Rules of Order for Nauvoo City Council, 22 January 1842
Source Note
, Rules of Order, for Nauvoo City Council, , Hancock Co., IL, 22 Jan. 1842; handwriting of ; docket in handwriting of ; eight pages with an inserted slip; Nauvoo, IL, Records, 1841–1845, CHL.
shall immediately sit down <desist speaking>, until the Mayor decide whether he is in order, or not; and every question of order shall be decided without debate; but any member may appeal from his decision, to the council; if the decision be in favor of the member called to order, he shall be at liberty to proceed; if otherwise, the council shall detemine upon the propriety of his proceeding with his observations.
20th. When a question has been taken and carried in the affirmative, or negative, it shall be in order for any member of the majority to move for the re-consideration thereof; but no motion for the re-consideration of any vote shall be in order, after the paper upon which the same shall have been taken, shall have gone out of the possession of the council.
21st. No motion, or proposition, shall be received as an amendment which shall be a substitute for the proposition before the council; but nothing shall be considered a substitute which shall have relation to the subject matter under consideration.
22nd. When the yeas and nays are called, every member shall vote, unless specially excused; butnomembershallvoteonanyquestionintheeventofwhichheisimmediatelyandparticularlyinterested; and in voting by yeas and nays, the Councillors shall be called first, the Aldermen next, and the Mayor last.
23rd. When a motion is made and seconded, it shall be reduced to writing, and shall be first read aloud before any order be taken thereon; but the question “Will the council now consider it” shall not be put, unless called for by a member, or is deemed necessary by the Mayor: and on motions to amend, the question of consideration shall in no case be put. [p. 4]