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ceived or propounded by the President, until the yeas and
nays are called, counted and reported.

XXIII.

Any member may call for the division of the question
which shall be divided, if it comprehend propositions in sub-
stance so distinct that, on being taken away, a substantive
proposition shall remain for the decision of the Chair.

XXIV.

A motion to strike out and insert, shall be deemed indivis-
ible ; but the matter proposed to be inserted may be divided
if required according to the 23d rule ; the motion to strike
out being lost, shall preclude neither amendment nor a
motion to strike out and insert; no motion or proposition on
a subject different from that under consideration shall be
admitted under color of amendment.

XXV.

. When a question has once been made and carried in the
affirmative or negative, it shall be in order for any member
of the majority to move for the reconsideration thereof; ex-
cepting in cases where the question has failed for want of a
constitutional majority, when it shall be in order for any
member voting on either side of the question to move for the
reconsideration thereof; but no vote for the reconsideration
ofany vote shall he in order after a bill, resolution, message,
report, amendment or motion upon which the vote was taken,
shall have gone out of the possession of the Senate announc-
ing their decision ; nor shall any motion for reconsideration
be in order, unless made on the same day on which the vote
was taken, or within the next two days of actual session of the
Senate thereafter.

XXVI.

Petitions, Memorials and other papers addressed to the
Senate shall he presented by the President, or by a member
in his place, and the object of all petitions and memorials
shall be endorsed on the back and entered on the Journal.

XXVII.

The unfinished business in which the Senate was engaged,
at the preceding adjournment, shall have preference in the
orders of the day ; and no motion or any other business
shall be received without the special leave of the Senate,
until the former is disposed of.