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26.—Any person not being a councillor who shall having been admitted to any meeting of the council be guilty thereat of any improper or disorderly conduct or who shall not leave when lawfully requested by the mayor or chairman so to do may be forthwith removed by him and shall be deemed guilty of an offence.

27.—Any councillor not attending in compliance with an order for a call of the whole council without reasonable excuse to the satisfaction of the majority thereof shall be deemed guilty of an offence.

28.—Any councillor may of right demand the production of any of the documents of the council applying to the question under discussion.

29.—The council shall vote by show of hands and any councillor present and not voting not being disabled by law from so doing shall be deemed guilty of an offence.

30.—The mayor or chairman shall in taking the sense of the council put the question first in the affirmative and then in the negative and the result thereof shall be recorded in the minutes.

31.—At every meeting of the council all motions whether original motions or amendments shall be reduced into writing signed by the mover and delivered to the chairman immediately on their being moved and seconded.

32.—No second or subsequent amendment whether upon an original proposition or on an amendment shall be taken into consideration until the previous amendment is disposed of.

33.—If an amendment be carried the question or amendment as amended shall become itself the question or amendment whereupon any further amendment upon any portion of the question or amendment coming after such first-mentioned amendment may be moved.

34.—If an amendment be negatived then a second may be moved to the question to which the first-mentioned amendment was moved but only one amendment shall be submitted to the council for discussion at a time.

35.—The mover of every original proposition but not of any amendment shall have a right to reply immediately after which the question shall be put from the Chair but no councillor shall be allowed to speak more than once on the same question unless permission be given to explain or the attention of the chair be called to a point of order.

36.—No discussion shall be allowed on any motion for adjournment of the council but if on the question being put the motion be negatived the subject then under consideration or the next on the notice paper shall be discussed or any other that may be allowed precedence before any subsequent motion for adjournment be made.

37.—Any councillor may protest against any resolution of the council and notice of intention to protest shall in every case be given forthwith on the adoption of the resolution protested against and the protest shall specify the reasons for protesting and shall be entered three days at least before the next ordinary meeting of the council by the protesting Councillor in a book to be kept for that purpose in the town Clerk’s office and signed by such councillor and shall be also entered in the minutes of the meeting at which notice of the intention to protest shall have been given previously to the confirmation thereof but such protest may be expunged from the minutes if declared by a majority of the council to be not in accordance with truth or in its terms disrespectful to the council.

38.—If a debate on any motion moved and seconded be interrupted by the number of the councillors present becoming insufficient for the transaction of business such debate may be resumed at the point where it was so interrupted on motion upon notice.

39.—If a debate on any order of the day be interrupted by such insufficiency of number as aforesaid happening such order may be restored to the notice-book for a future day on motion upon notice and then such debate shall be resumed at the point where it was so interrupted.

40.—Minutes of all proceedings of committees as well as of their reports numbered in consecutive order shall be entered in the committees’ minute-book and being signed by the chairman of the committee shall be presented to the council and the town clerk when practicable shall attend all meetings of committees.

41.—The town clerk shall convene every committee within ten days of the first appointment or at any other time thereafter by order of the council or on the written order of the chairman of the committee.

42.—No petition shall be presented after the council shall have proceeded to the orders of Petitions of the day.

43.—It shall be incumbent on every councillor presenting a petition to acquaint himself