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INDEX TO JEFFERSON'S MANUAL.

A.

Absence, not allowed without leave..

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

even by.....

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Address, how presented

Adhere, question discussed

effect of a vote to

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119

119

124

121

164

164

question shall be: 1st to agree, 2d to disagree, 3d to recede,

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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

174

House which adheres...

should be two conferences before vote to

174

Adjournment, motion for, cannot be amended.

rules and regulations in respect to

a question is removed by..........

of the session, all unfinished business falls

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

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amendment with amendment...

Amendment, may totally change the subject..........

Speaker cannot refuse to receive, because incon-
sistent.

174

157

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

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

B.

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

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

mittee.....

not to be taken away or concealed

to be fairly written, or Speaker may refuse them__
introduction, reading, and commitment....

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158

158

174

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Bills, amendments fall if recommitted.

142

time for attacking or opposing.--.

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_

one bill may be ingrafted on another

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

141

137

157-161

142

138

163

144, 164

158

161

on third reading, forms observed.........

on third reading, may be committed.

on third reading, amended by riders..

on third reading, blanks filled....

preamble to be last considered

cannot be altered after passage_

165, 166

165

166

166

140

166

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

House, to be brought in..

to receive three readings, &c.----

how brought in on notice and leave
forms in introducing.... ----
proceedings on second reading..
how and to whom committed

shall be read twice before commitment

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
amending House with a further amendment..

134

137

137

137

138

138

138

139

139

174, 175

178

179

179

180

180

174

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

146

175

amendment to an amendment of the other House takes prece-

dence of a motion to agree or disagree____
proceedings upon, in Committee of the Whole, &c

175

140-142

titles, when made

171

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

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

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

in the rejecting House..

expedients for remedying omissions in ..........

mode of proceeding when founded on facts requiring explana-
tion...

effect of a vote to insist or adhere___

conferences must be asked by the House possessed of the papers.
papers relating to, to be left with the conferees of the House
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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cannot strike out at a conference anything in a bill which has
been agreed to by the two Houses

proceedings when disapproved

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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

110

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

Change of vote, right to

Clerk puts questions before election of Speaker

to read standing

numbers the sections

118

110

121

123

171

120

145

161

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179

122

122

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.__.

121

138

139

141

141

141

184

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).

standing

forms and proceedings in.

joint, how they act.....

when notified that the House is sitting they are bound to

attend

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

122

112

121

121, 122

122

122

138

122

139

139

139

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

139

139

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__

144

122

123

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