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INDEX TO JEFFERSON'S MANUAL.

A.

Page.

provision in cases of......

and even by.

Address, how presented..

Adhere, question discussed.

effect of a vote to..

Absence, not allowed without leave.

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

119

119

124

121

164

164

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

4th to insist, 5th to adhere....

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

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

there are instances of having gone to a second adherence.

164

174

174

174

should be two conferences before vote to..

the form fixed by adherence cannot be departed from by

the House which adheres..

Adjournment, motion for, cannot be amended.

rules and regulations in respect to..

174

174

183

183

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

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Amendment to bills, on reading of amendments to bills...
in the third degree not admissible

Page.

143

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

Amendment, may totally change the subject.....

174

157

158

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

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

158

158

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

158

174

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

175

164

144

158

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

Assent to bills by the Executive, regulations respecting.

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

158

158

159

116

136

109

134

130, 131
180

166, 169
170

B.

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

128

committee....

mistakes not to be corrected without the knowledge of the

128

not to be taken away or concealed

128

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..

proceedings on second reading

if second reading refused, the bill is rejected..

time for attacking or opposing

one bill may be ingrafted on another.

one House may pass with blanks and be filled in the

other...

on third reading, forms observed...

Page.

137

137, 138

142

141

137

157-161

142

138

163

144, 164

158

161

165, 166

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

139

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
proceedings upon, in Committee of the Whole, etc.
titles, when made...

175

140-142

171

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

reconsideration, at what time to be moved

reconsideration, effect of a vote for......

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

Page.

171

171

171

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..

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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

may be filled in engrossed bills...

Blanks, longest time, largest sum, first put

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

construction of the rule for filling

Breach of privilege, mode of proceeding on charge of..

case of the editor of the Aurora..

Bribery (Randall and Whitney's case), breach of privilege.
Business, order of, in Senate....

a settled order in its arrangement useful

154, 160

161

166

161

113

110

110

126

126

C.

Call of the House, proceedings in case of

Challenge, breach of privilege.

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

of Committee of the Whole may be elected...

Change of role, 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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