Excerpt from A Manual of Legislative Practice and Order of Business in Deliberative Bodies Having for several years occupied a seat in the House of Representatives of Pennsyl vania, and having presided over that body and since served as State Senator, it occurred to me, that a work on the Practice and Me thod of proceeding adopted in the two branches of the General Assembly would not be unacceptable to the members. The excel lent Manual of Thomas J efl'erson contains the landmarks of order, and must always be a useful guide but it is well known to all con versant with the business of public bodies, that it does not supply all that is wanting to State Legislatures. The Manual I present is intended as far as practicable to explain the detail so necessary to a new member, and to note the exact words which custom has sanctioned in the order of business. In the short time allotted for this work, it cannot be expected to be perfect; yet I shall be greatly disappointed, if it does not prove serviceable to the members. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.