The Clerk's Manual of Rules, Statutes, Procedures and Precedents Applicable ...

LI. No reporter for the Assembly, who has an appointment as reporter in the Senate. shall receive any order for stationery from the Clerk of the Assembly.

LII. No standing rule or order of the House shall be changed, suspended or rescinded unless one day's notice shall have been given of the motion therefor; nor shall such change be made unless by a vote of a majority of all the members elected to the Assembly; any such rule or order, however, may be suspended by unanimous consent. But such notice shall not be necessary on the last day of the session. The notice and motion shall, in all cases, state specifically the object of the suspension, and every case of suspension of a rule under such notice and motion shall be held to apply only to the object specified therein.

Such notice shall be given and such motion. made under the order of business in which the matter proposed to be advanced by the suspension shall stand.

LIII. 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, and no member or other person shall visit or remain by the Clerk's table while the yeas and nays are

being called, except officers of the House in the discharge of their duties.

LIV. 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 an annual session of the Legislature.

LV. All questions of order, as they shall occur, with the decisions thereon, shall be entered in the Journal, and, at the close of the session, a statement of all such questions and decisions shall be printed at the close of and as an appendix to the Journal.

LVI. Any member requesting to be excused from voting upon the final passage of a bill or upon the passage of a resolution requiring the expenditure of money, may make, when his

name is called, a brief statement of the reason for making such request, not exceeding two minutes in time, and the House, without debate, shall decide if it will grant such request; but nothing in this rule contained shall abridge the right of any member to record his vote on any question previous to the announcement of the result.

LVII. Not adopted in 1895, 1896 or 1897. LVIII. Not adopted in 1895, 1896 or 1897. LIX. It shall be the duty of the Sergeantat-Arms, at all times, not to allow any person to smoke in the Assembly Chamber. Subject to the direction of the Speaker, he shall enforce the rules of the House.

LX. On or before the fifth day of April, committees shall make final report upon matters referred to them prior to that day, unless further time is granted for cause, and after that date no bill shall be introduced, except by message from the Senate.

LXI. No person shall be entitled to the privileges of the floor of the Assembly as a legislative reporter of a newspaper who is interested in pending or contemplated legislation, or who is employed by or receives compensation from any corporation for influencing legislation.

Resolved, That the following rule be and hereby is adopted as an additional rule of this House:

The titles of all bills proposing amendments to chapter 410 of the Laws of 1882, entitled "An act to consolidate into one act and to declare the special and local laws affecting public interests in the city of New York," and also of chapter 583 of the Laws of 1888, entitled "An act to revise and combine into a single act all existing special and local laws affecting public interests in the city of Brooklyn," and also all bills proposing amendments to the Penal Code, the Code of Criminal Procedure, the Code of Civil Procedure, the Revised Statutes, or to any existing laws, when introduced into the House, must contain not only the number of the chapter of the statute to be amended, but also must quote the title of the chapter to be amended, and some brief reference to the subject-matter of the proposed amendment, and all such amendments in the body of said bills must be underscored; and the Clerk of the House is hereby directed to return any bill to the member introducing the same, when this rule has not been complied with.

INDEX TO ASSEMBLY RULES.

Absentees, measures to secure presence of.......
Amendments, to be reported to house by chairman........
only offered in committee of the whole, in order......
Appeal, speaker may assign reason for decision on........
on, from decision, member to speak but once
Assembly chamber, deemed bar of the house.......................
use of, how granted