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shall from Time to Time fix upon as the Place for holding 

 Special General Meetings. 



XIX. The Quorum of every General and Special Meeting of 

 Commissioners shall be Five, and if less than Five shall be pres- 

 ent at any Meeting the Commissioners or Commissioner pres- 

 ent shall have power to adjourn the Meeting to such Time and 

 Place as they or he shall think fit, and in that Case Notice shall 

 be given of the Time, Place, and Purpose of such Adjourned 

 Meeting by Advertisement inserted in any Two such News- 

 papers published as aforesaid at least Ten Days before such 

 Adjourned Meeting : Provided, that it shall not be in the 

 Power of any Adjourned or Special Meeting to alter or rescind 

 any Act done or Resolution passed by any Annual General 

 Meeting. 



XX. The Commissioners at every Meeting shall elect a Chair- 

 man to preside for that Meeting only, and if there be an equal 

 Division of Votes on any Question the Chairman shall, in addi- 

 tion to his own Vote or Votes as a Commissioner, have a second 

 or Casting Vote. 



XXI. The Commissioners assembled at their First or at any 

 of their Annual General Meetings, or at Special General Meet- 

 ing called as aforesaid, may appoint different Districts for the 

 better conducting and managing the several Purposes of this 

 Act, and may fix the Times and Places of Meetings of Com- 

 missioners of each District ; and at such District Meetings the 

 Commissioners appointed to act in and for such District shall 

 have Power to name a Chairman, Clerks, and other Officers 

 with suitable Salaries, and to take such Securities from those 

 appointed to Offices of Trust for the due Execution of their 

 Offices as they shall think proper ; and in District Meetings of 

 Commissioners Three shall be a Quorum, but any One or more 

 attending shall have Power to adjourn; and a particular Report 

 from each District, with a Copy of the Books and Minutes of the 

 Proceedings kept within the same, shall be made to the General 

 Annual Meeting in every Year, and in case of Failure or Neglect 

 the Clerk to the District shall be liable to a Penalty not exceed- 

 ing Twenty Pounds. 



XXII. At all Meetings of the Commissioners each Commis- 

 sioner having the Qualification in Extent or annual Value of 

 Salmon Fishings defined in Section Ten shall be entitled to One 

 Vote ; and every Commissioner possessed of or representing 

 Salmon Fishings of the annual Value of Two hundred Pounds 

 and under Four hundred Pounds, or who shall pay towards the 

 Funds by this Act authorized to be raised a Sum equal to the 

 Assessment leviable for the Time on Salmon Fishings of the 



