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evidence; and such affidavits or declaration
shall be sworn or taken before a Solicitor of
the Supreme Court, or a Justice of the
Peace.
commissioners, directors, trustees, or
other parties aforesaid, and also by the
auditors thereof; and a copy of such
annual account to be transmitted, free
of charge, to the Superintendent of the
Province within which the chief office
for the management of such funds shall
be situated, on or before the 31st day of
January in each year, under a sufficient
penalty for not preparing and sending in
the said account, to be levied by sum-
mary process; the said accounts to be
open, at all seasonable hours, to the in-
spection of the public, upon payment of
a fee.

Consents; how to be proved,
102 The Committee may admit proof of
the consents of parties concerned in interest
in any Private Bill, by affidavits or declara-
tions, sworn or taken as aforesaid, or by the
certificate in writing of such parties, whose
signatures to such certificate shall be made
in the presence of and attested by a Solicitor
of the Supreme Court or a Justice of the
Peace, unless the Committee shall require
further evidence.
Plan, &c., to be signed by Chairman.
105. Every plan and book of reference
thereto, which shall be produced in evidence
before the Committee upon any Private Bill
(whether the same shall have been previously
lodged in the Private Bill Office or not), shall
be signed by the Chairman of such Committee,
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 Com-
mittee, and every such plan and book of re-
ference shall thereafter be deposited in the
Private Bill Office.

Clause compelling payment of subscription.
103. In all Bills presented to the House
for carrying on any work by means of a
company, commissioners, or trustees, provi-
sion shall be made for compelling persons who
have subscribed any money towards carrying
any such work into execution, to make pay-
ment of the sums severally subscribed by
them.
Committee Bill to be signed by Chairman.
106. The Chairman of the Committee shall
sign, with his name at length, a printed copy
of the Bill (to be called the Committee Bill)
on which the amendments are to be fairly
written, and also sign with the initials of
his name, the several clauses added in the
Committee.

Provision in Bills by which Tolls, &c., may be levied.
104. In all Bills whereby any parties are
authorised to levy fees, tolls, or other rates or
charges, clauses shall be inserted providing
for the following objects, except in so far as
any of such objects shall have been provided
for in some general Act applicable to the sub-
ject matter of the Bill.
Chairman to report on allegations of Bills, &c.
107. 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 Stand-
ing Orders) to the satisfaction of the Com-
mittee.

Security to be taken from the treasurer,
collector or receiver, and every other offi-
cer entrusted with the collection or cus-
tody of monies under the Bill, for the
faithful execution of his office.
Chairman to report Bill in all cases.
108. The Chairman of the Committee shall
report the Bill to the House, whether the
Committee shall or shall not have agreed to
the 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 alteration 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.

Full and accurate accounts to be kept
of all monies received and expended un-
der the provisions of the Bill, and that
such accounts be balanced once in each
year at the least.

Such accounts to be duly audited once
in each year at the least, and that
for that purpose an auditor or auditors
be appointed by some person or persons
not immediately connected with the com-
missioners, directors, trustees, or other
party by whom or by whose direction or
authority such fees, tolls, rates, or charges
shall be levied.
Committee to notice recommendation from Government
Departments.
109. 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 recommendation in their
Report, and shall state their reasons for
dissenting, should such recommendation not
be agreed to.

For the purpose of auditing such
accounts, the commissioners, directors,
trustees, or other such party as aforesaid,
to be required to cause the accounts, to-
gether with all their books and vouchers,
to be produced to the auditors.

The remuneration of the auditor, and
his expenses, to be defrayed out of the
funds levied under the Bill.

An annual account in abstract to be
prepared of the total receipts and ex-
penditure of all funds levied under such
Bill during the past year, under the
several distinct heads of receipts and
expenditure, with a statement of the
balance of the said account duly audited
and certified by the chairman of the