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with the contents thereof and to ascertain that it does not contain language disrespectful to the council and that the contents do not violate any bye-law or any provision hereof.

44.—Every councillor presenting a petition to the council shall write his name at the beginning thereof.

45.—Every petition shall be in writing and not printed or lithographed and shall contain the prayer of the petitioners at the end thereof and be signed by at least one person on every skin or sheet on which it is written.

46.—Every petition shall be signed by the persons whose names are appended thereto by their names or marks and by no one else except in cases of incapacity by sickness.

47.—No letters affidavits or other documents shall be attached to any petition.

48.—Every councillor presenting a petition to the council shall confine himself to a statement of the persons from whom it comes of the number of signatures attached to it and of the material allegations contained in it and to the reading of the prayer thereof.

Appointments etc. of officers

49.—No appointment to any permanent office at the disposal of the council shall take place until seven clear days’ public notice shall have been given by advertisement in two or more newspapers circulating in the borough inviting applications from qualified candidates for the same.

50.—The salary or allowance attached to all offices and places at the disposal of the council shall in all cases be fixed before they proceed to appoint any person to fill the same before the advertisement inviting applications as aforesaid and shall be specified in such advertisement.

51.—No councillor or officer of the council and no assessor or auditor of the borough shall be received as a surety for any office appointed by the council or for any work done for the council.

52.—In all cases of security being given for the faithful performance of any duty or contract the expense of preparing such security shall be borne by the person providing the same.

Miscellaneous

53.—All the plans and specifications for any public work shall be laid before the council at least six days prior to the same being considered and ordered upon and be open for inspection by any ratepayer during that time.

54.—It shall be lawful for the treasurer of the borough from time to time on the written order of the town clerk to disburse such moneys as shall have been appropriated by the council for the purpose of this clause and as shall be required for any necessary occasion not exceeding in the whole in any interval between two ordinary meetings of the council the sum of five pounds.

55.—The common seal of the borough shall be kept in a box having two locks of one of which locks the mayor and each councillor shall have a key and of the other of which locks the key shall be kept by the town clerk and the corporate seal shall not be affixed to any document unless the mayor and one other member of the council be present or in the absence of the mayor of unless two councillors be present.

56.—Any one or more of the rules or regulations contained in this subdivision may be suspended for a special purpose on motion upon notice duly given, and shall not otherwise be suspended except by a unanimous vote of the council.

57.—If any person shall be guilty of any wilful offence or misfeasance or wilful or negligent act of commission or omission contrary to any provision contained in this subdivision he shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds.

PART XXIX

Pounds

58.—The council of every borough shall alone and for such borough have and exercise the powers hereinafter specified which by the Ordinance of the Governor and Legislative Council of New Zealand intituled “An Ordinance to authorise and regulate the Impounding of Cattle” or which by any Act or Ordinance of any Provincial Legislature heretofore or hereafter to be passed amending the same or making provision for like purposes with the said Ordinances may or are required to be exercised by the Governor or the Governor in Council or by the Superintendent of any Province either with or without the advice of his Executive Council or by a Resident Magistrate or by Justices of the Peace that is to say all such powers conferred by the said Ordinance or by any such Act or Ordinance as aforesaid as relate to the appointment establishment and abolition of pounds the appointment and removal of pound