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8. (Par. 181.)

ENGROSSING AND ENROLLING OF BILLS.

"Die Jovis, 8° Februarii, 1849.

"Resolved, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in 'Parliament assembled,—

1. "That it is expedient to discontinue the present to alter the present system of engrossing, and

system of Enrolling Bills, and to make such provisions

in lieu thereof as are hereinafter mentioned.

2. That this House is prepared to agree to the following arrangements, if agreed to by the other House of Parliament."

I. That in lien of being engrossed, every Bill shall be fair printed immediately after it shall have been passed in the House in which it originated, and that such fair printed Bill shall be sent to the other House, as the Bill so passed, and shall (subject to the regulation next hereinafter mentioned) be dealt with by that House and its Officers in the same manner in which Engrossed Bills are now dealt with.

II. That on its return to the House in which it originated, without Amendments (or if amended, after the Amendments shall have been settled and agreed to), it shall be fair printed by the Queen's printer,

who shall furnish a fair print thereof on vellum to the House of Lords, before the Royal Assent, and likewise a duplicate of such fair print, also on vellum.

III. That one of such fair prints of each Bill shall be duly authenticated by the proper Officers of each House, as the Bill to which both Houses have agreed.

IV. That the Royal Assent shall be endorsed in the usual form on such fair print so authenticated, which shall be deposited in the Record Tower, in lieu of the present Engrossing.

V. That the Copies promulgated in the first instance by the Queen's Printer shall be impressions from the same form as the deposited copy.

VI. That the Master of the Rolls shall, upon being duly authorised in that behalf, receive in lieu of the Copies of Public General Acts as now enrolled, the hereinbefore-mentioned duplicate fair print of each Public General Bill, to be held for the same purpose, and subject to the same conditions for and upon which the Enrolled Acts are now received and held by

him.

VII. That it is expedient, with a view to economy, convenience, and despatch, and to the diminution of the chance of errors, that one Printer should print the Public General Bills for both Houses; and that inasmuch as the Queen's Printer is by virtue of his office bound to print the Acts, it would be advisable for the attainment of the before-mentioned objects, that the Queen's Printer should be employed by both Houses to print the Public General Billa,

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182. In the month of January each year, or

as soon after as may be practicable, a complete collection should be published, for general information, of all Acts or Ordinances enrolled during the preceding year, and six copies of such collection of Acts, &c., shall be sent home.

183. Whenever it may be found necessary to address the Secretary of State in a more un- reserved manner than a Public Despatch would admit with propriety or convenience to the public interest, such communication should be marked "Confidential"; but care must be taken that the regular series of Despatches shall contain a full account of all important trans- actions in the Colony, so that when Parliament

may call for information as to any of those transactions a clear and connected view of what has taken place may be afforded by the numbered Despatches, without adding those which are "Confidential," and which should not be referred to in the public despatches.

184. It will, however, rest with the Secretary of State in every case to decide whether such "Confidential" Despatches are or are not to be considered and recorded as public docu-

ments.

185. No allowance on account of travelling expenses will be male to any Officer or other person bringing Despatches to this Department, unless the intelligence transmitted be of such a nature as to appear to the Governor to justify the sending it by a special messenger.

186. Every Governor is enjoined to cause the Secretary of State's Despatches, addressed to himself, as well as copies of his own, addressed to the Secretary of State, whether "Confidential " or not, to be deposited in the Government House, if this has been the usual place of deposit for them, or in some other safe building belonging to the Government.

187. Governors are forbidden to withdraw any public document so deposited on retiring from their Governments.

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