PARLIAMENTA RY FORMS. Duty of Solicitor. Sale, &c. of lands. 2. OF THE BILL. In preparing the draft of an Estate Bill, the following standing orders of the House of Lords must, in addition to the remarks already made on bills in general (1), be strictly attended to. It is ordered by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, that where a bill is brought in to empower any person to sell or dispose of lands in one place, and to buy or settle lands in another place, the committee to whom such bill shall be referred do take care that the values be fully made out; and if the bill shall not be for making a new purchase, but only for settling other lands in lieu of those to be sold, in that case provision shall be made in the bill that such other lands be settled accordingly. But if the bill be to purchase and settle other lands, in that case the committee are to take care that there be a binding agreement produced for such new purchase; or if it shall be made appear to the committee that such agreement cannot then be made, or that such purchase cannot then be made and settled as desired by the bill, and the committee shall be satisfied with the reasons alleged for either of those purposes, in either of those cases provision shall be made in the bill that so much of the money arising by sale of the lands directed to be sold as is to be laid out in a new purchase, shall be paid by the purchaser or purchasers into the Bank of England, in the name and with the privity of the Accountant-General of the High Court of Chancery, to be placed to his account there, ex parte the purchaser or pur. chasers of the estate of the person or persons mentioned in the title of the said bill, pursuant to the method prescribed by the Act of the twelfth year of King George the First, cap. xxxii., and the general orders of the said court, and without fee or reward, according to the (1) See ante, p. xxii. PARLIAMENTA RY FORMS. Act of the twelfth year of King George the Second, cap. xxiv., and shall, when so paid in, be laid out in the purchase of Navy or Victualling Duty of Solicitor. Bills, or Exchequer Bills. lands. “Ordered.— That in any private bill for exchanging an estate in settle- Exchanging ment and substituting another estate in lieu thereof, there shall be annexed to such bill a schedule or schedules of such respective estates, shewing the annual rent and the annual value thereof, and also the value of the timber growing thereupon. And in all private bills for selling a settled estate and purchasing another estate to be settled to the same uses, there shall be annexed to such bill a schedule or schedules of such estates, specifying the annual rent thereof, and that every such schedule shall be signed and proved upon oath by a surveyor or other competent person before the committee to whom such bill shall be referred. trustee. "Ordered. That when any of the parties interested in any private bill Appointment of shall have power by such bill to name a trustee in the room of any trustee dying, resigning, or refusing to exercise his trust, provision shall be made in the bill that such new trustee shall be appointed by or with the approbation of the Court of Chancery. For all other matters relative to the passing of Estate Bills through the Houses of Parliament, the solicitor must rely upon, or receive, personal directions from his Parliamentary agent. |