WORK OF THE SESSION

Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 298, 23 December 1897, Page 2

WORK OF THE SESSION

BILLS PASSED AND DROPPED

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, Wednesday. The following is a list of the Acts passed during the session : —

PUBLIC ACTS. Aid to Public Works and Land Settlement Act Amendment. . Appropriation. Awarua Seat Inquiry. Cheviot Estate Disposition Amendment, i Consolidated Stock Act Amendment. Cyanide Process Gold Extraction. Explosives Act Amendment. Fisheries Encouragement Act Amendment. Government Emergency Loans to Local Bodies. Government Railways Departmental Classification. Harbours Act Amendment. Imprest Supply (No. 1). Imprest Supply (No. 2). Imprest Supply (No. 3). Joseph Houston Land Grant. Kapiti Island Public Reserve No. 2. Land and Income Tax. Land and Income Assessment. Land for Settlement Act Amendment. Leases and Sales of Settled Estates. Lyttelton Harbour Board Loan. Members of the House of Representatives Disqualification. Mining Companies Act Amendment. Native Land Laws Amendment. Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks Act Amendment. Public School Teachers' Incorporation and Court of Appeal Act Amendment. Sunday Labour in Mines. Victoria College. Water Supply Act Amendment. Westport-Ngakawau Railway Extension Act Amendment. LOCAL ACTS. Bluff Harbour Board Empowering. Borough of Lyttelton Corporation Enabling. Inv'ercargill Public Offices Site Act, 1870, Amendment. Invercargill Racecourse Trustees Empowering. Kohukohu Foreshore Reclamation.

Lyttelton Harbour Board Loan. Napier Municipal Corporation and Napier Harbour Board Exchange of Lands Empowering. Otago Harbour Board. Wellington Boys' Institute. Wellington City Empowering. Wellington Education Board Transfer ol Reserve.

Westport Harbour Board Loan. PRIVATE ACT. Hawera Gasworks and Electric Lighting. The following is! a list of the Bills dropped or otherwise disposed of during the session :

PUBLIC BILLS. Adulteration Prevention Act AmendAlcoholic Liquors Sale Control Act Amendment. Alcoholic Liquors Sale Control Act Amendment (No. 2). Alien Immigration Restriction. Animals Protection. Bank of New Zealand and Banking Act Amendment. Banking Act Amendment. Bankruptcy Act Amendment. Beet Root and Sorghium Sugar Industry. British Reciprocity. California!! Thistle.

Companies Accounts Audit. Constitution Act Amendment. Contagious Diseases Act Repeal. Contempt of Court. Coroners. Crown Suits Act, 1881, Extension. Criminal Code Act, 1893, Amendment (N 0.1).- - Code Act, 1893, Amendment (No. 2). Customs Duties Reciprocity Act Extension. Cycle Traffic. Deceased Husband's Brother Marriage. District Court Act Amendment, Divorce. Dog Registration Act Amendment. Education Act, 1877, Amendment. Education Boards Election. Eight Hours. Elective Executive. First Offenders Probation Act Amendment.

Fisheries Conservation Act. Gaming and Lotteries Amendment. Government Fire Insurance. Gum Licence. Hawkers. Horowhenua Block Act Amendment. Imprisonment for Debt Abolition and Small Debts PreventionInebriates Institution. Juries Act Amendment. Kapiti Island Public Reserves. Land and Income Assessment. LaAV Practitioners Act Amendment. Limitation of the Power of Disposition by Will. Limitation of Imprisonment for Debt. Limitation of Solicitors' Fees. Local Authorities. Magistrates Courts Act 1893 Amend-, ment.

Masters and Apprentices. Maori Council Constitution. Medical Practitioners Registration Act Amendment. Mining Mortgages. Municipal Corporations Act Amendment. Municipal Corporations Act Amendment (No. 2.) Municipal Franchise Englargement. Native Lands. New Zealand Institute of Surveyors. Noxious Weeds. Old Age Pensions. Old Men's Homes. Orchard and Garden Pests. Pharmacy. . Preferential Voting and Proportional Representation. Private Benefit Societies. Procedure in Parliament. Public Health Act Amendment. Public Schools. Public Works Act 1894 Amendment.

Registered Hotels. Reserves, Endowments, and Crown and Native Lands Exchange, Sale, Disposal, and Enabling. Restraint of Incitements to Betting or Wagering. Second Ballot.

Shearers Accommodation. Slaughtering and Inspection. Supreme Court Act Amendment. Technical Education. Town Districts. Unclaimed Moneys. Usury Prevention. Wages Protection. Weights and Measures Act Amendment. Young Persons Protection.

LOCAL BILLS. Borough of Lyttelton Enabling. Lake Ellesmere Fisheries Conservation. Onehunga Cemetery. Onehunga Water Reserves. St. Albans Public Library Transfer Act Amendment. University of Otago Leasing and Sales. Wellington Harbour Board Empowering. ______________