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THE LORD CHANCELLOR moved—
That Standing Order, No. IV., applicable to Appeals, be amended by omitting all words from the word 'Respondent' in line 20, to the end of the Order, and inserting in lieu thereof the following words, viz.: 'Ordered, that in the event of the Clerk of the Parliaments requiring a justification of the sureties or substitute, the Ap-
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pellant's Agent shall, within one week from the date of an official notice to him to that effect, lodge in the Parliament Office an affidavit or affidavits by the proposed sureties or substitute setting forth specifically the nature of the property in consideration of which they claim to be accepted as sureties in respect of the bond or as substitute in respect of the recognizance, and also declaring that the property in question is unincumbered: Ordered, that in the event of such sureties not being deemed satisfactory by the Clerk of the Parliaments, the Appellant or Appellants shall, within four weeks from the date of an official notice by the Clerk of the Parliaments to that effect, pay into the account of the Fee Fund of the House of Lords the sum of two hundred pounds, to be subject to the Order of the House with regard to the Costs of the Appeal; and, in the event of such substitute not being deemed satisfactory by the Clerk of the Parliaments, the Appellant or Appellants shall enter into the usual recognizance in person: Ordered, that the said bond and the recognizance (whether entered into by the Appellants or by a substitute) be returned to the Parliament Office duly executed within one week from the date of the issue thereof to the Solicitor or Agent of the Appellant or Appellants. On default by the Appellant or Appellants in complying with the above conditions, the Appeal to stand dismissed.'
§ Motion agreed to.