5.—All addresses to the Governor shall be presented by the mayor and town clerk unless otherwise ordered by the council.

6.—All notices of motion shall be dated and numbered and given by the intending mover to the town clerk at the close of the meeting of council or if not required by law to be given at a meeting then three clear days prior to the next meeting of council and the town clerk shall enter the same in the notice of motion book in the order in which they may be received.

7.—No member shall make any motion initiating a subject for discussion but in pursuance of notice given as prescribed in the last preceding clause.

8.—No motion except that for receiving the same shall unless under some urgent circumstances be made on any petition memorial or other like application until the next ordinary meeting of council after that at which it has been presented.

9.—Except by leave of the council motions shall be moved in the order in which they have been received and recorded by the town clerk in the notice of motion book and if not so moved or postponed shall be struck out.

10.—No motion entered in the notice of motion book shall be proceeded with in the absence of the councillor who gave notice of the same unless by some other councillor producing written authority from him to that effect.

11.—No motion for an address or petition shall be entertained unless the mover shall at some previous meeting have submitted a draft of the same.

12.—Any councillor desirous of making a motion or amendment or taking part in discussion thereon shall rise and address the chairman and shall not be interrupted unless called to order when he shall sit down until the councillor (if any) calling to order shall have been heard thereon and the question of order disposed of when the councillor in possession of the chair may proceed with the subject.

13.—Any councillor desirous of proposing an original motion or amendment must state the nature of the same before he addresses the council thereon.

14.—No motion or amendment shall be withdrawn without the leave of the council.

15.—No motion or amendment shall be discussed or put to the vote of the council unless it be seconded but a councillor may however require the enforcement of any standing order of the council by directing the mayor’s or chairman’s attention to the infraction thereof.

16.—A councillor moving a motion shall be held to have spoken thereon but a councillor merely seconding a motion shall not be held to have spoken upon it.

17.—The councillors in meeting of council shall designate each other by their official titles namely that of mayor chairman or councillor as the case may require.

18.—If two or more councillors rise to speak at the same time the mayor or chairman shall decide which is entitled to priority.

19.—The mayor or chairman shall rise in addressing the council to discuss any question and shall not leave the chair on such occasions.

20.—No councillor shall speak a second time on the same question unless entitled to reply or in explanation when he has been misrepresented or misunderstood.

21.—The mayor or chairman when called upon to decide on points of order or practice shall state the provision rule or practice which he deems applicable to the case without discussing or commenting on the same and his decision as to order or explanation in each case shall be final.

22.—No councillor shall digress from the subject matter of the question under discussion or comment upon the words used by any other councillor in a previous debate and all imputations of improper motives and all personal reflections on councillors shall be deemed highly disorderly.

23.—Whenever any councillor shall make use of any expression disorderly or capable of being applied offensively to any other councillor the councillor so offending shall be required by the mayor or chairman to withdraw his expression and to make satisfactory apology to the council.

24.—A councillor called to order shall sit down unless permitted to explain.

25.—Any councillor using offensive or disorderly language and having been twice called to order or to withdraw or apologise for such conduct and refusing so to do shall be guilty of an offence.