ments have been adopted in committee of the whole, and not acted on in the house, the question shall be taken upon such amendments in like order, and, if the previous question has been ordered, without further debate or amendment.

CHAPTER XIII.

OF THE ASSEMBLY CHAMBER AND THE PRIVILEGES OF ADMISSION TO THE FLOOR THEREOF.

RULE 56. The use of the assembly chamber may be granted to the State agricultural society, the State medical society, and such other societies as are required by law to report to the Legislature. No application for the use of the chamber for any other purpose shall be entertained without the unanimous consent of the house.

RULE 57. The following classes of persons shall be entitled to admission to the floor of the house during the session thereof, viz.:

1. The Governor and Lieutenant-Governor.

2. The members of the senate.

3. The State officers and their deputies.

4. The regents of the university.

5. The capitol commissioners.

6. Persons in the exercise of an official duty directly connected with the business of the house.

7. The reporters for the press, as provided by subdivision seven of rule two. See subdivision 7 of rule 2.

8. Ex-speakers of the assembly.

No other person shall be admitted to the floor during the session, except upon the permission of the speaker; and persons so admitted shall be allowed to occupy places only in the seats in the rear of the assembly chamber. All permits granted by the speaker may be revoked by him at pleasure, or upon the order of the house.

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CHAPTER XIV.

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.

RULE 58. In all cases of the absence of a quorum during the session of the house, the members present may take such measures as they shall deem necessary to secure the presence of a quorum, and may inflict such censure or pecuniary penalty as they may deem just, on those who, on being called on for that purpose, shall render no sufficient excuse for their absence.

RULE 59. When the house shall be equally divided on any question, including the speaker's vote, the question shall be deemed to be lost.

RULE 60. If any question contains several distinct propositions, it shall be divided by the chair, at the request of any member, but a motion to strike out and insert shall be indivisible.

RULE 61. In all cases where a bill, order, motion or resolution shall be entered on the journal, the name of the member introducing or moving the same shall also be entered on the journal.

RULE 62. The yeas and nays may be taken on any question whenever so required by any ten members (unless a division by yeas and nays be already pending), and when so taken, shall be entered on the journal.

RULE 63. The journal of each day's proceedings of the house shall be printed, so that it shall be laid on the tables of members within two days after its approval, and the sergeant-at-arms shall cause the printed journals to be kept on files in the same manner as other printed documents.

RULE 64. No reporter for the assembly, who has an appointment as reporter in the senate, shall receive any order for stationery from the clerk of the assembly.

RULE 65. No standing rule or order of the house shall be changed, suspended or rescinded unless one day's notice shall have been given of the motion therefor, nor shall such change be made unless by a vote of a majority of all the members elected to the assembly; any such rule or order, however, may be suspended by unanimous consent But such notice shall not be necessary on the last day of the session. The notice and motion shall in all cases state specifically the object of the suspension, and every case of suspension of a rule under such notice and motion shall be held to apply only to the object specified therein. Nor shall the forty-second rule, as far as it applies to any bill requiring a two-thirds vote, be altered, rescinded or sus pended, unless two-thirds of all the members elected to the house agree to such alteration, rescinding or suspend ing. Notice of a motion to suspend a rule shall be given under the order of business in which the matter proposed to be advanced by the suspension shall stand.

RULE 66. The following committees shall each be entitled to one clerk and messenger; to be appointed by the speaker:

1. Ways and means,

2. Judiciary.

3. Cities.

4. Canals.

5. Railroads.

6. Commerce and navigation.

And the following committees shall each be entitled to one clerk and messenger jointly:

7. Insurance, two-thirds and three-fifths bills, game laws and rules.

8. Banks, general laws, agriculture, and expenditures of the executive department.

9. Claims, state prisons, and Indian affairs.

10. Internal affairs, and charitable and religious societies. 11. Public education, joint library, and expenditures of the house.

12. Roads and bridges, and affairs of villages.

13. Public printing, militia, and civil divisions.

14. Trade and manufacture, grievances, and manufacture of salt.

15. Public health, petitions of aliens, and State charitable institutions.

16. Privileges and elections, federal relations, and public lands.

RULE 67. No persons, except members of the legislature, and the officers thereof, shall be permitted within the clerk's desk, or the rooms set apart for the use of the clerk, during the session of the house.

RULE 68. Whenever any person shall be brought before the bar of the house, for adjudged breach of its privileges, no debate shall be in order, but the speaker shall proceed to execute the judgment of the house without delay or debate.

RULE 69. No more than sixteen pages shall be allowed upon the floor of the assembly chamber at any one time. Each page shall be furnished with a numbered badge, and shall occupy a seat corresponding with his number, to be provided and designated by the sergeant-at-arms, who shall also select one of his assistants, whose sole duty it shall be to take charge of said pages and see that this rule of the assembly is not violated.

RULE 70. It shall be the duty of the stenographer of the assembly to be present at every session of the house. He shall take stenographic notes of the debates in the house and in committee of the whole; and shall furnish a copy of the same written out in long hand, to any member apply. ing therefor, upon the payment to said stenographer of ten cents for each folio, which charge said stenographer may receive in addition to his fixed compensation. The steno graphic notes of the debates shall be filed with the clerk, and shall form a portion of the archives of the house. The clerk of the assembly is authorized to furnish said stenographer with proper stenographic blank books in which to record said debates, not to exceed fifty dollars for any annual session of the legislature.

RULE 71. All questions of order, as they shall occur, with the decisions thereon, shall be entered in the journal,

and at the close of the session, a statement of all such questions and decisions shall be printed at the close of, and as an appendix to, the journal.

RULE 72. Any member requesting to be excused from voting may make, when his name is called, or immediately after the roll shall have been called, and before the result shall be announced, a brief statement of the reasons for making such request, not exceeding two minutes in time, and the house, without debate, shall decide if it will grant such request; but nothing in this rule contained shall abridge the right of any member to record his vote on any question previous to the announcement of the result.