Cemeteries, Gas Works, &c.

3. In cases of Bills respecting any burial ground, cemetery, or gas works, the notices shall set forth and specify the limits within which such burial ground, cemetery, or gas works, are intended to be erected or made.

   Notice of intention to divert Water.

4. In all cases where it is proposed to divert into any intended cut, canal, reservoir, 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 proprietor thereof or otherwise, the notices shall contain the name of every such existing cut, canal, reservoir, aqueduct, or navigation, the water supplying which will either directly or derivatively flow or proceed into any such intended cut, canal, reservoir, aqueduct, or navigation, or into any intended variation, extension, or enlargement thereof.

   Publication of Notices.

5. Not less than thirty days before the commencement of the session in which it is proposed to make application for a Bill, such notices shall be published once at least in the Provincial Government Gazette, and if such Bill relate especially to any particular city or town in which any newspaper is published, such notice shall be published in two successive weeks in one and the same newspaper published therein, the first publication to be not less than thirty days before the commencement of the session.

   Notices and Applications to Owners, Lessees, and occupiers of lands and houses.

6. Not less than thirty days before the commencement of the session in which it is proposed to make application for a Bill by which any lands or houses are intended to be taken, or an extension of the time granted by any former Act for that purpose is sought, application in writing must be made to the owners or reputed owners, lessees or reputed lessees, and occupiers of all lands and houses so intended to be taken, or which may be taken, as being within the limits of deviation defined upon the plan, and such applications shall be as nearly as may be in the forms set forth in the Appendix marked A.

   Service of Application.

7. Such application shall be made by delivering the same personally to every such party, or by leaving the same at his usual place of abode, or in his absence from the Colony, 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 before the first of such thirty days at the chief post office in the Province, at such hours and according to such regulations as may from time to time be in force for the posting and registration of registered letters.

   Evidence of Application.

8. In all cases the written acknowledgment of the party applied to shall, in the absence of other proof, be sufficient evidence of an application having been made, or notice given; and in case of an application or notice having been forwarded by post, in a registered letter, the production of the post office receipt for such letter, duly stamped, shall be sufficient evidence of the due delivery of such letter, provided it shall appear that the same was properly and sufficiently directed, and that the same was not returned by the post office as undelivered.

   List of Owners, &c., assenting, dissenting, and neuter.

9. Separate lists shall be made of the names of such owners, lessees, and occupiers, distinguishing those who have assented, dissented, or are neuter in respect to such application, or who have returned no answer thereto, and where no written acknowledgment 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 inserted therein.

   (See Schedule.)

   Notice to Owners, &c. Trust Properties.

10. Not less than thirty days before the commencement of the session in which it is intended to make application for a Bill relating to or affecting ecclesiastical or corporation property, or property held in trust for public or charitable purposes, notice in writing of such application to the Legislature shall be served upon the owners or reputed owners of such property, and the lessees, or reputed lessees of such property, holding leases for any term of twenty-one years, or upwards, excepting such of the said persons as may be promoters of the Bill.

    Notice to Owners, &c. Cemeteries and Gas Works.

11. Not less than thirty days before the commencement of the session in which it is intended to make application for any Bill for making a burial ground or cemetery, or the erection of works for the manufacture of gas, notice shall be served upon the owners and occupiers of every dwelling house situate within three hundred yards of the limits within which the proposed burial ground, cemetery, or gas works are intended to be erected or made.

    Notice to Owners, &c. of relinquishment of Works.

12. Previously to asking leave to bring in a Bill whereby any part of a work authorized by any former Act is intended to be relinquished, notices in writing of such Bill shall be served upon the owners or reputed owners, lessees or reputed lessees, and occupiers of the lands in which the part of such work intended to be thereby relinquished is situate.