STANDING Clauses and amendments offered on con sideration of bill, or verbal amend ments on third reading, to be printed. When referred, no further proceeding to be of Select Com 204. When any clause or amendment is offered 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, such clause or amendment shall be printed: And when any clause is proposed to be amended, it shall be printed in extenso, with every addition or substitution in different type, and the omissions therefrom included in brackets and underlined. The expense of printing such clauses or amendments, when offered by a party promoting or opposing a bill, shall be paid by such party. 205. When any clause or amendment on the consideration of any private bill ordered to lie upon the table, or any verbal had until report amendment on the third reading of any private bill, shall have mittee on Stand- been referred to the Select Committee on Standing Orders, no further proceeding shall be had until the report of the said select committee shall have been brought up. ing Orders. No amendments, except verbal, on third reading. Lords' amendments to be printed and circulated with the votes prior to consideration, &c. Bill to be printed fair after third reading. Notice of com Lords' journals 206. No amendments, not being merely verbal, shall be made to any private bill on the third reading. 207. All amendments, made by the House of Lords to any private bill shall be printed at the expense of the parties, and circulated 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 underlined; and when any amendments are intended to be proposed to the Lords' amendments, such proposed amendments shall also be printed in like manner. 208. Every private bill, after (a) it has been read a third time, shall be printed fair, at the expense of the parties applying for the same. (a) Previously to the third reading in the House of Lords: (L. §. 0. cxc. 1.) 209. In all cases where it is intended to appoint a committee mittee to inspect to inspect the journals of the House of Lords with relation to any proceedings upon any private bill, previous notice thereof in writing shall be given by the agent to the clerks in the committee office. to be given to committee clerks. Bill not to pro on same day. Notice to be given of motion 210. No private bill shall pass through two stages on one and ceed two stages the same day without the special leave of the House. 211. Except in cases of urgent and pressing necessity, no for dispensation, motion shall be made to dispense with any sessional or standing order of the House without due notice thereof. 212. Each day, so soon as the House shall be ready to proHouse on private ceed to private business, the clerk at the table shall read from business. the private business list, and from the list of bills presented for Order of pro ceedings in first reading, (see order 181,) the titles of the several bills set down 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. 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 proceedings thereon shall be adjourned until the next sitting of the House. STANDING not in the nature 213. That this House will not insist on its privileges with Tolls and charges regard to any clauses in private bills sent down from the House as. of Lords which refer to tolls and charges for services performed, and are not in the nature of a tax. VI. THE ORDERS REGULATING THE PRACTICE IN THE Office and register. 214. A book, to be called "THE PRIVATE BILL REGISTER," Private Bill shall be kept in a room, to be called "THE PRIVATE BILL OFFICE," in which book shall be entered by the clerks appointed for the business of that office, the name, description, 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 entry 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 attending the same. Such book to be open to public inspection daily, in the said office, between the hours of ten and six. knowledged. 215. The receipt of all documents required by the standing Receipt of docuorders of the House to be deposited in the Private Bill Office, ments to be acshall be acknowledged by one of the clerks of the said office, upon the said documents, when deposited. to be kept. 216. A list of all petitions for private bills shall be kept in List of petitions 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. 217. All memorials complaining of non-compliance with the Memorials when to be deposited. STANDING ORDERS. Deposit of memorials and Private Bill Office. standing orders, in reference to petitions for bills deposited in the Private Bill Office on or before the 23d December, shall be deposited as follows: If the same relate to petitions for bills numbered in the General List of Petitions; From 1 to 100 101 to 200 201 and upwards. And in the case of any petitions for bills which may be deposited by leave of the House after the 23d December, such memorials shall be deposited three clear days before the day first appointed for the examination of the petition. 218. All memorials shall be deposited in the Private Bill copies thereof in Office before six of the clock in the evening of any day on which the House shall sit, and before two of the clock on any day on which the House shall not sit; and two copies of every such memorial shall be deposited for the use of the examiners before twelve of the clock on the following day. Time for deposit- Deposit of memo of non-compli 219. Every memorial complaining of non-compliance with the standing orders of the House in reference to petitions for additional provision in private biils, to estate bills brought from the House of Lords, and to bills introduced by leave of this House in lieu of other bills which shall have been withdrawn, and referred to the examiners of petitions for private bills, 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 examination of any such petition or billby 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. 220. Every memorial complaining of non-compliance with rials complaining the standing orders, in cases of bills referred to the examiner ance of standing under standing order 185, 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 examination. order 185. Notice to be given of examination of petitions, &c. Examination book. 221. One of the examiners shall give at least seven clear days' notice in the Private Bill Office of the day appointed for the examination of each petition for a bill, and at least two clear days' notice in all cases of petitions for additional provision in private bills, of estate bills brought from the House of Lords, of bills introduced by leave of this House in lieu of other bills which shall have been withdrawn, and referred to the examiners, and of bills referred in pursuance of standing order 185. 222. After each private bill has been read the first time, its Examination Book-Second Reading-Notices. cclxxi name (or short title) shall be copied by the clerks of the Private Bill Office from the clerk's minute-book of the day, into a separate book, to be called "THE EXAMINATION BOOK;' wherein shall be noted the number of such bill, according to the priority of its being read, and the date of the day of such first reading. STANDING ORDERS. 223. Every private bill, after it has been read the first time Custody of bills. and the title copied and examined for the votes, shall be in the custody of the clerks of the Private Bill Office, until laid upon the table for the second reading; and when committed, shall be taken by the proper committee clerk into his charge, till reported. 224. Between the first and second reading of every private Examination of bill, the bill shall, according to its priority, be examined, with bills. all practicable despatch, by the clerks of the Private Bill Office, as to its conformity with the rules and standing orders of the House; and if not in due form, the examining clerk shall specify thereon the page in which any irregularity occurs, and shall enter the day of such examination, together with his own name, in the examination book. 225. Three clear days' notice in writing shall be given by the Notice of second agent for the bill, to the clerks in the Private Bill Office, of the reading day proposed for the second reading of every private bill; and no such notice shall be given until the day after that on which the bill has been ordered to be read a second time. committee. 226. Four clear days' notice shall be given by the clerk to Notice of the Committee of Selection, or by the clerk to the General Committee on Railway and Canal Bills, as the case may be, to the clerks in the Private Bill Office, of the day and hour appointed for the meeting of the committee on every private bill that shall have been referred to either of the said committees, except in the case of name bills, naturalisation bills, and estate bills, and except in the case of bills referred back to either of the said committees as unopposed :—and in the case of such name bills, naturalisation bills, and estate bills, there shall be one clear day's notice given of committee by the clerk to the Committee of Selection-and in the case of bills not referred to the Committee of Selection, or to the General Committee on Railway and Canal Bills, four clear days' notice, and in the case of a recommitted bill, three clear days' notice, shall be given by the agents for the bill to the clerks in the Private Bill Office of the day and hour appointed for the meeting of the committee and all the proceedings of any committee of which such notice shall not have been given shall be void. 227. A filled-up bill, signed by the agent for the bill, as pro- Filled-up bill to posed to be submitted to the committee on the bill, and in the be deposited in STANDING Private Bill Notice of postponement. Notice of adjournment. Notice of consideration of bill. Bill as amended be delivered in. case of a recommitted bill, a filled-up bill, as proposed to be submitted to the committee on recommittal, shall be deposited in the Private Bill Office two clear days before the meeting of the committee 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. 228. Notice in writing shall be given by the clerk to the Committee of Selection, or by the clerk to the General Committee on Railway and Canal Bills, as the case may be, to the elerks in the Private Bill Office, of the postponement of the first meeting of any committee on a private bill which shall have been referred either to the Committee of Selection, or to the General Committee on Railway and Canal Bills, on the day on which such postponement is made; and in the case of bills not referred to the Committee of Selection or the General Committee on Railway and Canal Bills, one clear day's notice shall be given by the agents for the bill, and, in the case of divorce bills, either by the agents or by the clerk to the Select Committee on Divorce Bills, to the clerks in the Private Bill Office, of such postponement. 229. 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. 230. 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 bill ordered to lie upon the table. 231. The committee clerk, after the report is made out, shall in committee to 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. Bill printed as examined. 232. Every private bill printed as amended in committee ( amended, to be order 201) shall be examined by the clerks in the Private Bill Office, with the bill delivered in by the committee clerk, and the examining clerks shall endorse thereon a certificate of such examination. Notice to be given of clauses, 233. When it is intended to bring up any clause or to pro&c., on consider. pose 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 reading. ation of bill, or verbal amendments on third reading. Notice of third reading. 234. One clear day's notice, in writing, shall be given by the |