Withdrawal be reduced to writing, if the Speaker or any member desires it. 19. After a motion is stated by the Speaker, it shall of the same. be deemed to be in the possession of the House, but may be withdrawn at any time before a decision or amendment. Division of questions. Filling blanks. Motions when receivable. Motion for previous question. Previous question. 20. If the question in debate contain several distinct propositions, the same shall be divided by the chair at the request of any member; but a motion to strike out and insert shall be indivisible. 21. When a blank is to be filled, and different sums or times are proposed, the question shall first be put on the largest sum and longest time. 22. When a question is under debate, no motion shall be received unless for an adjournment of the House, a call of the House for previous question, to postpone it indefinitely, to postpone it to a certain day, to lay it on the table, to commit it, or to amend it; these several motions shall have precedence in the order in which they are here stated. 23. A motion to lay a question on the table shall be decided without amendment or debate; a motion to commit until it is decided, shall preclude all amendment and debate of the main question; and a motion to postpone a question indefinitely, or to adjourn it to a day certain, until it is decided, shall preclude all amendment of the main question. 24. The "previous question" shall be as follows: "Shall the main question be now put ?" and until it is decided, shall preclude all amendment or debate. When on taking the previous question, the House shall decide that the main question shall not now be put, the main question shall be considered as still remaining under debate. The "main question" shall be on the passage of the bill, resolution, or other matter under consideration; but in cases where there shall be pending amendments that have been adopted in committee of the whole, and not acted on in the House, the question shall first be taken upon such amendments in their order, and without further debate or amendment. 25. A motion to adjourn the House shall always be Adjournin order, and decided without debate. ment. 26. In all cases where a bill, order, resolution or Entries on motion shall be entered on the journal of the House, journal. the name of the member moving the same shall also be entered on the journal. 27. If any ten members require it, the ayes and nays Ayes and upon any question shall be taken and entered upon the noes entered journal. ment of 28. All committees shall be appointed by the Speak- Appointer, unless otherwise especially directed by the House. committees. 29. All committees to whom private claims are re- Select comferred, shall in all cases report, in writing, a state of mittees. facts, with their opinion thereon. 30. Every bill originating in the House, shall be in- Introduction troduced by leave on motion, or by an order of the of bills. House, or of a report of a committee. One day's notice at least shall be given of a motion for leave to bring in a bill unless the House otherwise unanimously allow ; such notice shall specify the subject matter of such bill; and all resolutions of reference and instruction to committees shall state the subject to be referred. 31. All bills brought into this House by any member Endorseor committee, shall be endorsed with the name of the ment. member or committee bringing in the same; all bills introduced by members on leave shall be referred to Reference. one of the standing committees, or to a select committee, to consider and report thereon; such committee may report in favor of such bill, either with or without amendments, or they may report against the same; and where a bill shall be reported against by a committee, and the report agreed to by the House, the bill shall be considered as rejected, and shall not go upon the General Orders. 32. The titles of all bills introduced into the House Titles of bills for repealing, modifying, or amending any existing law, to repeal for mer acts. shall state concisely the subject matter sought to be smended modified or repealed. 33. No private bill shall be brought into this House, bat upon a memorial or petition presented to the House, and signed by the party or parties praying for such b except by the special order of the House. 34. No bill shall be committed or amended until it has been twice read. 35. Every message from the Senate, communicating any bill for the concurrence of this House, shall, with the accompanying documents, if any, be referred to a standing or select committee, to consider and report thereon དེ ན ནྟི ཏི བྷཱཝོ། སུ ཙིཏྟཏྟཱ ཙཏོ ། ཏཱ ས ཏཱན $6. All amendments by the Senate to bills which statuets have passed this House, shall be referred to a standing # The SemIS or select committee, to examine and report thereon, unless the House shall otherwise expressly order or slow. $7. In forming a committee of the whole House, the *de whole Speaker shall leave the chair, and shall appoint a chairman to preside. $8. The rules of the House shall be observed in the observed by committee of the whole so far as may be applicable, except limiting the number of times of speaking, and except that the ayes and noes shall not be taken, and excepting also, that a motion to rise and report progress shall always be in order. Such committee may strike out the enacting clause of a bill, and report that fact to the House; and if the report be agreed to by the House, it shall be deemed a rejection of the bill. Order of $9. Bills committed to a committee of the whole proceedings House, shall, in committee of the whole thereon, be first read through, unless the committee shall otherwise order, and then read and debated by sections, leaving the title to be last considered. All amendments shall be noted on a separate piece of paper, or on the margin of the bill under consideration; and reported to the House by the chairman of the committee of the whole; after the report, the bill shall be still subject to debate and amendment before the question to engross is put; and such amendments only shall be in order as were offered and decided in committee of the whole House. from Senate. 40. A similar mode of proceeding shall be observed on bills, etc., with bills which have originated in the Senate, as with bills originating in this House. 41. If, at any time when in committee of the whole Absence of House, there be not present a quorum to do business, quorum. the chairman shall immediately report the fact to the Speaker. 42. On a motion in committee of the whole House to Motion to rise and rise and report progress, the question shall be decided report. without debate. 43. Every bill shall receive three several readings Bills to reprevious to its being passed; and the second and third ceive three readings. reading shall be on different days; and the third reading shall be on a day subsequent to that on which the bill passed in committee of the whole House, unless the House, by a vote of two-thirds of the members present, direct otherwise; and the question on the final passage of a bill shall be taken immediately after such third reading, and without debate; and no bill shall be read the last time, unless it shall have been once printed, without the consent of two-thirds of the members present. bills. 44. The duty of "The Committee on Engrossed Committees Bills," shall be carefully to examine all the bills passed on engrossed by this House, and see that the same are correctly engrossed, and report the same to the House before they are signed by the Speaker. 45. Reports from the committee on engrossed bills Reports shall at all times be in order, and have the preference always in to any other business. order. 46. When a bill passes the House, the Speaker shall Speaker to certify the same, with the date thereof, together with certify bills. the fact whether passed as a majority, two-thirds, or three-fifths bill, as required either by the Constitution or laws of this State. Motions to reconsider. Two-thirds. 47. No motion for reconsideration shall be in order unless on the same day or day following that on which the decision proposed to be reconsidered took place; nor unless one of the majority shall move such reconsideration. A motion for reconsideration being put and lost, shall not be renewed; nor shall any subject or vote be a second time reconsidered without unanimous consent. 48. Upon a motion to reconsider the vote on the final passage of any bill, a majority of all the members elected to the House shall be required to reconsider the same; and on a motion to reconsider the vote on the final passage of any bill requiring the assent of two-thirds of all the members elected to this House, two-thirds of the members elected to the House shall be required to reReconsider consider the same. But the vote on the final passage ing two-third of any bill creating, continuing, altering, or renewing any incorporation, other than municipal, or in favor of any private claim, shall not be reconsidered whenever such bill shall be lost. bills. Committee bills. 49. A standing committee of five members shall be on two-third appointed on bills coming within the 9th section of the first article, and 14th section of article seven of the Constitution of this State; and when any bill shall have passed in committee of the whole House, on which the Speaker may entertain doubts whether it comes within the provision of either of the said sections, it shall be referred to the said committee to examine and report thereon, before the question on the final passage shall be taken. Altering rules. 50. A standing rule or order of this House may be suspended, changed or rescinded, upon one day's previous notice being given of the motion therefor, by a vote of a majority of all the members elected. It may also be suspended without notice by a vote of threefourths of all the members present. Such notice or motion shall, in all cases, state specifically the object of the suspension; and every case of the suspension of a |