THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 563

hereinafter described, shall, in cases of Bills by which
any lands or houses are intended to be taken, be
deposited for public inspection at the Office of the
Commissioner of Crown Lands in the principal town
of each Province in or through which the work is
proposed to be made, maintained, varied, extended or
enlarged, or in which such lands and houses are
situate, not less than thirty days before the com-
mencement of the Session in which it is proposed to
make application for the Bill.

28. The Commissioner of Crown Lands shall
    make a memorial in writing upon the plans,
    sections, and books of reference so deposited
    with him, denoting the time at which the same
    were lodged in his Office, and shall at all seasonable
    hours of the day permit any person to view and
    examine the same, and to make copies or extracts
    therefrom; and the plans and sections so deposited
    shall be retained in the possession of the Commis-
    sioner until the Session of Parliament next ensuing
    shall be about to be held, when they shall be for-
    warded by the Commissioner to the Examiner's
    Office, so as to be deposited there as nearly as
    may be within a week of the commencement of the
    Session.

29. Wherever any plans, sections, and books of
    reference are required to be deposited, a copy of the
    notice published in the Gazette, of the intended appli-
    cation, shall be deposited therewith.

DEPOSITS WITHIN FOURTEEN DAYS AFTER THE
COMMENCEMENT OF THE SESSION.

30. Every Petition for a Private Bill, headed by a
    Short Title descriptive of the undertaking or Bill,
    corresponding with that at the head of the advertise-
    ment, with a declaration signed by the Promoters,
    and a printed copy of the Bill annexed, shall be
    deposited in the Examiner's Office either before or
    within fourteen days after the commencement of the
    Session, and such Petition, Bill, and Declaration shall
    be open to the inspection of all parties, and printed
    copies of the Bill shall also be delivered therewith for
    the use of any Member who may apply for the same.

31. Such declaration shall state if the proposed
    Bill gives power to effect any of the following objects,
    that is to say-

Power to take any lands or houses compulsorily,
or to extend the time granted by any former Act
for that purpose.

Power to levy tolls, rates, or duties, or to alter any
existing tolls, rates, or duties, or to confer, vary,
or extinguish any exemption from payment of
tolls, rates, or duties, or to confer, vary, or
extinguish any other right or privilege.

Power to amalgamate with any Company, or to
lease or sell their undertaking, or to purchase or
take on lease the undertaking of any other
Company.

Power to interfere with any Crown, Ecclesiastical,
or Corporation property, or property held on
trust for public or charitable purposes.

Power to relinquish any part of a work authorized
by a former Act.

Power to divert into any intended cut, canal,
reservoir, aqueduct, or navigation, or into any
intended variation, extension, or enlargement to
thereof respectively, any water from any existing
cut, canal, reservoir, aqueduct, or navigation,
whether directly or derivatively, and whether
under any agreement with the proprietors
thereof, or otherwise.

Power to make, vary, extend, or enlarge any cut,
canal, reservoir, aqueduct, or navigation.

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 indicate in which
clauses of the Bill (referring to them by their number)
such powers are given, and shall further state that
such Bill does not give power to effect any of the
objects enumerated in this Order other than those
stated in the declaration. If the proposed Bill shall
not give power to effect any of such objects.

The said declaration shall also state that the Bill does
not give any powers other than those included in the
notices for the Bill.

32. Within ten days after the commencement of
    the Session, a printed copy of every Railway or
    Canal Bill, and of every Bill for incorporating or
    giving powers to any Company, and of every Bill
    relating to any tidal lands, dock, harbour, navigation,
    pier, or port, shall be deposited in the Office of the
    Colonial Secretary.

33. Within fourteen days after the commencement
    of the Session there shall also be deposited in the
    Examiner's Office all Estimates, Declarations, and
    Lists of Owners, Lessees, and Occupiers, which are
    required by the Standing Orders.

34. As respects all Bills for the incorporation of
    Joint Stock Companies, or proposed Companies, for
    carrying on any trade or business, or for conferring
    on such Companies the power of suing and being sued,
    there shall be deposited in the Examiner's Office,
    within fourteen days after the commencement of the
    Session, a copy of the Deed or Agreement of Partner-
    ship (if any) under which the Company or proposed
    Company is acting, and in all cases a declaration
    stating the following matters :-

1st. The present and proposed amount of the
capital of the Company.
2nd. The number of shares.
3rd. The number of shares subscribed for.
4th. The amount of subscriptions paid up.
5th. The names, residences, and description of the
shareholders or subscribers (so far as the same
can be made out), and of the actual or provisional
Directors, Treasurers, Secretary, or other officers
(if any), and such documents shall be verified by
the signature of some authorized officer of the
Company, or proposed Company (if any), and
by some responsible party promoting the Bill.

35. No deposit shall be deemed valid if 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.

FORMS IN WHICH PLANS, BOOKS OF REFERENCE,
SECTIONS, AND CROSS SECTIONS SHALL BE PRE-
PARED.

Plans.

36. Every plan required to be deposited shall be
    drawn to a scale of not less than four inches to a
    mile, and shall describe the lands intended to be
    taken, and shall describe the line or situation of the
    whole of the work (no alternative line or work being
    in any case permitted), and the lands in or through
    which it is to be made, maintained, varied, extended
    or enlarged, or through which every communication
    to or from the works shall be made; and where it is
    the intention of the parties to apply for powers to
    make any lateral deviation from the line of the pro-
    posed work, the limits of such deviation shall be
    defined upon the plan, and the lands included within
    such limits shall be marked thereon.

37. In all cases where it is proposed to make, vary,
    extend, or enlarge any cut, canal, reservoir, aqueduct,
    or navigation, the plan shall describe the brooks and
    streams to be directly diverted into such intended