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four consecutive weeks in the newspapers of the county or counties wherein such new works were proposed to be executed, or if there are no newspapers published in such county or counties, then in that of the nearest county wherein a newspaper is published:

3rd. That such meeting was held at a period not earlier than seven days after the last insertion of such advertisement :

4th. That at such meeting the draft of the proposed bill was sub-
mitted to the proprietors then present, and was approved of by
at least three-fifths of such proprietors.

Emendat. per Ord. 11 Augusti, 1842.
Emendat. per Ord. 7 Augusti, 1845.
Emendat. per Ord. 13 Februarii, 1846.
Emendat. per Ord. 27 Augusti, 1846.

Nos. 221 and 222 do not relate to railway bills.

Further Orders with regard to Bills of the Second Class, the Compliance
with which is to be proved as hereinbefore mentioned.
ORDERED,-

1. That all notices shall 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 shall 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.

2. That all notices (with respect to bills included in the second class of bills hereinbefore mentioned) shall also be given at the general quarter session of the peace which shall have been holden for every and each county, riding, or division in or through which the work shall be made, maintained, varied, extended, or enlarged, at Michaelmas or Epiphany preceding the session of Parliament in which such application is intended to be made, by affixing such notice on the door of the sessions-house of each and every such county, riding, or division where such general quarter session shall be holden; save and except as to any bill for such purposes in Scotland; in which case, instead of affixing such notices on the door of the sessions-house,

223.

Notices to contain &c., and to state

names of parishes,

the time and place

of deposit of plans, &c.

Notice to be sessions-house, &c.

affixed on door of

Duplicate plans and sections to be deposited with clerks of the peace, &c.

Lands within deviation to be on plan. Buildings, &c. on enlarged scale.

Scale of section.

such notices shall be written or printed on paper and affixed to the church door of the parish or parishes in or through which such work is intended to be made, maintained, varied, extended, or enlarged, for three successive Sundays, in the months of October and November, or either of them, immediately preceding the introduction into Parliament of the bill for which such application is intended to be made.

3. That a plan, and also a duplicate of such plan, on a scale of not less than four inches to a mile, 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, and if the same shall happen on a Sunday, then on or before the 29th day of November immediately preceding the session of Parliament in which application for the bill shall be made; which plans shall 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, together with a book of reference containing the names of the owners or reputed owners, lessees or reputed lessees, and occupiers of such lands respectively; and in the case of bills relating to turnpike roads, cuts, canals, reservoirs, aqueducts, and railways, a section and duplicate thereof, as hereinafter described, shall likewise be deposited with such plan and duplicate.

4. That, where it is the intention of the parties to apply for power to make any lateral deviation from the line of the proposed work, the limits of such deviation shall be defined upon the plan, and all lands included within such limits shall be marked thereon; and that in all cases, excepting where the whole of such plan shall be upon a scale of not less than a quarter of an inch to every 100 feet, an additional plan of any 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 included within the limits of the said deviation, shall be laid down on the said plan, or on the additional plan deposited therewith, upon a scale of not less than a quarter of an inch to every 100 feet.

5. That the section shall 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 shall shew the surface of the ground marked on the plan, and the intended level of the proposed work, and a datum horizontal line, which shall be the same throughout the whole length of the work, or any branch thereof respectively, and shall be referred to some fixed point (stated in writing on the section) near either of the termini.

6. That the clerks of the peace or sheriff clerks, or their respective deputies, do make a memorial in writing upon the plans, sections, and books of reference so deposited with them, denoting the time at which the same were lodged in their respective offices, and do 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 that one of the two plans and sections so deposited 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. (See 1 Vict. c. 83, post, App., 3).

7. That, on or before the 31st day of December, or in case such day shall happen on a Sunday, on or before the 30th day of December, a copy of so much of the said 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), together with a book of reference thereto, shall be deposited 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. (See 1 Vict. c. 83, post, App., 3).

8. That, on or before the 31st day of December, or in case such day shall happen on a Sunday, on or before the 30th day of December, a copy of the said plans, sections, and books of reference shall be deposited in the office of the clerk of the Parliaments.

9. That, where any alteration shall have been made, or shall be desired by the parties to be made, after the introduction of the bill into Parliament, in any work, the bill for which shall be included in the second class of bills hereinbefore mentioned, and the plans and sections for which shall have been deposited, and the notices for which shall have been given as before mentioned, a plan and section of such alteration, on the same scale, and containing the same particulars as the original plan and section, together with a book of reference thereto, shall be deposited with the clerk of the peace of every county, riding, or division in England or Ireland, and in the office of

Clerks of plans, &c. In

peace, &c. to indorse

spection and fee.

so much of the lates to each

plans, &c. as re

parish to be de

posited with the parish clerk, &c.

Copy of the plans, &c. to be deposited with the clerk of

the Parliaments.

Plans and sections made subsequently to the introduction of the

of alterations

bill, to be depo

sited with clerks

of the peace, &c.,

and notices published, and app.ication made to

owners, &c.

Plans and sections
of alterations
to be deposited
with the clerk of
the Parliaments.

Standing Orders

the sheriff clerk of every county in Scotland, in which such alteration is proposed to be made; and a copy of such plan and section, so far as relates to each parish, together with a book of reference thereto, shall be deposited with the parish clerks 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 in Ireland is included, in which such alteration is intended to be made, one month previously to the introduction of the bill for making such work into this House; and the intention to make such alteration shall be published in manner before directed in the London, Edinburgh, or Dublin Gazette, as the case may be, and some one and the same newspaper of the county in which such alteration shall be situate, or if there be no such paper printed therein, then in the newspaper of some county adjoining thereto, for three successive weeks previously to the introduction of the bill into this House; and personal application, with a notice in writing in the form herein before mentioned, shall be made to the owners or reputed owners, lessees or reputed lessees, or, in their absence from the United Kingdom, to their agents respectively, and to the occupiers of lands through which any such alteration is intended to be made; and the consent of such owners or reputed owners, lessees or reputed lessees, and occupiers, to the making of such alteration, shall be proved to the satisfaction of the committee before whom the compliance with the standing orders shall be proved.

10. That, previous to any bill for making any work, the bill for which shall be included in the second class of bills herein before mentioned, being brought to this House from the Commons, in which any alteration has been made in its progress through Parliament, a map or plan and section of such work, shewing any variation, extension, or enlargement which is intended to be made in consequence of such alteration, shall be deposited in the office of the clerk of the Parliaments; and that such map or plan and section shall be on the same scale and contain the same particulars as the original map or plan and section of the said work.

11. That copies of so much of the standing orders of this House on of plans, &c. with private bills as relates to the deposit of plans, sections, books of re

as to the deposit

clerks of the

peace, &c. to be printed, and a copy deilvered with the plan.

ference, and other books and writings, or extracts or copies of or from the same, with the clerks of the peace of counties in England or Ireland, sheriff clerks in Scotland, parish clerks in England, schoolmasters in Scotland, town clerks of royal burghs in Scotland, clerks

of the union in Ireland, and other persons, be delivered to every such clerk of the peace, sheriff clerk, parish clerk, schoolmaster, clerk of the union, and other person, at the same time with the plan and other writing, or extract or copy of or from such plan or other writing, deposited with him.

12. That, before any application is made for a bill whereby any part of a work authorised by any former act is intended to be relinquished, notice in writing of such bill be given to the owners or reputed owners, lessees or reputed lessees, and occupiers of the lands in which the part of the said work intended to be thereby relinquished is situate.

Emendat. per Ord. 11 Augusti, 1842.
Emendat. per Ord. 8 Augusti, 1844.
Emendat. per Ord. 7 Augusti, 1845.
Emendat. per Ord. 30 Julii, 1846.
Emendat. per Ord. 27 Augusti, 1846.

Further Standing Orders with respect to Bills of the Second Class and Bills for Burial Grounds, the Compliance with which shall be proved as hereinbefore mentioned.

ORDERED,

1. That an estimate of the expense be made, and signed by the person making the same, and that a subscription be entered into under a contract, made as hereinafter described, to three-fourths the amount of the estimate.

Application to be
&c. when bill
is to abridge the
extent of any

made to owners,

public work.

224.

Estimate and subentered into.

scription contract

may be substituttion contract.

2. That, in cases where the work is to be made by means of funds, A declaration or out of money to be raised upon the credit of present surplus re-ed for subscripvenue belonging to any society or company, or under the control of directors, trustees, or commissioners, as the case may be, of any existing public work, a declaration stating those facts, and setting forth the nature of such control, and the nature and amount of such funds or surplus revenue, and given under the common seal of the society or company, or under the hand of some authorised officer of such directors, trustees, or commissioners, may be substituted in lieu of such subscription contract, and in addition to the estimate of the expense. 3. That, in cases where the work is to be made out of money to be raised upon the security of the rates, duties, or revenue to be created by or to arise under any bill under which no private or personal pecuniary profit or advantage is to be derived, a declaration stating those

F

A declaration and amount of rates

estimate of

may be substituted

for subscription

contract.

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