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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Report of Chairman.
92. The chairman of the committee shall re-
port to the Council whether the allegations of the
Bill have been examined, and whether the parties
interested have given their consent, where such
consent is required by these Orders, to the satis-
faction of the committee.

In all cases.
93. The chairman of the committee shall report
the Bill to the Council whether the committee
shall or shall not have agreed to the preamble or
gone through the several clauses or any of them,
or where the promoters shall have stated to the
committee that it is not their intention to proceed
with the Bill, and when any alteration shall have
been made in the preamble of the Bill, such alter-
ation together with the reasons for making it shall
be stated in the report.

Clause to be inserted in all Bills.
94. In every Bill there shall be inserted a clause
describing the land to be taken by reference or
otherwise.

95. It shall be the duty of every committee on
    a Bill, whether opposed or unopposed, to inquire
    whether the work or undertaking proposed by the
    Bill is intended to be carried out in a reasonable
    time and whether proper provision has been or
    can and will be made to meet the expense neces-
    sary for the completion of the same, and the result
    of such inquiry shall be reported to the Council.

96. In every Bill provision shall be made as far
    as can be done by an Act of a Provincial Council
    for compelling persons who have subscribed any
    money towards carrying the proposed work into
    execution to make payment of the sums subscribed
    by them respectively.

X.—PRACTICE OF THE COUNCIL WITH REGARD
TO BILLS.

Signatured deposit of Petition for Bill.
97. No Bill shall be brought into the Council
but upon a petition first presented which shall
have been duly deposited in the Private Bill Office
and endorsed as before provided, with a printed
copy of the Bill annexed, and such petition shall
be signed by some or all of the promoters of the
Bill.

Time for presenting Petition for Bills.
98. All petitions for Bills shall be presented to
the Council not more than three clear days after
the same shall have been endorsed as aforesaid, or
if the Council shall not be sitting on the last day
when such petition might be presented, then the
same shall be presented on the first day on which
the Council shall sit after such day.

Bill how presented.
99. All Bills which shall have been ordered to
be brought in shall be presented to the Council
by depositing the same in the Private Bill Office,
and the Clerk of the Private Bill Office shall
lay the same upon the table of the Council for
first reading together with a list of such Bills.

Petition for additional provision.
100. No petition for additional provision in
any Bill shall be received by the Council unless a
printed copy of the proposed clauses be annexed
thereto.

Reference to Committee on Standing Orders.
101. All petitions for additional provision in
Bills with the proposed clauses annexed, and
all Bills introduced by leave of the Council, in
lieu of other Bills which shall have been with-
drawn shall, after having been read a first time, be
referred to the Committee on Standing Orders.

Petitions to dispense with Standing Orders.
102. All petitions praying that any Sessional or
Standing Orders relating to Bills may be dispensed
with, and all petitions for Bills in the general list
of petitions, and all petitions opposing the same,
shall be presented to the Council by depositing
the same in the Private Bill Office, and every such
petition so deposited shall stand referred to the
Committee on Standing Orders.

Bills to be printed for presentation.
103. Every Bill shall be printed on paper and
shall be presented to the Council bound in a cover
or wrapper of parchment upon which the title of
the Bill shall be written, and the short title of the
Bill shall be the same as that at the head of the
advertisements.

Copies for use of Members.
104. Printed copies of every Bill shall be de-
livered to the Clerk of the Council for the use of
the members before the first reading.

Time between First and Second Reading.
105. There shall be not less than three clear
days nor more than seven between the first and
second reading of any Bill, unless such Bill shall
have been referred to the Committee on Standing
Orders, in which case the Bill shall be read a
second time not later than seven clear days after
their report.

Petition against Bill how presented.
106. Every petition in favor of or against any
Bill or otherwise relating thereto, not being a
petition for additional provision, shall be presented
by depositing the same in the Private Bill Office,
and there shall be endorsed thereon the name or
short title by which such Bill is entered in the
Notes; and a statement that such petition is in
favor of or against the Bill or otherwise as the
case may be and the name of the person or agent
making or presenting such petition also appear
on the endorsement.

Withdrawing Petition.
107. Every petitioner or memorialist may with-
draw his petition or memorial by depositing in the
Private Bill Office a memorandum endorsed with
the title of the Bill and the name of the person
withdrawing, and described in the endorsement
as a memorandum of withdrawal and signed by
the person withdrawing or his agent; and where
any petition or memorial has been signed by more
than one person the deposit of a memorandum of
withdrawal shall operate as a withdrawal by every
person by or for whom such memorandum shall
be signed.

Second or Third Reading opposed.
108. When the second or third reading of a
Bill or the consideration of any amendment or
addition is opposed the same shall be postponed
until the next day on which the Council shall sit.

Reference to Committee of Selection.
109. Every Bill after having been read a second
time and committed shall stand referred to the
Committee of Selection.

Bills reported as to be treated as opposed.
110. When the Council shall have been in-
formed by the Chairman of Committees that, in
his opinion, an unopposed Bill should be treated