Parliamentary Papers, Volume 14H.M. Stationery Office, 1856 - Bills, Legislative |
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Page 24 - Time, at such Times as any One of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State shall direct, give to the Principal Secretary of State requiring the same such Information respecting their Proceedings, or any Part thereof, as the said Principal Secretary of State shall require.
Page 66 - ... or some memorandum or note thereof, shall be in writing, and signed by the party to be charged therewith, or some other person thereunto by him lawfully authorized.
Page iii - Every select committee having power to send for persons, papers, and records, shall have leave to report their opinion and observations, together with the minutes of evidence taken before them, to the house...
Page 61 - Nottingham used to say of it, ' that "'every line was worth a subsidy;' and it might now be " said with truth that every line has cost a subsidy, for it is " universally admitted that no enactment of any legislature " ever became the subject of so much litigation.
Page iii - An Act to transfer Westminster Bridge and the Estates of " the Commissioners of Westminster Bridge" to the Commissioners of her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings ; and to enable such last-mentioned Commissioners to remove the present Bridge, and to build a new Bridge on or near the Site thereof.
Page iii - Orders of The House, examined the matters to them referred; and have agreed to the following REPORT...
Page viii - Report, — put, and agreed to. Question, That this Report, as amended, be the Report of the Committee to the House, — put and agreed to.
Page iii - GAS on common roads ; and to report upon the probable utility which the public may derive therefrom ; and who were empowered to report the Minutes of the Evidence...
Page 6 - It would have been much better doctrine if it had been originally determined that nothing else should amount to an acceptance than a written acceptance on the bill itself.
Page 102 - I am directed by the First Commissioner of Her Majesty's Works, &c., to acknowledge the receipt of Mr.