The Public Library, Museum, and Art Gallery Act.-1895. 3. In the month of October in each year, the Committee of Management of every Institute entitled to take part in the election of members of the Board shall hold a meeting for the purpose of exercising the right of taking part in and voting on behalf of such Institute at the election of members of the Board, and such meeting shall be specially convened for that purpose. 4. At such meeting, or any adjournment, the committee shall select three persons as the persons for whom such committee, on behalf of such Institute, votes as members of the Board to be elected by the Institutes; and the chairmanof such committee shall forthwith fill in the name of the Institute, the date on which the committee meeting was held, and the names of the three candidates for membership on the Board for whom the committee, on behalf of the Institute, votes, and the chairman of the committee and the secretary shall sign the voting-paper referred to in paragraph 2 hereof, and return the same to the secretary of the Board, so that it may be received by him in Adelaide on or before the twenty-fifth day of October then next. 5. If, from any cause whatever, the voting-paper of any committee shall not be received by the secretary of the Board by the twenty-fifth day of October, or if the voting-paper when received shall not comply with the provisions of the Public Library, Museum, and Art Gallery Acts and these regulations, and with the instructions contained in the circular mentioned in paragraph 2 hereof, such committee and the Institute which it represents shall be deemed to have failed to exercise the right to vote at the election of the members of the Board for the year. 6. The Board shall decide, and their decision shall be final, if the committee of any Institute has from any cause whatsoever failed to exercise its right of voting on behalf of the Institute which it represents. 7. Each voting-paper sent by an Institute under these rules shall be accepted and treated by the Board as a voting-paper under the rules and regulations made by the Board on the nineteenth day of July, 1889, or any rules and regulations which may hereafter be made in amendment of or substitution therefor, and shall be reckoned accordingly. 8. These rules and regulations shall apply to the election of any member of the Board by the committee of an Institute to fill a casual vacancy caused by the death or resignation of any member of the Board elected by the Institutes; but the Board shall, in the case of a casual vacancy, fix the time within which such vacancy shall be filled and the date whereon the Board shall meet to declare the election, and shall also appoint the day on or before which the committees entitled to take part in the election shall exercise their right of voting and the time within which the votingpapers shall be returned to the secretary of the Board. 9. In the event of an election by committees to fill a casual vacancy the Board shall have power to fix and determine any date, act, matter, or thing which may be necessary or expedient to enable the committees to exercise their right of voting on behalf of the Institutes which they represent. The secretary of the Board shall, before forwarding the circulars and voting-papers to the committee entitled to take part in the election, fill in the dates fixed by the Board for the objects aforesaid, and may make all such alterations or additions in or to the form of the circular and voting-paper as the Board may direct. APPENDIX. Public Library, Museum, and Art Gallery of South Australia. Adelaide, 189. Sir-I have the honor, by direction of the Board of Governors of the Public Library, Museum, and Art Gallery of South Australia, to inform you that on October 1st proximo governors, elected by the Urban, Suburban, and Country Institutes will retire from office by effluxion of time, but are eligible for re-election, and that an election will be held on the day of next. I send you herewith a voting-paper, in order that the Committee of Management of the Institute may, if such Institute is qualified, vote for the election of three Governors of the Public Library, &c., for the year 18 as provided by the Public Library, Museum, and Art Gallery Act (No. 296 of 1883-4, section 7), the Public Library, Museum, and Art Gallery Act, 1895, the rules and regulations made by the Board on the nineteenth day of July, 1889, and those contained in the Third Schedule to the latter Act. You The Public Library, Museum, and Art Gallery Act.—1895. You will observe that, by section 7 of the Public Library, &c., Act, an Institute is only entitled to vote if, during the year previous to the election, it has had not less than twenty members who have paid up their subscriptions, and that the votingpaper contains a certificate that such is the case, to be signed by the chairman of the committee and secretary of the Institute. Institutes which have not had the number of members required by the Act are not to return the voting-paper. Your attention is particularly directed to the rules and regulations contained in the third part of the Schedule to "The Public Library, Museum, and Art Gallery Act, 1895," from which you will learn how the committee of an Institute to which has been delegated the Institute's right to vote for members of the Board is to exercise that right, and so record the vote of the Institute which it represents. The voting-paper, properly filled up and signed, must be returned soon enough to allow of it being received by me on or before October 25th next. If this is not done the Institute will lose its vote. [For the election of three governors by the Urban, Suburban, and Country Institutes.] Public Library, Museum, and Art Gallery of South Australia. We, the chairman of the Committee of Management and secretary of the Institute, do hereby certify that the said Institute has had during the preceding year twenty members at the least who have paid up their subscriptions for the twelve months preceding the* day of 189 And we further certify that, at a meeting of the Committee of Management of the said Institute held on* the said committee selected the undermentioned three persons as the persons for whom the said committee votes on behalf of the said Institute. Secretary Public Library, Museum, and Art Gallery of South Australia. *At these two places fill in the date of the committee meeting at which the voting takes place. [N.B.-This voting-paper must be returned so that it may be received by the General Director and Secretary, Public Library, Museum, and Art Gallery of South Australia, on or before October 25th.] Adelaide By authority, C. E. BRISTOW, Government Printer, North-terrace. ANNO QUINQUAGESIMO OCTAVO ET QUINQUA- VICTORIÆ REGINÆ. A.D. 1895. **** ***** No. 622. An Act to apply, out of the General Revenue, the sum of of the Year ending the Thirtieth day of June, [Assented to, November 6th, 1895.] E it Enacted by the Governor of the Province of South Australia, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly of the said province, in this present Parliament assembled, as follows: 1. Out of the General Revenue of the said province there shall Issue and application be issued and applied, from time to time, for the service of the of £400,000. year ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, any sums of money not exceeding in the whole the sum of Four Hundred Thousand Pounds. Estimates. 2. No payments for any establishment or service shall be made Payments not to out of the said sum in excess of the rates voted for similar exceed last year's establishments or services on the Estimates for the year ended the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, except so far as such rates are affected by the "Civil Service Act, 1874." In the name and on behalf of Her Majesty, I hereby assent to this Bill. : T. F. BUXTON, Governor. Adelaide By authority, C. E. BRISTOW, Government Printer, North-terrace. ANNO QUINQUAGESIMO OCTAVO ET QUINQUA- VICTORIÆ REGINÆ. A.D. 1895. ** No. 623. An Act to repeal "The Governor's Salary Act, 1866." [Reserved, November 6th, 1895.] BE E it Enacted by the Governor of the Province of South Australia, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly of the said province, in this present Parliament assembled, as follows: 1. "The Governor's Salary Act, 1866," is hereby repealed. I reserve this Act for the signification of the Queen's pleasure. Repeal of Act No. 28 of 1866-7. Adelaide By authority, C. E. BRISTOW, Government Printer, North-terrace. |