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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4735, 9 October 1886, Page 1

ORDER, &c, OF DEBATE. I 1-1. Any Councillor desirous of making , a motion or amendment, or taking part in discussion thereon shall rise and address the Chairman, and Khali not be interrupted unless called to order, when he shall sit down until the Councillor (if any) calling to order shall have boon heard thereon, and the question of order disposed of, when the Councillor in possession of the chair may proceed with tlie subject. 15. Any Councillor desirous of proposing an original motion or amendment must state the nature of the same before he addresses the Council thereon. 16. No motion or amendment shall bo withdrawn without the leave of the Council. 17. No motion or iimoiidmunt shall be discussed or put to the vote of the Council unless it be seconded. 18. A Councillor moving a motion shall be held to have spoken thereon, but a Councillor merely seconding a motion shull not be held to have spoken upon it. 19. The Councillors in Meeting- of Council shall designate each other by their official titles, namely, that of Mayor, Chairman, or Councillor, as the case may require. 20. If two or more Councillors rise to speak at the same time, the Mayor or Chairman shall decide which is entitled to priority. 21. The Mayor or Chairman shall rise in addressing the Council to discuss any question, and shall not leave the chair on such occasions. 22. No Councillor shall speak a second time on the same question unless entitled to reply, or in explanation when ho has been misrepresented or misunderstood. 23. The Chairman shall decide on all points of order or practice without discussing , or commenting on the same, and his decision in each case shall be final. 2-1. No Councillor shall digress from the subject matter of the question under discussion or comment upon the words used by any other Councillor in a previous debate, and all imputations of improper motives and all personal reflections on Councillors shall be deemed highly disorderly. 25. Whenever any Councillors shall make use of any expression disorderly or capable of being applied offensively to any other Councillor, the Councillor so offending shall be required by the Mayor or Chairman to withdraw his expression, and to make satisfactory apology to the Council. 26. A Councillor called to order shall sit down unless permitted to explain. 27. Any Councillor using offensive or disorderly language, and having been twice called to order, or to withdraw, or apologise for such conduct, and refusing , so to do, shall be guilty of an offence. 28. Any person not being a Councillor who shall, having been admitted to any Meeting , of the Council, bo guilty thereat of any improper or disorderly conduct, or who shall not leave when lawfully requested by the Mayor or Chairman so to do, may be forthwith removed by him, and shall be deemed guilty of an offence. 29. Any Councillor not attending in compliance with an order for a call of the whole Council without reasonable excuse to the satisfaction of the majority thereof shall be guilty of an offence. 30. Any Councillor may of right demand the production of any of the documents of the Council applying to the question iinder discussion. 31. The Council shall vote by show of hands, and any Councillor present and not voting, not being disabled by law from so doing, shall be guilty of an. offence. 32. The Mayor or Chairman shall, in taking the sense of the Council, put the question first in the affirmative, then in negative, and the result thereof shall be recorded in tho Minutes. 33. At every Meeting of the Council all motions, whether original motions or amendments, shall be reduced into writing, signed by the mover and delivered to the Chairman immediately on their being , moved and seconded. 31. No second or subsequent amendment whether upon an original proposition or on an amendment shall be taken into consideration until the previous amendment is disposed of. 35. If an amendment be carried, the question or amendment as amended shall become itself the question or amendment, whereupon any further amendment upon any portion of the question or amendment coming after such first mentioned amendment may bo moved. 36. If an amendment ho negatived, then a second may be moved to the question to which the first mentioned amendment was moved, but only one amendment shall be submitted to the Council for discussion at a time. 37. The mover of every original proposition, but not of any amendment, shall have a right to reply, immediately after which the question shall be put from the chair, but no Councillor shall be allowed to speak more than once on the same question unless permission be given to explain, or the attention of the chair be called to a point of order. 3S. No discussion shall be allowed on any motion for adjournment of the Council, but if on the question being put, the motion be negatived, the subject then under consideration or the next on the notice paper shall be discussed, or any other that may be allowed precedence before any subsequent motion for adjournment be made. 39. Any resolution of a meeting of the Council may be revoked or altered at a subsequent meeting, either by a unanimous vote of all the Councillors, or subject to the condition that ftven days at least before such subsequent meeting , , notice thereof and of the proposals to revoke or alter such resolution, shall bo given, to each Councillor. : LAPSED QUESTIONS. 40. If a debate on any motion moved and seconded bo interrupted by the number of the Councillors present becoming insufficient for the transaction of business, such debate may be resumed at the point where it was so interrupted on motion upon notice. 41. If a debate on any order of the day be interrupted by such insufficiency of number as aforesaid happening, such order may be restored to the notice book for a future day on motion upon notice, and then such debate shall be resumed at the point where it was so interrupted. COMMITTEES. 42. Minutes of all proceedings of Committees, as well as of their reports, numbered in consecutive order, shall be entered in the Committees' Minute Book, and being signed by the Chairman of the Committee, shall be presented to the Council at its next meeting. 43. The Town Clerk shall convene every Committee withiu ten days of its first appointment, or at any other time thereafter by order of the Council, or on the written order of the Chairman of the Committee, or of any two members of the Committee. PETITIONS. 44. No petition shall be presented after the Council shall have proceeded to the orders of the day. 45. It shall be incumbent on every Councillor presenting , a petition to acquaint himself with the contents thereof, and to ascertain that it does not contain language disrespectful to the Council, and that the contents do not violate any By-law or any provision hereof. 46. Every Councillor presenting a petition to the Council shall write his name at the beginning thereof. 47. Every petition shall be in writing, and not printed or lithographed, and shall contain the prayer of the petitioners at the end thereof, and be signed by at least one person on every skin or sheet on which it is written. 48. Every petition shall be signed by tho persons whose names are appended thereto, by their names or marks, and by no one else except in cases of incapacity by sickness. 49. No letters, affidavits, or other documents shall be attached to any petition. 50. Every Councillor presenting a petition to the Council shall confine himself to a statement of the persons from whom it comes, of the number of signatures attached to it, and of thematerial allegations contained in it, and to the reading of the prayer thereof. APPOINTMENTS, &c, OF OFFICERS. 51. No appointment to any permanent office at the disposal of the Council shall take place until seven clear days' public notice shall have been given by advertisement in one or more newspapers circulating in the Borough, inviting applications from qualified, candidates for the same, 52. The salary or allowance- attached to all offices and places at the disposal of the Council, shall in all cases bo fixed before they proceed to appoint any person to- fill the same, before the advertisement inviting , applications as aforesaid, and shall be specified in such advertisement. 53. No Councillor or officer of the Council, and no assessor or auditor of the Borough shall be received as a surety for any officer appointed by the Council, or for any work to be done or the Council. 54. In all cases of security being given for the faithful performance of any duty or contract, the expense of preparing such, security shall be borne by the Contractor. MISCELLANEOUS. 55. All the plans and specifications for any piiblic work shall be laid before the Council at least six days prior to the same being considered and ordered upon, and be open for inspection by any ratepayer during , that tiimx 56. The common seal of the Borough shall be kept in a. box having two keys, of which tho Mayor and the Town Clerk shall have each one, and the corporate seal shall not be affixed to any document unless the Mayor and Town Clerk, or in the absence of the Mayor, the Town Clerk and one Councillor, bo present and attest the same. 57. Any one or more of the- rules or regulations contained in tfh,it>. subdivision may bo suspended for a special purpose on motion upon notice duly given, and shall not otherwise be suspended, except by a unanimous vote of the Council. 58. If any person shall be guilty of any wilful offence or misfeasance-, or wilful or negligent act of commission, or omission oontrary to any provision contained in this subdivision, he , shall forfeit a sum not exceeding , five- pounds. 59. Whenever the Council shall stand adjourned for want of a quorum, the hour at which such adjournment is made, and the names of the members present, shall be inserted in tlu? Minute Book of the Council, and the Minute Book be sigued. by the Town" Clerk, SECTION NO. 7. TO REGULATE CHIMNEY.SWEEPS. 1. From and after the ditto of this Section coming into , operation, no person shall cany «v the business of a Chimney Sweep witliin tho limits of tho. Borough of Napier, unless he shall in each year havo registered his name and place of abode in the Town Clerk's Office, and every such person who neglects so to register, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding forty shillings;. 2. charge for sweeepiug chimneys hi the Borough shall be as follows:— Chimney of a one-storied house, 2s. Xn two-storied houses— Chimney on ground floor, 2s. 6d. Chimney on first floor, 2s. In three-storied houses— Chimney on ground floor, 3«. Chimney ret fiooVj 2s . 6d. Ch.Vfnney on second floor, 2s. 3. Evca-y- registered Chimney Sweep who shall be required' by any person to do ■within the Borough any work as such Chimney Sweep, and who without reasonable excuse shall refuse or neglect to do such work, or shall demand and take' for such work any greater sum than that hereby appointed, or' shall use any abusive or insulting language to , suiy person! wishing to employ or having employed such Chimney Sweep,shall on conviction, forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding five' pounds. SECTION NO. 8. WATERWORKS. 1. The following shall be tho rates at which the Corporation, will supply water within those portions'of the Borough of Napier, shown and colored red on the original Plans defining the boundaries of Water Supply -within the said Borough ° Oeduiaby Domestic. Eatable value not exceeding £12 10s. ... 6s. per animm Ratable value exceeding £12 10e., not exceeding dE 100 ... 2£ per cent. Ratable value exceeding £100, not ex- " ■ ceeding£2oo ... 2 Ratable value exceeding £200 and upwards ... i-j p er cen t.. Stores not occupied as dwelling houses... 11- ~ Water for fire extinguishing purposes only ... ... 1 M }i . Steam engines, per horse power ... 15s. each per annum ."Upon all lands and buildings to which water can be' but is not supplied, situate witliin 100 yards from any water' (Continued on page -i.J