ABSTRACT of STANDING ORDERS relating to the passing of PRIVATE BILLS through the HOUSE If to make a burial- 20.-Notice on the church doors of every adjoining parish on 44.-Deposit in the Private Presentation of the petition for a bill. 36.-Notice to owners and oc- 35.-Deposit in the Vote Office 102.-Petition to be ABSTRACT of STANDING ORDERS relating to the passing of PRIVATE BILLS through the HOUSE 256 SPECIAL PRACTICE FOR PRESENT SESSION. committee thereon is to be laid before the House. If the committee shall report that the Standing Orders have not been complied with, their report will have to be referred to the Standing Order Committee, whose report thereon will also be laid on the table of the House. In fact, the practice in this respect will be the same as if the bill had originated in the Commons. When a railway bill has commenced in the House of Lords (pursuant to these resolutions for the present session), it will (when sent down from that House) be read the first time in the Commons, and then be referred to the committee on petitions, to ascertain whether the railway bill so sent down is substantially in accordance with the Standing Orders, as determined by the Commons House of Parliament. Except as above described, and as altered by the resolutions previously given in this chapter, the practice of both Houses in respect to private bills, will remain as heretofore; and it has not been deemed requisite to alter the body of the volume regarding such practice, as these changes will, in all probability, last only one session, at the end of which (if other resolutions be not adopted) the practice will revert to its former course, the temporary pressure of railway business (caused by the unparalleled number of railway bills introduced during the present session) having been remedied by the temporary reference of a portion of such bills to the House of Lords. SPECIAL PRACTICE FOR PRESENT SESSION. 257 The last New Standing Orders (March 19, 1846). The House of Lords has, since the foregoing portion of this chapter was in print, adopted (March 19, 1846) the following resolution relative to railway bills. The extract is from the official records of their lordships' proceedings: Railway Bills.-The following resolution (viz.) "That no petition praying to be heard upon the merits against any second class railway bill shall be received by this House, unless the same be presented on or before the day on which such bill shall be read a second time," was considered (according to order), and agreed to; and ordered to be added to the roll of Standing Orders. Ordered, That the above order shall come into operation on and after Thursday the 26th instant. In the House of Commons, also, the same. evening (Thursday, March 19), the following resolutions were adopted by the House:-- 1. That in case of bills for making, maintaining, varying, extending, or enlarging any aqueduct, archway, bridge, weir, canal, cut, dock, ferry, harbour, navigation, pier, port, RAILWAY, reservoir, tunnel, turnpike road, and water work, and for all other works and inclosures on tidal lands within the ordinary spring tides, a general plan showing the situation and approaches to the said aqueduct, archway, harbour, &c. should be denoted upon a sheet or sheets of the ordnance survey, when published, or else upon maps of an equivalent scale, and extending ten miles on each side; together with en N |