Public printing, divisions of 484 exemption from act. Repeal certain acts and parts of act. Reservation, certain contracts exempted from Right to annul contracts. Secretary of State, member of printing board. printing board may reject proposals THE CLERK'S MANUAL OPENING PROCEEDINGS AND ORGANIZATION OF THE TWO HOUSES The Constitution provides (Art. X, § 6) that the Legislature shall, every year, assemble on the first Wednesday in January. The place is designated by law as the Capitol in the City of Albany." Usage has established twelve o'clock noon as the hour of meeting, and the meeting hour thereafter is fixed by resolution of each house at eleven o'clock a. m. Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, ten o'clock a. m. Fridays and 8.30 p. m. Mendays. In the Senate On the day appointed by the Constitution, and at the hour which usage has established, the LieutenantGovernor, ex officio President of the Senate, takes the chair, and calls to order. Such as are present of the Senators elect, if it be a new Senate, as have not already taken, subscribed and filed the oath in the office of the Secretary of State, take and subscribe the oath enjoined by the Constitution [Art. XIII, § 1] which is administered by the Lieutenant-Governor - the Clerk of the previous Senate acting as such, and calling the roll from the official list furnished by the Secretary of State. |