Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1802 edition. Excerpt: ... must also be annexed to the petition to be presented for leave to bring in the bill, in compliance with the order next following. "On the 7th May 1794--Resolved, That whenever any petition is presented to the House, for making, varying, or altering any such cut, canal, or aqueduct as afore.said, or making or improving the navigation of a river, there be annexed to the said petition, an estimate of the proposed expence of such undertaking (in cases where provision is intended to be made for raising money to defray such expence), such estimate to be signed by the person or persons making the same $ and if such money is proposed to be raised by subscription, that there be also annexed to the said petition, an account of-the money subscribed for that purpose, and the names of the subscribers, with the sums by them subscribed respectively." "On the 7th May 1794--Resolved, That whenever any petition has been presented to the House for the purposes aforesaid, or any or or either of them, the committee to whom such petition shall, be referred, do examine in the first place, how far the orders contained in the preceding resolutions have been complied with, and do report the same at the time when they report the matter of anysuch petition, as it shall appear to them, to the House." The petition being fairly ingrossed, should be signed by some of the principal promoters of the undertaking, and such of the documents before mentioned, as the particular case may require, should be thereto annexed. When the petition is presented, it will be referred to a committee to be considered, before whom the allegations thereof must be proved; and also how far the foregoing standing orders have been complied with. The Gazettes and provincial...
