Journals of the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the State of New Hampshire

Front Cover
Rumford Press, 1905
 

Selected pages

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

Popular passages

Page 23 - Any member may call for a division of the question when the sense will admit of it...
Page 22 - After a motion is stated by the Speaker, or read by the clerk, it shall be deemed to be in the possession of the House, but may be withdrawn at any time before a decision or amendment.
Page 29 - In forming a Committee of the whole House, the Speaker shall leave his chair, and a chairman, to preside in committee, shall be appointed by the Speaker.
Page 21 - 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 20 - All acts, addresses, and joint resolutions, shall be signed by the Speaker: and all writs, warrants and subpoenas, issued by order of the House, shall be under his hand and seal, attested by the Clerk.
Page 23 - When the reading of a paper is called for, and the same is objected to by any member, it shall be determined by a vote of the House.
Page 606 - ... imprisonment, and for each subsequent offense by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Page 23 - Any member may excuse himself from serving on any committee at the time of his appointment, if he is then a member of two other committees.
Page 30 - The unfinished business in which the House was engaged at the last preceding adjournment shall have the preference in the orders of the day ; and no motion on any other business shall be received, without special leave of the House, until the former is disposed of.
Page 21 - No member shall speak more than twice on the same question witho'ut leave of the house; nor more than once until every member choosing to speak shall have spoken.

Bibliographic information