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 | Illinois - Law - 1835 - 274 pages
...notice thereof, and a majority shall constitute a quorum to do business, but a minority shall have power to adjourn from time to time, and compel the attendance of absent members. And in the event that the notice of an election is not given as required in this act, or from any other cause,... | |
 | Iowa - Session laws - 1847 - 856 pages
...majority of the city council shall constitute a quorum to do business, but a smaller • number may adjourn from time to time and compel the attendance of absent members, under such penalties as may be prescribed by ordinance. They shall have power to determine the rule... | |
 | New York (State) - Session laws - 1853 - 1390 pages
...as follows: A majority of the aldermen elected, shall constitute a quorum, but a smaller number may adjourn from time to time and compel the attendance of absent members. <§ 3. Section ten of title two of said act, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: The common... | |
 | Illinois - Law - 1861 - 770 pages
...returns and elections of their own body. A majority shall constitute a quorum, but a smaller number may adjourn from time to time and compel the attendance of absent members, under such penalties as may be prescribed by ordinance; shall have power to determine the rules of... | |
 | Washington (State) - Session laws - 1871 - 282 pages
...of the members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, but a smaller number may adjourn from time to time and compel the attendance of absent members in such manner and under such penalties as the council may have previously prescribed. They shall judge... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Assembly - New York (State) - 1873 - 1270 pages
...comptroller. § 8. A majority of aldermen elected shall constitute a quorum, but a smaller number may adjourn from time to time, and compel the attendance of absent members. § 9. The board of aldermen shall annually elect a president from its own body, and in his absence... | |
 | Michigan - Session laws - 1875 - 492 pages
...Qnorum. A majority of the council shall make a quorum for the transaction of business; a less number may adjourn from time to time, and compel the attendance of absent members in such manner as shall Aets requiring a be prescribed by ordinance. But no office shall be created... | |
 | Michigan - Law - 1875 - 480 pages
...public. A majority of the council shall make a quorum for the transaction of business; a less number may adjourn from time to time, and compel the attendance of absent members in such manner as shall airing a be prescribed by ordinance. But no office shall be created or abolis... | |
 | William Stevens Robinson - Parliamentary practice - 1875 - 110 pages
...constitutions, or" by statute, that a less number than a quorum of a legislative body may organize, adjourn from time to time, and compel the attendance of absent members. This power in legislatures must be implied when not expressed ; and it involves the right to exercise... | |
 | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) - Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) - 1877 - 664 pages
...it. § 8. A majority of aldermen elected shall constitute a gnoruin quorum, but a smaller number may adjourn from time to time, and compel the attendance of absent members. President of § 9. The common council shall annually elect a president common conn from jts own body,... | |
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