Motions to reconsider.

Two-thirds.

the fact whether passed as a majority, two-thirds or three-fifths bill, as required either by the Constitution or laws of this State.

47. 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 reconsideration being put and lost, shall not be renewed; nor shall any subject or vote be a second time reconsidered without unanimous consent.

48. Upon a motion to reconsider the vote on the final passage of any 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, • Reconsider two-thirds of the members elected to the House shall ingtwo-third be required to reconsider the same. But the vote on the final passage of any bill creating, continuing, altering or renewing any incorporation other than municipal, shall not be reconsidered whenever such bill shall be lost.

bills.

Committee

on two-third bills.

Altering rules.

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 A standing rule or order of this House may be suspended, changed or rescinded, upon one day's previous notice being given of the motion therefor, by a vote of a majority of all the members elected. Such notice or motion shall, in all cases, state specifically the object of the suspension, and every case of the sus

pension of a rule, under such notice or motion, shall be held to apply only to the object specified in the notice. Nor shall the 48th rule, so far as it applies to twothird bills, be altered, rescinded or suspended, unless two-thirds of all the members elected to the House agree to such alteration, rescinding or suspension.

admitted to

51. No person, unless in the exercise of an official Who may be duty or invitation of a member, shall be admitted on the floor of the floor of the House, except members of the Senate, the House. Governor, Lieutenent-Governor, 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.

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

1. Ways and Means.

2. Commerce and Navigation.

3. Canals.

4. Railroads.

5. Banks.

6. Insurance Companies.

7. Two-third and Three-fifth Bills.

8. Colleges, Academies and Common Schools.
9. Grievances.

10. Privileges and Elections.

11. Petitions of Aliens.

12. Erection and Division of Towns and Counties.

13. Claims.

14. Internal Affairs of Towns and Counties.

15. Medical Societies and Colleges.

16. State Charitable Institutions.

17. Incorporation of Cities and Villages.

18. Manufacture of Salt.

19. Trade and Manufactures.

20. State Prisons.

21. Engrossed Bills.

22. Militia and Public Defence.

23. Roads and Bridges.

committees.

Motions to print to be referred.

Duty of committee

24. Public Lands.

25. Indian Affairs.

26. Charitable and Religious Societies.
27. Agriculture.

28. Public Printing.

29. Expenditures in the Executive Department. 30. Expenditures of the House; and

31. 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.

53. 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.

54. It shall be the duty of the committee on publie on printing. printing to 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 House, from time to time, any measure they may deem useful for the economical and proper management of the public printing.

Duty of committee

on expenditures.

55. 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.

56. Resolutions giving rise to debate (except such as What resorelate to the disposition of matters already before the lutions to lie House, and such as relate to the business of the day on over. which they are offered), all concurrent resolutions, and those containing calls for information from the Execu tive department, shall lie over one day for consideration, after which they may be called up, of course, under their appropriate order of business.

ment.

57. It shall be the duty of the committee on ways Duty of and means to examine into all the departments of the committee Government, whether Executive, Legislative, Judicial, on retrenchor 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.

58. No bill or other matter shall be made a special Special order of the day for a particular day, without the as- orders. sent 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 three bills or other matters be made special orders for the same day; and no special order shall be postponed or rescinded except by a vote of two-thirds of the members present.

59. Resolutions calling for expenditure from the Expendi General Fund shall be referred to and reported upon tures. by the committee on expenditures, unless the House shall designate some other committee.

of bills.

60. The clerk shall keep, in a book to be provided The clerk to for that purpose, a register of all bills introduced into keep register this House, or transmitted for concurrence from the Senate, in which he shall cause to be recorded, under appropriate heads, the progress of all such bills from

Excuse from voting.

Chamber.

the date of their introduction to the time of their transmission-if Assembly bills to the Governor, or if Senate bills their return to the Senate.

61. Every member requesting to be excused from voting, may make a brief and verbal statement of the reasons for making such request, and the question shall then be taken without further debate.

Applications 62. All applications by societies or individuals for for Assembly the use of the Assembly Chamber, shall lie over for one day, unless the Assembly shall otherwise order. The member making any such application, may briefly suggest the reasons why it should be granted, but the decision shall be made without debate.

Time for

general order bills.

63. Tuesday and Thursday of each week, immediconsidering ately after the reading of the journal, shall be specially set apart for the consideration of bills on the general orders; but this rule shall not be construed to prevent the consideration of the general orders on any other day, when reached in their regular order.

Journals to

and filed.

64. The journal of each day's proceedings of the be printed House shall be printed so that it shall be laid on the tables of the members within four 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.