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tinued. The debate on motions may be resumed after the orders of the day are disposed of, on motion to that effect being put and carried. 63. Motions for the production of despatches, or other correspondence, addressed to the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, or Officer administering the Government, or for any information emanating from his Excellency, shall be in form, " That an address be presented to his Excellency," to that etiect 64. Motions for the production of returns or other information from the sever al departments of the Colonial service, shall l>e in form " That they be laid on t le table." LAPSED QUESTIONS. 65. If a debate on any motion moved and seconded be interrupted by the House being counted out, such debate may be resumed at the point where it was so interrupted, on motion upon notice. 66. If a debate on any order of the dav be interrupted by the House being counted out, such order may be restored to the paper for a future day, on motion upon notice, and then such debate shall be resumed at the p< int where it was so interrupted. 67. If a debate on any motion, or any order of the day, be interrupted by adjournment of the House, such debate may, on motion with notice, be resumed a, the point where it was so interrupted. 68. If the discussion on any question in a committee of the whole House be similarly interrupted, the House may order the resumption of such committee on a future day, on motion with notice, and the discussion of such question shall then be resumed at the point where it was so interrupted. 69. If by adjournment, or counting out of the House, or by their not being disposed of on their proper day, notices of motion become lapsed, they can only Unrenewed by notice in the usual manner. 70. All orders of the day lapsed from any of the above causes shall be set down on the notice paper after orders of the day tor the next a) on v> ic i it s House shall sit, unless discharged on motion. PUBLIC BILLS. 71. Every public bill, except such as are transmitted by the Governor in pursuance of the provisions of the Constitution Act shall be introduced either y a motion f.,r leave, specifying the title and object of the bill, or by a motion to appoint a committee to prepare and bring it in, or by an oidei report of the committee. 72. The member having leave to bring in a bill shall prepare the draft of sticli bill with the necessary blanks to be filled up in committee, and shall, on an eai y day, present a fair copy thereol to the House. 73. No clause shall be inserted in any bill, which shall be foreign to what the title of such bill imports; and such matters as have no proper relation to eacn other shall not be intermixed in one and the same bill.