6 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Height of Railway over or depth under surface of Roads, &c.,
to be marked.

61. Wherever the line of the railway is intended
    to cross any public carriage road, navigable river,
    canal, or railway, the height of the railway over or
    depth under the surface thereof, and the height and
    span of every arch of all bridges and viaducts by
    which the railway will be carried over the same shall
    be marked in figures at every crossing thereof, and
    where the railway will be carried across any such
    public carriage road, or railway, on the level thereof,
    such crossing shall be so described on the section,
    and it shall also be stated if such level will be un-
    altered.

Cross-Sections of Canals, Roads, &c., crossed by Railway when
level, or rate of inclination altered.

62. If any alteration be intended in the water level
    of any canal, or in the level or rate of inclination
    of any public carriage road or railway which will be
    crossed by the line of railway, then the same shall be
    stated on the section, and each alteration shall be
    numbered, and cross sections in reference to the said
    numbers on a horizontal scale of not less than one
    inch to every 330 feet, and on a vertical scale of
    not less than one inch to every forty feet, shall be
    added, which shall show the present surface of such
    canal, road, or railway, and the intended surface
    thereof when altered, and the greatest of the present
    and intended rates of inclination of such road or
    railway shall also be marked in figures thereon, and
    where any public carriage road is crossed on the level,
    a cross section of such road shall also be added, and
    all such cross sections shall extend for 200 yards on
    each side of the centre line of the railway.

Embankments and Cuttings.

63. Wherever the extreme height of any embank-
    ment, or extreme depth of any cutting shall exceed
    five feet, the extreme height over or depth under
    the surface of the ground shall be marked in figures
    upon the section, and if any bridge or viaduct of more
    than three arches shall intervene in any embankment,
    or if any tunnels shall intervene in any cutting, the
    extreme height or depth shall be marked in figures
    on each of the parts into which such embankment or
    cutting shall be divided by such bridge, viaduct, or
    tunnel.

Tunnelling and Viaduct to be marked.

64. Where tunnelling as a substitute for open
    cutting, or viaduct as a substitute for solid embank-
    ment is intended, the same shall be marked on the
    section.

H.—ESTIMATES AND DECLARATION IN CERTAIN

CASES.

Estimates of Expense to be made.

65. An Estimate of the expense of the undertaking
    under each Bill of the Second Class shall be made
    and signed by the person making the same.

Declaration stating Capital in certain cases.

66. When the work is to be made wholly, or in
    part, by means of funds, or out of money to be raised
    upon the credit of the Revenue of any Provincial
    Government, or upon the credit of present Surplus
    Revenue belonging to any Society or Company, or
    under the control of Directors, Trustees, or Com-
    missioners, as the case may be, of any existing Public
    Work, such parties being the promoters or part pro-
    moters of the Bill, a declaration stating these facts,
    and setting forth the nature of such control, and the
    nature and amount of such Revenue funds or
    Surplus Revenue, and showing the actual Surplus
    of such funds or Revenue, after deducting the funds
    required for purposes authorized by any Act or Acts
    of the General Assembly or the Legislature of such
    Province; and, also, the funds which may be re-
    quired for any other work to be executed under any
    Bill in the same Session shall be made and given
    under the Common Seal of the Province, Society, or
    Company, or under the hand of some authorized
    Officer of such Directors, Trustees, or Commis-
    sioners.

Affidavits, &c., may be admitted in proof.

67. The Examiner and the Joint Committee on
    Standing Orders and Committees on Private Bills
    generally, may admit Affidavits or Declarations in
    proof of the compliance with the Standing Orders
    and other facts required to be proved, unless in any
    case they shall require further evidence, and such
    Affidavit or Declaration shall be sworn or taken before
    a Solicitor of the Supreme Court or a Justice of the
    Peace.

V.—PROCEEDINGS BEFORE EXAMINER AND JOINT

COMMITTEE ON STANDING ORDERS.

Examiner to endorse Petition and report.

68. The Examiner shall certify by endorsement
    on each Petition which shall have been duly deposited
    in the Private Bill Office, whether the Standing Orders
    have or have not been complied with, and when
    they have not been complied with, he shall report
    to the House the facts upon which the decision is
    founded, and any special circumstances connected
    with the case.

Petitions for additional provision, &c.

69. In all cases of Petitions for additional provision
    in Private Bills, and of 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, the Clerk
    shall give at least two days' notice, in the Private
    Bill Office, of the day on which the same will be
    examined, and the Chairman of the Joint Committee
    on Standing Orders shall report to the House whether
    the Standing Orders have or have not been complied
    with, and when they have not been complied with,
    the facts upon which the decision is founded, and any
    special circumstances connected with the case.

Process when compliance with Standing Orders not proved.

70. When the Standing Orders have not been com-
    plied with, the Petition is referred to the Joint Com-
    mittee on Standing Orders, and the report of the
    Examiner which had previously been laid on the
    Table by the Speaker, is also referred to the Com-
    mittee.

Chairman to report whether Committee are of opinion that
Standing Orders should be dispensed with.

71. When any report of the Examiner of Petitions
    in which he shall report that the Standing Orders
    have not been complied with, shall have been referred
    to the Joint Committee on Standing Orders, the
    Chairman of that Committee shall report to the
    House whether, in the opinion of the Committee,
    such Standing Orders ought or ought not to be dis-
    pensed with, and whether, in their opinion, the parties
    should be permitted to proceed with their Bill, or
    any portion thereof, and under what (if any) con-
    ditions.

Petitions that Standing Orders, &c., may be dispensed with.

72. All Petitions praying that any of the Sessional
    or Standing Orders of the House relating to Private
    Bills may be dispensed with, and all Petitions for the
    re-insertion of Petitions for Private Bills in the
    general list of Petitions, and all Petitions opposing
    the same shall be presented to the House, by
    depositing the same in the Private Bill Office, and
    every such Petition so deposited shall stand referred
    to the Joint Committee on Standing Orders, which
    shall report to the House whether such Sessional or
    Standing Orders ought or ought not to be dispensed
    with.