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JOINT RULES

OF THE

SENATE AND ASSEMBLY.

1st. Each House shall transmit to the other, all pa- Papers to be pers on which any bill or resolution shall be founded.

transmitted.

2d. When a bill or resolution which shall have Bills rejecpassed in one House is rejected in the other, notice ted. thereof shall be given to the House in which the same may have passed.

the clerks.

3d. Messages from one House to the other, shall be Messages communicated by the respective clerks of each House, delivered by unless the House transmitting the message shall especially direct otherwise.

4th. It shall be in the power of either House to amend Amendany amendment made by the other to any bill or reso- ments.

lution.

committees

5th. In every case of difference between the two In case of Houses, upon any subject of legislation, either House may difference, request a conference, and appoint a committee for that to be appurpose, and the other shall also appoint a committee pointed. 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. The papers shall be left with the conferees of the House assenting to such conference,

Matters of difference; how settled.

Bills when

and they shall present the report of the committee to their House. When such House shall have acted thereon, they shall transmit the same, and the papers relating thereto, to the other, with a message certifying its action thereon.

6th. It shall be in order for either House to recede from any subject matter of difference, subsisting between the two Houses, at any 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.

7th. After each House shall have adhered to their deemed lost. 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.

Joint committees.

Final reading of bills.

8th. 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.

9th. 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, which shall have been passed in either House, shall be in readiness for final reading in the other House, such House shall assign a day for the final reading of such bills, which day shall be within one week thereafter. At the time appointed, such House shall proceed to the final reading of said 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, in either House, by the vote of a majority of all the members elected to the same, be suspended, or laid on the table). In all cases where a bill shall be 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 the vote of a majority of the members pre

sent.

create more

10th. The same bill shall not, specially or by name, No bill shall create, renew, or continue more than one incorporation, than one in nor contain any provisions in relation to the altering of corporation. 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.

certified and

11th. Whenever there shall be an election of officers Election of by the two Houses, the result shall be certified by the officers to be President of the Senate and Speaker of the Assembly, reported by and shall be reported by the presiding officer of each presiding 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.

officers.

and docu

12th. There shall be printed, of course, and without Usual numorder, 340 copies of all original bills reported by com- ber of bills mittees of either House; and 800 copies of all messages ments to be from the Governor (except messages certifying his ap- printed. proval of bills), all reports of standing or select committees, and all reports or communications made in pursuance of law; which number shall be denominated the usual number.

books.

13th. Neither House shall order the printing of more Printing. than the usual number of any document, other than such as may originate in, or be communicated in pursuance of law, to the House, ordering the printing of the same; nor shall any book be purchased or printed Purchase of by order of either House for the use of its members, except books for the use of its standing committees, and for its library; and all orders to print documents not communicated to, or originating in one of the branches of the Legislature, and all orders for the printing or purchasing books for the use of members or for distribution, except as aforesaid, shall be by joint resolution, upon which the ayes and noes shall be called, and which

Documents

both Houses.

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 contract for doing 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.

14th. When a document shall be ordered to be printordered by ed by both Houses, it shall be regarded as but one order calling for the usual number only, unless otherwise expressly directed by either House.

Extra numbers.

Orders to

at close of

15th. When an extra number shall be ordered, it shall be done by specifying the number for each member. The Governor and State officers shall each have the same number as the members; and a specified number may be added for any committee, officer, or author of a document.

16th. Orders to print, unexecuted, expire at the close print expire of the session; and no documents shall be printed or delivered, after the final adjournment, unless printed under some law, or concurrent resolution of the Senate and Assembly.

session.

Sergeant-atarms to re

matter.

17th. The sergeant-at-arms of each House shall receive from the printer all matter ordered by the receive printed spective 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 upon the desks of the members. 18th. The bills and documents, when printed, shall be distributed as follows:

Distribution of the bills and documents when printed.

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