When any clause or amendment offered on the third reading is referred to the committee on standing orders, they are to report to the House whether the proposed clause or amendment ought or ought not to be adopted by the House at that stage, 62; and no further proceeding to be had until the report of the said committee has been brought up. 134.

CONSIDERATION OF LORDS' AMENDMENTS.

When any amendments made by the House of Lords to any bill are to be taken into consideration, notice to be given thereof in the Private Bill Office the day previous thereto. 159.

On every petition relating to any private bill, the name or short title by which such bill is entered in the votes to be written at the beginning thereof, and whether such petition be in favour or against the bill. 121.

The bill not to pass through two stages on the same day, without the special leave of the House. 136.

Except in cases of urgent and pressing necessity, no motion to be made to dispense with any sessional or standing order, without due notice thereof. 137.

All notices required to be given in the Private Bill Office, to be delivered before six o'clock in the evening of any day on which the House shall sit, and before two o'clock on any day on which the House shall not sit; and after any day on which the House have adjourned beyond the following day, no notice to be given for the first day on which it shall again sit. 160.

ABSTRACT

OF THE

LORDS' STANDING ORDERS

RELATIVE TO

Railway Bills.

Arranged in the order of the Proceedings thereon.

The Figures refer to the number of the Standing Order, the Section of such Order to which reference is made, and the page at which it will be found: the alterations and additions made during 1846 are printed in the Abstract in Italic type.

PRELIMINARY PROCEEDINGS.

NOTICES.

When application is intended to be made to Parliament for leave to bring in a bill for making, maintaining, varying, extending, or enlarging any railway, notice thereof to be given. 220, sect. 1, p. 43.

No notice given or application made on a Sunday or Christmas day, or before eight o'clock in the forenoon, or after eight o'clock in the afternoon of any day will be deemed valid (except in cases where notices are required to be affixed to church doors, or where a written acknowledgment is allowed as evidence of such notice or application.) 224, sect. 7, p. 52.

Contents of Notices.-The notices to contain a description of all the termini, together with the names of the parishes, townships, townlands, and extra parochial places, from, in, through, or into which the work is intended to be made, maintained, varied, extended, or enlarged; and state the time and place of deposit of the plans, sections, or books of reference respectively, with the clerks of the peace, parish clerks, schoolmasters, town clerks, and clerks of the union, as the case may be. 223, sect. 1, p. 46.

If it be intended to obtain powers for the compulsory purchase of lands or houses, or to levy any tolls, rates, or duties, or to alter any existing tolls, rates, or duties, or to confer, vary, or extir.guish any exemptions from payment of tolls, rates, or duties, the notices to specify such intention. 220, sect. 3, p. 44.

Notices to be inserted in Newspapers.-The notices to be published in three successive weeks, in the months of October and November, or either of them, immediately preceding the session in which application is intended to be made, in the London, Edinburgh, or Dublin Gazette, as the case may be, and in some one and the same newspaper of every county in which the lands to which such bill relates shall be situate: or if there be no newspaper published therein, then in the newspaper of some county adjoining or near thereto. 220, sect. 2, p. 44.

In the case of bills to empower any company already constituted by act of parliament to execute, undertake or contribute towards any work other than that for which it was originally established, the advertisement calling a special meeting of the proprietors of such company, to submit to them a draft of the proposed bill, must be inserted for four consecutive weeks in the newspapers of the county or counties wherein such new works are proposed to be executed. 220, sect. 6, p. 45.

Notices to be affixed to doors of Sessions Houses, &c.-The notices to be affixed on the door of the sessions house of each county, riding, or division, through which the work is to be made, maintained, varied, extended, or enlarged, where the general quarter sessions shall be held at Michaelmas or Epiphany preceding the application, except in Scotland, where the notices must be affixed to the church doors of each parish through which the work is to be made, for three successive Sundays in the months of October and November, or either of them. 223, sect. 2, p. 46.

PLAN, SECTION, AND BOOK OF REFERENCE.

Manner in which the Plan and Section are to be made.-The plan to be on a scale of not less than four inches to a mile, and describe the line or situation of the whole of the work, 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 work shall be made. 223, sect. 3, p. 47.

When powers to make any lateral deviation from the line of the proposed work is intended to be applied for, the limits of such deviation to be defined upon the plan, and all lands included within such limits to be marked thereon, and in all cases, excepting where the whole of such plan is upon a scale of not less than a quarter of an inch to every 100 feet, an additional plan of every building, yard, court-yard, or land, within the curtilage of any

building, or of any ground cultivated as a garden, either on the original line, or within the limits of the deviation, to be laid down on the plan, or on an additional plan to be deposited therewith, upon a scale of not less than a quarter of an inch to every 100 feet. (See Fig. 3.) 223, sect. 4, p. 47.

The section to be drawn to the same horizontal scale as the plan, and to a vertical scale of not less than one inch to every 100 feet, and show the surface of the ground marked on the plan, the intended level of the proposed work, and a datum horizontal line, which must be the same throughout the whole length of the work, or any branch thereof respectively, and be referred to some fixed point stated in writing on the section, near either of the termini. (See line DD. Fig. 2.) 223, sect. 5, p. 48.

The following particulars must also be attended to in preparing the plan and section:

The plan to exhibit thereon the distances in miles and furlongs, from one of the termini, and a memorandum of the radius of every curve not exceeding one mile in length. to be noted on the plan in miles, furlongs and chains. 227, sect. 3, p. 54.

The line of railway marked the upper surface of the rails.

upon the section to correspond with 227, sect. 4, p. 54.

The distances on the datum line to be marked in miles and furlongs, to correspond with those on the plan, and a vertical measure from the datum line to the line of the railway to be marked in feet and inches at each change of the gradient or inclination, and the proportion or rate of inclination between each such change must also be marked. 227, sect. 5, p. 54.

The height of the railway over or under the surface of every turnpike-road, public carriage-road, navigable river, canal, or railway, or junction with a railway, and the height and span of every arch of all bridges, and viaducts, to be marked in figures at every crossing thereof, and the extreme height, over or under the surface of the ground, to be marked for every embankment and cutting; and if any alteration in the present level, or rate of inclination of any turnpike-road, carriage-road, or railway, be intended, then the same to be stated on the section, and each numbered; also cross sections, in reference to the said numbers, on a horizontal scale of one inch to every 330 feet, and on a vertical scale of one inch to every 40 feet, to be added, to explain the nature of such alterations more clearly. 227, sect. 6, p. 54.

Where tunnelling as a substitute for open cutting, or a viaduct as a substitute for solid embankment, be intended, the tunnelling to be marked by a dotted line on the plan, and also to be marked on the section, and the viaduct to be marked on the section. 227, sect. 7, p. 55.

Deposit with Clerks of the Peace.-Duplicate plans and sections, with a book of reference thereto, to be deposited for public inspection at the office of the clerk of the peace for every county, riding, or division in England or Ireland, or in the office of the principal sheriff clerk, of every county in Scotland, in or through which the work is proposed to be made, maintained, varied, extended, or enlarged, on or before the 30th day of November, unless such day shall happen on a Sunday, then on or before the 29th day of November, immediately preceding the session in which application is to be made. 223, sect. 3, p. 47.

Copies of so much of the Standing Orders of the House of Lords as relate to the deposit of plans, sections, books of reference, &c., with the clerks of the peace, sheriff clerks, parish clerks, schoolmasters, town clerks, and clerks of the union, to be delivered to the parties with whom the plans &c. are deposited at the time of such deposit. 223, sect. 11, p. 50.

The clerks of the peace, or sheriff clerks, or their respective deputies, to mark in writing upon the plans, sections, and books of reference deposited with them, denoting the time at which the same are lodged in their respective offices, and at all seasonable hours of the day permit any person to view and examine one of the same, and to make copies or extracts therefrom; and one of the two plans and sections deposited to be sealed up and retained in the possession of the clerk of the peace or sheriff clerk, until called for by order of one of the two Houses of Parliament. 223, sect. 6, p. 48.

Deposit at Board of Trade.-A copy of the plans, sections, and books of reference, together with a published map to a scale of not less than half an inch to a mile, with the line of railway delineated thereon, so as to show its general course and direction, to be deposited in the office of the railway department of the Board of Trade, on or before the 30th day of November immediately preceding the session of Parliament in which application is to be made. 227, sect. 1, p. 54.

Deposit with Parish Clerks, &c.-A copy of so much of the plans and sections as relates to each parish in or through which the work is intended to be made, maintained, varied, extended, or enlarged, (see Fig. 5,) with a book of reference thereto, to be deposited, on or before the 31st day of December, or in case such day shall happen on a Sunday, then on or before the 30th day of December, with the parish clerk of each such parish in England, the schoolmaster of each such parish in Scotland, (or in royal burghs with the town clerk,) and the clerk of the union within which such parish is included in Ireland. 223, sect. 7, p. 48.

Deposit in the Parliament Office.-A copy of the plans, sections, and books of reference to be deposited in the Office of the Clerk