§ MR. RAIKESsaid, that Bills for confirming Provisional Orders were essentially Private Bills which related entirely to the interests of particular localities, and ought to be referred to a Committee upstairs in the same way as Private Bills. The course now adopted with regard to them had been found highly inconvenient, particularly at the end of the Session, when these Bills were usually brought in in great numbers. They generally came on late at night, at the end of a long Sitting; and he could remember on one occasion having to write about 200 Amendments in a Bill at about 2 o'clock in the morning, at a time when the House was exceedingly impatient. He could not but think that the interests of the public would be quite as well served, if not better served, by those Bills being taken at the time other Private Bills were taken. He begged, therefore, to move the Resolution which he had placed upon the Paper, which would insure that all the Bills would go before the tribunal which was best qualified to form an opinion upon the subject.
§ Motionagreed to.
§ Ordered,That all Bills for confirming Provisional Orders or Certificates shall he set down for consideration, each day, in a separate List, after the Private Business, and arranged in the same order as that prescribed by the Standing Orders for Private Bills; and every such Bill, 1099 when or so far as it is unopposed, shall after the Second Reading stand referred to the Committee constituted by Standing Order for unopposed Private Bills, and shall he subject to the same Rules and Orders of the House, so far as they are applicable.—(The Chairman of Ways and Means.)