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(b) To watch and consider Bills, Provisional Orders and
other matters which may from time to time be brought before
Parliament, or other bodies affecting the interests of the Council
or borough, and to advise the Council as to the action which is
necessary to be taken thereon.
(c) To examine plans and documents relating to railways,
or other public works, the subject of Parliamentary schemes
affecting the borough or property in it;
(d) To consider and advise the Council or any other
Committee upon all legal questions that may be referred to the
Committee from the Council or from such other Committee, and
to prosecute and defend all legal proceedings approved of by the
Council;
(e) To consider and approve all contracts and other
documents requiring the seal of the Council;
(f) To receive reports with reference to alleged disorderly
houses in the borough, and to take such action with regard thereto
as may be deemed expedient;
(g) To examine and certify accounts relating to matters
under the control of the Committee, and to refer the same to the
Finance Committee;
(h) To arrange for the taxation of the Solicitors' Bills of
costs.
Libraries Committee.
43. The duties of this Committee shall be as follow:—
(a) To manage and supervise the public libraries, museums,
and art galleries in the borough, and the books and other property
belonging thereto;
(b) To enforce any by-laws which may be made by the
Council for regulating the use of the libraries, museums and art
galleries by the public;
(c) To provide such books, periodicals, pictures and other
works of art, &c., as may be required for the libraries, museums,
and art galleries in the borough;
(d} To order the execution of works, and to purchase books,
without the previous sanction of the Council, provided that the
estimated cost does not exceed £10;
(e) To examine and certify accounts relating to the libraries,
&c., and to refer the same to the Finance Committee;
(f) To furnish the Finance Committee, in connection with
the preparation of the estimates, with the necessary statement of
moneys to be provided for the purposes of the Commitee.
(g) To report to the Council as often as may be necessary
upon the matters connected with the duties of the Committee.