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Page 82 - JOINT RULES. AND ORDERS OF THE TWO HOUSES. 1. In every case of an amendment of a bill agreed to in one house, and dissented to in the other, if either house shall request a conference, and appoint a committee...
Page 368 - But an attachment shall not be granted on the ground that the defendant is a foreign corporation or a non-resident of this Territory for any claim other than a debt or demand arising upon contract, judgment or decree.
Page 82 - House to recede from any subject-matter of difference subsisting between the two Houses at any time previous to conference, whether the papers on which such difference arose are before the House receding, formally or informally; and on such vote to recede, the same number shall be required to constitute a quorum to act thereon, and to assent to such receding, as was required on the original question out of which the difference arose.
Page 82 - When a bill or resolution which has been passed in one House shall be rejected in the other, it shall not be brought in during the same session, without a notice of ten days, and leave of two-thirds of that House in which it shall be renewed.
Page 31 - No motion for reconsideration shall be in order unless on the same day or day following that on which the decision proposed to be reconsidered took place; nor unless one of the majority shall move such reconsideration. A motion for reconsideration being put and lost, shall not be renewed; nor shall any subject or vote be a second time reconsidered without unanimous consent.
Page 215 - That nothing in this Act shall be construed as an assent by Congress to all or any of the propositions or claims contained in the ordinance of said Constitution of the people of Kansas, or in the resolutions thereto attached...
Page 26 - If any member, in speaking or otherwise, transgress the rules of the House, the Speaker shall, or any member may, call 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 125 - Seats, and the permanent location of the same," have had the same under consideration, and a majority of the Committee instruct me to report the same back and recommend its passage.
Page 292 - Leverson appealed from the decision of the Chair. The question being, shall the decision of the Chair stand as the judgment of the House, the House sustained the Chair.
Page 29 - Proposed constitutional amendments and other matters shall be considered in Committee of the Whole in the following manner, viz.: They shall be first read through, if the committee so direct; otherwise they shall be read and considered by sections. When the limit of time has expired, the amendments which have been proposed and not previously acted upon shall be voted upon in their order without further debate.

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