Remuneration to auditors. Account to be an nually transmitted That the remuneration of the auditor, and his expenses, be defrayed out of the funds levied under the bill. That an annual account, in abstract, be prepared of the total reto clerk of peace. ceipts and expenditure of all funds levied under such bill for the past year, under the several distinct heads of receipts and expenditure, with a statement of the balance of the said account duly audited and certified by the chairman of the commissioners, directors, trustees, or other parties aforesaid, and also by the auditors thereof; and that a copy of such annual account be transmitted, free of charge, to the clerk of the peace (or in Scotland to the sheriff clerk) for the county, or to the clerk of the city or borough within which the chief office for the management of such funds shall be situated, on or before the thirty-first day of January in each year, under a sufficient penalty for not preparing and sending in the said account, to be levied by summary process; the said account to be open at all seasonable hours to the inspection of the public upon payment of a fee. 90. Level of roads. Fence to be made to bridges. 91. Plan and book of reference to be signed by chairman, and deposited. 92. Committee bill to be signed by chairman. 93. Chairman to report on allegations of bill, &c. 94. Chairman to report bill. 90. That, where the level of any road shall be altered in making any public work, the ascent of any public carriage-road shall not be more than one foot in thirty feet; and that a good and sufficient fence, of four feet high at the least, shall be made on each side of every bridge which shall be erected. 91. That every plan, and book of reference thereto, which shall be produced in evidence before the committee upon any private bill (whether the same shall have been previously lodged in the Private Bill Office, or not) shall be signed by the chairman of such committee with his name at length; and he shall also mark with the initials of his name every alteration of such plan and book of reference, which shall be agreed upon by the said committee; and every such plan and book of reference shall thereafter be deposited in the Private Bill Office. 92. That the chairman of the committee do sign, with his name at length, a printed copy of the bill (to be called the Committee Bill), on which the amendments are to be fairly written; and also sign, with the initials of his name, the several clauses added in the committee. 93. That the chairman of the committee shall report to the House, that the allegations of the bill have been examined; and whether the parties concerned have given their consent (where such consent is required by the standing orders) to the satisfaction of the committee. 94. That the chairman of the committee shall report the bill to the House, whether the committee shall or shall not have agreed to the preamble, or gone through the several clauses, or any of them; and when any alteration shall have been made in the preamble of the bill, such alteration, together with the ground of making it, shall be specially stated in the report. 95. That the minutes of the committee on every private bill be brought up and laid on the table of the House, with the report of the bill. 95. Minutes of brought up. committee to be to mortgage. 96. That, in the case of a railway bill, no company shall be author- 96. Restrictions as ised to raise, by loan or mortgage, a larger sum than one-third of their capital; and that, until fifty per cent. on the whole of the capital shall have been paid up, it shall not be in the power of the company to raise any money by loan or mortgage. 97. That, where the level of any road shall be altered in making any railway, the ascent of any public carriage-road shall not be more than one foot in thirty feet; unless a report from some officer of the Railway Department of the Board of Trade shall be laid before the committee on the bill, recommending that steeper ascents than the above may be allowed, with the reasons and facts upon which such opinion is founded; and the committee shall report in favour of such recommendation: also, that a good and sufficient fence, of four feet high at the least, shall be made on each side of every bridge which shall be erected. 98. That no railway whereon carriages are propelled by steam, or by atmospheric agency, or drawn by ropes in connexion with a stationary steam-engine, shall be made across any turnpike-road or other public carriage-way on the level, unless the committee on the bill report that such a restriction ought not to be enforced, with the reasons and facts upon which their opinion is founded. 97. Level of roads. Fence to be made to bridges. 98. Railways not same level. to cross roads on railway bills to report specially: 99. That, in the case of a railway-bill, the committee report spe- 99. Committees on cially:1. The proposed capital of the company formed for the execution Capital and loans. of the project, and the amount of any loans which they may be empowered to raise by the bill. 2. The amount of shares subscribed for, and the deposits paid Shares and dethereon. posits. directors. 3. The names and places of residence of the directors or provisional Names, &c., of committee, with the amount of shares taken by each. ers. 4. The number of shareholders who may be considered as having a Local shareholdlocal interest in the line, and the amount of capital subscribed for by them. 5. The number of other parties, and the capital taken by them. 7. Whether any report from the Board of Trade in regard to the 9. Any peculiar engineering difficulties in the proposed line, and 11. Whether, in the lines proposed, the gradients and curves are 12. The length of the main line of the proposed railway, and of its branches respectively, and on what gauge it is proposed to be constructed. 13. Whether it be intended that the railway should pass on a level any turnpike-road or highway, and if so, to call the particular attention of the House to that circumstance. 14. The amount of the estimates of the cost or other expenses to be incurred up to the time of the completion of the railway, and whether they appear to be supported by evidence, and to be fully adequate for the purpose. 15. The number of assents, dissents, and neuters upon the line, and the length and amount of property belonging to each class traversed by the said railway, distinguishing owners from occupiers; and in the case of any bill to vary the original line, the above particulars with reference to such parties only as may be affected by the proposed deviation. 16. The name of each engineer examined in support of the bill, and of any examined in opposition to it. 17. The main allegations of every petition which may have been sition. referred to the committee in opposition to the preamble of the bill, petitions in oppoor to any of its clauses; and whether the allegations have been considered by the committee, and if not considered, the cause of their not having been so. And the committee shall also report generally as to the fitness, in an engineering point of view, of the projected line of railway, and any circumstances, which, in the opinion of the committee, it is desirable the House should be informed of. 100 to 111 inclusive do not apply to Railway Bills. Fitness in an engineering point of view, and any other circum stances. III. Orders regulating the Practice of the House with regard to 112. That no private bill be brought into this House, but upon a petition first presented, with a printed copy of the proposed bill annexed: and that such petition be signed by the parties, or some of them, who are suitors for the bill, and be duly indorsed by the examiner of petitions for private bills. 113. That all petitions for private bills be presented to the House on or before a day to be appointed by the House at the commencement of every session. 114. That all petitions for additional provision in private bills, with the proposed clauses annexed, and all estate bills brought from the House of Lords after having been read a first time, be referred to the examiner of petitions for private bills. 115. That all reports of the examiner of petitions for private bills 115. Reports of be referred to the select committee on standing orders. 116. That all petitions for leave to dispense with any of the sessional orders of the House relating to private bills, and also all petitions for the re-insertion of petitions for private bills in the examiner's list, be referred to the select committee on standing orders. 117. That every private bill, printed on paper, of a size to be determined upon by Mr. Speaker, be presented to the House, with a cover of parchment attached to it, upon which the title of the bill is to be written; and the short title of the bill, as first entered on the votes, shall correspond with that at the head of the advertisement, and shall not be changed unless by special order of the House. E examiner to be referred to committee on standing orders. 116. Petitions to dispense with ses sional orders, &c., to be referred to committee on standing orders. 117. Printed bill to be presented to the House. 118. Rates, &c., to be inserted in Italies. 119. Bills to be printed before first reading. 120. Time between first and second reading. 121. Name of bill to be written on petitions. 122. Second reading. 123. Breviate of bill. 124. Breviate to be printed. 125. Fees to be paid. 126. When bills to be referred to com 118. That the proposed amount of all rates, tolls, and other matters heretofore left blank in any private bill when presented to the House, be inserted in italics in the printed bill. 119. That every private bill (except name bills) be printed; and printed copies thereof delivered to the door-keepers for the use of the members, before the first reading. 120. That there be three clear days between the first and second reading of every private bill. 121. That on every petition presented to this House, relating to any private bill before the House, the name or short title by which such bill is entered in the votes be written at the beginning thereof; and whether such petition be in favour or against the bill. 122. That no private bill be read a second time, until after the expiration of two calendar months from the day the last notice shall have been given in the newspaper. 123. That a breviate of every private bill (except divorce, name, and estate bills, brought from the House of Lords, and not relating to crown, church, or corporation property, or property held in trust for public or charitable purposes) be prepared under the direction of Mr. Speaker, and that such breviate shall contain a statement of the object of the bill, and a summary of the proposed enactments, and shall state any variation from the general law which will be effected by the bill. 124. That no private bill be read a second time until three clear days after the breviate thereof shall have been laid on the table of the House, and have been printed. 125. That no private bill or clause, for the particular interest or benefit of any person or persons, county or counties, corporation or corporations, or body or bodies of people, be read a second time, unless fees be paid for the same. 126. That every private bill, not being a divorce bill, after having mitte of selection. been read a second time and committed, shall be referred to the committee of selection; and every divorce bill shall be referred to the select committee on divorce bills. 127. Time between second reading and sitting of committee. 28. Reports of Board of Trade to be referred. 127. That there be seven clear days between the second reading of every private bill and the sitting of the committee thereupon. 128. That, in the case of railway bills, if any report made under the authority of the Board of Trade upon any bill, or the objects thereof, be laid before the House, such report shall be referred to the committee on the bill. |