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vided that no Bill shall be read a second time until | left herewith, and returning the same to us with your
the Select Committee shall have reported under the | signature on or before the day of
hand of their Chairman, that Standing Orders numbers | next; and if there should be an error or misdescrip-
1 to 16 inclusive, have been complied with, and that | tion in the annexed Schedule, we shall feel obliged
no clause be submitted to form part of the Bill or | by your informing us thereof at your earliest conve-
amendments added which shall be foreign to the | nience, that we may correct the same without delay.
import of the notices hereinbefore required: Pro- | We are Sir,
vided also that there shall always be an interval of
not less than two days between such report and the
second reading, and not less than two days between
the second and third reading.

Agents.

31. No person shall act as Agent for a Bill who is
    not a Solicitor of the Supreme Court, and neither a
    member of the Provincial Council nor a partner of a
    member, and who has not signed a declaration to ob-
    serve and obey all rules of the Provincial Council, and
    pay all fees and charges when demanded; and if any
    Agent shall wilfully act in violation of the rules of the
    Council, or wilfully misconduct himself in the conduct
    of proceedings on a Bill before the Council, the
    Speaker may prohibit him from acting as an Agent
    either during the duration of the Provincial Council,
    or for a less time.

Standing Orders not subject to suspension.

32. These Standing Orders shall not be subject to
    suspension.

Scale of Fees.

33. The scale of fees to be paid by parties pro-
    moting Private Bills shall be as follows:-

On the first reading ... ... £ 3 s. d.
, second reading ... ... 4 0 0
, third and passing ... ... 3 0 0

And any Bill shall be stopped by the Speaker in any
stage of its progress, if any fee then due is unpaid.
Fees to be applied to the use of the Provincial Council Library.

34. All fees payable under these Standing Orders
    shall be paid to the Clerk of the Council, who shall
    account for the same to the Speaker, and the same
    fees shall be held by the Speaker in trust for the
    purposes of the Provincial Council Library.

What Bills exempt from Fees.

35. Any Bill promoted by the Superintendent
    under "The Provincial Compulsory Land Taking Act,
    1866," shall be subject to the foregoing Standing
    Orders, with the exception of those imposing fees,
    from which it shall be exempt.

APPENDIX A.

SIR, We beg to inform you that application is
intended to be made to the Provincial Legislature, in
the ensuing Session, for an Act [Here insert the title of
the Act], and that the property mentioned in the
annexed Schedule or some part thereof, in which we
understand you are interested as therein stated, will
be required for the purposes of the said undertaking,
according to the line thereof as at present laid out,
or may be required to be taken under the usual powers
of deviation to the extent of yards on either side of the said line, which will be
applied for in the said Act.

We also beg to inform you that a plan of the said
undertaking, with a book of reference thereto, has
been or will be deposited for public inspection in the
office of the Superintendent of the Province, thirty
days before the commencement of the next Session
of the Hawke's Bay Provincial Council, on which
plan your property is designated by the numbers set
forth in the annexed Schedule.

As we are required to report to the Provincial
Council whether you assent to or dissent from the pro-
posed undertaking, or whether you are neuter in
respect thereto, you will oblige us by writing your
answer of assent, dissent, or neutrality, in the form

To

(See Rule 6.)

SCHEDULE.
PART of Book of Reference referred to in the foregoing Notice, and which is intended
to show the Property therein alluded to.

I hereby certify that the foregoing Standing
Rules and Orders are in accordance with
the Standing Rules and Orders as passed
by the Provincial Council of Hawke's Bay.
H. S. TIFFEN,
Speaker.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 14th July, 1870.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
grant Letters of Registration under "The
Patents Act, 1860," dated 9th July, 1870, in favour
of the under-mentioned persons, on Letters Patent
granted in Great Britain, for the Inventions specified
below :-

Sir WILLIAM THOMSON, Knight,
of Glasgow College, in the City of Glasgow, in the
Kingdom of Great Britain, to whom Letters Patent,
dated 20th February, 1858, were granted in Great
Britain for an Invention entitled "Improvements
in Testing and Working Electric Telegraphs."

CROMWELL FLEETWOOD VARLEY,
of Fleetwood House, Beckenham, in the County of
Kent, in the Kingdom of Great Britain, to whom
Letters Patent, dated 27th January, 1860, were
granted in Great Britain, for an Invention entitled