| Edmund Burke - 1841 - 1092 pages
...districts are entitled to elect, shall constitute a quorum to do business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may compel the attendance, of absent members, in such manner, and under sucfi penalties, as each House may have previously prescribed. 7.... | |
| William Kennedy - Texas - 1841 - 574 pages
...member*. Two-thirds of each House shall constitute a quorum to do business, but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may compel the attendance of absent members. Sec. 14. Each House may determine the rules of its own proceedings, punish its members for... | |
| William Kennedy - Texas - 1841 - 562 pages
...members. Two-thirds of each House shall constitute a quorum to do business, but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may compel the attendance of absent members. Sec. 14. Each House may determine the rules of its own proceedings, punish its members for... | |
| Maine. Legislature. Senate - Parliamentary practice - 1842 - 130 pages
...its own members, and a majority shall constitute a quorum to do business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may compel the attendance of absent members, in such manner and under such penalties as each house shall provide. SECT. 4. Each house may... | |
| N. Doran Maillard - Texas - 1842 - 544 pages
...members. Two-thirds of each house shall constitute a quorum to do business, but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may compel the attendance of absent members. Sec. 14. Each house may determine the rules of its own proceedings, punish its members for... | |
| Rhode Island - Law - 1844 - 612 pages
...of its members ; and a majority shall constitute a quorum to do business ; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may compel the attendance of absent members, in such manner, and under such penalties as may be prescribed by such house or by law. The... | |
| Frances Harriet Green - Dorr Rebellion, 1842 - 1844 - 366 pages
...districts are entitled to elect, shall constitute a quorum to do business ; hut a smaller number may adjourn, from day to day, and may compel the attendance of absent members, in such a manner, and under such penalties asi each House may have previously described. 7.... | |
| J. B. Shurtleff - United States - 1846 - 210 pages
...to the legislative department. A majority of each house constitutes a quorum. A smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may compel the attendance of absent members. " Each house determines the rules of its proceedings, punishes its members for disorderly... | |
| New York (State). Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1846 - 410 pages
...law. 8. A majority of each house shall constitute a quorum to do business, but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may compel the attendance of absent members, in such manner and under such penalties as each house may prescribe. 9. Each house may determine... | |
| Benjamin Franklin Hall - Real property - 1847 - 480 pages
...SEc. IX. A majority of each House shall constitute a quorum to do business., but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may compel the attendance...under such penalties as each House may provide. SEc. X. Each House shall sit upon its own adjournments; keep a journal of iu proceedings, and publish the... | |
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