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" When a question is under debate, no motion shall be received but to adjourn, to lie on the table, for the previous question, to postpone to a day certain, to commit or amend, to postpone indefinitely ; which several motions, shall have precedence in the... "
Journal: 1st-13th Congress . Repr. 14th Congress, 1st Session - 50th ... - Page 634
by United States. Congress. House - 1858
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Journal: 1st-13th Congress . Repr. 14th Congress, 1st Session ..., Volume 1

United States. Congress. House - United States - 1844 - 702 pages
...(April 7, 1789.) 46. When a question is under debate, no motion shall be received but to adjourn, tn lie on the table, for the previous question, to postpone...in the order in which they are arranged, (March 13, 1832 ;) and no motion to postpone to a day certain, to commit, or to postpone indefinitely, being decided,...
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Journal: 1st-13th Congress . Repr. 14th Congress, 1st Session ..., Volume 1

United States. Congress. House - United States - 1844 - 1374 pages
...debate, no motion shall be received but to adjourn, to lie on (he table, for the previous question, lo postpone to a day certain, to commit or amend, to...indefinitely; which several motions shall have precedence In the order in which they are arranged; and no motion to postpone to a day certain, to commit, or to...
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Journal: 1st-13th Congress . Repr. 14th Congress, 1st Session ..., Volume 1

United States. Congress. House - United States - 1823 - 748 pages
...of the Bouse, but may be withdrawn at any time before a decision or amendment 29. When a question is under debate, no motion shall be received but to adjourn,...to lie on the table, for the previous question, to pnitpone to a day certain, to commit or amend, to postpone indefinitely; which several motions shall...
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Journal of the Senate of New Hampshire

New Hampshire. General Court. Senate - Legislative journals - 1825 - 732 pages
...member may call for a division of the question, when the same is divisible. 7. When any question is under debate, no motion shall be received, but to adjourn, to lie on the table, to postpone to a day certain, to commit, or amend, to postpone indefinitely, which several motions...
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Manual of Parliamentary Practice

Parliamentary practice - 1826 - 228 pages
...the house, but may be withdrawn at any time before a decision or amendment. 29. When a question is under debate, no motion shall be received but to adjourn,...; which several motions, shall have precedence in the order in which they are arranged ; and no motion to postpone to a day certain, to commit, or to...
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Manual of Parliamentary Practice

Parliamentary practice - 1826 - 220 pages
...member, delivered in at the table, and read, before the same shall be debated. 11. When a question is under debate, no motion shall be received but to adjourn, to lie on the table, to postpone indefinitely, to postpone to a day certain, to commit, or to amend; which several motions...
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Journal of the Proceedings of the Senate of the State of New Hampshire

New Hampshire. General Court. Senate - Legislative journals - 1828 - 1056 pages
...indefinitely .; which several motions shall have precedence, in the same order in which they are arranged ; and no motion to postpone to a day certain, to commit,...to postpone indefinitely, being decided, shall be in order at the same stage of the bill, or proposition, until after an adjournment. 10. If the question...
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Journal: 1st-13th Congress . Repr. 14th Congress, 1st Session ..., Volume 1

United States. Congress. House - United States - 1828 - 524 pages
...motion shall be received but to adjourn, to He 'on the table, for the previous question to postpone toa day certain, to commit, or amend, to postpone indefinitely ; which several motions shall have precedence in the order in which they are arranged : and no motion to postpone to a day certain, to commit, or to...
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Journal: 1st-13th Congress . Repr. 14th Congress, 1st Session ..., Volume 1

United States. Congress. House - United States - 1830 - 566 pages
...the House, but may be withdrawn at any time before a decision or amendment. 32. When a question is under debate, no motion shall be received but to adjourn,...indefinitely; which several motions shall have precedence in the order in which they are arranged: and nc motion to postpone to a day certain, to commit, or to...
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A Manual of Legislative Practice and Order of Business in Deliberative Bodies

Joel Barlow Sutherland - Parliamentary practice - 1830 - 404 pages
...as to specify the questions entitled to preference. The rule is now as follows: When a question is under debate, no motion shall be received but to adjourn, to lie on the table, to postponc indefinitely, topostpone to a day certain, to commit, or to amend ; ivhich several motions...
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