according to the rules or usual practice of this House, can be received, be brought to the table by the direction of the Speaker, who shall not allow any debate, or any member to speak upon, or in relation to, such petition; but it may be read by the clerk at the table, if required. III. That if such petition relate to any matter or subject which the member presenting it is desirous of bring ing before the House, and if such member shall state it to be his intention to make a motion thereupon, such member may give notice that he will make a motion on some subsequent day, That the petition be printed with the votes. IV. That, in the case of such petition complaining of some present personal grievance, for which there may be an urgent necessity for providing an immediate remedy, the matter contained in such petition may be brought into discussion on the presentation thereof. V. That all other such petitions, after they shall have been ordered to lie on the table, be referred to the committee on public petitions, without any question being put. VI. That, subject to the above regulations, petitions against any resolution or bill imposing a tax or duty for the current service of the year, be henceforth received, and the usage under which the House has refused to entertain such petitions be discontinued. PROMULGATION OF STATUTES. ON 3rd June, 1801, an address was agreed to, by both Houses:-To present to his Majesty the following resolutions; and to entreat his Majesty to give directions for the more speedy and general promulgation of the statutes of the realm:-And on 9th June, 1801, his Majesty's answer thereto was reported, That his Majesty would give directions accordingly. I. That it is expedient, for the more speedy and general promulgation of the laws of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, that his Majesty's printer should be authorized and directed to print not less than 5,500 copies of every public general statute, and 306 copies of every public local and personal statute. II. That his Majesty's printer should be authorized and directed to print and deliver, or transmit (by the post or otherwise), so soon as possible after each bill has received the royal assent, the aforesaid number of 5,500 copies of each public general statute. III. That his Majesty's printer should be authorized and directed to print, and deliver or transmit in like manner, the aforesaid 306 copies of each public local and personal statute. IV. That every chief magistrate and head officer of any city, borough, or town corporate in England and Ireland, and of every royal burgh in Scotland, and every sheriff, clerk of the peace, and town clerk, in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, receiving any such copies, should preserve them for the public use, and transmit them to his successor in office. V. That for the purpose of effectuating the promulgation of private statutes (if the parties interested therein shall think proper) and also for making compensation to the clerk of the Parliaments and officers of the House of Lords (in lieu of their annual average emoluments arising from the office copies of such statutes) without bringing any new charge upon the public, the parties interested in every such statute should make good such expense and compensation; "and that thereupon such printed copies of every such statute should be made judicially admissible in evidence, by adding thereto a clause declaring the same to be a public act." VI. That his Majesty's printer should also be authorized and directed to class the general statutes, and the public local and personal statutes of each session, in separate volumes, and to number the chapters of each class separately; and also, to print one general title to each volume, together with a general table of all the Acts passed in that session. In session 1803, it was resolved by both Houses of Parliament, That so much of the 5th resolution of the Lords and Commons, of the session 1801, as provided that printed copies of private statutes shall be made judicially admissible in evidence by adding thereto a clause declaring the same to be a public Act, shall be vacated: That so much of the resolutions of the Lords and Commons, of Session 1801, as relates to the printing and distribution of private Acts of Parliament, shall be construed to extend only to such Acts of Parliament in which a clause shall be inserted, declaring that such Act shall be printed by the printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, and may be given in evidence in all courts of justice, and before all judges and justices, who shall take judicial notice thereof, in like manner as if the same had been declared to be a public Act. Com. Jour. 58. 273. 281. By 41 Geo. 3. c. 90. s. 9. it was enacted, That the statutes of England and of Great Britain, printed and published by the King's printer, shall be received as evidence in any court in Ireland, and the statutes of Ireland prior to the Union, so printed and published, shall be received as evidence in any court in Great Britain. STANDING ORDERS OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS, RELATIVE TO THE BRINGING IN AND PROCEEDING ON PRIVATE BILLS. Committee on private bills not to sit until ten days after second reading. Consents to to be per sonal, or an affidavit of Die Mercurii, 20° Aprilis 1698. XCIV. Ordered, That no committee shall sit upon any private bill until ten days after it shall have been read a second time. Emendat. per Ord. 5° Junii 1828. Ord. 2° Junii 1840. Die Martis, 2° Junii 1840. XCIV. a. Ordered, That no notice shall be taken by private bills the committee of the consent of any person, except trustees for a charity, to any private bill, unless such person appear before such committee, or proof be made to such committee, by two credible witnesses, that such person is not able to attend, and doth consent to the said bill. disability made. How consent of trustees for charitable purposes to XCIV. b. Ordered, That the consent of all trustees for charitable purposes may be given to any private bill by which the estate, revenues, management, or regulation be signified. of the charity may be affected, by each of such trustees signifying his assent to such bill by signing a printed copy of the said bill in the presence of one credible witness, who shall attest such signature. Ordered, That the said orders be declared standing orders, and that they be added to the roll of standing orders of this House, and printed and published, to the end all persons concerned may the better take notice of the same. Die Jovis, 7° Decembris 1699. XCV. It is ordered, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, That for the future no private bill shall be brought into this House until the House be informed of the matters therein contained, by petition to this House for leave to bring in such bill: And that this order be added to the roll of standing orders. Die Veneris, 16° Novembris 1705. Private bills to be brought in on petition. XCVI. It is ordered, by the Lords Spiritual and Tem- Private bills to be printed poral in Parliament assembled, That for the future no previously to private bill shall be read in this House a second time second readuntil printed copies thereof be left with the clerk of the ing. Parliaments, for the perusal of the lords: And that one of the said copies shall be delivered to every person that shall be concerned in the said bill, before the meeting of the committee upon such bill; and in case of infancy, to be delivered to the guardian, or next relation of full age, not concerned in interest or in the passing the said bill: And that this order be added to the roll of standing orders, and printed and published, to the end all persons concerned may take notice thereof. Emendat. per Ord. 13 Maii 1742. Die Lunæ, 14° Januarii 1705. before hear XCVII. It is this day ordered and declared, by the Private bills Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, not to be read That for the future, when any cause shall be appointed ing of causes. to be heard in this House, no private bill whatsoever shall be read that day before the hearing of the cause. Die Veneris 18° Januarii 1705. It is ordered, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, That the order made the fourteenth instant, for declaring that no private bill whatsoever shall be read that day any cause is or shall be appointed to be heard, before the hearing of the said |