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Rule 41. A motion to strike out and insert shall be deemed
indivisable; but the matter proposed to be inserted may be
divided, if required, according to the 40th Rule. A motion
to strike out being lost, shall preclude neither amendment
nor a motion to strike out and insert. No motion or propo-
sition on a subject different from that under consideration
shall be admitted under color of amendment.
Rule 42. All questions, except on the final passage of a re-
port, or a motion to suspend the Rules, or those otherwise
herein provided for, shall be determined by a majority of the
members present; those dividing in the affirmative rising in
their places, those in the negative continuing in their seats,
and so vice versa, until a decision by the President.
Rule 43. The question on the final passage of any subject
matter shall always be determined by yeas and nays, which
shall be recorded on the Journal; and unless it shall thus ap-
pear that a majority of the whole number of members elected
to the Convention have voted in the affirmative, the subject
matter voted on shall be declared rejected.
Rule 44. When a question has once been decided in the af-
firmative or negative, a motion of reconsideration shall be in
order, if made by one member and seconded by two others
who voted in the majority at any time thereafter; but should
a report, on its final passage, be declared rejected for the
want of a majority of the members elected, the motion for
reconsideration may be made by one member and seconded by
two others who voted in either the affirmative or negative;
and no motion for reconsideration shall be postponed or laid
on the table.
Rule 45. Petitions, memorials and other papers addressed
to the Convention, shall be presented by the President, or by
a member in his place; and the object of all petitions and
memorials shall be endorsed on the back, and entered on the
Journal.
Rule 46. The unfinished business in which the Convention
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 govern
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
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