§ THE DUKE OF RICHMOND moved— that the Resolutions of the 10th of March 1857, regulating the Mode of taking Divisions, be now vacated: The same was agreed to.
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Then it was moved to resolve,
That when, on the Question being put, a Division is called for, the Lord on the Woolsack or in the Chair shall order Strangers to withdraw, and thereupon the House and the Side Lobbies shall be cleared of Strangers, but not the Galleries and the Space within the Rails of the Throne, unless the House shall so order:
That as soon as the Order has been given for Strangers to withdraw, the Clerk at the Table shall turn a Two Minute Sand Glass, to be kept on the Table for that Purpose; and the Doors shall be looked after the Lapse of Two Minutes,
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as indicated by the Sand Glass, and the Lord on the Woolsack or in the Chair shall then again put the Question:
That the Contents shall go forth through the Door on the Right Side of the House near the Throne which leads to the Right Lobby, and shall proceed through the Right Lobby and reenter the House through the Door on the Right of the Bar; and the Not-Contents shall go forth through the Door on the Left of the Bar which leads to the Left Lobby, and shall proceed through the Left Lobby and re-enter the House through the Door on the Left Side of the House near the Throne:
That any Lord may, on the ground of Infirmity, by Permission of the House, have the privilege of being told in his Seat; and that the Votes of such Lords and of the Lord on the Woolsack or in the Chair be taken first:
That Two or more Tellers be appointed for each Division without respect to their Degree; and that Two Clerks be in attendance at each Division to take down or mark the Names of the Contents and Not-Contents respectively; and that such Clerks be stationed in the respective Lobbies as near as conveniently may be to the Doors through which the Contents and Not-Contents re-enter the House:
That if any Lord shall have by Mistake gone out with the Contents or Not-Contents (as the Case may be), having intended to vote on the other Side, he shall wait until the other Lords in the same Lobby shall have passed out, and on presenting himself to the Tellers desire that he may not be counted by them, he having entered that Lobby by mistake; and the Tellers shall thereupon come with such Lord to the Table and inform the House of the Circumstance, and shall ask the said Lord whether he was in the House when the Question was put, and if he shall reply in the Affirmative, whether he desires to vote Content or Not-Content on such Question, and the Vote of the said Lord as then declared by him shall be taken by the Tellers in the House, and recorded by them accordingly:
That when Proxies shall be called, the Names of the Lords Content and Not-Content who vote by Proxy shall be respectively taken down and marked by the Clerks at the Table:
That the Tellers shall count the Votes, and announce the Numbers to the Lord on the Woolsack or in the Chair; and the Doors shall remain locked until the Numbers are declared:
That Lists of the Lords present and voting shall be framed, in which the Names shall be inserted in Alphabetical Order, and similar Lists of the Lords who have voted by Proxy; and such Lists shall be appended to the Minutes of the Day:
That in such Lists the Names of the Lords shall be inserted according to the Titles by which they sit in Parliament; but in Cases in which any have higher or more ancient Titles or Dignities the higher or more ancient Title or Dignity shall be added in brackets:
That each Division, and the Number and Names of the Lords voting thereon, be also inserted in the Journals, the Names of the Lords being placed in the Order in which they stand in the Roll, the Proxies being recorded in a separate List:
§ The same was agreed to.
349§ Ordered, That the said Resolutions be declared Standing Orders, and that they be entered on the Roll of Standing Orders of this House.