 | Parliamentary practice - 1826 - 220 pages
...manner, if it is proposed to amend by striking out a paragraph, the friends of the paragraph are first to make it as perfect as they can by amendments, before the question is put for striking it out. If, on the question, it be retained, it cannot be amended afterwards: because a vote... | |
 | Joel Barlow Sutherland - Parliamentary practice - 1830 - 404 pages
...manner, if it is proposed to amend by striking out a paragraph, the friends of the paragraph are first to make it as perfect as they can by amendments, before the question is put for striking it out. If on the question it be retained, it cannot be amended afterwards : because a vote... | |
 | Charles Sitgreaves - 1836 - 380 pages
...question is put for inserting it; in like manner, if it is proposed to amend, by striking out a paragraph, the friends of the paragraph may make it as perfect...they can by amendments before the question is put for striking it out."— Jefferson's Manual, ,166. " When it is moved to amend by striking out certain... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1837 - 828 pages
...by the committee, and that modified amendment was still an open question. The rule was this : •• when it is proposed to amend by inserting a paragraph,...amendments, before the question is put for inserting it". The rule applied in this case with all its force, for the question was on amending the report of the... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1837 - 202 pages
...manner, if it is proposed to amend by striking out a paragraph, the friends of a paragraph are first to make it as perfect as they can by amendments, before the question is put for striking it out. If, on the question, it be retained, it cannot be amended afterwards : because a vote... | |
 | Alpheus Todd - 1840 - 406 pages
...shall stand part of the Bill." When it is proposed to amend by inserting a paragraph By inserting. or part of one, the friends of the paragraph may make...perfect as they can by amendments, before the question for inserting it is put. If it be received, it cannot be (6) Scob. 23. (c> See CJ 10 April, 1744, as... | |
 | Joel Barlow Sutherland - 1841 - 560 pages
...manner if it is proposed to amend by striking out a paragraph, the friends of the paragraph are first to make it as perfect as they can by amendments, before the question is put for striking it out. If on the question it be retained, it cannot be amended afterwards : because a vote... | |
 | Benjamin Matthias - 1850 - 158 pages
...latter is to be put first. A motion to amend may also be superseded by a motion to commit. ragpaph may make it as perfect as they can by amendments, before the question is put on inserting it. If it be received, it cannot be amended afterwards, in the same stage, because the... | |
 | New York (State). Secretary's Office - New York (State) - 1853 - 476 pages
...Hats. 80, 9. The Parliamentary question is always, whether the words shall stand part of the bill ! When it is proposed to amend by inserting a paragraph,...can, by amendments, before the question is put for in•erting it. If it be received, it cannot be amended afterwards in the same stage, because the House... | |
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In like manner if it is proposed to amend by striking out a paragraph, the friends of the paragraph are first to make it as perfect as they can by amendments, before the question is put for striking it out. 
