PROCEEDINGS

PART I.

PRIOR TO THE INTRODUCTION OF

PRIVATE BILLS INTO PARLIAMENT (pp. 1—60).

PROCEEDINGS REQUISITE BEFORE PRESENTING PETITION FOR

BILL TO PARLIAMENT (pp. 15-60).

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS :-

1.-Difference of Parliamentary from Legal

SECTION 2.-First Deposit of Plans, &c. (by Nov. 30th).

1.-Deposit of Plans, &c., with the Board of Trade .

Second Deposit of Plans and Sections (by Dec. 31st).

1.-Deposits for Lords and Commons

2.-Plans for particular Parishes

Application to Owners, Lessees, and Occupiers .

Contents of Parish Plans

Plans of subsequent Alterations

Estimate

Subscription Contract

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What the Bill should contain

Proceedings requisite before Second Reading

What persons may Petition

Requisites before Second Reading

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1.-Propriety of consultation between counsel,

solicitors, and engineers, &c.

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2.-Expediency of altering or opposing alterations

of Clauses, &c.

3.-Excessive Demands of Landowners

4.-Practice of Committees generally .

5.-Right to be heard against the Preamble

6.-Right to be heard against Clauses.

Proceedings of Committees on Railway Groups

NOTES ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE PROCEEDINGS IN RAILWAY

BILLS IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS (pp. 163-202).

Amount of Deposit required by Standing Orders

Deposits with the Accountant-General

Signature to Petitions on Private Bills

ib.

Proofs before Sub-Committee on Petitions-Copy of

Reports from Committee on Standing Orders

Proceedings before Standing Orders Committee

Bills privileged under Resolutions of July 7, 1845

Classification of Railway Bills

Unopposed Railway Bills.

Division of a Railway Bill into two or more Bills

Mode of Procedure in Committees on Railway Groups

Petitions in opposition to a Bill

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CONTENTS.

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CHAPTER II.

THE ORDER OF PROCEEDINGS IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS.

(pp. 203-233).

Requisites after First Reading

Second Reading of the Bill

Lords' Committee for Standing Orders

What must be proved before this Committee

Report of the Standing Order Committee

Committee on Bill

PROCEEDINGS IN PARLIAMENT :-

SESSION 1846.

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SPECIAL

(ALTERED) PRACTICE FOR THE PRESENT SESSION, 1846

(pp. 234-256),

Containing the several Reports from the House of Lords and
House of Commons' Select Committees, "to consider the
mode in which the Houses shall deal with the Railway
Bills proposed to be submitted to the Houses during the
present Session;" with details of the Practice of both
Houses, as altered by the Resolutions adopted in con-
sequence thereof.