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Page 12 - No motion or proposition on a subject different from that under consideration shall be admitted under color of amendment.
Page 14 - 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 12 - Speaker shall, or any member may call him to order ; in which case the member so called to order shall immediately sit down, unless permitted to explain ; and the house shall, if appealed to, decide on the case, but without debate ; if there be no appeal the decision of the chair shall be submitted to. If...
Page 59 - That the Senators and Representatives of this state in the Congress of the United States, be and they are hereby requested, to...
Page 11 - Any motion or proposition may be withdrawn by the mover at any time before a decision, amendment, or other action of the body upon it, except a motion to reconsider, which shall not be withdrawn without leave of the House.
Page 9 - Any member or members may adjourn from day to day. A motion to adjourn, and a motion to fix the time for which the House will adjourn, shall always be in order, and shall be decided without debate.
Page 775 - That a committee of two on the part of the senate and three on the part of the house, be appointed to wait on the governor, and inform him that the General Assembly is now in session and ready to receive any communciation he may wish to transmit.
Page 12 - If any member, in speaking or otherwise, transgress the rules of the House, the Speaker shall, or any member may, call to order; in which case the member so called to order shall immediately sit down, unless permitted to explain; and the House shall, if appealed to, decide on the case, but without debate: if there be no appeal, the decision of the Chair shall be submitted to.
Page 7 - The Speaker shall examine and correct the Journal before it is read. He shall have a general direction of the Hall. He shall have a right to name any member to perform the duties of the chair, but such substitution shall not extend beyond an adjournment.
Page 13 - Whether it shall be engrossed and read a third time?" and no amendment shall be received for discussion at...
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| Title | Journal of the House of Delegates of the Commonwealth of Virginia House document |
| Author | Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates |
| Publisher | Commonwealth of Virginia, 1899 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 30 Nov 2007 |
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