MEMBERS OF THE SENATE, WITH THEIR RESPECTIVE DISTRICTS, COUNTY, AND NEAREST POST-OFFICE. Hon. LUTHER BRADISH, Lieutenant-Governor and President, MEMBERS AND OFFICERS OF THE SENATE, With their respective Districts, Classes, and Places of Residence. Hon. LUTHER BRADISH, President, Mrs. Lockwood's, 51 North Pearl-st. Temperance House. American Hotel. T Temperance House. Mansion House. Eagle Tavern. Eagle Tavern. Clinton Hotel. Misses Fitch, 18 North Pearl-st. Mansion House. City Hotel. Franklin House. 4 Fourth 8 Third, Franklin House. Rensselaer House. SAMUEL G. ANDREWS, Clerk, Eagle Tavern. WILLIAM H. RICE, Deputy Clerk, 141 Green street. CHARLES NIVEN, Seargeant-at-Arms, City Hotel. JOEL GILLETT, Door-Keeper, 108 North Pearl-street. MARTIN MILLER, Assistant Doorkeeper, Eastern Hotel. SENATE DISTRICTS. The several Senate Districts consist of the following Counties. FIRST DISTRICT. The city and county of New-York, and the counties of Richmond and Kings. SECOND DISTRICT. Queens, Suffolk, Westchester, Rockland, Putnam, Dutchess, Orange, Sullivan and Ulster. THIRD DISTRICT. Albany, Delaware, Greene, Columbia, Rensselaer, Schoharie and Schenectady. FOURTH DISTRICT. Saratoga, Montgomery, Hamilton, Fulton, Washington, WarClinton, Essex, Franklin, St. Lawrence and Herkimer. ren, FIFTH DISTRICT. Oneida, Madison, Oswego, Lewis, Jefferson and Otsego. SIXTH DISTRICT. Chenango, Broome, Tompkins, Chemung, Tioga, Steuben. Livingston, Allegany and Cattaraugus. SEVENTH DISTRICT. Wayne, Ontario, Yates, Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga and Cortland. EIGHTH DISTRICT. Chautauque, Erie, Genesee, Wyoming, Monroe, Orleans and Niagara. RULES AND ORDERS OF THE ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK. minutes. Appearance 1. Upon the appearance of a quorum, the Speaker of a quorum. having taken the chair, and the members being called to order, the journal of the preceding day shall be Reading the read, to the end that any mistakes therein may be corrected by the House: And in all cases of the absence of a quorum, the members present may take such measures as shall be necessary to procure the attendance of absent members; and the Speaker, with the consent of the majority of members present, may adjourn, from day to day, until a quorum shall appear. Absence of quorum. Order of business. 2. After the reading and approving of the journal, the order of business, which shall not in any case be departed from, except by the unanimous consent of the House, shall be as follows: 1. The presentation of petitions. 5. Communications from the State officers, 6 Messages from the Senate. 7. Third reading of bills and resolutious. 9. Unfinished business of the preceding day. 10. Special orders of the day; and if in any case the unfinished business of the preceding day shall have taken the place of special orders, these orders shall be taken up and acted on in their order of time. 11. Unfinished business generally. 12. General orders of the day; but messages from the Governor, communications from State officers, and messages from the Senate, may be considered at any time. 3. Motions for reference to different committees Motions for shall be put in the following order: 1. To a committee of the whole; 2. To a standing committee; 3. To a select committee. 4. No bill laying a tax, or making any appropriation or disposition of the public moneys or property, or authorizing the borrowing of money, or the loaning of money, or of the credit of the State, shall be ordered to a third reading without having been acted on in committee of the whole. reference. 5. The Speaker shall cause the clerk to make a list General of all bills, resolutions and reports of committees, and orders. other proceedings in the House which are committed to a committee of the whole, and not made the special order of the day for any particular day; which list shall be called the "General Orders of the Day." 6. All questions relating to priority of business, Priority of shall be decided without debate. business. 7. The Speaker shall preserve order and decorum, Speaker to and shall decide all questions of order, subject to an ap- preserve peal to the House. On every appeal from the deci- order. sion of the Speaker, he shall have the right in his place to assign his reasons for his decision. He shall have the right to name any member to perform the duties of the chair, but such substitution shall not extend beyond the day, unless by leave of the House. 8. When the House shall be equally divided, in- Speaker's cluding the Speaker's vote, the question shall be lost. vote. 9. While the Speaker is putting the question, no Order. member shall walk across, or out of the House. |