tommittee of overtures shall be chosen to prepare business for the association.

6. Every morning and afternoon, at the time to which the association is adjourned, the moderator shall take the chair, and the scribe shall call over the roll of the members; Those who are tardy shall be called to give a reason for their delay.

7. No member shall withdraw from the body until the close of the session, without leave of absence first obtained from the moderator.

8. After the association is opened in the morning by prayer, the minutes of the preceding day shall be read by the scribe.

9. The Moderator shall preserve order and decorum in the body; and when he speaks to the merits of any question, he shall leave the chair and address himself to the Scribe.

10. Every member when he wishes to speak shall address the Moderator.

11. No member shall speak more than twice to the merits of the question in debate, except by special permission of the body; nor more than once until every member choosing to speak shall have spoken.

12. Every motion, except for adjournment, shall be reduced to writing, if the Moderator or any two members desire it.

13. When a question is under debate, no motion shall be made except for amendmentor the previous question--to postpone or for

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an adjournment. The previous question is, Shall the main question now be put ?

14. No motion, except for reconsideration, shall be acted upon until seconded.

15. When any member, in debating or otherwise, shall transgress the rules of the body, the Moderator shall, by his own authority, or at the request of any member, call him to order; and if a question shall arise concerning his being in order it shall be decided by an appeal to the body.

16. When two or more rise at once, the Moderator shall name the member who is first to speak.

17. Whilst the Moderator is putting any question, or addressing the body, no one shall walk out of or across the house; nor, in such case, or when a member is speaking, shall entertain private discourse, or read any printed book or paper; nor whilst a member is speaking, shall pass between him and the chair.

18. No motion, committed to writing, shall be finally decided upon, until it shall have had three several readings, if any member require it.

19. In cases of equal divisions of votes, the moderator shall have a casting vote.

20. If three or more members object against the appointment of a committee by nomination, the committee shall be chosen by ballot.

21. The moderator shall continue in office

until the next annual meeting of the general association, and shall have power, upon the application of any district association, to convene the general association, and likewise, in case of necessity, to alter the appointed place of annual meeting; of both which he shall give pub lick notice in such papers published in Hartford, New-Haven, and New-London as he shall judge to have the most extensive circulation.

22. These rules and orders shall be read at the opening of every session of the association, and shall be in force during the pleasure of the body, any rules to the contrary, previously made, notwithstanding.