Banks.-Messrs. Wimley, Beck, Gross, Craig, Quigley, Hopkins, (Philadelphia,) Josephs, Moore, Rhoads, Brown, (Mercer,) Wolf, Walsh, M'Culloch, Lehman and Maclay.

Estates and Escheats.-Messrs. Rhoads, Glenn, Brown, (Warren,) Nelson, M'Murtrie, Wolf, Cochran, Hoover and Beebe.

Roads, Bridges and Canals.-Messrs. Hoover, Graham, Hutchman, Potteiger, M'Coy, Labar, Trimmer, Noyes, Kerns, (Schuylkill,) Foster, Maeyer, Warner, Camp and Gilfillan.

Corporations.-Messrs. Quigley, Trimmer, Olmstead, Young, Barger, Brown, (Mercer,) Noyes, Rowland, Henry, Boyer, Dellone, Schofield, Brown, (Warren,) Kerns (Philadelphia) and Sutphin.

New Counties and County Seats.-Messrs. Twitchell, Noyes, Barron, White, Beebe, Boileau, Gilfillan, Freeland, Maeyer, Robinson, Hess, Horton and Jacoby.

Compare Bills.—Messrs. Kline, M'Coy, Patton, Robinson and Hutch

man.

Library.-Messrs. Grant, Wakefield, Alexander, Horton and Kerns (Philadelphia.)

Railroads.-Messrs. Thompson, Jackson, Smith, (Chester,) Barger, Craig, Coleman, M'Manus, Young, Walsh, Rex, Johnson, Earley, Benedict, Smith (Philadelphia) and Harvey.

City Passenger Railroads.-Messrs. Hopkins, (Philadelphia,) Young, Moore, Quigley, Josephs, Smith, (Philadelphia,) Graham, Weidner, Lee, Brown, (Mercer,) Pancoast, Schofield, Kerns, (Philadelphia,) Dellone and Slack.

Mines and Minerals.-Messrs. Wolf, Labar, Dellone, Jacoby, Potteiger, Musselman, Strouse, Maclay, Warner, Maeyer, White, Camp, Robinson, Huston and Harvey.

Printing.-Messrs. Neiman, Magee, Windle, Alexander and Twitchell. Public Buildings.-Messrs. Ramsay, Kerns (Schuylkill) and Freeland. Federal Relations.-Messrs. Pershing, Nelson, Champneys, Neiman, Gross, Trimmer, Smith, (Chester,) Shannon, Myers, Hopkins, (Washington,) Schofield, Henry, Olmstead, Thompson and Vincent.

Divorces.Messrs. Boyer, M'Culloch, M'Coy, Weidner, Bowman, (Tioga,) Patton, Strouse, Pancoast, Ramsay, Ritter and Slack.

JOINT RULES

OF THE

SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

OF THE

COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA,

ADOPTED SESSION OF 1863.

RULE 1. All bills, resolutions, votes and amendments of either House, to which concurrence of both is necessary, as well as messages, shall be presented to the other by the Clerk of the House from which they are sent.

RULE 2. When the Clerk of either House shall wait on the other, notice thereof shall be given by the Sergeant-at-Arms, or Door-keeper, to the Speaker, who shall declare the same to the House.

RULE 3. When 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 conference shall be held at any time and place to be agreed upon by their chairman; and in all cases where a conference takes place, the committee shall be composed of members who voted in the majority, on the point or points of difference; but the committee shall not have power or control over any part of a bill or resolution, except such parts upon which a difference exists between the two Houses.

RULE 4. No bill shall be passed by either House, containing more than one subject, which shall be clearly expressed in the title, except appropriation bills, and bills regulating election districts, or granting pensions and gratuities. RULE 5. No bill shall be passed by either House, granting any powers or privileges in any case where the authority to grant such powers or privileges has been conferred upon any of the courts of this Commonwealth.

RULE 6. Whenever a claim against the State, of any description, has been or shall be presented to either House, and referred to a committee, and such committee shall have made a report, in writing, against the allowance of the claim, setting forth the grounds of their decision, and the same shall have been concurred in by such House, it shall not be in order to originate again the consideration of such claim in that House, either by bill, resolution, petition or otherwise, except upon a memorial of the claimant, first setting forth, apon affidavit, that he has obtained material evidence in support of his claim, ince the decision against it, which was not before the committee at the former decision, and a statement of the substance of such evidence; or, second, assigning specific errors in the report of the committee adverse to it.

RULE 7. When a bill or resolution which shall have passed in one House is rejected in the other, notice thereof shall be given to the House in which the same shall have passed.

RULE 8. That the committee having charge of the general appropriation bill, shall be required to report the same to the House, on or before the first Monday of March, and, when reported in either House, said bill shall have priority over all other business until finally disposed of.

RULE 9. No new private bill shall be transmitted from or received by either House, within three days of the time fixed on for an adjournment sine die.

RULE 10. No bill or resolution, to which the signature of the Governor may be required, shall be passed by either House on the day of the final adjournment; and all such bills or resolutions, after they have been duly transcribed and compared, shall be presented to the Governor for his signature, by the proper committee, before eight o'clock in the morning of the day of the final adjournment.

RULE 11. No bill or resolution shall be sent to the Governor for his approval, unless the same shall have been clearly and fairly engrossed, without obliteration or interlineation.

RULE 12. No joint rule shall be dispensed with, but by a concurrent vote of two-thirds of each House; and if either House shall violate a joint rule, the question of order may be raised in the other House, and decided in the same manner as in a case of the violation of the rules of such House; and if it shall be decided that the joint rules have been violated, the bill involving such violation shall be returned to the House in which it originated, without further action, or, at the option of such House, the Speaker may direct the Clerk to mark the section or sections in conflict with the rules, as non-concurred in or negatived.

RULES

FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE

SENATE OF PENNSYLVANIA.

1. The Speaker shall take the chair, each day, at the hour to which the Senate stands adjourned, when he shall call the members to order, and on the appearance of a quorum, shall cause the Journal of the preceding day to be read, which the Senate shall have power then to correct.

II. The order to be observed in taking up business shall be as follows:

First. The asking leave of absence.

Second. The receiving of petitions, memorials, remonstrances, letters and documents from members in the numerical order of Senatorial districts, and referring the same to appropriate committees, on motion, referring such as have been previously presented; and appointing additional members on committees.

Third. The receiving of reports of committees, which shall be called for by the Speaker, according to the order of the committees.

Fourth. The reading of bills in their places by members.

Fifth. The offering of original resolutions.

Sixth. The considering of reports and resolutions previously presented, and the referring of items of unfinished business.

Seventh. The reading of bills the third time.

Eighth. The considering of bills in the following order:

First. Those in which the Senate has made progress on a second reading. Second. Those in which the committee of the whole has made some progress, and has had leave to sit again.

Ninth. The considering of the Orders of the Day.

Tenth-The considering of bills upon which no order has been taken.

III. It shall be the duty of the Speaker to preserve order, prevent personal reflections, confine members in debate to the question, and when two or more members rise at the same time, decide who shall be first heard; but an appeal in all such cases shall lie to the Senate, and a member called to order may extenuate or justify.

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IV. Members speaking shall address the Speaker, and when presenting a paper, shall first state its import. Members shall not speak more than twice on any question without permission of the Senate, nor be interrupted when speaking, except by a call to order by the Speaker, or by a member through the Speaker, or by a member to explain, or by a call for the previous question.

V. When a motion is made and seconded, it shall, before debate, be stated by the Speaker. Every motion shall be reduced to writing, if the Speaker or any member require it; but a motion may be withdrawn by the member making it, before amendment, postponement, an order to lie on the table, or deci

sion.

VI. Every motion shall be entered on the Journal, together with the names of the members making and seconding it, unless it should be subsequently withdrawn.

VII. A question regularly before the Senate can be interrupted only by a call for the previous question, for amendment, postponement, commitment or adjournment.

VIII. A motion to adjourn shall always be in order, excepting when on the call for the previous question, the main question shall have been ordered to be now put, or when a member has the floor, and shall be decided without debate.

IX. The motion for the previous question, postponement, or commitment shall preclude amendment and debate on the original subject (a motion to postpone shall preclude commitment.) The previous question shall not be moved by less than four members.

X. On all questions the Speaker shall vote last.

XI. Acts, addresses, and joint resolutions, shall be signed by the Speaker; and writs, warrants, and subpœnas, issued by the Senate, shall be signed by him, and attested by the Clerk.

XII. The Speaker shall have the general direction of the Hall. He may name a member to perform the duties of the chair, but such substitution shall not extend beyond an adjournment.

XIII. When a question has been once made and carried in the affirmative or negative, it shall be in order for any two members of the majority, or when the Senate has been equally divided, for any two who voted in the negative, to move for the re-consideration thereof; but no motion for the re-consideration of any vote shall be in order, after a bill, resolution, report, amendment, or motion, upon which the vote was taken, shall have gone out of the possession of the Senate; nor shall any motion for re-consideration be in order, unless made on the same day on which the vote was taken, or within the next. five days of actual session of the Senate thereafter; and such motion shall take precedence of all other questions, except a motion to adjourn, and no member shall speak on the question more than once, or for a longer time than five minutes. Adopted January 15, 1851.]

XIV. Every bill shall receive three readings previous to its being passed, which readings shall be on different days.

XV. No amendment shall be received by the Speaker, which destroys the general sense of the original section, clause or paragraph.