POWERS OF THE CORPORATION.

53. *The said Corporation shall be capable in law by the Common Council thereof, to do and to suffer all such Acts as can be lawfully done or suffered by any Municipal Corporation in England by the Common Council thereof.

54. The said Council shall have power to make and keep in repair all Roads, Streets, Squares, Causeways, and Bridges, within the limits of the said Borough; to excavate, construct, and maintain Wells, Waterworks, Conduits, Sewers, and other like works, and to provide for the prevention of Nuisances, the regulation of Markets, and the construction of Market Places, the watching, paving, lighting, and cleansing of the said Borough, and for all such purposes as they may deem necessary for the good order, health, and convenience, of the inhabitants of the said Borough.

55. It shall also be lawful for such Council to construct and maintain such Docks, Basins, Locks, Wharves, Quays, Piers, and Landing Places, as they may deem necessary for facilitating and encouraging the Trade and Commerce of the said Borough.

56. *The said Common Council shall have power to make and ordain Bye Laws for the good order and convenience of the Borough.

57. *Such Bye Laws may so be made for any of the several objects following, that is to say—

1.—For the making or the maintenance of any Roads, or other internal communications from any one part of the Borough to any other part thereof.

2.—For the erection and repair of Public Buildings for any Corporate purposes.

3.—For the purchase or sale of any property for any Corporate purposes.

4.—For the establishment and maintenance of a Police Force within such Borough, and for the proper government and remuneration of any such Police Force.

5.—For the holding of Quarter Sessions or Petty Sessions of the Peace, of and for such Borough, by the Justices of the Peace thereof.

6.—For the Suppression of all Nuisances within such Borough prejudicial to the health or comfort of the Inhabitants thereof.

7.—For Draining, Paving, Lighting, Watching, Repairing, Cleansing, and Maintaining any Streets, Roads, and other Thoroughfares within such Borough.

8.—For Establishing and Maintaining Schools, Hospitals, and other Eleemosynary Institutions within such Borough.

9.—For Maintaining and Regulating Market Places, and for imposing Market Tolls and Dues, in cases where Markets shall be duly Proclaimed by or on behalf of Her Majesty.

10.—For the Imposition, Collecting, Accounting for, and Auditing, of all such Rates and Assessments on Property, Real or Personal, or both, within such Borough or upon the owners and occupiers of any such Property.

11.—For securing the application of the proceeds of all such Tolls, Rates, and Assessments, to the discharge of all expenses of, and incident to, the execution of all or any of the objects aforesaid.

12.—For determining the Amount of the Salaries or other remunerations to be assigned to any officers of such Borough.

13.—For imposing Fines for the breach or neglect of any such Bye Laws as aforesaid.

58. *All Bye Laws of such Borough shall be made, and all other Corporate Acts of such Corporation, shall be done by the Common Council thereof, by the authority and in the presence of whom, and not otherwise, the Common Seal of the said Borough shall be attached to any such acts.

59. *If any such Bye Law shall be repugnant to any Law or Ordinance of the General Legislature of New Zealand, or of the Legislature of the Province, such Bye Law shall be null and void.

60. *No such Bye Law shall take effect within the said Borough, or shall have the force and effect of law therein, unless the same shall have been approved by the Governor-in-Chief of New Zealand.

61. No such Bye Law shall come into operation until it shall have received the assent of the Governor, and until the expiration of one calendar month after a copy thereof, accompanied by the signification of such assent shall have been published in the Government Gazette.

62. It shall be lawful for the said Council from time to time to appoint fit persons (not being Members of the Council) to be Town Clerk and Treasurer, who shall hold their respective offices during pleasure, and to pay such officers such salaries to be sanctioned by the Governor, as the said Council shall deem reasonable.

MEETINGS OF THE COUNCIL.

63. All Acts whatsoever authorised or required to be done by the Common Council of the said Borough, and all questions that may come before such Council shall be done and decided by the majority of the Members of the Council who shall be present at any Meeting thereof, the whole number present at any such meeting not being less than one-half of the whole Council.

64. The Mayor shall have power to call a meeting of the said Council as often as he shall think proper.

65. The Mayor shall cause a Notice of the time and place of every such intended Meeting, specifying the business proposed to be transacted thereat, and signed by him, to be left at the usual place of abode of every Member of the Council, which Notice shall be given three clear days at least before such Meeting, unless it shall appear to the Mayor that such delay in the holding of any such Meeting