unless a motion for reconsideration be made, or notice thereof be given, at the same meeting at which the vote on its final stage be passed.

SECT. 8. After the Annual Order of Appropriations shall have been passed, no subsequent expenditure shall be authorized for any object, unless provision for the same shall be made by special transfer, from some of the Appropriations contained in the Annual Order, or by expressly creating therefor a City debt; in the latter of which cases the order shall not be passed unless two thirds of the whole number of each branch of the City Council shall vote in the affirmative by vote taken by yea or nay: provided, that any unappropriated funds in the City Treasury may be appropriated by a joint order of the City Council after the Annual Order of Appropriations shall have passed.

SECT. 9. All reports and other papers submitted to the City Council shall be written in a fair hand, and no report or indorsement of any kind shall be made on the reports, memorials, or other papers referred to Committees of either branch while in their possession. And the clerks shall make copies any papers to be reported by committees, at the request of the respective chairman thereof.

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SECT. 10. Ordinary messages between the two Boards may be transmitted by their respective messengers; but all messages proposing or assenting to

a convention of the two branches shall be borne by some member of the Board, to be designated by the Chair. All messages of the two Boards shall be reduced to writing by their respective clerks.

SECT. 11. When a convention of the two branches of the City Council has been agreed upon for any specific purpose, no other business shall be transacted in said convention unless with the unanimous consent of all the members present.

SECT. 12. Either Board may propose to the other for its concurrence a time to which both Boards shall adjourn.

SECT. 13. "Cushing's Manual" shall be the authority on all questions of debate or parliamentary usage, whenever the same does not conflict with the joint rules, the rules of the Board of Aldermen, or of the Common Council.

RULES AND ORDERS

OF THE

BOARD OF ALDERMEN.

ARTICLE I.

Meetings, Quorum, Proceedings.

SECTION 1. At all meetings of the Board, whether by adjournment or by call of the Mayor, a majority shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. [City Charter, Sect. 2.]

SECT. 2. The Mayor shall take the chair at the hour to which the Board may have adjourned, and shall call the members to order, and, a quorum being present, shall cause the minutes of the preceding meeting to be read; in the absence of the Mayor a Chairman pro tempore shall be chosen.

He shall preserve decorum and order; may speak to points of order in preference to other members; shall decide all questions of order subject to an appeal to the Board by motion regularly seconded, and no other business shall be in order till the question on the appeal has been decided.

He shall declare all votes; but if any member doubt

the vote, the Chair, without further debate upon the question, shall require the members voting in the affirmative and negative respectively to rise and stand until they are counted, and he shall declare the result; but no such declaration shall be made unless a quorum of the Board has voted.

SECT. 3. When the Mayor shall desire to vacate the chair he may call any member to it; but such substitution shall not continue beyond an adjourn

ment.

SECT. 4. On all questions and motions the Chair shall take the sense of the Board by yeas and nays, provided any two members present shall so require.

SECT. 5. The Chair shall propound all questions in the order in which they are moved, unless the subsequent motion shall be previous in its nature; except that in naming sums and fixing times the smallest sum and the longest time shall be first put; and when a motion is made to refer any subject, and different committees are proposed, the question shall be taken in the following order: —

1. To a Standing Committee of the Board.

2. To a Select Committee of the Board.

3. To a Joint Standing Committee.

4. To a Joint Select Committee.

SECT. 6. After a motion is stated or read by the

Chair it shall be deemed to be in possession of the Board, and shall be disposed of by vote; but the mover may withdraw it at any time before a decision or amendment, by unanimous consent.

SECT. 7. When a question is under debate, the Chair shall receive no motion, but to adjourn - to lay on the table-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 which they stand arranged, and the first three shall be decided without debate.

He shall put the previous question in the following form: "Shall the main question be now put ?"—and all further amendments or debate of the main question shall be suspended until the previous question be decided.

SECT. 8. When two or more members rise at the same time the Chair shall name the member who is first to speak.

ARTICLE II.

Rights and Duties of Members.

SECTION 1. Every member when about to speak shall rise and respectfully address the Chair; shall confine himself to the question under debate, and avoid personalities.