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25.

No Member shall be obliged to be on more than two Committees at the same time, nor Chairman of more than one.

26.

No Member shall be permitted to stand up, to the interruption of another, while any Member is speaking, or to pass unnecessarily between the President of the Convention and the person speaking; nor shall any Member be permitted to stand in the alleys during the session of the Convention.

27.

Every Member shall keep an account of his own attendance and travel, and deliver the same to the Committee appointed to make up the pay-roll, and, on his failure so to do, he shall be omitted from the roll; and no Member shall receive pay for any week-day on which he has not actually attended, except in case of sickness.

28.

Every Member, who shall neglect to give his attendance in the Convention for more than six days after the session commences, shall, on making his appearance therein, be held to render the reason of such neglect; and in case the reason assigned shall be deemed by the Convention sufficient, such Member shall be entitled to receive pay for his travel, and not otherwise; and no member shall be absent more than two days, without leave of the Convention; and a vote of leave of absence shall be inoperative, unless the Member obtaining it shall avail himself of it within five days.

29.

When any Member shall be guilty of a breach of

either of the Rules and Orders of the Convention, he may be required by the Convention, on motion, to make satisfaction therefor, and shall not be allowed to vote, or speak, except by way of excuse, till he has done so.

30.

Every Member, who shall be in the Convention when a question is put, shall give his vote, unless the Convention, for special reasons, shall excuse him. Any Member desiring to be so excused on any question, shall make application to that effect before a division, or before the calling of the yeas and nays; and such application shall be accompanied by a brief statement of reasons, and shall be decided without debate.

31.

Every motion shall be reduced to writing, if the President shall so direct.

32.

Any Member may call for the division of a question when the sense will admit of it. A motion to strike out and insert shall be deemed indivisible: but a motion to strike out being lost, shall neither preclude amendment, nor a motion to strike out and

insert.

33.

Motions and Reports may be committed, or recommitted, at the pleasure of the Convention.

34.

No motion or proposition, of a subject different from that under consideration, shall be admitted under color of amendment.

35.

The unfinished business, in which the Convention

was engaged at the time of the last adjournment, shall have the preference in the orders of the day.

36.

No rule or order of the Convention shall be dispensed with, altered, or repealed, unless two-thirds of the Members present shall consent thereto.

37.

All questions, relating to the priority of business to be acted upon, shall be decided without debate.

38.

Every question of order shall be noted by the Secretary, with the decision thereon, and inscribed at large on the Journal.

39.

It shall be the duty of each Member who moves that any Committee be instructed to inquire into the expediency of amending the existing Constitution, to point out the amendment, which he deems expedient, in writing, to accompany his motion, or to furnish a written statement thereof to such Committee, if by them required.

Of Monitors.
40.

Two Monitors shall be appointed for each division, whose duty it shall be to see the due observance of the Rules and Orders of the Convention, and, on demand of the President, to return the number of votes and Members in their respective divisions.

41.

If any Member shall transgress any of the Rules or Orders of the Convention, and persist therein afte

being notified thereof by any Monitor, it shall be the duty of such Monitor to give information thereof to the Convention.

Of Petitions, Memorials, &c.

42.

All papers addressed to the Convention, except petitions, memorials and remonstrances, shall be pre. sented by the President, or by a Member in his place, and shall be read by the President, Secretary, or such other person as the President may request, and shall be taken up in the order in which they were presented, unless where the Convention shall otherwise direct.

43.

Every Member, presenting to the Convention a petition, memorial, or remonstrance, shall endorse his name thereon, with a brief statement of the nature and object of the instrument, and the reading of the same from the Chair shall in all instances be dispensed with, unless specially ordered by the Convention.

44.

All reports, petitions, memorials, remonstrances, and papers of a like nature, shall be presented during the first hour of each session, and at no other time, except by special leave of the Convention.

45.

If any Member of the Convention shall so request, any order, which shall be proposed for adoption, shall be passed over for that day without question; and the same shall be considered and disposed of, on the succeeding day, in the same manner as it would have been, on the day on which it was offered, if no objection had been made.

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Of Committees, Reports and Resolutions.

Of Quorum.
46.

Not less than one hundred Members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.

Of Committees, Reports, and Resolutions.

47.

No Committee shall sit during the sessions of the Convention, without special leave.

48.

In all elections by ballot of the Convention, a time shall be assigned for such election at least one day previous thereto.

49.

In all elections of Committees of the Convention, by ballot, the person having the highest number of votes shall act as Chairman, and when the Committee is nominated by the Chair, the member first named shall be Chairman.

50.

All papers, relative to any business before the Convention, shall be left with the Secretary, by any Member, who may obtain leave of absence, and may have any such papers in his possession.

51.

The rules of proceeding in the Convention shall be observed in a Committee of the whole, so far as they may be applicable, except the rule limiting the times of speaking: but no Member shall speak twice upon any question, until every Member, who

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