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memorials shall be endorsed on the back, and entered on the
Journal.
Rule 46.—The unfinished business in which the Conven-
tion was engaged at the preceding adjournment, shall have
the preference in the orders of the day, and no motion or
any other business shall be received without the special leave
of the Convention, until the former is disposed of.
Rule 47.—The Rules of Parliamentary Practice shall gov-
ern the Convention in all cases to which they are applicable,
and in which they are not inconsistent with the standing
Rules and Orders of the Convention.
Rule 48.—Upon calls of the Convention, or in taking the
yeas and nays on any question, the names of the members
ahall be called alphabetically.
Rule 49.—The standing rules of the Convention shall not
be suspended except by a vote of at least two-thirds of the
members present.
Rule 50.—Any fifteen members, (including the President)
shall be authorized to compel the attendance of the members.
Rule 51.—No committee shall sit during the sitting of the
Convention without special leave.
Rule 52.—When a blank is not filled up, and different
sums, numbers or terms shall be proposed, the question shall
be taken on the largest sum or number, and on the longest
time.
Rule 53.—After a report of any committee, embodying
proposed provisions for the Constitution has passed through
its second reading, the question shall then be put by the
President of the Convention, "shall this report be engrossed
for a third reading ?" After any report of a committee has
passed to a third reading, it shall not be in order to amend
the same, except by the consent of the majority of the mem-
bers elected to the Convention.
PREVIOUS QUESTIONS.
Rule 54.—There shall be a "main question," and a "pre-
vious question," in the consideration of reports of commit-
tees.
Section 1st.—The main question on the report of any com-
mittee, shall only be called after the said report has passed
to its third reading, and shall be in this form, "shall the
main question be now put?" and when demanded by a ma-
jority of the members present, it shall, until it is decided,
preclude all further amendment and debate on the main
question.
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