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When the Committee on a Private Bill shall decide that the Preamble is proved, and further unanimously report that the Promoters of the Bill have been vexatiously subjected to Expense in the Promotion of the said Bill, by the Opposition of any Petitioner or Petitioners against the same, then the Promoters shall be entitled to recover from the Petitioners, or such of them as the Committee shall think fit, such Portion of their Costs of the Promotion of the Bill as the Committee may think fit, such Costs to be taxed by the Taxing Officer of the House as herein-after mentioned, or such a Sum for Costs as the Committee shall name, with the Consent of the Parties affected; and in their Report to the House the Committee shall state what Portion of the Costs, or what Sum for Costs, they shall so think fit to award, together with the Names of the Parties liable to pay the same and the Names of the Parties entitled to receive the same : Provided always, that no Landowner who bonâ fide at Ms own sole Risk and Charge opposes a Bill which proposes to take any Portion of the, said Petitioner's Property for the Purposes of the Bill shall be liable to any Costs in respect of his Opposition to such Bill.
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