Nominations. Admission within the bar. Books and stationery. Committee 31. The Senate shall go into the consideration of executive business on such days as may from time to time be deemed necessary. All nominations for the appointment of any officer shall be referred to a committee consisting of the Senators from the judicial district within which the nominee resides; and a future day for the consideration of all nominations shall be assigned, and the consent of the Senate to the appointment of any officer shall not be transmitted in less than one week thereafter, without the unanimous consent of the Senate; and while any nomination remains with the Senate, it shall be in order to reconsider any vote taken thereon. 32. No person is to be admitted within the bar of the Senate, except gentlemen with ladies, the Governor and Lieutenant Governor, former Governors and Lieutenant Governors, former Chancellors, Justices of the Court of Appeals, Justices of the Supreme Court, former Justices of the Supreme Court, Members of Congress, former Members of Congress, Members of the Legislature, former Members of the Legislature, State Officers, Governor's Private and Military Secretary, the Adjutant-General, Officers of the Senate, Officers of the Assembly, Reporters of the Senate, persons introduced by Senators. 33. None but the President, members and clerk shall be allowed to take any books or stationery, belonging to the Senate, from their chamber; and on taking books, each of the persons above mentioned shall furnish to the clerk a list of those taken, and his name, and shall be responsible for them; and the clerk shall take care that once in each week the books provided for the use of the Senate shall be placed in order, according to some fixed arrangement; and he shall make report to the president of such books as are missing. 34. The committee on engrossed bills shall examine on engrossed all bills, amendments and resolutions, before they go bills. out of possession of the Senate, and make report when they find them correctly engrossed; reports from the committee on engrossed bills shall at all times be in order. And the clerk of the Senate shall present such bills as shall have originated in the Senate, and been passed by both houses, to the Governor, and enter the same upon the journals. 35. All concurrent resolutions shall lie one day on Concurrent the table. 36. When a bill shall be reported by a committee (except the committee on engrossed bills) and not otherwise disposed of, the question shall be: "Shall the report be agreed to?" And when the report, if favorable, shall be agreed to, or when a bill be twice read, and not otherwise disposed of, the question shall be: "Shall such bill be engrossed and read a third time?" Upon such question, the merits of the bill may be debated, and a motion to commit or recommit, or lay on the table, or to postpone to a future day, shall be in order. If such question be decided in the negative, such bill shall be deemed lost; but if it be decided in the affirmative, such bill shall, at the pleasure of the Senate, be read a third time, and the final question shall be taken thereon, immediately after such third reading, and without debate. 37. The question on the final passage of every bill shall be taken by ayes and noes, which shall be entered on the journal; and unless the bill receives the number of votes required by the Constitution to pass it, it shall be declared lost, except in cases provided by the 38th rule. 38. If on taking the final question on a bill, it shall appear that a constitutional quorum is not present, or if the bill require a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to pass it, and it appears that such number is not present, the bill shall be laid on the table, and shall be again read, and the final question taken thereon, as provided in the 37th rule, at such time as the Senate shall order. V resolutions. 39. It shall be the duty of the Sergeant-at-Arms to have the documents and bills upon the files of the President and Senators, placed in the order of their numbers; and for this purpose the messengers shall be subject to his direction. 40. No rule of the Senate shall be altered, suspended or rescinded, without a vote of a majority of all the members present, of the Senate; and no motion to suspend, alter or rescind any such rule, or any joint rule of the two houses, shall be in order without the unanimous consent of the Senate, unless one day's previous notice thereof shall have been given. 41. Every report of a committee upon a bill which shall not be considered at the time of making the same, or laid on the table by a vote of the Senate, shall stand upon the General Orders with the bill, in the place in which the bill was placed thereon, and subject to the provisions of the fourth rule; but if a bill is made the special order of any day, and shall on that day be reported by a committee of the whole, the report may be forthwith considered, unless the Senate shall otherwise order; and if not finished on that day, the bill with the report shall retain its place on the General Orders, unless made the special order for another day. 42. The President shall assign to the door-keepers their respective duties and stations. ORDER OF BUSINESS IN THE SENATE. 1. The Presentation of Petitions. 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 Governor and Assembly, and Communications and Reports from State |