Of Privileged Questions. 17. No business regularly before the House shall be interrupted except by a motion For adjournment, For the previous question, namely: "shall the main question be now put?" For postponement, For commitment, Or for amendment. 18. A motion for adjournment shall always be in order, and shall be decided without debate, except that it cannot be received when the House is voting on another question, nor while a member is addressing the House. A motion for the previous question shall preclude amendment and discussion of the original subject; but the previous question shall not be moved by less than twelve members rising for that purpose, and shall be decided without debate. A motion for postponement shall preclude commitment. A motion for commitment shall preclude amendment or decision on the original subject. 19. No motion for reconsideration shall be permitted, unless made and seconded by members who were in the majority on the vote on the original question, and within six days, exclusive of Sundays, after the decision. 20. When a blank is to be filled, the question shall be first taken on the largest sum, greatest number, and remotest day. 21. In all cases of elections, except for Speaker, there shall be a previous nomination of the candidates at least one day before the election, and a majority of the members present shall be necessary to a choice. Every resolution, order, or vote, to which the concurrence of the Senate is necessary, and a motion to alter the rules of the House, or for information from the executive or departments, shall lie on the table one day. No motion or proposition for a tax or charge on the people shall be discussed the day on which it is made or offered. of Committees. 22. Committees may be of three kinds, viz: Committees of the whole house. Standing committees. Select committees. Of Committee of the Whole.. 23. The rules and proceedings observed in the House, shall be observed as far as they are practicable in committee of the whole, except that a member may speak oftener than twice on the subject; nor can a motion for the previous question be made therein. 24. When the House resolves itself into a committee of the whole, the Speaker shall appoint a chairman, unless otherwise ordered by the House. 25. Amendments made in committee of the whole shall not be read by the Speaker on his resuming the chair, unless required by one or more of the members. 26. When in committee of the whole, any paper laid on the table of the House may be called for by a member, and read by the Clerk, unless the committee otherwise order. 27. No committee shall sit during the sitting of the House without leave. 28. The following standing committees. shall be appointed at the commencement of each session, until otherwise ordered: A committee of ways and means. A committee on the judiciary system. A committee on agriculture. A committee on education. A committee on domestic manufactures. A committee on vice and immorality. A committee on the militia system. A committee on estates and escheats. A committee on bridges and state and turnpike roads. A committee on corporations. A committee on local appropriations. Which several committees shall each consist of seven members. A committee on bills, to consist of three members. A committee on the library, to consist of three members. A committee on inland navigation and internal improvement, to consist of thirteen members. Of Bills. 29. All bills shall be introduced, upon the reports of committees: standing committees may report by bill: select committees may report by bill, on leave of the House. Members asking leave to bring in a bill, shall give one day's notice, stating the object of the bill, and upon leave granted, a committee shall be appointed to prepare and bring in a bill accordingly. 30. Every bill shall receive three several readings in the House, the two last of which shall be at length, previously to its passage, but no bill shall be read twice in the same day; and all bills and joint resolutions, after the first reading, shall be printed for the use of the members, unless otherwise ordered by the House, and shall be read in committee of the whole: public bills shall be made the order of a particular day, and shall, when called for, have the preference of private bills, which shall be taken up according to their seniority, reckoning from the date of their introduction into the House, and when any bill shall be presented from the Senate for concurrence, the Speaker shall determine, or the House may order upon the printing the same, and direct accordingly. 31. Communications from the Senate to the House shall be read, and information shall be given to the Senate whenever any proposition coming from that body shall be concurred in. 32. When the names of the members shall be called, it shall be done in alphabetical order, except Mr. Speaker, who shall be called last. 33. The yeas and nays of the members on any question, shall, at the desire of any two |