Joint Rules of the Senate and House of Representatives of Pennsylvania.

RULE. 1. All bills, resolutions, votes, orders, 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, resolution or order, except such parts upon which a difference exists between the two Houses.

RULE. 4. 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, upon affidavit, that he has obtained material evidence in support of his claim, since 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 5. When a bill, resolution, or order 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 6. 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 in March, and when reported in either House, said bill shall have priority over all other business until finally disposed of.

RULE 7. No new bill shall be transmitted from or received by either House within four days of the time fixed on for an adjournment sine die. [Amended

January 13, 1874.]

RULE 8. No bill, resolution, or order, 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, resolutions, and orders, after they have been duly transcribed and compared, shall be presented to the Governor for his sig nature, by the proper committee, before eight o'clock on the morning of the day of the final adjournment.

RULE 9. No bill, resolution, or order shall be sent

to the Governor for his approval, unless the same shall have been clearly and fairly engrossed, without obliteration or interlineation.

RULE 10. 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.

RULE 11. Every bill, resolution, or order, transmitted to either House, if amended by the House to which transmitted, shall have the amendment or amendments printed in italics, or enclosed in brackets, by the House in which the amendment or amendments are made, and marked Senate or House amendments, as the case may be. [Adopted January 13, 1874.1

Rules of the Senate of Pennsylvania, as Amended at the Session of 1881.

I. The President 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 President, 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 reading of reported and printed bills at length, on the call of Senators, which shall be the first reading of such bills, and in that stage shall not be subject to amendment or to a vote thereon.

III. It shall be the duty of the President 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 the first heard; but an appeal in all such cases shall lie to the Senate, and a member called to order may extenuate or justify.

IV. Members speaking shall address the President, 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 President, or by a member through the President, 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 President. Every motion shall be reduced to writing, if the President 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 decision.

VI. Every motion shall be entered on the Jour