24th. Any motion may be withdrawn or modified by the mover, at any time before a final decision or amendment.

25th. When a question is under debate, no motion shall be received but to adjourn, to lie on the table, for the previous question, to postpone indefinitely, to postpone to a day certain, to commit, or to amend; which several motions shall have precedence in the order they stand arranged. A motion to strike out the enacting words of a bill, shall have precedence of a motion to amend, and, if carried, shall be considered a rejection.— And a motion to refer to a Standing Committee, shall have precedence of one to refer to a Select Committee. A motion to adjourn shall always be in order; that, and a motion to lie on the table, shall be taken without debate.

26th. The previous question shall be in this form, “Shall the main question be non put?” It shall only be admitted when demanded by a majority of the members present; until it is decided, shall preclude all amendment and further debate of the main question, and upon said question there shall be no debate.

27th. Any member may call for the division of a question where the sense will admit of it, but a question to strike out and insert, shall be indivisible.

28th. When a question is carried in the affirmative by yeas and nays, any member may enter on the journal, his reasons for dissenting.

29th. It shall not be in order to introduce a bill, unless by way of report from committee, or leave be previously asked and obtained.

30th. Every bill or resolution requiring the signature of the Mayor and Recorder, shall receive [p. 5]