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CHARLES SHAW LEFEVRE,

Speaker of the Bouse of Commons,

ON

POINTS OF ORDER, RULES OF DEBATE,

AND

THE GENERAL PRACTICE OF THE HOUSE.

BY

THE HON. ROBERT BOURKE,

OF THE INNER TEMPLE, BARRISTER AT LAW.

Second Edition,

REVISED AND CONTINUED TO THE CLOSE OF THE
LAST SESSION.

LONDON:

HENRY SWEET, 3, CHANCERY LANE, FLEET STREET,
Law Bookseller and Publisher.

HODGES & CO., GRAFTON STREET, DUBLIN.

Kee. Act. 15, 1888.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY C. ROWORTH AND SONS,

BELL YARD, TEMPLE BAR.

These Reports

ARE, BY PERMISSION, INSCRIBED TO

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

CHARLES SHAW LEFEVRE,

Speaker of the Bause of Commons,

BY

HIS HUMBLE AND OBLIGED SERVANT,

ROBERT BOURKE.

PREFACE

TO THE SECOND EDITION.

AN early Second Edition of this Volume has been rendered necessary by the retirement of the Speaker, the Dissolution of Parliament, and by several alterations recently made in the Rules and Orders of the House of Commons. The whole Work has been carefully revised and adapted to the existing practice, and the Precedents of last Session have been added in their proper places. The condensation necessary for a Summary, as well as the adaptation of the language to the special object of the Book, has precluded the possibility of a strict adherence to the text of Hansard; but a reference has been given in all cases to that authority.

It is, therefore, hoped that the Work will prove of some value, as embodying in a short and convenient form the decisions of the late distinguished Speaker.

The Editor cannot allow these pages to leave the press without expressing his deep sense of obligation

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