no clerk or messenger shall be employed, except upon the request in writing of the chairman or chairmen of the respective committee or committees, or a majority of them, and the approval of the speaker, and, in case the majority cannot agree, the said appointment may be made by the speaker.

RULE 67. No persons, except members of the legislature and the officers thereof, shall be permitted within the clerk's desk, or the rooms set apart for the use of the clerk, during the session of the house.

RULE 68. Whenever any person shall be brought before the bar of the house, for adjudged breach of its privileges, no debate shall be in order, but the speaker shall proceed to execute the judgment of the house without delay or debate.

RULE 69. No more than sixteen pages shall be allowed upon the floor of the assembly chamber at any one time. Each page shall be furnished with a numbered badge, and shall occupy a seat corresponding with his number, to be provided and designated by the sergeant-at-arms, who shall also select one of his assistants, whose sole duty it shall be to take charge of said pages and see that this rule of the assembly is not violated.

RULE 70. It shall be the duty of the stenographer of the assembly to be present at every session of the house. He shall take stenographic notes of the debates in the house and in committee of the whole; and shall furnish a copy of the same, written out in long hand, to any member applying therefor upon the payment to said stenographer of ten cents for each folio, which charge said stenographer may receive in addition to his fixed compensation. The stenographic notes of the debates shall be filed with the

clerk, and shall form a portion of the archives of the house. The clerk of the assembly is authorized to furnish said stenographer with proper stenographic blank books in which to record said debates, not to exceed fifty dollars for any annual session of the legislature.

JOINT RULES

OF THE

SENATE AND ASSEMBLY.

1873.

RULE 1. Papers to be transmitted.

RULE 2. Bills rejected.

RULE 3. Messages delivered by the clerks.

RULE 4. Amendments.

RULE 5. In case of difference, committees to be appointed.

RULE 6. Matters of difference, how settled.

RULE 7. Bills, when deemed lost.

RULE 8. Joint committee.

RULE 9. Final reading of bills.

RULE 10. No bill shall create more than one incorporation. RULE 11. Election of officers to be certified and reported by presiding officer.

RULE 12. Usual number of bills and documents to be printed. RULE 13. Printing or purchase of books.

RULE 14. Documents ordered by both houses.

RULE 15. Distribution of documents.

RULE 16. Sergeant-at-arms to receive printed matter.

RULE 17. Distribution of the bills and documents when printed. RULE 18. Joint committee on state library.

RULE 19. Supply bill.

RULE 20. Bills introduced after 15th March not to take precedence of bill previously introduced.

RULE 21. Bills lost in either house not again introduced during the session.

RULE 1. Each house shall transmit to the other all papers in which any bill or resolution shall be founded.

RULE 2. When a bill or resolution which shall have passed in one house shall be rejected in the other, notice thereof shall be given to the house in which the same may have passed.

RULE 3. Messages from one house to the other shall be communicated by their clerks, respectively, unless the house transmitting the message shall specially direct otherwise.

RULE 4. It shall be in the power of either house to amend any amendment made by the other to any bill or resolution.

RULE 5. In every case of difference between the two houses, upon any subject of legislation, either house may request a conference, and appoint a committee for that purpose, and the other shall also appoint a committee to confer. The committee shall meet at such hour and place as shall be appointed by the chairman of the committee on the part of the house requesting such conference. The conferees shall state to each other verbally, or in writing, as either shall choose, the reasons of their respective houses, and confer freely thereon. The committee shall report in writing, and shall be authorized to report such modifications or amendments as they think advisable. But no committee on conference shall consider or report on any matters except those directly at issue between the two houses. The papers shall be left with the conferees of the house assenting to such conference, and they shall present the report of the committee to their house. When such house shall have acted thereon, they shall transmit the same, and the papers relating thereto, to the other, with a message certifying its action thereon. Every report from a committee of conference shall be read through before a vote is taken on the same.

RULE 6. It shall be in order for either house to recede from any subject-matter of difference subsisting between

the two houses at any time previous to conference, whether the papers on which such difference arose are before the house receding, formally or informally; and, on such vote to recede, the same number shall be required to constitute a quorum to act thereon, and to assent to such receding, as was required on the original question out of which the difference arose.

RULE 7. After each house shall have adhered to their disagreement, the bill which is the subject of difference shall be deemed lost, and shall not be again revived during the same session in either house.

RULE 8. All joint committees of the two houses, and all committees of conference, shall consist of three senators and five members of assembly, unless otherwise specially ordered by concurrent resolution.

RULE 9. No bill which shall have passed one house shall have its final reading in the other in less than two days thereafter, without the consent of two-thirds of the members thereof present; and whenever ten or more bills shall be in readiness for final reading in either house, such house shall forthwith proceed to the final reading of such bills, under the order of "third reading of bills, and continue the same from day to day, until all such bills" then in readiness for final reading shall have been read, unless this order of business shall, by the vote of two-thirds of the members present, be suspended or laid on the table. All such bills shall have their last reading in each house in the order in which the same shall have been ordered to a final reading in such house, unless the bill to be read be laid on the table. In all cases where a bill shall be so ordered to lie on the table, it shall retain its place in the order of the final reading of bills, but shall not be called up for consideration unless by a vote of a majority of the members present.