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mittee of three be appointed by the House, to join from Senate, to make inquiry into the management, proceedings and couduct of the Bank of Windsor and Essex Bank;-into the present condition of said banks;— what were the causes of their failure, (if the same have failed,) and what probable loss will be sustained by the community from the failure of said banks. Also to inquire into the situation and amount of the safety fund, and whether the fund will be sufficient to meet the losses of the Essex Bank,—that said committee make report to this house, and that they have power to send for persons and papers.

Ön motion of Mr. Tracy,

Ordered, That said resolution be laid on the table.

His Honor David M. Camp signified to the Senate his acceptance of the office of Lieutenant Governor, for the year ensuing, and the oath of office was administered to him by the Secretary of the Senate.

On motion of Mr. Pierpoint,

The Senate adjourned.

FRIDAY, OCT. 11, 1839.

The President announced the appointment of Mr. Jones and Mr. Hemenway, as the committee on bills.

Mr. Pierpoint, from the committee on rules, reported the following, which were adopted as the

RULES OF THE SENATE:

1. The credentials of Senators shall be presented to the Secretary or Assistant Secretary, previous to nine o'clock in the morning of the 2d Thursday of October, at which time the Senate shall be called to order. The names of the Senators shall be called over, and when a quorum shall have taken their seats, they shall, having first taken the necessary oaths, on nomination of the President, appoint a canvassing committee, consisting of one Senator from each county, to join such committee as the House of Representatives may appoint, whose duty shall be to receive, sort and count the votes for Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Treasurer, and make report thereof to the Joint Assembly of both Houses.

2. The Senate shall meet every day (Sundays excepted) at 9 o'clock, in the morning, and 2 o'clock in the afternoon, unless otherwise specially ordered.

3. The President having taken the chair and a quorum being present, the journal of the preceding day shall be read and all errors therein corrected.

4. In case no quoruin shall assemble within fifteen minutes after the time to which the Senate was adjourned, those present shall have power

to send the Sergeant-at-Arms, or other officer, after the absentees, and compel their attendance.

5. Whenever the Senate shall assemble according to adjournment, or at the commencement of a session, and the President shall be absent, it shall be the duty of the Secretary, if present, if not, of a Senator, to call to order, and the Senators present, if a quorum, shall by ballot elect a President pro tempore,

6. No Senator shall be absent without leave, unless he is sick or otherwise necessarily detained.

7. No Senator shall audibly speak to another, or otherwise interrupt the business of the Senate, while the journals or other public papers are being read, or while a Senator is orderly speaking in debate.

8. Every Senator, when he speaks, shall, standing in his place, address the President, and when he has finished, shall sit down.

9. No Senator shall speak more than twice on the same question without leave of the Senate, and Senators who have once spoken, shall not again be entitled to the floor (except for the purpose of explanation) to the exclusion of another who has not spoken.

10. In all cases, the Senator first arising and addressing the President (subject to the restriction of rule 9,) shall be entitled to the floor, and when two or more arise at the same time, the President shall name the one who is to speak.

11. When a Senator shall be called to order, he shall sit down; and every question of order shall be decided by the President without debate, subject to an appeal to the Senate.

12. If a Senator be called to order, for the words spoken, the exceptionable words shall be immediately taken down in writing, by the Senator calling to order, that the President may be better enabled to judge of the matter.

13. The first hour of each morning's sitting may be devoted to the reception and disposal of petitions, memorials, remonstrances, motions, resolutions, and the introduction of bills; after which the orders of the day or other proper business shall be announced, always commencing with the unfinished business of the last sitting. The first hour of the afternoon's sitting may be occupied in the receiving and disposing of reports of committees, and in completing the business of the morning hour; at the expiration of which, the Senate will again take up the orders of the day.

14. Reports of committees may be signed by any member in behalf of the committee, and shall be by him presented to the Senate when a call for reports is made. The signer of each report shall be held responsible for the accuracy of its statements and the propriety of its language, and when the same shall be under consideration, he shall be further liable to give additional statements of lacts or other explanations, in answer to the call of any Senator.

15. The proceedings of the Senate, except when acting as in committee of the whole, embracing the titles of bills and such parts thereof as may be affected by proposed amendments, and also the names of

Senatore and the votes which they give on every question decided by yeas and nays, shall be by the Secretary accurately and concisely inserted in the journals.

16. The Senate shall, annually, within the first four days of actual sitting, elect by ballot (and a majority of all present shall be necessary to a choice,) a Secratary and an Assistant Secretary, who shall be ex officio Engrossing Clerk, who shall severally be sworn to the faithful discharge of their duties, and shall hold said offices until superceded by a new election. The Senate shall also, within the same time, elect the following Standing Committees, to consist of three members each, to wit: On Finance,—on the Judiciary,—on Claims,-on Education,—on Agriculture,- -on Manufactures,-on Elections,—on Rules,-on Military Affairs,-on Roads and Canals, on Banks, and on Land Taxes.

17. In the appointment of committees, (except the one mentioned in rule 1,) the Senate will proceed by ballot severally to appoint the chairman of each, ard then by one ballot the other members necessary to complete the same. In the election of a chairman, a majority of the votes given shall be necessary, but for the others a plurality shall be sufficient. Provided, The Senate may, without formally suspending this rule, direct a select committee to be appointed by the President.

18. All bills, after the second reading, and all petitions, memorials, remonstrances, resolutions and other papers calling for legislative action, (except such as have been reported by a committee,) no objection being made, shall be referred by the President to appropriate committees.

19. Before any resolution, any petition or other paper addressed to the Senate shall be received and read, whether the same shall be introduced by the President or a Senator, the title shall be fairly endorsed thereon, and a brief statement of its object or contents shall be made by the introducer.

20. Every motion shall be reduced to writing by the mover, if required thereto by the President or a Senator, and a motion to lay another motion, the latter not being in writing, on the table, or otherwise to dispose of it, shall not be in order.

21. Every bill shall receive three readings before it is passed; the President shall give notice at each reading whether it be the first, second, or third; the last of which readings of public bills shall be at least twenty-four hours after the first reading, unless the Senate unanimously direct otherwise. Provided, That private bills shall be read the second time by their title. Resolutions requiring the approbation and signature of the Governor, shall be treated in all respects as bills.

22. On the demand of a Senator, public bills, after a second reading, shall be considered by the Senate as in committee of the whole.

23. The final question upon the second reading of every bill which originated in the Senate shall be, "Shall this bill be engrossed and read the third time?" No amendment shall be received at the third reading, but it may be committed for amendment at any time before its final passage.

24. Motions on bills and resolutions shall be sustained in the follow

ing order: 1. To postpone indefinitely. 2. To lay upon the table. S. To commit. 4. To amend.

25. A call for the previous question shall not at any time be in order. A motion to adjourn shall always be in order, and shall be decided without debate.

26. If the question in debate contains several points, the same shall be divided on the demand of a Senator. A motion to strike out and insert shall not be divided, but the rejection of a motion to strike out and insert one proposition shall not preclude a motion to strike out and insert a different one, or a motion simply to strike out; nor shall the rejection of a motion simply to strike out, prevent a subsequent one to strike out and insert.

27. In filling blanks the largest sum and the longest time shall be first in order.

28. When the reading of a paper is called for and the same is objected to by a Senator, the question shall be determined by a vote of the Senate.

29. The yeas and nays shall be taken on the call of a Senator, and every Senator present shall vote unless excused by the Senate; but no Senator shall be compelled to vote who was absent when the question was stated by the President, nor shall any one be permitted to vote who was absent when his name was called, nor after the decision of the question has been announced from the chair.

30. No Senator in the minority, nor one who did not vote in the decision of a question, shall have a right to move a reconsideration thereof; nor shall any motion for reconsideration be in order, unless made before the close of the next day of actual sitting of the Senate after that in which the vote was taken, and before the bill, resolution, report, amendment, address or motion upon which the vote was taken, shall, in the regular progress of business, have gone out of the possession of the Senate.

31. On all questions, in the decisions of which a simple majority is required, when the Senate is equally divided, the Secretary shall take the casting vote of the President. In all such cases, a motion for reconsideration, if made in time, shall be in order from any Senator who voted on the question.

32. The President shall have the right to call upon any Senator to discharge the duties of the chair, whenever he shall find it necessary, temporarily, to retire; but such substitution shall not extend beyond more than one adjournment.

33. The Senate having taken the final vote on any question, the same shall not again be in order during the same session in any form whatev er, except by way of reconsideration; and when a motion for reconsideration has been decided, that decision shall not be reconsidered.

34. No proposition to amend the rules of the Senate, or the joint rules of both houses, shall be acted on until the same shall have been before the Senate at least twenty-four hours.

35. Messages shall be sent to the House of Representatives by the Secretary or Assistant Secretary.

36. Reporters may be placed on the floor of the Senate, under the direction of the Secretary, with the approbation of the President.

37. No persons shall be admitted within the lobby of the Senate Chamber except the Governor, Treasurer of the State, Auditor of Accounts, members of the other house, Judges of the Supreme Court, Senators and Representatives in Congress, Ex-Governors and Lieutenant Governors, Ex-Judges of the Supreme Court, Ex-Senators and Representatives in Congress, District Judge and Attorney of the United States, members of other State Legislatures, and such gentlemeu and ladies as the President or a Senator may introduce.

38. When in session the Senators shall sit with their heads uncovered. 39. Upon any disorderly conduct in the gallery, the President may order the same to be cleared.

40. Whenever a bill or resolution is laid on the table by order of the Senate, and shall have remained on the table twenty-four hours, it shall be subject to be taken up by the chair and presented for the consideration of the Senate, without a call or order on the subject.

41. There shall be one door-keeper and one assistant door-keeper of the Senate; and the President may employ a boy to attend in the Senate Chamber.

The Senate took up the resolution from the House of Representatives relative to the Windsor and Essex Banks.

On motion of Mr. Pierpoint,

Ordered, That said resolution be referred to the committee on banks. Mr. Kittredge called up the petition of inhabitants of Derby, presented yesterday.

On motion of Mr. Kittredge,

Ordered, That said petition be referred to a committee of five meinbers, to be appointed by the chair.

The Senate adjourned.

AFTERNOON.

The following communication was received from his Excellency the Governor :

To the Senate:

MONTPELIER, Oct. 11, 1839.

Having taken the oaths prescribed by the constitution and entered upon the duties of Governor of the State, I have the honor to inform the honorable senate that George B. Manser is appointed Secretary of Civil and Military Affairs, for the year ensuing; and that I propose making my annual executive communication to-morrow morning at ten o' clock.

SILAS H. JENISON.

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