committee is appointed to sit; specifying the room in 
 
 ('; S. o. 82 ; see ante, p. 21. 
 
 ( 2 ) Rules for Refi rees, No. 9, post, -p. 227. 
 
 ('■) May. p. 723. 
 
 (<) 8. 0. 120, post, p. !28; Regulations for Agents, No. 8, post, p. 329. 
 
 ('; May, 731 ; >. 0. 20.' ; . post, p. 158. 
 
 ( 6 ) 120 C. J. GO : S. O. 138, post, p. 132.
 
 PROGRESS OF BILL THROUGH THE COMMONS. 25 
 
 which and the hour at which it is to sit, and is hung up in 
 the lobby of the House^ 1 ) 
 
 The committee to which the bill is referred hear the 
 petitioners by themselves, their agents or counsel, in 
 accordance with the prayer of the petition, and also the 
 promoters by their counsel. (-) Evidence is given before 
 them viva voce, the witnesses being examined by the party 
 producing them or their agents or counsel, and cross- 
 examined by the opposite party or their counsel, and re- 
 examined as in ordinary courts of justice. The petitioners 
 are heard only upon the grounds of objection specified in 
 their petition.( 3 ) 
 
 The committee upon the hearing would seem, in strict- 
 ness, not bound by the rules of evidence applicable to courts 
 •of justice, but in general they will be guided by the 
 principles of those rules in the conduct of the business before 
 them, except perhaps where they consider that injustice 
 might be done or needless expense caused by a too rigid 
 application of those principles. In regard to the cross- 
 examination of witnesses, counsel are, it would seem, 
 allowed less latitude in putting questions which are 
 irrelevant to the matters before the committee, and which 
 are intended merely to discredit the particular witness, 
 than in cases of trials in the law courts. 
 
 The attendance of counsel being by permission rather 
 than as of right, the committee would appear to have a 
 greater power to check questions which may seem to them 
 improper than is permitted to the courts of justice. All 
 matters, whether arising in the course of the proceedings 
 or upon the final decision or report, are determined by the 
 vote of the majority of the committee, the chairman, in 
 case of equality, having a second or casting vote.O 
 
 The opposition to the bill may be either to the preamble 
 or to the clauses of the bill, or to both. The second reading 
 
 0) S. 0. 248, post, p. 165. ( s ) S. 0. 128, -post, p. 129. 
 
 (/-) S. 0. 210, post, p. 159. ( 4 ) S. 0. 125, post, p. 128.
 
 26 PRIVATE HILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 is supposed to have been assented to by the House upon 
 the assumption that the preamble is true, and it is open 
 to the opponents, if by their petition they have dis- 
 tinctly raised that ground of objection^ 1 ) to contend, and 
 to produce evidence to show, that the preamble is in fact 
 untrue, and they may, even if they fail to induce the 
 committee to find the preamble not proved, similarly 
 attack such clauses of the bill as by their petition they 
 have placed themselves in a position to attack. Whether 
 the opposition is to the preamble or to the clauses, it cannot 
 go beyond the petition, the petition is practically that 
 which has to be tried by the committee^ 1 ) 
 
 The conduct of the business before the committee is 
 regulated as the committee may think most convenient, 
 but the ordinary course is, for the counsel in support of the 
 bill to explain the proposed measure, and then produce his 
 evidence in its support, and for the counsel for the 
 opponents afterwards to open their grounds of objection, 
 and then bring forward their evidence, each side testing by 
 cross-examination those of his opponent's witnesses whose 
 evidence he desires to minimise or discredit, and for the 
 counsel producing the witness to re-examine upon such 
 cross-examination. Committees have on various occasions 
 laid it down as their rule that no counsel not present 
 during the examination of a witness should be permitted 
 to cross-examine that witness. It is believed that it is not 
 the usual practice of committees to enforce this rule, 
 except where, from the lengthy nature of the evidence or 
 from tie- complication of the matter dealt with, it appears 
 expedient to do so : though, of course, it is within the 
 power of any committee, at any time, to lay down and 
 rigidly enforce the above, or any similar rule for their own 
 procedure. 
 
 Where the opposition is both to the preamble and to 
 clauses, that to the preamble is naturally first dealt with. 
 
 (') S. (). 128, post, p. \2<).
 
 PROGRESS OF BILL THROUGH THE COMMONS. 27 
 
 It would seem to be open to any member of the com- 
 mittee to ask of the witnesses any question he ma,y think 
 tit, or make any inquiry of the counsel engaged, but it is 
 usual in practice for such questions or inquiries to be put 
 or made through the chairman, or with his permission. 
 The chairman, unless his ruling is challenged by some 
 other member of the committee, decides as to whether 
 evidence offered by the one side and objected to by the 
 other should be received by the committee. If it is so 
 challenged the committee, if the challenge is persisted in, 
 have to vote upon the matter.(') 
 
 When the committee have completed their inquiry it is 
 the duty of their chairman in all cases, to report the bill to 
 the House. ( 2 ) 
 
 (') Sec S. 0. 125, post, p. 128. ( 2 ) S. 0. 149, post, p. 134.
 
 ( 28 ) 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 Report -Third Reading Sending Bill to Lords. 
 
 It would be beyond the scope of this work to discuss in 
 detail the form of the report on the various matters with 
 which it may deal, in accordance with the Standing 
 Orders and the practice of the House. It is sufficient to say 
 that the committee may report to the House that the 
 preamble of the bill has not been proved, or they may 
 report the bill without amendment, or they may report it 
 with amendments, either in the preamble or the clauses, or 
 in both. In the first case the result usually is that the bill 
 i.s dropped, although instances exist of the bill having been 
 re-committed, owing to the withdrawal of opposition, or the 
 acceptance of amendments by the promoters. 
 
 If the bill has passed through committee unamended, 
 and is not a railway or a tramway bill, it is immediately 
 ordered to be read a third time.(') One clear day's notice 
 in writing must be given by the agent of the bill to the 
 clerks in the Private Bill Office of the day proposed for 
 the third leading, and the notice cannot be given until the 
 day after the bill has been ordered to be read a third 
 time.( ") Upon the third reading only verbal amendments 
 can be made,( 3 ) and in addition the Chairman of Ways 
 and Means must have informed the House or signified 
 in writing to the Speaker whether the amendment ought 
 
 (') S. 0. 213, post, p. 159. (*) S. 0. 243, post, p. 104. 
 
 ( :t ) S. 0. 219, post, p. 160.
 
 PROGRESS OF BILL THROUGH THE COMMONS. 29 
 
 or ought not to be entertained by the House without being 
 referred to the Committee on Standing Orders^ 1 ) One 
 clear day's notice of any such amendment must be given in 
 the Private Bill Office.(-) The agent must submit the 
 amendment on the same day to the Chairman of Ways 
 and Means and the Speaker's Counsel, and it must be 
 printed, S. O. 2l7.( 3 ) After the third reading the 
 bill is printed fair at the promoters' expense,( l ) and 
 before it is sent to the Lords is examined by the clerks 
 in the Private Bill Office with the bill as read a third time, 
 and endorsed with a certificate of such examination. ( 5 ) 
 
 If, however, the bill was amended in committee, or is a 
 railway or tramway bill, instead of being immediately 
 upon report ordered to be read a third time, it is ordered to 
 lie upon the table, with a view to the bill being subse- 
 quently considered.( (i ) 
 
 Copies of the bill as amended in committee, printed at 
 the expense of the promoters, must be delivered at the Vote 
 Office for the use of members three clear days before the 
 consideration of the bill.(') This print is examined by the 
 clerks in the Private Bill Office with a print of the bill 
 which the committee clerk delivers at the office after the 
 report is made out-C) 
 
 Three clear days must elapse between the report and 
 the consideration of a bill, and before the consideration 
 takes place the Chairman of Ways and Means must have 
 announced whether the bill contains the provisions required 
 by the Standing Orders.^') One clear day's notice must be 
 given by the agent for the bill to the clerks in the Private 
 Bill Office of the day proposed for the consideration of the 
 bill.( lu ) Three clear days before the consideration takes 
 
 (') S. 0. 216, post, p. 160. («) S. O. 213, poet, p. 159. 
 
 (•') S. 0. 242, post, p. 164. ( ? ) S. 0. 21 4, post, p. 159. 
 
 ( :t ) S. 0. 85, post, p. 122. ( 8 ) S. 0. 240, 241, post, p. 164. 
 
 ( 4 ) S. 0. 221, post, p. 161. {'■>) S. O. 215, post,?. 159. 
 
 ( 5 ) S. 0. 245, post, p. 165. ("») S. O. 239, post, p. 164.
 
 30 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 place, a copy of the bill must be laid by the agent before 
 the Chairman of Ways and Means and the Speaker's 
 Counsel, and other copies deposited as provided by 
 Standing Order 84. The provisions as to clauses or 
 amendments which it is desired to propose on the con- 
 sideration of the bill are similar to those with regard to 
 verbal amendments on the third reading above-men- 
 tioned. (') 
 
 When the consideration of the bill takes place, if no 
 amendments or new clauses are offered, or if offered are 
 not opposed, the bill is usually ordered to be read a third 
 time : but instances have occurred where the bill in its 
 passage through committee has been altered to such an 
 extent that the House has ordered a reference to the 
 examiners to inquire " whether the amendments involve 
 any infraction of the Standing Orders."(") 
 
 The formalities governing the third reading stage of 
 bills not amended in committee -ipply also to bills 
 amended in committee and to railway and tramway bills. 
 
 The third reading affords to opponents a final oppor- 
 tunity of asking the House to reject the bill, though at 
 this stage they are met with the further difficulty that 
 they have to make out such a case as to satisfy the House 
 that it is right to sterilise the labours of the committee 
 and reverse the conclusion come to on the second reading 
 apparently by the House. A recent example of an un- 
 successful attempt to do this will be found in the 
 Cambridge Corporation Bill.( :i ) When a bill has been 
 read a third time and passed, if it is a Commons' bill, it is 
 sent up to the Lords by the clerk, and the concurrence of 
 the Lords desired. If it is a Lords' bill, a message is sent 
 to the Lords stating that the bill has been passed with, or 
 without amendment, and if with amendments, desiring the 
 
 0) See S. 0. 216, 217, 242, post, pp. 160. 164. 
 
 (■) May 787. 
 
 (») Pari. Deh., 4th series, vol. 24, pp. .579, 750.
 
 PROGRESS OF BILL THROUGH THE COMMONS. 31 
 
 Lords' concurrence thereto. Similarly in the Lords after 
 the third reading of a bill messages to the same effect are 
 sent to the Commons. Where amendments have been 
 made by the Lords in a Commons' bill, the day (or any 
 subsequent day) after the bill has been returned from the 
 Lords one clear day's notice must be given in the Private 
 Bill Office that the amendments are to be taken into con- 
 sideration, and the same notice given of any amendments 
 it is intended to propose to such amendments, and a copy 
 deposited at the same time.(') The agent for the bill must 
 also lay a copy of the Lords' amendments and of the pro- 
 posed amendments to them, if any, before the Chairman of 
 Ways and Means and the Speaker's Counsel before two 
 o'clock in the day before their consideration by the 
 House. ( 2 ) Both sets of amendments must be printed and 
 circulated in accordance with Standing Order 220. When 
 the amendments by either House have been ultimately 
 agreed to by the other, the bill is then ready to receive the 
 Royal assent. 
 
 (') 8. 0. 246, post, p. 165. (-) S. 0. 86, post, p. 122.
 
 ( 32 ) 
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 Instructions. 
 
 When a bill has been read a second time an instruction 
 may be given by the House of Commons either to the 
 Committee of Selection or to the committee on the bill. 
 An instruction to the Committee of Selection may prescribe 
 the particular committee by whom the bill is to be con- 
 sidered, or the constitution of the committee, or the date at 
 which it is to sit, or that the bill is to be considered in a 
 group with certain other bills or other similar matters of 
 procedure. 
 
 Instructions to the committee on the bill are of two dis- 
 tinct kinds : in the one case the committee are peremptorily 
 directed to take a particular course — such instructions are 
 tern km 1 mandatory — and in the other case the committee 
 are simply empowered to inquire into and report upon 
 (and sometimes to make provision in the bill for) matters, 
 which, though relevant to the bill, they might otherwise 
 not have considered. 
 
 An example of a mandatory instruction is afforded by 
 that moved, although not carried, in the case of the 
 Glasgow Corporation and Police Bill, 1895, by which the 
 committee were directed to leave out parts of the bill, on 
 the ground that they contained provisions of a public 
 character which ought not to appear in a private bill.(') 
 A permissive instruction was given to the committee on the 
 
 (') Pari. DeL., 4th series, vol. .'10, p. 1450.
 
 INSTRUCTIONS. 33 
 
 Birmingham Corporation Water Bill, 1892, "that they 
 have power to inquire and report whether it is necessary 
 to extinguish the rights of the commoners " over the 
 district covered by the bill^ 1 ) 
 
 Instructions, whether mandatory or permissive, must 
 not go beyond the scope of the bill. For instance, on a bill 
 enabling a town to take compulsory powers to acquire 
 land for waterworks, an instruction proposing to extend 
 the municipal franchise is, out of order,(-) although where 
 there was no opposition to the principle of the instruction 
 the rule has not been so rigidly applied. ( ;3 ) On the other 
 hand, where, as in the Dublin Corporation Bill, 1 897, a bill 
 alters the register by enabling persons to get on the register 
 on different terms from before, an instruction to extend the 
 franchise would not be out of order. ( 4 ) Another rule of 
 some importance is, that an instruction may not seek to 
 alter the general law in a particular case. Thus, in the 
 London and North- Western Railway Bill an instruction to 
 the committee to insert provisions compelling the company 
 to run third-class carriages in its mail trains was ruled out 
 of order. ( 5 ) 
 
 A permissive instruction that a power should be con- 
 ferred upon a committee which they already possess is out 
 of order, as is also an instruction of the same kind which 
 goes into matters of detail which are the proper subject of 
 amendments in committee ; but neither of these rules apply 
 to mandatory instructions^ 6 ) 
 
 (») Pari. Deb., 4th series, vol. 2, p. 614. 
 
 ( 2 ) Pari. Deb., 4th series, vol. 46, p. 1571 ; and for other instances, see 
 Pari. Deb., 4th series, p. 625 ; ib. p. 1154. 
 
 ( 3 ) Pari. Deb., 4th series, vol. 42, p. 1306. 
 
 ( 4 ) Pari. Deb., 4th series, vol. 46, p. 151. 
 
 ( 5 ) Pari. Deb., 4th series, vol. 39, p. 1707. 
 
 ( 6 ) Pari. Deb., 3rd series, vol. 287, p. 875 ; ib., 4th series, vol. 46, p. 623 ; 
 and see as to permissive instructions, Pari. Deb., 4th series, vol. 2, pp. 622, 626 ; 
 Voluntary Schools Bill, 1897, Pari. Deb., 4th series, vol. 46, p. 1154.
 
 i 34 ) 
 
 CHAPTER VII. 
 
 Locus Standi, Inquiry before the Court of Referees as to 
 Locus Standi. 
 
 The Court of Referees was established to secure uniformity 
 in the decisions upon locus standi, or the right to be heard 
 in opposition to bills before Committees, and to relieve 
 opponents of bills from the necessity of having to be pre- 
 pared with their evidence for the committee, although it 
 might, upon the hearing before committee, be rejected upon 
 a preliminary objection that they had no locus standi to 
 oppose. 
 
 The committees on the bills no longer deal with ques- 
 tions of locus standi, except so far as they may happen to 
 arise incidentally in the course of the proceedings before 
 
 tlH'llU 1 ) 
 
 The Court of Referees now deals with the questions 
 of locus standi in all cases of private bills before the 
 the hearing takes place by the committee on the bill. It 
 is governed by the Standing Orders, the rules framed for 
 their guidance by the Chairman of Ways and Means, and 
 the practice of Parliament^ 2 ) 
 
 The duty of the Court of Referees is limited to deciding 
 upon questions as to the locus standi of opponents of 
 private bills to be heard by the committees thereon upon 
 their petitions against such bills.(' 5 ) 
 
 S. 0. 89, post, p. 123. 
 
 S. 0. 87 89 ; Rules for Ri fi rees, post, pp. 32G, 327; S. 0. 128— i;io, 
 ; | . L29 - 131. 
 3.0. 89, post, p. 123.
 
 LOCUS STANDI. 35 
 
 The rules framed as above stated require promoters 
 objecting to the locus standi of petitioners to give notice 
 of their intention to object, and of the grounds of their 
 objection, to the clerks of the Referees and to the agents 
 for the petitioners not later than the eighth day after the 
 day on which the petition has been deposited in the Private 
 Bill Office ; but the referees have power, under special 
 circumstances, to allow such notices to be given, although 
 the time thus limited may have expired.^) The notices 
 must be endorsed with the names of the agents for the 
 petitioners^ 1 ) 
 
 The petition must be deposited not later than ten days 
 after the first reading of the bill, and must distinctly 
 specify the grounds of objection.( 2 ) 
 
 A list of the cases and of the order in which they will 
 be heard by the Court of Referees is kept in the Referees' 
 Office.( 3 ) 
 
 When the bill is called on before the court, the agent 
 supporting the petition against the bill must produce a 
 certificate of appearance from the Private Bill Office, in 
 which the names of the petitioners, their counsel and 
 agents, are stated.( 4 ) 
 
 In the absence of a special authorisation by the court, 
 one counsel only may appear on each side.( 5 ) 
 
 The court has, by statute, power to examine witnesses 
 upon oath( 6 ), it has in cases as to locus standi no power 
 to award costs. 
 
 The right of an opponent who has duly petitioned 
 against a bill to be heard before the committee on the bill 
 
 C) Rule 1 of Rules for Referees, post, p. 326 ; see for a form of notice of 
 objection, post, p. 283. 
 
 C 2 ) See ante, p. 22 ; and S. 0. 107, 128, i29, 210, post, pp. 126, 129, 159. 
 ( :i ) Rule 4 of Rules for Referees, post, p. 326. 
 
 ( 4 ) Rule .5 of Rules for Referees, post, p. 326. 
 
 ( 5 ) S. 0. 88, post, p. 123. 
 
 («) 30 and 31 Vict. c. 136, ss. 1, 2.
 
 30 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 upon his petition depends, it' his Incus standi is objected to, 
 upon whether he has, in the opinion of the Court of 
 Referees, shewn such an interest in opposing the bill, or 
 Bome portion of it, as is, by the practice of the court, 
 defined a sufficient interest to give him a locus standi to 
 oppose, or upon whether he can bring his case within one of 
 those Standing Orders which in certain specified cases give 
 an absolute right to oppose, and in certain other specified 
 cases a right dependent upon the discretion of the Court. 
 
 There are certain interests which are alwaj^s considered 
 sufficient to give a loc>JL8 standi, as, for example, the inteiest 
 of a landowner, part of whose land it is proposed by the 
 bill to take compulsorily. There is no Standing Order 
 giving to landowners this right in express terms, but it is, 
 and has long been, the settled practice of Parliament to 
 give a locus standi in such cases. 
 
 There are other cases, which will be hereafter specified, 
 where a torus standi is given expressly by various Standing 
 Orders, or where power is given by them to the Referees to 
 allow a locus standi, if in their discretion they think fit 
 to do so. 
 
 The practice of the court, in cases where the matter is 
 not expressly dealt with by Standing Orders, is to a con- 
 siderable extent settled by a long series of reported deci- 
 sions : and it Will be found that the question to be con- 
 sidered in those cases usually is, whether the facts of the 
 particular ease bring it more properly within the principle 
 of one, or other, of the reported decisions. 
 
 The right to a locus standi is founded on the existence 
 of some power in the bill which would affect the petitioner 
 (see Southampton Docks Bill, 1871, 2 C. & S. 161). It 
 is not because petitioners have, or think they have, a 
 grievance under existing legislation that they are to be 
 heard, for the foundation of all locus standi is, that the 
 future legislation proposed by the bill in some way 
 affects the interests of the parties claiming a locus standi
 
 LOCUS STANDI. 37 
 
 injuriously (Gloucester and Berkeley Canal Bill, 1874, 1 C. 
 & R. 76, 77), or, to adopt the expression made use of by 
 one of the Referees (Mr. Rickards), there must be something 
 in the bill which tends to injure the petitioners (South 
 Staffordshire Water Bill, 1875, 1 C. & R. 187, 189). A 
 landowner is not, as a matter of course, allowed a locus 
 standi in relation to bills which are merely for the exten- 
 sion of time for the completion of works authorised by a 
 previous bill, or for th^ abandonment of a scheme, or part 
 of a scheme, sanctioned by a previous bill ; such bills are 
 regarded differently from bills authorising the compulsory 
 taking of an owner's land. 
 
 Owners, lessees, and occupiers of land which is proposed 
 to be compulsorily taken by a bill are, by the practice of 
 Parliament, entitled to a locus standi against the whole of 
 the bill, and are not restricted to those portions which 
 relate to the taking of their property (London and North 
 Western Railway Bill, 1868, 1 C. & S. 62 ; Bute Docks 
 Bill, 1890, R. & S. 14, 15 ; Cork and Fer.noy Railway 
 Bill, 1890, R. & S. 19, 20; Great Western Railway Bill, 
 1891, R. & S. 117, 120; Cardiff Corporation Bill, 1894, 
 R. & S. 328, 330). 
 
 Thus, in the case first cited of London and North 
 Western Railway Bill, 1868, 1 C. & S, 62, a case commonly 
 known as the " post " case, when the counsel for the pro- 
 moters asked, " Am I to understand that your decision 
 goes to this extent : if a landowner has a post in a field 
 at Preston and we take it, that he can be heard against all 
 parts of an omnibus bill, one of which may be for stopping 
 up a footway at Willesden ? " — the chairman, Mr. Dodson, 
 M.P., replied, " If he is a landowner, we have no power to 
 limit him," and one of the Referees (Mr. Rickards) added, 
 " The landowner's post is his castle, and it admits to the 
 whole extent of his petition and no further." 
 
 This case is usually regarded as the leading case upon 
 the rights of landowners to be heard upon all parts of a 
 
 D
 
 38 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 bill which proposes to take lands of theirs. These rights 
 are subject, of course, to the petition being so framed as to 
 shew the extent of the intended opposition, for the oppo- 
 sition may not travel out of the petition (Thames Deep 
 Water Docks Bill, 1882, 3 C. & R. 233). 
 
 The case of the Rhymney Railway Bill, 1890, R. & S., 
 64, ()7, affords an illustration of the extent of the right of 
 general opposition permitted to landowners. The bill was 
 one for the construction of certain separate short lines of 
 railway, one of which crossed a small plot of land belonging 
 to the petitioner; it was held that the petitioner was, as 
 owner, entitled to a general locus standi against the whole 
 bill. This right of general opposition by landowners whose 
 land it is proposed to take extends to lessees of all kinds, 
 and even to tenants at will liable to be ejected upon a 
 month's or other similar notice (Caledonian Railway Bill, 
 1870, 2 C & S. 37). 
 
 A railway company whose land it is proposed by a bill 
 to take compulsorily has the same right in regard to locus 
 standi as a private owner of land (London and North 
 Western Railway Bill, 1868, 1 C. & S. 62, known as "the 
 post case ;" Caledonian Railway Bill, 1872, 2 C. & S. 256 ; 
 Ryde a.nd Newport Railway Bill, 1872, 2 C. & S. 297, 298 ; 
 London and Eastbourne Railway Bill, 1883, 3 C. & R. 
 301, 302). 
 
 An owner of minerals proposed to be taken compulsorily 
 is an owner within the above rule (Great Western Raihvay 
 Bill , 1876, 1 C. & R. 221). A commoner having rights of 
 common is regarded as an owner. The general locus standi 
 allowed to owners is given, not only to the freeholder, but 
 to any person having a vested interest in the land proposed 
 to be taken | ( fordiff Corporation Bill, 1894, R. & 8.328, 329). 
 
 Upon the petition of the magistrates, &c, of the Burgh 
 of Xewton-upon-Ayr, it was held that a right in the peti- 
 fcioners to take gravel from fore-shore proposed by the bill 
 to be taken compulsorily entitled them to a locus standi
 
 LOCUS STANDI. 39 
 
 to oppose the bill {Glasgow and South Western Railway 
 Bill, 1895, 1 S. & A. 15). 
 
 An owner of the subsoil of a public street is an owner 
 within the above rule. Thus, where by a bill it was pro- 
 posed to make a railway in a tunnel under certain streets 
 in Glasgow, which by the Glasgow Police Act, 1866, were 
 vested in the corporation, the owners of the subsoil were 
 allowed a locus as owners against the bill, and were not 
 limited to those portions of it specially affecting their rights 
 to the subsoil (Glasgow City and District Railway Bill, 
 1882, 3 C. & R. 156). 
 
 Wherever the property of an owner or occupier is 
 interfered with by the bill, the general rule is that he is 
 entitled to oppose, and this applies to cases of substantial 
 interference with rights of light, and even to such rights 
 as those of a Telephone Company who have by the consent 
 of the owners of lands or buildings place I their wires upon 
 such lands or buildings (Edinburgh Improvement Bill, 
 1893, R. &. S. 259, 261; South Eastern Bailway Bill, 
 1876, 1 C. & R. 258; Midland Railway Bill, 1890, R. & S. 
 213, 214). It must, however, be noted, that a mere inju- 
 rious affection of land, where the land itself is not inter- 
 fered with, and where the easements, such as the right to 
 light, are not injured, does not in general give a right to ■ 
 oppose. Thus, nuisance from trains passing near the land 
 of an owner, none of whose land is taken, or the loss of 
 mere amenity, such as loss of view, gives no right to a 
 locus standi (London and North Western Railivay Bill, 
 . 1889, R. & M. 263 ; Crystal Palace, <&c, Railway Bill, 
 1869, 1 C. & S. 45; Metropolitan District Railway Bilk 
 1881, 3 C. & R. 86). No right to a locus standi is given 
 by the fact that the proposed works would depreciate the 
 value of an owner's land (West Highland Railway Bill, 
 1889, R. & M. 309, 314). 
 
 Temporary occupation of lands by promoters for the 
 purposes of their undertaking, under a bill incorporating 
 
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 40 PRIVATE WLL PROCEDURE. 
 
 the Railways Clauses Acts which give compensation for 
 such occupation, does not afford to the landowner a ground 
 for a locus standi (Dundee Harbour Bill, 1869, 1 C. & S. 
 45, 46). 
 
 It is the general rule applicable to all classes of cases 
 before the Referees, that it is no answer to a petition to say 
 that the clause or portion of the bill objected to will be 
 struck out, and a landowner cannot be deprived of his 
 general locus standi by the promoter undertaking to strike 
 out of the bill the clauses affecting such landowner (Neath 
 and Krecon Railway Bill, 1867. 1 C. & S. 109; Great 
 Eastern Railway Bill, 1895, 1 S. & A. 19). 
 
 In the case of an extension of time bill, the original 
 bill has become an Act of Parliament, the propriety of the 
 compulsory taking of the land has become res judicata, and 
 the landowner, if he has received notice to treat in regard 
 to his land or has agreed to sell it, has become a creditor of 
 the company having a lien on the land until receipt of the 
 purchase money, and is no longer to be regarded, for the 
 purpose of locus standi, as an owner ( Uxbridge and, Rich- 
 mansuoorih Railway Bill, 1886, R. & M. 133; St. Helens 
 District and Tramways Bill, 1881, 3 C. & R. 94 ; London 
 Riverside Fish Market Bill, 1885, R. & M. 43). It would 
 seem correct to say that upon a mere extension of time bill 
 a locus standi is only given where there are special 
 grounds si i own, and that neither owners whose land has 
 been taken or who have had notice to treat, nor persons 
 who. from proximity or otherwise, are affected by the pro- 
 1 scheme are entitled to oppose where the bill is a mere 
 extension of time bill and there are no special circum- 
 stances (Brymo Watci Bill, 1896, 1 S. & A. 1,3; City and 
 Smith Lov ton R.ii/i'-aij Hill , 1896, 1 S. & A. 71 ; London 
 Riverside Fish Market Bill, 1885, R. & M. 43; St. Helens 
 and District Tramways Bill, 1881, 3 C. & R. 94). 
 
 Abandonment Bills are, in regard to locus standi, 
 treated upon similar lines with Extension of Time Bills. The
 
 LOCUS STANDI. 41 
 
 mere loss of the advantages that a landowner or other 
 person would have derived if the purposes of the original 
 Act had been carried through does not suffice to give 
 a right to a locus standi (Mankester, Sheffield and Linoln- 
 shire Railway Bill, 1881, 3 C, & R 78 ; Great Northern 
 Railway Bill, 1884, 3 C. and R. 39!)). 
 
 An instance of what has been considered as a special 
 circumstance sufficient to entitle a landowner to a locus 
 standi against a bill for extension of time is afforded by 
 the Brymo Water Bill, 1896, 1 S. & A. 1, 5. In that 
 case the landowner petitioning had agreed to certain terms 
 of compensation on the footing of the works being com- 
 pleted within the time originally fixed, and it was not 
 clear that under the bill he could claim any additional 
 compensation for injury caused by the extension of time. 
 In another case, where by a previous Act the promoters 
 had power to make a weir across the Clyde and to main- 
 tain it until the completion of their waterworks, and they 
 proposed by the bill, inter aha, to extend the time for com- 
 pletion of their waterworks and for the removal of the 
 weir a locus standi was allowed to owners and occupiers of 
 wharves, &c, on the banks above the weir, who alleged 
 that the weir was a nuisance and an obstruction to the 
 navigation and detrimental to their interests as such 
 owners and occupiers, whilst at the same time a locus 
 standi was not allowed to owners of factories to be sup- 
 plied with water under the Act, because to these latter it 
 was a mere extension of time bill (Glasgow Corporation. 
 Water Bill, 1873, 1 C. & R. 24, 25). 
 
 Upon an Abandonment Bill a landowner has been given 
 a locus standi whose land had been taken and paid for 
 under the powers of the Act where the Abandonment Bill 
 contained a clause permitting the sale of such land without 
 giving the landowner a right of pre-emption similar to that 
 given on the sale by a railway company of its superfluous 
 land (West Lancashire Railway Bill, 1879, 2 C. & R. 231.
 
 42 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Whilst on a bill to sanction the abandonment of a proposed 
 line of railway the locus standi of an owner, some of whose 
 land had been taken and paid for under the Act, was dis- 
 allowed, although he complained that the leaving the land 
 taken with partly finished works upon it would be an 
 injury to the rest of his estate, the principle being, that the 
 company, having bought and paid for the land taken, were, 
 in the absence of special agreement with the landowner, 
 under no legal liability to him to complete their works 
 (London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Bill, 1868, 
 1 C. & S. 18). 
 
 Where there has been a special agreement with the 
 landowner he will be allowed a locus standi to oppose so 
 far as may be necessary for the purpose of saving any 
 legal rights he is entitled to under such agreement (Great 
 Northern Railway BUI, 1884, 3 C. & R. 399). 
 
 Landowners whose land may be thereafter taken under 
 an Act, and who have neither received notice to treat nor been 
 settled with, have in many instances been allowed a locus 
 standi to oppose bills for extension of time for compulsory 
 purchase (Nort h Metropolitan Railway Bill, 1870, 2 C. &S. 
 24 ; Pontypridd, etc., Railway Bill, 1885, R. & M. 59 ; South 
 Eastern Railway Bill, 1885, K. & M. 67 ; East and West 
 Yorkshire Railway Bill, 1886, R. & M. 98 ; Drayton Junc- 
 tion Railway Bill, 1867, 1 C. & S. 28). It would seem 
 that the practice is to give them a general locus standi 
 limited only by their petition (see East and West York-. 
 shirr Railway Bill, supra ; Great Western Railway Bill, 
 1891, R. & S. 117). 
 
 Where proximity to works proposed by a bill is not in 
 itself a ground for obtaining a locus standi, an owner or 
 occupier of land in such proximity, none of whose land is 
 proposed to be compulsorily taken, if he is given a locus 
 standi, is given only a limited, locus standi, as opposed to 
 the general locus standi to which one whose land is pro- 
 posed to be taken compulsorily would be entitled. It is
 
 LOCUS STANDI. 43 
 
 limited, in general, to such portion of the bill (if any) as 
 affects some special interest of his which appears entitled 
 to be protected. 
 
 Diminution in value, for instance, that will be caused 
 to an estate, none of which is taken, by the making of a 
 railway near it, gives no right of Locus standi to the 
 owner or occupier (see ante, p. 39), but the obstruction or 
 partial destruction of a right of access to business or other 
 premises, where it is a serious and substantial injury to the 
 premises, has been considered a sufficient ground for allow- 
 ing a locus standi to the owners and occupiers of such 
 premises against the portion of the bill relating thereto 
 (Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway hill, 1870, 1 C. & R. 
 235; London and North- Western Railway Bill, 1878, 2 
 C. & R. 119; Hull, Barnsley and West Riding Junction 
 Railway Bill, 1880, 2 C. & R. 249 ; Greenwich Dock and 
 Railway Bill, 1881, 3 C. & R. 60 ; Lancashire and York- 
 shire Railway Bill, 1881, 3 C. & R. 70; Manchester, 
 Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Bill, 1892, R. & S. 
 212). It is in these cases a question of degree, and if the 
 injury is but slight, as, for instance, where one road only, 
 out of several, to a school, was proposed to be interfered 
 with by the bill, the locus standi was not allowed (London, 
 Tilbury and Southend Railway Bill, 1882, 3 C. & R. 185, 
 Liverpool Corporation Bill, 1886, R. & M. 112). 
 
 The injury in these cases must also be special, that is 
 to say, it must be one affecting the interests of the peti- 
 tioner in some way other and beyond the inconvenience 
 which the public in general will suffer (Stockton Carrs 
 Raihvay Bill, 1884, 3 C. & R. 466). Thus the locus 
 standi of occupiers of a manufactory was disallowed 
 where the obstruction would merely compel their work- 
 men, like the rest of the public, to go by a longer route 
 (ib.). 
 
 Trustees or owners of public hospitals in close 
 proximity to proposed railways have been disallowed a
 
 44 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 locus standi where they sought it upon the ground that 
 the working of the railways would seriously diminish the 
 utility of the hospital and injure the patients (North 
 British Rail way Bill, 1877, 2 C. & R. 54; London and 
 North-WesU m Railway Bill, 1889, R. &. W. 268). In the 
 Latter rase, however, the Metropolitan Asylums District 
 Board, the petitioners, obtained a locus standi in the 
 House of Lords, and secured a clause containing pro- 
 visions for their protection. 
 
 In another case, where it was proposed to take certain 
 land in a street in order to make therein shafts to ventilate 
 an underground railway which had been constructed under 
 statutory powers, a locus standi was conceded to the 
 road authority, but not to the owners or trustees of public 
 baths, and washhouses in the street who petitioned against 
 the bill, alleging that the steam and smoke coming through 
 the shafts would seriously affect their premises, and create a 
 probable nuisance. The Court upon the hearing disallowed 
 the locus standi of the owners or trustees, holding that 
 they would suffer no special injury not shared by the 
 general public (Metropolitan District Railway Bill, 1881, 
 3 C. & R. 86). 
 
 The owner or occupier of a well or stream has, if it is 
 proposed to take it compulsorily, a landowner's right to an 
 unlimited locus standi, but it is no ground for a locus 
 standi that the effect of works proposed will be to with- 
 draw, from a well or stream, underground water not in a 
 defined channel, which would otherwise find its way to 
 such well or stream by percolation (Birkenhead Improve- 
 ment Commissioners Bill, 1807, 1 C. & S. 11; Southport 
 Water Bill, L867, 1 C. & S. 13; Tilbury and Gravesend 
 Tunnel Railway Bill, L882, 3 G & R. 239; Cambridge 
 Water Bill, 1880, It. & M. 95, 98; Ince Water Bill, 1871, 
 2 C. & S. 199). 
 
 In underground water running in a defined channel 
 there is the same right as in surface streams, and the pre-
 
 LOCUS STANDI. 45 
 
 venting the flow of such water coming to a proprietor 
 entitled to have such flow may give him a locus standi 
 (Chasemore v. Richards, 7 H. L. C. 349 ; Cambridge Water 
 Bill, supra). 
 
 It is sufficient for the person entitled to allege in his 
 petition that he is so entitled, and to give upon the hearing, 
 if it is contested, prima facie evidence of his title, and of 
 the fact that the water runs in a defined channel under- 
 ground (London and Soudt- Western Spring Water Bill, 
 1882, 3 C. & R. 179 ; Croydon Corporation Bill, 1884, 
 3 C. & R. 385 ; West Gloucestershire Water Bill, 1884, 
 3 C. & R. 477). 
 
 The important questions of locus standi which arise 
 where it is sought to take water for the benefit of one 
 district from an area claimed by the authorities or inhabi- 
 tants of another district as the natural proper gathering 
 ground for their supply, depend to a considerable extent 
 upon the provisions of the Standing Orders which are 
 treated of hereafter. 
 
 Bills for the extension of municipal boundaries, or the 
 boundaries of counties, or local government districts, may 
 be opposed by any owner of land proposed to be included 
 who will be injured by new or increased rates or charges 
 that may be imposed upon his land in consequence of its 
 inclusion within the proposed area (Sunderland, Corpora- 
 tion Bill, 1885, R. & M. 73, 76, 78 ; Edinburgh Extension 
 Bill, 1896, 1 S. & A. 78). 
 
 So, too, an individual owner of land whose property 
 would by the proposed bill be made liable to fresh 
 sanitary regulations and additional burdens has a locus 
 standi to oppose upon all portions of the bill to which the 
 grounds of his complaint, as embodied in his petition, 
 relate (Hove Improvement Bill, 1 873, 1 C. & R. 30 ; 
 Edinburgh Municipal and Police Bill, 1878, 2 C. & R. 149). 
 
 Jt has been said that an owner whose land may be 
 depreciated by new rates holds the same position as one
 
 46 PRIVATE BILL PKOCED-LKIf. 
 
 whose land is taken, but his locus standi has in some cases 
 been limited to that portion of the bill which deals with 
 or imposes the new burden (Walsall Gas Bill, 1876, 
 1 C. & R 27:5 ; Belfast Improvement Bill, 1878, 2 C. & R. 
 67: Sunderland Corporation Bill, 1885, R.&M. 73, 76,78). 
 
 Where a bill deprives an owner of a substantial legal 
 right, the general rule is, that he should be given a locus 
 standi, though it may be limited to that part of the bill 
 which affects him, if none of his land is taken compulsorily. 
 
 Thus, where by a bill it was proposed to stop up a public 
 footpath which gave convenient access to neighbouring 
 villages from the petitioner's land, which but for the bill 
 could not be stopped up without an order of Quarter 
 Sessions, the making of which the petitioners could have 
 opposed, it was held that the petitioner was entitled to a 
 locus standi (Bristol United Gas Bill, 1877, 2 C. & R. 2). 
 
 Where a landowner had sold oft* a portion of a building 
 estate, subjecting it to certain restrictive covenants as to the 
 houses to be built, &c, for the mutual benefit of the various 
 purchasers, and for the benefit of the estate as a building 
 estate, and a railway company proposed by a bill to take 
 the land thus sold oft' and use it for stations, cottages, and 
 railway purposes not in conformity with the covenants, it 
 was held that the landowner, though he had sold off the 
 land intended to be taken, was entitled to a locus standi to 
 object to the proposal (London and South Western Railway 
 Bill, 18^2, 3 C. & R. 175). 
 
 The petition against the bill or against certain clauses of 
 it is treated as the formal complaint against it. It must 
 set forth the title of the petitioner to complain and the 
 grounds of his complaint distinctly (see S. O. 128, post, 
 p. 120). Where the petitioner claims a locus standi as 
 owner or occupier, the petition must state specifically or 
 show clearly that he is owner or occupier of the property 
 to be interfered with (Thames Deep Water Dock Raihuay 
 Bill, 1882, 3 C. & R. 23:-!).
 
 LOCUS STANDI. 47 
 
 If the promoters intend to dispute an allegation in a 
 petition, as, for instance, an allegation that the petitioner is 
 owner of land proposed to be taken, they must in their 
 objections specifically deny the allegation (Fumess Railway 
 Bill, 1876, 1 C. & R. 217). If the promoters desire to deny 
 the title alleged, they must deny it specifically in their 
 objections, and then the petitioner will have to give before 
 the Referees prima facie evidence of it. It is not necessary 
 that title deeds should be produced or that strict legal 
 proof of title should be given. Where title is thus denied 
 the court does not try title, but merely requires to know 
 with some degree of precision the real nature of the 
 interest of the party who claims a locus standi {Ely and 
 Glydach Valley Railway Bill, 1873, 1 C. & R. 18 ; Glasgow 
 Street Improvement Bill, 1875, 1 C. & R. 158, 159 ; Belfast 
 Improvement Bill, 1878, 2 C. & R. 69, 70 ; Hundred of 
 Hoo Railway Bill, 1 880, 2 C. & R. 258). The practice is 
 the same as to all material allegations in petitions ( Wool- 
 wich and Plwmstead Tramways Order Bill, 1880, 2 C. & R. 
 321, 323). 
 
 A frequent ground of opposition is that of " competi- 
 tion." By S. O. 130 the Referees, if they think fit, may 
 allow a locus standi upon this ground. Although it is in 
 each case matter for the discretion of the Referees, the 
 general principles upon which cases of this class are dealt 
 with have become to a considerable extent fixed by the 
 decisions which have been given. 
 
 Thus, a locus standi is not given upon the ground of 
 competition where the competition anticipated is merely an 
 improvement of competition already created by existing 
 legislation (Northwich Local Board Water Bill, 1885, 
 R. & M. 57 ; Mersey Railway Bill, 1886, R. & M. 118 ; 
 Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Raikuay Company 
 (Steamboats) Bill, 1889, R. &M. 270, 275 ; East Stonehouse 
 Water Bill, 1893, R. & S. 246). But it may be given 
 where it is competition of a new character. For instance,
 
 48 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 where there has been competition merely in goods traffic or 
 local passenger traffic, a locus standi might be allowed 
 against a bill which would create competition in through 
 passenger traffic (Bedford and Peterborough Railway Bill, 
 1886, R. & M. ST). 
 
 A locus standi on the ground of competition has, 
 amongst other cases, been allowed in the following : — 
 
 (1.) To steamboat proprietors against railway com- 
 panies apptying for special powders to own and work 
 steamboats (Clyde, dr., Railway Bill, 1889, R. & 
 M. 143, 144; Cambrian Railway Bill, 1889, R. & 
 .M. 243 ; Glasgow Railway Bill, 1891, R. & S. 115). 
 (2.) To omnibus companies or proprietors against 
 Tramway Bills (Woolwich, and Pluou.stcad Tram- 
 way* Order Bill, 1880, 2 C. & R, 321, 322). 
 (3 ) To owners of ferries against bills for erecting 
 bridges which would interfere with the ferries 
 (Cork and Fermoy Railway Bill, 1890, R. & S., 23). 
 (4.) To gas companies against bills promoted by muni- 
 cipal corporations for electric lighting, and against 
 new gas companies seeking to place mains in and 
 supply gas to their districts (Hall Lighting Bill, 
 1880, 2 C. to R. 251 ; Westgate, Ac, Gas Bill, 1879, 
 2 C. & R. 229). 
 (5.) To owners of slaughter houses against a bill by a 
 
 municipal corporation to erect a slaughter house. 
 id.) To water companies against a bill for supplying 
 sea water within their districts for watering the 
 streets and tor other purposes (London Sea 
 Water Supply BUI, 1881, 3 C. & R. 75). 
 (7.) To a steam tramway against a railway (see 
 Sutton and Willoughby Railway Bill, 1N84, 3 C. & 
 R. 471). 
 (8.) To an ordinary railway company against a light 
 railway (Elham Valley Light Railway Bill, 
 1880. 2 C. & R. 240).
 
 LOCUS STANDI. 49 
 
 (9) To canal companies against railway companies 
 Stourbridge Railway Bill, 1885, R. & M. 72). 
 It has been refused in the following cases : — - 
 
 (1.) To railway companies against street tramways 
 (see London Street Tramways Bill, 1870, 2 C. & 
 S. tt5 ; Tramways Orders Confirmation (London 
 Street Tramways) Bill 1871, 2 C. & S. 199 ; Glas- 
 gow Tramways Bill, 1872, 2 C. & S. 282 : Wool- 
 \vich and Plums'ead Orders Hill, 1880, 2 C. &. R.. 
 321) 
 (2.) To the owners of a hotel against a bill by a rail- 
 way company containing powers to enable the com- 
 pany to build and maintain a hotel in proximity 
 to that of the petitioners (Caledonian Railway 
 Bill, 1881, 3 C. & R. 23, 25). 
 (3.) To carriage and engine builders against a bill by 
 a railway company to enable them to make their 
 own carriages and engines {North, British Rail- 
 way Bill, 1877, 2 C. & R. 50). 
 (4.) To manufacturers of gas and water fittings against 
 bills by gas or water companies to enable them to 
 supply fittings (Bolton Improvement Bill, 1882, 
 3 C. & R. 131). 
 (5.) Cab proprietors against tramways ( Woolwich 
 and Plum-stead Tramways Orders Bill, 1880, 2 C. 
 & R. 321). 
 A locus standi is given, on the ground of competition, 
 only where there appears to be a substantial competition, and 
 in cases of this class the question is generally one as to the 
 amount of competition (Swindon, Marlborough and 
 Andover Railway Bill, 1883, 3 C. & R. 348). 
 
 The locus standi, if allowed, is not necessarily allowed 
 against the whole bill, but may be limited to so much of 
 the preamble and clauses as relates to the competition (see 
 Swindon, Marlborough, Sc, Bill, supra; Great Eastern 
 Railway Bill, 1872, 2 C. & S. 231).
 
 50 PHIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Where competition is relied on, the petition must allege 
 the fact of competition, or else it must contain statements 
 from which it is clearly to be inferred that the petitioner 
 relies on competition, and must in the same way by distinct 
 averment or necessary implication show that the interests 
 of the petitioner are injuriously affected by the competi- 
 tion (see King's Cross Subway Bill, 1885, R. & M. 32; 
 Worcester and Broom Railway Bill, 1889, R. & M. 315, 
 31 (i ; Harroiv, &c, Railway Bill, 1887, R. & M. 159). 
 
 S. O. 131, 132 (post, pp. 129, 130) deal with the cases in 
 which shareholders in incorporated companies are to be 
 allowed a locus standi against bills promoted by the com- 
 panies in which they hold shares, and are not to be dis- 
 allowed a locus standi by the application of the general 
 principle that corporations are bound by the action of their 
 corporation and should not be heard against the corporate 
 seal, a principle which practically means that the minority 
 are bound by the action of the majority. By S. O. 131 
 shareholders are not be heard against bills promoted by 
 their companies unless their interests as affected are distinct 
 from the general interests of the company, and by S. 0. 132 
 any shareholders who have dissented at a meeting of the 
 company (called as required by S. O. 62-66) are to be per- 
 mitted to be heard. 
 
 Reading these two orders together, the result would 
 seem to be, that shareholders whose interests affected are 
 distinct from the general interests of the company, and who 
 Ij iv dissented at a meeting as required, have an absolute 
 right, if their petition is in proper form, to be heard upon 
 so much of the bill as affects such interests of theirs (see 
 Liverpool Tramway Hill, 1880, 2 C. & R., 273), that share- 
 holders whose interests are thus distinct may, if the court 
 thinks fit, be allowed a l<> us standi even if they have not 
 dissented as required (sec Mi/ford Docks Bill, 1884, 3 C. & 
 it. 446), that shareholders whose interests are not thus dis- 
 tinct, but who have dissented at a meeting as required, are
 
 LOCUS STANDI. 51 
 
 probably entitled to a locus just as much as if their interests 
 had been distinct from the general interests of their com- 
 panies (see Liverpool Tramway Bill, 1880, 2 C. & R. 273, 
 275 ; Electric Lighting Orders Bill, 1890, R. & S. 26, 27, 
 28). 
 
 S. O. 131 expresses the general rule that a dissentient 
 shareholder is not to be heard unless he has a distinct 
 interest, and the S. O. 132 makes an exception in the case 
 of companies within S. O. 62 and the Standing Orders im- 
 mediately following (Electric Lighting Orders Bill, 1890, 
 R. &S. 26, 27). 
 
 By S. 0. 133 (post, p. 130) where a railway bill contains 
 provisions for taking or using any part of the lands, &c, of 
 another company, or for running upon or across the same, 
 or for other facilities such company is to be heard upon 
 their petition against such provisions or against the pre- 
 amble and clauses of the bill. 
 
 This Standing Order would seem to permit the court 
 in the cases within it to exercise its discretion as to whether 
 the locus standi should be unlimited, or whether it should 
 be limited to the provisions of the bill which fall within 
 the words of the Order (East and West Yorkshire Bail- 
 ways Bill, 1882, 3 C. & R. 142 ; Bridgewater Bailway Bill, 
 1886, R. & M. 89 ; Great Western Baikuay Bill, 1889, R. & 
 M. 252; Forfar and Brechin Bailway Bill, 1891, R. & S. 
 108, 110). 
 
 Where, by a railway bill, running powers or other similar 
 facilities, or a right to cross over its lines are to be acquired 
 compulsorily against another railway company, and there is 
 no compulsory acquisition of the land of that other com- 
 pany, it would seem that in general the locus standi allowed 
 will be a limited one (Botherham, d-c, Bailway Bill, 1891, 
 R. & S. 152 ; Forfar and Brechin Liailway Bill, supra), but 
 if land is to be permanently taken the company will, if its 
 petition claims a locus standi as owner be granted an un- 
 limited locus as landowner (see ante, p. 36 ; and Devon
 
 52 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 and Cornwall Railway Bill, 1882,3 C. & R., 136 ; Bridge- 
 water Railway Bill, L886, K. & M. 8.4). 
 
 By S. O. 133a (post, p. 130) passed in 1883, the Referees, 
 if they think tit, may allow a locus standi against the bill 
 to Chambers of Commerce or Agriculture, or other similar 
 body, sufficiently representing any trade or business in any 
 district to which the bill relates, if in the petition it is 
 alleged that such trade or business will be injuriously 
 affected by the rates and fares proposed to be authorised by 
 the bill, or is so affected by rates and fares already 
 authorised by Acts relating to the railway undertaking, 
 or against any portion of the bill, or against the rates and 
 fares authorised by such Acts, or any of them, subject to 
 the proviso that the Referees are not by this Order 
 authorised to entertain any question within the jurisdiction 
 of the Railway Commissioners. 
 
 This order appears to be intended to give protection in 
 cases where, by the bill, rates and fares will be enforceable 
 which will injuriously affect any trade or business in the 
 district, and to require an allegation to that effect in the 
 petition (see Metropolitan District Railway Bill, 1895, 
 1 S. & A. 123: Wrexham Railway Bill, 1888, R. & M. 
 231 : Great Western and Cornwall Railways Bill, 1889, 
 R. & M. 255, 258). 
 
 S. 0. 133 B. (post, p. 130), passed in 1895, gives a 
 further power of allowing a locus standi to Chambers of 
 Commerce, &c, extending the right to bills injuriously 
 affecting agriculture, trade, mining, or commerce in the 
 district, but, following the previous Order, the body peti- 
 tioning must sufficiently represent the agriculture, trade, 
 mining, or commerce of the district, and there must be 
 an allegation in the petition that such agriculture, trade, 
 mining or commerce, will be injuriously affected by the 
 provisions in the bill. 
 
 In 1889 the Chamber of Commerce of Hull, composed 
 of shipowners of Hull and the neighbouring port of Goole,
 
 LOCUS STANDI. 53 
 
 instituted to look after the shipping trade and commercial 
 interests of Hull, were admitted to oppose a bill to 
 empower a railway company to own and run steamboats 
 between Grimsby and a number of ports in Sweden, 
 Norway and the Baltic, to which the shipowners traded 
 largely (Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railivay 
 Company (Steamboats) Bill, 1889, R. & M. 270; and see 
 S. 0. 156, post, p. 135). 
 
 In 1892, where individual shipowners directly interested 
 were going to be heard the locus standi of two Associa- 
 tions, the Steamship Owners Association and the Irish 
 Steamship Association, composed largely of firms who had 
 no steamers trading between the ports named in the bill or 
 contiguous thereto, and no interest in the trade to be 
 accommodated under the bill was disallowed against a bill 
 to give a railway company power to provide and run 
 steamboats between certain named ports in England and 
 Ireland. The matter was one for the discretion of the 
 Referees, and they appear to have thought that the Asso- 
 ciations were not sufficiently interested in the particular 
 trade which was fully represented by the individual owners 
 (Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (Steam Vessels) Bill, 
 1892, R. & S. 199). This decision was founded a good 
 deal upon a former decision in the similar case of the 
 Glasgow and So nth- Western (Steam Vessels) Bill, 1891, 
 R & S., 115, where owners directly interested were oppos- 
 ing, and the Steamship Owners Association represented 
 steam shipping in general rather than the particular trade 
 as required by S. O. 133a. 
 
 In 1892 an Association of South Yorkshire Coal Owners 
 were allowed a locus standi against bills to amalgamate 
 the Hull Docks Company with the North-Eastern Railway 
 Company's undertaking (North-Eastern Railway (Hull 
 Docks) Bill, and North-Eastern Railway Bill, 1892, R. & S. 
 217). It may, however, be observed that this Association 
 represented the particular coal trade, and also that on
 
 54 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Amalgamation Bills there is a practice of allowing, as far 
 as practicable, all interested to be heard (see post, p. 61). 
 
 S. 0. 134 (post, p. 130) permits a locus standi to be 
 allowed, if the Referees think fit, to municipal or other 
 local authorities having the management of the Metropolis 
 or of any town, or to the inhabitants of any town or 
 district alleged to be injuriously affected by a bill. 
 
 No definition of the meaning of " district " in the above 
 S. O. is given, but it has been held that it is not restricted 
 to local government districts, and may include any definite 
 locality having tangible limits, and might, it would seem, 
 be even satisfied by an area of definite extent in proximity 
 to proposed works or to a proposed railway (see Grand 
 Junction Canal Bill, 1879, 2 C. & R. 165; Manchester, 
 Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Bill, 1891, K. & S. 
 133, 135 ; London Tramways (Extension) Bill, 1889, R. & 
 M. 268). 
 
 The area of a Rural District Council may be a " dis- 
 trict " within this Order or S. 0. 134a (Bilston I improve- 
 ment Bill, 1896, 1 S. & A. 42). 
 
 The expression, " the inhabitants," in this Order, does 
 not mean necessarily the whole or even a majority of the 
 inhabitants, it is held to be satisfied by a petition signed 
 by a sufficient body of them to be fairly representative 
 of the town or district, but not if the signatories are an 
 insignificant minority in no way representative of the 
 locality. Thus a petition signed by 950 only out of 
 270,000 inhabitants was rejected as not sufficiently repre- 
 sentative, where the local authorities had petitioned, and 
 there was no reason for supposing that they did not 
 adequately represent the interests of the inhabitants 
 (Totfcnharu and Forest Gate Railway Bill, 1890, R. & 
 8. 72). 
 
 The object of 8. O. 134 is the protection of the public, 
 and the Court of Referees in deciding upon locus standi 
 under it, w T ill consider whether the interest claiming to be
 
 LOCUS STANDI. 55 
 
 heard is so abundantly represented as to make further 
 representation unnecessary (Manchester Ship Canal Bill, 
 1885, R. & M. 49). 
 
 A locus standi will not be allowed under S. O. 134, if 
 the petition contains no allegation that the town or dis- 
 trict is injuriously affected by the bill ; but the precise 
 expression " injuriously affected " need not be used, if in 
 some equivalent language a statement to the effect that 
 the town or district is thus injured is made in the peti- 
 tion ; the safer course is, however, to follow the precise 
 language of the order in framing the petition (Isle of 
 Wight and Cowes Railway Bill, 1871, 2 C. & S. 211, 213 ; 
 South London Gas Bill, 1872, 2 C. & S. 218 ; Lambeth 
 Water Bill, 1883, 3 C. & R. 292 ; Lea Valley Drainage 
 Bill, 1892, R. & S. 202). 
 
 Under the above Order (S. O. 134) the Corporation of 
 Birmingham were allowed to oppose bills dealing with the 
 gun trade, a staple industry of that town (Birmingham 
 Proof House Bill, 1868, 1 C. & S. 125 ; Gun Barrel Proof 
 Bill, 1868, 1 C. & S. 136), and in the case of a bill to 
 transfer the undertaking of the Shoreham Waterworks to 
 the Corporation of Brighton, a locus standi was allowed 
 under it to the Corporation of Worthing upon the ground 
 that their town was injuriously affected by the powers in 
 the bill enabling the Corporation of Brighton to use in 
 Brighton, if they thought fit, any surplus water not 
 required for Shoreham, which the petitioners alleged would 
 affect a natural watershed from which they might other- 
 wise have procured in the future water for Worthing 
 (Brighton Corporation Water Bill, 1896, 1 8. & A. 47). 
 It may be noticed that the bill was not a " Water Bill " 
 within S. O. 134a. 
 
 A local authority will be allowed a locus standi against 
 a bill or clause enabling a neighbouring authority to pur- 
 chase and work tramways within its district (Edinburgh 
 Improvement and Tramways Bill, 1896, 1 S. & A. 82). 
 
 E 2
 
 56 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 The Corporation of Inverness were allowed a lectin 
 standi against a bill to construct a railway to compete 
 with the existing railway to that place, upon an allegation 
 that the prosperity of the town of Inverness was largely de- 
 pendent on the existing railway, and that anything affecting 
 its interests prejudicially, must prejudice those of the town 
 (Great North of Scotland Railway Bill, 1890, R. & 
 S. 34). 
 
 Upon mere extension of time bills public authorities are 
 not allowed to oppose, any more than private individuals, 
 with a view to alter past legislation (London. Riverside 
 Fish Market (Extension of Time) Bill, 1885, R. & M. 43); 
 but where a local authority alleged in their petition that 
 the propose 1 extension of time for making a railway, 
 which interfered with several highways in their district, 
 would prevent them from dealing with their sewers, 
 roads, &c, and that the development of their district 
 would be retarded, and improvements postponed, a locus 
 standi was allowed them to oppose the extension of time 
 (London and South-Western, and Metropolitan District 
 Railway Cos. Bill, 1884, 3 C. & R. 422). 
 
 By S. O. 134a [pod, p. 131), the municipal or other 
 local authority of any town or district alleging in their 
 petition that their town or district may be injuriously 
 affected by the provisions of any bill relating to the 
 lighting or water supply of their area, or the raising of 
 capital for such purpose is entitled to. be hear.l against 
 such bill. This order is mandatory (Bradford Corpora- 
 tion Water Bill, L892, R. & S. 1(39; Bilston Improvement 
 Bill, L896, 1 S. & A. 42, 44). It is mandatory to the 
 extent of entitling petitioners to a locus standi against 
 tli<- provisions in tin- bill relating to the lighting or supply 
 of their town or district which may injuriously affect their 
 town or clistrict (see Birmingham (Consolidation) Bill, 
 1883, 3 C. & R. 257). The petitioners must allege that 
 their town or district may be injuriously affected by the
 
 LOCUS STANDI. 57 
 
 provisions of the bill (Lambeth Water Bill, 1883, 3 C. & R. 
 292 ; Worthing Gas Bill, 1875, 1C.&R 201). 
 
 By S. O. 134b (post, p. 131), County Councils may be 
 admitted to oppose if they allege in their petition that the 
 whole or some part of their area is injuriously affected by 
 the bill. 
 
 This order is not mandatory, it will be observed, in its 
 terms, and it will also be noticed that the petition must 
 allege, like the previous orders, injurious affection. 
 
 By S. O. 134c (po4, p. 131), County Councils, making 
 the allegation in their petitions as to injurious affection 
 required by that Order, have a right to be heard against 
 bills relating to the water supply of any town or district, 
 whether within or without their county. 
 
 This Order would seem to be mandatory to the extent 
 of entitling a County Council, upon its allegation in regard 
 to a bill relating to the water supply of any town or 
 district that its provisions in regard to that matter may 
 injuriously affect their county, or some part of it, to a 
 locus stem <l'i against those provisions. 
 
 In the case of Falkirk Water Bill, 1896, 1 S. & A. 
 85, 89, it was held that this Order did not entitle a local 
 authority to oppose upon the ground that the promoters 
 did not include a certain district within the limits for 
 compulsory supply of water. 
 
 By S. O. 135 (post, p. 131), the owner, lessee, or occu- 
 pier of any house, shop, or warehouse in a " street " through 
 which it is proposed to construct a tramway, and who 
 alleges in his petition against a bill or provisional order 
 that the construction or use of the tramway will in- 
 juriously affect him in the use or enjoyment of his 
 premises, or in the conduct of his trade or business, is 
 entitled to be heard on such allegations. 
 
 The word " street " in this Order may include a con- 
 tinuous line of suburban villas with gardens in front, 
 but it has been held not to cover the case of a hundred
 
 58 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 houses scattered over a mile and a half of road (see Lea 
 Bridge, Leyton ami Walthamstow Tramways Bill, 1881, 
 3 C. & R. 73 ; London South District Tramways Order, 
 1882, 3 C. & R. 242). 
 
 It has been held to include a thoroughfare with con- 
 tinuous houses on one side, and on the other only a sea 
 wall {Edinburgh Northern Tramways 5/^,1884, 3 C. & 
 R. 397). It has also been held to include a village street 
 or road through a country village (Tramivays Order Con- 
 firmation (Somerton,&c), No. 2, Bill, 1893, R. & S. 310; 
 and see Brentford and District Tramways Bill, 1885, 
 R. & M. 8). 
 
 S. O. 135 is not limited to owners, &c, whose houses, 
 shops, or manufactories actually open on to the road. It 
 is enough if their yard, or road, or means of access opens on 
 to it (North Metropolitan Tramivays Bill, 1886, R. & M. 
 125, 126 ; Clyde, &c, Railway Bill, 1887, R. & M. 145). 
 
 The effect of it is, to confer a locus limited to such of 
 the allegations in the petition as show that the construc- 
 tion or use of the tramway would injuriously affect the 
 petitioners individually in the use or enjoyment of their 
 premises, or in the conduct of their trade or business, and 
 it does not extend to permit them to raise mere general 
 objections to tramways. They are not, however, confined 
 to showing that the front of their particular premises will 
 be obstructed, but may show that higher up the street, for 
 instance, the tramway will so contract the street as to 
 prevent carriages going up to their premises or shops 
 (Kimffa Cross and City Tramivays Bill, 1878, 2 C. & R. 
 106). 
 
 The petition must state that the petitioners are in- 
 juriously affected, and should show in what way this is so. 
 
 Consumers of water and gas, as a class, and as indi- 
 viduals, are in general allowed to oppose water and gas 
 bills affecting them injuriously, and that notwithstanding 
 that the corporation of their town, or local authority of
 
 LOCUS STANDI. 59 
 
 their district has obtained a locus standi {Walton-on- 
 Thames G<<s Bill, 1887, R. & M. 191 ; South London Gas 
 Bill, 1872, 2 C. & S. 220; Pontypool Gas and Water Bill, 
 1893, 1 C. k R. 51 ; Allian<e Gas Bill, 1871, 2 C. & S. 176 ; 
 Basingstoke Gas Bill, 1887, R. & M. 137 ; Particle Gas 
 and Electricity Bill, 1890, R. & S. 53). But petitioners 
 who were merely affected in common with the ratepayers 
 of the town in general have been disallowed a locus standi 
 against a bill promoted by the corporation of their town 
 to acquire the water supply of the district {Birmingham 
 Water Bill, 1875, 1 C. & R. 144). 
 
 Where a local authority elected by the ratepayers is 
 proposing by a bill to do anything affecting their district, 
 it is a general rule that ratepayers, as such, have no locus 
 standi to oppose, but they may be allowed a locus 
 as owners (ffornsey Local Board Bill, 1893, R. & S. 276, 
 27'8; St. Andrews Links Bill, 1X94, R. & S. 349, 353; 
 Hove Improvement Bill, 1873, 1 C. & R. 30). The doctrine 
 of representation applies to ratepayers and not to owners 
 (Huddersfield Water, &c, Bill, 1876, 1 C. & R. 229). 
 
 Traders, freighters, and others, injuriously affected by the 
 tolls, rates, or other provisions of bills have in numerous 
 instances been permitted a locas standi against the bills, or 
 so much thereof as injuriously affected them, when 
 petitioning as a class, and, where their interests seemed of 
 sufficient importance, when petitioning as individuals ; 
 Indeed, a locus standi has been granted upon a petition 
 signed by one of such persons alone {Lancashire and 
 Yorkshire Railway {Steam Vessels) Bill, 1892, R. & S. 199 ; 
 Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway {Steam- 
 boats) Bill, 1889, R. & M. 271 ; London and North- 
 Western, &c, Railway Bill, 1877, 2 C. & R. 34.) 
 
 Persons in the position of traders, freighters, or ship- 
 owners will not usually be regarded as so represented in 
 their special interests by the corporation of their town, or 
 other public authority, as to be refused a locus stavdi upon
 
 60 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 the ground that they are sufficiently represented by such 
 corporation or authority (see Glasgow and South- 
 western Railway Bill, 1895, 1 S. & A. 9, 11 ; and Man- 
 chester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Hill, 1892, 
 R. & S. 212, 213). See further S. O. 138a, post, p. 130. 
 
 S. O. 14 (post, p. 92) requires notice of the application 
 for the bill to be given to all owners, lessees, and occupiers of 
 mills, manufactories, or other works using the waters of 
 the stream for a distance of twenty miles, or, if that is less, 
 to where it falls into a navigable river, below the point of 
 abstraction in the case of any bill for abstracting water 
 from a stream for the purpose of supplying any cut, canal, 
 reservoir, aqueduct, navigation or waterwork. 
 
 S. O. 15 (post, p. 92) makes similar provision for burial 
 ground, gas, sewage, and infectious hospital bills requiring 
 notices of the application for such bills to be given to all 
 owners, lessees, and occupiers within 300 yards of the burial 
 ground, hospital works, &c. These provisions resemble 
 those of S. O. 11, 14 (post, pp. 91, 92) in regard to notices to 
 owners, lessees, and occupiers of land proposed to be taken 
 compulsorily, and to frontagers on streets where it is pro- 
 posed to lay tramways ; and it would appear that persons 
 entitled to notice under S. O. 14 or 15 will, on a petition 
 showing that they are injuriously affected by provisions in 
 the bill, be entitled to be heard against them, and that 
 others even beyond the prescribed limits, and who conse- 
 quently are not entitled to notice under these orders, who 
 have been so injuriously affected have been, in some cases, 
 given a locus .standi (Local Government Provisional 
 Order (No. 23) Conjirmation hill, 1896, 1 S. & A. 110, 
 119). 
 
 S. O. 17 (post, p. 93,) requires notice of the application 
 for a bill repealing or altering statutory provisions for the 
 protection of the owner, lessee, or occupier of any property, 
 or for the protection or benefit of any public trustees or 
 commissioners, corporation, or person, specifically men-
 
 LOCUS STANDI. 61 
 
 tioned in such provision, to be served upon every such 
 owner, lessee, or occupier, public trustees, or commissioners, 
 corporation or person. The effect of this is that the 
 persons thus entitled to notice are allowed a locus standi 
 against the portion of the bill which thus proposes to affect 
 them, and that even persons or bodies not specifically men- 
 tioned are in general allowed a similar locus standi where 
 the statutory provision was one for their protection or 
 benefit {Croydon Corporation Bill, 1896, 1 8. & A. 5). 
 In the case last cited a waterworks company were 
 given a locus standi on a bill which proposed to repeal 
 a clause for their protection in which they were not 
 specifically named. 
 
 A locus standi is somewhat more readily given on an 
 amalgamation bill than in most other cases, though the 
 general principles applicable aie not departed from. This 
 is in consequence of the recommendation contained in the 
 report of the Committee of both Houses of 1<S72, that 
 special latitude should be given to traders to appear 
 against railway amalgamation bills which injuriously 
 affected their interests. Following this recommendation, 
 upon the London and North- Western, and Whitehaven, <&c. d 
 Railway Bill, 1877, 2 C. & R. 34; the court allowed 
 
 (1) ironmasters, traders, and freighters of Westmoreland, 
 
 (2) iron ore smelters, mineral proprietors, and other traders 
 in Cumberland to oppose the bill which would put an 
 end to competition between the amalgamating companies 
 (see also Highland Railway Bill, 1884, 3 C. & R. 404; 
 Ayr Harbour Bill, 1890, R. & S. 5 ; North- Eastern 
 Railway (Hull Docks) Bill, 1892, R. & S. 217; Great 
 Western and Midland Railways Bill, 1894, R. & S. 334). 
 
 When a road is proposed to be interfered with, a body 
 which has merely a statutory easement in it, as, for 
 instance, a right to lay pipes therein, does get, not an 
 unlimited locus standi as though they were owners, but 
 merely a limited locus to oppose the bill so far as it
 
 62 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 authorises interference with their pipes or easement 
 (HvndLey Local Board Bill, 1878, 2 C. & S. 229). 
 
 Where it is proposed by a bill to remove a market or 
 interfere with it, either permanently or temporarily, a 
 locus standi has been granted to individual traders carry- 
 ing on business therein (MetropolMoun and Metropolitan 
 District Railway Companies Bill, 1879, 2 C. & R. 190 ; 
 North Metropolitan Tramways Bill, 1870, 2 C. & S. 90.) 
 
 Where a bill authorises a railway company to destroy 
 houses so that there will be caused a substantial loss of 
 rates, a locus standi is given to the rating authority (see 
 S. O. 134 ; Metropolitan, &c, Railway Mil, 1879. 2 C. & R. 
 201 ; Mo a ckester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Bill, 
 1894, R. & S. 341), but not where the loss is not substantial 
 in amount (South- Eastern Railway Bill, 1888, R. & M. 
 227; London and North- Western Railway Bill, 1887, 
 R. & M. 173). 
 
 A loss of £800 a year has been held to be a substantial 
 loss where the rates of the whole area were very large 
 (South- La stem Railway B 11, 1890, R. & S. 68.) 
 
 The general practice is to require the petitions of cor- 
 porate bodies to be sealed with their corporate seal where 
 they have one, but petitions, though not thus sealed, have 
 been considered sufficient when signed by the chairman, 
 secretary, or other officer of the corporate body on behalf 
 of the corporation, where it was proved that they were 
 authorised so to sign by a resolution of the board, or by 
 some other sufficient authority (D unit infield Local Boards 
 Hi//, 1877, 2 C. & R. 9 ; Maryport and Carlisle Railway 
 Bill, 1883, 3 C. & R. 316, 318). 
 
 It has been already noted that a corporator, as such, is, 
 as a general rule, treated as bound by the seal, that is, by 
 act of the proper majority ; and the rights of dissentient 
 shareholders have been already referred to ; but an instance 
 may be usefully cited of the practical application of the 
 genera] rule. Thus, where it was proposed by a bill to
 
 LOCUS STANDI. 63 
 
 alter the constitution of a harbour commission, a com- 
 missioner petitioning alone was refused a locus standi 
 in that capacity, because the commission had by an agree- 
 ment come to with the promoters agreed with the 
 promoters on the proposal, and the petitioner was allowed 
 a locus as owner, only against that portion of the bill 
 which related to the extension of the borough so as to 
 include his property (Newport Corporation Bill, 1889, 
 R. & M. 288). 
 
 Where Parish Councils have no power to oppose at the 
 charge of the rates bills for altering their boundaries, it 
 would seem that the County Council may obtain a locus 
 standi as representing them (Edinburgh Extension Bill, 
 1896, 1 S. & A. 72, and see S. O. 134, 13). Ratepayers as 
 well as owners may be allowed to object to being placed 
 under a new rating authority (Sunderland Corporation 
 Bill, 1885, R. & M. 77). 
 
 Before the Court of Referees, the petitioners begin, and 
 then the promoters bring forward their objections. The 
 paragraphs in the petition are numbered, and the grounds 
 of objection are likewise numbered, each ground being 
 separately and distinctly, as far as practicable, stated and 
 numbered. 
 
 The Court can rehear a petition, and will do so, if it is 
 shown that the decision was come to under a misapprehen- 
 sion (Southampton Harbour Bill, 1882, C. & R. 277.) 
 
 Estate bills deal only with the rights of parties named 
 in them, and consequently parties not named are not, it is 
 said, given a locus standA to oppose in the House of 
 Commons (Leeds Coloured Cloth Hall Estate Bill, 1885, 
 R. & M. 38).
 
 ( 64 ) 
 
 CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 House of Lords. 
 
 The House of Lords treats a local bill in a slightly different 
 manner according to whether it has come from the Com- 
 mons or whether by arrangement between the chairmen of 
 both Houses it is Hrst to be considered in the House of 
 Lords.^) In the former case, as has already been stated, 
 the bill is sent to the Lords with a message : in the 
 latter it is presented to the House by one of the Lords, 
 no petition for leave to bring in the bill being necessary 
 where one has been presented to the Commons.(-) In 
 either case, the bill is read a first time after the certificate 
 of the Examiner has been laid on the table of the House, 
 and that whether the Examiner has certified that the Stand- 
 ing Orders have, or that they have not been complied with. 
 The first reading, if the bill originates in the Lords, must 
 not be later than three clear days after such certificate has 
 been laid on the table.( ,T ) It has been already pointed out(') 
 that the Examiners examine as to compliance with Stand- 
 ing Orders, 3-59, of both Houses (which are practically 
 identical) simultaneously, before the introduction of the 
 bill into either House, and the proceedings before the 
 
 (') S. 0. 79, post, p. 121 : and see ante, />. 8. 
 
 ■.<>., ||. I.., 86. 
 ( :i ) S. 0., H. L., XG, A. 
 . I) Ante, p. i 1.
 
 HOUSE OF LORDS. 65 
 
 Standing Orders Committee of the Lords upon the Ex- 
 aminer's certificate have been described^ 1 ) In the Lords, 
 as in the Commons, compliance must be shown with cer- 
 tain other Standing Orders in the case of* bills promoted by 
 companies lief ore the second reading. ( 2 ) Other orders 
 apply specially to bills brought from the Commons,( s ) and 
 no such bill is to be read a second time until the Examiner 
 has certified whether any further Standing Orders are ap- 
 plicable, and, if so, whether or not they have been complied 
 with.( 4 ) Before a charity bill is read a second time, the 
 House must have received a report from the Attornejr- 
 General,( 5 ) and before a bill which may increase railway 
 rates can be read a second time the Board of Trade must 
 have reported.( 6 ) The time for the second reading of a 
 local bill is fixed by the Standing Orders,( 7 ) or by Sessional 
 Orders passed from time to time.( 8 ) 
 
 If the bill has originated in the Lords, petitions praying 
 to be heard against it must be deposited in the Private Bill 
 Office before three o'clock in the afternoon on or before the 
 seventh clay after the second reading ; ('*') if the bill is one 
 which has been brought from the Commons, petitions must 
 be deposited not later than the same period after the first 
 reading^ 10 ) The Chairman of Committees may report that 
 an unopposed bill should be treated as an opposed bill.( n ) 
 An opposed local bill is referred to a Select Committee 
 nominated by the Committee of Selection ; ( l2 ) unopposed 
 bills are considered by the Chairman of Committees, practi- 
 cally alone save for the assistance of his counsel. ( 13 ) Peti- 
 tions praying to be heard against a bill must be printed and 
 copies deposited in the Parliament Office at such time 
 
 (!) Ante, -p. 15. ( 7 ) S. 0., H. L.,91. 
 
 ( 2 ) S. 0., H. L., 62-68. ( 8 ) 127 L. J., 88, e.g. 
 
 ( a ) S. 0., H. L., 60-61. ( 9 ) S. O., H. L., 92. 
 
 («) S. 0., H. L., 87. ( 10 ) S. 0., H. L., 93. 
 
 («) S. 0., H. L., 89. (") S. 0., H. L., 95. 
 
 ( 6 ) S. 0., H. L„ 90. ( 12 ) S. 0., II. L., 96, 97. 
 ( 13 j May, p. 801 ; S. O., H. L., 102.
 
 66 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 and in such numbers as the Chairman of Committees may 
 direct^ 1 ) 
 
 The functions of the committee on the bill are similar 
 to those in the Commons, with this important exception, 
 that questions of locus standi which the House of Com- 
 mons has delegated to the Court of Referees are still deter- 
 mined by the Lords' Committees, whose decision may be, 
 and sometimes, though rarely, is, different from that of the 
 Referees. After the Committee have considered the bill, 
 they report to the House, and in this and in the subsequent 
 proceedings no very material difference exists between the 
 practiee in the two Houses. 
 
 Provision is made by the Standing Orders for share- 
 holders in companies, &c, who have dissented at a meeting 
 called in pursuance of the Standing Orders, being given a 
 locus standi to oppose.(-) And provision is also made by 
 Standing Orders, very similar to those of the other House 
 for permitting in certain cases Chambers of Commerce or 
 Agriculture, Shipping, Mining or Miners' Associations, and 
 Councils of Administrative Counties or Boroughs to op- 
 pose^ 3 ) As to estate, divorce, naturalization and name 
 bills, see " Personal Bills," jjost, p. 68. 
 
 0) 97 L. J., 26, Resolution of Lords. 
 
 ( 2 ) S. 0., H. L., 105, which is identical with S. O., 132, of the House of 
 Commons, which see post, p. 130. 
 
 :, i S. ()., H.L. 105 A, B and C ; and see S. 0. 133 A and B, 134, 134 A, B, 
 and C of the Eouse of Commons, post, pp. 130, 131 ; and Locus Standi, ante, 
 - 57.
 
 ( 67 ) 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 Personal Bills. 
 
 Personal billsX 1 ) though before the passing of the Settled 
 Land Acts, the Divorce Act, and the Naturalization Act, 
 very frequent, are now of rare occurrence. They are intro- 
 duced, as has been stated,( -2 ) in the House of Lords, and upon 
 a petition, with a printed copy of the bill annexed. ( 3 ) The 
 formal parts of the petition are similar to those of petitions 
 for other private bills in the House of Commons,( 4 ) except 
 that the petition is addressed to the Right Honourable the 
 Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled. 
 One or more of the parties principally concerned in the 
 consequences of the bill must sign the petition,( 5 ) and a copy 
 of the bill must be delivered to every person concerned in 
 the bill before the second reading ; ( 6 ) but, where necessary, 
 upon petition or application for the purpose, leave may be 
 given to dispense with personal service, and an order for 
 substituted service made by the House.( 7 ) Certain of the 
 Standing Orders of the House of Lords, with reference to 
 local bills, are, so far as applicable, directed to be observed 
 in reference to personal bills also,( 8 ) and, in addition, Part V. 
 of the Standing Orders is exclusively devoted to them. 
 
 C 1 ) See ante, p. 6. ( 6 ) S. 0. H. L. 152. 
 
 C) See ante. p. 6. (') See Gijford's Divorce BiU,lj. R.12, 
 
 ( 3 ) S. 0. H. L. 150. App. Cas. 361 ; Joint's Divorce 
 
 ( 4 ) See ante, p. 9. Bill, L. E. 13 App. Cas. 741. 
 C s ) S. 0. H. L. 151. ( s ) S. 0. H. L. 181.
 
 I)N PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Petitions for estate bills are, on presentation to the 
 House of Lords, referred to two Judges for their opinion^ 1 ) 
 and no such bill is read a first time until the Chairman of 
 Committees has received a copy of their report.( -2 ) Notice 
 of the bill is required to be given to every mortgagee upon 
 the estate affected, before the second reading. ( 3 ) 
 
 The committee on an estate bill do not sit until ten 
 days after the second reading.( 4 ) Estate bills are not gene- 
 rally opposed, but provision is made for the presentation 
 of petitions in opposition, according to the directions of the 
 Chairman of Committees on each particular case.("') 
 
 The committee and subsequent stages are similar to 
 those in the case of local bills, and are governed by the 
 same rules, so far as they are applicable ; ( G ) and, in addi- 
 tion, provision has been made with regard to the contents 
 of the bill, consents and acceptance of trusts.( 7 ) The com- 
 mittee ma}* admit affidavits in proof of the allegations 
 made in the preamble.( s ) In the Commons, estate bills 
 pass through the House in much the same way as other 
 private bills, except that there need be only three days 
 instead of six between the second reading and the com- 
 mittee stage ; ( 9 ) that the committee report specially on the 
 bill in certain cases ; ( 10 ) and that the promoters are only 
 charged half the usual fees.C 1 ) 
 
 Divorce bills are now necessary only in the case of Irish 
 divorces, the power of the Courts in Ireland being limited 
 to pronouncing a decree of divorce a mensa et thoro. The 
 principle upon which Parliament proceeds in passing these 
 bills was declared in Wedropp's Divorce BillQ 2 ) to be, that 
 the same evidence which since the Divorce Act, 1857, 
 enables the Divorce Court in England to pronounce a 
 
 (i) S. 0. II. I,. L53 — 155. ( ? ) S. O. II. L. 160—173. 
 
 {*) s. 0. II. L. 156. C 8 ) S. 0. II. L. 174. 
 
 i. 0. II. I.. L57. ('') S. <>. 211, post. p. 159. 
 
 I", F5. < '. II. I.. 158. ( 10 ) S. O. 188(70, post, p. 152'. 
 
 3. I ». II. I,. L59. ( u ) See Table of Fees, post, p. 290. 
 
 l») S. O. H. L. 181. ('-) Ij - E- n A PP- Cas. 294.
 
 PERSONAL BILLS. 6& 
 
 decree for dissolution of marriage, will be considered 
 by the House of Lords sufficient ground for passing a 
 Divorce Bill relating to Ireland, where that Act does not 
 apply. 
 
 No petition for a Divorce Bill may be presented to the 
 House of Lords unless an official copy of the proceedings 
 in the Divorce Court having jurisdiction over the petitioner 
 be presented on oath at the bar of the House of Lords. (*) 
 Whether this Standing Order requires proceedings to be 
 taken in a court of law as a condition precedent to 
 relief, was canvassed in a recent case.( 2 ) No opinion was 
 given upon the point, but it was laid down that it was not 
 necessary that a petition below should be successful in 
 order that the House should receive the bill. Every Divorce 
 Bill must contain a clause prohibiting the offending parties 
 from intermarrying ; ( 3 ) this clause, however, is generally 
 struck out by the House. The petitioner must attend upon 
 the second reading to be examined at the will of the House 
 as to collusion and other like matters.( 4 ) Divorce Bills are 
 referred to a Committee of the whole House, and not to a 
 Select Committee. Where upon a bill for divorce by a 
 husband it appears that the wife has no means, the House 
 will order the husband to pay her a small sum that she 
 may make her defence.( 5 ) 
 
 In the Commons there is a Committee designated the 
 Select Committee on Divorce Bills( 6 ), to whom all Divorce 
 Bills are referred( 7 ), and the Standing Orders provide for the 
 evidence which is to be given, for the attendance of the 
 petitioner in cases where he has attended the House of 
 Lords, and for reporting every Divorce Bill to the House.( 8 ) 
 The petitioner is only charged one half of the usual fees.( 9 ) 
 
 (') S. 0. H. L. 175. ( 5 ) As Divorce Sill, L. E. 12, App. 
 
 ( 2 ) Sinclair'* Divorce Bill, 1897, Cas. 365. 
 
 A. C. 469. ( 6 ) S. 0. 189, post. p. 152. 
 
 ( 3 ) S. 0. H. L. 176. (J) S. O. 208, post, p. 158. 
 
 ( 4 ) S. O. H. L. 178. ( 8 ) S. 0. 190, 191, l92,post,ip. 152. 
 
 ( 9 ) See Table of Fees, post, p. 290. 
 F
 
 70 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Naturalization bills have been regarded with increasing 
 disfavour during late years, and successive Ministers of the 
 Crown have declared that they are no longer to be per- 
 mitted merely for purposes of private convenience, and 
 that if any case can be dealt with under the ordinary law, 
 a bill should not be allowed to pass ; ( l ) indeed, in the last 
 recorded case, a clause was inserted in the bill embodying 
 the conditions presented by the Naturalization Act of 1870, 
 as to residence and otherwise. 
 
 No naturalization bill can be read a second time in the 
 Lords until the petitioner has produced a certificate of 
 conduct from a Secretary of State, and has taken the oath 
 of allegiance at the bar of the House.( 2 ) The consent of 
 the Crown must also have been previously signified. ( 3 ) 
 
 In the Commons the only distinctive rule with regard 
 to naturalization bills is, that, as in the case of estate 
 bills, there need only be three clear days between the 
 second reading and Committee.( 4 ) The promoters in Estate, 
 Divorce, Naturalization, and Name Bills in the Commons 
 escape with payment of half fees.( 5 ) 
 
 (') Pari. Deb. 3rd series, vol. 346, p. 1717; ib. vol. 347, p. 205; ih. 4th 
 series, vol. 28, p. 1216. 
 (-) 8. O. H.L. 179. 
 
 ( 3 ) S. 0. H. L. 180. 
 
 ( 4 ) S. 0. 211, post, p. 159. 
 
 ( 5 ) See Table of Fees, post, p. 290.
 
 ( 71 ) 
 
 CHAPTER X. 
 
 Provisional Orders. 
 
 A course of procedure somewhat similar to that by 
 private bill, but far less costly, has been authorised by 
 numerous statutes of the present reign which have enabled 
 various public departments to make what are known as 
 Provisional Orders. The object of these statutes appears to 
 be to facilitate the execution of schemes of public utility 
 specially affecting particular localities or interests, and re- 
 quiring the authority of Parliament, while at the same 
 time preserving to those persons whose individual interests 
 may be specially affected the right to secure a hearing of 
 their particular objections. There are differences of more 
 or less importance in the mode of obtaining a Provisional 
 Order under each particular Act, but the general nature of 
 the steps which usually have to be taken may be indicated 
 as follows : — The parties applying for the Provisional 
 Order (who are termed the promoters) first give notice in 
 the prescribed manner of their application and its objects ; 
 they then present a petition to the public department or 
 body having jurisdiction in the matter. That body con- 
 siders the question, and any objections made by persons 
 interested, and if it does not, as it may, dismiss the appli- 
 cation, it will, in a proper case, direct a local inquiry to be 
 held at which both sides may appear. After the inquiry 
 the Provisional Order is either refused or granted, but if 
 granted it is of no force until confirmed by Parliament, and 
 
 v 2
 
 7'2 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 to obtain this confirmation the public department con- 
 cerned introduces a public bill containing the order in a 
 schedule. If there are still private objectors to the order 
 they may petition Parliament, and in this event the bill 
 will, after the second reading in either House, be referred 
 to a select committee, before whom the opponents are 
 allowed to appear and oppose as in the case of private 
 bills. 
 
 In the House of Commons no fees are charged to the 
 promoters^ 1 ) but the opponents are subject to the same fees 
 as the opponents of private bills, whilst in the House of 
 Lords fees are only charged to either side at the committee 
 stage in the case of opposed bills, and then they are the 
 same for both promoters and opponents as in the case of 
 local bills.(-) 
 
 In both Houses after the bill has been read a first time 
 it is referred to the Examiners,( :J ) and two clear days' 
 notice is given by them of the day on which it will be 
 examined. ( 4 ) This notice is not to be given until after the 
 bill has been printed and circulated. The only Standing 
 Orders compliance with which has to be proved at this 
 stage are 38, 39, and 62 to 67 of both Houses : the rest of 
 the first sixty-eight Standing Orders being inapplicable, as 
 their functions are fulfilled by the provisions of the special 
 statute under which the Provisional Order has been 
 granted and the regulations of the department which has 
 granted it. 
 
 The opponents may by a memorial call attention to 
 ii< mi -compliance with Standing Orders,( 5 ) and thereupon 
 they may be heard as upon a private bill. 
 
 When the bill has been referred to a select committee, 
 the proceedings of the committee, and in the Commons 
 
 0) >S. 0. 151, post, p. 134. 
 
 ( 2 ) H. L. Schedule of Fees, post, p. 295. 
 
 (3) S. 0. 72, post, p. 119 ; S. 0. 70a. H. L. 
 (*) S. 0. 73, post, p. 120; S. 0. 72. II. L. 
 <'■•) S. 0. 232, post, p. 163.
 
 PROVISIONAL ORDERS. 73 
 
 those of the Referees, are conducted in the same manner as 
 in the case of private bills, and are subject to the same 
 rules and orders of the House so far as they are appli- 
 cable^ 1 ) The petition against the bill in the Commons 
 must be presented not later than seven clear days' after 
 notice of the day of examination by the Examiners.( 2 ) In 
 the Lords, if the bill originated in that House, the petition 
 must be presented on or before the seventh day after the 
 second reading ( 8 ) ; if the bill came from the Commons, on 
 or before the seventh day after the first reading. (*) 
 
 No bill for confirming a Provisional Order may be read 
 the first time in the Commons after June l.( 5 ) Somewhat 
 similar to Provisional Orders, and governed by the same 
 Standing Orders, are the Provisional Certificates issued by 
 the Board of Trade to railway companies and their pro- 
 moters under the Railway Companies Powers Act, 1864, 
 the Railways Construction Facilities Act, 1864, and various 
 Acts amending those Acts.( 6 ) The Provisional Certificates 
 only require parliamentary confirmation if notice of oppo- 
 sition has been lodged by a railway or canal company with 
 the Board of Trade. In such case, the Board introduce a 
 public bill into Parliament to confirm the certificate, and if 
 a petition is presented to Parliament against the certificate, 
 the bill is referred to a select committee and treated in 
 exactly the same way as a Provisional Order Confirmation 
 Bill. Below will be found a table showing the various 
 bodies authorised to grant Provisional Orders, the principal 
 Acts giving them the power, the persons who are entitled 
 to apply for orders, and the objects for which the orders 
 are granted. 
 
 0) S. O. 151, post. p. 134 ; S. 0. 89, ^o.sY, p. 123. 
 
 ( 2 ) S. 0. 210, post, p. 159. 
 
 ( 3 ) S. 0. 92, H. L. 
 
 ( 4 ) S. 0. 93, H. L. 
 ( b ) S. 0. 193a, 153. 
 
 ( 6 ) 27 & 28 Vict. c. 120; 27 & 28 Viet. c. 121 ; 31 & 32 Vict. c. 119; 
 33 & 34 Vict. e. 19 ; 37 & 38 Vict. c. 40.
 
 74 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 
 Authority. 
 
 Act. 
 
 Applicant. 
 
 Object. 
 
 I. Secretary of 
 
 (i.) Housing of 
 
 Local authority 
 
 Improvement scheme 
 
 State. 
 
 Working 
 
 in London. 
 
 in unhealthy dis- 
 
 
 Classes, 1890. 
 
 
 tricts in London. 
 
 ii 
 
 (ii.) Explosives 
 
 Local authority 
 
 Repealing Acts as to 
 
 
 Act, 1875. 
 
 or person mak- 
 
 manufacture or 
 
 
 
 ing, &c, ex- 
 
 sale of explosives. 
 
 
 
 plosives. 
 
 
 »> 
 
 (iii.) Police Act, 
 
 Police authority. 
 
 Dealing with excess 
 
 
 1890. 
 
 
 of pension fund. 
 
 i> 
 
 (iv.) Police Act, 
 
 Secretary of 
 
 Repealing, &c, local 
 
 
 1893. 
 
 State. 
 
 Acts as to fire bri- 
 gade or fire police. 
 
 » 
 
 (v.) .Metropolitan 
 
 Police receiver. 
 
 Compulsory acquisi- 
 
 
 Police Act, 
 
 
 tion of land. 
 
 
 1886. 
 
 
 
 „ 
 
 (vi.) Military 
 
 Volunteer corps, 
 
 Compulsory acquisi- 
 
 
 Lands Act, 
 
 or County 
 
 tion of land for 
 
 
 1892. 
 
 Council, or 
 Secretary of 
 State. 
 
 military purposes. 
 
 II. Board of 
 
 C\.) General Pier 
 
 Any person. 
 
 Construction of piers 
 
 Trade. 
 
 and Harbour 
 Act, 1861. 
 
 
 or harbours. 
 
 
 (ii.) Railway and 
 
 Board of Trade. 
 
 Revised classification 
 
 
 Canal Traffic 
 
 
 of traffic and sche- 
 
 
 Act, 1888. 
 
 
 dule of rates. 
 
 
 (iii.) Merchant 
 
 Persons inter- 
 
 Alterations in pilot- 
 
 
 Shipping Act, 
 
 ested in pilot- 
 
 age jurisdiction 
 
 
 ^94. 
 
 age of district. 
 
 and rules. 
 
 »» 
 
 (iv.) Sea Fish- 
 
 Any person. 
 
 Establishment, &c, 
 
 
 eries Act, 
 
 
 of oyster and mus- 
 
 
 1868. 
 
 
 sel fishery on sea- 
 shore. 
 
 ,, 
 
 (v.) Salmon 
 
 Board of Con- 
 
 Compulsory acquisi- 
 
 
 Fishery Act, 
 
 servators or 
 
 tion of land for re- 
 
 
 1873. 
 
 proprietor of 
 
 moving obstruc- 
 
 
 
 fishery. 
 
 tions and other 
 purposes. 
 
 »» 
 
 (vi.) Tramways 
 
 Local authority 
 
 Construction of tram- 
 
 
 Act, 1870. 
 
 or any person 
 with tbeircon- 
 sent, or that of 
 road author- 
 
 way. 
 
 • 
 
 (vii.) Military 
 
 (a) Secretary of 
 
 («) 
 
 
 T r a m w a y s 
 
 State. 
 
 
 
 Act, 1887. 
 
 
 
 ,, 
 
 ., 
 
 (b) Local author- 
 
 (b) Using tramway 
 
 
 
 ity or any per- 
 
 so made. 
 
 
 
 SOD. 
 
 
 n 
 
 (viii.) Gas and 
 
 Any person with 
 
 Construction, &c, of 
 
 
 Water Facili- 
 
 consent of lo- 
 
 gasworks or water- 
 
 
 ty - Acts, 1870 
 
 cal and road 
 
 works. 
 
 
 and 1873. 
 
 authority. 

 
 PROVISIONAL ORDERS. 
 
 75 
 
 Authority. 
 
 Act. 
 
 Applicant. 
 
 Object. 
 
 II. Board of 
 
 (ix.) Electric 
 
 Local authority 
 
 Supply of electricity 
 
 Trade — cont. 
 
 Lighting Acts, 
 
 or other per- 
 
 in any ;irea. 
 
 
 1882andl888. 
 
 son. 
 
 
 III. Local Go- 
 
 (i.) Public Health 
 
 (a) Local author- 
 
 (a) Repeal, &c, of 
 
 vernment 
 
 Act, 1875. 
 
 ity. 
 
 local Acts. 
 
 Board. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 (6) „ 
 
 (b) Settlement, &c, 
 of differences aris- 
 ing out of transfer 
 of powers, &c, 
 from or to local 
 authority. 
 
 ,, 
 
 „ 
 
 (c) LocalGovern- 
 
 (c) Altering areas 
 
 
 
 ment Board. 
 
 and dissolving sew- 
 erage boards. 
 
 »> 
 
 ,, 
 
 (d) Urban au- 
 
 (d) altering mode of 
 
 
 
 thority or ten 
 
 defraying sanitary 
 
 
 
 ratepayers. 
 
 expenses of urban 
 authority. 
 
 „ 
 
 ,, 
 
 (e) Local author 
 
 (c) Compulsory ac- 
 
 
 
 ity. 
 
 quisition of land 
 for purposes of the 
 Act. 
 
 j» 
 
 » 
 
 (/) Urban au- 
 thority. 
 
 (/) Supply of gas. 
 
 ,, 
 
 (ii.) Housing of 
 
 (a) Local author- 
 
 (a) Improvement 
 
 
 Working 
 
 ity out of Lon- 
 
 scheme in un- 
 
 
 Class Act, 
 
 don. 
 
 healthy districts. 
 
 
 1890. 
 
 
 
 ,, 
 
 jj 
 
 (b) Local author- 
 
 (b) Compulsory ac- 
 
 
 
 ity. 
 
 quisition of land 
 under improve- 
 ment scheme where 
 houses closed by 
 closing order. 
 
 »> 
 
 >> 
 
 (c) Local author- 
 
 (c) Compulsory ac- 
 
 
 
 ity. 
 
 quisition of land 
 for lodging-houses. 
 
 
 (iii.) Poor Law 
 
 Local authority. 
 
 Amending local Acts 
 
 
 Amendments 
 
 
 for the relief of the 
 
 
 Acts, 1867 and 
 
 
 poor. 
 
 
 1868. 
 
 
 
 >» 
 
 (iv.) Alkali 
 
 Local Govern- 
 
 Preventing discharge 
 
 
 Works Regu- 
 
 ment Board. 
 
 of noxious gases 
 
 
 lation Act, 
 
 
 from salt works. 
 
 
 1881. 
 
 
 
 )» 
 
 (v.) Brine Pump- 
 
 Owners of land 
 
 Formation of com- 
 
 
 ing Act, 1891. 
 
 or sanitary au- 
 
 pensation districts 
 
 
 
 thority. 
 
 where subsidence 
 caused by brine 
 pumping. 
 
 
 (vi.) Redistribu- 
 
 Any voter. 
 
 Settling doubts as to 
 
 
 tion of Seats 
 
 
 limits of parlia- 
 
 
 Acts, 1885. 
 
 
 mentary division.
 
 76 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Authority. 
 
 Art. 
 
 Applicant. 
 
 Object. 
 
 III. Local Go- 
 
 (vii.) Local Go- 
 
 Local Govern- 
 
 Transfer of powers to 
 
 vernment 
 
 vernment Act, 
 
 ment Board or 
 
 County Council, 
 
 Board — cont. 
 
 1888. 
 
 County Coun- 
 
 altering boun- 
 
 
 
 cil or other lo- 
 
 daries, and other 
 
 
 
 cal authority. 
 
 similar matters. 
 
 IV. Board of 
 
 (i.) Commons 
 
 Any person. 
 
 Inclosure or regula- 
 
 Agriculture. 
 
 Act, 1876. 
 
 
 tion of commons. 
 
 „ 
 
 (ii.) Land Drain- 
 
 (a) Commission 
 
 (a) Compulsory ac- 
 
 
 age Act, 1861. 
 
 ers of Sewers. 
 
 quisition of land. 
 
 >» 
 
 ,, 
 
 (b) Owners of 
 
 (6) Constituting a 
 
 
 
 bog-land. 
 
 drainage district. 
 
 V. Education 
 
 (i.) Education 
 
 School board. 
 
 Compulsory acqui- 
 
 Department. 
 
 Act, 1870. 
 
 
 sition of land for 
 school accommoda- 
 tion. 
 Compulsory acqui- 
 
 »> 
 
 (ii.) Ed\ication 
 
 School board. 
 
 
 Act, 1876. 
 
 
 sition of land for 
 an office. 
 
 VI. Railwayand 
 
 Telegraph Act, 
 
 Postmaster Gen- 
 
 Construction of 
 
 Canal Com- 
 
 1892. 
 
 eral. 
 
 works on private 
 
 mission. 
 
 
 
 land. 
 
 VII. Count yAu- 
 
 Allotments Acts, 
 
 Sanitary author- 
 
 Compulsory acqui- 
 
 thority. 
 
 1887andl890. 
 
 ity or County 
 
 sition of land for 
 
 
 
 Council. 
 
 allotments. 
 
 It may be mentioned that the power to grant Pro- 
 visional Orders is in Scotland vested in the Secretary for 
 Scotland, the Scotch Education Department, the Boundary 
 Commissioners, and the local authority ; while in Ireland 
 orders may be granted by the Lord Lieutenant, the Irish 
 Local Government Board, and the Public Works Com- 
 missioners. It is not, however, thought necessary to 
 mention in detail the provisions of the statutes applying the 
 system of Provisional Orders to Scotland and Ireland. 
 
 It should be noted that the requirements in . the 
 Standing Orders of both Houses for provision for the 
 housing of persons belonging to the labouring class evicted 
 under a bill apply to Provisional Orders^ 1 ) 
 
 < ] ) See S. O. 183a, post, p. 150; S. 0.111. H. L.
 
 ( 77 ) 
 
 CHAPTER XL 
 
 Costs. 
 
 A limited power of awarding costs to promoters of bills to 
 be paid by opponents, and to opponents to be paid by pro- 
 moters, is given by statutes to committees, whether of 
 Lords or Commons, on private bills^ 1 ) But this power 
 only arises where the committee unanimously report that the 
 promoters have been vexatiously subjected to expense in 
 the promotion of the bill by their opponents, or that the 
 opponents have been unreasonably or vexatiously subjected 
 to expense in defending their rights proposed to be inter- 
 fered with by the bill.( 2 ) 
 
 Notwithstanding the above power, no landowner, bona 
 fide at his own risk, opposing a bill proposing to take his 
 land, is to be liable to costs in respect of his opposition.( 3 ) 
 
 The Committee may, where they have power to award 
 costs, award costs to be taxed by the Taxing Officer of the 
 House, or they may, with the consent of the parties affected, 
 name a sum for costs, and thus avoid the necessity for a 
 taxation.( 4 ) 
 
 The Taxing Officer afterwards will, on application, cer- 
 tify the amount he finds due on taxation, or the amount 
 named as above stated by the Committee ; and on non- 
 
 (>) 28 Vict. c. 27, post, p. 344. 
 
 ( 2 ) 28 Vict. c. 27, ss. 1, 2, post, p. 344. 
 
 ( 3 ) 28 Vict. c. 27, s. 2, post, p. 344. 
 
 ( 4 ) 28 Vict. c. 27, ss. 1, 2, post, p. 344.
 
 78 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 payment of the amount thus certified, an action may, after 
 demand thereof, be brought in the High Court to recover 
 the amount from the person or persons liable.(') 
 
 The certificate thus given may not be called in question 
 in any court, and special provision is made simplifying the 
 procedure to recover the amount. ( 2 ) 
 
 The plaintiff may specially endorse the writ with a 
 statement of his claim, which is the equivalent of the 
 " declaration " under the system of pleading in force at the 
 time the Statute (28 Vict. c. 27) was passed ; and upon 
 filing such statement of his claim, together with the cer- 
 tificate of the Taxing Officer and an affidavit showing 
 demand of payment, sign judgment and issue execution for 
 the amount, or he may make use of the ordinary procedure 
 and seek a summary judgment under O. xiv. of the Rules 
 under the Judicature Acts.( 3 ) 
 
 Where the special procedure is adopted, the defendant 
 can not, without leave of the Court or a Judge, put in a 
 defence to the claim upon the certificate. The only 
 defences available against a claim upon such a certificate 
 would seem to be defences showing that the certificate was 
 made without jurisdiction, or that it was not given in 
 accordance or conformity with the Act of Parliament, or 
 that it was obtained under, or was being attempted to be 
 enforced under circumstances which would formerly have 
 been ground for injunction to restrain the claimant from 
 continuing his action or enforcing the certificate, and which 
 consequently now, under the Judicature Acts, afford ground 
 for a stay of proceedings. ( 4 ) 
 
 If judgment has been signed in an action upon the 
 certificate, in accordance with the special procedure thus 
 
 (') 28 Vict. c. 27, 88. 3, 4, 5, post, p. 34o. 
 , 28 Vict. c. 27, mi. 5, 6, post, p. 345. 
 
 (■■■) Mallei v. Ilanly. 18Q. B. D. 303, 310. 
 
 f ') Williams v. Swansea ("anal Company, L. R. 3 Ex L58 ; Swansea Canal 
 v. Great Western Railway Company, L. R. 5, Eq. 444; Mallet v. Hanly, 18 
 Q. B. L. 303. 308, 312, 787, 793.
 
 costs. 79 
 
 given, it is open to the Court or a Judge to set aside such 
 judgment absolutely, if it is shewn that the certificate was 
 made without jurisdiction, or where the absence of juris- 
 diction, though not absolutely proved appears probable, to 
 set aside the judgment and admit the defendant to plead a 
 defence to the claim. ( l ) 
 
 Where a certificate was made — not against the peti- 
 tioners whose names appeared in the petition against a 
 bill, but against persons held by the Committee to have 
 been the real petitioners, though not named as such in the 
 petition— it was decided by the Court of Appeal that such 
 a certificate was one without jurisdiction and unenforce- 
 able.C 2 ) 
 
 The certificate of the Taxing Officer would appear to 
 be a condition precedent to the right to sue the opposite 
 party for the costs.( 3 ) 
 
 The fees chargeable to promoters, or to petitioners 
 against bills, are governed in each House by a Table of 
 Fees put out by such House. ( 4 ) 
 
 The costs payable by promoters or opponents of bills to 
 their agents or solicitors for Parliamentary work done for 
 them on their retainer, or at their request, are, in regard to 
 the Commons, regulated by a list of charges prepared by 
 the Speaker, so far as regards matters comprised in such 
 list; in regard to the House of Lords, by a similar list 
 prepared by the Clerk of the Parliaments.( 5 ) Provision is 
 made by statute for the delivery of a signed bill of costs 
 one calendar month before any action is brought in respect 
 of costs against the client, and for taxation of such bill at 
 the instance of the agent or solicitor, or of the person upon 
 
 C 1 ) Mallet v. Hanly, 18 Q. B. D. 303, 787- 
 
 ( 2 ) Mallet v. Hanly, 18, Q. B. D. 787. 
 
 ( 3 ) See Guardians of West Ham v. Churchwardens of Bethnal Green [1896] , 
 , C. 477, 485, 488. 
 
 ( 4 ) See Table of Fees (Commons), post, p. 290. 
 
 ( 5 ) 10 & 11 Viet. c. 69, s. 4,post, p. 334; 12 & 13 Viet. c. 78, s. l,post, 
 338 ; List of Charges, post, p. 296.
 
 80 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 whom the demand for payment has been made^ 1 ) A 
 taxation at the instance of the client must be applied for 
 before a verdict has been obtained upon the bill, and, except 
 where there are special circumstances, before the expiration 
 of six calendar months from the date of the delivery of the 
 signed bill.( 2 ) See further as to the taxation of costs on 
 private bills the two Statutes 10 & 11 Vict. c. 69 (appli- 
 cable to the Commons), and 12 & 13 Vict. c. 78 (applicable to 
 the Lords),( 2 ) and as to the appeal, in the Commons to the 
 Speaker, and in the Lords to the Clerk of the Parliaments, 
 from the Taxing Officer, and as to the certificate of the 
 Speaker or Clerk of the Parliaments being conclusive as 
 to the amount, and in certain cases having the effect of a 
 warrant of attorney to confess judgment, see section 9 of 
 those Statutes. ( 3 ) 
 
 (') 10 & 11 Vict. c. 69, s. 8, pott, p. 336 ; 12 & 13 Viet. c. 78, s. 8, post, 
 p. 310. 
 
 (-) Post, pp. 335-337 ; 339-343. 
 
 ( :t ) Post, pp. 337, 34), 342 ; and see as to the somewhat similar certificates 
 under 28 Vict, c 27, s. 3, ante, p. 78.
 
 ( 81 ) 
 
 CHAPTER XII. 
 
 Parliamentary Agents and Drafting of Bills. 
 
 Before 1836 the officers of the two Houses not only acted 
 for those Houses, but also acted as agents for the parties in 
 the conduct of the private bill business in those Houses, 
 receiving payment for so doing. At that date the private 
 business of Parliament having very largely increased, this 
 was found inconvenient, and the option was given to the 
 officials either of resigning their posts as such officers and 
 acting merely as agents outside the Houses, or of retaining 
 their official positions and confining themselves to their 
 public duties. One portion of the officers elected to retain 
 their posts and confine themselves to their public duties, the 
 other portion elected to retire, and commenced to practise 
 as parliamentary agents, thus founding the profession as it 
 now exists.^) 
 
 At the present time any person who is either a solicitor, 
 a writer to the signet, or who produces to the clerk at the 
 Private Bill Office, when he for the first time applies to 
 qualify himself to act as parliamentary agent, a certificate 
 of his respectability from, a member of Parliament, or a 
 justice of the peace, or a barrister-at-law, or a solicitor, may 
 be registered as a parliamentary agent if he is actually 
 employed in promoting or opposing some private bill or 
 petition pending in Parliament^ 2 ) The application must 
 be in writing.( ? ) 
 
 (!) See Report of the Select Committee (of both Houses) of 1876 on Parlia- 
 mentary Agency. 
 
 (-) See Rules for Agents, post, p. 328.
 
 82 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Airents have to siirn a declaration at the Private Bill 
 Office engaging to observe the rules and to pay the fees 
 chargeable by Parliament on any petition or bill on which 
 they may appear, and, if required, they have further to 
 enter into a recognisance in the penal sum of £500, with 
 two sureties of £250 each, to observe such declaration, and 
 thereupon they are, if otherwise qualified, registered in a 
 book at the Private Bill Office^ 1 ) 
 
 The only persons disqualified seem to be, solicitors who 
 have been struck off the rolls, barristers who have been 
 disbarred, and parliamentary agents who have been sus- 
 pended or prohibited for wilful violation of the rules or 
 practice, or other wilful misconduct in their business, none 
 of whom can be registered without the express authority 
 of the Chairman of Committees or Speaker.(-) 
 
 It would seem that the only disciplinary power 
 exercised over parliamentary agents is that of the 
 Chairman of Committees in the Lords, and of the Speaker 
 in the House of Commons, either of whom can prohibit or 
 suspend an agent from practising in their respective 
 Houses for wilful violation of rules, or wilful mis- 
 conduct in his business. ( 3 ) 
 
 The agent is personally liable to Parliament for the fees 
 chargeable by Parliament on business he conducts. 
 
 It will thus be seen that the profession of agent is open 
 to any person of respectability who can obtain employment 
 in that capacity, though, as will be obvious from a con- 
 sideration of the foregoing pages, the successful exercise of 
 that profession involves careful attention to the Standing 
 Orders and requirements of Parliament, and a competent 
 skill in framing documents of a semi-legal character, so 
 that practically agents have for the most part been 
 persons possessed of a legal education, or persons who 
 
 (') See Rules for Agents, post, p. 328 ; S. 0. 227, post, |>. 162. 
 
 !: , for Agents, post, p. 328. 
 C A ) See Rules for Agents, post, p. 328.
 
 PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS AND DRAFTING OF BILLS. 83 
 
 have had long experience as clerks or the like in the 
 offices of parliamentary agents. 
 
 As to the charges agents may make, and as to the 
 taxation of their bills of costs, see " Costs," ante, p. 79. 
 
 Model Bills and Clauses have been put out, with the 
 authority of the officials responsible to Parliament for 
 private bill legislation, to serve as precedents for pro- 
 moters in regard to the clauses proper to be inserted in 
 bills of certain kinds, and in framing bills of such kinds 
 these clauses should, so far as applicable, be, in general, 
 adopted. ( l ) 
 
 A list of the Model Bills and Clauses thus given will 
 be found in the Appendix, 'post, p. 333. 
 
 The Standing Orders contain express provisions as to 
 bills of certain specified kinds with regard to the inser- 
 tion or non-insertion of particular matters or clauses ; 
 thus, in all bills for carrying on any work by means 
 of a company, commissioners, or trustees, provision must 
 be made for compelling persons subscribing money there- 
 for to pay the money thus subscribed ; (-') in railway, 
 tramway, and subway bills various restrictions must be 
 inserted and clauses of various kinds are required, whilst 
 it is forbidden to give powers to effect certain objects, as 
 for example to give powers to railway companies to 
 purchase, hire, or provide steam vessels otherwise than 
 to connect various portions of their line, or to give to a 
 local authority power to construct, acquire, or work a 
 tramway outside its district, except under certain circum- 
 stances ; ( 3 ) in bills promoted by or conferring powers 
 on local authorities, the clauses are to be considered in 
 reference to various matters affecting local government^ 1 ) ; 
 
 (') The forms may be purchased at the price of Is. 2±d. from Messrs. 
 Eyre and Spottiswoode, or at the office for the sale of papers at the Houses of 
 Parliament ; see List of Model Bills and Clauses, post, p. 333. 
 
 ( 2 ) S. 0. 144, post, p. 133. 
 
 C) S. 0. 153-156, 158, 159-171, post, pp. 134-146. S. 0. 112-1 33d, H.L. 
 
 C) S. 0. 173a, post, p. 146.
 
 84 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 in inclosure bills, provision is to be made for leaving an 
 open space for purposes of exercise and recreation of 
 the neighbouring population ; ( l ) in bills giving power 
 to take land, clauses must be inserted which, under certain 
 conditions, compel the promoters to make a provision 
 for re-housing persons of the labouring class who may- 
 be deprived under the bill of their houses ; ( 2 ) in bills 
 for gas works, burial grounds and cemeteries, certain 
 clauses must occur. ( 3 ) 
 
 Special provision is made as to certain bills promoted 
 by the London County Council. ( 4 ) 
 
 In the case of Private Bills, all charges in any way 
 affecting the public revenue which occur in any of the 
 clauses must be printed in italics in such bills when 
 presented to the House. ( 5 ) 
 
 In the preparation of Private Bills it will be found 
 expedient, when no sufficient assistance can be obtained 
 from the Model Bills and Clauses mentioned above, to 
 consult, where possible, similar or analogous bills which 
 have passed into law, and to copy as closely as may be 
 the wording of such clauses of those bills as carry out 
 the required purposes, since Parliament and Parliamentary 
 Committees are more ready to sanction clauses to which 
 they have, in other cases given their sanction, than to 
 adopt entirely new forms of expression, or novel methods 
 of carrying out a desired purpose, but, of course, as 
 new needs arise, new clauses must be framed ; though 
 even then there may be advantage in retaining, as far 
 as possible, familiar forms of expression. 
 
 (') 8. 0. 179, post, p. 148; S. 0. 138, H. L. 
 
 ( 2 ) S. O. 183a, post, p. 150; S. 0. Ill, H. L. 
 
 ( :( ) S. 0. 188, 188a, pout, p. 1.52 ; S. 0. 139-140A, II. L. 
 
 ( 4 ) S. 0. 194-194D, post, p. 153 ; S. 0. 69-69c, H. L. 
 
 ( '■) S. O. 202, post, p. 157.
 
 ( 85 ) 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 STANDING ORDERS OF THE HOUSE OF 
 COMMONS. 
 
 I.— THE TWO CLASSES OF PRIVATE BILLS. 
 
 1. For the purposes of the Standing Orders of this House, all Private bills 
 private bills to which the Standing Orders are applicable shall be divided into 
 
 tWO C1H.SS6S 
 
 divided into the two following classes, according to the subjects to 
 which they respectively relate : — 
 
 I st Class : — 1st class. 
 
 Burial ground, making, maintaining, or altering. 
 
 Charters and corporations, enlarging or altering powers of. 
 
 Church or chapel, building, enlarging, repairing, or main- 
 taining. 
 
 City or town, paving, lighting, watching, cleansing, or 
 improving. 
 
 Company, incorporating, regulating, or giving powers to. 
 
 County rate. 
 
 County or Shire Hall, Court House. 
 
 Crown, Church, or Corporation property, or property held 
 in trust for public or charitable purposes. 
 
 Ferry, where no work is to be executed. 
 
 Fishery, making, maintaining, or improving. 
 
 Gaol or House of Correction. 
 
 Gas work. 
 
 Improvement charge, unless proposed in connection with a 
 second class work to be authorised by the bill. 
 
 Land, inclosing, draining, or improving. 
 
 Letters patent. 
 
 Local court, constituting. 
 
 Market or market place, erecting, improving, repairing, 
 maintaining, or regulating. 
 
 Police. 
 
 Poor, maintaining or employing. 
 
 Poor rate. 
 
 Powers to sue and be sued, conferring. 
 
 Stipendiary magistrate, or any public officer, payment of. 
 
 G
 
 86 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 The two 
 classes of 
 
 private bills. 
 
 2nd class. 
 
 And continuing or amending an Act passed for any of the 
 purposes included in this or the second class, where no 
 farther work than such as was authorised by a former Act 
 is proposed to be made. 
 
 2nd Class : — 
 
 Making, maintaining, varying, extending, or enlarging any 
 
 Aqueduct. 
 
 Archway. 
 
 Bridge. 
 
 Canal. 
 
 Cut. 
 
 Dock. 
 
 Drainage — where it is not 
 provided in the bill that 
 the cut shall not be more 
 than eleven feet wide at 
 the bottom. 
 
 Embankment for reclaim- 
 ing land from the sea or 
 any tidal river. 
 
 Ferry, where any work is 
 to be executed. 
 
 Harbour. 
 
 Navigation. 
 
 Pier. 
 
 Port. 
 
 Public carriage road. 
 
 Reservoir. 
 
 Sewer. 
 
 Street. 
 
 Subway — to be used for the 
 conveyance of passen- 
 gers, animals, or goods, 
 in carriages or trucks 
 drawn or propelled on 
 rails. 
 
 Tramway — by which term, 
 as used in these Orders, 
 is meant a tramway to 
 be laid along a street or 
 road. " Tramroad," by 
 which term, as used in 
 these Orders, is meant 
 any tramway other than 
 a tramway to be laid 
 along a street or road. 
 Tunnel. 
 Waterwork. 
 
 Examiners of 
 
 petitions. 
 
 2. 
 
 called 
 
 Railway. 
 
 Appointment of Examiners. 
 
 There shall be one or more officers of this House, to be 
 " The. Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills," who shall 
 
 be appointed by Mr. Speaker. 
 
 II.— STANDING ORDERS, COMPLIANCE WITH WHICH 
 IS TO BE PROVED BEFORE THE EXAMINERS. 
 
 [In these Orders (3 to G8 inclusive), unless the context other- 
 wise requires — 
 
 the term " railway " includes " tramroad " ; 
 the term "lessee" includes a person holding an agree- 
 ment for a lease ;
 
 STANDING ORDERS. 87 
 
 the term " occupier " applies only to ratepayers, and to Standing 
 
 other persons not being ratepayers, whose interest in the P ii anee ' w jth 
 
 premises occupied is not less than that of a quarterly tenant ; which is to be 
 
 the term " parish " means (as respects England and Wales) P™ vec ^ before 
 i » i . i . , , hxaminers. 
 a place tor which a separate poor rate is or can be made or 
 
 for which a separate overseer is or can be appointed ; 
 
 the term " district," with respect to the administrative 
 
 county of London, means any parish in Schedule A, and 
 
 any district in Schedule B, of The Metropolis Management 
 
 Act, 1855, as amended by any subsequent Act.) 
 
 Compliance with the following Standing Orders shall be proved 
 
 before one of the examiners ; viz. — 
 
 1. Notices by Advertisement. 
 
 3. In all cases where application is intended to be made for Notices to state 
 
 leave to bring in a bill relating to any of the subjects included in ob J. ectso f a Ppb- 
 
 n t_ ».,.,, . cation when 
 
 either or the two classes or private bills, notice shall be given bills will be 
 
 stating the objects of such intended application, and the time at deposited in 
 
 which copies of the bill will be deposited in the Private Bill Office ; officf and* 1 
 
 and if it be intended to apply for powers for the compulsory intention to 
 
 purchase of lands or houses, or for extending the time granted by seek for P owers 
 
 to purclitisc 
 any former Act for that purpose, or to amalgamate with any other i an ,i s or to 
 
 company, or to sell or lease the undertaking, or to purchase or amalgamate, 
 
 take on lease the undertaking of any other company, or to enter '\Z *? lf^ 
 
 into working agreements or traffic arrangements, or to dissolve to be stated, ' 
 
 any company, or to amend or repeal any former Act or Acts, or to anc * a ^ so ^ e 
 j " . ti i -• u •..-,, companies, &c, 
 
 levy any tolls, rates, or duties, or to alter any existing tolls, rates, with whom any 
 
 or duties, or to confer, vary, or extinguish anv exemptions from amalgamation, 
 
 payment of tolls, rates, or duties, or to confer, vary, or extinguish &c ''\ s pro " 
 
 any other rights or privileges, or to impose on any lauds or houses, 
 
 or to render any lands or houses liable to the imposition of, any 
 
 charge in respect of any improvement, the notice shall specify such 
 
 intention, and shall also specify the company, person, or persons 
 
 with, to, from, or by whom it is intended to be proposed that such 
 
 amalgamation, sale, purchase, lease, working agreements, or traffic 
 
 arrangements shall be made ; and the whole of the notice relating 
 
 to the same bill shall, except as provided by Standing Order 9, be 
 
 included in the same advertisement, which shall be headed by a 
 
 short title, descriptive of the undertaking or bill, and shall be 
 
 subscribed with the name and address of the person, company, 
 
 corporation, or firm responsible for the publication of the notice. j n secom \ c ] ass 
 
 4. In cases of bills included in the second class, and of bills of bills, notices to 
 the first class, in respect to which plans are required to be deposited, contain names 
 
 G 2
 
 88 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Standing 
 I Orders, com- 
 pliance witL 
 which is to be 
 proved before 
 Examiners. 
 
 Notices to 
 specify limits 
 of burial 
 ground, of gsi 
 ■works, &c. 
 
 Street 
 
 tramways. 
 
 Suf/»'f///.s. 
 
 7 , amroads. 
 
 in tlie 
 - 
 road bills. 
 
 such notices shall also contain a description of all the termini, 
 together with the names of the parishes, town lands, and extra- 
 parochial places from, in, through, or into which the work is 
 intended to be made, maintained, varied, extended, or enlarged, or 
 in which any land or houses intended to be taken are situate, and 
 where any common or commonable land is intended to be taken, 
 such notice shall contain the name of such common or commonable 
 land (if any), and the name of any parish in which such land is 
 situate, together with an estimate of the quantity of such common 
 or commonable land proposed to be taken, and shall state the time 
 and place of deposit of the plans, sections, books of reference, and 
 copies of the Gazette notice respectively, with the clerks of the 
 peace and sheriff clerks, and also with the officers respectively 
 mentioned in Standing Order 29, as the case may be. 
 
 5. In cases of bills for constructing gas works, or sewage 
 works, or works for the manufacture or conversion of the residual 
 products of gas or sewage, or for making or constructing a sewage 
 farm, cemetery, burial ground, crematorium, destructor, hospital 
 for infectious disease, or station for generating electric power, the 
 notices shall set forth and specify the lands in or upon which such 
 gas works, sewage works, works for the manufacture or conversion 
 of residual products, farm, cemetery, burial ground, crematorium, 
 destructor, hospital, or generating station, is intended to be made 
 or constructed. 
 
 6. In cases of bills for laying down a tramway, the notice shall 
 specify at what point or points, and on which side of the street or 
 road it is proposed to lay such tramway, so that for a distance of 
 30 ft. or upwards a less space than 9 ft. 6 in., or if it is 
 intended to run thereon carriages or trucks adapted for use 
 upon railways, a less space than 10 ft. 6 in. shall intervene 
 between the outside of the footpath on the side of the street or 
 road and the nearest rail of the tramway ; the notice shall also 
 specify the gauge to be adopted and what power it is intended to 
 employ, and in the case of mechanical power the mode in which 
 such power is to be applied, for moving carriages or trucks upon 
 the tramway. 
 
 6a. In the case of bills for constructing a subway, the notice 
 shall specify the gauge to be adopted and the motive power to be 
 employed, and in the case of mechanical power the mode in which 
 such power is to be applied. 
 
 Qb. In the case of a bill for constructing a tramroad, the 
 notice snail specify the gauge to be adopted, and the motive power
 
 STANDING ORDERS. 89 
 
 to be employed, and in the case of mechanical power the mode in Standing 
 which such power is to be applied. ^^ JJJ" 
 
 7. In all cases where it is proposed to divert into any existing which is to be 
 or intended cut, canal, reservoir, aqueduct or navigation, or into P 1 " /^ before 
 
 any intended variation, extension or enlargement thereof respec- 
 
 tively, any water from any existing cut, canal, reservoir, aqueduct, q u ^ s Canals 
 
 or navigation, whether the water is to be abstracted directly or Navigations, $c. 
 
 indirectly from any such cut, canal, reservoir, aqueduct or naviga- w , ~ ~ 
 
 tion, or from any feeder thereof, and whether under any agreement intended to 
 
 with the proprietors thereof or otherwise, the notices shall contain divert water 
 
 the name of every such last-mentioned cut, canal, reservoir, aque- j n „ cut &c 
 duct or navigation. 
 
 8. In cases of bills relating to letters patent, each notice shall Letters Patent. 
 have prefixed to it in capital letters the name by which the inven- >j ame f 
 tion is usually distinguished, and shall contain a distinct description invention to be 
 of the invention for which such letters patent have been obtained, * >re -+*jL f m 
 and also an account of the term of their duration. notice. 
 
 8a. In addition to the ordinary notices, notice of the intention Notice in 
 to apply to Parliament for a bill relating to letters patent shall be official journal 
 published twice in the official journal of the Patent Office, before 
 the introduction of the bill in this House. 
 
 9. In the months of October and November, or either of them, Publication of 
 immediately preceding the application for a bill, the notice shall be gazetteg an( j 
 published once in the Loudon, Edinburgh, or Dublin Gazette, as newspapers. 
 the case may be, and in the following newspapers, namely : — 
 
 (1.) In the case of a bill relating specially to any parti- 
 cular city, borough, town, or urban district, the notice shall 
 be published once in each of two successive weeks, with an 
 interval between such publications of not less than six clear 
 days, in some one and the same newspaper published in such 
 city, borough, town, or district, or if there be no newspaper 
 published therein, then in some one and the same newspaper 
 published in the county in which such city, boiough, town, 
 or district, or any part thereof is situate ; 
 
 (2.) In the case of a bill authorising the construction of 
 works or the taking of lands, or extending the time granted 
 by a former Act for the construction of works or taking of 
 lands, situate in one county only, or relating to an under- 
 taking situate in one county only, or promoted by a company 
 or companies, or other parties possessed of an undertaking 
 situate in one county only, the notice shall be published once 
 in each of two successive weeks, with an interval between
 
 90 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Standing 
 Orders, com- 
 pliance with 
 which is to I e 
 proved before 
 Examiners. 
 
 Tramways. 
 
 Notices to be 
 posted in street 
 or road. 
 
 such publications of not less than six clear days, in some one 
 and the same newspaper published in that county, or if there 
 be no newspaper published therein, then in some one and the 
 same newspaper published in some county adjoining or near 
 thereto ; 
 
 (3.) In the case of a bill authorising the construction of 
 works or the taking of lands, or extending the time granted 
 by u former Act for the construction of works or the taking of 
 lands, in more than one county, or relating to an undertaking 
 situate in more than one county, or promoted by a company 
 or companies, or other parties possessed of an undertaking 
 situate in more than one county, the notice shall be published 
 once in each of two successive weeks, with an interval be- 
 tween such publications of not less than six clear days, in 
 some one and the same newspaper of the county in which 
 the principal office of the company or companies, or other 
 parties who are the promoters of the bill is situate, and in 
 some one and the same newspaper published in each county 
 in which any new works are proposed to be constructed, or 
 in which any lands are intended to be taken, or in which any 
 works or lands are situate, in respect of which any new or 
 further powers for the completion or taking thereof are 
 intended to be applied for, or if there be no newspaper pub- 
 lished therein, then in some one and the same newspaper 
 published in some county adjoining or near thereto : Pro- 
 vided always, that, if the bill relates to lands or works, situate 
 in more than one county, it shall be sufficient (at the option 
 of the promoters) to publish in each of such counties so 
 much only of the notice as relates specifically to the lands or 
 works situate in that county, together with the short title of 
 the notice and an intimation that the notice has been pub- 
 lished in full or sent for publication in full in the Gazette ; 
 
 (4.) No publication under this Order shall be made after 
 the 27th day of November. 
 10. In the months of October and November, or one of them, 
 immediately preceding the application for any bill for laying down 
 a tramway, or constructing an underground railway or subway, 
 when such bill contains powers authorising any alteration or 
 disturbance of the surface of any street or road, notice thereof 
 shall be posted for fourteen consecutive days in every such street 
 or road in such manner as the authority having the control of such 
 street or road shall direct, and if alter such application to such
 
 STANDING ORDERS. 91 
 
 authority no such direction shall be given, then in some conspicu- ^ & din o g m _ 
 
 ous position in every such street or road, and such notice shall plianee ' with 
 
 also state the place or places at which the plans of such tramway, which is to be 
 ., , mi i j -x i proved before 
 
 railway, or subway, will be deposited. Examiners. 
 
 2. Notices and Applications to Owners, Lessees, and Occupiers 
 of Lands and Houses. 
 
 11. On or before the fifteenth day of December immediately Application to 
 preceding the application for a bill for power to take any lands or ^before^th" 
 houses compulsorily, or for an extension of the time granted by December. 
 any former Act for that purpose, or to impose an improvement 
 
 charge on any lands or bouses, or to render any lands or houses 
 liable to the imposition of an improvement charge, application in 
 writing shall be made to the owners or reputed owners, lessees or 
 reputed lessees, and occupiers of all such lands and houses, inquiring 
 whether they assent, dissent, or are neuter in respect of such 
 application ; and in cases of Bills included in the second class, 
 such application shall be, as nearly as may be, in the form set forth 
 in the Appendix marked (A). 
 
 12. Separate lists shall be made of the names of such owners, List of owners, 
 
 lessees and occupiers, distinguishing those who have assented, dis- & c - assenting 
 1,00 . it, dissenting and 
 
 sented or are neuter in respect tu such application, or who nave neu t er . 
 
 returned no answer thereto; and where no written acknowledg- 
 ment has been returned to an application forwarded by post, or 
 where such application has been returned as undelivered at any 
 time before the making up of such lists, the direction of the letter 
 in which the same was so forwarded shall be iuserted therein. 
 
 13. On or before the fifteenth day of December immediately Notice to 
 
 preceding the application for a bill for the laving down a i ram way, frontagers 
 r o l f * o in case of 
 
 notice in writing shall be given to the owners or reputed owners, tramways. 
 
 lessees or reputed lessees, and occupiers of all houses, shops, or 
 
 warehouses abutting upon any part of any street or road where, 
 
 for a distance of 30 ft. or upwards, it is proposed that a less space 
 
 than 9 ft. 6 in. shall intervene between the outside of the footpath 
 
 on either side of the road and the nearest rail of the tramway, or a 
 
 less space than 10 ft. 6 in., if it is intended to run on the tramway o^ 1 ^ ° nc ^ 
 
 carriages or trucks adapted for use upon railways. On or before lessees of rail- 
 
 the fifteenth day of December immediately preceding the applica- wa y s > tram " 
 
 - . ., ways, or canals, 
 
 tion for any Bill for laying down a tramway crossing any railway crossed, 
 
 or tramway on the level, or crossing any railway, tramway, or affected, or 
 
 canal by means of a bridge, or otherwise affecting or interfering . pr0 posed 
 
 with such railway, tramway, or canal, notice in writing of such tramway.
 
 92 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Standing 
 
 Order-. 
 
 pliance with 
 
 ■which is to be 
 
 proved 
 
 Examiners. 
 
 Notices wln-n it 
 is proposed to 
 abstract water 
 from any 
 stream. 
 
 application shall be served upon the owner or reputed owner, and 
 upon the lessee or reputed lessee of such railway, tramway, or 
 canal, and such notice shall state the place or places at which the 
 plans of the tramway to be authorised by such bill have been or 
 will be deposited. 
 
 14. On or before the fifteenth day of December immediately 
 preceding the application for a bill, whereby it is proposed to 
 abstract water from any stream for the purpose of supplying any 
 cut, canal, reservoir, aqueduct, navigation, or waterwork, notice in 
 writing of such bill shall be given to the owners or reputed owners, 
 lessees or reputed lessees, and occupiers of all mills and manufac- 
 tories or other works using the waters of such stream for a distance 
 of 20 miles below the point at which such water is intended to be 
 abstracted, such distance to be measured along the course of such 
 stream, unless such waters shall, within a less distance than 
 20 miles, fall into or unite with any navigable stream, and then 
 onlv to the owners or reputed owners, lessees or reputed lessees, 
 and occupiers of such mills and manufactories, or other works as 
 aforesaid, which shall be situate between the point at which such 
 water is proposed to be abstracted, and the point at which such 
 water shall fall into or unite with such navigable stream ; and such 
 notice shall state the name (if any) by which the stream is known 
 at the point at which such water shall be immediately abstracted, 
 and also the parish in which such point is situate, and the time and 
 place of deposit of plans, sections, and books of reference and 
 copies of the Gazette notice respectively with the clerks of the 
 peace and sheriff clerks, as the case may be. 
 
 15. On or before the fifteenth day of December immediately 
 preceding the application for a bill for constructing gas works or 
 Ga.< Work!', ,\c. sewage works, or works for the manufacture or conversion of the 
 residual products of gas and sewage, or for making or constructing 
 a sewage farm, cemetery, burial ground, crematorium, destructor, 
 or hospital for infectious disease, notice shall be served upon the 
 owner, lessee, and occupier of every dAvelling house situated within 
 300 yards of the lands in orupon which such gasworks, sewage works, 
 works for the manufacture of residual products, farm, cemetery, 
 burial ground, crematorium, destructor, or hospital may be made or 
 constructed. 
 
 1(5. On or before the fifteenth day of December immediately 
 preceding the application for a bill whereby the whole or any 
 part of a work authorized by any former Act is intended to be 
 relinrpiished, notice in writing of such bill shall be served upon 
 
 Burial Gronvds 
 and 
 
 Notice to 
 owners and 
 occupiers of 
 houses. 
 
 of fl 
 
 Notice to 
 owner-. &c. 
 when the Bill
 
 STANDING ORDERS. 93 
 
 the owners or reputed owners, lessees or reputed lessees, and Standing 
 
 • Orders com" 
 
 occupiers of the lands in which any part of the said work intended pii ance ' with 
 
 to be thereby relinquished is situate. which is to be 
 
 17. On or before the twenty-first day of December immediately ^JJJjJjJjjJjJ 8 
 
 preceding the application for a bill, whereby any express statutory 
 
 provision then in force for the protection of the owner, lessee, or i s to abridge 
 •occupier of any property, or for the protection or benefit of any any public 
 public trustees or commissioners, corporation or person, specifically 
 
 named in such provision, is sought to be altered or repealed, notice ownerS; &e 
 in writing of such Bill, and of the intention to alter or repeal such in cases of 
 provision, shall be served upon every such owner, lessee, or occu- ^J™ or 
 pier, public trustees or commissioners, corporation or person. provisions. 
 
 18. On or befcre the twenty-first day of December immediately Notice in case 
 
 preceding the application for a bill whereby any compulsory run- of application 
 r ° , ., .-• for compulsory 
 
 ning powers are proposed to be taken over any railway, notice in running 
 
 writing of such bill, and of the intention to apply for such running powers. 
 
 powers, shall he served upon every company owning or working 
 
 such railway. 
 
 19. All applications shall be made, and notices served, either How applica- 
 
 , -i, . .l-.li i i. u tionto be made, 
 
 iby delivering the same personally to the party entitled to such and notices 
 
 application or notice, or by leaving the same at his usual place of served. 
 abode, or, in his absence from the United Kingdom, with his 
 agent, or by forwarding the same by post in a registered letter, 
 ■addressed with a sufficient direction to his usual place of abode, 
 and posted on or before the third day previously to the day re- 
 quired for delivery of the same personally, at such places, at such 
 hours, and according to such regulations as the Postmaster General 
 shall from time to time appoint, for the posting and registration of 
 such letters, and shall be accompanied by a copy of the Standing 
 Orders which regulate the time and mode of presenting petitions 
 in opposition to Bills. ( x ) 
 
 20. In all cases the written acknowledgment of the party Written 
 
 applied to shall, in the absence of other proof, be sufficient evi- ^J^fparty 
 
 dence of such application having being made, or notice given ; applied to, and, 
 
 and in case of an application or notice having been forwarded by m c " se ? f 
 
 i • ,. i -n r^n- • • application or 
 
 post, in a registered letter, the production of the Post Office receipt not i ce by post, 
 
 for such letter, duly stamped, in such form as the Postmaster Post Office 
 
 •General shall have appointed, shall be sufficient evidence of the SSt^^Me 
 
 due delivery of such letter : Provided it shall appear that the same f application. 
 
 was properly and sufficiently directed, and that the same was not 
 
 returned by the P ost Office as undelivered. 
 
 0) These are S. 0. 129, post, and S. 0. 92, 93, U. L.
 
 04 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Standing 
 Ozden 
 pliance with 
 which is to he 
 proved before 
 Examiners. 
 
 Notices oot to 
 
 be given on 
 Sunday, &c. 
 
 Consents in 
 case of Tram- 
 ways Bill. 
 
 21. Xo notice served or application made on Sunday, Christmas- 
 Day, Good Friday, or Easter Monday, or before eight o'clock in, 
 the foienoon, or alter eight o'clock in the afternoon of any day, shall 
 be deemed valid, except in the case of delivery of letters by post. 
 
 '2'2. In cases of bills to authorize the laying down of a tram- 
 way, the promoters shall obtain the consent of the local authority 
 of the district or districts through which it is proposed to construct 
 such tramway, and where in any district there is a road authority 
 distinct from the local authority, the consent of such road authority 
 shall also be necessary in any case where power is sought to break 
 up any road, subject to the jurisdiction of such road authority. 
 For the purposes of this Order, the local and road authorities in 
 England and Scotland shall be the local and road authorities men- 
 tioned in Section 3 and Schedule A. of " The Tramways Act, 
 1870," except that in the case of such schedule the London County 
 Council shall be substituted for the Metropolitan Board of Works, 
 Urban District Council for Local Board, and Rural District 
 Council for Vestry, Select Vestry, or other body of persons acting 
 by virtue of any Act of Parliament, prescription, custom, or other- 
 wise, as or instead of a vestry or select vestry, and in Ireland shall 
 be the grand jury of the county in respect to any highway, or 
 portion of highway, within the jurisdiction of such grand jury; 
 and in respect to highways wholly or partly within any city, 
 borough, town corporate, or other place or district iu which the 
 public roads are not under the control of the grand jury of the 
 county, shall be the respective local and road authorities of such 
 city, borough, town corporate, or other place or district mentioned 
 in Section 38 of "The Tramways (Ireland) Act, 18G0": Pro- 
 vided that where it is proposed to lay down a continuous line of 
 tramway in two or more districts, and any local or road authority 
 having jurisdiction in any such districts does not consent thereto, 
 the consents of the local and road authority, or the lecal and road 
 authorities having jurisdiction over two-thirds of the length of 
 such proposed line of tramway, shall be deemed to be sufficient. 
 
 Deposit not 
 to be made on 
 
 Sunday, &e. 
 
 3. Documents required to be deposited, and the times and places 
 
 of deposit. 
 
 23. Xo deposit required by the following orders shall be deemed 
 valid if made on Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday, or Easter 
 Monday, or before eight o'clock in the forenoon, or after eight 
 o'clock in the afternoon of any day.
 
 STANDING ORDERS. 95 
 
 Deposits on or before the 30th November. Standing 
 
 24. In cases of bills of the second class, a plan and also a dupli- p ij ani ,J w ith 
 
 cate thereof, together with a book of reference thereto, and a which is to be 
 
 section and also a duplicate thereof, as hereinafter described, and proved before 
 
 , Examiners. 
 in cases of bills of the first class, under the powers of which any 
 
 lands or houses may be taken coinpulsorilv, and in the case of all Plans and 
 
 bills by which any charge is imposed upon any lands or houses or books of re- 
 
 any lands or houses are rendered liable to have a charge imposed seet ; on s t0 i )e 
 
 upon tliem in respect of any improvement, a plan and duplicate deposited with 
 
 thereof, together with a book of reference thereto, shall be deposited cler ^ °^ 
 
 for public inspection at the office of the clerk of the peace for 
 
 every county, riding or division in England or Ireland, or in the 
 
 office of the principal sheriff clerk of every county in Scotland, and 
 
 where any county in Scotland is divided into districts or divisions, 
 
 then also in the office of the principal sheriff clerk in or for each 
 
 district or division, in or through which the work is proposed to 
 
 be made, maintained, varied, extended or enlarged, or in which 
 
 such lands or houses are situate, on or before the 30th day of 
 
 November immediately preceding the application for the bill ; and In cases of 
 
 in the case of railway bills, the Ordnance map, on the scale of one rai wavs ' , 
 
 ' l ' nanee or pub- 
 
 inch to a mile, or where there is no Ordnance map, a published lished map to 
 map, to a scale of not less than half an inch to a mile (or in be . deposite d 
 Ireland, to a scale of not less than a quarter of an inch to a mile), p eace> & c< 
 with the line of railway delineated thereon, so as to show its clerks of peace 
 general course and direction, shall be deposited with such plans, to indorse a 
 
 sections and book of reference ; and the clerks of the peace or ™ em0 " H on 
 
 ' r plans, tec. 
 
 sheriff clerks, or their respective deputies, shall make a memorial 
 
 in writing upon the plans, sections and books of reference so 
 deposited with them, denoting the time at which the same were 
 lodged in their respective offices, and shall at all seasonable hours 
 of the day permit any person to view and examine one of the same, 
 and to make copies or extracts therefrom ; and one of the two 
 plans and sections so deposited shall be sealed up and retained in 
 the possession of the clerk of the peace or sheriff clerk until called 
 for by order of one of the two Houses of Parliament. In cases of I n case of pro- 
 bills whereby it is proposed to alter or extend the municipal „r extension of 
 bouudarv of any city, borough, or urban district, a map on a scale municipal 
 of not less than three inches to a mile, and also a duplicate boundaries, 
 i f i hi » -i . pi- ma P an 'l dupli- 
 
 thereof, showing as well the present boundaries or the city, cate t0 | je <j e _ 
 
 borough, or urban district as the boundaries of the proposed posited with 
 extension, shall be deposited with the town clerk of such city or & ° wn '
 
 96 
 
 TEIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Standing 
 
 < >rdere, c m- 
 
 pliance with 
 
 which is to be 
 
 I before 
 
 Examiners. 
 
 Deposit of 
 plans, &c. in 
 Privnte Bill 
 Office. 
 
 -it of 
 tramway map 
 at the office of 
 Board of 
 Trade. 
 
 When works 
 on tidal lands, 
 sections, 
 and map, to be 
 deposited at 
 the office ot the 
 Harbour De- 
 part ment, 
 Board of 
 Trade. 
 
 When works on 
 banks, iVc. of 
 any river, 
 plans, sections, 
 and map to be 
 deposited at the 
 
 of the 
 conservators 
 of the river. 
 
 borough, or clerk of such urban district, who shall at all seasonable 
 hours of the day permit any person to view and examine such 
 map, and to make copies thereof. 
 
 25. On or before the 30th day of November, a copy of the said 
 plans, .-relit ms and books of reference, and in the case of railway 
 bills, also a copy of the said Ordnance or published map, with the 
 line- of railway delineated theieon, shall be deposited in the Private 
 Bill Office of this House. 
 
 '1'jd. In the case of 1 ills for laying down a tramway, a published 
 map of the district on a scale of not less than six inches to a mile 
 (or if no map on such a scale be published, then the best map 
 obtainable), with the line of the proposed tramway marked ihereon, 
 and a diagram on a scale of not. less than two inches to a mile, 
 prepared in accordance with the specimen to be obtained at the 
 Office of the Board of Trade, must also be deposited at that office 
 on or before the 30th N ovember. 
 
 20. In cases where the work is to be situate on tidal lands 
 within the ordinary spring tides, a copy of the plans and sections 
 shall, on or before the 30th day of November immediately pre- 
 ceding the application for the bill, be deposited at the office of the 
 Harbour Department, Board of Trade, marked "Tidal Waters," 
 and on such copv all tidal waters shall be coloured blue, and if the 
 plans include any bridge acro?s tidal waters, the dimensions, as 
 regards span and headway of the nearest bridges, if any, across the 
 same tidal waters above and below the proposed new bridge, shall 
 be marked thereon ; and in all such cases, such plans and sections 
 shall be (accompanied by an Ordnance or published map of the 
 country over which the works are proposed to extend, or are to be 
 carried, with their position and extent, or route accurately laid 
 down thereon. 
 
 26o. And, in cases where the work is to be situate on the banks, 
 foreshore, or bed of any river having a Board of Conservators con- 
 stituted by Act of Parliament, a copy of the plans and sections 
 shall, on or before the 30th day of November immediately pre- 
 ceding the application for the bid, be deposited at the office of the 
 conservators of the river, and if the plans include any tunnel under 
 or bridge over the river, the dimensions as regards depth below 
 bed of the river, and span and headway, shall be marked thereon; 
 and such plans shall be accompanied by an Ordnance or published 
 map of the country over which the works are proposed to extend 
 uv are to be carried, with their position and extent or route 
 accurately laid down thereon.
 
 STANDING ORDERS". 97 
 
 27. In the case of railway, tramway, subway, and canal bills, a Standing 
 copy of all plans, sections, and books of reference, required to be p ii anee ' w ;^" 
 deposited in the office of any clerk of the peace or sheriff clerk, on which is to be 
 or before the 30th day of November immediately preceding the proved before 
 application for the bill (and in the case of railway bills also a copy " 
 
 of the said Ordnance or published map, with the line of railway Deposit f 
 
 delineated thereon), shall on or before the same day be deposited in plans, &c at 
 
 the office of the Board of Trade. the ^ oard of 
 
 28. Where the work or any part thereof will be situate within Trade. 
 the administrative county of London, or where powers are sought Deposit of 
 to take any lands within the said county, a copy of so much of the P lans an<i . , 
 
 sections w ltli 
 
 plans, sections, and book of reference as relates to lands within the London County 
 said county shall, on or before the 30th day of November, be Council, 
 deposited at the office of the London County Council. 
 
 29. Where, under the powers of any bill, any work is intended Deposit of 
 
 to be made, maintained, varied, extended, or enlarged, or any lands f m ^ books of ' 
 or houses may be taken compulsorily, or an improvement charge reference. 
 may be imposed, a copy of so much of the said plans and sections 
 as relates to any of the areas hereinafter mentioned, together with 
 a copy of so much of the book of reference as relates to such area, 
 shall on or before the 30th day of November be deposited with the 
 officer respectively hereinafter mentioned, that is to say, in the 
 case of — 
 
 (a) Any parish in the City of London, with the parish clerk 
 
 of that parish ; 
 
 (b) Any district of the administrative County of London (out- 
 
 side the City of London), with the clerk of the Vestry 
 or District Board, as the case may be ; 
 
 (c) Any county borough or other borough in England or 
 
 Wales, with the town clerk ; 
 
 (d) Any urban district in England or Wales, not being a 
 
 borough, with the clerk of the District Council ; 
 
 (e) Any parish in England or Wales having a Parish 
 
 Council, with the clerk of the Parish' Council, or, if 
 
 there is no clerk, with the chairman of that Council ; 
 (/) Any parish in England or Wales comprised in a Bural 
 
 District, and not having a Parish Council, with the clerk 
 
 of the District Council ; 
 Uj) Any parish in Scotland, with the clerk of the Parish 
 
 Council ;
 
 98 
 
 PHI VAT E BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Standing 
 Orders, com- 
 pliance with 
 which i- to be 
 proved before 
 Examiners. 
 
 - i of 
 
 plan-. &C. at 
 the Home De- 
 partment and 
 the Board of 
 Agriculture. 
 
 < razette notice 
 to be deposited 
 
 with plan-, iVc. 
 
 (//) Any royal or parliamentry burgh in Scotland, with the 
 
 town clerk ; 
 (i) Any police burgh in Scotland, with the clerk to the 
 
 burgh commissioners ; 
 ( /') Any parish in Ireland, with the clerk of the union 
 
 within which that parish is included ; 
 (#) Any urban sanitary authority in Ireland, with the clerk 
 
 of the sanitary authority. 
 
 30. "Where by any bill power is sought to take any churchyard, 
 burial ground, or cemetery, or any part thereof, or to disturb the 
 bodies interred therein, or where power is sought to take any 
 common or commonable land as the case may be, a copy of so 
 much of the plans, sections, and books of reference required by 
 these orders to be deposited inthe Private Bill Office in respect 
 of such bill as relates to such churchyard, burial ground, or ceme- 
 tery, common or commonable land, shall, on or before the thirtieth 
 day of November, be deposited at the office of the Secretary of 
 State for the Home Department, and a copy of so much of the said 
 plans, sections, and books of reference as relates to such common 
 or co mmonable land shall, on or before the said day, be deposited at 
 the office of the Board of Agriculture. 
 
 31. Wherever any plans, sections, and books of reference, or 
 parts thereof, are required to be deposited, a copy of the notice 
 published in the Gazette of the intended application to parliament 
 shall be deposited therewith. 
 
 Petition for 
 
 bill, &C. to be 
 
 '(•d in 
 Private bill 
 Office. 
 
 Declaration <>f 
 agent as to 
 
 if bill, 
 and powers 
 thereof, to be 
 annexed to 
 petition. 
 
 Deposits on or before the 1\st December. 
 
 32. Every petition for a private bill, headed by a short title 
 descriptive of the undertaking or bill, corresponding with that at 
 the head of the advertisement, with a declaration, signed by the 
 agent, and a printed copy of the bill annexed, shall be deposited 
 in the Private Bill Office on or before the 21st day of December; 
 and such petition, bill and declaration shall be open to the inspec- 
 tion of all parties ; and printed copies of the bill shall also be 
 delivered therewith for the use of any member of the house or 
 a^ent who may apply for the same. Such declaration shall state 
 to which of the two classes of bills such bill in the judgment of 
 the agent belongs; and if the proposed bill shall give power to 
 effect any of the following objects; that is to say : — 
 
 Power to take any lands or houses compulsorily, or to extend the time 
 granted by any former Act for that purpose :
 
 STANDING ORDERS. 
 
 99 
 
 Power to levy tolls, rates or duties, or to alter any existing tolls, rates 
 or duties ; or to confer, vary or extinguish any exemption from payment 
 of tolls, rates or duties, or to confer, vary or extinguish any other right 
 or privilege : 
 
 Power to amalgamate with any other company, or to sell or lease their 
 undertaking, or to purchase or take on lease the undertaking of any other 
 company : 
 
 Power to interfere with any crown, church or corporation property, 
 or property held in trust for public or charitable purposes : 
 
 Power to relinquish any part of a work authorized by a former Act : 
 
 Power to divert into any existing or intended cut, canal, resevoir, 
 aqueduct or navigation, or into any intended variation, extension or 
 enlargement thereof respectively, any water from any existing cut, 
 canal, reservoir, aqueduct or navigation, whether directly or derivatively, 
 and whether under any agreement with the proprietors thereof, or 
 otherwise : 
 
 Power to make, vary, extend or enlarge any cut, canal, reservoir, aque- 
 duct or navigation : 
 
 Power to make, vary, extend or enlarge any railway. 
 
 The said declaration shall state which of such powers are 
 given by the bill, and shail indicate in which clauses of the bill 
 (referring to them by their number) such powers are given, and 
 shall further state that the bill does net give power to effect any 
 of the objects enumerated in this Order, other than those stated in 
 the declaration. 
 
 If the proposed bill shall not give power to effect any of the 
 objects enumerated in the preceding Order, the said declaration 
 shall state that the bill does not give power to effect any of such 
 objects. 
 
 The said declaration shall also state that the bill does not j-ive 
 any powers other than those included in the notices for the 
 bill. " 
 
 33. On or before the 21st day of December, a printed copy of 
 every private bill shall be deposited at the office of Her Majesty's 
 Treasury and at the General Post Office ; a printed copy of every 
 bill relating to railways, tramways, subways, canals, gas, water, 
 patents, or electric lighting, or for incorporating or giving powers 
 to any company, shall be deposited at the office of the Board of 
 Trade ; a printed copy of every bill relating to any dock, harbour, 
 navigation, pier or port, shall be deposited at the office of the 
 Harbour Department of the Board of Trade, marked "Tidal 
 waters " ; a printed copy of every bill containing provisions with 
 respect to the use of weights and measures, or the inspection or 
 verification of the same, shall be deposited at the Standard Depart- 
 
 Standing 
 Orders, com- 
 pliance with 
 which is to be 
 proved before 
 Examiners. 
 
 Deposit of 
 private bills at 
 Treasury and 
 other public 
 departments.
 
 100 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 - aiding ment of the Board of Trade; a printed copy of every bill relating 
 
 Orders, com- to a i oca i C ourt or stipendiary magistrate, and of everv bill whereby 
 pliance ■with . "if,,., , 
 
 which is to be power is sought to take any churchyard, burial ground, or cemetery, 
 
 proved before or any part thereof, or to disturb the bodies interred therein, or to 
 take any common or commonable land, at the office of the Secre- 
 tary of State for the Home Department; a printed copy of every 
 bill relating to any company, body, or person carrying on business 
 in any colony or British possession, at the office of the Secretary 
 of State for the Colonies ; a printed copy of every Bill relating to 
 Scotland, at the office of the Secretary for Scotland: a printed 
 copy of every bill relating to any matter in England or Wales 
 within the jurisdiction of the Local Government Board, or to which 
 Standing Order 38 applies at the office of that Board ; a printed 
 copy of every bill which proposes to alter the boundary of the area 
 of any county, urban district, parish, or any other administrative 
 area, or which relates to any matter to which the Birth and Deaths 
 Registration Acts, 1836 to 1874, and any Act amending the same, 
 relate, at the General Register Office, Somerset House ; a printed 
 copy of every private bill whereby the boundaries of any school dis- 
 trict or the jurisdiction of any school board are affected at the office 
 of the Education Department ; a printed copy of every bill affect- 
 ing Crown property at the office of the Commissioners of Her 
 Majesty's Works and Public Buildings, and at the office of Her 
 Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues ; a printed copy of 
 every bill affecting charities or charitable trusts at the office of the 
 Charity Commission ; and a printed copy of every bill affecting the 
 Duchy of Cornwall or the Duchy of Lancaster at the office of such 
 Duchy respectively. 
 Deposit of bills 33«. On or lief ore the 21st day of December, a printed copy of 
 with the Home ev ery private bill promoted by municipal or other local authori- 
 ties, by which it is proposed to create powers relating to police or 
 sanitary regulations which deviate from, or are in extension of, or 
 repugnant to, the general law, shall be deposited at the office of the 
 Secretary of State for the Home Department. 
 Deposit of bills 336. On or before the 21st day of December, a printed copy of 
 with the Board every local hill which relates to the drainage of land in England 
 or Wales, or which relates to the improvement of land in England, 
 Wales, or Scotland, or to the erection, improvement, repair, main- 
 tenance, or regulation of any market or market place at which 
 cattle are exposed for sale, or to any matter within the jurisdiction 
 of the Board of Agriculture, or which proposes to alter the boun- 
 ilaiv of any county, urban district, urban sanitary district, parish,
 
 STANDING ORDERS. 101 
 
 or any other administrative area in the United Kingdom, or Standing 
 whereby power is sought to take any common or commonable Orders, corn- 
 land, shall be deposited at the office of the Board of Agriculture. JhichTs to 1 
 
 34. On or before the 21st day of December, a printed copy of proved before 
 every bill of the second class whereby any work shall be autho- Examiners, 
 rized within the limits of the administrative County of London, ^ . „ , ... 
 shall be deposited at the office of the London County Council. with the 
 
 34a. On or before the 21st day of December, a printed copy of London County 
 every bill of the second class, whereby it is intended to authorize 
 the construction of any work on the banks, foreshore, or bed of any wHh'tne^on- S 
 river having a board of conservators constituted by Act of Par- servators of 
 ment, shall be deposited at the office of the conservators of the rivers - 
 river. 
 
 Deposits on or before the 31st December. 
 
 35. All estimates and declarations, and lists of owners, lessees Deposit of 
 and occupiers, which are required by the Standing Orders of this estimates, &c., 
 House shall be deposited in the Private Bill Office on or before the office™ * 
 31st day of December. 
 
 35a. As respects all bills for the incorporation of joint stock Documents to 
 companies, or proposed companies for carrying on any trade or be d e P os iA ecl m 
 business, or for conferring upon such companies the power of suing Office in regard 
 and being sued, there shall be deposited in the Private Bill Office to joint stock 
 on or before 31st December, a copy of the deed or agreement of ^?" 1 P ames 
 partnership (if any) under which the company or proposed com- 
 pany is acting, and in all cases other than those of companies regis- 
 tered under the " Companies Act, 1862," a declaration stating the 
 following matters : — 
 
 1st. — The present and proposed amount of the capital of 
 the company. 
 
 2nd. — The number of shares, and the amount of each 
 share. 
 
 3rd. — The number of shares subscribed for. 
 4th. — The amount of subscriptions paid up. 
 5th. — The names, residences, and descriptions of the share- 
 holders or subscribers (so far as the same can be made out) 
 and of the actual or provisional directors, treasurers, secretaries 
 or other officer, if any. 
 And such documents shall be verified by the signature of some 
 authorized officer of the company or proposed company (if any), 
 and by some responsible party promoting the Bill ; and copies of 
 such declarations shall be printed at the expense of the promoters 
 
 H
 
 102 
 
 PHI V T ATE BILL PKOCEDURE. 
 
 Standing 
 Orders, com- 
 pliance with 
 
 which is to be 
 proved before 
 Examiners. 
 
 Copies of 
 estimate and 
 
 declaration 
 to be printed, 
 and delivered 
 in at Private 
 Bill Office. 
 
 Form of 
 estimate. 
 
 of the bill, and delivered at the Vote Office for the use of the 
 Members of the House, and at the Private Bill Office for the use 
 of any agent who may apply for the same. 
 
 36. On or before 31st December, copies of the estimate of 
 expense of the undertaking ; and where a declaration alone, or 
 declaration and estimate of the probable amount of rates and duties 
 are required, copies of such declaration, or of such declaration and 
 estimate, shall be printed at the expense of the promoters of the 
 bill, and delivered at the Vote Office for the use of the Members 
 of the House, and at the Private Bill Office for the use of any 
 agent who may apply for the same. 
 
 37. The estimate for any works proposed to be authorized by 
 any railway, tramway, tramroad, subway, canal, dock, or harbour 
 bill, shall be in the following form, or as near thereto as circum- 
 stances may permit : — 
 
 ESTIMATE of the proposed 
 Line, No. 
 
 Length of Line 
 
 (Eailway). 
 
 Whether 
 Miles fur. chs. Sintrle or Double. 
 
 Earthworks : 
 Cuttings — Rock 
 
 Soft Soil - 
 Roads 
 
 Total - 
 
 Cubic yds. Price per yd. £ s. d. 
 
 Eml>ankments, including roads - Cubic yds. 
 
 Bridges — Pulilic roads - - - Number 
 
 Accommodation bridges and works 
 Viaducts -------- 
 
 Culverts and drains ------ 
 
 Metallings of roads and level crossings - - - 
 Gatekeepers' houses at level crossings - 
 Permanent way, including fencing: 
 
 Cost per mile. 
 
 Miles, fur. chs. 
 
 £ s. d. 
 at 
 
 Permanent ways for sidings, and cost of junctions - 
 Stations 
 
 Contingencies - 
 Land and Luildings: 
 
 per cent. 
 
 Total 
 
 £ s. d. 
 
 The same details for each branch, and general summary of 
 total cost.
 
 STANDING ORDERS. 103 
 
 38. In the case of any Bill which contains power to take com- Standing 
 pulsorily or by agreement, in any parish in the Metropolis, twenty Orders, com- 
 or more houses, or as regards England and "Wales, exclusive of the w hich is to be 
 Metropolis, in any city, borough, or other urban district, or in any proved before 
 parish, or part of a parish, not being within an urban district, or ramme rs, 
 in Scotland in any district within the meaning of "The Public Statement 
 Health (Scotland) Act, 1867," or in Ireland in any urban sanitary relating to 
 district as defined by " The Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878," houses in- 
 
 . , . , , .. . ,, , habited by 
 
 ten or more houses, occupied either wholly or partially by persons labouring 
 
 belonging: to the labouring; class, as defined by Order 183a, as classes to be 
 
 tenants or lodgers, or which revives or extends any such power, the p^y^teBiU 
 
 promoters shall deposit in the Private Bill Office, and at the office Office and 
 
 of the central authority, as defined in Order 183a, on or before the office of cen- 
 
 31st day of December, a statement of the number, description, and rity 
 
 situation of such houses, the number (so far as can be ascertained) 
 
 of persons residing therein, and a copy of so much of the plan (if 
 
 any) as relates thereto ; this Standing Order shall not apply where 
 
 a statement in pursuance of this Standing Order was deposited in 
 
 respect of the Act the powers of which are proposed to be revived 
 
 or extended. [See also Standing Order 183a.] 
 
 39. Whenever plans, sections, books of reference, or maps are Deposit of 
 
 deposited in the case of an application to any public department or P la ns &c., in 
 
 ^ l L . . . . „ case of Provi- 
 
 county council, for a provisional order or provisional certificate, s j nal Orders 
 
 duplicates of the said documents shall also be deposited in the in Private Bill 
 
 Private Bill Office ; provided that with regard to such deposits as ce " 
 
 are so made at any public department, or with any county council, 
 
 after the prorogation of Parliament, and before the 30th day of 
 
 November in any year, such duplicates shall be so deposited on or 
 
 before the 30th day of November. 
 
 4. Form in which Plans, Books of Reference, Sections and 
 Cross Sections are to be prepared. 
 
 Plans. 
 
 40. Every plan required to be deposited shall be drawn to a Description 
 scale of not less than four inches to a mile, and shall describe the p a 
 lauds which may be taken compulsorily, or on which an improve- 
 ment charge may be imposed, or which are rendered liable to the 
 imposition of an improvement charge, and in the case of bills of 
 
 the second class, shall also describe the line or situation of the 
 whole of the work (no alternative line or work being in any case 
 permitted), and the lands in or through which it is to be made, 
 
 H 2
 
 104 
 
 PEIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Standing 
 Orders, com- 
 pliance with 
 which is to be 
 proved before 
 Examiners. 
 
 Lands within 
 deviation to 
 
 be on plan. 
 
 Buildings, Are. 
 on enlarged 
 scale. 
 
 In case of cut, 
 canals, &C , 
 plan to de- 
 scribe brooks, 
 &c. to be 
 div.-rted. 
 
 In case of rail- 
 ways, distances 
 to be marked 
 
 in mik- 
 furlong^ and 
 memorandum 
 of curves ami 
 tunnelling. 
 
 Diversion of 
 roads, &c. to 
 iwn. 
 
 In case of 
 junctions, 
 coarse of exi>t- 
 ing line to be 
 shown on de- 
 plan. 
 
 • 
 Tramway*. 
 
 Plan- in the 
 
 I 
 
 maintained, varied, extended, or enlarged, or through which any 
 communication to or from the work may he made ; and where it is 
 the intention of the promoters to apply for powers to make any 
 lateral deviation from the line of the proposed work, the limits of 
 such deviation shall be defined upon the plan, and all lands 
 included within such limits shall be marked thereon ; and unless 
 the whole of such plan shall be upon a scale of not less than a 
 quarter of an inch to every 100 feet, an enlarged plan shall be 
 added of any building, yard, courtyard, or land within the curtilage 
 ill' any building, or of any ground cultivated as a garden, either in 
 the line of the proposed work, or included within the limits of the 
 said deviation, upon a scale of not less than a quarter of an inch to 
 every 100 feet. 
 
 41. In all cases where it is proposed to make, vary, extend, or 
 enlarge any cut, canal, reservoir, aqueduct, or navigation, the plan 
 shall describe the brooks and streams to be directly diverted into 
 such intended cut, canal, reservoir, aqueduct, or navigation, or into 
 anv variation, extension, or enlargement thereof respectively, for 
 supplying the same with water. 
 
 42. In all cases where it is proposed to make, vary, extend, or 
 enlarge any railway, the plan shall exhibit thereon the distances in 
 miles and furlongs from one of the termini ; and a memorandum of 
 the radius of every curve not exceeding one mile in length shall 
 be noted on the plan in furlongs and chains ; and where tunnelling 
 as a substitute for open cutting is intended, the same shall be 
 marked by a dotted line on the plan, and no work shall be shown 
 as tunnelling in the making of which it will be necessary to cut 
 through or remove the surface soil. 
 
 43. If it be intended to divert, widen, or narrow any public 
 carriage road, navigable river, canal, or railway, the course of such 
 diversion, and the extent of such widening or narrowing, shall be 
 marked upon the plan. 
 
 44. When a railway is intended to form a junction with an 
 existing or authorized line of railway, the course of such existing 
 or authorized line of railway shall be shown on the deposited plan 
 for a distance of 800 yards on either side of the proposed junction,. 
 on the, same scale as the seale of the general plan. 
 
 45. In cases of bills for laying down a tramway, the plans 
 shall indicate whether it is proposed to lay such tramway along the 
 centre of any street, and if not along the centre, then on which 
 side of. and at what distance from tin imaginary line drawn along 
 the centre of such street, and whether or not, and if so, at what
 
 STANDING ORDERS. 
 
 105 
 
 point or points it is proposed to lay such tramway, so that for a 
 distance of 30 ft., or upwards, a less space than 9 ft. 6 in., or if it 
 is intended to run thereon carriages or trucks adapted for use 
 upon railways, a less space than 10 ft. 6 in. shall intervene hetween 
 the outside of the footpath en either side of the road, and the 
 nearest rail of the tramway. 
 
 All lengths shall he stated on the plan and section in miles, 
 furlongs, chains, and decimals of a chain. The distances in miles 
 and furlongs from one of the termini of each tramway shall be 
 marked on the plan and section. Each double portion of tramway, 
 whether a passing-place or otherwise, shall be indicated by a 
 double line. The total length of the road upon which each 
 tramway is to be laid shall be stated {i.e., the length of route of 
 each tramway). 
 
 The length of each double and single portion of such tramway, 
 and the total length of such double and single portions respectively 
 shall also be stated. 
 
 In the case of double lines (including passing-places), the 
 distance between the centre lines of each line of tramway shall be 
 marked on the plans. This distance must in all cases be sufficient 
 to leave at least fifteen inches between the sides of the widest 
 carriages and engines to be used on the tramways when passing 
 one another. The gradients of the road on which each tramway is 
 to be laid shall be marked on the section. Every crossing of a 
 railway, tramway, river, or canal shall be shown, specifying in 
 the case of railways and tramways whether they are crossed over, 
 under, or on the level. 
 
 All tidal waters shall be coloured blue. 
 
 All places where for a distance of 30 ft. and upwards there 
 will be a less space than Oft. Gin. between the outside of the 
 footpath on either side of the road and the nearest rail of the 
 tramway shall be indicated by a thick dotted line on the plans on 
 the side or sides of the line of tramway where such narrow [daces 
 occur, as well as noted on the plans, and the width of the road at 
 those places should also be marked on the plans. 
 
 The preceding paragraph shall apply, in the case of a tramroad, 
 wherever it is carried along a street or road. 
 
 45a. In the case of bills for constructing a subway the plans 
 and sections shall indicate the height and width of the proposed 
 subway and the nature of the approaches by which it is proposed 
 to afford access to such subway. 
 
 Standing 
 Orders, com- 
 pliance with 
 which is to be 
 proved before 
 Examiners. 
 
 Tramroads 
 
 Plans, &c. in 
 the case of 
 subway bills.
 
 106 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Standing 
 ( brders, com- 
 pliance with 
 which i- to be 
 proved before 
 Examiners. 
 
 Definition of 
 improvement 
 and limits of 
 improvement 
 
 area. 
 
 Contents 
 
 book of 
 
 referenn 
 
 Section. 
 
 of 
 
 Improvement, 
 &c. of naviga- 
 tions. 
 
 Line of railway 
 on em ction to 
 correspond with 
 upper Eturface 
 
 of rails. 
 
 Vertical mea- 
 sure- to be 
 marked at 
 change of 
 gradient. 
 
 156. In the case of bills continuing power to impose on any 
 lands or houses, or to render any lands or houses liable to the 
 imposition of any charge in respect of any improvement, the plan 
 shall define the improvement, and also the improvement area 
 (being the limits within which the charge may be imposed). 
 
 Book of Reference. 
 
 46. The book of reference shall contain the names of the 
 owners or reputed owners, lessees or reputed lessees, and occupiers 
 of all lands and houses which may be taken compulsorily, or upon 
 which any improvement charge is imposed, or which are rendered 
 liable to have an improvement charge imposed upon them, and 
 shall describe such lands and houses respectively. 
 
 Sections. 
 
 47. The section shall be drawn to the same horizontal scale as 
 the plan, and to a vertical scale of not less than one inch to every 
 100 feet, and shall show the surface of the ground marked on the 
 plan, the intended level of the proposed work, the height of every 
 embankment, and the depth of every cutting, and a datum hori- 
 zontal line, which shall be the same throughout the whole length 
 of the work, or any branch thereof respectively, and shall be 
 referred to some fixed point (stated in writing on the section), 
 near some portion of such work, and in the case of a canal, cut, 
 navigation, public carriage road or railway, near either of the 
 termini. 
 
 48. In cases of lulls for improving the navigation of any river, 
 there shall be a section which shall specify the levels of both banks 
 of such river ; and where any alteration is intended to be made 
 therein, it shall describe the same by feet and inches, or decimal 
 parts of a foot. 
 
 49. In every section of a railway the line of the railway marked 
 thereon shall correspond with the upper surface of the rails. 
 
 50. Distances on the datum line shall be marked in miles and 
 furlongs to correspond with those on the plan ; a vertical measure 
 from the datum line to the line of the railway shall be marked in 
 feet and inches, or decimal parts of a foot, at the commencement 
 and termination of the railway, and at each change of the gradient 
 or inclination thereof ; and the proportion or rate of inclination 
 between every two consecutive vertical measures shall also be 
 marked.
 
 STANDING ORDERS. 107 
 
 51. Wherever the line of the railway is intended to cross any Standing 
 public carriage-road, navigable river, canal, or railway, the height SjMce tS3l" 
 of the railway over or depth under the surface thereof, and the wn ieh is to be 
 height and span of every arch of all bridges and viaducts, by which proved before 
 the railway will be carried over the same, shall be marked in x ami 
 figures at every crossing thereof ; and where the railway will be H e ; g ht of rail- 
 carried across any such public carriage-road or railway, on the way over or 
 level thereof, such crossing shall be so described on the section ; sl ^ ce U ^ r ^ dSi 
 and it shall also be stated if such level will be unaltered. &c. to be 
 
 52. If anv alteration be intended in the water level of any marked, and 
 
 „.,.. ,,. • bridges and 
 
 canal, or in the level or rate of inclination of any public carriage- level cross i n g S . 
 
 road or railway, which will be crossed by the line of railway, then Cross sect ; ons 
 
 the same shail be stated on the section, and each alteration shall of roads, &c. 
 
 be numbered ; and cross sections, in reference to the numbers, on c J^ e ^ he ™ 
 
 a horizontal scale of not less than one inch to every 330 feet, and ra tes of inclina- 
 
 on a vertical scale of not less than one inch to every 40 feet, shall tlon altered. 
 
 be added, which shall show the present surface of such road, canal 
 
 or railway, and the intended surface thereof when altered : and the 
 
 greatest of the present and intended rates of inclination of the 
 
 portion of such road or railway intended to be altered shall also be 
 
 marked in figures thereon ; and where any public carriage-road is 
 
 crossed on the level, a cross section of such road shall also be 
 
 added, and all such cross sections shall extend for 200 yards on 
 
 each side of the centre line of the railway. 
 
 53. Wherever the extreme height of any embankment, or the Embankments 
 extreme depth of any cutting shall exceed five feet, the extreme and cuttings. 
 height over or depth under the surface of the ground shall be 
 
 marked in figures upon the section ; and if any bridge or viaduct of 
 move than three arches shall intervene in any embankment, or if 
 any tunnel shall intervene in any cutting, the extreme height or 
 depth shall be marked in figures on each of the parts into which 
 such embankment or cutting shall be divided by such bridge, 
 viaduct, or tunnel. 
 
 54. Where tunnelling, as a substitute for open cutting, or a Tunnelling 
 viaduct as a substitute for solid embankment, is intended, the same t° be^arked. 
 shall be marked on the section, and no work shall be shown as 
 tunnelling, in the making of which it will be necessary to cut 
 
 through or remove the surface soil. junctions 
 
 55. When a railway is intended to form a junction with an gradient of 
 existing or authorized line of railway, the gradient of such existing existing line 
 or authorized line of railway shall be shown on the deposited on deposited 
 section, and in connection therewith, and on the same scale as the section.
 
 108 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Standing 
 Orders, com- 
 pliance with 
 which is to be 
 proved before 
 Examiners. 
 
 Estimate in 
 Bills of the 
 Second Class. 
 
 Five per cent, 
 or four per Cunt, 
 of estimate to 
 be deposited. 
 
 which 
 tions 
 
 may L- 
 
 posited in lieu 
 ney. 
 
 general section, for a distance of 800 yards on either side of the 
 point of junction. 
 
 5. Estimates and Deposit of Money, and Declarations in 
 Certain Cases. 
 
 50. An estimate of the expense of the undertaking under each 
 bill of the second class shall be made and signed by the person 
 making the same. 
 
 57. In the case of a railway bill, tramway bill, or subway bill, 
 authorizing the construction of works by other than an existing 
 railway company, tramway company, or subway company, incor- 
 porated by Act of Parliament, possessed of a railway, tramway, or 
 subway already opened for public traffic, and which has during the 
 year last past paid dividends on its ordinary share capital, and 
 which does not propose to raise under the bill a capital greater 
 than its existing authorized capital, a sum not less than five per 
 cent, on the amount of the estimate of expense, or in the case of 
 substituted works, on the amount, by which the expense thereof* 
 will exceed the expense of the works to be abandoned, and in the 
 case of all bills other than railway bills, tramway bills, and subway 
 bills, a sum not less than four per cent, on the amount of such 
 estimate, or of such excess as aforesaid, shall, previously to the 
 15th day of .January, be deposited with the Paymaster-Greneral 
 for and on behalf of the Supreme Court of Judicature in England, 
 ii the work is intended to be done in England, or with the Pay- 
 master-General for and on behalf of the Supreme Court of Judica- 
 ture in England, or with the Queen's and Lord Treasurer's 
 Remembrancer on behalf of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, 
 if the work is intended to be done in Scotland, or with the 
 Accountant General of the Supreme Court of Judicature in 
 Ireland, if the work is intended to be done iii Ireland. 
 
 5b. Where the work is to be made, wholly or in part, by means 
 of funds, or out of money to be raised upon the credit of present 
 surplus revenue, belonging to any society or company, or under 
 the control of directors, trustees, or commissioners, as the case may 
 be, of an\ existing public work, such parties being the promoters 
 of the bill, a declaration statin-' those facts, and setting forth the 
 nature of such control, and the nature and amount of such funds 
 or surplus revenue, and showing the actual surplus of such funds 
 or revenue, after deducting the funds required for purposes autho- 
 rized by any Act or Acts of Parliament, and also the funds which
 
 STANDING ORDEKS. 109 
 
 may be required for any other work to be executed under any Standing 
 
 bill in the same session, and given under the common seal of the 0rders > co ™- 
 
 ' ° pliance ■with 
 
 society or company, or under the hand of some authorized officer wn ich is to be 
 
 of such directors, trustees, or commissioners, may be deposited, proved before 
 
 and in such case no deposit of money shall be required in respect J ' ' 
 
 of so much of the estimate of expense as shall be provided for by 
 
 such surplus funds. 
 
 59. In cases of any bill under which do private or personal Cases in which 
 
 pecuniary profit or advantage is to be derived, and where the ec ar ^ 10n 
 
 work is to be made out of money to be raised upon the security f amount of 
 
 of the rates, duties, or revenue already belonging to or under the rates . may ^ e 
 
 control of the promoters, or to be created by or to arise under the 
 
 bill, a declaration stating those facts, and setting forth the means 
 
 by which funds are to be obtained for executing the work, and 
 
 signed by the party or agent soliciting the bill, together with an 
 
 estimate of the probable amount of such rates, duties, or revenue, 
 
 signed by the person making the same, may be deposited, and in 
 
 such case no money deposit shall be required. 
 
 Bills brought from the House of Lords. 
 
 60. A copy of every railway bill, tramway bill, subway bill, Copyofrail- 
 
 and canal bill, brought from the House of Lords shall be deposited 7*7' j ?: A 
 ' . e r to be deposited 
 
 in the office of the Board of Trade, not later than two days after at Board of 
 
 the bill is read a first time. Trade. 
 
 60a. In the case of bills brought from the House of Lords, a Copy of Bill 
 
 •copy of everv bill whereby application is made by or on behalf of lor contemr >g 
 
 " . : , . ., powers, &c. 
 
 any county council, municipal corporation, district council, or on municipal 
 
 other local authority in England or Wales, for power in respect corporation, 
 
 of any matter within the jurisdiction of the Local Government or anv local 
 
 Board, and of^ every bill whereby any powers, rights, duties, capa- authority, to 
 
 cities, liabilities, or obligations are sought to be conferred or ^ e deposited 
 
 ' '_,.._ & • at office of 
 
 imposed on any local authority in England or Wales in respect the Local 
 
 of any matter within the iurisdiction of the Local Government Government 
 Board, and of every bill relating to turnpike roads or trusts, 0<1 
 highways, or bridges, and of every bill to which Standing Order 
 38 applies, shall be deposited at the office of the Local Government 
 Board not later than two days after the bill is read a first time. 
 A copy of every bill which proposes to alter the boundary of the 
 area of any county, urban district, parish, or any other administra- 
 tive area, or which relates to any matter to which the Births and 
 Deaths Registration Acts, 1836 to 1874, and any Act amending
 
 110 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Standing 
 Orders, com- 
 pliance with 
 
 ■which is to be 
 
 proved before 
 
 Examiners. 
 
 Notices to be 
 L'iveii and de- 
 1 osits made in 
 cases where 
 work is altered 
 while Bill is in 
 Parliament. 
 
 the same, relate, shall be deposited at the General Register Office,. 
 Somerset House, not later than two days after the bill is read a 
 first time. A copy of every bill required to be deposited at the 
 office of the Secretary of State for the Home Department under 
 Standing Orders 33 and 33a shall be deposited at that office not 
 later than two days after the bill is read a first time. A copy of 
 every bill required to be deposited at the office of the Board of 
 Agriculture under Standing Order 336 shall be deposited at that 
 office not later than two days after the bill is read a first time. 
 
 61. Whenever during the progress through the House of Lords 
 of any bill of the second class originating in that House, any 
 alteration has been made in any work authorized by such bill, proof 
 shall be given before the Examiners that a plan and section of such 
 alteration, on the same scale, and containing the same particulars as 
 the original plan and section, together with a book of reference 
 thereto, has been deposited in the Private Bill Office, and with the 
 clerk of the peace of every county, riding, or division in England 
 or Ireland, and in the office of the sheriff clerk of every county in 
 Scotland, in which such alteration is proposed to be made, and 
 where any county in Scotland is divided into districts or divisions 
 then also in the office of the principal sheriff clerk in and for each 
 district or division in which such alteration is proposed to be 
 made ; and that a copy of such plan and section, so far as relates 
 to any of the areas mentioned in Standing Order 29, together with 
 a book of reference thereto, has been deposited with the officers 
 respectively mentioned in that Order, as the case may be, two. 
 weeks previously to the introduction of the bill into this House ; 
 and that the intention to make such alteration has been published 
 previously to the introduction of the bill into this House once in 
 the London, Edinburgh, or Dublin Gazette, as the case may be,, 
 and for two successive weeks in some one and the same newspaper 
 of the county in which such alteration is situate, and that applica- 
 tion in writing, as nearly as may be in the form set forth in the 
 Appendix, marked (A), was made to the owners or reputed owners,. 
 Lessees or reputed lessees, or in their absence from the United 
 Kingdom, to their agents respectively, and to the occupiers of 
 lands through which any such alteration is intended to be made ; 
 and the consent of such owners or reputed owners, lessees or 
 reputed lessees, and occupiers, to the making of such alteration, 
 shall be proved before the examiner. Compliance with this order 
 shall not be necessary in the case of alterations made on petition 
 or additional provision in the House of Lords.
 
 STANDING ORDERS. Ill 
 
 Provisions relating to the Consents of Proprietors or Members Standing 
 
 of Companies already constituted, and of Persons named D H a ^'^tii 
 
 as Directors. which is to be 
 
 __ -„ .... ... . , . -„■ ^ i i proved before 
 
 62. Every bill originating in this House, promoted by a Examiners. 
 
 company already constituted by Act of Parliament, shall after the 
 
 first reading thereof be referred to Examiners, who shall report as Meeting of 
 
 to compliance or non-compliance with the following Order : — th ^ 6 °tf m 
 
 The bill, as introduced, or proposed to be introduced, in certain bills 
 
 this House, shall be submitted to the proprietors of such originating in 
 
 ... • i, p , . this House. 
 
 company at a meeting held specially tor that purpose. 
 
 Such meeting shall be called by advertisement inserted 
 once in each of two consecutive weeks in some one and the 
 same newspaper published in London, Edinburgh, or Dublin, 
 as the case may be, and in some one and the same news- 
 paper of the county or counties in which the principal office 
 or offices of the company is or are situate; and also by a 
 circular addressed to each proprietor at his last known or 
 usual address, and sent by post, or delivered at such address, 
 not less than ten days before the holding of such meeting, 
 enclosing a blank form of proxy, with proper instructions 
 for the use of the same ; and the same form of proxy and the 
 same instructions, and none other, shall be sent to every such 
 proprietor ; but no such form of proxy shall be stamped 
 before it is sent out, nor shall the funds of the company 
 be used for the stamping any proxies, nor shall intimation 
 be sent as to any person in whose favour the proxy may be 
 granted, and no other circular or form of proxy relating to 
 such meeting shall be sent to any proprietor from the office 
 of the company, or by any director or officer of the company 
 so describing himself. 
 
 Such meeting shall be held not earlier than the seventh 
 day after the last insertion of such advertisement, and may 
 be held on the same day as an ordinary general meeting of 
 the company. 
 
 At such meeting the said bid shall he submitted to the pro- 
 prietors aforesaid then present, and approved of by proprietors 
 present in person or by proxy, holding at least three-fourths 
 of the paid-up capital of the company represented by the 
 votes at such meeting, such proprietors being qualified to 
 vote at all ordinary meetings of the company in right of such 
 cupital. The votes of proprietors of any paid-up shares or
 
 112 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Standing 
 I 'rd> re, com- 
 pliance with 
 
 which is to be 
 proved before 
 
 Examiners. 
 
 Separate 
 undertakings. 
 
 Meeting of 
 
 nirml" rs of 
 limited com- 
 panies, &c, in 
 the case oi 
 certain bills 
 originating in 
 this H' 
 
 stock other than debenture stock, not qualified to vote at 
 ordinary meetings, whose interests may be affected by the 
 bill, if tendered at the meeting shall be recorded separately. 
 The names of the proprietors present in person at the meet- 
 ing shall be recorded by the company. For this purpose the 
 meeting, and any other consecutive meetings, whether 
 general or special, and whether preceding or following it, 
 shall be deemed to be the same meeting. A poll may be de- 
 manded by any proprietor present in person at the meeting. 
 There shall be deposited at the Private Bill Office a state- 
 ment of the number of votes if a poll was taken, and of the 
 number of votes recorded separately. 
 
 So far its any such bill relates to a separate undertaking 
 in any company as distinct from the general undertaking, 
 separate meetings shall be held of the proprietors of the com- 
 pany and of the separate undertaking, and the provisions of 
 this order applicable to meetings of proprietors of the com- 
 pany shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to meetings of pro- 
 prietors of the separate undertaking. 
 03. Every bill originating in this House, promoted by any 
 company, society, association, or co-partnership formed or regis- 
 tered under the Companies Act, TSG2, or constituted by Act of 
 Parliament, royal charter, letters patent, deed of settlement, 
 contract of co-partnery, cost book regulations, or other instrument, 
 and under the management of a committee, or directors or trustees 
 (and not being a company to which the preceding Order applies) 
 shall, alter the first reading thereof, be referred to the Examiners, 
 who shall report as to compliance or non-compliance with the 
 following order : 
 
 In the case of a company formed or registered under the 
 Companies Act, 18(32, 
 
 The bill as introduced or proposed to be introduced in 
 this House -hall lie approved by a special resolution of the 
 company. 
 
 In the case of any other such company, society, associa- 
 tion, oi- co-| artnership as aforesaid, 
 
 The bill as introduced or proposed to be introduced in 
 this House .-hall he consented to by a majority of three- 
 fourths in number and (where applicable) in value of the 
 proprietors or members of such company, society, association, 
 or co-partnership present, in person or by proxy, at ameeting 
 convened, with notice of the business to be transacted, and
 
 STANDING ORDERS. 
 
 113 
 
 voting at such meeting ; such consent to be certified in writ- 
 ing by the chairman of the meeting. 
 
 A copy of such special resolution or certificate of consent 
 shall be deposited in the Private Bill Office. 
 
 The names of the proprietors or members present in person 
 at the meeting shall be recorded by the company, society, 
 association or co-partnership. For this purpose the meeting, 
 and anv other consecutive meetings, whether general or special, 
 and whether preceding or following it, shall be deemed to be 
 the same meeting. 
 
 A poll may be demanded by any one proprietor or member 
 present in person at the meeting, notwithstanding any provi- 
 sion to the contrary contained in any instrument constituting 
 or regulating the company, society, association, or co-part- 
 nership. 
 
 If a poll is taken, there shall be deposited in the Private 
 Bill Office a statement of the number of votes. 
 
 So far as any such bill relates to a separate class of pro- 
 prietors or members of any company, society, association, or 
 co-partnership, as distinct from the proprietors or members 
 generally, such bill shall be approved or assented to by the 
 proprietors or members generally, and also by the separate 
 class of proprietors or members, and the provisions of this 
 Order applicable to the proprietors or members generally, 
 shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to the separate class of pro- 
 prietors or members. 
 64. In the case of every bill brought from the House of Lords 
 in which provisions have been inserted in that House, empowering 
 the promoters thereof, being a company already constituted by Act 
 of Parliament, to execute, undertake, or contribute towards any 
 work other than that for which it was originally established, or to 
 sell or lease their undertaking, or any part thereof, or to enter into 
 any agreements with any other company for the working, mainte- 
 nance, management, or use of the railway or works of either com- 
 pany, or any part thereof, or to amalgamate their undertaking, or 
 any part thereof with any other undertaking, or to purchase any 
 other undertaking, or part thereof, or any additional lauds, or to 
 abandon their undertaking, or any part thereof, or to dissolve the 
 said company, or in which any such provisions originally contained 
 in the bill have been materially altered in that House, or in which 
 anv such powers are conferred on any company not being the 
 
 Standing 
 Orders, com- 
 pliance with 
 which is to he 
 proved hefore 
 Examiners. 
 
 Meeting of 
 
 proprietors in 
 
 the case of 
 
 certain hills 
 
 originating 
 
 in the House of 
 
 Lords.
 
 1 l-i PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Standing promoters of the bill, the Examiner shall report as to compliance or 
 
 Orders, com- non-compliance with the following Order :— 
 pliance with l _ ° 
 
 which is to be The bill as introduced or proposed to be introduced into 
 
 proved before this House, shall be submitted to the proprietors of any such 
 
 Examiners. .... . ,, „ . J 
 
 company, at a meeting held specially for that purpose. 
 
 Such meeting shall be called by advertisement, inserted 
 once in each of two consecutive weeks in some one and the 
 same newspaper published in London, Edinburgh, or Dublin, 
 as the case may be, and in some one and the same newspaper 
 of the county or counties in which the principal office or 
 offices of the company is or are situate; and also by a cir- 
 cular addressed to each proprietor at his last known or usual 
 address, and sent by post, or delivered at such address, not 
 less than ten days before the holding of such meeting, enclos- 
 ing a blank form of proxy, with proper instructions for the 
 use of the same ; and the same form of proxy, and the same 
 instructions, and none other, shall be sent to every such 
 proprietor ; but no such form of proxy shall be stamped 
 before it is sent out, nor shall the funds of the company be 
 used for the stamping any proxies, nor shall intimation be 
 sent as to any person in whose favour the proxy may be 
 granted, and no other circular or form of proxy relating to 
 such meeting shall be sent to any proprietor from the office 
 of the company, or by any director or officer of the company 
 so describing himself. 
 
 Such meeting shall be held not earlier than the seventh day 
 after the last insertion of such advertisement, and may be 
 held on the same day as an ordinary general meeting of the 
 company. 
 
 At such meeting the said bill shall be submitted to the 
 proprietors aforesaid then present, and approved by proprie- 
 tors present in person or by proxy, holding at least three- 
 fourths of the paid-up capital of the company represented by 
 the votes at such meeting, such proprietors being qualified to 
 vote at all ordinary meetings of the company in right of such 
 capital. The votes of proprietors of any paid-up shares or 
 *tock other than debenture stock, not qualified to vote at 
 ordinary meetings, whose interests may be affected by the 
 bill, if tendered at the meeting, shall be recorded separately. 
 The names of the proprietors present in person at the meet- 
 ing shall be recorded by the company. For this purpose 
 the meeting, and any other consecutive meetings, whether
 
 STANDING ORDERS. 115 
 
 general or special, and whether preceding or following it, shall Standing 
 
 be deemed to be the same meeting. A poll may be demanded pii an ce with 
 
 by any proprietor present in person at the meeting. which is to be 
 
 There shall be deposited at the Private Bill Office a state- Proved before 
 r _ Examiners. 
 ment of the number of votes if a poll was taken, and of the 
 
 number of votes recorded separately. 
 
 So far as any such bill relates to a separate undertaking in any Separate 
 
 company as distinct from the general undertaking, separate meet- un ° ' 
 
 ings shall be held of the proprietors of the company and of the 
 
 separate undertaking, and the provisions of this Order applicable 
 
 to meetings of proprietors of the company shall, mutatis mutandis, 
 
 apply to meetings of proprietors of the separate undertaking. 
 
 65. In the case of every bill brought from the House of Lords, ^ eet ing of 
 , . , . . , . . ■■ • i . i-r . members of 
 
 in which provisions have been inserted in that House empowering limited com- 
 
 or requiring any company, society, association, or co-partnership, panies, &c, in 
 
 formed or registered under the Companies Act, 1SG2, or constituted tlie case ?{ 
 „ _ . certain bills 
 
 by Act of Parliament, royal charter, letters patent, deed of settle- originating in 
 
 ment, contract of co-partnery, cost book regulations, or other tne House of 
 instrument or iustruments, and under the management of a com- 
 mittee, or directors cr trustees, and not being a company to which 
 the preceding Order applies, to do any act not authorized by the 
 memorandum and articles of association of such company, or other 
 instrument constituting or regulating such company, society, asso- 
 ciation, or co-partnership, or authorizing or enacting the abandon- 
 ment of the undertaking, or any part of the undertaking, of any 
 such company, society, association, or co-partnership, or the disso- 
 lution thereof, or in which any such provisions originally contained 
 in the bill have been materially altered in that House, or by which 
 any such powers are conferred on any company, society, associa- 
 tion, or co-partnership, not being the promoters of the bill, the 
 Examiner shall report as to compliance and non-compliance with 
 the following Order : 
 
 In the case of a company formed or registered under the 
 Companies Act, 1862. 
 
 The bill as introduced or proposed to be introduced into 
 this House shall be approved by a special resolution of the 
 company. 
 
 In the case of any other such company, society, associa- 
 tion, or co-partnership as aforesaid, 
 
 The bill as introduced or proposed to be introduced in this 
 House shall be consented to by a majority of three-fourths in 
 number and (where applicable) in value of the proprietors or
 
 116 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Standing 
 < Orders, com- 
 pliance with 
 ■which is to lie 
 proved before 
 Examiners. 
 
 members of such company, society, association, or co-partner- 
 ship present, in person or by proxy, at a meeting convened 
 with notice of the business to be transacted and voting at 
 such meeting, such consent to be certified in writing by the 
 chairman of the meeting. 
 
 A copy of such special resolution or certificate of consent 
 shall be deposited in the Private Bill Office. 
 
 Provided always, that if by the terms of such special 
 resolution or consent the bill as introduced or proposed to 
 be introduced into the House of Lords shall have been 
 approved or consented to, subject to such additions, altera- 
 tions, and variations as Parliament may think fit to make 
 therein, then it shall not be necessary for the purposes of 
 this order to obtain any further approval or consent in 
 respect of any provisions inserted in the bill in the House 
 of Lords : Provided nevertheless that it shall be competent 
 for the committee on the bill, if they think fit, having regard 
 to the nature and effect of such provisions, to require any 
 further evidence of the approval or consent to such provi- 
 sions on the part of the shareholders or members of the 
 company, society, association, or co-partnership. 
 
 The names of the proprietors or members present in 
 person at the meeting shall be recorded by the company, 
 societv. association, or co-partnership. For this purpose the 
 meeting, and any other consecutive meetings, whether 
 general or special, and whether preceding or following it, 
 shall be deemed to be the same meeting. 
 
 A poll may be demanded by any one proprietor or member 
 present in person at the meeting, notwithstanding any provi- 
 sion to the contrary contained in any instrument constituting 
 or regulating the company, society, association, or co-part- 
 nership. 
 
 If a poll is taken, there shall be deposited in the Private 
 Bill Office a statement of the number of votes. 
 
 So far as any such bill relates to a separate class of pro- 
 prietors or members of any company, society, association, or 
 co-partnership as distinct from the proprietors or members 
 generally, such bill shall be approved or assented to by the 
 proprietors or members generally, and also by the separate 
 class of proprietors or members ; and the provisions of this 
 order applicable to the proprietors or members generally
 
 STANDING ORDERS. 117 
 
 shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to the separate class of pro- Standing 
 
 prietors or members. ^ _ p We wTh 
 
 (3(5. When any bill as introduced into Parliament, or as which is to be 
 
 amended, or proposed to be amended, on petition for additional proved before 
 . . . . . , . . . Examiners. 
 provision, contains a provision authorizing any company incor- 
 
 porated by Act of Parliament, or any class of holders of share or Consent of 
 loan capital in any such company, to subscribe or to alter the terms proprietors of 
 or conditions of any subscription towards, or to guarantee or to ^ com P^ n y 
 raise any money in aid of the undertaking of another company rized to be 
 (which bill is not brought in by the company so authorized, or of raised in aid of 
 which such company is not a joint promoter), proof shall be re- f another 
 quired before the Examiner before the second reading in this company. 
 House, if such provision is contained in the bill as introduced into 
 Parliament, that the company, or the class of holders of share or 
 loan capital, so authorized has consented to such subscription, 
 alteration, guarantee, or raising of money, at a meeting of the pro- 
 prietors of the company, or of any such class of holders of share or 
 loan capital, as the case may be, held specially for that purpose, in 
 the same manner and subject to the same provisions as the meeting 
 directed to be held under Standing Order 64 ; and in case such 
 provision is contained in the bill as introduced into Parliament, 
 that the notices for the bill state the specific sum, if any, proposed Petition for 
 to he subscribed, or guaranteed or raised, or the alteration of the prov i s i on 
 terms or conditions of the subscription, as the case may be, or in 
 case such provision shall be proposed to be inserted in the bill, on a 
 petition for additional provision that notices stating the specific 
 sum, if any, proposed to be subscribed, or guaranteed or raised, or 
 the alteration of the terms or conditions of the subscription, as the 
 case may be, and stating that the consent of the company, or of 
 such class of holders of share or loan capital, has been given as 
 aforesaid, have been published once in the London, Edinburgh, or 
 Dublin Gazette, as the case may be, and in the county newspapers 
 in which the notices for the bill were published, for two successive 
 weeks during the six weeks immediately preceding the presentation 
 of such petition for additional provision ; in any case in which 
 such consent has been given, it shall not be necessary to submit 
 the bill, in respect of such provision as aforesaid, to the approval 
 of a meeting to be held in accordance with Standing Order 64. 
 
 67. When in any railway bill originating in this House a pro- Railway Bills 
 
 vision is contained by which the pavment of any moneys is charging pay- 
 , . ^, . A , . -i t . ments on grand 
 
 directly or contingently charged upon grand jury cess, or any jury cess or 
 
 other local rate in Ireland, by means of a guarantee or otherwise, local rate in 
 
 I
 
 118 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Standing 
 Orders, com- 
 pliance with 
 
 ■which is to be 
 proved before 
 Examiners. 
 
 Ireland to be 
 submitted to 
 and approved 
 by grand jury 
 or local autho- 
 rity. 
 
 Notice of bill 
 to grand 
 jury or local 
 authority. 
 
 Limit of time 
 for bill to be 
 subm ; ' 
 and present- 
 ment or resolu- 
 tion to be 
 
 ited in 
 Private Li 11 
 Office. 
 
 .,t of 
 PS, & C. . 
 
 named 
 in a Bill, to be 
 
 prove 1. 
 
 such bill shall, sifter the first reading thereof, be referred to the 
 Examiners, who shall report as to compliance or non-compliance 
 with the following order: — 
 
 A copy of the bill, as deposited in the Private Bill Office, shall 
 be submitted to the grand jury or other authority empowered to 
 present such grand jury cess, or to make such local rate, and 
 according as the payment of any moneys is by the said bill pro- 
 posed to be charged upon a county at large, or upon one or more 
 baronies in any county, or upon any part or parts of any barony 
 or baronies, such bill shall also be submitted to the presentment 
 sessions for such county at large, or for such barony or baronies, 
 as the case may be, and also to the poor law guardians of every 
 union in which any lands proposed to be charged with the pay- 
 ment of any moneys are situate. 
 
 Notice of the intention to submit a copy of such bill to such 
 grand jury or other authority, and to such presentment sessions 
 and board of guardians, shall be given ten days previously to sub- 
 mitting the same to the secretary or clerk of such grand jury or 
 authority, or presentment sessions and board of guardians, and 
 shall be advertised once in each of two consecutive weeks in some 
 one and the same morning newspaper published in Dublin, and 
 in some one and the same newspaper published in the county 
 upon which, or upon any barony or baronies in which it is pro- 
 posed by the bill to impose any local rate or charge, or if in such 
 county no newspaper is published, then in some one and the same 
 newspaper published in any adjoining county. 
 
 A copy of such bill shall be so submitted not earlier than six 
 months before the time fixed for the deposit of such bill, and not 
 earlier than the seventh day after the last insertion of such adver- 
 tisement ; and shall be approved by a majority of the members of 
 the grand jury or authority, presentment sessions, and board of 
 guardians respectively, then present and voting thereon, and the 
 presentment or resolution of each of the said bodies approving the 
 same shall be deposited at the Private Bill Office, together with a 
 statement under the hand of the foreman, chairman, or other 
 person presiding when such presentment was made, or such reso- 
 lution was passed, of the number of the members then present and 
 voting. 
 
 68. When in any bill brought from the House of Lords for the 
 purpose of establishing a company for carrying on any work or 
 undertaking, any person is specified as manager, director, proprietor, 
 or otherwise concerned in carrying such bill into effect, proof shall
 
 STANDING ORDERS. 119 
 
 be required before the Examiner that such person has subscribed 
 his name to the petition for the bill, or to a printed copy of the 
 bill, as brought up to this House. 
 
 III.— PROCEEDINGS OF, AND IN RELATION TO, Proceedings 
 
 THE EXAMINERS. w °* 
 
 Examiners. 
 
 Reference of Bills, &c, to, and Duties of, and Practice 
 before Examiners. 
 
 69. The examination of the petitions for private bills which When examina- 
 shall have been duly deposited iu the Private Bill Office, shall ^co"^^^ 0118 
 commence on the 18th day of January, in such order and accord- 
 ing to such regulations as shall have been made by Mr. Speaker.^) 
 
 70. One of the Examiners shall give at least seven clear days' Notice to be 
 
 notice in the Private Bill Office of the day appointed for the thlExamTnerf 
 
 examination of each petition which shall have been duly deposited of day ap- 
 
 in the Private Bill Office ; and in case the promoters shall not P omt ? d Ior 
 
 , . , , ••!,, , examination. 
 
 appear at the time when the petition shall come on to be heard, the 
 
 Examiner to whom the case shall have been allotted shall strike the 
 
 petition off the general list of petitions, and shall not re-insert the 
 
 same, except by order of the House. 
 
 71. The examiner shall certify by indorsement on each petition Examiner to 
 
 whether the Standing Orders have or have not been complied with • indorse P etl_ 
 
 i i ,i i A i i« i • <■ i , ,, tion, and when 
 
 and, when they have not been complied with, he shall also report Standing 
 
 to the House the facts upon which his decision is founded, and any Orders not 
 
 special circumstances connected with the case. complied with, 
 
 r m to report. 
 
 72. All petitions for additional provision in private bills, with Petitions for 
 
 the proposed clauses annexed, and all private bills brought from additional 
 
 the House of Lords, and all bills introduced by leave of the House provision a U d 
 
 in lieu of other bills which shall have been withdrawn, and all bills from Lords &c 
 
 to confirm any provisional order or provisional certificate, after to be referred 
 
 having been read a first time, shall be referred to the Examiners. tc l E * ai ? mer 
 ° 'of petitions. 
 
 and the Examiner shall report to the House whether the Standing 
 
 Orders have or have not been complied with, and when they have 
 
 not been complied with, the facts upon which his decision is 
 
 founded, and any special circumstances connected with the case, 
 
 and in the case of any bill which, in pursuance of any report from 
 
 the chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, has originated 
 
 ( x ) See the Regulations and Notice, post, pp. 322, 323, and the Resolutions, 
 ■post, p. 324, put out by the Select Committee on Standing Orders. These and 
 the Standing Orders regulate the practice. 
 
 I 2
 
 120 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Proceedings 
 
 of 
 Examiners. 
 
 Notice in cases 
 of petitions for 
 
 additional pro- 
 vision in Pri- 
 vate Pill-. &c 
 
 Memorial com- 
 plaining of non- 
 compliance. 
 
 Proprii 
 
 ting 
 at meeting 
 under Orders 
 62 to 66 may 
 petition and be 
 heard. 
 
 Proof by 
 affidavit. 
 
 To report in 
 t bills 
 original 
 
 th> I. 
 
 in the House of Lords, the compliance with snch Standing Orders 
 only as shall not have been previously inquired into shall be proved. 
 
 73. In all cases of petitions for additional provision in private 
 bills and of private bills brought from the House of Lords, and of 
 bills introduced by leave of this House in lieu of other bills which 
 shall have been withdrawn, and of bills for confirming any pro- 
 visional order or certificate, the Examiner shall give at least two 
 clear days' notice in the Private Bill Office of the day on which 
 the same will be examined ; but, in the case of a bill for confirm- 
 ing any provisional order or certificate, he shall not give such 
 notice until after the bill has been printed and circulated. 
 
 74. Any parties shall be entitled to appear and to be heard, by 
 themselves, their agents and witnesses, upon a memorial addressed 
 to the Examiner, complaining of a non-compliance with the stand- 
 ing orders, provided the matter complained of be specifically stated 
 in such memorial, and the party (if any) who may be speciallv 
 affected by the non-compliance with the Standing Orders have 
 signed such memorial and shall not have withdrawn his signature 
 thereto, and such memorial have been duly deposited in the Private 
 Bill Office. 
 
 75. In case any proprietor, shareholder, or member of or in 
 any company, society, association, or co-partnership shall by him- 
 self, or any person authorised to act for him in that behalf, have 
 dissented at any meeting called in pursuance of standing orders 62 
 to 6(3. such proprietor, shareholder, or member shall be permitted 
 to be heard by the Examiner of Petitions, on the compliance with 
 such Standing Order, by himself, his agents and witnesses, on a 
 memorial addressed to the Examiner, such memorial having been 
 duly deposited in the Private Bill Office. 
 
 76. The Examiner may admit affidavits in proof of the compli- 
 ance with the Standing Orders, or may require further evidence ; 
 and such affidavit shall be sworn, if in England, before a justice of 
 the peace, or a commissioner to administer oaths in the Supreme 
 Court of Judicature ; if in Scotland, before any sheriff depute or 
 his substitute, or a justice of the peace; and if in Ireland, before 
 any judge or assistant barrister of that part of the United King- 
 dom, or before a justice of the peace. 
 
 77. The Examiner shall make a report on the several cases in 
 which he shall have certified that the Standing Orders have or have 
 not been complied with in respect of any bills which, in pursuance 
 of any report from the chairman of the Committee of Ways and
 
 STANDING ORDERS. 121 
 
 Means, under Standing Order 79, shall originate in the House of Proceedings 
 Lords ; and where they have not been complied with, he shall also °f 
 
 report, separately, the facts upon which his decision is founded, and ' s * 
 
 any special circumstances connected with the case. Special report 
 
 78. In case the Examiner shall feel doubts as to the due con- ™ certain cases, 
 struction of any Standing Order in its application to a particular 
 
 case, he shall make a special report of the facts, without deciding 
 whether the Standing Order has or has not been complied with ; 
 and in such case he shall indorse the petition with the words 
 "special report," either alone, or if non-compliances with other 
 Standing Orders shall have been proved, in addition to the words 
 " Standing Orders not complied with." 
 
 Proceedings of, and in relation to, the Chairman op the Proceedings 
 
 Committee of Ways and Means, and the Counsel to «, • e 
 
 Chairman of 
 
 Mr. Speaker. Ways and 
 
 79. The Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means shall, Means. 
 
 at the commencement of each session, seek a conference with the ™ . 
 
 m • p /-, • p i -rr p -r p Chairman of 
 
 Chairman or Committees ot the House or Lords for the purpose Ways and 
 
 of determining in which House of Parliament the respective private Means to seek 
 
 bills should be first considered, and such determination shall be a vi thef 1106 
 
 reported to the House. Chairman of 
 
 80. The Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, with Committees 
 the assistance of the counsel to Mr. Speaker, shall examine all Lords. 
 private bills, whether opposed or unopposed, and call the attention Chairman of 
 of the House, and also of the Chairman of the Committee on every Ways and 
 opposed private bill, to all points which may appear to him to examine all 
 require it ; and copies of all such bills shall be laid by the agent Private Bills, 
 before the said chairman and counsel not later than the day after the cScc- 
 Examiner of Petitions shall have indorsed the petition for the bill. 
 
 81. The Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means shall Chairman of 
 
 make a report to the House previously to the second reading of Ways and 
 
 any private bill by which it is intended to authorize, confirm, or port on bills 
 
 alter any contract with anv department of the Government whereby relating to 
 
 . ,. , i . * , iii G-overnment 
 
 a public charge has been or may be created ; and such report, to- contracts. 
 
 gether with a copy of the contract, and of any resolution to be 
 proposed in relation thereto, shall be circulated with the votes two 
 clear days at least before the day on which the resolution is to be 
 considered in a committee of the whole House, which considera- 
 tion shall not take place until after the time of private business ; 
 nor shall the report of any such resolution be considered until 
 three clear days at least after the resolution shall have been agreed 
 to by the committee.
 
 122 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Proceedings 
 
 of 
 
 Chairman of 
 
 Ways and 
 
 Means. 
 
 Copies of Bill, 
 as proposed to 
 be submitted to 
 Committer, to 
 be laid before 
 Chairman of 
 Ways and 
 Means, &c 
 Power to 
 chairman to 
 import special 
 circumstances, 
 (fee, to the 
 House. 
 Copy of bill 
 as amended in 
 committee to 
 be laid before 
 Chairman of 
 Way- and 
 Mean-. &c. 
 
 Clause OT 
 amendment 
 mi com 
 tion of Bill, 
 or on Third 
 Beading) to be 
 
 *ulil:ii' - 
 Chairman of 
 Ways and 
 Means, &c. 
 
 Copy of 
 
 Amendments 
 by J louse of 
 I . and of 
 
 proposed 
 
 82. Two clear days at least before the day appointed for the 
 consideration of any private bill by a committee, there shall be laid 
 before the Chairman of Ways and Means and the counsel to 
 Mr. Speaker, by the agent, copies of every such bill as proposed to 
 be submitted to the committee, and such copies shall be signed by 
 the agent for the bill. 
 
 83. The Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means shall 
 be at liberty, at any period after any private bill shall have been 
 referred to a committee, to report to the House any special circum- 
 stances relative thereto which may appear to him to require it, or 
 to inform the House that in his opinion any unopposed private 
 bill should be treated as an opposed private bill. 
 
 84. Three clear days at least before the consideration of any 
 private bill ordered to lie upon the table, a copy of every such bill, 
 as amended in committee, shall be laid by the agent before the 
 Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means aud the counsel 
 to Mr. Speaker, and deposited at the office of Her Majesty's Trea- 
 sury, at the General Post Office, and at the office of the Board of 
 Trade ; and in the case of every bill required by Standing 
 Orders 33, 33a, and 60a, to be deposited on or before the 21st 
 day of December at the office of the Secretary of State for the 
 Home Department, at the office of the Secretary of State for the 
 Colonies, at the office of the Secretary for Scotland, at the office 
 of the Local Government Board, at the office of the Board of 
 Agriculture, at the office of the Education Department, or of the 
 Scotch Education Department, at the office of the Commissioners 
 of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings, at the office of Her 
 Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, and at the office 
 of the Duchy of Cornwall or the Duchy of Lancaster, a copy of 
 such bill, as amended in committee, shall also be deposited at those 
 offices respectively. 
 
 t?5. When it is intended to bring up any clause, or to propose 
 any amendment on the consideration of any private bill ordered to 
 lie upon the table, or any verbal amendment on the third reading 
 of any private bill, the same shall be submitted by the agent to the 
 Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means and the counsel 
 to Mr. Speaker, on the day on which notice is given thereof in the 
 private bill office. 
 
 80. A copy of all amendments made in the House of Lords to 
 any private bill, and of all amendments to such amendments in- 
 tended to be proposed in this House, shall be laid by the agent 
 before the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means and
 
 STANDING ORDERS. 123 
 
 the counsel to Mr. Speaker, before two o'clock on the day pre- Amendments 
 
 vious to that on which the same are respectively appointed for thereto, to be 
 
 laid before 
 
 consideration by the House. Chairman of 
 
 Ways and 
 
 Proceedings of, and in relation to, the Referees on Means, &c. 
 
 Private Bills. Proceedings 
 
 of Referees on 
 
 87. The Chairman of Ways and Means, with not less than Private Bills. 
 thiee other persons, who shall be appointed by Mr. Speaker for Referees on 
 such period as he shall think fit, shall be Referees of the House Private Bills to 
 on private bills ; such Referees to form one or more courts ; three be constltut ed. 
 at least to be required to constitute each court : provided that the 
 
 chairman of any second court shall be a member of this House ; 
 and provided that no such Referee, if he be a member of this 
 House, shall receive any salary. 
 
 88. The practice and procedure of the Referees, their times of Rules of prac- 
 
 sitting, order of business, and the forms and notices required in tic . e and PF°" 
 *=' ' 1 cedure to be 
 
 their proceedings, shall be prescribed by rules, to be framed by ma ,<ie by 
 the Chairman of Ways and Means, subject to alteration by him as Chairman of 
 occasion may require, but only one counsel shall appear before ■^^ DBm 
 such Referees in support of a private bill, or in support of any 
 petition in opposition thereto, unless specially authorized by the 
 Referees. All such rules and alterations, when made, to be laid 
 on the table of the House. Q) 
 
 89. The Referees shall decide upon all petitions against private Refereps on 
 
 bills, or against Provisional Orders, or Provisional Certificates, as to ri ^f^j e l s \ 
 
 to the rights of the petitioners to be < heard upon such petitions, rights of peti- 
 
 without prejudice, however, to the power of the select committee tionera to be 
 
 ,.,.,,.„.„ . . , . i heard upon 
 
 to which the bill is referred to decide upon any question as to such t jj e j r petitions, 
 
 rights arising incidentally in the course of their proceedings. &c. 
 
 Proceedings of and in Relation to the Select Committee 
 on Standing Orders. 
 
 91. There shall be a committee, to be designated "The Select Committee on 
 Committee on Standing Orders," to consist of eleven members, Qrde s^ 
 who shall be nominated at the commencement of every session, of 
 
 whom five shall be a quorum. 
 
 92. When any report of the Examiner of petitious for private To report 
 
 bills, in which he" shall report that the Standing Orders have not ^JerSta nd- 
 
 been complied with, shall have been referred to the Select Com- ought or ought 
 
 mittee on Standing Orders, and after the petition for the bill shall not t0 he dl s- 
 
 pensed with. 
 
 (') See Rules for Referees, post, p. 326.
 
 124 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Proceedings 
 of 
 
 Standing 
 Orderr- 
 
 Committee. 
 
 In cases of bills 
 originating in 
 Lords. 
 
 Proceeding in 
 case of special 
 report. 
 
 To report 
 ■whether Ses- 
 sional or Stand- 
 ing Orders 
 ought or ought 
 not to be dis- 
 pensed with. 
 
 To report 
 whether peti- 
 tion ought or 
 ought not to 
 be re-inserted 
 in the General 
 Li-t. 
 
 To report 
 whether Clause 
 or Amendment 
 on considera- 
 tion of bill 
 shoui 
 
 adopted by 
 House or not, 
 or whether 
 Bill should be 
 re-committ<-d. 
 
 1 
 Selection. 
 
 have been duly presented, they shall report to the House whether 
 such Standing Orders ought or ought not to be dispensed with, 
 and whether in their opinion the parties should be permitted to 
 proceed with their Bill, or any portion thereof, and under what (if 
 any) conditions. 
 
 ' 93. The Select Committee on Standing Orders shall have 
 power to report on the cases referred to them in respect of private 
 bills originating in the House of Lords, notwithstanding that the 
 petilior s for the same shall not have been presented to the House. 
 
 94. When any special report from the Examiner of Petitions 
 as to the construction of a Standing Order shall have been referred 
 to the Select Committee on Standing Orders, they shall determine, 
 according to their construction of the Standing Order, and on the 
 facts stated in such report, whether the Standing Orders have or 
 have not been complied with, and they shall then either report to 
 the House that the Standing Orders have been complied with, or 
 shall proceed to consider the question of dispensing with the 
 Standing Orders, as the case may be. 
 
 95. "When any petition, praying that any of the Sessional or 
 Standing Orders of the House relating to private bills may be 
 dispensed with, shall stand referred to the Select Committee on 
 Standing Orders, they shall report to the House whether such 
 Sessional or Standing Orders ought or ought not to be dispensed 
 with. 
 
 90. When any petition for the re-insertion of any petition for 
 a private bid in the general list of petitions shall stand referred to 
 tin Select Committee on Standing Orders, they shall report to the 
 House whether in their opinion such petition ought or ought not 
 to be re-inserted, and, if re-inserted, under what (if any) 
 conditions. 
 
 97. When any clause or amendment proposed on the con- 
 sideration of any private bill ordered to lie upon the table shall 
 have been referred to the Select Committee on Standing Orders, 
 they shall report to the House whether such clause or amendment 
 should be adopted by the House or not, or whether the Bill should 
 be re-committed. 
 
 Proceeding <>i and in relation to the Committee of 
 Selection, and of the General Committee on Kail- 
 way and Canal Bills. 
 
 98. There shall be a committee, to be designated " The Com- 
 mittee of Selection," to consist of the Chairman of the Select
 
 STANDING ORDERS. 125 
 
 Committee on Standing Orders, who shall be ex- officio chairman Proceedings 
 
 thereof, and seven other members, who shall be nominated at the °^. 
 
 P . r> i • i • i i ii Committee 
 
 commencement or every session, of which committee three shall f 
 
 be a quorum. Selection, &c. 
 
 99. There shall be a committee, to be designated " The 
 
 General Committee on Railway and Canal Bills," which shall be Ge * eral c ° m .- 
 
 J ' mittee on Rail- 
 
 nominated at the commencement of every Session by the Committee way and Canal 
 
 of Selection, of which committee three shall be a quorum. Bills. 
 
 100. The Committee of Selection may, from time to time, Committee of 
 discharge members from further attendance on such General Com- discharge 
 mittee, and add other members in their room, and shall appoint the members and 
 chairman of such committee. a ^ others. 
 
 101. The General Committee on Railway and Canal Bills General 
 
 shall appoint from among themselves the chairman of each com- Committee 
 
 „ to appoint 
 
 mittee on a railway or canal bill, or on a group of such bills, and Chairman. 
 
 may change the chairman so appointed from time to time. 
 
 102. Printed copies of all private bills, not being railway or Printed copies 
 
 canal bills, shall be laid before the Committee of Selection. ° f J"llstobe 
 
 j p ' aK '- before 
 
 and printed copies or all railway and canal bills before the Committee of 
 
 General Committee on Railway and Canal Bills, by the parties Selection and 
 
 promoting the same, at the first meeting of the said committees j^ttes ° m " 
 
 respectively. 
 
 103. The Committee of Selection may, if they think fit, form Committee of 
 into groups all private bills, not being railway or canal bills, and Selection and 
 the General Committee on Railway and Canal Bills may form into m j ttee to group 
 groups all railway and canal bills, which, in their opinion, it may private bills. 
 be expedient to submit to the same committee, and such groups 
 
 shall be published in the votes. 
 
 104. The General Committee on Railway and Canal Bills may, Railway and 
 whenever they shall think fit, refer any unopposed railway or canal canal uno P- 
 bill to the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, 
 together with two other members not locally or otherwise inter- 
 ested, or one such member and a referee, to be nominated by the 
 Committee of Selection. 
 
 105. The Committee of Selection in the case of all private Committee of 
 
 bills other than railway and canal bills, and the General Com- Selection and 
 
 mittee on Railway and Canal Bills in the case of such bills, shall, m^tee on 
 
 subject to the Order in regard to the interval between the second railway, &c. 
 
 reading of every private bill and the sitting of the committee kills to appoint 
 ° J L & first sitting of 
 
 thereupon, fix the time for holding the first sitting of every com- committee. 
 
 mittee on a private bill which shall have been referred to either of 
 
 the said committees.
 
 126 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Proceedings 
 
 of 
 Committee 
 
 of 
 Selection. iS:c. 
 
 Committee of 
 Selection and 
 General Com- 
 mittee to name 
 bill or bills to 
 be considered 
 on the first day. 
 
 What bills 
 not to be 
 considered 
 opposed. 
 
 Constitution of 
 committees on 
 
 opposed 
 
 private bills. 
 
 Constitution of 
 committees on 
 unopposed 
 private bills. 
 
 Commit 
 
 Selection to 
 refer all road 
 bills to a com- 
 mittee. 
 
 Committee of 
 Selection to 
 give notice to 
 meml 
 
 ■ ■ of 
 appointment 
 and declaration 
 
 106. The Committee of Selection shall name the bill or hill* 
 which shall be taken into consideration on the first day of the 
 meeting of the committee on any group of bills not being railway 
 or canal bills ; and the General Committee on Railway and Canal 
 Bills shall name the bill or bills which shall be taken into con- 
 sideration on the first day of the meeting of each committee on any 
 group of such bills. 
 
 107. The Committee of Selection shall consider no bill as an 
 opposed private bill, unless, not later than ten clear days after the 
 first reading thereof, a petition shall have been presented against 
 it, in which the petitioner or petitioners shall have prayed to be 
 heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, or unless, where no 
 such petition shall have been presented, the Chairman of the Com- 
 mittee of Ways and Means shall have reported to the House that in 
 his opinion any bill ought to be so treated. 
 
 108. The Committee of Selection shall refer every opposed 
 private bill which shall have been referred to them, or any group 
 of such bills, to a chairman and three members, and a referee or a 
 chairman and three members, not locally or otherwise interested 
 therein. 
 
 109. The Committee of Selection shall refer every unopposed 
 private bill, which shall have been referred to them, not being a 
 road bill, to the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means,, 
 together with one of the members ordered to prepare and bring in 
 the same, and one other member not locally interested therein, or a 
 referee, if the bill shall have originated in this House ; and if the 
 bill shall have been brought from the House of Lords, to the Chair- 
 man of the Committee of Ways and Means, together with two other 
 members, of whom one at least shall not be locally or otherwise 
 interested therein, or one member and a referee. 
 
 110. The Committee of Selection shall refer all road bills,, 
 whether opposed or unopposed, to a committee, consisting of a 
 chairman and three other members not locally or otherwise in- 
 terested therein. 
 
 111. The Committee of Selection shall give each member not 
 less than seven days' notice, by publication in the votes or other- 
 wise, of the week in which it will be necessary for him to be in 
 attendance for the purpose of serving, if required, as a member,, 
 not locally or otherwise interested, of a committee on a private 
 
 bill. 
 
 112. The Committee of Selection shall give to each member 
 sufficient notice of his appointment as a member of a committee on
 
 STANDING ORDERS. 127 
 
 any private bill, or group of such bills, and, in every case where a Proceedings 
 
 declaration is required to be signed and returned by such member, of 
 
 shall transmit to him a blank form of the declaration required, with of 
 
 a request that it may forthwith be returned properly filled up and Selection, &c. 
 
 signed. . , 
 
 __ . to be trans- 
 
 113. The Committee of Selection shall report to the House the m i tte a t o 
 
 name of every member from whom they shall not have received in members. 
 due time such declaration, so filled up and signed, or, in lieu Members re- 
 thereof, an excuse which they shall deem sufficient. answef to°be 
 
 114. The Committee of Selection shall have the power of dis- reported. 
 charging any member or members of a committee, and of substi- Committee of 
 tuting other members. Selection may 
 
 1 1 5. The Committee of Selection shall have power, in the exe- mem k ers f or 
 
 cution of their duties, to send for persons, papers, and records. others. 
 
 Committee of 
 Proceedings of Committees on Opposed Bills. Selection to 
 
 116. The committee on every opposed railway and canal bill, ^sons 1 &c. 
 or group of railway and canal bills, shall be composed of four Comm j ttees on 
 members and a referee, or four members not locally or otherwise railway and 
 interested in the bill or bills referred to them ; the chairman to be canal mlls - 
 appointed by the General Committee on Railway and Canal Bills, 
 
 and three other members by the Committee of Selection. 
 
 117. The committee on every opposed private bill (not being a Committees 
 railway, canal or divorce bill), or group of bills, and the committee ^J^ kjjjg 
 on any bill to confirm any provisional order or provisional certifi- 
 cate, shall be composed of a chairman and three members and a 
 
 referee, or a chairman and three members not locally or otherwise 
 interested in the bill or bills referred to them, to be appointed by 
 the Committee of Selection. 
 
 118. Each member of a committee on an opposed private bill, Declaration 
 or group of such bills, shall, before he be entitled to attend and of members. 
 vote on such committee, sign the following declaration : 
 
 I do hereby declare, that my constituents have no local 
 interest, and that I have no personal interest, in such bill ; 
 and that I will never vote on any question which may arise 
 without having duly heard and attended to the evidence re- 
 lating thereto. 
 And no such committee shall proceed to business until the said 
 declaration shall have been so signed by each of such members. 
 
 119. Committees shall not be allowed to proceed if more than Quorum to be 
 one of their members be absent, unless by special leave of the always present. 
 House.
 
 12S 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Proceedings 
 of 
 
 Committees 
 on 
 
 Opposed Bills. 
 
 Members not 
 to absent 
 themselves. 
 
 When chair- 
 man absent. 
 
 Proceedings to 
 1 e suspended 
 if quorum not 
 present. 
 
 Members 
 absent to be 
 reported to the 
 House. 
 
 Absence of 
 meml»r- by 
 death or 
 otherwise to 
 
 be reported. 
 
 Questions to 
 ded by 
 
 majority of 
 voices. 
 
 Committer on 
 group to con- 
 sider that 1 j i 1 1 
 
 •'. hich 
 Committee of 
 Selection or 
 General Com- 
 mittee -hall 
 have named, 
 
 120. Xo member of a committee on an opposed private bill 
 shall absenl himself from his duties thereon, except in the case of 
 sickness, or by order of the House. 
 
 121. If the chairman shall be absent from the committee, the 
 member next in rotation on the list of members who shall be 
 present shall act as chairman, but in the case of railway and canal 
 bills only until the general committee on such bills shall have ap- 
 pointed, if they shall so think fit, another chairman. 
 
 122. If at any time during the sitting of any committee more 
 than one of the members be absent, the chairman shall suspend the 
 proceedings of such committee ; and if at the expiration of one 
 hour from the time fixed for the meeting of the committee, or 
 from the time when the chairman shall so have suspended the pro- 
 ceedings, more than one member be absent, the committee shall be 
 adjourned to the next day on which the House shall sit, and then 
 shall meet at the hour on which such committee would have sat, 
 had no such adjournment taken place. 
 
 123. If any of the members shall not be present within one 
 hour after the time appointed for the meeting of the committee, or 
 if any member shall absent himself from his duties on such com- 
 mittee, every such member shall be reported to the House at its 
 next sitting. 
 
 124. If, at any time after the committee on a bill shall have 
 been formed, a quorum of members required by the Standing 
 Orders cannot attend in consequence of any of the members who 
 shall have duly qualified to serve on such committee having 
 become incompetent to continue such service by death or other- 
 wise, the chairman shall report the circumstances of the case to the 
 House, in order that such measures may be taken by the House as 
 shall enable the members still remaining on the committee to pro- 
 ceed with the business referred to such committee, or as the emer- 
 gency of the case may require. 
 
 125. All questions before committees on private bills shall be 
 decided by a majority of voices, including the voice of the chair- 
 man; and whenever the voices are equal, the chairman shall have 
 a second or casting vote. 
 
 126. The committee on each group of bills shall take the bill 
 or bills first into consideration which shall have been named by the 
 Committee of Selection, or by the General Committee on Railway and 
 Canal Bills ; and the committee shall, from time to time, appoint 
 the day on which they will enter upon the consideration of each 
 of the remaining bills, and on which they will require the parties
 
 STANDING ORDERS. 129 
 
 severally promoting or opposing the same to enter appearances ; Proceedings 
 and two clear days' notice, at the least, of such appointment, shall of 
 
 be given by the clerk attending the committee to the clerks in the Com ™ ittees 
 Private Bill Office ; and in case the committee shall postpone the ' Opposed Bills. 
 
 consideration of any bill, notice shall be given of the day to which 
 
 the same is postponed. ; l nd t0 a PP°int 
 
 i o/- -n • da y f° r con " 
 
 12/. & very committee on an opposed private bill shall report sideration of 
 
 specially to the House the cause of anv adjournment over any day remaini ng 
 
 on which the House shall sit. Jft °J which 
 
 clerk of com- 
 
 128. No petition against a private bill, or bill to confirm any mittee to give 
 
 provisional order or provisional certificate, shall be taken into con- notiee ' 
 
 sideration bv the committee on such bill, which shall not distinctly C f. uses of 
 
 ... ,. . . . . , . . ' v adjournment 
 
 specify the ground on which the petitioners object to any of the to be specially 
 
 provisions thereof ; and the petitioners shall be only heard on such re P°rted. 
 grounds so stated ; and if it shall appear to the said committee Pet j tion . 
 that such grounds are not specified with sufficienct accuracy, the S'to be eon- 
 committee may direct that there be given in to the committee a sidered except 
 
 more specific statement, in writing, but limited to such grounds of Squids of 
 
 , . . , .„ , to objection 
 
 objection so inaccurately specified. sufficiently 
 
 129. No petitioners against any private bill, or any bill to con- specified, 
 firm any provisional order or provisional certificate, shall be heard Petitioners 
 before the committee on the bill, unless their petition shall have not'to be' 11 
 been prepared and signed in strict conformity with the rules and beard unless 
 orders of this House, and shall have been presented to this House P etition P re - 
 by having been deposited in the Private Bill Office, in rhe case of later than ten 
 private bills, not later than ten clear days after the first reading of clear da y s afte ? 
 such bill, and in the case of bills to confirm any provisional order ^ St readin §' 
 or provisional certificate, not later than seven clear days after the 
 Examiner shall have given notice of the day on which the bill Avill 
 
 be examined, except where the petitioners shall complain of any 
 matter which may have arisen during the progress of the bill before 
 the said committee, or of any proposed additional provision, or of 
 the amendments as proposed in the filled-up bill deposited in the 
 Private Bill Office. 
 
 130. It shall be competent to the referees on private bills to Competition to 
 
 admit petitioners to be heard upon their petitions against a nrivate ^ e a 8 T0Und of 
 i-ii xi ip • • . p i •.„,-. , locus standi. 
 
 bill, on the ground of competition, if they shall think fit. 
 
 131. Where a bill is promoted by an incorporated company, In what cases 
 
 shareholders of such company shall not be entitled to be heard shareholders 
 , Al . .,,.„, to be beard, 
 
 before the committee against such bill, unless their interests, as 
 
 affected thereby, shall be distinct from the general interests of such 
 
 company.
 
 130 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Proceedings 
 
 of 
 
 Committees 
 
 on 
 
 Opposed Bills, 
 
 Dissenting 
 
 shareholders 
 to be heard. 
 
 In what cases 
 railway com- 
 panies to be 
 heard. 
 
 Chambers of 
 commerce, &c, 
 may be heard 
 
 in relation to 
 rates and fares, 
 
 Chambers of 
 agriculture, 
 Sec., rn 
 heard if 
 injuriously 
 affected. 
 
 Municipal 
 
 authorities and 
 inhabitants of 
 . See. 
 
 132. In case any proprietor, shareholder, or member of or in 
 any company, society, association, or co-partnership, shall by him- 
 self or any person authorized to act for him in that behalf, have 
 dissented at any meeting called in pursuance of Standing Orders 
 62 to 66, or at any meeting called in pursuance of any similar 
 Standing Order of the House of Lords, such proprietor, share- 
 holder, or member shall be permitted to be heard by the committee 
 on the bill on a petition presented to the House, such petition 
 having been duly deposited in the Private Bill Office. 
 
 133. Where a railway bill contains provisions for taking or 
 using any part of the lands, railway, stations, or accommodations 
 of another company, or for running engines or carriages upon or 
 across the same, or for granting other facilities, such company 
 shall be entitled to be heard upon their petition against such pro- 
 visions or against the preamble and clauses of such bill. 
 
 133a. Where a chamber of commerce or agriculture, or other 
 similar body, sufficiently representing a particular trade or business 
 in any district to which any railway bill relates, petition against 
 the bill, alleging that such trade or business will be injuriously 
 affected by the rates and fares proposed to be authorized by the 
 bill, or is injuriously affected by the rates and fares already autho- 
 rized by Acts relating to the railway undertaking, it shall be 
 competent to the referees on private bills, if they think fit, to 
 admit the petitioners to be heard, on such allegation, against the 
 bill, or any part thereof, or against the rates and fares authorized 
 by the said Acts, or any of them. 
 
 The provisions of this Order relative to rates and fares already 
 authorized, extend to traders and freighters, and to a single trader, 
 in any case where a locus standi would have been allowed to them 
 or him, if this Order had not been made. 
 
 Nothing in this Order shall authorize the referees to entertain 
 any question within the jurisdiction of the railway commissioners. 
 
 1336. Where a chamber of agriculture, commerce, or shipping, 
 or a mining or miners' association, sufficiently representing the 
 agriculture, trade, mining, or commerce in any district to which 
 any bill relates, petition against the bill, alleging that such agri- 
 culture, trade, mining, or commerce will be injuriously affected by 
 the provisions contained therein, it shall be competent to the re- 
 ferees on private bills, if they think fit, to admit the petitioners to 
 be heard on such allegations against the bill or any part thereof. 
 
 134. It shall be competent to the referees on private bills to 
 admit the petitioners, being the municipal or other authority
 
 STANDING ORDERS. 131 
 
 having the local management of the Metropolis, or of any town, Proceedings 
 or the inhabitants of any town or district alleged to be injuriously °f 
 
 affected by a bill, to be heard against such bill, if they shall on 
 
 think fit. Opposed Bills. 
 
 134a. The municipal or other local authority of any town or 
 
 district alleging in their petition that such town or district may r i t j es to have a 
 
 be injuriously affected by the provisions of any bill relating to the locus standi 
 
 lighting or water supply thereof, or the raising of capital for any a £ ains * "g^t- 
 
 such purpose, shall be entitled to be heard against such bill. bills. 
 
 1346. It shall be competent to the referees on private bills to County Council 
 
 admit the petitioners, being the council of any administrative a H e g?u to ' )e 
 
 , " P injuriously 
 
 county or county borough, the whole or any part or which is affected by 
 
 alleged to be injuriously affected by a bill, to be heard against such bill. 
 
 bill if they think lit. 
 
 134c. The council of any administrative county alleging in County Council 
 
 their petition that such administrative county, or any part thereof, s i anc n aga inst 
 
 may be injuriously affected by the provisions of any bill relating to a water bill. 
 
 the water supply of any town or district, whether situate within 
 
 or without such county, shall be entitled to be heard against such 
 
 bill. 
 
 135. The owner, lessee, or occupier of any house, shop, or Petitions 
 warehouse in any street through which it is proposed to con- a S ai ° s * ram_ 
 struct any tramway, and who alleges in any petition against a 
 
 private bill or provisional order that the construction or use of the 
 tramway proposed to be authorized thereby will injuriously affect 
 him in the use or enjoyment of his premises, or in the conduct of 
 his trade or business, shall be entitled to be heard on such allega- 
 tions before an}- select committee to which such private bill, or the 
 bill relating to such provisional order is referred. 
 
 136. In all cases of opposed private bills, in which no parties When °PP osed 
 i ii ^ i • • • i i mi i • bills may be 
 
 shall have appeared on the petitions against such bills, or having treated as un- 
 
 appeared shall have withdrawn their opposition before the evidence opposed, 
 of the promoters shall have been commenced, the committees on 
 such bills shall forthwith refer them back, with a statement of the 
 facts, if not railway or canal bills, to the committee of selection, 
 and if railway or canal bills, to the general committee on railway 
 and canal bills, who shall deal with them as unopposed bills. 
 
 Committees on Unopposed Bills. 
 
 137. The committee on every unopposed private bill (not being Committees on 
 
 a railway, canal or divorce bill), shall, if the same shall have un .°PP ose ^ 
 
 //.ii- n private bills. 
 
 originated in this House, be composed or the chairman of the
 
 132 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Proceedings 
 
 of 
 Committees 
 
 on Bills. 
 
 Filled -up 
 copies of bill 
 to be laid 
 before each 
 member. 
 
 Local member 
 not i" vote. 
 
 Names of 
 
 member- to 
 be entered on 
 
 minute-. 
 
 Commit! 
 
 bill not to in- 
 quire into cer- 
 tain Sta 
 
 < >r<lers. 
 
 Commit 
 
 admit affidavits 
 in prool 
 pliance with 
 Standing 
 
 < frdeis. 
 
 •-. how 
 t roved. 
 
 Committee of Ways and Means, who, when present, shall be ex-officio 
 chairman of every such committee, together with one of the mem- 
 bers of tiered to prepare and bring in the bill, and one other member 
 not locally or otherwise interested therein, or a referee, such mem- 
 bers of the committee to be appointed by the Committee of Selection, 
 and shall, if such bill shall have been brought from the House of 
 Lords, be composed of the chairman, as aforesaid, and two other 
 members, of whom one at least shall not be locally or otherwise 
 interested in the bill, or one member and a referee, to be appointed 
 by the Committee of Selection, and two shall be the quorum thereof. 
 
 Proceedings of, and in relation to, Committees on Bills, 
 whether Opposed or Unopposed. 
 
 138. At the first meeting of the committee, copies of the bill, 
 as proposed to be submitted to them, and signed by the agent, shall 
 be laid bv him before each member of the committee. 
 
 139. No member, locallv or otherwise interested, of a committee 
 on any unopposed private bill, shall have a vote on any question 
 that may arise, but every such member shall be entitled to attend 
 and take part in the proceedings of the committee. 
 
 1-40. The names of the members attending each committee 
 shall be entered by the clerk on the minutes of the committee ; 
 and if any division shall take place in the committee, the clerk 
 shall take down the names of members voting in any such division, 
 distinguishing on which side of the question they respectively vote, 
 and that such lists be given in with the report to the House. 
 
 141. No committee shall have power to examine into the com- 
 pliance or non-compliance with such Standing Orders as are 
 directed to be proved before the Examiner of Petitions for private 
 hi IK unless by special order of the House. 
 
 142. The committee on any private bill may admit affidavits in 
 proof of the compliance with such Standing Orders of the House 
 as are directed to be proved before them, or may require further 
 evidence; and such affidavits shall be sworn, if in England, before 
 a justice of the peace, or a commissioner to administer oaths in the 
 Supreme Court of Judicature; if in Scotland, before any sheriff- 
 depute or his substitute, or a justice of the peace ; and if in Ireland, 
 before any judge or assistant-barrister of that part of the United 
 Kingdom, or before a justice of the peace. 
 
 143. The committee may admit proof of the consents of parties 
 concerned in interest in any private bill, by affidavits sworn as 
 aforesaid, or by the certificate in writing of such parties, whose
 
 STANDING ORDERS. 133 
 
 signatures to such certificate shall be proved by one or more wit- Proceedings 
 
 nesses, unless the committee shall require further evidence. „ °... 
 
 n Committees 
 
 14:3a. A petitioner against a bill originating in the House of on Bills. 
 Lords who has discussed clauses in that House, shall not on that 
 account be precluded from opposing the preamble of the bill in this , f ] i'^" 6 !, ™\° 
 House. clauses of bill 
 
 144. In all bills presented to the House for carrying on any y 1 i? use t ° 
 
 work by means of a company, commissioners or trustees, provision eluded from 
 
 shall be made for compelling persons who have subscribed anv opposing P re_ 
 . . 11-. . • i " amble in this 
 
 money towards carrying any such work into execution, to make jj ouse 
 
 payment of the sums severally subscribed by them. Clause com- 
 
 145. Where the level of any road shall be altered in making P eU 'ng pay- 
 
 . ,. , , ,. , ,. . , P ment of sub- 
 
 any public work, the ascent or any public carriage road, or or any SC riptions. 
 
 road in Ireland so defined in the Railway Clauses Consolidation Level of roads. 
 
 Act, 1845, shall not be more than one foot in 30 feet, and of any 
 
 other public carriage road not more than one foot in 20 feet ; and a 
 
 good and sufficient fence, of four feet high at the least, shall be Fence to 
 
 made on each side of every bridge which shall be erected. bridge. 
 
 145a. In the case of any bill relating to a railway, tramway, Committee to 
 canal, dock, harbour, navigation, pier, -or port, seeking powers to re Port specially 
 levy tolls, rates, or duties in excess of those already authorized ra ii wa y, &c. 
 for that undertaking, or usually authorized in previous years for hills, seeking 
 like undertakings, the bill shall not be reported by the committee P ^ ver s t0 . ev y 
 until a repoi't from the Board of Trade on the powers so sought excess of those 
 has been laid before the committee ; and the committee shall report already autho- 
 specially to the House in what manner the recommendations or 
 observations in the report of the Board of Trade, and also in what 
 manner the clauses of the bill relating to the powers so sought, 
 have been dealt with by the committee. 
 
 146. Every plan, and book of reference thereto, which shall be Plan, &c, to 
 
 produced in evidence before the committee upon any private bill , s . lgn y 
 , , ..... chairman. 
 
 (whether the same shall nave been previously lodged in the Private 
 
 Bill Office or not), shall be signed by the chairman of such com- 
 mittee, with his name at length ; and he shall also mark with the 
 initials of his name every alteration of such plan and book of 
 reference, which shall be agreed upon by the said committee ; and 
 every such plan and book of reference shall thereafter be deposited 
 in the Private Bill Office. 
 
 147. The chairman of the committee shall sign, with his name Committee 
 
 i ' . bill and 
 
 at length, a printed copy of the bill (to be called the Committee clauses to be 
 
 Bill), on which the amendments are to be fairly written ; and also signed by 
 
 chairman.
 
 134 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Proceedings 
 
 Committees 
 
 on Bills. 
 
 Chairman to 
 
 report on 
 allegations of 
 bill, &c. 
 
 Chairman to 
 report Bill 
 iu all cases. 
 
 Committee to 
 
 notice recom- 
 mendat ion 
 from Govern- 
 ment Depart- 
 ment* when 
 referred. 
 Proceedings 
 on bills for 
 confirming 
 provisional 
 orders, &c. 
 
 Minutes of 
 ( lommittee. 
 
 sign, with the initials of his name, the several clauses added in the 
 committee. 
 
 148. The chairman of the committee shall report to the House 
 that the allegations of the bill have been examined ; and whether 
 the parties concerned have given their consent (where such consent 
 is required by the Standing Orders) to the satisfaction of the 
 committee. 
 
 149. The chairman of the committee shall report the bill to the 
 House, whether the committee shall or shall not have agreed to 
 th<' preamble, or gone through the several clauses, or any of them ; 
 or where the parties shall have acquainted the committee that it is 
 not their intention to proceed with the bill ; and when any alter- 
 ation shall have been made in the preamble of the bill, such 
 alteration, together with the ground of making it, shall be specially 
 stated in the report. 
 
 150. Whenever a recommendation shall have been made in a 
 report on a private bill from a department of the Government 
 referred to the committee, the committee shall notice such recom- 
 mendation in their report, and shall state their reasons for dis- 
 senting, should such recommendation not be agreed to. 
 
 151. Whenever the House shall order that any bill for con- 
 firming a provisional order or a provisional certificate be referred 
 to the Committee of Selection with respect to any order or certificate 
 to lie confirmed thereby, the proceedings of the Select Committee to 
 which the bill is referred, and of the referees, shall be conducted 
 in like manner as in the case of private bills, and shall be subject 
 to the same rules and orders of the House so far as they are appli- 
 cable, except those which relate to the payment of fees by the pro- 
 moters of such provisional order or certificate. 
 
 152. The minutes of the committee on every private bill shall 
 be brought up and laid on the table of the House, with the report 
 of the bill. 
 
 Railway, Tramway , and Subway Bills. 
 Restriction 153. In the case of a railway bill, no company shall be autho- 
 
 to mortgage. rized to raise by loan or mortgage, a larger sum than one-third of 
 their capital; and until 50 per cent, on the whole of the capital 
 shall have been paid up, it shall not be in the power of the com- 
 pany to raise any money, by loan or mortgage, unless the commit- 
 tee on the bill shall report that such restrictions, or either of them, 
 ought not to be enforced, with the reasons on which their opinion 
 is founded.
 
 STANDING ORDERS. 135 
 
 The same rule shall apply in the case of a tramway, tramroad, Proceedings 
 
 or subway bill, one-fourth of the capital being substituted for one- Committees 
 third. on Bills. 
 
 154. Where the level of any road shall be altered in making 
 
 any railway, the ascent of any turnpike road, or of any road in Limitin | 
 Ireland, so defined in the Railway Clauses Consolidation Act, where level is 
 1845, shall not be more than one foot in 30 feet, and of any other altered. 
 public carriage road not more than one foot in 20 feet, unless a 
 report thereupon from some officer of the Board of Trade shall be 
 laid before the committee on the bill, and unless the committee, 
 after considering such report, and hearing the officer, if the com- 
 mittee think fit, if they shall disagree with the said report, shall 
 recommend steeper ascents, with the reasons and facts upon which 
 their opinion is founded : also, a good and sufficient fence, of four 
 feet high at the least, shall be made on each side of every bridge 
 which shall be erected. 
 
 155. No railway whereon carriages are moved by steam, or by Railway not to 
 any mechanical power, including cable power, shall be authorized C ™r acls on^a 
 to be made across any railway, tramway, tramroad, or public level unless 
 carriage road on the level, unless a report thereupon from some committee 
 officer of the Board of Trade shall be laid before the committee on ' 
 
 the bill, and unless the committee, after considering such report, 
 and hearing the officer, if the committee think fit, if they shall dis- 
 agree with the said report, shall recommend such level crossing, 
 Avith the reasons and facts upon which their opinion is founded ; 
 and in every clause authorizing a level crossing, the number of lines 
 of rails authorized to be made at such crossing shall be specified. 
 
 156. No railway company shall be authorized to construct or Railway 
 
 enlarge, purchase or take on lease, or otherwise appropriate any company n °t 
 
 " ' r -i •'to acquire 
 
 canal, dock, pier, harbour, or ferry, or to acquire and use any steam canals, docks, 
 
 vessels for the conveyance of goods and passengers, or to apply &c - unless 
 
 any portion of their capital or revenue to other objects, distinct report & c 
 
 from the undertaking of a railway company, unless the committee 
 
 on the bill report that such a restriction ought not to be enforced, 
 
 with the reasons and facts upon which their opinion is founded. 
 
 157. Everv committee on a railway bill shall report specially Reports of 
 
 , .i tt ' Public De- 
 
 to the House, — . . 
 
 ' . partments. 
 
 Whether any report from any public department in regard 
 to the bill, or the objects thereof, has been referred by the 
 House to the committee ; and, if so, in what manner the 
 several recommendations contained in such report have been 
 dealt with by the committee : 
 
 K 2
 
 136 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Proceedings 
 
 of 
 
 Committees 
 
 on Bills. 
 
 Crossing rail- 
 ways, &c on a 
 level. 
 
 Other eir- 
 cumst;.' 
 
 Clause to be 
 inserted in 
 railway, 
 tramway, and 
 subway bills, 
 imposing 
 penalty, unless 
 line be opened. 
 
 Whether it be intended that the railway shall cross on a 
 level any railway, tramway, tramroad, or highway : 
 
 And any other circumstances which, in the opinion of the 
 committee, it is desirable that the House should be informed 
 of. 
 
 158 In every railway bill, tramway bill, and subway bill, 
 whi reby the construction of any new line of railway, tramway, or 
 subway i^ authorized, or the time for completing any line already 
 authorized is extended, promoted by an existing railway company, 
 tramwaj company, or subway company, which is possessed of a 
 railway, tramway, or subway already opened for public traffic, and 
 which 1ms, (luting the year last past, paid dividends on its ordinary 
 share capital, and which does not propose to raise under the bill a 
 capital greater than its existing authorized capital, there shall be 
 insert <l a clause to the following effect, viz. : 
 
 (A.) If the company fail within the period limited by this 
 Act t* complete the railway, tramway, or subway, authorized to 
 be rnnde by this Act, the company shall be liable to a penalty 
 of £50 a dav for every day after the expiration of the period so 
 limited, until the said railway, tramway, or subway is completed 
 and < peued for public traffic, or until the sum received in respect 
 of su< h penalty shall amount to five per cent, on the estimated cost 
 of tl e w oiks ; and the said penalty may be applied for by any 
 landewn r or other person claiming to be compensated or interested 
 in accordance with the provisions of the next following section of 
 this Act, and in the same manner as the penalty provided in the 
 third section of the Act, 17 & 18 Vict. c. 31, known as " The 
 Railwav and Canal Traffic Act, 1854," and every sum of money 
 recovered l>y way of such penalty as aforesaid, shall be paid under 
 the warrant or order of such court or judge as is specified in the 
 said third section of the Act, 17 & 18 Vict. c. 31, to an account 
 opene I or to be opened in the name and with the privity of the 
 Paynia t( r-General for and on behalf of the Supreme Court in 
 England [the Queen's Remembrancer of the Court of Exchequer 
 in Sci tland, or the Accountant-General of the Supreme Court in 
 Ireland (according as the railway, tramway, or subway is situate 
 in England, Scotland, or Ireland,)] in the bank named in such 
 order, and shall not be paid thereout except as hereinafter pro- 
 vided ; hut no penalty shall accrue in respect of any time during 
 which t shall appear, by a certificate to be obtained from the 
 J}( aw i I Trade, that the company was prevented from completing 
 or o ( • Ding such line by unforeseen accident or circumstances
 
 STANDING ORDERS. 137 
 
 beyond their control : Provided, that the want of sufficient funds Proceedings 
 
 of 
 )ommitte( 
 on Bills. 
 
 shall not be held to be a circumstance beyond their conl rol. „ of . 
 
 Committees 
 
 Raihoay, Tramway, or Subway Deposits. 
 
 In every railway bill, tramway bill, or subway bill, whereby Clause to be 
 
 the construction of any new line is authorized, or the time for in ^rted, pro- 
 
 J . , P viding that de- 
 
 completing any line already authorized is extended ; if such bill be posit be im- 
 
 promoted by an existing railway company, tramway company, or pounded as 
 
 " • sGCiintv for 
 
 subway company, which is not possessed of a railway, tramway, or completion of 
 
 subway, already opened for public traffic, or which has not during the line. 
 the year last past paid dividends on its ordinary share capital ; or 
 by an existing railway company, tramway company, or subway 
 company, when the capital to be raised under the bill is greater 
 than the existing authorized capital of the company, or by persons 
 not already incorporated, a clause to the following effect shall be 
 inserted, viz. : — 
 
 (B.) Whereas, pursuant to the Standing Orders of both Houses 
 of Parliament, and to " The Parliamentary Deposits Act, 1846," a 
 sum of £ , being five per cent, upon the 
 
 amount of the estimate in respect of the railway, tramway, or 
 subway authorized by this Act, has been deposited with the Court, 
 that is to say, the Paymaster-Greneral for and on behalf of the 
 Supreme Court in England [or the Court of Exchequer in Scot- 
 land, or the Accountant-General of the Supreme Court in Ireland, 
 as the case may be] ; [or exchequer bills, stocks, or funds to the 
 amount of £ , have been deposited or trans- 
 
 ferred pursuant to the said Act, as the case may be], in respect of 
 the application to Parliament for this Act (which sum, exchequer 
 bills, stocks, or funds, as the case may be, is or are in this Act 
 referred to as " The Deposit Fund " :) Be it enacted, that notwith- 
 standing anything contained in the said recited Act, the deposit 
 fund shall not be paid or transferred to, or on the application of 
 the person or persons, or the majority of the persons, named in the 
 warrant or order issued in pursuance of the said Act, or the sur- 
 vivors or survivor of theni (which persons, survivors, or survivor, 
 are or is in this Act referred to as the " depositors"), unless the 
 company shall, previously to the expiration of the period limited 
 by this Act for completion of the railway [tramway or subway] 
 hereby authorized to be made [or the time for completing which is 
 hereby extended], open the said railway [tramway or subway] for 
 public traffic [or, if a passenger railway, for the public conveyance 
 of passengers], and if the company shall make default in so opening
 
 138 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Proceedings 
 
 of 
 
 Committees 
 
 on Bills. 
 
 Application of 
 deposit or 
 penalty in 
 compensation 
 to parties 
 injured. 
 
 the said railway [tramway or subway] the deposit fund shall be 
 applicable, and shall be applied as provided by the next following 
 section. And to such clause the committee may, if they think fit, 
 add a proviso to the following effect: — Provided, that if within 
 such period as aforesaid the company open any portion of the said 
 railway [tramway or subway] for public traffic [or, if a passenger 
 railway, for the public conveyance of passengers], then on produc- 
 tion of a certificate of the Board of Trade, specifying the length of 
 the portion of the said railway [tramway or subway] opened as 
 aforesaid, and the portion of the deposit fund which bears to the 
 whole of the deposit fund the same proportion as the length of the 
 said railway [tramway or subway] so opened bears to the entire 
 length of tin- said railway [tramway or subway] hereby authorized, 
 the High Court shall, on the application of the depositors, order the 
 said portion of the deposit fund so specified in such certificate as 
 aforesaid to be paid or transferred to them, or as they shall direct ; 
 and the certificate of the Board of Trade shall, if signed by the 
 secretary or by an assistant secretary of the said Board, be sufficient 
 evidence of the facts therein certified ; and it shall not be necessary 
 to produce any certificate of this Act having passed, anything in 
 the recited Act to the contrary notwithstanding. 
 
 In every railway bill, tramway bill, or subway bill whereby 
 the construction of any new line of railway, tramway, or subway 
 is authorized, or the time for completing any line already autho- 
 rized is extended, a clause to the following effect shall be in- 
 serted : — 
 
 (C.) If the company do not, previously to the expiration of 
 the period limited by this Act for the completion of the railway 
 [tramway or subway] hereby authorized to be made (or the time 
 for completion which is hereby extended) complete the said railway 
 [tramway or subway] and open it for public traffic [or, if a pas- 
 senger railway, for the public conveyance of passengers], then and 
 in every such case the deposit fund, or so much thereof as shall not 
 have been paid to the depositors, or any sum of money recovered 
 by way <>f penalty as aforesaid shall be applicable, and after due 
 notice in the London Gazette, or Edinburgh or Dublin Gazette, 
 [as ill'- case may require], shall be applied towards compensating 
 any landowners or other persons whose property may have been 
 interfered with, or otherwise rendered less valuable, by the 
 commencement, construction, or abandonment of the said railway 
 [tramway or subway], or any portion thereof, or who may have 
 been subjected to injury or loss in consequence of the compulsory
 
 STANDING ORDERS. 
 
 139 
 
 powers of taking property conferred upon the company by this Act, Proceedings 
 [and also (in the case of a tramway) in compensating all road f , . 
 authorities for the expense incurred by them in taking up any on Bills. 
 
 tramway, or materials connected therewith, placed by the Company 
 
 in or on any road vested in or maintainable by such road authori- 
 ties respectively, and in making good all damage caused to such 
 roads by the construction or abandonment of such tramway], and 
 shall be distributed in satisfaction of such compensation as afore- 
 said, in such manner and in such proportions as to the court may 
 seem fit ; and if no such compensation shall be payable, or if a 
 portion of the deposit fund (or of the sum or sums of money re- 
 covered by way of penalty as aforesaid) shall have been found suffi- 
 cient to satisfy all just claims in respect of such compensation, 
 then the deposit fund (or the sum or sums of money recovered by 
 way of penalty as aforesaid), or such portion thereof as may not be 
 required as aforesaid, shall, if a receiver has been appointed, or the 
 company is insolvent and has been ordered to be wound up or the 
 undertaking (in the case of a penalty, the railway or railways in 
 respect of which the penalty has been incurred or any part thereof) 
 has been abandoned, be paid or transferred to such receiver, or to 
 the liquidator or liquidators of the company, or be applied, in the 
 discretion of the court, as part of the assets of the company for the 
 benefit of the creditors thereof, and subject to such application, 
 shall be repaid or retransf erred to the depositors (company) : Pro- 
 vided, that until the deposit fund shall have been repaid to the 
 depositors, or shall have become otherwise applicable as hereinbefore 
 mentioned, any interest or dividends accruing thereon shall from 
 time to time, and as often as the same shall become payable, be 
 paid to or on the application of the depositors. 
 
 N.B. — If the clause lettered (A) is inserted in the bill, the 
 proviso at the end of the clause lettered (C) shall be omitted. In 
 the case of a railway company omit the words " and has been 
 ordered to be wound up," and " or to the liquidator or liquidators 
 of the company," and where there is no deposit omit the proviso. 
 
 (D.) If the railway [or tramway] authorized by this Act shall Time limited 
 not be completed within the period limited by this Act, then, on the tf*^™ 1 ^ 1011 
 expiration of such period, the power by this Act granted to the 
 company for making and completing" the said railway [or tram- 
 way], or otherwise in relation thereto, shall cease to be exercised, 
 except as to so much thereof as shall then be completed. The 
 period limited shall not in the case of a new railway line exceed 
 five years, of a new tramroad three years [or in the case of a new
 
 140 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Proceedings 
 
 of 
 
 Committees 
 
 on Bills. 
 
 Where pre- 
 ceding provi- 
 
 - are 
 inapplicable. 
 
 In ca«e ot 
 abandonment 
 of railway, 
 tram -way or 
 subway bill, 
 and release of 
 deposit money, 
 committee on 
 bill to report 
 to tbe House 
 how recom- 
 mendations of 
 Board of Trade 
 on the bill have 
 been dealt with 
 1 lommittee. 
 Committee to 
 fix the rates 
 and charges. 
 
 In bills grant- 
 ing preference 
 in payment of 
 
 it, &c, 
 provision to be 
 made that the 
 same shall not 
 prejudice 
 former grants 
 
 ••:rence, 
 
 1 
 mittee report 
 other v. 
 
 Company not 
 to alter an.y 
 ■nee 
 
 tramway line two years], and the extension of time for completion 
 shall not in the case of a railway line exceed three years, of a 
 tram road two years [or in the case of a tramway line one year], 
 unless the committee on the bill think fit, in the special circum- 
 stances of tbe case, to allow a longer period. In the case of 
 extension of time the additional period shall be computed from the 
 expiration of the period sought to be extended. 
 
 In any railway bill or tramway bill to which the preceding pro- 
 visions are not applicable, the committee on the bill shall make 
 such other provision as they shall deem necessary for ensuring the 
 completion of tbe line of railway or tramway. 
 
 158a. In the case of every bill authorizing tbe abandonment of 
 a railway, tramway, or subway, or of any part thereof, and the 
 release of any deposit money impounded as security for the com- 
 pletion thereof, a report from the Board of Trade respecting tbe 
 bill, and the objects thereof, shall be presented to this House, 
 and be referred to the committee on the bill ; and the committee 
 shall report specially to the House in what manner the several 
 recommendations contained in the report from the Board of Trade 
 have been dealt with by the committee. 
 
 159. The committee on every railway bill shall fix the maximum 
 rates of charge for the conveyance of passengers, with a due amount 
 of luggage, such rates to include every expense incidental to such 
 conveyance, and shall also fix the charges for the conveyance of 
 parcels by passenger train ; but if the committee shall not deem it 
 expedient to determine such maximum rates of charge, a special 
 report, explanatory of the grounds of their omitting so to do, shall 
 be made to the House, which special report shall accompany the 
 report of the bill. 
 
 160. In every railwav bill by which it is proposed to authorize 
 the company to grant any preference or priority in the payment of 
 interest or dividends on any shares or stock, there shall be inserted 
 a clause providing that the granting of such preference or priority 
 shall not prejudice or affect any preference or priority in the 
 payment of interest or dividends on any other shares or stock 
 which shall have been granted by the company in pursuance of or 
 which may have been confirmed by any previous Act of Parlia- 
 ment, or which may otherwise be lawfully subsisting, unless the 
 committee on the bill shall report that such provision ought not to 
 be required, with the reasons on which their opinion is founded. 
 
 161. No railwav company shall be authorized to alter the terms 
 of any preference or priority of interest or dividend which shall
 
 STANDING ORDERS. 141 
 
 have been granted by such company in pursuance of or which may Proceedings 
 have been confirmed by any previous Act of Parliament, or which Committees 
 may otherwise be lawfully subsisting, unless the committee on on Bills. 
 the bill report that such alteration ought to be allowed, with the 
 reasons on which their opinion is founded, together with the ^ evi t u ^ ft y 
 number of preference shareholders who have assented to or dis- 
 sented from such alteration. 
 
 162. No powers of purchasing, hiring, or providing steam No powers of 
 vessels shall be contained in a bill by which any other powers are ^^n^essds ° 
 sought to be obtained by a railway company, except when the in railway 
 transit by such steam vessels is required to connect portions of bllls - 
 railway belonging to or proposed to be constructed by such 
 
 company. 
 
 163. No powers of purchase, sale, lease or amalgamation shall ^° powers of 
 
 "DiirchfliSG Sec 
 be given to any railway company, with reference to any other £ ^ e ai v ' en 
 
 undertaking already authorized by any Act or Acts, nor to any other except after 
 
 incorporated company, with reference to any railway, unless, pre- P ro °* of certain 
 
 viously to the application to Parliament for such purpose, the Board of 
 
 several companies who may be parties to such purchase, s.iie, lease Trade, &c. 
 
 or amalgamation shall have proved to the satisfaction of the Board 
 
 of Trade, that they have respectively paid up one-half of the 
 
 capital authorized to be raised by any previous Act or Acts by means 
 
 of shares, and have expended for the purpose of such Act or Acts a 
 
 sum equal thereto; anil in case such powers shall be applied for in 
 
 respect of works intended to be authorized by any bill or bills of 
 
 the same session, it shall be proved to the satisfaction of the Board 
 
 of Trade that such companies have respectively paid up one-half 
 
 the amount of their capital, and that the company proposed to be 
 
 empowered to construct such works have included in such amount 
 
 the capital proposed to be authorized by such bill or bills; and 
 
 that no such powers shall be given in respect of works intended to 
 
 be authorized by any Act or Acts for which it is intended to apply 
 
 in any subsequent session. 
 
 164. No railway company shall be authorized, except for the Railway com- 
 
 execution of its original line or lines sanctioned by Act of Parlia- pany n f l ? 
 
 ° m •> guarantee m- 
 
 ment, to guarantee interest on any shares which it may issue for terest or divi- 
 
 creating additional capital, or to guarantee any rent or dividend to dend before 
 
 , ., b ., , „ J . completion of 
 
 any other railway company, until such first-mentioned company u, ne- 
 
 shall have completed and opened for traffic such original lines. 
 
 165. In bills for the amalgamation of railway companies, the Limitation of 
 
 amount of capital created by such amalgamation shall in no case ca P^ al on 
 
 L ' ° amalgamation 
 
 exceed the sum of the capitals of the companies so amalgamated. of companies.
 
 142 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Proceedings 
 
 of 
 Committees 
 
 on Bills. 
 
 Additional 
 
 capital of pur- 
 chasing com- 
 pany not to 
 amount to more 
 than capital of 
 company pur- 
 Application of 
 provisions of 
 '• The Railway 
 and Canal 
 Traffic Act, 
 1888," as to 
 revision of 
 rates. 
 
 Clause that no 
 interest or divi- 
 dend be paid 
 ills. 
 
 166. In bills for empowering any railway company to purchase 
 any other railway, no addition shall be authorized to be made to 
 the capital of the purchasing company, beyond the amount of the 
 capital of the railway purchased; and iu case such railway shall 
 be purchased at a premium, no addition on account of such 
 premium shall be made to the capital of the purchasing company. 
 
 166a. In the case of every bill for incorporating a railway, 
 canal, or tramroad company, or for giving any powers to an 
 existing railway, canal, or tramroad company to which no Rates 
 and Charges Order Confirmation Act expressly applies, the Com- 
 mittee on the bill shall fix the rates and charges for merchandise 
 traffic (including small parcels of a perishable nature conveyed by 
 passenger train, exceeding fifty-six pounds in weight) by reference 
 to the Eates and Charges Order Confirmation Act of some other 
 company, which in the opinion of the committee will properly 
 and conveniently apply ; and the committee shall in the case of an 
 existing company provide that the rates and charges for mer- 
 chandise traffic and such small parcels as aforesaid so fixed, shall 
 be in substitution for the rates and charges for similar traffic 
 authorised to be taken by the company under their existing Acts. 
 
 If in any such bill other than a railway bill the committee shall 
 be of opinion that no such Act as aforesaid will properly and con- 
 veniently apply they shall insert a clause to the following effect : — 
 Section 24 of " The Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1888," 
 and any enactment which may be passed in the present or 
 any future session of Parliament extending or modifying that 
 enactment shall, with any necessary modifications, apply to 
 to the company in all respects as if it were one of the com- 
 panies to which the provisions of the said enactment in terms 
 applied. Provided that the time within which the revised 
 schedule of maximum rates and charges prescribed by the 
 said section shall be submitted to the Board of Trade shall be 
 three years from the date of the passing of this Act, or such 
 further time as the Board of Trade may permit. 
 
 167. A clause shall be inserted in every railway bill, prohibiting 
 the payment of any interest or dividend to any shareholder on the 
 amount of the calls made in respect of the shares held by him, except 
 such interest on money advanced by any shareholder beyond the 
 amount of the calls actually made as is in conformity with the Com- 
 panies Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, or the Companies Clauses 
 Consolidation (Scotland) Acts, 1845, as the case may be; and 
 except such interest (if any) as the committee on the bill may,
 
 STANDING ORDERS. 
 
 143 
 
 according to the circumstances of the case, think fit to allow, 
 subject always to the following conditions : — 
 
 (1.) That the rate of interest allowed by the committee do 
 not in any case exceed three per centum per annum ; 
 (2.) That interest be allowed to be paid in respect only of 
 the time allowed by the bill for the completion of the 
 railway, or such less time as the committee think fit ; 
 (3.) That payment of interest be not allowed to begin until 
 the railway company have obtained a certificate of 
 the Board of Trade to the effect that two-thirds at 
 least of the share capital authorized by the bill, in 
 respect whereof interest may be paid, have been 
 actually issued and accepted, and are held by share- 
 holders, who, or whose executors, administrators, suc- 
 cessors, or assigns, are legally liable for the same ; 
 (4.) That interest do not accrue in favour of any shareholder 
 for any time during which any call on any of his 
 shares is in arrear ; 
 (5.) That the aggregate amount to be so paid for interest be 
 estimated and stated in the bill, and be not deemed 
 capital within Standing Order 153 ; 
 (6.) That notice of the company having power so to pay 
 interest be given in every prospectus, advertisement, 
 or other document of the company inviting subscrip- 
 tions for shares, and in every certificate of shares ; and 
 (7.) That the half-yearly accounts of the company do show 
 the amount on which, and the rate at which, interest 
 has been paid ; — 
 and the company may be authorized by the bill to pay interest 
 accordingly, but not further or otherwise, and the committee on the 
 bill shall report to the House whether or not they have allowed 
 such interest. 
 
 168. A clause shall be inserted in every railway bill by which 
 any money is authorized to be raised, prohibiting the company 
 from paying, out of such money, the deposits required by the 
 Standing Orders to be made for the purposes of any application 
 to Parliament for a bill for the construction of another railway. 
 
 168a. The foregoing Orders, No. 145a and Nos. 158 to 168 
 inclusive, shall apply mutatis mutandis to subways, subway com- 
 panies, and subway bills, and to tramroads, tramroad companies, 
 and tramroad bills. 
 
 Proceedings 
 
 of 
 
 Committees 
 
 on Bills. 
 
 Clause as to 
 deposits not to 
 be paid out of 
 capital. 
 
 Application of 
 Standing 
 Orders, 145a 
 and Nos. 158 
 to 168 inclu-
 
 144 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Proceedings 
 
 of 
 
 Committees 
 
 on Bills. 
 
 Application of 
 Railway and 
 Canal Traffic 
 Act, &c, to 
 tramroads. 
 
 Length of 
 
 id along 
 stiver or road 
 to be stated. 
 
 Clause as to 
 
 railway not to 
 be exempt 
 from any 
 genera! A et. 
 
 Length of rail- 
 way, tramway, 
 and subway to 
 be set forth and 
 specified in 
 clause describ- 
 ing the Works. 
 
 Tramroad Bills. 
 
 1686. In every bill for the construction of a tramroad of rail- 
 way gauge, and intended to communicate with a railway, a clause 
 shall be inserted that the provisions of " The Railway and Canal 
 Traffic Act, 1854," and of the Railway aud Canal Traffic Acts, 
 1 873 and 1888, shall apply to the company as if they were a rail- 
 way or canal company, and to the tramroad to be authorized by 
 the Act as if such tramroad were a railway or canal. 
 
 168c. In every tramroad bill the length of so much of any 
 tramroad as is to be constructed along any street or road, or upon 
 any street or road, or upon any waste or open ground by the side 
 of any street or road, shall be set forth in miles, furlongs, chains, 
 and links or yards, or decimals of a chain, in the clause describing 
 the works. 
 
 169. The following clause shall be inserted in all railway bills 
 passing through this House : 
 
 And be it further enacted, that nothing herein contained shall 
 be deemed or construed to exempt the railway by this or the said 
 recited Acts authorized to be made from the provisions of any 
 general Act relating to railways now in force, or which may here- 
 after pass during this or any future session of Parliament, or from 
 any future revision and alteration, under the authority of Par- 
 liament, of the maximum rates of fares and charges authorized by 
 this Act [or by the said recited acts]. 
 
 170. In every railway bill, tramway bill, and subway bill, the 
 length of each railway, tramway, and subway be set forth in miles, 
 furlongs, chains, and yards, or decimals of a chain, in the clause 
 describing the works, with a statement in the case of each tramway 
 whether it is a single or a double line. 
 
 No powers for 
 construction, 
 acquisition, or 
 
 taking on lease 
 of tramway to 
 bo giv..n to a 
 local authority 
 beyond the 
 limits of dis- 
 trict except 
 under special 
 local circum- 
 stances. 
 
 Tramway Bills. 
 
 170a. No powers shall be given to any local authority to con- 
 struct, acquire, take on lease, or work, any tramway, or portion of 
 tramway, beyond the limits of their district, unless such tramway 
 or portion of tramway is in connection with the tramway belonging 
 to or authorized to be constructed, acquired, or worked, by the local 
 authority, and unless the committee on the bill shall determine 
 that, having regard to the special local circumstances, such con- 
 struction, acquisition, taking on lease, or working, ought to be 
 sanctioned.
 
 STANDING ORDERS. 145 
 
 In every case in which the committee shall so determine, they Proceedings 
 shall specify what portion of the tramway will be situate beyond Committees 
 the district of the local authority to which the power of construe- on Bills. 
 tion, acquisition, or taking on lease is given, and shall insert a 
 clause for the protection of the local authority of the district in 
 which such tramway or portion of tramway will he situate in the 
 terms mutatis mutandis of section 43 of " The Tramways Act, 
 1870," except that the period of seven years shall be substituted 
 for ihe period of twenty-one years, and the period of three years 
 for the period of seven years. 
 
 171. Where a local authority are empowered to work any Where a local 
 
 tramwavs belonging to, or authorized to be constructed or acquired autil0rit y f™ 
 e » ' . - empowered to 
 
 by them the committee on the bill may, if they think fit under wor k tram . 
 
 the special circumstances of the case, empower the local authority ways, power 
 
 . „ • may be given 
 
 to enter into agreements for running powers over any tramways in to enter i nto 
 
 connection with the tramways so worked or to be worked by agreements for 
 them, and such running powers shall be deemed to be a purpose of ^ i ning P°y e ?" s 
 " The Public Health Act, 1875," and the expenses of the exercise tramways, 
 of such powers shall, in the event of deficiency in the tramway 
 account, be defrayed out of a local rate, as defined by " The 
 Tramways Act, 1870." Provided that in any such case the com- 
 mittee on the bill shall make provision — 
 
 (1.) That no such agreement shall have effect until approved 
 
 by the Board of Trade. 
 (2.) That all enactments, bye-laws, and regulations relating 
 to the use of or the running of carriages upon the tram- 
 ways, and the taking of tolls and charges therefor, 
 shall, so far as applicable, extend and apply mutatis 
 mutandis to, and shall be observed by the local 
 authority exercising such running powers ; 
 (3.) That such running powers shall in no case be exclusive, 
 and shall cease unconditionally at the expiration of 
 seven years from the date of the agreement; 
 (4.) That further agreements for the exercise of such run- 
 ning powers may be made from time to time with 
 the approval of the Board of Trade for any period 
 not exceeding seven years, provided that such powers 
 shall cease unconditionally at the expiration of the 
 period for which the same are given ; 
 (5.) That all questions in dispute as to the construction of 
 or arising in consequence of such agreements shall 
 be determined by arbitration.
 
 146 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Proceedings And the committee shall report the circumstances specially to 
 
 Committees the House - 
 on Bills. Local Government. 
 
 172. In the case of all bills whereby any municipal corpora - 
 
 Estimates of t - district council, ioint board, or joint committee, or other local 
 
 ■ 1 appli- » ' ° ' ^ . 
 
 cation of money authority in England or Wales, are authorized to borrow money 
 
 borrowed by for any matter within the jurisdiction of the Board of Trade or 
 
 in i'lrtain c!^S the Local Government Board, estimates showing the proposed 
 
 to be ncited in application of the money for permanent works shall (except so far 
 
 the bill, and as the exercise of the borrowing power is made subject to the 
 
 die Select Com- sanction of the respective board) be recited in the bill as intro- 
 
 mittee thereon, duced into Parliament, and proved before the select committee to 
 
 which the bill is referred. 
 
 A- to bills re- 173. Whenever by any bill application is made by or on behalf 
 
 lating to Local f anv municipal corporation, municipal commissioners, or town or 
 Government in , . . x , -, <. e 
 
 other commissioners in Ireland tor any new powers, or tor any 
 
 increased or additional powers, the promoters shall be required to 
 
 obtain a certificate under the seal of the Local Grovernment Board 
 
 of Ireland, setting forth whether such application is made with or 
 
 without the sanction and approval of the said Local Government 
 
 Board, which certificate shall be produced before the committee to 
 
 whom the bill is referred, and shall be reported upon by the said 
 
 committee. 
 
 I lommittee on 173a. In the case of any bill promoted by or conferring powers 
 
 Bill to consider Qn , ( mixn i c ipal corporation or local board, improvement com- 
 
 referencTto 1 missioners, town commissioners, or other local authority or public 
 
 radons matters body having powers of local government or rating, the committee 
 
 on the bill shall consider the clauses of the bill with reference to 
 nment or u " "" c 
 
 rating, and re- the following matters : 
 
 I ort of com- / 1 \ Whether the bill gives powers relating to police or sani- 
 
 mittee to House ^ '' ,. . „. , -.-, j • .• <• 
 
 totep] tary regulations in conflict with, deviation from, or 
 
 and circulated excess of, the provisions of powers of the general law ; 
 
 (b.) Whether the bill gives powers which may be obtained 
 by means of bye-laws made subject to the restrictions 
 of general Acts already existing; 
 
 (c.) Whether the bill assigns a period for repayment of any 
 loan or for the redemption of any charge or debt 
 under the bill exceeding the term of sixty years, 
 which term the committee shall not in any case allow 
 to be exceeded, or any period disproportionate to the 
 duration of the works to be executed or other objects 
 of the loan, charge or debt ;
 
 STANDING ORDERS. 
 
 147 
 
 (d.) Whether the bill gives borrowing powers for purposes for Proceedings 
 
 which such powers already exist or may be obtained „ of 
 
 j i a . , , . . , Committees 
 
 under general Acts, without subjecting the exercise of on Bills. 
 
 the powers under the bill to approval from time to 
 time by the proper Government Department. 
 And the committee shall report specially to the House — 
 
 In what manner any clauses relating to the several matters 
 
 aforesaid have been dealt with by the committee ; and 
 Whether any report from any Government Department 
 relative to the bill has been referred to the committee ; 
 and 
 If so, in what manner the recommendations in that report 
 
 have been dealt with by the committee ; and 
 Any other circumstances of which, in the opinion of the 
 committee, it is desirable that the House should be in- 
 formed : 
 And the report of the committee shall be printed, and shall be 
 circulated with the votes. 
 
 Agreements. 
 
 174. Where it is sought by any bill to give Parliamentary Agreement to 
 sanction to any agreement, such agreement shall be annexed to the l3 ? annexed to 
 bill as a schedule thereto, and shall be printed in extenso there- ' ' 
 
 with. 
 
 Letters Patent. 
 
 175. When any bill shall be brought into the House for Copy of Letters 
 restoring any letters patent, there shall be a true copy of such Patent to be 
 letters patent annexed to the bill, and the total amount of fees bin?* 
 (including the prescribed fee for enlargement under Section 17 of 
 
 " The Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks Act, 1883 "), due and to 
 become due on the patent, shall be deposited with the Comptroller 
 General of Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks, before the meeting 
 of the committee on the bill, and such deposit proved before the 
 committee. 
 
 Inclosure and Drainage Bills. 
 
 176. In the case of any bill for inclosing lands, the committee Notice and 
 may admit proof of the notices required by the Standing Orders Allegations. 
 and of the allegations in the preamble of such bill, by affidavit GeneraT^c'lo- 
 taken and authenticated, according to the form prescribed in the sure Acfc - 
 schedule to the General Inclosure Act (41 Geo. 3, c. 109) unless 
 
 such committee shall otherwise order.
 
 148 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Proceedings 177. The committee on every bill for inclosing; lands shall in 
 
 c ot the lirst place require the agent for the same to deliver in to the 
 
 on Bills. committee a printed copy of the bill, signed by the lord of the 
 
 manor (in cases where the lord of the manor has any interest as 
 
 k - I1>tUt l ' :11 such i n the lands to be inclosed), and by sneh owners of property 
 
 of property to within the parish to which the bill relates as shall have assented 
 
 be delivered in. thereto; but the parties, if they shall think fit, shall be permitted 
 
 Bilk) t" deliver in different copies of the bill, separately signed by the 
 
 several parties hereinbefore mentioned, instead of one copy, signed 
 
 by all of them collectively; together with a list of all the owners 
 
 of property within such parish, showing the value according to the 
 
 poor rate or land tax assessment of each owner's property therein, 
 
 and distinguishing which of them have assented, dissented, or are 
 
 neuter in respect thereto. 
 
 Consent bill 1^8. The committee on every bill for draining lands shall in 
 
 and statement the first place require the agent for the same to deliver in to the 
 
 ot property to ( . omm ittee a printed copv of the bill, signed by such owners and 
 be delivered in. l V ........ . . , - ... 
 
 (Drainage occupiers of property within the drainage district to which the bill 
 
 Bills.) relates as shall have assented thereto ; but the parties, if they shall 
 
 think tit, shall he permitted to deliver in different copies of the 
 bill, separately signed by the several parties hereinbefore men- 
 tioned, instead of one copy, signed by all of them collectively ; 
 together with a list of all the owners of property within such 
 district, showing the value according to the poor rate or land tax 
 assessment of each owner's property therein, or the extent in acres,' 
 roods, and perches, and distinguishing which of them have assented, 
 dissented, or are neuter in respect thereto. 
 
 Clause for 179. In every bill for inclosing lands, provision shall be made 
 
 leaving open f or i,. ;iv j n <r « m open space in the most appropriate situation, sufli- 
 ^recrea- cienl for purposes of exercise and recreation of the neighbouring 
 
 tion. no] iiilation ; and the committee on the bill shall have before them 
 
 the Dumber of acres proposed to be inclosed, as also of the popula- 
 tion in the parishes or places in which the land to be inclosed is 
 situate ; and also shall see that provision is made for the efficient 
 fencing of the allotment, for the investment of the same in the 
 churchwardens and overseers of the parish in which such open space 
 is reserved, and for the efficient making and permanent maintenance 
 of the fences by such parish; and in any case where the informa- 
 tion hereby required is not given, and the required provisions are 
 not made in the bill, the committee on the same shall report 
 specially to the House the reasons for not complying with such 
 Order.
 
 STANDING ORDERS. 149 
 
 180. In every bill for inclosing lands, the names of the com- Proceedings 
 
 missiouers proposed to be appointed, and the compensation intended . 
 
 for the lord of the manor and the owners of tithes, in lieu of their on Bills. 
 
 respective rights, and also the compensation intended to be made for 
 
 the enfranchisement of copyholds, where any bargains or agreements Consent bill to 
 
 have been made for such compensations, shall be inserted in the f comm i s _ 
 
 copy of the bill presented to the House: And all copies of such sioners and 
 
 bills which shall be sent to any of the persons interested in the compensations 
 
 J r , tor manorial 
 
 said manor, tithes, lands, or commons, for their consent, shall rights, tithes, 
 
 contain the names of such proposed commissioners, and also the a , n ^ enfran- 
 
 compensations so bargained or agreed for. 
 
 181. No person shall be named in any bill for inclosing lands Disqualification 
 
 as a commissioner, umpire, surveyor, or valuer, who shall be in- °* certain. per- 
 
 i-i-i , ii • p i Ti-n i sons as com- 
 
 terested in the inclosure to be made by virtue of such Bill; or the missioners sur- 
 
 agent ordinarily intrusted with the care, superintendence, or veyors, &c. 
 
 management of the estate of any person so interested. 
 
 182. In every bill for inclosing, draining, or improving lands, Clause for 
 there shall be inserted a clause, providing what sum of money in eom i^ssumers 
 the whole, or by the day, shall be paid to each of the commis- and passing 
 sioners to be appointed by such bill, in satisfaction of the expense t " eir accounts. 
 and trouble which he shall incur in the execution of the powers 
 
 thereby given ; and also a clause, providing that the account of 
 such commissioner or commissioners, containing a true statement 
 of all sums by him or them received and expended, or due to him 
 or them for their own trouble or expenses, shall, at least once in 
 every year, from the date of the passing of the Act till such 
 accounts shall be finally allowed, together with the vouchers relat- 
 ing to the same, be examined by some person or persons to be 
 appointed by the bill, and the balance by him or them stated in 
 the book of accounts required to be kept in the office of the clerk 
 of such commissioners ; and that no charge or item in such 
 accounts shall be binding on the parties concerned, or be valid in 
 law, unless the same shall be duly allowed by such person or 
 persons. 
 
 Inclosures. Committee on 
 
 any private 
 
 183. Whenever a private bill contains any provisions relating bill containing 
 
 to the inclosure of land, which might be comprised in a provisional ut^^^th 6 " 
 
 order, under the Acts for the Inclosure and Improvement of Land, inclosure of 
 
 the committee do make a special report thereon to the House. land m certain 
 
 cases to make a 
 L special report.
 
 150 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Proceedings 
 
 of 
 Committees 
 
 on Bills. 
 
 Clauses to be 
 inserted in 
 bills. 
 
 Payment of 
 expenses 
 incurred by 
 central autho- 
 rity. 
 
 Houses of the Labouring Classes. 
 
 183a. In the case of every bill which gives, revives, or extends 
 power to take laud compulsorily or by agreement, clauses shall be 
 inserted — 
 
 (1) Providing that the promoters shall not, in the exercise 
 of such power, purchase or acquire in any parish in the 
 Metropolis twenty or more houses, or as regards England 
 and Wales, exclusive of the Metropolis, in any city, borough, 
 or other urban district, or in any parish or part of a parish 
 not being within an urban district, or in Scotland in any 
 district within the meaning of " The Public Health (Scot- 
 land) Act, 1867," or in Ireland in any urban sanitary district 
 as defined by "The Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878," ten 
 or more houses, occupied either wholly or partially by 
 persons belonging to the labouring class as defined by this 
 Order, as tenants or lodgers, unless and until 
 
 (a) They shall have obtained the approval of the central 
 authority to a scheme for providing new dwellings for the 
 persons residing in such houses, or tor such number or 
 proportion of such persons as the central authority shall, 
 after inquiry, deem necessary, having regard to the number 
 of persons residing in the houses liable to be taken and 
 working within one mile therefrom, and to the amount of 
 vacant suitable accommodation in the immediate neigh- 
 bourhood of the houses liable to be taken, or to the place 
 of employment of such persons, and to all the other cir- 
 cumstances of the case ; and 
 
 (b) They shall have given security to the satisfaction of 
 the central authority for the carrying out of the scheme ; 
 
 (2) Imposing adequate penalties on the promoters in the 
 event of houses being acquired or appropriated for the pur- 
 poses of the Bill in contravention of the foregoing provisions ; 
 and 
 
 (3) Conferring on the promoters and on the central au- 
 thority respectively any powers that may be necessary to 
 enable full effeet to he given to the said scheme ; 
 
 The committee on tlie bill may provide that the expenses or 
 any part of the expenses incurred by the central authority under 
 this Order shall be defrayed by the promoters of the bill, or out of 
 moneys to be raised under the bill :
 
 STANDING ORDERS. 151 
 
 In this Standing Order and in Standing Order No. 38, Proceedings 
 
 The expression " labouring class " means mechanics, arti- oi [ 
 
 zans, labourers, and others working for wages, hawkers, on gills eS 
 
 costermongers, persons not working for wages but working 
 
 at some trade or handicraft without employing others except Defin ition of 
 members of their own family, and persons, other than "louring 
 domestic servants, whose income does not exceed an average class," &c. 
 of thirty shillings a week, and the families of any of such 
 persons who may be residing with them : 
 
 The expression " the Metropolis " means the Metropolis 
 as defined by the Metropolis Management Act, 1855 : 
 
 The expression "Central Authority" means, as regards 
 the Metropolis, the Secretary of State for the Home Depart- 
 ment, and as regards Scotland, the Secretory for Scotland, 
 and as regards England and Wales, exclusive of the Metro- 
 polis, the Local Government Board, and as regards Ireland, 
 the Local Government Board for Ireland : 
 
 The word " Bill " includes a bill confirming a Provisional 
 Order. 
 
 184. In the case of every bill whereby it is proposed to im- Compensation 
 pound the whole or any part of the water of any river or stream, water - 
 and to give a flow of water in compensation for the water so im- 
 pounded, the committee on the bill shall inquire into the expe- 
 diency of making provision, so far as may be practicable, that the 
 whole or a minimum amount of such compensation water shall be 
 given in a continuous flow throughout the twenty-four hours of 
 every day, and shall report to the House accordingly. 
 
 Turnpike Roads {Ireland). 
 
 187. In every bill for making a turnpike road in Ireland, or Clause for 
 
 for the continuing or amending any Act passed for that purpose, 1 ua fi ficat ion of 
 „ . ° r . „ , ... . x commissioners. 
 
 or tor the increase or alteration of the existing tolls, rates, or 
 
 duties upon any such road, or for widening or diverting any such 
 road, a clause shall be inserted to prevent any person who shall be 
 nominated a commissioner from acting or voting in the business of 
 the said turnpike, unless he shall be possessed of an estate in land, 
 or of a personal estate, to such certain value as shall be specified 
 in such bills ; and such qualification shall be extended to the heirs 
 apparent of persons possessed of an estate in land to a certain 
 value to be specified. 
 
 L 2
 
 152 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Proceedings 
 
 of 
 Committees 
 
 on Bills. 
 
 Clause ibr 
 defining limits 
 of cemetery, 
 
 burial ground, 
 vt L r a- works. 
 
 Gas or water 
 companies — 
 additional 
 
 capital. 
 
 Committee on 
 bills to report 
 
 :!y in 
 certain 
 
 Burial Grounds. Cemeteries, and Gas Works. 
 
 188. In every bill for making or constructing gas works or 
 sewage works, or works for the manufacture or conversion of the 
 residual products of gas or sewage, or for making or construct- 
 ing, altering, or enlarging any sewage farm, cemetery, burial 
 ground, crematorium, destructor, hospital for infectious disease, or 
 station for generating electric powers, there shall be inserted a 
 clause defining the lands in or upon which such gas works, sewage 
 works, farm, cemetery, burial ground, crematorium, destructor, 
 hospital, or generating station may be made or constructed. 
 
 lS8a. In every bill by which an existing gas or water company 
 is authorized to raise additional capital, provision shall be made 
 for the offer of such capital by public auction or tender at the 
 best price which can be obtained, unless the committee on the bill 
 shall report that such provision ought not to be required, with 
 the reasons on which their opinion is founded. 
 
 In the case of every such gas bill it shall be competent to the 
 committee so to regulate the price of the gas to be charged to con- 
 sumers that any reduction of an authorized standard price shall 
 entitle the company to make a proportionate increase of the autho- 
 rized dividend, and that any increase above the standard price, shall 
 involve a proportionate decrease of dividend. 
 
 Estate Bills. 
 
 188&. In the case of any estate bill, the committee on the bill 
 shall report specially to the House if the bill contains provisions 
 extending either the term or the area of any settlement of land, 
 and the report of the committee shall be printed and circulated 
 with the votes. 
 
 See also S. O. 211, and Table of Fees, p. 290. 
 
 Committee on 
 Divorce Bills. 
 
 vidence 
 to be given in' 
 divoro 
 
 Proceedings of Select Committee on Divorce Bills. 
 
 189. There shall be a committee, to be designated " The Select 
 Committee on Divorce Bills," to consist of nine members, who 
 shall be nominated at the commencement of every session, of whom 
 three shall be a quorum. 
 
 190. The Select Committee on Divorce Bills shall require evi- 
 dence to be given before them that an action for damages has been 
 brought in one of Her Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster, 
 or in one of Her Majesty's Courts of Record in Dublin, or in one
 
 STANDING ORDERS. 153 
 
 of Her Majesty's Supreme Courts of Judicature of the Presi- Proceedings 
 
 dencies of Calcutta, Madras, Bombay, or the Island of Ceylon, of 
 
 respectively, against the persons supposed to have been guilty of oiTbUN^ 
 
 adultery, and judgment for the plaintiff had thereupon ; or sufficient 
 
 cause to be shown to the satisfaction of the said committee why 
 such action was not brought, or such judgment was not obtained. 
 
 191. The Select Committee on Divorce Bills shall, in all cases When peti- 
 
 in which the petitioner for the bill has attended the House of tioner fo , LiU 
 t j x i it o , . , . , to attend com- 
 
 -Lords upon the second reading of the bill, require him to attend rnittee. 
 
 before them to answer any questions they may think fit that he 
 
 should answer. 
 
 192. The Select Committee on Divorce Bills shall report every Committee to 
 such bill to the House, whether such committee shall or shall not report bill in 
 have agreed to the preamble, or gone through the several clauses a cases ' 
 
 or any of them. 
 
 IV.— THE ORDERS REGULATING THE PRACTICE 
 OF THE HOUSE WITH REGARD TO PRIVATE 
 BILLS. 
 
 193. No private bill shall be brought into this House, but Petition for 
 upon a petition first presented, which shall have been duly de- bill » an . d how 
 posited in the Private Bill Office, and indorsed by one of the t0 be signed ' 
 Examiners, with a printed copy of the proposed bill annexed: 
 
 And such petition shall be signed by the parties, or some of them, 
 
 who are suitors for the bill. 
 
 193a. No bill, originating in this House, for confirming a Provisional 
 
 provisional order or provisional certificate shall be read the first orders . and 
 
 provisional 
 time after the first day of June. certificates. 
 
 194. All bills promoted by the London County Council, con- Procedure in 
 taining power to raise money, by the creation of stock or on loan, case of bills 
 shall be introduced as public bills ; but after being read a second the London^ 
 time by the House, shall be referred to a Select Committee to be County 
 nominated by the Committee of Selection, in like manner as Council - 
 private bills. 
 
 But this Order shall not apply to a bill promoted by the 
 London County Council for the borrowing of money, which com- 
 plies with the following conditions : — 
 
 (1.) If it authorizes the borrowing and expenditure for the 
 purposes mentioned in the bill of the sum shown by the 
 estimates recited in the preamble to be required for each
 
 154 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Practice of such purpose, that purpose being the execution of a power 
 
 the House. conferred or extended either by the bill, or by some public, 
 
 local, or personal Act ; 
 
 Provided that the bill may authorize the borrowing and 
 expenditure for any purpose for which estimates are not 
 recited in the preamble, if it fixes a maximum aggregate sum 
 to be so borrowed, and requires every such borrowing to be 
 sanctioned by the Local Government Board. 
 
 (2.) If it is so framed as not to authorize the borrowing 
 and expenditure of any money after the financial period, 
 that is to say, the period ending on the 30th day of Sep- 
 tember next after the expiration of the then current financial 
 year of the Council ; 
 
 (3.) If it is so framed as to provide for the money bor- 
 rowed being repaid, whether by the creation of a sinking 
 fund, or the redemption of stock, or otherwise, within the 
 period fixed by the bill, or if the borrowing is sanctioned by 
 the Local Government Board fixed by that Board, and the 
 Committee or Board in fixing the period for the repayment 
 of money borrowed for any work shall not fix any period 
 which is in their opinion disproportionate to the duration of 
 such work, and shall in no case fix a period exceeding that 
 prescribed by any public Act relating thereto, or if no period 
 is so prescribed exceeding sixty years; 
 
 (4.) If in the case of any bill conferring or extending any 
 power involving the expenditure of money after the financial 
 period, the recited estimates show the total amount of money 
 required for the execution of the power as well as the par- 
 ticular amount to be borrowed and expended during the 
 financial period. 
 194a. Where any Act has conferred upon the London County 
 Council any power involving the expenditure of money for any 
 purpose after the then current financial period, or has extended 
 any such power, it shall not be competent for the committee on 
 any bill authorizing the borrowing and expenditure of money for 
 the same purpose during a subsequent financial period, except in 
 pursuance of an express instruction from the House, to reduce the 
 total amonnl of money shown by the estimates recited in such Act 
 to lie required for the execution of the power. 
 
 194b. A bill complying with the conditions specified in Stand- 
 ing Order 194, if it contains no powers or provisions except in 
 relation to and consequential on the borrowing and expenditure of
 
 STANDING ORDERS. 155 
 
 money, or in relation to the Consolidated Loans Fund, or to Practice of 
 borrowing by the Council, shall be subject to the following require- *^ e House, 
 ments, that is to say : — 
 
 (I.) The petition for the bill, with the declaration and 
 printed copy of the bill annexed, shall be deposited in the 
 Private Bill Office on or before the 14th day of April, or the 
 first day on which the House shall reassemble after the 
 Easter recess, whichever shall be the later, instead of the 
 21st day of December in the previous year; 
 
 (2.) Notice of such bill shall be published in the months 
 of February and March, or either of them, instead of in the 
 months of October and November in the previous year ; 
 
 (3.) Copies of the bill shall be deposited with the Treasury 
 and the Local Government Board on or before the day on 
 which the petition for the bill is deposited in the Private 
 Bill Office ; 
 
 (4.) The petition for the bill may be presented forthwith 
 and the bill shall be presented for first reading not later than 
 the second sitting day after the presentation of the petition, 
 and shall, after the first reading, be referred to the Ex- 
 aminer, who shall give two clear days' notice at the Private 
 Bill Office of the day appointed for the examination thereof, 
 and the bill shall not be read a second time until the Ex- 
 aminer has reported whether the preceding requirements of 
 this Order have been complied with; 
 
 (5.) Whenever the bill is amended at any stage, a copy of 
 the bill as so amended shall be forthwith deposited with the 
 Treasury and the Local Government Board ; 
 
 (6.) The tables accompanying the bill, as required by 38 & 39 Vict. 
 Section 12 of " The Metropolitan Board of Works Loans e - 6 ' 5 - 
 Act, 1875," shall be made up to the 31st day of March pre- 
 ceding the last day allowed for the deposit of the bill, and if 
 printed copies of those tables have been deposited in the 
 Private Bill Office, and at the Vote Office, and with the 
 Treasury and Local Government Board, at least one clear 
 day before the second reading of the bill, it shall be sufficient 
 if those tables are prefixed to the bill as brought up for 
 second reading in this House. 
 194c. No bill promoted by the London County Council shall 
 authorize any alteration of the mode of dealing with the Consoli- 
 dated Loans Fund, or of borrowing by the Council, unless a report 
 of the Treasury on the proposed alteration is presented to the
 
 156 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Practice of House and referred to the committee on the bill. The committee 
 the House, s hall consider the report, and may, if they think fit, hear the officers 
 of the Treasury. If the committee disagree with the report, they 
 shall report the fact to the House, with the reasons of their dis- 
 agreement. 
 
 194d. In the case of any bill promoted by the London County 
 Council authorizing the borrowing and expenditure of money, if 
 there is presented to the House and referred to the committee on 
 the bill a report from the Local Government Board or Treasury 
 with respect to the bill or to the borrowing by the County Council 
 and the management of the Consolidated Loans Fund during the 
 previous financial year, the committee shall report specially to the 
 House in what manner the matters contained in such report have 
 been dealt with by the committee, and any circumstances arising 
 out of such report, which, in the opinion of the committee, it is 
 desirable that the House should be informed of. If no such report 
 is referred to the committee, the committee shall report the fact 
 to the House. 
 
 194e. The estimates recited in any bill promoted by the London 
 County Council shall be supported by such plans and specifications 
 as the committee think proper. 
 
 Petitions, when 195. All petitions for private bills shall be presented to the 
 to be presented. jj ouse not i ater than three clear days after the same shall have 
 been indorsed by the Examiner, or if, when the same is indorsed, 
 the House shall not be sitting, then not later than three clear days 
 after the first sitting thereof subsequent to such indorsement ; and 
 if the House shall not be sitting on the latest day on which any 
 petition ought to be presented, then the same shall be presented on 
 the first day on which the House shall again sit. 
 
 How private 196. All private bills which have been ordered to be brought 
 
 LUL? in slla11 be presented to the House by depositing the same in the 
 
 Private Bill Office, and shall be laid, by one of the clerks of that 
 office, on the table of the House for first reading, together with a 
 list of such bills. 
 
 presented. 
 
 Bill, when to 197. No private bill shall be read a first time unless it be 
 
 be presented. presented not later than one clear day after the presentation of the 
 petition for leave to bring in the same ; or where the petition has 
 been referred to the select committee on Standing Orders, then not 
 later than one clear day after the House shall have given leave to 
 the parties to proceed with the bill.
 
 STANDING ORDERS. 157 
 
 198. No petition tor additional provision in any private bill Practice of 
 will be received by this House, unless a printed copy of the pro- Hou se. 
 posed clauses be annexed thereto. Petition for 
 
 199. All reports of the Examiner of Petitions for private bills, additional 
 in which he shall report that the Standing Orders have not been P r0vlsl0n - 
 complied with, and all special reports of the said Examiner shall gxamuiei^t b 
 be referred to the Select Committee on Standing Orders. referred to 
 
 200. All petitions praying that any of the sessional or Standing Committee 
 
 Orders of the House relating to private bills may be dispensed Orders. 
 
 with, and all petitions for the re-insertion of petitions for private Petitions for 
 
 bills in the general list of petitions, and all petitions opposing the dispensation, 
 
 same, shall be presented to this House by depositing the same in Z' t0 vl 
 
 the Private Bill Office ; and every such petition so deposited shall Committee 
 
 stand referred to the Select Committee on Standing Orders. on Stan( hng 
 
 Orders 
 200a. Where a bill having been brought in on motion (not „., ' 
 , • i-n ^ n • • i i - ■ t , When Standing 
 
 being a bill to confirm a provisional order or certificate) is read the Orders applic- 
 
 first time, and ordered to be read a second time on a day appointed, able to bill 
 
 and it appears that the Standing Orders relative to private bills br ° u S ht m on 
 .. ° L motion are not 
 
 may be applicable to the bill, the Examiners of Petitions for private complied with, 
 
 bills shall examine the bill with respect to compliance with the order of the 
 
 Standing Orders, and shall proceed and report forthwith, and the to thTbill 1 ^ 
 
 order of the day relating lo the bill shall not be affected thereby ; discharged. 
 
 but if the Examiner report that any Standing Order applicable to 
 
 the bill has not been complied with, and the Select Committee on 
 
 Standing Orders report that such Standing Order ought not to be 
 
 dispensed with, the order of the day relating to the bill shall be 
 
 discharged. 
 
 201. Every private bill, printed on paper, of a size to be deter- Printed bill to 
 mined upon by Mr. Speaker, shall be presented to the House, with be P resented - 
 a cover of parchment attached to it, upon which the title of the 
 
 bill is to be written ; and the short title of the bill, as first entered 
 on the votes, shall correspond with that at the head of the adver- 
 tisement. 
 
 202. All charges in any way affecting the public revenue, which All charges 
 
 occur in the clauses of any private bill, shall be printed in italics feting the 
 
 , , _ r public revenue 
 
 in such bill when presented to the House. to be inserted 
 
 203. Every private bill (except name bills) shall be printed ; in italic s. 
 and printed copies thereof delivered to the Vote Office for the use of what . Bills t0 
 the members before the first reading. -when 111 & ' *" 
 
 204. There shall not be less than three clear days, nor more Time between 
 than seven, between the first and second leading of any private first and 
 bill, or any bill to confirm any provisional order or provisional ? econd read "
 
 158 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Pracl 
 
 the Souse. 
 
 Petition relat- 
 ing to bills to 
 bo presented to 
 Bouse by being 
 ^1 in the 
 Private Bill 
 Office, and 
 name of bill 
 to be indorsed 
 on every peti- 
 tion. 
 
 Petitioner or 
 memorialist 
 may withdraw 
 petition or 
 memorial. 
 
 "When second 
 or third read- 
 ing opposed, to 
 be postponed. 
 
 Certain private 
 bills to stand re- 
 torted to Com- 
 
 of Selec- 
 ■ cm Genera] 
 Commitfc 
 Railway and 
 Canal Bills, and 
 Divorce. 
 
 Provisional 
 order bilN to 
 stand referred 
 to ' Committee 
 
 • ion, 
 
 or General 
 Conunitl 
 Railway and 
 Bills, &c. 
 
 certificate, unless any such private bill have been referred to the 
 Examiners of Petitions for private bills, in which case such bill 
 shall not be read a second time later than seven clear days after 
 the report of the Examiner, or of the Select Committee on Standing 
 Orders, as the case may be. 
 
 205. Every petition in favour of or against any private bill, or 
 any bill to confirm any provisional order or provisional certificate 
 before the House, or otherwise relating thereto (not being a 
 petition for additional provision), shall be presented to this House, 
 by depositing the same in the Private Bill Office, and there shall 
 he endorsed thereon the name or short title by which such bill is 
 entered in the votes, and a statement that such petition is in favour 
 of or against the bill, or otherwise, as the case may be, together 
 with the name of the member, or party or agent depositing the 
 same. 
 
 206. Any petitioner or memorialist may withdraw his petition 
 or memorial, on a requisition to that effect being deposited in the 
 Private Bill Office, signed by him or by the agent who deposited 
 such petition or memorial ; and where any such petition or 
 memorial is signed by more than one person, any person signing 
 such petition or memorial may withdraw his opposition by a 
 similar requisition, signed and deposited as aforesaid. 
 
 207. In cases where the second or third reading of a private 
 bill, or the consideration of a bill as amended by the committee, or 
 any proposed clause or amendment, or any motion relating to a 
 private bill, is opposed, the same shall be postponed until the day 
 on which the House shall next sit. 
 
 208. Every private bill, not being a railway, canal or divorce 
 bill, after having been read a second time and committed, shall 
 Stand referred to the Committee of Selection; and if a railway or 
 canal bill, to the General Committee on Railway and Canal Bills; 
 and if a divorce bill, to the Select Committee on Divorce Bills. 
 
 208a. Every bill for confirming provisional orders or provi- 
 sional certificates shall, after the second reading, stand referred 
 to the Committee of Selection, or to the General Committee on 
 Railway and Canal Bills, as the case may require, and be subject 
 to the Standing Orders regulating the proceedings upon private 
 bills, so far as they are applicable : providing that, when any order 
 or certificate contained in any such bill is opposed, the committee 
 to whom such opposed order or certificate is referred shall 
 consider all the orders or certificates comprised in such bill.
 
 STANDING ORDERS. 159 
 
 209. When the house shall have been informed by the Chairman Practice of 
 
 of Ways and Means, that in his opinion any unopposed private 
 
 bill should be treated as an opposed bill, such bill shall be again When unop- 
 referred to the Committee of Selection ; or in the case of a rail- P osed lji11 is 
 way or canal bill, to the General Committee on Railway and Canal opposec ] to be 
 Bills. again referred 
 
 210. Every petition against a private bill which shall have *o Committee 
 been deposited in the Private Bill Office not later than ten clear or General 
 days after the first reading of such bill, and every petition against Committee. 
 any bill to confirm any provisional order or provisional certificate, Petition against 
 which shall have been deposited in the Private Bill Office not later ported in Pri^ 
 than seven clear days after the Examiner shall have given notice vate Bill Office, 
 of the day on which the bill will be examined, or which shall have *° stand re ~ 
 been otherwise deposited in accordance with the Standing Orders m ittee on bill 
 of the House, and in which the petitioners shall have prayed to be &c. 
 
 heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, shall stand referred 
 to the committee on such bill, and such petitioners, subject to the 
 rules and orders of the House, shall be heard upon their petition 
 accordingly, if they think fit, and counsel heard, in favour of the 
 bill, against such petition. 
 
 211. There shall be six clear days between the second reading Time between 
 of every private bill, and of every bill to confirm any provisional ? eeond read- 
 order or provisional certificate, and the sitting of the committee mittee. 
 thereupon, except in the case of name bills, naturalization bills, and 
 
 estate bills (not being bills relating to crown, church, or corporation 
 property, or property held in trust for public or charitable pur- 
 poses), in respect of which there shall be three clear days between 
 the second reading and the committee. 
 
 212. All reports made under the authority of any public de- Reports of 
 partment upon a private bill, or the objects thereof, laid before the fS^ferred 
 House, shall stand referred to the committee on the bill. to committee 
 
 213. The report upou every private bill shall lie upon the table ; on 1lin - 
 
 and every such bill, if amended in committee, or a railway or a Re P ort of bills - 
 tramway bill, shall be ordered to lie upon the table: but if not 
 amended in committee, and not a railway or a tramway bill, it shall 
 be ordered to be read a third time. 
 
 214. Every private bill, as amended in committee, shall be Bill to be 
 printed at the expense of the parties applying for the same, and ^o^f ^^ 
 delivered to the Vote Office for the use of the members, three clear 
 
 days at least before the consideration of such bill. 
 
 215. In the case of private bills ordered to lie upon the table, re 'p r t anTcon- 
 three clear days shall intervene between the report and the consi- sideration of 
 
 bill, &c.
 
 160 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Practice of 
 
 the House. 
 
 Nn clause or 
 amendment on 
 consideration of 
 bill, ur on 
 third reading, 
 to be offered, 
 unless Chair- 
 man of Ways 
 and Means 
 shall have in- 
 formed the 
 House, &c. 
 
 Clauses and 
 amendments 
 offered on con- 
 sideration of 
 bill, or verbal 
 amendments 
 on third read- 
 ing, to be 
 printed. 
 
 When referred, 
 no further pro- 
 ceeding to lie 
 had until re- 
 port of Select 
 Committee 
 on Standing 
 Orders. 
 
 No amend- 
 ments, except 
 verbal, on third 
 reading. 
 
 Lords' amecd- 
 ments to be 
 printed and 
 circulated with 
 the votes prior 
 to considera- 
 tion, &c. 
 
 deration of the bill ; and no consideration of any such bill shall 
 take place, unless the Chairman of the Corninittee of Ways and 
 Means shall have informed the House, or signified in writing to 
 Mr. Speaker, whether the bill contain the several provisions re- 
 quired by the Standing Orders. 
 
 216. No clause or amendment shall be offered in the House on 
 the consideration of any private bill ordered to lie upon the table, 
 nor any verbal amendment on the third reading of any private bill, 
 unless the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means shall 
 have informed the House, or signified in writing to Mr. Speaker, 
 whether, in his opinion, such clause or amendment be such as 
 ought or ought not to be entertained by the House, without refer- 
 ring the same to the Select Committee on Standing Orders. 
 
 217. When any clause or amendment is offered on the consi- 
 deration of any private bill ordered to lie upon the table, or any 
 verbal amendment on the third reading of any private bill, such 
 clause or amendment shall be printed; and when any clause is 
 proposed to be amended, it shall be printed in exlenso, with every 
 addition or substitution in different type, and the omissions there- 
 from included in brackets and underlined, unless the Chairman of 
 the Committee of Ways and Means shall consider such printing to 
 be unnecessary. The expense of printing such clauses or amend- 
 ments, when offered by a party promoting or opposing a bill, shall 
 be paid by such party. 
 
 218. When any clause or amendment on the consideration of 
 any private bill ordered to lie upon the table, or any verbal amend- 
 ment on the third reading of any private bill, shall have been 
 referred to the Select Committee on Standing Orders, no further 
 proceeding shall be had until the report of the said Select Com- 
 mittee shall have been brought up. 
 
 219. No amendments, not being merely verbal, shall be made 
 to any private bill on the third reading. 
 
 220. All amendments made by the House of Lords to any 
 private bill shall be printed at the expense of the parties, and cir- 
 culated with the votes, prior to such amendments being taken into 
 consideration ; and where any clause has been amended, it shall be 
 printed in extenso, with every addition or substitution in different 
 type, and the omissions therefrom included in brackets and under- 
 lined, unless the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means 
 shall consider such printing to be unnecessary ; and when any 
 amendments are intended to be proposed to the Lords' amend-
 
 STANDING ORDERS. 161 
 
 merits, such proposed amendments shall also be printed in like Practice of 
 manner. theHouse. 
 
 221. Every private bill, after it has been read a third time, Bill to be 
 shall be printed fair, at the expense of the parties applying for the printed fair 
 same. after third 
 
 reading. 
 
 222. In all cases where it is intended to appoint a committee ^ T . 
 
 T , . , . Notice of coin- 
 
 to inspect the journals of the House of Lords with relation to any m ittee to in- 
 
 proceedings upon any private bill, previous notice thereof in spect Lords' 
 
 writing shall be given by the agent to the clerks in the Committee ivea to % om _ 
 
 Office. mittee clerks. 
 
 223. No private bill shall pass through two stages on one and Bill not to pro- 
 
 the same day without the special leave of the House. ceed two f a S es 
 
 J L on same day. 
 
 224. Except in cases of urgent and pressing necessity, no „ . . 
 
 motion shall be made to dispense with any sessional or Standing given of motion 
 Order of the House without due notice thereof. f ? r dispensa- 
 
 225. Each day, so soon as the House shall be ready to proceed 
 
 to private business, the clerk at the table shall read from the cee dings in 
 private business list, and from the list of bills presented for first House on pri- 
 reading {see Order 196), the titles of the several bills set down vate business - 
 therein, according to their precedence, as arranged under the 
 following heads : — 
 
 1 . Consideration of Lords' amendments ; 
 
 2. Third reading ; 
 
 3. Consideration of bills ordered to lie upon the table ; 
 
 4. Second reading ; 
 
 5. First reading ; 
 
 and if upon the reading of each such title as aforesaid, no motion 
 shall be made with respect to such private bill, the further proceed- 
 ings thereon shall be adjourned until the next sitting of the House. 
 
 225a. All bills for confirming provisional orders or certificates Provisional 
 shall be set down for consideration, each day, in a separate list, orc ' er "dls. 
 after the private business, and arranged in the same order as that 
 prescribed by the Standing Orders for private bills. 
 
 226. This House will not insist on its privileges with regard to Tolls and 
 
 any clauses in private bills, or in bills to confirm any provisional ? n; "-g es not 
 
 J . . ln the nature 
 
 orders or provisional certificates sent down from the House of f a tax. 
 
 Lords which refer to tolls and charges for services performed, and 
 
 are not in the nature of a tax, or which refer to rates assessed and 
 
 levied by local authorities for local purposes.
 
 162 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Private Bill 
 
 Office aud 
 registers. 
 
 Receipt of 
 
 document to be 
 acknowledged. 
 
 Li-t of peti- 
 tions to be kept. 
 
 .M> morials, 
 
 when to In- 
 deposited. 
 
 Deposit of 
 
 memorials 
 and <■• 
 
 V.— THE ORDERS REGULATING THE PRACTICE IN 
 THE PRIVATE BILL OFFICE. 
 
 227. Registers shall be kept in " The Private Bill Office," in 
 which shall be entered by the clerks appointed for the business of 
 that office, the name and place of residence of the parliamentary 
 agent in town, and of the agent in the country (if any) soliciting 
 the bill ; and all the proceedings, from the petition to the passing 
 of the bill :— Such entries to specify, briefly, each day's proceeding 
 before the Examiners of Petitions respectively, or in the House, or 
 in any committee to which the bill may be referred : the day and 
 hour on which the Examiner or the committee is appointed to sit ; 
 the day and hour to which the proceedings before such Examiners 
 or committee may be adjourned, and the name of the clerk attend- 
 ing the same. Such registers to be open to public inspection daily 
 in the said office. 
 
 228. The receipt of all documents required by the Standing 
 Orders of the House to be deposited in the Private Bill Office, shall 
 be acknowledged by one of the clerks of the said office, upon the 
 said documents, when deposited. 
 
 229. A list of all petitions for private bills shall be kept in the 
 Private Bill Office in the order of their deposit, according to such 
 regulations as shall have been made by Mr. Speaker, which shall be 
 called the " General List of Petitions," and each petition therein 
 shall be numbered. 
 
 230. All memorials complaining of non-compliance with the 
 Standing Orders, in reference to petitions for bills deposited in the 
 Private Bill Office on or before the 21st December, shall be de- 
 posited as follows: 
 
 If the same relate to petitions for bills numbered in the general 
 list of petitions ; 
 From 
 
 1 to 100 1 T he V S hall be deposited f January 9th. 
 
 101 to 200 \ on or before - -\ » 16tn - 
 
 201 and upwards J [_ „ 23rd. 
 
 And in the case of any petitions for bills which may be deposited by 
 leave of the House after the 21st December, such memorials shall 
 be deposited three clear days before the day first appointed for the 
 examination of the petition. 
 
 231. All memorials shall be deposited in the Private Bill Office 
 before six of the clock in the evening of any day on which the
 
 STANDING ORDERS. 163 
 
 House shall sit, and between eleven and one of the clock on any Practice in the 
 day on which the House shall not sit ; and two copies of every such " Pri I i ^. e Bil1 
 memorial shall be deposited for the use of the Examiners before 
 twelve of the clock on the following day. thereof in 
 
 232. Every memorial complaining of non-compliance with the office ° 
 Standing Orders of the House in reference to petitions for ad- Time fop de _ 
 ditional provision in private bills, to bills brought from the House positing me- 
 of Lords and to bills introduced by leave of this House in lieu of other morials in cer- 
 bills which shall have been withdrawn, and to bills for confirming 
 
 any provisional order or provisional certificate, shall be deposited in 
 the Private Bill Office, together with two copies thereof, before twelve 
 o'clock on the day preceding that appointed for the exami nation of 
 any such petition or bill by the Examiner ; and the Examiner shall 
 be at liberty to entertain such memorial, although the party (if any) 
 who may be specially affected by the non-compliance with the 
 Standing Orders shall not have signed the same. 
 
 233. Every private bill, after it has been read the first time Custody of 
 shall be in the custody of the clerks of the Private Bill Office, bills - 
 until laid upon the table for the second reading ; and when com- 
 mitted, shall be taken by the proper committee clerk into his 
 charge, till reported. 
 
 234. Between the first and second reading of every private Examination of 
 bill, the bill shall be examined, with all practical despatch, by the bills - 
 
 clerks of the Private Bill Office, as to its conformity with the 
 rules and Standing Orders of the House. 
 
 235. Three clear days' notice in writing shall be given by the Notice of 
 agent for the bill, to the clerks in the Private Bill Office, of the ? econd read " 
 day proposed for the second reading of every private bill ; and no mg ' 
 
 such notice shall be given until the day after that on which the 
 bill has been ordered to be read a second time. 
 
 236. Four clear days' notice in the case of opposed bills, and Notice of 
 one clear day's notice in the case of unopposed and re-committed committee. 
 bills, shall be given to the clerks in the Private Bill Office by the 
 
 clerk to the Committee of Selection, or by the clerk to the General 
 Committee on Kailway and Canal Bills, with regard to all bills 
 referred to either of the said committees, and with regard to bills 
 not referred to either of the said committees, by the clerk to the 
 committee to which any such bill is either referred or re-com- 
 mitted, of the day and hour appointed for the first meeting of the 
 committee on every private bill, and notice shall be given in like 
 manner of the postponement of the first meeting of the committee
 
 164 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 ce in the 
 Private Bill 
 Office. 
 
 Filled-up bill 
 to l>e deposited 
 in Private Bill 
 Office. 
 
 Notice of 
 
 adjournment. 
 
 Notice of 
 consideration 
 of bill. 
 
 Bill as amended 
 in committee 
 to be delivered 
 
 Bill printed as 
 amended to be 
 examined. 
 
 to be 
 given of 
 
 , &c. 
 on considera- 
 tion of bill, or 
 verbal amend- 
 
 ii third 
 n ading. 
 
 Notice of third 
 reading. 
 
 Amendments 
 [dera- 
 tion of bill and 
 third reading. 
 
 on every private bill on the day on which such postponement is 
 made. 
 
 237. A rilled-np bill is signed by the agent for the bill, as pro- 
 posed to be submitted to the committee on the bill, and in the case 
 of a re-committed bill, a filled-up bill, as proposed to be sub- 
 mitted to the committee on re-committal, shall be deposited in the 
 Private Bill Office two clear days before the meeting of the com- 
 mittee on every private bill; and a copy of the proposed amendments 
 shall be furnished by the promoters to such parties petitioning 
 against the bill as shall apply for it one clear day before the meeting 
 of the committee. 
 
 238. Notice, in writing, shall be given by the committee 
 clerk to the clerks in the Private Bill Office, of the day and hour 
 to which each committee is adjourned. 
 
 239. One clear day's notice, in writing, shall be given by the 
 agent for the bill to the clerks in the Private Bill Office, of the 
 day proposed for the consideration of every private bi 11 ordered to 
 lie upon the table. 
 
 240. The committee clerk, after the report is made out, shall 
 deliver in to the Private Bill Office a printed copy of the bill, with 
 the written amendments made in the committee; in which bill all 
 the clauses added by the committee shall be regularly marked in 
 those parts of the bill wherein they are to be inserted. 
 
 241. Every private bill printed as amended in committeeijshall 
 be examined by the clerks in the Private Bill Office, with the bill 
 delivered in by the committee clerk, and the examining clerks 
 shall indorse thereon a certificate of such examination. 
 
 242. When it is intended to bring up any clause or to propose 
 any amendment on the consideration of any private bill ordered 
 to lie upon the table, or any verbal amendment on the third 
 reading of any private bill, notice shall be given thereof, in the 
 Private Bill Office, one clear day previous to such consideration 
 or third leading. 
 
 243. One clear day's notice, in writing, shall be given by the 
 agent for the bill, to the clerks in the Private Bill Office, of the 
 • lay proposed for the third reading of every private bill ; and no 
 such notice shall be given until the day after that on which the 
 bill shall have been ordered to be read a third time. 
 
 244. The amendments (if any) which are made on the 
 consideration of any private bill ordered to lie upon the table, and 
 on the third reading of any private bill, and also such amendments 
 made by the House of Lords as shall have been agreed to by this
 
 STANDING ORDERS. 165 
 
 House, shall be entered by one of the clerks in the Private Bill Practice in the 
 Office, upon the printed copy of the bill as amended in com- Fn J^ ElU 
 
 mittee ; which clerk shall sign the said copy so amended, in order 
 
 to its being deposited and preserved in the said office. 
 
 245. Every private bill, after it has been printed fair, shall, Private Bills 
 
 before the same is sent to the Lords, be examined by the clerks i 6Qt J to th , e 
 j.\ t» • -r»-ii /-«.«» •!,,.,, -Lords to be 
 
 in the Private Bill Office with the bill as read a third, time; and indorsed with 
 
 the examining clerks shall indorse thereon a certificate of such certificate of 
 examination. examination. 
 
 246. When amendments made by the House of Lords to any Notice of con- 
 private bill are to be taken into consideration, one clear day's * ldera t lon of 
 notice shall be given thereof in the Private Bill Office, and if ments. 
 
 any amendments be intended to be proposed thereto, a copy of 
 such amendments shall also be deposited, and notice given thereof 
 one clear day previous to the same being proposed to be taken into 
 consideration ; and no such notice shall be given until the day 
 after that on which such bill shall have been returned from the 
 House of Lords. 
 
 247. All notices required to be given or deposits to be made Time for 
 in the Private Bill Office shall be delivered in the said office del i verin g 
 before six of the clock in the eveuing of any day on which the 
 House shall sit, and between eleven and one of the clock on 
 
 any day on which the House shall not sit; and after any day on 
 which the House shall have adjourned beyond the following 
 day, no notice shall be given for the first day on which it shall 
 again sit. 
 
 248. The clerks in the Private Bill Office shall prepare, daily, Daily lists of 
 lists of all private bills, and petitions for private bills upon which committees 
 any committee or Examiner is appointed to sit ; specifying the &1 m ^' 
 hour of meeting, and the room where the committee or Examiner 
 
 shall sit ; and the same shall be hung up in the lobby of the 
 House. 
 
 249. Every plan, and book of reference thereto, which shall Plans to be 
 be certified by the Speaker of the House of Commons, in pursuance verified as 
 of any Act of Parliament, shall previously be ascertained, and s ] ia 'n direct 
 verified in such manner as shall be deemed most advisable by the 
 Speaker, to be exactly conformable in all respects to the plan and 
 
 book of reference which shall have been signed by the chairman of 
 the committee upon the bill. 
 
 M
 
 166 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 APPENDIX (A.) 
 
 No.- 
 
 Sir, — We beg to inform yon that application is intended to be 
 made to Parliament in the ensuing session for " An Act " [here 
 insert the title of the Act], and that the property mentioned in the 
 annexed schedule, Part I., or some part thereof, in which we 
 understand you are interested as therein stated, will be liable to be 
 token compulsorily for the purposes of the said undertaking [and 
 that the property mentioned in the annexed schedule, Part II., in 
 which we understand you are interested as therein stated, will be 
 liable to have an improvement charge imposed upon it]. 
 
 We also beg to inform you that a plan and section of the said 
 undertaking, with a book of reference thereto, have been or will 
 be deposited with the [several clerks of the peace, or principal 
 sheriff clerks, as the case may be] of the counties of [specify the 
 counties in which the property is situate], on or before the 30th 
 of November, and that copies of so much of the said plan and 
 section as relates to the [parish or other area in accordance with 
 the terms of Standing Order 29, as the case may be], in which 
 your property is situate, with a book of reference thereto, have 
 been or will be deposited for public inspection with the [clerk, or 
 other officer in the said Order respectively mentioned, as the case 
 may be], on or before the 30th day of November, on which plan 
 your property is designated by the numbers set forth in the 
 annexed schedule. 
 
 As we an- required to report to Parliament whether you assent 
 to or dissent from the proposed undertaking, or whether you are 
 neuter in respect thereto, you will oblige us by writing your 
 answer of assent, dissent or neutrality in the form left herewith, 
 and returning the same to us with your signature on or before the 
 day of next; and if there should be any error 
 
 or misdescription in the annexed schedule, we shall feel obliged by 
 your informing us thereof , at your earliest convenience, that we 
 may correct the same without delay. 
 
 We also begto inform you that it is intended that the Act shall 
 provide to the effect that, notwithstanding section 92 of the Lands 
 Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845 [or section 90 of the Lands
 
 APPENDIX TO STANDING ORDERS. 
 
 167 
 
 Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Act, 1845], you may be required Appendix, 
 to sell and convey a part only of your property, numbered 
 on the deposited plans. 
 
 We are, Sir, 
 
 Your most obedient servants, 
 To 
 
 Note. — If the application be forwarded by post, the words " Parliamentary 
 Notice " are to be written or printed on the cover. 
 
 Schedule referred to in the foregoing notice, describing the 
 property therein alluded to. 
 
 
 Parish, or 
 other area 
 
 as the 
 
 case mav 
 
 be. 
 
 Number 
 
 on 
 
 Plans. 
 
 Descrip- 
 tion. 
 
 Owner. 
 
 Lessee. 
 
 Occu- 
 
 
 pier. 
 
 Property which 
 may be taken 
 compulsorily. 
 
 Property on 
 which au irn- 
 provement 
 charge may be 
 imposed. 
 
 
 Part I. 
 Part II. 
 
 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 APPENDIX (B.) 
 
 ANNO PRIMO VICTORIA REGINvE. 
 Cap. LXXXIII. 
 
 An Act to compel clerks of the peace for counties and other 
 
 persons to take the custody of such documents as shall be 
 
 directed to be deposited with them under the Standing 
 
 Orders of either House of Parliament. 
 
 Whereas the Houses of Parliament are in the habit of requiring 
 
 that, previous to the introduction of any bill into Parliament for 
 
 making certain bridges, turnpike-roads, cuts, canals, reservoirs, 
 
 M 2
 
 168 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Appendix. 
 
 aqueducts, waterworks, navigations, tunnels, archways, railways, 
 piers, ports, harbours, ferries, docks and other works, to be made under 
 the authority of Parliament, certain maps or plans and sections, 
 and books and writings, or extracts or copies of or from certain 
 maps, plans or sections, books and writings, shall be deposited in the 
 office of the clerk of the peace for every county, riding or divi- 
 sion in England or Ireland, or in the office of the sheriff clerk of 
 every county in Scotland, in which such work is proposed to be 
 made, and also with the parish clerk in every parish in England, 
 the schoolmaster of every parish of Scotland, or in Royal Burghs 
 with the town clerk, and the postmaster of the post town in 
 or nearest to every parish in Ireland, in which such work is 
 intended to be made, and with other persons : and whereas it is 
 expedient that such maps, plans, sections, books, writings and 
 copies or extracts of and from the same, should be received by 
 the said clerks of the peace, sheriff clerks, parish clerks, school- 
 masters, town clerks, postmasters and other persons, and should 
 remain in their custody for the purposes hereinafter mentioned ; be 
 it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and 
 with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, 
 and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the 
 authority of the same, that whenever either of the Houses of Par- 
 liament shall by its Standing Orders, already made or hereafter to 
 be made, require that any such maps, plans, sections, books or 
 writings, or extracts or copies of the same, or any of them, shall 
 be deposited as aforesaid, such maps, plans, sections, books, 
 writings, copies and extracts shall be received by and shall remain 
 with the clerks of the peace, sheriff clerks, parish clerks, school - 
 by the Standing masters, town clerks, postmasters and other persons with whom the 
 same shall be directed by such Standing Orders to be deposiled, 
 and they are hereby respectively directed to receive and to retain 
 the custody of all such documents and writings so directed to be 
 deposited with them respectively, in the manner and for the 
 purposes and under the rules and regulations concerning the same 
 respectively directed by such Standing Orders, and shall make such 
 memorials and endorsements on and give such acknowledgments 
 and receipts in respect of the same respectively as shall be thereby 
 directed.^ 1 ) 
 
 II. And be it further enacted, that all persons interested shall 
 have liberty to, and the said clerks of the peace, sheriff clerks, 
 parish clerks, schoolmasters, town clerks and postmasters, and 
 
 Clerks of the 
 peace, &c. to 
 receive the 
 documents 
 herein men- 
 tioned, and 
 retain them 
 for the pur- 
 poses directed 
 
 Orders of the 
 Eons* 
 
 Parliament. 
 
 Clerks of the 
 &c. to 
 permit snch 
 
 fits t > 
 
 be inspected or every of them, are and is hereby required, at all reasonable hours of
 
 APPENDIX TO STANDING ORDERS. 169 
 
 the day, to permit all persons interested to inspect during a reason- Appendix, 
 able time and make extracts from or copies of the said maps, plans, . 
 sections, books, writings, extracts and copies of or from the same, pe r Sons m _ 
 so deposited with them respectively, on payment by each person terested. 
 to the clerk of the peace, sheriff clerk, clerk of the parish, school- 
 master, town clerk or postmaster having the custody of any such 
 map, plan, section, book, writing, extract or copy, one shilling for 
 every such inspection, and the further sum of one shilling for 
 every hour during which such inspection shall continue after the first 
 hour, and after the rate of sixpence for every one hundred words 
 copied therefrom^ 1 ) 
 
 III. And be it further enacted, that in case any clerk of the Clerks of the 
 
 peace, sheriff clerk, parish clerk, schoolmaster, town clerk, post- P eace ' c ; ? r 
 1 ' ' - ' ' ' L every omission 
 
 master or other person shall in any matter or thing refuse or to comply with 
 
 neglect to comply with any of the provisions hereinbefore contained, tne provisions 
 
 every clerk of the peace, sheriff clerk, parish clerk, schoolmaster, town ii a i,i e to the 
 
 clerk, postmaster or other person shall for every such offence forfeit penalty of 51., 
 
 and pay any sum not exceeding - the sum of five pounds ; and every *° recovered 
 iiiii /• <• i ,v ip . , ma summary 
 
 such penalty shall, upon proof of the offence before any justice of wa y. 
 
 the peace for the county within which such offence shall be com- 
 mitted, or by the confession of the party offending, or by th j oath 
 of any credible witness, be levied and recovered, together with the 
 costs of the proceedings for the recovery thereof, by distress and 
 sale of the goods and effects of the party offending, by warrant 
 under the hand of such justice, which warrant such justice is 
 hereby empowered to grant, and shall be paid to the person or 
 persons making such complaint ; and it shall be lawful for any 
 such justice of the peace to whom any complaint shall be made of 
 any offence committed against this Act to summon the party 
 complained of before him, and on such summons to hear and 
 determine the matter of such complaint in a summary way, and 
 on proof of the offence to convict the offender, and to adjudge him 
 to pay the penalty or forfeiture incurred, and to proceed to recover 
 the same, although no information in writing or in print shall 
 have been exhibited or taken by or before such justice; and all 
 such proceedings by summons without information shall be as good, 
 valid and effectual to all intents and purposes as if an information 
 in writing had oeen exhibited^ 1 ) 
 
 ( ') In parishes in England and Wales having a Parish Council the Clerk, 
 if there is one, of such Council, or, if there is not one, then the Chairman, 
 now receives the documents deposited (Local Government Act, 1894, s. 17 ; 
 S. 0. 29, ante.)
 
 170 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Appendix. 
 
 1 & 'J Viet. 
 c. 117. 
 
 Recited Act 
 repealed. 
 
 Monies already 
 paid in to be 
 dealt with as 
 directed by 
 former Act. 
 
 Authority to 
 deposit. 
 
 APPENDIX (C.) 
 
 ANNO NONO VICTORIA REGIN^ 1 ) 
 
 Cap. XX. 
 
 All Act to amend an Act of the second year of Her present Majesty, 
 for providing for the custody of certain monies paid in 
 pursuance of the Standing Orders of either House of Par- 
 liament by subscribers to works or undertakings to be 
 effected under the authority of Parliament." 
 
 Whereas an Act was passed in the second year of the reign of 
 Her present Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled, " An Act to provide 
 for the custody of certain monies paid in pursuance of the Standing 
 Orders of either House of Parliament, by subscribers to works 
 or undertakings to be effected under the authority of Parliament :" 
 and whereas it is expedient that the said Act should be repealed 
 and should be re-enacted, with such modifications, extensions and 
 alterations as after mentioned : Be it therefore enacted, by the 
 Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent 
 of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present 
 Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that the 
 said Act shall be and is hereby repealed : provided always, that all 
 acts done under the provisions of the said Act shall be good, valid 
 and effectual to all intents and purposes, and that all sums of 
 money paid under the provisions of the said Act shall be dealt with 
 in all respects as if this Act had not been passed. 
 
 II. And be it enacted, that in all cases in which any sum cf 
 money is required by any Standing Order of either House of 
 Parliament, either now in force or hereafter to be in force, to be 
 deposited by the subscribers to any work or undertaking which is 
 to be executed under the authority of an Act of Parliamant, if the 
 director or person or directors or persons having the management 
 of the affairs of such work or undertaking, not exceeding five in 
 number, shall apply to one of the clerks in the office of the Clerk of 
 the Parliaments with respect to any such money required by any 
 Standing Order of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament 
 assembled, or to one of the clerks of the Private Bill Office cf the 
 House of Commons with respect to any such money required by 
 any Standing Order of the Commons in Parliament assembled, to 
 be deposited, it shall be lawful for the clerk so applied to, by 
 (') See as to repayment of deposit 55 & 56 Vict. c. 27.
 
 APPENDIX TO STANDING ORDERS. 171 
 
 warrant or order under his band, to direct that such sum of money Appendix. 
 
 shall be paid in manner hereinafter mentioned; (that is to say 1 
 
 into the Bank of England in the name and with the privity of the 
 
 accountant-general of the Court of Chancery in England, if the 
 
 work or undertaking in respect of which the sum of money is 
 
 required to be deposited is intended to be executed in that part of 
 
 the United Kingdom called England ; or into any of the banks in 
 
 Scotland established by A.ct of Parliament or royal charter in the 
 
 name and with the privity of the Queen's remembrancer of the 
 
 Court of Exchequer in Scotland, at the option of the person or 
 
 persons making such application as aforesaid, in case such work or 
 
 undertaking is intended to be executed in that part of the United 
 
 Kingdom called Scotland ; or into the Bank of Ireland in the name 
 
 and with the privity of the accountant-general of the Court of 
 
 Chancery in Ireland, in case such work or undertaking is intended 
 
 to be made or executed in that part of the United Kingdom called 
 
 Ireland ; and such warrant or order shall be a sufficient authority 
 
 for the acccountant-general of the Court of Chancery in England, 
 
 the Queen's remembrancer of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, 
 
 and the accountant-general of the Court of Chancery in Ireland, 
 
 respectively, to permit the sum of money directed to be paid by 
 
 such warrant or order to be placed to an account opened or to be 
 
 opened in his name in the bank mentioned in such warrant or order. 
 
 III. And be it enacted, that it shall be lawful for the person or Payment of 
 persons named in such warrant or order, or the survivors or e P 0S1 * 
 survivor of them, to pay the sum mentioned in such warrant or 
 order into the bank mentioned in such warrant or order in the 
 name and with the privity of the officer or person in whose name 
 such sum shall be directed to be paid by such warrant or order, to 
 be placed to his account there ex-parte the work or undertaking 
 mentioned in such warrant or order, pursuant to the method 
 prescribed by any Act or Acts for the time being in force for 
 regulating monies paid into the said courts, and pursuant to the 
 general orders of the said court respectively, and without fee or 
 reward; and every such sum so paid in, or the securities in or 
 upon which the same may be invested as hereinafter mentioned, or 
 the stocks, funds or securities authorized to be transferred or 
 deposited in lieu thereof as hereinafter mentioned, shall there 
 remain until the same, with all interest and dividends (if any) 
 accrued thereon, shall be paid out of such bank, in pursuance of the 
 provisions of this Act: provided always, that in case any such 
 director or person, directors or persons, having the management
 
 172 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDL T RE. 
 
 Appendix. 
 
 Investment of 
 deposit. 
 
 Repayment of 
 deposit. 
 
 of any such proposed work or undertaking as aforesaid, shall have 
 previously invested iu the Three per Centum Consolidated or the 
 Three per Centum Reduced Bank Annuities, Exchequer Bills, or 
 other government securities, the sum or sums of money required hy 
 any such Standing Order by either House of Parliament as afore- 
 said to be deposited by the subscribers to any work or undertaking 
 which is to be executed under the authority of an Act of Parliament, 
 it shall lie lawful for the person or persons named in such warrant 
 or order, or the survivors or survivor of them, 10 deposit such 
 Exchequer Bills or other Government securities in the bank 
 mentioned in such warrant or order in the name and with the 
 privity of the officer or person in whose name such sum shall by 
 such a warrant or order be directed to be paid, or to transfer 
 such Government stocks or funds into the name of the officer 
 or person ; and such transfer or deposit shall be directed by 
 such clerk of the office of the Clerk of the Parliaments, or such 
 clerk of the Private Bill Office of the House of Commons, as the 
 case may be, in lieu of payment of so much of the sum of money 
 required to be deposited as aforesaid as the same Exchequer Bills 
 or other the Government stocks or funds, will extend to satisfy at 
 the price at which the same were originally purchased by the said 
 person or persons, director or directors, as aforesaid, such price to 
 be proved by production of the broker's certificate of such original 
 purchase. 
 
 IV. And be it enacted, that if the person or persons named in 
 such warrant or order, or the survivors or survivor of them, desire 
 to have invested any sum so paid into the Bank of England or the 
 Bank of Ireland, or any interest or dividend which may have 
 accrued on any stocks or securities so transferred or deposited as 
 aforesaid, the court in the name of whose accountant-general the 
 saine may have been paid may, on a petition presented to such 
 court, in a summary way by him or them, order that such sum or such 
 interest or dividends shall, until the same be paid out to the parties 
 entitled to the same in pursuance of this Act, be laid out in the Three 
 per Centum Consolidated or Three per Centum Seduced Bank An- 
 nuities, or any Government security or securities, at the option of 
 the aforesaid person or persons, or the survivor or survivors of them. 
 
 V. And be it enacted, that on the termination of the session 
 of Parliament in which the petition or bill for the purpose of 
 making or sanctioning any such work or undertaking shall have 
 been introduced into Parliament, or if such petition or Bill shall 
 be rejected or fi rally withdrawn by some proceeding in either
 
 APPENDIX TO STANDING ORDERS. 173 
 
 House of Parliament, or shall not be allowed to proceed, or if the Appendix, 
 person or persons by whom the said money was paid or security 
 deposited, shall have failed to present a petition, or if an Act be 
 passed authorizing the making of such work or undertaking, and if 
 in any of the foregoing cases the person or persons named in such 
 warrant or order, or the survivors or survivor of them, or the 
 majority of such persons, apply by petition to the court in the name 
 of whose accountant-general the sum of money mentioned in such 
 warrant or order shall have been paid, or such Exchequer Bills, 
 stocks, or funds shall have been deposited or transferred as afore- 
 said, or to the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, in case such sum 
 of money shall have teen paid in the name of the said Queen's 
 remembrancer, the court in the name of whose accountant-general 
 or Queen's remembrancer such sum of money shall have been 
 paid, or such Exchequer Bills, stocks or funds shall have been 
 deposited or transferred, shall by order direct the sum of money 
 paid in pursuance of such warrant or order, or the stocks, funds or 
 securities in or upon which the same may have been invested, and 
 the interest or dividends thereof, or the Exchequer Bills, stocks or 
 funds so deposited or transferred as aforesaid, and the interest and 
 dividends thereof, to be paid or transferred to the party or parties so 
 applying, or to any other person or persons whom they may appoint 
 in that behalf ; but no such order shall be made in the case of any 
 such petition or Bill being rejected or not being allowed to proceed, 
 or being withdrawn or not being presented, or of an Act being 
 passed authorizing the making of such work or undertaking, unless 
 upon the production of the certificate of the Chairman of Com- 
 mittees of the House of Lords, with reference to any proceeding 
 in the House of Lords, or of the Speaker of the House of Com- 
 mons, with reference to any proceeding in the House of Commons, 
 that the said petition or bill was rejected or not allowed to 
 proceed, or was withdrawn during its passage through one of the 
 Houses of Parliament, or was not presented, or that such Act was 
 passed, which certificate the said Chairman or Speaker shall grant 
 en the application in writing of the person or persons, or the ma- 
 jority of the persons named in such warrant, or the survivor or 
 survivors of them : Provided always that the granting of any such 
 
 certificate, or any mistake or error therein or in relation thereto, Granting certi- 
 u ii i i ™ • o i • • i ,- , , • hcate, &c. not 
 
 snail not make the Chairman or Speaker signing the same liable in to make the 
 
 respect of any monies, stocks, funds and securities which may be Chairman or 
 
 paid, deposited, invested or transferred in pursuance of the provi- i^thTsame" 
 
 sions of this Act, or the interest or dividends thereof. liable.
 
 ( 174 ) 
 
 INDEX TO STANDING ORDERS OF HOUSE 
 OF COMMONS. 
 
 Note, — The Figures, 127, 238, &c, refer to the Number of each Standing 
 Order relating to Private Bills ; App. (A.), &c, to the Appendices (A.)« 
 (B.) & (C). 
 
 Additional Provision. See Petitions for Additional Provision. 
 Adjournment of Committees : 
 
 Causes of adjournment of committee on opposed bill to be 
 specially reported, 127. 
 
 The committee clerk to give notice of adjournment in the- 
 Private Bill Office, 238. 
 
 See also Committee Clerk. Postponement of Consideration 
 of Bills in Committee. 
 Advertisements. See Notices by Advertisement. 
 Affidavits : 
 
 To be admitted by the Examiner in proof of compliance with 
 the Standing Orders, 76. 
 
 To be admitted by committees on private bills in proof of 
 compliance with such Standing Orders as are directed to be 
 proved before them, 142. 
 
 And in proof of consents to bills, 143. 
 
 And in proof of notices and allegations of bills for inclosing 
 lands, 176. 
 
 How such affidavits shall be sworn, 142. 
 Agents : 
 
 Declaration by the agent to be annexed to the petition and 
 bill deposited in the Private Bill Office, 32. 
 
 Particulars required to be stated in the agent's declaration,. 
 ib. 
 
 Copies of the estimate or declaration of expense of the under- 
 taking to be delivered at the Private Bill Office, for the use of 
 any agent who may apply for the same, 35, 36. 
 
 Declaration or estimate, signed by the party or agent solicit- 
 ing the bill, may be deposited in certain cases, and no deposit 
 of money required, 59.
 
 INDEX TO STANDING ORDERS. 175 
 
 Copy of the bill to be laid, under certain circumstances, by 
 the agent before the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and 
 Means and the counsel to Mr. Speaker, 80, 82, 84. 
 
 Clause or amendment proposed at a certain stage of any 
 private bill to be submitted by the agent to the Chairman of 
 the Committee of Ways and Means, &c, 85. 
 
 Copy of Lords' amendments, and of proposed amendments 
 thereto, to be laid by the agent before the Chairman of the 
 Committee of Ways and Means, &c, 86. 
 
 Filled-up copies of the bill, signed by the agent, to be laid 
 by him before each member of the committee, 138. 
 
 Printed copy of any inclosure or drainage bill to be laid in 
 certain cases by the agent before the committee, 177, 178. 
 
 Filled-up bill, signed by the agent, to be deposited in the 
 Private Bill Office two clear days before the meeting of the 
 committee, 237. 
 
 Orders as to the notices to be given in certain cases by the 
 agent in the Private Bill Office, 238 et seq. 
 
 Name and place of residence of parliamentary agent, in 
 town or in country, to be entered in register at Private Bill 
 Office, 227. 
 Agreements : 
 
 In bills requiring parliamentary sanction to any agreement, 
 such agreement to be annexed to the bill as a schedule thereto, 
 174. 
 Agriculture. See Board of. Chamber of. 
 Alternative Lines: 
 
 No alternative line or work to be, in any case, permitted, 40. 
 Amalgamation of Railway Companies. See Railway Bills, 5. 
 Amendments. See Private Bills. 
 Application to Owners, Lessees, and Occupiers. See Owners, 
 
 Sfc. 
 Aqueducts. See Canals, fyc. 
 Arches : 
 
 The height and span of every arch of all bridges and viaducts 
 by which a railway is to cross any public carriage-road, navig- 
 able river, canal, or railway, to be marked in figures on the 
 section, 5 1 . 
 
 See also Bridges. 
 Assents, Consents, Dissents, and Neuters. See Consents. 
 Drainage Bills. Inclosure Bills. Meetings o-f Proprietors. 
 Owners, fyc.
 
 176 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 B 
 
 Bills, Private. See Private Bills, Preamble of. 
 Board of Agriculture : 
 
 Deposit of bills -with the Board of Agriculture, 33&, 60a. 
 
 Deposit of plans with, 30. 
 Board of Trade : 
 
 Plans and sections, in cases where any work is situate on 
 tidal lands, to be deposited at the Marine Uepartment of the 
 Board of Trade, 26. 
 
 Plans, sections, and books of reference, in the case of railway 
 and tramway bills, to be deposited at the Board oi Trade, on or 
 before 30th November, 27. 
 
 Printed copy of every railway and canal bill, of every com- 
 panies' bill, and of every bill relating to docks, harbours, 
 navigations, piers, or ports, to be deposited at the Harbour 
 Department of the Board of Trade, on or before 21st December, 
 33. 
 
 Copy of railway bills brought from the House of Lords to 
 be deposited at the Board of Trade not later than two days 
 after the first reading of the bill, 60. 
 
 Pieport from officer of the Railway Department of the Board 
 of Trade to be required in certain cases where level of any 
 road is altered or crossed by a railway, 154, 155. 
 
 Proof, in certain cases, to be given to the satisfaction of the 
 Board of Trade that capital has been paid up, 163. 
 
 All reports made under the authority of any public depart- 
 ment to be referred to the committee on the bill, 212. 
 
 Coinmiltees on private bills to notice in their report the re- 
 commendation of any public department referred to them, 150. 
 
 Committees on railway bills to report specially concerning 
 reports of public departments, 157. 
 Book of Reference : 
 
 To be deposited, with plan, with the clerk of the peace, &c.,24. 
 
 And in the case of railways, with the Board of Trade, 27. 
 
 And in all cases in the Private Bill Office, 25. 
 
 And so much thereof as relates to each area with the clerk, 
 &c., 29. 
 
 What book of reference shall contain, 46. 
 
 To be signed by chairman, &c, if produced before com- 
 mittee, 146. 
 
 To be verified as Mr. Speaker shall direct, 249.
 
 INDEX TO STANDING ORDERS. 177 
 
 Bridges : 
 
 Bills for making and maintaining, included in the 2nd class of 
 private bills, 1. 
 
 Fence of four feet high required on each side of a bridge 
 crossing a road, 145. 
 
 Fences to be made on each side of every bridge thrown over 
 a line of railway, 154. 
 
 See also Arches. 
 Buildings : 
 
 Buildings, yards, court-yards, and gardens to be shown on 
 the plans on a scale of not less than a quarter of an inch to 
 every 100 feet, 40. 
 Burial Grounds or Cemeteries : 
 
 Bills for making and maintaining, included in the 1st class 
 of private bills, 1 . 
 
 Notices to specify limits of, 5. 
 
 Notice to be served on or before 15th December upon the 
 owner and occupier of every dwelliug-house within 300 yards 
 
 15. 
 
 Requirement as to deposit of plans, &c, in case of power 
 being sought to take or disturb any churchyard, burial ground, 
 or cemetery, 30. 
 
 Printed copy of bill relating to any churchyard, burial 
 ground, &c, to be deposited at the Home Office on or before 
 the 21st December, 33. 
 
 Limits of burial ground or cemetery to be defined by clause, 
 188. 
 
 c 
 
 Calls on Shares {Railways) : 
 
 Clause to be inserted in railway bills prohibiting interest to 
 be paid on calls out of capital, 167. 
 Canals, Cuts, Reservoirs, Aqueducts, and Navigations, fyc. : 
 
 Bills for making, maintaining, varying, extending, or enlarg- 
 ing, included iu the 2nd class of public bills, 1. 
 
 Notices by advertisement to contain certain particulars, 7. 
 
 Requirements as to notices when it is proposed to abstract 
 water from any stream, 14. 
 
 Section and duplicate to be deposited, together with plan 
 and book of reference, with clerks of peace and sheriff clerks, 
 &c, 24.
 
 178 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Plans, &c., to be deposited in the Private Bill Office before 
 the 30th November, 25. 
 
 .Requirement as to deposit of copy of plans, &c, with the 
 clerks of areas, in England, Scotland, and Ireland, 29. 
 
 Printed copy of every canal bill to be deposited at the Board 
 of Trade, on or before the 21st December, 33. 
 
 The plan to describe the brooks and streams to be diverted, 
 41. 
 
 Section to exhibit the height of embankments and depth of 
 cuttings, 47. 
 
 Section to show a datum horizontal line to be the same 
 throughout the whole length of the work, and to be referred to 
 a fixed point near either termini, ib. 
 
 In the case of navigations, the sections to specify the levels 
 of both banks of the river, 48. 
 
 Where water-level of any canal crossed by a railway will be 
 altered, such alteration to be shown by cross sections, 52. 
 See also General Committee on Railway and Canal Bills. 
 Capital of Railway Companies; 
 
 Restrictions in regard to the capital of railway companies, 
 163-168. 
 
 See also Mortgage. 
 Cemeteries. See Burial grounds, fyc. 
 Chairman of Committee : 
 
 Course of proceeding when chairman absent, 121. 
 Chairman to have casting vote when voices are equal, 125. 
 To sign plan and book of reference with his name at length, 
 and every alteration with his initials, 146. 
 To sign bill and amendments, 147. 
 
 To report on allegations of bill, and whether consents have 
 been given where required, 148. 
 
 To report the bill to the House, and. to report specially any 
 alteration of the preamble, 149. 
 
 See also Committees on Private Bills. 
 Chairman of Committee of Ways and Means. See Ways and 
 
 Means, Chairman of Committee of. 
 Chambers of Agriculture, SfC. : 
 
 May be heard if injuriously affected, 133/;. 
 Chapels. See Churches. 
 Charges. See Tolls and charges. 
 Charges on Public Revenue. See Public Revenue.
 
 INDEX TO STANDING ORDERS. 179 
 
 Charity Commission : 
 
 Deposit of bills with, 33. 
 Charters and Corporations : 
 
 Bills for enlarging or altering powers of, included in the first 
 class of private bills, 1. 
 Christmas Day : 
 
 No notice to be given, or application made, on Christmas 
 Day, 21. 
 
 Except in the case of delivery of letters by post, ib. 
 N"o deposit of documents on Christmas Day to be deemed 
 valid, 23. 
 Church Property. See Crown, Church, or Corporation Pro- 
 perty. 
 Churches and Chapels : 
 
 Bills for building, enlarging, repairing, or maintaining, in- 
 cluded in the first class of private bills, 1. 
 Churchyards. See Burial Grounds or Cemeteries. 
 Classes of Private Bills : 
 
 Enumeration of subjects to which bills of each of the two 
 classes relate, 1. 
 Clauses. See Private Bills. 
 Cleansing of Towns. See Paving, fyc. 
 Clerk of Committee. See Committee Clerk. 
 Clerk of the Peace : 
 
 Deposit of documents in his office, 24, 27. 
 Act to compel clerks of the peace, &c, to take custody of 
 documents, App. (B.). 
 Clerk of Union : 
 
 Parish plan, section, and book of reference to be deposited 
 with, in Ireland, 29. 
 Committee Clerk: 
 
 To give notice of the time appointed by committees on 
 opposed bills for consideration of remaining bills of groups, 
 126. 
 
 To give notice of postponement of consideration of private 
 bill by committee, ib. 
 
 To enter on the minutes the names of all members attending: 
 
 o 
 
 committee, 140. 
 
 To take down the names of all members voting in any 
 division which may take place in committee, distinguishing on 
 which side they respectively vote, ib.
 
 180 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Such lists to be given in with the report to the House, ib. 
 
 Notice of intended appointment of committee to inspect 
 Lords' Journals to be given to committee clerks, 222. 
 
 To take charge of all private bills when committed, 233. 
 
 To give notice in Private Bill Office of adjournment of 
 committees, 238. 
 
 After report on any private bill is made out, to deliver in 
 Private Bill Office a printed copy of bill, with written amend- 
 ments made by committee, 240. 
 
 Committees on Pkivate Bills : 
 
 I. Appointment and Constitution of Committees on Private 
 
 Bills. 
 
 II. Proceedings of Committees : 
 
 1. Committees on opposed bills. 
 
 2. Committees on unopposed bills. 
 
 3. Committees on bills, whether opposed or unopposed. 
 
 III. Xotices in the Private Bill Office, and Lists of Com- 
 
 mittees. 
 
 I. Appointment and Constitution of Committees on Private 
 
 Hills : 
 
 Select Committee on Standing Orders, 91. 
 
 Committee of Selection, 98. 
 
 General Committee on Railway and Canal Bills, 99-101. 
 
 Committees on railway and canal bills, 110. 
 
 Committees on opposed private bills, not being railway, canal, 
 or divorce bills, 108, 117. 
 
 Committees on unopposed private bills, not being railway, 
 canal, ro;id, or divorce bills, 109, 137. 
 
 Committees on road bills, 110. 
 
 Committee on divorce bills, 189. 
 
 II. Proceedings of Committees : 
 
 1. Committees on opposed bills : 
 
 In what cases proprietors of incorporated company may be 
 heard before committee, 60. 
 
 All railway and other private bills may be formed into 
 groups, 103. 
 
 What bills not to be considered opposed, 107. 
 
 Declaration of members, 118. 
 
 No committee to proceed to business until declaration be 
 signed, ib.
 
 INDEX TO STANDING ORDERS. 181 
 
 Committees to proceed with three members ; but not with a 
 less number, without leave, 119 
 
 No member to absent himself, except in case of sickness, or 
 by order of the House, 120. 
 
 When chairman absent, the next member on the list of those 
 present to take the chair, but in the case of railway and canal 
 bills only, until the general committee on such bills shall have 
 appointed, if they so think fit, another chairman, 121. 
 
 Proceedings to be suspended if quorum not present, 122. 
 Members not present within one hour, or absenting them- 
 selves, to be reported to the House, 123. 
 
 Absence of quorum by death, or otherwise, to be reported, 
 124. 
 
 Questions to be decided by majority of voices, and chairman 
 to have second or casting vote, 125. 
 
 Committee on group of bills to consider that bill first which 
 Committee of Selection, or general committee, shall have named, 
 126. 
 
 And from time to time to appoint day for consideration of 
 
 remaining bills, of which clerk of committee to give notice, ib. 
 
 Committee on each group of bills to require the parties 
 
 severally promoting or opposing the same to enter appearances, 
 
 ib. 
 
 Causes of adjournment of committee to be specially reported, 
 127. 
 
 Not to consider petition against bill, except ground of objec- 
 tion sufficiently specified, 128. 
 
 Not to hear petitioners against bill, unless petition be pre- 
 pared in strict conformity with the rules of the House, and 
 presented not later than ten clear days after first reading, 129. 
 May admit petitioners against bill on ground of competition, 
 130. 
 
 In what cases shareholders may be heard before committee, 
 131. 
 
 In what cases railway companies may be heard before com- 
 mittee, 133. 
 
 Chambers of commerce, &c, to be heard in relation to rates 
 and fares, 133a. 
 
 In what cases municipal authorities, and inhabitants of 
 towns, &c, may be heard before committee, 134. 
 
 Local authorities entitled to be heard against lighting and 
 water bills injuriously affecting their interests, 134a. 
 
 N
 
 1X2 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Course to be pursued in case of opposed bills in which no 
 parties shall appear upon their petitions against bills, 136. 
 
 Four clear days' notice to be given of meeting of committee, 
 236. 
 
 2. Committees on unopposed bills: 
 Quorum of committee, 137. 
 
 Chairman of Committee of Ways and Means may report 
 special circumstances, or that a bill ought to be treated as 
 opposed, 83. 
 
 Local member not to vote in committee on unopposed bills, 
 139. 
 
 3. Committees on bills, whether opposed or unopposed : 
 The Committee of Selection to fix the time for the first sitting 
 
 of every committee on a private bill, subject to the order in 
 regard to the interval between the second reading and the sitting 
 of the committee, 105, 211. 
 
 All reports from public departments to stand referred to 
 committee, 212. 
 
 Filled-up copies of bill to be laid before each member of the 
 committee, 138. 
 
 Names of members attending to be entered on the minutes 
 of the committee, 140. 
 
 Committee not to inquire into compliance with any Standing 
 Orders which are directed to be proved before the Examiner, 
 141. 
 
 The committee may admit affidavits in proof of compliance 
 with such Standing Orders as are required to be proved before 
 them, 142. 
 
 Consents, how to be proved before them, 143. 
 
 Petitioner who has discussed clauses of a bill in House of 
 Lords not precluded from opposing preamble of bill in this 
 House, 143«. 
 
 Clause compelling payment of subscriptions, 144. 
 
 Allegations of bills to be reported, 148. 
 
 And preamble and clauses and any alteration of preamble to 
 be specially reported, 149. 
 
 Chairman to report, where parties have stated that they do 
 not intend to proceed with the bill, 149. 
 
 The committee to notice in their report any recommendation 
 from any Government department upon the bill, 150. 
 
 Minutes of committee to be laid on the table with the 
 report, 152.
 
 INDEX TO STANDING ORDERS. 183 
 
 Committee to consider clauses of bill in reference to matters 
 affecting local government or rating, and report of committee to 
 be printed and circulated with votes, 173a. 
 
 In case of bill providing for compensation for water im- 
 pounded, committee to inquire into expediency of making the 
 flow continuous, and to report accordingly, 184. 
 
 The report on every private bill to lie upon the table ; and 
 the bill, if amended in committee, or a railway bill, when 
 reported, to be ordered to lie upon the table, 213. 
 
 Every other bill, when reported, to be ordered to be read a 
 third time, ib. 
 
 Bill to be printed after the report, 214. 
 
 Committee clerk, after report is made out, to deliver in 
 Private Bill Office a printed copy of bill, with written amend- 
 ments made by committee, 240. 
 
 Re-committed Bill. — One clear day's notice to be given of 
 meeting, 236. 
 
 Raihoays. — Orders regulating proceedings of committees on 
 railway bills, 153 — 169. 
 
 Letters Patent. — The like as to committees on letters patent 
 bills, 175. 
 
 Inclosure and Drainage Bills. — The like as to committees 
 on inclosure and drainage bills, 176-182. 
 
 Inclosures. — The like as to committees on private bills con- 
 taining provisions relating to the inclosure of land, 183. 
 
 Public Carriage Road Bills. — The like as to committees 
 on road bills, 110. 
 
 Turnpike Roads {Ireland). — The like as to committees on 
 turnpike road bills (Ireland), 187. 
 
 Divorce Bills, Select Committee on. — The like as to com- 
 mittees on divorce bills, 189-192. 
 
 Opposed Private Bills. — Four clear days' notice of the day 
 and hour appointed for the meeting of the committee, to be 
 given by the clerk to the Committee of Selection to the clerks 
 in the Private Bill Oflace, 236. 
 
 III. Notices in the Private Bill Office, and Lists of Com- 
 mittees : 
 
 Notice to be given of sitting of committee on the bill, 236. 
 
 Notice of adjournment, 238. 
 
 Time for delivering notices, 247. 
 
 Daily lists of committees sitting to be prepared and hung up 
 in the lobby, 248. 
 
 N 2
 
 184 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Committee of Selection. See Selection, Committee of. 
 Committee to inspect Lords' Journals: 
 
 Notice of intention to appoint committee to be given to com 
 mittee clerks, 222. 
 Companies : 
 
 Bills for incorporating, regulating, or giving powers to, in- 
 cluded in the 1st class of private bills, 1. 
 See also Private Dills. 
 Compensation Water. See Water. 
 Competition : 
 
 The committee on a bill may admit petitioners to be heard 
 against a bill on the ground of competition, 130. 
 Completion of Line : 
 
 Clause imposing penalty unless line be opened, 158. 
 Deposit to be impounded as security for completion of line, ib. 
 Deposit or penalty in compensation to parties injured, ib. 
 Time limited for, ib. 
 Consents : 
 
 Bills originating in the Commons, or brought from the Lords, 
 empowering certain companies to do any act not authorized by 
 the instruments constituting or regulating the same, to be 
 approved in certain cases by a special resolution of the company, 
 and in other cases consented to by a majority of the share- 
 holders, G3-6o. 
 
 Requirements as to consent of proprietors in respect of sums 
 to be raised in aid of undertaking of another company, 6G. 
 
 In cases of bills brought from the Lords, for the purpose of 
 establishing a company for carrying on any work or under- 
 taking, the consent of directors, &c, named in bill to be 
 proved, 68. 
 
 How the consents of parties concerned in any interest in any 
 private bill may be proved, 143. 
 
 Consent 35111 and Statement to be delivered in to committee 
 on any inclosure bill, 177. 
 
 The like in regard to any drainage bill, 178. 
 Corporation J > ropcrtij. See Crown, fyc, Property. 
 Corporations. See Charters and Corporations. 
 Cor recti on, Houses of. See Gaols, fyc. 
 
 Counsel : 
 
 Petitioners depositing a petition against a bill in the Private 
 Bill Office, praying to be heard by themselves, their counsel
 
 INDEX TO STANDING ORDERS. 185 
 
 or agents, to be heard before the committee on the bill accord- 
 ingly, 210. 
 Counsel to Mr. Speaker : 
 
 To assist the Chairman of Ways and Means in the exami- 
 nation of all private bills, whether opposed or unopposed, 80. 
 
 See also Ways and Means, Chairman of Committee of. 
 
 County Rates : 
 
 Bills relative to, included in the first class of private bills, 1. 
 County or Shire Hall, Court House : 
 
 Bills relative to, included in the first class of private bills, 1. 
 Cross Sections. See Railway Bills, 3. Sections. 
 Crossings {Railways) . See Level Crossings. 
 Crown, Church, or Corporation Property : 
 
 Bills respecting, included in the first class of private bills, 1. 
 Notices to be served, in bills relating thereto, upon owners, 
 lessees, trustees, &c, 17. 
 Curves {Railways) : 
 
 A memorandum of the radius of every curve not exceeding 
 one mile in length, to be noted on the plan of every railway in 
 furlongs and chains, 42. 
 
 Committees on Bailway Bills to direct their attention es- 
 pecially thereto, and to take evidence thereon, 157. 
 
 Custody of Documents : 
 
 Act to compel Clerks of the Peace and others to take the 
 custody of documents required to be deposited by the Standing 
 Orders of either House of Parliament, App. (B). 
 
 Custody of Monies : 
 
 Act providing for custody of monies paid in pursuance of 
 Standing Orders, App. (C). 
 
 Custody of Private Bills : 
 
 In whose custody private bills are to be kept, 233. 
 
 Cuts, Cuttings, fyc. : 
 
 Bills for making, maintaining, or varying, to be included in 
 second class of Private Bills, 1. 
 
 The depth of every cutting to be exhibited on the section, 
 47. 
 
 Extreme depth of every cutting exceeding five feet to be 
 marked on the section of every railway, and on each side of 
 any intervening tunnel, 53. 
 
 See also Canals, Cuts, fyc.
 
 180 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 D 
 
 Datum Horizontal Line : 
 
 To be the same throughout the whole length of the work, 
 and to be referred to some fixed point (stated in writing on the 
 section) near some portion of the work, or of the termini, 47. 
 
 In the case of railways, the distances on Datum line to be 
 marked in miles and furlongs, to correspond with those on the 
 plan, and a vertical measure from the Datum line to the line of 
 railway to be marked at each change of gradient, &e., 50. 
 December : 
 
 Applications to be made to owners, lessees, and occupiers on 
 or before 15th December, 11-10. 
 
 If sent by post, to be posted on or before 12th December, 19. 
 
 Xotices to be given to owners and occupiers of houses on or 
 before 15th December in the cases of any bill for a burial 
 ground or cemetery, or for gas works, 15. 
 
 Deposits to be made on or before the 21st December, 
 32-34a. 
 
 Deposits to be made on or before 31st December, 35, 
 35«, 30. 
 
 Deposit in the Private Bill Office to be made on or before 
 31st December, of statement of houses occupied by the labour- 
 ing classes to be displaced by the promoters, 38. 
 Declaration of Promoters or Party soliciting Bill : 
 
 Printed copies to be deposited in the Vote Office 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 of declaration to be transmitted to every member 
 when appointed to serve on a committee on a private bill, 112. 
 
 The name of every member to be reported to the House if 
 he return no answer, 113. 
 
 Declaration to be signed by members, 118. 
 
 And no committee to proceed to business until declaration 
 be signed, ib. 
 Definition of Improvement, fyc. • 
 
 Definition of improvement and limits of improvement area, 
 454.
 
 INDEX TO STANDING ORDERS, 187 
 
 Deposit of Documents : 
 
 Documents required to be deposited, and times and places of 
 deposit, viz.: 
 
 Deposits on or before 30tb November, 24-31. 
 
 Deposits on or before 21st December, 32-34a. 
 
 Deposits on or before 31st December, 35, 35«, 30. 
 
 Deposits on or before 31st December, in the Private Bill 
 Office, of statement of bouses occupied by the labouring classes 
 to be displaced by the promoters, 38. 
 
 No deposit to be valid if made on Sunday, Christmas Day, 
 Good Friday, or Easter Monday, or before eight in the fore- 
 noon or after eight in the afternoon, 23. 
 
 Time for making deposits in Private Bill Office, 247. 
 
 See also Memorials. Petitions against Private Bills. 
 Petitions relating to Private Bills. 
 
 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 Court of Chancery in England, 
 Court of Exchequer in Scotland, or Court of Chancery in Ire- 
 land, before 15th January, 57. 
 
 Clause to be inserted in every railway bill, providing for 
 application of deposit or penalty in compensation to parties in- 
 jured, 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, 158a. 
 
 Clause to be inserted in every railway bill prohibiting pay- 
 ment of deposits required by the Standing Orders out of capital 
 raised under existing Acts, 168. 
 
 Act to provide for the custody of monies paid in pursuance 
 of the Standing Orders, App. (C). 
 
 Deviation, Limits of: 
 
 To be defined upon the plan, and all lands included within 
 the same to be marked thereon, 40. 
 
 Book of reference to contain the names of owners, lessees 
 and occupiers of lands and houses within the limits of devia- 
 tion, 46. 
 Dispensing with Standing Orders. See Petitions for Dispensa- 
 tion, fyc.
 
 188 'PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Distances : 
 
 In plans of railways, the distances to be marked in miles and 
 furlongs from one of the termini, 42. 
 
 And on the Datum line of the section, to correspond with 
 those on the plan, 50. 
 Diversion, Widening or Narrowing of Roads, §c. See Public 
 Carriage Roads. 
 
 Dividends : 
 
 Not to be authorized on shares until the completion of the 
 line for traffic, 1G4.' 
 
 Divisions : 
 
 In committees on private bills, 125, 140. 
 
 Divorce Bills : 
 
 Appointment of the Select Committee on divorce bills, 189. 
 What evidence to be given before the Select Committee on 
 divorce bills, 190. 
 
 When petitioner for bill to attend committee, 191. 
 Committee to report bill in all cases, 192. 
 Every divorce bill after second reading aud commitment to 
 be referred to the Select Committee on divorce bills, 208. 
 
 Docks, Harbours, Navigations, Piers, and Ports ; 
 
 Bills for making and maintaining, included in the 2nd class 
 of private bills, 1. 
 
 Printed copy of bill to be deposited at the Office of the Har- 
 bour department of the Board of Trade, 33. 
 
 Form of estimate for works proposed by any dock or harbour 
 bill, 37. 
 
 Railway companies not to acquire any canals, docks, &c., 
 unless the committee on the bill report that such restriction 
 ought not to be enforced, 156. 
 Documents, Custody of. See Custody of Documents. 
 Documents, Deposit of. See Deposit of Documents. 
 
 Drainage Bills : 
 
 Included in the 2nd class of private bills, 1. 
 Consent bill and statement of value of property, of assents, 
 dissents, and neuters, to be delivered in to the committee on 
 the bill, 178. 
 Dublin Gazette. See Gazette. 
 Duplicates of Plans and Sections. See Plans ; Sections.
 
 INDEX TO STANDING ORDERS. 189 
 
 E 
 
 Easter Monday : 
 
 No notice to be given or application made on Easter Mon- 
 day, 21. 
 
 Except in the case of delivery of letters by post, ib. 
 
 No deposit of documents on Easter Monday to be deemed 
 valid, 23. 
 Edinburgh Gazette. See Gazette. 
 Education Office : 
 
 Printed copy of every bill affecting the boundaries of any 
 school district, or the jurisdiction of any school board, to be de- 
 posited at the Education Office, 33. 
 Embankments : 
 
 Bills for making and maintaining, included in the 2nd class 
 of private bills, 1 . 
 
 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 airy intervening bridge or viaduct, 53, 
 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 lulls 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, 188b. 
 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 : 
 
 Form of estimate for works proposed to be authorized by any 
 railway, dock, or harbour bill, 37. 
 
 Estimate of the expense of the undertaking under each bill 
 of the 2nd class to be made, and signed by the person making 
 the same, 56. 
 
 Printed copies to be delivered at the Vote Office and Private 
 Bill Office on or before the 31st December, 3G.
 
 190 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 The committee on each railway bill to report specially there- 
 on, 157. 
 
 See also Deposit of Money. Tramways. 
 Estimate of Hates, §c. : 
 
 Declaration and estimate of amount of rates may be depo- 
 sited, and in such case no deposit of money to be required, 59. 
 Examination of Private Bills: 
 
 All private bills to be examined by clerks in the Private Bill 
 Office, between the first and second reading, 234. 
 Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills : 
 
 Appointed by Mr. Speaker, 2. 
 
 Standing Orders, compliance with which is to be proved 
 before them, 3-68. 
 
 Petition to be deposited in the Private Bill Office, and en- 
 dorsed by one of the Examiners, before any private bill can be 
 brought in, 32, 193. 
 
 Standing Orders as to the duties of, and practice before, the 
 Examiners, 69-78. 
 
 To commence the Examination of petitions on the 18th 
 January, 09. 
 
 Examiner to give at least seven clear days' notice of the day 
 appointed for the examination of each petition ; and if the 
 parties do not appear, to strike the petition off the list, 70. 
 
 To hear parties on memorials complaining of non-compliance 
 with the Standing Orders, 74. 
 
 To be at liberty to 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 party affected shall not have signed the same, 232. 
 
 The Examiner to hear individual proprietors, or shareholders, 
 who dissent at meetings of proprietors called under Orders 62 
 to 66 ; 75. 
 
 To admit affidavits in proof of compliance with the Standing 
 Orders, 76. 
 
 To indorse each petition for a private bill, and when Stand- 
 ing Orders not complied with, to report to the House, 71. 
 
 To give two clear days' notice of examination of petitions 
 for additional provision, and in the case of certain bills, 70, 73. 
 
 To report in respect of bills originating in the House of 
 Lords, and, where Standing Orders not complied with, to set 
 forth separately any special circumstances connected with the 
 case, 72, 77.
 
 INDEX TO STANDING ORDERS. 191 
 
 In certain cases to make a special report, 78. 
 
 All petitions for additional provision in bills from the Lords, 
 and bills introduced by leave in lieu of other bills withdrawn 
 and bills to confirm any provisional order, to be referred to 
 the Examiners, 72. 
 
 All reports in which he shall report that the Standing Orders 
 have not been complied with, and all special reports of the 
 Examiner, to be referred to Standing Orders Committee, 199. 
 
 Daily lists of petitions for private bills on which the ex- 
 aminers are appointed to sit, to be prepared and hung up in 
 the lobby, 248. 
 
 F 
 
 Fences. See Bridges, 
 ferries : 
 
 Bills relative to, included in the 1st class of private bills, 1. 
 
 And in the 2nd class where any work is to be executed, ib. 
 
 No railway company to acquire any ferry, unless the com- 
 mittee on the bill report that such restriction ought not to be 
 enforced, 156. 
 Filled-up Bill: 
 
 To be deposited in Private Bill Office, 237. 
 Fisheries : 
 
 Bills relating to, included in the 1st class of private bills, 1. 
 Frontagers. See Tramways. 
 
 G 
 
 Gaols and Houses of Correction : 
 
 Bills relative to, included in the 1st class of private 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. 
 Gas or Water Companies : 
 
 Provision for raising additional capital, 188a. 
 Gas Works : 
 
 Bills relating to, included in the 1st class of private bills, 1. 
 "Notices of bills to specify limits of, 5. 
 
 Notice to be given on or before 15th December to the owner 
 and occupier of every dwelling-house within 300 yards, 15. 
 Clause to define limits of works, 188.
 
 102 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Gazitti | London, Edinburgh, or Dublin) : 
 
 Publication of notices therein, directed, 9. 
 A copy of the Gazette notice to be deposited, together with 
 plans, sections, and books of reference, with clerks of peace, 
 parish clerks, and elsewhere, 31. 
 General Committee on Railway and Canal Bills : 
 
 Constitution of the committee; nomination of members; 
 quorum, 99. 
 
 Members discharged from attendance, and others substituted 
 in their room, 100. 
 
 Chairman appointed, ib. 
 
 The general committee to appoint from among themselves 
 the chairman of each committee on a railway or canal bill, or 
 group of such bills, 101. 
 
 Notice to be given by the clerk of the general committee of 
 the day and hour appointed for the meeting of all committees 
 referred to the general committee, 23G. 
 General List of Petitions : 
 
 To be kept in the Private Bill Office, and each petition 
 numbered, 22*). 
 Genera/ Railway Act : 
 
 Clause to be inserted in every railway bill, providing that 
 the railway shall not be exempt from any general Act, 169. 
 General Register Office, Somerset House: 
 
 Copy of bill altering boundary of administrative area, or re- 
 lating to matter within Births and Deaths Registration Acts, 
 to be deposited at General Register Office, Somerset House,60«. 
 Good Friday : 
 
 No notice to be given or application made on Good Friday, 
 21. 
 
 Except in the case of delivery of letters by post, ib. 
 No deposit of documents on Good Friday to be deemed 
 valid, 23. 
 Gradients : 
 
 Proportion or rate of inclination between each change of 
 gradient to be marked upon the section of every railway, 50. 
 
 Committees on railway bills to direct their attention espe- 
 cially thereto, and to take evidence thereon, 157. 
 Grand dun/ Cess, fyc, (Inland) .- 
 
 Railway bills charging payments on grand jury cess or 
 Other local rate to be submitted to and approved by grand 
 jury or local authority, 67.
 
 INDEX TO STANDING OEDEES. 193 
 
 Notices to be given of intention to submit such bills, ib. 
 
 Requirements as to approval by the Grand Jury or local 
 authority, and as to presentment or resolution being deposited 
 in the Private Bill Office, ib. 
 Groups of Bills : 
 
 Committee of Selection may group all private bills not being 
 railway or canal bills, and shall report the same to the House, 
 103. 
 
 And the general committee on railway and canal bills may 
 group all railway and canal bills, ib. 
 
 Committee on each group to consider that bill first which 
 the Committee of Selection or the general committee shall have 
 named, 12G. 
 
 And from time to time appoint days for consideration of 
 remaining bills, ib. 
 
 See also Committees on Private Bills. 
 
 H 
 
 Harbour Department (Board of Trade). See Board of Trade. 
 
 Harbours. See Docks, Harbours, tyc. 
 
 Home Office: 
 
 Requirement as to the deposit of plans, &c, at the Home 
 Office, when power is sought to take or disturb a churchyard 
 or burial ground, 30. 
 
 Printed copy of every bill relating to a local court or stipen- 
 diary magistrate to be deposited at the Home Office on or 
 before 21st December, 33. 
 
 House of Commons, Practice of the : 
 
 Orders regulating the practice of the House with regard to 
 private bills, 193-226. 
 
 Houses of Correction. See Gaols, fyc. 
 
 Houses of the Labouring Classes. See Labouring Classes. 
 
 House of Lords. See Consents. Lords, S,c. Private Bills. 
 Ways and Means, Chairman of Committee of. 
 
 Improvement Commissioners : 
 
 Printed copy of bill applied for by or on behalf of, to be de- 
 posited at the office of the Local Government Board, 33. 
 Improvement, Definition of. See Definition.
 
 194 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Improvement of Towns. See Paving, $c. 
 Indosure Hills : 
 
 Included in the 1st class of private bills, 1. 
 
 Notices and allegations to be proved by affidavit, according 
 to the provisions of the General Inclosure Act, 176. 
 
 Consent bill, and statement of value of property, of assents, 
 dissents, and neuters, to be delivered in to the committee, 177. 
 
 Clause to be inserted for leaving open space for exercise and 
 recreation, 179. 
 
 Consent bill to contain names of commissioners; also the 
 compensations for manorial rights, tithes, and enfranchisement 
 of copyholds, 180. 
 
 Disqualification of commissioners, umpires, surveyors, or 
 valuers, 181. 
 
 Clauses to be inserted for settling pay of commissioners and 
 pussing their accounts, 182. 
 I /'closures : 
 
 Committee on any private bill containing provisions relating 
 to the inclosure of land in certain cases to make a special 
 report, 183. 
 Introduction of Private Bills. See Private Bills. 
 
 J 
 January : 
 
 Deposits of money to be made on or before 15th January, 57. 
 Examiners of petitions for private bills to commence their 
 sittings on 18th January, 69. 
 Joint Stock Compemies : 
 
 Documents to be deposited in the case of bills for incor- 
 porating joint stock companies, 35a. 
 Jim ruals (Lords). See Lords'" Journals. 
 Junctions (Railways) : 
 
 In ciise of proposed junctions, course of existing line to be 
 shown on plan, 44. 
 
 Labouring C 'lasses, Houses of the : 
 
 Statement relating to houses inhabited by labouring classes 
 to be deposited in Private Bill Office and office of Central 
 Authority, on or before 31st December, 38, 183a.
 
 INDEX TO STANDING ORDERS. 195 
 
 Lease of Railways. See Railway Bills, 5. 
 Lessees. See Owners, $c. 
 Letters Patent Bills : 
 
 Included in the 1st class of private bills, 1. 
 Name of the invention, in capital letters, to be prefixed to 
 the notice, 8. 
 
 And also a description of the invention and term of duration 
 of the letters patent, ib. 
 
 Copy of letters patent to be annexed to any bill for restoring 
 the same, 175. 
 Level Crossings {Railways') : 
 
 To be so described on section, and whether level will be un- 
 altered, 51. 
 
 Not to be permitted, unless the Committee report that such 
 restriction ought not to be enforced, 155. 
 
 The committee on a railway bill specially to consider and to 
 report whether it be intended that the railway shall cross on a 
 level any railway, tramway, tramroad, or highway, 157. 
 Lighting of Towns. See Paving, fyc. 
 IJst of Petitions. See General List of Petitions. 
 Lists of Committees : 
 
 Daily lists of committees and of examiners sitting to be hung 
 up in the lobby, 248. 
 L,ists of Owners, Lessees, and Occupiers. See Owners, §c. 
 Loans. See Local Government. Mortgage. 
 Local Boards ; 
 
 Printed copy of every bill applied for by or on behalf of any 
 local board to be deposited at the office of the Local Govern- 
 ment Board, 33. 
 Local Courts ; 
 
 . Bills for constituting, included in the 1st class of private 
 bills, 1. 
 
 Printed copy of bill to be deposited at Home Office, 33. 
 Local Government : 
 
 Copy of bill for conferring powers, &c, on municipal cor- 
 poration, local board, or any local authority, to be deposited at 
 office of the Local Government Board, 60a. 
 
 Estimates of proposed application of money borrowed by 
 local authorities in certain casas to be recited in the bill, and 
 proved before the Select Committee thereon, 172. 
 
 As to bills relating to local government in Ireland, 173.
 
 196 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Committee oil bill to consider its clauses in reference to 
 various matters affecting local government or rating, and report 
 of committee to House to be printed and circulated with votes, 
 173a. 
 Local Interest : 
 
 Committees on railway and canal bills to be composed of 
 members not locally interested, 116. 
 
 The like in regard to committees upon opposed private bills, 
 108, 117. 
 
 How to be represented in committees upon unopposed 
 private bills, 109, 137. 
 
 Declaration of members, 118. 
 
 Local authorities to have a locus standi against lighting and 
 water bills, 134a. 
 
 Members added in respect of local representation not to vote, 
 139. 
 Locus Standi : 
 
 Orders with reference to the locus standi of petitioners 
 against private bills, 75, 128-135. 
 London County Council ; 
 
 Deposit of plans, etc., with London County Council on or 
 before 30th November, 28. 
 
 Copy of bills relating to works within limits of the adminis- 
 trative county of London to be deposited with the London 
 County Council on or before 21st December, 34. 
 
 Money bills promoted by the London County Council to be, 
 introduced as public bills, and after second reading to be re- 
 ferred to a Select Committee, nominated by the Committee of 
 Selection, 194. 
 London Gazette. See Gazette. 
 Lords' Amendments to (Private) Bills. See Private Bills. 
 
 Lords, House of: 
 
 Copy of every railway, tramway, subway and canal bill 
 brought from the House of Lords to be deposited at the Board 
 of Trade, 60. 
 
 Requirements in the event of alteration, during the progress 
 through the House of Lords, of any work authorised by bill 
 <ii' the second class originated in that House, 61. 
 
 Orders as to meetings of proprietors or members of com- 
 panies, and as to consents, in cases of hills originating in, or 
 brought from, the House of Lords, 64, 65, 68.
 
 INDEX TO STANDING ORDERS. 197 
 
 Examiner of petitions to report as to compliance with the 
 Standing Orders in respect of bills originating in the House, 
 72, 77. 
 
 Two days' notice to be given in the Private Bill Office of 
 the day on which Examiner will examine bills brought from the 
 Lords, 73. 
 
 Requirements in respect of amendments made in the House 
 to any private bill, 86. 
 
 See also Private Bills. Ways and Means, Chairman of 
 Committee of. 
 Lords' 1 Journals : 
 
 Notice of intention to appoint committee to inspect Lords' 
 Journals, with relation to proceedings upon a private bill, to 
 be given to the committee clerks, 222. 
 
 M 
 
 Magistrates. See Stipendiary Magistrates. 
 Maps : 
 
 In the case of railway bills, the Ordnance Map, or a pub- 
 lished map, to a scale of not less than half an inch to a mile, 
 with the line of railway delineated thereon, to be deposited 
 with the clerk of the peace, &c, 24, 25, 27. 
 
 In Ireland to be to a scale of not less than a quarter of an 
 inch to a mile, 24. 
 
 In case of proposed alteration or extension of municipal 
 boundaries, map and duplicate to be deposited with town clerk, 
 &c, ib. 
 Markets and Market Places : 
 
 Bills for erecting, improving, maintaining, or regulating, in- 
 cluded in the 1st class of private bills, 1. 
 Meetings of Proprietors : 
 
 Bill to be submitted to a meeting of proprietors in certain 
 cases, 62-65. 
 
 How such meetings are to be called, ib. 
 
 Requirements as to consents, or approval of bill, at meetings 
 of proprietors or shareholders, 63-b'6. 
 
 Proof to be required before Examiner of consent of pro- 
 prietors of any company to sum authorized to be raised in aid 
 of undertaking of another company, 66. 
 
 O
 
 198 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Cases in which, on petition for additional provision, it shall 
 not be necessary to submit bill to the approval of a meeting 
 of proprietors, ib. 
 
 Dissentient proprietors, on compliance with certain condi- 
 tions, to be allowed to be beard against proposed bills, 75, 
 L32. 
 
 See also Consents. 
 Members : 
 
 Printed copies of private bills to be delivered at tbe Private 
 Bill Office for the use of members, 32. 
 
 Copies of estimate, declaration, &c, in private bills, to be 
 deposited in tbe Vote Office for tbe use of members, 36. 
 
 To receive notice of the week in which tbeir attendance will 
 be required for serving on committees, 111. 
 
 To receive sufficient notice of appointment, with a blank 
 form of declaration in those cases w T bere required, 112. 
 
 Members to be reported to tbe House, if they do not return 
 the declaration filled up and signed, 113, 
 
 Any member or members may be discharged, and other 
 members substituted, 114. 
 
 Orders as to the appointment, attendance, and voting of 
 members of committees on opposed private bills, 116-125. 
 
 Form of declaration to be signed by members, 118. 
 
 No member to absent himself, except in case of sickness, or 
 by order of the House, 120, 
 
 See also Committees on Private Bills. Declaration of 
 Members. Local Interest. 
 Memorials ,• 
 
 Parties to be entitled to appear and to be heard before the 
 Examiners on memorials complaining of non-compliance with 
 Standing Orders, 74, 232. 
 
 When such memorials are to be deposited, and copies to be 
 furnished, 230-232. 
 
 .Memorials may be withdrawn on depositing requisition to 
 thai effect in the Private Bill Office, 206. 
 Minutes of Committees on Private Bills : 
 
 To be brought up and laid on the table with the report of the 
 bill, 152. 
 Monies, Custody of. See Custody. 
 Money, Deposit of. See Deposit. 
 
 Money Bills (London County Council). See London County 
 Council,
 
 INDEX TO STANDING ORDERS. 199 
 
 Mortgage ; 
 
 No railway company to raise by loan or mortgage more than 
 one-third of their capital, and none to be so raised until 50 per 
 cent, of capital has been paid up, 153. 
 Municipal Authorities : 
 
 To be admitted to be heard before the Committee on any 
 railway or canal bill on their petition against such bill, 134. 
 Also, to be heard against lighting and water bills, 134a. 
 
 N 
 
 Name Bills : 
 
 Not to be printed, 203. 
 
 Three clear days between the second reading of name bills 
 and the sitting of the committee thereupon, 211. 
 
 One clear day's notice of the day and hour appointed for the 
 meeting of the committee, to be given by the Clerk to the 
 Committee of Selection to the clerks in the Private Bill Office, 
 236. 
 
 To be charged one-half only of the usual fees, p. 107. 
 Narrowing of Roads, Syc. See Public Carriage Roads. 
 Naturalization Bills : 
 
 Three clear days between the second reading of naturaliza- 
 tion bills and the sitting of the committee thereupon, 211. 
 
 One clear day's notice of the day and hour appointed for the 
 meeting of the committee, to be given by the clerk to the 
 Committee of Selection to the clerks in the Private Bill Office, 
 236. 
 
 To be charged one-half only of the usual fees, p. 107. 
 Navigations. See Canals, S>-c. Docks, Harbours, fyc. 
 Newspapers : 
 
 Publication of notices therein, directed, 9. 
 See also Gazette, 
 Notices by Advertisement : 
 
 Notices by advertisement to state objects of bill, and powers 
 to be sought thereby, 3, 
 
 Also to contain the names of the parishes through which the 
 work is intended to be made, and to state the time and place of 
 deposit of plans, 4. 
 
 In cases of burial grounds or gas works, notices to specify 
 limits thereof, 5. 
 
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 200 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Particulars to be specified by notices in cases of tramway 
 bills, (5. 
 
 In cases of cuts, canals, reservoirs, aqueducts, and navi- 
 gations, 7. 
 
 In cases of bills relating to letters pateut, 8. 
 
 Wben and where notices to be published, 9. 
 Notices to Owners, Lessees, and Occupiers. See Owners, fyc. 
 Notices in the Private Bill Office. See Private Bill Office. 
 Notices, Service of. See Service of Notices. 
 November : 
 
 Notices to be published in, 9. 
 
 Deposits to be made on or before 30th November, 24-31, 39. 
 
 O 
 
 October: Notices to be published in, 9. 
 
 Opposed Private Bills. See Committees on Private Bills. 
 Petitions against Private Bills. Private Bills. Ways and 
 Means, Chairman of Committee of. 
 Orders of the Day : 
 
 See Provisional Order Bills, 225a. 
 Oioners, Lessees, and Occupiers : 
 
 Where lands or houses are to be taken, application to be 
 made to owners, lessees and occupiers on or before the 15th 
 December, 11. 
 
 Requirements as to notice in cases of alteration or repeal of 
 provisions, 17. 
 
 How applications are to be made, and notices served, 19. 
 Evidence of service, 20. 
 
 Lists of those who have assented, dissented, or are neuter, to 
 he made out and deposited in the Private Bill Office, by the 
 31s1 December, 12, 35. 
 
 In the case of any burial ground or cemetery, or gas works, 
 notice to be given on or before 15th December to the owner 
 and occupier of every dwelling-house within 300 yards, 15. 
 
 Notice to be served, in bills relating to crown, church, or 
 corporation property, upon owners, lessees, trustees, &c, 17. 
 
 Notice of the relinquishment of works to be served upon 
 owners, lessees, and occupiers, 16. 
 
 No notice to be given or application made on Sunday, 
 Christmas-day, Good Friday, or Easter Monday, or before
 
 INDEX TO STANDING ORDERS. 201 
 
 eight in the forenoon, or after eight in the afternoon, except 
 by post, 21. 
 
 Form of application to owners, lessees, and occupiers, 
 App. (A.) 
 
 Book of reference to contain names of all owners, lessees and 
 occupiers, within limits of deviation, 46. 
 
 Owners, lessees, or occupiers of houses, &c, affected by pro- 
 posed tramways, entitled to be heard before select committees, 
 135. 
 
 See also Drainage Bills. Inclosure Bills. 
 
 Parish Clerks : 
 
 Parish plan, section, and book of reference to be deposited 
 with, on or before 30th November, 29. 
 Patents. See Letters Patent Bills. 
 Parliamentary Agents. See Agents. 
 Paving, Lighting, Watching, Cleansing, or Improving Towns : 
 
 Bills for, included in the 1st class of private bills, 1. 
 Petitions, General List of. See General List. 
 Petitions for Private Bills : 
 
 Petition for bill, with agent's declaration and printed copy of 
 bill annexed, to be deposited in the Private Bill Office on or 
 before 21st December, 32. 
 
 Such petition, bill, and declaration, to be open to the inspec- 
 tion of all parties, ib. 
 
 Printed copies of the bill to be delivered therewith for the 
 use of members or agents applying for the same, ib. 
 
 Each petition to be certified or indorsed by one of the Ex- 
 aminers, 71. 
 
 Petitions for re-insertion of petitions in the general list to be 
 presented to the House by deposit of the same in the Private 
 Bill Office, 200. 
 
 When any petition struck off the general list of petitions, the 
 committee on Standing Orders to report whether it ought to be 
 re-inserted, 96. 
 
 Petition to be signed by the parties, and to be indorsed by 
 one of the Examiners, 193. 
 
 To be presented not later than three clear days after the same 
 have been indorsed by the Examiner, 195.
 
 202 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 A list of, to be kept in the Private Bill Office, to be called 
 the " General List of Petitions," 220. 
 
 See also Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills. 
 Petition* against Private Bills : 
 
 Xot to be considered by the committee on the bill unless the 
 grounds of objection be distinctly specified, 128. 
 
 To be presented, by being deposited in the Private Bill 
 Office not later than ten clear days after first reading, &c, 129. 
 
 To stand referred to the committee on the bill, if deposited not 
 later than ten clear days after the first reading of such bill, 210. 
 
 Petitioners against bill not to he heard unless petition be 
 prepared in strict conformity to the rules of the House, 129. 
 
 Committee may admit petitioners to be heard against a bill 
 on the ground of competition, 130. 
 
 In what cases shareholders are to be heard, 75, 131, 132. 
 
 In what cases railway companies are to be heard, 133. 
 
 Also municipal authorities and inhabitants of towns, &c, 134. 
 
 Also proprietors in incorporated companies in certain cases, 66. 
 Petitions relating to Private Bills : 
 
 To be presented to the House by being deposited in the 
 Private Bill Office, 205. 
 
 Name of bill to be written on every petition, with statement 
 whether the same be in favour of or against the bill, or other- 
 wise, ib. 
 
 Any petitioner may withdraw his petition, on depositing a 
 requisition to that effect in the Private Bill Office, 206. 
 Petitions for additional Provision : 
 
 Requirements as to consent of proprietors in cases of pro- 
 posed amendment of any bill, on petition for additional pro- 
 vision, 66. 
 
 Petitions for additional provision in private bill, with the 
 proposed clauses annexed, to be referred to the Examiners of 
 petitions, who shall report thereon, 72. 
 
 Examiner to give two days' notice, and to report whether 
 Standing < >rders have been complied with or not, 73. 
 
 Nut to lie received, unless a copy of the proposed clauses be 
 annexed, 198. 
 
 All such petitions to be referred to the Examiner of petitions 
 tor private bills, 72. 
 
 Regulation as to memorials being deposited and entertained 
 in respect of non-compliance with the Standing Orders in 
 reference to petitions for additional provision, 232.
 
 INDEX TO STANDING ORDERS. 203 
 
 Petitions against Provisional Order Confirmation Bills : 
 
 To stand referred to committee on bill if presented not later 
 than seven clear days after the notice by the Examiners of the 
 day appointed for examination of the bill, 210. 
 Petitions for Dispensation, Re- 
 petitions for dispensing with sessional or Standing Orders, 
 and petitions opposing the same, to be presented to the House 
 by depositing the same in the Private Bill Office, 200. 
 
 And to be referred to the Standing Orders Committee, ib. 
 
 Who are to report thereon, 95. 
 Petitions, Withdrawal of. See Withdrawal. 
 Piers. See Docks, Harbours, 8fC. 
 Plans : 
 
 Deposit of Plans, Sections, SfC. — Notices by advertisement 
 to state time and place of deposit of plans, sections, &c, 4. 
 
 Plan and duplicate, with book of reference, and section and 
 duplicate, to be deposited with clerks of peace or sheriff clerks 
 on or before 30th November, 24. 
 
 Clerks of peace or sheriff clerks to indorse a memorial on 
 plans, &c, stating time of deposit, ib. 
 
 In case of tidal lands, plans and sections to be deposited at 
 the Harbour Department of the Board of Trade, on or before 
 30th November, 26. 
 
 When works on banks, &c, of any river, plans, sections and 
 map to be deposited at the office of the conservators of the 
 river, 2G«. 
 
 In railway bills, the Ordnance Map or a published map to be 
 deposited with plans, &c, with the clerks of peace or sheriff 
 clerks, 24. 
 
 In railway, tramway, subway, and canal bills, plans, sections, 
 books of reference and published map to be deposited at the 
 office of the Boar I of Trade, on or before 30th November, 27. 
 
 Deposit of plans, sections, and books of reference ; and in 
 the case of railways, a published map, at Private Bill Office, 
 on or before 30th November, 25. 
 
 Deposit of plans, &c, with the London County Council on 
 or before 30th November, 28. 
 
 Copies of so much thereof as relates to each area, to be de- 
 posited with clerk, &c, on or before 30th November, &c, 29. 
 
 And copy of Gazette Notice, with plans, sections, &c, 31. 
 
 Requirement as to the deposit of plans, &c., at the Home 
 Office in case of disturbance of a burial ground, 30.
 
 204 PIUVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Duplicates of plans, &c, in cases of application for Provisional 
 Orders or certificates to be deposited in Private Bill Office, 39. 
 
 Receipt of, to be acknowledged by one of the clerks in the 
 Private Bill Office, 228. 
 
 Form in which plans are to be prepared. — To describe the 
 lands intended to be taken ; the line or situation of the whole 
 of the work, and the lands in or through which it is to be 
 made ; the limits of deviation, and all lands within the same 
 to be shown, 40. 
 
 To be on a scale of not less than four inches to a mile ; and 
 in certain cases buildings, yards, courtyards, and gardens to be 
 on an enlarged scale of not less than a quarter of an inch to 
 every 100 feet, ib. 
 
 To describe brooks and streams proposed to be diverted in 
 the case of canal, &c, bills, 41. 
 
 In the case of railway bills, to set forth certain particulars 
 in connection with extensions, curves, tunnelling, &c, 42. 
 
 To specify the intended widening or narrowing of any road, 
 canal, railway, &c, 43. 
 
 In the case of railway junctions to show eourse of existing 
 line, 44. 
 
 Everv plan and book of reference thereto, produced in evi- 
 dence before committee, to be signed at length by Chairman of 
 Committee, and every alteration with his initials, 140. 
 
 Plan and book of reference certified by the Speaker, in pur- 
 suance of any Act of Parliament, to be verified as the Speaker 
 shall direct, 249. 
 
 See also Canals, $c. Railway Bills. Sections. Tramways. 
 Police : 
 
 Bills relative to, included in 1st class of private bills, 1. 
 Poor and Poor Rate : 
 
 Bills relative to, included in the 1st class of private bills, 1. 
 Ports. See Docks, Harbours, Sj-c. 
 Post Office: 
 
 Service <>f applications and notices by post, and evidence 
 thereof, 12, 19-21. 
 
 Printed copy of every private bill to be deposited at the 
 General Post Office <>n or before 21st December, 33. 
 Postponement of Consideration of Bills in Committee : 
 
 The committee clerk to give notice of postponement in the 
 Private Bill Office, 120. 
 
 See also Adjournment of Committees. Committee Clerk.
 
 INDEX TO STANDING ORDERS. 205 
 
 Preamble of Private Bills : 
 
 Petitioner who has discussed clauses of a bill iu House of 
 Lords not precluded from opposing preamble of bill in this 
 House, 143«. 
 
 When any alteration has been made in the preamble of any 
 bill, such alteration, together with the ground of making it, to 
 be specially reported, 149. 
 Preference Shares : 
 
 In railway bills granting preference in payment of interest, 
 &c, provision to be made that the same shall not prejudice 
 former grants of preference, 160. 
 
 And no such company to be authorized to alter the terms of 
 any preference except under special circumstances, 101. 
 Presentation of Private Bills : 
 
 Form in which private bills are to be presented to the 
 House, 196, 201, 202. 
 
 No bill to be read a iirst time unless presented not later than 
 one clear day after the presentation of the petition for leave to 
 bring in the same, 197. 
 Principal Sheriff Clerk (Scot land) : 
 
 Deposit of documents in his office, 24, 27. 31. 
 Private Bill Office : 
 
 Notices of intended application for private bill to specify 
 time when copies of the bill will be deposited in the Private 
 Bill Office, 3. 
 
 No deposit to be valid if made on a Sunday or Christmas- 
 day, or before eight o'clock in the forenoon, or after eight 
 o'clock in the afternoon, 23. 
 
 Documents required to be deposited in the Private Bill Office 
 on or before 30th November : viz., plans, sections, and books of 
 reference, and in the case of railways, published map, 25. 
 
 Also, copy of Gazette notices, 31. 
 
 Duplicates of plans, &c., in cases of applications for provi- 
 sional orders or certificates, 39. 
 
 Sundry other documents to be deposited in the Private Bill 
 Office, 39, 63, 67, 200, 230-232. 
 
 Documents required to be deposited in the Private Bill Office 
 on or before 21st December; viz., petition for bill, with agent's 
 declaration, and printed copy of bill annexed, 32. 
 
 Also printed copies of the bill for the use of members and 
 agents applying for the same, ib.
 
 206 l'U 1VATE BILL 1'HOCKDURE. 
 
 Documents required to be deposited on or before the 31st 
 December, viz. : 
 
 Estimates, declarations, and lists of owners, lessees and 
 
 occupiers, 35. 
 
 Lists of assents, dissents and neuters, 12, 35. 
 
 Documents to be deposited in the case of bills of the 
 
 1st class, for incorporating joint stock companies, 35a. 
 Printed copies of estimate and declaration, 36. 
 
 Statement as to displacement of the labouring classes from 
 houses sought to be taken by promoters, to be deposited in 
 Private Bill Office on or before 31st December, 38. 
 
 Two days' notice of day appointed by the committee on each 
 group, for entering upon the consideration of each bill in such 
 group, to be given by the committee clerk to the Private Bill 
 Office, 126. 
 
 Petition against bill to be deposited in the Private Bill Office 
 not later than ten clear days after the first reading, &c, 129. 
 
 Petitions in favour of, or against, or otherwise relating to, 
 private bills to be presented to the House, by being deposited 
 in the Private Bill Office, 205. 
 
 Petition may be withdrawn on deposit in the Private Bill 
 Office on requisition to that effect, 206. 
 
 Orders regulating the practice in the Private Bill Office, 
 227-249. 
 
 Registers to be kept by the clerks in the Private Bill 
 Office, 227. 
 
 Notices in the Private Bill Office, time for delivery of, 247. 
 
 See also Committees on Private Bills, III. 
 Private Bills : 
 
 Division of private bills into two classes, 1. 
 
 A printed copy of every private bill to be deposited in the 
 Private Bill Office on or before the 21st December, 32. 
 
 Printed copies of the bill to be delivered at the Private Bill 
 Office, for the use of any member or agent applying for the 
 same, ib. 
 
 Printed copy of every private bill to be deposited at Her 
 Majesty's Treasury on or before 21st December, 33. 
 
 Of evei \ railway and canal bill, and of every bill for incor- 
 porating or giving powers to any company at the Board of 
 Trade, ib. 
 
 Of every bill relating to docks, harbours, &c, at the Harbour 
 Department of the Hoard of Trade} ib.
 
 INDEX TO STANDING ORDERS. 207 
 
 And of every road bill at the office of the Local Government 
 Board, 33. 
 
 Copy of bills relating to works within limits of the admi- 
 nistrative county of London to be deposited with the London 
 County Council on or before 21st December, 34. 
 
 Bills originating in this House and conferring additional 
 powers on the promoting company, to be submitted to pro- 
 prietors of such company, 62. 
 
 Bills brought from the House of Lords to be submitted to 
 proprietors of promoting company and of other companies in 
 certain cases, 64. 
 
 Dissenting proprietors to be allowed to be heard against 
 proposed bills, 75. 
 
 The Chairman of Ways and Means to confer with the Chair- 
 man of Committees of the House of Lords, for the purpose of 
 determining in which House of Parliament the respective bills 
 should be first considered, 79. 
 
 Orders regulating the practice of the House with regard to 
 private bills, 193-226. 
 
 To be brought in upon petition, signed by the parties, and 
 indorsed by one of the Examiners, 193. 
 
 Time limited for first reading, 197. 
 
 When Standing Orders applicable to bill brought in on 
 motion are not complied with, order of the day relating to the 
 bill to be discharged, 200«. 
 
 Orders as to the mode of printing, 201-203. 
 
 Every private bill (except name bills) to be printed, and 
 copies delivered to Vote Office before the first reading, 203. 
 
 Interval between first and second reading, 204. 
 
 Three clear days' notice of second reading to be given in 
 the Private Bill Office, 235. 
 
 When second reading is opposed, consideration thereof to be 
 postponed until the next sitting of the House, 207. 
 
 Printed copies of private bills to be laid before the Com- 
 mitte of Selection and General Committee at the first meeting 
 of the said committees, 102. 
 
 Every private bill (except railway, canal, or divorce bills), 
 when read a second time aud committed, to be referred to 
 Committee of Selection, 208. 
 
 If a railway or canal bill, to the General Committee on 
 railway and canal bills, ib.
 
 208 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 If a divorce bill, to the Select Committee on divorce bills, 208. 
 
 Interval between second reading and committee, 211. 
 
 No private bill to be passed through two stages on the same 
 day, without special leave, 223. 
 
 In whose custody private bills are to be kept, 233. 
 
 Filled-up bill, as proposed to be submitted to committee, to 
 be deposited in Private Bill Office, 237. 
 
 Every private bill, as amended in committee, to be printed, 
 and copies delivered to the Vote Office three clear days before 
 the consideration of the bill, 214. 
 
 Bill printed, as amended in committee, to be examined, 241. 
 
 Three clear days, in the case of private bills ordered to lie 
 upon the table, to intervene between the report and the con- 
 sideration of the bill, 215. 
 
 Chairman of Committee of Ways and Means to acquaint the 
 House whether bill contains the provisions required by the 
 Standing Orders, ib. 
 
 Xot.ce of consideration of bill, 239. 
 
 Notice to be given of clauses, &c, on consideration of bill, 
 or verbal amendments on third reading, 242. 
 
 Amendments on consideration of bill ordered to lie upon the 
 table, and on third reading, and also Lords' amendments, to be 
 entered in the printed copy of the bill as amended in com- 
 mittee, 244. 
 
 Clauses and amendments offered on consideration of bills 
 ordered to lie upon the table, and verbal amendments on third 
 readings, to be submitted to Chairman of Ways and Means, 
 and the Counsel to Mr. Speaker, who is to acquaint the House 
 whether the same ought to be entertained without being referred 
 to the Select Committee on Standing Orders, 85, 21G. 
 
 When proposed on consideration of bills ordered to lie upon 
 the table, and referred to Standing Orders Committee, the 
 committee to report whether they should be adopted, or whether 
 the bill should be re-committed, 97. 
 
 Such clauses and amendments to be printed at the expense 
 of the parties, 217- 
 
 If referred to Standing Orders Committee, no further pro- 
 ceeding until their report, 218. 
 
 One clear day's notice to be given of third reading, 243. 
 Proceedings when clauses and amendments are offered on 
 third reading, 85, 210-219, 244. 
 
 No amendment, except verbal, to be made on third reading, 219.
 
 INDEX TO STANDING ORDERS. 209 
 
 Bill to h n printed fair after third reading, at the expense of 
 the parlies applying for the same, 221. 
 
 Re-committed private bill ; one clear day's notice to be given 
 of meeting of committee, 236. 
 
 Copy of Lords' amendments, and of proposed amendments 
 thereto, to be laid before the Chairman of the Committee of 
 Ways and Means, and the Counsel to Mr. Speaker, 86. 
 
 Lords' amendments, and proposed amendments thereto, to 
 be printed at the expense of the parties, and circulated with 
 the votes prior to consideration thereof, 220. 
 
 Lords' amendments, when agreed to, to be entered in the 
 printed copy of the bill as amended by the committee, 244. 
 
 Notice of consideration of Lords' amendments, and of any 
 amendments thereto, 246. 
 
 Copy of letters patent to be annexed to any bill for restoring 
 letters patent, 175. 
 
 Bills containing provisions for inclosures, 183. 
 
 See also Committees on Private Bills. Railway Bills. 
 Custody of. Preamble of Private Bills. Presentation 
 of Private Bills. 
 
 Promoters, Declaration of. See Declaration. 
 
 Proprietors. See Consents. Meetings of Proprietors. Share- 
 holders. 
 
 Provisional Orders and Certificates : 
 
 Bills to confirm any provisional order or certificate, after- 
 first reading, to be referred to Examiners of petitions, 72. 
 
 Two days' notice to be given by Examiner of the day for 
 examination of petitions in respect of bills for confirming any 
 provisional order or certificate, 73. 
 
 Regulations as to the time between first and second reading 
 of any bill to confirm any provisional order or certificate, 204. 
 
 Regulation as to the consideration of memorials complaining 
 of non-compliance with the Standing Orders, in cases of bills 
 for confirming any provisional order or certificate, 232. 
 
 Proceedings on bills for confirming provisional orders or 
 certificates to be conducted as in cases of private bills, and 
 subject to same rules and orders of the House, so far as appli- 
 cable, 151. 
 
 Bills for confirming provisional orders or certificates to be 
 set down for consideration, each day, in a separate list, in same 
 order as private bills, &c, 225a.
 
 210 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Duplicates of plans, &c, in cases of application for provi- 
 sional orders or certificates, to be deposited in Private Bill 
 Office, 39. 
 
 No bill for confirming provisional order or certificate to be 
 read first time after first day of June, WSa. 
 
 See also Petitions against Provisional Order Confirmation 
 Bills. 
 
 Public Carriage Roads: 
 
 Bills relative to, included in the 2nd class of private bills, 1. 
 
 In the case of bills for, a section and duplicate to be depo- 
 sited, together with plan and book of reference, with clerks of 
 the peace, &c., 24. 
 
 And in the Private Bill Office, 25. 
 
 And so much thereof as relates to each area, with the clerk, 
 Ac. 29. 
 
 Printed copy of bill to be deposited at office of Local Govern- 
 ment Board, 33. 
 
 All road bills to be referred to a committee, consisting of a 
 chairman and three other members not interested therein, 110. 
 
 If any public carriage road is to be diverted, widened, or 
 narrowed, the course of such diversion, and extent of such 
 widening or narrowing, shall be marked on the plan, 43. 
 
 Where line of railway crosses any public carriage road, &c, 
 the height over or depth under, and the height and span of 
 every arch by which the railway will be carried over the same, 
 to be marked in figures, 51. 
 
 And level crossings to be shown, ib. 
 
 Where rate of inclination of any road crossed by a railway 
 will be altered, such alteration to be shown by cross sections, 
 52. 
 
 Level of roads when altered by any public work, 145. 
 
 Ascent of roads, where the level is altered, limited, in the 
 case of railways, unless a report from an officer of the Railway 
 Department recommending the same be laid before the com- 
 mittee, 154. 
 
 The like in regard to roads crossed on a level, 155. 
 
 Fence of 4 ft. high to be made on each side of every bridge 
 erected, 154. 
 
 See also Level Crossings. 
 
 Public Departments. See Board of Trade. Home Office. 
 Reports from Public Departments.
 
 INDEX TO STANDING ORDERS. 211 
 
 Public Revenue, Charges on : 
 
 To be inserted in italics in the printed bill, 202. 
 Publication of Notices. See Gazette. Notices by Advertise- 
 ment. 
 
 R 
 
 Railway Act, General : 
 
 Clause to be inserted in every railway bill, providing that 
 the railway shall not be exempt from any General Act, 169. 
 
 Railway Bills : 
 
 1. Generally. 
 
 2. Documents to be deposited. 
 
 3. Form in which Plans and Sections are to be pre- 
 
 pared. 
 
 4. Estimate, and Deposit of Money. 
 
 5. Purchase, Sale, Lease, and Amalgamation. 
 
 1. Generally : 
 
 Bills relative to railways included in the 2nd class of 
 private bills, 1. 
 
 Notice in case of application for compulsory running powers, 
 18. 
 
 No alternative line or work to be in any case permitted, 40. 
 
 Orders regulating proceedings of committees on railway 
 bills, 153-170. 
 
 Clause to be inserted in every railway bill imposing penalty 
 unless line be opened, 158. 
 
 Clause to be inserted providing that deposit be impounded as 
 security for completing the line, ib. 
 
 Clause providing for application of deposit or penalty in 
 compensation to parties injured, ib. 
 
 Time limited for completion of line, ib. 
 
 2. Documents to be deposited : 
 
 A section and duplicate to be deposited, together with plan 
 and book of reference, with clerks of the peace, &c, 24. 
 
 And also a published map, showing the course of the rail- 
 way, ib. 
 
 And if part of the work be situate on tidal lands, a copy of 
 plans and sections at the office of the Harbour Department of 
 the Board of Trade, 20.
 
 212 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Copy of all plans, sections, and books of reference, and pub- 
 lished map, with the Board of Trade, 27. 
 
 And in the Private Bill Office, 25. 
 
 A copy of so much of the plan, section, and book of refer- 
 ence as relates to each area to be deposited with the clerk, &c, 
 29. 
 
 And a copy of the Gazette notice, wherever plans, sections, 
 and books of reference are required to be deposited, 31. 
 
 Printed copy of every railway bill to be deposited at the 
 Board of Trade on or before 21st December, 33. 
 
 3. Form in which Plans and Sections are to be pre- 
 
 pared : 
 
 Scale for plan to be not less than 4 in. to a mile ; and in 
 certain cases, buildings, courtyards, and gardens, to be on an 
 enlarged scale of not less than a quarter of an inch to every 
 100 ft., 40. 
 
 Plan to exhibit the distances in miles and furlongs from one 
 of the termini, a memorandum of the radius of every curve not 
 ♦•xceeding a mile, and tunnelling by a dotted line, 42. 
 
 Diversion, widening or narrowing of railways to be shown, 
 43. 
 
 The course of a junction railway to be shown on plan for a 
 distance of 800 yards on either side of proposed junction, 44. 
 
 Section to be drawn to the same horizontal scale as the plan, 
 and to show the surface of the ground, the datum line, &c, 47. 
 
 The line of railway marked thereon to correspond with the 
 upper surface of the rails, 40. 
 
 Distances to be marked on datum line, and the vertical 
 heights and gradients to be marked, 50. 
 
 Height of railway over or depth under surface of roads, &c, 
 to be marked ; height and span of arches, and level crossings, 
 51. 
 
 And the height and span of every arch of all bridges and 
 viaducts by which a railway is to cross any road, &c, to be 
 marked in figures on the section, ib. 
 
 And when rates of inclination will be altered, such alterations 
 to be explained by cross sections, 52. 
 
 Embankments and cuttings, 53. 
 
 Tunnelling or viaduct to be shown, 54. 
 
 4. Estimate, and Deposit of Money : 
 
 An estimate of the expense of the undertaking under each 
 bill of the second class to be made, 56.
 
 INDEX TO STANDING ORDERS. 213 
 
 Estimate to be deposited in Private Bill Office on or before 
 31st December, 35. 
 
 Form of estimate for works proposed by any railway bill, 37. 
 
 Printed copies to be deposited in Vote Office and Private Bill 
 Office on or before 31st December, 36. 
 
 A sum of not less than 5 per cent, on the amount of 
 the estimate of expense to be deposited previously to the lot'i 
 January, 57. 
 
 Railway bills charging payments on grand jury cess or local 
 rate to be submitted and approved by grand jury and local 
 authorities, 67. 
 
 Clause to be inserted in every railway bill, prohibiting pay- 
 ment of deposits required by the Standing Orders out of capital 
 raised under existing Acts, 168. 
 
 Act to provide for the custody of monies paid in pursuance 
 of the Standing Orders, App. (C). 
 
 5. Purchase, Sale, Lease, and Amalgamation : 
 Particulars to be specified in notices by advertisement, 3. 
 Powers not to be given until proved to the satisfaction of the 
 Board of Trade that one-half the capital has been paid up and 
 expended by the respective companies proposing to amalgamate, 
 166. 
 
 The amount of capital created by amalgamation not to exceed 
 the sum of the capitals of the companies so amalgamated, 165. 
 No addition to be made to the capital of the purchasing 
 company beyond the capital of the railway purchased, 166. 
 See also Committees on Private Bills. Private Bills. 
 Public Carriage Roads. Ways and Means, Chairman 
 of Committee of. 
 
 Railway Companies, Capital of. See Capital. 
 
 Raihvay and Canal Bills Committee. See General Committee 
 on Railway and Canal Bills. 
 
 Railway Curves. See Curves. 
 Re-committed Private Bill : 
 
 One clear day's notice to be given of meeting of committee 
 236. 
 Referees on Private Bills : 
 
 The Chairman of Ways and Means, with not less than three 
 other persons, to be appointed by Mr. Speaker, shall be 
 referees of the House on private bills, 87. 
 
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 214 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Rules of practice and procedure of referees to be made by 
 Chairman of Ways and Means, 88. 
 
 Referees may admit petitioners to be heard against a bill, if 
 they think fit, 89, 130, 133a, 1336, 134. 
 Reference, Book of. See Book of Reference. 
 Registers : 
 
 How to be kept by the clerks in the Private Bill Office, 227. 
 Relinquishment of Works: 
 
 Notice to be served upon owners, lessees, and occupiers, 16. 
 Reports of Committees on Private Bills. See Committees on 
 
 Private Bills, II. 
 Reports from Public Departments : 
 
 The committee on any private bill to notice, in their report, 
 the recommendation of any public department referred to them, 
 150. 
 
 Committees on railway bills to report specially concerning 
 reports of public departments, 157. 
 
 All reports of public departments to stand referred to com- 
 miuee, 212. 
 Reservohs. See Canals, fyc. 
 Revenue. See Public. 
 Road Bills. See Public Carriage Roads. Turnpike Roads 
 
 (Ireland). 
 Running Powers : 
 
 Notice in case of application for, 18. 
 
 S 
 
 Sale of Railways. See Railway Bills, 5. 
 
 Scale for Plans, Sections, Maps, SfC See Maps. Plans. 
 
 Railway Bills, 3. Sections. 
 School Hoards : 
 
 Printed copy of every private bill affecting the jurisdiction 
 of any school board to be deposited at the Education Office, 33. 
 Secretary of State for the Home Department, See Home 
 Office.
 
 INDEX TO STANDING ORDERS. 215 
 
 Sections : 
 
 Generally. — Section and duplicate to be deposited with plan 
 and book of reference in the case of bills of the 2nd class, 
 24. 
 
 To be drawn to the same horizontal scale as the plan, and to 
 a vertical scale of not less than one inch to every 100 ft., 47. 
 
 To show the surface of the ground marked on the plan, the 
 intended level of the proposed work, the height of every em- 
 bankment and the depth of every cutting, ib. 
 
 There shall be a datum horizontal line thereon, to be the same 
 throughout the whole length of the work, ib. 
 
 Navigations. — Description of the section required in the 
 case of bills for navigations, 48. 
 
 Railways. — The line of railway marked thereon to corre- 
 spond with the upper surface of the rails, 49. 
 
 Distances on the datum line, and vertical measure at each 
 change of gradient, to be marked, 50. 
 
 Height of railway over or depth under the surface of roads, 
 &c, to be marked, and bridges and level crossings, 51. 
 
 Cross sections to be furnished where level of canals, roads or 
 railways altered, 52. 
 
 Extreme height of embankment and depth of cutting ex- 
 ceeding 5 ft., to be marked, 53. 
 
 Tunnelling to be marked, 54. 
 
 The gradient of a junction railway to be shown on section 
 for a distance of 800 yds. on either s ; de of point of junction, 55. 
 
 Selection, Committee of: 
 
 How constituted, 98. 
 
 To nominate the members of the general committee on rail- 
 way and canal bills 99. 
 
 From time to time to discharge members on that committee 
 and add others, 100. 
 
 To appoint the chairman of such committee, ib. 
 
 To appoint committees on opposed private bills (not being 
 railway, canal or divorce bills), 117. 
 
 To appoint one or more members to committees on unop- 
 posed private bills, 137. 
 
 Proceedings generally, 102-115. 
 
 Printed copies of private bills (not being railway or canal 
 bills), to be laid before the committee, 102. 
 
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 216 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Committee to group all private bills (not being railway or 
 canal bills), 103. 
 
 To name bill or bills to be considered on the first day, 106. 
 
 How to distinguish opposed and unopposed bills, 107. 
 
 How to constitute committees on opposed bills referred to 
 them, 108. 
 
 And on unopposed bills, 109. 
 
 To refer all road bills to a committee consisting of a chair- 
 man and three other members not interested therein, 110. 
 
 To give notice to members of the week in which they will be 
 required to be in attendance, 111. 
 
 And to give notice of their appointment, and transmit form 
 of declaration to be filled up, 112. 
 
 If members do not return declaration, to report their names 
 to the House, 113. 
 
 To have power to discharge any member or members of a 
 committee, and to substitute other members, 114. 
 
 To have power to send for persons, papers and records, 115. 
 
 In certain cases, bills to be referred back to them by the com- 
 mittees thereon as unopposed, 130. 
 
 Money bills promoted by the London County Council, to be 
 referred, after second reading, to a select committee nominated 
 by the Committee of Selection, 194. 
 
 Every private bill (not being a railway, canal, or divorce 
 bill), to be referred to the Committee of Selection, after second 
 reading and commitment, 208. 
 
 Everv bill for confirming provisional orders or provisional 
 certificates to stand referred to Committee of Selection or general 
 committee on railway and canal bills, after second reading and 
 commitment, 208a. 
 
 When an unopposed bill is to be treated as opposed, to be 
 again referred to the Committee of Selection, 209. 
 
 Notice to be given by the clerk of the Committee of Selection 
 of the day and hour appointed for meeting of all committees re- 
 ferred to the Committee of Selection, 236. 
 
 Service of Notices : 
 
 How to be made and proved, 16, 18-21. 
 
 Sessional and Standing Orders : 
 
 Petitions for dispensing with the sessional or Standing 
 Orders to be referred to Standing Orders Committee, 200.
 
 INDEX TO STANDING ORDERS. 217 
 
 Committee are to report whether they ought or ought not to 
 be dispensed with, 95. 
 
 No motion to dispense with any sessional or Standing Order 
 to be made without notice, 224. 
 
 Sewage Works : 
 
 Notices of bills to specify limits of, 5. 
 
 Notice to be served upon owners and occupiers within 
 300 yds. of the limits of construction of, 15. 
 
 Sewers : 
 
 Bills relating to, included in the 2nd class of private bills, 1 . 
 
 Shareholders : 
 
 Power of individual shareholders, in certain cases, and unde 
 certain conditions, to be heard before the committee on the bil 
 75, 131, 132. 
 
 See also Committees on Private Bills. Consents. Meet- 
 ings of Proprietors. 
 
 Shares {Railways). Calls on. See Calls on. 
 
 Sheriff Clerk {Scotland). See Principal Sheriff' Clerk. 
 
 Shire Hall Court House. See County. 
 
 Sittings of Committees : 
 
 The Committee of Selection and general committee en railway 
 bills to appoint first sitting of all committees on private bill 
 referred to them respectively, 105, 126. 
 
 See also Committees on Private Bills. 
 Speaker : 
 
 To appoint Examiners of Petitions for private bills, 2. 
 
 The examination of such bills to commence on the 18th Jan- 
 uary, in such order and according to such regulations as shall 
 have been made by Mr. Speaker, 69. 
 
 Plans and books of reference to be verified as Mr. Speaker 
 shall direct, 249. 
 
 Speaker's Counsel. See Counsel to Mr. Speaker. 
 
 Special Circumstances. See Examiners of Petitions for Private 
 Bills. Ways and Means, Chairman of Committee of. 
 
 Special Reports. See Examiners of Petitions for Private 
 Bills.
 
 218 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Standing Orders : 
 
 Committees on private bills not to inquire into compliance 
 with Standing Orders directed to be proved before the Ex- 
 aminer, unless by special order, 141. 
 
 Petitions for dispensing with the Standing Orders to be re- 
 ferred to the Standing Orders Committee, 200. 
 
 When Standing Orders applicable to bill brought in on 
 motion are not complied with, order of the day relating to the 
 bill to be discharged, 200o. 
 
 Who are to report whether they ought or ought not to be 
 dispensed with, 92, 95. 
 
 No motion for dispensing with any Standing Order to be 
 made without notice, 224. 
 
 Standing Orders, Select Committee on : 
 How constituted, 91. 
 
 Orders as to proceedings of committee, 92-97. 
 All reports of Examiners of Petitions for private bills as to 
 non-compliance with Standing Orders, and all special reports, 
 to be referred to the committee, 199. 
 
 Petitions for dispensing with sessional or Standing Orders, 
 or for re-insertion of petitions on the general list, to be referre d 
 to the committee, 200. 
 
 When report of Examiner referred, and after petition for bill 
 duly presented, committee to report whether the Standing 
 Orders ought or ought not to be dispensed with, 92. 
 
 To report on the cases referred to the committee in respect 
 of private bills originating in the Lords, 93. 
 
 Their proceedings in case of a special report from the 
 Examiner, 94. 
 
 To report whether sessional or Standing Orders ought or 
 ought not to be dispensed with, 95. 
 
 To report whether petitions struck off the list should be re- 
 inserted, 90. 
 
 To report whether clause or amendment on consideration of 
 report ought or ought not to be adopted by the House, or 
 whether the bill should he re-committed, 97. 
 
 When clauses or amendments offered on consideration of any 
 private hill ordered to lie upon the table, or on third reading of 
 any private bill, are referred to the committee, no further pro- 
 ceedings until they have reported, 218.
 
 INDEX TO STANDING ORDERS. 219 
 
 Steam Vessels: 
 
 Railway companies not to acquire, unless the committee on 
 the bill report that such restriction ought not io be enforced, 
 156, 162. 
 Stipendiary Magistrates : 
 
 Bills for payment of, or any public officer included in the 
 1st class of private bills, 1. 
 
 Printed copy of bill to be deposited at Home Office, 33. 
 Streets ; 
 
 Bills relative to, included in the 2nd class of private bills, 1. 
 
 Street Tramways. See Tramway s. 
 Subscriptions ; 
 
 Clause to be inserted for compelling payment of sub- 
 scriptions, 144. 
 Subivays : 
 
 Notice in the case of subway bills to specify the gauge to be 
 adopted and motive power to be employed, 6a. 
 See also Railway Bills, 1. Tramways. 
 Suing : 
 
 Bills conferring powers as to, included in the 1st class of 
 private bills, 1. 
 Sunday : 
 
 No notice to be given or application made on Sunday, 21. 
 Except in the case of delivery of letters by post, ib. 
 No deposit made on Sunday to be deemed valid, 23. 
 
 Tidal Lands : 
 
 Plans and sections to be deposited at the office of the Har- 
 bour Department, Board of Trade, in cases where the work is 
 situate on, 26. 
 Titles of Bills : 
 
 Notices by advertisement to be headed by a short title, 
 descriptive of the undertaking or bill, 3. 
 
 Short title of each private bill as first entered on the votes to 
 correspond with that at the head of the advertisement, 201. 
 Tolls and Charges : 
 
 The committee to fix the maximum tolls and charges, 159. 
 Clause in every railway bill to subject tolls, &c, to future 
 revision by Parliament, 169.
 
 220 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 The committee to report specially to the House on railway, 
 &c., bills seeking powers to levy tolls, &c., in excess of those 
 aheadv authorised, 145a. 
 
 This House not to insist on its privileges with regard to 
 clauses in private bills sent down from the Lords which refer 
 to tolls and charges for services performed, 226. 
 
 Town Clerk : 
 
 Plan, section, and book of reference to be deposited with, in 
 Royal burghs in Scotland in certain cases, 29. 
 
 Trade : 
 
 Documents to be deposited in the Private Bill Office in 
 regard to bills for trading companies, 35a. 
 
 Trade, Board of. See Board of Trade. 
 
 Tramroads : 
 
 Notice in the case of tramroad bills to specify gauge to be 
 adopted and motive power to be employed, Qb. 
 
 Application of Standing Orders 145a and Nos. 158 to 168 
 to subways, tramroads, &c, bills, 168a. 
 
 Application of Railway and Canal Traffic Act, &c, to tram- 
 roads, 1686. 
 
 Length of tramroad along street or road to be stated, 168c. 
 
 Tramways .• 
 
 Bills relative to, included in the 2nd class of private bills, 1. 
 
 Notices and plans relative to street tramways, and particulars 
 to be specified therein, 6, 10, 45. 
 
 And applicable in the case of a tramroad, wherever carried 
 along a street or road, 45. 
 
 Notice to frontagers in case of tramway bills, 13. 
 
 Notice to owners and lessees of railways, tramways, or canals 
 crossed, &c., by proposed tramway, ib. 
 
 Consents in case of tramway bills, 22. 
 
 Deposit of tramway map at the office of Board of Trade, 
 25a. 
 
 Deposit of plans, &c, at the Board of Trade, 27. 
 
 Sums to be deposited, 57. 
 
 Owners, lessees, or occupiers of houses, &c, affected by 
 proposed tramways, entitled to be heard before Select Com- 
 mittees, 135.
 
 INDEX TO STANDING ORDERS. 221 
 
 Clause providing for application of deposit or penalty in 
 compensation to parties injured, 158. 
 
 Provisions as to penalty unless line completed and opened ; 
 time limited for completion, ib. 
 
 Length of tramway to be specified in clause describing the 
 works, 170. 
 
 No powers for construction, &c, of tramways to be given to 
 local authorities beyond limits of district, except under special 
 local circumstances, 170«. 
 
 Where a local authority are empowered to work tramways, 
 power may be given to enter into agreements for running 
 powers over connected tramways, 171. 
 
 Treasury, The : 
 
 Printed copy of every private bill to be deposited at Her 
 Majesty's Treasury on or before 21st December, 33. 
 
 Trust Property {Charitable Purposes) : 
 
 Bills relating to, included in the 1st class of private bills, 1. 
 Tunnels : 
 
 Bills relating to, included in the 2nd class of private bills, 1 . 
 
 Tunnelling to be marked by a dotted line on the plan of 
 every railway, 42. 
 
 Where tunnelling is intended as a substitute for open cutting, 
 to be marked on the section, f)4. 
 
 Ventilation of tunnels to be specially reported by committees 
 on railway bills, 157. 
 
 Turnpike Roads (Ireland) : 
 
 What roads in Ireland to be considered turnpike roads, 145. 
 154. 
 
 Clause to be inserted in every turnpike road (Ireland) bill, 
 for qualification of commissioners, 187. 
 
 U 
 
 Union, Clerk of. See Clerk of Union. 
 
 Unopposed Private Bills. See Committees on Private Bills, 2. 
 Private Bills. Ways and Means, Chairman of Committee of.
 
 222 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 V* 
 
 Viaducts ; 
 
 The height and span of every arch of all bridges and via- 
 ducts by which a railway is to cross any public road, navigable 
 river, canal, or railway, to be marked in figures on the section, 
 51. 
 Vote Office : 
 
 Printed copies of estimate, declaration, &c, for the use of 
 members, to be delivered at the Vote Office on or before the 
 3lst December, 35a, 36. 
 
 Printed copies of bills to be delivered to the Vote Office for 
 the use of members. 203, 214. 
 
 W 
 
 Watching, fyc., of Towns : 
 
 Bills relating to, included in 1st class of private bills, 1. 
 Water : 
 
 In case of bill providing for compensation for water im- 
 pounded, committee to inquire into expediency of making 
 the How continuous, and to report accordingly, 184. 
 Water Companies. See Gas or. 
 Waterworks : 
 
 Bills relative to, included in the 2nd class of private bills, 1. 
 Ways and Means, Chairman of Committee of; 
 
 Unopposed private bills (not being railway, canal, or divorce 
 bills), to be referred to a committee composed of Chairman of 
 Ways and Means and two other members, 109, 137. 
 
 To be e.r officio chairman of committees on such unopposed 
 private bills, 137. 
 
 With one of the two other members to be a quorum of a com- 
 mittee on an unopposed private bill, ib. 
 
 To confer with the Chairman of Committees of the House of 
 Lords, in order to determine in which House the respective 
 private bills should be first considered, 79. 
 
 With the assistance of the Counsel to Mr. Speaker, to exa- 
 mine all private bills, whether opposed or unopposed, 80. 
 
 Copies of such bills to be laid by the agent before the said 
 chairman and counsel not later than the day after the Examiner 
 shall have indorsed the petition, ib. 
 
 To report on bills relating to Government contracts, 81.
 
 INDEX TO STANDING ORDERS. 223 
 
 Copies of bill as proposed to be submitted to the committee 
 on any private bill, to be laid before the Chairman of the Com- 
 mittee of "Ways and Means and the Counsel to Mr. Speaker 
 two days before the meeting of the committee, 82. 
 
 To report special circumstances relative to any bill, or 
 opinion that an unopposed should be treated as an opposed 
 bill, 83. 
 
 Copy of bill as amended in committee to be laid before 
 Chairman of Ways and Means and the Counsel to Mr. Speaker 
 three days before consideration of any private bill ordered to 
 lie upon the table, 84. 
 
 Clauses and amendments offered on consideration of any bib 
 ordered to lie upon the table, or on third reading of any private 
 bill, to be submitted to the Chairman of the Committee of Ways 
 and Means and the Counsel to Mr. Speaker, and the said Chair- 
 man is to report whether the same should be entertained with- 
 out being referred to Standing Orders Committee, 85, 216. 
 
 Copy of amendments made in the House of Lords to a Bill, 
 and of proposed amendments thereto, to be laid before the 
 Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means and Mr. 
 Speaker on the day previous to the consideration of the same 
 by the House, 86. 
 
 On the chairman's report that any unopposed bill ought to be 
 treated as opposed, it is to be again referred to the Committee of 
 Selection, or general committee on railway and canal bills, who 
 are so to treat it, 209. 
 
 On consideration of report of bill, to acquaint House if the 
 Standing Orders have been observed, 215. 
 
 Widening of roads, fyc. See Diversion, Sfc, of roa ds, fyc. 
 
 Withdrawal of Petitions and Memorials : 
 
 Course to be pursued in cast's of opposed private bills where 
 opponents do not appear or withdraw their opposition, 136. 
 
 Any petitioner or memorialist may withdraw his petition or 
 memorial on depositing requisition to that effect in the Private 
 Bill Office, 206. 
 
 See also Memorials. Petitions. 
 Works. See Relinquishment of works.
 
 ( 224 ) 
 
 STANDING ORDERS OF THE HOUSE OF 
 LORDS. 
 
 The Bills in the two classes arc termed Local Bills. 
 
 1 to 68 of these Orders are practically identical with S. O.'s 
 1 to 68 of the Commons, with the exception of — 
 
 (1) A few trifling verbal differences ; 
 
 (2) The substitution of the Office of the Clerk of the Par- 
 liaments for the Private Bill Office, and Commons for 
 Lords, and vice versa, where appropriate ; 
 
 (3) Order 32 of the Lords, which is much shorter than 
 Order 32 of the Commons, and runs thus : 
 
 A printed copy of every local bill proposed to be intro- 
 duced into either House of Parliament shall be de- 
 posited in the Office of the Clerk of the Parliaments 
 on or before the seventeenth day of December. 
 
 The remaining Orders are set out in full where they vary from 
 • the Commons' Orders, but where they are the same the number of 
 the corresponding Commons' Order merely is given. 
 
 Lords. 
 09 
 
 69(a) 
 69(6) 
 69(c) 
 69(d) 
 
 Commons. 
 
 S. O. 194 
 „ 194a 
 „ 194b 
 „ 194c 
 „ 194e 
 
 Reference of Bills, &c, to and Duties of and Practice 
 before Examiners. 
 
 When examina- 70. The examination of the local bills proposed to be intro- 
 ls t0 duced into erther House of Parliament and duly deposited in the 
 Office of the Clerk of the Parliaments, in pursuance of Order 
 32, shall commence on the eighteenth day of January. 
 
 commence.
 
 STANDING ORDERS. 225 
 
 70a. Every provisional order confirmation bill and every Bills brought 
 local bill brought from the House of Commons shall, after the fr° m the 
 first reading, be referred to the Examiners, but in respect of such Commons. 
 Standing Orders only as have not been previously inquired 
 into. 
 
 71. All petitions for additional provision in local bills origi- Petitions for 
 
 nating in this House shall, on the presentation thereof, be referred to addltl ? nal 
 & ' r . provision. 
 
 the Examiners, who shall examine the same and report thereon in 
 respect of all orders which would have been applicable in the case 
 of a bill. 
 
 72. One of the Examiners shall give at least two clear days' Notice of 
 notice of the day on which any bill referred to them after the first examma tion. 
 reading, or any petition for additional provision shall be examined ; 
 
 but, in the case of a bill for confirming any provisional order o r 
 certificate, he shall not give such notice until after the bill has been 
 printed by order of this House. 
 
 73 is S. O. 74, Commons. 
 
 74 is S. O. 75. Commons. 
 
 75. Every memorial complaining of non-compliance with the Deposit of 
 Standing Orders in respect of auy bill referred to the Examiners 
 after first reading, or in respect of any petition for additional pro - office. 
 vision, shall, together with two copies thereof, be deposited in the 
 Office of the Clerk of the Parliaments before twelve o'clock on 
 the day preceding that appointed for the examination. 
 
 76 is S. O. 71. Commons. 
 
 77 is S. O. 76. Commons. 
 
 78 is S. O. 78. Commons. 
 
 79. All certificates from the Examiners shall be laid upon When certifi- 
 the table not later than the first sitting day after the deposit of the ^- ne f ™™ ^ 
 certificates in the Office of the Clerk of the Parliaments. laid on Table 
 
 of House. 
 
 memorials in 
 the Parliament 
 
 Appointment and Duties of the Standing Orders 
 Committee. 
 
 80. At the commencement of every session of Parliament a Appointment 
 
 Standing Orders Committee shall be appointed, consisting of Q r fl*sCom- 
 
 forty Lords, besides the Chairman of Committees, who * shall m ittee. 
 be always Chairman of such Standing Orders Committee.
 
 226 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Quorum. 
 
 Notice of 
 meeting of 
 Standing 
 Orders Com- 
 mittee. 
 
 To report 
 whither Stand- 
 ing Orders 
 ought or ought 
 not to be dis- 
 pensed with. 
 
 Proceedings in 
 case of special 
 report. 
 
 Proceedings be- 
 fore Standing 
 Orders Com- 
 mittee upon 
 Examiner's 
 certificate or 
 special report. 
 
 81. Three of the Lords so appointed, including the chairman, 
 shall he a quorum in all opposed cases. 
 
 82. Three clear days' notice shall be given of Ihe meeting of 
 the Standing Orders Committee. 
 
 83. All certificates from the Examiners in respect of bills in 
 ■which they shall certify that the Standing Orders have not been 
 complied with shall be referred to the Standing Orders Com- 
 mittee, and the committee shall report to the House whether the 
 Standing Orders ought or ought not to be dispensed with, and in 
 the former case, upon what terms and conditions, if any. 
 
 84. All special reports from the Examiners as to the construc- 
 tion of a Standing Order shall be referred to the Standing Orders 
 Committee, and the committee shall determine, according to 
 their construction of the Standing Order, and on the facts 
 stated in the report, whether the Standing Orders have or have 
 not been complied with, and they shall report accordingly to the 
 House, and if the committee report that a Standing Order has 
 not been complied with, they shall also report whether such 
 Order ought to be dispensed with, and upon what terms and con- 
 ditions, if any. 
 
 85. When an Examiner's certificate, or special report shall be 
 referred to the Standing Orders Committee, the committee, if 
 they think fit, shall hear the parties affected by any Standing 
 Order referred to in such certificate or special report, provided 
 such parties have deposited in the Office of the Clerk of Parlia- 
 ments, not later than three o'clock on the second day after the 
 order for the meeting of the committee is made, a statement (to 
 be printed in all opposed cases) of the facts to be submitted to 
 the committee. Such statement shall be confined strictly to the 
 
 points reported upon by ihe examiner, and no party on the con- 
 sideration thereof by the committee shall be allowed to travel into 
 any matter not referred to in his statement. 
 
 First and Second Readings of Bills. 
 
 Bill presented 86. No local bill for which a petition has not been presented 
 
 on petition. Jn ^ House f Commons shall be brought into this House 
 
 except on petition for leave to bring in such bill, and a printed 
 
 copy of the proposed bill shall be annexed to such petition and 
 
 shall be deemed to form part thereof.
 
 STANDING ORDERS. 227 
 
 86a. No local bill shall be read a first time until the Examiner Respecting 
 
 has certified whether the Standing Orders have or have not been J". 1 ., r , eac 1Dg 
 
 ° of bills. 
 
 complied with, and no local bill originating in this House shall 
 be read later than three clear days after the certificate in respect 
 of such bill has been laid on the table. 
 
 87. No local bill brought from the House of Commons shall Respecting 
 
 be read a second time until the examiner has certified whether s ^ e ?J7, ^.V" 8 
 
 of H.C. bills. 
 
 any further Standing Orders are applicable, and if so, whether 
 such Orders have or have not been complied with. 
 
 88. No provisional order confirmation bill shall be read a Respecting 
 
 second time until the Examiner has certified whether the Standing: se / ond F e . adin g 
 
 & oi provisional 
 Orders have or have not been complied with. order bills. 
 
 89. Notice in writing of any bill relating to England or Report of 
 Ireland, and containing provisions whereby any application of Attornt jy. 
 the property of any charity not authorised by the Lands Clauses case of bill 
 Consolidation Acts, shall be directed, or the patronage or the con- affecting any 
 stitution of any charity, or the right of any charity to any pro- Encland^r 
 perty, shall be affected, shall be given to the Attorney General Ireland. 
 for England or Ireland, as the case may be, and no such bill shall 
 
 be read a second time until the House has received a report from 
 the Attorney General on such bill, and such report shall stand 
 referred to the committee on the bill. 
 
 90. No bill by or under the powers of which the maximum Report of 
 rates authorised for the conveyance of passengers, goods, or • ° f . de 
 animals on any railway shall or may be increased shall be read a crease of rail- 
 second time until a report thereon from the Board of Trade has wa ^ rates " 
 been laid upon the table of the House. 
 
 91. No local bill originating in this House shall be read a Time for 
 second time earlier than the fourth day or later than the seventh 8 *^?j r ^n! ng 
 day after the first reading thereof, except bills, in the case of 
 
 which the Examiner has certified that the Standing Orders have 
 not been complied with, in which case the second reading shall 
 not be later than the second day on which the House shall sil 
 after the report from the Standing Orders Committee recom- 
 mending that the bill be allowed to proceed, and except bills 
 referred after the first reading to the Examiners under Order 
 62, 63, 66, or 67, which bills may be read a second time not 
 later than the fourteenth day after the first reading thereof, and 
 in the case of a certificate of non-compliance, the time for second 
 reading of such last-mentioned bills shall be extended as in the 
 former case.
 
 228 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Time for pre- 
 senting peti- 
 tions praying 
 to be heard 
 against H.L. 
 bills. 
 
 Time for pre- 
 senting peti- 
 tions praying 
 to be heard 
 against H.C. 
 bilk. 
 
 Petition for 
 
 additional 
 
 provision. 
 
 Petitions. 
 
 92. No petition praying to be heard upon the merits against 
 any local bill or provisional order confirmation bill originating 
 in this House shall be received by this House unless the same is 
 presented by being deposited in the Private Bill Office before three 
 o'clock in the afternoon on or before the seventh day after the 
 day on which such bill has been read a second time. 
 
 93. No petition praying to be heard upon the merits against 
 any local bill or any provisional order confirmation bill brought 
 from the House of Commons shall be received by this House, 
 unless the same be presented by being deposited in the Private 
 Bill Office before three o'clock in the afternoon on or before the 
 seventh day after the day on which such bill has been read a 
 first time. 
 
 94. No petition for additional provision shall be presented to 
 this House without the sanction of the chairman of committees, 
 and no petition for additional provision shall be received in the 
 case of a bill brought from the House of Commons. 
 
 An unopposed 
 bill may be 
 treated as 
 opposed. 
 
 Committees on 
 opposed bills. 
 
 Committee of 
 
 Selection. 
 
 I. - in- 
 
 I ex- 
 empted from 
 serving. 
 
 The Chairman of Committees — Committees on Bills — 
 Committee of Selection. 
 
 95. The chairman of committees may, if he think fit, report 
 to the House his opinion that any unopposed bill on which he 
 shall sit as chairman should be proceeded with as an opposed 
 bill. 
 
 96. Every local bill or provisional order confirmation bill 
 which is opposed shall be referred to a Select Committee of five. 
 
 97. The chairman of committees and four other lords to be 
 named by the House shall be appointed a committee to select and 
 propose to the House the names of the five lords to form a Select 
 Committee for the consideration of each opposed local bill or 
 provisional order confirmation bill, and shall appoint the chairman 
 of such committee, and shall name the bill or bills which shall be 
 taken into consideration on the first day of meeting of such 
 committee. If a vacancy occur in any such Select Comm ittee in 
 the interval between any two sittings of the House, the chairman 
 of committees may appoint a lord to fill such vacancy, and in 
 such case shall report the same to the House at the next sitting. 
 
 98. Lords shall be exempted from serving on the committee 
 on any local bill or provisional order confirmation bill wherein
 
 STANDING ORDERS. 229 
 
 they have an interest, and lords shall be excused from serving 
 for any special reasons to be approved of in each case by the 
 House. 
 
 99. Every Select Committee shall meet not later than eleven Hour of meet- 
 o'clock every morning, and shall sit till four, and shall not meet in S> & . c -' of 
 at a later hour nor adjourn at an earlier hour without leave of opposed baiT 
 the House or without reporting to the House the cause of such 
 
 later meeting or earlier adjournment. No committee shall adjourn 
 over any day except Saturday, Sunday, Christmas Day, and 
 Grood Friday, without leave of the House, or without reporting 
 to the House the cause of such adjournment, but should a com- 
 mittee meet on a Saturday the sitting is to be in conformity with 
 this order. 
 
 99a. Every Select Committee shall take the bill or bills first Order in which 
 into consideration which shall have been named by the Committee bllls .^ re t0 be • 
 of Selection, anil may from time to time appoint the day on which 
 they will enter upon the consideration of each of the remaining 
 bills without reporting to the House auy adjournment of the 
 committee caused thereby. 
 
 100. Every member of a Select Committee shall attend the AH the mem- 
 proceedings of the committee during the whole continuance bers t0 attend - 
 thereof, and no lord who is not a member of the committee shall 
 
 take any part in the proceedings thereof. 
 
 101. If any member of a Select Committee is prevented from Absence of 
 continuing his attendance, the committee shall adjourn, and shall any member - 
 not resume its sittings, in the absence of such member, without 
 
 leave of the House; but if the House is not then sitting, the 
 committee may, with the consent of all parties, continue its sittings 
 in the absence of any member, provided that the number of the 
 committee be not less than four, and that the committee report 
 accordingly to the House at its next meeting. 
 
 102. In all cases of opposed local bills, in which no parties Withdrawal of 
 have appeared on the petitions against such bills, or having opposition. 
 appeared have withdrawn their opposition before their case has 
 
 been fully opened or whose locus standi has been disallowed, the 
 committees on such bills shall report accordingly to the House, 
 and such bills shall thereupon be referred to the chairman of 
 committees, to be dealt with by him as if originally unopposed. 
 
 Provided that nothing in this order contained shall prevent a Costs 
 committee from requiring the preamble of a bill to be proved in 
 any case in which an application for costs has been made.
 
 230 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Discussion of 
 
 clauses in H.C. 
 not to preclude 
 opposition to 
 preamble in 
 HJL. 
 
 Provisional 
 
 order con- 
 firmation bills 
 may be re- 
 ferred to the 
 chairman of 
 committees. 
 
 102a. A petitioner against a bill originating in the House of 
 Commons, who has discussed clauses in that House, shall not on 
 that account be precluded from opposing the preamble of the bill 
 in this House. 
 
 1026. Any provisional order confirmation bill may, before 
 beinw committed to a committee of the Avhole House, be referred 
 to the chairman of committees, with respect to all or any of the 
 Orders scheduled thereto, to be dealt with in the same manner as 
 an ttnopposed local bill. 
 
 \ i committee 
 
 <m any bill to 
 inquire into the 
 Standing 
 Orders proved 
 before the Ex- 
 aminers. 
 
 Scheduled 
 
 agreements to 
 be subject to 
 alteration by 
 Parliament. 
 
 Committees on 
 local bills 
 
 may admit 
 affidavit- as 
 evidence. 
 
 County Council 
 
 to be j 
 injuriously 
 
 Proceedings by and in relation to Committees on 
 Local Bills. 
 
 General Provisions. 
 
 103. No committee on any local bill shall examine into the 
 compliance with any Standing Orders required to be proved before 
 the Examiners. 
 
 104. Any agreement intended to be scheduled to any bill shall 
 contain a clause declaring the same to be made subject to such 
 alterations as Parliament may think fit to make therein ; but if the 
 committee on the bill make any material alteration in any such 
 a°reemeut it shall be competent to any party thereto to withdraw 
 the same. 
 
 104a. The committee on any local bill may, if they think fit, 
 admit affidavits in proof of any deed or document mentioned or set 
 forth in the bill or in any schedule thereto, or may require further 
 evidence. Such affidavits shall he intitled " In the matter of a 
 bill now pending in the House of Lords, of which the short title 
 is [insert the short title]," and shall be sworn, if in England, 
 before a justice of the peace or a commissioner to administer oaths 
 in the Supreme Court of Judicature; if in Scotland, before any 
 sheriff depute or his substitute, or a justice of the peace ; and if in 
 Ireland before any judge or assistant barrister of that part of the 
 United Kingdom, or before a justice of the peace. Such affidavits 
 shall be filed in the office of the Clerk of the Parliaments. 
 
 105 is S. O. 132. Commons. 
 
 105a is S. O. 133a. Commons. 
 
 1056 is S. O. 133&. Commons. 
 
 105c. Where the council of any administrative county or 
 county borough petition against a bill, alleging that such county
 
 STANDING ORDERS. 231 
 
 or county borough or some part thereof will be injuriously affected affected by bill 
 by the bill, it shall be competent for the Select Committee to may be heard 
 whom the bill is referred, if they think fit, to hear such petitioners 
 or their counsel or agents and witnesses on such allegation against 
 the bill or any part thereof. 
 
 106. Is S. O. 212. Commons. 
 
 107. In every local bill by which any second-class work is if wor k not 
 authorized, a clause shall be inserted to the effect that in case such completed 
 work be not completed, within a period to be limited, all the powers limited, power 
 and authorities given by the bill shall thenceforth cease and deter- to cease. 
 mine, save only as to so much of such work as has been completed 
 
 within such time, with such provisions and qualifications as the 
 
 nature of the case shall require. Such period shall not exceed in 
 
 the case of a new railway five years, of a new tramroad three years, P en °ds for 
 . „ i • i c p completion, 
 
 and of a new tramway two years, and in the case of extension of 
 
 time for the completion of a railway three years, of a tramroad two 
 
 years, and of a tramway one year, unless the committee on the bill 
 
 think fit, in the special circumstances of the case, to allow a longer 
 
 period. In the case of extension of time the additional period 
 
 shall be computed from the expiration of the period sought to be 
 
 extended. 
 
 108 is S. O. 145, 154. Commons. 
 
 109. In any bill by which the profits of any company are As to conver- 
 
 limited, provision shall be made that the company shall not have S10n °? ' 
 
 L . r J rowed money 
 
 power to raise the money by the bill authorized to be borrowed on i n t capital in 
 
 mortgage or any part thereof by the creation of shares or stock certain cases, 
 instead of borrowing or to convert into capital the amount bor- 
 rowed under the provisions of the bill, or any part thereof, unless 
 in either case all dividends upon the shares or stock, whether 
 ordinary or preferential, are limited to a rate not exceeding five 
 pounds per centum per annum. 
 
 110. Where a public navigable tidal river or channel is in- Consent of 
 
 eluded within the limits of deviation of any work, other than a Bo f rd ? f Trade 
 
 ... to be given to 
 
 railway, a clause shall be inserted in the bill that no deviation of variation of 
 
 such work shall be made from the lines thereof, as marked on the work, other 
 
 deposited plan, even within the limits of deviation shown on such ^"tin^idal^' 
 
 plan, in such manner as to diminish the navigable space, without waters. 
 
 the previous consent of the Board of Trade, or otherwise than in 
 
 such manner as is expressly authorized by the Board of Trade. 
 
 110a is S. O. 184. Commons. 
 
 Ill is S. O. 183«. Commons. 
 
 Q2
 
 232 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Clause pro- 
 hibiting use of 
 compulsory 
 pow es may be 
 
 inserted in 
 railway and 
 tramway bills 
 promoted 
 merely to 
 serve private 
 interests. 
 
 Proviso that 
 penalty for 
 non-completion 
 shall not 
 accrue. 
 
 Proviso for 
 return of 
 deposit to 
 
 promoters. 
 
 Lords. Commons. 
 
 112 is S. O. 153 
 
 113 „ - „ 155 
 
 114 „ „ 158 
 
 115 „ - - - - » »? 
 
 116 ,,----" 55 55 
 
 117. If the committee on any railway bill or tramway bill 
 decide that general compulsory powers to enter upon, take, or use 
 lands for the purposes of any railway or tramway ought not to be 
 given on the ground that the direct object of such railway or tram- 
 way is to serve private interests in any lands, mines, manufactories, 
 or other property, the committee may insert a clause or proviso to 
 that effect : 
 
 If the bill contains a penalty clause, 
 
 That no penalty shall accrue in respect of such railway or 
 tramway if it shall appear by a certificate to be obtained 
 from the Board of Trade that the company was prevented 
 by the want of such compulsory powers from making such 
 railway or tramway without incurring unreasonable delay, 
 inconvenience, or expense : 
 If a deposit has been made, 
 
 That the High Court [Court of Exchequer in Scotland] 
 mav and shall at any time on the application of the persons 
 named in the warrant or order issued in pursuance of the 
 said Parliamentary Deposits Act, 1846, or of the survivors 
 or survivor of them, or of the majority of such persons or 
 survivors, or the legal personal representatives of the last 
 survivor, and on the production of a certificate to be obtained 
 from the Board of Trade that the company was prevented 
 by want of such compulsory powers from making such rail- 
 way or tramway without incurring unreasonable delay, in- 
 convenience, or expense, order that the cash, or exchequer 
 bills, stocks, or funds, as the case may be, deposited or trans- 
 ferred in respect of such railway or tramway, and the interest 
 or dividends thereon, may be paid or transferred to the 
 person or persons so applying, or to any other person or 
 persons whom they or he may appoint in that behalf. 
 Lords. 
 
 118 is 
 
 119 „----- 
 
 120 „ - - - 
 
 121 „ - 
 
 122 „ - 
 
 Comm 
 
 ons. 
 
 S. 0. 
 
 158 
 
 55 
 
 159 
 
 55 
 
 160 
 
 55 
 
 162 
 
 55 
 
 163
 
 
 STANDING ORDERS. 233 
 
 123. No bill by which a railway company is incorporated shall Restriction on 
 
 contain any powers of purchase, sale, lease, or amalgamation, or p Urc e ^ e & c- 
 
 any working agreement not made unconditionally determinable by in bills for in 
 
 the company at the expiration of a period not exceeding ten years corporation of 
 r -' r L ...a railway com- 
 
 from the passing of the Act, or any power of entering into p ail y, 
 
 working agreements, except under the provisions of Part III. 
 
 (working agreements) of the Railways Clauses Act, 1863, as 
 
 amended by the Railway and Canal Traffic Acts, 1873 and 1888. 
 
 123a is S.O. 166a. Commons. 
 
 124. When by any bill powers are applied for to amalgamate Terms of pro- 
 with any other company, or to sell or lease the undertaking, or any ^don^&eto 
 part thereof, or to purchase or take on lease the undertaking of be specified. 
 any other company, public body, or private undertakers, or any 
 
 part thereof, or to enter into a working agreement, otherwise than 
 under the provisions of Part III. (working agreements) of the 
 Railways Clauses Act, 1863, as amended by the Railway and Canal 
 Traffic Acts, 1873 and 1888, the company, person or persons, 
 with, to, from, or by whom, and the terms and conditions on which 
 it is proposed that such amalgamation, sale, purchase, lease, or 
 working agreement shall be made, shall be specified in the bill as 
 introduced into Parliament. 
 
 Lords. Commons. 
 
 125 is - - - - - S. O. 164 
 
 126 „----- „ 165 
 
 127 „ - - - - - „ 166 
 
 128 „----- ,,167 
 
 129 „ - „ 168 
 
 130. The following clause shall be inserted in every railway Election of 
 
 bill by which a new company is proposed to be incorporated : directors m 
 
 J -iiT railway com- 
 
 The directors appointed by this Act shall continue in office panies. 
 
 until the first ordinary meeting to be held after the passing 
 
 of the Act, and at such meeting the shareholders present, 
 
 personally or by proxy, may either continue in office the 
 
 directors appointed by this Act, or any number of them, 
 
 or may elect a new body of directors, or directors to supply 
 
 the places of those not continued in office, the directors 
 
 appointed by this Act being, if they continue qualified, 
 
 eligible as members of such new body. 
 
 Lords. Commons. 
 
 131 is S. O. 170 
 
 132 „ „ 169 
 
 133 „ „ 170a
 
 234- PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Lords. 
 
 
 Commons. 
 
 133a is - 
 
 _ 
 
 S. 
 
 . 171 
 
 1336 „ - 
 
 . 
 
 >? 
 
 168a 
 
 133c „ - 
 
 . 
 
 » 
 
 1686 
 
 133d „ - 
 
 . 
 
 55 
 
 168c 
 
 134 „ - 
 
 . 
 
 55 
 
 172 
 
 135 „ - 
 
 . 
 
 55 
 
 173 
 
 136 „ - 
 
 . 
 
 55 
 
 175 
 
 In any case 
 
 in which a bill to i 
 
 estore a 
 
 patent is enter 
 
 Clauses for 137. 
 
 protection of tained, the following; clauses shall be inserted for the protection of 
 persons wb" ' ° . „ 
 
 mav have persons who may have availed themselves of the subject-matter ot 
 
 availed them- tue patent after it has been announced as void in the official journal 
 lubiect-matter °f tne Patent Office, with such alterations as the circumstances of 
 of patent after each case may require : 
 
 it has been « -j^ aet } on or ther proceeding shall be commenced or prose- 
 
 declared void. , 
 
 cuted, nor any damage recovered : — 
 
 " (1.) In respect of any infringement of the said patent 
 which shall have taken place after the day 
 
 of (the day on which the patent was an- 
 
 nounced to be void in the official journal), and before 
 the passing of this Act. 
 " (2.) In respect of the use or employment at any time 
 hereafter of any machine, machinery, process, or 
 operation actually made or carried on within the 
 British Islands, or of the use or sale of any article 
 manufactured or made in infringement of the said 
 patent, after the said day of and 
 
 before the passing of this Act. Provided that 
 such use, sale, or employment is by the person or 
 corporation by or for whom such machine or ma- 
 chinery or article was bond fide manufactured or 
 made, or such process or operation was bona fide 
 carried on, his or their executors, administrators, 
 successors, or vendees, or his or their assigns. 
 " (3.) In respect of the use, employment, or sale at any 
 time hereafter by any person or corporation entitled 
 for the lime being under the preceding sub-section 
 to use or employ any machine, machinery, process, 
 or operation, or any improved or additional ma- 
 chine or machinery, or any improved, extended, or 
 developed process or operation, or of any article 
 manufactured or made by any of the means afore-
 
 STANDING ORDERS. 235 
 
 said, in infringement of the said patent. Provided 
 that the use or employment of any such improved 
 or additional machine or machinery, or of any such 
 improved, extended, or developed process or opera- 
 tion, shall be limited to the buildings, works, or 
 premises of the person or corporation by or for 
 whom such machine or machinery was manufactured, 
 or such process or operation was carried on within 
 the meaning of the preceding sub-section, his or 
 their executors, administrators, successors, or assigns. 
 " If any person shall, within one year after the passing of 
 this Act, make an application to the Board of Trade for 
 compensation in respect of money, time, or labour ex- 
 pended by the applicant upon the subject-matter of the 
 said patent, in the bond fide belief that such patent had 
 become and continued to be void, it shall be lawful for the 
 said Board, after hearing the parties concerned, or their 
 agents, to assess the amount of such compensation, if in 
 their opinion the application ought to be granted, and to 
 specify the party by whom and the day on which such 
 compensation shall be paid, and if default shall be made 
 in payment of the sum awarded, then the said patent shall, 
 by virtue of this Act, become void, but the sum awarded 
 shall not in that case be recoverable as a debt or damages." 
 
 138 is S.O. 17^. Commons. 
 
 139 is S.O. 188. Commons. 
 
 Cemeteries — Gasworks, S?c. 
 
 140. In every bill for making, altering, or enlarging any ceme- Cemeteries 
 tery or burial ground a clause shall be inserted prohibiting the j^^" 3,1 
 making, altering, or enlarging of such cemetery or burial ground, 
 
 within 300 yards of any house of the annual value of 50/., or of 
 any garden or pleasure ground occupied therewith, except with the 
 consent of the owner, lessee, and occupier thereof in writing. 
 140a is S.O. 188a. Commons. 
 
 Re-commitment and Miscellaneous Matters. 
 
 141. No local bill which has been reported from a Select Com- Recommit- 
 mittee shall be recommitted to the same or another Select Com- men ■ 
 mittee before the third day on which the House shall sit after the 
 
 day on which notice has been given of the motion to recommit the 
 bill.
 
 236 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Bills in some 
 cases may be 
 committed to 
 committee of 
 the whole 
 House. 
 
 Copy of rail- 
 way, &&, bill 
 as amended 
 in committee 
 to be deposited 
 at Board of 
 Trade. 
 
 Copy of local 
 bill,as amended 
 in committer 
 to be deposited 
 at Treasury 
 and General 
 Post Office. 
 
 Amendments 
 on report and 
 on third 
 reading. 
 
 Amended bills 
 to be reprinted. 
 
 Clerks of peace 
 to write a 
 memorial on 
 plans, &C 
 
 Printing of 
 petitions. 
 
 1-12. The chairman of committees may, if he think fit, propose 
 to the House that any local bill shall, after it has been reported, 
 be committed to a committee of the whole House. But no local 
 bill committed to a committee of the whole House under this 
 Order shall by reason of such commitment be allowed to proceed 
 as a public bill. 
 
 143. A copy of every railway bill, tramroad bill, tramway bill, 
 and subway bill, if amended in committee, shall, as so amended, 
 be deposited at the office of the Board of Trade three days before 
 the bill is read a third time, and proof of compliance with this 
 order shall be given by depositing a certificate from that board in 
 the office of the Clerk of the Parliaments. 
 
 143a. A copy of every local bill, if amended in committee, 
 shall, as so amended, be deposited at the office of Her Majesty's 
 Treasury and at the General Post Office three Jays before the bill 
 is read a third time. 
 
 144. Xo amendment shall be moved to any local bill on report 
 or third reading, unless the same has been submitted to the chair- 
 man of committees, and copies of such amendment (to be printed 
 unless the chairman of committees shall consider printing to be 
 unnecessary) deposited in the office of the Clerk of the Parliaments 
 one clear day at least prior to the report or third reading of the 
 bill. 
 
 145. All local bills in which any amendments have been made 
 in committee shall be reprinted, as amended, previously to the 
 third reading, unless the chairman of committees shall consider the 
 reprinting to be unnecessary. 
 
 147. Clerks of the peace, sheriff clerks, and their respective 
 deputies, shall make a memorial in writing upon the plans, sec- 
 tions, and books of reference deposited with them under these 
 Orders, denoting the time at which the same were lodged in their 
 respective offices, and shall at all reasonable hours of the day per- 
 mit any person to view and examine one of the same, and to make 
 copies or extracts therefrom ; and one of the two plans and sections 
 so deposited shall be sealed up and retained in the possession of the 
 clerk of the peace or sheriff clerk until called for by order of one 
 of the two Houses of Parliament. (See Act, 1 Vict. c. 83) 
 
 147a. Petitions for additional provision, and petitions praying 
 to be heard upon the merits, against any local or personal bill or 
 provisional order confirmation bill, and petitions praying to be 
 heard against alterations, shall be printed by the agent concerned 
 for the same as soon as he may consider it necessary that copies
 
 STANDING ORDERS. 237 
 
 should be made and printed copies shall be supplied on payment to 
 all parties interested. 
 
 Application of Estate Bill Orders. 
 148. The Orders, 162 to 174 inclusive, relating to estate bills, Certain Orders 
 shall apply to any part of any local bill which may be of the nature r ^P ec ™ng 
 of an estate bill. . to apply to 
 
 Proceedings in relation to Personal Bills. 
 
 certain local 
 bills. 
 
 149. All estate, divorce, naturalization, and name bills, and all Personal bills 
 other private bills not specified in Order 1 as local bills, are in c e nec ' 
 these Orders termed personal bills. 
 
 150. No personal bill shall be brought into this House except Personal bills 
 
 on petition for leave to brin^ in such bill, and a printed copy of the f° ' e br °ug 
 
 r & . ui on petition. 
 
 proposed bill shall be annexed to such petition, and shall be deemed 
 
 to form part thereof. 
 
 151. One or more of the parties principally concerned in the Petitions for 
 consequences of any personal bill shall sign the petition that E^Ke siened w 
 desires leave to bring such bill into this House. parties con- 
 
 152. A copy of every personal bill introduced into this House cerned. 
 
 shall be delivered to every person concerned in the bill before the Personal bills 
 
 to Of (lt j liv6r6o!. 
 second reading; and in case of infancy, such copy shall be de- to all persons 
 
 livered to the guardian, or next relation of full age, not concerned concerned. 
 
 in the consequences of the bill. 
 
 Estate Bills. 
 
 153. Every petition for an estate bill not approved by the Petitions for 
 
 High Court of Justice concerning estates in land in England t " be re f erre d 
 
 shall, on presentation to this House, be referred to two of the to two of the 
 
 judges of the said Court, who shall report to the House under their J ud g. es for their 
 •■jo r opinion. (Eng- 
 
 hands, whether, presuming the allegations contained in the pre- nsu bills.) 
 
 amble to be proved to the satisfaction of the lords spiritual and 
 temporal in Parliament assembled, it is reasonable that the bill do 
 pass into law, and whether the provisions thereof are proper for 
 carrying its purposes into effect, and what amendments, if any, are 
 required therein : And in the event of their approving the bill, 
 they are to sign a copy of the same containing the required amend- 
 ments (if any). 
 
 154. Every petition for an estate bill concerning estates in (Scotch hills.) 
 land or heritable subjects in Scotland shall, on presentation to this 
 
 House, be referred to two of the judges of the Court of Session in 
 Scotland, who shall forthwith summon all parties before them who
 
 23S 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 ilrish bills.) 
 
 may be concerned in the consequences of the bill, and after hear- 
 ing all the parties, and perusing the bill, and taking such proof of 
 the allegations therein contained, and such consents of the parties 
 interested, and such acceptances of trusts as may be tendered to 
 them, shall report to the House the state of the case, and their 
 opinion thereon, under their hands, and what amendments (if any) 
 are required in the bill, and in the event of their approving the 
 bill, they are to sign a copy of the same containing the required 
 amendments (if any). 
 
 155. When a petition for an estate bill concerning estates in 
 land in Ireland is offered to this House, it shall be referred, if the 
 petitioners for the bill desire it, and the chairman of committees so 
 determine, to two judges of the High Court of Justice, who shall 
 forthwith summon all parties before them who may be concerned 
 in the consequences of the bill, and after hearing all the parties, 
 and perusing the bill, and taking such proof of the allegations 
 therein contained and such consents of the parties interested, and 
 such acceptances of trusts as may be tendered to them, shall report 
 to the House the state of the case, and their opinion thereon, under 
 their hands, and what amendments (if any) are required in the bill, 
 and in the event of their approving the bill they are to sign a copy 
 of the same containing the required amendments (if any). 
 
 156. No estate bill shall be read a first time until a copy of the 
 petition, and of the report of the judges thereon, has been delivered 
 by the party or parties concerned to the chairman of committees. 
 
 1.57. Notice of an estate bill shall be given to every mortgagee 
 upon the estate affected by the bill before the second reading. 
 
 158. No committee shall sit upon an estate bill until ten days 
 after the second reading. 
 
 159. Petitions against estate bills shall be presented at such 
 times and such proceedings shall be had thereon as the chairman of 
 committees shall in each case, having regard to all the circumstances 
 thereof, direct. 
 
 Proceedings by and in relation to Committees on Estate Bills. 
 
 160. When any of the parties interested in any estate bill 
 have power by such bill to name trustees in the room of trustees 
 
 a^batiofof dying, resigning, or refusing to exercise the trust, provision shall be 
 the Bigh Court Illil( ie by the committee on the bill that the approbation of the High 
 Court shall be required to every such appointment of new trustees. 
 Bill- for ex- 161. There shall be annexed to every estate bill for exchanging an 
 
 changing or estate in settlement, and substituting another estate in lieu thereof, a 
 selling settled 
 
 Copy of peti- 
 tion and judge: 
 report to be 
 delivered to 
 chairman of 
 committees 
 
 Notice to be 
 given to mort- 
 gagees. 
 
 Committee on 
 estate bills. 
 Petitions 
 ;i«.';iinst estate 
 Mils. 
 
 Appointment 
 of new trustees
 
 STANDING ORDERS. 239 
 
 schedule or schedules of the respective estates, showing the annual estates to have 
 rent and the annual value thereof, and also the value of the timber ^ estates and 
 growing thereupon ; and to all bills for selling a settled estate, and their values, 
 purchasing another estate, to be settled to the same uses, there shall ^^ anBexe,1< 
 be annexed a schedule or schedules of such estates, specifying the 
 annual rent thereof ; and every such schedule shall be signed and 
 proved upon oath by a surveyor or other competent person, before 
 the committee on the bill. 
 
 Consents and Acceptance of Trusts. 
 
 162. Where the petitioners for and consenting parties to an Respecting eon- 
 estate bill relating to an entailed estate are together competent to w here petitioner 
 bar the entail, the consent of any persons entitled in remainder and consenting 
 after the estates of the petitioners and consenting parties shall not V aTt \ es can bar 
 be required. 
 
 163. Except as aforesaid, all parties concerned in the conse- In other cases 
 quences of an estate bill shall consent thereto before the committee, * ^t^ * 8 m " 
 unless the committee shall, on account of remoteness of interest, or consent. 
 
 for any other reason, dispense with such consent. 
 
 163a. In any case in which an infant is or may be interested in Appointment 
 the consequences of an estate bill, the chairman of committees pro t e ctor ^of aii 
 may, if he think fit, require that such infant shall be represented infant in- 
 before the committee on the bill by a person to be appointed as or Crested in an 
 in the nature of a guardian or protector of such infant by the Lord 
 Chancellor, or the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal by writing under 
 his hand. 
 
 164. Where a tenant in tail, under age, is a promoter of an Consent on 
 
 estate bill, or a consenting party thereto by his guardian, and any t e n a nt ? f ^ 
 
 person entitled in remainder after such estate tail, whose consent is under age when 
 
 required, withholds his consent to such bill, the consent of a person the consent of 
 
 , . , „ ,. p . a remainder- 
 
 appointed as or m the nature of a guardian or protector ot such man j s w jth- 
 
 minor, and of the settlement or will under which he claims, by the held. 
 
 Lord Chancellor or the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, by writing 
 
 under his hand, for the special purpose of assenting to or dissenting 
 
 from such bill shall be sufficient, without the consent of such 
 
 remainderman as aforesaid. 
 
 165. The consent of all trustees shall be required in person Trustees to 
 before the committee, where any money is to pass through their conseDt in 
 hands, whether for jointure, pin money, the fortunes of younger 
 children, or any other interest whatsoever ; but the consent of 
 trustees to preserve contingent remainders only shall not be 
 necessarv.
 
 240 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Consents to 
 
 bills to be 
 personal, 
 or disability 
 to attend 
 
 proved. 
 
 How const nt 
 of trustees for 
 charitable pur- 
 poses to be 
 signified. 
 
 Trustees to ap- 
 pear personally, 
 
 and accept the 
 trust. 
 
 Consent to 
 bills relative 
 to estates in 
 Ireland. 
 
 Such consent 
 to be personal, 
 or disability to 
 attend proved. 
 
 ( !on» nts of 
 ].. rsons con- 
 cerned in the 
 consequences of 
 bills relative to 
 entailed estates 
 in land or 
 heritable Bub- 
 - in Scot- 
 land. 
 
 166. No notice shall be taken by the committee of the consent 
 of any person, except trustees for a charity, to any estate bill, 
 unless such person appear before the committee, or proof be given 
 to the committee, by two credible witnesses, that such person is 
 not able to attend, and has in their presence signed a printed copy 
 of the bill in testimony of consent thereto. 
 
 167. In the case of a trustee for a charity proof may be given 
 by one credible witness that such trustee has in his presence signed 
 a printed copy of the bill in testimony of consent thereto. 
 
 168. Any person appointed trustee by any estate bill shall 
 appear personally before the committee and accept the trusts pro- 
 posed to be vested in him by the bill, except in cases otherwise 
 provided for by these orders. 
 
 16D. When a petition for an estate bill concerning estates in 
 land situate in Ireland has been referred, under Order 155, to two 
 judges in Ireland, any person resident in Ireland concerned in the 
 consequences of the hill may give his consent thereto before the 
 two judges to whom the bill is referred ; and such judges shall 
 certify that such person appeared personally before them, and, 
 being aware of his interest in the bill, gave his consent for himself 
 and for those for whom he might be entitled to consent, and if 
 any trustee is appointed by the bill, that such trustee appeared 
 personally before them, and accepted the trust proposed to be 
 vested in him by the bill, and that the person so consenting or 
 accepting the trust in their presence signed a printed copy of the 
 bill, and such bill, together with the certificate, shall be produced 
 to the committee. 
 
 170. It shall be a general instruction to the judges who shall 
 meet to take the consent of any person concerned iu the conse- 
 quences of an estate bill relating to estates in Ireland, that they 
 take eo notice of the consent of any person to such bill unless such 
 person appear before them, or proof be given to them by two 
 credible witnesses that such person is not able to attend, and has 
 iu the presence of the witnesses signed a printed copy of the bill 
 in testimony of consent thereto. 
 
 171. It shall be sufficient to have the consent of the following 
 persons only concerned in the consequence of estate bills regard- 
 ing entailed estates in land or heritable subjects in Scotland ; that 
 is to say, 
 
 1. Where the deed of entail is dated on or after the first 
 day of August 1848, and the heir of entail in possession of the 
 entailed estate is of lawful age, and born before the date of
 
 STANDING ORDEES. 241 
 
 such deed of entail, the consent of such heir, and of the heir 
 next in succession, being heir apparent under the entail of 
 the heir in possession, and of the age of twenty-five years 
 complete, and not subject to any legal incapacity, and born 
 after the date of such deed of entail. 
 
 2. Where the deed of entail is dated prior to the first day 
 of August 1848, and the heir of entail in possession of the 
 entailed estate is of full age, and born before the said first 
 day of August, the consent of such heir, and of the heir next 
 in succession, being heir apparent under the entail of the heir 
 in possession, and born on or after the said first day of 
 August, and of the age of twenty-five years complete, and 
 not subject to any legal incapacity. 
 
 3. Where the deed of entail is dated prior to the first day 
 of August 1848, and the heir of entail in possession of the 
 entailed estate is of full age, the consent of such heir alone, 
 if he shall be the only heir of entail in existence for the time, 
 and unmarried : 
 
 Or otherwise, the consent of such heir, and of all the 
 heirs of entail, if there are less than three in being at the 
 date of such consents : 
 
 Or otherwise, the consent of such heir, and of the three 
 next heirs who at the date of such consent are for the time 
 entitled to succeed to such estate in their order successively, 
 immediately after such heir in possession : 
 
 Or otherwise, the consent of such heir, and of the heir 
 apparent under the entail, and of the heir or heirs in number 
 not less than two, including such heir apparent, who in their 
 order successively would be heir apparent. 
 
 4. In any case not provided for by the aforesaid Orders, 
 whatever be the date of the deed of entail, the consent of the 
 heir in possession, and of all the heirs entitled to succeed to 
 the entailed estate, if less than three, or if not less than 
 three, then of the three heirs next entitled to succeed to the 
 entailed estate. 
 
 Provided, that if, in any of the cases aforesaid, the heir 
 next entitled to succeed to the entailed estate after the heir 
 in possession shall be under the age of twenty-five years, or 
 if any of the heirs of entail descended of the heirs of entail 
 in possession whose consents are required in the several 
 cases aforesaid shall be under the age of twenty-one years, 
 then the consents also of so many heirs next entitled to
 
 242 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Consent to 
 
 bills relative 
 to estates in 
 Scotland. 
 
 Such consent 
 to be personal 
 or disability to 
 attend proved. 
 
 Committees 
 on estate bills 
 may admit 
 affidavits as 
 
 evidence. 
 
 succeed to such estate, not being descendants of the heir in 
 possession, as are equal to the number of the said heirs of 
 entail respectively under the ages before mentioned, with- 
 out prejudice nevertheless as heretofore for any person 
 concerned to petition against the bill, and to be heard for his 
 interest therein. 
 1 7-. AVhen a petition for an estate bill concerning estates in 
 land or heritable subjects in Scotland has been referred under 
 Order 154 to two judges in Scotland, any person resident in 
 Scotland concerned in the consequences of the bill may give his 
 consent thereto before the two judges to whom the bill is referred ; 
 and such judges shall certify that such person appeared personally 
 before them, and, being aware of his interest in the bill, gave his 
 consent for himself, and for those for whom he might be entitled 
 to consent, and if any trustee is appointed by the bill, that such 
 trustee appeared personally before them, and accepted the trust 
 proposed to be vested in him by the bill, and that the person so 
 consenting or accepting the trust in their presence signed a printed 
 copy of the bill, and such bill, together with the certificate, shall 
 be produced to the committee. 
 
 173. It shall be a general instruction to the judges who shall 
 meet to take the consent of heirs of entail or other persons 
 concerned in the consequences of any estate bill relating to estates 
 in laud or heritable subjects in Scotland, that they take no notice 
 of the consent of any person to such bill unless such person 
 appear before them, or proof be given to them by two credible 
 witnesses thai such person is not able t>> attend, and lias in the 
 presence of the witnesses signed a printed copy of the bill in 
 testimony of consent thereto. 
 
 Evidence. 
 
 174. The committee on any estate bill may admit affidavits 
 in proof of the allegations made in the preamble of the bill in 
 all cases not otherwise provided for by these Orders or may require 
 further evidence. Sucli affidavits shall be intitled " In the matter 
 " of a bill now pending in the House of Lords of which the short 
 " title is [insert the short title]," and shall be sworn, if in England, 
 before a justice of the peace or a commissioner to administer oaths 
 in the Supreme Court of Judicature ; if in Scotland, before any 
 sheriff depute or his substitute, or a justice of the peace ; and if in 
 Ireland, before any judge or assistant barrister of that part of the 
 United Kingdom, or before a justice of the peace. Such affidavits 
 shall be filed in t lie office of the Clerk of the Parliaments.
 
 STANDING ORDERS. 243 
 
 Divorce Bills. 
 
 175. No petition for any bill of divorce shall be presented No petition for 
 
 to this House unless an official copy of the proceedings taken or t0 lie , iresen ted 
 
 had in the court having jurisdiction over matrimonial causes at the -without a copy 
 
 place of his domicile or residence, or in some other court having ° previous 
 . . . . . ' a proceedings. 
 
 jurisdiction in that behalf, at the suit of the party desirous to 
 
 present such petition, be delivered upon oath at the bar of this 
 
 House at the same time. 
 
 176. No bill grounded on a petition to this House to dissolve No divorce 
 
 a marriage for the cause of adultery, and to enable the petitioner : *° M : * e " 
 
 ° . . * ' r ceived without 
 
 to marry again, shall be received by this House unless a provision a clause pro- 
 be inserted in such bill that it shall not be lawful for the person hibiting the. 
 whose marriage with the petitioner shall be dissolved to inter- parties^rom 
 marry with any offending party on account of whose adultery with marrying. 
 such person it shall be therein enacted that such marriage shall be 
 so dissolved; provided that if at the time of exhibiting the said 
 bill such offending party or parties be dead, such provision as 
 aforesaid shall not be inserted in the bill. 
 
 177. When any petition for any Bill of Divorce has been In case °f 
 presented to this House in any case in which any trial at nisi report f 
 prius has been had, or any writ of inquiry executed within the previous pro- 
 United Kingdom, wherein the petitioner has been party, the judge ^ e ^ Hlg ? t0 be 
 or under sheriff before whom such trial has been had, or such writ the House. 
 of inquiry executed, shall transmit to the Clerk of the Par- 
 liaments, to be laid upon the table of this House, a report of the 
 proceedings upon such trial or writ of inquiry ; and no such bill 
 
 of divorce shall be read a second time until such report has been 
 
 so laid upon the table of this House. 
 
 17S. Upon the second reading of any bill of divorce, the Petitioner to 
 
 petitioner praying for the same shall attend this House, in &ttem \ on *he 
 
 i i • i • • t , • n i -tt , . , second reading 
 
 order to his being examined at the bar, it the House think fit, f the bill. 
 
 whether there has or has not been any collusion, directly or 
 
 indirectly, on his part, relative to any act of adultery that may 
 
 have been committed by his wife, or whether there be any 
 
 collusion, directly or indirectly, between him and his wife, or 
 
 any other person or persons, touching the said bill of divorce, or 
 
 touching any proceedings or sentence of divorce had in any court 
 
 for matrimonial causes at his suit, or touching any action at law 
 
 which may have been brought by such petitioner against any 
 
 person for criminal conversation with the petitioner's wife ; and 
 
 also whether, at the time of the adultery of which such petitioner 
 
 complains, his wife was, by deed, or otherwise by his consent.
 
 244 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 No naturaliza- 
 tion bill to be 
 read a second 
 time without a 
 certificate being 
 produced touch- 
 ing the peti- 
 tioner's conduct. 
 
 Consent of the 
 crown. 
 
 Certain Orders 
 respecting 
 local bills 
 to apply to 
 personal bills. 
 
 Private bill 
 provisional 
 orders, &c. 
 
 living separate and apart from him, and released by him, as far as 
 in him lies, from her conjugal duty, or whether she was at the 
 time of such adultery cohabiting with him, and under the pro- 
 tection and authority of him as her husband. 
 
 Naturalization Bills. 
 1 70. No bill for naturalizing any person shall be read a second 
 tunc until the petitioner shall produce a certificate from one of 
 Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State respecting his conduct, 
 and shall take the oath of allegiance at the bar of the House. 
 
 180. No Naturalization bill shall be read a second time unless 
 the consent of the Crown has been previously signified. 
 
 Application of Local Bill Orders. 
 
 181. The Orders 95 to 102 inclusive, 141, 142, 144, and 145, 
 with reference to local bills, shall, so far as applicable, be observed 
 in reference to personal bills also. 
 
 TAXATION OF COSTS. 
 
 Costs Taxable by the Taxing Officer of the House of 
 Lords, and Mode of Proceeding. 
 
 The costs taxable by the Taxing Officer of the House of Lords 
 are — 
 
 All costs, charges, and expenses, including the expenses of wit- 
 nesses, of and incidental to the preparation, bringing in, and 
 carrying through Parliament any railway or other local and per- 
 sonal bill, and any estate or other private bill, or any provisional 
 order or provisional certificate, and the costs, charges, and expenses 
 incurred in opposing any such bill, provisional order, or provisional 
 certificate. Such costs are taxed either under the provisions of 
 the 12 & 13 Vict. c. 78, and the 28 and 29 Vict. c. 27, or upon a 
 requisition of one cf Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, 
 or of a Government department, or of any court in England, 
 Ireland, or Scotland, or in the discretion of the Taxing Officer at 
 the request of the parties interested in the same. 
 
 The Mode of Proceeding. 
 Winn the costs are to be taxed under the provisions of 12 & 13 
 Vict. c. 78, a copy of such costs, with an indorsement thereon 
 statins thai a copy of such costs has been duly served upon A. and 
 B., who are the parties liable to pay the same, and requesting an 
 appointmenl to tax, must be deposited in the Taxing Office of the
 
 STANDING ORDERS. 245 
 
 House of Lords. Due notice of ;m appointment to tax will be 
 sent from the Taxing Office to each party. 
 
 When costs are to be taxed under the provisions of 28 & 29 
 Vict. c. 27, a copy of such costs (with an endorsement thereon 
 stating that the provisions of Section 3 of the above Act, so far as 
 the same relate to the delivery of the Bill of Costs to the party 
 chargeable with the same, have been complied with, and requesting 
 an appointment to examine and tax the same), must be deposited 
 in the Taxing Office ; and such application must be made to the 
 Taxing Officer within the time limited by the said Section of the 
 said Act. 
 
 The bills of costs which are referred by either of the courts are 
 usually exhibits in the court by which they are referred, in which 
 case there is endorsed on the back of the original bill a requisition 
 in the following words : — 
 
 The Master of the Rolls, Chief Clerk, Taxing Master of the 
 Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice (or as the case 
 may be) requests the Taxing Officer of the House of Lords to tax 
 the within lull of costs, and to report to him the amount at which 
 he has allowed the same. 
 
 (Signed) A.B. 
 Notice. 
 Any Parliamentary agent, attorney, solicitor, or other person 
 applying for the taxation of any bill of costs, charges, and expenses 
 incurred by him in promoting or opposing any private bill, pro- 
 visional order, or provisional certificate, in Parliament, is desired 
 to deposit in the office of the Taxing Officer, at the time of making 
 such application, a copy of such bill of costs, charges, and expenses 
 with the several items added up and the amount ascertained and 
 set out, together with a declaration signed by him stating that such 
 bill of costs, charges, and expenses has been duly delivered to the 
 parties charged therewith (naming the parties), in conformity with 
 the Taxation of Costs Acts, 1847 and 1849, or the Act for Award- 
 ing Costs, 18b'5, as the case may be. 
 
 Taxing Office, House of Lords, R. W. MONRO, 
 
 2nd August 1897. Taxing Officer. 
 
 Note. — The Taxing Office is open throughout the Session, and from the 
 second Monday in the month of November in each year. 
 
 Printed lists of charges for Parliamentary agents, attornies, 
 solicitors, and others, prepared by the Clerk of the Parliaments, 
 may be obtained at the Office for the Sale of Printed Papers, House 
 of Lords. 
 
 R
 
 246 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 FORM OF PETITION FOR LEAVE TO BRING IN 
 
 A BILL. 
 
 [See S. 0. 32, 193, ante, pp. 98, 153; and see ante, 
 pp. 8-10.] 
 In Parliament. 
 
 Session 18 . 
 [A & B Railway, or as the short title may be.] 
 [Here insert the abstract of the bill as given in the 
 advertisement, e.g., Incorporation of Company ; Railway- 
 between A & B, and works ancillary thereto ; Running 
 Powers over portions of Great Western Railway Company's 
 Railway ; Working Agreements with Great Western Rail- 
 way Company and with South Eastern Railway Company; 
 Payment of Interest out of Capital ; Compulsory Purchase 
 of Lands and Houses ; Power to levy Tolls.] 
 
 Petition for Leave to Bring in Bill. 
 
 To the Honourable the Commons of the United King- 
 dom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled. 
 The humble Petition of [state names of 
 'petitioners who sign, or, in the case of 
 a body corporate petitioning under 
 its seal, the style or title thereof] 
 "hcturHj as follows: — 
 
 [Here insert the particular circumstances, as for 
 instance — 
 
 1. That it is for the public and local advantage of the 
 towns of A and B, in the counties of and 
 
 respectively, and of the districts between those towns, and 
 of the country surrounding those towns that a railway 
 should be made from A to B, and the necessary works 
 ancillary thereto constructed.
 
 FORM OF PETITION FOR LEAVE TO BRING IN BILL. 247 
 
 2. That your petitioners are ready and willing to make 
 a railway between those towns, and to construct the 
 necessary works ancillary thereto ; and that for that 
 purpose it is expedient that your petitioners should be 
 incorporated and become a body corporate, and should be 
 empowered to enter into working agreements with the 
 Great Western Railway Company and with the South 
 Eastern Railway Company, and entitled to have running 
 powers over portions of the Great Western Railway 
 Company's railway, and to levy rates and tolls. 
 
 3. That for the purpose aforesaid it is also expedient 
 that your petitioners should be enabled to purchase com- 
 pulsorily land and houses required for the purposes of 
 their undertaking, and be empowered during the construc- 
 tion of the railway and the said works ancillary thereto 
 to pay interest out of the capital monies to be raised for 
 the purposes of the undertaking. 
 
 4. That notices by advertisement as required by the 
 Standing Orders of your Honourable House have been 
 published, and plans, sections, books of reference made out 
 and deposited as by the said Standing Orders required, and 
 all matters and things required by the said Orders pre- 
 liminary to this petition have been duly done and 
 performed. 
 
 5. That the purposes aforesaid cannot be effected 
 without the aid and authority of Parliament. 
 
 Your Petitioners therefore humbly 
 pray your Honourable House that 
 leave may be given to bring in a Bill 
 (a printed copy of which is hereunto 
 annexed) for effecting the purposes 
 aforesaid in such manner and under 
 such rules, regulations, and restric- 
 tions as to your Honourable House 
 may seem meet. 
 
 R f>
 
 248 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Indorsement of Petition. 
 
 The indorsement may be as follows: — 
 In Parliament. 
 
 Session 18 . 
 
 [A & B Railway, or as the short title 
 
 may be.~\ 
 
 Petition 
 
 for leave to bring in Bill. 
 
 [Name of Agents, e.c/., X & Y.] 
 
 FORM OF DECLARATION OF AGENT. 
 
 I, A. B., of No. , Street, Westminster, Agent 
 
 for the bill which is annexed to the petition deposited 
 herewith, do hereby declare that in my judgment such bill 
 belongs to [the second] of the two classes into which bills 
 to which the Standing Orders of your Honourable House 
 apply are, for the purposes of those Standing Orders, 
 divided, and I do hereby further declare that of the 
 objects enumerated in the Standing Order of your 
 Honourable House numbered 32, the proposed bill gives 
 power to effect the following, namely :— It gives, 
 
 Power to take lands and houses conipulsorily 
 
 (Clauses, state ivhich ). 
 Power to levy tolls, rates, or duties (Clauses, state 
 
 which). 
 Power to make a railway (Clauses, state ivhich). 
 It does not give power to effect any other of the objects 
 in the said Standing Order numbered 32 enumerated. 
 
 It does not give any powers other than those included 
 in the notices for the bill. 
 
 A. B., A wnt for the Bill.
 
 FORM OF MEMORIAL.'' 249 
 
 FORM OF MEMORIAL TO EXAMINERS OF 
 STANDING ORDERS. 
 
 [See S. O. 74, 230-232, ante, pp. 120, 162 ; S. O., 73-75, 
 H. L. : and see ante, pp. 11-14]. 
 In Parliament. 
 Session 18 
 
 [A and B Railways and Harbours, 
 or as the short title may be.] 
 A Memorial complaining of non-com- 
 pliance with the Standing Orders. 
 To the Examiners of Standing Orders for Private 
 Bills in the House of Lords, and to the Examiners 
 of Petitions for Private Bills in the House of 
 Commons. 
 
 The Memorial of the C and D Rail- 
 way Company, under their Common 
 Seal. 
 
 A Petition has been deposited in the Private Bill 
 Office of the House of Commons, praying for leave to bring 
 in a bill under the above short title, intituled [" A bill to 
 extend the time for completion of works authorized by the 
 X and Y Railway and Pier Act, 1895, and to authorize the 
 construction of new railways from A to B, and for other 
 purposes, or as the case may be], a copy of which bill is 
 annexed to the said petition, and a copy of which bill has 
 also been deposited in the office of the Clerk of the Parlia- 
 ments. [The said bill is a bill of the second class of bills 
 referred to in the Standing Orders, being a bill authorizing 
 the construction of railways. It is promoted by the A B 
 Railways and Harbours Company, or as the case may be.] 
 
 In this Memorial the following expressions have 
 respectively the several meanings hereby attached to 
 them, unless otherwise stated, or unless there be anything
 
 250 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 repugnant in the subject or context to such meanings re- 
 spectively (that is to say): The expression "the Standing 
 Orders," means the Orders of both Houses of Parliament ; 
 the expression " the bill," means the bill deposited as before 
 mentioned : the expression " the notices," or " the notice," 
 means the notices of the intended application to Parliament 
 for the bill published [in the London Gazette, and in the 
 local newspapers in the month of November last] ; the 
 expression ''the promoters," or " the company," means the 
 [A B Railways and Harbours Company, or as the casemay 
 be] ; the expression " the plans," " the sections," " the 
 books," or " the books of reference," means, as the case 
 may be, the plans, sections, and books of reference, as 
 deposited by the promoters in relation to the bill in the 
 office of the Clerk of the Parliaments, and in the Private 
 Bill Office of the House of Commons, and with the clerk 
 of the pence for the counties of [state which], in November 
 last ; the expression " the limits of deviation," means the 
 limits of lateral deviation defined upon the plans; the 
 expression " the Memorialists," means the [C and D Rail- 
 way Company, or ex the case may be]. 
 
 All lands, buildings, and properties, in respect of which 
 any breach of the Standing Orders is in this Memorial 
 alleged, are situate wholly or partially within the limits of 
 deviation, and may be taken compulsorily under the 
 powers of the Bill. 
 
 The Memorialists respectfully represent that the 
 Standing Orders have not been complied with in respect 
 of the bill in the following particulars, that is to say : — 
 
 [Here give the particulars of the non-compliance relied 
 on, e.g., as follovjs] : — 
 
 Notices. 
 I. Tie notices are misleading and defective, and are 
 not copies of one another as required by the Standing- 
 Orders ; the following are the instances relied on : — 
 
 (a) Discrepancies occur between the notices pub-
 
 FORM OF MEMORIAL. 251 
 
 lished in the London Gazette and those published in 
 
 the local newspaper, the Advertiser. The 
 
 following table shows these discrepancies : — 
 [Set out Table of Discrepancies.] 
 
 (b) The notices make no mention of the branch 
 railway from the pier at Y to Z, which it is proposed 
 under the bill to make. 
 
 (c) The notices do not contain a correct description 
 of the termini of Railway No. 2 proposed to be autho- 
 rized by the bill. It is described as commencing in 
 the township of L ; there is no such township. 
 
 (d) The bill authorizes the taking of common 
 land, but the notices contain no estimate of the 
 quantity proposed to be taken. 
 
 2. The short title descriptive of the undertaking at the 
 head of the notice is misleading and defective ; it does not 
 give a fair or correct statement or summary of the objects 
 proposed in the body of the notice, inasmuch as it does not 
 specify the powers to acquire further land by agreement, 
 or to raise additional capital, in regard to all which matters 
 very extensive powers are contained in the bill. 
 
 3. Power is given by the bill to acquire compulsorily 
 lands situate in the following extra-parochial places for 
 the purposes of the undertaking authorized by the bill, 
 viz., [the bed of the tidal river S, the W Harbour, or as the 
 case may be], but the notices do not state the place of 
 deposit of the plans and sections, or books of reference, or 
 of the notices in respect of these extra-parochial lands. 
 
 Deposit of Documents. 
 
 4. Power is given by the bill to take compulsorily a 
 part of the churchyard or burial ground attached to 
 
 St. M's Church at , in the county of , for 
 
 the purpose of Railway No. 3 in the bill, but no copy of 
 so much of the plans, sections, and books of reference as 
 relates to such churchyard or burial ground was on or
 
 2-V2 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 1 let'. ne the 30th of November last deposited at the office of 
 the Secretary of State for the Home Department, nor was 
 any copy of the notice published in the Gazette there 
 deposited therewith. No such copy or notice was there 
 deposited on or before the 30th of November last. 
 
 Statement Relating to Labouring Class Houses. 
 
 5. Power is given by the Bill to acquire compulsorily 
 [or by agreement] [ten or more] houses, occupied either 
 wholly or partially by persons belonging to the labouring 
 class, as defined by Standing Order 183a, as tenants or 
 lodgers, but the promoters have failed to comply with the 
 Standing Orders requiring them to deposit in the Private 
 Bill Office, and at the office of the central authority, as 
 defined in Standing Order 183a, on or before the 31st of 
 December last, a statement of the number, description, and 
 situation of such houses, the number (so Jar as can be 
 ascertained) of persons residing therein, and a copy of so 
 much of the plan (if any) as relates thereto. They have 
 failed in the following instances [State same, as for 
 instance — 
 
 In the Urban District of , in the county of 
 
 , the bill authorizes the taking of one side of 
 
 street, from a point on the plan marked A 
 
 to a point thereon marked B, thus permitting the 
 taking of 50 houses occupied wholly or partially by 
 persons belonging to the labouring class, the state- 
 ment only makes mention of 42 such houses, and 
 instead of giving the true number, which is about 
 1,100, of persons who may be there dispossessed by 
 the bill, the number is estimated or guessed at 250, 
 not " ascertained " so far as could be. A part of the 
 plan related to the said houses, but no copy thereof, 
 or of the plan, was on or before 31st Decemberdast 
 deposited either in the Private Bill Office or at the 
 office of the central authority.]
 
 form of memorial. 258 
 
 Plans. 
 
 6. The plans are faulty and erroneous, and fail to 
 comply with Standing Orders in the following particulars 
 \_State same, as for instance — 
 
 (a) Power is given by the bill to carry the rail- 
 way No. 2 across the public carriage road No. 12 in 
 the parish of K on the level, and to divert the said 
 road so as to make the crossing square, but the course 
 of such diversion is not marked upon the plans. 
 
 (b) Power is given by the bill to divert the public 
 carriage road No. 5 in the parish of S (railway 
 No. 3), but the course of such diversion is not 
 marked upon the plans. 
 
 (c) All tidal waters have not been coloured blue 
 on the plans.] 
 
 • Books of Reference. 
 
 7. The books of reference are faulty and erroneous ; 
 the instances relied on appear by the following table [or, 
 are as follows] : — 
 
 [State same in tabular form, or in detail.] 
 
 Applications to Owners, or Reputed Owners, and 
 Lessees, or Reputed Lessees, and Occupiers. 
 
 8. The applications made in writing to owners, or 
 reputed owners, lessees, or reputed lessees, and occupiers, 
 on or before the 15th December last, of lands or houses to 
 be taken compulsorily by the promoters for the purposes of 
 the railways authorized by the bill were not accompanied, 
 as required by the Standing Orders of the House of 
 Commons, by a copy of the Standing Orders of that 
 House, whiuh regulate the time and mode of presenting 
 petitions in opposition to bills in that House, inasmuch as 
 a copy of Standing Order 129 did not accompany such 
 applications. 
 
 9. The applications in the previous paragraph did not 
 [State tvhat is complained, of].
 
 254 private bill procedure. 
 
 Deposit of Money. 
 
 10. The promoters are a company incorporated by Act 
 of Parliament, and possessed of a railway opened for public 
 traffic, but which has not during the year last past paid a 
 dividend on its ordinary share capital. The promoters 
 have not previously to the 15th of January 18 , as re- 
 quired by the Standing Orders, deposited a sum of not less 
 than 5 per cent, on the amount of the estimate of expense 
 of the undertaking authorized by the bill being railways 
 situate [in England, with the Paymaster-General for and 
 on behalf of the Supreme Court of Judicature in England]. 
 
 The Memorialists therefore request that they may be 
 heard by their agents and witnesses in support of the 
 allegations of this Memorial. 
 
 (Sealed, &c.) 
 
 Indorsement of Memorial. 
 The indorsement may be as follows : — 
 In Parliament. 
 
 Session 18 . 
 
 [A and B Railways and Harbours 
 
 Bill, or as the short title may be.] 
 Memorial of the C and D Railway 
 Company, complaining of non-com- 
 pliance with the Standing Orders. 
 Z and Co., Agents for the Memorial. 
 
 A LIKE FORM OF MEMORIAL. 
 
 [Heading as in preceding form.] 
 
 The Memorial of the undersigned 
 persons, and of the H and L Estate 
 Company, Limited, under their com- 
 mon seal. 
 !?I)cfo£t[! as follow : — 
 
 1. A Petition has been deposited in the Private 
 Bill Office of the House of Commons praying leave to
 
 FORM OF MEMORIAL. 255 
 
 bring in to that Honourable House a bill, a printed copy 
 whereof is annexed to that petition, intituled, " A bill for 
 incorporating and conferring powers on the H Harbour 
 Company, and for other purposes " (hereinafter referred to 
 as the bill), and a copy of the bill has also been deposited 
 in the office of the Clerk of the Parliaments. 
 
 2. In this Memorial, unless otherwise stated, the follow- 
 ing expressions have the following meanings (that is to 
 say) :— 
 
 The expression " the Standing Orders," means the 
 Standing Orders of both Houses of Parliament. 
 
 The expressions " the plans," " the deposited plans," 
 " the sections," " the deposited sections," " the books 
 of reference," mean (as the case may be) the plans, 
 the sections, the books of reference, deposited on or 
 before the 30th of November last, in respect of the 
 bill at the office of the [Clerk of the Peace for the 
 
 county of ], and in the office of the Clerk of 
 
 the Parliaments, and in the Private Bill Office. 
 
 The expression " the Parliament Office," means the 
 office of the Clerk of the Parliaments of the House 
 of Lords. 
 
 The expression " the Private Bill Office," means 
 the Private Bill Office of the House of Commons. 
 
 The expression " the notices for the bill," means 
 the notices of the intended application to Parliament 
 for leave to bring in the bill published in the month 
 of November last in the London Gazette and in the 
 local newspapers, in which such notices were pub- 
 lished in the months of October and November last, 
 or in one of those months. 
 
 The word " marked," used in reference to any 
 distance, means marked on the plans and sections. 
 
 The word " measured," means measured along the 
 centre line of the railway in the direction proceeding 
 from the commencement to the termination of the
 
 256 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 railway, on the plans and along the datum horizontal 
 line in a similar direction on the sections, and accord- 
 ing to the only horizontal scale to which the plans 
 and sections purport to be drawn. 
 
 The expression " marked and measured," means 
 (except when otherwise stated) marked as aforesaid 
 on the plans and sections, and that the fraction of a 
 furlong is measured from the distance so marked. 
 
 Every distance stated as being upon the plans or 
 the sections means, as the case may be, the distance 
 along the centre line of railway shown upon the 
 plans, or, as the case may be, along the datum hori- 
 zontal line of the sections. 
 
 The railways proposed to be authorized by the 
 bill, and therein referred to as No. 1 and No. '1, are 
 hereinafter referred to by the same respective 
 numbers. 
 
 The expression "the limits of deviation," means 
 the limits of lateral deviation defined upon the plans. 
 The expression " lands," and " buildings," and " pro- 
 perties," respectively means and includes any land, 
 building, enclosure, or property of whatsoever descrip- 
 tion shown, or delineated upon the plans, or described 
 in the books of reference, or which it is alleged in 
 this memorial ought to have been shown or delineated 
 upon the plans, or described in the books of reference. 
 All lands and buildings and properties in respect 
 of which any breach of the Standing Orders is in 
 this memorial alleged, are situate wholly or partially 
 within the limits of deviation, and may be taken 
 compulsorily under the bill. 
 
 Allegations in this memorial referring to the 
 nature or condition of any land, building, or property 
 mentioned or described in this memorial refer to the 
 nature or condition thereof on and lor some time 
 before the 30th of November last. 
 
 And in this memorial words and txpressions to
 
 FORM OF MEMORIAL. 257 
 
 which meanings are assigned by the bill have those 
 meanings, unless there be something in the subject 
 or context repugnant to such construction. 
 
 3. The bill is a bill of the second class, namely, a bill 
 for making railways, and the Standing Orders relating to 
 the bill have not been complied with in the following 
 respects : — 
 
 The plans, sections, and books of reference are 
 erroneous and defective, and are not prepared in the 
 manner required by the Standing Orders in the 
 several instances hereinaf fcer specified and set forth. 
 
 4. As regards railway No. 1 and railway No. 2, the 
 datum horizontal line of the sections is not referred to any 
 fixed point stated in writing on the sections. 
 
 5. Railway No. 2 is shown on the plans and sections as 
 intended to be constructed in certain parts in tunnel, and 
 one of such tunnels is shown on the plans as commencing 
 at a point marked and measured 4 mis. 2 fur. 1*2 chs., 
 and terminating- at a point marked and measured 
 4 mis. 4 fur. 2 - o chs., whereas on the sections such tunnel 
 is shown as commencing at a point 4 mis. 2 fur., and ter- 
 minating at a point 4 mis. 4 fur. 2 chs., and in those 
 regards the plans and sections are at variance with each 
 other. 
 
 6. As regards railway No. 1 at and near the point 
 marked and measured 3 mis. 1 fur. 2 chs., the deposited 
 plans show a curve of a radius of 3 furlongs, whereas on 
 the said plans it is noted as of a radius of 2 furlongs. 
 
 7. The deposited plans do not describe the several 
 properties specified in the table next hereafter following, 
 they are not shown thereon. 
 
 Table. 
 
 [Insert same.] 
 
 8. The books of reference omit all mention of the 
 properties following [State same, or give them in a tabular 
 forrri].
 
 258 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 9. Your undersigned memorialists, L and M, are, and 
 have for many years past, been owners of the property, 
 consisting of house, garden, orchard, and premises, firstly 
 mentioned and described in the table appended to para- 
 graph 7 of this memorial, but no application in writing was 
 on or before the 15th of December last made to your 
 memorialists, L and M, or either of them, in respect of 
 their said property by the promoters. 
 
 10. Between the points referred to in the next follow - 
 ino- table, cuttings exceeding 5 ft. in depth, or, as the case 
 may be, embankments exceeding 5 ft. in height, are shown 
 upon the sections, but the extreme depth of such cuttings 
 under, or, as the case may be, the extreme height of such 
 embankments over, the surface of the ground are not 
 marked in figures on the sections. 
 
 11. The plans show that several public carriage roads 
 will be crossed by railway No. 1, but in the instances 
 specified in the table next following, no mention is made 
 in the sections of the heights of the railway over, or the 
 depths of the railway under, those roads. 
 
 Table. 
 [Insert same.] 
 
 12. The notices for the bill are not headed by a short 
 title descriptive of the undertaking or bill, inasmuch as 
 railway No. 2 is in no way indicated or described in or by 
 such title or heading. 
 
 Your Memorialists therefore request that they may 
 be heard by themselves, their agents and witnesses, in 
 support of the allegations contained in this memorial. 
 
 (Signed) 
 
 (Sealed, &c.) 
 
 [From the above tivo forms if is thought the practitioner 
 "■ill readily be able to draft, the memorial in the shape 
 required to meet the 'particular breaches of Standing 
 Orders he may discover in relation to the particular Bill 
 he w opposing. ~\
 
 FORM OF STATEMENT OF PROOFS. 259 
 
 FORM OF STATEMENT OF PROOFS. 
 
 [See ante pp. 12, 13. All these forms can be purchased 
 from Messrs. Eyre and Spottiswoode.] 
 
 House of Commons. 
 
 Meeting of Company Incorporated by Special Act of 
 Parliament. 
 
 Statement of Proofs before the Examiner for Standing 
 Orders, after the First Reading of the Bill in the 
 First House, or subsequently to the Introduction of 
 the Bill in the Second House. (Under S. 0. 62 or 
 S. 0. 64.) 
 
 Session 1898. 
 
 Sheffield and Retford Railway Bill. 
 
 John Jones. Produced the Times newspaper (being a newspaper 
 published in London) of the 20th and 27th Dec. 1897, 
 being two consecutive weeks, containing notice calling a 
 Special Meeting of the proprietors of the Sheffield and 
 Retford Railway Company to consider the bill. 
 
 Also the Sheffield Independent, being a newspaper of 
 the county of York (in which county the principal office 
 of the said. Company is situate) of the 20th and 27th days 
 of Dec, 1897, being two consecutive weeks, containing the 
 same notice. 
 
 Proved that a circular calling the said meeting, addressed 
 to each proprietor at his last known or usual address, was 
 sent by post or delivered at such address not less than ten 
 days before the holding of such meeting, enclosing a blank 
 form of proxy, with proper instructions for the use of the 
 same.
 
 260 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Proved that the same form of proxy and the same 
 instructions, and none other, were sent to every such pro- 
 prietor, that no such form of proxy was stamped before it 
 was sent out, nor have the funds of the company been 
 used for the stamping of any proxies, nor was any intima- 
 tion sent as to any person in whose favour the proxy 
 might be granted; and no other circular or form of proxy 
 relating to such meeting has been sent to any proprietor 
 from the office of the company or by any director or officer 
 of the company so describing himself (to the witness's best 
 knowledge and belief). 
 
 Proved that such meeting was held on the 10th day of 
 January, 1898, being a period not earlier than the seventh 
 day after the last insertion of such advertisement. 
 
 Proved that at such meeting a print of the bill [as 
 proposed to be introduced into the House of Commons] 
 was submitted to the proprietors then present, and was 
 approved of by proprietors present in person or by proxy, 
 holding at least three-fourths of the paid-up capital of the 
 company represented by the votes at such meeting, such 
 proprietors being qualified to vote at all ordinary meetings 
 of the company in right of such capital. 
 
 [Proved that the votes of proprietors of any paid-up 
 shares or stock, other than debenture stock, not qualified 
 to vote at ordinary meetings, whose interests may be 
 affected by the bill, which were tendered at such meeting 
 were duly recorded separately], or [That no votes of pro- 
 prietors not qualified to vote at ordinary meetings of the 
 company were tendered at such meeting]. 
 
 [Proved that no poll was taken], or [That a poll was 
 taken]. 
 
 Proved that he deposited [in the Private Bill Office of 
 lie House of Commons) a statement of the number of 
 /otes, [and also of the number of votes recorded separately]. 
 
 Proved that the names of the proprietors present in 
 person at the said meeting were duly recorded.
 
 
 
 form of statement of proofs. 261 
 
 Proof as to Amendments made in the First House. 
 
 [Proved that by the terms of the consent of the com- 
 pany already proved in the House of [Lords] [Commons], 
 the bill as introduced, or proposed to be introduced, into 
 that House, was approved of, or consented to, subject 
 to such additions, alterations, and variations as Parliament 
 might think fit to make therein.] 
 
 Stated that no Standing Orders are applicable to the 
 amendments made in the bill further than those which 
 were proved to have been complied with previously to its 
 introduction into Parliament [except with reference to 
 "Alteration of Work," with respect to which proof is 
 tendered herewith]. 
 
 Note. — " Separate Undertakings. 
 " So far as any such bill relates to a separate under- 
 " taking in any company as distinct from the general 
 " undertaking, separate meetings shall be held of the pro- 
 " prietors of the company and of the separate under- 
 " takings, and the provisions of this Order applicable to 
 " meetings of proprietors of the company shall, mutatis 
 " mutandis, apply to meetings of proprietors of the separate 
 " undertakings." [Consequently, proof of compliance 
 with this Order with reference to any such "Separate 
 " Undertaking" must be given in accordance with the 
 foregoing Form of Proof, which has reference to a com- 
 pany wholly.] 
 
 [This form is number 4 of the forms of Statements of 
 Proofs published by Messrs. Eyre and Spottiswoode, the 
 Queen's Printers ; the titles of the others are — 
 
 (1.) Statement of Proofs, &c, previously to the introduc- 
 tion of the bill, in cases of bills of the 2nd class 
 or bills of the 1st class, by which any lands or 
 houses are intended to be taken compulsorily, or 
 by which an extension of time granted by any 
 former Act for that purpose is sought.
 
 262 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 (2.) Statement of Proofs previously to the introduction 
 of the bill in cases of 1st class bills, by which 
 no lands or houses are intended to be taken com- 
 pulsorily, nor by which any extension of time 
 granted by any former Acts is sought. 
 
 (3.) Provisional orders confirmation bills: — Statement 
 of Proofs, with respect to statements relating to 
 houses inhabited by labouring classes, and places 
 relating to such statements as required by S. O. 
 38 ; and also as to deposit of plans, &c, in the 
 office of the Clerk of the Parliaments and Private 
 Bill Office of the House of Commons as required 
 by S. O. 39. 
 
 (5.) Meeting of company, society, association, or co- 
 partnership (other than a company to which 
 S. O. 62 or 64 is applicable). -Statement of 
 Proofs under S. O. 63 or 65. 
 
 (6.) Statement of Proofs under S. O. 6 in case of sub- 
 scription, &c, by any company incorporated by 
 Act of Parliament, or by any class of holders of 
 share or loan capital in any such company. 
 
 (7.) Statement of Proofs as to charging payments on 
 grand jury cess or local rate in aid of railways 
 in Ireland. 
 
 (8.) Statement of Proofs as to signatures of directors, 
 &c, deposit of bill as introduced into the second 
 House at the Home Office, Board of Trade, Local 
 Government Board, General Register Office, 
 Somerset House, or Board of Agriculture. 
 
 (9.) Statement of Proofs (to be made in the second 
 House) as to alteration in the work since the 
 introduction of the bill into Parliament.]
 
 FORM OF AFFIDAVIT IN SUPPORT OF PROOFS. 263 
 
 FORM OF AFFIDAVIT IN PROOF OF COM- 
 PLIANCE WITH STANDING ORDERS. 
 
 [See S. O. 76, ante, p. 120; S. O. H. L. 77, and see ante, 
 p. 12.] 
 
 In Parliament. 
 
 Session 1898. 
 
 Sheffield and Retford Railway Bill. 
 
 I, John Jones, of Snig Hill, Sheffield, in the county of 
 York, clerk to Messrs. Smith and Brown, solicitors, Shef- 
 field, make oath and say as follows : — 
 
 That in pursuance of the Standing Orders of Parliament 
 a print of the Bill bearing the above name or short title 
 was submitted to a meeting of the proprietors of the 
 Sheffield and Retford Railway Company held especially 
 for that purpose. That such meeting was called by 
 advertisement inserted in the Times newspaper, being a 
 London newspaper, of the 20th and 27th days of December 
 1897, being two consecutive weeks, and also in the 
 Sheffield Independent newspaper, being a newspaper 
 published in Sheffield, of the 20th and 27th days of 
 Decembei 1897, being two consecutive weeks. 
 
 That the principal office of the said company is situate 
 in the county of York, in which county the said Sheffield 
 Independent newspaper is published. 
 
 That a circular stating the object of such meeting was 
 addressed to each proprietor at his last known or usual 
 address, and sent by post or delivered at such address not 
 less than ten days before the holding of such meeting, 
 enclosing a blank form of proxy, with proper instructions, 
 for the use of the same. 
 
 s 2
 
 264 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 That the same form of prosy and the same instructions 
 and none other were sent to every such proprietor, that 
 no such form of proxy was stamped before it was sent out, 
 nor have the funds of the company been used for the 
 stamping of any proxies, nor was any intimation sent as to 
 any person in whose favour the proxy might be granted, 
 and no other circular or form of proxy relating to such 
 meeting has been sent to any proprietor from the office of 
 the company, or by any director or officer of the company 
 so describing himself to the best of my knowledge and 
 belief. 
 
 And I further say that such meeting was held on the 
 14th day of January 1898, being a period, not earlier 
 than the seventh day after the last insertion of such 
 advertisement, and that at such meeting a print of the Bill 
 as proposed to be introduced into the House of Commons 
 was submitted to the proprietors then present, and was 
 approved of by proprietors present in person or by proxy, 
 holding at least three-fourths of the paid-up capital of the 
 company represented at such meeting, such proprietors 
 being qualified to vote at all ordinary meetings of the 
 company in right of such capital, and that no votes of 
 proprietors not qualified to vote at ordinary meetings of 
 the company were tendered at such meeting, and that no 
 poll was taken. 
 
 And I further say that the names of the proprietors pre- 
 sent in person at the said meeting have been recorded by 
 the compan}-. 
 
 Sworn at Sheffield, in the 
 county of York, this 12th 
 day of January 1898 be- 
 fore me, John Jones. 
 ABC, 
 A Commissioner 
 
 for Oaths.
 
 FORM OF PETITION AGAINST A BILL. 265 
 
 FORM OF PETITION AGAINST A BILL. 
 
 [See S. O. 205, 89, 128, 129, ante, pp. 158, 123, 129 ; S. O. 
 92, 93, 147a, H.L., and see ante, pp. 22, 23, 35.] 
 
 In the House of Commons. 
 Session 18 . 
 
 R. & S. Railway. 
 
 Petition 
 
 Against the Bill, 
 Praying to be heard by Counsel. 
 
 To the Honourable the Commons of the United King- 
 dom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament 
 Assembled. 
 
 The Humble Petition of A. B. and C. D. 
 
 ^lufocth, — 
 
 1. That your petitioners have for more than ten years 
 been and still are the lessees and occupiers of a field at 
 
 , in the county of , and of large buildings 
 
 and premises at aforesaid, at a distance of a mile 
 
 or thereabouts from the said field. 
 
 2. The said lease of the said field expires by effluxion 
 of time on the day of , 19 , thus leaving an 
 unexpired term of five years and two months ; whilst 
 there is of the said lease of the said buildings and pre- 
 mises an unexpired term of more than 60 years. 
 
 3. Your petitioners have occupied and used during the 
 past ten years, and still occupy and use the said buildings 
 and premises as a school for boys, and the said field as
 
 266 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 a playground and cricket field for the said boys attending 
 their said school. 
 
 4. A bill (in this petition referred to as " the bill ") has 
 been introduced and is now pending in your Honourable 
 House intituled "A bill to authorize the construction of a 
 Railway from R. to S., and railways and works in con- 
 nection therewith, and for other purposes." 
 
 5. By the said bill the property of your petitioners is 
 sought to be taken and interfered with, and the bill is in 
 that respect and otherwise prejudicial to their property, 
 rights, and interests. 
 
 6. By the said bill it is proposed to incorporate a com- 
 pany (clause ) under the name of the " R. and S. 
 Railway Company " (in the bill and hereinafter called 
 " the company ") for the purpose of making and main- 
 taining, amongst other things, a railway from R., in the 
 county of , to S„ in the county of , and 
 (by clause ) it is proposed to give power to the com- 
 pany to take compulsorily the said field, and to construct 
 thereon the said railway or some part thereof, or to 
 construct thereon a station or other works in connection 
 with the said railway. The said field is within the limits 
 of deviation, and is thus described in the deposited books 
 of reference [State description.'] 
 
 7. Your petitioners will be unable if the said field is 
 thus taken to secure any field or playground for their said 
 school in as convenient proximity to their school, or 
 indeed, within any reasonable distance thereof, and their 
 said school will be greatly injured thereby, or perhaps even 
 destroyed. 
 
 8. There is already ample railway accommodation for 
 all passenger and other traffic from R. to S. by the existing 
 A. S. & R. Railway.
 
 FORM OF PETITION AGAINST A BILL. 267 
 
 9. [The * preamble of the said Bill is untrue and 
 ineapable of proof.] 
 
 Your Petitioners therefore humbly 
 pray your Honourable House that 
 the said bill may not pass into law, 
 and that they may be heard by 
 themselves, their counsel, agents, 
 and witnesses against [the preamble 
 and] such of the clauses and pro- 
 visions thereof as affect their pro- 
 perty, rights, and interests, and in 
 support of amendments and pro- 
 visions for their protection. 
 
 (Signed) A. B. 
 C. D. 
 
 FORM OF INDORSEMENT OF PETITION 
 AGAINST A BILL. 
 
 House of Commons, 
 Session 18 . 
 
 R. & S. Railway. 
 Petition 
 of 
 A. B. and C. D. 
 Against — By Counsel. 
 U. V., 
 
 W & Co., 
 
 Street, 
 
 Solicitor. 
 
 Street, 
 
 Westminster, 
 Parliamentary Agents.
 
 268 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 FORM OF PETITION AGAINST A BILL. 
 
 Kilpatrick Dock. 
 
 [Heading as in preceding Form of Petition.] 
 
 The Humble Petition of the Trustees 
 of the Port and Harbours of 
 Greenock under their Corporate Seal. 
 jshrforth, — 
 
 1. That your petitioners were incorporated by [stating 
 Acts], and the property, management, and control of the 
 port and harbours of Greenock are vested in them. 
 
 2 & 3. [Stating pecuniary position, and large in- 
 indebtedness for money borrowed.] 
 
 4. A bill (in this petition referred to as " the bill ") has 
 been introduced into and is now pending in your Honour- 
 able House intituled [stating title of bill], 
 
 5. Your petitioners object to the bill as prejudicially 
 affecting the port and harbours of Greenock, and the 
 rights and interests of your petitioners, in, amongst others, 
 the respects hereinafter stated. 
 
 6. By the bill (clause 4) it is proposed to incorporate a 
 company under the name of " The Kilpatrick Dock 
 Company " (in the bill and hereinafter called " the 
 company") for the purpose of making and maintaining 
 the dock and railways thereinafter described ; and (by 
 clause 5) it is proposed to authorize the company, inter 
 alia, to make and maintain a large tidal dock on the north 
 side of the River Clyde and several railways in connection 
 therewith. 
 
 7. By subsequent clauses of the bill the company also 
 seek power to levy, &c, rates, not exceeding those specified 
 in the schedules annexed to the said bill. 
 
 8. The company also seek power to act as warehouse 
 keepers.
 
 FORM OF PETITION AGAINST A BILL. 269 
 
 1). The bill is promoted substantially in the interests of 
 the Caledonian Railway Company and the Lanarkshire, &c, 
 Railway Company ; and if the bill were to receive the 
 sanction of Parliament the proposed dock would to all 
 intents and purposes belong to and be worked by those 
 companies. 
 
 10. Your petitioners submit that it is contrary to 
 public policy that a railway company should be empowered 
 to own or construct dock and harbour works such as those 
 proposed by the bill. Irrespective of the great injury 
 which the establishment of the proposed dock would do to 
 the port and harbours of Greenock, and to the interests 
 entrusted to your petitioners, even if the proposed under- 
 taking were managed and conducted legitimately, the 
 possession of such a dock in the hands of a railway 
 company, and under their sole control, would enable them 
 to charge such rates on vessels and goods within the 
 maximum as they thought proper, or to remit them 
 altogether, as they seek power under the bill to do, 
 securing a return on the amount expended by fostering 
 and encouraging their railway traffic, and so to compete 
 with, and on terms most unfavourable to your petitioners, 
 thereby seriously injuring their property and undertaking, 
 by compelling your petitioners, with the view of retaining 
 any portion of the trade of Greenock, to reduce their 
 harbour and dock dues to an unremunerative rate, in- 
 sufficient to enable them properly to maintain and extend 
 their works and meet their obligations to their creditors. 
 
 11. There is no trade or traffic at Old Kilpatrick either 
 to require or justify the construction of docks there. The 
 extensive works, therefore, proposed to be executed under 
 the bill cannot be required for local purposes or local 
 convenience, and no necessity exists for their construction. 
 So far as regards the Clyde, ample accommodation can be 
 afforded at Glasgow, Greenock, Port Glasgow, and Bowling, 
 and your petitioners and their predecessors have at all
 
 270 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 times been anxious and willing, as the requirements of 
 trade demanded it, to afford additional accommodation, and 
 they are quite prepared to act in the future as in the past ; 
 and they submit that unless it can be shown that they 
 have in this respect neglected their duties, or that a great 
 public necessity exists for harbour and dock accommodation 
 at Old Kilpatrick, the powers sought by the bill should 
 not be granted. 
 
 12. Your petitioners are public trustees, and have no 
 private interest in the matters above set forth. Parliament 
 has entrusted to them the duty of providing harbour and 
 dock accommodation at Greenock, and authorized them to 
 raise the necessary funds for that purpose by mortgaging 
 the rates and dues which Parliament has authorized them 
 to levy at their harbours ; and the public who have 
 advanced the money have done so relying on the rates and 
 dues thus mortgaged, and on the Parliamentary security 
 thereby granted. The effect of authorizing the company 
 to execute the works proposed by the bill would neces- 
 sarily be to enable them to compete with the port and 
 harbours of Greenock, and to divert therefrom traffic now 
 coming to the same, and thus to affect most prejudicially 
 the interest of your petitioners and of the creditors of the 
 trust. 
 
 13. No case of public advantage to be derived from 
 the construction of the proposed works can be substan- 
 tiated, which would justify the great loss and injury 
 thereby inflicted on your petitioners. 
 
 14. The dock scheme as proposed is badly devised ; 
 the proposed works are defective in many engineering 
 respects ; and the estimate of expense of the works, and 
 the capital proposed to be raised by the bill, are insufficient 
 for the purposes thereof. 
 
 15. The preamble of the bill is incapable of proof; but 
 should your Honourable House deem the same proved
 
 FORM OF PETITION AGAINST A BILL. 271 
 
 clauses and provisions at present stand in the bill which 
 are objectionable and ought to be removed, and other 
 clauses and provisions now absent ought to be inserted for 
 the protection of your petitioners. 
 
 Your Petitioners therefore humbly 
 pray your Honourable House that 
 the bill may not be allowed to pass 
 into law as it now stands, and that 
 they may be heard by themselves, 
 their Counsel, Agents, and Witnesses 
 against the preamble of the bill, and 
 such of the clauses and provisions 
 thereof as affect their rights and 
 interests, and that they may have 
 such relief in the premises as to your 
 Honourable House may seem meet. 
 And your Petitioners will ever pray.
 
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 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 FORM OF PETITION AGAINST BILL. 
 
 Kilpatrick Dock. 
 
 [Heading as before.] 
 
 The Humble Petition of the Corpora 
 
 tion of the City of Glasgow, under 
 
 their Corporate Seal. 
 ?lieludli, — 
 
 1. A bill (hereinafter called "the bill") has been 
 introduced, &c. [as in par. 4 of preceding form\. 
 
 2. Your petitioners are the municipal authority having 
 the local management of the city of Glasgow (hereinafter 
 called " the city "), and have the control of the public 
 streets and thoroughfares of the city, and they are also the 
 police, sanitary, and road authority of the city. Your 
 petitioners as the water, gas, and electric lighting authori- 
 ties, are charged with the supply of water and gas to the 
 city and adjoining districts, and of electricity to the city. 
 They also own and work an extensive system of tramwa3 7 s 
 in and near Glasgow, and they own and manage the 
 markets and slaughter-houses within the city, and are the 
 local authority under the Contagious Diseases Acts, and 
 own the only landing-places for foreign animals in the 
 West of Scotland. In these several capacities your peti- 
 tioners make extensive use of and are deeply interested in 
 everything affecting the harbour of Glasgow and the river 
 Clyde. They are also the official representatives of the 
 citizens, and as such are entitled to speak for them regard- 
 ing all interests affecting the general community, and to 
 protect the same. Your petitioners possess by Royal 
 Charter jurisdiction over the river and Firth of Clyde from 
 Glasgow to the Cloch Stane below Gourock, including the 
 area of the river over which jurisdiction is sought by the 
 bill, and the site of the proposed dock is within their area 
 of compulsory gas supply.
 
 b'ORM OF PETITION AGAINST A BILL. 273 
 
 3. The preamble of the bill recites, inter alia, that the 
 construction of a tidal dock or basin on the north side of 
 the river Clyde, in the parish of Old Kilpatrick, in the 
 county of Dumbarton, with railways and connections 
 therewith, would be of local and public advantage, and 
 that it is expedient, in order to facilitate the construction 
 and working of such dock or basin, that a portion of the 
 Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway at Old Kil- 
 patrick should be deviated, and also that the persons 
 named in the bill, with others, should be incorporated into 
 a company for the purpose of executing the said works. 
 
 4. By the bill it is provided : — [Setting out the material 
 clauses of the bill.] 
 
 5. Your petitioners allege that their interests and the 
 interests of the inhabitants, traders, and merchants of the 
 city, will be injuriously affected, and the rateable valuation 
 of the city seriously depreciated by the provisions of the 
 bill if passed into law, and specially by the several clauses 
 before referred to. 
 
 6. The prosperity of the city of Glasgow, and of the 
 burghs adjoining thereto, has depended in the past and 
 must depend in the future upon the maintenance and 
 development of the harbour accommodation of the city so 
 as to meet the wants of the manufactures, trade, and 
 commerce of which Glasgow is the centre. Consequently, 
 everything which affects the harbour interests is of the 
 greatest importance to the city and to your petitioners. 
 
 7. By virtue of ancient rights and charters, and in 
 particular by virtue of a charter granted by King 
 Charles I., dated at Newmarket, 16th October, 1636, your 
 petitioners possess and enjoy jurisdiction and other rights 
 over the river and firth of Clyde; extending from Glasgow 
 Bridge to the Cloch Lighthouse, which comprehends the 
 portion of the river over which powers are sought by the 
 intended bill, and specially, your petitioners are empowered 
 to elect annually a bailie and deputy-bailie of the river
 
 274 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 and tilth of Clyde, who, by virtue of the said charter and 
 of various local statutes, exercise jurisdiction from the 
 eastern termination of the harbour of Glasgow to the 
 southernmost point of the island of Little Cumbrae, in the 
 firth of Clyde As acting in the execution of the Glasgow 
 Police Acts and other local statutes, your petitioners are also 
 vested with important functions connected with the police 
 of the river and firth within the said limits. 
 
 8. The said charter of King Charles I. so far as is 
 material, is as follows : — [Setting out the same.'] 
 
 9. Having regard to the rights so conferred, and in the 
 interest of the trade of the city, the corporation have from 
 the earliest times been at considerable expense in deepening 
 and straightening the river, and removing rocks and other 
 obstructions. They also have expended large sums in pro- 
 viding quayage, warehouse and other accommodation for 
 ships. The result of that expenditure was to draw to 
 Glasgow an amount of trade which would otherwise have 
 been impracticable. This trade increased to such an extent 
 that it was deemed expedient to have the administration 
 of the navigation of the river and the construction of such 
 further works as might be found necessary to meet the 
 "•rowing requirements of the navigation transferred to the 
 Clyde Trustees, in which body the corporation, along with 
 others, is represented. That body, by virtue of various Acts 
 of Parliament, has from to time to time further deepened the 
 river and extended the dock and quayage accommodation 
 till ships of the largest tonnage can new be brought up to 
 the city. In order to meet the cost and maintenance of 
 those works the trustees have, under the authority of 
 Parliament, expended nearly £9,000,000, and at the pre- 
 sent time about £5,500,000 of that sum is due to bond- 
 holders and other lenders to the trustees. If the dock 
 were constructed as proposed in the bill, and other similar 
 (lucks in the interest of railway companies were authorized, 
 the position of those lenders might be seriously prejudiced.
 
 FORM OF PETITION AGAINST A BILL. 275 
 
 10. By the incorporation in the bill of the Harbours, 
 Docks and Piers Clauses Act, 1847, powers are sought to 
 be conferred on the harbour-master to be appointed by the 
 company to interfere with the navigation of vessels within 
 the limits prescribed by the bill. By such incorporation 
 new offences within the river are created, and powers are 
 given to make bye-laws and to enforce the same by the 
 imposition of penalties. The powers so sought are incon- 
 sistent, and will conflict with the powers and jurisdiction 
 of your petitioners hereinbefore referred to, and your 
 petitioners and the interests they represent will be in- 
 juriously affected thereby. The powers so sought to be 
 conferred will affect every vessel passing up and down the 
 river to and from the city. 
 
 11. Your petitioners are convinced that it is in the 
 interest of the city, and of the districts adjoining thereto, 
 that the supply and control of harbour accommodation on 
 the river Clyde should continue in the hands of the Clyde 
 Trustees, who have expended and are expending large sums 
 of money in constructing additional accommodation, to 
 meet not only the present but the future needs of the 
 traffic of the river and district. Those trustees have no 
 other interest than the interest of the public. Their 
 surplus revenues, after meeting the annual charges for 
 borrowed money, and of the maintenance, management, 
 extension and improvement of their docks and quays, are 
 applied to the reduction of debt or the lowering of the 
 rates and charges exacted by the trustees. 
 
 12. Your petitioners view with alarm the formation of a 
 dock on the Clyde by a company whose aim is to make a 
 profit for themselves. It is believed that the dock is 
 sought to be authorized chiefly for the benefit of and in 
 the interest of the railway connecting with it, and with 
 which the company seek wide powers of making working 
 and other agreements by clause 64 of the bill.
 
 276 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 13. Your petitioners submit that the powers sought in 
 the bill to remit or return dues in whole or in part, and to 
 confer facilities for which no fixed charge is provided, 
 might be so used as to create an unfair and injurious 
 preference to traders in certain districts of the country as 
 against those represented by your petitioners. 
 
 14. Your petitioners, in connection with the depart- 
 ments administered by them, purchase and use large 
 quantities of material which are brought to the city by 
 ship. Your petitioners believe that the construction of the 
 proposed dock might have the effect of so reducing the 
 revenue of the Clyde Trustees that they might be unable 
 to deepen the river and to maintain and extend their docks 
 and quays so as to meet the requirements of the port, and 
 in that event the whole trade and interests of the city 
 would be injuriously affected. 
 
 15. The Clyde Trustees have hitherto at great cost 
 provided in advance for the development of the trade of 
 the city and neighbourhood, and your petitioners believe 
 the trustees are both able and wi! ing to provide such new 
 docks as may be necessary to me t the requirements of the 
 trade. Your petitioners believe that there is no necessity 
 whatever for the proposed dock, aid it will interfere with 
 and take traffic already amply provided for. 
 
 16. It is in the public interes that docks and harbours 
 should be under the control of an efficient public body. 
 It is against public policy that 1 hey should be under the 
 control of aud conducted in the interests of any particular 
 railway company. 
 
 17. Your petitioners, twenty years ago, at a cost of 
 upwards of 100,000?., acquired lands near the site of the 
 proposed dock, a portion of whi h lands, under the Glas- 
 gow Corporation Sewage Act, 895, they have power to 
 utilise as a site for the treatment of the sewage of the city, 
 and for sewage works. In connection with those works, 
 they have power on those lauds, or on other lands to be
 
 FORM OF PETITION AGAINST A BILL. 277 
 
 acquired by them by agreement, or in the bed of the 
 Clyde, to construct landing piers, docks, or wharves. The 
 powers proposed to be conferred by the bill m;iy injuriously 
 affect the use of such lauding piers, docks, or wharves. 
 
 18. No case of public advantage to be derived from the 
 construction of the proposed dock can be substantiated 
 which would justify the loss and injury to be thereby 
 inflicted on your petitioners, the inhabitants of Glasgow, 
 and the other interests they represent. 
 
 19. The estimates for the works are quite inadequate. 
 
 20. The preamble is incapable of proof. 
 
 [Prayer as in preceding form.] 
 
 FORM OF PETITION AGAINST A BILL. 
 
 Kilpatrick Dock. 
 
 [Heading as in previous forms. ~\ 
 
 The Humble Petition of the North 
 British Railway Company, under 
 their common seal. 
 
 «^|)£foctlr — 
 
 1. A bill ( hereinafter called " the bill " ) has been 
 introduced, &c. [as in paragraph 1 of preceding form.] 
 
 2. The bill prejudicially affects the rights and interests 
 of your petitioners, and your petitioners object thereto. 
 
 3. By the bill it is proposed to incorporate a company 
 (clause 4), and to authorize the company (clause 5) to con- 
 struct a tidal dock and three railways in connection there- 
 with, all as therein described. 
 
 4. Railway No. 1, 5 fur. 77 chs. in length, is a new 
 railway, being a deviation of the main line of the Lanark- 
 shire and Dumbartonshire Railway authorized by the 
 Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway Act, 1891. 
 The bill does not propose, however, to abandon the portion
 
 278 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 of the authorized railway of the Lanarkshire and Dum- 
 bartonshire Company, to be superseded as such by Rail- 
 way No. 1, but to transfer it to the promoters. Railway 
 No. 2, 3 fur. 1*7 chs. in length, is a proposed new dock 
 line ; and Railway No. 3, 2 fur. 7 chs. in length, is also a 
 dock line along the east side of the proposed dock. 
 
 5. By the bill, clause 9, Railway No. 1 is declared to 
 vest in the Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Company as 
 part of their undertaking under the Act of 1891 ; and, 
 section 10, the portion of the railway of the Lanarkshire 
 and Dumbartonshire Railway Company between the points 
 of commencement and termination of Railway No. 1 shall 
 
 ' vest in the company as part of their undertaking. 
 
 6. By clause 11 the capital of the company is fixed at 
 150,000^., and clause 16 gives the usual borrowing powers 
 of one-third of the capital in addition. 
 
 7. By the bill, clause 64, the company take power to 
 enter into working agreements with the Lanarkshire and 
 Dumbartonshire Railway Company and the Caledonian 
 Railway Company, and the Trustees of the Clyde Navi- 
 gation. 
 
 8. Your petitioners believe that the bill is promoted in 
 the interests, and with the approval and sanction of the 
 Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway Company, and 
 for the purpose of placing traffic on the railway of that 
 company and withdrawing and diverting it from the 
 railways of your petitioners, over which a large portion of 
 the coal, ore, and other traffic now dealt with at Queen's 
 Dock, belonging to the Trustees of the Clyde Navigation, 
 is carried. 
 
 9. Your petitioners' Glasgow, Dumbarton, and Helens- 
 burgh Railway, is in direct competition with the authorized 
 railway of the Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway 
 Company between Glasgow and Dumbarton, and at Old 
 Kilpatrick, the railway of your petitioners is close to the 
 railway of the Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Company.
 
 FORM OF PETITION AGAINST A BILL. 279 
 
 The construction of the proposed new dock and relative 
 railways will form a new source of competition with the 
 railways of your petitioners, and abstract and divert traffic 
 from your petitioners' railways. 
 
 10. When the Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Rail- 
 way was sanctioned by the Act of 1891, it was enacted 
 for the protection of your petitioners, inter alia, section 6, 
 sub-section (11), that the Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire 
 Company should not oppose any application to Parliament 
 by your petitioners to authorize your petitioners to connect 
 their railway with any works on the south side of the rail- 
 way of the Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Company 
 between Clydebank and Bowling. Such provision was a 
 recognition of the right of your petitioners to connect with 
 any works on the north bank of the Clyde, and if the pro- 
 posed dock works are authorized, they should only be so 
 subject to a right to connect their railways with the same 
 being specially reserved to your petitioners. 
 
 11. The proposed dock and railways are wholly un- 
 necessary, and are not required in the interests of the 
 public or of traders or shippers on the Clyde, which 
 already possesses ample dock accommodation at Glasgow, 
 and to which docks the railways of your petitioners as 
 well as of the Caledonian Company and Lanarkshire and 
 Dumbartonshire Company have access. The transfer of 
 the traffic to the new dock would entail an additional land 
 carriage, which would go into the pockets of the Lanark- 
 shire and Dumbartonshire Company, and doubtless this is 
 the real object of the bill. 
 
 12. The dock and railways are badly and injudiciously 
 laid out, and cannot be constructed for the amount stated 
 in the deposited estimate of expense. 
 
 13. The capital proposed to be raised by the bill is 
 altogether insufficient. 
 
 14. By clause 32 of the bill, it is proposed to cross on 
 the level with four lines of rails the public road leading 
 
 T 2
 
 280 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 from Erskine Ferry to the station of your petitioners at 
 Kilpatrick, to the serious prejudice and inconvenience of 
 your petitioners' traffic. 
 
 15. The preamble is untrue and incapable of proof. 
 
 [Prayer, see 'preceding form.] 
 
 FORM OF PETITION AGAINST A BILL. 
 
 [Heading and Prayer as in previous forms.] 
 
 The Humble Petition of the Mayor, 
 Aldermen, and Commons of the 
 City of London, in Common Coun- 
 cil assembled. 
 
 1. A bill has been introduced, &c. [as in previous 
 forms]. 
 
 2. By the bill it is proposed to incorporate a company 
 for the purpose [stating what]. 
 
 3. Your petitioners are the municipal authority for 
 the City of London, and property, rights, and interests of 
 your .petitioners, and of the citizens of the City of 
 London, whom they represent, will be prejudicially 
 affected by the Bill in the manner hereinfter appearing. 
 
 4. Certain of the railways and works proposed by the 
 Kill, and described in clause 30 thereof , are intended to be 
 made wholly or partly in the City of London, and for that 
 purpose a large amount of valuable property, including 
 property of your petitioners, is proposed to be taken. 
 
 5. By clause 31 of the bill the company seek powers 
 to stop up and discontinue as public thoroughfares Brackley 
 Street and part of Farm Street, in the parish of, &c, and 
 appropriate the site and soil of those streets for the pur- 
 poses of their undertaking. 
 
 6. By clause 67 of the bill the company seek power to 
 iicfjuire parts only of any lands, houses, buildings, or
 
 FORM OF PETITION AGAINST A BILL. 281 
 
 manufactories, which they may require for the purposes of 
 their undertaking, notwithstanding the provisions of the 
 92nd section of the " Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 
 1845," and by clause 68 they seek exceptional powers 
 with reference to their superfluous lands. 
 
 7. Your petitioners object to the compulsory purchase 
 of their property for the purposes of the bill, and to the 
 powers which the company seek by clauses 67 and 68. 
 The taking of parts only of properties would be most 
 unjust to your petitioners and other owners and occupiers 
 of property, and inflict great loss and detriment upon 
 them. Such powers are unusual, and, when granted by 
 Parliament, have been limited to certain specified pro- 
 perties, or to those which could be divided without 
 material or substantial injury or detriment. 
 
 8. The proposed stopping and discontinuance of streets 
 will cause great loss and inconvenience to owners and 
 occupiers of property near or adjoining such streets, and 
 your petitioners humbly submit that clauses for the 
 compensation of such persons should be inserted in the 
 bill. 
 
 9. The exceptional powers of dealing with superfluous 
 lands which the company seek by clause 68 are not 
 legitimate for a railway undertaking, and if passed would 
 enable the company to embark in land speculation, and if 
 granted at all, will, your petitioners submit, require 
 modification. 
 
 1 0. The times limited for compulsory purchase of lands 
 and for complstion of works are excessive, and should not, 
 your petitioners humbly submit, exceed three years and 
 five years respectively. The effect of the company having 
 compulsory powers over property (which they may 
 probably never exercise) will be to seriously depreciate its 
 value, and to prevent any street or other improvements 
 being carried out either by the owner or by your 
 petitioners.
 
 282 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 11. The powers of underpinning, which the company 
 seek by clause 66 of the bill, would most seriously and 
 prejudicially affect the value of property near the line of 
 the proposed works, and should not, your petitioners 
 submit, be sanctioned, but if Parliament should see fit to 
 confer those powers on the company, then proper and 
 efficient clauses should be inserted in the bill for the 
 protection of the owners and occupiers of property so 
 affected. 
 
 12. By clause 64 of the bill, the company seek powers 
 to make and maintain openings in the streets for the 
 purpose of ventilating their railway. Your petitioners 
 most strongly object to these powers, as they would be 
 dangerous to traffic in the narrow and crowded streets of 
 the City of London, and injurious to the health of the 
 inhabitants of houses near such openings. The proposed 
 openings are unnecessary as there are other modes of 
 ventilation which, if somewhat more expensive, would be 
 more efficient. 
 
 13. The railways and works proposed by the bill are 
 not necessary, and are not called for by any public want 
 or requirement. 
 
 14. Many of the clauses and provisions of the bill are 
 objectionable to and prejudicially affect the interests of 
 your petitioners and of the citizens of London, and will 
 require to be modified should the bill pass into law, and 
 clauses and provisions not now in the bill will, in such 
 case, require to be inserted for the protection of the 
 interests of your petitioners and of the said citizens. 
 
 15. Your petitioners object to the bill for the reasons 
 above set forth, and submit that the preamble thereof is 
 untrue and incapable of proof. 
 
 Your petitioners, &c, 
 
 Signed by order of the Court, 
 X. Y., 
 
 Town Clerk.
 
 FORM OF NOTICE OF OBJECTIONS. 283 
 
 FORM OF NOTICE OF OBJECTIONS TO LOCUS 
 
 STANDI. 
 
 [See S. O. 128-135, wife, pp. 129-131 ; S. O. 105a, B,andc, 
 H. L., and see ante, pp. 23, 35.] 
 
 In the House of Commons. 
 Session 18 . 
 
 [A. & B. Railway, or as the short title may be.] 
 To the Clerk to the Referees on Private Bills, and to the 
 Agents for the undermentioned Petitioners. 
 
 TAKE NOTICE that the promoters of the above-named 
 Bill intend to object to the right of [the X. Y. &Z. Railway 
 Company, or as the case may be] to be heard upon their 
 petition against the said Bill on the following grounds, 
 viz.: — 
 
 1. The petition does not allege nor is it the fact that any 
 land or property of which the petitioners are owners, 
 lessees, or occupiers will be taken or interfered with by 
 the bill. 
 
 2, 3, 4, 5 [State other grounds applicable to the par- 
 ticular case, as in following forms]. 
 
 6. The petition does not disclose any facts or reasons 
 which, according to the practice of Parliament entitle the 
 petitioners to be heard against the bill or any of the 
 clauses or provisions thereof. 
 
 Dated the , day of 18 . 
 
 W. & Co., 
 
 Agents for the Bill.
 
 284 PRIVATE BTLL PROCEDURE. 
 
 FORM OF INDORSEMENT OF NOTICE OF 
 OBJECTIONS TO LOCUS STANDI. 
 
 In the House of Commons. 
 Session 18 
 
 A. & B. Railway. 
 
 Notice of Objections to the locus standi of [the X., 
 Y. & Z. Railway Company, or as the case may be.] 
 
 Agents for the Petitioners, 
 
 Messrs. C. & D., 
 
 Street, 
 
 Westminster. 
 W. & Co., 
 [Insert name of Agents for the Bill] 
 
 Street, 
 
 Westminster. 
 [In framing petitions against particular bills or notices 
 of objections to locus standi in particular cases the 
 practitioners may frequently find assistance by referring to 
 the numerous reported cases in the Locus Standi Reports. 
 In those reports the notices of objections are usually to be 
 found set out or summarised. Thus, for instance, for a 
 form of notice of objections to the locus standi of the 
 inhabitants of a district upon the ground that those peti- 
 tioning were not sufficiently representative of the district,. 
 and that their interests Were already sufficiently represented 
 by the local authorities who had petitioned against the 
 bill, see Tottenham, &c, Railway Bill, 1890. Petition of 
 Inhabitants of Leyton, &c, 1 R. & S. 72. For a form of 
 objection to the locus standi of a Chamber of Commerce 
 on a Rivers Pollution Bill see West Riding Conservancy 
 Bill. 1894. Petition of the Morley Chamber of Commerce, 
 1 R. & S. 356.]
 
 FORM OF NOTICE OF OBJECTIONS. 285 
 
 FORM OF NOTICE OF OBJECTIONS TO LOCUS 
 
 STANDI. 
 
 [This and the two following forms are applicable to the 
 Forms of Petition against a Bill, which are given at 
 
 ' pp. 268, 272, 277, ante.] 
 
 In the House of Commons. 
 Session 1897. 
 
 Kilpatrick Dock. 
 
 To the Clerk to the Referees on Private Bills and to the 
 
 Agents for the undermentioned Petitioners. 
 TAKE NOTICE that the promoters of the above-named 
 bill intend to object to the right of the trustees of the port 
 and harbours of Greenock to be heard upon their petition 
 against the said bill on the following grounds, videlicet : — 
 
 1. The petition does not allege nor is it the fact that 
 any land or property of which the petitioners are owners, 
 lessees, or occupiers will be taken or interfered with by 
 the bill. 
 
 2. The proposed dock will be situate several miles 
 higher up the River Clyde than the docks of the 
 petitioners, and on the opposite side of the river, and will 
 not interfere with any of the rights or jurisdiction of the 
 petitioners in connection with the port and harbours of 
 Greenock. 
 
 3. The trade of the port of Greenock largely consists 
 of traffic which goes to other harbours on the West Coast 
 of Scotland lower down the Firth of Clyde, and cannot be 
 affected by the proposed dock, which would serve the 
 purposes and the trades and industries of a different 
 county and locality altogether and no such competition 
 could arise with the port of Greenock as would entitle the 
 petitioners to be heard against the bill
 
 286 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 4. The allegations contained in paragraph 10 of the 
 petition as to the possible reduction or remission of rates 
 are unfounded. The proposed dock is to be constructed 
 by an independent company, and revenue will require to 
 be raised from the trade of the dock to pay interest upon 
 the capital to be raised. 
 
 5. The petition does not disclose any facts or reasons 
 which, according to the practice of Parliament, would 
 entitle the petitioners to be heard against the Bill. 
 
 Dated the day of , 18 . 
 
 A. & B., 
 
 Agents for the Bill. 
 
 FORM OF NOTICE OF OBJECTIONS TO LOCUS 
 
 STANDI. 
 
 Kilpatrick Dock. 
 [Heading and Prayer as in preceding form.] 
 TAKE NOTICE that the promoters of the above-named 
 bill intend to object to the right of the Corporation of the 
 City of Glasgow to be heard upon their petition against 
 the said bill on the following grounds, viz. : — 
 
 1. [As in paragraph 1 of preceding form.] 
 
 2. The bill will not interfere with any of the various 
 duties and authorities of the petitioners referred to in 
 paragraph 2 of the petition, nor will any of the existing 
 rights or jurisdiction of the petitioners under the ancient 
 charters or the Acts of Parliament referred to in para- 
 graphs 7, 8, and 10 of the petition be affected by the bill, 
 or if any interference therewith could arise, the same 
 would be too remote and inconsiderable to entitle the 
 petitioners to be heard in respect thereof.
 
 FORM OF NOTICE OF OBJECTIONS. 287 
 
 3. The administration and control of the River Clyde, 
 and the navigation thereof and conservancy of that river 
 between Glasgow and Newark Castle, is at the present 
 time vested in the Trustees of the Clyde Navigation, who 
 were constituted in 1858, and are petitioning against the 
 bill, and whose locus standi is admitted. The petitioners 
 have a large representation on the Clyde Trust, but since 
 the constitution of that trust they have had no separate 
 jurisdiction or control over the navigation or conservancy 
 of the said river. The petitioners are thus fully repre- 
 sented by the Clyde Trustees in all matters connected with 
 the navigation of the Clyde, and the improvement and 
 conservancy of the river, and the maintenance and pro- 
 vision of docks and other similar matters, and the 
 petitioners are not entitled to be heard separately against 
 the bill in regard to any alleged interference or competi- 
 tion with the undertaking of the Clyde Trustees, or in 
 regard to the position of the creditors of the Clyde Trust 
 the fixing of rates, the reduction of revenues or the other 
 matters referred to in paragraphs 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 
 and 16 of the petition. 
 
 4. The allegations in the petition of possible inter- 
 ference with the petitioners' future landing piers, docks, or 
 wharves at Dalmuir, and of injury to the City of Glasgow 
 (which is about nine miles away from the proposed dock 
 and situate in a different county, with the burgh of 
 Patrick and the burgh of Clydebank intervening between 
 the dock and Glasgow on the same side of the river), and 
 the depreciation of the rateable value of the city (which 
 the promoters deny) are too vague and remote to entitle the 
 petitioners to be heard in respect thereto. 
 
 5. The petitioners, as traders using the River Clyde 
 and the Glasgow Docks, are not entitled to be heard 
 against the bill in addition to the duly constituted trustees 
 of the navigation on the ground of anticipated injury to 
 the undertaking of the trustees.
 
 288 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 6. The petitioners are not entitled to be heard against 
 the bill on grounds of public policy or public interest 
 affecting the navigation of the Clycj,e, in addition to the 
 trustees who are the proper parties to watch and protect 
 the navigation interests of Glasgow. 
 
 7. [As in paragraph 5 of preceding form.] 
 
 FORM OF NOTICES OF OBJECTION TO LOG US 
 
 STANDI. 
 
 [For Heading and Prayer see preceding forms.] 
 Kilpatrtck Dock. 
 
 TAKE NOTICE that the promoters of the above-named 
 bill intend to object to the right of the North British 
 Railway Company to be heard, &c 
 
 1. [As In 'previous form.] 
 
 2. The petitioners are not the owners of Queen's Dock 
 or of any of the dock accommodation at Glasgow, and are 
 not entitled to be heard in regard to any alleged diversion 
 of traffic from their docks. 
 
 3. The proposed dock and railways will not interfere 
 with the continued use of the Queen's Dock and other 
 d< >cks at Glasgow to the which the Petitioners' railways have 
 access, and the bill will not withdraw or divert traffic from 
 such railways in such manner or under such circumstances 
 as to entitle the petitioners to be heard against the bill. 
 
 4. Even if the bill is promoted with the approval and 
 sanction of the Lanarkshire, &c, Railway Company as 
 alleged (which the promoters do not admit) the railways 
 of that company which are worked by the Caledonian 
 Railway Company are in connection with the Caledonian 
 Railway already in competition with the railways of the 
 petitioners for the traffic using the Glasgow docks and
 
 FORM OF NOTICE OF OBJECTIONS. 289 
 
 other traffic which it is alleged might be diverted from the 
 railways of the petitioners, and no new competition or 
 competition of such, a character will be created by the 
 bill as would entitle the petitioners to be heard against 
 the bill. 
 
 5. The provisions of section 6, sub-section 11, of the 
 Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway Act 1891, will 
 not be repealed or altered by the bill, nor will the rights 
 (if any) of the petitioners thereunder in connection with 
 the said dock be affected, and the petitioners are not 
 entitled to be heard to seek an alteration or extension of 
 such rights. 
 
 6. The petitioners do not represent the public or the 
 traders or shippers of the Clyde, and are not entitled to be 
 heard in respect of any alleged interference with their 
 interests. 
 
 7- The petitioners are not the owners of the road from 
 Erskine Ferry, referred to in paragraph 14 of the petition, 
 or the authority in charge of such road. The road is a 
 public highway under the charge of a duly constituted 
 road authority, and the petitioners have no such special 
 interest therein as to entitle them to be heard in reference 
 to any alleged interference therewith. 
 
 8. The petition does not disclose any facts, &c. [as in 
 ■preceding forms.]
 
 200 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 A TABLE OF FEES TO BE CHARGED AT THE 
 HOUSE OF COMMONS. 
 
 Fees to be Paid by the Promoters of a Private Bile. 
 On the deposit of the petition, bill, plan, or any other £ s. d. 
 document in the Private Bill Office - - 5 
 
 For every day on which the Examiners shall inquire 
 
 into the compliance with the Standing Orders 5 
 
 For Proceedings in the House. 
 On thf presentation of the petition for the bill - 
 On the first reading of the bill - - - - 
 
 On the second reading of the bill 
 On the report from the committee on the bill 
 On the third reading of the bill ... 
 
 Bills from the Lords, commonly called estate bills, divorce bills, 
 naturalization bills and name bills, to be charged only one-half of 
 the preceding fees. 
 
 The preceding fees on the petition, first, second, and third 
 readings, and report, to be increased according to the money to be 
 raised or expended under the authority of any bill for the execution 
 of a work, in conformity with the following scale: — 
 
 If the sum be 100,000/. and under 500,000/., twice the amount 
 of such fees. 
 
 If the sum be 500,000/. and under 1,000,000/., three times the 
 amount of such fees. 
 
 If the sum be 1,000,000/. and above, four times the amount of 
 such fees. 
 
 Fok Proceedings before any Committee or the Referees. 
 For every clay on which the committee or referees 
 shall sit, — 
 If the promoters of the bill appear by counsel - - 10 
 It' they appear without counsel - - - 5 o o 
 
 Fee> to be Paid by the Opponents of a Private Bii.i.. 
 On the deposit of every memorial complaining that the 
 
 Standing Orders have not been complied with - loo 
 On tin- presentation or deposit of every petition against 
 
 :i private bill - - - -200 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 
 
 15 
 
 
 
 
 
 15 
 
 
 
 
 
 15 
 
 
 
 
 
 15 
 
 
 

 
 TABLE OF FEES. 291 
 
 For Proceedings before the Examiners or before any 
 Committee or the Referees. 
 
 For every day ou which the Examiners shall inquire £ s. d. 
 into any memorial complaining of a non-compli- 
 ance with the Standing Orders - - - 3 
 
 For every day on which the petitioners appear before 
 
 any committee or the Referees - - - 2 
 
 General Fees. 
 
 On every motion, Order, or proceeding in the House 
 upon a private bill, petition, or matter not otherwise 
 charged - - - - - - - -100 
 
 For copies of all papers and documents, at the rate 
 of 72 words in every folio, — 
 If five folios or under - - - - 2 G 
 
 If above five folios, per folio - - - - 6 
 
 For the copy of a plan made by the parties - 10 
 
 For the inspection of a plan, or of any document - 5 
 For every plan or document certified by the Speaker 
 
 pursuant to any Act of Parliament - - - 10 
 For every day on which any parties shall be heard by 
 
 counsel at the bar, from each side - - - 10 
 
 For every day on which a committee of the whole 
 
 House shall sit on a private bill or matter - -600 
 For serving any summons or Order on a private bill 
 or matter -------- 
 
 For every Order for the commitment or discharge of 
 
 any person - 
 
 For taking any person into custody for a breach of 
 
 privilege or contempt - - - - -5 00 
 
 For taking any person into custody for any other cause 2 
 For every day on which any person shall be in custody 10 
 For riding charges, per mile ... - 
 
 1 
 1 
 
 G 
 
 Fees to be Paid on the Taxation of Costs on 
 Private Bills. 
 
 For every application or reference to "the Taxing- 
 Officer of the House of Commons,*' for the taxa- 
 tion of a bill of costs - ... 1
 
 292 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 For every 100/. of any bill which shall be allowed by £ s. d. 
 
 the Taxing Officer - - - - - - 1 
 
 On the deposit of every memorial complaining of a 
 
 report of the Taxing Officer - - - 1 
 
 For every certificate which shall be signed by the 
 
 Speaker - - - - - - - -100 
 
 For copies of any documents in the office of the Taxing 
 
 Officer per folio of 72 words - - - 1 
 
 That the same fees be paid in case the Speaker shall refer to 
 the Taxing Officer any bill of costs, under the authority of an Act 
 of the sixth year of his late Majesty King George the Fourth, 
 " To establish a taxation of costs on private bills in the House of 
 Commons." 
 
 That every bill for the particular interest or benefit of any per- 
 son or persons, whether the same be brought in upon petition or 
 motion, or report from a committee, or brought from the Lords, 
 hath been and ought to be deemed a private bill within the mean- 
 ing of the table of fees. 
 
 Fees to be taken by the Short-hand Writer. 
 For every day he shall attend - - - - 2 2 
 
 For the transcript of his notes, per folio of 72 words - 9 
 The preceding fees shall be charged, paid, and received at such 
 times, in such manner and under such regulations, as the Speaker 
 shall from time to time direct.
 
 TABLE OF FEKS. 
 
 293 
 
 SCHEDULE OF FEES 
 TO BE CHARGED AT THE HOUSE OF LORDS. 
 
 Local or Personal Bills. 
 
 Deposit of plan ------- 
 
 Notice or order for consideration of Standing Order 
 in order to its being dispensed with - - - 
 
 Order thereon ------- 
 
 Certificates of Examiners in case of any one bill 
 
 Order referring certificate to Standing Orders Com- 
 mittee -------- 
 
 Standing Orders Committee thereon - 
 
 Report of Standing Orders Committee - 
 
 First reading ._-_--.- 
 
 Notice of second reading - 
 
 Second reading : 
 Personal bills : 
 
 Estate 
 
 Patent ------- 
 
 Disabilities removal - 
 
 Divorce ------- 
 
 A. Naturalisation _■___. 
 
 Name 
 Oath - - - - - - -> 
 
 (No second reading fee is charged^ upon an ^indemnity or 
 restoration bill.) 
 Local bills : 
 
 £ 
 
 s. 
 
 d. 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 Bl 
 
 27 
 
 Bills where the capital or money to be 
 raised does not exceed 50,000/. 
 
 exceeds 50,000/., and does not exceed 
 
 200,000/. ----- 
 
 exceeds 200,000/., or is not defined in 
 
 amount ----- 
 
 Bills relating to charitable, literary, or 
 
 scientific purposes whereby no private 
 
 profit or advantage is derived 
 
 Other bills ------ 
 
 81 
 
 108 
 
 135 
 
 27 
 81 
 
 u
 
 29-i PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 £ S. d. 
 Order referring petition for estate bill to judges - 10 
 
 Every petition in favour of or against a bill not 
 
 praying to be heard - - - 10 
 } , praying to be heard against a bill - -» 
 
 „ in favour of a bill and praying to I 9 a a 
 
 be heard against alteration I 
 therein - . - - -J 
 For the first or first and second days on which an 
 
 agent only appears in support of a petition - - 3 
 
 For every subsequent day - - - - - 100 
 
 For the first day on which counsel appear in support 
 
 of a petition - - - - - - -10 00 
 
 For every subsequent day - - - - - 4 
 
 Order for attendance of witnesses, each witness - 10 
 
 Every witness to whom an oath or affirmation is 
 
 administered at the bar of the House - - - 10 
 
 Every witness to whom an oath or affirmation is admi- 
 nistered before a committee -■ 
 Petition for additional provision ... - 
 Certificate of Examiner thereon ... - 
 Report of judges on petition for estate bill 
 Commitment of an unopposed bill - 
 
 n ,, opposed bill, committee to be pro- 
 
 posed by Committee of Selection 
 Report of Committee of Selection - 
 Order for committee on opposed bill to meet 
 Order giving leave for counsel to be heard before a 
 
 committee - - - - - - - 100 
 
 For the first day on which counsel appear in support 
 
 of bill - ... - 8 
 
 For every subsequent day - - - - - 4 
 
 Committee on any personal bill in division marked A. 2 
 
 n on any other bill - - ... - 500 
 
 Report, estate bill - .... 500 
 
 Report, any other bill, with amendment - 4 
 
 , „ without amendment - - 2 
 
 Report, bill not to proceed - - - - - 10 
 
 Order on report that promoters do not intend to pro- 
 ceed further with bill - - 10 
 Nol ice of third reading 10 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 

 
 10 
 
 
 
 
 
 15 
 
 
 
 
 
 3 
 
 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 
 
 TABLE OF FEES. 295 
 
 Third reading : £ s. d. 
 
 Bill (H. L.) containing not more than 20 pages of 
 print ------- 
 
 Bill (H. L.) containing more than 20 pages 
 
 Amendments on third reading H. L. bills 
 
 H. C. bills 
 
 Producing before a committee of the House of Com- 
 mons any document or proof - - - - 10 
 
 Provisional Order Confirmation Bills. 
 
 The same fees are charged to promoters and opponents at the 
 committee stage in the case of opposed bills as in the case of local 
 bills. 
 
 No other fees are charged. 
 
 General Fees. 
 
 For every certificate signed by the chairman of com- 
 mittees -------- 2 
 
 Inspection of a plan or other document - - - 5 
 Copy of document, per folio of 72 words - - 6 
 
 The inspection fee to be charged in addition when the 
 
 document is two years old and upwards. 
 Copies of documents earlier than George III. to be 
 
 charged double the above fees. 
 Copy certified by the Clerk of the Parliaments 
 
 in addition to the above. 
 
 10 
 
 Fees on Taxation. 
 
 For every application or reference to the Taxing Officer 
 of the House of Lords, for the taxation of a bill of 
 costs -------- 1 
 
 £1 per cent, upon the amount of the bill as sent in 
 for taxation, or added to on taxation 
 
 On the deposit of every memorial complaining of a 
 
 report of the Taxing Officer - - - - 10 
 
 For every certificate signed by the clerk of the Par- 
 liaments or Taxing Officer - - - - 10 
 
 For copies of any documents in the office of the Taxing 
 Officer, per folio of 72 words - 
 
 6 
 
 u2
 
 296 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 LIST OF CHARGES FOR PARLIAMENTARY 
 AGENTS, ATTORNIES, SOLICITORS, AND 
 OTHERS. PREPARED BY MR. SPEAKER, 
 IN PURSUANCE OF "THE HOUSE OF 
 COMMONS COSTS TAXATION ACT, 1847." 
 
 Ant charges included in a bill of costs for proceedings pre- 
 viously to those connected with the preparation of the bill, or the 
 notice" or plans for the same, or for other proceedings which are 
 not strictly Parliamentary, must be made out according to the 
 scale allowed in courts of law. 
 
 I.— ATTENDANCES. 
 
 For every attendance hereinafter specified, whenever the same shall 
 be necessary and shall be actually had (but not otherwise), 
 Parliamentary agents will he entitled to the charges set down 
 in the first column, and solicitors to the charges set down in 
 the second column of this list. 
 
 Parliamentary 
 
 Agent. 
 
 At the House of Commons : 
 At each of the following proceed- 
 ings in the House upon tin- 
 petition and bill, viz. — 
 
 Promoters : 
 Attending to obtain petition for 
 bill from the Private Bill 
 Office, and get the same pre- 
 sented and petition referred to 
 Standing Orders Committee; or 
 bill ordered, or other proceed- 
 ing thereon - - - - 
 
 Pirsl reading of the bill 
 
 Second reading - 
 
 Reporl 
 
 Consideration of report 
 
 Third leading - 
 
 £ s. d. 
 
 Attorney or 
 Solicitor. 
 
 £ s. d. 
 
 1 1 o 
 
 1 
 
 ] 
 
 
 
 1 1 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 1 1 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 1 1 
 
 
 — 
 
 
 110 
 
 l 
 
 l 
 
 
 
 1 1 o 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 

 
 LIST OF CHARGES. 
 
 297 
 
 Parliamentary 
 Agent. 
 
 Attorney or 
 Solicitor. 
 
 Consideration of Lords' 
 amendments - 
 
 Note. — The above charges will 
 include the attendances upon 
 members at the House, who 
 are to present petitions, or to 
 move any stage of the bill in 
 the House, and the drawing 
 the requisite motions, and also 
 the attendances upon officers 
 of the House in reference to 
 matters connected with any 
 stage of the bill or other pro- 
 ceeding ; except under special 
 circumstances. 
 
 All other special attendances in 
 reference to other proceedings 
 in the House may be charged 
 according to the circumstances 
 of each case, in conformity 
 with such parts of this list as 
 may be applicable thereto. 
 
 Attendances before the Examiners 
 of petitions for private bills : 
 
 Unopposed Cases : 
 
 To prove compliance with the 
 Standing Orders in the case 
 of a petition for a bill, and 
 obtaining indorsement by 
 Examiner, 
 
 In first class bills - - - 
 
 In second class bills 
 
 If adjourned for further proofs, 
 each subsequent, attendance 
 when the Examiner shall in- 
 quire into the same, or at- 
 tending to apply for post- 
 ponement or adjournment - 
 
 Note. — Only one attendance is al- 
 lowed to be charged for proofs 
 before the Examiner in respect 
 of the Standing Orders of 1 10th 
 Houses, when the same are 
 taken simultaneously. 
 
 £ s. d. 
 1 1 
 
 £ s. d. 
 1 1 
 
 2 2 
 
 3 3 
 
 1 1 
 
 2 2 
 
 3 3 
 
 I 1
 
 298 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Parliamentary 
 
 Agent. 
 
 Attorney or 
 Solicitor. 
 
 £ s. d. 
 
 To prove compliance with the 
 Standing Orders in the case 
 of bills from the House of 
 Lords, petitions for additional 
 provision, or bills introduced 
 in lieu of other bills which 
 shall have been withdrawn - 
 
 Opposed Cases ; 
 For every day on which memo- 
 rials complaining of non-com- 
 pliance with the Standing 
 Orders are inquired into by 
 the Examiner (according to 
 circumstances) - 
 
 For entering appearances upon 
 memorials before the Exami- 
 ner, and watching proceed- 
 ings in case such memorials 
 are not called on, each day - 
 Note.— When an agent or solici- 
 tor appears and attends for 
 two or more memorials, com- 
 plaining of non-compliance 
 ■with the Standing Orders, on 
 behalf of the same clients, 
 against the same bill, he will 
 be entitled to charge one day's 
 attendance only in respect of 
 the same. 
 
 For every day on which a peti- 
 tion for a bill is on the Ex- 
 aminer's daily list, but is not 
 called on - 
 Kote. — When two or more peti- 
 tions for bills, being promoted 
 or opposed by or on behalf of 
 the same clients, are appointed 
 for consideration by the same 
 Examiner on the same day, 
 hut are not called on, tin- 
 agents and solicitors of such 
 clients respectively will not be 
 
 £ s. d. 
 
 1 1 
 
 2 2 
 
 1 1 
 
 2 2
 
 LIST OF CHARGES. 
 
 299 
 
 Attorney or 
 Solicitor. 
 
 entitled to such charge in re- 
 spect of each petition for a bill 
 so promoted or opposed, but 
 may charge any sum, not ex- 
 ceeding \l. Is., for additional 
 trouble (if any) in respect of 
 each other petition for a bill 
 on the same list ; provided that 
 in no case (except under special 
 circumstances) shall a charge 
 exceeding 5/. os. be made in 
 respect of one such day's at- 
 tendance on behalf of the same 
 clients. 
 
 For every day on which memo- 
 rials complaining of non-com- 
 pliance with the Standing 
 Orders in the case of bills 
 from the House of Lords, 
 petitions for additional pro- 
 vision, or bills introduced in 
 lieu of other bills which shall 
 have been withdrawn are in- 
 quired into by the Examiner - 
 
 Attendances before the Referees 
 
 on locus standi : 
 
 Attending clerk to obtain ap- 
 pointment, provided that in 
 no case shall more than three 
 such attendances be charged - 
 
 For every day when the case is 
 in the paper but not reached - 
 
 For every day in which the 
 case is considered, when the 
 parties appear by counsel 
 
 When the parties appear with- 
 out counsel ... 
 
 Attendances before committees : 
 Attending the Standing Orders 
 Committee each day in which 
 
 £ s. d. 
 
 £ s. d. 
 
 from 
 
 r from 
 
 2 2 
 
 J 2 2 
 
 to 
 
 S to 
 
 3 3 
 
 L 3 3 
 
 7 6 
 
 
 
 7 
 
 6 
 
 1 1 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 2 2 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 from 
 
 
 
 
 3 3 
 
 to 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 5 5 
 
 

 
 300 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 the casr is on the list, and 
 is heard, postponed, or ad- 
 journed - 
 Attending the Committee of 
 Selection, or the General 
 Committee on Railway and 
 Canal Bills when required to 
 attend with reference to the 
 grouping of the bill, or the 
 appointment of the com- 
 mittee, or on other special 
 and necessary occasions, pro- 
 vided that in no case shall 
 more than three such attend- 
 ances he charged : 
 
 Promoters - - - 
 
 Opponents - 
 
 Committee on the Bill: 
 Unopposed Bills : 
 
 Attending when the bill is con- 
 sidered by the committee - 
 
 Under special circumstances in 
 railway and other bills 
 
 Attending the committee to 
 apply for a postponement or 
 adjournment 
 
 Opposed Bills : 
 
 Attending the committee every 
 day on which the bill is con- 
 sidered by the committee : 
 
 When the parties appear 
 without counsel (accord- 
 ing to circumstances) - 
 
 Parliamentary 
 
 Agent. 
 
 2 2 
 
 1 1 
 10 
 
 1 1 
 
 Attorney or 
 Solicitor. 
 
 d. £ s. d. 
 
 2 2 
 
 1 1 
 10 G 
 
 1 1 
 
 
 from 
 
 r from 
 
 J 3 3 
 
 3 
 
 3 
 
 
 to 
 
 1 t0 
 
 5 
 
 5 
 
 1 o o
 
 LIST OF CHARGES. 
 
 301 
 
 Parliamentary 
 Agent. 
 
 Attorney or 
 Solicitor. 
 
 When the parties appear 
 by counsel, and the pre- 
 amble is considered by 
 the committee 
 
 When the clauses of the bill are 
 considered by the committee 
 Note. — When an agent or solici- 
 tor appears and attends for two 
 or more petitions against a 
 bill, on behalf of the same 
 clients, he will be entitled to 
 charge one day's attendance 
 only in respect of the same. 
 Attending to watch proceedings 
 of a committee on a group of 
 bills when the bill in respect of 
 which the agent or solicitor is 
 concerned stands for considera- 
 tion, but is not considered by 
 the committee, per day : 
 
 Promoters - - - - 
 
 Opponents - - - - 
 
 Note. — In no ease (except under 
 special circumstances) must a 
 charge exceeding 51. 5s. be 
 made in respect of attending 
 to watch proceedings in the 
 case of petitions against a 
 bill, previously to such peti- 
 tions being considered. 
 
 Attending to withdraw a petition 
 
 Note. — When two or more bills, 
 being promoted or opposed by 
 or on behalf of tae same 
 clients, are appointed for con- 
 sideration by the committee on 
 the same day, but are post- 
 poned or adjourned without 
 being considered, or are not 
 separately considered by the 
 committee, the agents or solici- 
 tors of such clients respectively 
 will not be entitled to such 
 
 2 2 
 1 10 
 
 £ 
 
 s. d. 
 
 £ 
 
 r 
 
 s. d. 
 
 from 
 
 o 
 
 2 
 
 :i 
 
 3 
 
 to 
 
 
 
 1 5 
 
 5 
 
 r 
 
 from 
 
 r 
 
 from 
 
 {; 
 
 3 
 to 
 5 
 
 I: 
 
 3 
 
 to 
 5 
 
 2 
 
 1
 
 302 
 
 PRIVATE HILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Parliamentary 
 
 Agent. 
 
 charge in respect of each bill 
 so promoted or opposed; bjut 
 may charge any sum, not ex- 
 ceeding 1/. Is., for additional 
 trouble (if any) in respect of 
 each other bill so postponed or 
 adjourned, or not separately 
 considered : provided that in 
 no case (except under special 
 circumstances) shall a charge 
 exceeding 51. 5s. be made in 
 respect of one such clay's at- 
 tendance upon the committee 
 on behalf of the same clients. 
 No charge is allowed for attend- 
 ance of a clerk to the solicitor 
 on a committee, except for the 
 purpose of being examined as 
 a •witness. 
 Other Attendances, at the House, 
 or elsewhere : 
 Special attendances upon Mr. 
 Speaker or the Chairman of 
 the Committee of Ways and 
 Means, in reference to any 
 bill - - - - " 
 Attending members at the 
 House on special and neces- 
 sary occasions (other than 
 moving the stages of the bill) 
 First attendance on Mr 
 Speaker's Counsel to go 
 through bill - 
 
 Subsequent attendances - ^ - 
 Special attendances (not in- 
 cluded in the sessional fee) 
 upon Mr. Speaker's Secre- 
 tary or other officer of the 
 House - 
 
 Xote. — Where more than one of 
 the above attendances at the 
 House take place on the same 
 occasion with reference to the 
 same bill, not more than 1/. is. 
 to be charged for all such at- 
 tendances unless the time oc- 
 cupied shall exceed one hour. 
 
 1 1 
 
 1 1 
 
 1 
 
 10 
 
 Attorney or 
 Solicitor. 
 
 £ *. d. 
 
 10 6 
 
 1 1 
 
 1 1 
 
 1 
 13 
 
 13 4
 
 LIST OF CHARGES. 
 
 303 
 
 At consultation with counsel - 
 
 On counsel, at Chambers, with 
 retainer; brief; to fix con- 
 sultation and pay fee; with 
 and for draft bill ; and other 
 attendances when fees are 
 paid to counsel - 
 Attending at the Private Bill 
 Office to deposit the petition 
 for the bill, with agent's declar- 
 ation and printed copy of the 
 bill annexed, and other printed 
 copies of the bill, and register- 
 ing the petition in the general 
 list of petitions - 
 
 Note. — The making up the peti- 
 tion, with declaration and bill 
 annexed, is included in the 
 above charge. 
 Attending at the Private Bill 
 Office to deposit plan, section, 
 and book of reference 
 Other attendances at the House 
 
 or offices thereof - 
 Attending to deposit documents 
 
 at a Government Office - 
 Attending to deposit other docu- 
 ments required by the Standing 
 Orders to be deposited (except 
 bills, amendments, &c, the de- 
 posit of which, in certain cases, 
 is included in the sessional fee) . 
 
 See II. 
 
 If at a distance, and for de- 
 posits with parish clerks, 
 &c. (if numerous), clerk's 
 time and expenses are to 
 be charged instead of the 
 preceding. 
 Note. — The charge for attending 
 to deposit includes any charge 
 for drawing a memorandum 
 
 Parliamentary 
 Agent. 
 
 £ s. d. 
 1 1 
 
 when required 
 to attend. 
 
 1 1 
 
 1 1 
 
 10 6 
 
 10 6 
 
 10 6 
 
 Attorney or 
 Solicitor. 
 
 £ s. d. 
 1 1 
 
 10 
 
 1 1 
 13 4 
 10 6 
 
 13 4
 
 304- 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 of documents deposited, and 
 obtaining signature of the de- 
 positor thereto, and the requi- 
 site copies of the same, except 
 the same shall exceed one folio, 
 ■when Is. id. per folio may he 
 charged for drawing the same, 
 and 6d. per folio for copies to 
 hand in to Examiner or other 
 requisite copies ; it also in- 
 cludes the drawing and obtain- 
 ing the certificate or receipt for 
 such deposit. 
 Attendances for the purpose of 
 deposit cannot be charged both 
 by Parliamentary agent and 
 solicitor. 
 Attending at the Private Bill 
 Office to deposit petitions in 
 favour of or against any private 
 bill, and registering the same ; 
 viz. : — 
 
 If one petition or less than 
 
 three - 
 If three petitions, and less 
 than seven -•'.-.- 
 If seven petitions, and less 
 than twelve - - - 
 For any number exceeding 
 twelve - - - - 
 Note. — The endorsing petitions 
 and preparing the same for 
 deposit are included in the 
 above fees except •when the 
 same are prepared by the 
 solicitor, when from 3s. -id. to 
 68. 8d. is allowed for endors- 
 ing a petition or set of peti- 
 tions, and transmitting the 
 same to the Parliamentary 
 agent for the purpose of de- 
 posit (except when included in 
 the sessional fee). 
 
 On taxing officer, for the pur- 
 pose of taxation of a bill of 
 
 Note, — No charge is allowed for 
 copies of a bill of costs for 
 
 Parliamentary 
 
 Agent. 
 
 d. 
 
 Attorney or 
 
 Solicitor. 
 
 .9. d. 
 
 10 
 
 6 
 
 13 
 
 4 
 
 1 1 
 
 
 
 1 1 
 
 
 
 1 11 
 
 G 
 
 1 11 
 
 6 
 
 O o 
 
 
 
 2 2 
 
 
 
 from 
 )3 4 
 
 to 
 
 2
 
 LIST OF CHARGES. 
 
 305 
 
 taxation except when neces- 
 sarily made for the purpose of 
 depositing the same in the 
 Taxing Office. 
 
 On a witness settling his proof 
 (if necessary) 
 
 Note. — If attendance requisite on 
 many witnesses on the same 
 occasion, a charge to be made 
 according to time occupied. 
 
 The attendance on a witness 
 for the purpose of settling an 
 affidavit is included in the 
 charge for drawing affidavit. 
 
 The attendance on the wit- 
 ness previously to drawing his 
 proof is included in the charge 
 for instructions for proof. 
 
 With a witness to be sworn 
 At Post Office registering and 
 posting applications and tak- 
 ing receipt - - - - 
 
 Note.— The applications to owners, 
 lessees, and occupiers should be 
 made by post, if practicable 
 and more economical. 
 
 Where personal service is re- 
 quired, a clerk's time and ex- 
 penses for the purpose of such 
 service may be charged, except 
 where such service can be more 
 economically made through 
 local agents. 
 
 Preparing and despatching tele- 
 graphic message - - - 
 
 At Private Bill Office to take 
 out appearances - - - 
 
 Note. — Only one charge to be 
 made for taking out appear- 
 ances on any number of peti- 
 tions from the said clients on 
 the same day. 
 
 Parliamentary 
 .A dent. 
 
 Attorney or 
 Solicitor. 
 
 £ s. d. 
 
 0b 
 
 6 8 
 
 6 8 
 
 10 6 
 
 6 8 
 13 4 
 
 5 
 7 6 
 
 5
 
 306 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 On printer with instructions 
 
 Note. — When attendance to order 
 proofs is charged, no charge is 
 allowed for subsequent attend- 
 ance to obtain proofs. 
 
 No attendance to Le charged 
 for ordering further additional 
 copies. 
 
 Provisional Orders : 
 
 Attendances at any Government 
 Department for the purpose of 
 giving proofs - - - - 
 
 Other attendances at a Govern- 
 ment Department - - - 
 
 If a Provisional Order is opposed 
 in Parliament, the same charges 
 mnv be made for attendances 
 in committee and other pro- 
 ceedings consequent on such 
 opposition as in the case of 
 opposed private bills. 
 
 Attendances of a Clerk : 
 
 Before a committee or the Ex 
 aminer to give evidence - 
 
 If in favour of or against an op- 
 posed bill, or in support of or 
 against allegations of a memo- 
 rial 
 
 To order and obtain copies of a 
 petition or petitions in favour 
 of or against a bill or other 
 documents - 
 
 JZote. — Only one attendance is 
 allowed to be charged for 
 ordering and obtaining any 
 number of petitions against 
 the same bill at the same time. 
 
 Attendance on members of Stand- 
 ing Orders Committee (12 in 
 number), to deposit statement - 
 
 ( ) her attendances of a clerk 
 
 Parliamentary 
 Agent. 
 
 £ .v. d. 
 6 8 
 
 10 G 
 
 1 1 
 
 7 6 
 
 1 1 
 
 o 7 (> 
 
 Attorney or 
 Solicitor. 
 
 £ *. d. 
 6 8 
 
 10 6 
 
 1 1 
 
 ()6 8 
 
 1 1 o 
 o 6 s
 
 LIST OF CHARGES. 307 
 
 II.— SESSIONAL OR SOLICITATION" FEE 
 
 For Soliciting the Bill for the Promoters by the 
 Parliamentary Agent. 
 
 £ s. d. 
 When the bill has received the Royal Assent - - 26 5 
 
 [In case the bill should not receive the Royal Assent, a 
 sessional fee of two guineas and upwards may be 
 charged, according to the class of bill and the progress 
 made through its several stages.] 
 
 The sessional fee will include all attendances not otherwise specially 
 mentioned in this list, at the following offices of the House 
 of Commons ; viz. : — 
 
 At the House for the purpose of watching proceedings, and 
 
 Royal Assent. 
 Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means : 
 
 To deposit bills, clauses and amendments, and afterwards 
 to obtain the same ; and all other formal attendances. 
 Committee of Selection or General Committee on Railway 
 and Canal Bills : 
 To deposit bills, and on other occasions when not specially 
 required to attend. 
 Mr. Speaker's Counsel : 
 
 To deposit prints of bills, and afterwards to obtain the 
 same ; and all other formal attendances. 
 Mr. Speaker's Secretary : 
 
 All formal attendances to leave amended bills and clauses, 
 and to obtain the same agreed to. 
 
 The Examiner : 
 
 To deposit bills, and apply for appointments ; and all 
 formal attendances. 
 Private Bill Office : 
 To give notices. 
 
 To examine register with reference to deposit of petitions 
 or memorials against bill, and for other purposes, and 
 other books. 
 To deposit prints of bills, amended bills, and copies of 
 proposed amendments.
 
 308 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Fee Office : 
 To pay fees, and all other attendances in reference thereto, 
 and with copies of bills -when required. 
 
 Journal Office : 
 
 To order and obtain copies of reports, petitions, and other 
 papers ; except in the case of opposed bills, when 7s. Qd . 
 may be charged for attending to bespeak and afterwards 
 to obtain the same. 
 
 Committee Clerks' Office : 
 
 To deposit bills, and all ordinary attendances with 
 reference to the progress of the bill. 
 
 Doorkeepers : 
 
 To deliver prints of bills, &c. 
 
 Offices for the sale of Parliamentary papers : 
 
 To obtain printed reports and other papers required for 
 use in the progress of the bill. 
 
 The sessional fee will also cover all ordinary communications 
 of the agent with the solicitor, with reference to the progress of 
 the bill through it3 various stages, when no professional advice 
 or instruction is sriven. 
 
 Provisional Orders : 
 
 £ s. d. 
 Sessional fee for soliciting the order and confirmation 
 bill for the promoters by the Parliamentary agent, 
 when the bill has received the Royal Assent - - 15 15 
 
 The sessional fee will include all attendances at the House, or 
 the offices thereof, or at any Government department as to the 
 stages of the provisional order or confirmation bill, or for 
 examining the register with reference to petitions or memorials 
 against the bill; the obtaining, perusing, and examining the bill 
 to ascertain that the provisional order has been correctly inserted 
 therein, and attendances at any Government department with 
 reference to the correct insertion of the provisional order ; 
 watching, and, if necessary, assisting at the various stages of the 
 bill in the House, or before the examiner ; all letters to the 
 solicitor or client with reference to the progress of the provisional 
 order or confirmation bill.
 
 LIST OF CHARGES. 309 
 
 If the same agent is concerned for more than one provisional 
 order relating to the same locality, and included in the same 
 confirmation bill, an additional sessional fee of 51. 5s. may be 
 charged for every such provisional order exceeding one. 
 
 II.— SESSIONAL OR SOLICITATION FEE 
 
 For Soliciting the Bill for the Promoters by the 
 Solicitor, when a Parliamentary Agent is also 
 
 employed. 
 
 £ s. d. 
 
 "When the bill has received the Royal Assent - - 10 10 
 
 [In case the bill should not receive the Royal Assent, a 
 sessional fee of two guineas and upwards may be 
 charged according to the class of bill, and the progress 
 made through its several stages.] 
 
 The sessional fee of the solicitor will include all charges for his 
 ordinary communications with the Parliamentary agent, with 
 reference to the progress of the bill through its various stages, 
 when no professional advice or instruction is given ; delivering 
 documents to Parliamentary agent for deposit ; attendances at the 
 offices of the House to ascertain the position of the bill ; 
 attendances at the office for sale of Parliamentary papers ; 
 attendances at the House to watch proceedings ; and at the 
 Royal Assent. 
 
 When no other Parliamentary agent is employed, the solicitor 
 acting in that capacity will be entitled to the sessional fee of 
 Parliamentary agent, in lieu of that of Solicitor. The solicitor is 
 not entitled to charge any sessional fee in the case of a provisional 
 order. 
 
 In cases of opposition to bills no sessional fee is allowed.
 
 310 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 111.— TIME CHARGES. 
 
 Attorney or 
 Solicitor. 
 
 For attendance-, Ac- 
 Ordinary 
 
 It' upwards of an hour 
 Or per hour - 
 
 It' required to leave London — 
 Time per day - 
 Hotel expenses 
 
 and fares actually paid. 
 A solicitor from the country 
 absent from home in London, 
 or elsewhere, is allowed — 
 Time per day - 
 Hotel expenses 
 
 and hues actually paid. 
 
 Note. — The day charge includes 
 all charges for work done dur- 
 ing the day. 
 
 Clerks : per day 
 
 Hotel expenses, and fares actu- 
 ally paid. 
 
 Note. — In taking the reference, 
 ■ 31 rving applications on 
 owners, &c, and making de- 
 posite with parish clerks, a 
 charge of 1/. lis. (>d. per day 
 is allowed for each cleri so 
 employed.
 
 LIST OF CHARGES. 
 
 311 
 
 IV.— DRAWING DOCUMENTS. 
 
 Special instructions (if required), and letters 
 therewith : 
 
 Notice : 
 
 As to contents and publication 
 
 Plans : 
 
 As to form and deposit of - 
 
 Notice to owners, lessees, and occupiers : 
 As to form and service thereof - 
 
 List of owners, &c. : 
 
 As to form of ----- - 
 
 Note. — Any other instructions as to the above docu- 
 ments or other requirements of the Standing 
 Orders to be charged as a letter. 
 
 Notice in Gazette or newspaper : 
 Instructions - - 
 
 If less than 11 folios - - 
 
 If more than 11 folios, per folio 
 
 Book of reference : 
 
 Per folio - - - 
 
 Index to book of reference and register there- 
 with, containing the answers received to ap- 
 plications (including any necessary copies), 
 per folio ------- 
 
 Lists of owners, lessees, and occupiers : 
 
 Per folio ------- 
 
 Note. — The above charges include the entering the 
 replies received from time to time for the purpose 
 of such drawing. 
 
 Applications to owners, lessees, and occupiers of 
 lands and houses : 
 Drawing, and fair copy for service, each appli- 
 cation (including the letter of assent, dissent, 
 or neutrality, left or forwarded therewith) - 
 
 Each notice of abandonment and other notice, 
 not being in the form set forth in Appendix 
 (A) to the Standing Orders - 
 
 £ s. d. 
 
 1 1 
 
 1 1 
 
 10 6 
 
 10 6 
 
 13 4 
 
 1 1 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 1 4 
 2
 
 312 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 List of applications to be posted or to be served 
 by a witness, and copy for signature, in- 
 cluding the obtaining the signature of the 
 witness thereto : 
 Each list - - - - 
 
 or, per folio - - - 
 
 Note. —No second charge allowed for drawing the 
 above Lists of applications for the purpose of 
 handing in to the Examiner, or other purpose, 
 but only the charge for copying. 
 
 Estimates of expenses, and requisite copies - 
 Declaration in lien or in aid of deposit of money, 
 
 and requisite copies - 
 Declaration and estimate, and requisite copies 
 Declaration under Standing Order 41, and requi- 
 site Copies ------ 
 
 Subscription contract : 
 
 Instructions - - - - - 
 
 Per folio - - - 
 
 Petition for bill : 
 
 If less than 1 1 folios - 
 
 If more than 11 folios, per folio 
 Agent's declaration, and copies for deposit : 
 
 1st. class bill - 
 
 2nd class bill - 
 
 Bill: 
 
 Instructions - ... 
 
 Drawing bill, per folio - 
 Additional clauses, per folio - 
 Statements of proofs on Standing Orders :J 
 
 Proofs previously to the introduction of the 
 bill : 
 
 Parliamentary Agent : 
 
 Drawing or perusing same, and fair copy, 
 and forwarding same to solicitor, together 
 with letter accompanying the same^ and 
 instructions : 
 
 1st class bill - - 
 
 Ditto, where lands and houses are taken 
 
 2nd class bill- - 
 
 Solicitor : 
 
 Drawing or perusing and filling up the same, 
 and arranging lists referred to therein, and 
 
 £ .v. d. 
 
 3 I 
 1 4 
 
 10 () 
 
 1 1 
 I 11 6 
 
 1 1 
 
 13 4 
 
 1 4 
 
 1 1 
 
 2 
 
 1 1 (J 
 
 2 2 
 
 2 2 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 1 1 
 
 1 11 6 
 
 2 2
 
 LIST OF CHAKUES. 
 
 31 i 
 
 forwarding the same, with letter accom- 
 panying, to the Parliamentary agent : 
 1st class bill - - - - - 
 Ditto, where lands and houses are taken - 
 2nd class bill 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 3 
 
 Parliamentary Agent : 
 
 Perusing anil finally arranging the same for 
 proof before the Examiner : 
 
 1st class bill - . . . 
 
 2nd class bill - - 
 
 If the solicitor is also acting as Parliamentary 
 
 agent, he may charge for statement of 
 
 proofs, including final arrangement of the 
 
 same : 
 
 1st class - 
 
 Ditto, when lands and houses are taken - 
 2nd class - 
 Proofs subsequent to introduction of bill : 
 
 Solicitor - 
 
 Parliamentary agent 
 
 Or, if the solicitor is also acting as I 
 mentary agent - - - 
 
 No other or further charge is allowed to Par- 
 liamentary agent or solicitor with reference 
 to the preparation of the statement of proofs. 
 Memorials complaining of non-compliance with 
 Standing Orders : 
 
 Instructions - - 
 
 If less than 1 1 folios - - - - - 
 
 If more than 1 1 folios, per folio - 
 
 Statements for Standing Orders Committee (ac- 
 cording to length and other circumstances) 
 
 or, per brief sheet of 10 folios 
 Petition against bill, and praying to be heard 
 before the Committee : 
 
 Instructions ------ 
 
 10 6 
 
 1 1
 
 314 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 If less than 1 1 folios - 
 If more than 11 folios, per folio - 
 Petitions for additional provision, or for dispensing 
 with Standing Orders : 
 
 If less than 11 folios - - - - - 
 If more than 1 1 folios, per folio - 
 
 Other petitions with reference to bill : 
 
 If less than 1 1 folios - - - - - 
 
 If less than 15 folios - 
 
 If more than 15 folios, per sheet - 
 
 or, per folio ------ 
 
 Briefs : 
 
 Instructions for brief (according to circum- 
 stances). 
 Drawing same, per brief sheet of 10 folios 
 Retainers to counsel : 
 
 Drawing and copy - - - - - 
 
 Case for opinion of counsel : 
 
 Instructions - ------ 
 
 Drawing, per sheet ___•_- 
 
 Proofs of witnesses, or notes for cross-examination : 
 
 Instructions (including, in case of proofs of 
 
 witnesses, any previous attendance on the 
 
 witness) ------- 
 
 Drawing, per sheet - 
 
 Statements, reports, abstracts, or other docu- 
 ments prepared for use in proceedings of the 
 House, or in preparing to comply with the 
 Standing Orders, per folio - 
 or, per brief sheet of 10 folios - 
 AtHdavits (including attendance on the witness) : 
 Each affidavit, including lists attached thereto, 
 and copy ------- 
 
 or, per folio ------ 
 
 Requisition for warrant for deposit of money 
 
 and copy for signature - 
 "Warrant, and attendance to get same signed 
 Requisition for certificate of speaker - 
 Certificate, and attendance to get same signed 
 Requisition f< r withdrawal of petitions or me- 
 morials ------- 
 
 Motions, special, for members: 
 
 Drawing, and fair copy for member 
 
 Note. — Charges for drawing, and copies of nil ordi- 
 nary motions on the several stages of the liills 
 ami other proceedings in the JInu.se, to lie in- 
 cluded in tli«- fi i - i"i- attendance. 
 
 £ 
 
 s. 
 
 d. 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 9 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 
 13 
 
 4 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 13 
 
 4 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 4 
 
 13 4 
 
 10 
 
 13 4 
 
 13 4 
 
 13 4 
 13 4 
 
 1 4 
 13 4 
 
 10 
 
 1 4 
 
 10 
 
 10 
 
 10 
 
 10 
 
 10 
 
 It)
 
 LIST OF CHARGES. 
 
 315 
 
 Summons for witnesses : 
 
 Drawing, and copy for service - - 
 
 Other documents connected with the case, and 
 
 not specified above, per folio - 
 
 Note.— In all cases the charge for drawing any 
 document will include the fair copy to keep, or 
 for counsel or agent to settle. 
 
 £ s. d. 
 5 
 
 1 
 
 Provisional Order. 
 The charges for drawing the provisional order notices and 
 other documents similar to those required in the case of private 
 bills, and copies thereof (limited according to Table A.) may be 
 made out according to the same scale. 
 
 V.— PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS' CHARGES. 
 
 For Perusing and Settling Documents 
 Drawn by a Solicitor (when required). 
 Notices for Gazette and newspapers : 
 
 If less than 1 1 folios - - - 
 
 If more than 1 1 folios (according to length and 
 other circumstances) - 
 
 Petition for bill : 
 If less than 1 1 folios 
 
 If more than 1 1 folios - 
 
 (Or if the same shall exceed 50 folios, 1*. per 
 folio upon the whole petition.) 
 
 Petitions for additional provision, or for dispens- 
 ing with the Standing Orders : 
 
 Petitions against bill, and praying to be heard 
 before the committee, or memorial complain- 
 ing of non-compliance with the Standing 
 Orders : 
 The same charges as for a petition for a bill. 
 
 Other petitions, against or in favour of bills, each 
 petition ------- 
 
 Statements for Standing Orders Committee, re- 
 ports, and other documents (if required), 
 when the same have been drawn by the 
 solicitor (according to circumstances) - 
 or, per brief sheet of 10 folios - 
 
 £ s. d.
 
 316 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 1 sing and fettling bills and preparing the 
 same in Parliamentary form, and for press : 
 
 Fur airy bill qo1 exceeding (50 folios, according 
 to the length of the bill, and the nature and 
 extent of re\ ision. 
 
 For any bill exceeding 00 folios and less than 
 150, according to the length of the bill, and 
 
 the nature and extent of revision - 
 
 For anv bill exceeding 150 folios, according to 
 the length of the bill, and the nature and 
 extent of revision ; but if above 10/. 10*., not 
 exceeding (except under special circum- 
 stances) one-half the charge for drawing any 
 such Bill - - - 
 
 Perusing and settling clauses and amendments 
 (according to length and other circumstances, 
 but not exceeding Is. per folio). 
 
 y ie. — The charges for perusing and settling in- 
 clude a copy as perused and settled for own use, 
 if required, and no copy is to be charged for the 
 purpose of returning the same as settled. 
 
 No charge is allowed for perusal and settling by the 
 party -who charges for the drawing, but he may 
 charge for a perusal (if necessary) of the docu- 
 ment as settled, according to circumstances, but 
 not in any case exceeding half the charge allowed 
 for perusal and settling of the Draft. 
 
 VI.— PERUSALS. 
 
 Perusals, generally, should he charged by the 
 
 time occupied, but if per folio, not exceeding - 
 
 Obtaining and perusing report of Board of Trade 
 
 01 hill - - - - ".".." 
 
 Perusing a petition or memorial against hill : 
 If under 20 folios - 
 If above, per folio - - - _. - 1 
 
 5 5 
 
 and upwards 
 
 4 
 
 10 6 
 
 8 
 
 4 
 
 VI I. _ COPIES OF DOCUMENTS. 
 
 I I of reference, li.-is of owners, lessees, and 
 occupiers, ami other similar documents re- 
 quire! by the Standing Orders to be de- 
 posited : 
 F(ir the copies so deposited, when deposited in 
 manuscript, per folio (of 72 wordsor figures) - 
 

 
 LIST OF CHARGES. 
 
 317 
 
 For such copies of other documents as are 
 included in Table (A) annexed, per folio 
 For ingrossing petitions, memorials, and other 
 Parliamentary documents : 
 
 Per folio - - - 
 
 For copies of documents not included in Table (A) : 
 Per folio ------ 
 
 Note. — For the number of copies allowed to be 
 charged at 9d, and 6d. per folio, vide Table (A). 
 
 In cases where minutes of evidence are printed, 
 copies of the same are not allowed to be charged, 
 but only the cost of printing and the necessary 
 attendances on the printer. 
 
 £ s. d. 
 6 
 
 9 
 4 
 
 
 
 13 
 
 4 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 1) 
 
 6 
 
 8 
 
 
 
 
 
 6 
 
 VIII.— EXAMINING PRINTED DOCUMENTS. 
 
 Prints of bills : 
 
 Proofs -------- 
 
 or, per page of print - 
 Revises - - - - - 
 
 or, per page of print - 
 Ordering proofs of estimate or declaration, 
 
 examining same and all revises, and returning 
 
 same to printer, with instructions to print 
 
 Notices in Gazette and Newspapei: : 
 
 Each newspaper : 
 Forwarding notice to printer, with instructions - 
 Examining proof, 3.v. 4<7. to - 
 Returning proof, and ordering insertion for 
 three weeks, or otherwise - - - 
 
 Examining notice on each insertion 
 
 If a revise is necessai v, an addition for order- 
 ing revise and examining same, of each 
 revise ------- 
 
 No other or further charge is allowed with 
 reference to printing the notice. 
 
 13 4 
 
 6 8 
 
 10 
 
 6 8 
 
 3 4 
 
 10 
 
 IX.— MAKING UP COPIES OF BILLS AND FILLING 
 UP AMENDMENTS. 
 
 Blanking bill, drawing airangement of sections, I 
 
 and tinally settling bill for printer - - - 110 
 
 Making up bill in Parliamentary form for House, 
 
 and deposit of the same - - 110
 
 £ s. 
 
 d 
 
 6 
 
 8 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 318 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Filling up bills with amendments: 
 For the first copy - 1 unless the amendments J 
 Fur each other copy J be very numerous -\ 
 If new clauses or amendments be added, ex- I 
 ceeding six folios, copies of the same may ■ 
 be charged at lid. per folio. 
 Marking on print of bill the amendments made 
 
 therein for Examiner - - - - - 6 8 
 
 Note. — A manuscript copy of the amendments is not 
 allowed to be charged. 
 
 Altering bill as an act, and attending printer 
 
 with instructions to strike off copies - - 10 6 
 
 X.— MAKING UP DOCUMENTS. 
 
 Examining and making up plans and books of 
 
 reference for the purpose of deposit, each set - I 10 6 
 Ditto, lists of owners, &c, and other documents 
 
 deposited therewith ----- 10 (5 
 The examining and making up the deposits for the 
 
 parish clerks to be charged according to the time 
 
 occupied. 
 
 XI.— LETTERS. 
 
 Letters containing professional advice or in- 
 structions ------- 
 
 If exceeding six folios in length - 
 Other letters ------- 
 
 Note. — The ordinary correspondence between Parlia- 
 mentary agents and solicitors is not to be charged 
 to their clients, but such letters only as contain 
 professional advice and instructions. 
 
 Circulars - - - 1 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 3 
 
 6 
 
 In cases for which no specific charge is stated in the foregoing 
 table, the charge is to be made out according to the time occupied. 
 
 Parliamentary agents are required to make the same charges in 
 respect of Scotch business as of English or Irish.
 
 LIST OF CHARGES. 
 
 319 
 
 TABLE (A). 
 
 Copies allowed to be charged besides the copy the charge for 
 which is included in that for drawing. 
 
 Number of Copies. 
 
 PROMOTERS. 
 
 Notices : 
 
 For each gazette and newspaper 
 Book of reference : 
 
 For each deposit of entire book of reference 
 
 (when deposited in manuscript) 
 Amongst parish clerks - - - 
 
 For marking section for applications - 
 Lists of owners, lessees, and occupiers ; for 
 deposit in Parliament - - - 
 
 Applications served by a witness ; for use 
 before Examiner - - - - 
 
 Petition for bill ; ingrossed copy for deposit - 
 Bill ; for press ------ 
 
 Statements of proofs ; for use before Ex- 
 aminer : 
 For agent - - 
 
 For solicitor - - - - 
 
 For Examiner - - - - 
 
 Memorials : 
 
 For agent ------ 
 
 For solicitor ------ 
 
 For engineer (if necessary) - 
 Statement for Standing Orders Committee : 
 For committee and use - - - - 
 
 Petition against bill : 
 
 For agent ------ 
 
 For solicitor ------ 
 
 Briefs : 
 
 For each counsel (not exceeding three) 
 Proofs of witnesses : 
 
 For each counsel (not exceeding three) 
 For witness (if required) - - - - 
 
 Notes for cross-examination : 
 
 For each counsel (not exceeding three)
 
 320 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Number of Copies. 
 
 At 9d. At (kl. 
 
 per folio, per folio. 
 
 OPPONENTS. 
 Memorial : 
 
 I agrossed copy for deposit 
 
 For agent - 
 
 For solicitor - 
 
 Fur Examiner - 
 
 Statement for Standing Orders Committee 
 
 For committee and use - 
 Petition against : 
 
 Ingrossed copy for deposit 
 
 For agent - 
 
 For solicitor - - - - - 
 
 Brief : 
 
 For each counsel (not exceeding three) 
 Proofs of witnesses : 
 
 For each counsel (not exceeding three) 
 
 For witness (if required) - 
 Notes for cross-examination : 
 
 For each counsel (not exceeding three) 
 
 The copies above enumerated are those ordinarily allowed to be 
 charged. Any further copies of the documents named in the fore- 
 going table, or any copies of documents not named therein, which 
 may be necessary for the case, are to be charged at the rate of Ad., 
 or if the document is in print at the rate of 2d., per folio. 
 
 House of Commons, 
 7 August 1888. 
 
 ARTHUR W. PEEL, 
 
 Speaker. 
 
 A similar list of charges to be made in the House of Lords his 
 been prepared l>v the Clerk of the Parliaments for that House. It 
 can be procured from Messrs. Eyre & Spottiswoode, price '2\d.
 
 RULES. 321 
 
 RULES AS TO PETITIONS AGAINST PRIVATE 
 BILLS, HOUSE OF COMMONS. 
 
 1. Every petition must be written and not printed or litho- 
 graphed. 
 
 2. Every petition must contain a prayer. 
 
 3. Every petition must he signed by at least one person, or 
 sealed on the skin or sheet on which the prayer is written. 
 
 4. No erasures or interlineations may be made in any 
 petition. 
 
 Every petition to be addressed "To the Honourable The 
 Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 
 in Parliament assembled." 
 
 RULES TO BE OBSERVED AS TO PROOF OF COM- 
 PLIANCE WITH THE STANDING ORDERS PRE- 
 VIOUS TO THE INTRODUCTION OF PRIVATE 
 BILLS. 
 
 The sittings of the Examiners for Standing Orders will com- 
 mence on the ISth January. 
 
 The promoters of each bill will be required to prove compliance 
 with the Standing Orders of both Houses of Parliament at 
 the time appointed by the Examiners, which can be ascer- 
 tained at the Private Bill Office of the House of Commons. 
 
 The printed statements of proofs can be obtained at the Queen's 
 printers. 
 
 Where lists are annexed to affidavits, the name of the agent is to 
 be entered in the statement of proofs as delivering in such 
 lists followed by the names of the witnesses proving the 
 service of notices or deposit of documents as the case 
 may be. 
 Memorials complaining of non-compliance with the Standing 
 
 Orders (of either House) applicable previously to the introduction
 
 •-S22 PRIVATE RILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 of private bills must be deposited in the Private Bill Office, House 
 
 of Commons, as follows : — 
 
 If the same relate to bills numbered in the general list pub- 
 lished by the Private Bill Office of the House of 
 Commons — 
 
 From 1 to 100 ~) They must be depo- /Jan. 9. 
 
 „ 101 to 200 > sited before Two J „ 16. 
 
 „ 201 and upwards J o'clock on - - [ „ 23. 
 
 REGULATIONS AS TO DEPOSIT OF PETITIONS IN" 
 THE PRIVATE BILL OFFICE. 
 
 1. In order to facilitate the arrangement of the Petitions, and 
 the subsequent hearing thereof by the Examiners, in such order as 
 may be most convenient to the parties and their agents, a register 
 will be kept in the Private Bill Office, with blank lines numbered 
 consecutively from one to five hundred; and every agent will be 
 allowed to cause the petitions produced by him to be entered, re- 
 spectively on such of the lines, not then having any petition entered 
 thereon, as he shall think fit ; and if he shall not prescribe any 
 onler for the entry of such petitions, they will be entered in the 
 order in which they are deposited, upon the earliest consecutive 
 line:- then remaining unoccupied. 
 
 2. When two or more agents shall appear in the Private Bill 
 Office at the same time for the purpose of depositing petitions, 
 unless thev shall otherwise agree, their names will be placed in 
 a ballot glass, and the agents will have priority respectively in the 
 order in which their names shall be drawn : each in his turn being 
 entitled to deposit all the petitions offered by him at that time, 
 and to select such numbers for them as he shall think proper. 
 
 :;. On the 22nd day of December, between the hours of twelve 
 and three, agents a\ ill be allowed to exchange, by agreement, the 
 oumbers originally assigned to their petitions. They will at the 
 same time be at Liberty to transfer to other numbers in the register, 
 being then unoccupied, any of the petitions which may have 
 bi-en deposited by them ; and iheir priority in the exercise of this 
 right will be determined by ballot, if accessary, as in the original 
 deposit of petitions.
 
 REGULATIONS. 323 
 
 4. Whenever two or more petitions, in respect of which the 
 same witnesses are intended to be examined, shall occupy 
 adjoining numbers in the register, the agent or agents for the 
 same may cause any of them, not exceeding five in number, to 
 be marked with a bracket ; and regard will be had thereto in 
 determining the days on which such petitions shall be set down 'for 
 hearing, and the Examiner by whom they will be heard. 
 
 5. On or after the 22nd December the " General List of Peti- 
 tions" will be made out in the Private Bill Office, in which the 
 petitions will be numbered consecutively from one to the highest 
 number according to the order in which they shall have been 
 finally entered in the register. 
 
 NOTICE AS TO HEARING OF PETITIONS BY THE 
 EXAMINERS. 
 
 1. Not less than seven clear days' notice will be given in the 
 Private Bill Office of the day appointed for the examination of 
 each petition ; and the day so appointed will be written against 
 the several petitions upon a printed copy of the " General List of 
 Petitions," which will be kept in the Private Bill Office for that 
 purpose. 
 
 2. So soon as the time allowed for depositing memorials com- 
 plaining of non-compliance with the Standing Orders in the case 
 of any petitions shall have expired, the word " unopposed " will 
 be written in such printed list against each petition in respect of 
 which no such memorial shall have been deposited ; and the peti- 
 tions will be set down for hearing before the Examiners in the 
 order in which they stand in the " General List of Petitions," 
 precedence being given, whenever it may be necessary, to un- 
 opposed petitions. 
 
 3. Petitions will be heard in the order in which they stand 
 in the daily lists, and in case any petitions shall not be disposed 
 of on the days on which they may be first appointed to be heard, 
 they will be entered in the list of the following day before the 
 opposed petitions appointed for that day ; unless the Examiners 
 shall otherwise adjourn or postpone the same. 
 
 4. In order to expedite the business of each day, petitions ap- 
 pointed to be heard by one of the Examiners will be transferred to 
 the other from time to time, whenever it may seem advisable to 
 the Examiners to direct such transfer.
 
 324 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 SELECT COMMITTEE ON STANDING ORDERS. 
 RESOLUTIONS. 
 
 1. That reports of the Examiners of petitions shall be held by 
 the Select Committee on Standing Orders to be conclusive on the 
 question of any non-compliance with the Standing Orders reported 
 therein. 
 
 2. That special reports of the Examiners, setting forth a state- 
 ment of facts, without deciding whether the Standing Order or 
 Orders applying thereto have or have not been complied with, shall 
 be held by the committee to be conclusive as to the facts so set 
 forth. 
 
 3. That in the case of special reports, the party contending that 
 the Stan ling Orders have been complied with, shall set forth his 
 argument in a written or printed statement, and shall strictly 
 confine himself thereto, without entering on the question of dis- 
 pensation with the Standing Orders, and the opposing party or 
 parties shall do the same, under the like limitation. 
 
 4. That when, on the consideration of a special report, the 
 committee shall have decided that the Standing Orders have not 
 been complied with, the further consideration of the case, with a 
 view to the question of the dispensation with Standing Orders, 
 shall be postponed to the next meeting of the committee, in order 
 to give time for the preparation of statements relating to that 
 question. 
 
 5. That in the ease of petitions for additional provision, where 
 the Examiner reports that the Standing Orders have not been 
 complied with, the party praying for dispensation of the Standing 
 Orders shall set forth in a written or printed statement the grounds 
 on which he rests his prayer. 
 
 6. That at the meeting of the committee both parties shall 
 deliver in their statements. 
 
 7. Parliamentary agents are required, in all cases where state- 
 ments aic to be delivered in to the committee, to leave copies of 
 the same, and of the proposed new clauses in the case of petitions 
 for additional provision, with each member of the committee, at his 
 residence, not later than three o'clock, and at the Committee Office
 
 RESOLUTIONS. 325 
 
 not later than one o'clock in the afternoon of the day preceding 
 that fixed for the meeting of the committee. 
 
 8. That if the committee desire to hear argument in addition 
 to such statements, and shall call on the parties to argue any point 
 before them, only one speech be allowed on each side, although 
 there may be on one side several parties interested. 
 
 9. That in all cases in which, either from ordinary reports of 
 the Examiners or from the decision of the Committee upon Special 
 Reports, the question arises whether the Standing Orders ought or 
 ought not to be dispensed with, the party praying for such dispen- 
 sation shall set forth, in a written or printed statement, the grounds 
 on which he rests his prayer ; and the opposing party shall also 
 set forth, in a written or printed statement, the grounds on which 
 he rests his opposition, both parties confining themselves strictly 
 to the poiuts reported on by the Examiners of petitions, or deter- 
 mined by the committee on their consideration of any special 
 report of such Examiners. 
 
 10. That when the committee think fit, they shall hear the 
 parties in explanation of their statements, but that no party shall 
 be allowed to travel into any matter that is not referred to in his 
 statement. 
 
 11. That when any petition praying that any of the Sessional 
 or Standing Orders of the House relating to private bills may be 
 dispensed with, or any petition opposing the same, shall have been 
 referred to the committee, no statement in addition to the case set 
 forth in any such petition shall be received, and Parliamentary 
 agents are required to leave copies of the petitions with each 
 member of the committee not later than three o'clock, and at the 
 Committee Office not later than one o'clock, in the afternoon of 
 the day before the day on which the committee is appointed to 
 meet. 
 
 12. In all cases where an agent applies for the postponement 
 of the consideration of a report referred to the committee, such 
 agent shall attend and state the grounds on which he rests his 
 application. 
 
 13. That the decision of the committee with respect to any 
 petition or bill be communicated by the clerk of the committee to 
 the chairman of the committee on the bill affected by such decision, 
 on or before the commencement of the case.
 
 326 PRIVATE HILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 PRIVATE BILLS. 
 
 RULES FOE THE PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE OF 
 THE REFEREES ON PRIVATE BILLS (IN 
 PURSUANCE OF STANDING ORDER 88). 
 
 Lochs Standi. 
 
 1. The promoters of any private bill, who intend to object to 
 the right of petitioners to be heard against the same, shall give 
 notice of such intention, and of the grounds of their objection, to 
 the clerks to the referees and to the agents for the petitioners, not 
 later than the eighth day after the clay on which the petition has 
 been deposited in the Private, Bill Office ; but it shall be competent 
 to the referees to allow such notices to be given, under special 
 circumstances, although the time above limited may have expired. 
 All notices shall be indorsed with the names of the petitioners' 
 agents. 
 
 2. Copies of all petitions against private bills, to which notices 
 of objection have been given, shall be deposited at the Referees' 
 Office one clear day before the hearing of the case by the Court. 
 
 3. Parties who have given such notice as above, may at any 
 time withdraw the same by giving notice in writing of withdrawal 
 to the clerks to the referees, and to the agents for the petitioners. 
 
 4. The cases shall be heard in such order as the Chairman of 
 Ways and Means shall appoint, and according to a list prepared 
 under his direction, and kept in the Referees' Office. 
 
 5. When a bill is called on for consideration, the agents for the 
 petitioners against the same shall be required to produce a cer- 
 tificate of appearance from the Private Bill Office, in which shall 
 lie stated the names of the petitioners, their counsel and agents. 
 
 G. Not less than one clear day's notice shall be given by the 
 clerks to the referees to the clerks in the Private Bill Office, of the 
 days on which the objections to the right of petitioners to be heard 
 will he severally taken into consideration by the referees.
 
 RULES FOR REFEREES. 827 
 
 7. All notices required to be given, or deposits to be made in 
 the Referees' Office, shall be delivered in the said office before five 
 of the clock in the evening of any day on which the House shall 
 sit, and before one of the clock on any day on which the House 
 shall not sit. 
 
 8. Notices and grounds of objections will be deemed to have 
 been sufficiently served upon agents, if left at the Agent's Office 
 before six of the clock in the evening of any day, Sundays 
 excepted. 
 
 Committees. 
 
 9. Two clear days at least before the day appointed for the 
 consideration of any private bill by a committee of which a referee 
 has been appointed a member, a filled-up copy of the bill, as pro- 
 posed to be submitted to the committee, shall be deposited by the 
 agent at the Referees' Office, for the use of such referee. 
 
 10. Two clear days before the day appointed for the con- 
 sideration of the bill, copies of _ all petitions upon which opponents 
 intend to appear beforo such committee shall be deposited at the 
 Referees' Office. 
 
 (Signed) JAMES W. LOWTHER, 
 
 Chairman of "Ways and Means. 
 House of Commons, 
 February 1896. 
 
 Y 2
 
 328 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS. 
 
 Rules to be observed by the Officers of the House, 
 and by all parliamentary agents and solicitors 
 engaged in prosecuting proceedings in the house 
 of Commons upon any Petition or Bill. 
 
 D. duration and 1 . No person shall be allowed to act as a Parliamentary agent 
 recognizance until he shall have subscribed a declaration before one of the 
 clerks in the Private Bill Office, engagiug to observe and obey the 
 rules, regulations, orders, and practices of the House of Commons, 
 and also to pay and discharge from time to time, when the same 
 shall be demanded, all fees and charges due and payable upon any 
 petition or bill upon which such agent may appear; and after 
 having subscribed such declaration, and entered into a recog- 
 nizance or bond (if hereafter required), in the penal sum of 5001., 
 with two sureties of 250/. each, to observe the said declaration, 
 such person, if in other respects qualified to act as hereinafter 
 provided, shall be registered in a book to be kept in the Private 
 Bill Office, and shall then be entitled to act as a Parliamentary 
 agent : provided that upon the said declaration, recognizance or 
 bond and registry, no fee shall be payable. 
 Form. 2. The declaration before mentioned, and the recognizance and 
 
 bond, if hereafter required, shall be in such form as the Speaker 
 may, from time to time, direct. 
 
 3. One member of a firm of Parliamentary agents may 
 subscribe the required declaration, or enter into the required 
 recognizance or bond, on behalf of his firm ; but the names of all 
 the partners of such firm shall be registered with such declaration ; 
 and notice shall be given, from time to time, to the clerks of the 
 Private Hill Office, of any addition thereto, or change therein. 
 
 4. No person shall be allowed to be registered as a Par- 
 liamentary agent unless he is actually employed in promoting 
 or opposing some private bill or petition pending in Parliament. 
 
 5. When any person (not being an attorney, or solicitor, or 
 writer to tin- signet) applies to qualify himself, for the first time, 
 to act a- a Parliamentary agent, such application shall be made in 
 writing, and he shall produce to one of the clerks of the Private 
 Bill Office a certificate of his respectability from a member of
 
 RULES FOR AGENTS. 329 
 
 Parliament, or a justice of the peace, or a barrister-at-law, or an 
 attorney, or solicitor. 
 
 6. No person's name, other than that of an attorney, or 
 solicitor, or writer to the signet, shall be printed on any private 
 bill, as Parliamentary agent to such bill, unless and until his 
 name has been duly inscribed upon the register of Parliamentary 
 agents. 
 
 7. No notice shall be received in the Private Bill Office for Appearance to 
 any proceeding upon a petition, or bill, until an appearance to act u ^ o ^ ^ s 
 
 as the Parliamentary agent upon the same shall have been entered 
 in the Private Bill Office; in which appearance shall also be 
 specified the name of the solicitor (if any) for such petition or bill. 
 
 8. Before any person desiring to appear by a Parliamentary Appearance to 
 agent shall be allowed to appear, or be heard, upon any petition ^1^ ° n 
 against a bill, an appearance to act as the Parliamentary agent against bills, 
 upon the same shall be entered in the Private Bill Office; in 
 
 which appearance shall also be specified the name of the solicitor 
 and of the counsel who appear in support of any such petition 
 (if any counsel or solicitor are then engaged), and a certificate of 
 such appearance shall be delivered to the Parliamentary Agent, to 
 be produced to the committee clerk. 
 
 9. In case the Parliamentary agent for any petition or bill A fresh appear- 
 shall be displaced by The solicitor thereof, or such Parliamentary lYvwtemen-* 
 agent shall decline to act, the responsibility of such agent shall tary agent, 
 cease upon a notice being given in the Private Bill Office and 
 
 a fresh appearance shall be entered upon such petition or bill. 
 
 10. Every Parliamentary agent and solicitor conducting pro- Agents per- 
 ceedings in Parliament before the House of Commons shall be s ?° aU y res P on " 
 personally responsible to the House, and to the Speaker, for the 
 observance of the rules, orders, and practice of Parliament, as well 
 
 as of any rules which may from to time be prescribed by the 
 Speaker, and also for the payment of the fees and charges due and 
 payable under the Standing Orders. 
 
 11. Any Parliamentary agent who shall wilfully act in Speaker may, 
 violation of the rules and practices of Parliament, or of any rules to ^j^ °° d ™*' 
 be prescribed by the Speaker, or who shall wilfully misconduct from practising, 
 himself in prosecuting any proceedings before Parliament, shall be 
 
 liable to an absolute or temporary prohibition to practise as a 
 Parliamentary agent, at the pleasure of the Speaker: provided 
 that upon the application of such Parliamentary agent the 
 Speaker shall state, in writing, the grounds for such prohibition.
 
 330 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 12. No person who has been suspended, or prohibited from 
 practising as a Parliamentary agent, or struck off the roll of 
 attorneys or solicitors, or disbarred by any of the Inns of Court, 
 shall be allowed to be registered as a Parliamentary agent without 
 the express authority of the Speaker. 
 
 13. No written or printed statement relating to any private 
 bill shall be circulated within the precincts of the House of 
 Commons without the name of a Parliamentary agent attached to 
 it, who "will be held responsible for its accuracy. 
 
 14. The sanction of the Chairman of "Ways and Means, is 
 writing, is required to every notice of a motion prepared by a 
 Parliamentary Agent, for dispensing with any sessional or 
 Standing Order of the House. 
 
 Form of Declaratk >n . 
 We the undersigned do hereby declare, that we respectively 
 intend during the present session of Parliament to practise as 
 Parliamentary agents in the prosecuting, promoting, and opposing 
 private bills in the House of Commons, and we severally and 
 respectively do hereby engage to observe, submit to, perform, and 
 abide by all and every the orders, rules, regulations, and practice 
 of the said House, now in force or hereafter from time to time to 
 be made in relation thereto, and also to pay and discharge from 
 time to time when the same shall be demanded, all fees, charges, 
 and sums of money due and payable in respect of any petition, bill, 
 or other proceeding or matter, in or upon which we shall severally 
 and respectively appear as such agents as aforesaid. 
 
 Date. 
 
 Name. 
 
 Residence and House 
 of Business. 
 
 Witness. 
 
 
 
 
 
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 LIST OF MODEL BILLS AND CLAUSES. 333 
 
 LIST OF MODEL BILLS AND CLAUSES. 
 [To be obtained at the Queen's Printers.'] 
 
 Railway Bill (Form A). 
 Special Clauses : 
 
 1. Capital and Borrowing Powers. 
 
 2. Taking of Lands, Plans, Construction of Works. 
 
 3. Penalty if Line not opened within Period fixed. 
 
 4. Abandonment of Railway, and Compensation to Land- 
 
 owners. 
 
 5. Agreement with other Companies. 
 
 6. Priority of Mortgages over other Debts. 
 
 7. Payment of Interest out of Capital during Construction. 
 3. Clauses in Tramway Bills. 
 
 9. Clauses to be inserted in all Tramway Bills authorizing 
 
 the use of Mechanical Power. 
 
 10. Clauses in Hydraulic Bills. 
 
 1 1 . Confirmation of Terms of Agreement. 
 
 12. Loans by Public Works Loan Commissioners. 
 
 13. As to Labouring Class Houses. 
 Gas Bill (Form B). 
 
 Auction Clauses. 
 
 Model Clauses for Corporation Stock. 
 
 Improvement Bill Clauses.
 
 334 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 10 & 11 VICT. c. 69. 
 
 Aii Act lor the more effectual Taxation of Costs on Private Bills 
 in the House of Commons. [22nci July 1847.] 
 
 Parliamentary II. Xo Parliamentary agent, or solicitor, nor any executor, 
 
 BoUritarnol to :uniun ^ ,1 ' at< "'? or assignee of any Parliamentary agent, or solicitor, 
 sue for costs shall commence or maintain any action or suit for the recovery of 
 until one month ;mv cos ts, charges, or expenses in respect of any proceedings in the 
 of hi- bill. ' House of Commons in any future session of Parliament relating to 
 any petition for a private bill, or private bill, or in respect of com- 
 plying villi the Standing Orders of the said House relative thereto, 
 or in preparing, bringing in, and carrying the same through, or 
 opposing the same in, the House of Commons, until the expiration 
 of one month after such Parliamentary agent, or solicitor, or 
 executor, administrator, or assignee of such Parliamentary agent, 
 or solicitor, lias delivered unto the party to be charged therewith, 
 or sent by post to or left for him at his counting-house, office of 
 business, dwelling-house, or last known place of abode, a bill of 
 such costs, charges, and expenses, and which bill shall either be 
 subscribed with the proper hand of such Parliamentary agent, or 
 solicitor, or in the case of a partnership by any of the partners, 
 either with his own name or with the name of such partnership, or 
 of the executor, administrator, or assignee of such Parliamentary 
 agent, or solicitor, or be enclosed in or accompanied by a letter 
 Evidence of subscribed in like manner referring to such bill: Provided always, 
 delivery of bill, that it shall not in any case be necessary, in the first instance, for 
 such Parliamentary agent, or solicitor, or the executor, adminis- 
 trator, or assignee of such Parliamentary agent, or solicitor, in 
 proving a compliance with this Act to prove the contents of the bill 
 delivered, sent, or left by him, but it shall be sufficient to prove 
 that a bill of costs, charges, and expenses subscribed in manner 
 aforesaid, or inclosed in or accompanied by such letter as aforesaid, 
 was delivered, sent, or left in manner aforesaid; but nevertheless 
 it shall lie competent for the other party to show that the bill so 
 Power to judge delivered, sent, or left was not such a bill as constituted a bonti 
 to authorize fide compliance with this Act : Provided also, that it shall be lawful 
 expiration o't ' for }mv J ad & of fche Superior Courts of Lmv or Equity in England 
 one month. or [reland, or of the Court of Session in Scotland, to authorize a 
 
 Parliamentary agenl or solicitor to commence an action or suit for
 
 AN ACT FOR TAXATION OF COSTS, &C. 335 
 
 the recovery of his costs, charges, and expenses against the party 
 
 chargeable therewith, although one month has not expired from 
 
 the delivery of a bill as aforesaid, on proof to the satisfaction of the 
 
 said judge that there is probable cause for believing that such 
 
 party is about to quit that part of the United Kingdom in which 
 
 such judge hath jurisdiction. 
 
 Ill The Speaker of the House of Commons shall appoint a Taxing Officer 
 
 1 .,,,-rr f n i to be appointed 
 
 fit person to be the Taxing Officer of the House of Commons, and by the Speaker- 
 
 every person so appointed shall hold his office during the pleasure 
 of the Speaker, and shall execute the duties of his office conform- 
 ably to such directions as he may from time to time receive from 
 the Speaker. 
 
 IY The Sneaker may from time to time prepare a list of such The Speaker to 
 1 , . „ , . o • c prepare list oi 
 
 charges as it shall appear to him that, after the present Session ot £ ha * ges thence- 
 
 Parliament, Parliamentary agents, solicitors, and others may justly forth to be 
 make with reference to the several matters comprised in such list ; allowed - 
 and the several charges therein specified shall be the utmost charges 
 thenceforth to be allowed upon the taxation of any such bill of 
 costs, charges, and expenses in respect of the several matters therein 
 specified : Provided always, that the said Taxing Officer may allow 
 all fair and reasonable costs, charges, and expenses in respect of 
 any matters not included in such list. 
 
 V. For the purpose of any such taxation, the said Taxing Officer J^^Sd To 
 may examine upon oath any party to such taxation, and any wit- examine parties 
 nesses who may be examined in relation thereto, and may receive and witnesses 
 affidavits, sworn before him or before any Master or Master Extra- 
 ordinary of the High Court of Chancery, relative to such costs, 
 
 charges, or expenses ; and any person who, on such examination 
 on oath, or in any such affidavit, shall wilfully or corruptly give 
 false evidence, shall be liable to the penalties of wilful and corrupt 
 perjury. 
 
 VI. The said Taxing Officer shall be empowered to call for the ^j^J^T 
 production of any books or writings in the hands of any party to ca n f or books 
 such taxation relating to the matters of such taxation : Provided and papers. 
 always, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to authorize 
 
 such Taxing Officer to determine the amount of fees which may 
 have been payable to the House of Commons in respect of the 
 proceedings upon any private bill. ^.^ Qm ^ 
 
 VII. It shall be lawful for the said Taxing Officer to demand to take such 
 
 and receive for any such taxation such fees as the House of Com- ^ es as ma y 1"' 
 
 „ . ., ,. _. , n . , allowed by 
 
 mons may from time to time by any Standing Order authorize and jjouse of 
 
 Commons.
 
 336 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Application 
 
 of fees. 
 
 On application 
 of party charge- 
 able, or on 
 
 .'.ion of 
 Parliamentary 
 agent, or 
 solicitor, the 
 Taxing Officer 
 to tax the bill. 
 
 No application 
 to be enter- 
 tained by Tax- 
 ing ' fficer after 
 
 • 
 obtained. 
 
 direct, and to charge the said fees, and also to award costs of such 
 taxation against cither party to such taxation, or in such proportion 
 against each party as he may think fit, and he shall pay and apply 
 the fees so received by him in such manner as shall be directed by 
 any such Standing Order as aforesaid. 
 
 Vlll. If any person upon whom any demand shall be inade 
 by any Parliamentary agent, solicitor, or executor, administrator, 
 or assignee of such Parliamentary agent, or solicitor, or other 
 person, for any costs, charges, or expenses in respect of any 
 proceedings in the House of Commons in any future session of 
 Parliament relating to any petition for a private bill, or private bill, 
 or in respect of complying with the Standing Orders of the said 
 House relative thereto, or in preparing, bringing in, or carrying 
 the same through, or in opposing the same in the House of 
 Commons, or if any Parliamentary agent, or solicitor, or the 
 executor, administrator, or assignee of such Parliamentary agent, 
 or solicitor, or other person, who shall be aggrieved by the 
 non-payment of any costs, charges, and expenses incurred or 
 charged by him in respect of any such proceedings as aforesaid, 
 shall make application to the said Taxing Officer at his office for 
 the taxation of such costs, charges, and expenses, the said Taxing 
 ( Mlieer, on receiving a true copy of the bill of such costs, charges, 
 and expenses which shall have been duly delivered as aforesaid 
 to the party charged therewith, shall in due course proceed to tax 
 and settle the same; and upon every such taxation, if either 
 the Parliamentary agent, or solicitor, or the executor, adminis- 
 trator, or assignee of such Parliamentary agent, or solicitor, or 
 other person, by whom such demand shall be made as afore- 
 said, or the party charged with such bill of costs, charges, and 
 expenses, having due notice, shall refuse or neglect to attend such 
 taxation, the said Taxing Officer may proceed to tax and settle 
 such bill and demand ex parte : and if pending such taxation any 
 action or other proceeding shall be commenced for the recovery 
 of such lull of costs, charges, and expenses, the court or judge 
 before whom the same shall he brought shall stay all proceedings 
 thereon until the amount of such bill shall have been duly certified 
 by the Speaker as hereinafter provided: Provided always, that no 
 such application shall he entertained by the said Taxing Officer if 
 made by the party charged with such bill after a verdict shall have 
 been obtained or a writ of inquiry executed in any action for 
 the recovery of the demand of any such Parliamentary agent, 
 or solicitor, or the executor, administrator, or assignee of such
 
 AN ACT FOR TAXATION OF COSTS, &C. 337 
 
 Parliamentary agent, or solicitor, or other person, or after 
 the expiration of six months after such bill shall have been 
 delivered, sent, or left as aforesaid: Provided also, that if any such 
 application shall be made after the expiration of six months as 
 aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the Speaker, if he shall so think 
 fit, on receiving a report of special circumstances from the said 
 Taxing Officer, to direct such bill to be taxed. 
 
 IX. The said Taxing Officer shall, if required by either party, Taxing Officer 
 report his taxation to the Speaker, and in such report shall state Speaker, 
 the amount fairly chargeable in respect of such costs, charges, and 
 expenses, together with the amount of costs and fees payable in 
 respect of such taxation as aforesaid ; and within twenty-one clear if either party 
 days after any such report shall have been made either party may complain ot 
 deposit in the office of the said Taxing Officer a memorial, addressed may deposit a 
 to the Speaker, complaining of such report or any part thereof, and memorial, and 
 the Speaker may, if he shall so think fit, refer the same, together J^re^e a 
 with such report, to the said Taxing Officer, and may require a further report. 
 further report in relation thereto, and on receiving such further 
 report may direct the said Taxing Officer, if necessary, to amend 
 his report ; and if no such memorial be deposited as aforesaid, or 
 so soon as the matters complained of in any such memorial shall If no memorial 
 have been finally disposed of, the Speaker shall, upon application deposited, 
 made to him, deliver to the party concerned therein, and requiring i ssue certificate 
 the same, a certificate of the amount so ascertained, which certi- of tne amount 
 ficate shall be binding and conclusive on the parties as to the 
 matters comprised in such taxation, and as to the amount of such 
 costs, charges, and expenses, and of the costs and fees payable in 
 respect of such taxation, in all proceedings at law or in equity or 
 otherwise ; and in any action or other proceeding brought for the Certificate to 
 recovery of the amount so certified such certificate shall have the nave tbe effect 
 effect of a warrant of attorney to confess j ndgment ; and the court £ C0Vl f esb ' 
 in which such action shall be commenced, or any judge thereof, judgment. 
 shall, on production of such certificate, order judgment to be 
 entered up for the sum specified in such certificate in like manner 
 as if the defendant in any such action had signed a warrant to 
 confess judgment in such action to that amount : Provided always, 
 that if such defendant shall have pleaded that he is not liable 
 to the payment of such costs, charges, and expenses, such cer- 
 tificate shall be conclusive only as to the amount thereof which 
 shall be payable by such defendant in case the plaintiff shall in 
 such action recover the same.
 
 338 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Constant 
 
 certain words 
 in this Act. 
 
 Form of citing 
 the Act. 
 
 X. Iii the construction of this Act the word " month " shall be 
 taken to mean a calendar month ; and every word importing the 
 singular number only shall extend and be applied to several 
 persons, matters, or things as well as one person, matter, or thing; 
 and every word importing the plural number shall extend and be 
 applied to one person, matter, or thing as well as several persons, 
 matters, or things; and every word importing the masculine 
 gender only shall extend and be applied to a female as well as a 
 male ; and the word "person" shall extend to any body politic, 
 corporate, or collegiate, municipal, civil, or ecclesiastical, aggregate 
 or sole, as well as an individual ; and the word '' oath " shall 
 include affirmation in the case of Quakers, and any declaration 
 lawfully substituted for an oath in the case of any other person 
 allowed by law to make a declaration instead of taking an oath ; 
 unless in any of the cases aforesaid it be otherwise specially pro- 
 vided, or there be something in the subject or context repugnant 
 to such construction. 
 
 XI. In citing this Act in other Acts of Parliament, and in 
 legid and other instruments, it shall be sufficient to use the 
 expression " The House of Commons Costs Taxation Act, 1847." 
 
 12 & 13 VICT. c. 78. 
 
 An Act for the more effectual taxation of costs on private bills 
 
 in the House of Lords, and to facilitate the taxation of other 
 
 costs on private bills in certain cases. [28th July 1845).] 
 
 Parliamentary H- No Parliamentary agent, or solicitor, nor any executor, 
 
 agent or soli- administrator, or assignee of any Parliamentary agent or solicitor, 
 citor not to sue in • * ■ ■• ■, o .-, p 
 
 • .i i-osf u t'l s hali commence or maintain any action or suit tor the recovery ot 
 
 one month after any costs, charges, or expenses in respect of any proceedings in the 
 delivery of his House of Lords in any future sessions of Parliament relating to 
 any petition for a private bill, or private bill, or in respect of com- 
 plying with the Standing Orders of the said House relative 
 thereto, or in preparing, bringing in, and carrying the same 
 through, or opposing the same in, the House of Lords, until the 
 expiration of one month after such Parliamentary agent, or 
 solicitor, or executor, administrator, or assignee of such Parlia- 
 mentary agent, or solicitor, has delivered unto the party to be 
 charged therewith, or sent by post to or left for him at his counling- 
 house, office of business, dwelling-house, or last known place of 
 abode, a bill of Mich costs, charges, and expenses, and which bill
 
 AN ACT FOR TAXATION OF COSTS, &C. 339 
 
 shall either be subscribed with the proper hand of such Parlia- 
 mentary agent, or solicitor, or in the case of a partnership by any 
 of the partners, either with his own name or with the name of 
 such partnership, or of the executor, administrator, or assignee of 
 such Parliamentary agent, or solicitor, or be enclosed in or accom- 
 panied by a letter subscribed in like manner referring to such bill : 
 Provided always, that it shall not in any case be necessary, in the Evidence of 
 first instance, for such Parliamentary agent, or solicitor, or the c[ehyev 7 ° x ■ 
 executor, or administrator, or assignee of such Parliamentary 
 agent, or solicitor, in proving a compliance with this Act, to prove 
 the contents of the bill delivered, sent, or left by him, but it shall 
 be sufficient to prove that a bill of costs, charges and expenses, sub- 
 scribed in manner aforesaid, or enclosed in or accompanied bv 
 such letter as aforesaid, was delivered, sent, or left in manner afore- 
 said ; but nevertheless it shall be competent for the other party 
 to show that the bill so delivered, sent, or left was not such a bill 
 as constituted a bond fide compliance with this Act : Provided also Power to judge 
 that it shall be lawful for any judge of the Superior Courts of t0 authorize 
 Law or Equity in England or Ireland, or of the Court of Sessions expkaSnof 
 in Scotland, to authorize a Parliamentary agent, or solicitor, to one month. 
 commence an action or suit for the recovery of his costs, charges, 
 and expenses against the party chargeable therewith, although one 
 month has not expired from the delivery of a bill as aforesaid, on 
 proof to the satisfaction of the said judge that there is probable 
 cause for believing that such party is about to quit that part of the 
 United Kingdom in which such judge hath jurisdiction. 
 
 III. The Clerk of the Parliaments, when discharging the duties Taxing Officer 
 
 of his office in person, or in his absence the clerk assistant, shall *° b ? appointed 
 
 • ^ hj. l i .i m • ,-v/v o -, tt .J by the Clerk of 
 
 appoint a fat person to be the Taxing Officer of the House ot Lords ; Parliaments or 
 
 and every person so appointed shall hold his office during the clerk assistant. 
 pleasure of the Clerk of the Parliaments or clerk assistant, and 
 shall execute the duties of his office conformably to such directions 
 as he may from time to time receive from the Clerk of the Parlia- 
 ments or clerk assistant. 
 
 IV. The Clerk of the Parliaments, when discharging the duties The Clerk of 
 
 of his office in person, or in his absence the clerk assistant, may Parliaments or 
 
 from time to time prepare a list of such charges as it shall appear ^prepare fist 
 
 to him that Parliamentary agents, solicitors, and others may justly of charges 
 
 make with reference to the several matters comprised in such list : thenceforth to 
 
 j i t i i be allowed. 
 
 and the several charges therein specified shall be the utmost charges 
 
 thenceforth to be allowed upon the taxation of any such bill of 
 
 costs, charges, and expenses in respect of the several matters
 
 340 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Taxing Officer 
 empowered to 
 examine parties 
 and witness* - 
 on oath. 
 
 Taxing » >fficer 
 empowered to 
 
 call for books 
 and papers. 
 
 Taxing Officer 
 t" take such 
 fees as may be 
 allowed by 
 House of Lords 
 
 Application of 
 
 On application- 
 of party char- e 
 able, or on ap- 
 plication of 
 Parliamentary 
 agent or solici- 
 tor, the Taxing 
 
 er to tax 
 the bill. 
 
 therein specified : Provided always, thai the said Taxing Officer may 
 allow all lair and reasonable costs, charges, and expenses in respect 
 of any matters not included in such list. 
 
 V. For the purpose of any such taxal ion the said Taxing Officer 
 may examine upon oath any party to such taxation, and any wit- 
 nesses who may be examined in relation thereto, and may receive 
 affidavits, sworn before him or before any master or master extraor- 
 dinary of the High Court of Chancery, relative to such costs, 
 charges, or expenses; and any person who on such examination on 
 oath or in any such affidavit shall wilfully or corruptly give false 
 evidence shall be liable to the penalties of wilful and corrupt perjury. 
 
 VI. The said Taxing Officer shall be empowered to call for the 
 production of any books or writings in the hinds of any party to 
 such taxation relating to the matters of such taxation. 
 
 VII. It shall be lawful for the said Taxing Officer to demand and 
 receive for any such taxation such fees as the House of Lords may 
 from time to time by any order authorize and direct, and to charge 
 the said fees, and also to award costs of such taxation against either 
 party to such taxation, or in such proportion against each party as 
 he may think tit, and be shall pay and apply the fees so received 
 by him in such manner as shall be directed by any such order as 
 aforesaid. 
 
 VIII. If any person upou whom any demand shall be made by 
 any Parliamentary agent, or solicitor, or executor, administrator, or 
 assignee of such Parliamentary agent or solicitor, or other person, 
 for any costs, charges, or expenses in respect of any proceedings in 
 the House of Lords in any future session of Parliament relating to 
 any petition for a private bill, or private bill, or in respect of com- 
 plying with the Standing Orders of the said House relative thereto 
 or in preparing, bringing in, or carrying the same through, or in 
 opposing the same in the House of Lords, or of any Parliamentary 
 a^ent, or solicitor, or the. executor, administrator, or assignee of 
 such Parliamentary agent, or solicitor, or other person, who shall be 
 aggrieved by the nonpayment of any costs, charges, and expenses 
 incurred or charged by him in respect of any such proceedings as 
 aforesaid, shall make application to the said Taxing Officer at his 
 office for the taxation of such costs, charges, and expenses, the said 
 Taxing Officer, on receiving a true copy of the bill of such costs, 
 charges, and expenses which shall have been duly delivered as 
 aforesaid to the party charged therewith, shall in due course pro- 
 ceed to tax and settle the same; and upon every such taxation, if 
 either the Parliamentary agent, or solicitor, or the executor, admi-
 
 AN ACT FOR TAXATION OF COSTS, &C. 341 
 
 nistrator, or assignee of such Parliamentary agent, or solicitor, or 
 other person, by whom such demand shall be made as aforesaid, or 
 the party charged with such bill of costs, charges, and expenses, 
 having due notice, shall refuse or neglect to attend such taxation, 
 the said Taxing Officer may proceed to tax and settle such bill and 
 demand ex parte ; and if pending such taxation any action or other 
 proceeding shall be commenced for the recovery of such bill of 
 costs, charges, and expenses, the court or judge before whom the 
 same shall be brought shall stay all proceedings thereon until the 
 amount of such bill shall have been duly certified by the Clerk of 
 
 the Parliaments or clerk assistant as hereinafter provided : Provided No application 
 
 r . . to be enter- 
 
 always, that no such application shall be entertained by the said tained by Tax- 
 taxing officer if made by the party charged with such bill after a m g Officer 
 verdict shall have been obtained or a writ of inquiry executed in Stained 
 any action for the recovery of the demand of any such Parliamen- 
 tary agent, or solicitor, or the executor, administrator, or assignee 
 of such Parliamentary agent, or solicitor, or other person, or after 
 the expiration of six months after such bill shall have been deli- 
 vered, sent, or left as aforesaid : Provided also, that if any such 
 application shall be made after the expiration of six months as 
 aforesaid it shall be lawful for the Clerk of the Parliaments or clerk 
 assistant aforesaid, if he shall so think fit, on receiving a report of 
 special circumstances from the said Taxing Officer, to direct such bill 
 to be taxed. 
 
 IX. The said Taxing Officer shall report his taxation to the Clerk Taxing Officer 
 of the Parliaments or clerk assistant as aforesaid, and in such pi^fJj? e 
 report shall state the amount fairly chargeable in respect of such Parliaments. 
 costs, charges, and expenses, together with the amount of costs 
 and fees payable in respect of such taxation as aforesaid, and shall 
 also state in such report the amount due in respect of the said costs, 
 charges, and expenses ; and within twenty-one clear days after any if either party 
 such report shall have been made either party may deposit in the complain of 
 office of the Clerk of the Parliaments a memorial, addressed to the ^ y <j' e p 0s j t a 
 Clerk of the Parliaments or clerk assistant as aforesaid, complain- memorial, and 
 ing of such report or any part thereof, and such Clerk of the Par- ^ e ,9 lerk ° f the 
 liaments or clerk assistant as aforesaid may, if he shall so think ma y require a 
 fit, refer the same, together with such report, to the said Taxing further report. 
 Officer, and may require a further report in relation thereto, and on 
 receiving such further report may direct the said Taxing Officer, if ^ n0 memorial 
 necessary, to amend his report ; and if no such memorial be depo- f the Pa'rlia- 
 sited as aforesaid, or so soon as the matters complained of in any ments may 
 
 such memorial shall have been finally disposed of, such Clerk of the i& J u , e certifici \ te 
 
 J r ot the amount 
 
 Z found due.
 
 342 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Certificate to 
 have the effect 
 
 of a warrant 
 to confess 
 judgment. 
 
 Taxing < >fficer 
 ■ if either House 
 
 may tax costs 
 not otherwise 
 
 taxable under 
 the Act by 
 virtue of which 
 any bill shall 
 taxed ; and 
 may req uest 
 other officers to 
 .1--1&T him. 
 
 Such officers to 
 have the same 
 
 as in 
 taxing other 
 
 Parliaments or clerk assistant as aforesaid shall, upon application 
 made to him, deliver to the party concerned therein, and requiring 
 the same, a certificate of the amount so ascertained, which certifi- 
 cate shall be binding and conclusive on the parties as to the matters 
 comprised in such taxation, and as to the amount of such costs, 
 charges, and expenses, and the amount due in respect of the same, 
 and of the costs and fees payable in respect of such taxation, in all 
 proceedings at law or in equity or otherwise ; and in any action or 
 other proceeding brought for the recovery of the amount so certi- 
 fied to be due such certificate shall have the effect of a warrant of 
 attorney to confess judgment; and the court in which such action 
 shall be commenced, or any judge thereof, shall, on production of 
 such certificate, order judgment to beentered up for the sum speci- 
 fied in such certificate, in like manner as if the defendant in any 
 such action had signed a warrant to confess judgment in such 
 action to that amount : Provided always, that if such defendant 
 shall have pleaded that he is not liable to the payment of such 
 costs, charges, and expenses, such certificate shall be conclusive 
 only as to the amount thereof which shall be payable by such 
 defendant in case the plaintiff shall in such action recover the 
 same. 
 
 X. If any bill of costs taxable by virtue of this Act, or of 
 "The House of Commons Costs Taxation Act, 1847," shall com- 
 prise any costs, charges, and expenses incurred in respect of a 
 private bill, but not taxable by virtue of the Act in pursuance 
 whereof such bill shall come to be taxed, it shall be lawful for the 
 Taxing Officer of the House of Lords, or for the Taxing Officer of 
 the House of Commons, as the case may be, either to tax and settle 
 such last-mentioned costs, charges, and expenses, or to request the 
 Taxing Officer of the other House of Parliament, or the proper 
 officer of any other court having such an officer, to assist him in 
 taxing and settling any part of such bill; and such officer so re- 
 quested shall thereupon proceed to tax and settle the same, and 
 shall return the same, with his opinion thereupon, to the officer who 
 shall have so requested him to tax and settle the same; and in tax- 
 in- such costs, charges, and expenses the Taxing Officer of the 
 House of Lords and the Taxing Officer of the House of Commons 
 respectively shall have the same powers and may receive the same 
 fees in respecl of such taxation as if such costs, charges, and ex- 
 penses were taxable by virtue; of this Act, or of "The House of 
 Commons Costs Taxation Act, 1N47," as the case may be; and the 
 I roper officer of any court so requested to tax the same shall have
 
 AN ACT FOR TAXATION OF COSTS, &C. 343 
 
 the same powers and may receive the same fees as upon a reference 
 from the court of which he is such officer. 
 
 XI. The Taxing Officer of the House of Lords, or the Taxing Taxing Officers 
 
 Officer of the House of Commons, as the case may be, may include JJjJJ^jf jj™" 
 
 the amount of such last-mentioned costs, charges, and expenses in tne ir reports, 
 
 the report of his taxation of any such bill of costs ; and in case and certificates 
 r , • , _ ,. . , ... : .1 o " i c of the amount 
 
 the Clerk of the Parliaments or clerk assistant, or the bpeaker ot to be d.eliveretl. 
 
 the House of Commons, as the case may be, shall deliver a certi- 
 ficate of the amount so ascertained and declared in such report, in- 
 cluding such last-mentioned costs, charges, and expenses, such 
 certificate shall have the same force and effect as if the whole of 
 such bill of costs were taxable by virtue of the Act in pursuance 
 whereof such certificate shall be so delivered. 
 
 XII. In case the Taxing Officer of the House of Lords, or the officers of other 
 Taxing Officer of the House of Commons, shall be requested by the ^^uheTlxiiio- 
 proper officer of any other court to assist him in taxing and Officer of either 
 settling any costs, charges, and expenses incurred iu respect of a House to tax 
 private bill, being part of any bill of costs which shall have been p 
 
 referred to him by the court of which he is such officer, such Tax- 
 ing officer so requested shall thereupon proceed to tax and settle 
 the same, and shall return the same, with his opinion thereupon, 
 to the officer who shall have so requested him to tax and settle the 
 same, and shall have the same powers and may receive the same 
 fees in respect of such taxation as if application had been made 
 to him for the taxation thereof in pursuance of this Act, or of 
 the " House of Commons Costs Taxation Act, 1847," as the case 
 may be. 
 
 XIII. It shall be lawful for the Taxing Officer of the House of Taxing Officer 
 
 Lords and for the Taxing Officer of the House of Commons to take of lith f House 
 ° may take an 
 
 an account between the parties to any taxation under this Actor account between 
 the " House of Commons Costs Taxation Act, 1847," of all sums tlie parties, 
 of money paid or received in respect of any bill of costs which is 
 the subject of such taxation, or any matters contained therein, and 
 to report the amount of all such sums of money and the amount due 
 in respect of such bills of costs. 
 
 XIV. In the construction of this Act the word " month " shall Construction «( 
 be taken to mean a calendar month ; and every word importing the f^yg J^ 
 singular number only shall extend and be applied to several persons, 
 
 matters, or things, as well as one person, matter, or thing ; and 
 every word importing the plural number shall extend and be ap- 
 plied to one person, matter, or thing, as well as several persons, 
 matters, or things; and every word importing the masculine gender 
 
 z 2
 
 344 
 
 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 Form of citing 
 the Act. 
 
 onlv shall extend and be applied to a female as well as a male ; and 
 the word "person " shall extend to any body politic, corporate, or 
 collegiate, municipal, civil, or ecclesiastical, aggregate or sole, as 
 well as an individual ; and the word " oath " shall include affirma- 
 tion in the case of Quakers, and any declaration lawfully substituted 
 for an oath in the ease of any other person allowed by law to make 
 a declaration instead of taking an oath ; unless in any of the cases 
 aforesaid it be otherwise specially provided, or there be something 
 in the subject or context repugnant to such construction. 
 
 XV. In citing this Act in other Acts of Parliament, and in 
 legal and other instruments, it shall be sufficient to use the expres- 
 sion " The House of Lords Costs Taxation Act, 1849." 
 
 When com- 
 mittee report 
 
 " PreamHe not 
 proved," oppo- 
 nents to be en- 
 titled to recover 
 
 eo>ts. 
 
 When com- 
 mittee report 
 unanimously 
 " < ipposition 
 unfounded," 
 promol 
 be entitled to 
 costs. 
 
 28 VICT. c. 27. 
 
 An Act for awarding costs in certain cases of Private Bills 
 
 [26th May 1865.] 
 
 1. When the committee on a private bill shall decide that the 
 preamble is not proved, or shall insert in such bill any provision 
 for the protection of any petitioner, or strike out or alter any pro- 
 vision of such bill for the protection of such petitioner, and further 
 unanimously report, with respect to any or all of the petitioners 
 against the bill, that such petitioner or petitioners has or have 
 been unreasonably or vexatiously subjected to expense in defending 
 his or their rights proposed to be interfered with by the bill, such 
 petitioner or petitioners shall be entitled to recover from the pro- 
 moters of such bill his or their costs in relation thereto, or such 
 portion thereof as the committee may think fit, such costs to be 
 taxed bv the Taxing Officer of the House, as herein-aftermentioned, 
 or the committee may award such a sum for costs as they shall 
 think fit, with the consent of the parties affected. 
 
 2. When the committee on a private bill shall decide that the 
 preamble is proved, and further unanimously report that the pro- 
 moters of the bill have been vexatiously subjected to expense in 
 the promotion of the said bill by the opposition of any petitioner 
 Or petitioners against the same, then the promoters shall be en- 
 titled to recover from the petitioners, or such of them as the 
 committee shall think fit, such portion of their costs of the pro- 
 motion of the bill as the committee may think fit, such costs to be 
 taxed by the Taxing Officer of the House as herein-after men- 
 tioned, or such a sum for costs as the committee shall name, with
 
 AN ACT FOR AWARDING COSTS, &C. 345 
 
 the consent of the parties affected ; and in their report to the 
 House the committee shall state what portion of the costs, or 
 what sum for costs, they shall so think fit to award, together 
 with the names of the parties liable to pay the same, and the 
 names of the parties entitled to receive the same : Provided Proviso. 
 always that no landowner, who bond fide at his own sole risk and 
 charge opposes a bill which proposes to take any portion of the 
 said petitioners property for the purposes of the bill, shall be liable 
 to any costs in respect of his opposition to such bill. 
 
 3. On application made to the Taxing Officer of the House by Costs to 1 m 
 such promoters or petitioners, or by their solicitors or par- tilxed- 
 liamentary agents, not later than six calendar months after the 
 
 report of such committee, and in cases where no sum shall have 
 been named by the committee, with the consent of the parties 
 affected, not until one month after a bill of such costs shall have 
 been delivered to the party chargeable therewith, which bill shall 
 be sealed with a seal or subscribed with the proper hand of the 
 parties claiming such costs, or of their solicitor or parliamentary 
 agent, the Taxing Officer shall examine and tax such costs, and 
 shall deliver to the parties affected, or either or any of them on 
 application, a certificate signed by himself expressing the amount 
 of such costs, or in cases where a sum for costs shall have been 
 named by the committee with the consent as aforesaid, such 
 sum as shall have been so named, with the name of the party 
 liable to pay the same, and the name of the party entitled to 
 receive the same ; and such certificate shall be conclusive evidence 
 as well of the amount of the demand as of the title of the party 
 therein named to recover the same from the party therein stated 
 to be liable to the payment thereof ; and the party claiming under 
 the same, shall upon payment thereof, give a receipt at the foot 
 of such certificate, which shall be a sufficient discharge for the 
 same. 
 
 4. All powers given to the Taxing Officer by the Acts Powers of 
 
 10 & 11 Vict. c. 69., and 12 & 13 Vict. c. 78. with reference to the Taxin e 0fficers - 
 examination of parties and witnesses on oath, and with reference 
 to the production of documents, and with reference to the fees 
 payable in respect of any taxation, shall be vested in the Taxing 
 Officer for the purposes of this Act. 
 
 5. The party entitled to such taxed costs, or such sum named Recovery of 
 by the committee, with such consent as aforesaid, or his executors costs when 
 or administrators, may demand the whole amount thereof so 
 certified as above, from any one or more of the persons liable to
 
 346 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 the payment thereof, and in case of nonpayment thereof on 
 demand, may recover the same by action of debt in any of Her 
 Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster or Dublin, or by action 
 in the Court of Session in Scotland. In such action it shall be 
 sufficient, in England or Ireland, for the plaintiff to declare that 
 the defendant is indebted to him in the sum mentioned in the 
 said certificate ; and the said plaintiff shall, upon filing the said 
 declaration, together with the said certificate and an affidavit of 
 such demand as aforesaid, be at liberty to sign judgment as for 
 want of plea by nil dicit, and take out execution for the said sum 
 so mentioned in the said certificate, together with the costs of the 
 said action, according to due course of law : Provided always that 
 the validity of such certificate shall not be called in question in 
 any court. 
 Form of action 6. In such action it shall be sufficient, in Scotland, for the 
 
 in Scotland. pursuer to allege that the defender is indebted to him in the sum 
 mentioned in the said certificate, under the like proviso in regard 
 to the validity of the certificate. 
 Poisons laving ?« ^ n every case i* shall ^ e lawful for any person from whom 
 
 costs may re- the amount of such costs or sum named by the committee, with: 
 covers propor- consen t as aforesaid, has been so recovered, to recover from the 
 persons' liable other persons, or any of them, who are liable to the payment of 
 thereto. suc h costs or sum named by the committee, with consent as afore- 
 
 said, a proportionate share thereof, according to the number of 
 persons so liable, and according to the extent of the liability of 
 . each person. 
 When com- 8. In any case in which the committee shall have reported that 
 
 mittee report the preamble is not proved, and where, in accordance with the 
 
 " 1>r " :i ! nble not Standing Orders of either House of Parliament, and of an Act of 
 proved, pro- ° „ . , .__ , ., „ 
 
 motors to pay the ninth year of Her present Majesty, chapter 20, a deposit of 
 
 costs out of de- m0 ney or stock is made with respect to the application to Par- 
 liament for an Act, the money or stock so deposited shall be a 
 security for the payment by the promoters of the bill for the Act 
 of all costs or sums in respect of costs, if any, payable by them 
 under this Act ; and every party entitled to receive any costs or 
 sum so payable shall accordingly have a lien available in equity for 
 the same on the money or stock so deposited, and the lien shall 
 attach thereon at the time when the bill is first referred to a com- 
 mittee of either House of Parliament ; Provided that where several 
 parlies have the lien for an amount exceeding in the aggregate the 
 net value of the money or stock, their respective claims shall pro- 
 portionately abate.
 
 AN ACT FOR AWARDING COSTS, &C. 347 
 
 9. When a bill is not promoted by a company already formed Definition of 
 all persons whose names shall appear in such bill as promoting the P r( > moters - 
 hame, and in the event of the bill passing, the company thereby 
 incorporated shall be deemed to be promoters of such bill for all 
 the purposes of this Act. 
 
 10. For the purposes of this Act, the expression " private bill" Meaning of 
 shall extend to and include any bill for a local and personal Act. 
 
 11. That this Act shall not take effect before November 1st Commencement 
 18G5. ° fAct - 
 
 [As to the construction of this Act, see ante, p. 77.] 
 
 REGULATIONS FOR POSTING PARLIAMENTARY 
 NOTICES. 
 
 [See S. O. 19, ante, p. 93; S. O. 19, H. L.] 
 
 1. Parliamentary notices may be posted at any Money Order 
 office in the United Kingdom. 
 
 2. On the address side of the cover of each notice must be 
 printed or legibly written the words " Parliamentary Notice," and 
 the name and address of the solicitor or agent issuing the notice. 
 
 3. Notices, which by the Standing Orders of either House of 
 Parliament, must be served on, or before, the 15th December, 
 must be posted not later than the 12th December, and those 
 notices which, by the same orders, may be served after the loth, 
 must be posted not later than the 18th of December. 
 
 4. The postage — at the letter rate — chargeable on these notices 
 and the registration fee of 2c?. on each must be prepaid by stamps. 
 For re-direction they are liable to the same regulations as letters. 
 
 5. The notices must be presented at the Post Office counter, 
 accompanied by duplicate lists of the names and addresses of the 
 addressees, and arranged for the convenience of comparison in the 
 order of the lists. These lists will be examined by the officer in 
 attendance at the counter, and if they correspond with the names 
 and addresses on the notices he will sign or stamp every sheet of 
 each list. One of the duplicate lists will then be returned to the 
 person who brought the notices, and the other forwarded to the 
 secretary, General Post Office, London.
 
 348 PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE. 
 
 6. Any person presenting more than one notice addressed to 
 the same person at. the same address must number such notices 
 consecutively, and enter the same on the duplicate lists in nume- 
 rical order. 
 
 7. The hours for receiving such notices are the same as those 
 for the registration of ordinary letters, unless they be presented at 
 such a time as to interfere with the other duties of the office, in 
 which case the postmaster may appoint any other time within the 
 next twenty-four hours for receiving the same, provided that, when 
 the notices are to be served on or before the loth December, such 
 arrangement do not delay the posting beyond the 12th. 
 
 8. The senders of Parliamentary notices should, if possible, 
 arrange on the previous day with the postmaster as to the most 
 convenient time for posting them, and should state the probable 
 number.
 
 .( 349 ) 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 [See for Index of the Standing Orders of the House of Commons, 
 ante, pp. 174-223. For Contents of the Standing Orders of 
 the House of Lords see Standing Orders, post 359. 
 
 Page 
 
 Abandonment: Bills for abandonment of works 37,40-42 
 
 Advertisements: Standing Orders 3-10 of both Houses contain re- 
 quirements as to ... ... ... ••• ••• ••• 10,87,224 
 
 Affidavit : 
 
 When to be used before Examiners 12,13,120 
 
 Form of affidavit ... ••• ••• ■•• ••• 263 
 
 Inclosure Bills, &c 1*7 
 
 When may be admitted by Committee on Bill in House of 
 
 Lords 230,242 
 
 In proof of consents in Commons 132 
 
 Agents : 
 
 W ho may be ... ... ... •• ••• •■• ••• ••• 81,82 
 
 Origin of profession of ... ... ... •■• ... ... 81 
 
 Disciplinary powers over ... ... ... ... ... ... 82 
 
 Declaration of as to class and objects of bill .. ... 7, 9, 10 
 
 Form of declaration ... ... ... ... ••• ... ... 248 
 
 Bring Statements of Proofs before Examiners 12 
 
 Opposi ng Bills, enter appearances 13,24,35,329 
 
 Su pporting Bills, enter appearances 24,329 
 
 When must supply to applicants copies of amendments ... ... 23 
 
 Are personally responsible to Parliament for the fees ... 82, 329 
 
 See further Rules for Agents, p. 328 ; Agents ante, p. 174. 
 
 Amalgamation Bills ... ... ... ... ... ... 53, 54, 61 
 
 Amendments : 
 
 Must be within order giving leave to introduce bill ... ... 24 
 
 Proposed to be made in Committee ... ... ... ... ... 23 
 
 Must be verbal only on third reading 28,29 
 
 By Lords ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ••• 31 
 
 Appearance : How and when entered by Agents ... ... 13,24,35 
 
 Applications and Notices : 
 
 To Landowners, &c, required by Standing Orders 11-22 of both 
 
 Houses 60,91,224 
 
 Copy of Standing Orders regulating time and mode of presenting 
 
 petitions against bill to accompany ... ..: ... ... 93 
 
 Forwarding by registered letter ... ... ... ...^ 93,347 
 
 Associations: Locus Standi of ... ... ... ... ... 52-54,61
 
 350 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Bills : Page 
 
 Distinction between public and private bills ... ... ... 1-5 
 
 Licensing public houses in a particular area to be public Bills ... 4 
 
 Classification of ... ... ... ... ... ••• ••• 6,7 
 
 Hybrid, what arc ... ... ... ... ..■ ••■ ••• 5 
 
 To which House to be brought in ... ... ... ■■• ••• 8,67 
 
 How brought in to Commons ... ... ... •■• 9,14,18 
 
 How personal bills brought in to Lords .... ... ... ... 67 
 
 Lords require no petition for local bills if there has been a petition 
 
 to Commons ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 10, 64 
 
 Opposition to, what the first opportunity for ... ... ... 11 
 
 Clauses to be inserted in particular bills ... ... ... ... 83, 84 
 
 Brought from Lords 30,31,196 
 
 Brought from Commons 64,65,224,225,227,228 
 
 First reading of ... ... ... ... ... ... ••• 18,64 
 
 Second reading of ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 18-20 
 
 Third reading of ... ... ... ... ... ... ••• 28 
 
 Altering provisions for protection . . ... ... ... ••• 60,61 
 
 Drafting of bills ... ... ; 83,84 
 
 Personal Bills, Local Bills, &e., see those headings post. 
 
 Book of Reference. See Book of Reference, ante, p. 176, and 
 
 Standing Orders of House or Lords, ^os^. 
 Burial Grounds, Bills for ... ... .. ... ... ... 60, 84 
 
 Certificates for Costs ... ... ... ... ... ... ..• 77-80 
 
 ( JhAibman of Committee on Bill : 
 
 Casting vote of . ... 25 
 
 Duty of to report bill ... ... ... ... ... ... 27 
 
 of Committees of House of Lords ... ... ... ... •■• 225 
 
 Arranges business with Chairman of Committee of Ways and 
 
 Means ... ... ... ... ... ... .. 8 
 
 Duties as to Estate Bills 68,238 
 
 Disciplinary powers of, over Agents ... ... ... ... 82 
 
 of Committee of Ways and Means 121-123 
 
 Arranges business with Chairman of Committees of House of 
 
 Lords ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 8 
 
 Examines bill ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 21 
 
 Must have copies supplied to him ... ... ... 21, 23, 24, 29 
 
 Duties as to amendments on third reading .. ... ... 28,29 
 
 His sanction to motion for dispensing with Standing Orders 17 
 
 < ua.mbf.rs of Commerce, &C. ... ... ... ... ... 52,53,66 
 
 Charges : 
 
 Regulated by List of Charges ... ... ... ... ... 79 
 
 List of, in House of Commons ... ... ... ... ... 296 
 
 Recovery of, sec Costs, j/osf, and as to the charges of Parliament see 
 Fees, post. 
 
 Charity Bills 65,100
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 351 
 
 Classes of Bills : 
 
 Bills other than Personal divided into two classes ... ... 6, 7, 85 
 
 Importance of, to practitioner ... ... ... ..- ••• 7 
 
 Classification of Bills ... ... .. ... ... ... ... 6, 7 
 
 Clauses : 
 
 Abandonment of clauses injuriously affecting opponent does not 
 
 necessarily terminate opposition... ... ... ... ••• 40 
 
 Affecting public revenue to be printed in italics ... ... ... 18 
 
 To be inserted in particular bills ••• ••• 69,83,84 
 
 Opposition may be to clauses or to preamble, or to both ... ... 25, 26 
 
 Committee of Selection ... ... ... ... 22,65, 124-127,228 
 
 Committee on Bill : 
 
 How appointed ... ... ... ... ... '••• ...21,65 
 
 Procedure before ... ... ..•.•• ..•. ..:•• ... 24-27,66 
 
 What is tried by ... ..-. .<. ... n- 26 
 
 Chairman to report ... ... ... ... ... ••• ••• 27, 28 
 
 Committee on Divorce ... ... ... ... ... ••• •>• 69 
 
 Committee on Railway and Canal Bills ... ... ... 22, 125-127 
 
 Committee on Standing Orders... ... ... ••• 14-17,65, 123, 124 
 
 Resolutions of Committee on Standing Orders ... ... ... 324 
 
 Commons, special provisions as to bills affecting, in Standing Orders, 
 
 see S.O. 4, 30, 33, 33b, 60a, of both Houses ... 88, 98, 100, 11.0, 224 
 Commons, House of, see House ox Commons, post. 
 Company's Bills : - 
 
 Standing Orders to be proved to have been complied with as to 
 
 consent of shareholders ... ... ... ... ... ... 19, 65 
 
 Locus standi of shareholders to oppose . ... ... ... 50,51,66 
 
 Competition, when a ground for locus standi to oppose ... ... ... 4 7 -50 
 
 Compliance with Standing Orders, 3-68 of both Houses to be proved 
 
 10, 19, 64, 65,87, 321 
 See further Company's Bills, ante ; Examiners, post. 
 Consideration : 
 
 Of Bill 
 
 Of Lords amendments ... 
 Consumers of Gas or Water 
 Corporation : 
 
 Seal of, in general, to be affixed to petition ... 
 
 Corporator how far bound by seal 
 See Local Authorities, post. 
 Costs ■ . . 
 
 Action for ... ... ... ... ... . . 
 
 Provision in favour of landowner as to 
 Council, see Local Authorities, post, and London, post. 
 Counsel : 
 
 One only heard on a side by Committee on Standing Orders 
 
 Before Referees... 
 
 Before Committee on Bill ... 
 
 
 . 29, 
 
 30 
 
 31 
 
 
 58, 
 
 59 
 62 
 
 50 
 
 . 62, 
 
 63 
 
 35, 77- 
 
 80, : 
 
 244 
 
 
 . 78 
 
 -80 
 
 77 
 
 15 
 35 
 
 
 . 25 
 
 -27
 
 352 GENERAL INDEX 
 
 Page 
 Court of Referees ... ... ... ••• ••• ••• 22, 34-36 
 
 And see Referees, 2^>ost. 
 
 Declaration of Agent : 
 
 As to class of bill and objects 7-10 
 
 Form of ... ... ... ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• 248 
 
 Deposits, Standing Orders of both Houses contain requirements as to 10, 187 
 
 Deposit of Plans and Documents: 
 
 As to Standing Orders see 187,203 
 
 Substitution of clerk to Parish Counsel for Parish Clerk 169 
 
 Districts, meaning of, in Standing Orders 54 
 
 Dispensation with Standing Orders 15-17 
 
 Divorce Bills: 
 
 When required ... ... ... ... ••• ••• ••• ••• °8 
 
 Procedure on 68,69,243 
 
 Are private and are personal bills 1> 6 
 
 Drafting : 
 
 Of Bills, suggestions as to 83,84 
 
 Of Petitions against, suggestions as to 284 
 
 Of Objections to locus standi, suggestions as to 284 
 
 Estate Bills: 
 
 Are Private and Personal Bills 1,6 
 
 Are commenced by petition to Lords 8,10 
 
 Petitions for, are referred to Judges 68 
 
 Procedure on, in Parliament 8,10,63,68,70,237,238 
 
 Evidence : 
 
 Before Examiners **, 16 
 
 Means of compelling production of 13 
 
 Before Committee on Bill 2 ' 5_2 I 
 
 Before Referees 35,45,47 
 
 Examination : 
 
 Of bill by Clerks of Private Bill Office 19 
 
 By Examiners, see Examiners, infra. 
 
 By Chairman of Ways and Means 21 
 
 Examiners : 
 
 Examine as to compliance with .Standing Orders 10, 11, 19, 64-66, 87, 
 
 119-121, 224, 225 
 
 Procedureof 11-15,119-121,224,225,321 
 
 Sittings of 11,321 
 
 Decisions, form of 13-15 
 
 Special report of, to Committee on Standing Orders 14, 15 
 
 Notice as to Hearing Petitions by 323 
 
 See Memorial, post; Committee on Standing Orders, ante. 
 
 Extension of Time Bills 37,40-42,56 
 
 Pees : 
 
 Payable in each House, tables of 79,290-295 
 
 Agents responsible to House for 82,329
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 353 
 
 Page 
 
 First Reading ... ... ... .. ... ... ••• ... 18, 64 
 
 Forms : 
 
 Affidavit in support of Proofs ... ... ... ... ... 263 
 
 Declaration of Agent ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 248 
 
 Memorial to Examiners ... ... ... ... ... ... 249 
 
 Memorial, indorsement of ... ... ... ... ... ... 254 
 
 Memorial to Examiners, another form ... ... ... ... 254 
 
 Objections to Locus Standi; 
 
 General form of ... ... ... ... ... -- ... 283 
 
 Indorsement of Notice of Objections ... ... ... ... 284 
 
 Of trustees of a port and harbour on a Dock and Railway Bill 285 
 
 Of a Municipal Corporation on a Dock and Railway Bill ... 286 
 
 Of a Railway Company on a Dock and Railway Bill ... 2£8 
 
 Petitionforleavetobringina.bin ... ... ... ... ... 246 
 
 Petition for leave, indorsement of ... ... ... ... ... 248 
 
 Petition against a bill by lessees and occupiers whose land is taken 265 
 
 Petition against a bill, indorsement of ... ... ... ... 267 
 
 Petition by trustees of a port and harbour against a Dock and Rail- 
 way Bill 268 
 
 Petition by a Municipal Corporation against a Dock and Railway 
 
 Bill 272 
 
 Petition by a Railway Company against a Dock and Railway Bill 277 
 
 Petition by the City of London Corporation against a Railway Bill 280 
 
 Statement of Proofs 259 
 
 Frontagers : 
 
 When entitled to be heard under S.O. 135 against Tramway Bill ... 57, 58 
 
 Notices to, in Tramway Bills ... ... ... ... ... 91,93 
 
 Gas Bills 56,58 60,84,191 
 
 See Locus Standi, post. 
 
 House of Commons : 
 
 What bills first brought in to 8 
 
 Bills, how brought in ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 18 
 
 Progress of bill through ... ... ... ... ... ... 18-31 
 
 See Bills, ante, Petition, post. 
 
 House of Lords, see Lords, piost. 
 
 Hybrid Bill ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 5 
 
 Inclosure Bills ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 84,147-149 
 
 Index to Standing Orders of Commons ... ... ... 174-223 
 
 Indorsement, of petitions against bill ... ... ... ... ... 23 
 
 For Forms of indorsement of various documents, see 
 Forms, supra. 
 
 Inhabitants, meaning of, in S.O, 134 of Commons ... ... ... 54 
 
 Injurious affecting : 
 
 How alleged in petition ... ... ... ... ... ... 55 
 
 Not in general by itself ground for locus standi ... ... ... 39 
 
 Instructions to Committee 20, 32, 33
 
 354 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Page 
 Labouring Class, provision for housing of, when to be inserted in bill 76, 84 
 Land, application to owners, lessees, and occupiers required before 
 application for leave to bring in bill to take land com- 
 
 pulsorily 91,93,224 
 
 Landowner : 
 
 Application and notices to 60,91,93,224 
 
 Rights of lociu> standi of owners, lessees, and occupiers to oppose 
 
 bill 37 
 
 And see Locus Standi, post. 
 Provision protecting landowner against Liability for costs ... ... 77 
 
 List of Charges 79, 296 
 
 Local Authorities : 
 
 Seeking powers for their district when not liable to opposition of 
 
 ratepayers as such ... ... ... ... ... ... 59 
 
 Consent of, required for Tramway Bill... ... ... ... 94, 224 
 
 Power to construct or work tramways outside their district not to 
 
 be given except as stated... ... ... ■•• ... 144,145 
 
 Provisions where local authorities are empowered to work 
 
 tramways ... ... ... ... ... .... ... 145, 146 
 
 Bills of municipal or other local authorities giving police or 
 
 sanitary powers ... ... ... .,. ... ... 100,146,224 
 
 Lochs standi of, to oppose bills 54-57,130,131,230 
 
 How far sufficiently represent ratepayers, consumers of gas or water, 
 
 traders, freighters, &c, in opposing bills ... ... ... 58-60 
 
 Opposition by municipal or other local authorities on ground of 
 
 injury to trade or prosperity of district ... ... ... 55,56 
 
 Opposition on ground of loss of rates, when allowed ... ... 62 
 
 Opposition to provisions relating to lighting or water supply ... 56, 57 
 
 County Councils, opposition to bills by ... ... ... 57,230 
 
 County Council, opposition as representing parish council ... ... 63 
 
 Loi \i. Bills : 
 
 What are ... 8 
 
 Commenced by petition to Commons for leave to bring in bill ... 8 
 
 Nd petition to Lords required for, if petition has been presented to 
 
 Commons ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 10,64 
 
 See farther Bills, ante ; Petition, post. 
 Locus Standi : 
 
 Sta^e at which questions of, first arise ... ... .. ... 20 
 
 What entitles to a locus standi ... ... ... ... 35,36,46 
 
 Dealt with by Court of Referees ... ... ... ... ... 34 
 
 Depends upon the allegations in petition ... ... ... 22,46,47 
 
 What interference with property gives a ground lor hens 
 
 (andi 39, 40,43, 44 
 
 Determined by Committee in House of Lords ... ... ... 66 
 
 See further Referees, post. 
 Locus Standi Hi : 
 
 Ow es, and occupiers... ... ... ... ... ... 36-47
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 355 
 
 Locus Standi of — cont. 
 
 Owner or occupier of well or stream... 
 Frontagers 
 
 Railway companies as owners 
 
 Railway companies against running poAvers ... 
 
 Traders, freighters, &c. ... 
 
 Shipowners 
 
 Associations, Chambers of Commerce, Agriculture, &e. 
 
 Shipowners' Associations 
 
 Shareholders in companies 
 
 Inhal litants, ratepayers, &c. ... 
 
 Consumers of gas or water 
 
 Councils (see also Local Authorities, ante),.. 
 Locus Standi on Bills for : 
 
 Abandonment of works 
 
 Amalgamation 
 
 Burial grounds, infectious hospitals ... 
 
 Divorce 
 
 Estate 
 
 Extension of boundaries 
 
 Extension of time 
 
 Tramways 
 
 "Water, lighting, or gas 
 Locus Standi on bills which alter provisions for protection 
 Locus Standi on bills which interfere with markets 
 Locus Standi on bills which interfere with roads 
 Locus Standi on Ground of : 
 
 Competition 
 
 Imposition of new rates or taxes ... 
 
 Inj uriously affecting property 
 
 Injury to trade of district or town .... 
 
 Interference with water rights 
 
 Loss of access to premises 
 
 Loss of rates ... ... ... ... ... ... ...• ... 62 
 
 Locus Standi, when not given on ground of temporary occupation of 
 
 lands 39 
 
 London : 
 
 Bills relating to management of whole Metropolitan area usually 
 public ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 2-4 
 
 Bills of City Corporation relating to City alone usually private ... 2-4 
 
 County Council, bills of ... 2,3,84,153-1.56,224 
 
 County Council, plans, copies of bills, &c, wheu to be deposited 
 
 with 196 
 
 Lords : 
 
 Bills brought from 19,30,31,196 
 
 Bills sent to 30,64,6.5,224,225,227,228 
 
 Committees of, decide on locus standi ... ... ... ... 66 
 
 Personal Bills first to be brought into 8-10,67 
 
 
 Page 
 
 
 
 11 
 
 
 57, 
 
 58 
 
 
 38, 
 
 51 
 51 
 
 59, 
 
 60, 
 
 61 
 
 
 53, 
 
 59 
 
 52, 
 
 53, 
 
 66 
 53 
 
 
 50, 
 
 51 
 
 .54, 
 
 59, 
 
 63 
 
 ... 
 
 58, 
 
 59 
 
 
 57, 
 
 63 
 
 37, 
 
 40- 
 
 -42 
 
 .53, 
 
 54, 
 
 61 
 60 
 
 
 68, 
 
 69 
 
 
 68, 
 
 69 
 
 4.5, 
 
 46, 
 
 63 
 
 37, 40- 
 
 -12, 
 
 56 
 
 48, 49, 
 
 57, 
 
 58 
 
 5.5, .56, 
 
 58, 
 
 60 
 
 
 60, 
 
 ,61 
 62 
 
 44, 
 
 61, 
 
 62 
 
 
 47- 
 
 -50 
 45 
 39 
 
 .52, 
 
 55, 
 
 56 
 
 
 44, 
 
 45 
 
 43
 
 bill ... 
 
 
 ... 11, 12 
 
 ied with 
 
 
 ... 11, 12 
 13 
 
 ... 12-15 
 72 
 
 249, 254 
 
 83, 333 
 ... 54-57 
 
 6-9, 
 
 67,70, 199 
 
 10, 91, 199, 
 
 200, 224 
 
 356 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Lords — cont. Page 
 
 Petition is to Lords on Personal Bills ... ... ... ... 9, 67 
 
 Petition to Lords not required in Local Bills where petition to 
 
 Commons 10, 64, 226 
 
 See Personal Bills, Petition, post. 
 Members bringing in hill ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 18 
 
 Memorial : 
 
 Is mode of objecting to petition for leave to bring in bill 
 Objecting that Standing Orders have not been complied with 
 Objection to Memorialists lieing heard 
 Procedure on hearing before Examiners .... 
 
 Provisional Order Bills 
 
 Porms of ... ... ... • . 
 
 See " Examiners,"' ante. 
 Model Bills and Clauses, List of 
 Municipal Corporation, Locus*, standi of 
 See Local Authorities, ante. 
 
 Naturalization and Name Bills ... 
 
 Notices, Standing Orders contain requirements as to 
 See Applications and Notices, ante. 
 
 Objections : 
 
 To petitions for leave to bring in bill on ground of non-compliance 
 
 with Standing Orders, made by Memorial, see Memorial, ante. 
 To petitions against bill on ground of no right to locus standi ... 23, 63 
 Forms of Notice of Objections to Locus Standi ... ... 283-289 
 
 See Locus Standi, ante. 
 
 Occupier, definition of, in Standing Orders 87 
 
 Opposed Bills, what are 21 
 
 Opposition : 
 
 First opportunity for ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 11 
 
 May be to clauses or preamble, or both ... ... ... ... 25, 26 
 
 Is limited by the petition 26,46,47 
 
 Third reading, final opportunity for ... ... ... ... 30 
 
 Owner, see Landowner, ante. 
 
 Parish COUNCIL : 
 
 Clerk of, takes deposits of documents in lieu of parish clerk ... 169 
 
 I;, presented against bill by County Council ... ... ... 63 
 
 Patent: Bi 11 to restore ... ... ... ... ... ... 147,234 
 
 Personal Bills : 
 
 "What are 1,2.6-8 
 
 Must be brought in first to Lords 8,67 
 
 Commenced by petition to Lords 9,10,67 
 
 Pr lure on ... ... ... ... ... .... ... ... 67-70 
 
 I'l riTIOH PCS LEAVE TO BEING IN Bill: 
 
 To Commons in Local Bills 8,9,98 
 
 To Lords in Personal Bills 8,9,10,67,237 
 
 Formalities of 9,10,67,98,237
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 357 
 
 Petition for Leave to bring in ~BA\-cont. 
 
 By Corporate Bodies... 
 
 Form of 
 
 How objected to, see ante, Memorial. 
 Petition in opposition to Bill : 
 
 When and how to be presented 
 
 Must conform to rules, &c. ... 
 
 Rules as to, in Commons 
 
 Contents of 
 
 Ls what is tried by Committee •on Bill 
 
 Injurious affecting, how alleged in ... 
 
 By Corporate Bodies ... 
 
 Withdrawal of 
 
 Forms of 
 
 Orders regulating time and mode of presenting 
 Petitions, how addressed ... 
 
 Petition, praying for dispensation with Standing Orders 
 Petition, opposing dispensation with Standing Order? ... 
 Petitions, paragraphs in, are numbered ... 
 Petitions, rules regulations, &c, as to 
 Petitioner, in favour of bill is not heard except as a witness 
 Petitioner against bill supplies committee with copies of his petition 
 Petitioner, against bill is limited by his petition 
 Plans... 
 Post Case, name given to L. & N.W. Railway case, the leading case on 
 
 landowner's right to locus standi ... ... ... ... ... 37 
 
 Posting of Parliamentary Notices 93,347 
 
 Private Bill, distinction between Private and Public Bills ... ... 1—5 
 
 Private Bill Office, orders regulating 162-165 
 
 Private Bill Office, regulations as to deposit of petitions in ... ... 322 
 
 Promoter : 
 
 Must appear before Examiners to prove compliance with Standing 
 
 Orders 11,12,321 
 
 Must supply Committee on Bill with copies of bill as proposed ... 24 
 
 Where liable for costs ... ... ... ... ... ... 77 
 
 Proofs, see Statement of Proofs, post. 
 
 Proximity, or diminution in value caused by proximity to works, not of 
 
 itself ground of locus standi ... ... ... . . ... 42 
 
 Provisional Orders ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 71-76 
 
 Public Bill, see Private Bill, ante. 
 
 
 
 Page 
 
 
 
 62 
 
 " 
 
 
 246-248 
 
 
 
 21-23, 65 
 
 
 
 22 
 
 
 
 321 
 
 22- 
 
 -24, 
 
 36, 46, 63 
 
 26, 
 
 37, 
 
 38, 46, 47 
 
 55 
 
 62 
 
 23 
 
 265-282 
 
 
 93, 129, 228 
 
 
 
 ... 9, 67 
 
 
 
 16 
 
 
 
 16 
 
 
 
 63 
 
 
 
 321-323 
 
 
 
 24 
 
 ctii 
 
 ion 
 
 24 
 
 ... 25, 38 
 
 203, 224 
 
 Railway and Tramway Bills, general provisions, clauses to be in- 
 
 134-146,232-234 
 
 serted, &c 
 Railway Bills : 
 
 Powers as to steam vessels., when not to be allowed 
 Interest on calls, clause prohibiting except, &c. 
 Level crossings 
 
 See Index to Standing Orders, ante, p. 211, Locus Standi, ante 
 
 A A 
 
 135, 141, 232 
 142, 233 
 135, 232
 
 358 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Kailwav Kates ok Tolls : Page 
 
 Bill increasing, not reported to Commons until committee bas had 
 
 a report from Board of Trade ... ... ... ... ... 133 
 
 Bill increasing, not read ai second time in Lords until Lords have 
 
 had a report from Board of Trade ... ... ... 65,227 
 
 Clauses as to application of General Acts and revision to be 
 
 inserted 142, 144 
 
 ratepayers ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 59,63 
 
 Referees : 
 
 Appointed to deal with questions of locus standi ... ... 22, 34, 123 
 
 Only deal with rights appearing on the petition ... ... ... 22 
 
 Procedure before 23,34-36,45,47,62,63 
 
 Rules for ... 326 
 
 See Locus Standi, ante. 
 Regulations as to Deposit of Petitions ... ... ... ... ... 322 
 
 Regulations for posting Parliamentary Notices ... ... ... ... 347 
 
 Report of Committee on Bill ... ... ... ... ... ... 27-29 
 
 Report of Standing Orders Committee, reconsideration of 17 
 
 Resolutions of Standing Orders Committee ... ... ... ... 324 
 
 L'i'.vr.xrE, clauses affecting to be printed in italics ... ... ... 18 
 
 Rules as to petitions against bills to Commons ... ... ... ... 321 
 
 Rules as to proof of compliance with Standing Orders ... ... ... 321 
 
 Rules for Agents ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 328 
 
 Rules for Referees ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 326 
 
 Rui.i.vgs : 
 
 as to what bills to be public, what private 
 
 of .Mr. Speaker Denison ... ... ... ... ... 4 
 
 of Mr. Speaker Peel 
 
 of Mr. Speaker Gully 3,5 
 
 as to Instructions to Committees on Bills ... ... ... ... 32, 33 
 
 Seal of Corporate Body 50,62 
 
 5b( "ni> Reading : 
 
 Procedure ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 18-20 
 
 How far sanctions principle of bill ... ... ... ... 20,25,26 
 
 Division on ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 21 
 
 Amendment or Instruction on ... ... ... ... ...20,32 
 
 Shareholders, consents of. See Company's Bills, ante. 
 
 Speaker. Sir Kn.r.\<;s, ante ; and Regulations ... ... 119,322 
 
 Speaker's Counsel... ... ... ... ... ... ... 21,24,28 
 
 ding Orders : 
 
 Compliance with to be proved before Examiners, see Examiners, 
 
 ante; and Rides ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 321 
 
 Dispensation with ... ... ... ... ... ... 15,16,17 
 
 Regulating time and mode of presenting petitions against bill to 
 
 accompany applications and notices ... ... ... 93, 129, 228 
 
 -■■lect Committee on Standing Orders ... ... 324 
 
 Standing Orders of House of Commons, see Index ... ... 85-223
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 359 
 
 Page 
 Standing Orders of House of Lords ... ... ... ... 224-244 
 
 Private Bills distinguished as Local and Personal ... ... ... 224 
 
 Two classes of Local Bills (Ord. 1) 224 
 
 Appointment of Examiners (Ord. 2) ... ... ... 224 
 
 Standing Orders, compliance with which is to be proved before the 
 Examiners : 
 
 1. Notices by advertisement (Ord. 3-10) 224 
 
 .2. Notices and applications to owners, &c. (Ord. 11-22) ... 224 
 
 3. Deposit of documents (Ord. 23-39) 224 
 
 4. Form of plans, books of reference, &c. (Ord. 40-55) ... 224 
 
 5. Estimates and deposits of money, &c. (Ord. 56-59) ... 224 
 
 6. Bills brought from the House of Commons (Ord. 60-61) ... 224 
 
 7. Consents of proprieters or members of Companies, and of 
 
 Grand Jury, &c, and consent of persons named as 
 directors (Ord. 62-68) 224 
 
 8. London County Council Money Bills (Ord. 69-69^) ... 224 
 Eeference of Bills, &c. to, and duties of and practice before 
 
 Examiners (Ord. 70-79) 224, 225 
 
 Appointment and duties of Standing Orders Committee (Ord.'80-85)224, 225 
 
 First and Second Readings of Bills (Ord. 86-91) 226-227 
 
 Petitions (Ord. 92-94) 228 
 
 The Chairman of Committees. Committees on Bills. Committee of 
 
 Selection (Ord. 95-1026) 228-230 
 
 Proceedings by and in relation to Committees on Bills : 
 
 General provisions (Ord. 103-111) 230,231 
 
 Railway, Tramway, Tramroad, and Subway Bills (Ord. 112- 
 
 133d) 232-234 
 
 Local Government Bills (Ord. 134, 135) 234 
 
 Letters Patent (Ord. 136, 137) 234 
 
 Inclosure Bills (Ord. 138) 235 
 
 Gasworks, Sewage, Cemeteries, &c. (Ord. 139, 140a) 235 
 
 Re-commitment and miscellaneous matters (Ord. 141-147a) 235, 236 
 
 Application of Estate Bill Orders (Ord. 148) ... ... ... 237 
 
 Proceedings in relation to Personal Bills (Ord. 149-152) 237 
 
 Estate Bills (Ord. 153-159) 237,238 
 
 Committees on Estate Bills (Ord. 160, 161) 238 
 
 Consents and acceptance of trusts (Ord. 162-173) ... 239-242 
 
 Evidence (Ord. 174) 242 
 
 Divorce Bills (Ord. 175, 178) 243 
 
 Naturalization Bills (Ord. 179, 180) ... 244 
 
 Application of Local Bill Orders (Ord. 181) 244 
 
 Examiners' rules ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 321 
 
 Taxation of costs ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 244 
 
 Statement op Proofs : 
 
 Agent brings before Examiner ... ... ... ... ... 12,13 
 
 Form of 259 
 
 List of Statements of Proofs to be purchased 261,262,321
 
 360 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Page 
 Statement to Standing Orders Committee ... ... 15, 16, 324, 325 
 
 Statutes : 
 
 Costs and Taxation, 10 & 11 Vict. c. G9 79, 80, 334 
 
 „ „ 12 & 13 Viet. c. 78 79, 80, 338 
 
 Costs, 28 Viet. c. 27 77,78,344 
 
 Deposited documents, 7 Win. 4. & 1 Viet. c. 83 ... ... ... 167 
 
 Deposits of money, 9 & 10 Viet, e. 20 170 
 
 Deposits, repayment of, 55 & 56 Vict. c. 27 170 
 
 Deposits with clerks to Parish Councils, 56 & 57 Vict. c. 73 ... 169 
 
 Railway Companies Powers, 27 & 28 Vict. c. 120 73 
 
 Railways Construction, 27 & 28 Vict. c. 121 ' 73 
 
 Witnesses examination by Referees on oath, 30 & 31 Vict. c. 136 35 
 Street, meaning of. in Standing Orders ... ... ... ... ... 57,58 
 
 Table of Fees -• 290 
 
 Table of Times for the different steps to be taken ... ... 331, 332 
 
 Third Reading ... ... ... ... ... ... • •• ••■ 28-30 
 
 Third Reading, only verbal amendments to be made on ... ... 28 
 
 Third Reading, division on ... ... ... ... ... ... 30 
 
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 Unopposed Bills 21,22,65,126,131,132 
 
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