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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Examiner for proof that the Standing Orders have
been complied with; and when the Examiner reports
to the House that the Standing Orders have not been
complied with, the Petition and Report stand referred
to the Joint Committee on Standing Orders.

12. On the receipt of any Petition for a Private
    Bill, the Examiner forthwith posts in each House a
    notice of such Petition having been received, along
    with a brief abstract of its prayer and object.

13. Any parties complaining of a non-compliance
    with the Standing Orders may appear and be heard
    by themselves, their agents and witnesses, upon
    addressing a Memorial to the Examiner to that effect.

14. The Examiner shall give two days' notice in
    his office of a day appointed by the Speaker for the
    examination of any Petition.

15. Such Memorial must be deposited in the
    Examiner's Office one day at least before the day
    fixed for examination of the Petition; and in the
    event of no such Memorial being deposited, the
    Petition shall be treated as unopposed.

STANDING ORDERS, COMPLIANCE WITH WHICH IS TO
BE PROVED.

Compliance with the following conditions shall be
proved before the Examiner:---

NOTICES BY ADVERTISEMENT.

16. In all cases where application is intended to
    be made for leave to bring in a Bill, notices shall be
    given, stating the objects of such intended application,
    and the time at which copies of the Bill will be
    deposited in the Examiner's Office, and if it be
    intended to apply for powers for the compulsory
    purchase of land or houses, or for extending the time
    granted by any former Act for that purpose, or to
    amalgamate with any other Company, or to sell or
    lease the undertaking, or to purchase or take on
    lease any other undertaking, or to amend or repeal
    any former Act or Acts, or to levy any tolls, rates, or
    duties, or to confer, vary, or extinguish any exemp-
    tions from payment of tolls, rates, or duties; or to
    confer, vary, or extinguish any other rights or privi-
    leges, the notices shall specify such intention, and
    the whole of the notices relating to the same Bill
    shall be included in the same advertisement, which
    shall be headed by a short title descriptive of the
    undertaking or Bill.

17. In cases of Bills in respect to which plans are
    required to be deposited, such notices shall also con-
    tain a description of all the termini, together with
    the names of the Provinces, Townships, or other
    territorial divisions from, in, through, or into which
    the work is intended to be made, maintained, varied,
    extended, or enlarged; and shall state the time and
    place of deposit of the plans, sections, books of
    reference, and copies of the Gazette notice respec-
    tively, with the several Officers hereinafter specified.

18. In cases of Bills respecting any burial-ground,
    cemetery, or gasworks, the notices shall set forth and
    specify the limits within which such burial-ground,
    cemetery, or gasworks are intended to be erected or
    made.

19. In all cases where it is proposed to divert into
    any intended cut, canal, reservoir, aqueduct, or navi-
    gation, or into any intended variation, extension, or
    enlargement thereof respectively, any water from any
    existing cut, canal, reservoir, aqueduct, or navigation,
    whether directly or derivatively, and whether under
    any agreement with the proprietor thereof or other-
    wise, the notices shall contain the name of every
    such existing cut, canal, reservoir, aqueduct, or navi-
    gation, the water supplying which will either directly
    or derivatively flow or proceed into any such intended
    cut, canal, reservoir, aqueduct, or navigation; or into

any intended variation, extension, or enlargement
thereof.

20. Not less than thirty days before the com-
    mencement of the Session in which it is proposed to
    make application for a Bill, such notices shall be
    published once at least in the Government Gazette of
    the Colony, and for two successive weeks in one and
    the same newspaper published in the Province,
    County, or District in which any land is situated to
    which any such Bill shall refer.

NOTICES AND APPLICATIONS TO OWNERS, LESSEES,
AND OCCUPIERS OF LANDS AND HOUSES.

21. Not less than thirty days before the com-
    mencement of the Session in which it is proposed to
    make application for a Bill by which any lands or
    houses are intended to be taken, or an extension of
    the time granted by any former Act for that purpose
    is sought, application in writing must be made to
    the owners or reputed owners, lessees or reputed
    lessees and occupiers of all lands and houses so in-
    tended to be taken, or which may be taken, as being
    within the limits of deviation defined upon the plan;
    and such applications shall be as nearly as may be
    in the form set forth in the Appendix marked A.

22. Such application shall be made by deliver-
    ing the same personally to every such party,
    or by leaving the same at his usual place of
    abode; or, in his absence from the Colony, with his
    agent; or by forwarding the same by post in a
    registered letter addressed with a sufficient direction
    to his usual place of abode, and posted before the
    first of such thirty days at the Chief Post Office in
    a Province, at such hours and according to such
    regulations as may from time to time be in force for
    the posting and registration of registered letters.

23. In all cases the written acknowledgment of the
    party applied to shall, in the absence of other proof,
    be sufficient evidence of an application having been
    made or notice given; and in case of an application
    or notice having been forwarded by post in a regis-
    tered letter, the production of the Post Office receipt
    for such letter, duly stamped, shall be sufficient
    evidence of the due delivery of such letter: Pro-
    vided it shall appear that the same was properly and
    sufficiently directed, and that the same was not
    returned by the Post Office as undelivered.

24. Separate lists shall be made of the names of
    such owners, lessees, and occupiers, distinguishing
    those who have assented, dissented, or are neuter in
    respect to such application, or who have returned no
    answer thereto; and where no written acknowledg-
    ment has been returned to an application forwarded
    by post, or where such application has been returned
    as undelivered, at any time before the making up of
    such lists, the direction of the letter in which the
    same was so forwarded shall be inserted therein. (See
    Schedule.)

25. Not less than thirty days before the com-
    mencement of the Session in which it is intended to
    make application for any Bill for making a burial-
    ground or cemetery, or the erection of works for the
    manufacture of gas, notice shall be served upon the
    owner and occupier of every dwelling-house situate
    within 300 yards of the limits within which the
    proposed burial-ground, cemetery, or gasworks are
    intended to be erected or made.

26. No notice served or application made on a
    Sunday, Good Friday, or Christmas Day, or before
    eight o'clock in the forenoon, or after eight o'clock in
    the afternoon of any day, shall be deemed valid,
    except in case of delivery of letters by post.

DOCUMENTS REQUIRED TO BE DEPOSITED WITH COM-
MISSIONER OF CROWN LANDS BEFORE SESSION.

27. Plans, books of reference, and sections, as