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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Ecclesiastical, or Corporation property, or property
held in Trust for public or charitable purposes, notice
in writing of such application to Parliament shall be
served upon the owners or reputed owners of such
property, and the lessees or reputed lessees of such
property holding leases for any term of twenty-one
years or upwards, excepting such of the said persons
as may be promoters of the Bill.

Notice to Owners, &c., Cemeteries and Gas Works.
36. Not less than thirty days before the commence-
ment of the Session in which it is intended to make
application for any Bill for making a burial ground
or cemetery, or the erection of works for the manu-
facture of gas, notice shall be served upon the owner
and occupier of every dwelling-house situate within
300 yards of the limits within which the proposed
burial ground, cemetery, or gas works are intended
to be erected or made.

Notice to Owners, &c., of Relinquishment of Works.
37. Previously to the deposit of a Petition for
leave to bring in a Bill whereby any part of a work
authorized by any former Act is intended to be
relinquished, notices in writing of such Bill shall be
served upon the owners or reputed owners, lessees or
reputed lessees, and occupiers of the lands in which
the part of such work intended to be thereby
relinquished is situate.

Service and evidence of Application.
38. The notices required by the three preceding
orders shall be served, and the service thereof proved
in the same manner as directed in Standing Orders
Nos. 32 and 33.

Service of Application or Notice, when invalid.
39. No notice served, or application made on a
Sunday, Good Friday, or Christmas Day, or before
eight o'clock in the forenoon, or after eight o'clock
in the afternoon of any day, shall be deemed valid,
except in case of delivery of letters by post.

C.—DOCUMENTS REQUIRED TO BE DEPOSITED, AND
THE TIMES AND PLACES OF DEPOSIT.

Plans, Books of Reference and Sections to be deposited with
the Commissioner of Crown Lands.
40. In cases of Bills of the Second Class, a plan,
together with a book of reference thereto, and a sec-
tion, as hereinafter described; and in cases of Bills
of the First Class, by which any lands or houses are
intended to be taken, a plan thereof, together with a
book of reference, shall be deposited for public inspec-
tion at the office of the Commissioner of Crown Lands
in the principal town of each Province in or through
which the work is proposed to be made, maintained,
varied, extended, or enlarged, or in which such lands
and houses are situate, not less than thirty days
before the commencement of the Session in which it
is proposed to make application for the Bill.

Commissioner to endorse Memorial on Plans.
41. The Commissioners of Crown Lands shall make
a Memorial in writing upon the Plans, Sections, and
Books of Reference so deposited with them, denoting
the time at which the same were lodged in their re-
spective Offices, and shall at all seasonable hours of
the day permit any person to view and examine the
same, and to make copies or extracts therefrom; and
the plans and sections so deposited shall be retained
in the possession of the Commissioners until the
Session of Parliament next ensuing shall be about
to be held, when they shall be forwarded by the Com-
missioners to the Private Bill Office, so as to be
deposited there as nearly as may be within a week
of the commencement of the Session.

Plans, &c., of Tidal Lands with Colonial Secretary.
42. In cases where the work shall be situated on
tidal lands within the ordinary spring tides, a copy
of the plans and sections shall, on or before the com-
mencement of the Session, be deposited in the Office
of the Colonial Secretary.

Plans, &c., of Crown Lands, with Colonial Secretary.
43. In the case of Bills for taking powers to take
or affect lands of the Crown, a copy of all plans, sec-
tions, and books of reference required by the Standing
Orders to be deposited in the office of any Commis-
sioners of Crown Lands shall on or before the
commencement of the Session be deposited in the
Office of the Colonial Secretary.

Deposit of Plans, &c., in Private Bill Office.
44. On or before the commencement of the Ses-
sion a copy of the said plans, sections, and books of
reference shall be deposited in the Private Bill
Office.

Gazette Notices to be deposited with Plans, &c.
45. Wherever any plans, sections, and books of
reference are required to be deposited, a copy of the
notice published in the Gazette of the intended
application shall be deposited therewith.

D.—DEPOSITS WITHIN FOURTEEN DAYS AFTER THE
COMMENCEMENT OF THE SESSION.

Petition for Bill, with Agent's declaration, and Bill, to be
deposited in Private Bill Office.
46. Every petition for a Private Bill, headed by a
short Title descriptive of the undertaking or Bill,
corresponding with that at the head of the adver-
tisement, with a declaration signed by the Agent,
and a printed copy of the Bill annexed, shall be
deposited in the Private Bill Office either before or
within fourteen days after the commencement of the
Session, and such Petition, Bill, and Declaration shall
be open to the inspection of all parties, and printed
copies of the Bill shall also be delivered therewith for
the use of any Member or Agent who may apply
for the same.

Declaration of Agent.
47. Such Declaration shall state to which of the
classes of Bills such Bill in the judgment of the Agent
belongs, and if the proposed Bill shall give power
to effect any of the following objects, that is to say—

Power to take any lands or houses compulsorily,
or to extend the time granted by any former Act
for that purpose.

Power to levy tolls, rates, or duties, or to alter any
existing tolls, rates or duties, or to confer, vary,
or extinguish any exemption from payment of
tolls, rates, or duties, or to confer, vary, or ex-
tinguish any other right or privilege.

Power to amalgamate with any Company, or to
lease or sell their undertaking, or to purchase
or take on lease the undertaking of any other
Company.

Power to interfere with any Crown, Ecclesiastical,
or Corporation property, or property held on
trust for public or charitable purposes.

Power to relinquish any part of a work authorized
by a former Act.

Power to divert into any intended cut, canal, re-
servoir, aqueduct, or navigation, or into any
intended variation, extension, or enlargement
thereof respectively, any water from any existing
cut, canal, reservoir, aqueduct, or navigation,
whether directly or derivatively, and whether
under any agreement with the proprietors thereof
or otherwise.

Power to make, vary, extend, or enlarge any cut,
canal, reservoir, aqueduct, or navigation.

Power to make, vary, extend, or enlarge any rail-
way.

The said declaration shall state which of such powers
are given by the Bill, and shall indicate in which