THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1547

8. Except by leave of the Board, motions shall be
   moved in the order in which they have been received
   and recorded by the Clerk in the notice of motion
   book; and, if not so moved, or postponed, shall be
   struck out.
9. No motion entered in the notice of motion book
   shall be proceeded with in the absence of the member
   of the Board who gave notice of the same, unless by
   some other member producing written authority from
   him to that effect.

III.—Order, &c., of Debate.

10. Any member desirous of making a motion or
    amendment, or taking part in discussion thereon,
    shall rise and address the Chairman, and shall not
    be interrupted unless called to order, when he shall
    sit down until the member (if any) calling to order
    shall have been heard thereon, and the question of
    order disposed of, when the member in possession of
    the chair may proceed with the subject.

11. Any member desirous of proposing an original
    motion or amendment must state the nature of the
    same before he addresses the Board thereon.

12. No motion or amendment shall be withdrawn
    without the leave of the Board.

13. No motion or amendment shall be discussed or
    put to the vote of the Board unless it be seconded;
    but a member may, however, require the enforcement
    of a by-law of the Board by directing the Chairman's
    attention to the infraction thereof.

14. A member moving a motion shall be held to
    have spoken thereon; but a member merely second-
    ing a motion shall not be held to have spoken upon it.

15. If two or more members rise to speak at the
    same time, the Chairman shall decide which is entitled
    to priority.

16. No member shall speak a second time on the
    same question, unless entitled to reply, or in explana-
    tion, when he has been misrepresented or misunder-
    stood.

17. The Chairman, when called upon to decide on
    points of order or practice, shall state the provision,
    rule, or practice which he deems applicable to the
    case, without discussing or commenting on the same;
    and his decision as to order or explanation in each
    case shall be final.

18. No member shall digress from the subject
    matter of the question under discussion; and all
    imputations of improper motives, and all personal
    reflections on members, shall be deemed highly dis-
    orderly.

19. Whenever any member shall make use of any
    expression disorderly, or capable of being applied
    offensively, to any other member, the member so
    offending shall be required by the Chairman to with-
    draw his expression, and to make satisfactory apology
    to the Board.

20. A member called to order shall sit down, unless
    permitted to explain.

21. Any member using offensive or disorderly
    language, and having been twice called to order, or
    to withdraw or apologize for such conduct, and refus-
    ing so to do, shall be guilty of an offence.

22. Any person (not being a member) who shall,
    having been admitted to any meeting of the Board,
    be guilty thereat of any improper or disorderly con-
    duct, or who shall not leave when lawfully requested
    by the Chairman so to do, may be forthwith removed
    by him, and shall be deemed guilty of an offence.

23. Any member may of right demand the produc-
    tion of any of the documents of the Board applying
    to the question under discussion.

24. The Board shall vote by show of hands.

25. The Chairman shall, in taking the sense of the
    Board, put the question first in the affirmative, then
    in the negative, and the result thereof shall be re-
    corded in the minutes.

26. At every meeting of the Board all motions,
    whether original motions or amendments, shall be
    reduced into writing, signed by the mover, if
    required by the Chairman, and delivered to the
    Chairman immediately on their being moved and
    seconded.

27. No second or subsequent amendment, whether
    upon an original proposition or on an amendment,
    shall be taken into consideration until the previous
    amendment is disposed of.

28. If an amendment be carried, the question or
    amendment, as amended, shall become itself the
    question or amendment, whereupon any further
    amendment upon any portion of the question or
    amendment coming after such first-mentioned amend-
    ment may be moved.

29. If an amendment be negatived, then a second
    may be moved to the question to which the first-
    mentioned amendment was moved, but only one
    amendment shall be submitted to the Board for dis-
    cussion at a time.

30. The mover of every original proposition, but
    not of any amendment, shall have a right to reply
    immediately, after which the question shall be put
    from the chair, but no member shall be allowed to
    speak more than once on the same question unless
    permission be given to explain, or the attention of
    the chair be called to a point of order.

31. No discussion shall be allowed on any motion
    for adjournment of the Board; but if, on the question
    being put, the motion be negatived, the subject then
    under consideration, or the next on the notice paper,
    shall be discussed, or any other that may be allowed
    precedence, before any subsequent motion for ad-
    journment be made.

32. Any member may protest against any resolu-
    tion of the Board, and notice of intention to protest
    shall in every case be given forthwith on the adoption
    of the resolution protested against, and the protest
    shall specify the reasons for protesting, and shall be
    entered three days at least before the next ordinary
    meeting of the Board, by the protesting member, in
    a book to be kept for that purpose in the office, and
    signed by such member; but such protest may be
    expunged, if declared by a majority of the Board to
    be not in accordance with truth, or in its terms dis-
    respectful to the Board.

IV.—Lapsed Questions.

33. If a debate on any motion moved and seconded
    be interrupted by the number of the members present
    becoming insufficient for the transaction of business,
    such debate may be resumed at the point where it
    was so interrupted on motion upon notice.
34. If a debate on any order of the day be inter-
    rupted by such insufficiency of number as aforesaid
    happening, such order may be restored to the notice
    book for a future day on motion upon notice, and
    then such debate shall be resumed at the point where
    it was so interrupted.

V.—Committees.

35. Minutes of all proceedings of Committees, as
    well of their reports, numbered in consecutive order,
    shall be entered in the Committee's minute book, and,
    being signed by the Chairman of the Committee,
    shall be presented to the Board; and the Clerk, when
    practicable, shall attend all meetings of Committee.
36. The Clerk shall convene every Committee
    within ten days of its first appointment, or at any
    other time thereafter, by order of the Board, or on
    the written order of the Chairman of the Committee,
    or of any two members of the Committee.
37. The Board may, on motion agreed to, resolve
    itself into Committee of the whole.
38. In Committee of the whole the rules concern-
    ing the seconding of motions and the restriction of
    speaking shall not apply.