after provided, until the right of reconsideration has expired.

[See Rule 65.

MEMBERS.

SECT. 14. Every member, when about to speak, shall rise and respectfully address the President; shall confine himself to the question under debate, and avoid personalities; and shall sit down when he has finished.

SECT. 15. No member shall speak or vote out of his place without the leave of the President.

SECT. 16. No member, having obtained the floor, shall speak more than fifteen minutes, without permission of the Council.

[For cases in which less time, or no debate, is allowed, see Rules 23, 39, 51, 52, 53, 58, 59, 60, 62, 63, and 65.

SECT. 17. No member shall speak more than twice on one question, if objection is made, without first obtaining leave of the Council; nor more than once until the other members, who have not spoken, shall speak, if they so desire.

SECT. 18. No member shall in debate call another member by his name, but may allude to him by any intelligible and respectful designation.

SECT. 19. When two or more members rise to speak at the same time, the President shall name the member who is entitled to the floor.

SECT. 20. No member shall interrupt another while speaking, except by rising to call to order.

SECT. 21. No member shall be permitted to stand

up, to the interruption of another, while any member is speaking; or to pass unnecessarily between the President and the person speaking.

SECT. 22. No member shall be permitted to serve on any committee, or vote on any question, where his private right, distinct from the public interest, is immediately concerned.

[See Rule 62.]

SECT. 23. When any member shall be guilty of a breach of either of the rules and orders of the Council, he may be required by the President, or by the Council, to make satisfaction therefor; and in such a case, he shall not be allowed to vote nor speak, except once by way of excuse, till he has done so, unless otherwise ordered by the Council.

SECT. 24. The members of the Council shall not leave their places, on adjournment, until the President has declared the Council adjourned.

SECT. 25. The seats of the members of the Council shall be numbered, and shall be determined, in the presence of the Council, by drawing the names of members and the number of the seats simultaneously; and each member shall be entitled for the year to the seat bearing the number so drawn against his name, and shall not change it, except by the permission of the President.

[For manner in which members may be excused from voting, see Rule 62.]

[No member required to serve on more than two committees, etc., see Rule 37.

SECT. 26. No person, except a member of the Council, shall be permitted to occupy the seat of any member while the Council is in session.

COMMITTEES.

SECT. 27. Standing Committees on Elections, Police, and Paving shall be appointed at the beginning of each municipal year, and shall consist of five

members each.

SECT. 28. The members on the part of the Council of the Joint Standing Committee on Ordinances shall be a standing committee, to be styled the Committee on the Judiciary, to whom all disputed quesof law may be referred, and who shall, when required by the Council, obtain the opinion of the City Solicitor thereon, and report the same to the Council.

SECT. 29. All select committees of the Council shall consist of three members, unless otherwise ordered.

SECT. 30. In all committees appointed by the President, the member first-named shall be chairman, unless other provision is made. In the absence of such a member, the member next in order of appointment shall act as chairman pro tempore.

SECT. 31. All committees of the Council, chosen by ballot, or consisting of one or more from each ward, shall be notified of their first meeting by the Clerk, by the direction of the President; they shall organize at their first meeting by the choice of a chairman, and shall report their organization to the Council; and members on the part of the Council of joint committees, chosen as aforesaid, shall choose a chairman at their first meeting, and report to the Council in like manner.

SECT. 32. No meeting of any committee shall be

called upon less notice than twenty-four hours, without the consent of all the members thereof.

SECT. 33. No committee shall sit during the sessions of the Council, without special leave.

SECT. 34. It shall be the duty of all standing committees to keep a record of their doings in books provided by the city for that purpose.

SECT. 35. No report of any committee shall be entitled to be received, unless agreed to in committee assembled.

SECT. 36. Committees of the Council, to whom any matter is specially referred, may be required to report within four weeks, or to ask for further time.

SECT. 37. No member shall be obliged to serve on more than two committees at the same time, nor as chairman of more than one committee.

COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE.

SECT. 38. When the Council shall determine to go into a Committee of the Whole, the President shall appoint the member who shall take the chair.

SECT. 39. The rules of proceeding in the Council shall be observed in Committee of the Whole, so far as they are applicable; but a motion to rise, report progress, and ask leave to sit again, shall be first in order, and shall be decided without debate; and the previous question shall not be moved.

COURSE OF PROCEEDINGS.

40. At every regular meeting of the Council the order of business shall be as follows:

First. Reading of the Records of the preceding meeting, if called for by any member.

Second. Papers from the Board of Aldermen.

Third. Unfinished Business of preceding meetings, and motions for reconsideration.

Fourth. Communications and Reports from city officers.

Fifth. Presentation of Petitions, Remonstrances, and Memorials.

Sixth. Reports of Committees.

Seventh. Motions, Orders, and Resolutions.

Matters of the second and third class, not giving rise to a motion or debate, shall first be disposed of in the order in which they stand; after which the matters that were passed over shall be considered in like order and disposed of.

SECT. 41. All papers addressed to the Council shall be presented by the President, or by a member in his place; and, unless the Council shall otherwise determine, they shall be read by the President, or such other person as he may request, and be taken up in the order in which they are presented.

SECT. 42. All ordinances, orders, and resolutions shall have two several readings before they are finally passed.

SECT. 43. No ordinance whatever, and no order or resolution imposing penalties, or authorizing the expenditure of money, whether the same may have been appropriated, or not- and no order or resolution authorizing a loan, shall have more than one reading on the same day; provided, however, that