rule under such notice or motion, shall be held to apply only to the object specified in the notice or motion.

the floor of

51. No person, unless in the exercise of an official Who may be duty, or by invitation of the Speaker or any member of admitted to this House, shall be admitted on the floor of the House, the House. except members of the Senate, Governor, LieutenantGovernor, other State officers, Regents of the University, and such reporters as the Speaker shall designate. The privilege of admission under any invitation shall not extend beyond the day on which such invitation shall be given.

52. Standing committees, consisting of five members Standing each, shall be appointed on the following subjects:

1. Ways and means.

2. Commerce and navigation.

3. Canals.

4. Railroads.

5. Banks and insurance companies.

6. Two-third and three-fifth bills.

7. Colleges, academies and common schools.
8. Grievances.

9. Privileges and elections.

10. Petitions of aliens.

11. Erection and division of towns and counties.

12. Claims.

13. Internal affairs of towns and counties.

14. Medical societies and colleges.

15. State charitable institutions.

16. Incorporation of cities and villages.

17. Manufacture of salt.

18. Trade and manufactures.

19. State prisons.

20. Engrossed bills.

21. Militia and public defence.

22. Roads and bridges.

23. Public lands.

24. Indian affairs.

25. Charitable and religious societies.
26. Agriculture.

committees.

Motions to print to be referred.

Duty of committee on printing.

27. Expiring laws.

28. Public printing.

29. Expenditures in the Executive department. 30. Expenditures of the House; and

31. A committee on the judiciary, consisting of seven members.

And it shall be the duty of each of the several committees to inquire into the matters indicated by its name, and to report thereon to the House any information, and any bill or resolution which it may deem conducive to the public good.

53. All motions or resolutions for the printing of an extra number of any document, paper or bill, shall be referred as of course to the printing committee to report thereon.

54. It shall be the duty of the committee on public printing to examine and report on all questions of printing referred to them, and to state an approximate estimate of the cost in the particular case referred, when practicable; to examine, from time to time, and ascertain whether the prices charged for printing are in conformity to the contract therefor, and whether it is done in conformity to the orders of the House, and without unreasonable delay; to ascertain and report what number of copies ought usually to be printed, and how distributed; and to report to the House, from time to time, any measure they may deem useful for the economical and proper management of the public printing.

Duty of com- 55. It shall be the duty of the committee on expenmittee on ex- ditures of the House and in the Executive department, penditures. severally to inquire into the said expenditures, and

whether the same have been made in conformity to law, and whether proper vouchers exist for the same, and whether the funds provided for the purpose are economically applied; and to report from time to time such provisions, laws and regulations, as may conduce to economy, and secure the faithful disbursement of the moneys appropriated by law.

over.

56. Resolutions giving rise to debate (except such as What resolurelate to the disposition of matters already before the tions to lie House, and such as relate to the business of the day on which they are offered), all concurrent resolutions, and those containing calls for information from the Executive department, shall lie over one day for consideration, after which they may be called up, of course, under their appropriate order of business.

57. It shall be the duty of the committee on ways mittee on reDuty of comand means, to examine into all the departments of the trenchment. Government, whether Executive, Legislative, Judicial, or otherwise, where salaries or emoluments are given; to examine, ascertain, and report to the House what officers can be dispensed with, and what salaries or emoluments can be reduced, and how far consistent with the public good, and to take such action in regard to section eight of article seven of the Constitution of this State as may be requisite.

orders.

58. No bill or other matter shall be made a special Special order of the day for a particular day, without the assent of two-thirds of the members present. It shall not be in order to make any bill or other matter a special order of the day from day to day; nor shall more than three bills or other matters be made special orders for the same day; and no special order shall be postponed or rescinded except by a vote of two-thirds of the members present.

tures.

59. Resolutions calling for expenditure from the con- Expenditingent fund of the House, shall be referred to and reported upon by the committee on expenditures, unless the House shall designate some other committee.

of bills.

60. The clerk shall keep, in a book to be provided The clerk to for that purpose, a register of all bills introduced into keep register this House, or transmitted for concurrence from the Senate, in which he shall cause to be recorded, under appropriate heads, the progress of all such bills from the date of their introduction to the time of their transmission-if Assembly bills to the Governor, or if Senate bills their return to the Senate.

Excuse from voting.

Chamber.

61. Every member requesting to be excused from voting, may make a brief and verbal statement of the reasons for making such request, and the question shall then be taken without further debate.

Applications 62. All applications by societies or individuals for for Assembly the use of the Assembly Chamber shall lie over for one day, unless the Assembly shall otherwise order. The member making any such application may briefly suggest the reasons why it should be granted, but the decision shall be made without debate.

Time for considering

bills.

63. Tuesday and Thursday of each week, immediategeneral order ly after the reading of the journal, shall be specially set apart for the consideration of bills on the general orders; but this rule shall not be construed to prevent the consideration of the general orders on any other day, when reached in their regular order.

ORDER OF BUSINESS

IN THE

ASSEMBLY.

1. The presentation of petitions.
2. Reports of standing committees.
3. Reports of select committees.

4. Messages from the Governor.

5. Communications from the State officers. 6. Messages from the Senate.

7. Third reading of bills.

8. Notices.

9. Introduction of bills.

10. Motions and resolutions.

11. Unfinished business.

12. Special orders of the day.

13. General orders of the day; but messages from the Gov

ernor, communications from State officers, and messages from the Senate, may be received at any time.