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189. Omit the following Standing Order: When such a Eesolution has been agreed to, or an Order of the Day read for the House to resolve itself into Committee, Mr. Speaker puts a Question, " That I do now leave the Chair," which being agreed to, he leaves the Chair accordingly. 271. Omit the following Standing Order as no longer acted on : It is the sole duty of the Managers of the one House to read and deliver to the Managers of the other House the Besolutions of the other House on Bills, with reasons for insisting upon Amendments or disagreements to Amendments, or otherwise. 297. Omit the following Standing Order : No printed or lithographed Petition will be received if it contains any erasure or interlineation. 298. To be amended as follows : Every erasure or interlineation in a writton Petition must be signed or initialled at opposite each cad ci such erasure or interlineation by tho pefoon or some of the persons signing the Petition, aad-all ouch oraouroo or mtorlinoationo muot bo indorood and duly . oignod and attootod on tho baok of ovory ouoh Potition by tho potitionor or potitionoro. 336. To be amended as follows : When it is intended to refer a Bill to a Select Committee the second reading may be moved pro forma, without speech, and in such case there shall be no Debate etbor than tho opeooh of tho Movoe? New Standing Order 344 a. When a Bill is introduced amending any Section or Sections in an Act no new Clauses or Amendments may be moved unless they deal solely with the particular object of the amending Bill. 354. To be amended as follows : On a clause being offered in Committee, or on tho oonoideration of Boport, Mr. Spoakor, or the Chairman is to desire the Member to bring up the same, whereupon it is to be read a first time without Question put; feat no olauoo io to bo offorod on con sideration of Boport without notico. Standing Order 382 to be transferred to page 18, after No. 77. 383. Omit the following Standing Order: When Private Members' Public Bills become dropped Orders they are to be set down upon the Order Paper after the Orders set down for the next day, and shall be arranged as follows, viz. : (1) Bills for Committal dr for further consideration in Committee ; (2) Second readings. 391. To be amended as follows : At the commencement of every Session a Local Bills Committee, consisting of Ten Members, shall be appointed, to whom all Local Bills shall stand referred after their first reading; the Committee to report whether the Standing Orders have been complied with and to suggest such amendments as they may think proper, and to report when necessary upon the merits of the Bill. Every member in charge of a Local Bill shall, ipso facto, be a member of the Committee while his Bill is under consideration, whether he is nominated of the Committee or not. Transfer 57 and 58 from page 14, to follow No. 432. 417. Omit the following Standing Order as not now acted on : When a formal Motion for going into Committee of Supply is made, and an Amendment is moved thereto, the Debate is confined to the subject-matter of the Amendment (unless it be accepted as a vote of Want of Confidence) until it is disposed of ; but, if the Minister make a Speech in moving the House into Committee, that Speech may immediately be commented on, although an Amendment should intervene. 419. To be verbally amended as follows : When a Motion is made in Committee of Supply to romit omit or reduce any item of a Vote, a Question shall be proposed from the Chair for omitting or reducing such item accordingly ; and Members shall speak to such Question only until it has been disposed of. 432. 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 or the Chairman of Committees may at any time order strangers to withdraw. G. Maubice O'Bobke, Tuesday, 31st July, 1900. Chairman. Approximate Cost of Paper. —Preparation, not given; printing (1,375 copies), £1 19s.

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