364 THE EOME, FARM AND BUSINESS CYCLOPAEDIA. 



DIVISION. 



1. The affirmative and negative voices having been heard upon a qv.es- 

 tion, the presiding officer declares by the sound what is the result. If he 

 have doubts as to the relative strength of yeas and nays, or if any member 

 demands it, before other business has been gone into, then a division is 

 ordered. 



2. The mode of dividing is for those in the affirmative to rise, when the 

 presiding officer counts those, and announces the number. These sit, and 

 those in the negative arise, to be counted in like manner. 



3. One-fifth of the members present may call for the yeas and nays, 

 each member's name being called, and his answer entered by the secre- 

 tary. 



In case of any disorder during a division or calling of the yeas and 

 nays, the presiding officer decides the question of order ; and the decision 

 is not the subject of appeal at this time, although it may be revised after 

 the division or call is over. (See Rule XXXIII.) 



RECONSIDERATION. 



1. A question which has been decided either in the affirmative or in 

 the negative, may be reconsidered upon the motion of a member who has 

 voted with the majority. But this motion for reconsideration will not 

 be in order, unless made during the meeting whereat the question was 

 decided. 



2. The effect of the adoption of a motion to reconsider is to place the 

 question in the position it occupied before the vote on its adoption or re- 

 jection was taken ; consequently it is as open to amendment, postpone- 

 ment, commitment, or laying on the table, as it was at that time. 



APPEALS. 



1. An appeal from the decision of the chair is a matter of right, and 

 brings under review and opens to debate the grounds of such decision. 



2. The presiding officer, by usage and courtesy, has the right to assign 

 his reasons for his decision before the question is put on the appeal. 



3. The question on an appeal is, whether the decision of the presiding 

 officer shall stand as the judgment of the body itself. If a majority vote 

 in the affirmative, the decision stands ; if not, it is reversed. 



4. An appeal cannot be put on an appeal ; that is, a second appeal can- 

 not be entertained while the first remains undisposed of. 



