Constitution of the United States ... as Proposed by the Convention ... 1787 ...

ments printed by order of either House at each future session of Congress.-February 9, 1831.

142. The Clerk shall make a weekly statement of the resolutions and bills (Senate bills inclusive) upon the Speaker's table, accompanied with a brief reference to the orders and proceedings of the House upon each, and the date of such orders and proceedings; which statement shall be printed for the use of the members. - April 21, 1836.

143. The Clerk shall cause an index to be prepared to the acts passed at every session of Congress, and to be printed and bound with the acts.-July 4, 1832.

144. The unappropriated rooms in that part of the Capitol assigned to the House shall be subject to the order and disposal of the Speaker, until the further order of the House. May 26, 1824.

145. Maps accompanying documents shall not be printed, under the general order to print, without the special direction of the House. - March 2, 1837; September 11, 1837.

146. No committee shall be permitted to employ a clerk at the public expense, without first obtaining leave of the House for that purpose. - December 14, 1838.

147. No extra compensation shall be allowed to any officer, messenger, page, laborer, or other person in the service of the House, or engaged in or about the public grounds or buildings: and no person shall be an officer of the House, or continue in its employment, who shall be an agent for the prosecution of any claim against the Government, or be interested in such claim otherwise than an original claimant; and it shall be the duty of the Committee of Accounts to inquire into and report to the House any violation of this rule. March 8, 1842.

JOINT RULES AND ORDERS OF THE TWO HOUSES.

1. In every case of an amendment of a bill agreed to in one House, and dissented to in the other, if either House shall request a conference, and appoint a committee for that purpose, and the other House shall also appoint a committee to confer, such committees shall, at a convenient hour, to be agreed on by their chairmen, meet in the conference chamber, and state to each other, verbally or in writing, as either shall choose, the reasons of their respective Houses for and against the amendment, and confer freely thereon.November 13, 1794.

2. When a message shall be sent from the Senate to the House of Representatives, it shall be announced at the door of the House by the doorkeeper, and shall be respectfully communicated to the Chair by the person by whom it may be sent.-November 13, 1794.

3. The same ceremony shall be observed when a message shall be sent from the House of Representatives to the Senate.- November 13, 1794.

4. Messages shall be sent by such persons as a sense of propriety in each House may determine to be proper.-November 13, 1794.

5. While bills are on their passage between the two Houses, they shall be on paper, and under the signature of 1 the Secretary or Clerk of each House, respectively. No. vember 13, 1794.

6. After a bill shall have passed both Houses, it shall be duly enrolled on parchment by the Clerk of the House of pe Representatives, or the Secretary of the Senate, as the bill 1 may have originated in the one or the other House, before done it shall be presented to the President of the United States.- iv November 13, 1794.

7. When bills are enrolled, they shall be examined by a ne joint committee of two from the Senate and two from the House of Representatives, appointed as a standing committee for that purpose, who shall carefully compare the

enrolment with the engrossed bills, as passed in the two Houses, and, correcting any errors that may be discovered in the enrolled bills, make their report forthwith to their respective Houses. - November 13, 1794, and February 1, 1827.

8. After examination and report, each bill shall be signed in the respective Houses, first by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, then by the President of the Senate.November 13, 1794.

9. After a bill shall have been thus signed in each House, it shall be presented, by the said committee, to the President of the United States, for his approbation, (it being first endorsed on the back of the roll, certifying in which House the same originated; which endorsement shall be signed by the Secretary or Clerk, as the case may be, of the House in which the same did originate,) and shall be entered on the Journal of each House. The said committee shall report the day of presentation to the President; which time shall also be carefully entered on the Journal of each House. - November 13, 1794.

10. All orders, resolutions, and votes, which are to be presented to the President of the United States, for his approbation, shall also, in the same manner, be previously enrolled, examined, and signed; and shall be presented in the same manner, and by the same committee, as provided in the cases of bills. - November 13, 1794.

11. When the Senate and House of Representatives shall judge it proper to make a joint address to the President, it shall be presented to him in his audience chamber by the President of the Senate, in the presence of the Speaker and both Houses. November 13, 1794.

12. When a bill or resolution which shall have passed in Vone House is rejected in the other, notice thereof shall be given to the House in which the same shall have passed.

13. When a bill or resolution which has been passed in one House shall be rejected in the other, it shall not be brought in during the same session, without a notice of ten days, and leave of two-thirds of that House in which it shall be renewed.

14. Each House shall transmit to the other all papers on which any bill or resolution shall be founded.

15. After each House shall have adhered to their disagree ment, a bill or resolution shall be lost.

16. No bill that shall have passed one House shall be sent for concurrence to the other on either of the three last days of the session. -January 30, 1822.

17. No bill or resolution that shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall be presented to the President of the United States, for his approbation, on the last day of the session.-January 30, 1822.

18. When bills which have passed one House are ordered to be printed in the other, a greater number of copies shall not be printed than may be necessary for the use of the House making the order. - February 9, 1829.

19. No spirituous liquors shall be offered for sale, or exhibited, within the Capitol, or on the public grounds adja cent thereto. September 18, 1837.

INDEX

THE RULES AND ORDERS

OF THE

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

AND TO THE JOINT RULES.

bers

Abolition petitions, rule respecting

Absent members, their attendance may be compelled by fifteen mem-

Absent, no member allowed to be, unless sick or on leave

Rule.

Absentees at a call, proceedings against

Accounts of members, Sergeant to keep -