JONES’S FLAT MINING DRAINAGE DISTRICT.

BYE-LAW No. 1.

At a Meeting of the Mining Drainage Board of the District of Jones’s Flat, begun and holden at Ross, in the said District, on the 3rd day of February, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, it is enacted by the said Board as follows: That is to say,

THE ORDER OF PROCEEDINGS OF THE JONES’S FLAT DRAINAGE BOARD.

1. That the business of the Board shall be conducted on all ordinary occasions with open doors; but any one member present may require the exclusion of strangers until it shall have been decided by the Board whether any particular question proposed to be introduced shall be discussed with open doors.

2. That the Chairman shall take the chair at the hour appointed, and shall commence the business of the Board at each meeting as soon as the legal quorum is present; but if, at the expiration of thirty minutes after the appointed hour of meeting, there be not a quorum, the Board shall stand adjourned to the next day, at the same hour, and the names of the members present shall be recorded in the minutes.

3. That, in the absence of the Chairman at the meeting of the Board, the members present shall appoint one from the members of the Board forming that meeting, and the member so appointed shall at such meeting hold and exercise the powers of Chairman.

4. That the minutes of the proceedings of each meeting of the Board shall be taken regularly, and entered in a book.

5. The first business at each meeting of the Board shall be to confirm the minutes of the preceding meeting; and no discussion shall take place thereon except as to the accuracy thereof.

6. At all meetings, the reading of correspondence unconnected with the business of the meeting, the presentation of applications, and the bringing up of reports, shall have precedence of all motions, in the order here mentioned.

7. No motion shall be entertained at any meeting unless notice in writing, signed by the member proposing the same, shall have been given at the previous sitting.

8. The orders of the day shall include all business of which due notice has been given, and any which may have been left incomplete at a previous sitting, and shall take precedence in the order in which they stand in the minute-book.

9. Any motion entered on the notice paper, the mover of which may be absent, and no member being deputed to bring it forward when the business is called in order, such notice shall be struck out.

10. The ordinary meetings of the Board shall be on Tuesdays in each week.

ORDERS OF DEBATE.

11. In connection with a motion, one amendment only shall be discussed at a time. After all amendments have been put to the vote and lost, the original question shall be then put.

12. Any member may call for the production of any of the documents of the Board relating to the subject under discussion.

13. All questions before the Board shall be determined by the Chairman putting the question to each individual member, who shall vote by replying “Aye” or “No.”

14. In every division, the votes of both “Ayes” and “Noes” shall be recorded, and every member present shall be required to vote.

15. Any member may require the Clerk to take down any particular words used by another member, immediately upon their being spoken.

16. Any, or each, of the following acts, words, or omissions, shall constitute and be a breach of order, punishable as a breach of bye-law:

    Addressing the Board in any other than a standing posture, without permission of the Chairman.

    Interrupting another member while addressing the Board, except upon a point of order.

    Presenting to the Board an application disrespectfully worded.

    Refusing to cease speaking when interrupted by a call to order.

    Disorderly conduct in the Board-room; using offensive language; imputing improper motives; or making personal reflections on a member.

    Disobeying the lawful orders of the Chairman.

    Speaking more than once on the same motion or amendment, except through the Chairman, in explanation, or in reply as the mover of the original motion; but members merely seconding a motion shall not be considered to have spoken upon it.

17. The Chairman, in deciding a point of order, shall state the rule applicable to the case; and his decision thereon shall be final.