Robinston, Calais and Houlton, Maine, receive and dispatch mails for New-Brunswick, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland.

Boston, Mass., and Halifax, N. S., exchange mails by steamboat, weekly.

North Troy,.

Vermont.

Boston,

Mass.

RULES AND ORDERS

OF THE

SENATE OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK.

1. The President having taken the chair at the hour Journal to to which the Senate shall have adjourned, and a quo- be read. rum being present, the journal of the preceding day

shall be read, to the end that any mistake therein may be corrected.

2. After the reading and approving of the journal, Order of the order of business shall be as follows:

1. The presentation of petitions.
2. Reports of standing committees.
3. Reports of select committees.
4. Messages from the Governor.

5. Messages from the Assembly.

6. Communications and reports from State officers.
7. Notices and the introduction of bills.

8. Third reading of bills.

9. Motions and resolutions.

10. Special orders.

11. General orders; but messages from the Gover-
nor and Assembly, and communications and

reports from State officers, may be considered

at any time.

business.

3. The clerk shall make a list of all bills and of re- General solutions proposing amendments to the Constitution, orders of and of all other matters which shall be committed to business. a committee of the whole, in which they shall be arranged in the order in which they were introduced;

Priority of business. Reading of papers.

Business not

to be interrupted.

President

substitute.

which list shall be called the General Orders of the Day. And all such matters shall be taken up and acted upon in the several orders of business in which they may be, in the order in which they stand upon the general orders, unless the Senate shall otherwise direct; but no bill shall be taken up except on motion.

4. Whenever any bill or other matter is made the special order for a particular day, and it shall not be completed on that day, it shall retain its place in the general orders of the day, unless it shall be made the special order for another day; and when a special order is under consideration, it shall take precedence of any special order for a subsequent hour of the same day; but such subsequent special order may be taken up immediately after the previous special order has been disposed of.

5. All questions relating to the priority of business, shall be decided without debate.

6. When the reading of a paper is called for, except petitions, and the same is objected to by any member, it shall be determined by a vote of the Senate, without debate.

7. No member shall speak to another, or otherwise interrupt the business of the Senate, or read any newspaper, while the journals or public papers are being read; and when the President is putting a question, no senator shall walk out of, or across the House, nor, when a senator is speaking, pass between him and the chair.

8. The President shall have the right to name any may name a member to perform the duties of the chair, who is hereby vested, during such time, with all the powers of the President; but such substitute shall not lose the right of voting on any question while so presiding, nor shall his power as such substitute continue for a longer time than one day, without leave of the Senate.

Order of debate.

9. Every member, when he speaks, shall address the chair, standing in his place. No member shall speak more than twice in any one debate, on the same

day, without leave of the Senate.

10. When two or more members rise at once, the President shall name the member who is first to Ib. speak.

11. No motoin shall be debated untill the same be se- Order of conded; and it shall be reduced to writing, if desired motion. by the President or any member, delivered in at the table, and read by the President or clerk, before the same shall be debated; but it may be withdrawn at any time before decision or amendment.

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12. When a question is before the Senate, no motion Order of shall be received, unless to lay on the table, for motion. amendment, for postponing it, to commit it, or to adjourn; and a motion for adjournment shall always be in order, and shall be decided without debate.

13. If the question in debate contain several points, Questions any member may have the same divided.

divided.

14. A motion for commitment, or reference, until it Amendis decided, shall preclude all amendments of the main ments. proposition.

15. Every bill shall be introduced by motion for Introduction leave or by order of the Senate on the report of a com- of bills. mittee; and one day's notice at least shall be given of an intended motion for leave to bring in a bill, unless the Senate unanimously order otherwise. Such notice shall state generally the subject matter of such bill.

16. Every bill shall receive three readings previous Bills to have to its being passed, and the President shall give notice, three readat each, whether it be the first, second or third; which ings. reading shall be on three different days, unless the Senate unanimously direct otherwise. No bill shall be amended or committed until it shall have been twice read; and all resolutions which propose any amendment to the Constitution, shall be treated in the Amendform of proceedings on them, in a similar manner with ments to the bills, except that it shall not be necessary to commit Constitution. such resolutions to a committee of the whole; and no bill shall be ordered to a third reading without having been acted on in the committee of the whole.