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Petitiona
Governor's Messages or
Minutes.
Notics of motion at meet.
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Notice of motion not
given at a meeting.
Motions without notice.
Notice of Queation.
Members speaking to ad-
dress President.
No Member to be refer
red to by name.
Interruptions.
9.-Petitions addressed to the Council may be sent to the Clerk of the Council or they may be presented by any Member of the Council.
No Petition shall be received which is not properly and respectfully worded, or which does not relate to matters of Legislation.
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spack not to be read.
It shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Council, or of the Member presenting a Petition, to inform the Council if there be any doubt as to a Petition coming under these prohibitions.
Petitions not coming within the above prohibitions shall be received as of course without question.
Petitions relating to any Bills before a Committee shall be referred by the Clerk on receipt to the Committee, by whom they will be presented to the Council with their Report. Other Petitions after being received, if it be so resolved, may be read, or may be printed, or may be referred to a Committee for consideration and report.
10.-Messages or Minutes of the Governor may be read at any time during a meeting.
11.-A Member may give notice of motion, during a meeting, mentioning the day or the meeting on which it is intended to bring forward the motion.
12.-Notice of motion, if not given at a meeting, must be sent in writing to the Clerk of the Council at least three days before the meeting at which it is intended that the motion should be brought forward.
13.-The following motions may be made without notice :—
a. Any motion for the confirmation of the minutes of the Council, or for the adoption, modification, or rejection of the report of any Committee.
b. Any motion that a petition, or other paper, do lie on the table, or be printed.
c. Any motion for the adjournment of the Council, or of a debate.
d. Any motion for the suspension of the Standing Orders.
e. Any motion for the reference of any matter to a Committee.
f. Any motion for the withdrawal of Strangers.
g. Any motion made when the Council is in Committee.
h. Any motion the urgency of which is admitted by the President and two-thirds of the Members present.
14.-Notice of intention to ask a question of any Member, if not given at a meeting, must, at least three clear days before the meeting of the Council at which such question is to be asked, be sent in writing to the Clerk; who shall communicate the same to the President and to the Member of whom the question is to be asked two clear days before the question is asked.
RULES OF DEBATE.
15.-Every Member shall speak standing, and shall address himself to the President.
16.-No Member shall refer to any other Member by name.
17.-No Member shall interrupt another when speaking, except by rising to order. A Member rising to order shall simply direct attention to the point which he desires to bring to notice, and submit it to the decision of the President.
Speech on petition.
No debate on question
answered.
How often Members may
speak.
tion or amendment should be seconded.
Order in which amendments should be entertained.
Proposed amendments to be committed to writing.
Clauses of Bills.
Filling Blanks.
18.-If two Members rise to speak at the same time, the President shall call upon one of them to address the Council first.
A member may not read his speech, but he may read extracts from written or printed papers in support of his argument.
19.-It shall be the duty of the President on his own authority to enforce all these Rules: and when the President rises, any member speaking shall immediately resume his seat.
20.-No speech shall be made on presenting a petition, beyond such as may be necessary to explain its nature and object.
21.-When a question has been asked and answered, no further debate thereon shall be permitted.
22.-No Member may speak more than once on any question, except when the Council is in Committee.
The Mover of any motion may, however, reply at the close of a debate; and any Member may explain himself if he has been misapprehended in any essential statement.
23.-The Mover of any motion or amendment may speak in support thereof; but no further debate shall be allowed, whether the Council be in Committee or not, until the motion or amendment be duly seconded.
24.-If any amendment be proposed and seconded, it shall be considered before the original question.
If an amendment of a proposed amendment be moved and duly seconded, it shall be considered as if such previous amendment were an original question.
25.-Any Amendment moved and seconded may be required by the President to be committed to writing by the mover and delivered to the Clerk.
26.-When a Bill is in Committee each Clause shall be read by the Clerk and shall then be put from the Chair, without Motion, by this Question:-"That this Clause shall stand part of the Bill," and the Clause shall be treated as a Motion, except that a Clause may be amended portion by portion, the earlier Amendments having precedence of the later.
A decision on an earlier portion of the Clause shall not bar an Amendment of a later portion, but a decision on a later portion of the Clause shall bar all Amendments of an earlier portion.
And if an Amendment of a later portion of a Clause inconsistent with any decision come to upon any earlier portion of the Clause, be proposed, such an Amendment cannot be put.
And no Amendment of a later Clause in a Bill can be put which may be inconsistent with any earlier Clause as it has been passed.
And if by inadvertency any such inconsistent Amendment be put and carried, it shall at any time be struck out by the President when discovered and brought to the notice of the Chair.
27.-In filling up blanks in Bills, and in putting Questions of Amendment respecting Amounts of Money, or Periods of Time, the Question of the lowest Amount of Money or shortest Period of Time proposed shall be first put.