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dwelling-house situate within 300 yards of the
limits within which the proposed burial ground,
cemetery, or gas works, are proposed to be made
or erected.

Notice of relinquishment.
19. 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, notice in writing of such in-
tention shall be served upon the owners or re-
puted owners, or lessees or reputed lessees, and
occupiers in New Zealand, or the agents or re-
puted agents of any owner or lessee who may be
absent from New Zealand.

Service and proof.
20. The notices required by the two preceding
rules shall be served, and service thereof proved
in the same manner as directed in rules fifteen
and sixteen.

Sundays and Holidays.
21. Every notice served or posted, or applica-
tion made or posted on a Sunday, Christmas Day,
or Good Friday, or after eight o'clock in the even-
ing of any day, shall be deemed to have been
served, made or posted, as the case may be, on
the next day not being a Sunday, Christmas Day,
or Good Friday.

III.—DEPOSIT OF DOCUMENTS AND PLANS.

Plans, sections, &c.
22. In the case of every Bill, a plan together
with a book of reference thereto, and a section as
hereinafter described, shall be deposited at the
office of the Registrar of Deeds at Invercargill, on
or before the last day of February or August im-
mediately preceding the application for the Bill.

Endorsement by Registrar.
23. The said Registrar of Deeds shall make or
cause to be made a memorial on each such plan,
section, and book of reference, so deposited with
him, denoting the time at which the same were
lodged at his office, and shall at all hours during
which his office shall remain open, permit any
person to view and examine the same, and to
make copies of, or extracts from the same; and
the plans, sections, and books of reference, so de-
posited, shall be retained in the office of the
Registrar until the session of the Council next
after the deposit shall be commenced, and shall
then be forwarded by the Registrar to the Private
Bill Office, so as to be deposited there within a
week of the commencement of the session.

Copy of Gazette Notice.
24. Whenever 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.

IV.—DEPOSITS AFTER COMMENCEMENT OF SESSION.

Deposit of Petition in Private Bill Office.
25. Every Petition for a Bill headed by a short
title descriptive of the undertaking or Bill similar
to that at the head of the advertisement, with a
declaration signed by the agent, and a printed
copy of the Bill annexed, shall be deposited in the
Private Bill Office within fourteen days after the
commencement of the session, and there shall be
left with the Private Bill Clerk within the same
time a sufficient number of printed copies of the
Bill for the use of members of the Council and
agents. Such Petition, Bill, and declaration shall

be open to the inspection of the public during
office hours, and one of the printed copies of the
Bill so left shall be delivered by the Private Bill
Clerk to any member or agent who may apply for
a copy.

Declaration.
26. The declaration shall state to which of the
classes of Bills the proposed Bill belongs, and if
the proposed Bill gives power to effect any of the
following objects, that is to say:-
(A.) Power to take any land compulsorily or
to extend the time granted by any former
Act for that purpose.
(B.) Power to relinquish the whole or any part
of a work authorized by a former Act.
(c.) Power to divert into any intended cut,
canal, reservoir, 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 indirectly, and whether under any
agreement with the owners of the works
affected or otherwise.
(D.) Power to make, vary, extend, or enlarge
any cut, canal, reservoir, aqucduct, or navi-
gation.
(E.) Power to make, vary, extend, or enlarge
any public road.
(F.) Power to make, vary, extend, or enlarge
any railway.
The said declaration shall state which of such
powers are given by the Bill, and shall point out
in which clauses of the Bill (by number) such
powers are given, and shall state that the Bill
does not give any power other than the powers
specified in the declaration. The declaration
shall also state that the Bill does not give any
power other than those stated in the notices by
advertisement published in relation to the Bill.

Other Deposits.
27. Within the said fourteen days there shall
be deposited in the Private Bill Office all esti-
mates, declarations, and lists of owners and
others, required by these rules.

Sundays and Holidays.
28. Every deposit made on a Sunday, Good
Friday, or Christmas Day, or after cight o'clock
in the evening of any day, shall be deemed to
have been made on the next day not being a
Sunday, Good Friday, or Christmas Day.

V.—FORMS OF PLANS, SECTIONS, AND BOOKS OF
REFERENCE.

Scale and form of Plan.
29. Every plan required to be deposited shall
be drawn on horizontal scale of not less than
three inches to the mile, and in case of Bills of the
first class, shall describe the land intended to be
taken; and in case of Bills of the second class,
the line or situation of the whole of the work (no
alternative line or work being in any case per-
mitted), and the lands in or through which it is
to be made, maintained, varied, extended, or
enlarged, and through which every communication
with the work is to be made, and the limits of
lateral deviation of the line of the intended work
(if any) shall be marked on the plan, and the
lands included within such limits shall also be
described on such plan.