MUNICIPAL BODIES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1264, 20 October 1911, Page 2

MUNICIPAL BODIES.

> A NEW BILL. Tlio Municipal Corporations Amcndmcnl Dill, which has been introduced by the non. D. Huddo, provide", niter (ilia, that when the office of Mayor Incomes vacant throush rosisnalicn, death, incapacity, or ousted from office, it shall, bo deemed an extraordinary vacancy, i.e., a vacancy to bo tilled by a poll of the doctors. If, however, (lie vacancy occurs within throe- months of the day fixed for an election of councillors, the election of Mayor may bo postponed until that day, the Council may appoint one of (heir number lo act as Mayor for that interval. If the vacancy occurs within three months of the day' for the annual election of Mayor in a yew in which an election of "councillors is not held, Iho annual election of Mayor need net bo held, and the Mayor will not' continue in office until the next succeeding Mayoral election day. The Governor, on the app'ie.ilion of a council, may, by Ordor-in-Cnnncil, extend the closing hour of polls within (ho borough from 7 p.m. In 8 P.m. _ Tho persons entitled lo vote at a p*ll in relation to the creation of a new borourli or an alteration of boundaries arete bo the district electors, who any exercise the -Name number of v>te? as at an election of a member of their local b*dy. Tho name of a m-w borough and provisions as lo wards, number of councillor*, etc., may bo fixed by Governors proclamation. Similar iwra iray 1« exercised throimh Ori'or-in-Oomioil where lioiwißh boundaries are altered. Tho Iwn Inst reuses extend the powers of councils. It is that when a council has established a market, if mnv by bv-law prohibit auction sales of fish a) nnv other place within the boronirh. Councils are also lo W em|)OKeved to ostahlish services for Iho conveyance of passengers and Roods but this does not involve power to construct any railway or tramway.