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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Minutes to be reported.
110. The Minutes of the Committee on
every Private Bill shall be brought up and
laid on the Table of the House with the
Report of the Bill.

XIII. RAILWAY BILLS.
Heads of Enquiry.
111. The Committees on Railway Bills
shall direct their attention especially to the
following heads of enquiry, and shall
require evidence from the promoters thereon,
namely:-
I. The financial arrangements made
or proposed by the promoters, the
number and amount of shares actually
subscribed for or agreed to be taken,
the amount of share, capital, and loans
proposed to be authorised, and the
sufficiency of the estimate for the
works.
II. The merits in an engineering
point of view of the proposed Rail-
way, the character of the gradients
and curves, the number and extent of
the tunnels (if any), the places (if any)
to be worked by assistant or stationary
engines, the crossings (if any) of public
roads on the level, and any peculiar
engineering difficulties, with the modes
proposed for overcoming them.
III. The degree of favour or objection
with which the project is regarded by
the landowners and others in the neigh-
bourhood of the proposed Railway.

Matters to be specially reported.
112. Every Committee on a Railway Bill
shall report specially to the House:-
I. Whether any report from any
Public Department in regard to the Bill
or the objects thereof has been referred
by the House to the Committee, and, if
so, in what manner the several recom-
mendations contained in such Report
have been dealt with by the Committee.
II. Whether it be intended that the
Railway shall cross on a level any
public road or a highway.
III. And any other circumstances
which in the opinion of the Committee
it is desirable that the House should be
informed of.

Committee to fix Tolls and Charges.
113. The Committee on every Railway
Bill, except Railway Bills promoted by a
Provincial Government, shall fix the tolls,
and shall determine the maximum rates of
charge for the conveyance of passengers
with a due amount of luggage, and of goods
on such Railway, and such rate of charge
shall include the tolls and the costs of loco-
motive power and every other expense
connected with the conveyance of passengers
with a due amount of luggage and goods
upon such Railway; but, if the Committee
shall not deem it expedient to determine
such maximum rates of charge, a special
Report explanatory of the grounds of their
omitting so to do shall be made to the House,

which special Report shall accompany the
Report of the Bill.

Railway not to be exempt from any general Act.
114. The following Clause shall be in-
serted in all Railway Bills:-
"Nothing herein contained shall be
deemed or construed to exempt the
Railway by this (or the said recited
Acts) authorised to be made from the
provisions of any general Act relating
to Railways now in force, or which
may hereafter pass during this or any
future Session of Parliament, or from
any future revision and alteration under
the authority of the General Assembly
of the maximum rates of fares and
charges authorised by this Act (or by
the said recited Acts)."

LETTERS PATENT. Copy to be annexed to Bill.
115. When any Bill shall be brought into
the House for the confirming of Letters
Patent, there shall be a true copy of such
Letters Patent annexed to the Bill.

BURIAL GROUNDS OR GAS WORKS.—Clause for defining Lands.
116. In every Bill for making a Burial
Ground or Cemetery, or the erection of works
for the manufacture of Gas, there shall be a
Clause defining the limits within which such
Burial Ground, Cemetery, or Gas works, shall
be erected or made.

V.—ORDERS REGULATING THE
PRACTICE OF THE HOUSE WITH
REGARD TO PRIVATE BILLS.

Petition for Bill, and how to be signed.
117. No Private Bill shall be brought into
the House but upon a Petition first presented,
which shall have been duly deposited in the
Private Bill Office, and endorsed as before
provided, with a printed copy of the proposed
Bill annexed; and such Petition shall be
signed by the parties or some of them who
are suitors for the Bill.

Petitions when to be presented.
118. All Petitions for Private Bills shall
be presented to the House not later than
three clear days after the same shall have
been endorsed as aforesaid, or if when the
same is endorsed the House shall not be
sitting, then not later than three clear days
after the first sitting thereof, subsequent to
such endorsement; and, if the House shall
not be sitting on the latest day on which any
Petition ought to be presented, then the same
shall be presented on the first day on which
the House shall again sit.

Bill how to be presented.
119. All Private Bills which shall have
been ordered to be brought in, shall be
presented to the House by depositing the
same in the Private Bill Office, and shall be
laid by the Clerk on the Table of the House,
for first reading, together with a List of such
Bills.

Petition for additional provision.
120. No Petition for additional provision
in any Private Bill will be received by the