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(3.) DECLARATION ANNEXED TO PETITION. [Heading.] I, , do solemnly and sincerely declare— 1. That I desire to promote the introduction in Parliament during this present Session of the above-recited Bill under the Short Title of " The 2. That the said Bill gives power to effect certain of the objects set out in Order number fifty-two of the Standing Orders above mentioned, that is to say,— Clause gives power to 3. That the said Bill does not give power to effect any of the objects set out in the aforesaid Order number fifty-two other than that [or those] mentioned in the last preceding paragraph of this declaration. 4. That the said Bill does not give any powers other than those mentioned in the advertisements of the Bill published in the Government Gazette of the colony, and in , a newspaper circulating in the county [or borough] wherein the lands affected by the Bill are situate [or in the counties (or boroughs) wherein the lands affected by the Bill are respectively situate]. And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled " The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882." Declared at , this day of , 19 , before me— , a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

(4.) DECLARATION AS TO ADVERTISEMENTS. [Heading.] I, . do solemnly and sincerely declare, — 1. That I caused an advertisement of the above-recited Bill to be published in three successive issues of the Government Gazette of the colony, bearing date respectively , and that the said advertisement is printed on page , and on page , and on page of Volume of the said Gazette. 2. That I caused a like advertisement to be published' [once] in each of three successive weeks in the , being a newspaper circulating in the county [or borough] wherein [a part of] the land affected by the Bill is situate, and that the said advertisement appears in the issues of the said respectively published on the 3. [That I caused a like advertisement to be published (once) in each of three successive weeks in the , being a newspaper circulating in the county (or borough) wherein the remainder of the land affected by the Bill is situate, and that, &c] 4. That all the said advertisements were identical both in substance and in form, and that each of them contained a notice of the intention to present a Petition for the Bill, and a notice of the objects of the Bill, and a notice of the time when printed copies of the Bill would be deposited in the Private Bill Office, as well as all other particulars required by the said Standing Orders to be published, and that each of them was headed by the Title of the Bill. 5. That the exhibit marked "A" now produced and shown to me contains copies of the issues of the Gazette mentioned in paragraph one hereof. 6. That the exhibit marked "B" now produced and shown to me contains copies of the issues of the mentioned in paragraph two hereof. 7. [That the exhibit marked "C" now produced and shown to me contains copies of the issues of the mentioned in paragraph three hereof.] And I make, &c.

B.—STATUTES RELATING TO PRIVATE BILLS.

(1.) "THE PRIVATE ESTATE BILLS ACT, 1867." An Act to enable the Judges of the Supreme Court to examine into and ascertain the Truth of the Statements contained in Preambles to Private Estate Bills and to report thereon and as to the Reasonableness of such Bills and their Fitness for the Attainment of their Proposed Objects. [10th October 1867. Whereas it is expedient that the facts upon which application may be made to the General Assembly to pass a Private Estate Bill the reasonableness of any such Bill and the fitness of any such Bill for the attainment of its proposed objects should be authoritatively ascertained before the passing of any such Bill

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