RULE 60. If any question contain 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 No standing rule or order of the house shall be changed, suspended or rescinded, unless one day's notice shall have been given of the motion therefor, nor shall such change be made unless by a vote of a majority of all the members elected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. 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 Nor shall the forty-second rule, so far as it applies to two-thirds bills, be altered, rescinded or suspended, unless two-thirds of all the mem

bers elected to the house agree to such alteration, rescinding or suspension.

RULE 66. For this session of the legislature, the following committees of the house are authorized, in consequence of the great amount of labor imposed upon them, to employ one person each, who shall act in the capacity of clerk, and who shall perform such duties as may be required of him by the committee to which he shall be appointed, viz.: ways and means, judiciary, claims, affairs of cities, canals, and railroads. The clerk of the assembly shall appoint a clerk for the committee on engrossed bills, who shall, before entering upon the discharge of his duties, take and file in the office of the secretary of state the constitutional oath of office. The compensation of the clerks appointed under the provisions of this rule shall be determined by the committee on ways and means, and said clerks shall not be entitled to the privileges of the floor of the chamber during the sessions of the house.

JOINT RULES

OF THE

SENATE AND ASSEMBLY,

ADOPTED FEBRUARY 11, 1869.

RULE 5.

RULE 6.

Amendments.

In case of difference, committees to be appointed.
Matters of difference, how settled.

RULE 7. Bills, when deemed lost.

RULE 10.

RULE 11.

siding officer.

RULE 12.

RULE 13.

RULE 14.

RULE 15.

RULE 16.

RULE 17.

No bill shall create more than one incorporation.
Election of officers to be certified and reported by pre-

Usual number of bills and documents to be printed.
Printing or purchase of books,

Documents ordered by both houses.

Distribution of documents.

Sergeant-at-arms to receive printed matter.

Distribution of the bills and documents when printed.

RULE 18. Joint committee on state library.

RULE 19. Supply bill.

RULE 20. Bills introduced after 15th March not to take precedence of bill previously introduced.

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

BULE 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 reasons 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 matters except those directly at issue between the two louses. 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, they shall transmit the same, and the papers relating thereto, to the other, with a message certifying its action thereon.

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.

RULE 8. All joint committees of the two houses, and all committees of conference, shall consist of three senators and five members of assembly, unless otherwise specially ordered by concurrent resolution.

RULE 9. No bill which shall have passed one house shall have its final reading in the other in less than two days thereafter, without the consent of two-thirds of the members thereof present; and whenever ten or more bills shall be in readiness for final reading in either house, such house shall forthwith proceed to the final reading of such bills, under the order of "third reading of bills, and continue the same from day to day, until all such bills" then in readiness for final reading shall have been read, unless this order of business shall, by the vote of two-thirds of the members present, be suspended or laid on the table. All such bills shall have their last reading in each house in the order in which the same shall have been ordered to a final reading in such house, unless the bill to be read be laid on the table. In all cases where a bill shall be so ordered to lie on the table, it shall retain its place in the order of the final reading of bills, but shall not be called up for consideration unless by a vote of a majority of the members present.

RULE 10. The same bill shall not, specially or by name, create, renew or continue more than one incorporation, nor contain any provisions in relation to the altering of more than one incorporation by name; but this rule shall not be construed to apply to corporations to be formed under general laws according to the eighth article of the constitu tion, nor to bills for consolidating corporations. After any