given of the motion therefor, which motion shall embrace the proposed amendment. Nor shall any rule be suspended, except by a vote of at least two-thirds of the members present. Nor shall the order of business as established by the rules of the Assembly, be postponed or changed, except by a vote of at least two-thirds of the members present.

Manual the standard.

92. The rules of Parliamentary practice, comprised in Jefferson's Jefferson's Manual, shall govern the Assembly in all cases to which they are applicable, and in which they are not inconsistent with these rules, and the orders of the Assembly, and the joint rules and orders of the Senate and Assembly.

JOINT RULES AND ORDERS

OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY.

Messages.

By whom sent. Reject'd bills and resolu

tions.

Papers to accompany

bills.

Order re

currence.

1. When a message shall be sent from the Senate to the Assembly, it shall be announced at the door of the Aassembly by the Sergeant-at-Arms, and shall be respectfully communicated to the Chair by the person by whom it may be sent.

2. The same ceremony shall be observed when a message shall be sent from the Assembly to the Senate.

3. Messages shall be sent by the Chief Clerk or his assistant in each House.

4. When a bill or resolution which has passed in one House shall be rejected in the other, notice thereof shall be given to the House in which the same originated.

5. When a bill or resolution, which has been passed in one House, is rejected in the other, it shall not be again brought in during the same session without a notice of five days, and leave of two-thirds of the House in which it shall be renewed.

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

7. When a bill, resolution or memorial, shall have questi'g con- passed either House, and requires the concurrence of the other, it shall be transmitted to said House without entering an order upon the journal of the House in which it passed, requesting the concurrence of the other House.

Joint Committees.

Visiting Com mittees.

OF JOINT COMMITTEES.

8. The Joint Committees required by Statute are as

follows:

1. On Claims.*-Five from Assembly; two from Senate.

2.

3.

On Public Printing.t-Three from Assembly; two from Senate. On Local Legislation.-Three from Assembly; two from Senate. 9. The Committees of the two Houses on State Prison, and on Charitable and Benevolent Institutions, shall act

*See Sects. 18 to 22, inclusive, of Chap. 9, R. S., page 122.

† See Secs. 22 and 23, of Chap. 114, Laws of 1858, (R. S., page 97.) See Chap. 870, General Laws of 1860, page 381.

jointly in visiting the State institutions, and in reporting upon the condition of such institutions.

10. Whenever any report of a Joint Committee, or Printing of Reports. other document, shall be presented to both Houses of the Legislature, the first House acting on the same, if it shall be thought necessary to have it printed, shall order a sufficient number of copies for both branches, and shall immediately inform the other House of its action upon the subjeet.

COMMITTEE OF CONFERENCE..

of Confer

ence.

11. In all cases of disagreement between the Senate and Committees Assembly, if either House shall request a conference, and appoint a committee for that purpose, the other House shall appoint a similar committee. Such committee shall at a convenient hour, to be agreed upon by their chairman, meet in the conference chamber, and state to each other verbally, or in writing, as either shall choose, the reasons of their respective Houses, for or against the disagreement, and confer freely thereon; and they shall be authorised to report for their respective Houses such modifications or amendments as they may think advisable.

12. After each House shall have adhered to their disa- Adherence greement, a bill or resolution shall be lost.

to disagreement fatal.

ACTS OF A GENERAL NATURE.

bills.

13. The title of every bill of a general nature shall Titles of designate the object, purpose or subject of the bill, and when such bill proposes to amend any chapter or act, the title shall read thus:

"A bill relating to and amendatory of sectionof chapter, of the —," filling the blanks with the proper subject, section and chapter of the Revised Statutes or General Laws, designating the same. And every bill shall recite at length every section which it proposes to amend as such section will read if amended as proposed: Provided, Such recitation shall not be required when the proposed amendment shall only add to such section, without changing the phraseology of the original. 14. The title of all bills for repealing any act, chapter, or section, and having no other object, shall be as follows: "A bill to repeal section of chapter of the -, relating to," filling the blanks with the proper section and chapter of the Revised Statutes or General Laws, designating the same and also the subject, object or purpose of the section or chapter repealed. And in the body of every such bill, the full title of the act repealed shall be recited at length.

Each House 15. It shall be in the power of each House to amend may amend. any amendment made by the other, to any bill, memorial or resolution.

Enrollment of bills.

Examinati'n of enrolled

bills.

Signing of bills.

Presentation of bills to Governor.

Resolutions

as bills.

OF BILLS PASSED.

16. After a bill has passed both Houses, it shall be duly enrolled by or under the direction of the Chief Clerk of the House in which the same originaied, before it shall be presented to the Governor for his approval.

17. When a bill is duly enrolled, it shall be examined by the committee of the two Houses on Enrolled Bills, acting jointly, who shall carefully compare the enrolled bill with the engrossed bill as passed in the two Houses. Said committee shall correct any errors that may be discovered in the enrolled bill, and make their report forthwith to the House in which the bill originated.

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

19. After a bill shall have been thus signed in each House, it shall be presented by the committees on Enrolled Bills, to the Governor for his approval, it being first endorsed on the back of the roll, certifying in which House the same originated, which certificate shall be signed by the Chief Clerk of such House. Said committees shall jointly report the day of presentation to the Governor, which report shall be entered on the journal of each House.

20. All orders, resolutions and votes which are to be to take the presented to the Governor for his approval, shall, also, same course in the same manner, be previously enrolled, examined and signed, and then be presented in the same manner, and by the same committee, as is provided in case of bills.

OF CLAIMS, ETC.

Accounts to be verified.

All papers

ney to be preserved.

21. No account presented shall be actod on, unless verified by affidavit of the person in whose favor the same may be.

22. All petitions, claims, bills, accounts or demands claiming mo- asking for an appropriation of money, shall be preserved by the committee to whom the same may be referred; and such committee shall endorse on every such petition, claim, bill, account or demand, whether they report in favor of allowing or disallowing the same; and if in favor of allowing a part thereof, only, then the sum so reported. After such committee shall have reported upon the same, such petition, claim, bill, account or demand, and every of them, shall be delivered to the Chief Clerk of the House in which the same was first present

ed, to be filed by such clerk, and delivered, at the close of the session, to the Secretary of State.

23. Resolutions involving the appropriation of money Resolutions for printing the Governor's Message, or other public appropriat 'g documents, shall receive the joint concurrenre of the two Houses.

JOINT CONVENTION, ETC.

money.

24. Whenever there shall be a joint convention of the Joint Contwo Houses, the proceedings shall be entered at length vention. on the journal of each House. The Lieutenant-Governor or President of the Senate shall preside over such joint convention, and the Chief Clerk of the Senate shall act as Clerk thereof, assisted by the Chief Clerk of the Assembly: Provided, That the Lieutenant-Governor shall not act in said convention except as presiding officer, and in no case shall have the right to give the casting vote.

25. Neither House shall adjourn during any session Adjournme❜t thereof, without the consent of the other, for a longer period than three days.