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mittee; the Sanitary Committee; and the Legal Committee.
Each Standing Committee shall have power to act until its
successor has been appointed.
B. The Works Committee shall consist of twenty-five
elected members, and the other three Standing Committees
shall each consist of sixteen elected members. In addition to
the elected members, the Churchwardens, the Overseers, and
the Representatives of tho Vestry on the Metropolitan Board
of Works shall be ex officio members of each Standing Committee.
With the exception of the ex officio members, no one
shall be a member of more than two of the Standing Committees.
C. At the first meeting of the Vestry, after the Vestry
election in May, the nomination of candidates for the Standing
Committees shall take place immediately after the reading of
the minutes and the opening of the tenders; and at the next
meeting of the Vestry the election shall be proceeded with.
No member shall be nominated for any committee unless the
member nominating him has reason to believe that he is willing
to serve. No member may nominate a larger number of persons
than would suffice to fill up the existing vacancies, and after the
nomination no name shall be withdrawn without the permission
of the Vestry.
D. The election of each Standing Committee shall be conducted
as follows:—The voting to be by show of hands, at the
conclusion of which any member may demand a poll, which is
to be taken forthwith. When a poll is demanded, the voting
shall be by voting papers, supplied by the Vestry, each of which
must contain a list of all the nominees, and on which each
member voting is to strike out the name of every nominee for
whom he declines to vote, leaving the names of as many
nominees as he chooses to vote for, not exceeding the number
to be elected. Every voting paper must be signed, and every
voting paper not signed, or on which the number of names left
standing exceeds the prescribed number, shall be rejected. Ties,
if any, to be decided in a similar manner. As soon as the
names of all the nominees have been voted on, and the ties, if
any, decided, the election to be over, and the Chairman shall
announce the names of so many of the nominees, who have