Lords Sitting of 13 February 1846

MINUTES.
PUBLIC BILLS.—Reported. Administration of Criminal Justice.
PETITIONS PRESENTED. From Landowners and others, of Compton Martin, and numerous other places, against the Repeal of the Corn Laws.—By Earl Somers, from Owners and Occupiers of Land in the County of Hereford, for Protection to Agriculture.—By the Earl of Clarendon, from Tenant Farmers in the Eastern District of Forfarshire, in favour of Free Trade.

RAILWAYS.
The EARL of DALHOUSIE, in pursuance of notice, moved the following Resolutions:—
"Resolved—That it is the opinion of this Committee that the Standing Orders of this House with regard to Railway Bills should, as respects Railway Bills commenced in this House during the present Session, be altered in the following Particulars:—
"That Standing Order No. 219 be altered in the following Particulars, viz.:—
"That on the Bill being reported to the House from the Committee on the Bill, or at any Time previously, on the Petition of the Parties to such Bill, or any of them, the Bill shall be referred to the Standing Order Committee, which shall inquire whether the Standing Orders, the compliance with which is directed to be proved before or reported by the Standing Order Committee previously to the Third Reading of the Bill, have been complied with; and the Committee shall report on the Matters referred to them, in the same Manner as they are directed to report on other Matters referred to them by the Standing Orders.
"That Five clear Days' Notice be given of such Meeting of the Committee, and that it be proved to the Satisfaction of the Committee that the Standing Orders had been complied with Five clear Days before such Meeting of the Committee.
"That the Standing Order Committee shall not meet to consider the Compliance with such of the Standing Orders as are directed to be proved before them, until after the Expiration of Seven clear Days from the Presentation of the Petition, if the Bill relate to England, or until after the Expiration of Ten clear Days, if the Bill relate to Scotland or Ireland.
"That every Petition complaining of a Noncompliance with such of the Standing Orders as are directed to be proved before the Standing Order Committee, subsequently to the First Reading of the Bill, shall be presented Three clear Days before the Meeting of the Committee to consider such Standing Orders.
"That Standing Order No. 220 be altered in the following particulars, viz.:—
"That the service of every application required to be made to the owners or reputed owners, lessees

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or reputed Lessees, and Occupiers, by the Fourth Paragraph of the said Standing Order, may, unless a Petition complaining of the Want of due Service of such Application, shall have been referred to the Standing Order Committee, be proved by the Evidence of the Agent or Solicitor for the Bill, stating that he gave Directions for the Service of such Application in the manner and within the Time required by the Standing Orders, and that he believes that such Application was so served; but in case the Standing Order Committee shall not be satisfied with the Evidence of the Agent or Solicitor, the Service of such Application shall be proved in the usual Manner.
"That no Bill commencing in this House, and empowering any Company already constituted by Act of Parliament to execute any Work other than than for which it was originally established, shall be read a Third Time, unless the Committee on Standing Orders shall have specially reported that the Requisitions contained in Paragraph No. 5 of such Order have been complied with.
"That Standing Order No. 224 be altered in the following Particulars, viz.:—
"That as respects all Railway Bills which shall commence in this House during the present Session of Parliament, it shall be proved to the Satisfaction of the Standing Order Committee, that a Sum equal to One-Twentieth Part of the Amount subscribed has been deposited in the Manner required by the said Standing Order, on or before the Sixth Day of February Instant; and it shall likewise be proved to the Satisfaction of the said Committee, before the Third Reading of such Bill, that a further Sum equal to One Twentieth Part of the Amount subscribed has been deposited in like manner; and that the Amendment made to the said Standing Order on the Sixth Instant be further amended, by substituting the word 'Second' for the word 'First.'
"That Standing Order No. 225 be altered in the following Particulars, viz.:
"That it shall be sufficient if the Proof required to be given by the last-mentioned Standing Order, be adduced before the Standing Order Committee, at any time previous to the Third Reading of the Bill.
"That all the Standing Orders applicable to Railway Bills, except such of them or such part of them as are altered by or inconsistent with the aforesaid Standing Order, shall apply to the Railway Bills commenced in this House during the present Session of Parliament, and to the Proceedings in such Bills."
Resolutions agreed to.
House adjourned.