9. Unfinished business.

10. Special orders of the day.

11. General orders of the day; but messages from the Govornor, communications from State officers, and messages from the Senate, may be considered at any time.

3. Motions for reference to different committees shall be put in the following order; and the same shall not be considered in committee of the whole until printed:

1. To the committee of the whole.

2. To a standing committee.

3. To a select committee.

4. No bill shall be ordered to a third reading without having been acted on in committee of the whole.

5. The speaker shall cause the Clerk to make a list of all bills, resolutions and reports of committees, and other proceedings of the House which are committed to a committee of the whole, and not made a special order of the day for any particular day; which list shall be called "The general orders of the day."

6. All questions relating to the priority of business shall be decided without debate.

7. The speaker shall preserve order and decorum, and shall decide all questions of order, subject to the appeal of the House. On every appeal from the decision of the Speaker, he shall have the right in his place to assign his reasons for his decision. He shall have the right to name any member to perform the duties of the chair, but such a substitution shall not extend beyond one day, unless by leave of the House.

8. When the House shall be equally divided, including the Speaker's vote, the question shall be lost.

9. When the Speaker is putting the question no membar shall walk across or out of the House.

10. When the House adjourns, the members shall keep their seats until the Speaker shall have left the chair.

11. Every member previous to his speaking, shall rise from his seat and address himself to the Speaker.

12. When two or more members rise at once, the Speaker shall name the member who is first to speak.

13. No member shall speak more than twice to the same general question without leave of the House; nor more than once in any case, until every member choosing to speak shall have spoken.

14. While a member is speaking, no member shall entertain any private discourse, or pass between him and the chair.

15. A member called to order shall immediately sit down, unless permitted to explain. All decisions of the chair on questions of order shall be conclusive, unless reversed on appeal to the House.

16. Every member who shall be within the bar of the House when a question is stated from the chair, shall vote thereon, unless he be excused by the House, or unless he be directly interested in the question, in which case he shall not vote. No member shall be permitted to vote on any question, unless within the bar when his name is called in regular order. The bar of House shall be deemed to include only the Assembly Chamber within the rails, including the cloak room.

17. Petitions, memorials, and other papers addressed to the House shall be presented by the Speaker, or by a member in his place.

18. Every member previous to presenting a petition or memorial shall endorse on the same the substance thereof, and add his name; the clerk shall then read the endorsement; after which, the Speaker shall put the question on the reference of said petition or memorial.

19. Every motion shall be first stated by the Speaker before debate; and every such motion shall be reduced to writing, if the Speaker or any member desire it.

20. After a motion is stated by the Speaker, it shall be deemed to be in the possession of the House, but may be withdrawn at any time before a decision or amendment.

21. If the question in debate contain several distinct propositions, any member may have the same divided; but a motion to strike out and insert shall be indivisible.

22. When a blank is to be filled, and different sums or times are proposed, the question shall first be put on the largest sum and longest time.

23. When a question is under debate, no motion shall be received unless for a call of the House, for the previous question, to postpone it indefinitely, to adjourn it to a certain day, to lay it on the table, to commit it, to amend it, or to adjourn the House.

24. A motion to lay a question on the table shall be decided without amendment or debate; a motion to commit until it is decided, shall preclude all amendment and debate of the main question; and a motion to postpone a question indefinitely, or to adjourn it to a day certain, until it is decided, shall preclude all amendment of the main question.

25. The previous question" shall be as follows-" Shall the main question be now put ?" and until it is decided, shall preclude all amendment or debate. When on taking the previous question, the House shall decide that the main question shall not now be put, the main question shall be considered as still remaining under debate. The "main question" shall be on the passage of the bill, resolution, or other matter under consideration; and in cases where there shall be pending amendments which have been adopted in committee of the whole, but not acted on in the House, the question shall first be taken upon such amendments in their order, and without further debate or amendment.

26. A motion to adjourn the House shall always be in order, and decided without debate.

27. In all cases where a bill, order, resolution or motion shall be entered on the journal of the House, the name of the member moving the same shall also be entered on the journal.

28. If any ten members require it, the ayes and nays upon any question shall be taken and entered upon the journal.

29. All committees shall be appointed by the Speaker, unless otherwise especially directed by the House.

30. Select committees to whom original references are made, and all committees to whom private claims are referred, shall in all cases report a state of facts with their opinion thereon.

31. Every bill originating in this House, shall be introduced by motion for leave, or by an order of the House and a report of a committee. One day's notice at least shall be given of a motion for leave to bring in a bill unless the House otherwise unanimously allow; such notice shall specify the subject matter of such bill; and all resolutions of reference and instruction to committees shall state the subject to be referred.

32. All bills brought into this House by any member or committee, shall be endorsed with the name of the member or committee bringing in the same; all bills introduced by members on leave shall be referred to one of the standing committees, or to a select committee, such committee may report adversely to the entire bill, with or without amendment, and the bill, if any, reported by such a committee, shall then become the bill before the House for consideration.

33. The titles of all bills introduced into the house for repealing, modifying, or amending any existing law, shall state concisely the subject matter sought to be so amended, modified, or repealed.

31. No private bill shall be brought into this House, but upon a memorial or petition presented to the House, and signed by the party or parties praying for such bill, except by the unanimous consent of the House.

35. No bill shall be committed or amended until it has been twice read.

36. Every message from the Senate communicating any bill for the concurrence of this House, shall, with the accompanying

documents, if any, be referred to a standing or select committee to consider and report thereon.

37. All amendments by the Senate to bills which have passed this House, shall be referred to a standing or select committee, to examine and report thereon, unless the House shall otherwise expressly order or allow.

38. In forming a committee of the whole House, the Speaker shall leave the chair, and shall appoint a chairman to preside.

39. The rules of the House 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 House and if the report be agreed to by the House, it shall be deemed a rejection of the bill.

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40. Bills committed to a committee of the whole House, shall, in committee of the whole thereon, be first read through, unless the committee shall otherwise order, and then read and debated by sections, leaving the title to be last considered. All amendments shall be noted on a separate piece of paper, and reported to the House by the chairman of the committee of the whole; after the report, the bill shall be still subject to debate and amendment before the question to engross is put; and such amendments only shall be in order as were offered and decided in committee of the whole House.

41. A similar mode of proceeding shall be observed with bills which have originated in the Senate, as with bills originating in this House.

42. If, at any time when in committee of the whole House, there be not present a quorum to do business, the chairman shall immediately report the fact to the Speaker.

43. On a motion, in committee of the whole House to rise and report progress, the question shall be decided without debate.

44. Every bill shall receive three several readings previous to its being passed; and the second and third reading shall be on