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be printed, 830; bill on being reported ordered to lie on table, 832; or to be read the third time, 832; cases of bills withdrawn, or referred to Examiners after report, 830-1; cases of bills recom- mitted, 831. 818-19. 727. 680, n.; pro- ceedings in case of recommitment, 832. 731;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
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
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.
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, 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 se1.; 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, *. 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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