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Section 6.—Reports of Committees on their second reading.
Section 7.—Reports of Committees on their third reading.
Section 8.—Deferred or Unfinished Business.
Section 9.—The Order of the Day.
PETITIONS, MEMORIALS, ORDERS AND RESOLU-
TIONS.
Rule 8.—Petitions, Memorials, Orders, Resolutions and
other papers, when presented, must be endorsed with the
name of the member by whom they are presented.
Rule 9.—All orders submitted to the Convention (after
being ready may be acted upon immediately, postponed or
otherwise disposed of, as a majority of the members present
may direct.
Rule 10.—Any subject matter before the Convention await-
ing consideration may, on motion (if a majority of the Con-
vention so determine,) be fixed as the order of the day at
such time as may be directed under the provisions of these
Rules.
Rule 11.—All orders, resolutions and reports, or other
matter, after being submitted to the Convention, (when
not fixed for a day certain) shall be rated under the' head of
"deferred or unfinished business," and shall come up for con-
sideration in the order of time in which they were presented.
ORDER OF THE DAY,
Rule 12.—The order of the day shall not be so fixed in
point of time as to exclude the business of the Convention in
the order and the divisions prescribed under these rules, but
shall be fixed so that one hour, at least, from the time of the
meeting of the Convention shall precede it for the transaction
of other business. When the time arrives for the order of
the day to be taken up, it shall have preference over all other
business except the unfinished business in which the Conven-
tion was engaged at the preceding adjournment, under a
previous assignment as the order of the day.
Rule 13.—Every subject matter proposed to be considered
in the Convention shall be introduced by motion for leave,
by an order of the Convention, or on the report of a com-
mittee, and in either of the two cases first mentioned, a com-
mittee to prepare the same shall be appointed, unless the
same subject matter is embraced in the duties assigned to one
or more of the standing committees.
Rule 14.—Every committee reporting any conventional bu-
siness for the consideration of the Convention embracing.
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