to the House, the committee to whom the said petition shall be referred, do examine in the first place, how far the orders contained in the three former resolutions have been complied with; and the chairman of such committee shall report the same to the House on the report of the petition. On the 22d November 1775, this is made a standing order." When the petition has been presented, it will be referred to a committee, agreeable to the standing order of the 28th February 1734, supra, p. 23. See also the standing order of the 5th May 1773, supra, p. 30.

At the committee, the solicitor will be called upon to prove that the standing orders of the 25th April 1774, have been complied with; for that purpose, the person who affixed the notice on the session-house door, should attend at the committee with a copy of it; and the three country newspapers in which the notices were inserted, should be produced to the committee. If an estimate of the expences be annexed to the petition, the signature of the person making such estimate must be proved, as also the allegations of the petition And in case any former act or acts be stated in the petition, a copy of the last act printed by the King's printer, in which the former acts are recited, should also be produced. Vide supra, pp. 26, 34, as to the report from the committee, and leave to bring in the bill.

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BİLL

In the bill, the provisions required by the following standing orders must be made :

"On the 12th March 1752-Resolved, That in all future bills for acts of Parliament for the erecting or continuing any turnpike, a clause be inserted, to oblige the commissioners of such turnpike to take security from their treasurer or receiver, for the faithful execution of the said office. This is made a standing order."

"On the 12th March 1752-Resolved, That in all such bills, a clause be inserted, to prevent any person who shall be nominated a commissioner, from acting or voting in the business of the said turnpike, unless he shall be possessed of an estate in land, or a personal estate, to such certain value as shall be specified in such bills. This is made a standing order. And on the 14th March 1753, this is extended to the heirs apparent of persons possessed of an estate in land to a certain value to be specified: And this is made a standing order *."

a

"On

See a clause in the general turnpike act, relative to the qualification of commissioners.

See acts passed in the 13th, 14th, 17th, 18th, and 21st

"On the 25th April 1774-Resolved, That in all bills for making a new turnpike-road, there be inserted a clause, compelling the subscribers for carrying such work into execution, to make payment of the sums severally subscribed by them. This is made a standing order".'

b

"On the 25th June 1799-Resolved, That the standing orders of the House, of the 7th May 1794, relating to bills for making navigable canals, aqueducts, and the navigation of rivers, or for altering any act of Parliament for any or either of those purposes, be extended to bills for making any ways or roads, commonly called rail-ways or dram-roads, except so much of the said standing orders as requires an interval of seven days between the first and second reading of such bills; and also between the day on which such bills are reported and the day on which the report shall be taken into consideration; and also with respect to the printing of such reports. And this is made a standing order."

years of King GEORGE the Third, relative to turnpike-roads in general.

By 25 GEO. III. c. 57, the mail is exempted from paying any tolls; and by same stat. c. 58, all such parts of any act of Parliament relative to any turnpike-road passed before the 5th December 1782, as exempt any writings or deeds liable to the stamp-duties from being stamped, are repealed.

See 13 GEO. III. c. 84, §. 35%

See

See Navigation, infra, for precedents and proceedings on bills for making rail-ways.

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See the standing order of the House of Lords, Maii 1800, supra, p. 71.

See the Introductory Chapter.

It only seems necessary here to add, that the solicitor must prove the allegations in the preamble of the bill, in both Houses at the committee.

Cases decided respecting Turnpike Roads.

See case of the King against the Inhabitants of Sheffield, 2 T. R. 106; the King against the Commissioners of the Llandilo district of roads in Carmarthenshire, ibid. 232; Fairtitle, on the several demises of Mytton and others, against Gilberts and others, ibid. 169; Banks v. Booth, 2 Bos. and Pul. Rep. 219; Chamberlain v. Ingham, Cowper's Rep. 966; the King v. the Mayor, &c. of Liverpool, 4 Burr. 2244; King v. Manning, 1 Burr. 377; the King v. Bagshaw and others, 7 T. R. 363.

See 2 v. Williams' Justice, title, "Highways."

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CHAP. III.

NAVIGATION, &c. BILLS,

BILLS of this description should be begun in the House of Commons, and notices must be given three times in the London Gazette, and also in one newspaper of every county through which the navigation or canal is intended to be made or pass (or if there be not any newspaper printed in such counties respectively, then in the newspaper of some county near or adjoining thereto), three times at the least, in the months of August or September, or either of them, immediately preceding the session of Parliament in which such application is intended to be made; and also at the general quarter-sessions of the peace for each county, riding, or division, through which the canal, &c. is intended to be carried, varied or altered, at the Michaelmas preceding the session of Parliament in which such application is intended to be made, by affixing such notice on the door of the session-houses respectively; and a map or plan of the canal, with a book of reference, containing the names of the owners or reputed owners

and