Office which shall fix for the first meeting of such Committee any day later than Friday, the 6th day of March

next.

That no notice of postponement of any such Committee Notice of be received at the Private Bill Office except by the autho- postponerity of the Committee on petitions for private Bills.

ment.

That no private Bill be read a first time later than the First next day but one after the report of the Committee on reading. petitions, or of the Standing Orders Committee, on such Bill as the case may be, shall have been laid on the table, except by special order of the House.

Railway Bills.-Paragraphs 7, 8, and 9 of Standing Repeal of Order No. 87, read as follows:

pars. 7, 8, and 9, of

"That in the case of a railway Bill, the Committee Order No. report specially :—

7. The sufficiency or insufficiency for agricultural, commercial, manufacturing or other purposes, of the present means of conveyance, and of communication between the proposed termini, stating the present amount of traffic by land or water, the average charges made for passengers and goods, and time occupied.

8. The number of passengers, and the weight and description of the goods expected upon the proposed Railway.

9. The amount of income expected to arise from the conveyance of passengers and goods, and in what proportion; stating also generally the description of goods from which the largest revenue is anticipated."

and repealed.

Mercurii, 25° die Februarii, 1846.

87.

Breviates of Private Bills.-That Standing Order, No. Suspension 114, requiring the Breviate of all Private Bills to be laid of certain on the table three clear days before the second reading of orders with such Bills; and Standing Order, No. 119, requiring respect to Breviates of Bills amended in Committee to be submitted privileged to the Chairman of Ways and Means, and laid on the table the day previous to the consideration of the Report, be suspended with respect to all Bills entitled to the privileges agreed to be granted in certain cases by the Resolutions of the House on the 7th day of July last.

E

bills.

Unopposed railway

bills.

Suspension of certain orders with respect to privileged bills.

Second

reading.

Report.

Third reading.

Jovis, 260 die Februarü, 1846.

Railway Bills.-That all Select Committees on Railway Groups or Bills be empowered to refer (if they shall so think fit) to the Chairman of Ways and Means, together with the Members ordered to prepare and bring in each such Bill, any unopposed Railway Bill submitted for their consideration, and that such Bills be severally dealt with by the said Chairman, and those Members respectively acting with him, as other unopposed Bills are to be dealt with.

Martis, 3° die Martü, 1846.

Private Bills.-That Standing Order, No. 110, requir ing that there be three clear days between the first and second reading of a Private Bill; and Standing Order, No. 134, requiring three clear days' notice of a second reading to be given in the Private Bill Office; and Standing Order, No. 139, requiring one clear day's notice in the Private Bill Office of the day proposed for the Report of every Private Bill, and also for the consideration of the Report; and Standing order, No. 123, requiring the Reports on Railway Bills to be discussed every Tuesday and Thursday; and Standing Order, No. 142, requiring one clear day's notice of the third reading of a Bill; and Standing Order, No. 124, prohibiting any Private Bill from passing through two stages on the same day, be suspended with respect to all Bills entitled to the privileges granted by the Resolutions of the House on the 7th day of July last.

That such Bills may be read a second time on the day following the first reading of such Bills.

That the Committee on such Bills may report, and such Report may be considered, on the same day with that on which the Committee sits.

That such Bills may be read a third time on the following day.

Repeal of par. 20 of

order No. 87.

Jovis, 5° die Martii, 1846.

Railway Bills.-Paragraph 20, of the Standing Order, No. 87, read, as follows:

"That in the case of a Railway Bill, the Committee report specially

:

Whether the calculations proved in evidence before the
Committee have satisfactorily established, that the

revenue is likely to be sufficient to support the annual charges of the maintenance of the Railway, and still allow profit to the projectors."

and repealed.

Jovis, 19° die Martii, 1846.

Railways. Select Committee appointed to "inquire Mr. Morriwhether, without discouraging legitimate enterprise, con- son's comditions may not be embodied in Railway Acts, better fitted mittee. than those hitherto inserted in them, to promote and secure the interests of the public.'

Luna, 23° die Martii, 1846.

Railways and Canals Amalgamation.-Select Committee Committee appointed, "to consider the principle of Amalgamation, as on amalgaapplied to the Railway and Canal Bills now under the mations. consideration of Parliament."

Railways (Metropolis).-"That an humble address be Commispresented to her Majesty,"praying that her Majesty will sion to rebe pleased to give directions for the appointment of a Com- port on mission, to investigate and report upon the various Rail- Metropolis way projects of which the termini are proposed to be Railways. established within or in the immediate vicinity of the Metropolis."

Jovis, 26° die Martii, 1846.

Amalgamation Bills. That no Amalgamation Bills Suspension specified in the Ninth Report of the Classification Com- of Amalmittee of Railway Bills, be allowed to proceed beyond the gamation Second Reading, before the 1st day of May next.

Jovis, 2° die Aprilis, 1846.

Bills.

tees on rail

determine

Railway Bills.-That every Committee on a Railway Bill Commitshall fix the tolls, and shall determine the maximum rates of charge for the conveyance of passengers (with a due way bills to amount of luggage) and of goods on such Railway; and maximum such rates of charge shall include the tolls, and the costs of locomotive power, and every other expense connected with the conveyance of passengers (with a due amount of luggage) and of goods upon such Railway; but if the Committee shall not deem it expedient to determine such

charges.

maximum rates of charge, a special Report, explanatory of the grounds of their omitting so to do, shall be made to the House, which special Report shall accompany the Report of the Bill.

Railway Bills. That the following clause be inserted in all Railway Bills passing through the House: "And be it further enacted, That nothing herein contained shall be deemed or construed to exempt the Railway by this or the recited Acts authorized to be made from the provisions of any General Act relating to such Bills, or of any General Act relating to Railways which may hereafter pass during this or any future Session of Parliament, or from any future revision and alteration, under the authority of Parliament, of the maximum rates of fares and charges authorized by this Act."

Veneris, 3o die Aprilis, 1846.

Standing Orders.—Standing Order No. 135, read and
repealed.
That seven clear days' notice, and in the case of a recom-
mitted Bill, three clear days' notice, in writing, be
given by the Clerk to the Committee of Selection, to
the Clerks in the Private Bill Office, of the day and
hour appointed for the meeting of the Committee on
every Private Bill; and that all the proceedings of any
Committee, of which such notice shall not have been
given, be void.

That the said Resolution be a Standing Order of the
House.

Martis, 7° die Aprilis, 1846.

Railway Bills. That all proceedings on Railway Bills in Committees and in the House, after Thursday next, be postponed until Monday the 27th day of this instant April. That no Railway Bill be read the third time before Monday the 27th day of this instant April.

Jovis, 23° die Aprilis, 1846.

Railway Bills.-That this House will not read a third time any Bill to empower any Company (whether intended to be incorporated by such Bill, or already incorporated by Act of Parliament) to construct a Railway, unless three clear days before the third reading, there shall have been deposited at the Private Bill Office, there to be open to the inspection of all parties, a certificate signed and authentì–

cated in manner hereinafter mentioned, and comprising Resolutions the particulars hereinafter expressed, and stating the fol- proposed by lowing facts, viz. :

1. That a copy of the Bill was submitted to the con-
sideration of a meeting of the holders of scrip, or of
bankers' receipts for scrip, of the Company, or (in case
of a Company already incorporated) of the shareholders
or stockholders of the Company, specially called for
that purpose.

2. (As altered the 27th April.) That such meeting was
called by advertisements, inserted once in each of two
consecutive weeks in the London Gazette (if the Rail-
way be an English Railway), or in the London and
Edinburgh Gazettes (if the Railway be a Scotch Rail-
way), or in the London and the Dublin Gazettes (if the
Railway be an Irish Railway), and in each case in at
least three London daily newspapers, and not less than
three times in each such paper, in each of such two
consecutive weeks; and in case the Railway be a
Scotch Railway, not less than twice in each of three
Edinburgh newspapers in each of such two consecutive
weeks;
and in case the Railway be an Irish Railway,
not less than three times in each of two Dublin daily
newspapers in each of such two consecutive weeks.

3. In the case of a Company being intended to be incor-
porated by the Bill:-That such meeting was consti-
tuted of per ons producing thereat scrip, or bankers'
receipts for scrip, of the Company representing not less
than one-third part of the whole capital proposed to be
raised by the Company under the Bill (such scrip
having been actually issued, or the deposits in respect
thereof having been paid before the 31st of March in
the present year.)

4. In the case of the Company being already incorporated-That such Meeting was held, except so far as is herein otherwise provided, according to the constitution of the Company, and was constituted of shareholders or stockholders thereof competent to vote at the ordinary Meetings of the Company, and representing either personally or as proxies not less than onethird part of the whole capital or stock of the Com

pany.

5. That at such Meeting the Bill was approved of by persons producing thereat scrip, or bankers' receipts

Sir Robert Peel continued.