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RULE 14. The following standing committees shall be appointed by the President, at the commencement of each session, unless otherwise directed by the senate. The committee on the judiciary shall consist of five members, and the other committees of three members each.

1st. On the Judiciary.

2nd. On Finance.

3rd. On Education, School and University Lands.

4th. On Incorporations.

5th. On Claims.

6th. On Internal Improvements.

7th. On Roads, Bridges and Ferries.

8th. On Town and County Organization.

9th. On the Militia.

10th. On Privileges and Elections.

11th. On Agriculture and Manufactures.

12th. On the Expiration and Re-enactment of Laws, &c. 13th. On Legislative Expenditures.

14th. On State Affairs.

15th. On Public Printing.

16th. On Banks and Banking.

17th. On Engrossed Bills.

18th. On Contingent Expenditures.

19th. On Public Lands.

20th. On Enrolled Bills.

RULE 15. Reporters for newspapers can have seats assigned them by the President, within the bar of the chamber, for the purpose of taking down the proceedings, but not so as to interfere with the convenience of the senate. The governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, treasurer, attorney general, senators and ex-senators, and members of congress, judges of any courts, members and ex-members of state legislatures, and members of the assembly of this state, and all editors of newspapers in the state, may be admitted to seats within the bar of the senate.

RULE 16. After the journal shall have been read, and an opportunity given to correct it, the order of business shall be as follows, viz:

1. Letters, petitions, memorials, remonstrances, and accompanying documents, may be presented and referred.

2. Resolutions may be offered and considered, notice of leave to introduce bills may be given, and bills may be introduced on leave granted.

3. Reports of committees may be made and considered, first from standing committees, and next from select committees.

4. Messages and other executive communications.

5. Messages from the assembly, and amendments proposed by the assembly to bills from the senate.

6. Bills and resolutions from the assembly on their second reading.

7. Bills on their third reading.

8. Bills ready for a third reading.

9. Bills reported for a committee of the whole.

10. Bills in which a committee of the whole has made progress, and obtained leave to sit again.

11. Bills not yet considered in committee of the whole.

RULE 17. Bills of a public nature shall always take precedence of private bills.

RULE 18. When any member is about to speak in debate, or deliver any matter to the senate, he shall rise from his seat and respectfully address himself to "Mr. President," and shall confine himself to the question under consideration, and avoid personalities.

RULE 19. Whenever any member is called to order, he shall sit down until it be determined whether he is in order or not, except he be permitted to explain; and if a member be called to order for words spoken in debate, the exceptionable words shall be taken down in writing immediately.

RULE 20. When two or more members happen to rise at the same time, the President shall name the member who is first to speak; but the member first rising shall at all times be entitled to the floor.

RULE 21. No member shall speak more than twice on the same question during the same day; nor more than once on a motion for commitment, without leave of the senate.

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RULE 22. Whilst the President is putting any question or addressing the senate, no member shall walk out of or across the room, nor entertain private discourse; nor whilst a member is speaking, shall pass between him and the chair. No member or other person shall visit or remain by the clerk's table whilst the ayes and noes are being called, or the ballots counted,

RULE 23. No member shall vote on any question in any case where he was not within the chamber of the senate when the question was put, unless by leave of the senate; nor shall any member be counted, upon a division and count of the senate, who shall be without the chamber at the time.

RULE 24. Every member who may be within the senate chamber when the question was put, shall give his vote, unless the senate for special reasons shall excuse him. All motions to excuse a member from voting, shall be made before the senate divides, or before the call of the ayes and noes is commenced. And any member wishing to be excused from voting, may make a brief verbal statement of the reasons for making such request, and the question shall then be taken without further debate.

RULE 25. When a motion is made and seconded, it shall be stated by the president, or, being in writing, it shall be handed to the chair, and read aloud before debated.

RULE 26. Every motion shall be reduced to writing, if the President or any member desire it.

RULE 27. After a motion is stated by the President, or read by

the clerk, it shall be deemed to be in the possession of the senate, but may be withdrawn or altered at any time before a decision or amendment.

RULE 28. When a question is under debate, no motion shall be received unless to adjourn, to lay on the table, for the previous question, to postpone to a day certain, to commit, to amend, or to postpone indefinitely; and these several motions shall have precedence in the order in which they stand arranged. A motion to postpone to a day certain, or to postpone indefinitely, being decided, shall not again be allowed on the same day, or at the same stage of the bill or proposition. A motion to strike out the enacting words of a bill shall have precedence of a motion to amend, and if carried, shall be equivalent to the rejection of the bill.

RULE 29. A motion to adjourn, shall be always in order; that and the motion to lay on the table shall be decided without debate.

RULE 30. The previous question shall be in this form: "Shall the main question be now put?" It shall only be admitted when demanded by a majority of the members present, and until it is decided shall preclude amendment and further debate of the main question. When on taking the previous question, the senate shall decide that the previous question shall not now be put, the main question shall be considered as still remaining under debate. The "main question" shall be on the the passage of the bill, resolution, or other matter under consideration. And in cases where there shall be pending amendments, the question shall first be taken upon amendments in their order, and without further debate or amendment. On a motion for the previous question, and prior to the main question being put, a call of the senate shall be in order. No debate shall be permitted on a previous question; and all incidental questions of order arising after a motion is made for the previous question, and pending such motion, shall be decided, whether on appeal or otherwise, without debate.

RULE 31. When a motion or question has been once put and carried in the affirmative or negative, it shall be in order for any member who voted in the majority, or when the senate is equally divided, for a member who voted in the negative, to move for a re-consideration thereof on the same or succeeding day, and such motion shall take precedence of all other questions except to adjourn. A motion to reconsider being put and lost, shall not be renewed.

RULE 32. Any member may call for a division of the question, when the same will admit of it. A motion to strike out and insert shall be deemed to be indivisible. A motion to strike out being lost, shall not preclude an amendment, nor a motion to strike out and insert.

RULE 33. In presenting a petition, memorial, remonstrance or other communication, addressed to the senate or assembly, the member shall only state the general purport of it.

RULE 34. A member offering a resolution, or an amendment to a bill, resolution or memorial, shall first read the same in his place, before presenting it to the President; and every petition, memorial, remonstrance, resolution, bill and report of committee shall be endorsed with its appropriate title; and immediately under the endorsement the name of the member presenting the same shall be written.

RULE 35. Any two members may make a call of the senate and require absent members to be sent for, but a call of the senate cannot be made after the voting has commenced; and the call of the senate being ordered, and the absentees noted, the doors shall be closed and no member permitted to leave the room until the report of the sergeant-at-arms be received and acted upon, or further proceedings in the call be suspended. Previous to the reception of such report, further proceedings in the call shall not be suspended, except by a vote of two-thirds of the members present.

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