A majority of each house shall constitute a quorum to do business, but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and compel the attendance of absent members in such manner and under such penalties as each house may prescribe. Sec. 12. Each house shall... Civics of Montana - Page 65by John F. Davies (educator.), John F. Davies (Jr) - 1896 - 128 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Chauncey Pease, John Milton Niles - Connecticut - 1819 - 496 pages
...House shall constitute a quorum to do business ; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and compel the attendance of absent members, in such...under such penalties as each House may prescribe. § 9. Each House shall keep a journal of its own proceedings, and publish' the same when required by... | |
| John Bigelow - Constitutions - 1848 - 538 pages
...house shall constitute a quorum to do business ; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and compel the attendance of absent members in such...under such penalties, as each house may prescribe. 8. Each house shall determine the rules of its own proceedings, punish members for disorderly conduct,... | |
| Maryland. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1850 - 946 pages
...constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and compel the attendance of absent members in such...under such penalties as each House may prescribe. SEC. 14. The doors of each House and of committees of the whole shell be open, except when the business... | |
| Michigan. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional amendments - 1850 - 990 pages
...house shall constitute a quorum to do business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to clay, and compel the attendance of absent members, in such...under such penalties as each house may prescribe. Sec. 9. Each house shall choose its own officers, determine the rules of its proceedings, and judge of the... | |
| Michigan - Constitutions - 1850 - 40 pages
...each house shall constitute a quorum to do business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and compel the attendance of absent members, in such...under such penalties as each house may prescribe. § 9. ,Each house shall choose its own officers, determine the rules of its proce dings, and judge... | |
| Michigan - Law - 1850 - 964 pages
...each house shall constitute a quorum to do business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and compel the attendance of absent members, in such...under such penalties as each house may prescribe. § 9. Each house shall ehoose its own officers, determine the rules of its proceedings, and judge of... | |
| Maryland - Constitutions - 1851 - 142 pages
...constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and compel the attendance of absent members in such...under such penalties as each House may prescribe. SEC. 14. The doors of each House and of committees of the whole shall be open, except when the business... | |
| Michigan - 1851 - 418 pages
...shall constitute a quorum to do "quorum!i6 business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and compel the attendance of absent members, in such...under such penalties as each house may prescribe. § 9. Each house shall ehoose its own officers, determine the rules Powera of of 'lis proceedings,... | |
| Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 742 pages
...each house shall constitute a quorum to do business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and compel the attendance of absent members in such...under such penalties as each house may prescribe." Section 10 of the same article provides that — "Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings,... | |
| Maryland - Constitutions - 1855 - 132 pages
...constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and compel the attendance of absent members, in such...under such penalties as each House may prescribe. open. Journals to be published. Yeas and Nays. 1853, ch. 36. Special Adjournments. Style of Laws. Mode... | |
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