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Page 13 - All incidental questions of order arising after a motion is made for the previous question and pending such motion, shall be decided, whether on appeal or otherwise, without debate.
Page 20 - The inhabitants of the town of Salem, shall continue to be a body politic and corporate, under the name of the city of Salem, and as such, shall have, exercise and enjoy all the rights, immunities, powers and privileges, and shall be subject to all the duties and obligations, now incumbent upon and appertaining to said town as a municipal corporation.
Page 14 - No member shall speak more than twice to the same question, without leave of the House; nor more than once, until every member choosing to speak shall have spoken.
Page 40 - ... and ornamental trees growing therein. The said board may require that no person or corporation authorized by the board of aldermen to dig up any public street or sidewalk in said city shall begin such digging before furnishing to such board of public works security satisfactory to them to restore such streets or sidewalks to their former condition. The said board of public works, except as herein otherwise provided, shall have exclusively the powers and be subject to the liabilities and penalties...
Page 14 - When any member is about to speak in debate, or deliver any matter to the House, he shall rise from his seat, and respectfully address himself to "Mr. Speaker," and shall confine himself to the question under debate, and avoid personality.
Page 45 - Such advertisement shall state the time and place for opening the proposals in answer to said advertisements, and reserve the right to reject any and all proposals.
Page 15 - No motion or proposition on a subject different from that under consideration shall be admitted under color of amendment.
Page 25 - ... shall be declared chosen president thereof. If on the first day on which a quorum is present no person receives the votes of such majority they shall proceed to ballot until some person receives the votes of such majority or an adjournment to the succeeding day is taken. And on such succeeding day the plurality of those voting shall be sufficient for an election.
Page 24 - If no quorum is present an adjournment shall be taken to a later hour, or to the next day, and thereafter the same proceedings shall be had from day to day until a quorum shall be present. If any person receives the votes of a majority of all the members of the board of aldermen such person shall be declared chosen president thereof.
Page 13 - He shall put the previous question in the following form: "Shall the main question be now put?" — and all debate upon the main question shall be suspended until the previous question shall be decided.