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may be stopped by Mr. Speaker at any stage if
any fee then due in respect of such Bill is unpaid.

next, and if there is any error, omission, or mis-
description in the annexed Schedule, we shall be
obliged by your correcting the same and informing
us thereof at your earliest convenience that we
may make the necessary corrections forthwith.

We are, Sir,

Agents.
Agents may represent parties.
147. The promoters and opponents of every
Bill may be represented by agents in the trans-
action of the business relative thereto in every
stage of its progress through the Council.

How appointed.
148. The Speaker of the Council may, by an
instrument in writing under his hand appoint any
person on the roll of solicitors of the Supreme
Court an agent, to be called a Council Agent, and
every person so appointed shall remain a Council
Agent until his name shall be removed from the
roll of Solicitors of the Supreme Court or until
his appointment is annulled by a resolution of the
Council.

Enrolling and Declaration.
149. No person shall act as such agent till he
shall have been so appointed and shall have en-
rolled his name and place of business with the
Private Bill Clerk in a book to be kept for that
purpose, and shall have signed a declaration to
observe and obey all rules of the Council and to
pay all lawful fees and charges when demanded.

Member not to act as Agent.
150. No member, servant or officer of the
Council shall, either in person or by his partner,
act as a Council Agent.

Suspension of Agent.
151. Any agent disobeying the rules of the
Council or the orders of the Speaker or of the
Chairman of Committees, or refusing to pay any
lawful fee when demanded by the person entitled
to demand the same, may be suspended from prac-
tising by order of the Speaker under his hand.

APPENDIX A.

SIR, We beg to inform you that application is
intended to be made to the Provincial Council of
Southland in the ensuing session for an Act
(describing it) and that the property mentioned
in the accompanying Schedule, or some part
thereof, in which we understand you to be inte-
rested, as therein stated, will be required for the
purposes of the undertaking according to the line
(or limits) thereof, as at present laid out, or may
be required to be taken under the powers of
deviation to the extent of yards on
either side of the line of the said works, and that
the said property will be affected in the manner
mentioned in the said Schedule. We also beg to
inform you that plans and sections of the said
undertaking, with a book of reference thereto,
will be deposited in the Private Bill Office, on or
before the commencement of the session, and that
copies of the said plans and sections with a book
of reference thereto have been or will be deposited
with the Registrar of Deeds at Invercargill on or
before the day of on which plans
your property is marked with the numbers shewn
in the annexed Schedule.

As we are required to report to the Council
whether you assent to, or dissent from, or remain
neuter, with regard to the proposed undertaking,
we shall be obliged by your writing your answer
of assent, dissent, or neutrality, in the form left
herewith, and returning the same to us signed by
you on or before the day of

SCHEDULE.
PART OF BOOK OF REFERENCE referred to in the Notice, intended to show the Property therein mentioned and the manner
in which the same will be affected.

Adopted by the Provincial Council of Southland,
this fourteenth day of January, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-eight.

JAMES WILSON, Speaker.
JNO. P. TAYLOR, Superintendent.
DUNCAN MCARTHUR, Clerk of Council.

Approved in Council:

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.