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the member so called to order shall sit down, and the Senate, if appealed to, shall decide in the case; but if there be no appeal the decision of the President shall be conclusive.

7. No member shall absent himself without permission from the Senate.

8 A motion shall be seconded before it is debated, and if required by the President, or any member, it shall be reduced to writing.

9. When a question is under debate, no motion shall be received but to adjourn, to postpone indefinitely, to lie on the table, to postpone to a certain day, to commit, or to amend, which several motions shall form precedence in the same order in which they are arranged.And no motion to postpone indefinitely, to postpone to a certain day, or to commit, being decided, shall be in order at the same stage of the bill or proposition until after an adjournment.

10. If the question under debate will admit of division, any member may have it divided, and in filling blanks, the longest time, and largest sum, shall be put first.

11. When the reading of a paper is called for, and the same is objected to, it shall be decided by a vote of the Senate, and without debate.

12. When the ayes and noes are required, each member shall declare his assent or dissent to the question, unless for special reasons he be excused by the Senate.

13. When a motion is made to shut the doors of the Senate on the discussion of any business, which in the opinion of any member may require secrecy, the President shall desire the gallery to be closed, and the doors shall remain closed until the subject is disposed of.

14. After a motion has been decided, it shall be in order for any member who voted with the majority, or if the Senate be equally dided any member voting on the side prevailing, to move for a reconsideration thereof, unless the bill, resolution, report, amendment, or motion on which the vote was taken, has gone from the possession of the Senate; but no motion to reconsider shall be in order, unless made the same day on which the vote was taken, or the day next after on which the Senate shall be in session; but no vote shall be reconsidered when a less number of members is present than when it passed.

15. Before any petition or memorial addressed to the Senate, shall be received and read, a brief statement of the contents thereof shall be made by the member introducing the same.

16. At least one day's notice shall be given before a motion for leave to bring in a bill shall be in order.

17. Every bill shall be read three times before its passage; and the President shall give notice at each time whether it be the first, second or third reading; and no bill, after it has been read a second time, shall have a third reading before an adjournment.

18. All resolutions, which may require the signature of the Governor, shall be treated in the same manner as bills.

19. When a bill or resolution shall have been read a second time, the President shall refer it to the appropriate Standing Committee, unless the Senate shall otherwise order.

20. The Senate may resolve itself into a committee of the whole at any time, on motion made for that purpose; and in forming a committee of the whole, the President shall leave the chair, and appoint a chairman to preside in committee; the President may, at any time, name any member to perform the duties of the chair, but such substitution shall not extend beyond any adjournment..

21. The last question upon the second reading of a bill or resolution, shall always be, shall it be read a third time? and no amendment shall be received or discussed on the third reading of any bill or resolution, unless by consent of eight members present; but it shall at all times be in order before the final passage of a bill or resolution, to move its commitment, and should such commitment take place, and an amendment be reported, the bill or resolution shall again be read a second time and considered as in committee of the whole.

22. The titles of bills and such parts thereof as may be affected by proposed amendments shall be entered on the Journals.

23. All bills, resolutions and addresses, after passing the Senate, shall be signed by the President; and all warrants and other processes issued by order of the Senate, shall be under his hand and seal, attested by the Clerk.

24. The following standing committees, to consist of three members each, shall be appointed at the commencement of any session, with leave to report by bill or otherwise:

A committee on Schools and seminaries of Learning.

A committee on Unfinished Business.

A committee on Printers' Accounts.

25. All committees shall be appointed by the President, unless a member requests that the appointment shall be by ballot, in which case it shall be so done.

26. When the Senate shall concur with the House of Representatives in the appointment of a joint committee, consisting of not more than five members of the House, one member shall be added

on the part of the Senate; but when more than five, two members of the Senate shall be added.

27. Messages shall be sent to the House of Representatives by the Clerk of the Senate.

28. Messages from the the Governor or House of Representatives may be received at all times, except when the Senate is engaged in putting a question, in calling the ayes and noes, or in counting ballots.

29. All questions shall be put by the President, and each member of the Senate shall signify his assent or dissent by answering

aye or no.

30. No person except the members of the executive, or members of the House of Representatives and their officers, shall be admitted within the bar of the Senate, except by invitation of the President, or some member with his consent.

31. The Senate shall adjourn to meet at ten o'clock in the morning, and three o'clock in the afternoon of each day, unless the Senate shall otherwise order.

32. A motion to adjourn shall be decided without debate.

The foregoing rules having been read

On motion of Mr Hunt

Resolved, That they be adopted for the government of the Senate the present year.

A message from the House of Representatives by their Clerk:

"Mr. President-The House of Representatives have passed a resolution appointing Messrs. Stark, Carter, Jenness of Deerfield, Creighton, Farrington, Cragin, Huntington, Brackett, Melvin and Meserve of Jackson, with such as the Senate may join, a committee to wait uppon the Hon Isaac Hill and inform him of his election to the office of Governor the ensuing year, and that the Legislature are now ready to receive any communication he may be pleased to make; in which they ask the concurrence of the Senate."

On motion of Mr. Berry

Resolved, That the Senate concur with the House of Representatives in the passage of a resolution appointing a joint select committee to notify the Hon. Isaac Hill of his election as Governor.

Ordered, That Messrs. Parsons and Chase be joined to said committee on the part of the Senate.

Ordered, That the Clerk notify the House of Representatives accordingly.

On motion of Mr. Hunt

The Senate adjourned.

AFTERNOON.

The President of the Senate, from his place, announced the appointment of the following

STANDING COMMITTEES:

On the Judiciary.

Messrs. Martin, Parsons and Berry.

On Incorporations.

Messrs. Hunt, Lamprey and Woodbury.

On Military Affairs.

Messrs. Berry, Fisk and Hunt.

On Claims.

Messrs. Chase, Jones and Blair.

On Agriculture and Manufactures.
Messrs. Blair, Berry and Jones.

On Banks.

Messrs. Lamprey, Woodbury and Egerton.

On Elections.

Messrs. Woodbury, Lamprey and Chase.

On Schools and Seminaries of Learning.
Messrs. Parsons, Martin and Egerton.

On Unfinished Business.

Messrs. Jones, Fisk and Blair.

'On Printers' Accounts.

Messrs. Egerton, Hunt and Lamprey.

Mr. Hunt, from the joint select committee appointed to prepare

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and report joint rules for the government of the two branches of the Legislature the present year, reported the following:

JOINT RULES OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF

REPRESENTATIVES.

1. When a Convention of the two Houses is to be formed, whether by requirement of the constitution, or by a vote or resolve of the two Houses, a message shall be sent from the House, of Representatives to the Senate, giving notice when the House will meet the Senate in Convention. As soon thereafter as the convenience of the Senate will permit, they will attend in the House. The Speaker of the House shall be Chairman of the Convention, and shall state the reason for forming the Convention. When the House and Senate are thus formed in Convention, the rules adopted as the rules of the House, shall be considered the rules of the Convention, so far as they may be deemed applicable, and the Convention shall accordingly be governed thereby.

2. Messages shall be sent by such person or persons as a sense of propriety, in each House, may determine to be proper.

3. When a Message shall be sent from either House to the other, it shall be announced at the door of the House to which it may be sent by the door keeper

4. While bills are on their passage between the Houses, they shall be under the signature of the Clerk of each House respectively.

5. There shall be a committee for the purpose of engrossing bills, consisting of two members of each House. All bills that pass both Houses shall be delivered to said Committee, be by them engrossed, carefully examined and reported to the respective Houses; and shall be signed, first by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, then by the President of the Senate.

6. There shall be a committee to consist of three members of the House and one of the Senate, on each of the following subjects, to wit:

On all matters relative to the State Library, and on all matters. relative to the State House and State House Yard.

7. When a bill or resolve which shall have passed in one House is rejected in the other, notice thereof shall be given to the House in which the same may have passed.

8. Each House shall transmit to the other, all papers, on which any bill or resolve shall be founded.