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384. To be amended as follows: Local Bills are those which, not being Private Bills, affect a particular localities locality only. 385. To be amended as follows: No Local Bill shall be read a second time unless notice shall have has been given of the said Bill in the locality to which tho Bill it refers; such notice shall state explicitly the object which saeh the Bill is intended to effect, and shall have been published once at least in each of three successive weeks, on the same day in each week, before the second reading, in a newspaper circulating in such locality. 386. To be amended as follows : At the time of the first publication of such notice a copy of the Bill shall be deposited in the Magistrate's Court of the district, and shall be open to public inspection for a period of three complete weeks ; and tmoh Bill shall, at the expiration of tho proaoribod such period for advortioing, be forwarded to the Clerk of the House in which the Bill is to be introduced, indorood with a certificate foe» written on the face of the Bill by the Stipeadiary Magistrate, or Clerk of the Magistrate's Court, that such Bill was so deposited and remained open for public inspection for the prescribed time. Each page of the Bill so deposited shall also be stamped with the Court seal and initialled by the Magistrate, or Clerk of the Court. 388. To omit the following Standing Order: When it is intended in such Bill to take power to deal with any lands, plans or surveys of such lands, on a scale of not less than two inches to a mile, and certified by an authorised surveyor, shall be deposited with the Bill. 388 a. New Standing Order: When it is intended in such Bill to take power to deal with any lands, the copy deposited as aforesaid shall be accompanied by plans or surveys of such lands drawn on the following scales, viz : Scale of not less than one inch to five chains if the lands to be dealt with are town or suburban lands ; not less than two inches to a mile if the lands to be dealt with are other than town or suburban and do not exceed an area of ten square miles ; and not less than one inch to a mile if the lands to be dealt with exceed an area of ten square miles. Such plans and surveys shall be certified by an authorised surveyor. 392. To be amended as follows: The Committee on Local Bills shall have power to confer with any Committee appointed for a similar object by the other branch of the Legislature, or to sit with any such Committee as a Joint Committee. 393. To be amended as follows : Local Bills reported on by the Local Bills Committee or Joint Local Bills Committee shall be set down for second reading on the following Thursday, on which day Orders relating to Private Members' Local Bills take precedence of all other business till disposed of. (See also Standing Order 75.) 394. To be amended as follows : In the event of a Local Bill introduced in any Session, and in regard to which the Local Bills Committee or Joint Local Bills Committee shall have reported that the Standing Orders have been complied with, failing to be finally dealt with during such Session, then such Bill may be reintroduced during the next succeeding Session, and the notices, advertisements, and deposits issued, published, and made in compliance with the Standing Orders relating to local Bills prior to or during the first-mentioned Session shall be as good and effectual in respect of such Bill as if they had been issued, published, and made immediately before or during such succeeding Session : Provided, however, that if it be intended to reintroduce such Bill during the next succeeding Session, a notice of such intention shall be advertised in not less than two issues of some newspaper published in the district within which such Bill is to have operation, or, if there be no such newspaper, then in some newspaper circulating therein. (The amendments in Standing Orders relative to Local Bills not to come into operation until the close of the present Session.) 399. To omit the following Standing Order: Accounts and other papers which are required to be laid before-this House by any Act of Parliament, or by any Order of the House, may be deposited in the office of the Clerk of this House, and the same will be laid on the Table, and a list of such accounts and papers read by the Clerk. 403. To be amended as follows : Speeches addressed to the House by His Excellency the Governor, and Bills or clauses of Bills introduced into the House specially affecting the Maoris, are shall be translated and printed in the Maori tongue for the information of Her His Majesty's subjects of that race. 422. To be amended as follows : Whero When it has been proposed to omit or reduce items in a Vote, the Question shall be afterwards put upon the original Vote, or upon the reduced Vote, as the case may be. w4taoat-Amondmont7 432. To be amended as follows: Strangers may at any time, even during debate, be ordered to withdraw from the body of the House and tho wholo of all 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. Transfer 57 and 58 from page 14, to follow No. 432. Private Bills. 2. To be amended as follows : Private Bills shall be understood to be Bills which are promoted for the private interest of individuals, or companies or their trustees, or of ecclesiastical or other bodies, corporate or unincorporate, and which, by their provisions, directly- interfere with the private property of individuals, companies or their trustees, or of ecclesiastical or other bodies, corporate or unincorporate. (Amendment not to come into operation until close of present session.) 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