JOINT RULES

OF THE

SENATE AND ASSEMBLY.

RULE 1. Papers to be transmitted.

RULE 2. Bills rejected.

RULE 3. Messages delivered by the clerks.

RULE 4. Amendments.

RULE 5. In case of difference, committees to be appointed.

RULE 6. Matters of difference, how settled.

RULE 7. Bills, when deemed lost.

RULE 8. Joint committee.

RULE 9. Final reading of bills.

RULE 10. No bill shall create more than one incorporation. RULE 11. Election of officers to be certified and reported by presiding officer.

RULE 12. Usual number of bills and documents to be printed.

RULE 13. Printing or purchase of books.

RULE 14. Documents ordered by both houses.

RULE 15. Distribution of documents.

RULE 16. Superintendent of documents to receive printed

matter.

RULE 17. Distribution of the bills and documents when

printed.

RULE 18. Joint committee on State library.

RULE 19. Supply bill.

RULE 20. Bills introduced after fifteenth March not to take precedence of bill previously introduced.

RULE 21. Bills lost in both houses not again introduced during the session.

RULE 22. Regulations for weighing, stamping and transmitting mail matter.

RULE 1. Each house shall transmit to the other all papers in which any bill or resolution shall be founded.

RULE 2. When a bill or resolution which shall have passed in one house shall be rejected in the other, notice thereof shall be given to the house in which the same may have passed.

RULE 3. Messages from one house to the other shall be communicated by their clerks respectively, unless the house transmitting the message shall specially direct otherwise.

RULE 4. It shall be in the power of either house to amend any amendment made by the other to any bill or resolution.

RULE 5. In every case of difference between the two houses, upon any subject of legislation, either house may request a conference, and appoint a committee for that purpose, and the other shall also appoint a committee to confer. The committee shall meet at such hour and place as shall be appointed by the chairman of the committee on the part of the house requesting such conference. The conferees shall state to each other verbally, or in writing, as either shall choose, the reason of their respective houses and confer freely thereon. The committee shall

report in writing, and shall be authorized to report such modifications or amendments as they think advisable. But no committee on conference shall consider or report on any matter except those directly at issue between the two houses. The papers shall be left with the conferees of the house assenting to such conference, and they shall present the report of the committee to their house. When such house shall have acted thereon, it shall transmit the same, and the papers relating thereto, to the other, with a message certifying its action thereon. Every report of a committee of conference shall be read through, in each house, before a vote is taken on the same.

RULE 6. It shall be in order for either house to recede from any subject-matter of difference subsisting between the two houses at any time previous to conference, whether the papers on which such difference arose are before the house receding, formally or informally; and on such vote to recede the same number shall be required to constitute a quorum to act thereon, and to assent to such receding, as was required on the original question out of which the difference arose.

RULE 7. After each house shall have adhered to their disagreement, the bill which is the subject of difference shall be deemed lost, and shall not be again revived during the same session in either house.