METHOD OF LEGISLATION. 
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Money bills can originate only in the Legislative As- 
sembly and no appropriation can take place unless first 
recommended by a message from the Lieutenant-Governor. 
Every bill requires except on urgent or extraordinary Readings. 
occasions to be read three times on separate days. After the 
second reading the House goes into Committee, and all 
amendments made are reported to the House. After report 
the Bill is open to debate and amendment before it is: 
ordered for third reading. 
Private Bills are initiated by way of petition. No petition Deiat 
for a private Bill is received as a rule after the first two 
weeks of a session, and no private Bill can be presented after 
the first three weeks. 
Each Legislature has standing orders, relative to such 
petitions, prescribing what notice of the application shall be 
given and what particulars must be stated. 
The petition comes before the Committee on Standing 
Orders, and if such Committee reports favourably, the Bill 
is introduced on motion for leave. After being read a second 
fime it is referred to a Committee, and the subsequent 
procedure is similar to that prevailing in the Dominion 
Parliament,