RULES OF ORDER, 3(55 



5. A mere opinion of the chair, drawn out by an interrogation on points 

 of order, is not subject to an appeal. To be appealed from, it must be an 

 actual decision on a question coming up legitimately in the progress of 

 business. 



PAPERS. 



1. When papers have been laid before the main body, or referred to a 

 committee, every member has a right to hear them once read at the secre- 

 tary's table, before he can be compelled to vote on them. 



J. 1 Hit he has not a right, therefore, to have papers read independently of 

 the will of a majority of his colleagues. If the reading be demanded 

 purely for information, and not for delay, and no one objects, the chair- 

 man will direct it to be done, without putting it to the question. But 

 i Id any one object the question must be put. 



3. Nor can any member have a right, without a question first put, to 

 have any thing read, which is not before the body, 



4. Nor can a member have a right to read a paper, in his place, not 

 even his own speech, if it be objected to without the leave of the body. 

 But this rule is not usually enforced, unless there be a gross or inten- 

 tional abuse of the time and patience of the body. 



COMMUNICATIONS. 



When a communication addressed to the main body is presented, the 

 |u<->tioii is to be put whether it shall be received. But a general cry of 

 " Receive !" or, even if there be no objection, the silence of the body, is 



it to dispense with the formality of the question. In that ca> 

 in case the vote on its reception be in the affirmative, it is to be read un- 

 ntli srwise disposed of. 



THINGS ON THK TA 1 



1 M \vhich have been laid on the table can only be called up 



n tin- class <>f btJ bo which they hi'long is in order. 



-. If laid on tin: tabli- by a motion, they can only be lit'trd from it by 

 a motion. If laid tin-re under rules as a matter of COM can k- 



i--d up by any member as a matter of ri-lit. \vln-n the business to which 

 th.-y b.-l >n 'liar or-! 



ie matter lies on tho ta 1 * 



it up in 



.! or private concern, in the m >\ 



