RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 410, 3 February 1877, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Feb. 2. (Before H. W. Robinson, Esq., E31.) E.- T. George t. L. W. Bcsch.—lnformation that defendant being Mayor of the Incorporated Town of Uaseby did absent himself from meetings of the Council for more than one calendar month, to wit between the 17th of November and the 18th of December last without the leave of the Council thereby rendering himself liable to a penalty not exceeding £-50. Mr. Rowlatt for plaintiff. Defendant conducted his own case, and, after some preliminary objections, pleaded " not, guilty." The Town Clerk, on being examined as a witness produced the Council minute boot, by which it appeared that there had been two ordinary, meetings of the Council summoned between the 16th' Kovembar and the 18th December, at both oi which the Mayor was absent, the meetings lapsing in consequence. Two Councillors (Messrs. Georgia and Kowr" latt) save evidence to the effect that the Mayor had, on various occasions, stated to t!iem that he would not attend any meetings of the Council is the daytime. This the defendant emphatically denied. Other witness?* were called, and, after a lengthy investigation, the Magistrate said he thought the case clearly proved; but as a heavy penalty was not pressed for, and as it had been admitted that the Mayor had beetf very assiduous in the discharge of his duties, he woiflcE". fine liim in the mitigated penalty of 205.-, costs of Court, Bs., one witness, 205., and professional fee, £2 2s. —in all £4 ICS.