 | New York (State) - Session laws - 1905 - 1242 pages
...session. § 16^. Rules; quorum; voting. — The board shall determine the rules of its own proceedings and be the judge of the election and qualifications of its own members. A majority of the whole number of water commissioners shall constitute a quorum of the board, but a... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 776 pages
...making street improvements, 451 (1, 3). CITY CHARTER. 1. A provision in a city charter declaring " that the common council shall be the judge of the election and qualifications of its own members, and shall have power to determine contested elections," etc.. is conclusive as to the authority of the... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1881 - 752 pages
...relator. Up to the respondent's admission, and during these proceedings, the charter provided that "the common council shall be the judge of the election and qualifications of its members, and shall have power to determine contested elections." Local Acts of 1877 p. 211 § 6. And... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1915 - 808 pages
...stated as follows: (1) The mayor being a member of the common council, and the common council being the judge of the election and qualifications of its own members and empowered to decide upon and determine contested election of members thereof, has the respondent any... | |
 | Iowa - 1857 - 532 pages
...of calling them. SEC. 17. A majority of the council shall be necessary °-uorumto form a quorum ; jt shall be the judge of the election and qualifications of its own members ; it shall determine the rules of its own proceedings ; it may compel the attendance of its members... | |
 | Minnesota - Law - 1858 - 1064 pages
...each of cial meetings the members, to be delivered personally or left, at their usuil place oi' abode. The Common Council shall be the Judge of the election and qualifications of its own members, and ia such case shall have the power to send for persons and pipers, and Khali also determine the rules... | |
 | Wisconsin - Session laws - 1867 - 1358 pages
...notice to each of the members, to be delivered personally, or left at their usual places of abode. The common council shall be the judge of the election and qualifications of its own members, and in such case snail have power to send for persons and papers, and shall also determine the rules of... | |
 | Nebraska - Session laws - 1869 - 392 pages
...which he may be chosen to represent, shall be eligible to a seat in the Legislature. SEC. 7. Each house shall be the judge of the election and qualifications of its own members, and a majority of each shall constitute a quorum to do business, but a smaller number may adjourn from... | |
 | Texas - Law - 1870 - 840 pages
...the council in writing only ; and the council shall determine the rules of its own proceedings, and shall be the judge of the election and qualifications of its own members, and shall have power to compel the attendance of absent members, and to punish them for disorderly conduct,... | |
 | New York (State) - Law - 1870 - 1264 pages
...usual places of abode. § 6. The common council shall determine the rules of its own proceedings, and be the judge of the election and qualifications of its own members, and have power to compel the attendance of absent members from time to time, to prescribe the duties of... | |
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Each house shall be the judge of the election and qualifications of its own members, and shall determine the rules of its proceedings. 
