THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 39

Bills known under the name of "Estate
Bills."

Bills, where to be initiated.
11.—Bills comprised in Classes 1 and 2,
shall be introduced in the House of Repre-
sentatives; and Bills comprised in Class 3,
in the Legislative Council.

III. STANDING ORDERS: COMPLI-
ANCE WITH WHICH IS TO BE
PROVED BEFORE JOINT COM-
MITTEE ON STANDING ORDERS.

Compliance with Standing Orders.

1. NOTICES BY ADVERTISEMENT.
   Subject of Notices.

2. In all cases where application is in-
   tended to be made for leave to bring in a
   Bill, notices shall be given, stating the objects
   of such intended application, and the time at
   which copies of the Bill will be deposited in
   the Private Bill Office, and if such Bill re-
   late to any of the subjects included in the
   first two classes of Bills; and if it be
   intended to apply for powers for the com-
   pulsory purchase of lands or houses, or for
   extending the time granted by any former
   Act for that purpose, or to amalgamate with
   any other Company, or to sell or lease the
   undertaking, or to purchase or take on lease
   any other undertaking, or to amend or repeal
   any former Act or Acts, or to levy any tolls,
   rates, or duties; or to alter any existing tolls,
   rates, or duties; or to confer, vary, or ex-
   tinguish any exemptions from payment of
   tolls, rates, or duties; or to confer, vary, or
   extinguish any other rights or privileges, the
   notices shall specify such intention, and the
   whole of the notice relating to the same Bill
   shall be included in the same advertisement,
   which shall be headed by a short title, descrip-
   tive of the undertaking or Bill.

Notices to contain name of Township.
14. In cases of Bills included in the 2nd
Class, and of Bills of the 1st Class, in re-
spect to which plans are required to be de-
posited, such notices shall also contain a
description of all the termini, together with
the names of the Provinces, Townships, or
other territorial division from, in, through, or
into which the work is intended to be made,
maintained, varied, extended, or enlarged,
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 several Officers hereafter specified.

NOTICES.—Cemeteries, Gas Works, &c,
15. 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.
16. In all cases where it is proposed to
divert into any intended cut, canal, reser-
voir, 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 exist-
ing cut, canal, reservoir, aqueduct, or naviga-
tion, the water supplying which will either
directly or derivatively flow or proceed into
any such intended cut, canal, reservoir, aque-
duct, or navigation, or into any intended
variation, extension, or enlargement thereof.

LETTERS PATENT.—Name of Invention to be prefixed.
17. In cases of Bills for confirming or
prolonging the terms of Letters Patent, each
notice shall have prefixed to it, in capital
letters, the name by which the invention is
usually distinguished, and shall contain a dis-
tinct description of the invention for which
such Letters Patent have been obtained, and
also an account of the term of their duration.

Publication of Notices.
18. In the months of February and March,
or either of them immediately preceding the
application for a Bill, such notices shall be
published once in the Government Gazette,
and once in the Government Gazette or
Gazettes of the Province or Provinces in
which the cities, towns, or lands to which
such Bill relates shall be situate; and if such
Bill relate especially to any particular city or
town in which any newspaper is published,
such notices shall be published in three suc-
cessive weeks, in one and the same newspaper
published therein; or if such Bill do not
relate to any particular city, town, or lands,
such notices shall be published once in the
Government Gazette only.

2. NOTICES AND APPLICATIONS TO OWNERS,
   LESSEES, AND OCCUPIERS OF LANDS AND
   HOUSES.

Application to Owners, &c.
19. On or before the 15th day of April
immediately preceding the application for a
Bill, by which any lands or houses are in-
tended 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 occu-
piers 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 in cases of Bills included in
the 2nd Class, such application shall be as
nearly as may be in the form set forth in
the Appendix marked A.

Service of Application.
20. 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, on or before the