SECT. 17. No member shall speak more than once on one question, to the prevention of any other who has not spoken, and is desirous to speak; nor more than twice, without leave of the Board.

SECT. 18. When two or more members rise at once, the President shall name the member who is to speak first.

SECT. 19. Every member, when he speaks, shall stand in his place, and address the presiding officer as "Mr. President," and shall confine himself to the question under debate.

SECT. 20. No member speaking shall be interrupted by another, but by rising to call to order.

SECT. 21. After a question is put to vote, no member shall speak to it.

SECT. 22. Every motion shall be received and considered, and shall be reduced to writing if the President direct it; and no member shall be permitted to lay a motion in writing on the table, until he has read it in his place.

SECT. 23. A question containing two or more propositions capable of division shall be divided, whenever desired by any member.

SECT. 24. If any member shall rise to doubt a vote upon its being declared from the chair, the President shall ascertain the number voting in the affirmative and in the negative, without any further debate. He may vote on all questions; but shall not be required to do so, unless the Board shall be equally divided, or unless his vote, if given in the minority, would affect the result.

SECT. 25. When a vote has passed, it shall be in order for any member to move a reconsideration on the same day; and, when a motion for reconsideration is decided, that decision shall not be reconsidered.

SECT. 26. The rules of parliamentary proceeding, as received and practised in the Legislature of this Commonwealth, shall govern the Board in all cases to which they are applicable, and in which they are not inconsistent with these Rules and By-Laws.

COMMITTEES.

SECTION 27.-There shall be the following Committees, the first to consist wholly of ex officio members; the others to be appointed at the annual meeting, or at some subsequent meeting, in such manner as the Board may determine:

1. — A Committee to visit the University, to consist of the President and Secretary of this Board, the Governor and Lieutenant-Governor of the Commonwealth, the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Secretary of the Board of Education, and the Chairman of each of the other Visiting Committees. This Committee will be expected to attend the annual Commencement and other public exercises of the University, or any of its departments, and to represent this Board and the Commonwealth thereat; the President of the College, or some other officer charged with the duty, giving the members of said Committee due notice of such occasions.

2. A Committee to visit the Academical Department, or College proper, to consist of at least nine members, six of whom shall be elective members of this Board. The duty of this Committee shall be to learn what are the methods of government and instruction in the Academical Department, to make themselves personally acquainted with the mode in which the daily recitations and private and public examina

tions are conducted, and, in general, to take such measures, and distribute the work in such manner, as in their judgment will best enable them to report in full on the condition, wants, and prospects of the institution.

3.

4.

- A Committee to visit the Divinity School.

A Committee to visit the Law School.

5. - A Committee to visit the Lawrence Scientific School and the Bussey Institution, the Peabody Museum of American Archæology and Ethnology, and the Museum of Comparative Zoology.

6. A Committee to visit the Medical School and the Dental School.

7.-A Committee to visit the Observatory.

8. A Committee to visit the Library, five of whom shall be members of this Board.

9. A Committee to examine the Treasurer's accounts, of whom at least three shall be elective members of this Board.

10. A Committee on Elections, to consist of five elective members of this Board, whose duty is assigned in Section 38 of these rules and by-laws.

11. A Committee on Reports and Resolutions, to consist of seven elective members of this Board: whose duty shall be to receive the annual reports of the several Committees, after they have been read before this Board, and consider and report whether any and, if any, what action is called for by the same; and also to attend to any other business that may be referred to them, from time to time, by this Board, and to report thereon.

SECT. 28. Each elective member of this Board shall be upon one or more of the abovementioned Committees. Each Visiting Committee shall consist of seven or more members, the chairman of which shall be an elective member of this Board. But persons not Overseers may be appointed to serve on any of the Visiting Committees, or on the Committee to examine the Treasurer's accounts, if specially qualified for the duty; the same not to interfere with any express provision elsewhere made. The chairman of each of the Committees, except the Committee to visit the University, shall notify each member of the Committee, not an Overseer, of his election, with a request that he serve; and in case of his failure to accept, or of any vacancy in any such place, the Committee shall fill the same.

SECT. 29. The apparatus, libraries, and scientific collections belonging to the several departments of the University shall be examined and reported on by the Committees appointed to visit said departments respectively.