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 | Ezra Champion Seaman - 1863 - 312 pages
...the first Monday in December, unless they shall by law appoint a different day. SECTION v. 1. Each House shall be the judge of the election?, returns, and qualifications of its own members ; and a majority of each shall constitute a quorum to do business ; but a smaller number may adjourn... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.) - 1863 - 606 pages
...section fifth of article first of the constitution of the United States, each house is declared to be the judge of the election returns and qualifications of its own members. A similar provision, as applicable to our state legislature, is found in the constitution of this state,... | |
 | Montgomery Hunt Throop - 1864 - 334 pages
...Congress. For the Constitution reserves to each branch of the national Legislature the 'exclusive right "to be the judge of the election returns and qualifications of its own members ;" and consequently it will devolve upon Congress to provide, by legislation or by the separate action... | |
 | 1865 - 138 pages
...the first Monday in December, unless they shall, by law, appoint a different day. SECT. V. 1. Each house shall be the judge of the election returns and qualifications of its own members, and a majority of each shall constitute a quorum to do business, but a smaller number may adjourn from-... | |
 | Edward McPherson - 1865 - 690 pages
...Senators from each State, chosen by the Legislature thereof, for six years,'* and make« each Ноше " the Judge of the election, returns, and qualifications of its own members." In the investigation of the claimants' right to-eoats, the first question to be determined il, was... | |
 | Emory Washburn - 1865 - 40 pages
...fact, and the Constitution itself, anticipating as it were this very contingency, has made each house " the judge of the election, returns, and qualifications of its own members." Let us suppose that instead of ten States, the major part of the people of Delaware had gone into rebellion,... | |
 | Florida. Constitutional Convention - 1865 - 180 pages
...law. 7. A majority of each House shall constitute a quorum to do business, bat a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may compel the attendance of absent members, in such manner and under such penalties as each House may prescribe. • 8. Each House may... | |
 | Nevada. Constitutional Convention - 1866 - 980 pages
...members elected to each House shall constitute a quorum, to transact business, but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may compel the attendance of absent members, in such manner and under such penalties as each House may prescribe. SEC. 14. Each House ehall... | |
 | Nevada - 1866 - 340 pages
...elected to each House shall constitute a quorum to transact business, but a Quorumsmaller number may adjourn from day to day and may compel the attendance of absent members in such manner and under such penalties as each house may prescribe. SEC. 14. Each house shall... | |
 | Wisconsin. Legislature. Legislative Reference Bureau - 1967 - 308 pages
...members ; and a majority of each shall constitute a quorum to do business, but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may compel the attendance of absent members in such manner and under such penalties as each house may provide. Rules; contempts; expulsion.... | |
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