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 change of any fundamental rule, or by-law, except after exact notice of the proposed amendment. In the case of bodies having a corporate existence and dealing with the pecuniary and other important interests of individuals, no important amendment should be made except after such special notice, and with the consent of a certain majority-generally two-thirds-of all the members of the company or body. In addition, the rules or by-laws of all municipal councils, conferences, synods and other important associations, should have a rule referring in all cases, not provided for expressly in those rules and by-laws, to the common law of parliament; that is to say, to the rules and practice of the house of commons of Canada.

8. Meaning of seion, sitting and meeting.—The business of every legislative and deliberative assembly, of every ecclesiastical assembly and synod, of every municipal council, of every association and of every body of men that meet for a certain object, is transacted at a "meeting," "sitting," or session." An ordinary "meeting" means the interval of time between the assembling or convening of a body until the close of its proceedings by an adjournment. A "session," in a strict sense, means the duration of the several meetings of a legislative, ecclesiastical or other deliberative body which assembles at a fixed time,