TUNNELS OR ARCHWAYS:-BILLS FOR MAKING. The Standing Orders relating to Bills for making navigable CANALS, reservoirs, aqueducts, and the navigation of rivers, or for continuing or amending any Act of Parliament for any or either of those purposes (except so much thereof as relates to a contract to be entered into by the subscribers) shall extend to Bills for making TUNNELS OF ARCHWAYS: but if either of the same be situate within the Bills of Mortality, then the notices shall be inserted in the London Gazette. FERRIES OR DOCKS:-BILLS FOR MAKING. NOTICES OF APPLICATION. 1 and 2. When any application is intended to be made to the House, for leave to bring in a Bill for establishing any Ferry, or making any Dock, or for altering any Ferry or Dock, or for the increase or alteration of existing tolls or duties, Notices must be given as for BRidges. 3. Such Notices must be inserted in the County Newspapers, as for BRIDGES, and affixed upon the Church Doors of the parish or parishes in which such Ferry or Dock shall be proposed to be made, &c., for three Sundays in the months of August, September, October, and November, or either of them. THE MAP, &c., TO BE DEPOSITED FOR PUBLIC INSPECTION. 4 and 5. A map or plan of such intended Ferry or Dock must be deposited with the Clerk of the Peace, as for TURNPIKE ROADS. APPLICATION TO LAND OWNERS, &c. 6. Application must be made to the owners and occupiers of lands in which any such Dock shall be made or altered, &c., as for TURNPIKE ROADS. DOCUMENTS to be lodged in the pRIVATE BILL office. 7 & 8. The lists of assent and dissent, duplicate of the map or plan, estimate of expenses, and the account of subscriptions, must be lodged in the Private Bill Office, as in the case of TURNPIKE ROADS. COMPLIANCE WITH STANDING ORDERS. 9. The Committee shall report compliance with Standing Orders, as in the case of BRIDGES. SUBSCRIPTIONS AND SECURITY. 10. Subscriptions to be paid up, and Treasurers, &c. to give security, as for Bridges. TIME BETWEEN THE FIRST AND SECOND READING. 11. Seven clear days shall elapse between the first and second reading of such Bills. REPORT OF COMMITTEE AS TO THE ASSENT AND DISSENT OF OWNERS. 12. Owners and occupiers of the land shall personally attend the Committee; or if they do not attend, they must give their certificate in writing, that they have seen a printed copy of the Bill, and do give their consent, or dissent, thereto, or are neuter in respect thereof: the handwriting of such certificate must be proved by one or more witnesses and the Committee shall report to the House, together with the report of the said Bill, a list of the names of such persons, as for CANALS. TIME BETWEEN REPORT AND CONSIDERATION. 13. The same as for CANALS. PRINTING And distribution of the bill, after report. 14. The same as for CANals. PIERS, PORTS, OR HARBOURS:-BILLS FOR MAKING OR IMPROVING. NOTICES OF APPLICATION. 1, 2, & 3. When any application is intended to be made to the House, for leave to bring in a Bill for making or improving any Pier, Port, or Harbour; or for the alteration of existing tolls, Notices must be given of the tolls, &c. contemplated, in the County Newspapers, as for BRIDGES. ESTIMATE AND ACCOUNT OF SUBSCRIPTIONS TO BE LODGED IN THE PRIVATE BILL OFFICE. 4. The same as for TURNPIKE ROADS. COMPLIANCE WITH STANDING ORDERS. 5. The same as for BRIDGes. SUBSCRIPTIONS to be paid uP, AND TREASUrers, &c. to give SECURITY. 6. The same as for BRIDGES. INCLOSING, DRAINING, OR IMPROVING OF LANDS:BILLS FOR. NOTICES OF APPLICATION. 1 & 2. When any application is intended to be made to the House, for leave to bring in a Bill for inclosing, draining, or improving lands, Notices must be inserted in the Newspapers, as for BRIDGES; and affixed to the Church Doors, as for FERRIES and Docks. FURTHER NOTICE. 3. A further notice of such intended application must be given, in writing, to the Corporation of The Bedford Level, or Great Level of the Fens, during the months of August, September, October, and November, or either of them, as for AQUEDUCTS, CANALS, &c., in case the interests of that Corporation are thereby likely to be affected. NAMES OF COMMISSIONERS, AND COMPENSATIONS, TO BE INSERTED. 4. In all Bills for inclosing lands, the names of the Commissioners proposed to be appointed, and the compensation intended for the Lord of the Manor, and the owners of tithes, in lieu of their respective rights, and also the compensation intended to be made for the enfranchisement of copyholds, where any bargains or agreements have been made for such compensations, must be inserted and all copies of such Bills, whether printed or written, which shall be sent to any of the persons interested in the said manor, tithes, lands or commons, for their consent, must contain the names of such proposed Commissioners, with the compensations so bargained or agreed for. DISQUALIFICATION OF COMMISSIONERS, SURVeyors, &c. 5. No person shall be named in any such Bills, as a Commissioner, Surveyor, or Valuer, who shall be interested in the inclosure to be made by virtue of such Bill; nor the agent ordinarily intrusted with. the care, superintendence, or management of the estate of any person so interested. COMPLIANCE WITH STANDING ORDERS. 6. The same as for BRIDGES; and in case the petition shall not be referred to a Committee, then the Committee to whom the Bill shall be committed, shall examine and report to the House how far the preceding Orders have been complied with. CLAUSES FOR SETTLING THE PAY OF COMMISSIONERS, AND FOR PASSING THEIR ACCOUNTS. 7. In all Bills for inclosing, draining, or improving lands, there shall be inserted a clause, providing what sum of money in the whole, or by the day, shall be paid to each of the Commissioners to be appointed by such Bill, in satisfaction of their expense and trouble; also a clause providing that the account of such Commissioners, containing a true statement of all sums by them received and expended or due to them for their own trouble, &c., shall, at least once in every year, from the date of the passing of such Act (till such accounts shall be finally allowed, together with the vouchers relating to the same), be examined by persons in such Bill to be named; as well as the balance stated in the book of accounts required to be kept in the office of the Clerk of such Commissioners: no charge or item in such accounts shall be binding on the parties concerned, or be valid in law, unless the same shall be duly allowed by such person or persons. FEES ON BILLS FOR THE INCLOSURE OF SMALL TRACTS OF LAND. 8. Bills for the purpose of inclosing small tracts of land, not exceeding three hundred acres, and effecting the same by clauses usual in such Bills, shall be considered, as to the payment of fees, only as single Bills. Those for the inclosure of small tracts of land, to be effected as above, not exceeding one hundred acres, shall be subject only to the payment of half the Bill fees due on a single Bill. The admeasurement in both cases to be proved according to the form prescribed in the schedule to the General Inclosure Act.-41st Geo. III., cap. 109.-Die Jovis, 20 Julii, 1801. COUNTY RATES, GAOLS AND HOUSES OF CORRECTION:-BILLS RELATING TO. NOTICES OF APPLICATION. 1, 2, & 3. When any application is intended to be made to the House, for leave to bring in a Bill for regulating County Rates; or for building, rebuilding, or repairing any Gaol or House of Correction, by rates or duties to be levied on the subject, &c.; or for the alteration of existing rates, &c. for either of those purposes, Notices are to be given, as for BRIDGES; and if the said Gaol or House of Correction is within the Bills of Mortality, the said Notices shall in like manner be inserted in the London Gazette. COMPLIANCE WITH STANDING ORDERS. 4. The Committee to report, as for BRIDGES. CHURCHES, CHAPELS, OR BURYING GROUNDS:-BILLS RELATING TO. The Standing Orders of the House, relating to Bills for regulating COUNTY RATES, or for building, rebuilding, or repairing any Gaol or House of Correction, shall be extended to Bills for building, rebuilding, or repairing any Church or Chapel, or for the purchasing or enlarging of any Burying Ground, by rates or duties to be levied on the subject, or for continuing or amending any Act of Parliament passed for any or either of those purposes. |