56. Maps accompanying documents shall not be printed under the general order to print without the special direction of the House. 57. In filling up blanks the least sum and shortest time shall be first put. 58. All questions relating to the priority of business shall be decided with out debate. 59. When the reading of a paper is called for, except petitions, and t'e same is objected to by any member, it shall be determined by a vote of the House without debate. 60. On the day succeeding that on which a final vote on any bill or resolution has been taken said vote may be reconsidered on the motion of any member; provided, notice of intention to move such reconsideration shall have been given on the day on which such final vote was taken, by a member voting with the majority; and it shall not be in order for any member to move a reconsideration on the day on which such final vote was taken. Said motion of reconsideration shall have precedence over every other motion except a motion to adjourn. No notice of reconsideration shall be in order on the day preceding the last day of the session. But there shall be no reconsideration of a vote on a motion to indefinitely postpone. 61. In all cases of election by the House the vote shall be taken viva voce. 62. The ayes and noes shall be taken when called for by three members present, and every member within the bar of the House, when his name is called, shall (unless for special reasons he be excused) declare openly, and without debate, his vote. In taking the ayes and noes, and upon call of the House, the names of the members shall be taken alphabetically, and the Clerk shall enter on the Journal the names of those demanding the ayes and noes. 63. No member or other person shall remain by the Clerk's table while the ayes and noes are being called or while the votes are being counted. 64. No person shall vote on any question in the result of which he is jersonally interested or involved. 65. Upon a division and count of the House on any question, no person without the bar shall be counted. 66. No member shall be allowed to explain his vote or discuss the question while the ayes and noes are being called, and no member shall be allowed to change his vote after the vote is announced from the Chair CALL OF THE HOUSE. 67. Upon a call of the House the names of the members shall be called over by the Clerk and the absentees noted, after which the names of the absentees shall again be called over. The doors shall then be shut and those for whom no excuse or insufficient excuses are made, may by order of those present be taken into custody as they appear, or may be sent for and taken into custody by the Sergeant at Arms wherever to be found, or by special messenger to be appointed for that purpose. MISCELLANEOUS. 68. No standing rule or order of the House shall be rescinded or changed without a vote of two thirds and one day's notice being given of the motion therefor, but a rule or order may be suspended temporarily by a vote of two thirds of the members present, except that portion of Rule 7 relating to third reading of bills. 69. No member shall absent himself from the service of the House without the leave of the House, except in case of sickness, and if any member or officer of the House absent himself without leave his per diem shall not be allowed him, but no member shall obtain leave of absence or be excused without a vote of two thirds of the House. 70. No persons except Senators, State officers, Governors and ex-Governors of States, Members of Congress, Judges of the Supreme or District Courts, members of the press, when accredited by their respective journals, ladies, when specially invited by a member of the House, shall be admitted within the Assembly Chamber, except in the galleries, during the session of the House; but a majority may have the floor of the House within the bar cleared of all such persons. The Speaker is charged with the enforcing of this rule. 71. No smoking shall be allowed within the Assembly Chamber during the session of the House. 72. The rules of parliamentary practice contained in Cushing's Law and Practice of Legislative Assemblies shall govern the House in all cases to which they are applicable, and in which they are not inconsistent with the Standing Rules and Orders of the House and the Joint Rules of the Senate and House of Assembly. 73. The Assembly room shall not be used for any public or private business other than legislative, except by unanimous consent of the House. 74. Witnesses summoned to appear before the House or any of its committees shall be paid as follows: For each day a witness shall attend, the sum of two dollars; for each mile he shall travel in coming to or going from the place of examination, the sum of twenty-five cents; but nothing shall be paid for traveling home when the witness has been summoned at the place of trial. No mileage shall be paid except where the witness has actually traveled for the purpose of giving testimony. 75. It shall be in order for any member or members to protest against action of the House and have such protest entered upon the minutes. 76. All bills reported to the House by either Standing or Special Committees, after receiving their second readings, shall be placed upon a General File, to be kept by the Clerk; and no bill shall be considered by the House until the regular order of business shall have been gone through, and then bills shall be taken from the General File and acted upon in the order in which they were reported, unless otherwise specially ordered by the House, but engrossed bills shall be placed at the head of the File in the order in which they are received. The Clerk shall post in a conspicuous place in the Chamber a daily statement of the bills on the General File, setting forth the order in which they are filed and specifying the alterations arising from the disposal of business each day. 77. A substitute shall be deemed and held to be an amendment, and be treated in all respects as such. 78. When a member shall ask leave to have a bill taken up out of its regular order, he shall, in making the motion, give the number and title of the bill. 79. No increase of pay nor shall any extra pay be allowed any officer or attaché of the House by resolution, except by unanimous consent. 80. The Engrossing Clerk, Enrolling Clerk, and Copying Clerks shall engross, enrol, or copy the bills which shall come to their hands for such purposes, respectively, in the order of time in which the same shall be acted upon by the House. Each of the said Clerks shall be responsible for every violation of this rule by his assistants or deputies; nor shall any Clerk of this House, or his deputy or assistant, demand or receive from any person any compensation other than that provided by law for any services performed by him in regard to the bills or preparation of bills before this House. The report of the committee was adopted, and on motion of Mr. Gray the usual number of copies were ordered printed. Mr. Wilcox submitted the following report: Mr. SPEAKER: The Committee on Claims of temporary officers having examined the claims, find the following amounts due them, and beg leave to report as follows: And recommend the adoption of the following resolution: Resolved, That the Controller of State be and is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrants on the Contingent Fund of the Assembly in favor of the following persons, to wit: And also recommend the adoption of the annexed resolution: Resolved, That it is the sense of this House that no officers of this Legislature shall be required or receive pay at the opening of its successor, except the Chief Clerk of the House and the Sergeant at Arms. J. WILCOX, WILLIAM R. WHEATON. Report received and resolutions adopted. RESOLUTIONS. Mr. Luttrell offered the following resolution: Resolved, That the Sergeant at Arms be and he is hereby instructed to furnish the newspaper reporters and correspondents who have seats assigned them by the Speaker on the floor of this House such stationery as they may require as representatives of the press. Adopted. Mr. Crane offered the following resolution: Resolved, That the Sergeant at Arms be and is hereby authorized and directed to take from this House daily, in time for all the outgoing mails and expresses, all letters, newspapers, and other mail matter. Adopted. Mr. Mott, of Sacramento, offered the following: ΤΑ |