 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
 | Massachusetts - 1852 - 94 pages
...representatives shall constitute a quorum for doing business. X. The house of representatives shall be judge of the returns, elections, and qualifications...its own members, as pointed out in the constitution; shall choose their own speaker; appoint their own ofTicers ; and settle the rules and orders of proceeding... | |
 | Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1853 - 158 pages
...representatives shall constitute a quorum for doing business. X. The house of representatives shall^be judge of the returns, elections, and qualifications...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... | |
 | Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention, Nathan Hale - Constitutional conventions - 1853 - 700 pages
...representatives shall constitute a quorum for doing business. X. The house of representatives shall be judge of the returns, elections, and qualifications...its own members, as pointed out in the constitution; shall choose their own speaker; appoint theii own officers, and settle the rules and orders of proceeding... | |
 | Jonathan French - 1854 - 534 pages
...than sixty members of the House of Representatives shall constitute a quorum for doing business. 10. 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... | |
 | Constitutions, State - 1855 - 576 pages
...than sixty members of the house of representatives shall constitute a quorum for doing business. 10. 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... | |
 | JEREMIAH SPOFFORD, M.D. - 1860 - 390 pages
...shall have power to adjourn themselves ; provided such adjournment shall not exceed two days at a time. 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... | |
 | Massachusetts - Law - 1860 - 1158 pages
...than sixty members of the house of representatives, shall constitute a quorum for doing business. X. р 0 ɀ 0 ɀ 0 s ... 0 ӧ 0 ^ ; shall choose their own speaker ; appoint their own officers, and settle the rules and orders of proceeding... | |
 | Massachusetts - Session laws - 1862 - 448 pages
...constitute a quorum for doing business. X. The house of represen tati vcs shall bo the judge of tho returns, elections and qualifications of its own members, as pointed out in the constitution ; shall choose their own »urui>;uut»h for speaker, appoint their own officers, and settle the rules... | |
 | FRANKLIN B. HOUGII - 1867 - 604 pages
...sixty members of the House of Representatives shall constitute a quorum for doing business.] ART. 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 order of proceeding... | |
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