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(4) Presenting Reports of Committees, of Treasurer or

Auditors.

(5) Giving Notices of Motion.

(6) Taking up Unfinished Business.

(7) Consideration of Motions.

(8) Orders of the Day.

(9) Before the final adjournment of the Synod, reading, correcting, and approving the Minutes of the last day's proceedings.

IV. PROVISIONAL RULES OF ORDER FOR THE LOWER HOUSE.

1. The Lower House shall meet on the day and at the hour and place appointed by the Primate or President, and unless otherwise ordered by the House, on each succeeding day at ten o'clock; and the mid-day adjournment shall be from one o'clock to halfpast two p.m.; and the business, except the work of the Committees, shall conclude at six p.m., at which hour the House shall proceed to the Cathedral for Evensong. When the Prolocutor has taken the Chair, every member shall remain uncovered.

2. The Prolocutor shall preserve order and decorum, and shall have power to appoint Assessors to aid him in so doing, and he shall decide all questions of order, subject to an appeal to the House, to be decided without debate; and when called upon to decide a point of order, he shall state the rule applicable to the case, without argument or comment.

3. As soon as conveniently may be after the calling of the Rolls and election of Officers the following Standing Committees shall be appointed :

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(7) On Memorials of Deceased Members.

(8) On Unfinished Business and Printing.

Such Standing Committees shall be appointed upon the recommendation of a Nominating Committee to consist of one Clerical and one Lay Delegate from each Diocese, named by the Prolocutor; and any matter having any relation to the work of any of such Standing Committees may, upon its coming before the

House, be referred without debate to the proper Committee for consideration and report.

4. When any member wishes to speak, he shall rise and address the chair.

5. When two or more members rise at the same time, the Prolocutor shall name the party first to speak.

6. A member called to order while speaking shall sit down, unless permitted to explain.

7. No motion or amendment shall be considered as before the House, unless seconded and reduced to writing.

8. No member, save the mover of a resolution, who, as mover, is entitled to reply, shall speak more than once, except by the permission of the House.

9. A member may rise to explain, if permitted by the Chair. 10. No original motion, except motions of course, shall be received without notice, except by permission of the House.

II. When a resolution has been moved and seconded, any member may require the previous question to be put, whether the motion so made shall be put or not, and that question shall be decided without debate.

12. When a motion has been read to the House by the Prolocutor, it cannot be withdrawn without the consent of the House.

13. When a question is under consideration, no other motion shall be received, except to adjourn, to lay it on the table, to consider it clause by clause, to postpone it to a certain time, to postpone it indefinitely, to refer it to a Committee, to amend it, or to divide upon it, and motions for any of these purposes shall have precedence in the order named. No more than one amendment to a proposed amendment of a question shall be in order.

14. A motion to adjourn shall always be in order.

15. Motions to adjourn or to lay on the table shall be decided without debate.

16. A motion to suspend a Rule of Order shall take precedence of all other motions, and shall be decided without debate ; and no Rule of Order shall be suspended, except upon the vote of two-thirds of the members present.

17. A member, if not interrupting a speaker, may require any motion in discussion to be read for his information, at any time during the debate.

18. When amendments are made to any motion, the amendment and the original motion shall be put in order the reverse of that in which they were brought forward.

19. When a question is finally put by the Prolocutor, either an original motion or an amendment, no further debate shall be

allowed; the Prolocutor first declaring that the question is finally put.

20. When the Prolocutor is putting a question, no member shall rise from his seat; and every member present, when a question is put, shall be required to vote on the same, unless excused by the House.

21. In voting, those who vote in the affirmative shall first rise, and then those who vote in the negative; and in case of an equality of votes the question shall be decided by the casting vote of the Prolocutor, who may also vote on the motion.

22. When required by two Clerical and two Lay Delegates, the vote of the House upon any question may be taken by orders voting separately; and in that case a majority of both orders shall be necessary to an affirmative vote.

23. On a division, the names of those who vote for or against a question shall be recorded in the minutes, if required by three members.

24. A question being once determined shall not again be drawn into discussion in the same Session, without the unanimous consent of the House.

25. Committees shall not be appointed without notice, excepting Standing Committees, Committees of the Prolocutor to the Upper House, and Committees of course, such as those which follow upon the adoption of a resolution which requires a Committee.

26. When a separate Committee of this House has been named, whose function is deliberative, the Prolocutor shall direct what number of its members do form a quorum, unless the quorum is fixed by the resolution under which the Committee is appointed.

27. When a Committee is appointed, the mover of the resolution asking for the Committee shall be the Chairman of the Committee, or when a resolution is referred to a Committee, the mover of the resolution shall be Chairman, unless the Committee has already been organized.

28. Reports of Committees shall be in writing, signed by the Chairman, and shall be received in course, but a motion may be made for re-committal.

29. Motions with reference to Reports from Committees shall take precedence of other motions on the paper.

30. Whenever it shall happen that members appointed on Committees are not re-elected to the Synod, the Prolocutor may appoint others from the same diocese or dioceses to fill their place; and in order thereto a copy of the certified lists of Clerical and Lay Delegates sent to the Secretaries shall be sent by them to the Prolocutor within ten days after they shall have received the same.

31. It shall be the duty of the Secretaries to arrange a list of all business, and all notices of motion sent to them by members to be brought before the Synod, according to the order in which they are received; and under the direction of the Primate, to cause a printed copy of the same to be sent to every member of the Synod twenty-one days before its meeting; which business and notices shall stand first on the order of the day.

32. The Standing Committee on unfinished business and printing shall arrange for each day the order of precedence of the several motions, of which notice has been given, and have them printed.

33. In any unprovided case resort shall be had to the Rules of Order of the House of Commons in Canada for guidance.

34. No Canon originating in the Lower House shall be enacted, unless the same has been transmitted by the Secretaries of the Lower House to the members of the Synod at least three weeks before the meeting of the Synod, or unless the same has been left over as unfinished business, and printed in the Journal of the previous session.

REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON EXPENSES.

(F)

REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON EXPENSES.

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The Committee appointed to procure the amount of the travelling expenses of the Bishops and Delegates, and to suggest ways and means of raising the same, beg leave to report as follows:

The expenses of the Delegates are as follows:

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Niagara

Huron..

Algoma..

52 00

9 50

759 70

$2181 80

Travelling Expenses of Clerical and Lay Delegates...
Travelling Expenses of Bishops attending Synod..

598 05

$2779 85

We find from the Bishops that there are 1,062 Clergymen in the Dominion in Dioceses having over ten Clergymen.

The amount required per head is $2.56.

The number of Clergy and assessment of Dioceses is here

with given :

DIOCESE.

Huron....

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Rupert's Land.

80

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204 80

51 20 171 52

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192 00

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455 68

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279 04

166 40

51 20

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