 The house of representatives shall be the judge of the returns, elections, and qualifications of its own members, as pointed out in the constitution: shall choose their own speaker; appoint their own officers, and settle the rules and orders of proceeding...  Contested Elections: Reports of - Page 41by Massachusetts. General Court - 1814Full view - About this book
 | Constitutions - 1782 - 188 pages
...reprefentatives fhall conftitute a quorum for doing bufinefs. X. The houfe of reprefentatives fhall be the judge of the returns, elections, and qualifications of its own members, as' pointed out in the conftitution ; fhall chu-fe their own fpealcer, appoint their own officers, and fettle the rules and... | |
 | William Winterbotham - America - 1796 - 580 pages
...Repicfontativcs (hill conftitu'ea quorum for doing bufir.cfs. X. The Iloufe of Reprcfcntatives (hall be the judge of the returns, elections, and qualifications of its own uicn.r-crs, as pointed out in the conflitution ; fhall chufe their own Ipealvcr, appoint their own... | |
 | François-Alexandre-Frédéric duc de La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt - Capital punishment - 1799 - 306 pages
...reprefentatives fhall conftitute a quorum for doing bufinefs. X' The houfe of reprefentatives fhall be the judge of the returns, elections, and qualifications of its own members, as pointed out in the conftitution ; fhall chufe their own fpeaker, appoint their own officers, and fettle the rules and... | |
 | Constitutions - 1804 - 372 pages
...than sixty Members of the House of Representatives, shall constitute a quorum for doing business. X. The House of Representatives shall be the judge of...its own Members, as pointed out in the Constitution ; shall choose their own speaker ; appoint their own officers, and settle their rules and orders of... | |
 | Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives - Elections - 1812 - 68 pages
...Commonwealth — That whereas, by the Constitution aforesaid, the House of Representatives is made " the judge of the returns, elections, and qualifications of its own members," the undersigned, inhabitants of said town of Bath, anxious that the representation of the people of... | |
 | John Bacon - Local laws - 1825 - 404 pages
...Wednesday of that month. Art. 10. The House of Representatives shall be the judge of the returns, election, and qualifications of its own members, as pointed out in the Constitution. No member shall be arrested, or held to bail on mesne process, during his going unto, returning from,... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1826 - 126 pages
...than sixty members of the House of Representatives shall constitute a quorum for doing business. X. The House of Representatives shall be the judge of...its own members, as pointed out in the Constitution ; shall choose their own Speakers ; appoint their own officers, and settle the rules and orders of... | |
 | John Winslow Whitman - Freedom of the press - 1829 - 314 pages
...defined the privileges of the three branches of the Legislature in the following words, to wit : — ' The House of Representatives shall be the judge of...its own members, as pointed out in the Constitution ; shall choose their own Speaker ; appoint their own officers and settle their rules and orders of... | |
 | Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1832 - 276 pages
...sixty members of the House of Representatives shall constitute a quorum for doing business. X.—The House of Representatives shall be the judge of the...its own members, as pointed out in the constitution ; shall choose their own Speaker; appoint their own officers, and settle the rules and orders of proceeding... | |
 | Massachusetts. General Court. Senate - 1833 - 806 pages
...sixty members of the House of Representatives shall constitute a quorum for doing business. X. — THE House of Representatives shall be the judge of...its own members, as pointed out in the constitution ; shall choose their own Speaker ; appoint their own officers, and settle the rules and orders of proceeding... | |
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