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EXTRACTS FROM THE LAWS HAVING REFERENCE TO THE BUSINESS OF THE TWO HOUSES OF CONGRESS.

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR EXECUTING THE PUBLIC PRINTING, AND ESTABLISHING THE PRICES THEREOF, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

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SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That a committee, consisting of three members of the Senate and three members of the House of Representatives, shall be appointed by the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House, to be called the Joint Committee on the Public Printing, which Committee shall have a right to decide between the Superintendent of the Public Printing and the Public Printer in any dispute which may arise as to the propriety of the decisions of the Superintendent making deductions on account of work which the Superintendent may refuse to receive, or which in his opinion may not be done with proper despatch, as required by law; and the said committee shall pass upon the accounts of the Superintendent of the Public Printing. Said committee shall have power to adopt such measures as may be deemed necessary to remedy any neglect or delay in the execution of the public printing: Provided, That no contract, agreement, or arrangement entered into by this committee shall take effect until the same shall have been approved by that house of Congress to which the printing belongs; and when the printing delayed relates to the business of both houses, until both houses shall have approved of such contract or arrangement. All motions to print extra copies of any bill, report, or other documents, shall be referred to the members of the Committee on Printing from the house in which the same may be made.

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Approved August 26, 1852.

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AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A COURT FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF CLAIMS AGAINST THE UNITED STATES.

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SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That said court shall keep a record of their proceedings, and shall, at the commencement of each session of Congress, and at the commencement of each month during the session of Congress, report to Congress the cases upon which they shall have finally acted, stating in each the material facts which they find established by the evidence, with their opinion in the case, and the reasons upon which such opinion is founded. Any judge who may dissent from the opinion of the majority shall append his reasons for such dissent to the report; and such report, together with the briefs of the solicitor and of the claimant, which shall accompany the report, upon being made to either house of Congress, shall be printed in the same manner as other public documents. And said court shall prepare a bill or bills in those cases which shall have received the

favorable decision thereof, in such form as, if enacted, will carry the same into effect. And two or more cases may be embraced in the same bill, where the separate amount proposed to be allowed in each case shall be less than one thousand dollars. And the said court shall transmit with said reports the testimony in each case, whether the same shall receive the favorable or adverse action of said court. SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That said reports and the bills reported as aforesaid shall, if not finally acted upon during the session of Congress to which the said reports are made, be continued from session to session, and from Congress to Congress, until the same shall be finally acted upon; and the consideration of said reports and bills shall, at the subsequent session of Congress be resumed, and the said reports and bills be proceeded with in the same manner as though finally acted upon at the session when presented.

SEC. 9. And be it further enacted. That the claims reported upon adversely shall be placed upon the calendar when reported, and if the decision of said court shall be confirmed by Congress, said decision. shall be conclusive; and the said court shall not at any subsequent period consider said claims, unless such reasons shall be presented to said court as, by the rules of common law or chancery in suits between individuals, would furnish sufficient ground for granting a new trial.

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JOINT RULES AND ORDERS

OF

THE TWO HOUSES.

1. In every case of an amendment of a bill agreed to in one house and dissented to in the other, if either house shall request a conference, and appoint a committee for that purpose, and the other house shall also appoint a committee to confer, such committees shall, at a convenient hour, to be agreed upon by their chairman, meet in the conference chamber, and state to each other, verbally or in writing, as either shall choose, the reasons of their respective houses for and against the amendment, and confer freely thereon.-November 13, 1794.

2. When a message shall be sent from the Senate to the House of Representatives, it shall be announced at the door of the House by the Doorkeeper, and shall be respectfully communicated to the Chair by the person by whom it may be sent.-November 13, 1794.

3. The same ceremony shall be observed when a messenger shall be sent from the House of Representatives to the Senate.-November 13, 1794.

4. Messages shall be sent by such persons as a sense of propriety in each house may determine to be proper.-November 13, 1794.

5. While bills are on their passage between the two houses, they shall be on paper, and under the signature of the Secretary or Clerk of each house, respectively.-November 13, 1794.

6. After a bill shall have passed both houses, it shall be duly enrolled on parchment by the Clerk of the House of Representatives or the Secretary of the Senate, as the bill may have originated in the one or the other house, before it shall be presented to the President of the United States.- November 13, 1794.

7. When bills are enrolled, they shall be examined by a joint committee of two from the Senate and two from the House of Representatives, appointed as a standing committee for that purpose, who shall carefully compare the enrollment with the engrossed bills as passed in the two houses, and correcting any errors that may be discovered in the enrolled bills, make their report forthwith to their respective houses.-November 13, 1794, and February 1, 1827.

8. After examination and report, each bill shall be signed in the respective houses, first by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, then by the President of the Senate.-November 13, 1794.

9. After a bill shall have been thus signed in each house, it shall be presented, by the said committee, to the President of the United States, for his approbation, (it being first indorsed on the back of the roll, certifying in which house the same originated; which indorsement shall be signed by the Secretary or Clerk, as the case may be,

of the house in which the same did originate,) and shall be entered on the journal of each house. The said committee shall report the day of presentation to the President; which time shall also be carefully entered on the journal of each house. -November 13, 1794.

10. All orders, resolutions, and votes which are to be presented to the President of the United States for his approbation shall also, in the same manner, be previously enrolled, examined, and signed; and shall be presented in the same manner, and by the same committee, as provided in the cases of bills.-November 13, 1794.

11. When the Senate and House of Representatives shall judge it proper to make a joint address to the President, it shall be presented to him in his audience chamber by the President of the Senate, in the presence of the Speaker and both houses.-November 13, 1794.

12. When a bill or resolution which shall have passed in one house is rejected in the other, notice thereof shall be given to the house in which the same shall have passed.-June 10, 1790.

13. When a bill or resolution which has been passed in one house shall be rejected in the other, it shall not be brought in during the same session, without a notice of ten days and leave of two-thirds of that house in which it shall be renewed.-June 10, 1790.

14. Each house shall transmit to the other all papers on which any bill or resolution shall be founded.-June 10, 1790.

15. After each house shall have adhered to their disagreement, a bill or resolution shall be lost.-June 10, 1790.

16. No bill that shall have passed one house shall be sent for concurrence to the other on either of the three last days of the session.— January 30, 1822.

17. No bill or resolution that shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate shall be presented to the President of the United States for his approbation on the last day of the session.— January 30, 1822.

18. When bills which have passed one house are ordered to be printed in the other, a greater number of copies shall not be printed than may be necessary for the use of the house making the order.— February 9, 1829.

19. No spirituous liquors shall be offered for sale or exhibited within the Capitol, or on the public grounds adjacent thereto.-September 18, 1837.

20. There shall be a joint committee on the library, to consist of three members on the part of the Senate and three on the part of the House of Representatives, to superintend and direct the expenditure of all moneys appropriated for the library, and to perform such other duties as are or may be directed by law. -December 7, 1843.

21. After six days from the commencement of a second or subsequent session of Congress, all bills, resolutions, or reports which originated in either house, and at the close of the next preceding session remained undetermined in either house, shall be resumed and acted on in the same manner as if an adjournment had not taken place.—August 14, 1848.

QUESTIONS OF ORDER,

DECIDED BY THE SPEAKER AT THE FIRST SESSION OF THE THIRTY-SEVENTH

CONGRESS.

GALUSHA A. GROW, OF PENNSYLVANIA, SPEAKER.

MONDAY, JULY 8, 1861.-Page 49.

Mr. Washburne having proposed to submit the following resolution, viz:

Resolved, That the standing committees of this House which in the last Congress were authorized to employ clerks be, and they are hereby, authorized to employ clerks during the thirty-seventh Congress upon the same terms of compensation as were provided for like service in the thirty-sixth Congress, while actually employedThe Speaker decided that, under the resolution this day adopted upon the motion of Mr. Holman, it was out of order.

From this decision of the Chair Mr. Washburne appealed.
Pending which,

On motion of Mr. Vallandigham,

Orders, That the appeal be laid on the table.

TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1861.-Pages 53, 54.

Mr. Lovejoy submitted the following resolution, viz:

Resolved, That in the judgment of this House it is no part of the duty of the soldiers of the United States to capture or return fugitive slaves.

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Mr. Mallory moved that the resolution be laid on the table.
Pending which,

Mr. Stratton made the point of order that the resolution was inconsistent with the resolution adopted yesterday on motion of Mr. Holman, and was consequently out of order.

The Speaker overruled the said point of order.

From this decision of the Chair Mr. Stratton appealed.
Pending which,

On motion of Mr. Hutchins,

Ordered, That the appeal be laid on the table.

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