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INDEX TO JEFFERSON'S MANUAL.

A.

Page.

Absence, not allowed without leave..

provision in cases of.....

Accusation. Common fame a good ground to proceed by inquiry,

119

119

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question shall be: 1st to agree, 2d to disagree, 3d to recede,

4th to insist, 5th to adhere..

164

one House adhering, the other must recede or also.....

174

where both Houses adhere the matter must fall....

174

there are instances of having gone to a second adherence.

174

the form fixed by adherence cannot be departed from by
the House which adheres....

174

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for more than three days, to be by concurrent votes.

183

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Amendment to bills, on reading of amendments to bills...

143

in the third degree not admissible

143

discussion of the nature and coherence of.... 157-161
the House cannot recede from or insist on its
own amendment with amendment...
Speaker cannot refuse to receive, because in-
consistent

174

157

Amendment, may totally change the subject...

158

if House refuse to strike out a paragraph, it cannot be
amended....

158

if an amendment be agreed to it cannot be afterward
amended.....

158

a new bill may be ingrafted on another...
mode of proceeding on amendments between the
Houses...

158

174

175

a motion to amend an amendment of the other House
takes precedence of a motion to agree or disagree..
an amendment of one House to a bill of the other be-
comes the text of the bill, and may be amended in
the second degree...

on amendments between the Houses, question is: 1st
to agree, 2d disagree, 3d recede, 4th insist, 5th ad-
here

175

164

144

158

158

158

159

made in Committee of the Whole falls by a reference.
proposed, inconsistent with one adopted, may be put.
may be amended prior to adoption, but not after...........
(proposed) by striking out, and lost, the paragraph
proposed to be stricken out cannot be amended....
not identical or equivalent to one lost may be proposed
by insertion, how far liable to further amendment... 158, 159

Apportionment of Representatives, table of, from 1787 to 1893.....
Appropriation may be made by resolution..

terminates with the session

Arrest, discussion of privilege from....

Assault and affrays in the House, how settled

Ayes and noes, how questions are determined by
no member to vote if not present...

Assent to bills by the Executive, regulations respecting.

116

136

109

134

130, 131

180

166, 169
170

B.

Bills, engrossed, must not be looked into...

128

mistakes not to be corrected without the knowledge of the

committee...

128

not to be taken away or concealed

128

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proceedings on second reading

time for attacking or opposing

Bills, to be fairly written, or Speaker may refuse them...........

introduction, reading, and commitment.
amendments fall if recommitted....

a particular clause may be recommitted

cannot be amended on the first reading..
amendments, how proceeded with
amendments fall if recommitted..

if second reading refused, the bill is rejected..

one bill may be ingrafted on another..

one House may pass with blanks and be filled in the

other

on third reading, forms observed..

on third reading, may be committed.

137

137, 138

142

141

137

157-161

142

138

163

144, 164

158

161

165, 166

165

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at the close of session no new bill, unless sent from the

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referred, may be delivered to any of the committee.

139

amendments between the Houses, mode of proceeding..
by whom to be taken from House to House

174, 175

178

may be specially commended to notice of the other House.........
if one House neglects a bill, the other may remind of it....
how to be enrolled, signed, and presented to the Presi-
dent.....

179

179

180

not to be enrolled in paragraphs, but solidly

180

amendments to, cannot be receded from or insisted on by
the amending House with a further amendment
dangerous practice of passing bills before being en-
grossed....

174

146

amendments to amendments between the Houses, how far
admissible....

175

amendment to an amendment of the other House takes

precedence of a motion to agree or disagree

175

proceedings upon, in Committee of the Whole, etc.

140-142

titles, when made......

171

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Bills, reconsideration, when and how the question may be
moved.....

171

reconsideration, at what time to be moved
reconsideration, effect of a vote for..............

171

171

either House may recede from its amendment and agree
to the bill

174

originating in one House, rejected in the other, may be

renewed in the rejecting House

172

expedients for remedying omissions in..

173

mode of proceeding when founded on facts requiring ex-
planation....

173

effect of a vote to insist or adhere

174

conferences must be asked by the House possessed of the
papers.

176

papers relating to, to be left with the conferences of the
House granting the conference

176

report to be made first in the House granting the confer-

ence..

176

report cannot be amended or altered as the report of a
committee may be..

176

cannot strike out at a conference anything in a bill
which has been agreed to by the two Houses
proceedings when disapproved

175

180

not returned in ten days to be laws, unless an adjourn-
ment intervene

180

Blanks, longest time, largest sum, first put

bills may be passed with, and be filled in other House....

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Breach of privilege, mode of proceeding on charge of.

113

case of the editor of the Aurora...

110

Bribery (Randall and Whitney's case), breach of privilege.

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Chairman of a committee is usually the first person named.......

of Committee of the Whole may be elected..

Change of vote, right to.....

Clerk puts questions before election of Speaker

to read standing

numbers the sections.

118

110

121

123

171

120

145

161

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