proposer or introducer of the matter pending; in which case he shall be permitted to speak in reply, but not until every member choosing. to speak shall have spoken.

21. If a question pending be lost by adjournment of the House, and revived on the succeeding day, no member who shall have spoken on the preceding day, shall be permitted again to speak without leave, except the mover, proposer or introducer of the matter pending, who shall have the same right as in the last preceding rule.

22. While the Speaker is putting any question, or addressing the House, none shall walk out of or across the house; nor, in such case, or when a member is speaking, shall entertain private discourse; nor while a member is speaking, shall pass between him and the Chair. Every member shall remain uncovered during the session of the House. No member, No member, or other person, shall visit, or remain by the Clerk's table while the yeas and nays are calling, or ballots are counting.

23. No member shall vote on any question in the event of which he is immediately or particularly interested, or in any case when he was not within. the bar of the House when the question was put. And when any member shall ask leave to vote, the Speaker shall propound to him the question. "Were you within the bar when your name was called?"

24. Upon a division and count of the House on any question, no member without the bar shall be counted.

25. Every member who shall be in the House when the question is put shall give his vote unless the House for special reasons, shall excuse him, All motions to excuse a member from voting shall be made before the House divides, or before the calls of the yeas and nays is commenced; and any member requesting to be excused from voting may make a brief verbal statement of the reasons for making such request, and the question shall then be taken without further debate.

26. When a motion is made and seconded it shall be stated by the Speaker, or, being in writing, it shall be handed to the Chair, and read aloud by the Clerk, before debated

27. Every motion shall be reduced to writing, if the Speaker or any member desire it.

28. After the motion is stated by the Speaker, or read by the Clerk, it shall be deemed in possession of the House, but may be withdrawn at any time before a decision or amendment, by consent.

29. When a question is under debate, no motion shall be received but to adjourn, to lie on the table, for the previous question, to postpone indefinitely, to postpone to a day certain, to commit or amend ; which several mo

tions shall have precedence in the order in which they are arranged; and no motion to postpone to a day certain, to commit, or to postpone indefinitely, being decided, shall again be allowed on the same day, and at the same stage of the bill or proposition. A motion to strike out the enacting words of a bill shall have precedence of a motion to amend, and if carried, is equivalent to its rejection.

30. When a resolution shall be offered, or a motion made to refer any subject, and different committees shall be proposed, the question shall be taken in the following order: The committee of the whole; a standing committee; a select committee.

31. A motion to adjourn, and a motion to fix the day to which the House shall adjourn, shall be always in order; these motions and the motion to lie on the table, shall be decided without debate.

32. The hour at which every motion to adjourn is made shall be entered on the journal.

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33. The previous question shall be in this form "Shall the main ques tion be now put?" It shall only be admitted when seconded by a majority of the members present, and its effects shall be to put an end to all debate and bring the House to a direct vote upon amendments reported by a com. mittee, if any, upon pending amendments, and then upon the main question. On a motion for the previous question, and prior to the seconding of the same, a call of the House shall be in order; but after a majority shall have seconded such a motion, no call shall be in order prior to a decision of the main question.

34. On a previous question there shall be no debate. All incidental questions of order, arising after a motion is made for the previous question, and pending such motion, shall be decided, whether on appeal or otherwise, without debate.

35. Any member may call for the division of a question, which shall be divided if it comprehend propositions in substance so distinct that one being taken away a substantive proposition shall remain for the decision of the House. A motion to strike out and insert shall be deemed indivisible; but a motion to strike out being lost, shall preclude neither amendment nor a motion to strike out and insert.

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Motions and reports may be committed at the pleasure of the House. 37. No motion or proposition, or a subject different from that under consideration, shall be admitted under color of amendment. No bill or resolution shall at any time be amended by annexing thereto, or incorporating therewith, any other bill or resolution pending before the House.

38. When a motion has been once made and carried in the affirmative or negative, it shall be in order for any member of the majority to move for a reconsideration thereof on the same or succeeding day; and such motion shall take precedence of all other questions, except a motion to adjourn.

39. When the reading of a paper is called for, and the same is objected to by any member, it shall be determined by a vote of the House.

40. The unfinished business in which the House was engaged at the last, preceding adjournment, shall have the preference in the orders of the day; aud no motion on any other business shall be received without special leave of the House, until the former is disposed of.

41. Every order, resolution, or vote, to which the concurrence of the Senate shall be necessary, shall be read to the House, and laid on the table on a day preceding that on which the same shall be moved, unless the House shall otherwise expressly allow.

42. Any five members may call for the yeas and nays upon any question, and may demand a call of the House; and a majority of the members present may compel the presence of all members subject to a call of the House.

43. Upon call of the House, or upon taking the yeas and nays upon any question, the names of the members shall be called alphabetically.

44. No member shall absent himself from the service of the House, unless he have leave, or be sick, or unable to attend.

45. Upon the call of the House, the names of the members shall be called over by the Clerk, and the absentees noted; after which the names of the absentees shall be again called over; the doors shall then be shut, and those for whom no excuse is made, may, by order of those present, if five in number, be taken into custody as they appear, or may be sent for, and taken into custody wherever found, by special messenger to be appointed for that purpose.

46. When a member shall be discharged from custody and admitted to his seat, the House shall determine whether such discharge shall be without paying fees; and in like manner, whether a delinquent member taken into custody by a special messenger, shall or shall not be liable to defray the expenses of such special messenger.

47. A Sergeant-at-Arms shall be elected, to hold his office during the pleasure of the Hcuse, whose duty it shall be to attend the House during its sittings; to execute the commands of the House from time to time, together with all such process issued by authority thereof, as shall be directed to him by the Speaker.

48. The fees of the Sergeant-at-Arms shall be, for every arrest the sum of two dollars; for each day's custody and releasement, one dollar; and for traveling expenses, for himself or a special messenger, going and returning one-tenth of a dollar per mile.

49. The Sergeant-at-Arms and Doorkeeper shall be sworn to keep the secrets of the House.

50. Twenty-two Standing Committees shall be appointed at the commencement of each session, viz:

A Committee on Privileges and Elections;

51. It shall be the duty of the committee of elections to examine and report upon the certificates of election or other credentials of the members returned to serve in this House; and to take into their consideration all such petitions and other matters touching elections and returns as shall or may be presented, or come into question, and be referred to them by the House

52. The sevreal standing committees of the House shall have leave to report by bill or otherwise.

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53. Every bill shall be introduced on the report of a committee, or by motion for leave. In the latter case at least one day's notice shall be given of the motion; and the motion shall be made, and the bill introduced, if leave is given, when notices and the introduction of bills is called for; such motion, or bill, when introduced, may be committed.

54. Every bill shall receive three several readings in the House previous to its passage, and bills shall be despatched in the order as they were introduced, unless where the House shall direct otherwise; but the bill shall be twice read on the same day without a special order of the House, threefourths of the members thereof concurring.

55. The first reading of the bill shall be for information; and if opposition shall be made to it, the question shall be, "Shall this bill be rejected?" If no opposition be made, or if the question of rejection be negatived, the bill shall go to its second reading without a question.

55. Upon the second reading of the bill, the Speaker shall state it as ready for commitment or engrossment; and if committed, then a question shall be whether to select or standing committee, or to a committee of the whole House; if to a committee of the whole House, the House shall determine on what day; if no motion be made to commit, the question shall be stated on its engrossment; and if it be not ordered to be engrossed on the day of its being reported, it shall be placed on the general file on the Speaker's table, to be taken up in its order. But if the bill be ordered to be engrossed, the House shall appoint the day when it shall be read the third time.

57. After commitment and report thereof to the House, or any time before its passage, a bill may be recommitted.

58. All bills ordered to be engrossed shall be executed in fair round hand.

59. Upon the passage of every bill or joint resolution, the vote shall be by yea or nay, and this rule shall not be suspended.

60. All messages from the House to the Senate shall be transmitted by the Clerk or Assistant Clerk of the House, or by a special committee appointed for that purpose.

61. When a bill shall pass, it shall be certified by the Clerk, noting the passage at the foot thereof.

62. No standing rule or order of the House shall be rescinded, changed' or suspended, except by a vote of at least two-thirds of the members present.