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ment shall be received or propounded by the Speaker, until
the yeas and nays are called, counted and reported.

XXVI.                             

Any Member may call for the Division of a Question,
which shall be divided, if it comprehend propositions in sub-
stance so distinct that, one being taken away, a substantive
proposition shall remain for the decision of the House.

XXVII.

A Motion to Strike Out and Insert shall be deemed indi-
visible; but the matter proposed to be inserted may be di-
vided, if required, according to the 26th Rule. A Motion to
Strike 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.

XXVIII.

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 pla-
ces, those in the negative continuing in their seats, and so
vice versa, until a decision by the Speaker.

XXIX;

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.

XXX.

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 vo-
ted in the majority, within three days of actual session, after
the decision; but should a Bill, on its final passage, be de-
clared rejected merely for the want of a constitutional ma-
jority, 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 postponed or laid on the table.

XXXI.

Petitions, Memorials, and other Papers addressed to the
House, shall be presented by the Speaker, or by a Member in