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or surplus revenue, and showing the actual surplus of such funds or revenue after deducting the funds required for purposes authorized by any A_ct or Acts of the General Assembly, and also the funds which may be required for any other work to be executed under any Bill in the same session, shall bo made and given under the common seal of the society, or company, or under the hand of some authorized officer of such directors, trustees, or commissioners.

Peoceedings befoee Pbtvate Bills Committee. 65. No member, locally or otherwise interested, of the Committee on any Private Bill shall have a vote on any question that may arise, but every member shall be entitled to attend and take part iu the proceedings of the Committee. 6. Every plan and book of reference thereto which shall be produced in evidence before the Com-, mittee upon any Private Bill (whether the same shall have been previously lodged in the Clerk's Office or not), shall be signed by the Chairman of such Committee with his name at length ; and he shall also mark with the initials of his name every alteration of such plan and book of reference which shall be agreed upon by the said Committee, and every such plan and book of reference shall thereafter be deposited in the Clerk of Bills' Office. 67. The Chairman of the Committee shall sign with his name at length a printed copy of the Bill (to be called the Committee Bill), on which the amendments are to bo fairly written, and also sign with tho initials of his name the several clauses added in Committee. 68. The Chairman of the Committee shall report to the House whether or not the allegations of the preamble of the Bill have been proved to the satisfaction of the Committee, or whether the parties have acquainted the Committee that it is not their intention to proceed with the Bill; and when any alteration shall have been made in the preamble of the Bill, or the clauses thereof, such alteration, together with the ground of making it, shall be specially stated in the Beport. 69. The minutes of the Committee on every Private Bill shall be brought up and laid on the table of the House with the report of the Bill. 70. Every Private Bill, as amended in Committee, shall be printed at the expense of the parties applying for the same, and delivered to the Clerk for the use of the members two clear days at least before the consideration of the Bill. 71. Any clause or amendment on the consideration of the report of any Private Bill shall be referred to the Committee on the Bill; and no further proceedings shall be had until tho report of the said Committee shall have been brought up. 72. Every Private Bill, after it has been read a j third time, shall be printed fair, at the expense of the j party applying for the same. 73. No Private Bill shall pass through tw*o stages on one and the same day, and there shall be at least two days' interval between the first and second readings. 74. Except in cases of urgent and pressing necessity, no motion shall be made to dispense with any Sessional or Standing Order without due notice thereof. 75. Every Private Bill, after it has passed either House, shall be carried to the other House, and treated as a Public Bill. 76. In all cases not hereinbefore provided for, resort shall be had to the rules, forms, and practice of the Imperial Parliament, which shall be followed so far as they can be applied. 77. There shall be paid by the promoters of Private Bills the fees specified in.paragraph (a.) of the Schedule hereto, marked " Fees and Costs."

APPENDIX.

EOEM A. Notice of Application to Owners, etc. — (See Rule 35.) Sib,— Wo beg to infoi'in you tint application is intended to be ma.de to the General Assembly, in the ensuing session, for an Act and that tlie property mentioned in the annexed Schedule, or some part thereof, in which we understand you are interested as therein stated, will be required for the purposes of tho said undertaking, according to the line thereof as at present laid out, or may be required to be taken under the usual powers of deviation, to the extent of yards on either side of the said line, which will be applied for in the said Act, and will be passed through in the manner mentioned in sucli Schedule. We also beg to inform you that a plan and section of the said undertaking, with a book of reference thereto, will be deposited in the Clerk of Bills' Office on or before the commencement of the session, and that copies of so much of the said plan and section as relates to the district in which your property is situate, with a book of reference thereto, have been or will be deposited for public inspection with the Commissioner of Crown Lands of the Province of on or before the , on which plans your property is designated by the numbers set forth in tlie annexed Schedule. As we are required to report to Parliament whether you assent to or dissent from the proposed undertaking, or whether you are neuter in respect thereto, you will oblige us by writing your answer of assent, dissent, or neutrality in tlie form left herewith, and returning tlie same to us, with your signature, on or before tlie day of next; and, if there should be any error or misdescription in the annexed Schedule, we shall feel obliged by your informing us thereof at your earliest convenience, that we may correct the same without delay. We are, Sir, To .

FORM B.-SCHEDULE. Part of Book of Reference referred to in the foregoing Notice, and which is intended to show the Property therein alluded to, and the Manner in which the Line of the Deposited Sections will affect the same.— (See Rules 38 and 54.)

Number on Flan. Place. Description. Manner \ in which ] affected, i ! Name of ! Owner or j Reputed j Owner. Name of Lessee or Reputed Lessee. Name of Occupier. Assent. Dissent. Neuter. I I ! i 21 Epsom Arable field. 4 feet cutting. Henry Smith George Lucas. John Sims. Henry Smith. Number on Plan of Lands proposed to be within the Limits of Deviation. Place. Description. Name of Owner or Reputed. Owner. Name of Lessee or Reputed Lessee. Name of Occupier. Assent. Dissent. Neuter. 21 Epsom House and outbuildings. Henry Smith. George LucasJohn Sims. Henry Smith.