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receipt for such letter, duly stamped, shall be sufficient evidence of the due delivery of such letter: Provided it shall appear that the same was properly and sufficiently directed, and that the same was not returned by the post office as undelivered. 38. Separate lists shall be made of tho names of such owners, lessees, and occupiers, distinguishing those who have assented, dissented, or are neuter in respect to such application, or who have returned no answer thereto ; and where no written acknowledgment has been returned to an application forwarded by post, or where such application has been returned as undelivered, at any time before the making-up of such lists, the direction of the latter in which the same was so forwarded shall be inserted therein. (See Appendix marked B.) 39. Not less than thirty days before the commencement of the session in which it is intended to make application for any Bill for making a burialground or cemetery, or the erection of works for the manufacture of gas, notice shall be served upon the owner and occupier of every dwelling-house situate within 300 yards of the limits within which the proposed burial-ground, cemetery, or gasworks are intended to be erected or made. 40. No notice served or application made on a Sunday, Good Friday, or Christmas Day, or before eight o'clock in the forenoon or after eight o'clock in the afternoon of any day, shall be deemed valid, except in case of delivery of letters by post.

Documents eequibed to be deposited with Commissioneb op Cbown Lands befobe Session. 41. Plans, books of reference, and sections, as hereinafter described, shall, in cases of Bills by which any lands or houses are intended to be taken, be deposited for public inspection at the office of the Commissioner of Crown Lands in the principal town of each province in or through which the work is proposed to be made, maintained, varied, extended, or enlarged, or in which such lands and houses are situate, not less than thirty days before the commencement of the session in which it is proposed to make application for the Bill. 42. The Commissioner of Crown Lands shall make a memorial in writing upon the plans, sections, and books of reference so deposited with him, denoting the time at which the same were lodged in his office, and shall at all seasonable hours of the day permit any person to view and examine the same, and to make copies or extracts thereform ; and the plans and sections so deposited shall be retained in the possession of the Commissioner until the session of Parliament next ensuing shall be about to be held, when they shall be forwarded by the Commissioner to the Clerk of Bills, so as to be deposited there as nearly as may be within a week of the commence ment of the session. 4,. Wherever any plans, sections, and books of reference are required to be deposited, a copy of the notice published in the Gazette of the intended application shall be deposited therewith.

Deposits within Fourteen Days after the Commencement op the Session. 44. Every petition for a Private Bill, headed by a Short Title descriptive of the undertaking or Bill, corresponding with that at the head of the advertisement, with a declaration signed by the promoters, and a printed copy of the Bill annexed, shall be deposited in the Clerk of Bills' Office either before or within fourteen clays after the commencement of the session, and such petition, Bill, and declaration shall lie open to the inspection of all parties, and printed, copies of the Bill shall also be delivered

therewith for the use of any member who may apply for the same. 45. Such declaration shall state if the proposed Bill gives power to effect any of the following objects, that is to say, — Power to take any lands or houses compulsorily, or to extend the time granted by any former Act for that purpose ; Power to levy tolls, rates, or duties, or to alter any existing tolls, rates, or duties, or to confer, vary, or extinguish any exemption from payment of tolls, rates, or duties, or to confer, vary, or extinguished any other right or privilege ; Power to amalgamate with any company, or to lease or sell their undertaking, or to purchase or take on lease the undertaking of any other company ; Power to interfere with any Crown, ecclesiastical, or corporation property, or property held on trust for public or charitable purposes; Power to relinquish any part of a work authorized by a former Act; Power to divert into any intended cut, canal, reservoir, aqueduct, or navigation, or into any intended variation, extension, or enlargement thereof respectively, any water from any existing cut, canal, reservoir, aqueduct, or navigation, whether directly or derivatively, and whether under any agreement with the proprietors thereof or otherwise; Power to make, vary, extend, or enlarge any cut, canal, reservoir, aqueduct, or navigation ; Power to make, vary, extend, or enlarge any railway. The said declaration shall state which of such powers are given by the Bill, and shall indicate in which clauses of the Bill (referring to them by their number) such powers are given, and shall further state that such Bill does not give power to affect any of the objects enumerated in this order other than those stated in the declaration. If the proposed Bill shall not give power to effect any of the objects above enumerated, the said declaration shall state that the I Bill does not give power to affect any of such objects. The said declaration shall also state that the Bill does not give any powers other than those included in the notices for the Bill. 46. Within ten days after the commencement of the session, a printed copy of every railway or canal Bill, and of every Bill for incorporating or giving powers to any company, and of every Bill relating to auy tidal lands, dock, harbour, navigation, pier, or port, shall be deposited in the office of the Colonial Secretary. 47. Within fourteen days after the commencement of the session there shall also bo deposited in the Clerk of Bills Office all estimates, declarations, and lists of owners, lessees, and occupiers, which are required by the Standing Orders. 48. As respects all Bills for the incorporation of joint-stock companies, or proposed companies, for carrying on any trade or business, or for conferring on such companies the power of suing and being sued, there shall be deposited in the Clerk of Bills Office, within fourteen days after the commencement of the session, a copy of the deed or agreement of partnership (if any) under which the company or proposed company is acting, and in all cases a declaration stating the following matters : — Ist. The present and proposed amount of the capital of the company ; 2nd. The number of shares ; 3rd. The number of shares subscribed for ; 4th. The amount of subscriptions paid up ; sth. The names, residences, and description of the eholders or subscribers (so far as the sa me