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of each of the Bills, and in which they will
require the parties severally promoting or
opposing the same to enter appearances; and
two clear days' notice at the least of such
appointment shall be given by the Clerk in
the Private Bill Office, and, in case the
Committee shall postpone the consideration
of any Bill, the like notice shall be given of
the day to which the same is postponed.

Adjournment to be specially reported.
89. Every Committee on an opposed
Private Bill shall report specially to the
House the cause of any adjournment over
any day on which the House shall sit.

Petition against Bill to specify grounds of objection.
90. No Petition against a Private Bill
shall be taken into consideration by the
Committee on such Bill which shall not
distinctly specify the ground on which the
petitioners object to any of the provisions
thereof, and unless it contains a prayer to be
heard against the Preamble of such Bill, or
some or all of the clauses thereof, before the
Committee to whom it may be referred: and
the Petitioners shall be only heard on such
grounds so stated; and if it shall appear to
the said Committee that such grounds are
not specified with sufficient accuracy, the
Committee may direct that there be given
in to the Committee a more specific statement
in writing, but limited to such grounds of
objection so inaccurately specified.

When Petition against Bill to be presented.
91. No Petitioners against any Private
Bill shall be heard before the Committee
upon the Bill unless their Petition shall have
been prepared and signed in strict conformity
with the rules and orders of the House, and
shall have been presented to the House, by
having been deposited in the Private Bill
Office previous to the second reading of such
Bill, except where the Petitioners shall com-
plain 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.

Competition a locus standi.
92. It shall be competent to the Committee
on any Private Bill to admit Petitioners to be
heard upon their petitions against such Bill,
on the ground of competition, if they shall
think fit.

In what cases Shareholders are to be heard.
93. Where a Bill is promoted by an in-
corporated company, shareholders of such
company shall not be entitled to be heard
before the Committee against the Bill, unless
their interests, as affected thereby, shall be
distinct from the general interests of such
company.

In what cases owners of Railways to be heard.
94. Where a Railway Bill contains pro-
visions for taking or using any part of the
lands, railway stations, or accommodations of
another company, person, or body politic or
corporate, or for running engines or carriages
upon or across the same, or for granting
other facilities, such company, person, or
body politic or corporate, shall be entitled to
be heard upon their petition against the Pre-
amble and clauses of such Bill.

Municipal Authorities and inhabitants of towns, &c.
95. It shall be competent to the Committee
on any Railway or Canal Bill, to admit Pe-
titioners, being the Superintendent of any
Province, authorised by the Council thereof,
or the Municipal Authorities of any town or
district alleged to be injuriously affected by
a Bill to be heard against such Bill, if they
shall think fit.

When Opposed Bills may be treated as Unopposed.
96. In all cases of opposed Private Bills,
in which no parties shall have appeared on
the petitions against such Bills, or having
appeared, shall have withdrawn their op-
position before the evidence of the promoters
shall have been commenced, the Committees
on such Bills shall forthwith refer them back,
with a statement of the facts, to the Com-
mittee of Selection, who shall deal with them
as unopposed Bills.

12.—PROCEEDINGS OF AND IN RELATION TO
COMMITTEES ON BILLS, WHETHER OPPOSED
OR UNOPPOSED.

Bill to be laid before each Member.
97. At the first meeting of the Committee
copies of the Bill, as proposed to be sub-
mitted to them, and signed by the agent,
shall be laid by him before each member of
the Committee.

Local Members not to vote.
98. No member, locally or otherwise in-
terested, of a Committee on any unopposed
Private Bill, shall have a vote on any ques-
tion that may arise; but every such member
shall be entitled to attend and take part in
the proceedings of the Committee.

Names of Members to be entered on minutes.
99. 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 mem-
bers voting in any such division, distinguish-
ing on which side of the question they re-
spectively vote, and such lists shall be given
in with the report to the House.

Committee not to enquire into certain Orders.
100. No Committee shall have power to
examine into the compliance or noncompli-
ance with such Standing Orders as are
directed to be proved before the Joint Com-
mittee on Standing Orders, unless by special
Order of the House.

Standing Orders may be proved by affidavits, &c.
101. The Committee on any Private Bill
may admit affidavits or declarations, in proof
of the compliance with such Standing Orders
as are directed to be proved before them, in-
less in any case they shall require further