Resolutions.

RULE 52. Certain, to lay over one day.

RULE 53. Referring to printing extra copies, etc., to be referred to committee on public printing.

RULE 54. Calling for or leading to expenditures, to be referred.

Previous Question.

RULE 55. How put; to preclude amendments or debates; "main question;" amendments.

Of the Assembly Chamber, and the Privileges of Admission to the Floor thereof.

RULE 56. Use of, may be granted to State agricultural and other societies; application not to be entertained without unanimous consent.

RULE 57. Who may be admitted to floor of the house.

Miscellaneous Provisions.

RULE 58. Proceedings in absence of quorum.

RULE 59. When questions deemed lost.

RULE 60. When questions to be divided.

RULE 61. Where a bill, motion, etc., is entered on journal, name of member also to be entered.

RULE 62. Yeas and nays, when may be taken.

RULE 63. Journal to be printed and laid on table within two days after approval.

RULE 64. Reporters; clerk not to issue orders for stationery to reporters who are also reporters for the senate.

RULE 65. Standing rules may not be suspended or rescinded, except on notice; notice of suspension, what to contain.

RULE 66. Speaker to appoint clerks and messengers of certain committees.

RULE 67. Persons privileged to use of clerk's desk during sessions of house.

RULE 68. Proceedings before bar of the house for adjudged breach of its privileges.

RULE 69. Pages; but sixteen allowed upon the floor at any one time; to be furnished with badge.

RULE 70. Stenographer; duties of.

RULE 71. Questions of order; decisions upon, to be printed at ciose of journal.

RULE 2. Member asking to be excused from voting may have two minutes to explain.

CHAPTER I.

OF THE POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE SPEAKER.

RULE 1. The speaker shall take the chair each day at the hour to which the house shall have adjourned. He shall call to order, and, except in the absence of a quorum, shall proceed to business in the manner prescribed by these rules.

RULE 2. He shall possess the powers and perform the duties herein prescribed, viz.:

1. He shall preserve order and decorum.

2. He shall decide all questions of order, subject to appeal to the house. On every appeal he shall have the right, in his place, to assign his reason for his decision.

3. He shall appoint all committees, except where the house shall otherwise order.

4. He may substitute any member to perform the duties of the chair for a period not exceeding two consecutive legislative days, but for no longer period, except by special consent of the house. 5. When the house shall be ready to go into committee of the whole, he shall name a chairman to preside therein.

6. He shall certify the passage of all bills by the house, with the date thereof, together with the fact whether passed as a majority, three-fifths or two-thirds bills, as required either by the constitution or laws of this State.

7. He shall designate the persons who shall act as reporters for the public press, not exceeding twenty-three in number; but no reporter shall be admitted to the floor who is not an authorized representative of a daily paper. Such reporters, so appointed, shall be entitled to such seats as the speaker shall designate, and shall have the right to pass to and from such seats in entering and leaving the assembly chamber.

8. In case of any disturbance or disorderly conduct in the galleries or lobby, the speaker shall have power to order the same to be cleared.

CHAPTER II.

OF THE ORDER OF BUSINESS.

RULE 3. The first business of each day's session shall be the reading of the journal of the preceding day, and the correction of any errors that may be found to exist therein. After which, except on days and at times set apart for the consideration of general or special orders, the order of

business, which shall not be departed from, except by unanimous consent of the house, shall be as follows, viz.:

1. Introduction of bills by counties, in alphabetical order. 2. Reports of standing committees in the order in which the committees are stated in rule fourteen.

3. Presentation of petitions by counties, in alphabetical order. 4. Motions and resolutions, to be called for by counties in reverse order.

5. Reports of select committees.

6. Third reading of bills.

7. The preferred calendar of general orders. 8. Unfinished business of the general orders. 9. Special orders of the day.

10. General orders.

Messages from the governor and from the senate, communications from state officers, and reports from the committees on engrossed bills and public printing and sub-committee of the whole, may be received under any order of busi

ness.

CHAPTER III.

OF THE RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF MEMBERS.

RULE 4. Petitions, memorials, and any other papers addressed to the house, shall be presented by the speaker, or by any member in his place.

RULE 5. Every member presenting a paper shall indorse the same; if a petition, memorial, or report to the legislature, with a brief statement of its subject or contents, adding his name; if a notice or resolution, with his name ; if a report of a committee, a statement of such report, with the name of the committee and members making the same; if a bill, a statement of its title, with his name.

RULE 6. Every member who shall be within the bar of the house when a question is stated from the chair, shall vote thereon, unless he be excused by the house, or unless he be directly interested in the question; but no member shall be obliged to vote on any question unless within the bar when his name is called. The bar of the house shall be deemed to include the body of the assembly chamber.

CHAPTER IV.

OF ORDER AND DECORUM.

RULE 7. No member rising to debate, to give a notice, make a motion or report, or to present a petition or other paper, shall proceed until he shall have addressed the speaker, and have been recognized by him.

RULE 8. While a member is speaking, no member shall entertain any private discourse or pass between him and the chair.

RULE 9. While the speaker is putting a question, or a count is being had, no member shall leave his place.

RULE 10. When a motion to adjourn is carried, the members and officers shall keep their seats and places until the speaker declares the house adjourned.

CHAPTER V.

OF ORDER IN DEBATE.

RULE 11. No member shall speak more than once to the same general question, without leave of the house, until every member desiring to speak on the question pending shall have spoken.

RULE 12. If any member, in speaking, transgress the rules of the house, the speaker, or any member, may call to order, in which case the member so called to order shall immediately sit down, and shall not rise unless to explain or proceed in order.

RULE 13. All questions relating to the priority of business, that is, the priority of one question or subject-matter over another, under the same order of business, shall be decided without debate.

CHAPTER VI.

ON COMMITTEES AND THEIR DUTIES.

RULE 14. The standing committees shall be as follows, viz. :

20. Game laws.

21. State prisons.

22. State charitable institutions.

23. Privileges and elections.

24. Civil divisions.

25. Trade and manufactures.

26. Manufacture of salt.

27. Public lands.

28. Agricultural.

29. Indian affairs.

30. Petitions of aliens.

31. Two-thirds and three-fifths bills.

32. Engrossed bills.

33. Grievances.

34. Expenditures of the house.

35. Expenditures of the executive department.

To consist each, of five members:

36. Rules.

37. Joint library.

38. There shall be also, a committee on "general orders," to be called the "sub-committee of the whole," to consist of sixteen members, viz.: two from each judicial district of the state; whose duties are defined in rule

40.