Clause 11-General duties of local authorities.
 Question put and agreed to.
 Clause 12-First meeting of local authority after constitution. -
 President : You have read the recommendation of the Select Committee on-
 this Section. Is there any objection to the recommendations?
 I-Ionourable Crown Attorney : I move that a "colon" be placed after the
 word "year" at the end of subsection (1) and that the following proviso be added:-
 "Provided that in the event of the inability of -the local authority to elect a
SChairman the Governor in Council shall be empowered to appoint a Chairman ".
I also move that in subsection (2) the word "on" be added after the word
" Chairman in the second line, and the last word times in the subsection be
replaced by the word occasions"
 Question put and agreed to.
 Clause 13-Powers and duties of Chairman.
 Question put and agreed to.
 Clause 14-Tenure of office.
 Honourable Crown Attorney': I move that the word "year's" in the third
 line of subsection (1) be corrected to spell "years',".
 Question put and agreed to.
 Clause 15-Qualifications of members of a local authority.
 Question, that the Select Committee's recommendation on this Clause be
 accepted, put and agreed to.
 Clause 16-Forfeiture of seat by member.
 Honourable Member for Kingstown : Honourable Members will observe what
 I felt in this matter, but the other members of the Committee did not think that
 the local authorities will soon be in a position to pay their members.
 President : Does any other member share Mr. McIntosh's views?
 Honourable E. A. C. Hughes: The bill can be amended if and when the
 necessity arises.
 Honourable Crown Attorney: I should -like to suggest a few amendments to
 this section. The addition of the word or at the end of sub-clauses (b) and (c)
 of subsection (1), the changing of the comma after the word authority in sub-
 clause (e) of the same subsection, and in sub-section (2) (c) the changing of the
 comma after the word published to a semi-colon.
 Question put and agreed to.
 Clause 17-Resignation of Member.
 Honourable Crown Attorney : I move that the word the in the first line
 be *changed to a ".
 Question put and agreed to.
 Clause 18-Appointment of Warden and Deputy Warden.
 President : The Select Committee has suggested that the title "warden" be
 changed to clerk ", does any one object to this?
 Agreed.
 President : This means then that wherever the word warden'" appears in
 the Bill it should be replaced by the word clerk ". As regards the other matter
 raised by Mr. Bonadie, the argumfients for and against are fully set out in the
 report of the Select Committee.