20. On public expenditures.

21. On affairs of cities, to consist of seven members. 22. On public buildings.

23. On poor laws.

21. On miscellaneous corporations, to consist of five members.

25. On general laws, to consist of seven members.

26. On taxation and retrenchment, to consist of five members. 27. On grievances.

28. On the manufacture of salt.

29. On public printing.

30. On affairs of villages.

31. On internal affairs of towns and counties.

32. On game laws.

33. On joint library. 34. On rules.

RULE 17. It shall be the duty of the committee on public printing to examine and report on all questions of printing referred to them, and every motion to print any petition, resolution, report, bill, message or other manuscript, except as provided in the joint rules, shall be referred to such committee. They shall, when practicable, report the approximate cost of all extra printing, and report to the senate from time to time any measure they may deem useful for the economical and proper management of the public printing. See Appendix under "Committees," page 173.

RULE 18. The committee on engrossed bills shall examine all bills, amendments and resolutions which are required to be engrossed, before they go out of the possession of the senate, and make report when they find them correctly printed or engrossed, before they are read the third time;

they shall also compare such amendments as may be made in the assembly to senate bills and that are concurred in by the senate after they shall have been reprinted or re-engrossed in the senate for the purpose of seeing if they are correctly printed or engrossed, and no bill shall have its third reading unless it shall have been printed or engrossed and report thereon made by the committee on engrossed bills that it is correctly printed or engrossed.

RULE 19. Every report of a committee upon a bill which shall not be considered at the time of making the same or laid on the table by a vote of the senate shall stand upon the general orders with the bill and be entered on the journal.

See Appendix under "Report - Minority," page 184.

OF GENERAL ORDERS AND SPECIAL ORDERS.

RULE 20. The matters referred to the committee of the whole senate shall constitute the general orders, and the business of the general orders shall be taken up as follows, viz.: The clerk shall announce the title of each bill, with the printed number, or other matter as it shall be reached in its order, when it may be taken up on the motion of any member without the putting of any question therefor; but if not so moved, it shall lose its preference for the day. And whenever three bills or more have been moved consecutively, the senate shall go into committee of the whole upon them without further orders; and

whenever a motion shall prevail in committee of the whole that the committee now rise, report progress and ask leave to sit again, the motion shall include the bills remaining unacted upon in the committee of the whole, which shall be considered in the first committee of the whole there after; and no bill shall be considered in committee of the whole, unless the same shall have been printed.

See Appendix under "Committee of the Whole," page 174.

RULE 21. Whenever any bill or other matter is made the special order for a particular day and it shall not be completed on that day, it shall retain its place in the general orders, unless it shall be made the special order for another day; and when a special order is under consideration it shall take precedence of any special order for a subsequent hour of the same day; but such subsequent special order may be taken. up immediately after the previous special order has been disposed of.

See Appendix under "Special Orders," page 185.
See Appendix under "Special Sessions," page 1-5.

OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE.

RULE 22. The rules of the senate shall be observed in the committee of the whole, so far as may be applicable, except limiting the number of times of speaking, and except that the ayes and noes shall not be taken. Such committee may strike out the enacting clause of a bill and report that fact to the senate; and if the report be

agreed to by the senate, it shall be deemed a rejection of the bill.

See Appendix under "Committee of the Whole," page 174. See Appendix under "Blanks," page 173.

See Appendix under "Motions," page 177.

RULE 23. Bills committed to a committee of the whole senate shall, in committee of the whole, be read through by sections. The reports shall state whether or not said bill has been amended in committee of the whole. After the report the bill shall be subject to debate and amendment before the question to engross it is put; but such amendments only shall be in order as were offered and decided in the committee of the whole senate, except by unanimous consent.

See Appendix under "Committee of the Whole," page 174. See Appendix under "Motions," page 177.

See Appendix under "Blanks," page 173.

RULE 24. A motion that the committee rise and report progress on any bill shall always be in order, and shall be decided without debate.

OF BILLS.

RULE 25. Every bill shall be introduced by a senator in his place, or on the report of a committee, or by message from the assembly, and shall, after its first and second reading, unless otherwise ordered by the senate, be referred to a standing or select committee to consider and report thereon. No private bill shall be introduced by a senator or on the report of a com

mittee, unless accompanied by a memorial or petition signed and verified by the party or parties praying for the passage of the same, except by order of the senate.

RULE 26. When a bill shall be reported by committee of the whole, and not otherwise disposed of, the question shall be "Shall the report be agreed to?" And when the report of such committee, if favorable, shall be agreed to and the bill not otherwise disposed of, the bill shall be ordered printed or engrossed for a third reading. Upon such question the merits of the bill may be debated, and a motion to commit or recommit, or to amend, as provided in the twentythird rule, or lay on the table, or to postpone to a future day, shall be in order. If such question be decided in the negative, such bill shall be deemed lost.

See Appendix under " Committee of the Whole," page 174. See Appendix under "Motions," page 177.

RULE 27. Every bill shall receive three readings previous to its being passed, and the president shall give notice at each, whether it be the first, second or third. No bill shall be amended or committed until it shall have been twice read, and no bill shall be read a third time out of its regular order, unless on a vote of two-thirds of all the senators present and voting; and all resolutions which propose any amendment of the constitution, shall be treated in the form of proceedings on them, in a similar manner with bills,