7. When bills are enrolled, they shall be examined by a Joint Committee of two from the Senate and two from the House of Representatives, appointed as a Standing Committee for that purpose, who shall carefully compare the enrolment with the engrossed bills, as passed in the two Houses, and, correcting any errors that may be discovered in the enrolled bills, make their report forthwith to the respective Houses.

8. After examination and report, each bill shall be signed in the respective Houses, first by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, then by the President of the Senate.

9. After a bill shall have been thus signed in each House, it shall be presented, by the said committee, to the President of the United States for his approbation, (it being first endorsed on the back of the roll, certifying in which House the same originated; which endorsement shall be signed by the Secretary or Clerk [as the case may be] of the House in which the same did originate,) and shall be entered on the Journal of each House. The said committee shall report the day of presentation to the President, which time shall also be carefully entered on the Journal of each House.

10. All orders, resolutions, and votes, which are to be presented to the President of the United States for his approbation, shall, also, in the same manner, be previously enrolled, examined, and signed; and shall be presented in the same manner, and by the same committee, as provided in cases of bills.

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.

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

13. When a bill or resolution which has been passed in one House is rejected in the other, it is not 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.

14 Each House transmits to the other all papers on which any bill or resolution shall be founded.

15. After each House shall have adhered to their disagreement, a bill or resolution is lost.

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.

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.

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.

QUESTIONS OF ORDER.

JANUARY 5, 1833.

A bill was reported to revive and continue in force an act entitled "An act to provide for reports of the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States;" which was read the first and second time: when

It was moved that the bill be engrossed, and read a third time.

The Speaker decided that, in as much as the original act contained the following words, "That a reporter shall, from time to time, be appointed by the Supreme Court of the l'nited States to report its decisions, who shall be entitled to receive from the Treasury of the United States, as an annual compensation for his services, the sum of one thousand dollars," this bill must, under the rule of the House which provides that "all proceedings touching appropriations of money shall be first discussed in a Committee of the Whole House," be committed to a Committee of the Whole House, as, if it became a law, it necessarily involved an appropriation of money to pay the salary of the reporter; and that, consequently, a motion, at this stage of the proceeding, that the bill be engrossed and read a third time, was not in order.

From this decision, Mr. Arnold appealed to the House;

And the question being put,

The Speaker's decision was affirmed: Yeas 161, nays 14.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1833.

The hour of one o'clock having arrived,

A motion was made that the House resolve itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, for the purpose of proceeding in the further consideration of the bill to reduce and otherwise alter the duties on imports.

The motion was objected to, on the ground that, by the rules of the House, Friday [this day] and Saturday of each week were set apart for the consideration of private bills and private business, in preference to any other business.

The Speaker decided that, by the rule of the House, private business would take precedence on this day, unless, as in the same rule provided, it should be otherwise determined by a majority of the House."

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