ENGROSSED BILLS. 5.—While bills are on their passage between the two Houses, they shall be on paper, and under the signature of the Secretary or Clerk of each House, respectively. [6 August, 1789. ENROLLED BILLS. 6.After a bill shall have passed both Houses, it shall be duly enrolled on parchment by the Clerk of the House of Representatives, or the Secretary of the Senate, as the bill may have originated in the one or the other House, before it shall be presented to the President of the United States. EXAMINATION OF ENROLLED BILLS. [6 August, 1789. 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 enrollment 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 their respective Houses. [6 August, 1789-1 Feb., 1827. SIGNING OF ENROLLED BILLS. 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. [6 August, 1789. PRESENTATION OF ENROLLED BILLS TO THE PRESIDENT. 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. [6 August, 1789. SAME PROCEEDINGS AS ABOVE ON ORDERS, RESOLUTIONS, AND VOTES, AS ON BILLS. 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 the cases of bills. JOINT ADDRESS TO THE PRESIDENT. [6 August, 1789. 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. NOTICE OF REJECTED BILL. [6 August, 1789. 12.-When a bill or resolution which shall have passed in one House is rejected in the other, notice thereof shall be given to the House in which the same shall have passed. [10 June, 1790. REJECTED BILL NOT RENEWED WITHOUT TEN DAYS' NOTICE. 13.—When a bill or resolution which has been passed in one House shall be rejected in the other, it shall not be 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. [10 June, 1790. PAPERS TO BE SENT WITH BILLS. 14. -Each House shall transmit to the other all papers on which any bill or resolution shall be founded. [10 June, 1790. ADHERENCE BY EACH HOUSE DESTROYS BILL. 15.- -After each House shall have adhered to their disagreement, a bill or resolution shall be lost. [10 June, 1790. BILL NOT TO BE SENT TO OTHER HOUSE ON THREE LAST DAYS OF SESSION. *16. No bill that shall have passed one House shall be sent for concurrence to the other on either of the last three days of the session. BILL NOT TO BE SENT TO THE PRESIDENT ON LAST DAY OF 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. PRINTING OF BILLS BY THE OTHER HOUSE. 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. * [9 Feb., 1829. By the 26th Rule of Senate.-A motion to suspend or concur in resolution of H. R. to suspend the 16th or 17th Joint Rules, or either of them, shall always be in order, immediately considered, and decided without debate. [7 May, 1852. 19. SALE OF INTOXICATING LIQUORS FORBIDDEN. No intoxicating liquors shall be offered for sale, or exhibited, within the Capitol, or on the public grounds adjacent thereto. [18 Sep., 1837-H. R., 26 Feb., 1844-S., 30 May, 1844. JOINT COMMITTEE ON THE LIBRARY. 20.-There shall be a joint committee on the Library, to consist of three members on the part of the Senate and three on the part of the House of Representatives, to superintend and direct the expenditure of all moneys appropriated for the Library, and to perform such other duties as are or may be directed by law. [8.,6 Dec., 1843-H. R., 7 Dec., 1843. CONTINUANCE OF BUSINESS AT SUBSEQUENT SESSION. 21.After six days from the commencement of a second or subsequent session of Congress, all bills, resolutions, or reports, which originated in either House, and at the close of the next preceding session remained undetermined in either House, shall be resumed and acted on in the same manner as if an adjournment had not taken place. [14 August, 1848. |