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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Order for Third Reading of certain Bills.
122. Every other Bill, when reported, is ordered
to be read a Third time.
Two days to intervene between Report and consideration of
same.
123. In the case of Private Bills ordered to lie on
the Table, two clear days shall intervene between
the Report and the consideration of the Bill as
reported, 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.

One day's notice to be given of consideration of Report.
124. One clear day's notice in writing is required
to be given by the Agent for the Bill, to the Clerk
in the Private Bill Office, of the day proposed for
the consideration of every Private Bill ordered to lie
upon the Table.

Amendments on consideration of a Bill, to be submitted to
Chairman of Committees.
125. 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 Amend-
ment 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.
126. When any Clause or Amendment on the con-
sideration of any Private Bill ordered to lie on the
Table, or any Verbal Amendment on the Third Read-
ing of any Private Bill shall have been referred to
the Joint Committee on Standing Orders, no further
proceedings shall be had until the Report of the said
Joint Committee shall have been brought up.

On consideration of Report, new clauses, &c., may be offered.
127. On the consideration of the Bill as reported,
new Clauses or Amendments may be introduced,
subject to the preliminary proceedings, or the Bill
may be re-committed, or ordered to be considered on
a future day.

Amendments, &c., entered upon printed copy of Bill.
128. Amendments made by the House on the con-
sideration of the Bill as reported, or Verbal Amend-
ments on the Third Reading, or Amendments of the
other House agreed to, are entered by one of the
Clerks in the Private Bill Office, upon the printed
copy of the Bill as amended in Committee.

Order for Third Reading.
129. A Private Bill having been considered, as
reported, is ordered to be read a Third time.

One clear day's notice to be given.
130. One clear day's notice in writing is required
to be given by the Agent for the Bill, to the Clerk
in the Private Bill Office, of the day proposed for
the Third Reading.

Amendments on Third Reading.
131. No Amendments not being merely verbal,
shall be made to any Private Bill on the Third
Reading.

Bill to be printed fair after Third Reading.
132. Every Private Bill, after it has been read a
Third time, shall be printed fair, at the expense of
the party applying for the same.

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

Motion for Dispensation of Standing Orders.
134. Except in cases of urgent and pressing neces-
sity, 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.
135. 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, according 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 afore-
said 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.
136. Every Private Bill, after it has passed, shall
be carried to the other House and treated as a Public
Bill until after the First Reading thereof.

X.—PRACTICE IN THE PRIVATE BILL OFFICE.

Private Bill Office and Register.
137. 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
Petition 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 ap-
pointed to sit; the day and hour to which the pro-
ceedings 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.

Receipt of documents to be acknowledged.
138. The receipt of all Documents required by the
Standing Orders of the House to be deposited in
the Private Bill Office shall be acknowledged by
the Clerk upon the said Document when deposited.

List of Petitions to be kept.
139. A List of all Petitions for Private Bills shall
be kept in the Private Bill Office in the order of
their deposit, which shall be called the General List
of Petitions, and each Petition therein shall be
numbered.

Notice of Examination.
140. The Private Bill Clerk shall give at least Two
clear days' notice in the Private Bill Office of the day
appointed for the examination of each Petition for
a Bill, and a like notice in all cases of Petitions for
additional provision in Private Bills, for Estate Bills,
and of Bills introduced by leave of the House in
lieu of other Bills which shall have been withdrawn,
and referred to the Joint Committee on Standing
Orders.

Examination Book.
141. After each Private Bill has been read a First
time its name or Short Title shall be copied by the
Clerk in the Private Bill Office from the Clerk's
Minute Book of the day into a separate Book to be
called "The Examination Book," wherein shall be