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5th Mo.

MAY,

1842.

BEGINS ON SUNDAY AND HATH THIRTY-ONE DAYS.

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RULES AND ORDERS

OF THE

BOARD OF ALDERMEN

OF THE

CITY OF NEW-YORK,

PASSED MAY, 1841.

I. UPON the appearance of nine members, including the President, or in his absence, a President pro tem. shall take the chair as President, and the members be called to order.

II. Whenever the President may wish to leave the chair, he shall have power to substitute a member in his place, provided that such substitution shall not continue beyond the day on which it is made.

III. In case the President shall not attend, the Clerk, on the appearance of nine members, shall call the Board to order, when a President pro tem. shall be appointed by the Board for that meeting, or until the appearance of the President.

IV. Immediately after the President shall have taken the chair, the minutes of the preceding meeting shall be read by

the Clerk, to the end, that any mistake therein may be corrected by the Board.

V. The President in all cases has the right of voting; and when the Board shall be equally divided, including his vote, the question shall be lost.

VI. Whenever it shall be moved and carried, that the Board go into the Committee of the Whole, the President shall leave the chair, and shall appoint a Chairman of the Committee of the Whole, who shall report the proceeeding of the Committee. The rules of the Board shall be observed in the Committee of the Whole, except the rules respecting a call for the ayes and nays, and limiting the time of speaking.

VII. On motion in Committee to rise and report, the question shall be decided without debate.

VIII. No amendment shall be allowed in the Board on any question which has been decided in Committee of the Whole, unless by the consent of two-thirds of the members present.

IX. The President shall cause the Clerk to make a list of the ordinances, resolutions or reports on the table, which shall be considered "the general orders of the day." The order of business, which shall not be departed from, except by the consent of nine members voting therefor, shall be as follows:

1st. Presentation of Petitions.

2d. Reports of Committees.

2d. Communications and reports from the Departments or Corporation Officers.

4th. Motions and Resolutions. 5th. Unfinished business.

6th. Special Orders of the day. 7th. General Orders of the day.

8th. Messages or papers from the Mayor or Board of Assistants, may be considered at any time.

X. If the question in debate contains several points, any member may have the same divided.

XI. A motion to refer or lay on the table, until it is decided, shall preclude all amendments to the main question.

XII. When a question has been once put and decided, it shall be in order for any member who voted in the majority, to

move for the reconsideration thereof; but no motion for the reconsideration of any vote, shall be made after the ordinance, resolution, or açt, shall have gone out of the possession of the Board; and no motion of reconsideration shall be taken more than once.

XIII. No ordinance or resolution, sent to this Board from the other Board for concurrence, shall be called up for final passage on the same day on which it has passed the other Board, unless by a majority of two-thirds of the members present voting to consider it finally.

XIV. It shall be the duty of the clerk to certify and send to the other Board, every act, ordinance and resolution, which has originated in, and passed the Board of Aldermen, and which requires a concurrent vote of the Board of Assistants; and to deliver to the Mayor, certified in like manner, all such ordinances and resolutions which shall have been received from the Board of Assistants, and concurred in by the Board of Aldermen, and which are required to be submitted to him for approval; and the Clerk shall certify to the other Board, the proceedings of this Board, in reference to all acts or business originating with the other Board.

XV. The President shall preserve order and decorum, and shall decide questions of order, subject to an appeal to the Board.

XVI. Every member, previous to his speaking, shall rise from his seat and address himself to the President.

XVII. When two or more members shall rise at once, President shall name the member who is first to speak.

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XVIII. No person shall speak more than twice to the same question, without leave of the Board; nor more than once, until every member, choosing to speak, shall have spoken; nor more than once upon the previous question.

XIX. No question on a motion shall be debated or put unless the same be seconded. When a motion is seconded it shall be stated by the President before debate; and every such motion shall be reduced to writing, if any member desire it.

XX. After a motion is stated by the President, it shall be deemed to be in possession of the Board; but it may be withdrawn at any time before decision or amendment.