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Suffolk twenty Conservators, the Justices of the City and County 

 of the City of Norwich ten Conservators and the Corporation five 

 Conservators each, which Conservators shall be a Board of Con- 

 servators (hereinafter called the Board) for the preservation and 

 regulation of the fisheries within the limits of this Act. 



4. Whenever any vacancy in the office of Conservator appointed 

 by the before-mentioned respective Justices shall occur, the same 

 may at any time be tilled up by any Justices assembled at General or 

 Quarter Sessions as follows viz. : If the vacancy be caused by a 

 Conservator of the County of Norfolk by the Justices of Norfolk 

 assembled at Norwich, if the vacancy be caused by a Conservator 

 for the County of Suffolk by the Justices for Suffolk assembled at 

 Ipswich and if the vacancy be caused by a Conservator for Norwich 

 then by the Justices of Norwich, and if any vacancy shall occur in 

 the number of conservators to be appointed by the Corporation the 

 same shall be filled up by the Corporation of King's Lynn or Sudbury 

 as the case may be. 



5. The Board shall be a body corporate having perpetual 

 succession and a common seal with power to make contracts and to 

 sue and be sued by the name or style of "The Conservators of 

 the Norfolk and Suffolk Fisheries." 



6. No act or proceeding of the Board shall be questioned on 

 account of any vacancy or vacancies in their body and no defect in 

 the appointment of any person or persons acting as member or 

 members of such Board shall be deemed to vitiate any proceedings of 

 such Board in which he or they have taken part. 



7. The Board shall meet for the dispatch of business and shall 

 from time to time make such regulations with repect to the election 

 of a Chairman of their meetings, the summoning, notice, place, 

 management and adjournment of their meetings and generally with 

 respect to the transaction and management of business including 

 the quorum of meetings as they think fit subject to the following 

 conditions. 



(a) The first meeting after the formation of the Board shall be 

 held at the Shire Hall in the County of Norfolk within three 

 months after the passing of this Act and all subsequent 

 meetings at such place or places as the Board may from 

 time to time direct. 



(b) An extraordinary meeting may be summoned at any time 

 and place on the requisition of three members of the 

 Board. 



(c) The quorum to be fixed by the Board shall consist of not less 

 than three members. 



(d) Every question shall be decided by a majority of votes of the 

 members voting on that question and in the event of equality 

 of votes the Chairman for the time being shall have a second 

 or casting vote. 



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