Charles Fisk Beach
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 476
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ...v. County sf Baker, 28 Fla. 419; s. a, 2 So. Rep. 776. In this case, however, no staW time for meetings was prescribed by statute. See, also, People v. Bi tchelor, 22 N. Y. 128. cated to it by the mayor during the session but after the time when it assembled.' 270. Adjourned meetings.--An adjourned meeting of either a regular or special meeting is a continuation of the same meeting, and any business which it would have been proper to consider at the meeting may be acted upon at the adjourned meeting.2 Conversely, an adjourned meeting is limited to those subjects upon which it was competent for the original meeting to take action. Thus, where a charter provided that no ordinance should be passed by the common council unless introduced at a previous stated meeting, and the record showed that the ordinance in question was introduced at a previous adjourned meeting, without disclosing whether it was an adjourned meeting of a stated or of a special meeting, the defect was held to be fatal. 271. Notice of special meetings.--A charter provision requiring a city council to meet "at such time and place as they by resolution may direct" is mandatory but not prohib 1 St Louia v. Withaus, 90 Mo. 646. that they might act at an adjourned 5 Magneau v. Fremont (1890), 80 session. Hubbard v. Winsor, 15 Mich. Neb. 843; Warner v. Mower, 11 Vt 146. Where a regular meeting ad385; New Orleans v. Brooks, 36 La. journs for a particular purpose, the Ann. 641; Street Case, 1 La. Ann. adjourned meeting is not confined to 412; Hudson County v. State, 24 N. that purpose, but may take up other J. Law, 718; People v. Batchelor, 22 legislative business. Ex parte Wolf, N. Y. 128; Smith v. Law, 21 N. Y. 14 Neb. 24. In this country an ad296; People...