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immediately sit down, unless permitted to explain ; and the
House shall, if appealed to, decide on the case without
debate. If there be no appeal, the decision of the Chair
shall be submitted to. If the decision be in favor of the
member called to order, he shall be at liberty to proceed; if
otherwise, he shall not be permitted to proceed without
leave of the House, and if the case require it, he shall be
liable to the censure of the House. If a member be called
to order for words spoken in debate, the person calling him
to order shall repeat the words excepted to, and they shall
be taken down in writing by the Clerk; and no member
shall be held to answer or be subject to the censure of the
House for words spoken in debate if any other member has
spoken or other business has intervened after the words
spoken and before exception to them shall have been taken,

RULE XII.

No member shall vote on any question in the result of
which he is immediately and particularly interested, nor in
any case where he was not present when the vote was taken,
without leave of the House; and upon a division and count
of the House on any question no member without the Bar
shall be counted.

RULE XIII.

Every member who shall be in the House when the ques-
tion is put shall give his vote, unless the House shall excuse
him. And the refusal of any member present to vote, on
calling the yeas and nays, shall be noted on the Journal at
the request of any member.

RULE XIV.

No member shall take out of the House any bill or other
paper belonging to the House, without leave of the Speaker,
and no original paper shall be delivered to any person dur-
ing the recess of the Legislature, without a written order
from the Speaker.