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229. The words objected to being thus written down, and forming a part of the minutes in the clerk’s book, they are next to be read to the member who was speaking, who may deny that those are the words which he spoke, in which case, the assembly must decide by a question, whether they are the words or not.[Footnote 31] If he does not deny that he spoke those words, or when the assembly has itself determined what the words are, then the