AFPENDIX.

FORMS. Relating to Compensation.

enabled to sell, convey, or release; and also as and for compensation for all damage sustained by the said C. D. and E. F., by reason of the severing of the said lands hereinbefore described, from the other lands of the said C. D. and E. F., or otherwise injuriously affecting such other lands.

And I the said A. B., in pursuance of the powers contained in the said acts, some or one of them, do hereby declare that I have settled the costs of the said C. D. and E. F. incident to this arbitration at the sum of £ and the costs of and incident to my umpirage and award at the sum of £which said sums are to be respectively paid according to the provisions con. tained in the said act, intituled The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845. As witness my hand this day of in the year of our Lord 184

A. B.

The Schedule above referred to.
[Here describe the lands as in Form No. 25, ante, App., 267.]

273

ORDERS AND RESOLUTIONS IN THE

COMMONS, 1847 (a).

I. REGULATIONS FOR THE DEPOSIT OF PETITIONS IN THE PRIVATE BILL OFFICE, AND FOR DETERMINING THE ORDER IN WHICH THEY WILL BE HEARD BY THE EXAMINERS.

1. Deposit of Petitions in the Private Bill Office.

1. In order to facilitate the arrangement of the petitions, and the subsequent hearing thereof by the examiners, in such order as may be most convenient to the parties and their agents, a register will be kept in the private bill office, with blank lines numbered consecutively from 1 to 500; and every agent will be allowed to cause the petitions produced by him to be entered, respectively, on such of the lines, not then having any petition entered thereon, as he shall think fit; and if he shall not prescribe any order for the entry of such petitions, they will be entered in the order in which they are deposited upon the earliest consecutive lines then remaining unoccupied.

2. When two or more agents shall appear in the private bill office, at the same time, for the purpose of depositing petitions, unless they shall otherwise agree, their names will be placed in a ballot-glass, and the agents will have priority respectively in the order in which their names shall be drawn; each in his turn being entitled to deposit all the petitions offered by him at that time, and to select such numbers for them as he shall think proper.

3. On Friday the 1st, and Saturday the 2nd days of January, 1847, between the hours of twelve and three, agents will be allowed to exchange by agreement the numbers originally assigned to their petitions. They will, at the same time, be at liberty to transfer to other numbers in the register being then unoccupied, any of the petitions which may have been deposited by them; and their priority

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in the exercise of this right will be determined by ballot, if necessary, as in the original deposit of petitions (see No. 2).

4. Whenever two or more petitions, in respect of which the same witnesses are intended to be examined, shall occupy adjoining numbers in the register, the agent or agents for the same may cause any of them, not exceeding five in number, to be marked with a bracket; and regard will be had thereto in determining the days on which such petitions shall be set down for hearing, and the examiner by whom they will be heard.

5. On or after the 2nd of January, a numerical list will be made out in the private bill office, in which the petitions will be numbered consecutively, from one to the highest number, according to the order in which they shall have been finally entered in the register. This list will be called the "General List of Petitions," and the petitions will be set down for hearing before the examiners, in the order in which they shall stand therein.

2. The Hearing of Petitions by the Examiners.

6. Not less than seven clear days' notice will be given, in the private bill office, of the day appointed for the examination of each petition; and the day so appointed will be written against the several petitions upon a printed copy of the "General List of Petitions," which will be kept in the private bill office for that purpose.

7. So soon as the time allowed for depositing a memorial complaining of non-compliance with the standing orders in the case of any such petitions shall have expired, the word "unopposed" will be written in such printed list, against each petition in respect of which no such memorial shall have been deposited; and on the following day, lists, shewing the petitions allotted to each examiner, will be set up in the lobby of the house, in the private bill office, and near the committee-rooms in which the examiners are appointed to sit.

8. Petitions will be heard in the order in which they stand in the daily lists, precedence being given as much as possible to unopposed petitions; and in case any petitions shall not be disposed of on the days on which they may be first appointed to be heard, they will be entered in the list of the following day, before the opposed petitions appointed for that day; unless the examiners shall otherwise adjourn or postpone the same.

9. In order to expedite the business of each day, petitions appoint