JOINT RULES AND ORDERS OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY. MESSAGES. 1. When a message shall be sent from the senate to the assembly, it shall be announced at the door of the assembly by the sergeant-at-arms, and shall be respectfully communicated to the chair by the person by whom it may be sent. 2. The same ceremony shall be observed when a message shall be sent from the assembly to the senate. 3. Messages shall be sent by the chief clerk or his assistant in each house. REJECTED BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS. 4. When a bill or resolution which has passed in one house shall be rejected in the other, notice thereof shall be given to the house in which the same originated. A 5. When a bill or resolution, which has been passed in one house, is rejected in the other, it shall not be again brought in during the same session without a notice of five days, and leave of two-thirds of the house in which it shall be renewed. PAPERS TO ACCOMPANY BILLS. 6. Each house shall transmit to the other all papers on which any bill or resolution shall be founded. ORDER REQUESTING CONCURRENCE. 7. When a bill, resolution or memorial, shall have passed either house, and requires the concurrence of the other, it shall be transmitted to said house without entering an order upon the journal of the house in which it passed, requesting the concurrence of the other house. OF JOINT COMMITTEES. 8. The joint committees required by statute are as follows: 1. On claims.*-Five from assembly; two from senate. 2. On public printing.t-Three from assembly; two from senate. 3. On local legislation.-Three from assembly; two from senate. *See secs. 18 to 22, inclusive, of chap. 9, R. S., page 122. 10 MANUAL. VISITING COMMITTEES. 9. The committees of the two houses on state prison, and on charitable and benevolent institutions, shall act jointly in visiting the state institutions, and in reporting upon the condition of such institutions. PRINTING OF REPORTS. 10. Whenever any report of a joint committee, or other docu. ment shall be presented to both houses of the legislature, the first house acting on the same, if it shall be thought necessary to have it printed, shall order a sufficient number of copies for both branches, and shall immediately inform the other house of its action upon the subject. COMMITTEE OF CONFERENCE. 11. In all cases of disagreement between the senate and assembly, if either house shall request a conference, and appoint a committee for that purpose, the other house shall appoint a similar committee. Such committe shall, at a convenient hour, to be agreed upon by their chairman, meet in the conference chamber, and state to each other verbally, or in writing, as either shall choose, the reasons of their respective houses, for or against the disagreement, and confer freely thereon; and they shall be authorized to report for their respective houses such modifications or amendments as they may think advisable. 12. After each house shall have adhered to their disagreement, a bill or resolution shall be lost. ACTS OF A GENERAL NATURE. TITLES OF BILLS. 12. The title of every bill of a general nature shall designate the object, purpose or subject of the bill, and when such bill proposes to amend any chapter or act, the title shall read thus: "A bill relating to and amendatory of section of chapter -> of the "filling the blanks with the proper subject, section and chapter of the revised statutes or general laws, designating the same. And every bill shall recite at length every section which it proposes to amend as such section will read if amended as proposed provided, such recitation shall not be required when the proposed amendment shall only add to such section, without changing the phraseology of the original. 14. The title of all bills for repealing any act, chapter or section and have no other object, shall be as follows: of chapter of the "A bill to repeal section relating to," filling the blanks with the proper section and chapter of the revised statutes or general laws, designating the same and also the subject, object or purpose of the section or chapter repealed. And in the body of every such bill, the full title of the act repealed shall be recited at length. EACH HOUSE MAY AMEND. 15. It shall be in the power of each house to amend any amendment made by the other, to any bill, memorial or resolution. OF BILLS PASSED. ENROLLMENT OF BILLS. 16. After a bill has passed both houses, it shall be duly enrolled by or under the direction of the chief clerk of the house in which the same originated, before it shall be presented to the governor for his approval. EXAMINATION OF ENROLLED BILLS. 17. When a bill is duly enrolled, it shall be examined by the committee of the two houses on enrolled bills, acting jointly, who shall carefully compare the enrolled bill with the engrossed bill as passed in the two houses. Said committee shall correct any errors that may be discovered in the enrolled bill, and make their report forthwith to the house in which the bill originated. SIGNING OF BILLS. 18 After examination and report, each bill shall be signed in the respective houses, first by the speaker of the assembly, then by the president of the senate. PRESENTATION OF BILLS TO GOVERNOR. 19. After a bill shall have been thus signed in each house, it shall be presented by the committee on enrolled bills, to the governor for his approval, it being firs' endorsed on the back of the roll, certifying in which house the same originated, which certificate shall be signed by the chief clerk of such house. Said committees shall jointly report the day of presentation to the governor, which report shall be entered on the journal of each house. RESOLUTIONS TO TAKE THE SAME COURSE AS BILLS. 20. All orders, resolutions and votes which are to be presented to the governor for his approval, shall, also, in the same manner, be previously enrolled, examined and signed, and then presented in the same manner, and by the same committee, as is provided in case of bills. OF CLAIMS, ETC. ACCOUNTS TO BE VERIFIED. 21. No account presented shall be acted on, unless verified by affidavit of the person in whose favor the same may be. ALL PAPERS CLAIMING MONEY TO BE PRESERVED. 22. All petitions, claims, bills, accounts or demands asking for an appropriation of money, shall be preserved by the committee to whom the same may be referred; and such committee shall endorse on every such petition, claim, bill, account or demand, whether they report in favor of allowing or disallowing the same; and if in favor of allowing a part thereof, only, then the sum so reported. After such committee shall have reported upon the same, such petition, claim, bill, account or demand, and every one of them, shall be delivered to the chief clerk of the house in which the same was first presented, to be filed by such clerk, and delivered, at the close of the session to the secretary of state. RESOLUTIONS APPROPRIATING MONEY. 23. Resolutions involving the appropriation of money for printing the governor's message, or other public documents, shall receive the joint concurrence of the two houses. JOINT CONVENTION, ETC. 24. Whenever there shall be a joint convention of the two houses, the proceedings shall be entered at length upon the journal of each house. The lieutenant-governor or president of the senate shall preside over such joint convention, and the chief clerk of the senate shall act as clerk thereof, assisted by the chief clerk of the assembly: provided, that the lieutenant-governor shall not act in said convention except as the presiding officer, and in no case shall have the right to give the casting vote. ADJOURNMENT. 25. Neither house shall adjourn during any session thereof, without the consent of the other, for a longer period than three days. MANUAL OF CUSTOMS, PRECEDENTS AND FORMS ORGANIZATION. The legislature convenes at 12 o'clock, m., on the second Wednesday of January in each year. Custom, so prevalent and so ancient as to have the force of law, has made it the duty of the chief clerk of the previous assembly to call to order, and to conduct the proceedings generally, until a speaker is chosen. The secretary of state furnishes to the clerk a certified statement of the names of the members elect, which is read. The members then advance to the clerk's desk, generally the delegation of each county by itself, and subscribe the oath of office. It often happens, that by neglect of the proper county officer, to return the proceedings of the county canvassers, some members find their election not to be on record in the secretary's office. In such case, the certificate held by the member himself, should be produced to the clerk. This answers every purpose, and should always be secured by members elect, from the clerk of their county. The oath of office is then administered to the members elect. It may be administered by the speaker, the president of the senate, the governor, secretary of state, attorney general, or any of the judges of the supreme court. It has been administered in this state usually, by one of the judges. Members coming in after the first day of the session are sworn in by the speaker. After all are sworn, the roll is called, when, if a quorum is found present, the clerk declares the house to be qualified and competent to proceed to business. If the parties in the assembly have determined their choice for officers, the election proceeds forthwith; if not, an adjournment, is had until the next day. The election for speaker, clerk and sergeant-at-arms, is required to be viva voce, and these are the only officers which the assembly can fill. The roll is called and each member announces audibly the name of the candidate of his choice. The clerk announces the result, and names a committee to conduct the speaker elect to the chair; the other elections proceed in the same manner, except that when the result is announced by the speaker, the officer elect advances to the clerk's desk and is sworn in by the speaker. |