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Página 9 - No standing rule or order of the House shall be rescinded or changed without one day's notice being given of the motion therefor. Nor shall any rule be suspended, except by a vote of at least two-thirds of the members present. Nor shall the order of business, as established by the rules...
Página 105 - Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground. Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice?
Página 63 - ... that when any question is decided in the negative simply for the want of a majority of the whole Senate, any senator who was absent from the city of Richmond or detained from his seat by sickness at the time of the vote sought to be reconsidered, may move its reconsideration. XIII. PETITIONS.
Página 61 - When any member is about to speak in debate, or deliver any matter to the House, he shall rise from his seat, and respectfully address himself to "Mr. Speaker," and shall confine himself to the question under debate, and avoid personality.
Página 289 - Resolved, by the General Assembly, That the Board of Public Works be and they are hereby authorized and required to...
Página 62 - ... days. During such substitution the speaker may participate in the debates. If the speaker be absent, and have named no one to act in his stead, the duties shall be performed by the chairman of one of the standing committees, taking precedence in the order in which the committees are named in Rule 16.
Página 5 - The House of Delegates shall choose its own Speaker." The Speaker may call any member to the chair, who shall exercise its functions for the time; but no member by virtue of such appointment shall preside for a longer time than three days.
Página 556 - Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to borrow, from time to time, on the credit of the United States...
Página 318 - Camp, and sundry others, heirs-at-law of officers who served in the Virginia line, in the war of the Revolution, asking that certain revolutionary military land warrants by them held may be satisfied by appropriations from the treasury of the State, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report : That there are before the committee numerous petitions of citizens of the State, the prayer of all which is, that numerous land warrants issued to the petitioners for the military...
Página 312 - That a joint committee, consisting of three on the part of the senate and five on the part of the house...

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