The quorum of the assembly was to be twenty, including the speaker.
Three justices should form a quorum to hold quarter sessions, to adjudicate in cases from ten pounds to thirty pounds.
Much of the business of Congress is really done, however, when there is no quorum present, this being permissible so long as the point of "no quorum" is not raised by any member.
Under the rules the roll call did not show a quorum present, though more than two thirds of the members were actually in their seats.
Two thirds of the senate constitute a quorum for this purpose, and a majority of the whole number is necessary to a choice.
For a long time the method of ascertaining whether a quorumwas present was by a roll call.
If the roll call failed to show the presence of a majority, the speaker ruled that noquorum was present, even though every member of the house was actually in his seat.
He then calls the roll of the members whose credentials or certificates of election have been filed with him, and if a quorum is present the house proceeds to the election of a speaker.
A quorum for the election of a President by the house consists of a member or members from two thirds of the states, and the vote of a majority of all the states is necessary to a choice.
The Guardian does not feel that a quorum of delegates is necessary in any sense for the convention.
A vote for reconsideration followed; enough members left the State to prevent a quorum and it was not until the 24th that Governor Roberts could forward the certificate of ratification to Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby in Washington.
Democratic floor leader, to withdraw their votes in order that he might declare that, as the vote stood 22 to 0, a quorum had not voted!
Democratic floor leader, to withdraw their votes in order that he might declare that, as the vote stood 22 to 0, a quorum had not voted and the resolution was lost!
Brigham Young was appointed the president of the Twelve Apostles, and liberty was given to appoint another man to fill the vacancy made in the quorum through the death of David W.
He ignored the members of the quorum of the Twelve who were in the city--Elders Willard Richards, John Taylor and Parley P.
But after the above incident, he was re-baptized by the Prophet and received back into the quorum of the Apostles in full confidence and fellowship.
Lyman Wight was sustained to fill the vacancy in the quorum of the Twelve.
Wilford Woodruff and John Taylor were the first of the quorum to leave Nauvoo for England.
Can it be possible that the traitor whom Porter Rockwell reports to me as being in correspondence with my Missouri enemies is one of my quorum [the First Presidency]?
While a quorum is competent to transact any business, it is usually not expedient to transact important business without there is a fair attendance at the meeting, or else previous notice of such action has been given.
A Quorumof an assembly is such a number as is competent to transact its business.
Without there is a special rule on the subject, the quorum of every assembly is a majority of all the members of the assembly.
If no quorum is specified, then a majority constitutes a quorum.
The quorum of the committee of the whole is the same as that of the assembly [ยง 43].
If the number afterwards should be reduced below a quorum, business is not interrupted, unless a member calls attention to the fact; but no question can be decided except when a quorum is present.
In committee of the whole, the quorum is the same as in the assembly; in any other committee the majority is a quorum, without the assembly order otherwise, and it must wait for a quorum before proceeding to business.
A council or an organized body of the priesthood; as, an Elders' Quorum; the quorum of the First Presidency.
Id enim temporis adornabatur bellum in Gallos, et hujus fabulae non minimam partem Minoritae duo agebant, quorum alter, fax belli, mitram meruit, alter bonis lateribus vociferabatur in concionibus in Poetas.
Twelve men holding the apostleship, properly organized, constitute the quorum of the Apostles.
The first quorum of Seventies form a body whose unanimous decisions are equally binding with those of the Twelve Apostles.
The Presiding Quorumof Seventy; 4, The Presiding Bishopric.
A quorumof Priests comprises forty-eight members; such an organization is to be presided over by a Bishop.
Lund, of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles; Elder George Reynolds, one of the Presidents of the Presiding Quorum of Seventy; Elder John Nicholson, and Dr.
This quorum holds jurisdiction over the duties of other Bishops in the Church, and of all organizations pertaining to the Aaronic Priesthood.
The First Presidency= constitutes the presiding quorumof the Church.
Each group, by leaving the House, prevented the other from having a quorum and taking a valid division.
The acceptance was by a legal quorum of the Congress.
In the ten years that I have been chairman, I do not believe the committee has ever been compelled to adjourn for want of a quorum when any important business was before it.
If the two houses refuse to meet at all, or meet without a quorum of each, where shall we be?
The court was made to consist of four judges, and by the Constitution two form a quorum for the transaction of business.
Several days, however, elapsed before a quorum of members could be formed.
A quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the States, and a majority of all the States shall be necessary to a choice.
Of the apostles not practicing polygamy there is at most only three or four men constituting the quorum of which this could be truthfully said.
Within a few months past the last apostle elected to the quorum was a polygamist--Charles W.
Congress formed a quorum on the 5th day of December, the first day of the session which succeeded the publication of the Farewell Address.
From a delay in forming a quorumof Congress the votes of the electoral college were not counted until early in April, when they were found to be unanimous in favor of Washington.
Or he would go off, come back any time before four when message brought in that a quorum was in sight.
