Choice of nominees, in case of several petitions, 34

Or where they are chosen by the thirteen members, 34

Oaths by whom administered, 34

Meeting of the committee, 34

Election of a chairman, 34

Sitting days, 34

Adjournment, 34

Absentees, 35

Shorthand writer, 35

Power of the committee to summon witnesses, and send for

papers, 36

Province of the committee, 36

Their report, which is final, 36

Report as to petition, &c. being frivolous, 36

Report as to the right of election, or appointment of returning

officer, 37

Petition against this right, 37

Petition in support of this right, 37

Appointment of a committee to try this right, and proceedings

thereon, 38

CHAP. II.

ON THE PRACTICE AND PROCEEDINGS IN PARLIAMENT.

SECTION I.

On the Passing of Public Bills.

Public and private acts distinguished, 39

Motion for leave, 39

Form of the bill, 40

Its different stages, 40-

First reading, 40

Second reading, 40

Opposition to the bill, 40

Committee, 41

Engrossment, 42

Third reading, 42

Passing, 42

Title, 42

Transmission to the Lords, 42

Proceedings in the Lords, 42

Amendments, 42

Conference between the Houses, 43

Proceedings where the bill originates in the Lords, 45

Regulations peculiar to bills of supply, 45

Amendments by the Lords, in bills of supply, 48

Mode of returning bills of supply, 48

Speaker's speech on presenting bills of supply, 49

Royal assent, 49

Report, 60

Amendments, 61

Penalty clause, 61

Entry of amendments, 61

Of recommitting the bill, 62

Engrossment, 62

In which House a private bill should originate, 62

SECTION XI.

When the Speaker may take the Chair.

Forty must be present, 81

Reason of non-adjournment till four o'clock, 81
And swearing in of members in the interim, 81

If forty are not present, the Speaker of his own authority adjourns the house, 81

The same rule holds with committees of the whole house, 81 Speaker may take the chair on the black rod's knocking at the door, 82

Mode of adjournment where forty members are not present, 82 Mode of proceeding on a division, and not forty present, 82 Speaker, or Chairman, counts as one, 82

SECTION XII.

As to not admitting Strangers into the House.

Their exclusion is a motion of course, 82

SECTION XIII.

Of Leave to make a Motion.

Leave is necessary only where the orders of the day have been proceeded on, 83

Course where only one member sides on a division, 84

Of Messages between Lords and Commons.

From the Commons to the Lords, 85

From the Lords to the Commons, 85