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Mayor, &c. shall preside at the meeting, which shall determine whether this Act shall be adopted in the place where meeting is held.
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8. The mayor, chief magistrate, or justices (as the case may be), to whom such orders or directions shall be given as aforesaid, shall preside at any meeting assembled as herein-before directed, and shall read or cause to be read the requisition whereupon he or they have summoned such meeting, and shall require the person assembled thereat to determine, by plurality of votes, whether the provisions of this Act, as herein-after set forth, for the several purposes of lighting, watching, cleansing, paving, and the other purposes of the same, shall or shall not be adopted and acted upon within such city, town corporate, borough, market town, or other town, and the liberties and suburbs thereof, or any part of such liberties and suburbs.
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