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(a.) Power to purchase or use any lands compulsorily, or to extend the time limited for making any such purchase or user by any existing Act: (b.) Power to impose an improvement-charge on any lands, or to render any lands liable to an improvement-charge : (c.) Power to divert into any existing or intended cut, canal, reservoir, aqueduct, or navigable channel, or into any intended diversion, extension, or enlargement thereof respectively, any water from any existing cut, canal, reservoir, aqueduct, or navigable channel, whether directly or derivatively, and whether or not under agreement with the Crown or other owner of the water proposed to be diverted : (d.) Power to make, divert, extend, or enlarge any cut, canal, reservoir, aqueduct, or navigable channel: (c.) Power to make, divert, extend, or enlarge any railway : (/.) Power to interfere with any property belonging to the Crown, or to any corporation, or to any ecclesiastical body, whether incorporated or not, or with any property held on trust for public or charitable purposes : (g.) Power to relinquish the whole or any part of a work authorised by an existing Act: (h.) Power to any company to amalgamate with any other company, or to sell or lease its undertaking, or to buy or take on lease the undertaking of any other company : (i.) Power to levy any tolls, rates, or duties, or to alter any existing tolls, rates, or duties, or to grant, vary, or annul any exemption from payment of tolls, rates, or duties, or to grant, assign, vary, or annul any special or particular right or privilege whatsoever. The declaration shall state which (if any) of the powers above mentioned are given by the Bill, and in which clauses of the Bill (referring to them by their numbers) any such powers are given, and shall further state that the Bill does not give any of the powers mentioned in this Order other than those expressed in the declaration. If the Bill do not give any of the powers above mentioned, it shall be so stated in the declaration. The declaration shall also state that the Bill does not give any powers other than those expressed in the advertisements of the Bill. 53. Where a Bill proposes to authorise any undertaking, an estimate of the cost of that undertaking, i made and signed by a civil engineer or other com- ' petent person, shall be deposited in the Private Bill Office along with the Petition for the Bill. 54. Where the work proposed to be authorised by J a Bill is to be made, wholly or in part, by means of ( funds belonging to any society or company, such ' society or company being the promoter or one of' the promoters of the Bill, then a declaration stating the facts aforesaid, and the nature and amount of the funds intended to be used as aforesaid, shall be deposited in the Private Bill Office along with the Petition for the Bill. 55. In the case of a Bill for extending the powers of a company there shall be deposited in the Private Bill Office along with the Petition for the Bill the documents following, that is to say,— (a.) A copy of the company's memorandum and articles of association verified by the signature of some officer of the company : 2—H. 6.

Estimates. 5.0., Nos. 33 and 49.

Declaration as to employment of funds of company. Ibid., No. 50.

Deposits where Bill proposes to extend powers of company. Ibid., No. 34; S.O. of House of Commons, No. 63.