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INDEX TO JEFFERSON'S MANUAL.

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provision in cases of

Absence, not allowed without leave..

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

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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__

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the form fixed by adherence cannot be departed from by the

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

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

amendment with amendment _____
Speaker cannot refuse to receive, because incon-
sistent.

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157

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

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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-

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not to be taken away or concealed.

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

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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...

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 -

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

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157-161

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138

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144, 164

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161

165, 166

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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

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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...

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

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

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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
titles, when made

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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..........

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

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

in the rejecting House...

expedients for remedying omissions in

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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

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....

cannot 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 inter-

vene

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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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...

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....

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139

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141

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121

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122

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139

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 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_.

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