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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Bill to be printed after Report.
136. Every Private Bill as amended in
Committee shall be printed at the expense
of the parties applying for the same, and
delivered to the Clerk for the use of the
Members three clear days at least before the
consideration of such Bill.

Time between Report and consideration of B 11.
137. In the case of Private Bills ordered to
lie upon the Table, three clear days shall inter-
vene between the Report and the consideration
of the Bill, and no consideration of any such
Bill shall take place unless the Chairman of
Committees shall have certified in writing
to Mr. Speaker that the Bill contains the
several provisions required by the Standing
Orders.

Amendment on consideration of Bill or third reading to be
submitted to Chairman of Committees.
138. No Clause or Amendment shall be
offered in the House on the consideration of
any Private Bill ordered to lie upon the
Table, nor any verbal amendment on the
third reading of any Private Bill, unless the
Chairman of Committees shall have signified
in writing to Mr. Speaker whether in his
opinion such Clause or Amendment be such,
as ought or ought not to be entertained by the
House without referring the same to the Joint
Committee on Standing Orders.

Report of Joint Committee on Standing Orders.
139. When any Clause or Amendment on
the consideration of any Private Bill ordered
to lie on the Table, or any verbal Amendment
on the third reading of any Private Bill,
shall have been referred to the Joint
Committee on Standing Orders, no further
proceeding shall be had until the Report of
the said Joint Committee shall have been
brought up.

Third reading of Bills ordered to lie on the Table.
140. After the consideration of a Bill
ordered to lie on the Table, it shall, if it
seem fit to the House, be ordered to be read
a third time.

Amendment on third reading.
141. No Amendments not being merely
verbal shall be made to any Private Bill on
the third reading.

Amendments made in other House.
142. All Amendments made by the other
House to any Private Bill shall be printed
at the expense of the parties, and copies
thereof deposited in the Private Bill Office
prior to such Amendments being taken into
consideration by the House; and, where any
Clause has been amended, it shall be printed
in extenso with every addition or substitution
in different type, and the omissions therefrom
included in brackets, and underlined; and,
when Amendments are intended to be pro-
posed in the House to the Amendments of
the other House, such proposed Amendments
shall also be printed in like manner.

Bill to be printed fair after third reading.
143. Every Private Bill, after it has been
read a third time, shall be printed fair at the
expense of the parties applying for the same.

Stages of Bill.
144. No Private Bill shall pass through
two stages on one and the same day without
the special leave of the House.

Motion for Dispensation.
145. Except in cases of urgent and press-
ing necessity, no motion shall be made to
dispense with any Sessional or Standing
Order without due notice thereof.

Order of proceedings in House on Private Business.
146. Each day, immediately after Prayers,
the Clerk at the Table shall read from the
Private Business List, and from the List of
Bills presented for first reading, the Titles
of the several Bills set down therein accord-
ing to their precedence, as arranged under
the following heads:—
I. Consideration of Amendments of other
House;
II. Third Readings;
III. Consideration of Bills ordered to lie
upon the Table;
IV. Second Readings;
V. First Readings;
and if upon the reading of each such Title,
as aforesaid no Motion shall be made with
respect to such Private Bill, the further
proceedings thereon shall be adjourned until
the next sitting of the House.

Bill to be carried from House to other House.
147. Every Private Bill, after it has been
read a third time and passed, shall be carried
to the other House and treated as a Public
Bill, until after the first reading thereof,
anything in these Orders to the contrary
notwithstanding.

Tolls and Charges not in the nature of a Tax.
148. The House of Representatives will
not insist on its privileges with regard to any
clauses in Private Bills sent down from the
Legislative Council which refer to Tolls and
Charges for services performed, and are not
in the nature of a Tax.

VI.—PRACTICE IN THE PRIVATE
BILL OFFICE.

Private Bill Office and Register.
149. A book, to be called the Private Bill
Register, shall be kept in a room, to be called
the Private Bill Office, in which book shall
be entered, by the clerk appointed for the
business of that office, the name, description,
and place of residence of the solicitor (if any)
and of the parliamentary agent, soliciting the
Bill, and all the proceedings, from the peti-
tion to the passing of the Bill; such entry to
specify briefly each day's proceedings before
the Joint Committee on Standing Orders, or
in the House, or in any Committee to which
the Bill may be referred, the day and hour
on which the Committee is appointed to sit,
the day and hour to which the proceedings
before such Committee may be adjourned,
and the name of the clerk attending the same;
such book to be open to public inspection
daily in the said office, between the hours
of ten and four.