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8 XXIII. On a Motion for the Previous Question, on a Motion to Lie on the Table, or a Motion to Adjourn, there shall be -no Debate. XXIV. Every Question shall be entered on the Journal, and the yeas and nays shall betaken when required by five members who shall have divided on the Question; and whenever the yeas and nays are ordered to be taken, no question of adjourn- ment shall be received or propounded by the Speaker, until the yeas and nays are called, counted and reported. XXV. Any Member may call for the Division of a Question, which. shall be divided, if it comprehend propositions in substance so distinct that, one being taken away, a substantive proposi- tion shall remain for the decision of the House. XXVI. A Motion to Strike Out and Insert shall be deemed indivisi- ble; but the matter proposed to be inserted may be divided, if required, according to the 26th Rule. A Motion to Strike Out being lost, shall preclude neither Amendment nor a Mo- tion to Strike Out and Insert. No Motion or Proposition on a subject different from that under consideration, shall be admitted under color of amendment. XXVI 1. All Questions, except on the Final Passage of a Bill, or a Motion to Suspend the Rules, or those otherwise herein pro- vided 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 seat, and so vice versa, until a decision by the Speaker. XXVIII. The Question on the Final Passage of a Bill shall always be determined by yeas and nays, which shall be recorded on the Journal; and unless it shall thus appear that a majority of the whole number of Members elected to the House have voted in the affirmative, the Bill shall be declared rejected XXIX. ' When a Question has once been decided in the affirmative |
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