THE MAYOR.
TO THE KDITOB OP THB STAB.
Sib, — I think your article in last evening's issue is premature, and that it does not at all follow that the Mayor's office has been vacated under the circumstances you point out.
In part 5 ot The Municipal Corporations Act (relating exclusively to the constitution of the Council) it is enacted (section 59) that in every Borough there shall be a Council, exclusive of the Magor, of nine Councillors; and in section 69 it is enacted that "if a Councillor is absent without leave of the Council from four consecutive ordinary meetings thereof his office shall become vacant." Throughout the whole of this part of the Act the Councillors are treated as a distinct body from the Mayor, and I think the fair construction of the 69th clause is that it refers Only to the nine Councillors mentioned in section 59, notwithstanding that in the part of the Act.relating exclusively to the Mayor, comprising sections 51 to 58, it is enacted (section 54) that " the Mayor shall be a Councillor in virtue of his office." — I am, Ac,
BA-CVEL GoODßß__s__t. Feilding, 28th August, 1885.
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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 37, 5 September 1885, Page 2
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