The consolidated and other orders of the Poor Law Commissioners and the Poor Law Board : together with the general orders relating to poor law accounts the statutes relating to the orders, audit of accounts, appeals, and the payment of parish debts with explanatory notes elucidating the orders and the decisions thereon tables of statutes, cases, and index / by William Cunningham Glen.

  • W. Cunningham Glen
Date:
1859
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The consolidated and other orders of the Poor Law Commissioners and the Poor Law Board : together with the general orders relating to poor law accounts the statutes relating to the orders, audit of accounts, appeals, and the payment of parish debts with explanatory notes elucidating the orders and the decisions thereon tables of statutes, cases, and index / by William Cunningham Glen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Art. 35.—Notice of every change in the period, time, or place of holding any meeting, and notice of the ad- journment of any meeting, and notice of every extraordi- nary meeting, shall be given in writing to every Guar- dian. Every such notice shall be respectively in the Eorms (G.), (H.), and (I.) hereunto annexed, and shall be given or sent by the Clerk to every Guardian, or left at his place of abode two days, if practicable, before the day appointed for the meeting to which it relates. Art. 36.—If any case of emergency arise, requiring that a meeting of the Guardians should immediately take place, they, or any three of them, may meet at the ordinary place of meeting, and take such case into consideration, and may make an order thereon. Pboceedings of the Guaedians. Art. 37.—At every meeting the Chairman, or in his absence a Vice-Chairman, shall preside; but if at the commencement of any meeting the Chairman and Vice- Chairman or Vice-Chairmen be absent, the Guardians present shall elect one of themselves to preside at such meeting as Chairman thereof, until the Chairman or a Vice-Chairman take the chair (q). Art. 38.—Every question at any meeting consisting of more than three Guardians shall be determined by a majority of the votes of the Guardians present thereat, and voting on the question, [and, when there shall bo an equal number of votes on any question, such question shall be deemed to have been lost] (r). (<jr) The Guardian elected as presiding chairman will sign the minutes of the last ordinary and of any other meeting, if they are read whilst he is in the chair. See Art. 41 (firstly), and note -{?/)> p. 21. The chairman can of course, like any other Guardian, movo a resolution for adoption by the Guardians, or propose an amendment to or second a resolution brought for- ward by some other Guardian. It may be added, that if the regular Chairman of the Guardians be present at any meeting, it is incumbent upon him to fill the chair so long as he is present; and that he cannot vacate it, and act as an ordinary member of the Board of Guardians at the meeting. (r) The 12 & 13 Viet. c. 103, s. 19, has since enacted that,