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52 case, fix the time or place for the next meeting to adjourn to that time or place. Otherwise, the assembly might be dissolved by less than a quorum. Business transacted without a quorum is legal until the question of quorum is raised.  

47. The methods of voting in general use are:

1st. By sound, commonly called the Ayes and Noes, or the viva voce vote, in which the chair decides by the volume of voice whether the ayes or the noes are in the majority.

2nd. By rising, or by uplifted hands, in which the chair, or some one designated by the chair, counts the vote.

3rd. By the Yeas and Nays, in which the roll is called and the vote recorded by the clerk. This method of voting is rarely used except in an assembly whose members are responsible to a constituency and is peculiar to legislative bodies. Its object is to