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tion given as was required to render
such order or determination valid.
16. It shall be lawful for any two
members of the Town Board at any
time to call, or to require the Clerk to
call a meeting of the Board; provided
always that notice of such meeting, and
of the purpose thereof, shall be given
in writing to the members of such
Board.
17. The Town Board acting under
any Ordinance shall have power at any
General Meeting to name Committees
of their own number for the more im
mediate direction and management of
all or any of the matters lawful to the
Town Board, and to give such Commit
tees (whereof three shall be a quorum)
such instructions and such powers as
they shall from time to time think fit
and expedient; and the regulations
hereinbefore enacted relative to the
meetings and adjournments, majorities,
orders, determinations, powers, and
authorities of the Town Board shall in
like manner apply to and affect all such
Committees.
18. It shall be lawful for the Town
Board acting under any Ordinance, to
appoint Clerks, Collectors, Treasurers
(unless where monies are ordered to be
lodged with the Provincial Treasurer),
Surveyors, Overseers, and other Offi
cers, with reasonable salaries or allow
ances for their trouble; and, if they
shall so think proper, to take security
from any such officer to be appointed for
the purposes of any Ordinance, for the
due and faithful execution of his office,
and to limit the sum beyond which he
shall not retain any money belonging
to the Town Board.
19. No person acting in or holding
any such official situation shall directly
or indirectly have or hold any share or
interest in any contract to be entered
into by the Town Board in pursuance
of any Ordinance, under a penalty not
exceeding Fifty pounds, to be levied
and applied as the other penalties here
by imposed are directed to be levied
and applied; and it shall be in the op
tion of the Town Board, and competent
to them to render such contract null
and void.
20. The Town Board shall cause a
book or books to be kept, in which
shall be entered all the minutes of their
orders and proceedings, as also a book
or books, in which shall be entered true
and regular accounts of all sums of
money received and expended, and of
the several articles, matters, and things
for which such sums of money shall
have been disbursed: And the Town
Board shall annually examine the
vouchers and audit and settle the ac
counts of the respective clerks and trea
surers appointed by them, and examine
into the state of the revenues and debts
of the several undertakings which may
be placed under their administration,
and make up abstracts of such accounts,
which shall be signed by not less than
three members of the Town Board, and
shall be printed and published annually
in the Government Gazette, or a news
paper, within one month after the said
accounts are audited and signed as
aforesaid.
21. Such book or books and accounts
shall at all reasonable times be open to
the inspection of any of the members
of the Board, who shall be at liberty
to take copies thereof without paying
anything for the same; and the said
book or books shall be produced by
the said clerk or treasurer at all meet
ings of the Board: And any person
having paid assessment for the current
year, and all arrears, if any, due by
him, may see and take a copy of the
said accounts, or any part thereof, on
paying one shilling to the clerk or trea
surer for each time of inspection.
22. If any officer appointed by the
Town Board, in pursuance of this or
any other Ordinance, shall, when re
quired by the Board, refuse or wilfully
neglect to render and give to them, or
to such person as they shall for that
purpose appoint, a true, exact, and per
fect account in writing under his hands,
with the proper vouchers, of all monies
which he shall to the time of rendering
such accounts have received, paid, and
disbursed for or on account, or by rea
son of his office, as also all books, pa
pers, writings, tools, matters, and
things in his hands, custody, or power,
belonging to the Town Board; and, in
case any money so received by any such
officer shall remain in his hands, to pay
the same to the Board, or to such per
son as the Board shall authorise and
empower to receive the same, then it
shall be lawful for any two Justices of
the Peace, upon complaint made by or
on behalf of the Town Board, to hear
and determine such complaint in a sum
mary way, and to cause such money as
shall appear to be due and unpaid, and
all costs and expenses, to be levied by
distress and sale of the goods and effects
of such officer; and if it shall appear to
any two Justices of the Peace that any
such officer shall have wilfully refused
to give such account, or to deliver up
all or any books, papers, writings, tools,
matters, and things, in his custody or