11. Every member previous to his speaking, shall rise from his seat and address himself to the Speaker.

12. When two or more members rise at once, the Speaker shall name the member who is first to speak.

13. No member shall speak more than twice to the same general question without leave of the House; nor more than once in any case, until every member choosing to speak shall have spoken.

14. While a member is speaking, no member shall entertain any private discourse, or pass between him and the chair.

15. A member called to order shall immediately sit down, unless permitted to explain. All decisions of the chair on questions of order shall be conclusive, unless reserved on appeal to the House.

16. Every member who shall be present when a question is stated from the chair, shall vote thereon, unless he be excused by the House, or unless he be directly interested in the question, in which case he shall not vote. No member shall be permitted to vote on any question, unless present when, upon such a division, his name is called in regular order.

17. Petitions, memorials, and other papers addressed to the House shall be presented by the Speaker, or by a member in his place.

18. Every member previous to presenting a petition or memorial shall endorse on the same the substance thereof, and add his name; the clerk shall then read the endorsement; after which, the Speaker shall put the question on the reference of said petition or memorial.

19. No motion shall be debated or put, unless it be seconded; when a motion is seconded, it shall be stated by the Speaker before debate; and every such motion shall be reduced to writing, if the Speaker or any member desire it.

20. After a motion is stated by the Speaker, it shall be deemed to be in the possession of the House, but may be withdrawn at any time. before a decision or amendment.

21. If the question in debate contain several distinct propositions, any member may have the same divided; but a motion to strike out and insert shall be indivisible.

22. When a blank is to be filled, and different sums or times are proposed, the question shall first be put on the largest sum and longest time.

23. When a question is under debate, no motion shall be received unless for a call of the House, for the previous question, to postpone it indefinitely, to adjourn it to a certain day, to lay it on the table, to commit it, to amend it, or to adjourn the House.

24. A motion to lay a question on the table shall be decided without amendment or debate; a motion to commit, until it is decided, shall preclude all amendment and debate of the main question; and a motion to postpone a question indefinitely, or to adjourn it to a day certain, until it is decided, shall preclude all amendment of the main question.

25. The "previous question" shall be as follows-"Shall the main question be now put?" It shall be admitted only when demanded by a majority of the members present, and until it is decided, shall preclude all amendment or debate. When on taking the previous question, the House 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 passage of the bill, resolution, or other matter under consideration; and in cases where there shall be pending amendments which have been adopted in committee of the whole, but not acted on in the House, the question shall first be taken upon such amendments in their order, and without further debate or amendment.

26. A motion to adjourn the House shall always be in order and decided without debate.

27. In all cases where a bill, order, resolution or motion, shall be entered on the journal of this House, the name of the member moving the same shall also be entered on the journal.

28. If any ten members require it, the ayes and nays upon any question shall be taken and entered upon the journal.

29. All committees shall be appointed by the Speaker, unless otherwise specially directed by the House, in which case they shall be appointed by ballot.

30. Select committees to whom original references are made, and all committees to whom private claims are referred, shall in all cases report a state of facts with their opinion thereon.

31. Every bill originating in this House, shall be introduced by motion for leave, or by an order of the House and the report of the committee. One day's notice at least shall be given of a motion for leave to bring in a bill, unless the House otherwise unanimously allow; such notices shall specify the subject matter of such bill; and all resolutions of reference and instruction to committees shall state the subject to be referred.

32. All bills brought into this House by any member or committee, shall be endorsed with the name of the member or committee bringing in the same; all bills introduced by members on leave shall be referred to one of the standing committees, or to a select committee; such committee may report adversely to the entire bill, with or without amendment, and the bill, if any, reported by such a committee, shall then become the bill before the House for consideration.

33. No private bill shall be brought into this House, but upon a memorial or petition presented to the House, and signed by the party or parties praying for such bill, except by the unanimous consent of the House.

34. No bill shall be committed or amended until it has been twice read.

35. Every message from the Senate communicating any bill for the concurrence of this House, shall, with the accompanying documents, if any, be referred to a standing or select committee to consider and report thereon.

36. All amendments by the Senate to bills which have passed this House, shall be referred to a standing or select committee, to examine and report thereon, unless the House shall otherwise expressly order or allow.

37. In forming a committee of the whole House, the Speaker shall leave the chair, and a chairman be appointed to preside.

38. The rules of the House shall be observed in the committee of the whole House, except the rules respecting a call for the ayes and nays and times of speaking.

39. Bills committed to a committee of the whole House, shall, in committee of the whole thereon, be first read through, if desired by any member, and then read and debated by clauses, leaving the title to be last considered. All amendments shall be noted on a separate piece of paper, and reported to the House by the chairman of the committee of the whole: After the report, the bill shall be still subject to debate and amendment before the question to engross is put; and such amendments only shall be in order, as were offered and decided in committee of the whole House.

40. A similar mode of proceeding shall be observed with bills which have originated in the Senate, as with bills originating in this House.

41. If, at any time when in committee of the whole House, there be not present a quorum to do business, the chairman shall immediately report that fact to the Speaker.

42. On a motion in committee of the whole House to rise and report progress, the question shall be decided without debate.

43. Every bill shall receive three several readings previous to its being passed; and the second and third readings shall be on differ ent days; and the third reading shall be on a day subsequent to that on which the bill passed in committee of the whole House, unless the House unanimously direct otherwise.

44. A standing committee of five members shall be appointed to be called "the committee on engrossed bills :" whose duty it shall be carefully to examine all the bills passed by this House, and see that the same are correctly engrossed, and report the same to the House before they are signed by the Speaker.

45. Reports from the committee on engrossed bills shall at all times be in order, and have the preference to any other business.

46. When a bill passes the House, the Speaker shall certify the same with the date thereof, at the foot of the bill.

47. No motion for reconsideration shall be in order unless on the same day or day following that on which the decision proposed to be reconsidered took place; nor unless one of the majority shall move such consideration. A motion for reconsideration being put and lost, shall not be renewed; nor shall any subject be a second time reconsidered, without unanimous consent.

48. A standing committee of five members shall be appointed on bills coming within the ninth Section of the seventh Article of the amended Constitution of this State; and when any bill shall have passed in committee of the whole House, on which the Speaker may entertain doubts whether it comes within the provision of the said ninth section, it shall be referred to the said committee to examine and report thereon, before the question on the final passage shall be

taken.

49. On the final passage of all bills requiring two-thirds, the ayes and nays shall be taken and entered on the Journal, and the Speaker shall certify upon every such bill, when passed, that two-thirds of all members elected to this House voted in favor of the same.

50. A motion to reconsider the vote on the final passage of any bill, requiring the assent of two-thirds of all the members elected to this House, shall be made by a member who voted in favor of the decision of the House on the question on the final passage of the bill; and two-thirds of the members elected to the House shall be required to reconsider the same; and such vote shall not be a second time reconsidered. But the vote on the final passage of any bill creating, continuing, altering or renewing any moneyed incorporation, shall not be reconsidered whenever such bill shall be lost.

51. No standing rule or order of this House, shall be suspended, changed or rescinded, without one day's previous notice being given of the motion therefor; nor shall the fiftieth rule be altered, changed, rescinded or suspended, unless two-thirds of all members elected to this House agree to such alteration, change, rescinding or suspen.

sion.

52. No person, unless in the exercise of an official duty, or by special invitation of a member, shall be admitted on the floor of the House, except the Executive, State Officers, the Chancellor, the Judges of the Supreme Court, and circuit judges, members of the Senate, and former members of the Legislature.

53. Standing committees, consisting of five members each, shall be appointed on the following subjects:

Ways and Means,

Canals,

Judiciary,