XVPreses at Meetings of Commissioners of Supply, and Magistrates of Burghs, under this Act.
In all Meetings of Commissioners of Supply under this Act, their Convener, or, in the Absence of the Convener, the Person who may be elected by such Meeting to act as its Preses, shall be Preses of such Meeting; and in all Meetings of Magistrates of Burghs under this Act, the Lord Provost, or Provost, or Chief Magistrate of the Burgh, when he is present thereat, shall be Preses of such Meeting ; and, failing him, the Person who may be elected by such Meeting to act as its Preses shall be Preses of such Meeting.