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ml for the eldest Son or other Heir apparent of such Commis- 

 sioner to act and vote at such Meeting in the Stead of his Father 

 or of the Person of whom he is such Heir. 



XV. Any person not qualified as herein provided who acts as 

 a Commissioner under this Act, or nominates any Person to 

 act for him, shall for every such Offence be liable to a Penalty 

 of Twenty Pounds. 



XVI. Any Commissioner who accepts of any Place of Profit 

 under this Act shall from thenceforth, and while he continues 

 to hold such Place of Profit, be disqualified from acting or voting 

 as a Commissioner, and from representing or voting for any 

 other Commissioner at any Meeting of the Commissioners; 

 and any Person so disqualified who acts or votes as aforesaid 

 shall for every such Offence be liable to a Penalty of Twenty 

 Pounds. 



XVII. The Commissioners shall hold their First Meeting for 

 the Purposes of this Act on the Third Monday after the passing 

 of this Act at Cornhill, and shall hold One General Meeting on 

 the First Monday of September in every Year thereafter at 

 Cornhill, or at Berwick, Coldstream, Kelso, or Melrose, as may 

 be fixed upon by the Commissioners at their immediately pre- 

 ceding Annual General Meeting ; and no Matters other than the 

 ordinary Business of the Commission shall be transacted at any 

 such Annual General Meeting unless special Notice of such 

 Matters has been given by Advertisement as herein-after pro- 

 vided in the Case of Special Meetings : Provided, that if no 

 other Place be specially fixed upon at any such Annual General 

 Meeting, the next Annual Meeting of the Commissioners shall 

 be held at Cornhill. 



XVIII. It shall be lawful for any Three Commissioners from 

 Time to Time, by a Eequisition in Writing and Signed by them, 

 to require the Clerk to call a Special General Meeting of the 

 Commissioners, and on the Receipt of such Eequisition the Clerk 

 shall call such Meeting by an Advertisement inserted at least 

 twice in some One Newspaper published in the County of Box- 

 burgh and in Berwick-upon-Tweed respectively, and if no 

 Newspaper shall be there published, then in Two Newspapers, 

 the one published in Edinburgli and the other in Neivcastle- 

 upon-Tyne, at least Ten days before such Meeting shall be held, 

 and which Requisition and Advertisement shall specify the 

 Time and Place and the Purposes of such Meeting, and it shall 

 not be lawful at any such Meeting to enter upon any other 

 Business than that which is specified in such Requisition and 

 Advertisement; and all such Special General Meetings shall be 

 held at Cornhill, or at such other Place as the Commissioners 



