Journal of the ... Annual Convention, Diocese of West Virginia, Volúmenes1-8

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The Diocese, 1877
 

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Página 5 - When a question is under debate, no motion shall be received but : To adjourn; To lay on the table ; For the previous question ; To postpone to a day certain; To commit, refer or recommit; To postpone indefinitely.
Página 7 - If any member, in speaking, or otherwise, transgress the rules of the House, the Speaker shall, or any member may, call...
Página 18 - ... life; and that we do not know or believe there is any impediment, on account of which he ought not to be consecrated to that Holy office.
Página 32 - I do believe the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be the word of God, and to contain all things necessary to salvation; and I do solemnly engage to conform to the doctrines and worship of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States.
Página 7 - When any member is about to speak in debate, or deliver any matter to the...
Página 16 - ... and every bishop of this church shall confine the exercise of his episcopal office to his proper diocese, unless requested to ordain or confirm, or perform any other act of the episcopal office by any church destitute of a bishop.
Página 36 - In every Diocese there shall be a Standing Committee, to be appointed by the Convention thereof, whose duties, except so far as provided for by the Canons of the General Convention, may be prescribed by the Canons of the respective Dioceses.
Página 7 - A motion to adjourn shall always be in order, and shall be decided without debate. 17. The previous question shall be put in this form : "Shall the main question be now put?
Página 5 - No member shall speak more than twice to the same question, without leave of the House; nor more than once, until every member choosing to speak shall have spoken.
Página 16 - And in all cases, the House of Bishops shall signify to the Convention their approbation or disapprobation (the latter with their reasons in writing) within three days after the proposed act shall have been reported to them for concurrence ; and in failure thereof, it shall have the operation of a law.

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