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substance so distinct that, one being taken away, a substan-
tive proposition shall remain for the decision of the House.

RULE XXIII

A motion to strike out and insert shall be deemed indivis-
ible, but the matter proposed to be inserted may be divided,
if required, according to Bule XXII. A motion to strike
out being lost, shall preclude neither amendment nor a
motion to strike out and insert. No motion or proposition
on a subject different from that under consideration, shall
be admitted under color of amendment.

RULE XXIV.

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 and voting; 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 Speaker.

RULE XXV.

The question on the final passage of a bill shall always
be determined by the 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.

RULE XXVI.

When a question has once been decided in the affirmative
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 on the same day or within the next
two days of actual session after the decision, whiCh motion
shall be disposed of within three days of actual session;
provided, that such motion, if made during the last six days
of the session, shall be disposed ,of on the day on which