February 27.
Whra the approach of the annual Meeting of Ratepayers-it will not be out of place to recall the controversy that aros last March over the Rules of Procedure and more particularly over the question of a quorum at these assemblies. At the Ratepayers' Meeting of 1909 adequacy of the existing Rules of Procedure, which had been passed year after your as a matter of form, was brought out into strong relief, and the Chairman of the Council undertook to appoint a special committee of representative Ratepayers to assist in revising the rales. After investigating the subject thoroughly and conscientiously, the Committee appointed drew up a draft set of rules and submitted it with copious report to the Council. The latter called upon its legal adviser for an expression of his opinion on the Committee's proposals and then charged the Finance Committee to frame new Rules of Procedure, based on such points in the Special Committee's suggestions or the legal adviser's annotations as might commend themselves. When these new rales were published, they were found to bear a very close resemblance tothe old rules. The Special Committee had interpreted its terms of reference to include a close examination of the Land Regulations, both in regard to the status of the Annual Meeting and the question of proxies; briton each of these points its recommenda tions were averraled by the Council. Consequently, when the draft Rules of Procedure were submitted year, the spokesman of the Special
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