FEES ALLOWED IN CASES OF CONTEST. 76. Whenever, in the Assembly, a contest is made for the seat of any Assemblyman, no more than two hundred dollars shall be allowed as counsel fees to either side. ASSIGNMENT OF ATTACHES. 77. The Committee on Attachés and Employés shall assign the committee clerks and the official stenographers of the House to the various committees; provided, that the Speaker, the Committee on Judiciary and the Committee on Ways and Means shall each be entitled to one clerk and one stenographer, to be selected by the Speaker and chairman of those committees, respectively; and provided further, that the Committee on Attachés and Employés, on recommendation of the Chief Clerk, shall have authority to re-assign any clerk or attachés under him to special duties or other committees when the necessity arises. All assignments of committee clerks and stenographers made by the Committee on Attachés and Employés under this rule shall be reported to the House and entered in the Journal. INTRODUCTION OF BILLS AFTER FORTIETH DAY. 78. On or prior to the fortieth day of the session the Speaker shall appoint a standing Committee on Introduction of Bills, to consist of three members. All motions for leave to introduce bills after the fortieth day shall be sent to the desk in writing, under the order of "Introduction of Pills," and at no other time. The motion shall ve the title of the bill, and shall be accomnied by the bill. The bill shall thereupon referred to the Committee on Introduction Bills. That committee shall examine bills referred it with particular reference to the question to whether there is already any bill in either use of the same character which might be mended to effect the result sought, and genally as to the advisability of introducing the The committee shall report upon each bill so referred to it on the same legislative day. The report shall be made at the conclusion of the consideration of the Senate Special File. The committee may, in its discretion, incorporate more than one bill in the resolution to grant leave to introduce, incorporating in the resolution the title of each bill in full, and the roll shall be called upon the adoption of the resolution without debate and no resolution. to introduce any such bill shall be adopted without the consent of three fourths of the members of the Assembly. If a division of the question is demanded upon the introduction of any particular bill, the division shall be allowed, and the roll called separately upon the bill. FORM FOR PRINTED AMENDED BILLS. 79. All bills amended, either in committee or on the floor of the House, shall be immediately reprinted; the new matter added by any amendments to be printed in italics and any matter proposed to be omitted by such amendments to be included in brackets. LEAVES OF ABSENCE OF MEMBERS OF THE ASSEMBLY VISITING PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS. 80. No leave of absence shall be granted any committee, special or standing, to visit. any public institutions of the State or for any other purpose. Whenever any committee shall report to the Assembly that it is desirable that such committee receive information concerning any public institution, the Assembly may, by a two-thirds vote of all its members, grant a leave of absence to not more than three members of such committee, to be designated by the Chairman thereof. Application for a leave of absence of such members of a committee shall be made to the Assembly in writing by the chairman thereof, and such application shall give the name of the institution or institutions to be visited and briefly recite the occasion and necessity for visiting the same, together with the names of the committeemen designated for that purpose and the name of the stenographer to accompany said committeemen, if one be necessary. Such application shall immediately, and without debate, be referred to the Committee on Rules and Regulations, with instructions to report upon the same on the next legislative day. Said members and their stenographer, if any, shall be allowed their actual expenses. DUTIES OF CHIEF CLERK. 81. It shall be the duty of the Chief Clerk to have charge and supervision of all the clerical business of the Assembly. He shall perform the duties imposed on him by law and. the rules of the Assembly. He shall have the supervision of all the clerks and assistants at the desk, of the journal clerk and his assistants, of all bill clerks, bill filers, stenographers, and of all committee attachés except the attachés to the Speaker and to the Committees on Judiciary and Ways and Means, and shall be responsible for the performance of and regular attendance upon their duties, and shall have power to suspend any such clerk, or attaché under him for dereliction of duty, and shall report to the Speaker such suspension and the causes thereof. Said clerk or attaché shall not receive any pay during the time of such suspension. The Speaker shall have the power to relieve the attaché or clerk of his suspension, and shall have the power to remove any clerk or attaché for incompetency or for willful neglect of duty. LOBBYING. 82. No person engaged in presenting to the Assembly or its committees any business, or claim, or legislation, shall be permitted to ngage in such business during the sessions of e Assembly, or be permitted on the floor of e Assembly at any time while the Assembly in session, and any person transgressing this le shall be removed from the floor of the sembly and be debarred from the privilege the floor during the remainder of the entire. ssion. The Speaker is charged with the forcement of this rule. This rule can not be suspended except by two-thirds vote of the entire Assembly. President, Lieut.-Governor, ALBERT J. WALLACE. Secretary, WALTER N. PARRISH. History 36 30 22 12 2 I II 21 29 35 38 32 32 1 Wolfe 6 Wright 8 Gates 9 Holohan 10 Caminetti 11 Boynton 12 Hurd 13 Burnett 14 Birdsall 15 Thompson 16 Lewis 17 Bills 18 Welch 19 Campbell 20 Hare 21 Stetson 27 Hans 29 Strobridge 31 Curtin 33 Martinelli 34 Regan 36 Bryant 40 Beban SECRETARY-1A Walter N. Parrish. ASSISTANT SECRETARIES-2A W. H. Wright, 3A Frank Mattison, 4A H. P. Travers, 5A Fred R. Estees, 6A S. D.-Secretary's desk. MINUTE CLERK-1B R. H. Jackson. ASSISTANT MINUTE CLERKS-2B Frank J. Fitzpatrick, 3B George M. Taylor, 4B Theodore Lafayette. HISTORY CLERKS-5B A. J. Turner, 6B J. F. R. Arellanes. FILE CLERKS NEWSPAPER REPRESENTATIVES-1N Oakland Tribune, 2N Oakland Enquirer, 3N Los Anles Times, 4N Labor Knight and San Fransco Recorder, 5N San Francisco Call, 6N San ancisco Call, 7N Sacramento Union, 8N Asciated Press, 9N San Francisco Chronicle, N Town and County Journal, 11N Sacraento Bee, 12N Sacramento Bee, 13N United ress, 14N San Francisco Post, 15N Pacific tlook, 16N San Francisco Examiner, 17N os Angeles Express, 18N San Francisco Bulin, 19N Pacific Press. |