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!78a. New Standing Order: When the Government signifies that a Motion is an unopposed Motion for a Beturn, the Speaker shall put the Motion to the House, unless six Members stand up in their places to signify that it is an opposed Motion. 80. To be amended as follows : Except on Wednesdays and, for the first six weeks of the Session, on Thursdays, before the public business is entered upon, Questions are permitted to be put to Ministers of the Crown relating to public affairs, and to other Members relating to any Bill, Motion, or other public matter connected with the business of the House in which such Members may be concerned. 182 a. New Standing Order: No Notices of Questions shall be given for a date more than two clear weeks in advance. Standing Order 83 transferred to page 23, to precede No. 104. 88. To be amended as follows : No Notice may be given for any day beyond tbe-peried-wfeieh allew-aaee-boing made-jer-aay integyeaiag-adjeafatasat-ei—tae-Heaae—and tae-pefied bolag in that oaoo do jar oxtondod ao to inolude four Notiee—dayo falling duriag tho oittmg of the-Heaee? 89. Omit the following Standing Order: Notices of Motions take precedence of Orders of the Day on Wednesdays, unless the House shall have otherwise directed. (Vide new Standing Order 74 herewith, and not to come into force until next session.) 103. To be amended as follows : No Member shall speak for more than half an hour at a time in any Debate in the House, except in the Debate on the Address in Beply, or on the Financial Statement, or in a Debate on a Motion of " No Confidence," or in moving the second reading of a Bill, or on the-Bebato on tho Appropriation Bill, when a Member shall be at liberty to speak for one hour. In asking a question of a Minister a Member shall be allowed two minutes. In Committee of the House no Member shall speak for more than ten minutes at any one time, or more than lea? ti»ee twice on any one Question before the Committee: Provided that this rule shall not apply in Committee to a Member in charge of a Bill, or to a Minister when delivering the Financial Statement in Committee of Supply, or, in regard to the number of his speeches, to a Minister in charge of a Class of the Estimates in Committee of Supply. Standing Order 83 to be transferred from page 23 to precede 104. 1151 a. New Standing Order: Mr. Speaker or the Chairman of Committees may order a Member whose conduct is grossly disorderly to withdraw immediately from the House during the remainder of that day's sitting. 157. To be amended as follows : A Member who has spoken on the Main Question may not again enter upon it when speaking to the Question of Adjournment er to an Amendment. 158. To be amended as follows: When an Amendment is moved, the Debate must be confined to the Amendment, unless it be of such a nature as to involve the consideration or decision of the Main Question (of which Mr. Speaker is the judge), in which case both the Main Question and the Amendment are open for discussion, bat-by— eaoh Membero only -ao havo not opokon to tho Main 1 ninnli f\n 162. To be amended as follows : A Member who has spoken to the Main Question, or to any Motion which involves the Main Question, may not move or second an Amendment (oxoopt in Coinmittoo); the Adjournment of the House, the x\djournment of the Debate, the Previous Question, or a Motion to proceed to the Orders of the Day or a particular Order. Ho may opoak to any 6n pn ynn'Hrtn /AYPPTyf*. tnn Prrwinun (n'lf'r'Hn'n l TniTplo nfiTi i\/Ti*vmr w "'** mil- tmin-f n /-,-n -ft -n /■> lri a «atm n v>lt-.-i tttjtl tttXTVTVTTI 1 T7VK.OG fJV tJXXUa. lO V tUUtI J —TV IHJI-T IIIKWX.C U IT "OltlU IIIIUILt.TX.UXXT UUi • t HITI - TTTI IMli—l ';< MM I 11^—{ ttB —M'l'UvlKrj Th/wfiTn o-nrl iyiciit t-i /-.T- r\ r\ t~i r> Tr\ flin rtfl r\i-ri I liiAnrinn tlifurnirynn WIWC WIKJ) tWUCt 111 Cl'y HtJ TJ \X\j UZXW UUKs 3TXf ttlll Llt-D UIVII DllVJl UU.JJWIXI Closure of Debate. 169 a. After a Question has been proposed, a Member rising in his place may claim to move, " That the Question be now put," and unless it shall appear to the Chair that such Motion is an abuse of the Bules of the House, or an infringement of the rights of the minority, the Question, " That the Question be now put," shall be put forthwith, and decided without Amendment or Debate, but such Motion is not to be declared to be carried unless not less than thirty Members vote with the majority. When the Motion, " That the Question be now put," has been carried, and the Question consequent thereon has been decided, any further Motion may be made (the assent of the Chair as aforesaid not having been withheld) which may be requisite to bring to a decision any Question already proposed from the Chair. Also if a Clause be then under consideration, a Motion may be made (the assent of the Chair as aforesaid not having been withheld), That the Question, That certain words of the Clause defined in the Motion stand part of the Clause, or, after all amendments proposed have been disposed of, that the Clause stand part of or be added to the Bill, be now put. Such Motions shall be put forthwith, and decided without Amendment or Debate.