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Amendment, may be amended prior to adoption but not
after

(proposed,) by striking out, and lost, the para-
graph proposed to be stricken out cannot be
amended

not identical, or equivalent to one lost, may be pro-
posed

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by insertion, how far liable to further amendment 180

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Ayes and Noes, how questions are determined by

Assault and Affrays in the House, how settled

Assent to bills, by the executive, regulations respecting 208

no member to vote if not present

Bills, engrossed, must not be looked into

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203

139

to be fairly written or Speaker may refuse them
amendments fall, if recommitted

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158

a particular clause may be recommitted

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one House may pass with blanks and be filled in

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Bills, shall be read twice before commitment
not to be referred to avowed opponents
referred, may be delivered to any of the Committee 153
amendments between the houses, mode of pro-

ceeding

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by whom to be taken from house to house
may be specially commended to notice of the other
house

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206

rejected, course to be pursued

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if one house neglects a bill, the other may remind
of it

207

how to be enrolled, signed and presented to Presi-
dent

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amendments to, cannot be receded from or insist-
ed on, by the amending house, with a further
amendment
amendment to an amendment has precedence over
a motion to agree or disagree

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202

202

amendments to amendments, how far admissible
proceedings upon in Committee of the Whole, &c. 136
titles, when made

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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196, 218

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(rejected) relating to their being brought in dur-

ing the same session

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originating in one house, rejected in the other, may

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conferences upon, at what stages, and by whom
asked

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papers relating to, to be left with the conferees of

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

journment intervene

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Blanks, longest time, largest sum, first put

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172

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 Peace, mode of proceeding on charge of

vilege

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189

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119

Call of the House, proceedings in case of

Bribery, (Randall and Whitney's case) breach of pri-

Business, order of, in Senate,

a settled order in its arrangement useful

Challenge, breach of privilege

Chairman of Committee elected

of Committee of the Whole, may be elected

Change of Vote, right to

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135

126

115

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132

195

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cannot sit in the recess after the Congress has ex-
pired

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a member elect, though not returned, may be ap-

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members of the House may be present at their sit-

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Committees, dissolved by a report

how revived

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157

may be discharged from instructions

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when they may sit during recess

effect of a reference to, when a bill has been amend-
ed in committee of the whole

Committee of the Whole, great matters usually referred

to

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subjects which have passed through, may be refer-

red to special committees

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 200

cannot alter any thing on which the houses have
agreed

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160

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when, by which House, and at what stage to be
asked

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Co-existing questions discussed

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Counsel may be heard on private bills and law points 135

Count of the House may be called

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(See Division of House.)

Covered, when members are not to be

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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 139,
the Speaker not allowed to engage in, except on
points of order

proceedings of the house not to be censured

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Debate, personalities to be prohibited
motives not to be arraigned

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141, 144

143

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violation of order in, to be suppressed by the

speaker

disorderly words not to be noticed until the member
has finished

disorderly words, when taken down

proceedings of the other house not to be noticed in 144
members concerned or implicated by the subject

of, ought to withdraw

Decorum, points of (See Debate)

Defamatory publications, breach of privilege

Disorder in Committee of the Whole, Speaker to re-

sume chair, if great

members creating, proceedings

Disorderly words, how and when taken down

ought not to be shut, to be kept by persons ap-

Elections, time, place, and manner of holding

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144

15

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142

143

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182

146'

146

115

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Division of the House, practice in ascertaining
of questions, discussed

Doors, rule respecting their being closed

pointed

Duel, challenge to, breach of privilege

of members to be judged by each house

Errers, cannot be corrected in Committee of the Whole 138

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House, division of, how ascertained

of Representatives.--See Representatives.

Impeachment, sketch of the law of Parliament respect-

ing

Inquiry, or accusation, common fame a ground for
Insist, question discussed

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206

185

119

146

161

146

190

219

139

185, 200

200

effect of vote to

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