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navigation, or such alteration, or are neuter in respect thereof; and unless such list shall be deposited with the clerk of the Parliaments at the same time as the map or plan, and book of reference mentioned in the preceding order."

Ordered, That in case any bill for all or any of the purposes aforesaid, shall contain a clause to empower the person or persons who shall make such cut, canal, aqueduct or navigation as aforesaid, or any part thereof, to vary or deviate from the line particularly described in the map or plan deposited as aforesaid with the clerk of the Parliaments, such bill shall not be read a third time in this House, unless a like application shall have been made to the owners, or reputed owners and occupiers of the lands through which such cut, canal, aqueduct or navigation might pass, by virtue of the power so given to alter or vary the line thereof; and unless a like list as aforesaid, of such owners, or reputed owners and occupiers, be deposited at the time and in the manner aforesaid, with the clerk of the Parliaments, as if it had been originally proposed to carry such cut, canal, aqueduct or navigation through the lands of such persons respectively."

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"Ordered, That for the future, when any bill for all or any of the purposes aforesaid, shall

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be sent by this House to a committee, there shall be at the same time transmitted to such committee, a copy of the aforesaid orders now made, and of all other standing orders of the House then in force, relating to the passing of such bills; and such committee shall examine in the first place, whether the orders aforesaid have or have not been complied with, and shall report the same to the House."

Ordered, That the said orders be declared standing orders, and that they be entered upon 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."

After these orders have been complied with, the ingrossed bill may be brought from the Commons, and it will be read a first time the same day; but before the bill can be read a second time, the map or plan must be engraved or printed, agreeable to the following standing order: "Die Jovis, 18 Junii 1795-Upon report

from the Lords' committees appointed to consider of the standing orders of this House, "It is ordered by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, That previous to the second reading in this House of any bill for making any navigation, aqueduct, cut or canal, or for improving the

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same, the map or plan of the said naviga tion, aqueduct, cut or canal, which is directed to be lodged in the Parliament-office by the standing order, No. 132, shall be engraved or printed, upon a scale of half an inch at least to a mile, and annexed to the printed copies of the bill, and shall be laid upon the table of this House.”

"Ordered, That the said order be declared a standing order, and that it be entered upon 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."

If the map be engraved or printed, and annexed to the bills laid on the table, the bill may have its second reading the day after it was read a first time (if there be no opposition), and then be committed.

The only further observations which seem necessary to be made here, relate to the evidence required to be produced before the committee on the bill; and with those I shall conclude this Chapter.

At the committee, the allegations in the preamble of the bill must be proved; the Gazettes and provincial papers in which the notices required by the foregoing orders are printed, should be produced, and the person who affixed the no

tice on the door of the session-house, should attend with a copy of it.

It must also there be proved, that a list of the owners and occupiers of estates through which the canal, &c. is intended to be made, with the answers given by them on the applications for their consents; that the map and book of reference, an estimate of the expences of the undertaking, the names of the subscribers, and the amount of their subscriptions, were severally deposited with the clerk of the Parliaments, agreeable to the standing orders, and that the signature of the person or persons to such estimate, is of his or their own proper hand-writing.

The persons who applied to the different parties interested, for their consents, must attend the committee, to prove the answers which they received on such applications.

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CHAP. IV.

BRIDGES, BUILDING OF, &c.

BILLS for these purposes should be begun in the House of Commons, and the notices required by the following standing orders, must be given previously to the introduction of the bill. See forms, Appendix (D).

"On the 23d May 1786-Resolved, That before any petition is presented to this House for erecting a bridge, or for the renewal or alteration of any act of Parliament passed for that purpose, notice of such intended application to Parliament be given at the general quarter-sessions of the peace which shall be held for every and each county or district to which such bridge extends, or is intended to extend, at the Michaelmas immediately preceding the session of Parliament in which such petition is to be presented. This is made a standing order."

"On the 23d May 1786-Resolved, That this notice be given, by affixing to the door

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