Journal of the House of the State of VermontHouse of Representatives, 1893 - Vermont Some vols. have appendices consisting of reports of various State offices. |
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Page 242 - If a voter marks more names than there are persons to be elected to an office, or if, for any reason, it is impossible to determine the voter's choice for any office to be filled, his ballot shall not be counted for such office.
Page 22 - ... but the rejection of a motion to strike out and insert one proposition shall not prevent a motion to strike out and insert...
Page 19 - If any member, in speaking or otherwise, transgress the rules of the House, the Speaker shall, or any member may, call to order; in which case the member so called to order shall immediately sit down, unless permitted to explain; and the...
Page 241 - On receipt of his ballot the voter shall forthwith, and without leaving the enclosed space, retire alone to one of the voting shelves or compartments so provided, and shall prepare his ballot by marking in the appropriate margin or place a cross [x] opposite the name of the candidate of his choice...
Page 38 - When a bill or resolution, which shall have passed in one house, is rejected in the other, notice thereof shall be given to the house in which the same shall have passed.
Page 37 - In every case of an amendment of a bill agreed to in one house, and dissented to in the other, if either house shall request a conference, and appoint a committee...
Page 38 - Each House shall transmit to the other all papers on which any bill or resolution shall be founded.
Page 240 - ... a guard rail shall be so constructed and placed that only such persons as are inside said rail can approach within six feet of the ballot boxes, and of such voting shelves or compartments.
Page 20 - In all cases of ballot by the House, the Speaker shall vote ; in other cases he shall not be required to vote, unless the House be equally divided, or unless his vote, if given to the minority, will mulct the division equal ; and in case of such equal division, the question shall be lost.
Page 491 - Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the Lord your God, and cry unto the Lord, "Alas for the day!