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Eastern District of Pennsylvania, to wit: BE it remembered, that on the fifth day of December, in the fifty. second year of the Independence of the United States of America, A. D. 1827, ROBERT DESILVER, of the said District, hath deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor in the words following, to wit:

“ A Manual of Legislative Practice, and Order of Business in Delibemative Bodies. By Joel B. Sutherland."

In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, intie tuled, “ An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies, during the times therein mentioned. And also to the Act, entitled, “ An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled • An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies during the times therein mentioned,' and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints."

D. CALDWELL,
Clerk of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Absence,
Adhere,
Assembly, meeting of,

, opening of,
Amendments,

to amendments,

on third reading,
between the two Houses,
concur,

non,
recede,

insist on,
Bills, proceedings on,

signing of,
in committee of the whole,
leave to sit again on,
on second reading,
on third reading,
returned without signing,
public,
private,

read by title,
Business, order of, -
Business, items of unfinished,
Census,

164, 167

165

199
122, 172

144
148

Committees, standing,

reports of,
reports of select,
additional members added to,
reports of, amended,
of the whole,

quorum of,
of conference,

report of, to compare bills, Constitution, Pennsylvania,

United States,
Debate, freedom of,
Documents, withdrawal of,
Elections contested,

of governor,
of representatives,
of senators,
of state treasurer,
of U. S. senator,

opening returns of governor's,
Electors of president and vice-president,
Impeachment,
Preamble,
Privilege of members,
Postponement,
Question, privileged,

previous,
Recede,
Reconsideration,
Representatives, election of,

qualification of,
number of,
names of,
privilege of,

101

O

Page.

85
85,88

ib.
112, 126

ib.

72

188

208

ib.

Representation, census of,

ratio of,

in senate,
Resolutions,

original,
Rules, of house of representatives,

dispensed with,

of senate,
Senate, rules of
Senators, names of,

districts of,
number of,
qualifications of,
term of service of,

- privilege of,
Speaker, duties of,

signing bills,
Taxable inhabitants,
Title, read,
Vacancies, how filled,

90
ib.
ib.

89

90

101

115

• 172

86

154

209