6414. PARLIAMENTARY LAW, Study of.—
It seems probable that I will be called on
to preside in a legislative chamber. It is now
so long since I have acted in the legislative line,
that I am entirely rusty in the Parliamentary
rules of procedure. I know they have been
more studied and are better known by you than
by any man in America, perhaps by any man
living. I am in hopes that while inquiring into
the subject you made notes on it. If any such
remain in your hands, however informal, in
books or in scraps of paper, and you will be
so good as to trust me with them a little while,
they shall be most faithfully returned.—
To George Wythe. Washington ed. iv, 163.
Ford ed., vii, 110.
(M.
1797)
