§ Motions to Report Progress, &c.
§ 10. That when a Motion is made that the Chairman do report Progress, or do leave the Chair, the Debate shall be strictly confined to the matter of such Motion.
§ 11. That if a Motion, that the Chairman do report progress, or do leave the Chair, be made, the Chairman may decline to put the Question thereupon, if, in his judgment, such Motion is made for the purpose of obstruction; or, if he think fit to put such Question, he may put it from the Chair forthwith.
§ 12. That no Member, having spoken to a Motion that the Chairman do report progress, or do leave the Chair, shall be entitled to move, or to speak to, any similar Motion, during the same sitting of the Committee.
§ Irrelevance or Repetition.
§ 13. That the Chairman may call the attention of the Committee to continued irrelevance, or tedious repetition, on the part of a Member; and may direct the Member to discontinue his speech.
§ Members to Speak once only.
§ 14. That no Member shall be allowed to speak more than once to the same Question; unless the Member in charge of the Bill, or any Member who has made a Motion, or moved an Amendment, desires to offer explanations.
§ Preamble postponed.
§ 15. That the Preamble of a Bill do stand postponed until after the consideration of the Clauses, without Question put.
§ Divisions.
§ 16. That when, before a Division, the Chairman's decision that the "Ayes" or "Noes" have it, is challenged, the 438 Chairman may call upon the Members challenging it, to rise in their places, and if they do not exceed twenty, he may forthwith declare the determination of the Committee.
§ Questions to be put forthwith.
§ 17. That, when, by any of the Rules, framed by Mr. Speaker, a Question is to be put from the Chair forthwith, no Amendment, Adjournment, or Debate shall be allowed.
§ Ordered, That the said Rules be printed. [No. 73.]