OF THE PRESIDENT.

Rule 3. The president shall appoint all committees, unless otherwise ordered by the Senate.

Rule 4. He shall have the right to name any member to perform the duties of the chair, who is hereby vested, during such time, with all the powers of the president; but such substitute shall not lose the right of voting on any question while so presiding, nor shall his power as such substitute continue for any longer period than two days, without leave of the Senate.

Rule 5. When the Senate shall be ready to go into committee of the whole, he shall name a chairman to preside therein.

Rule 6. He shall assign to the door-keepers their respective duties and stations.

Rule 7. He shall certify the passage of all bills by the Senate, with the date thereof, together with the fact whether passed as majority, three-fifths or two-thirds bills, as required by the Constitution or laws of this State.

OF THE CLERK.

Rule 8. It shall be the duty of the clerk to have the Journal of each day's proceedings printed, and copies thereof placed upon the files of the president, senators and reporters, within three days after approval by the Senate.

Rule 9. He shall also furnish each senator daily with a printed list of the general orders, which shall be kept on file by the sergeantat-arms, in the same manner as other documents. And the president and clerk of the Senate shall see that all bills shall be acted upon by the Senate in the order in which they are reported and stand upon the calendar, unless otherwise ordered by two-thirds of the senators. present. The calendar shall also, in like manner and form, include the number and title of bills and joint resolutions which have passed the Assembly, and been received by the Senate for concurrence.

Rule 10. He shall present such bills as shall have originated in the Senate, and been passed by both Houses, to the Governor, and enter the same upon the Journals.

Rule 11. He shall designate what persons are entitled to admission to the floor as reporters for the public press, not exceeding eighteen in number.

OF THE RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF SENATORS.

Rule 12. Every senator presenting a paper shall indorse the same: if a petition, memorial or report to the Legislature, with a brief statement of its subject or contents, adding his name; if a notice or resolution, with his name; if a report of a committee, a statment of such report, with the name of the committee and member making the same; if a bill, a statement of its title, with his name, and the fact whether presented on notice, or, if by unanimous consent, with a statement of its contents.

Rule 13. No member shall speak to another, or otherwise interrupt the business of the Senate, or read any newspaper, while the Journals or public papers are being read; and when the president is putting a question, no senator shall walk out of or across the House, nor, when a senator is speaking, pass between him and the chair.

Rule 14. Every senator rising to debate, or to present a petition or other paper, to give a notçe, make a motion or report, shall address the president, and shall not proceed further until recognized by the chair. No senator shall speak more than twice the same day on the same subject, without leave of the Senate; and where two or more senators rise at once, the president shall name the senator who is first to speak.

Rule 15. Every senator who shall be within the bar of the Senate when a question is stated from the chair, shall vote thereon, unless he shall be excused by the Senate, or unless he be directly interested in the question.

Rule 16. Any senator requesting to be excused from voting may make, either immediately before or after the vote shall have been called, and before the result shall be announced, a brief statement, not occupying over five minutes, of the reasons for making such request, and the question on excusing him shall then be taken without debate.

OF COMMITTEES AND THEIR DUTIES.

Rule 17. Standing committees, consisting, unless otherwise ordered, of three members, shall be appointed on the following subjects:

7. On roads and bridges.
8. On literature.

9. On State prisons.

10. On banks.

11. On insurance companies.

12. On the erection and division of counties and towns.
13. On agriculture.

14. On commerce and navigation, to consist of five members.
15. On manufactures.

16. On public health, and medical societies and colleges.

17. On privileges and elections.

18. On engrossed bills, to consist of five members.
19. On Indian affairs.

20. On public expenditure.

21. On municipal affairs, to consist of five members.
22. On public buildings.

23. On poor laws.

24. On charitable and religious societies.

25. On retrenchment.

26. On grievances.

27. On the manufacture of salt.

28. On the internal affairs of towns and counties.
29. On public printing.

Rule 18. It shall be the duty of the committee on public printing to examine and report on all questions of printing referred to them, and every motion to print any petition, resolution, report, bill, message or other manuscript, except as provided in the joint rules, shall be referred to such committee. They shall, when practicable, report the approximate cost of all extra printing, and report to the Senate, from time to time, any measure they may deem useful for the economical and proper management of the public printing.

Rule 19. The committee on engrossed bills shall examine all bills, amendments and resolutions which are required to be engrossed, before they go out of possession of the Senate, and make report when they find them correctly engrossed, before they are read the third time; they shall also compare such amendments as may be made in the Assembly to Senate bills, and that are concurred in by the Senate after they shall have been re-engrossed in the Senate, for the purpose of seeing if they are correctly engrossed.

Rule 20. Every report of a committee upon a bill which shall not be considered at the time of making the same, or laid on the table by a vote of the Senate, shall stand upon the general orders with the bill, and entered on the Journal.

OF GENERAL ORDERS AND SPECIAL ORDERS.

Rule 21. The matters referred to the committee of the whole Senate shall constitute the general orders, and the business of the general orders shall be taken up as follows, viz.: The clerk shall announce the title of each bill, with the printed number, or other matter as it shall be reached in its order, when it may be taken up on the motion of any member without the putting of any question therefor; but if not so moved, it shall lose its preference for the day. And whenever three bills have been moved consecutively, the Senate shall go into committee of the whole upon them without further orders; and whenever a motion shall prevail in committee of the whole that the committee now rise, report progress and ask leave to sit again, the motion shall include the bills remaining unacted upon in the committee of the whole which shall be considered in the first committee of the whole thereafter; and no bill shall be considered in committee of the whole, unless the same shall have been printed. Rule 22. Whenever any bill or other matter is made the special order for a particular day, and it shall not be completed on that day, it ́shall retain its place in the general orders, unless it shall be made the special order for another day; and when a special order is under consideration it shall take precedence of any special order for a subsequent hour of the same day; but such subsequent special order may be taken up immediately after the previous special order has been disposed of.

OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE.

Rule 23. The rules of the Senate 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 Senate; and if the report be agreed to by the Senate, it shall be deemed a rejection of the bill.

Rule 24. Bills committed to a committee of the whole Senate shall in committee of the whole be read through by sections. All amendments shall be noted and reported to the Senate by the chairman. After the report the bill shall be subject to debate and amendment before the question to engross is put; but such ainendments only shall be in order as were offered and decided in the committee of the whole Senate, except by unanimous consent.

Rule 25. A motion that the committee rise and report progress

on any bill shall always be in order, and shall be decided without debate.

OF BILLS.

Rule 26. Every bill shall be introduced by motion for leave, or on the report of a committee, or by message from the Assembly; and one day's notice, at least, shall be given of an intended motion for leave to bring in a bill, unless the Senate unanimously order otherwise. Such notice shall state generally the subject-matter of such bill.

Rule 27. When a bill shall be reported by a committee of the whole, and not otherwise disposed of, the question shall be, "Shall the report be agreed to?" And when the report of such committee, if favorable, shall be agreed to, and the bill not otherwise disposed of, the bill shall be ordered engrossed for a third reading. Upon such questions the merits of the bill may be debated, and a motion to commit or recommit, or to amend, as provived in the 24th rule, or lay on the table, or to postpone to a future day, shall be in order. If such question shall be decided in the negative, such bill shall be deemed lost; but if it be decided in the affirmative, such bill shall, at the pleasure of the Senate, be read a third time, and the final question shall be taken thereon immediately after such third reading, and without debate.

Rule 28. Every bill shall receive three readings previous to its being passed, and the president shall give notice, at each, whether it be the first, second or third. No bill shall be amended or committed until it shall have been twice read, and no bill shall be read a third time out of its regular order, nor on the same day on which it is ordered to a third reading, unless on a vote of two-thirds of all the senators present and voting; and no bill shall be read a third time. unless it shall have been printed; and all resolutions which propose any amendment of the Constitution shall be treated in the form of proceedings on them, in a similar manner with bills, except that it shall not be necessary to commit such resolutions to a committee of the whole; and no bill shall be ordered to a third reading without having been acted upon in committee of the whole.

Rule 29. After a bill or resolution to amend the Constitution shall be ordered to a third reading, no motion to amend the same shall be in order without unanimous consent, but any such bill or resolution may be committed prior to the completion of the final reading thereof.