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HOUSE OF COMMONS.

STANDING ORDERS.—REPORT from SELECT COM-
MITTEE on Private Business of the House.
The SELECT COMMITTEE appointed to inquire, whether
the present mode of conducting the Private Business of this
House, in Committees above stairs, requires any, and what,
Regulations and Alterations, and who were instructed to con-
sider whether it may be expedient to make any, and what Al-
terations in the Standing Orders of the House, relative to
Notices, and to report their observations and opinion there-
upon, from time to time, to the House—have proceeded in
the inquiry referred to them, and have agreed to the following
Resolutions as their Report :
1. Resolved, That it is the opinion of this Committee, that
the period for giving Notices with reference to Private Bills,
which is now limited by the Standing Orders to the months of
August and September, should be extended to the months of
October and November; such Notices to be given as is now
done ; and also, in all cases, in three successive weeks, in the
London Gazette.
2. Resolved, That it is the opinion of this Committee, that
in all Private Bills, in England, the publication of Notices, the
proofs of Consents, and other matters required by the Standing
Orders of the House, may be proved before the Quarter Ses-
sions, or two Magistrates, of the County, Hiding, or Division ;
and in Scotland, befbre any Jude or Sheriff of a County ; the
Certificate of whom shall he admitted as evidence of such proof
having been given ; unless the Committee to whom any Peti-
tion, or Private Bill, shall be referred, shall otherwise order;
and that the name and description of the person or persons be-
fore whom, and the name of the place where, such proofs were
taken, shall be entered in the Private Bill Register.
3. Resolved, That it is the opinion of this Committee, that
a Committee be appointed at the commencement of every ses-
sion, consisting of twenty-one Members, of whom five shall be
a quorum, to be denominated, the Standing Order Committee ;
to whom should be referred every Petition presented to the
House, having for its object to dispense with any of the Stand-
ing Orders relative to Private Bills ; and that such Committee
do report their opinion upon such Petition so referred to them
by the House.
4. Resolved, That it is the opinion of this Committee, that
no Private Bill should be read a second time, until after the
expiration of two calendar months from the day the last notice
shall have been given.
5. Resolved,. That it is the opinion of this Committee, that
no Petition against a Private Bill shall be referred to the Com-
mittee on the said Bill, which shall not distinctly specify the
SPECIAL GROUND on which the Petitioner or Petitioners ob-
ject to the Bill, or, to any of the provisions thereof ; and that
the Petitioners be only heard on such grounds so stated : And
if it shall appear to the said Committee, that such grounds are
not specified with sufficient accuracy, the Committee may direct

that there ba v in to the Committee, at its first meeting, a
more specific gaol:gent, in writing, of such grounds of.objec-
don so omitted ; and that the Petitioners be only heard on such
grounds of objection so stated.
6. Resolved, That it is the opinion of this Committee, that
no Petition against a Private Bill be referred to the. Committee
on the Bill, after the Committee shall have met, unless against
some provision introduCed by the Committee into the Bill ; or
unless on some special ground, to boAceounted for to the satis-
faction of the House.

7. Resolved, That it is the opinion of this Committee, that
the Standing Order of the 7th May, 1794, requiring Seven
complete days betwden the First and Second Readings. of all
Bills relative to Navigable Canals, Aqueducts, the Navigation
of Rivers, Railways or Tramroads, Tunnels or Arches, Fer-
ries or Docks, be amended ; and that Three complete days be
required between the First 'anti Second Reading of all. such
Bills.

8. Resolved, That it is the opinion of this Committee, that
the Standing Order of the 15th February, 1700, requiring,
" That the Chairman of the Committee of any Private Bill, do
not sit thereupon, without a week's previous Notice set up in
the lobby," be rescinded ; and that fourteen days Notice be
given, in the Private Bill Office, of the first sitting of a Com-
mittee on a Private Bill.

9. Resolved, That it is the opinion of this Committee, that
the Standing Order of the 12th April, 1604, requiring Eight
Members to be present, before a Committee on a Petition, or
Bill, is formed, be. altered ; and that Five Members shall
henceforth be the Number to constitute the Committee, and
that their names be entered accordingly by the Clerk of the
Committee, on the Minutes of the Committee.
10. Resolved, That it is the opinion of this Committee, that
the Clerk of the Committee, on every contested Bill, shall keep
a Book, to be denominated The Attendance-Book; and that
no Member shall he allowed to vote on any day in such Com-
mittee, unless he shall have signed such 'look on that day,
within one hour after the time appointed for the meeting of the
Committee.

11. Resolved, That it is the opinion of this Committee, that
the Clerk shall, at the expiration of one hour after the time.
appointed for the meeting of• the Committee, take the Attend-
ance-Book from the table of the Committee, and shall not pro-
duce the same without the order of the Chairman and Commit-
tee then sitting.
12. Resolved, That it is opinion of this Committee, that the
Minutes of the Committee, on every contested Private Bill,
and the Attendance-Book, be brought up and laid on the table
of the House, along with the Report of every Committee.
Jane 18, 1824.

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