15. Every member presenting a petition, memorial, or remonstrance, shall endorse his name thereon, and in the filing thereof, state briefly the nature and object of the instrument, and shall also give, in his place, a brief summary thereof, and the reading of the same shall be dispensed with, unless specially ordered by the board

16. A motion, when seconded, and not before, shall be received and considered, and every motion shall be reduced to writing if the President direct it; and no member shall be permitted to lay a motion in writing on the table, until he has read the same in his place, and the same has been seconded.

17. When a vote has passed, it shall be in order for any member to move for a reconsideration thereof, on the same or the succeeding day; and notice given, by any member, on the day when the vote is passed, of an intention to move a reconsideration on the next day, shall preclude a motion for present reconsideration; and when a motion for reconsideration is decided, that decision shall not be reconsidered.

18. A question containing two or more propositions capable of division, shall be divided whenever desired by any member. A motion to strike out and insert shall be deemed indivisible. But a motion to strike out, being lost, shall neither preclude amendment nor a motion to strike out and insert.

19. The unfinished business in which the Senate was engaged at the time of the last adjournment, shall have the preference in the orders of the day.

20. No member shall absent himself from the Senate without leave, unless there be a quorum left present at the Board.

21. No member shall act as counsel for any party before any committee of the Legislature.

22. No rule or order shall be dispensed with, or rescinded, unless two thirds of the members present shall consent thereto.

23. Whenever a question shall be taken by yeas and nays, the clerk shall call the name of each member, and every member shall vote thereon unless excused. But the President need not vote unless the Senate is equally divided.

Of Committees.

24. The following Standing Committees shall be appointed at the commencement of the first session, to wit

A Committee on the Judiciary;

A Committee on Matters in Probate and Chan

cery;

A Committee on Education;

And each of these Committees shall consist of

Three Members.

A Committee on Bills in the third reading;
A Committee on Engrossed Bills;

And each of these Cominittees shall consist of
Six Members.

- 25. The person first named on Committees ap-
pointed by the President shall be chairman. In all
elections of Committees by ballot, the person hav-
ing the highest number of votes shall act as chair-

man.

26. All Committees may report by bill, resolve, or otherwise; and such report, except it be an order

of notice, shall be made the order of the day next succeeding that on which it shall have been made.

27. No Committee, other than a Joint Committee or a Special Committee of this Board, shall be allowed to occupy the Senate Chamber without leave of the Board.

Of Bills and Resolves.

28. All resolves shall be twice read, and no resolve, having for its object the payment or appropriation of money, shall pass until one day after it shall have been first introduced.

29. All bills and resolves from the House of Representatives, after they are read a first time, shall be committed to a committee of this Board, except when said bills or resolves shall have been reported by a joint committee.

30. All bills in the third reading and resolves in the second reading, shall be committed to the committee on bills in the third reading, whose duty it shall be to compare their relations with the constitution, and any existing laws relating to the same subject matter, and to see that all such bills and resolves are in the technical form.

31. No bill shall pass to be engrossed without three readings; and bills in the second and third readings, and resolves in the second reading, shall be made the order of the day for the day next succeeding that on which leave shall have been given to read them a second or third time, and the president shall order them accordingly; and after entering upon the orders of the day, they shall be disposed of in course;

and matters passed over in the orders of the day shall go to the foot of the list, and shall not be considered till the next day.

32. All engrossed bills and resolves shall be committed to the standing committee on engrossed bills, whose duty it shall be strictly to examine the same, and if found by them to be rightly and truly engrossed, they shall so report to the board, and the final question shall be taken thereon without any further reading, unless, on motion of any member, a majority of the Senate shall be in favor of reading the same as engrossed.

33. No engrossed bill shall be amended.

34. A measure once rejected shall not be revived in the Senate, during the same session, except by reconsideration, and this rule shall apply as well to measures originating in the House as to those originating in the Senate.

Elections by Ballot.

35. In all elections by ballot, a time shall be assigned for such election, at least one day previous thereto.

Senate Library.

36. The books belonging to the Senate Chamber, shall be in the care of the Clerk, who shall keep an accurate list thereof; and no book shall be taken from the Senate Chamber by any person without giving notice thereof to the Clerk, who shall enter in a book to be kept by him, the name of the book, and the name of the person taking the same.

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JOINT RULES AND ORDERS

OF THE TWO HOUSES.

I.

The following Joint Standing Committees shall be appointed at the commencement of the January session, viz:

A Committee on Accounts;

A Committee on Roads and Bridges;
A Committee on Railways and Canals;
A Committee on Towus;

A Committee on Claims;

A Committee on the Militia;

A Committee on Parishes and other Religious Societies;

A Committee on the Fisheries;

A Committee on Banks and Banking;

A Committee on Mercantile Affairs & Insurance; A Committee on Public Lands;

A Committee on Manufactures;

A Committee on the Library;
A Committee on Prisons;

A Committee on Agriculture; and

A Committee on Public Charitable Institutions; And each of said Committees shall consist of two on the part of the Senate, and five on the part of the House, except the Committee on the Library, which, by law, is to consist of three on the part of each House, and no Member of any Committee shall receive compensation for personal services on such Committee, during the Session of the Legislature.

II.

The Joint Committees of the two Houses may report by bill, resolve, or otherwise, to either House, at their discretion; and all bills and resolves reported by them, shall be written in a fair round hand,