and delivered to the sergeant-at-arms of each house within forty-eight hours thereafter.

RULE 18. There shall be a standing committee consisting of three members of the senate and five members of the assembly, to be called the joint committee on the State library and cabinet of natural history.

RULE 19. The supply bill and the annual appropriation bill shall be reported by the fifteenth day of March, and printed immedi ately thereafter, and made the special order for the twenty-fifth day of March, or some day prior thereto, immediately after the reading of the journal.

RULE 20. No bill introduced after the fifteenth day of March in either house shall have its final reading in either house until all bills previously introduced in either, and sent from one house to the other house for concurrence and ready for third reading, shall be disposed of, unless by unanimous consent, except the supply bill and the annual appropriation bill; and the clerk of each house shall note on such engrossed bill the day on which it was introduced, and the day on which it was received from the other house, and shall announce such facts when the same is proposed to be read a third time

RULE 21. When a bill originated in the senate or assembly shall have been lost in either house,

neither the same, nor any other bill on the same subject, and containing similar provisions, shall be subsequently introduced into the senate or assembly during the same session, unless by unanimous consent.

RULE 22. The postmaster of each house shall weigh and stamp all documents sent by mail or express, and enter in a book to be kept by him for that purpose the amount of postage or express charge thereon, and report to the clerk of the respective houses the aggregate thereof weekly; and the assistant postmaster of each house shall enter in a book to be kept by him for that purpose an accurate account of all documents, with the postage or express charges paid thereon, trans:nitted from the post-office of their respective houses by mail or express, and report the aggregate thereof weekly to the respective clerks of the senate and assembly; and the clerks of the senate and assembly shall, from time to time, furnish to the postmaster of each house, respectively, the stamps requisite for carrying into execution this rule, and an account thereof shall be kept by them in books to be by them provided for that purpose; and the books kept by the postmaster and assistant postmaster, above specified, shall be, at all times, open to the inspection of the clerks and members of each house, respectively.

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RULE 23. The titles of all bills introduced into either house proposing amendments to chapter 410 of the Laws of 1882, entitled "An act to consolidate into one act, and to declare the cial and local laws affecting public interests in the city of New York," and also of chapter 583 of the Laws of 1888, entitled "An act to revise and combine into a single act all existing special and local laws affecting public interests in the city of Brooklyn," and also all amendments proposed to the Penal Code, the Code of Criminal Procedure, the Code of Civil Procedure and the Revised Statutes, shall contain the numbers of the sections which it is proposed to amend, and some brief reference to the subject-matter of the proposed amendment, and that with respect to this class of bills the clerks of the two houses are directed to have the rule strictly enforced.