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Row". 0, meeting have be publicly read and passed,

”mm" and before proceeging to the Order of the Day, the Mayor or Chairman shall inquire if any chairman of committees or official heads of departments in the administration of the City business have any reports to hand in, and receive the same without then reading them, and shall make a similar demand on members to present any petition intrusted to them which shall in like manner he received Without being read. The reading of such reports and petitions shall be postponed untiliafter the several matters named in the “ Order of the Day ” have been disposed of, unless the Council shall think proper (upon a motion duly made and seconded) to resolve that any particular report or petition should be previously read.

Mom." m. 32. The member presenting any report or :zfiti'figai- petition shall endorse his name upon it before “°“' giving it in, as security that he has looked it

over and believes it not to cOntain any disre-

spectfuljor improper language.

mm, or 3111 33. Nobill or ordinance shall be submitted

to the Council without notice first having been

‘ given at a previous meeting by the Councillor intending to submit the same.

Appointment 34. A special or select committees shall be of special and

select, com- appointed in Council on motion of a member,

“mm duly seconded and agreed to. new“, 35. The reports of all special and standing "me committees shall be in writing and signed by

their chairman when passed unanimously by those who attend : but when there is a difference of opinion the report shall be signed by all those