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740 nearest locality wherein a newspaper is published: and proof of the due publication of notice shall be established in each case by statutory declaration: and all such declarations shall be sent to the Clerk of the House. endorsed "Private Bills Notice."

Petitions for Private Bills

92. Petitions for Private Bills shall only be received by the House if presented within the first six weeks of the session, and every Private Bill originating in the Commons shall be presented in the House within two weeks after the petition therefor has been favourably reported upon by the Examiner of Petitions or by the Committee on Standing Orders. and no motion for the suspension of the standing order shall be entertained unless a report has been first made by the Committee on Standing Orders recommending such suspension and giving their reasons therefor.

97. No petition praying for the incorporation of a railway company, or of a canal company, or for an extension of the line of any existing or authorised railway or canal, or for the construction of branches thereto, shall be considered by the Examiner, or by the Committee on Standing Orders until there has been filed with the said Examiner a map or plan, showing the proposed location of the works and each county, township, municipality or district through which the proposed railway or canal, or any branch or extension thereof is to be constructed.

Private Bills

93. (1) Any person desiring to obtain any Private Bill shall deposit with the Clerk of the House not later than the first day of each session, a copy of such a Bill in the English or French language. with a sum sufficient to pay for translating and printing the same, the translation to be done by the officers of the House. and the printing by the Department of Public Printing.

(2) After the second reading of a Bill, and before its consideration by the Committee to which it is referred, the applicant shall in every case pay the cost of printing the Act in the Statutes. and a fee of Five Hundred Dollars.

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(3) The following charges shall also be levied and paid in addition to the foregoing, viz:—

(4) When a Bill increases the capital stock of an existing company, the additional charge shall be according to the foregoing tariff, upon the amount of the increase only.

(5) When a Bill increases or involves an increase in the borrowing powers of a company without any increase in the capital stock. the additional charge shall be $300.

(a) When a Bill increases both the capital stock and the borrowing powers of a company, the additional charge shall be made upon both.

(0) If any increase in the amount of the proposed capital stock or borrowing powers of a company be made at any stage of a Bill, such Bill shall not be advanced to the next stage until the charges consequent upon such change have been paid.

(7) In this Standing Order the term "proposed capital stock" includes any increase thereto provided for in the Bill: and where power is taken in a Bill to increase at any time the amount of the proposed capital stock. the additional charge shall be levied on the maximum amount of such prepared increase. which shall be stated in the Bill.

(8) The additional charges provided for in this Standing Order shall also apply to Private Bills originating in the Senate provided. however, that if a petition for any such Bill has been presented in this House within the first six weeks of the session. the additional charges made under paragraphs (b) and (c) of subsection (3) shall not be levied thereon.

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96. (1) The Chief Clerk of Private Bills shall be the Examiner of Private Bills, and as such, shall examine and revise all private bills before they are printed, for the purpose of insuring uniformity where possible and of seeing that they are drawn in accordance with the Standing Orders of the House respecting private bills.

(2) Every Bill for an Act of Incorporation, where a form of model bill has been adopted, shall be drawn in accordance with a model bill (copies of model bills may be obtained from the Clerk of the House). Any provisions contained in any such bill which are not in accord with the model bill shall be inserted between brackets or underlined and shall be so printed.

(3) Where a private Bill amends any section, sub-section or paragraph of an existing Act, such section, subsection or paragraph shall be repealed in the text of the bill and be re-enacted as proposed to be amended. the new matter being indicated by underlining: and the section, subsection or paragraph which is to be so repealed, or so much thereof as is essential, shall be printed in the right hand page opposite such section, subsection or paragraph.

(4) When a Private Bill repeals an existing section, subsection or other minor division of a section, that section, subsection or division or so much thereof as is essential, shall be printed appetite the clause.

(5) A brief explanatory note giving the reasons for any clause of an unusual nature or which differs front the model bill clauses or standard clauses shall be printed opposite the clause in the bill.

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98. No Bill for the incorporation of a railway or a canal company, or for authorising the construction of branch lines or extensions of existing lines of railways or of canals. or for changing the route of the railway or of the canal of any company already incorporated. shall be considered by the Railway Committee. until there has been tiled with the Committee. at least one week before the consideration of the Bill, a map or plan drawn upon a scale or not, less than half an inch to the mile showing the location upon which it is intended to construct the proposed work, and showing also the lines of existing or authorised works of a similar character within, or in any way affecting the district,