| Charles Bancroft - Constitutional history - 1879 - 764 pages
...be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall by law appoint a different day. SEC. 5. 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... | |
| Illinois - 1879 - 842 pages
...be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall by law appoint a different day. SEC. 5. 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... | |
| Jones County (Iowa) - 1879 - 686 pages
...be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall by law appoint a different day. SEC. 5. 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... | |
| Des Moines County (Iowa) - 1879 - 722 pages
...be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall by law appoint a different day. SEC. 5. 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... | |
| McLean County (Ill.) - 1879 - 1092 pages
...be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall by law appoint a different day. SEC. 5. 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... | |
| Darke County (Ohio) - 1880 - 774 pages
...bo on the first Monday in December, unless they shall by law appoint a different day. SEC. 5. 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... | |
| Nathan Howard (Jr.), Rowland M. Stover - Civil procedure - 1880 - 700 pages
...The Mayor, &c., of New York (1 Hun, p. 37). The charter of 1873 provides that the board of aldermen shall " be the judge of the election returns and qualifications of its own members, subject, however, to the review of any court of competent jurisdiction." It is claimed that this change... | |
| George Washington McCrary - Election law - 1880 - 568 pages
...Governor and Council of that State, in case of a tie, and 2. That the house being by the Constitution "the judge of the election returns, and qualifications of its own members," it can never sanction the doctrine (d.) But it is very doubtful whether the relinquishment of claim... | |
| Missouri - 1881 - 864 pages
...be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall by law appoint a different day. SEC. 5. 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... | |
| Iowa - 1881 - 762 pages
...be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall by law appoint a different day. SBC. 5. 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... | |
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