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Página 7 - No standing rule or order of the house shall be rescinded or changed without one day's notice being given of the motion therefor ; nor shall any rule be suspended, except by a vote of at least twothirds of the members present...
Página 3 - When any member is about to speak in debate, or deliver any matter to the House, he shall rise from his seat, and respectfully address himself to "Mr. Speaker," and shall confine himself to the question under debate, and avoid personality.
Página 28 - THAT a well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural and safe defence of a free State; that standing armies, in time of peace, should be avoided, as dangerous to liberty ; and that in all cases, the military should be under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power.
Página 5 - No petition of a private nature, having been once rejected, shall be acted on a second time, unless it be supported by new evidence ; nor shall any such petition, after a third disallowance, be again acted on. The several clerks of committees shall keep alphabetical lists of all such petitions, specifying the...
Página 5 - Before reading each bill the clerk shall announce whether it is the first, second or third time of reading the bill. 11. The clerks of the Senate and House of Delegates may interchange messages at such time between the hour of adjournment and that of meeting on the following day as that the said messages may be read immediately after the orders of the day. 12. The clerk of the Senate shall, at each session, have printed and bound with the manual of rules, &c., the constitution of Virginia, for the...
Página 38 - no person held to service or labor in one state under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up, on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due.
Página 8 - If any person shall tamper with a witness in respect of his evidence to be given before this house, or one of its committees, or directly or indirectly endeavor to deter or hinder a person from appearing or giving evidence, it shall be deemed a high misdemeanor, which the house will severely punish. 42. No person shall be taken into custody by the sergeant at arms on any complaint of breach of privilege, until the matter is examined by the committee of privileges and elections and reported to the...
Página 251 - When a question has been once made and carried in the affirmative or negative, it shall be in order for any member of the majority to move for the reconsideration thereof ; but no motion for the reconsideration of any vote shall be in order after a bill, resolution, message, report, amendment or motion, upon which the vote was taken, shall have- gone out of the possession of the senate...
Página 4 - ... days. During such substitution the speaker may participate in the debates. If the speaker be absent, and have named no one to act in his stead, the duties shall be performed by the chairman of one of the standing committees, taking precedence in the order in which the committees are named in Rule 16.
Página 214 - that the Tariff of 1828 is contrary to the spirit of the Constitution of the United States...

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