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For appointing the standings for carts licensed to ply for hire not being nightcarts and for woodcarts and watercarts respectively.

For appointing the rates and charges as well as for time distance weight or all or any of these to be paid for the hire of any licensed cart.

For appointing the amount or rate of compensation and of rewards respectively to be paid water-carters attending at fires under this sub-division.

For appointing the places at which and the hours not other than between seven o’clock in the evening and six o’clock on the following morning between which hours it shall be lawful to load carry remove or deposit nightsoil offal or other offensive refuse or matter.

74.—The councils of all boroughs to which this sub-division shall apply and which shall be joint regulations within one common prescribed space may from time to time in manner in this Act mentioned make joint regulations to be in force within such space for all or any of the purposes in the last preceding section mentioned save so far as the same extends to the appointing places for the standing for carts within any borough and each council may in manner in the said section mentioned severally make separate regulations for appointing such standings within the limits of the borough.

4.—Pedlers and Hawkers.

88.—It shall be lawful for the council of every borough to make regulations for licensing pedlers’ and pedlers and hawkers trading in the borough and for defining to what persons such regulations shall apply and for fixing the amounts to be paid to the borough fund for their licences and for the registration of their names and for the regulation of their conduct.

89.—If any person trading as or carries on business within any borough to which this sub-division shall apply as a pedler or hawker without having first obtained a license he shall forfeit out of license, and pay on conviction for every such offence a sum not exceeding five pounds and every person trading or carrying on such business as aforesaid within any such borough shall be deemed and taken to be unlicensed unless he shall prove to the contrary by the production of his license or otherwise.

90.—Every person licensed to trade or carry on business as a pedler or hawker within any borough to which this sub-division shall apply who shall not comply with any regulation made by the council of the borough under the powers given in this sub-division for the regulation of the conduct of pedlers and hawkers he shall forfeit and pay on conviction for every such offence any sum not exceeding forty shillings.

PART XI.

REGULATIONS OF PROCEEDINGS OF COUNCIL, OFFICERS, ETC.

1.—In all cases not herein provided for resort shall be had to the rules forms and usages of Parliament which shall be followed so far as the same are applicable to the proceedings of the council.

2.—At every meeting of the council the first business thereof shall be the reading and putting a question for the confirmation of the minutes of the proceedings at the preceding meeting and the reading of the minutes of the proceedings of any committee presented at any such preceding meeting and no discussion shall be permitted thereon except as to their accuracy, as a record of the proceedings and the said minutes of the proceedings of the preceding meeting shall then be signed as by this Act required and the rough minutes of the proceedings of the council at any meeting shall be read at the close of such meeting.

3.—After the signing of the minutes as aforesaid the order of business of any ordinary meeting shall be as follows or as near thereto as may be practicable but for the greater convenience of the council at any particular meeting thereof it may be altered by resolution to that effect.

(I.) Reading of copies of letters sent by the authority of the council.

(II.) Reading letters received and considering and ordering thereon.

(III.) Reception and reading of petitions and memorials.

(IV.) Presentation of reports of committees.

(V.) Payments.

(VI.) Ordinary business.

(VII.) Orders of the day including subjects continued from proceedings of former meetings.

(VIII.) Extraordinary business and new rules and regulations.

(IX.) Other motions of which previous notice has been given.

(X.) Notices of motion.

And the order of business at a special meeting shall be the order in which such business stands in the notice thereof.

4.—Whenever a division shall be demanded by any councillor the councillors voting in the affirmative shall first hold up their hands and then those voting in the negative shall hold up their hands and the result be declared by the chairman.