THE MAYOR'S POWERS
AND AN INTERESTING NOTICE OB MOTION.
The public will remember that the lost meeting of the City Council terminated abruptly before the business on the order paper was completed, through a. difference of opinion upon a rital point between the Mayor and more than one of tho City' Council, lorn.
The following notice of motion to ho moved by Councillor A. R. Atkinson at the next meeting of the City Conned, has a bearing on tho matter in dispute:—
That this council regrets the statement of the Mayor at the, moetino- 0 f the council on March 9. 1916, that"the City is vested in him as onart from the council; respectfully calls his attention to Section 34,0f tho .Municinal Corporations Act, which provides that 'Tho corporation of a borough shall bo capable of acting by tho council of sucli borough, and such council shall exercise all the powers vested bv this Act or otherwise in the .corporation it represents,' and trusts that by a due observance of the proper limits of their respective jurisdiction, the Mayor and tho council may continue to carry on the business of the City with harmony and dignity."
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2726, 22 March 1916, Page 6
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196THE MAYOR'S POWERS Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2726, 22 March 1916, Page 6
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