lature, with a brief statement of its subject or contents, adding his name; if a notice or resolution, with his name; if a report of a committee, a statement of such report, with the name of the committee and member making the same; if a bill, a statement of its title, with his name, and the fact whether presented on notice, or if by unanimous consent, with a statement of its contents.

RULE 12. No member shall speak to another, or otherwise interrupt the business of the senate, or read any newspaper, while the journals or public papers are being read; and when the president is putting a question, no senator shall walk out of or across the house, nor when a senator is speaking, pass between him and the chair.

RULE 13. Every senator rising to debate, or to present a petition or other paper, to give a notice, make a motion or report, shall address the president, and shall not proceed further until recognized by the chair. No senator shall speak more than twice the same day on the same subject, without leave of the senate; and where two or more senators rise at once, the president shall name the senator who is first to speak.

RULE 14. Every senator who shall be within the bar of the senate when a question is stated from the chair, shall vote thereon, unless he shall be excused by the senate, or unless he be directly interested in the question.

RULE 15. Any senator requesting to be excused from voting may make, either immediately before or after the vote shall have been called, and before the result shall be announced, a brief statement, not occupying over five minutes, of the reasons for making such request, and the question on excusing him shall then be taken without debate.

Of Committees and their Duties.

RULE 16. Standing committees, consisting, unless otherwise ordered, of three members, shall be appointed on the following subjects:

1. On claims.

2. On finance, to consist of five members.

3. On judiciary, to consist of seven members. 4. On militia.

5. On canals, to consist of seven members.

6. On railroads, to consist of five members.

7. On roads and bridges.

8. On literature.

9. On state prisons.

10. On banks.

11. On insurance companies.

12. On the erection and division of counties and towns.

13. On agriculture.

14. On commerce and navigation, to consist of five members. 15. On manufactures.

16. On public health, and medical societies and colleges.

17. On privileges and elections.

18. On engrossed bills, to consist of five members.

19. On Indian affairs.

20. On public expenditures.

21. On affairs of cities, to consist of seven members.

22. On public buildings.

23. On poor laws.

24. On miscellaneous corporations.

25. On retrenchment.

26. On grievances.

27. On the manufacture of salt.

28. On the internal affairs of towns and counties.

29. On public printing.

30. On affairs of villages.

31. On rules.

RULE 17. It shall be the duty of the committee on public printing to examine and report on all questions of printing referred to them, and every motion to print any petition, resolution, report, bill, message or other manuscript, except as provided in the joint rules, shall be referred to such

committee. They shall, when practicable, report the approximate cost of all extra printing and report to the senate from time to time any measure they may deem ́ useful for the economical and proper management of the public printing.

RULE 18. The committee on engrossed bills shall examine all bills, amendments and resolutions which are required to be engrossed, before they go out of possession of the senate, and make report when they find them correctly engrossed, before they are read the third time; they shall also compare such amendments as may be made in the assembly to senate bills, and that are concurred in by the senate, after they shall have been re-engrossed in the senate, for the purpose of seeing if they are correctly engrossed.

RULE 19. Every report of a committee upon a bill which shall not be considered at the time of making the same, or laid on the table by a vote of the senate, shall stand upon the general orders with the bill, and entered on the journal.

Of General Orders and Special Orders.

RULE 20. The matters referred to the committee of the whole senate shall constitute the general orders, and the business of the general orders shall be taken up as follows, viz.: The clerk shall announce the title of each bill, with the printed number, or other matter as it shall be reached in its order, when it may be taken up on the motion of any member without the putting of any question therefor; but if not so moved it shall lose its preference for the day. And whenever three bills have been moved consecutively, the senate shall go into committee of the whole upon them without further orders; and whenever a motion shall prevail in committee of the whole that the committee now rise, report progress and ask leave to sit

again, the motion shall include the bills remaining unacted upon in the committee of the whole which shall be considered in the first committee of the whole thereafter; and no bill shall be considered in committee of the whole, unless the same shall have been printed.

RULE 21. Whenever any bill or other matter is made the special order for a particular day, and it shall not be completed on that day, it shall retain its place in the general orders, unless it shall be made the special order for another day; and when a special order is under consideration it shall take precedence of any special order for a subsequent hour of the same day; but such subsequent special order may be taken up immediately after the previous special order has been disposed of.

Of the Committee of the Whole.

RULE 22. The rules of the senate shall be observed in the committee of the whole, so far as may be applicable, except limiting the number of times of speaking, and except that the ayes and noes shall not be taken. Such committee may strike out the enacting clause of a bill, and report that fact to the senate; and if the report be agreed to by the senate, it shall be deemed a rejection of the bill.

RULE 23. Bills committed to a committee of the whole senate shall in committee of the whole be read through by sections. The report shall state whether or not said bill has been amended in committee of the whole. After the report, the bill shall be subject to debate and amendment before the question to engross is put; but such amendments only shall be in order as were offered and decided in the committee of the whole senate, except by unanimous consent.

RULE 24. A motion that the committee rise and report progress on any bill shall always be in order, and shall be decided without debate.

Of Bills.

RULE 25. Every bill shall be introduced by motion for leave, or on the report of a committee, or by message from the assembly.

RULE 26. When a bill shall be reported by a committee of the whole, and not otherwise disposed of, the question shall be," Shall the report be agreed to?" And when the report of such committee, if favorable, shall be agreed to, and the bill not otherwise disposed of, the bill shall be ordered engrossed for a third reading. Upon such question the merits of the bill may be debated, and a motion to commit or recommit, or to amend, as provided in the 23d rule, or lay on the table, or to postpone to a future day, shall be in order. If such question be decided in the negative, such bill shall be deemed lost.

RULE 27. Every bill shall receive three readings previous to its being passed, and the president shall give notice at each, whether it be the first, second or third. No bill shall be amended or committed until it shall have been twice read, and no bill shall be read a third time out of its regular order, nor on the same day on which it is ordered to a third reading, unless on a vote of two-thirds of all the senators present and voting; and no bill shall be read a third time unless it shall have been printed; and all resolutions which propose any amendment of the constitution, shall be treated in the form of proceedings on them, in a similar manner with bills, except that it shall not be necessary to commit such resolutions to a committee of the whole; and no bill shall be ordered to a third reading without having been acted upon in committee of the whole.