further order take charge of the bill or joint resolution and cause the same to be correctly engrossed.

PRIVILEDGED REPORTS.

18. The committees on engrossment, enrollment and printing shall have leave to report at any time when the House is in session.

CALL TO ORDER WHILE SPEAKING.

19. When a member is called to order while speaking he shall forthwith take his seat until it shall be determined whether or not he is in order, except he be permitted to explain; and if a member be called to order for words spoken in debate, the exceptional words shall immediately be taken down in writing by the chief clerk, so that the Speaker and House may be better able to judge of the matter.

20. A member raising a point of order may be allowed five minutes in which to state his grounds.

MAY SPEAK TWICE ONLY TO SAME QUESTION.

21. No member shall speak more than twice to the same question on the same day, without leave of the House.

SHALL BE REDUCED TO WRITING IF DESIRED.

22. All motions (except to adjourn, postpone or commit) shall be reduced to writing if desired by the Speaker, or any member.

WITHDRAWAL OF MOTION.

23. If no member objects, any motion under consideration may be withdrawn by the mover at any time, before a decision,. amendment, or ordering of yeas and nays, except a motion to reconsider, which shall not be withdrawn without leave of the House.

WHEN QUESTION IS UNDER DEBATE.

24. When a question is being debated no motion shall be received, except:

1. To adjourn.

2. To lay on the table.

3. For the previous question.

4. To postpone to a certain day.

5. To commit.

6. To amend.

7. To postpone indefinitely.

And these several motions shall have precedence in the above order.

MOTION TO RECONSIDER

25. When a question has been once determined, either in the affirmative or negative, it shall be in order for any mem

ber who voted on the prevailing side to give notice for a reconsideration thereof; but no motion for the reconsideration of any vote shall be in order after a bill, resolution, report, amendment or motion upon which the vote was taken shall have gone out of the possession of the House; nor shall any motion for reconsideration be in order unless made on the same day on which the vote was taken, or within the next succeeding day of actual session of the House thereafter. And no such bill, resolution, message, report, amendment or motion shall be taken out of the possession of the House after such notice is given, until disposed of, but there shall be no reconsideration of a vote to indefinitely postpone.

THE PREVIOUS QUESTION.

26. Any member may move the previous question, and if it be seconded by three other members, the previous question shall be put in this form: "Shall the main question be now put?" The object of this motion is to bring the House to a vote on the pending question without further discussion, and if the motion fails the discussion may proceed the same as if the motion had not been made; if carried, all debate shall cease and the Speaker shall immediately put the main question to a vote-first on proposed amendments in their order, and then on the main question, without debate or further amendment: Provided, that a motion to adjourn and a call of the House shall each be in order after the previous question has been sustained and before the main question is put, but no other motion or call shall be in order, except to receive the report of the Sergeant-atArms, or to dispense with the proceedings under the call; and all motions and proceedings authorized by this rule shall be decided without debate, whether on appeal or otherwise.

COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE.

RULES OF THE HOUSE TO BE OBSERVED.

27. The rules of the House shall be observed in the committee of the whole, so far as they may be applicable, except that the yeas and nays shall not be taken, nor the previous question allowed, and there shall be no limit to the number of speeches.

MOTION TO RISE.

28. A motion that the committee rise shall always be in order, and shall be decided without debate.

MEMORIALS TO CONGRESS.

29. Memorials to Congress or to the President of the United States shall be considered in committee of the whole before being adopted.

FILLING BLANKS.

30. In filling up blanks the largest sum and the longest time shall be put first.

DIVISION OF QUESTION.

31. Any member may call for a division of the question, which shall be divided, if it comprehend propositions in substance so distinct that, one being taken away, a substantive proposition shall remain for the decision of the House. A motion to strike out and insert shall be deemed indivisible; but a motion to strike out being lost, shall preclude neither amendment nor a motion to strike out and insert.

CALL FOR THE AYES AND NOES.

32. When a question is being taken, or about to be taken, it shall be competent for any member to call for the ayes and noes, which shall be entered on the journal, and the names of the members shall be called in alphabetical order as printed on the slips for the use of the Chief Clerk.

SHALL VOTE UNLESS EXCUSED.

33. Every member shall vote who may be within the bar of the House when the question is put, unless for some special reasons he be excused. A motion to excuse a member from voting shall be made before the call of the ayes and noes is commenced, and any member wishing to be excused from voting may briefly and pertinently explain his reason therefor, but when the ayes and noes are being taken, the call shall not be interrupted for any purpose whatever.

PROTEST AGAINST ACTION OF THE HOUSE.

34. It shall be in order for any member or members to protest against the action of the House, and have such protest entered in the journal.

REMOVAL OF OFFICERS.

35. Two-thirds of all members of the House voting for the removal of the Speaker, or any officer of the House, shall be sufficient to vacate the chair or such office as the case may be.

APPEALS.

36. A majority of all the votes of the members present shall be sufficient to sustain an appeal from the decision of the Speaker.

CALL OF THE HOUSE.

37. A call of the House shall only be ordered or a vote taken thereon upon the demand of five members, one making the motion and four seconding the same by rising. Upon a call of the House the names of the members shall be called by the

clerk and the absentees noted; after which the names of the absentees shall again be called. The doors shall then be shut and those for whom no excuse or sufficient excuses are made, may, by order of those present, be taken into custody as they appear, or may be sent for and taken into custody by the sergeantat-arms wherever to be found, or by a special messenger to be appointed for that purpose.

PARLIAMENTARY PRACTICE.

38. The rules of parliamentary practice comprised in Cushing's Manual shall govern the House in all cases to which they are applicable, and in which they are not inconsistent with these rules and orders of the House and the joint rules and orders of the Senate and House of Representatives.

39. Smoking shall not be permitted on the floor of the House while the House is in session.

SUSPENSION OF RULES.

40. No standing rule of the House shall be rescinded, changed or suspended, except by a vote of at least two-thirds of the members present.

JOINT RULES FOR THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF

REPRESENTATIVES.

1. In every case of an amendment of a bill, joint resolution or memorial, agreed to in one House and dissented from in the other, if either House shall request a conference and appoint a committee to confer, the other House shall appoint a like committee, and such committees shall meet at a convenient hour, to be agreed upon by their respective chairmen, and shall confer upon the differences between the two Houses, and shall report as early as convenient the result of their conference to their respective Houses for action.

2. When a message shall be sent from either House it shall be announced at the door by the doorkeeper, and shall be delivered to the chair by the person by whom it may be

sent.

3. Messages shall be sent by such persons as a sense of propriety in each House may determine to be proper.

4. Notice of the action of either House to the other, shall be on paper, and under the signature of the chief clerk of the House from which such notice is to be conveyed.

5. A standing committee, to be known as the joint committee on printing, composed of five members, two of whom shall be from the Senate and three from the House of Repre sentatives, shall be appointed, the presiding officer of each House selecting the members to which the House is entitled.

6. Every bill, joint resolution or memorial, which shali

have passed both Houses, shall then be duly enrolled by the enrolling clerk of the House in which it originated. It shall then be referred to the committee on enrolling, who shall carefully examine it, compare it with the engrossed bill, and any amendment or amendments that may have been passed after it was engrossed, and shall correct any errors that may appear in it. They shall then report the result of such examination to the House in which the bill, joint resolution or memorial originated.

7. After an examination and report each bill shall be signed, first by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, or by the Speaker elected or appointed pro tem., then by the President of the Senate or by the Vice President.

8. When a bill, joint resolution or memorial shall have been thus signed, the chief clerk shall endorse on the back thereof a certificate specifying in which House the same originated. It shall then be presented by the enrolling committee of the House in which the same originated to the Governor of the State for his approval. After having performed said duty the committee shall report to the House in which the paper originated, the day and hour of presentation to the Governor, which facts shall be entered upon the journal of said House. Said committee is further empowered to report at any time to either House any matter committed to it.

9. When a bill, joint resolution or memorial which shall have passed in one House shall be rejected by the other, notice thereof shall be given to the House in which the same shall have been passed.

10. When a bill, joint resolution or memorial which has been pased in one House shall be rejected by the other it shall not be brought in again during the same session without a notice of three days, and leave of a majority of that House in which it shall be renewed; but the same bill, joint resolution or memorial shall not be presented more than twice in either House.

11. Each House shall transmit to the other House all papers on which any bills, joint resolutions or memorials shall be founded.

12. When any bill, joint resolution or memorial shall be introduced in one House, notice thereof shall be immediately transmitted to the other House.

13. Any standing committee of the Senate acting with the corresponding committee of the House, may by vote of the two Houses act together on a joint committee for the preparation and introduction of bills of general interest, and such bills may be introduced simultaneously in both Houses