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JEFFERSON'S MANUAL.

Absence, not allowed without leave,.

provision in case of,

Address, how presented,

Adhere, question discussed,

effect of a vote to,

should be two conferences before vote to,
Adjournment, motion for, cannot be amended,.
rules and regulations in respect to.,.

a question is removed by,...

of the session, all unfinished business falls,.

of the session, modes and manner discussed,

to be declared by the Speaker,.

for more than three days by concurrent votes,..

provision for disagreement respecting,..

effect of, on business pending,..

Amendment to Bills-See also Bills,.

proceedings in relation to,...

how to be reported,

fall on recommitment,..

in the third degree not admissible,

discussion of the nature and coherence of,

Speaker cannot refuse to receive because inconsistent,

may totally change the subject,..

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

a new bill may be engrafted on another,

mode of poceeding on amendments between the Houses,.

made in committee of the whole, falls by 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 paragraphs 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,

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Appropriation, made by resolution,
Arrest, definition 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,

Bills, engrossed, must not be looked into,

to be fairly written, or speaker may refuse them, amendments fall, if recommitted,..

a particular clause may be recommitted,

115

91, 92

amendments, how proceeded with,

amendments fall if referred to committee,. proceedings on second reading,.

time for attacking or opposing,.

what constitutes possession,.

one bill may be engrafted on another,...

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

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referred, may be delivered to any of the committee,

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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,. rejected, course to be pursued,..

if one House neglects a bill, the other may remind of it,.. how to be enrolled, signed and presented to President,

amendments cannot be receded from or insisted on, by the amending House, with a further amendment,

amendment to an amendment has precedence over a motion to agree or disagree,

amendments to amendments, how far admissible,

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reconsideration, when and how the question may be moved, reconsideration, at what time to be moved,.

reconsideration, effect of a vote for,

Bills, (rejected) relating to their being brought in during the same

session,.

148

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

in the rejecting House,

148

expedient for remedying omissions in,

148

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

148

effect of a vote to insist or adhere,

150

conferences upon, at what stages, and by whom asked,.

151

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

153

enrolling,

155

proceedings when disapproved,

155

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

vene,.

156

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

131

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

137

142

construction of the rule of filling,

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

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

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Change of Vote, right to,..

Clerk, puts questions before the election of Speaker,.

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Committees, cannot inquire concerning their members,.

must not sit when House is in Session,..

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how they report amendments,

cannot sit in the recess after Congress has expired,

a member elect, though not returned, may be appointed on,.

joint, how they act,.

120

159

93

101

101, 118

101

117

117

118

majority of, to constitute a quorum,.

members of the House may be present at their sittings,.

their power over a bill,

118

118

121

Committees, have entire control over a report re committed,

122

dissolved by a report,...

122

how revived,..

122

may be discharged from instructions,

148

when they may sit during recess,

159

tee of the whole,.

effect of a reference to, when a bill has been amended in commit

Committee of the Whole, great matters usually referred to,

122

102

may elect their chairman,..

102

Speaker may resume chair if in great disorder,

102

manner of doing business in, in Senate,

122

proceedings in,..

102, 118, 122

irregularly dissolved,

103

cannot adjourn,

103

report proceedings,.

103

subjects which have passed through may be referred to special

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Conferences, common to have two before vote to adhere,

cannot alter any thing on which the Houses have agreed,.

report of, cannot be amended or altered,
papers left with conferees of House agreeing to,
when, by which House, and what stages to be asked,..

Co-existing questions, discussed,

Counsel may be heard on private bills and law points,
Count of the House may be called,.

Covered, when members are not to be,

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

forms and proprieties to be observed,..

The Speaker not allowed to engage in, except on points of
order,

proceedings of the House not to be censured,..

personalities to be prohibited,..

violation of order in, to be suppressed by the Speaker,..

151

152

152

152

153

152

139

105

99

(See Division of the House.)

107

108

139

107, 108, 109

108

108

108

109

109, 112

disorderly words not to be noticed until the member has fin-
ished,

110

Decorum, points of, (See Debate,).

disorderly words when taken down,

proceedings of the House not to be noticed in,.

members concerned or implicated by the subject of, ought to
withdraw,

Defamatory publications, breach of privilege,..

Disorder in Committee of Whole, Speaker to resume chair if great,.

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Disorder, members creating, proceedings,.

Disorderly words, how and when taken down,.
Division of the House, practice in ascertaining,..

of questions discussed,.

Doors, rule respecting their being closed,..

ought not to be shut, to be kept by persons appointed,.

Duel, challenge to, breach of privilege,...

Elections, time, place, and manner of holding,

of members to be judged by each House,

Engrossed Bills, not to be looked into,.

Errors, cannot be corrected in committee of the whole,

various modes of correcting,

Clerk may correct his own,

Equivalent questions, discussed,.

Felony, mode of proceeding on charge of,.

Gallery, clearing of,.

committee of the whole cannot punish for disorder in,

Hats, when to be taken off,..

House, division of, how ascertained,..

of Representatives-See Representatives.

Impeachment, sketch of the law of Parliament respecting,.
Inquiry, or accusation, common fame a ground for,.
Insist, question discussed,..

110

110

133

137, 138

112

112

92

96

96

107

106

107

154

140

94, 95

112

123

112

143, 144

152

103

149, 150

effect of vote to,..

150

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to contain a brief statement of every petition, paper, &c., presented,

156

titles of bills and parts affected by amendments, to be inserted
on,...

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either House may notice or inspect journal of the other,

157

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Members and officers of one House not amenable to the other,

must vote when question is put,.

not to vote unless present when question was put,

Memorial-See Petition.

Messages cannot be received in committee,

Executive to be made to both Houses at the same time,

111

146

146

102

153

155

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