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different days; and the third reading shall be on a day subsequent to that on which the bill passed in committee of the whole House, unless the House unanimously direct otherwise; and the question on the final passage of a bill shall be taken immediately after such third reading, and without debate: and no bill shall be read the last time, unless it shall have been once printed without the consent of a majority of the members present.

45. A standing committee of five members shall be appointed to be called "The committee on engrossed bills;" whose duty it shall be carefully to examine all the bills passed by this House, and see that the same are correctly engrossed, and report the same to the House before they are signed by the Speaker.

46. Reports from the committee on engrossed bills shall at all times be in order, and have the preference to any other business.

47. When a bill passes the House, the Speaker shall certify the same, with the date thereof, at the foot of the bill.

48. No motion for reconsideration shall be in order unless on the same day or day following that on which the decision proposed to be reconsidered took place; nor unless one of the majority shall move such reconsideration. A motion for reconside ration being put and lost, shall not be renewed; nor shall any subject or vote be a second time reconsidered without unanimous consent.

49.. A standing committee of five members shall be appointed on bills coming within the ninth Section of the first Article, and 14th Section of Article seven of the Constitution of this State; and when any bill shall have passed in committee of the whole House, on which the Speaker may entertain doubts whether it comes within the provision of either of the said sections, it shall be referred to the said committee to examine and report thereon, before the question on the final passage shall be taken.

50. A motion to reconsider the vote on the final passage of any bill, shall be made by a member who voted in favor of the decision of the House on the question on the final passage of the bill; and except in the case of a two-third bill, a majority of all

the members elected to the House shall be required to reconsider the same; and on a motion to reconsider the vote on the final passage of any bill requiring the assent of two-thirds of all the members elected to this House, two thirds of the members elected to the House shall be required to reconsider the same. But the vote on the final passage of any bill creating, continuing, altering, or renewing any moneyed incorporation, shall not be reconsidered whenever such bill shall be lost.

51. No standing rule or order of this House shall be suspended, changed, or rescinded, without one day's previous notice being given of the motion therefor; nor shall the 50th rule, so far as it applies to two-third bills, be altered, changed, rescinded or suspended, unless two-thirds of all members elected to this House agree to such alteration, change, rescinding, or suspension.

52. No person, unless in the exercise of an official duty or by special invitation of a member, shall be admitted on the floor of the House, except members of the Senate, Governor, LieutenantGovernor, other state officers, Regents of the University, and such reporters as the Speaker shall designate. The privilege of admission under any invitation shall not extend beyond the day on which such invitation shall be given.

53. Standing committees, consisting of five members each, shall be appointed on the following subjects:

Ways and Means,

Commerce and Navigatiou,

Canals,

Railroads,

Banks and Insurance Companies,

Two-third and three-fifth Bills,

Colleges, Academies and Common Schools,

Grievances,

Privileges and elections,

Petitions of Aliens,

Erection and Division of Towns and Counties,

Claims,

Internal affairs of Towns and Counties,

Medical Societies and Colleges,

Incorporation of Cities and Villages,

Manufacture of Salt,

Trade and Manufactures,

State Prisons,

Engrossed Bills,

Militia and Public Defence,

Roads and Bridges,

Public Lands,

Indian Affairs,

Charitable and Religious Societies,

Agriculture,

Expiring Laws,

Public Printing,

Expenditures in the Executive Department,
Expenditures of the House; and

A Committee on the Judiciary, consisting of seven members.

And it shall be the duty of each of the several committees to inquire into the matters indicated by its name, and to report thereon to the House any information, and any bill or resolution which it may deem conducive to the public good.

54. There shall be printed of course, and without order, 380 copies of all original bills reported by committees of either House; and 800 copies of all messages from the Governor, (except messages certifying his approval of bills,) all reports of standing or select committees, and all reports or communications made in in pursuance of law, or of a resolution of this House; which number shall be denominated the usual number. And all motions or resolutions for the printing of an extra number of any document, paper or bill, shall be referred as of course to the printing committee to report thereon.

55. It shall be the duty of the committee on public printing to

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examine and report on all questions of printing referred to them, and to state an approximate estimate of the cost in the particular case referred, when practicable: to examine, from time to time, and ascertain whether the prices charged for printing are in conformity to the contract therefor, and whether it is done in conformity to the orders of the House, and without unreasonable delay; to ascertain and report what number of copies ought usually to be printed, and how distributed; and to report to the Honse, from time to time, any measures they may deem useful for the economical and proper management of the public printing.

56. It shall be the duty of the committee on expenditures of the House and in the Executive Department, severally to inquire into the said expenditures, and whether the same have been made in conformity to law, and whether proper vouchers exist for the same, and whether the funds provided for the purpose are economically applied, and to report from time to time such provisions, laws and regulations, as may conduce to economy, and secure the faithful disbursement of the moneys appropriated by law.

57. Resolutions giving rise to debate, all concurrent resolutions and those containing calls for information from the Executive Department, shall lie over one day for consideration, after which, they may be called up, of course, under the order of business.

58. It shall be the duty of the committee on ways and means, to examine into all the departments of the government, whether Executive, Legislative, Judicial, or otherwise, where salaries or emoluments are given; to examine, ascertain, and report to the House what officers can be dispensed with, and what salaries or emoluments can be reduced, and how far consistent with the public good, and to take such action in regard to section eight, of article seven, of the Constitution of this State, as may be requisite.

59. No bill or other matter shall be made a special order of the day for a particular day, without the assent of two-thirds of the members present. It shall not be in order to make any bill or other matter a special order of the day from day to day: nor

shall more than two bills or other matters be made special orders for the same day.

60. Whenever ten or more bills shall be in readiness for final reading, the House shall assign a day for the final reading of such bills, which day shall be within one week thereafter. At the time appointed, the House shall proceed to the final reading of bills, and continue the same from day to day, under the order of third reading of bills, until all bills then in readiness for final reading shall have been read, except as herein provided. All bills shall have their last reading in the order in which the same shall have been ordered to a final reading in the House; but the House may assign a day certain, for the final reading of a particular bill or it may, by a majority of all the members present, order any bill when reached to lie 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 the vote of a majority of the members present.

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