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CHAPTER X.

FOURTH DRILL, ILLUSTRATING CHAPTER IX.

Reports of Committees.

[Another meeting of the Parliamentary Law Class. The meeting is organized as described in note at beginning of the previous drill.]

Chairman. Is the committee appointed to investigate the ventilating system of the High School ready to report?

Mr. U [chairman of the committee, reads the report]: The committee appointed to investigate and report on the ventilating system of the High School submits the following report:

Mr. A [rising and interrupting]. Mr. Chairman.

Chairman. For what does the gentleman rise?

Mr. A. In this part of the hall we cannot hear the report.[1]

Chairman. Mr. U will please come to the platform. The chair thinks the report will be heard when read from the platform.

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  1. Any member may interrupt the proceedings in this way when his rights as a member are being interfered with, as explained on page 88 under Raise a Question of Privilege.