INSURANCE AND BANKING:

Messrs. Baker, Spatig, Pennington, Montague, Johnson, Hughes, Huff, Miller, Dalton, Philpott, Woodward, Lowry, Walton. Clerk, W. J. Lilliston.

APPROPRIATIONS:

Messrs. Brewer, Baker, Steck, Gunn, Hobson, Adams, Massie, Pitts, Williams, Spessard, Birrell, Winston, Lincoln. Clerk, Edgar Hedderly.

HOUSE EXPENSES:

Messrs. Spatig, Gunn, Buck, Grant, Green. Clerk, Clerk House of Delegates.

RULES:

Messrs. Cox, Williams, Houston, Chalkley, Weaver, of Warren. Clerk, Clerk House of Delegates.

CONFIRMATIONS:

Messrs. Terrell, Weaver, of Warren. Leedy, Browning, Heflin. Clerk, F. O. Love.

LIBRARY:

Messrs. Stephenson, Steck, Field, Reed, Myers. Clerk, F. O. Love.

PRINTING:

Messrs. Walton, Land, Houston. Clerk, J. B. Beverly. SPECIAL, PRIVATE AND LOCAL LEGISLATION:

Messrs. White, Stephenson, Browning, Green, Lowry, Nelson, Easley.

V

RULES OF THE HOUSE OF

DELEGATES

I.

Organization-Elections.

1. At the elections in the House, the voting shall be viva voce, and the vote recorded in the journal, and only one person shall be chosen at a time. If on the first voting no one receives a majority, the person having the smallest number of votes shall not be voted for on the next trial, and so on until some one shall receive a majority of the whole vote. If the election be by joint vote of the two houses, messages shall be exchanged for each voting announcing the names of persons in nomination. A committee of three from each house shall compare the votes and ascertain and report the result.

The Speaker.

2. "The House of Delegates shall choose its own speaker." The speaker may call any member to the chair, who shall exercise its functions for the time; but no member, by virtue of such appointment, shall preside for a longer time

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than three days. During such substitution the speaker may participate in the debates. If the speaker be absent, and have named no one to act in his stead, the duties shall be performed by the chairman of one of the standing committees, taking precedence in the order in which the committees are named in Rule 16.

3. The speaker shall take the chair every day precisely at the hour to which the House shall have adjourned on the preceding day; shall immediately call the House to order, and a quorum being present, shall cause the journal of the preceding day to be read. Any mistakes in the entries shall, upon motion, then be corrected, and being found correct, shall be signed by the speaker and the clerk, and upon the last day of the session, the journal for that day being examined and found correct, shall be signed by the speaker and the clerk, and the said journals, when so signed, shall be the authentic record of the proceedings of the House.

4. The speaker shall have power to supervise and correct the journal before it is read. He shall have a general direction of the hall, with power, in case of disturbance or disorderly conduct in such part thereof as may be appropriated to spectators, to have the same cleared. Stenographers and reporters for the press, wishing to take down the proceedings of the House, may be admitted by the speaker, who shall assign them to such places on the floor as shall not interfere with the convenience of members.

5. All acts and joint resolutions proposing amendments to the Constitution shall be signed by the speaker; and all writs and warrants issued by order of the House shall be under his hand and seal, attested by the clerk.

The Clerk.

6. A clerk shall be elected by the House, and shall be deemed to continue in office until another is chosen. He shall appoint an assistant clerk, an enrolling clerk, a journal clerk, a reading clerk, the janitors for the hall and offices, and shall, subject to the approval of the speaker, appoint the six committee clerks provided for by law. He shall be charged with the whole clerical business of the House and its committees, and shall see that the committee clerks discharge properly the duties required of them by the several committees to which they are assigned, and that, when not so employed, they render such assistance as may be required to other committees and in the business of the House. The several clerks and janitors may be removed by the clerk of the House, with the approval of the speaker, and the committee clerks shall be so removed upon the request of the committees to which they are severally assigned.

7. The clerk shall perform all the duties of his office under the direction of the speaker. He shall keep a journal of the proceedings of the House, and shall have the same in proper form to be signed as provided by Rule 3, and shall submit it daily to the speaker in time to be examined before the next assembling of the House. He shall keep at the clerk's table, during the sittings of the House, a calendar or docket so arranged as to show the condition and progress of the business of the House, which said calendar shall be printed each day and laid on the desk of each member at the opening of the session. He shall have printed and placed on the desk of each member, before the assembling of the House each day, a list of all bills offered on the preceding day, under Rule 37, with

the names of the patrons, titles of the bills and the committees to which the same have been referred.

8. He shall keep accounts of the compensation of the members and officers of the House, and shall from time to time certify the same to the auditor. He shall provide the stationery required for the business of his office and of the House and for the use of the members during the session; but the amount furnished to each member shall not exIceed in value five dollars a session. The claims shall be certified for payment as provided by law. He shall keep detailed accounts of all these transactions in a book to be provided for the purpose, which shall be at all times open to inspection by members of the House.

Sergeant-at-Arms.

9. A sergeant-at-arms shall be elected by the House, and shall continue in office during its pleasure. He shall have as his assistant two doorkeepers, who shall be elected by the House, and six pages, to be appointed by the speaker, who shall receive as compensation one-half the amount provided by law for a doorkeeper.

10. He shall, with his assistants, attend upon the House during its sitting, and shall execute its commands, together with all such progress, issued by its authority, as shall be directed to him by the speaker.

11. He shall, under the direction of the speaker, have charge of the police of the hall, and shall prevent any interrruption of the business of the House by disorder, within or without. He shall distribute among the members all papers printed for their use, and shall give such attendance upon them during the sittings of the House as will