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official members were incompetent to vote on a question in which they had a personal interest,
their own salaries,
consequently the official_ are ipso facto void, that if they be so
they should
aiz:
that co
votes are
reckoned, as
null and
be, it will be found that the reductions of salaries moved in each case were
legally carried by a majority of the Council, and that- the Bill has really been passed subject to those reductions of salaries moved in each
case were
carried
legally by a majority of the bouncil,
and that the Bill has
really been passed subject-
to those reductions, and
that
that such should have
been declared to be the
case.
3.
The contention, if
sound would of
obvicrisly
necessitate an alteration in the constitution of the bolony, for otherwise it would always be in the power of the Un-official members of bouncil to bring the Government- to a clead lock by refusing
lô viê
any
salaries until
any demand they might happen to have made. had been conceded. But
I imagine that the argument that official members are disqualified from voting for their own
salaries is not sound; and
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