RULE 9. Member not to speak or leave his place while question is being put.

RULE 10. Members to keep seats until speaker declares house adjourned.

Order in Debate.

RULE 11. No member to speak more than once, etc., without leave.

RULE 12. When member may be called to order; to take his seat, except, etc.

RULE 13. Priority of business to be decided without debate.

Of Committees and their Duties.

RULE 14. Standing committees, list of, to be appointed.
RULE 15. To inquire into matters and report.

RULE 16. Ways and means; to examine into departments of government with a view to retrenchment.

RULE 17. On two-thirds and three-fifths bills; to examine and report before final vote is taken.

RULE 18. On general laws; to consider and report all matters referred, and to report original general laws and amendments to general laws.

RULE 19. On engrossed bills; to examine and report all bills before final vote is taken.

RULE 20. On public printing; to examine and report on all questions relating to public printing.

RULE 21. On expenditures of house and executive department; to inquire as to proper application of moneys, vouchers, etc. RULE 22. On claims, petitions, etc., for damages to be referred to, when not to be considered.

RULE 23. On game laws; to consider bill, petitions, etc., relative thereto.

General Orders and Special Orders.

RULE 24. General orders; of what to consist; titles to be recorded in calendar.

RULE 25. General orders: business of, how taken up.

RULE 26. General orders; Tuesdays and Thursdays to be set apart for consideration of.

RULE 27. General orders; members to be furnished daily with printed list of.

RULE 28. Special order; assent of two-thirds necessary; no more than three bills may be made, for the same day; may not De postponed or rescinded, except, etc.

Of the Committee of the Whole.

RULE 29. Rules to be observed in.

RULE 30. Motion to rise and report progress always in order; to be decided without debate.

RULE 31. Bills; how considered in; amendments.

RULE 32. Proceedings in absence of quorum.

Bills.

RULE 33. How introduced.

RULE 34. Private, how introduced.

RULE 35 Title, what to state.

RULE 36. From senate, with accompanying documents, to be referred.

RULE 37. After second reading to be referred to committee; committee may report without amendment or adversely: proceedings after report; when not to go upon general orders.

RULE 38. When reported by committee of the whole; amendments; when considered as rejected.

RULE 39. To receive three separate readings.

RULE 40. Sub-committee of the whole, powers and government of.

RULE 41. No bill, except reported by sub-committee of the whole, to be ordered to third reading unless considered in committee of the whole.

RULE 42. Not to be put on final reading until correctly eDgrossed and printed, unless, etc.

RULE 43. Third reading; order of; question on final passage: when to be taken.

RULE 44. Reconsideration; what vote necessary.

RULE 45. Clerk to keep register.

Motions and their Precedence.

RULE 46. When question is under consideration, no motion may be received, except, etc.

RULE 47. Motion to adjourn to be decided without debate. RULE 48. Motions to be first stated by speaker; when to be reduced to writing.

RULE 49. When motion deemed in possession of the house: when may be withdrawn.

RULE 50. Motion to adjourn or take a recess always in order. RULE 51. Reconsideration.

Resolutions.

RULE 52. Certain, to lay over one day.

RULE 53. Referring to printing extra copies, etc., to be referred to committee on public printing.

RULE 54. Calling for or leading to expenditures, to be referred.

Previous Question.

RULE 55. How put; to preclude amendments or debates; "main question;" amendments.

Of the Assembly Chamber, and the Privileges of Admission to the Floor thereof.

RULE 56. Use of, may be granted to State agricultural and other societies; application not to be entertained without unanimous consent.

RULE 57. Who may be admitted to floor of the house.

Miscellaneous Provisions.

RULE 58. Proceedings in absence of quorum.

RULE 59. When questions deemed lost.

RULE 60. When questions to be divided.

RULE 61. Where a bill, motion, etc., is entered on journal, name of member also to be entered.

RULE 62. Yeas and nays, when may be taken.

RULE 63. Journal to be printed and laid on table within two days after approval.

RULE 64. Reporters; clerk not to issue orders for stationery to reporters who are also reporters for the senate.

RULE 65. Standing rules may not be suspended or rescinded, except on notice; notice of suspension, what to contain.

RULE 66. Speaker to appoint clerks and messengers of certain committees.

RULE 67. Persons privileged to use of clerk's desk during sessions of house.

RULE 68. Proceedings before bar of the house for adjudged breach of its privileges.

RULE 69. Pages; but sixteen allowed upon the floor at any one time; to be furnished with badge.

RULE 70. Stenographer; duties of.

RULE 71. Questions of order; decisions upon, to be printed at close of journal.

RULE 72. Member asking to be excused from voting may have two minutes to explain.

CHAPTER I.

OF THE POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE SPEAKER.

RULE 1. The speaker shall take the chair each day at the hour to which the house shall have adjourned. He shall call to order, and, except in the absence of a quorum, shall proceed to business in the manner prescribed by these rules.

RULE 2. He shall possess the powers and perform the duties herein prescribed, viz.:

1. He shall preserve order and decorum.

2. He shall decide all questions of order, subject to appeal to the house. On every appeal he shall have the right, in his place, to assign his reason for his decision.

3. He shall appoint all committees, except where the house shall otherwise order.

4. He may substitute any member to perform the duties of the chair for a period not exceeding two consecutive legislative days, but for no longer period, except by special consent of the house. 5. When the house shall be ready to go into committee of the whole, he shall name a chairman to preside therein.

6. He shall certify the passage of all bills by the house, with the date thereof, together with the fact whether passed as a majority, three-fifths or two-thirds bills, as required either by the constitution or laws of this State.

7. He shall designate the persons who shall act as reporters for the public press, not exceeding twenty-three in number; but no reporter shall be admitted to the floor who is not an authorized representative of a daily paper. Such reporters, so appointed, shall be entitled to such seats as the speaker shall designate, and shall have the right to pass to and from such seats in entering and leaving the assembly chamber.

8. In case of any disturbance or disorderly conduct in the galleries or lobby, the speaker shall have power to order the same to be cleared.

CHAPTER II.

OF THE ORDER OF BUSINESS.

RULE 3. The first business of each day's session shall be the reading of the journal of the preceding day, and the correction of any errors that may be found to exist therein. After which, except on days and at times set apart for the consideration of general or special orders, the order of

business, which shall not be departed from, except by unanimous consent of the house, shall be as follows, viz.:

1. Introduction of bills by counties, in alphabetical order. 2. Reports of standing committees in the order in which the committees are stated in rule fourteen.

3. Presentation of petitions by counties, in alphabetical order. 4. Motions and resolutions, to be called for by counties in reverse order.

5. Reports of select committees.

6. Third reading of bills.

7. The preferred calendar of general orders. 8. Unfinished business of the general orders. 9. Special orders of the day.

10. General orders.

Messages from the governor and from the senate, communications from state officers, and reports from the committees on engrossed bills and public printing and sub-committee of the whole, may be received under any order of busi

ness.

CHAPTER III.

OF THE RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF MEMBERS.

RULE 4. Petitions, memorials, and any other papers addressed to the house, shall be presented by the speaker, or by any member in his place.

RULE 5. Every member presenting a paper shall indorse the same; if a petition, memorial, or report to the legisla ture, with a brief statement of its subject or contents, adding his name; if a notice or resolution, with his name; if a report of a committee, a statement of such report, with the name of the committee and members making the same; if a bill, a statement of its title, with his name.

RULE 6. Every member who shall be within the bar of the house when a question is stated from the chair, shall vote thereon, unless he be excused by the house, or unless he be directly interested in the question; but no member shall be obliged to vote on any question unless within the bar when his name is called. The bar of the house shall be deemed to include the body of the assembly chamber.