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the same manner, and by the same committee, as provided in the cases of bills.--November 13, 1794.

11. When the Senate and House of Representatives shall judge it proper to make a joint address to the President, it shall be presented to him in his audience chamber by the President of the Senate, in the presence of the Speaker and both houses.--November 13, 1794.

12. When a bill or resolution which shall have passed in one house is rejected in the other, notice thereof shall be given to the house in which the same shall have passed. June 10, 1790.

13. When a bill or resolution which has been passed in one house shall be rejected in the other, it shall not be brought in during the same session, without a notice of ten days and leave of two-thirds of that house in which it shall be renewed.--June 10, 1790.

14. Each house shall transmit to the other all papers on which any bill or resolution shall be founded.--June 10, 1790.

15. After each house shall have adhered to their disagreement, a bill or resolution shall be lost.--June 10, 1790.

16. No bill that shall have passed one house shall be sent for concurrence to the other on either of the three last days of the session.--January 30, 1822.

17. No bill or resolution that shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate shall be presented to the President of the United States, for his approbation, on the last day of the session.-January 30, 1822.

18. When bills which have passed one house are ordered to be printed in the other, a greater number of copies shall not be printed than may be necessary for the use of the house making the order.--February 9, 1829.

19. No spirituous or malt liquors, or wines, shall be offered for sale, exhibited, or kept within the Capitol, or in

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any room or building connected therewith, or on the public grounds adjacent thereto. And it shall be the duty of the Sergeants-at-arms of the two houses, under the supervision of the presiding officers thereof, respectively, to enforce the foregoing provisions. And any officer or employé of either house who shall in any manner violate or connive at the violation of this rule shall be dismissed from office.-March 18, 1867.

20. There shall be a joint committee on the library, to consist of three members on the part of the Senate and three on the part of the House of Representatives, to superintend and direct the expenditure of all moneys appropriated for the library, and to perform such other duties as are or may be directed by law. --December 7, 1843.

21. After six days from the commencement of a second or subsequent session of Congress, all bills, resolutions, or reports which originated in either house, and at the close of the next preceding session remained undetermined in either house, shall be resumed and acted on in the same manner as if an adjournment had not taken place.--August 14, 1848.

22. The two houses shall assemble in the hall of the House of Representatives at the hour of 1 o'clock p. m. on the second Wednesday in February next succeeding the meeting of the electors of President and Vice-President of the United States, and the President of the Senate shall be their presiding officer; one teller shall be appointed on the part of the Senate, and two on the part of the House of Representatives, to whom shall be handed, as they are opened by the President of the Senate, the certificates of the electoral votes; and said tellers having read the same in the presence and hearing of the two houses thus assembled, shall make a list of the votes as they shall appear from the said certificates; and the votes having been counted,

the result of the same shall be delivered to the President of the Senate, who shall thereupon announce the state of the vote and the names of the persons, if any elected, which announcement shall be deemed a sufficient declaration of the persons elected President and Vice-President of the United States, and, together with a list of the votes, be entered on the journals of the two houses.

If, upon the reading of any such certificate by the tellers, any question shall arise in regard to counting the votes therein certified, the same having been stated by the presiding officer, the Senate shall thereupon withdraw, and said question shall be submitted to that body for its decision; and the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall, in like manner, submit said question to the House of Representatives for its decision. And no question shall be decided affirmatively, and no vote objected to shall be counted, except by the concurrent votes of the two houses; which being obtained, the two houses shall immediately reassemble, and the presiding officer shall then announce the decision of the question submitted; and upon any such question there shall be no debate in either house. And any other question pertinent to the object for which the two houses are assembled may be submitted and determined in like

manner.

At such joint meeting of the two houses seats shall be provided as follows: for the President of the Senate, the "Speaker's chair;" for the Speaker, a chair immediately upon his left; for the senators, in the body of the hall upon the right of the presiding officer; for the representatives, in the body of the hall not occupied by the senators; for the tellers, Secretary of the Senate, and Clerk of the House of Representatives, at the Clerk's desk; for the other offi cers of the two houses, in front of the Clerk's desk and upon either side of the Speaker's platform.

Such joint meeting shall not be dissolved until the electoral votes are all counted and the result declared; and no recess shall be taken, unless a question shall have arisen in regard to counting any of such votes, in which case it shall be competent for either house, acting separately in the manner hereinbefore provided, to direct a recess not beyond the next day, at the hour of one o'clock p. m.—February 6, 1865.

[At the first session of the 44th Congress (see H. R. Journal, p. 239) the Senate transmitted to the House the following message, viz:

"The Senate have passed the following resolution, viz:

"Resolved by the Senate, (the House of Representatives concurring,) That the joint rules of the Senate and House of Representatives in force at the close of the last session of Congress, except the twenty-second joint rule, be, and the same are hereby, adopted as the joint rules of the two houses for the present session.""

There does not appear to have been any action taken by the House thereon, except its reference.

Subsequently, the House adopted the following, viz:

"Resolved by the House of Representatives, (the Senate concurring,) That the sixteenth and seventeenth joint rules be suspended for the remainder of the session."-Same Journal, p. 1470.

The same having been transmitted to the Senate, on the 14th of August, 1876, (same Journal, pp. 1477, 1478,) the Senate transmitted to the House the following message, viz:

"The Senate has passed a resolution in relation to the suspension of the sixteenth and seventeenth joint rules, in response to a resolution of the House on the same subject, notifying the House, as the House had not notified the Senate of the adoption of joint rules for the present session, as proposed by the resolution of the Senate of the 20th day of January last, there are no joint rules in force."]

TO THE

RULES AND ORDERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

AND TO THE JOINT RULES.

A.

Absentees from the House, proceedings against.....

attendance of, may be compelled by 15 mem-
bers

should have leave, be sick, or unable to attend.

in Committee of the Whole, to be reported to the House and

entered on journal....

Rule. 35, 36, 37

Accounts for pay and mileage, to be kept by the Sergeant-at-arms.
Acts and addresses, to be signed by the Speaker....
Address to the President, how to be presented, (joint rule).
Adhere, effer of a vote to, in the two houses, (joint rule)..
Adjourn, motion to, always in order, and not debatable.

only one in order pending a motion to suspend the
rules

fix the day to which the House shall, always in order.
hour at which made, to be entered on the journal....

Agents for claims, employés of the House not to act as...
Amend, motion to, order in which to be entertained with reference to
other motions..

motions to strike out the enacting clause, takes prece
dence of ...

Amendments, of Senate to House bills, when considered..

adopted, preclude the withdrawal of original motion..
to be voted upon after previous question is ordered.
debate may be closed on..

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conference on, upon which the two houses disagree, (joint
rule)..

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not in order, if on a subject different from that under con-
sideration....

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