§
Ordered,
That the Promoters of the South Bucks and Oxfordshire Water Bill, the Bucks Water Board Bill, the Reading and Berkshire Water &c. Bill and the Mid-Wessex Water Bill shall have leave to suspend any further proceeding thereon in order to proceed with the same, if they think fit, in the next Session.
§
Ordered,
That the Agent for the Promoters of any such Bill intending to suspend any further proceeding thereon shall, if the Bill has been suspended on the Report of a Committee, give notice to the Clerks in the Private Bill Office not later than the day before the close of the present Session of their intention to proceed with the same Bill in this House in the next Session; provided that all Fees due upon any such Bill up to that date be paid.
§
Ordered,
That not later than Five o'clock on the third day on which the House sits in the next Session the Bills shall be presented to the House.
§
Ordered.
That there shall be deposited with each Bill a Declaration signed by the Agent for the Bill, stating that the Bill is the same, in every respect, as the Bill at the last stage of its proceeding in this House in the present Session.
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Ordered,
That the Bills when laid upon the Table shall be deemed to have been read the first and second time and committed; and shall be recorded in the Journal of the House as having been so read and committed.
§
Ordered,
That any Petitions presented in the present Session against the Bills, and which stood referred to the Committee on the Bills, shall stand referred to the Committee on the same Bills in the next Session.
§
Ordered,
That no Petitioners shall be heard before the Committee on the Bills, unless their Petition shall have been presented within the time limited in the present Session.
§
Ordered,
That in relation to the Bills, Standing Order 127 (Right of audience before committees on opposed bills) relating to Private Business, shall have effect as if the words "under Standing Order 126 (Reference to committee of petitions against bill)" were omitted;
§
Ordered,
That any Instruction in the present Session to the Committee on the Bills be an Instruction to the Committee on the same Bills in the next Session;
§
Ordered,
That no new fees be charged in respect of any stage of the Bill upon which fees have already been incurred during the present Session;
§
Ordered,
That these Orders be Standing Orders of the House.—[The Chairman of Ways and Means.]
§ To be communicated to the Lords.