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INDEX TO JEFFERSON'S MANUAL.

A.

Absence, not allowed without leave...

provision in cases of

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

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119

119

even by..

Address, how presented

Adhere, question discussed

124
121

164

effect of a vote to

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

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

164

164

one House adhering, the other must recede or also

174

where both Houses adhere the matter must fall

174

there are instances of having gone to a second adherence____

174

the form fixed by adherence cannot be departed from by the

House which adheres...

174

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

183

183

163

173, 183

of the session, modes and manner discussed

182-184

to be declared by the Speaker

183

for more than three days, to be by concurrent votes.__

183-

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

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

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

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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____

158
158
174

175

175

164

144

158

158

158

159

158, 159

116

136

109

134

130, 131

180
166-169

170

B.

Bills, engrossed, must not be looked into.

128

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

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Bills, amendments fall if recommitted.

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__

time for attacking or opposing....

one bill may be ingrafted on another

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

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142

141

137
157-161

142

138

163

144, 164

158

161

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

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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..

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..

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

171

171

171

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

174

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

in the rejecting House.......

172

expedients for remedying omissions in

173

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

173

174

176

granting the conference ...

176

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...----

176

176

cannot strike out at a conference anything in a bill which has

been agreed to by the two Houses

175

proceedings when disapproved ...............

180

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..

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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

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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

122

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...

112

121

121, 122

122

122

138

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

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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when they may sit during recess

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_.

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144

122

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