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vided, if required according to the 24th Rule. A Motion to
Strik) Out being lost, shall preclude neither Amendment nor
a Motion to Strike Out and Insert. No Motion or Proposi-
tion on a subject different from that under consideration,
shall be admitted under color of amendment.

XXVI.

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.

XXVII.

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.

XXVIII.

When a Question has once been decided in the affirmative
or negative, a Motion of re-consideration shall be in order, if
made by one Member and seconded by two others who voted
in the majority, within three days of actual session, after the
decision; but should a Bill, on its final passage, be declared
rejected merely for the want a Constitutional majority, the
Motion for re-consideration may be made by one Member and
seconded by two others who voted in either the affirmative or
negative; and no Motion for re-consideration shall be post-
poned or laid on the table.

XXIX.

Petitions, Memorials and other Papers addressed to the
House, shall be presented by the Speaker, 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.

XXX.

The unfinished business in which the House 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 House, until
the former is disposed of.