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and shall have all such papers ready to be
produced before the Council whenever the same may be required by any member, and such papers shall at all times be open to the inspection and perusal of any member of the Council.

20. Any motion for the suspension of any of the standing rules of the Council may be made at any time without prior notice thereof, and such motion shall be decided upon immediately, and be lost, unless five members voting thereon shall vote in favour of such suspension.

21. Previously to any proposition being made to the Council for the raising or disposing of public moneys, or resolution being offered whereby any expenditure of the public moneys may be directly or indirectly authorised or approved, a copy of the resolution intended to be proposed shall be submitted to the Council at a prior meeting at least five days before the meeting whereat the same shall be proposed, together with all papers, documents, and estimates whereon such motion may be founded, and all such papers, documents and estimates shall be lodged with the Clerk of the Council. All payments to be made by cheque, signed after vote of the Council by the Chairman and two members, and countersigned by the Clerk.

22. Wherever any number of days are mentioned in the standing rules of the Council, the same shall be construed and taken to be so many days exclusive of Sundays and general holidays.

23. All officers and servants of the Council shall be elected by ballot.

24. The meetings of the Council, except when otherwise ordered, shall be open to the public.

RULES FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF COMMITTEES OF THE COUNCIL.

1. Whenever any Committee shall be appointed at any meeting of the Council, the members of such Committee shall assemble in the Council-room immediately after the adjournment of the Council, and shall then appoint some day not later than five days after, for the meeting of the Committee, in order to proceed to business.

2. At the first meeting of the Committee for business, the Committee shall proceed in the first place to elect a Chairman.

3. All documents and papers laid before any Committee shall at any adjournment of the Committee be considered to be in the custody of the Chairman of such Committee, who shall be responsible for their safety.

4. It shall be competent to the Chairman of any Committee, with the assent of the Committee, to direct that the Committee sit with closed doors.

5. All questions in Committee shall be decided by a majority of votes, the Chairman always having an original vote; and in case of an equality of votes, also a casting vote.

6. Every Committee shall have power to report from time to time to the Council in any case in which the Committee may deem it expedient to do so.

7. All reports of Committees shall be prepared by the Chairman of such Committees respectively.

8. All reports shall be read in Committee before they shall be approved and signed. It shall be competent to any member to move an amendment on such report, and such amendment, if approved by a majority of votes, shall be adopted and inserted in the report.

9. Any member of Committee dissenting from the opinion of the majority of the Committee, may deliver to the Chairman a written statement of his reasons for such dissent, and such statement shall be received by the Chairman and appended to the report.

10. Every Committee shall make their final report upon the matter referred to them within one month after their appointment, unless the time shall be enlarged by the Council.

I hereby signify my assent to the foregoing By-laws.

ROBERT WILKIN,
Deputy Superintendent.

PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS, by an Ordinance of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Canterbury, intituled the "Trespass of Cattle Ordinance," Session XIV. No. 1, it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent to cause Public Pounds to be erected and maintained within the said Province; and whereas, by the Superintendent’s Deputy Act, 1856, the said Superintendent has appointed Robert Wilkin, Esq., to be Deputy-Superintendent of the said Province. Now therefore, I, Robert Wilkin, Deputy-Superintendent of the said Province, in pursuance of the provisions of the above recited Ordinance and Act, and of all other powers enabling me on that behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the place or enclosure erected upon Section No. 386, on the map of the Chief Surveyor of the said Province, situate at Rangiora in the said Province, shall be deemed and taken to be a Public Pound within the meaning of the above recited Ordinance.

Given under my hand at Christchurch, this Twenty-fifth day of April, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty two.

ROBERT WILKIN,
Deputy-Superintendent.

By His Honor’s command,
THOS. WM. MAUDE,
Provincial Secretary.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!