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262 MARYLAND MANUAL.
RULE X.
If two or, more members shall rise to speak at the same
time, the Speaker shall determine which shall speak first; and
no member shall speak more than twice to the same question,
nor more than once until every member choosing to speak shall
have spoken.
RULE XI.
If any member shall in any manner transgress the Rules of
the House, the Speaker shall, or any member may call him to
order, in which case the member called to order shall immedi-
atly sit down, unless prmitted to explain; and the House
shall, if appealed to, decide on the case without debate. If
there be no appeal, the decision of the Chair shall be submitted
to. If the decision be in favor of the member called to order.
he shall be at liberty to proceed; if otherwise, he shall not be
permitted to proceed without leave of the House, and if the
case require it, he shall be liable to the censure of the House.
If a member be called to order for words spoken in debate, the
person calling him to order shall repeat the words excepted to,
and they shall be taken down in writing by the Clerk; and no
member shall be held to answer or be subject to the censure of
the House for words spoken in debate if any other member has
spoken or other business has intervened after the words spoken
and before exception to them shall have been taken.
RULE XII.
No member shall vote on any question in the result of which
he is immediately and particularly interested, nor in any case
where he was not present when the vote was taken, without
leave of the House; and upon a division and count of the
House on any question no member without the Bar shall be
counted.
RULE XIII.
Every member who shall be in the House when the question is
put shall give his vote, unless the House shall excuse him.
And the refusal of any member present to vote, on calling the
yeas and nays, shall be noted on the Journal at the request of
any member.
RULE XIV.
;No member shall take out of the House any bill or other
paper belonging to the House, without leave of the Speaker,
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