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Clerk may correct his errors in delivering messages..
Committees cannot inquire concerning their members.

must not sit when House is in session...

the person first named may act as chairman, but they
may elect a chairman....

manner of appointing the members and control over
them by the House..

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may be appointed to sit in the recess after adjourn-
ment

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cannot receive a petition except through the House..
a member elect, though not returned, may be appointed
on (in Parliament).

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112

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when notified that the House is sitting they are bound

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time and place of meeting, when and where they
please...

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should not be unfriendly to a subject referred to them.
when a member is hostile to a measure referred to the
committee, he should ask to be excused......

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139

the child should not be put to a nurse that cares not
for it....

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majority of, to constitute a quorum.

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they must act together and not by separate consulta-
tions ....

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members of the House may be present at their sittings.

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effect of a reference to, when a bill has been amended

in Committee of the Whole...............

Committee of the Whole, great matters usually referred to.

may elect their chairman..

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123

Committee of the Whole, Speaker may resume chair if great disor-

der

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manner of doing business in, in Senate... 143, 144

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particulars which attach to..

Communications, confidential, to be kept secret..

Common fame a ground for proceeding..

Conferences, common to have two, before vote to adhere...........................
must be asked by the house possessed of the papers.
cannot alter anything on which the Houses have
agreed...

144

185

124

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175

discussion of the nature and occasion of..

report of, cannot be amended or altered..

papers left with conferees of House granting..

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report first made in the House granting the confer-

ence

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when, by which House, and what stages to be asked.

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Co-existing questions discussed...

Counsel may be heard on private bills and law points..
Count of the House may be called (see Division of House)..
Covered, when members are not to be......

D.

Debate, no one to speak impertinently, superfluously, or tediously.
not cut off till both sides of the question be put.......
forms and proprieties to be observed in......

the Speaker not allowed to engage in, except on points of
order

if he rise to speak he must be first heard.

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164

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129

the Speaker may call a member by name for persistent
violations of order in.....

130

indecent language against the proceedings of the House
not to be used in.....

130

reviling, nipping, or unmannerly words against a mem-
ber not to be used in....

130

a member may speak at every reading of a bill.....................

129

Debate, where warm words or an assault has passed between mem-
bers they may be required to declare in their places not
to prosecute the quarrel....

proceedings of the House not to be censured.

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a member not to be called by his name in
personalities to be prohibited...

motives not to be arraigned..

violation of order in, to be suppressed by the Speaker....
disorderly words not to be noticed until the member has
finished

disorderly words to be taken down immediately...
proceedings of the other House not to be noticed in...
speeches or votes in one House on the same subject not to
be noticed in the other....

the Speaker to interfere promptly to arrest disrespectful
language toward the other House.....

where the private interests of a member are concerned in
a question, he is to withdraw...

Decorum (see Debate)..

Defamatory publications breach of privilege..

Disorder in Committee of the Whole, Speaker to resume chair if great.
members creating, proceedings in

cases of....

Disorderly words, how and when taken down..
Division of the House, practice in ascertaining
Division of questions, discussed....

Doors, rule respecting their being closed...........

should not be shut, but be kept by persons appointed..

Duel, challenge to, breach of privilege.............

E..

Elections, time, place, and manner of holding...

of members to be judged by each House..

Engrossed bills not to be looked into while in Speaker's hands..........
Errors in a bill cannot be corrected in Committee of the Whole
without order of the committee.....

may be corrected by a clause in another bill, or by a new
bill.....

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131, 132

132

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128-133

110

123

130, 131

132

166-171

161. 162

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110

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115

128

128

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179

Equivalent questions discussed................

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Execution of subsisting order. A member has a right to insist on the.
no debate or delay shall be had on the...

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133

F.

Clerk may correct an error in delivering a message.

Felony, mode of proceeding on charge of treason, breach of the

peace, or....

113

G.

Gallery, clearing of...

Committee of the Whole cannot punish for disorder in...

H.

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145

Hats, when to be taken off...

House, division of, how ascertained...

House of Representatives. (See Representatives.)

I.

133

166, 170

189, 192

157

124

Impeachment, sketch of the law of Parliament respecting
Inconsistent or incongruous amendments not suppressed....
Inquiry or accusation, common fame a ground for................
Insist, question discussed upon amendments between the Honses. 174, 175
effect of vote to.....

174

on execution of a subsisting order. A member may.
Interests are concerned, no member is to be present when a bill is
under debate in which his private....

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to contain a brief statement of every petition, paper, &c.,

presented......

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titles of bills and parts affected by amendments to be in-
serted on

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either House may notice and inspect Journal of the other.
how it may be amended

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L.

Largest sum, question first put, in filling blanks...

Lie on table, may be called up at any time, matters that.
Longest time, question first put, in filling blanks..

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Members and officers of one House not amenable to the other.....
must vote when question is put.....

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170

not to vote unless present when question was put.......
must withdraw when questions concerning themselves or
their private interests are debated......

170

133

may be heard, but must withdraw before a question is
moved.

Memorial. (See Petition.)

Messages cannot be received in Committee of the Whole...
between the Houses-subject of, discussed..

executive, to be made to both Houses at same time
when they may be received

forms in receiving

errors in their delivery may be corrected

bills not acted on, the House may be reminded of them.

Minority protected by adherence to rules.

Mistakes (see Errors)

Motion not to be put or debated until seconded

to be put in writing, if desired..........

to be read for information as often as desired by a member.
to adjourn not in order when a member has the floor.....
privileged, what shall be, discussed....

removed from before House by adjournment, &c. (see
Questions)

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123

J. 178

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179

107

173, 179

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147, 155

163

N.

Newspaper publications, defamatory, breach of privilege.

Nipping, reviling, or unmannerly words not permitted in debate.

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Officers of either House, forms of nomination or election...
of one House not amenable to the other..

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132

Onslow, Mr., his opinion of importance of rules..

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disorderly words in committee to be taken down and re-
ported to the House....

132

a member's name may be called by the Speaker for disorder.
questions of, may be adjourned

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133

decision of the Speaker on points of, may be controlled...

133

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