City Council Amendment Ordinance 1864 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

ANNO YICESIMO OCTAVO

VICTI1 OR IAE 11J

No. Y.

AN ORDINANCE to amend " The City of Perth Im-

provement Ordinance, I t58."

Jidg, 1864.]

AVETEREAS it is expedient to divide the City of Perth into Preamble.

Wards, and to fix the number a Councillors for each Ward, and for that purpose to amend the Ordinance entituled " An Ordinance to alter the existing law providing for the improvement :Of the City of Perth, and to make other regulations instead thereof:"

Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Western

:Australia, and its Dependencies, by and with the advice and consent

of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:

THE twenty first and twenty second sections of the Ordinance 21st & 22nd Sections of No.

of the Legislative Council Twenty Second of Vic Victoria,No. 10 of 1858 /0 of 1568 repealed.

are hereby repealed, save and except as to anything done thereunder before the passing hereof ; Provided that . the City Council and Chairman, as at present constituted and elected, shall continue to

28° VICTORIA No. 10.

Perth improvement Ordinance.

act as such until the next General Meeting of rate-payers held under

this Ordinance on the first Monday in the month of December next.

City to c v 1.; divided into Q .

THE Governor shall, for the purposes of this Ordinance, as may be thought fit, and such wards with the boundaries thereof

three Councillors. wards each ward to elect divide the City of Perth into three wards with such name or names

respectively shall be published M the Government Gazette ; and the

Governor may from time to time re-arrange. such wards and increase or diminish the number or boundaries thereof respectively.

City council to consist of 3. THE City Council shall consist of three ratepayers of and

nine Councillors, "d a residing in each ward, to -be elected by ballot by a majority in Chairman.

number of the parties who are ratepayers in such ward, or liable to be assessed as ratepayers therein under the said recited Ordinance, and also a Chairman to be elected by a majority in number of the rate- payers in the entire City of Perth, such electors to be present and voting in person, or by their agents if absent from the Colony, or if they be then more than twenty miles from Perth, by their nominees in writ- ing, on the first Monday in the month of December in each and every year, at a General Meeting of the ratepayers of the said City,

to be holden in Perth for that purpose at an hour and place to be

fixed by the then City Council from time to time : Provided that if

either from the non-attendance of any such voters as aforesaid at any such General Meeting, or from auy other unforeseen cause, such elections should not take place, or shall be incomplete, it shall be lawful for any such electors or voters in any one or more ward or wards for which such election has not taken place or is incomplete, on any subsequent day to be selected by them, and to be nodded in

the Government Gazette or in two of the Local Newspapers for one clear

week previously, to summon and hold a General Meeting for the purpose of electing and completing such City Council and Chairman, and to elect and complete the same accordingly ; and the City

Council and Chairman so elected shall respectively take office as

frian the first day of January nearest to the date of such election, and continue in office until the thirty first day of December then next en-

suing, and if at any time any vacancy by death, resignation, or other-

wise shall occur in such City Council or Chairman. the continuing members of such City Council shall summon a special meeting of the ratepayers for the purpose of electing a ratepayer or ratepayers to fill the vacancy or vacancies.

City Council to exercise

oss.cra vested in No. 10 of 4.. THE City Council to be elected under this Ordinance shall have

18,58, and exercise all the powers and possess all the rights, property, and privileges vested in the City Council under the said recited Ordinance.

28° VICTORI2E No. 10:

Perth Improvement Ordinance.

5.     THE Chairman shall preside at all meetings of ratepayers Chairman to preside a

and the City Council, and shall have a casting vote in addition to his nuietings, and three Court-

ordinary vote as a ratepayer or as a member of such Council, andceitul toorrs, to constitute a

all questions at such meetings of ratepayers shall be decided, except where otherwise herein provided, by a majority of votes of the general body of ratepayers present thereat, to be taken by such Chair- man on a show of hands, or by ballot if demanded, or in such other manner as he shall appoint,' and four members of such Council, in- clusive of the Chairman, shall constitute a quorum thereof; and in case of the death, absence from the Colony, inability or unwilling- ness to act of the Chairman, the senior Councillor on the published list for the time being shall be and act as Chairman.

Ordinances to be read to-

6. THIS and the said recited Ordinance shall be read together gether.

as one Ordinance.

7. THIS Ordinance may be cited for all pm-poses as the " City Short Title.

Council amendment Ordinance, 1864."

J. S. HAMPTON,

GOVERNOR. AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF.

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Passed the Legislative Council,

this 11th day of July, 1864

G. E. HAMPTON,

Clerk of the Council,