CHAPTER XIV.

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.

RULE 58. In all cases of the absence of a quorum during the session of the house, the members present may take such measures as they shall deem necessary to secure the presence of a quorum; and may inflict such censure or pecuniary penalty as they may deem just, on those who, on being called on for that purpose, shall render no sufficient excuse for their absence.

RULE 59. When the house shall be equally divided on any question, including the speaker's vote, the question shall be deemed to be lost.

RULE 60. If any question contains several distinct propositions, it shall be divided by the chair at the request of any member, but a motion to strike out and insert shall be indivisible.

RULE 61. In all cases where a bill, order, motion or resolution shall be entered on the journal, the name of the member introducing or moving the same shall also be entered on the journal.

RULE 62. The yeas and nays may be taken on any question whenever so required by any ten members (unless a division by yeas and nays be already pending), and when so taken shall be entered on the journal.

RULE 63. The journal of each day's proceedings of the house shall be printed, so that it shall be laid on the table of members within two days after its approval, and the sergeant-at-arms shall cause the printed journals to be kept on files in the same manner as other printed doc

uments.

RULE 64. No reporter for the assembly, who has an appointment as reporter in the senate, shall receive any order for stationery from the clerk of the assembly.

RULE 65. No standing rule or order of the house shall be changed, suspended or rescinded unless one day's notice shall have been given of the motion therefor, nor shall such change be made unless by a vote of a majority of all the members elected to the assembly; any such rule or order, however, may be suspended by unanimous consent. But such notice shall not be necessary on the last day of the session. The notice and motion shall in all cases state specifically the object of the suspension, and every case of suspension of a rule under such notice and motion shall be held to apply only to the object specified therein. Nor shall the forty-second rule, as far as it applies to any bill requiring a two-thirds vote, be altered, rescinded or suspended, unless two-thirds of all the members elected to the house agree to such alteration, rescinding or suspending. Notice of a motion to suspend a rule shall be given under the order of business in which the matter proposed to be advanced by the suspension shall stand.

RULE 66. The following committee shall each be entitled to one clerk and messenger; to be appointed by the speaker:

1. Ways and means.

2. Judiciary.

3. Cities.

4. Canals.

5. Railroads.

6. Commerce and navigation.

And the following committees shall each be entitled to one clerk and messenger jointly:

7. Insurance, two-thirds and three-fifths bills, game laws, and rules. 8. Banks, general laws, agriculture, and expenditures of the executive department.

9. Claims, State prisons, and Indian affairs.

10. Internal affairs, and charitable and religious societies.

11. Public education, joint library, and expenditures of the house. 12. Roads and bridges, and affairs of villages.

13. Public printing, militia, and civil divisions.

14. Trade and manufactures, grievances, and manufacture of salt. 15. Public health, petitions of aliens, and State charitable institutions.

16. Privileges and elections, federal relations, and public lands.

RULE 67. No persons, except members of the legislature, and the officers thereof, shall be permitted within the clerk's desk, or the rooms set apart for the use of the clerk, during the session of the house.

RULE 68. Whenever any person shall be brought before the bar of the house, for adjudged breach of its privileges, no debate shall be in order, but the speaker shall proceed to execute the judgment of the house without delay or debate.

RULE 69. No more than sixteen pages shall be allowed upon the floor of the assembly chamber at any one time. Each page shall be furnished with a numbered badge, and shall occupy a seat corresponding with his number, to be provided and designated by the sergeantat-arms, who shall also select one of his assistants, whose sole duty it shall be to take charge of said pages and see that this rule of the assembly is not violated.

RULE 70. It shall be the duty of the stenographer of the assembly to be present at every session of the house. He shall take stenographic notes of the debates in the house and in committee of the whole; and shall furnish a copy of the same written out in long hand, to any member applying therefor, upon the payment to said stenographer of ten cents for each folio, which charge said stenographer may receive in addition to his fixed compensation. The stenographic notes of the debates shall be filed with the clerk, and shall form a portion of the archives of the house. The clerk of the assembly is authorized to furnish said stenographer with proper stenographic blank-books in which to record said debates, not to exceed fifty dollars for any annual session of the legislature.

RULE 71. All questions of order, as they shall occur, with the decisions thereon, shall be entered in the journal, and at the close of the session, a statement of all such questions and decisions shall be printed at the close of and as an appendix to the journal.

RULE 72. Any member requesting to be excused from voting upon the final passage of a bill or upon the passage of a resolution requiring the expenditure of money, may make, when his name is called, or immediately after the roll shall have been called, and before the result shall be announced, a brief statement of the reasons for making such request, not exceeding two minutes in time, and the house, without debate, shall decide if it will grant such request; but nothing in this rule contained shall abridge the right of any member to record his vote on any question previous to the announcement of the result.

No. 7.

IN ASSEMBLY,

JANUARY 3, 1882.

JOINT RULES

OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY.

ADOPTED 1876.

RULE 1. Each house shall transmit to the other all papers in which any bill or resolution shall be founded.

RULE 2. When a bill or resolution which shall have passed in one house shall be rejected in the other, notice thereof shall be given to the house in which the same may have passed.

RULE 3. Messages from one house to the other shall be communicated by their clerks respectively, unless the house transmitting the message shall specially direct otherwise.

RULE 4. It shall be in the power of either house to amend any amendment made by the other to any bill or resolution.

RULE 5. In every case of difference between the two houses, upon any subject of legislation, either house may request a conference, and appoint a committee for that purpose, and the other shall also appoint a committee to confer. The committee shall meet at such hour and place as shall be appointed by the chairman of the committee on the part of the house requesting such conference. The conferees shall state to each other verbally, or in writing, as either shall choose, the reasons of their respective houses, and confer freely thereon. The committee shall report in writing, and shall be authorized to report such modifications or amendments as they think advisable. But no committee on conference shall consider or report on any matters except those directly at issue between the two houses. The papers shall be left with the conferees of the house assenting to such conference, and they shall present the report of the committee to their house. When such house shall have acted thereon, it shall transmit the same, and the papers relating thereto, to the other, with a message certifying its action thereon. Every report of a committee of conference shall be read through, in each house, before a vote is taken on the same.

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time previous to conference, whether the papers on which such difference arose are before the house receding, formally or informally; and on such vote to recede the same number shall be required to constitute a quorum to act thereon, and to assent to such receding, as was required on the original question out of which the difference arose.

RULE 7. After each house shall have adhered to their disagreement, the bill which is the subject of difference shall be deemed lost, and shall not be again revived during the same session in either house.

RULE 8. All joint committees of the two houses, and all committees of conference, shall consist of three senators and five members of assembly, unless otherwise specially ordered by concurrent resolution. RULE 9. No bill which shall have passed one house shall have its final reading in the other in less than two days thereafter, without the consent of two-thirds of the members thereof present; and whenever ten or more bills shall be in readiness for final reading in either house, such house shall forthwith proceed to the final reading of such bills, under the order of "third reading of bills," and continue the same from day to day until all such bills, then in readiness for final reading, shall have been read, unless this order of business shall, by the vote of two-thirds of the members present, be suspended or laid on the table. All such bills shall, have their last reading in each house in the order in which the same shall have been ordered to a final reading in such house, unless the bill to be read be laid on the table. In all cases where a bill shall be so ordered to lie on the table, it shall retain its place in the order of the final reading of bills, but shall not be called up for consideration unless by a vote of a majority of the members present.

RULE 10. The same bill shall not, specially or by name, create, renew or continue more than one incorporation, nor contain any provisions in relation to the altering of more than one incorporation by name; but this rule shall not be construed to apply to corporations to be formed under general laws according to the eighth article of the Constitution, nor to bills for consolidating corporations. After any bill has been reported by a committee, no amendment shall be made thereto which introduces an entirely new and different subject-matter from the subject-matter of the bill reported.

RULE 11. Whenever there shall be an election of officers by the joint action of the two houses, the result shall be certified by the president of the senate and speaker of the assembly, and shall be reported by the presiding officer of each house to their respective houses, and be entered on the journals of each, and shall be communicated to the governor by the clerks of the two houses.

RULE 12. There shall be printed, of course, and without order, 639 copies of all original bills reported by committees of either house, and 800 copies of all messages from the governor (except messages certifying his approval of bills), all reports of standing or select committees, and all reports or communications made in pursuance of law, and 796 copies of the journal of each house, which number shall be denominated the usual number.

RULE 13. Neither house shall order the printing or purchasing of books for the use of members or for distribution, except by joint resolution, upon which the ayes and noes shall be called, and which must receive the votes of a majority of each house; and no printing shall be done by order of either house, which is not embraced in the con

tract for doing the public printing. Whenever either house shall order more than the usual number of any message or document, the fact shall be communicated immediately by message to the other. Whenever extra copies of any document, or publication of any kind, shall be ordered printed, the printer shall be authorized and required to deliver to the trustees of the State library at least five copies in addition to the number so ordered, for the use of the said library; and whenever more than five hundred copies are so ordered, the printer shall in like manner furnish five additional copies for each five hundred, for the purpose of literary exchanges.

RULE 14. When the same document shall by separate orders be directed to be printed by both houses, it shall be regarded as but one order, unless otherwise expressly directed by either house.

RULE 15. In the distribution of documents, the governor and elective State officers, and State officers appointed by the governor and senate, or elected by joint or concurrent action of the two houses, adjutant-general and the clerks of the two houses shall each have the same number as each of the members; and a specified number may be added for any committee, officer or author of a document.

RULE 16. The superintendent of documents of each house shall receive from the printer all matter ordered by the respective houses, and shall keep a book and enter therein the time of reception by him of every such bill or document, and the number of copies received, and shall cause each and any of such bill or document to be immediately placed on the desks of the members.

RULE 17. There shall be printed six hundred and thirty-nine bills, and distributed as follows:

There shall be printed three hundred and ten messages and documents, and distributed as follows:

To the Senate....

To the assembly.

To State officers..
To the State library

....

80 copies. 199 copies. 30 copies.

1 copy.

There shall be printed three hundred journals of each house, and distributed as follows:

There shall be printed to bind four hundred and ninety-six journals of each house, and the same number of messages and documents, and distributed as follows:

For the senate

For the assembly.

For senate library.

For assembly library

38 copies. 140 copies. 16 copies. 50 copies.