XXVI. All acts, addresses, and resolutions shall be signed by the speaker, and all writs, warrants, and subpoenas, issued by order of the house, shall be under his hand and seal, attested by the clerk. XXVII. Petitions, memorials, and other papers, addressed to the house, shall be presented by any member in his place; a brief statement of the contents thereof shall be made verbally by the member introducing the same, and shall not be debated or decided on the day of their being first read, unless where the house s hall direct otherwise; but shall lie on the table, (to be taken up in the order they were read,) or referred, on motion, to a committee. XXVIII. It shall be in order for the committee on enrolled bills to report at any time. XXIX. After examination and report, each bill shall be certified by the clerk, and by him transmitted to the council; the day of transmission shall be entered on the journal. XXX. When a message shall be sent from the governor to the house, it shall be communicated to the chair, by the person by whom it may be sent. XXXI. No member or officer of the house shall be permitted to read the newspapers within the bar of the house, while the house is in session. XXXII. The speaker of the house is authorized and required to administer all oaths prescribed by law to the officers of the house. XXXIII. Every resolution read (by the clerk) by direction of a member shall be considered to be before the house. And the question to adopt or reject may be immediately put on such resolution, unless upon motion of a member the same may be laid on the table. XXXIV. It shall be competent for any member, when a question is taken, to call for the ayes and noes, which shall be recorded by the clerk if required. XXXV. No standing rule or order of the house shall be rescinded or changed without one day's notice being given of the motion therefor. Nor shall any rule be suspended except by a vote of at least two-thirds of the members present. Nor shall the order of business, as established by the rules of the house, be postponed or changed, except by a vote of at least two-thirds of the members present. XXXVI. All bills brought into the house by any member of committee, shall be endorsed by the member or committee bringing in the same. XXXVII. When a member be called to order, he shall si down until the speaker shall have determined whether he is in order or not, and every question of order shall be decided by the speaker, subject to an appeal to the house by any two members and if a member be called to order for words spoken, the excep tionable words shall be immediately taken down in writing, tha the speaker and house may be better enabled to judge. XXXVIII. The standing committees of the house shall con sist of five members each, and be as follows: On the Judiciary; On Internal Improvement; On Schools; On Territorial Affairs; On the Militia; On the Finances of the Territory; On Corporations; On Elections; On Agriculture and Manufactures; On Mining and Smelting; On Roads. XXXIX. All appropriations of money for any purpose shal be made by bill, the last two readings of which shall be at length and a suspension of this rule shall not be made without the unan imous consent of the house. XL. The stated time of the meeting of the house, each day, shall be 10 o'clock, A. M. JOINT RULES AND ORDERS OF THE TWO HOUSES. 1st. In all cases of disagreement between the two houses, i either house shall request a conference and appoint a committe for that purpose, the other house shall appoint a similar commit tee, and such committee shall, at a convenient hour to be agree upon by their chairman, meet in the conference chamber, an state to each other verbally, or in writing, as either shall choose, the reasons of their respective houses for or against the disagrecment, and confer freely thereon. 2d. When a message shall be sent from the council to the house of representatives, it shall be announced at the door of the house by the door-keeper and shall be respectfully communicated to the chair by the person by whom it may be sent. 3d. The same ceremony shall be observed when a message shall be sent from the house of representatives to the council. 4th. Messages shall be sent by such persons as a sense of propriety in each house may determine to be proper. 5th. After a bill shall have passed both houses, it shall be duly enrolled by one of the transcribing clerks, under the direction of the secretary of the council, or chief clerk of the house of representatives, as the bill may have originated in one or the other house, before it shall be presented to the governor for his approval. 6th. When a bill is duly enrolled, it shall be examined by a joint committee of two from each house, appointed for that purpose, who shall carefully compare the enrolled with the engrossed bill, as passed in the two houses, and correcting any errors that may be discovered in the enrolled bill, and make their report forthwith to the respective houses. 7th. 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 council. 8th. After a bill shall have been thus signed in each house, it shall be presented by the said committee to the governor for his approval, it being first endorsed on the back of the roll, certifying in which house the same originated, which endorsement shall be signed by the chief clerk of the house or the secretary of the council, as the bill may have originated in the one or the other house, and the said committee shall report the day of presentation to the governor, which shall be entered on the journal of each house. 9th. All orders, resolutions, and votes which are to be presented to the governor for his approval, shall also in the same manner be previously enrolled, examined and signed, and then be presented in the same manner, and by the same committee, as is provided in the case of bills. 10th. When hill or resolution which shall have passed in one house, is rejected in the other, notice thereof is to be given to the house in which the same may have passed. 11th. When a bill or resolution which has been passed in one house is rejected in the other, it shall not be again brought in during the same session without a notice of five days, and leave of two-thirds of the house in which it shall be renewed. 12th. Each house shall transmit to the other all papers on which any bill or resolution shall be founded. 13th. After each house shall have adhered to their disagreement, a bill or resolution is lost. 14th. Whenever any report of a joint committee, or other document, shall be presented to both houses of the legislative assembly, the house first acting on the same, if it shall be thought necessary to have it printed, shall order a sufficient number of copies for both branches, and shall immediately inform the other house of its action upon the subject. 15th. Neither house shall adjourn during any session thereof, without the consent of the other, for a longer period than three days. 16th. The committee of each house on territorial expenditures, on enrolled bills, on legislative expenses, shall act jointly. 17th. When a bill, resolution, or memorial, shall have passed either house, which requires the concurrence of the other, it shall be transmitted to said house without the necessity of entering an order on the journal of the house in which it passed requesting the concurrence of the other house. And pending the question on agreeing to the said report, Mr. Ellis moved to amend the 18th standing rule of the house, by adding to it the words "and printed," Which was agreed to. The said report was then adopted. A message from the council by their recretary: "Mr. speaker: The council have passed resolution No. 4, (C.) "Joint resolution in relation to cancelling all auditor's warrants, &c. which are now redeemed and in the possession of the treasurer," And Messrs. Crocker and Rountree have been appointed a committee on the part of the council under said resolution." Mr. Ellis moved that one hundred copies of the rules and standing committees be printed. Mr. Thompson moved to amend said motion by striking out the words" one hundred," and inserting in lieu there of the word "fifty;" Which was disagreed to. Mr. Platt moved to amend said motion by striking out the words " one hundred," and inserting in lieu thereof the word "sixty;" Which was disagreed to. Mr. Thompson moved to amend said motion by striking out the words "one hundred," and inserting in lieu thereof the word "eighty;" Which was disagreed to. The question then recurred on agreeing to the motion of Mr. Ellis, And being put to the house, It was determined in the affirmative. On motion of Mr. Capron, The house adjourned. SATURDAY, December 9, 1843. Mr. Grant presented a petition from William Bullen and others, relative to changing the time of the annual meeting of the board of supervisors, which was read, and, On motion of Mr. Grant, Ordered to be referred to the committee on corporations. Mr. Hopkins presented a petition from Walter Tait and others, inhabitants of the town of Centre, relative to tax difficulties growing out of the division of towns, &c. last session; which, On motion of Mr. Hopkins, Was ordered to be referred to the committee on the judiciary, without reading. Mr. Grant presented a petition from Shubal R. Lewis and oth |