| Booksellers and bookselling - 1800 - 306 pages
...a majority of each Houfe (hall conftitute a quorum todobufinefs : but a fmaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorifed to compel the...Members in fuch manner, and under fuch penalties, as may be provided by law. XII. Each Houfe (hall choofe by ballot its own o(ficers, determine its rules... | |
| William Cobbett - United States - 1801 - 414 pages
...conftitute a quorum to do bulinefs : but a fmaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the attendance of abfent members, in fuch manner, and under fuch pekalties as each Houfe may provide. Vh II. Each Houfe may determine the rules of its proceedings ;... | |
| New York (State) - Constitutions - 1802 - 712 pages
...conftitute a quorum to do bufinefs ; but a fmaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the attendance of abfent members, in fuch...houfe may determine the rules of its proceedings, puruui its members for difordcrly behaviour, and, with the concurrence of two thirds, expel a member.... | |
| Ignatius Thomson - Chronology - 1810 - 220 pages
...and a majority of each fhall conftitute a quorum to do bufinefs : but a fmaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorifed to compel the...and under fuch penalties as each houfe may provide. ; 1 6. Each houfe may determine the rules of its proceedings ; punifh its members for diforderly behavior... | |
| William Winterbotham - United States - 1819 - 606 pages
...members, and a majority of each fhall conftitute a quorum to do bufmefs ; but a fmaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorifed to compel the attendance of abfenf members, in fuch manner, and under fuch penalties as each houfe may provide. Each houfe may... | |
| United States - Constitutions - 1864 - 98 pages
...STATES. 33 rum to do bufinefs; but a fmaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the attendance of abfent members, in fuch...houfe may determine the rules of its proceedings, punim its members for diforderly behavior, and, with the concurrence of two-thirds, expel a member.... | |
| David Brion Davis, Steven Mintz - History - 1998 - 607 pages
...and a majority of each fliall conflitute a quorum to do bufincfs; but a (mailer number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorifed to compel the attendance of abfcnt members, ia iui.li manner, and under fuch penalties ai each houfc may provide. Each houfe may... | |
| Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional history - 2005 - 630 pages
...anda majority of each ihall conftitute a quorum to do bufinefs ; but a fmraller number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorifed to compel the attendance of abfeilt members, in fuch manner, and under fuch penalties as each houfe may provide. Each houfe may... | |
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