7. To go into committee of the whole on the pending sub ject immediately.

8. To commit to a committee of the whole.

9. To commit to a standing committee.

10. To commit to a select committee.

11. To amend.

RULE 47. The motion to adjourn for the day and to lay on the table shall be decided without amendment or debate. The several motions to postpone or commit shall preclude all debate of the main question.

RULE 48. Every motion or resolution shall be first stated by the speaker, or read by the clerk, before debate and immediately before putting the question. And every motion, except those specified in subdivisions one to ten inclusive, of the forty-sixth rule, shall be reduced to writing, if the speaker or any member desire it.

RULE 49. After a motion shall be stated by the speaker, it shall be deemed in the possession of the house, but may be withdrawn at any time before it shall be decided or amended.

RULE 50. The motion to adjourn and to take a recess for the day shall always be in order.

RULE 51. No motion for reconsideration of any vote shall be in order unless on the same day or the following legislative day to that on which the decision proposed to be reconsidered took place, except bills returned by the governor for correction; nor unless a member who voted in the majority thereon 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.

CHAPTER XI.
Of Resolutions.

RULE 52. The following classes of resolutions shall lie over

one day for consideration, after which they may be called up as of course, under their appropriate order of business:

1. All concurrent resolutions.

2. Resolutions containing calls for information on the executi department.

3. Resolutions giving rise to debate, except such as relate to the disposition of matters immediately before the house, such as relate to the business of the day on which they are offered, and such as relate to adjournment or taking a recess for the day.

RULE 53. All resolutions for printing extra copies of documents shall be referred to the committee on printing, who shall report on each resolution within seven days after such reference.

RULE 54. All other resolutions calling for or leading to expenditures for the uses of the legislatures shall be referred to and reported on by the committee on the expenditures of the house, unless the house shall designate some other committee.

CHAPTER XII.

Of the Previous Question.

RULE 55. The "previous question" shall be as follows. "Shall the main question be now put?" and until it is decided shall preclude all amendments 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; but when amendments are pending, the question shall first be taken upon such amendments in their order; and when amendments have been adopted in committee of the whole, and not acted on in the house, the question shall be taken upon such amendments in like order; and, if the previous question has been ordered, without further debate or amendment.

CHAPTER XIII.

Of the Assembly Chamber and the Privileges of Admission to the Floor thereof.

RULE 56. The use of the assembly chamber may be granted to the state agricultural society, the state medical society, and such other societies as are required by law to report to the legislature. No application for the use of the chamber for any other purpose shall be entertained without the unanimous consent of the house.

RULE 57. The following classes of persons, and no others, may be admitted to the floor of the house during the session thereof, viz.:

1. The governor and lieutenant-governor.

2. The members of the senate.

3. The state officers.

4. The regents of the university.

5. The capitol commissioners.

6. Persons in the exercise of an official duty.

7. The reporters for the press. (See subdivision 7 of rule 2.) 9. Ex-speakers of the assembly.

CHAPTER XIV

Miscellaneous Provisions.

RULE 58. In all cases of the absence of a quorum during the session of the house, the members present may take such measures as they shall deem necessary to secure the presence of a quorum, and may inflict such censure or pecuniary penalty as they may deem just on those who, on being called on for that purpose, shall render no sufficient excuse for their absence.

RULE 59. When the house shall be equally divided on any question, including the speaker's vote, the question shall be deemed to be lost.

RULE 60. If any question contains several distinct propo sitions, 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. The following committees of the house are authorized to employ one clerk each: ways and means, judiciary, commerce and navigation, canals, railroads, insurance, claims, internal affairs, affairs of cities, trade and manufactures, militia, public education, charitable and religious societies, roads and bridges, affairs of villages, banks, and public printing; and the following one clerk jointly, viz.: grievances and joint library, petitions of aliens, and manufacture of salt. The clerk of the assembly shall appoint a clerk and an assistant clerk for the committee on engrossed bills, who shall, before entering upon the discharge of their duties, make and file in the office of the secretary of state the constitutional oath of office. No clerk shall be appointed for any other committee, except by the unanimous request of such committee in writing, and the approval of the speaker.

RULE 67. No persons, except members of the legislature and the officers thereof, shall be permitted within the clerk's desk, or the rooms set apart for the use of the clerk, during the session of the house.

RULE 68. Whenever any person shall be brought before the bar of the house, for adjudged breach of its privileges, no debate shall be in order, but the speaker shall proceed to execute the judgment of the house without delay or debate.

RULE 69. No more than sixteen pages shall be allowed upon the floor of the assembly chamber at any one time. Each page shall be furnished with a numbered badge, and shall occupy a seat corresponding with his number, to be provided and designated by the sergeant-at-arms, who shall also select one of his assistants, whose sole duty it shall be to take charge of said pages, and see that this rule of the assembly is not violated.