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Comm'ttee shall be one of the Committee ! without being named by the Council. RULES OF PARLIAMENT TO APPLY. 58. The special rnles and regulations of | the House of Representatives with respect to Select Committees shall apply co far as suitable to the circumstances of the Council. Petitions, presentation of petitions. 59. It ehall be incumbent on every Councillor presenting a petition to acquaint himself with the contents thereof and to ascertain that it does nob contain language disrespectful to the Council and that the contents do not violate any bye-law or any provision thereof. COUNCILLOR TO SIGN PETITIONS. 60. Every Councillor presenting a petition to the Counoil shall write his name at the beginning thereof. PETITIONS TO BE IN WRITING. 61. 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 Ekin or Bheet on which it is written. HOW SIGNED. 62. Every petition shall be signed by the persons whose names are appended thereto by their names or r~.arks and by no one else except in cases of incapacity or sickness. NO DOCUMENTS TO BE ATTACHED. 63. No letters affidavits or other documents shall be attached to any petition. HOW PETITION PRESENTED. 64. Every Councillor presenting a petition to the Council shall confine himself to & statement of the persons from whom it come 3of the signatures attached to it and the material allegations contained in it and to the reading of the prayer thereof. Miscellaneous, adjournment. 65. Whenever the Council shall stand adjourned for want of a Quorum the hour at which Buch adjournment is made and the names of the members present shall be inserted in the minute book of the Council and the minute book signed by the Clerk. NOTICE NOT REQUIRED FOR OKDERS OF THE DAY. 66. The ordinary business of the Council shall be laid before it by the Chairman without notice being required. ACCOUNTS AND PAPERS TO BE CONSIDERED PUBLIC. 67. Every account and paper laid upon the table ehall be cenaidered public unless otherwise ordered. MISCONDUCT OR INCAPACITY OF OFFICERS. 68. In all cases of misconduct or incapacity on the part of officers the Chairman shall have power to suspend any officer until the next meeting of the Council when tho matter shall be then duly reported. APPOINTMENTS. 69. No appointment to any permanent salaried office at the disposal of the Council Bhall take place until seven clear days public notice shall have been given by advertise ment in one or more newspapers circulated in the County inviting application from qualified candidates for the same. SALARIES. 70. 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 application as aforesaid and shall be specified in such advertisement. SURETIES. 71. No Councillor or officer of the Conncil and no assessor or auditor of the County shall be received as a surety for any officer appointed by the Counoil or any work to be done for the Council. . securities. 72. In all cases of securities given for faithful performance of any duty or contract the expense of preparing such security shall be borne by the person assured. COMMON SEAL. 73. The Common Seal of the County Council shall be kept in a box having two locks of one of which locks the Chairman shall have a key and of the other of which locks the key shall be kept by the clerk and the corporate seal shall not beaffixed to any document unless the Chairman and one other member of the Council or in the absence of the Chairman unless two Councillors be present. SUSPENSION OF RULES. 74. Any one or more of the rules or regulations contained in this Bye-law may be snspended for a special purpose on motion upon notice duly given and shall not otherwise bo suspended except by a unanimous vote of the Council. PENALTY. 75. If any person Bhall bn guilty of any wilful offence or misfeasance or wilful or negligent act of commission or omission contrary to any provision contained in this Bye-law he shall forfeit a Bum not exceeding five pounds. I certify that the foregoing is a correct copy of Bye-law No. 1 of the Manawatu County Council. D. H. MACARTHUR, Chairman. Juno 7th, 1881. Ihe seal of the Manawatu County Council was affixed hereto in the presence of D. H. MACARTHUR, Chairman ; JOHN F. ROCKSTROW, (L.S.) Councillors of the County Council of Manawatu, on the seventh day of June, 1881. It is hereby notified aud proclaimed that the foregoing Bye-law No. 1, of the Manawatu County Council, has been duly made and confirmed by the said Council, and the common seal of the body corporate hai been affixed thereto ; that a copy thereof has been sent to the Colonial Secretary ; and that tho said Bye-law will come into force on Monday, the Ist day of August, 1881. By order of the Council. JOHN McCULLOCH, Clerk to the County Council. (Date) BYE-LAW NO. 11. Regulating the Use of Slaughterhouses. inte rpre tation. 1. The word "slaughter-house" shall include the house buildings yards and premises in respect of which any license may be granted under this Bye-law, and the words " inspector of slaughter-houses" shall mean the person appointed by the Manawatu County Council to inspect such slaughterhouses, the words " great cattle" shall mean horned cattle or neat cattlo and tho words "small ca'tle" shall mean and include sheep goats and swine. BUILDINGS OR PREMISES TO BE LICENSED. 2. No building or premises within the Manawatu County shall be used as a place for the slaughtering of cattle unless the same be licensed as hereinafter mentioned ; nor shall any bnilding or premises unless so licensed be used for the slaughtering of cattle after notice has been served upon such owner or occupier or left for him on suoh premises requiring such owner to discontinue such uses or to take out a license under this Bye-law for such building and premises. SLAUGHTERING. 3. Every person applying to the Manawatu County Council tor a slaughtering license shall advertise his intention to apply for such license and notify in one of the County papers once in each week for four weeks in such advertisement the Bite of such slaughter-house and such site shall be approved by the inspector before any license is granted. LICENSE FEE. 4. The fee for snch new license shall be £6 per annum or any fraction thereof and must be paid to the clerk or treasurer of the Council with the application before such application is entertained to be returned if license is not granted and no license shall be transferred without the consent of the Conncil and in any such transfer a fee of iJI shall be paid. APPLICATIONS FOR RENEWAL. 5. All applications for renewal must be made and a fee of .£5 paid to the clerk of the Conncil on or before the last Tuesday in November in each year or the applicant will be charged as for a new license. FEES TO BE PAID MONTHLY. 6. That all fees under clause 34 of " The Slaughter-house Act 1877" for inspection and killing be paid to the Council monthly. DC RATION OF LICEN6E. 7. Every such license shall remain in force from the date thereof until the 31st day of December then next ensuing and no longer. SKINS TO BE KEPT AND PRODUCED. 8. Every licensed person shall keep the skins of aJ cattle slaughtered by him tor fourteen days which shall be produced on demand at the place of slaughter to the said inspector SLAUGHTER-HOUSES TO BE KEPT CLEAN. 9. Every licensed slaughter-house »hall ba kept clean and the buildings shall be scraped white-washed and purified to the satisfaction of the inspector aforesaid. OFEENSIVE MATTER TO BE REMOVED. 10. All blood offal or other offensive matter shall be removed from such licensed premises at least once in every twenty-four hours. ONLY LICENSEE OR HIS SERVANT TO SLAUGHTER ANIMALS. 11. No person except the licensee or his