THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 595

next regular day and hour of meeting, and the names
of the Members present shall be recorded.
4. A quorum shall consist of three Members, and
in the absence of the Chairman, a chairman pro. tem.
shall be appointed from amongst the Members
present.
5. The regular days of meeting of the Board shall
be the second Monday in each month, unless other-
wise ordered.
6. At each meeting of the Board the business shall
be proceeded with in the following order :—
(1.) The minutes of the preceding meeting shall
be read over, and corrected if necessary, after
which the said minutes shall be confirmed,
signed and dated by the Chairman.
(2.) Correspondence.
(3.) Reports of Committees received.
(4.) Orders of the Day.
7. The Orders of the Day shall include all business
of which due notice has been given.
8. All motions shall be considered in the order in
which notice thereof has been given in writing to the
Chairman, signed by the mover.
9. It shall be competent for any Member to pro-
pose an original motion, or any amendment of a
motion, without previous notice, provided that it be
not of a legislative character, or the effect of which
would be to rescind or amend any previous resolution
of the Board.
10. Any motion or amendment, not seconded, shall
not be debated, but shall lapse; and no discussion
shall be allowed on a motion for adjournment.
11. No notice of motion entered on the notice
paper shall be proceeded with unless by the Member
giving such notice, or by some Member duly author-
ized by him.
12. Any motion duly seconded shall not be with-
drawn, unless by the sanction of the Board.
13. A call of the Board for special purposes shall
be made by the Chairman on the written requisition
of three of the Members; and no order for a call of
the Board shall be made for any day earlier than
four days from the date of such order, inclusive of
the date of the same; a copy of such order to be
forwarded to each Member, signed by the Chairman
or Clerk.
14. The Chairman shall have a deliberative as well
as a casting vote.
15. When any motion has been duly proposed and
seconded, the question shall thereon be put by the
Chairman, when each Member respectively and suc-
cessively shall signify his assent or dissent by the
words "Aye" or "No." The Chairman shall then
state whether the "Ayes" or the "Noes" have it.
16. The decision of the Chairman shall be final on
all questions of "order" or "practice."
17. If more than one Member rise at the same
time, the Chairman shall decide the pre-audience.
18. Any Member, upon proposing a motion or
amendment, or speaking to any question, must rise
and address the Chairman; and no Member shall be
interrupted, unless by a call to order, when he shall
resume his seat, and the question of order be decided
by the Chairman, before the discussion is resumed,
or any other business entered upon.
19. No Member shall speak twice to a question,
except in explanation, or the mover of a resolution in
reply.
20. When the mover of any resolution has exer-
cised his right of reply, the Chairman shall put the
question forthwith.
21. When the Chairman rises to address the
Board, any Member then speaking shall sit down.
22. Committee meetings shall be held on Tuesdays
and Thursdays weekly, unless otherwise ordered.

23. No Committee Report shall be adopted, unless
    it shall have been brought up, read, and received at a
    previous meeting of the Board.
24. All Committees shall be appointed by a reso-
    lution of the Board.
25. All preceding Rules for the regulation of the
    Board shall apply to Committees, except clause 19.
26. Any Member of the Board may be appointed
    Chairman of Committee.
27. Committees shall consider only such matters as
    have been referred to them by the Board.
28. Every resolution passed in Committee shall be
    brought up by the Chairman of Committee at the
    next succeeding meeting of the Board, without ques-
    tion and in its due order.
29. It shall be lawful for any Member of the Board
    to protest against the passing of Standing Orders,
    By-laws, or Amendments thereof; and such protest
    shall be fairly written and signed by the Member or
    Members protesting, and shall be duly entered at the
    end of the minutes of that meeting, and signed by
    the Chairman.
30. Any proposed By-law or Amendment of any
    By-law, or Standing Order, shall be read a first time
    without discussion. On a second reading a discussion
    may take place, and it may then be referred to a
    Committee of the Board, or read over a third time
    and passed, amended, or be disallowed; and no By-
    law disallowed shall be again proposed in the Board
    during that year.
31. Seven o'clock p.m. shall be deemed the regular
    hour of all meetings.
32. The Chairman of the Board may give notice or
    move any resolution, providing that, previous to
    proposing such resolution, he leave the Chair, and
    another Member be appointed pro. tem., until such
    resolution or resolutions shall have been disposed of,
    when he shall again resume the Chair.

NOTICE.

New Plymouth Exchanges Commissioners' Office,
New Plymouth, New Zealand,
31st October, 1870.

WHEREAS His Excellency the Governor of New
Zealand, in pursuance of the power and
authority vested in him by "The New Plymouth
Exchanges Amendment Act Amendment Act, 1867,"
did appoint Josiah Flight and John Stephenson
Smith, both of New Plymouth aforesaid, Esquires, to
inquire into and investigate and examine all or any
Exchanges made or purporting to be made under the
provisions of "The Town of New Plymouth Compen-
sation Ordinance, 1859," or "The Town of New
Plymouth Consolidation Ordinance, 1859," and
whether made between and by the Superintendent of
the Province of Taranaki and other persons being
owners of land as in the said Ordinances or either of
them mentioned, or by the said Superintendent and
the Commissioner of Crown Lands where neither
such other persons or any person authorized to act
on their behalf could be found, or whether made or
purporting to be made provisionally either with the
consent of such other persons or without their con-
sent, and whether made or purporting to be made
before or after the expiration of the last mentioned
of the said Ordinances; and in all cases as aforesaid in
which it should appear to the said Commissioners that
it would be for the mutual benefit of the parties con-
cerned that such Exchanges or any of them should
be confirmed in whole or in part to confirm the same
accordingly: to inquire into, investigate, and examine
all dealings with and contracts for and in relation to
conveyances of lands, the subject of any Exchange or
Exchanges in the said first-recited Act mentioned, since
the eighteenth day of August, 1859, and to ascertain