named, the question shall be taken in the following order, viz: the Committee of the Whole; Standing Committees; a Select Committee.

RULE XL.

Subject to the exceptions contained in the five rules next preceding, the question first moved shall be first put.

RULE XLI.

Any Member may, without debate, call for the division of a question, and the House may divide it if it shall appear to comprehend questions so distinct, that one being taken away, the rest may stand entire for decision. A motion to strike out and insert, shall be deemed indivisible; but a motion to strike out being lost, shall not be deemed equivalent to agreement, nor shall it preclude either amendment or a motion to strike out and insert.

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to take up any matter in the orders of the day not regularly reached; to proceed to the orders of the day;

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to discharge, lay aside for the day, depart from, or suspend the

orders;

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to postpone indefinitely, or to a day beyond the session

to adjourn a debate;

shall be decided without debate, after such short conversations as the Speaker may permit.

No motion to lay on the table;

to proceed to the general orders of the day; or 66 to commit,

having been negatived, shall be again allowed at the same stage of the bill or proposition, within one hour of the time when the question was before negatived.

RULE XLIII.

Motions for adjournment, shall always be in order,"except whilst the house is actually engaged in deciding a question by ayes and noes, or in ballotting; but a motion to adjourn having been negatived, no new motion to adjourn shall be in order until fifteen minutes shall have elapsed from the decision of the former motion.

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RULE XLIV.

Indefinite postponement shall dispose of the question for the session.

RULE XLV.

When a question shall have been once decided, in the affirmative or negative, any Member who voted in the majority, may, on the same day, or the next day of the sitting of the House, move for a re-consideration thereof; provided, that the bill, resolution, message, report, amendment, motion, or other paper, upon which the vote was taken, shall not have gone out of the posses sion of the House, announcing the former decision.

RULE XLVI.

The first reading of a bill shall be for information-no amendment shall then be in order. If opposition be then made to the bill, the question shall be, "Shall this bill be rejected?" If no opposition be made, or if the question to reject be lost, the bill shall be ordered for a second reading without a question.

RULE XLVII.

When a bill shall be taken up for a second reading, and not before, it shall be referred to some Committee, unless the House unanimously agree, without debate, to dispense with a reference.

RULE XLVIII.

The second reading of a bill shall be clause by clause-recurrences not being allowed, unless by leave of the House, upon motion, without debate. After the bill shall have been read, and all amendments and privileged motions (if any) disposed of, the question shall be, upon a bill originating in the House, "Shall this bill be sent to the Senate?" Upon a bill which came from the Senate, "Shall this bill be returned to the Senate?" Upon a decision in the affirmative, the order shall be made accordingly—a decision in the negative, shall be a rejection.

RULE XLIX.

At the third reading of a bill, the bill shall be read entire, without question, except that the Speaker shall call the attention of the House, to amendments made by the Senate, since the second reading in the House, and shall take the vote of the House upon any such amendment, either when the amendment is reached, or at the end of the clause into which it shall have been introduced. The question then shall be, in the case of a bill which originated in the House, "Shall this bill pass?" A decision in the negative, shall be a rejection: upon a decision in the affirmative, the order shall be made without question, that the title of the bill be changed, and that it be called an act, and sent to the Senate. In the case of a bill which originated in the 'Senate, the question shall be, “Shall this act pass?" A decision in the negative, shall be a rejec

tion. Upon a decision in the affirmative, the order shall be made without question, that the act be returned to the Senate.

RULE L.

An Act which originated in the House, having been returned from the Senate, after its passage, shall be committed to the Committee on Engrossing Acts.

RULE LI.

At the third reading of a bill, no rider or amendment, shall be permitted without unanimous consent, except that the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means may, (if he shall have given notice at the second reading, of his intention to offer amendments at the third,) be permitted to offer amendments to any bill to raise supplies, or to make appropriations, such as may be pertinent to the bill: and provided that the House may, in its discre tion, commit or re-commit any bill at its third reading; and in such case, there shall go with the bill, to the Committee, any amendments which any Member, at the second reading, may have given written notice of his intention to offer at the third reading: and after the Report of the Committee, any amendment which it shall recommend, may be adopted.

RULE LII.

No bill shall be read a third time, on the day fixed for the adjournment of the Legislature.

RULE LIII.

All bills reported by a Committee, shall of course be printed, together with the Report of the Committee, unless the House shall specially dispense. with printing: no other paper shall be printed without the order of the House.

RULE LIV.

Any bill, report, petition, or other paper, which may come before the House, may be committed or re-committed before a final decision thereon.

The Speaker may, whenever he may think it necessary, order any bill, after its second reading, or any resolution, report, or other paper, which has been under consideration, to be fairly engrossed.

RULE LVI.

No motion or proposition on a subject materially different from that under

consideration, shall be admitted under color of amendment; and no clause shall be inserted or introduced into a bill, which does not relate to the general objects of the bill,

RULE LVII.

Orders of the Day shall be special or general: Special, when a particular day, at a páticular hour, may be specially appointed, for a particular matter: General, when a matter is ordered for consideration or action, on a day subsequent, without special preference given to it. Any member may insist upon a special order of the day, or other special order, until it be discharged. A general Order of the Day shall always require the special assent of the House, before it be proceeded in or executed.

RULE LVIII.

Every bill which shall be ordered for a second reading; every report of a Committee, and every original resolution received from any member, shall be ordered for consideration on the next day of sitting after the order, and shall be placed in its turn in the general Orders of the Day; and each paper in the general orders, shall have priority according to the date of the last order for consideration made upon it: Except, that the House may make a special order for the consideration of any subject, on any day subsequent; or may agree to take up any matter in the Orders of the Day, before it be reached in order; or may consider any report or resolution on the day it may be submitted, provided TEN Members do not signify objections to doing so by rising, when called on for that purpose, if a proposition so to consider be made to the House; and except that, a bill reported by a Committee shall be read a first time when the report may be received, and ordered for consideration along with the report ; and that a report made by the committee of Privileges and Elections, on any question relating to elections, may be considered whenever the House may di. rect; and that a report of Committee of the Whole, or of the Committee of Engrossed Acts, or of a Committee of Conference, may be considered whenever the House shall direct.

RULE LIX.

All questions as to priority of business, or as to the time when any matter shall be considered, or ordered for consideration, and as to a departure from the regular order of business, shall be decided without debate.

RULE LX.

When the House shall not direct a different course, which, at any time, in any particular not forbidden by these Rules, it may do, the following order of business shall be enforced every day, by the Speaker, unless departed from by leave of the House :

1. After the reading of the Journals, the Speaker shall present to the House communications on the Speaker's table, intended to give information, or to be referred; messages and papers from the Senate, requring immediate

action, or not likely to lead to debate, including of course, reports from the House, concurred in by the Senate, and returned; bills twice read in the Senate, and to be read a first time in the House; reports from the Senate, to be referred in the House, or laid on the table, until reports of the House on the same subjects, are to be considered; Acts to be committed to the Engrossing Committee.

2. The Speaker shall call for petitions, memorials, presentments of Grand Juries, returns of Commissioners, and such like papers, to be presented by Members and disposed of.

3. The Speaker may, on any day, and shall, on Tuesdays and Fridays, call for reports of Committees: first the Standing, then the Special Committees. 4. The Speaker shall call for resolutions, bills and motions, to be presented by individual Members.

5. The Speaker shall present any messages or papers from the Senate, on subjects likely to produce division in the House, which, without hindrance of business, may be delayed until this time; and bills requiring a third reading.

6. The House not ordering to the contrary, the orders of the day shall be taken up at the beginning, or at the point where they were last interrupted, and be continued until the House adjourn; or direct these orders to be suspended, or departed from, for the purpose of taking up some other matter.

7. The Orders of the Day having been disposed of, or laid aside, and no special direction for other business having been given by the House, the Speaker shall call for motions to take up matters on the table.

RULE LXI.

A motion to take up any matter which lies on the table, may be made, either when the Speaker calls for motions, or when he calls for motions to take up matters on the table, if the matter be such as should not properly be in the Orders of the day.

But if the matter be such as has been in the Orders of the Day, or would regularly have been placed there, if not laid on the table, a motion to take it up, shall be made only when motions to take up matters on the table, have been called for: EXCEPT as follows:

At any time when no question is before the House, a motion to take up any matter on the the table, may be made by unanimous consent:

A motion to take up from the table any matter, may be made, whensoever a subject with which it is proper to be considered, is presented for consideration:

A motion may at any time, when the House is not engaged upon another question, be made to take up a bill, or other paper, for the purpose of placing it in the Orders of the Day, or of referring it, or of making an order relating to the printing of it:

At any time when the House is engaged in the orders of the day, a motion may be made to take up any matter, which having been in the orders of the day, was laid on the table, when called for consideration in the course of the orders:

A motion to take up any matter on the table, or to take up any matter not reached in the Orders of the Day, having been negatived, shall not be renewed within one hour, if objection be made.