no;" and in doubtful cases, the President may direct, or any member may call for a division.

FOURTH. All committees shall be nominated by the President, unless otherwise directed by the house, in which case they shall be appointed by ballot.

FIFTH. Every member present, when a question is taken, shall vote, unless the house for special reasons excuse him.

SIXTH. Every motion shall be reduced to writing, if the President or any member require it.

SEVENTH. A motion to adjourn shall always be in order, unless a member is speaking, and shall be decided without debate, and no member shall leave his seat after a question of adjournment is put until the same shall be declared to be a vote by the President, nor until the President shall have left the chair.

EIGHTH. When a member is about to speak, he shall rise, and respectfully address himself to the President, and when a member is speaking, no member shall pass between him and the chair.

NINTH. The President shall preserve decorun, and if any member transgress the rules of the house, the President shall, or any member may call to order; in which case, the member called to order, shall immediately sit down, unless permitted to explain, and the house, if appealed to shall decide on the case.

TENTH. No member shall speak more than twice on any one question, without leave of the house.

ELEVENTH. 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 by the President or Secretary, before debated.

TWELFTH. After a motion is stated by the President, or read by the Secretary, it shall be deemed to be in possession of the house, but may be withdrawn at any time before a decision or amendment, by consent of the house.

THIRTEENTH. While a question is before the Senate, no motion shall be received, unless for an amendment, for the previous question, or for postponing the main question, or to commit it, or to adjourn.

FOURTEENTH. The previous question shall be put in the words, "shall the main question be now put?" It shall be admitted only on demand of two members, and sustained by a vote of two-thirds of the house, and until decided, shall preclude all amendments, and debate on the main question.

FIFTEENTH. Any member may call for a division of the question when the same will admit of it.

SIXTEENTH. No committee shall sit during the sitting of the Senate, without special leave.

SEVENTEENTH. The first reading of a bill shall be for information, and if objections be made to it, the question shall be, "shall the bill be rejected?" If no objections be made, or if the question to

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reject be lost, the bill shall go to its second reading without a question.

EIGHTEENTH. Upon the second reading of a bill, the President shall state, it is ready for commitment or engrossment and if committed, then the question shall be, whether to a standing or select committee, or a committee of the whole; and the house shall determine on what day; but if the bill be ordered to be engrossed, the house shall appoint the day when it shall be read the third time.

NINETEENTH. A bill after commitment or report thereof, may be recommitted at any time before its passage.

TWENTIETH. In forming a committee of the whole, the President shall leave the chair, and appoint a chairman to preside.

TWENTY-FIRST. The President may at any time leave the chair and call any member of the Senate thereto, who shall be President of the Senate for the time being, and the President shall at pleasure resume the chair, and if the person called to the chair shall object, and the President insists, the question shall be decided by the Senate. TWENTY-SECOND. When a motion is made for an amendment of any bill or resolution, the mover's name shall be inserted on the journal.

TWENTY-THIRD. The rules of the proceedings of the house, shall be observed in committee of the whole, so far as they may be applicable.

TWENTY-FOURTH. No member shall be permitted to vote on a subject in which he is immediately interested.

TWENTY-FIFTH. No member in the minority of any vote declared shall have a right to move for a reconsideration thereof.

TWENTY-SIXTH. No member shall call for the yeas and nays on any question after the same has been declared to be a vote by the Presi

dent.

TWENTY-SEVENTH. Any member may excuse himself from serving on a committee, if at the time of his appointment, he shall be a member of three other committees.

TWENTY-EIGHTH. When any petition, memorial or remonstrance, is presented to the Senate, the person presenting the same shall give a concise statement of the purport thereof, and it shall be disposed of according to its character, without reading, unless the reading thereof be required by two members.

TWENTY-NINTH. No bill shall pass the house until a third reading, nor shall any bill be read more than once in any one day, unless otherwise directed by the Senate.

THIRTIETH. If two or more members happen to rise at once, the President shall name the person who is to speak first.

THIRTY-FIRST. No standing rule of the house shall be revised or amended without one day's notice being given of the motion thereof. THIRTY-SECOND. No member shall absent himself from the service of the Senate without leave is first obtained, and in case a less number than a quorum of the Senate shall convene, they are hereby authorized to send the door keeper, or any person or persons by them

authorized, for any absent member, or members, as the majority of such members present shall agree, at the expense of such absent member or members respectively, unless such excuse for non attendance shall be made as the Senate, when a quorum is convened, shall judge sufficient.

THIRTY-THIRD. It shall be the duty of the door keeper to keep order in the lobby, and to obey the orders of the Senate from time to time.

THIRTY-FOURTH. It shall be the duty of the Secretary to keep an exact journal of all the proceedings of the Senate, and shall from time to time, be subject to such further orders as the Senate may di

rect.

THIRTY-FIFTH. No persons except the members of the House of Representatives, their clerk, the Governor, Secretary of State, Judge of the Supreme and Circuit Courts, Attorney General and members of Congress, shall be admitted within the bar of the Senate, during the sitting of the same, unless invited by a member.

THIRTY-SIXTH. On the discussion of any business, which may in the opinion of a member require secrecy, the President shall order the gallery to be cleared, and during the discussion of such motion the doors shall remain shut, unless otherwise directed by the Senate.

THIRTY-SEVENTH. When the Senate shall think their business requires it, they shall elect one or more enrolling and engrossing clerks for the house, who shall, when elected, be subject to the same rules as the Secretary of the senate now is.

THIRTY-EIGHTH. Any member voting in the minority on any subject, and protesting against the vote of the House, may have his protest entered on the journals, if the language and tenor of such protest would have been admissible in the discussion of the subject.

ORDER OF BUSINESS.

1. Petitions, Memorials and Remonstrances, <

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Reports from Standing Committees.

3. Reports from Select Committees.

4. Propositions and Motions.

5. Second reading of Bills.

6. Engrossed Bills.

7.

Bills reported, and other business lying on the Table.

8. Orders of the day.

Mr. Valle from the joint committee to report rules for the government of the two houses, submitted the following:

The committee on the the part of the Senate, who have been instructed to join such committee, as should be appointed on the part of the House of Representatives, for the purpose of reporting rules, for the government of both houses, when in joint session, have discharged that duty, and recommend the adoption of the rules which

governed the two houses when in joint session, in the years 1834 and 1835, with the following amendment to the thirteenth section of said rules: After the letter "A" before "members," insert the words "clerk or."

Which rules as amended, are as follows:

JOINT RULES OF BOTH HOUSES.

SEC. 1. When the business requires the attendance of the Senate in the Representative Chamber, they, with their Secretary, shall be conducted within the bar, and there seated: and when so assembled, the President of the Senate shall preside, and every member of the Senate or House of Representatives shall be at liberty to make motions, and debate, and the rules of the House of Representatives shall govern, as if that House were in committee of the whole House.

SEC. 2. When a message shall be sent from one house to the other, it shall be announced at the door of the respective houses by the doorkeeper thereof, and the import thereof respectfully communicated to the President or Speaker, as the case may be, by the person by whom it is sent.

SEC. 3. While bills are on their passage between the two houses, they shall be on paper, and, under the signature of the Secretary or Clerk of each house respectively.

SEC. 4. After a bill shall have passed both houses, it shall be duly enrolled on paper by the clerk of the house, where the same shall have originated, before it shall be presented to the Governor.

SEC. 5. When bills are enrolled, they shall be examined by a joint committee of three from the Senate, and six from the House of Representatives, appointed as a standing committee for that purpose, one of whom on the part of the Senate and two of the House of Representatives, shall be sufficient to examine and compare the enrolled with the engrossed bills, as passed in the two houses, and correcting any errors that may be discovered in the enrolled bills, and make their report forthwith to the respective houses.

SEC. 6. After examination and report, each bill shall be signed in the respective houses; first by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and then by the President of the Senate.

SEC. 7. After a bill shall have been thus signed in the House, it shall be presented by the said committee to the Governor for his approbation; it being first endorsed on the back of the bill, certifying in which house the same originated, which endorsement shall be signed by the Clerk or Secretary of the House in which the same did originate, and shall be entered on the journals of each House.

SEC. 8. All orders and resolutions which are to be presented to the Governor for his approbation, shall also be previously enrolled, examined and signed, and shall be presented in the same manner, and by the same committee as is provided in case of bills.

SEC. 9. When a bill or resolution, which shall have passed one house, shall be signed in the other, notice thereof shall be given to the house in which the same originated.

SEC. 10. When any papers may come officially before either house of the General Assembly, or any communication of the Govenor, and are proper to be acted upon by both houses, the house bere which suon papers are lail, or to which such communications are made, shall as soon as they have proceeded and acted upon the same, lay a copy thereof before the other house.

SEC. 11. When a vacancy shall happen in either house, notice thereof shall he seat to the other.

SEC. 12. When any new business shall be commenced in either house, on which it is necessary for the other to act, notice thereof shall be given to the other house.

SEC. 13. All messages and communications between the two houses, shall be conveyed by a clerk or a member of the house originating the same.

Mr. Vanarsdall gave notice, that he would, on Saturday next, ask leave to introduce

A bill, to prevent the publication, circulation or promulgation of the abolition doctrines. Also,

A bill, to tax all agencies, or other institutions, that exercise the functions of banking in the state of Missouri, without the leave of the state.

Mr. Robison offered the following:

Resolved, That a committee of three be appointed to contract for the job printing of the Senate, during the present session.

Which was adopted, and Messrs. Robison, Sterigere and Vanarsdall, were appointed that committee.

Mr. Sterigere offered the following.

Resolved, By the Senate and House of Representatives, that they will on the 25th instant, at 3 o'clock, in the afternoon, proceed to elect a Senator of the United States.

Which, the rules being dispensed with, was read a second, and a third time, and passed.

Mr. Smith offered the following,

Resolved, That fifty copies of the rules, and joint rules, be printed for the use of the Senate.

Which was adopted.

The yeas and nays being called for by Mr. Vanarsdall, were follows:

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Yeas-Messrs. Ashby, Campbell, Deguire, Lee, McClelland, McDaniel, Montgomery, Robison, Smith, Sterigere, Thompson, and Walsh.

Nays-Messrs. Byrd, Goforth, Gorham, D. Jones, Rawlins, Valle, Vanersdall, Weaver and Williams.

Mr. Robison, from the select committee to call on the Governor,