 | North Dakota. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1889 - 486 pages
...in such a manner and under such a penalty as may be prescribed by law. SEC. 23. Each house shall be the judge of the election returns and qualifications of its own members. SEC. 24. Each house shall have power to determine the rules of proceeding and punish its members or... | |
 | Maine - Law - 1889 - 776 pages
...for such meeting. SECT. 12. The city council shall determine the rules of its own proceedings, and be the judge of the election returns and qualifications of its own members. In case of the absence of the president, the city council shall choose a president pro tempore, and... | |
 | John Forrest Dillon - Corporation law - 1890 - 894 pages
...legislation of the State. The charter of New York city provides that the board of aldermen shall be the judge of the election returns and qualifications...the review of any court of competent jurisdiction. The courts are not ousted thereby from an inquiry, in the first instance, as to the right to the office... | |
 | James Ernest Boyle - North Dakota - 1910 - 434 pages
...in place of the Vice President, who is at ordinary sittings president of the Senate. The Senate is the judge of the election returns and qualifications of its own members. Thus in the famous case of Reed Smoot of Utah, discussed widely in the newspapers of the time on account... | |
 | Carroll Davidson Wright - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1910 - 1190 pages
...Monday in December, unless they shall by law appoint a different day. SECTION V. Each House shall be the judge of the election, returns, and qualifications of its own members, and a majority of each shall constitute a quorum to do business; but a smaller number may adjourn from... | |
 | John Forrest Dillon - Corporation law - 1911 - 782 pages
...legislation of the State. The charter of New York city provided that the board of aldermen shall be the judge of the election returns and qualifications...members, subject, however, to the review of any court § 1554 (892). Proper Remedy to try the Title to Public or Municipal Offices. — We have seen already... | |
 | John Forrest Dillon - Corporation law - 1911 - 782 pages
...provided that the board of aldermen shall be the judge of the election returns and qu.ilifications of its own members, subject, however, to the review of any court § 1554 (892). Proper Remedy to try the Title to Public or 'Municipal Offices. — We have seen already... | |
 | Willis Ernest Johnson - South Dakota - 1911 - 358 pages
...to the others. Read carefully this oath (see Article III, Section 8). Contests. "Each house shall be the judge of the election returns and qualifications of its own members." This means that in case a dispute arises as to who is elected in any district, the matter is finally... | |
 | Joseph Walker McSpadden - Periodicals - 1912 - 1164 pages
...Congress as a whole may alter the Constitution by a twothirds vote. Each of the two Houses of Congress is the judge of the election returns and qualifications of its own members and may, by two-thirds vote, expel a member. The period termed a "Congress," continues for two years.... | |
 | Emilius Oviatt Randall, Daniel Joseph Ryan - Ohio - 1912 - 752 pages
...within its constitutional authority, it being provided in the Constitution that "each house shall be the judge of the election returns and qualifications of its own members"; and undoubtedly the House had the right, after sufficient information, to judge and pass upon the election... | |
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Each house shall be the judge of the election,, returns, and qualifications of its own members... 
