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Private Bills-continued.

INDEX.

from ordinary rules of commitment, 749;
private bills specially referred by house
to exceptionally constituted committees,
750-2; constitution of special com-
mittees, ib. 829; notice of meeting, 752;
locus standi of petitioners before speci-
ally appointed committees, 785; pro-
ceedings generally similar to those of
ordinary private bill committees, 829;
chairman's vote, ib.; and other differ-
ences between special committees and
ordinary private bill committees, ib.

Reports of committees (Commons) on
private bills, 820-7; all bills to be re-
ported, 824. 828; report (preamble
proved), 813. 824. 790; (preamble not
proved), 818-20. 824. 790, n.; (parties
do not proceed), 827; reports from com-
mittee on opposed bills (as to absence of
a member), 756; (as to adjournments),
828; (as to witnesses), 825. 826; special
reports from private bill committees,
826; reports to lie on table, 832; where
printed, ib.; Minutes (of proceedings),
824. 832; (of evidence), 824.

Proceedings on and after report (Com-
mons), 830-5; bill as amended by com-
mittee to be printed, 830; bill on being
reported ordered to lie on table, 832; or
to be read the third time, 832; cases of
bills withdrawn, or referred to Examiners
after report, 830-1; cases of bills recom-
mitted, 831. 818-19. 727. 680, n.; pro-
ceedings in case of recommitment, 832.
731; interval and proceedings between
report and consideration of every bill
ordered to lie on table, 832; notice of
consideration, 833; rules as to amend-
ments on consideration, ib.; considera-
tion, 834; notice of third reading, 835.

Third reading, 835; amendments
may only be verbal, ib. 501; King's con-
sent signified, 835; consent of Prince of
Wales as Duke of Cornwall, ib.; bill
sent, or returned, to Lords, 835.

Lords amendments to a private bill,
836-7; to be printed and circulated,
836; submitted to Mr. Speaker and
Chairman of Ways and Means, ib.;
notice of consideration of, 836; pro-
ceedings on, 836-7.

IV. Private Bills in the Lords.--
Private bills in the Lords distinguished
as either local or personal, 839.

Proceedings on Local Bills, 839-855.
862; local bills divided into same two
classes as in the Commons, 839. 692-3;
no deposit of petition in Lords ex-
cept in case of late bills, 840; deposit
required of every bill, 693. 840; duties

Private Bills-continued.

of Examiners pursuant to Lords' standing
orders, 840-45 (see also Examiners);
certificates (reports) of Examiners re-
ferred to standing orders committee,
841; local bill brought in, 840; or
brought from Commons, 841; not to be
read first time until standing orders
have been complied with, 845; first
reading, ib.; Commons' bills referred to
Examiners after first reading, 841; other
bills so referred (under the "Wharn-
cliffe" standing orders), 842-4; (under
other standing orders), 844-5. 693, n.,
723; second reading of local bills, 845;
orders regarding second reading, ib.;
commitment, 846; petitions against
local bills, 845-6; committees on op-
posed bills, 846; sittings of committees,
847; locus standi and hearing of peti-
tioners, 848-9; witnesses, 848; applica-
tions for costs, 847. 820. 821. 823, n.;
proceedings on unopposed bills, 847.
849; duties, as to local bills in Lords,
of the chairman of committees, 849.850.
854-5; standing orders to be observed by
Lords' committees on local bills, 850-4;
as to instructions on local bills in Lords,
854; recommitment of bills, ib.; bills
as amended in committee (to be printed),
855; (to be deposited with public de-
partment), ib.; amendments on report
and third reading, 855; bill read the
third time and sent, or returned, to
Commons, 855.

Personal Bills, 856-862; what they
include, 856; always originate in Lords,
856; brought in on petition, 856;
Estate Bills, 856-8; estate bills in the
Commons, 858; Divorce bills, 858. 859.
860. 861; divorce bills in the Commons,
860;
naturalization and other personal
bills, 860-1; personal bills read second
time in Lords, 861; commitment and
subsequent stages, 861-2; sent to the
Commons, 862.

Restitution bills, special procedure on,
460. 862.

V. Acts.-Royal assent to bills, 510-
13; classification of private bills, after
Royal assent, as Acts, 685. 909; Local
and Personal Acts, 909; Private Acts,
Printed, 910; Private Acts, Not printed,
911.

VI. Fees. What bills are subject to
fees, 912; how fees are collected, 913;
and applied, ib.

VII. Taxation of Costs.-System of,
913; lists of allowable charges, 914;
taxing officers, ib. ; applications for, and
proceedings on, taxations, 914-15. See

Private Bills-continued.
also Chairman of Committees (Lords);
Chairman of Ways and Means, etc.;
Examiners; Selection; Standing Orders
Committees.

Private Business (House of Com-
mons); what it includes, 714. 726-7;
Time of, 233-5; opposed private busi-
ness, 235. 714. 730. 834. See also Busi-
ness of the House; Private Bills, III.
Private Legislation Procedure (Scot-
land) Act, 1899; general scope, 895.
896; effect of, on private bill legislation,
689. 690. 895; difference between order
under the Act and ordinary provisional
order, 896; the "General Orders" regu-
lating procedure under the Act, 896;
similar to standing orders (private bills),
897.

Application for an Order under the
Act.-Petition to Secretary for Scotland
for order, 897; proposed order con-
sidered by the two chairmen (Lords
and Commons), 898; the chairmen's
report, ib.; bills substituted, in some
cases, for proposed orders, 899.

Proceedings up to and including the
issue of an Order.-Orders referred to
the Examiners, 897. 900. 904; com-
pliance with the "general orders," 900.
904; consideration of order by Secretary
for Scotland, 900; orders on which
inquiry is held, 901-3; appointment
and constitution of commission of in-
quiry, 901; proceedings and report of
commissioners, 902-3; orders on which
there is no inquiry, 903; orders modi-
fied, 904; the issue of the orders by
Secretary for Scotland, 903-4.

Procedure in Parliament on bills
to confirm orders.-Introduction of bill
in either house, 904; proceedings on
bills to confirm orders on which no
inquiry has been held, 905.

Bills to confirm orders on which
inquiry has been held, 905-8; and pro-
ceedings thereon in first house (when
a petition against is presented and a
joint committee appointed), 906; (where
no joint committee appointed), 907;
proceedings in second house on bills
to confirm orders on which inquiry has
been held, 907-8. See also Chairman
of Ways and Means, etc.; Secretary for
Scotland.

Privileges of Parliament:

I. General View thereof.-Title of
Parliament thereto, 59; claim of the
Commons for, ib., 156; claim of privi-
leges for estates omitted, 59, n.; favour-
able construction of Commons' proceed-

Privileges of Parliament-continued.
ings not a privilege, 61; definition of
the law and custom of Parliament, 62;
new privileges may not be created, 63;
claim of House of Lords to be a court
of record, 91; of House of Commons, 92.

II. Privileges of each House collec-
tively. How enjoyed, 62; freedom of
access to sovereign, 60. 455; power of
commitment, 63; by the Speaker, 87;
authority and protection of officers in
executing orders of either house, 64.
85; power to order attendance, 64;
assistance of the civil power, 66; power
to break open doors, 67; commitment
beyond inquiry by courts of law, 69;
need not be stated, 70; habeas corpus
enforceable, 69; such prisoners cannot
be bailed, ib.; persons sent for in cus-
tody, 70; arrests without warrant, 71;
by the Lords, ib.

III. Breaches of Privilege.-Defined,
71; considered, 270. 275; disobedience
to orders, 72; publication of debates,
72-75; of proceedings before com-
mittees, 74. 416; interference with
witnesses, 75; disobedience of, ib.; libels
upon the house, 76; prosecutions by the
attorney-general, 76; assaults, insults, or
libels upon members, 78; wrongful arrest
of, 80; service of summons upon, ib. ; on
members of select committees, 83; offer
or acceptance of bribes, ib. ; members not
to act as counsel or agents in parlia-
mentary business, 84; nor to accept
fees, ib.; interference with officers, 85;
legal procedure against members, 86;
when a breach of privilege, ib. ; tamper-
ing with witnesses, 86; answers to in-
criminating questions, 87; inquiry into
breaches of privilege, 88; by committee
of privileges, 88. 392; by select commit-
tees, 89. 405; action on reports of, 89;
complaints of newspapers, 89; frivo-
lous complaints, 88; offences committed
in a former session or Parliament, 90;
false evidence a breach of privilege, 75;
also fraud connected with petitions, 526.

IV. Punishments inflicted by the two
Houses. In former times, 78; present
modes of, 91.93; differences in the pun-
ishment inflicted by the two houses, 91;
reprimand and admonition, 94; payment
of fees, 94; conclusion of imprisonment
(Lords), 91; (Commons), 94; prisoners
formerly sentenced kneeling, 95.

V. Privileges attaching to Members
of both Houses, and others.-Freedom
of speech, 96; from arrest or moles-
tation, 103; servants' privileges dis-
continued, 59, n., 108; of not being

INDEX.

Privileges of Parliament-continued.
impleaded in civil actions, 112; being
summoned as a juror, 114; privilege
regarding subpoenas not now enforced,
ib.; privileges of members before they
are sworn, 169; privilege not extended
to criminal matters, 115. 273; or to com-
mitments for contempt, 119. 273; causes
of commitment communicated, 116;
privilege of witnesses and others in at-
tendance on Parliament, 124; of counsel,
129; statements to Parliament and
reports of proceedings, privileged, 74.
129; in certain cases not privileged, 99.

VI. Jurisdiction of Courts of Law
in Matters of Privilege.-Principles and
cases, 131, et seq.; present position of
privilege, 145; remedy by statute pro-
posed, ib.

VII. Debate, &c., on Questions of Pri-
vilege.-Privilege, procedure in matters
of, 245. 270; motions entertained forth-
with, 271; committee thereon appointed
forthwith, 403; position of privilege
motions on notice paper, 275; cannot
be raised on a motion for adjournment,
255; claim of privilege overruled, 272.
273. 276; question of order not a matter
of privilege, 273; nor arrest of member
on criminal charge, 273; or for criminal
contempt of court, ib.; precedence to
motion for new writ, as a question of
privilege, 272; subsequent motions in
same matter not entitled to precedence
as matters of privilege, 275; nor report
of committee appointed to inquire into
alleged breach of privilege, 275; pre-
vious question on privilege motions, 275.
See also Arrest, Freedom from; Bribes ;
Commitment; Contempt of Court;
Courts of Law; Freedom of Speech;
Habeas Corpus; Impleading in Civil
Actions; Proceeding in Parliament;
Witnesses, &c.; Writs of Privilege.
Privy Council; class of appeal cases
tried before, 51; provisional schemes
by, 881. See also Provisional Orders.
Privy Councillors; addresses of the
Commons presented by, 175. 453; con-
sent of Crown, &c., given by, 448; also
royal recommendation, 559; bench of,
House of Commons, 177.
Proceedings in Parliament; favour-
able construction of, by Crown, claimed
by Commons, 61; publication of, 72;
protected from law of libel, 74; wilful
misrepresentation of, 73. 89; not to be
questioned elsewhere, 99; determined
by prorogation, 44. See also Debates;
Motions; Minutes of Proceedings; Votes
and Proceedings.

Proclamations; Parliament assembled
by, 45; assembling of Parliament accele-
rated by, 44; deferred by, 45; pro-
rogued by, except at close of session,
43; prior to prorogation, &c., 45; length
of notice prior to meeting for dispatch
of business, ib.; for dissolution of Par-
liament, 48; interval between calling
a Parliament and its meeting, 41; ad-
dresses for, in case of absconding_wit-
nesses, 426; procedure thereon, 571.
Progress; report of, from committees of
the whole house, 389. 493; of supply,
615; when motion for, lapses, 282; is
not put, 316.
Promoters (Private Bill); have been
restrained by injunction from proceeding
with bill, 687; cannot be compelled to
proceed against their wish, ib. 827. See
also Private Bills.

See

Proofs before the Examiners (Private
Bills); of compliance with standing
orders (before introduction of private
bill), 694, et seq., 841-2; (after introduc-
tion), 695. 723-4. 729. 842-5; (on pro-
visional order bills), 891-2; proof before
Examiners, or before private bill com-
mittee, of conditions specified by stand-
ing orders committee, 718. 792, n.
also Examiners; Private Bills.
Property Qualification. See Qualifica-
tion.
Prorogation of Parliament; provision
in case of demise of Crown during, 41;
how accomplished, 45; proclamation
alone prorogues Parliament, save at close
of session, 43; prorogation to renew
bills, 44. 308; at close of session, 207;
effect of, upon the proceedings of Par-
liament, 44; upon sessional orders, 148;
upon orders for accounts and papers,
539; upon orders, &c., laid before Par-
liament, 544; upon imprisonment by
Parliament, 91. 94; prorogation before
passing an appropriation Act, irregular,
551; an impeachment not concluded
by, 44. 667; nor a divorce bill in certain
cases, 44, n. 860; nor an appeal case, 44.
51; prorogation and private bills, 838.
Protection of Person and Property
Act (1881); arrest of member under,
communicated to the house, 117.
Protests (Lords); rules concerning, 372.
Provisional Certificates. See Provisional
Orders; Railways.

Provisional Orders; system of, 863;
effect of, on private bill legislation, ib.
689. 690; preliminary proceedings on
provisional orders, 863; local inquiry,"
864; as to orders that are not pro-
visional on confirmation by bill, 890.

Provisional Orders-continued.

The Departments empowered to issue
provisional orders, certificates, or
schemes, 864, et seq.; Admiralty, 882;
Board of Agriculture, 878; Board of
Trade, 873, et seq.; Charity Commission,
883; Education Department, 882; ditto
(Scotland), 886; Home Office, 872;
Local Government Board, 865, et seq.;
Local Government Board (Ireland), 886;
(Scotland), 885; Post Office, 882;
Privy Council, 881; Public Works
(Ireland), 888; Secretary for Scotland,
883; War Office, 882; County Councils,
&c., empowered to make provisional
orders, 888. See also Alkali; Allot-
ments; Burgh Police (Scotland);
Canals; Commons, Inclosure, &c.;
Diseases (Animals); Drainage; Educa-
tion; Electric Lighting; Explosive
Substances; Gas; Guardians (Boards
of); Harbours; Housing of the Work-
ing Classes; Inclosures; Light Rail-
ways (Ireland); Local Government;
London Government; Marriages;
Metropolitan Police; Military Lands;
Municipal Corporations; Naval Works;
Oyster Fisheries; Parishes; Piers;
Pilotage; Police: Public Health; Public
Parks (Scotland); Railways; Redistri-
bution of Seats Act, 1885; Salmon
Fisheries; Sea Fisheries (Scotland);
Tramways; Water Board (Metropolis).
Provisional Order Bills.-Difference
in procedure between these bills and
bills under the Private Legislation Pro-
cedure (Scotland) Act, 896; procedure
on ordinary provisional order bills, 890,
et seq.; bills introduced in either house,
891; referred to Examiners, ib.; second
reading and subsequent stages in Lords,
892; second reading in Commons, 892;
petitions against, 757-8. 893; locus
standi against, in Commons, 761, et seq.,
893; instructions on, 893, n.; pro-
cedure on, in Commons, on commitment
and in committee, 892-4; subsequent
stages in Commons, 894; amendment
of, by committees, 894; costs awarded
on, 820, et seq.; fees on, 912; exceptional
procedure on, in certain cases, 879.883.
884. 895. 905, n., 886. 891, n.
Proxies (Lords); privilege of service by
proxy, 178, 370; discontinued, 371.
Public Accounts; committee of, 597.
Public Accounts and Charges Act
(1891), 557, 628.

Public Acts; repeal of, by private bills,
683; objects secured under, which
formerly required private bill, 689. See
also Acts; Bills; Private Bills.

Public Bill Office; certifies return of
member, 170; prepares public bills for
presentation, 466; duty of, regarding
drafts on the Consolidated Fund, 592, ît.
Public Business; exempted business,
216; arrangement of, 233; motions at
commencement of, 256; moment of
commencement of, 255; ordinary course
of, 257; on days allotted to supply, 259;
priority of government business, 258;
business after moment of interruption,
214; formal motions for transaction of,
245; closure of, 217.

Public Charges; needing no recom-
mendation from the Crown, 567. 598.
601; addresses and bills recommending
expenditure, 570; select committee re-
port, 572; motions advocating expen-
diture, ib.; procedure on bills for reduc-
tion of, 572. 601. See also Crown,
Control of, over Expenditure; Recom-
mendation of; Supply, and Ways and
Means; Taxation; Lords.
Public Departments. See Government
Departments.

Public Education. See Education.
Public Health; provisional orders, 865;

ditto (Scotland), 885–6; ditto (Ireland),
887.

Public Health (Ships) Act; pro-

visions of, as to provisional orders, 866.
Public Parks (Scotland) Act, 1878;

provisional orders under, 884; and pro-
cedure on confirming bill, 883-4.905, n.
Public Works (Ireland) Office; pro-
visional orders made by, 888.

Quakers, Moravians, &c.; affirmations
of, 163.

Qualification; of members, 28; want
of, admitted, 642; of voters, 27.
Quarrels. See Challenges; Words of
Heat, &c.

"Question;" cry of, 327.
Questions put from the Chair; every
matter determined upon, 277; pro-
posed, 279; superseded or evaded, 280;
by adjournment of house or debate,
281; by reading orders of the day,
280, n.; by previous question, 282; by
amendments, 284; questions inter-
rupted, 285; complicated, ib.; question
put, 286; when question is fully put,
311; again stated, 358; voices on the
question, 287; when agreed to, ques-
tions become orders and resolutions,
288; amendments to questions, 289;
question not to be repeated in a session,
300; rules of debate on questions, 310;
questions pending at moment of inter-
ruption, 214, 221; claimed under closure,

Questions put from the Chair-con-
tinued.

217; rule as to putting question of sums
and dates, 489. See also Motions;
Previous Question; Privilege.
Questions to Members; (Lords), 210;
notice of, 211; questions, by order, not
put, ib.; debate thereon, ib.; (Commons),
mode of giving notice of, 246; questions
for oral answer to be distinguished by
an asterisk, 247; length of notice neces-
sary for, ib.; question not read in the
house, 247; correction of irregularities
in, ib.; no printed questions to the
Speaker, ib.; time for commencement
of questions, 251; questions to ministers,
248; to members of royal commissions,
&c., 249; to unofficial members, ib.;
not to members of the London County
Council, ib.; irregularities in questions,
249; regarding the conduct of the
sovereign, &c., 248. 250; manner of
putting questions, 251; answers to
questions, 252; printed answers, ib.;
to questions not reached by 3.45, ib.
Quorum; the, of the House of Lords,

210; of the Commons, 228; presence
of, 229; Speaker's duty regarding, ib.;
absence of, 230; between a quarter-past
eight and a quarter-past nine o'clock,
229. 231; on a division, 231; in com-
mittee, 231; message from the throne
makes a quorum, 232; of select com-
mittees in the Lords, 406; in the Com-
mons, ib.; of standing committees,
(Lords), 398; (Commons), 394; of
standing orders committee (Lords), 841;
(Commons), 716; of police and sanitary
committee, 805; of committee of selec-
tion (Commons) and General committee,
745; of private bill committees in the
Commons, 756; on a recommitted private
bill, 831, n. See also Counting the
House.

Railway and Canal Bills; commit-
ment of, in the Commons, 744-6, 751, n.
752; standing orders specially relating
to (Commons), 793–800. 832; (Lords),
851-3. See also General Committee;
Private Bills.

Railway Companies; locus standi of,
in Commons, 764-6. 772-4.
Railways; provisional orders or certifi-
cates, 876-8; Clauses Acts, 694.
Ratepayers; locus standi of, in Com-
mons, 779.

Rates and Charges; not to be altered
by the Lords, 574; their amendments
adopted by Commons, 576; how far
Lords may legislate on tolls and charges,

Rates and Charges-continued.

579; to be imposed in committee only,
497; printed in italics, 489. 560. 723;
as to provisions relating to, in private
bills, 728; railway bills, 793. 799. 850.
852.

Reasons for disagreeing to Amend.
ments to Bills; prepared, &c., 508.
Receivers and Triers of Petitions
(Lords), 522.

Recess of parliament; issue of new
writs during, 636, et seq.

Recognizances; of parliamentary agents,

710.

Recommendation of the Crown; to
charges, 558. 560. 726; procedure on,
559; to guarantees, 562; instructions,
ib.; petitions, 563; result of recom-
mendation in general terms, 564. See
also Crown III.

Recommitment; of public bills, 497;
of private bills, 831-2. 818-9.727. 680, n.
854; of select committee reports, 420;
of supply resolutions, 628.

Recorders; how far eligible to serve in
Parliament, 650.

Redistribution of Seats Act, 1885;
effect of, 24; provisional orders under
(England), 869; (Scotland) 886; (Ire-
land), 886.

Referees on Private Bills. See Private
Bills, III.

Reflections; on Parliament, punished,
76; on members, 81; in debate out
of order, 324.

Reform Acts; (1832), effect of, 23; of
the Act of 1867, ib.; of 1868, ib.; the
Redistribution of Seats Act, 1885..24.
Registers (Private Bills); of parlia
mentary agents, 710. 711; of proceed-
ings on a bill, 714.

Registration (Electors), 27.
Religion; introduction of bills relating
to, 464, n.; the grand committee for, 392.
Religious Communities; bills affecting
their property, when public bills, 680.
Remonstrances; petitions in form of,
when received by house, 525.

Reply; when allowed to members in de-
bate, 321.

Reports; of committees of the whole
house, 391; of supply, and ways and
means resolutions, 626; considered on
a future day, ib.; procedure on, ib.;
questions of amount of duty, 566. 627;
debate thereon, 627; amendments, ib. ;
bills founded on, 629; reports from
committees on exceptional expenditure,
630; of public bills, 493.

Reports (in the case of Private Bills)
of Examiners, 696. 704. 840; of com-

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