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INDEX TO JEFFERSON'S MANUAL.

A.

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Absence, not allowed without leave..

provision in cases of _____

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

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question shall be: 1st to agree, 2d to disagree, 3d to recede,
4th to insist, 5th to adhere_...

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one House adhering, the other must recede or also.
where both Houses adhere the matter must fall

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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____.

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

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Amendment to bills, the House cannot recede from or insist on its own

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

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158
158

if an amendment be agreed to it cannot be afterward
amended

a new bill may be ingrafted on another_
mode of proceeding on amendments between the Houses.
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 becomes
the text of the bill, and may be amended in the second
degree...

on amendments between the Houses, question is: Ist to
agree, 2d disagree, 3d recede, 4th insist, 5th adhere...
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 pro-
posed 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.............
Apportionment of Representatives, table of from 1787 to 1880......
Appropriation may be made by resolution.............

Arrest, discussion of privilege from__

terminates with the session....

Assault and affrays in the House, how settled_

Assent to bills by the Executive, regulations respecting...

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175

164

144

158
158

158

159

158, 159

116

136

109

134

130, 131

180
166-169

170

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

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

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mistakes not to be corrected without the knowledge of the com-

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Bills, 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...

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141

137

157-161

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138

163

144, 164

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

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not to be referred to avowed opponents

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

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 President_
not to be enrolled in paragraphs, but solidly...

amendments to, cannot be receded from or insisted on by the

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174, 175

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179

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180

amending House with a further amendment..

174

dangerous practice of passing bills before being engrossed ......--
amendments to amendments between the Houses, how far admis-
sible..

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175

amendment to an amendment of the other House takes prece-
dence of a motion to agree or disagree......

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Bills, reconsideration, when and how the question may be moved
reconsideration, at what time to be moved.....
reconsideration, effect of a vote for.‒‒‒‒

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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....

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expedients for remedying omissions in

173

mode of proceeding when founded on facts requiring explana-
tion____

173

effect of a vote to insist or adhere____.

174

conferences must be asked by the House possessed of the papers.
papers relating to, to be left with the conferees of the House

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granting the conference

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report to be made first in the House granting the conference...
report cannot be amended or altered as the report of a commit-
tee may be...

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176

cannot strike out at a conference anything in a bill which has

been agreed to by the two Houses

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proceedings when disapproved

180

not returned in ten days to be laws, unless an adjournment inter-

vene

180

Blanks, longest time, largest sum, first put

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

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

ΠΟ

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

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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...

manner of proceeding in ___

cannot erase, interline, or blot a bill...

cannot reconsider or alter their own votes...

how they report amendments___

may be appointed to sit in the recess after adjournment...
cannot receive a petition except through the House.

a member elect, though not returned, may be appointed on,
(in Parliament).

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122

122

121

138

139

141

141

141

184

122

standing

forms and proceedings in.

joint, how they act.............

attend

when notified that the House is sitting they are bound to

who shall compose.......

how appointed in Senate.......

time and place of meeting, when and where they please.......
should not be unfriendly to a subject referred to them
when a member is hostile to a measure referred to the com-
mittee, he should ask to be excused

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the child should not be put to a nurse that cares not for it.
majority of, to constitute a quorum

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they must act together and not by separate consultations __
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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