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Eesolutions of Committees agreed to.

Tax not to be increased on report.

Speaker to decide m cases not provided for.

Members not to engage in the management of Private Bills.

Members not to promote measures for fee or reward.

Strangers ordered to withdraw.

Members not to be absent for more than a week.

propriation Bills, when the Eeport may be ordered to be received and considered forthwith. 426. Resolutions of the Committees of Supply and Ways and Means reported to the House are read a first and second time, and agreed to ; or may be amended, postponed, recommitted, or disagreed to. 427. No Amendment whereby the charge upon the people will be increased may be made to any such Resolution, unless such charge so increased shall not exceed the charge already existing by virtue of any Act of Parliament.

XXXIII. —Miscellaneous. 428. In all cases not hereinbefore provided for, Mr. Speaker shall decide, taking for his guide the rules, forms, and usages of the House of Commons, so far as the same can be applied to the proceedings of this House. 429. It is contrary to the law and usage of Parliament that any Member of this House should be permitted to engage, either by himself or any partner, in the management of Private Bills before this or the other House of Parliament, for pecuniary reward. 430. It is contrary to the usage, and derogatory to the dignity of this House, that any of its Members should bring forward, promote, or advocate in this House any nroceeding or measure in which he may have acted or been concerned for or in consideration of any pecuniary fee or reward. 431. Strangers may, at any time, even during debate, be ordered to withdraw from the body of the House and the whole of the galleries, on a Motion without notice to that effect being put and carried; but no Amendment or Debate shall be allowed on that Question ; and in his own discretion Mr. Speaker may at any time order strangers to withdraw. 432. No Member shall absent himself from the service of the House for more than

one week at a time without leave; and any Member infringing this Order shall be held guilty of contempt. 433. Any Member who shall wilfully disobey any Order of the House, and any Member or other person who shall wilfully or vexatiously interrupt the orderly conduct of the business of the House, shall be held guilty of contempt. 434. Any Member adjudged by the House for any of the above-mentioned causes guilty of contempt shall be fined in a penalty, at the discretion of the House, not exceeding ,£5O, and in default of immediate payment shall be committed by the warrant of Mr. Speaker to the custody of the Serjeant-at-Arms, or such other person or persons as Mr. Speaker shall appoint, for a period not exceeding fourteen days; and it shall be lawful for the said Serjeant-at-Arms, or such other person or persons, to detain the said Member in his custody for the period directed by the House, unless sooner discharged by Order of the House, or unless the amount of fine imposed shall be sooner paid. 435. All fines are applied to the Library Fund. 436. Any Standing Order or Orders of the House may be suspended on Motion made with or without notice. Provided that notice extending over two clear days, and specifying the hour at which such Motion will be made, shall always be given when practicable ; and that a Motion to suspend without notice shall not be entertained unless there be forty Members present at the time such Motion is made ; and provided further that when such suspension is to extend over more than one sitting or in relation to more than one specified matter the presence of forty Members shall in all cases be necessary. 437. No proposal for altering or annulling any Standing Order or adopting any new Standing Order shall be entertained unless when notice extending over at least four sitting-days shall have been given; and if a division be demanded it shall be necessary that such proposal shall be voted for by a number equal to an absolute majority of the whole number of Members of the House.

Not to disobey orders of the House, or interrupt its proceedings.

Penalties for contempt.

Fines applied to Library Fund. Standing Orders suspended.

Alteration, annulling, or adoption of Standing Orders.

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