 | United States. Congress. House - 1830 - 568 pages
...the House, but may be withdrawn at any time before a decision or amendment. 32. When a question is under debate, no motion shall be received but to adjourn,...indefinitely; which several motions shall have precedence in the order in which they are arranged: and nc motion to postpone to a day certain, to commit, or to... | |
 | Joel Barlow Sutherland - 1830 - 404 pages
...as to specify the questions entitled to preference. The rule is now as follows: When a question is under debate, no motion shall be received but to adjourn, to lie on the table, to postponc indefinitely, topostpone to a day certain, to commit, or to amend ; ivhich several motions... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1832 - 618 pages
...the House, but may be withdrawn at any time before a decision or amendment. 32. When a question is under debate, no motion shall be received but to adjourn,...indefinitely; which several motions shall have precedence in the order in which they are arranged: ami no motion to postpone to a day certain, to commit, or to... | |
 | Massachusetts. General Court. Senate - 1833 - 806 pages
...VII. When a question is under debate, the President shall receive no motion but to adjourn, to lay on the table, for the previous question, to postpone to a day certain, to commit, to amend, or to postpone indefinitely, which several motions shall have precedence in the order in... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1859 - 634 pages
...to bear somewhat on this point. " When a question is under debate " — the word is very broad — "no motion shall be received but to adjourn, to lie on the table, to postpone indefinitely, &c. The Chair thinks that the effect of voting to lay this motion on the... | |
 | Edward Deering Mansfield - 1836 - 320 pages
...the majority. The 'principal motions, and the order of their precedence, is as follows: the motion to adjourn, — to lie on the table, — for the previous...to commit or amend, — to postpone indefinitely. The motion to adjourn takes precedence of all other questions ; after 4 PM it is always in order. The... | |
 | Charles Sitgreaves - 1836 - 380 pages
...member, delivered in at the table, and read, before the same shall be debated. 11. When a question is under debate, no motion shall be received but to adjourn, to lie on the table, to postpone indefinitely, to postpone to a day certain, to commit, or to amend; which several motions... | |
 | Missouri. General Assembly. House of Representatives - 1837 - 472 pages
...of amendment, as a substitute for the motion or proposition under debate. SEC. 7. When a question is under debate, no motion shall be received, but to...the table, for the previous question, to postpone indefinitely, to postpone to a day within the session, to commit or amend. SEC. 8. A motion to adjourn... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1837 - 202 pages
...member, delivered in at the table, and read, before the same shall be debated. 11. When a question is under debate, no motion shall be received but to adjourn, to lie on the table, to postpone indefinitely, to postpone to a day certain, to commit, or to amend ; which several motions... | |
 | 1837 - 242 pages
...as to specify the questions entitled to preference. The rule is now as follows : [When a question is under debate, no motion shall be received but to adjourn, to lie on the table, to postpone indefinitely, to postpone to a day certain, to commit, or to amend; which several motions... | |
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When a question is under debate, no motion shall be received but to adjourn, to lie on the table, for the previous question, to postpone to a day certain, to commit or amend, to postpone indefinitely ; which several motions, shall have precedence in the... 
