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No. 1. REGISTRATION OF ELECTOES BILL. Tiee Committee appointed by the House of Representatives to manage in conjunction with a Committee of the Legislative Council a Conference on certain amendments made by the Legislative Council in a Bill entitled "An Act to amend the law relating to the Registration of Persons qualified to vote at elections of Members of the House of Representatives," report to the House as follows: — First —That the said Committees at the Conference did not come to any agreement as to the amendments made by the Legislative Council in the third clause of the said Bill or as to any modification thereof. The Committee appointed by the Legislative Council urged in favor of retaining the amendments, the following reasons : — First —" That no duties should be imposed on the Judges of the Supreme Court except such as are of a judicial nature." Second—" That there was a probability that the Judge whose duty it would be to make some appointment might be absent from his district at the time when the appointment ought to be made, and that great confusion and inconvenience might arise in consequence of the appointment not being made at the proper time." Third—" That no sufficient reason has been shown for altering the practice which has hitherto existed in this Colony, and which it believed to exist generally in other Colonies." Your Committee urged against the amendments made by the Legislative Council and in support of the third clause as it passed the House of Representatives, the following reason : —■ " That it was inexpedient that the Executive should take any part in the construction of the Electoral Roll, and consequently that the appointment of the Registration Officers ought not to be made by the Governor, but by some authority independent of the Executive Government." Secondly —Your Committee have to report that the Committees at the Conference have agreed to modify the amendment made by the Legislative Council in the twenty-fourth clause of the Bill by striking out the words following " in respect of a freehold qualification." Feedk. "Whitakeh, 13th September, 186 G. Chairman. No. 2. REGISTRATION OF ELECTORS BILL (No. 2). The Managers of the Conference on " The Registration of Electors Act, 18G6," have met the Managers appointed by the Legislative Council, and have the honor to report to this House, that the amendments made by the Legislative Council in the Act have been agreed to, with the exception of that in clause 24, in which the words "in respect of a freehold qualification" were struck out. E. ~W. Stafford, 27th September, 186 G. Manager. No. 3. PRIVILEGES OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The Managers of the Conference agreed to yesterday on the subject of the privileges of the House of Representatives met this day. The Managers on the part of the House stated that the Conference was requested on the subject of the amendments made by the Council in " The Gold Fields Bill, I860," as the House believing the Bill to be a beneficial measure of great importance to a large interest of the country, and very much desired by those specially concerned, is anxious that it should pass into a law, but is at the same time solicitous of guarding itself against impairing or prejudicing its privileges by agreeing to the amendments made by the Council. The Managers therefore propose that the present case shall not bo considered as a precedent or in any way as a concession (except so far as it may be in this instance) of any of the rights, powers, or privileges, of either the Council or the House, and request that the House be allowed to consider the amendments referred to with this understanding. The Managers recommend that this request of the House be acceded to. M. Riciimoxd, Fkedk. "Wiiitakee, For Managers of the Legislative Council. For Managers of the House of Representatives.

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REPORTS OF CONFERENCES BETWEEN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.