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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Council and the Speaker of the House of Repre-
sentatives.

Joint Committee on Standing Orders.
11. There shall be nominated at the commence-
ment of each Session a Joint Committee of six,
consisting of three Members chosen by the Legis-
lative Council and three chosen by the House of
Representatives. This Committee shall be named
the Joint Committee on Standing Orders, and three
shall be a Quorum.

Committee of Selection.
12. There shall be nominated for each House, at
the commencement of each Session, a Committee to
be designated the "Committee of Selection," to
consist of five Members of each House respectively,
of which Committees respectively three shall be a
Quorum.

III.—CLASSES OF PRIVATE BILLS.
Private Bills divided into Classes.
13. All Private Bills will be arranged as nearly as
possible in the three following classes, according to
the subject to which they relate:—

FIRST CLASS.
Burial grounds: making, maintaining, or altering.
Charters and Corporations: enlarging or altering
powers of.
Church or Chapel: building, enlarging, repairing,
or maintaining.
City or Town: paving, lighting, watching, cleansing,
or improving.
Company: incorporating or giving powers to.
County Rate.
County or Shire Hall: Court House, Crown,
Church, or Corporation property, or property
held in Trust for public or charitable purposes.
Ferry.
Fishery: making, maintaining, or improving.
Gaol or House of Correction.
Land: enclosing, draining, or improving.
Letters Patent: confirming, prolonging, or trans-
ferring the term of.
Local Court: constituting.
Market or Market Place: erecting, improving,
repairing, maintaining, or regulating.
Police.
Poor: maintaining or employing.
Poor Rate.
Powers to sue and be sued: conferring.
Continuing or amending an Act passed for any
of the purposes included in this or in the second
class where no further work than such as was
authorized by a former Act is proposed to be
made; and relating to any subject not comprised
within any of the classes hereinafter mentioned.

SECOND CLASS.
Making, maintaining, varying, extending, or
enlarging any
Aqueduct,
Archway,
Bridge,
Canal,
Cut,
Dock.
Drainage: making and maintaining any cut for
drainage, being a new work, where it is not
provided in the Bill that the same shall not be
more than eleven feet in width at the bottom.
Embankment, for reclaiming land from the sea or
any tidal river.
Ferry: where any work is to be executed.
Harbour.

Navigation.
Pier.
Port.
Railway.
Reservoir.
Sewer.
Street.
Tunnel.
Public Carriage Road.
Waterwork.

THIRD CLASS.
Enlarging, altering, or conferring powers relative
to estates in land, selling or exchanging land,
and other Bills known under the name of
"Estate Bills," excepting such as have been
hereinbefore included in Class 1.

Bills where to be initiated.
14. Bills comprised in Classes 1 and 2 shall mean
those passed in the House of Representatives; and
Bills comprised in Class 3, in the Legislative Council.

IV.—INITIATION OF PRIVATE BILLS.
Petition to be presented to Private Bill Office.
15. Every Private Bill is initiated by a Petition
which is presented to the Private Bill Office, either
before the meeting of Parliament or within fourteen
days from the commencement of the Session.

Before presentation to the House to be examined by Examiner
or Joint Committee on Standing Orders.
16. Every such Petition must be prepared in
accordance with the Standing Orders, and before its
presentation to the House is examined by the
Examiner or Joint Committee on Standing Orders
for proof that the Standing Orders have been com-
plied with.

Process when Standing Orders not complied with.
17. When the Examiner reports that the Standing
Orders have not been complied with the Petition and
report stand referred to the Joint Committee on
Standing Orders.

Notice of Petition to be posted in Lobby.
18. On the receipt of any Petition for a Private
Bill, the Private Bill Clerk forthwith posts in the
Lobby a notice of such Petition having been received,
along with a brief abstract of its prayer and object.

Examination of Petitions commences fourteen days after first
day of meeting.
19. The examination of the Petitions for Private
Bills which shall have been duly deposited in the
Private Bill Office before the commencement of the
Session shall commence after the expiration of four-
teen days from its first meeting.

Examination of Petitions subsequently deposited.
20. In the case of Petitions deposited subsequently
to the meeting of Parliament, their examination shall
take place after the expiration of ten days from the
date of their deposit.

Clerk of Private Bill Office to give two days' notice of day fixed
for examination of Petition.
21. The Clerk in the Private Bill Office shall give
two days' notice in the Private Bill Office of a day
appointed by the Speaker of either House for the
examination of any Petition; and in case the pro-
moters shall not appear at the time when the Petition
shall come on to be heard, the Petition shall be struck
off the General List of Petitions, and shall not be
re-inserted except by order of the House; and any
Petition for such re-insertion shall stand referred to
the Joint Committee on Standing Orders.

Parties complaining of non-compliance with Standing Orders
may be heard on depositing Memorial.
22. Any parties complaining of a non-compliance