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115. Where any notices handed in as aforesaid ' relate to any proceedings in the House, they are delivered by the Examiner to the Clerk, and are printed on the Order Paper. Miscellaneous. 116. It is contrary to the law and usage of Parliament that any Member of either House should be permitted to engage, either by himself or by his partner, agent, or servant, in the management of a Private Bill before either House for pecuniary reward. 117. Every party shall be deemed guilty of contempt, and shall be punishable accordingly, who — (a.) Knowingly acts contrary to these Orders, or to any rules or Orders of the House ; or (b.) Wilfully disobeys any direction of the Speaker, or of the Chairman of Committees, or of the Chairman of any Committee dealing with any Bill promoted by him, or wherein he is concerned, or dealing with any Petition or other document relative to any such Bill; or (c.) Attempts, by any corrupt or improper means or device, to procure or hinder the passing of any Bill. 118. Where by these Orders any limited time less than six. days from or after any date or event is appointed or allowed for doing any act or taking any proceeding, Sunday or any other day whereon the Private Bill Office is wholly closed shall not be reckoned in the computation of such limited time. 119. Except in cases of urgent and pressing necessity — (a.) Due notice must always be given of any motion to dispense with any of these Orders, or with any sessional Order of the House relating to Private Bills : (b.) No Order shall be dispensed with, whether on notice or not, so as to allow a Private Bill to pass through two stages on the same day.

Delivery of notices to Clerk. 5.0., No. 6.

Member not to take fee for acting as ageni . S.O. (L.C.), No. 109; S.O. (H. (if I!.). Xo. 435.

Parties to conform to Rules. Of. S.O. No. 4.

Computation of time. Code of Civil Procedure, i n. 554. i i

Dispensing with Orders. 5.0., No, 80. '

APPENDIX.

A.—FOEMS.

(1.) NOTICE TO OWNERS, ETC. Sib,— We beg to inform you that application is intended to be ' made to the General Assembly, in the ensuing Session, for leave to bring in a Bill intituled " An Act ," and that the property mentioned in [Part I. of] the annexed Schedule, or some portion thereof, in which we understand you are interested as therein stated, will be required for the purposes of the undertaking described in the Bill according to the line of the said undertaking 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 (that) line, which powers will be applied for in the Bill] ; [and that it is proposed to impose an improvement-charge on (or to render liable to an improvement-charge) the property mentioned in Part 11. of the annexed Schedule, in which we understand you are interested as therein stated]. We also beg to inform you that a plan and section of the said undertaking, together with a book of reference thereto, will be deposited in the Private Bill 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, together with a book of reference thereto, have been [or will be] deposited in the office of the Commissioner of Crown Lands, , [on or before the day of ], and will there remain open to public inspection until eight days before the commencement of the Session. Your property is referred to on the said plan by the numbers set forth on the annexed Schedule,