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Amendment to bills, discussion of the nature and coherence of .... 186-190
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.....

206

187

187

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

187

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

187

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

187

205

206

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

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....
Apportionment of Representatives, table of, from 1787 to 1893...
Appropriation may be made by resolution...
Arrest, discussion of privilege from..........

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terminates with the session

B.

Bills, engrossed, must not be looked into while in Speaker's hands.
mistakes not to be corrected without the knowledge of the
committee

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Bills, not to be taken away or concealed....

153

to be fairly written, or Speaker may refuse them..........

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one bill may be ingrafted on another

one House may pass with blanks and be filled in the other.

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

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referred, may be delivered to any of the committee.

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165

amendments between the Houses, mode of proceeding..... 205, 206
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 amending House with a further amendment......
dangerous practice of passing bills before being engrossed..
amendments to amendments between the Houses, how far
admissible...

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...................

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212

206

173

206, 207

206
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Bills, titles, when made

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

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reconsideration, at what time to be moved..

202

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

202

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

205

originating in one House, rejected in the other, may be

renewed in the rejecting House...

203

expedients for remedying omissions in

204

mode of proceeding when founded on facts requiring ex-
planation...

204

effect of a vote to insist or adhere..

205

conferences must be asked by the House possessed of the
papers.....

207

papers relating to, to be left with the conferees of the House
granting the conference

208

report to be made first in the House granting the confer-

ence

207

report cannot be amended or altered as the report of a
committee may be

208

cannot strike out at a conference anything in a bill
which has been agreed to by the two Houses..
proceedings when disapproved...

206

212

not returned in ten days to be laws, unless an adjourn-
ment intervene

213

Blanks, longest time, largest sum, first put...

182, 189

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

190

may be filled in engrossed bills....

196

construction of the rule for filling

190

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

136

case of the editor of the Aurora.

133

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

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Chairman of a committee is usually the first person named....
of Committee of the Whole may be elected

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

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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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when notified that the House is sitting they are bound

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

166

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....

165

165

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

165

majority of, to constitute a quorum

166

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

166

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....

Speaker may resume chair if great disor-
der .....

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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...

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

208

Coexisting questions discussed....

192

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.....

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D.

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

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