tary, Sergeant-at-Arms, Chaplain, Recording Secretary, and Legislative Counsel none of whom shall be a member of the Legislature. All such officers shall be elected for the entire term of the Legislature and shall serve during all regular and special sessions thereof, unless otherwise ordered by a majority vote of the Legislature.

Section 8. Standing Rules in force and existence at the adjournment sine die of a Legislature shall continue until changed and shall govern the organization of the next Legislature.

Section 9. A majority vote of the members present (a quorum being present) shall be required for the election of each officer of the Legislature.

Section 10. Upon the convening of any regular or special session of the Legislature, except the first session of a new Legislature, it shall be the duty of the Speaker to administer the oath provided in Section 5 of Rule I to any new Legislator or Legislators who may have been elected to fill a vacancy or vacancies upon receiving a certification of the election of such Legislator or Legislators.

RULE II

DESIGNATION OF LEGISLATIVE SESSIONS

Section 1. The regular session of the Guam Legislature convening on the second Monday in January in the year 1951 shall be designated the First Guam Legislature, 1951, (First) Regular Session; the regular session convening on the second Monday in January in the year 1952 shall be designated as First Guam Legislature, 1952 (Second) Regular Session. Thereafter, the same procedure shall be followed for the Second Guam Legislature (convening for the first time on the second Monday in January in the year 1953) and for each succeeding Legislature thereafter.

RULE III

SESSIONS OF THE GUAM LEGISLATURE

Section 1. Annual regular sessions of the Guam Legislature shall be held as follows:

(a) Convening upon the second Monday in January of each year the Legislature shall remain in session thirty consecutive calendar days, and at the conclusion thereof adjourn to the second Monday in June.

(b) Reconvening on the second Monday of June, the Legislature shall thereupon remain in session thirty consecutive calendar days.

RULE IV

REFUSAL TO SEAT AND EXPULSION OF MEMBERS

Section 1. The Legislature may expel a member for cause proven at any time upon a two-thirds recorded vote (14 votes) for all members elected to the Legislature.

Section 2. No person shall sit as a member of the Guam Legislature

if he is or becomes an employee of the Executive Branch of the government of Guam.

Section 3. The Legislature shall refuse to seat or shall expel any person elected as a member of the Legislature who at the time he seeks to sit, or at any time after he is seated, is, or becomes, an employee of the Executive Branch of the government of Guam.

RULE V

METHODS OF VOTING

Section 1. In all elections by the Legislature, the members thereof shall vote viva voce and the votes shall be entered on the journal, except as otherwise ordered by the Legislature.

RULE VI

PARLIAMENTARY LAW GOVERNING

Section 1. The rules contained in Roberts Rules of Order (Revised) shall govern the Guam Legislature in all cases to which they are applicable, and in which they are not inconsistent with the Standing Rules of the Legislature.

RULE VII

OATH FOR OFFICERS AND ATTACHES

Section 1. All officers, attaches, and employees of the Legislature including those devoting part time and those furnishing services on contract shall take and subscribe the following oath:

"I solemnly swear (or affirm) in the presence of Almighty God that I will well and faithfully support the Constitution of the United States, the laws of Guam, and that I will conscientiously and impartially discharge my duties as an officer (or as an attache, or as an employee) of the Guam Legislature",

which will be administered by the Legislative Secretary, who is hereby given the power to administer this Oath, or in his absence or inability to administer said Oath, such other person who shall be designated therefor by the Speaker.

RULE VIII

DUTIES OF LEGISLATIVE OFFICERS

Section 1. The Speaker shall possess the powers and perform the duties prescribed as follows:

(a) To preside at meetings of the Guam Legislature; to preserve order and decorum; he may speak to points of order in preference to other members, rising from his chair for that purpose.

(b) To decide all questions of order subject to appeal to the Legislature by any member. On every appeal, he shall have the right and the obligation to assign his reason for his decision.

(c) To name any member to perform the duties of the Speaker, but such substitutions shall not extend beyond adjournment.

(d) To act as chairman of the Committee of the Whole.

(e) The Speaker shall take the chair each legislative day at the hour so provided by the rules. He shall call the Legislature to order, and a quorum being present, shall proceed in the manner and order prescribed by the rules.

(f) The Speaker will sign, in the presence of the Legislature while the same is in session and capable of transacting business, all bills and resolutions passed by the Legislature. All writs, warrants, and subpoenas issued by order of the Legislature shall be under his hand, attested by the Legislative Secretary.

(g) The Speaker shall be ex officio member of all standing and interim committees with all the rights and privileges of such membership, except the right to vote. In counting a quorum of any such committees, the Speaker shall not be counted as a member.

Section 2. The Vice-Chairman shall have the powers and perform the duties of the Speaker during his absence.

Section 3. In the absence of both the Speaker and the Vice-Chairman, neither having designated a member to perform the duties of the Speaker, the Legislative Secretary shall preside.

Section 4. The duties of the Legislative Secretary shall be as follows:

(a) To call the roll of members at the commencement of each meeting and report the presence or absence of a quorum, and keep records of all members present, absent, excused, causing the same to be printed in the journal.

(b) To assign desks to members and to properly accredited newspaper representatives.

(c) To attest by his signature, when necessary or required by law, all bills, memorials, resolutions, orders, proceedings, writs, warrants, and subpoenas issued by order of the Legislature.

(d) To certify and transmit to the Governor all bills or other actions of the Legislature required to be transmitted to the Governor, immediately after their passage or adoption by the Legislature.

(e) To preside as provided in Section 3 above.

Section 5. The Executive Secretary or the designated assistant or Clerk shall act as secretary to the Committee on Rules and, under the general direction of the Committee on Rules, shall have the following duties and functions:

(a) To have charge of all records, journals, papers and bills of the Legislature and be responsible for the same, including the printing of the journal.

(b) To refuse to permit any records or papers to be taken from the desk or out of his custody except upon duly signed receipts from persons authorized by the Legislature.

(c) To read or allow his assistants to read from the desk, only such matters as required by the rules or that the Speaker shall direct. (d) To keep all proceeding of each session, and be responsible for their publication.

(e) To do and perform all other clerical duties and offices pertaining to the position of Executive Secretary of the Legislature not specifically assigned to the Legislative Secretary, as the Legislature or the Committee on Rules shall, from time to time, and such as shall by law or these rules or rules hereinafter adopted be assigned to him.

(f) To make a detailed and itemized report to the Committee on Rules as frequently as required concerning the number of employees, the amount paid for their services, especially setting out the amount of regular time and overtime, and to whom paid.

(g) To certify to the Chief Fiscal Officer, Government of Guam payrolls of employees and attaches after approval thereof by the Committee on Rules.

(h) To certify all requisitions to the Chief Fiscal Officer of the Government of Guam, for the payment of bills incurred by the Legislature after approval thereof by the Committee on Rules.

(i) To order and sign for all documents and printing after approval thereof by the Committee on Rules.

(j) Ten days before the commencement of the first regular session of any Legislature, the Executive Secretary shall mail to each member a blank form on which the member may indicate his committee preference. Accompanying such blank shall be mailed a stamped envelope for returning such form. After their receipt, all such communications shall be delivered to the Committee on Rules duly elected at the first regular session.

Section 6. The Sergeant-at-Arms shall maintain order, under the direction of the President, execute the command of the Legislature and all processes issued by authority thereof as directed to him by the Presiding Officer.

Section 7. The Chaplain shall open each session of the Congress with

prayer.

Section 8. The Recording Secretary shall have the following duties and functions:

(a) He shall record the minutes of all sessions of the Legislature in such manner and to such extent as may be required by these rules or the order of the Speaker and Legislative Secretary.

(b) In the absence of the Executive Secretary, he shall be authorized to exercise all of the duties herein prescribed for the Executive Secretary.

Section 9. The duties of the Legislative Counsel shall be as follows:

(a) To act as Counsel for the Legislature, preparing bills, resolu

tions, and reports as requested by Legislature.

(b) To prepare bills at the request of any member.

(c) To undertake such legal research as shall be requested by the Legislature or its members.

(d) To advise the Legislature from time to time as to needed revisions of the laws of Guam and of the Rules of the Legislature.

(e) He shall in addition thereto, from time to time, present a statement to the Legislature calling attention to laws or rules which are obsolete or in conflict with other laws, resolutions, or decisions of the courts.

RULE IX

PAYMENT OF OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES

Section 1. The Chief Fiscal Officer of the Government of Guam, by whatever title he may from time to time be known, is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrants in favor of the officers, employees, and attaches of the Legislature who render services to the Legislature as certified by the Executive Secretary or his duly authorized representative as having been approved by the Committee on Rules, from the fund set aside for the pay of officers, employees, and attaches of the Legislature at the rate of compensation certified by the Executive Secretary, or his representative, and the Treasurer of Guam is hereby directed to pay the

same.

Section 2. The said chief fiscal officer is hereby authorized and directed in the same manner, to draw warrants for legislative expenditures and the Treasurer of Guam is hereby directed to pay the same.

RULE X

CONVENING AND SESSIONS

Section 1. The Legislature shall meet at two o'clock daily except Sundays, unless otherwise ordered by the Legislature.

Section 2. The Speaker, Vice-Chairman or Legislative Secretary, shall call the Legislature to order at the hour stated, and if a quorum be present, shall proceed with the order of business.

Section 3. No Legislator shall absent himself from attendance upon the Legislature without leave of the Legislature first obtained. A less number than a quorum of the Legislature is hereby authorized to send the Sergeant-at-Arms, or any other person, for any and all absent Legislators, at the expense of such absent Legislators, respectively, unless such excuse for non-attendance as shall be made to the Legislature when a quorum is convened, shall be judged sufficient, and in that case, the expense shall be paid out of the contingent fund of the Legislature. The Speaker or Acting Speaker of the Legislature, or less than a quorum present, shall have the power to issue process directly to the Sergeant-atArms, or to any other person, to compel the attendance of Legislators absent without leave. Any Legislator who shall refuse to obey such process, unless sick or unable to attend, shall be deemed guilty of contempt of the Legislature, and the Sergeant-at-Arms, or any other person to whom such process may be directed, shall have power to use such force as may be necessary to compel the attendance of such absent Legislators, and for this purpose, he may command the force of the Government of Guam. Section 4. The order of business shall be as follows:

(a) Roll call.

(b) Prayer by the Chaplain.

(c) Call for Correction of the Journal.

(d) Leaves of Absence.

(e) Privileges of the Floor.

(f) Communications and Petitions.