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INDEX TO JEFFERSON'S MANUAL.

A.

Page.

Address, how presented..

effect of a vote to.

Absence not allowed without leave..

provision in cases of..

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

and even by.....

Adhere, question discussed..

81

81

86

83

125

125

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

recede; 4th, to insist; 5th, to adhere...

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

125

135

135

there are instances of having gone to a second adherence
the form fixed by adherence can not be departed from by

the House which adheres.....

should be two conferences before vote to.

Adjournment, motion for, can not be amended.
rules and regulations in respect to.

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for more than three days, to be by concurrent

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Amendment to bills, the House can not recede from or insist on

its own amendment with amendment ...
Speaker can not refuse to receive, because
inconsistent...

Amendment, may totally change the subject.

if House refuse to strike out a paragraph, it can not
be amended..

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if an amendment be agreed to it can not be after-
ward amended.............

119

119

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

118

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....

135

136

136

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 refer-

ence

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 can not 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 118, 119, 120
Apportionment of Representatives, table of, from 1787 to 1890 ..
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

committee

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Bills, not to be taken away or concealed ..

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

introduction, reading, and commitment ..
amendments fall if recommitted...

a particular clause may be recommitted

can not 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..

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89, 90

98

98, 99

105

104

99

118-121

105

99

124

107, 127

preamble to be last considered.

can not be altered after passage.

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

to receive three readings, etc

how brought in on notice and leave..

118

on third reading, blanks filled...

on third reading, may be committed for certain action....
on third reading, amended by riders.

one House may pass with blanks and be filled in the other.
on third reading, forms observed..

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House, to be brought in......

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98

98

98

99, 106

100

99

100

100

135, 136

139

140

141

141

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, can not be receded from or insisted on by
the amending House with a further amendment...
dangerous practice of passing bills before being engrossed. 106, 107
amendments to amendments between the Houses, how far
admissible....

142

136

amendment to an amendment of the other House takes
precedence of a motion to agree or disagree...

136

136

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Bills, proceedings upon, in Committee of the Whole, etc.
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......

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

103-105

132

132

133

133

135

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

expedients for remedying omissions in.

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

134

effect of a vote to insist or adhere...

135

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

137

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

137

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

ence....

137

report can not be amended or altered as the report of a
committee may be......

138

136
141

can not strike out at a conference anything in a bill which
has been agreed to by the two Houses.

proceedings when disapproved.

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

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.

142

114, 120, 121

121

127

121

74

71

71

87

87

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

So

71

83

84

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may correct his errors in delivering messages.
Committees can not 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..

can not erase, interline, or blot a bill.

121
140

83

can not reconsider or alter their own votes.

how they report amendments....

may be appointed to sit in the recess after adjourn-
ment.

can not receive a petition except through the House..
a member elect, though not returned may be appointed
on (in Parliament)..

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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...

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
committee, he should ask to be excused.......

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 consulta-
tions.....

100

members of the House may be present at their sittings.

100

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