tice, &c. tive to No- in the Official Gazette, the following Rules respecting Notices of intended applications for Private Bills, and in other newspapers (English and French) the substance thereof; and shall also, immediately after the issue of the Proclamation convening Parliament for the despatch of business, publish in the Official Gazette, and in other newspapers, as aforesaid, until the opening of Parliament, the day on which the time limited for receiving Petitions for Private Bills will expire, pursuant to the foregoing Rule; and the Clerk shall also announce, by Notice affixed in the committee rooms and lobbies of this House, by the first day of every Session, the time limited for receiving petitions for Private Bills, and Private Bills, and Reports thereon. Notices for 51. All applications for Private Bills, properly the subjects of legislation by the Parliament of Canada, within the purview of "The British North America Act, 1867," whether for the erection of a Bridge, the making of a Railroad, Turnpike Road, or Telegraph Line; the construction or improvement of a Harbour, Canal, Lock, Dam or Slide, or other like work; the granting of a right of Ferry; the incorporation of any particular Trade or Calling, or of any Banking or other Joint Stock Company; or, otherwise for granting to any individual or individuals any exclusive or peculiar rights or privilges whatever, or for doing any matter or Private or thing which in its operation would affect Notices for the rights or property of other parties, or Bills. relate to any particular class of the community; or for making any amendment of a like nature to any former Act,-shall require a Notice, clearly and distinctly specifying the nature and object of the application, to be published as follows, viz. : In the Province of Quebec-A Notice inserted in the Official Gazette, in the English and French languages, and in one newspaper in the English, and one newspaper in the French language, in the District affected, or in both languages if there be but one paper; or if there be no paper published therein then (in both languages) in the Official Gazette, and in a paper published in an adjoining District. In any other Province-A Notice inserted in the Official Gazette, and in one newspaper published in the County, or Union of Counties, affected, or if there be no paper published therein, then in a newspaper in the next nearest County in which a newspaper is published. Such Notices shall be continued in each case for a period of at least two months, during the interval of time between the close of the next preceding Session and the consideration of the Petition. 52. Before any Petition praying for Toll Bridge 2 leave Bills. Commit tee. leave to bring in a Private Bill for the erection of a Toll-bridge, is presented to the House, the person or persons intending to petition for such Bill, shall, upon giving the Notice prescribed by the preceding Rule, also, at the same time, and in the same manner, give Notice of the Rates which they intend to ask, the extent of the privilege, the height of the arches, the interval between the abutments or piers for the passage of rafts and vessels, and mentioning also whether they intend to erect a drawbridge or not, and the dimensions of the same. Petitions 53. Petitions for Private Bills, when reto be received by The House, are to be taken into ported on by Stand- consideration (without special reference) by ing Orders the Committee on Standing Orders; which is to report in each case, whether the Rules with regard to Notice have been complied with; and in every case where the Notice shall prove to have been insufficient, either as regards the Petition as a whole, or any matter therein which ought to have been specially referred to in the Notice, the Committee is to recommend to The House the course to be taken in consequence of such insufficiency of Notice. Private 54. All Private Bills from the Senate (not being based on a Petition which has already been so reported on by the Committee) shall be first taken into consideration and reported on by the said Committee, in like manner, after the First Reading of such Rules. 55. No Motion for the suspension of the SuspenRules upon any Petition for a Private Bill sion of is entertained, unless the same has been reported upon by the Committee on Standing Orders. 56. All Private Bills are introduced on Introduction of Petition, and presented to The House upon Private a motion for leave, to be made on a Monday, Bills. Wednesday, or Friday, immediately before the calling of the Orders for Private Bills, -and after such Petition has been favorably reported on by the Committee on Standing Orders. 57. When any Bill for confirming any Letters Letters Patent or Agreement is presented to Patent, or AgreeThe House, a true copy of such Letters ments. Patent or Agreement must be attached to it. cost of pre Private 58. The expenses and costs attending Fees, and on Private Bills giving any exclusive privi- paring and lege, or for any object of profit, or private, printing corporate, or individual advantage; or for Bills. amending, extending, or enlarging any former Acts, in such manner as to confer additional powers, ought not to fall on the public; accordingly the parties seeking to obtain any such Bill, shall be required to pay into the Private Bill Office the sum of one Fees and charges. Fee, and cost of printing, one hundred dollars, immediately after the First Reading thereof: and all such Bills shall be prepared in the English and French languages, by the parties applying for the same, and printed by the Contractor for printing the Bills of The House, and 500 copies thereof in English and 200 copies in French shall be deposited in the Private Bill Office, and distribution thereof made, before the First Reading; and no such Bill shall be read a Third time until a certificate from the Queen's Printer shall have been fyled with The Clerk, that the cost of printing 500 copies of the Act in English and 200 in French, for the Government, has been paid to him. The Fee payable on the First Reading of any Private Bill is paid only in the House where paid in which such Bill originates, but the cost of printing the same is paid in each House. Bills and Petitions referred. Sitting of Committee. 59. Every Private Bill, when read a First time, is referred to the Committee on Private Bills, if any such shall have been appointed, or to some other Standing Committee of the same character; and all petitions before The House for or against the Bill are considered as referred to such Committee. 60. No Committee on any Private Bill originating in this House, of which Notice is required to be given, is to consider the same until after ten clear days' Notice of the Sit |