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Page 123 - Chairman may, after the lapse of two minutes, if in his opinion the division is unnecessarily claimed, take the vote of the House, or committee, by calling upon the members who support, and who challenge his decision, successively to rise in their places ; and he shall thereupon, as he thinks fit, either declare the determination of the House or committee, or name tellers for a division.
Page 116 - Cabinet includes the following ten members of the administration : the First Lord of the Treasury, the Lord Chancellor, the Lord President of the Council, the Lord Privy Seal, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the five Secretaries of State.
Page 117 - The selection usually falls upon those amongst the last-mentioned functionaries whose rank, talents, reputation, and political weight, render them the most useful auxiliaries, or whose services, while in opposition, may have created the strongest claims to become members of the Cabinet. It has occasionally happened that a statesman possessing high character and influence accepted a seat in the Cabinet without undertaking the labours and responsibilities of any particular office.
Page 138 - Thursday, unless the house otherwise order on the motion of a minister of the Crown, moved at the commencement of public business, to be decided without amendment or debate.
Page 142 - Provided that the days occupied by the consideration of estimates supplementary to those of a previous session or of any vote of credit, or...
Page 138 - Speaker shall adjourn the House without question put, unless a bill originating in committee of Ways and Means, or unless proceedings...
Page 138 - House ; and if a motion has been proposed for the adjournment of the House, or of the debate, or, in Committee, that the Chairman do report progress, or do leave the Chair, every such dilatory motion shall lapse without question put ; and the business then under consideration, and any business subsequently appointed, shall be appointed for the next day on which the House shall sit...
Page 113 - Senate, except in the case of a bill of Supply, which is sent back to the Commons, to be by them presented at the bar of the Senate to the Representative of the Sovereign. The assent of the Crown is the final proceeding which converts a bill into an Act of Parliament. (See "Koyal Assent.") BUDGET (THE).
Page 111 - House for the purpose of discussing " a definite matter of urgent public importance...
Page 114 - Mr. Speaker, after permitting, if he thinks fit, a brief explanatory statement from the member who moves and from the member who opposes any such motion respectively, may, without further debate, put the question thereon, or the question, that the debate be now adjourned.