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XX.

No Senator shall absent himself from the seat of Govern-
ment without leave of the Senate.

XXI.

No rule shall be dispensed with without the concurrence of
two-thirds of the members present.

XXII.

When a question is under debate, no motion shall be
received, unless to adjourn, to lay on the table, to commit,
re-commit, to amend, or to postpone to a day certain, which
several motions shall have precedence in the order in which
they are here stated.

XXIII.

A motion to adjourn shall always be in order, and shall be
decided without debate; but whenever the yeas and nays are
ordered to be taken, no question of adjournment shall be
received or propounded by the President, until the yeas and
nays are called, counted and reported.

XXIV.

Any member may call for the division of the question which
shall be divided, if it comprehend propositions in substance
so distinct that, on being taken away, a substantive proposi-
tion shall remain for the decision of the Senate.

XXV.

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 the 24th rule; the 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.

XXVI.

When a question has once been made and carried in the
affirmative or negative, it shall be in order for any member
of the majority to move for the reconsideration thereof; except-
ing in cases where the question has failed for want of a con-
stitutional majority, when it shall be in order for any member
voting on either side of the question to move for the recon-
sideration thereof; but no motion for the reconsideration of
any vote shall be in order after a bill, resolution, message,
report, amendment or motion upon which the vote was taken,
shall have gone out of the possession of the Senate announc-