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If commissioner neglects to attend three first meetings, or afterwards neglects to attend for six months, his place shall be declared vacant, unless in case of illness, &c.
Commissioners may dispense with attendance in certain cases.
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20. If any person duly elected to be a commissioner under this Act shall refuse or neglect to attend some one of the three first meetings of commissioners which shall be held immediately subsequent to his election, and thereat to take the oath or make the affirmation by this Act appointed to be taken or made by commissioners, the appointment of every such person so refusing or neglecting shall become void, and his place or office shall be declared vacant, unless it shall be made appear to the satisfaction of the other commissioners acting in the execution of this Act in the same city or place that such person was prevented from attending by some illness or other sufficient cause, to be allowed by the majority of such commissioners present at any such meeting; and if any commissioner shall absent himself from the meetings of the commissioners for six calendar months, the clerk of the said commissioners shall, in the first summons or notice of meeting issued after the expiration of such six calendar months, insert a notification to that effect; and if such person shall fail to attend the meeting of commissioners required to be holden by such summons or notice, he shall be deemed to have neglected to act as a commissioner, and his place shall be declared vacant, unless in the case of illness or other sufficient cause, to be shown to and allowed by the commissioners at the meeting for which such notice shall have been given: Provided always, that it shall and may be lawful for a majority of the commissioners to dispense with the attendance of any one or more such commissioners, not exceeding one fourth part of the whole number of commissioners, for more than three meetings, or for any period of time not exceeding six calendar months, in case of the necessary and bonâ fide absence from home of any such commissioner or commissioners respectively, but not in any other case.
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