A Congressional Manual; Or, Outline of the Order of Business: In the House of Representatives of the United States. With Copious IndexesPeter Hay & Company, printers, 1841 - 447 pages |
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... executive Votes outside the bar . ( See Votes . ) Reconsidering order for yeas and nays , Yeas and nays cannot be called on a motion to second the call of the previous question , Increase of duty , Call for reading a memorial ...
... executive Votes outside the bar . ( See Votes . ) Reconsidering order for yeas and nays , Yeas and nays cannot be called on a motion to second the call of the previous question , Increase of duty , Call for reading a memorial ...
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... executive and judicial officers , both of the United States and of the several states , shall be bound by oath or affirmation to support the constitution of the United States . " It will be observed that this is the practice at in the ...
... executive and judicial officers , both of the United States and of the several states , shall be bound by oath or affirmation to support the constitution of the United States . " It will be observed that this is the practice at in the ...
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... , the first communication be- tween the legislative and executive branches of government , I have adopted that by message ; as used on all subsequent The new members being sworn , and the com- mittee 18 CONGRESSIONAL MANUAL .
... , the first communication be- tween the legislative and executive branches of government , I have adopted that by message ; as used on all subsequent The new members being sworn , and the com- mittee 18 CONGRESSIONAL MANUAL .
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... executive . A man fill- ing such a dignified station , with such high duties before him , should watch with the midnight lamp , and borrow its light to make himself worthy of his exalted position . Usually on the second Monday of the ...
... executive . A man fill- ing such a dignified station , with such high duties before him , should watch with the midnight lamp , and borrow its light to make himself worthy of his exalted position . Usually on the second Monday of the ...
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... executive communica- tions . Every day breeds , if one may use the expres- sion , its own business , and must be cleared off , or all regularity of proceeding will be des- troyed . These messages usually refer to matters before the ...
... executive communica- tions . Every day breeds , if one may use the expres- sion , its own business , and must be cleared off , or all regularity of proceeding will be des- troyed . These messages usually refer to matters before the ...
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26th Congress adjourn affirmative agreed appointed Aycrigg ayes ballot bers chair stand chairman clerk committed conference congress constitution debate decision disagree District of Columbia Dromgoole duty election engrossed entitled Grey Hakew Hats house of representatives insert January John P. B. Maxwell John Quincy Adams Journal judgment laid main question majority members present ment mittee motion to reconsider negative passed pending petition Petrikin Philemon Dickerson point of order postpone precedence president previous question private bills proceed proposed proposition ques question of order question was moved question was put quorum read a third received referred Resolved rule says Scob secretary senate serjeant-at-arms session sideration sion slavery speaker decided strike taken thereon third reading Thomas Jones Yorke tion took an appeal two-thirds Union United vote Whereupon whole house William William Cost Johnson William Halsted words yeas and nays
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Page 13 - United States of America. He shall hold his office during the term of four years, and together with the vice-president, chosen for the same term, be elected as follows : 2. Each State shall appoint...
Page 16 - United States whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law. But the Congress may, by law, vest the appointment of such inferior officers as they think proper in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments.
Page 14 - Vice-President, declaring what officer shall then act as President, and such officer shall act accordingly until the disability be removed or a President shall be elected. 7. The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services a compensation which shall neither be increased nor...
Page 11 - ... 2 The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it. 3 No bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed. 4 No capitation, or other direct tax, shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
Page 222 - For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies...
Page 4 - Legislature. 2. No person shall be a representative who shall not have attained to the age of twenty-five years, and been seven years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen. 3. Representatives and direct taxes...
Page 209 - Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and Disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of Honour, Trust or Profit under the United States : but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law.
Page xii - The rules of parliamentary practice, comprised in Jefferson's Manual, shall govern the House in all cases to which they are applicable, and in which they are not inconsistent with the standing rules and orders of the House, and joint rules of the Senate and House of Representatives.
Page 37 - RECONSIDERATION. [When a question has been once made and carried in the affirmative or negative, it shall be in order for any member of the majority to move for the reconsideration thereof; but no motion for the reconsideration of any vote shall be in order after a bill, resolution, message, report, amendment, or motion upon which the vote was taken shall have gone out of the possession of the Senate...