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116 port or proposition containing several paragraphs or sections, is as follows:

The whole paper should be read entirely through by the clerk; then the Chairman should read it, or have it read, by paragraphs, pausing at the end of each, and asking, “Are there any amendments proposed to this paragraph?” If none are offered, he says, “No amendments being offered to this paragraph, the next will be read.” He then reads the next, and proceeds thus to the last paragraph, when he states that the whole report or all of the resolutions have been read and are open to amendment. He finally puts the question on agreeing to or adopting the whole paper as amended. If there is a preamble it should be