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Page 52 - House shall have adjourned on the preceding day; shall immediately call the members to order; and, on the appearance of a quorum, shall cause the journal of the preceding day to be read.
Page 52 - Speaker shall, or any member may call him to order; in which case the member so called to order shall immediately sit down, unless permitted to explain ; and the house shall, if appealed to, decide on the case, but without debate ; if there be no appeal the decision of the chair shall be submitted to.
Page 53 - RECONSIDERATION. [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...
Page 54 - No member shall vote on any question in the event of which he is immediately and particularly interested ; or in any case where he was not present •when the question was put.
Page 411 - A member who has a personal or private interest in any measure or bill, proposed or pending before the legislature, shall disclose the fact to the house of which he is a member, and shall not vote thereon.
Page 836 - Said bonds, and the interest thereon, shall be paid by revenue derived from an annual assessment upon the real property of the district; and all the real property in the district shall be and remain liable to be assessed for such payments as hereinafter provided.
Page 666 - The board shall have the power, and it shall be their duty to manage and conduct the business and affairs of the district; make and execute all necessary contracts ; employ and appoint such agents, officers and employes as may be required, and prescribe their duties...
Page 52 - He shall preserve order and decorum ; may speak to points of order in preference to other members, rising from his seat for that purpose ; and -;hall decide questions of order, subject to an appeal to the...
Page 52 - He shall have the right to name any member to perform the duties of the chair, but such substitution shall not extend beyond an adjournment.
Page 650 - The Superior Court of the State of Washington in and for the County of Whatcom has repeatedly so decided.

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