RULE 20.

All petitions shall be referred to a committee without reading, unless the reading be demanded by a member.

RULE 21.

The House having once decided on any question, it shall not again be brought before the House by any member thereof, in any form whatever, during the same session.

RULE 22.

When a motion shall be made for a call of the House, the call shall be ordered if said motion is sustained by a majority of the members present.

RULE 23.

No motion to amend the rules of the House shall be acted upon until it shall have been before the House at least twenty-four hours.

RULE 24.

The Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Treasurer, Secretary of State, Auditor of Accounts, Secretary of Civil and Military Affairs, members of the State Senate, Senators and members of Congress, Judges of the Supreme and Circuit Courts, the District Judge, Collector, Attorney, Marshal of the United States, and such as have previously held those offices, the clergy and such as may be introduced by a member, shall be admitted to seats on the floor of the House.

RULE 25.

Counsel may be admitted to advocate any cause, if permitted by three-fourths of the members present.

RULE 26.

No bill shall pass the House until it shall have been read three several times, the last of which shall be at least twenty-four hours after the first reading, and the third reading of all bills of a public nature shall be ordered for some particular day.

RULE 27.

All bills shall be read a second time by their titles only, unless the reading shall be demanded by a member; and all bills after the second reading, and all petitions, memorials, remonstrances, resolutions and other papers, calling for legislative action (except such as have been reported by a committee), no objection being made, shall be referred by the Speaker to appropriate committees.

RULE 28.

No bill for the charter, re-charter, or increase of capital of any

bank, or for the alteration of county or town lines, or the removal or alteration of shires, shall be entertained by the House, unless it is made to appear to the committee to which it may have been referred that the required notice has been given.

RULE 29.

The subject-matter of a bill shall be briefly indicated in the title by the mover, at the time of its introduction; and every bill and resolution shall be properly folded, and the name of the mover, and the town he represents, shall be legibly written on the bottom of the same before it shall be offered.

RULE 30.

A two-thirds vote of all present shall be required for the suspension of any rule of the House.

RULE 31.

MOTIONS.

A motion to adjourn shall alv ays be in order, and shall be determined without debate.

Motions on bills and resolutions shall be sustained in the following order:

If the question in debate contains several points, the same shall be divided on the demand of a member. A motion to strike out or insert shall not be divided, but the rejection of a motion to strike out and insert one proposition shall not preclude a motion to strike out and insert a different one, or a motion simply to strike out prevent a subsequent one to strike out and insert.

RULE 34.

In filling blanks, the largest sum and the longest time shall be the first in order.

RULE 35.

ORDER OF BUSINESS.

The first hour of each morning's sitting may be devoted to the reception and disposal of petitions, memorials, remonstrances, moions, resolutions and the introduction of bills; after which the

orders of the day, or other proper business, shall be announced, always commencing with the unfinished business of the last sitting. The first hour of the afternoon's sitting may be occupied in the receiving and disposing of reports of committees and in completing the business of the morning hour; at the expiration of which, the House will again take up the orders of the day.

RULE 36.

REPORTS.

Reports of committees may be signed by any member in behalf of a committee, and made to the House by laying the same on the Speaker's table during a session. The signer of such report shall be held responsible for the accuracy of its statements and the propriety of its language, and when the same shall be under consideration he shall be further liable to answer all proper calls of any member of the House for additional statements of facts.

RULE 37.

All bills and other matters reported to the House by committee, requiring the action of the House, shall be taken up and considered in the same order in which they are reported, unless the House should otherwise direct.

RULE 38.

At any time in the course of debate on a debatable question a member may move "that debate upon the pending question do now close," and the Speaker shall put the motion to the House without debate, and if the motion is decided in the affirmative, debate shall be closed on the immediate pending question. member may move "that debate on the whole question do now close," and if the motion be decided in the affirmative, debate shall be closed on the whole question, and the main question shall be put in its order; and no motion except a motion to substitute either of said motions for the other shall be in order until the main question is put and decided.

RULE 39.

After the second reading of all bills of a public character, the Clerk shall cause not less than three hundred copies of the same to be forthwith printed, together with the titles of all bills of a private character, for the use of the members of the general assembly.

RULE 40.

All messages from the House of Representatives to the Senate shall be transmitted by its clerk or one of his assistants.

RULE 41.

No bill except such as shall be reported by committees, shall be

introduced into the House after the first Tuesday of November, except by consent of two-thirds of the members present.

Which report was accepted, and the rules adopted as the rules of the House.

The Speaker laid before the House a communication from His Excellency, the Governor, as follows:

STATE OF VERMONT,

EXECUTIVE Chamber, MONTPELIER, October, 6, 1892.)

To the Speaker of the House:

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SIR.-I have the honor to inform the House of Representatives that I have appointed Joseph H. Goulding, Secretary of Civil and Military Affairs.

LEVI K. FULLER.

Mr. Darling, of Chelsea, offered the following joint resolution: Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives, That the use of the hall of the House of Representatives be granted to the Vermont Bible Society, on Wednesday evening, October 19, 1892, for its anniversary exercises.

Which was read and adopted on the part of the House.

On motion of Mr. Ward, of Moretown, the House adjourned.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1892.

Reading of the scriptures and prayer by the Chaplain.
Journal of yesterday read and approved.

Mr. Martin, for the Committee on Rules, offered the following resolution :

Resolved, That the rules of the House be amended as follows: First-By adding to Rule 41, the following words: And all

referred bills must be reported by the committee having them in charge within fifteen days thereafter, unless otherwise ordered by a vote of the House.

Second-By adding a new rule as follows:

Rule 42. No corporation bill shall be introduced into the House if the subject-matter thereof can be incorporated and fully provided for under the laws of the State; provided however, that bills to amend existing charters are hereby excepted. Which was read and, under the rule, ordered to lie twenty-four hours.

The Speaker announced as the committee on the part of the House

ON JOINT RULES,

Mr. Leland of Springfield,

Hinds of Highgate,

Mower of Eden.

Mr. Arnold, of Bethel, offered the following joint resolution : Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives, That there shall be a joint special committee on public health, consisting of three Senators and five Representatives, to be appointed by the presiding officer of each House, respectively, to whom shall be referred all measures relating to the public health.

Which was read and adopted on the part of the House.

A message from the Senate by Mr. Powers, their Secretary, as follows:

MR. SPEAKER:

I am directed to inform the House that the Senate have, on their part, adopted joint resolutions as follows:

Joint resolution relating to joint special committee on Immigration and Industrial Interests.

Joint resolution relating to joint special committee on Temper

ance.

In the adoption of which the concurrence of the House is requested.

Joint resolutions from the Senate as follows:

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives, That the portions of the message of the retiring Governor, and His Excellency, the Governor, relating to immigration and industrial interests, be referred to a joint special committee, consisting of three members of the Senate and five members of the House, to be appointed by the presiding officer of each House, respectively.