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election, certified by the clerk of the Guildry. In like
manner, the Deacons oi Crafts, before taking their seats
in Council for the first time after they are elected, shall
produce a certificate of their election, signed by the
clerks of their respective trades, with their Burgess and
Trades Tickets, as evidence of their being Burgesses and
Members of the said Nine Trades.
In case the Dean of Guild, and Councillor to the
Guild, and Convener, or any of them, shall fail to ap-
pear in Council on the day appointed for their taking
their seats; or, appearing, fail to produce the requisite
evidence of their several elections and qualifications; or
if it shall appear from the evidence produced, that the
Guildry and Trades, or either of these bodies, have mads
a double election, then, and in any of these cases, the
right of supplying the deficiency which shall have thus
arisen in the Council, shall, for that year, devolve on
the Magistrates and Council, who shall immediately
elect a Dean of Guild, and Councillor to the Guild, or
either of them, in place of the Dean of Guild, and Coun-
cillor to the Guild, who have so failed to take their
seats as elected by the Guildry, and a Trades Council-
lor, in place of the Convener who has so failed to take
his seat as elected by the Trades; — without prejudice,
however, to the Guildry and Nine Incorporated Trades
exercising their respective rights to elect those members
of Council in future years.
la the days of Scottish Parliaments, Dundee had
the power of sending one member or commissioner
for itself. Noiv it only shares that power with other
four burghs — Perth, Forfar, St. Andrew's, and Cu-
par in Fife. The Councils of the several towns
choose each one delegate, and those five delegates
elect the member to represent them in the imperial
Parliament,