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Precedence when two

Members rise together,

Speech not to be read.

President's authority,

Speech on petition.

No debate on question

answered.

How often Members may

speak.

Motion or amendment should be seconded.

Order in which amend. ments should be enter- tained.

Proposed amendments to

be committed to writ- ing.

Clauses of Bills.

Längs Blanks.

18.-If two Members rise to sp

one of them to address the Compil to

A member may not read his printed papers in support of his argument

19.-It shall be the duty of the P'r Rules: and when the President rises, my

his seat.

pr

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the President shall call upon

read extracts from written or

wn authority to enforce all these taler speaking shall immediately resume

20.—No speech shall be made on a petition, beyond such as may be necessary to explain its nature and object.

21.-When a question has been ash d and answered, no further debate thereon shall be permitted.

22.—No Member may speak more than one 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 argument.

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 be amended portion by portion, tlæs earlier Amendments having precedence of the

may

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 con- not be put.

And no Amendment of a later Clause in a Bill can be put which may be incon- sistent with any

earlier Clause as it has been passed.

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And if by inadvertency any such inconsistent Amendment be put and carried, 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 l'eriod of Time proposed shall be first put.

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