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9. Education, fourteen members. 10. Elections and Election Laws,

Laws, eleven

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13. Federal Relations, five members.

14. Finance, twenty-one members.

15. Fish and Game, thirteen members.

16. Hospitals and Asylums, eleven members. 17. Irrigation, nine members.

18. Judiciary, twenty members.

19. Labor, Capital, and Immigration, seven members.

20. Manufactures and Internal Improvements, five members.

21. Military Affairs, five members.

22. Mining and Oil Industries, seven members.

23. Municipal Corporations, seven members. 24. Printing, five members.

25. Prisons and Reformatories, nine members.

26. Public Buildings and Grounds, five

members.

27. Public Health and and Quarantine, five members.

28. Public Morals, five members.

29. Revenue and Taxation, eleven members. 30. Roads and Highways, eleven members. 31. Rules, five members.

PRESIDENT PRO TEM.-HIS POWERS AND PRIVI

LEGES.

9. The President pro tem. shall, in the absence of the President, take the chair and call the Senate to order at the hour of the meetngs of the Senate, and have the same power as the President; but the President pro tem. shall vote only as any other member of the Senate.

THE DUTIES OF SECRETARY.

10. 1. It shall be the duty of the Secretary the Senate to attend every session, call the

roll, read all bills, amendments, resolutions, and all papers ordered read by the Senate or the presiding officer.

2. To superintend all copying and work to be done for the Senate. To have supervision. over all attachés and employés of the Senate. To certify to and transmit to the Assembly all bills, resolutions, and papers requiring the concurrence of the the Assembly, immediately after their passage or adoption by the Senate. 3. To keep a correct journal of the proceedings of the Senate.

4. To notify the Assembly of the action by the Senate on all matters originating in the Assembly, and requiring action on the part of the Senate.

5. To permit no papers or records belonging to the Senate to be taken out of its custody otherwise than in the regular course of business.

6. To assign, reassign, or transfer all attachés and employés to their respective duties.

NO RECORDS OR PAPERS TO BE TAKEN FROM DESK.

11. The Secretary of the Senate shall not suffer any records or papers to be taken from the desk, or out of his custody, by any person except a chairman of a committee; but he shall deliver any bill or paper to be printed to the Superintendent of State Printing, and all bills ordered engrossed or enrolled to the Committee on Engrossment and Enrollment, and take their receipt therefor.

SERGEANT-AT-ARMS.

12. A Sergeant-at-Arms shall be elected, to hold his office during the pleasure of the Senate, whose duty it shall be to attend the Senate during all of its sittings, to execute the commands of the Senate from time to time, together with all such process issued by authority thereof as shall be directed to him by the President. The Sergeant-at-Arms is authorized to arrest for contempt all persons.

outside the bar, or in the gallery, found engaged in loud conversation, or otherwise making a noise to the disturbance of the Senate. The actual expenses of the Sergeant-at-Arms for every arrest, for each day's custody and releasement, and the traveling expenses for himself and special messenger going and returning shall be paid out of the contingent fund, and no other fees shall be paid him beyond his per diem. It shall also be the duty of the Sergeant-at-Arms to keep the accounts for pay and mileage of Senators.

PRINTED BILLS, ETC., MUST BE PLACED ON DESKS.

13. The Sergeant-at-Arms shall place copies of all bills, joint and concurrent resolutions, constitutional amendments, and journals and histories, when printed, on the desks of Senators at least one hour previous to the opening of session.

DOORKEEPER.

14. It shall be the duty of the Doorkeeper to prohibit all persons, except Senators, exSenators, members of the Assembly, State officers, officers of the two houses, and such reporters as have seats assigned to them by the President, from coming within the bar of the Senate, unless upon written invitation of the President or a Senator; provided, that no visitor shall be allowed upon the floor of the Senate during a session.

LOBBYING.

15. No person engaged in presenting to the Senate or its committees any business, or claim for legislation, shall be permitted to engage in such business during sessions of the Senate, or be permitted on the floor of the Senate during its sessions. And any person transgressing this rule shall be removed from the floor of the Senate and be debarred from the privilege of the floor during the remainder of the entire session. The President and President pro tem. are charged with the en

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forcement of this rule, and this rule can not be suspended except by a two-thirds vote of the entire Senate.

ATTENDANCE, DUTIES, AND OBLIGATIONS OF
SENATORS.

16. No Senator shall absent himself from the service of the Senate without leave first obtained. A less number than a quorum of the Senate is hereby authorized to send the Sergeant-at-Arms, or any other person, for any and all absent Senators, as the majority. of such Senators present shall agree, at the expense of such absent Senators, respectively, unless such excuse for non-attendance shall be made as the Senate, when a quorum is convened, shall judge sufficient, and in that case the expense shall be paid out of the contingent fund of the Senate; and this rule shall apply as well to the first convention of the Senate, at the legal time of meeting, as to each day of the session after the hour has. arrived to which the Senate stood adjourned. The President or Acting President of the Senate, or less than a quorum present, shall have the power to issue process directed to the Sergeant-at-Arms, or to any other person, to compel the attendance of Senators absent without leave. Any Senator who shall refuse. to obey such process, unless sick or unable to attend, shall be deemed guilty of contempt of the Senate, and the Sergeant-at-Arms, or any other person to whom such process may be directed, shall have power to use such force as may be necessary to compel the attendance of such absent Senator, and for this purpose he may command the force of the county, or of any county in the State.

DECORUM AND DEBATE.

17. 1. When a Senator desires to address The Senate he shall rise in his place, address the President, and when recognized he shall oceed to speak.

2. No Senator shall speak more than twice any one debate on the same day, and at

the same stage of the bill, without leave; and Senators who have once spoken shall not again be entitled to the floor (except for explanation) so long as any Senator who has not spoken desires to speak.

3. No Senator shall be interrupted when speaking, and no questions shall be asked him. except those through the presiding officer.

4. The author of a bill, motion, or resolution shall have the privilege of closing the debate.

SENATOR ENTITLED TO FLOOR.

18. When two or more Senators arise at the same time to address the Senate, the presiding officer shall designate the Senator who is entitled to the floor.

SENATOR, WHEN CALLED TO ORDER, MUST SIT DOWN.

19. When a Senator shall be called to order he shall sit down until the President shall have determined whether he is in order. or not; and every question of order shall be decided by the President, subject to an appeal to the Senate by any Senator. If a Senator be called to order for words spoken, the objectionable language shall immediately be taken down in writing.

VOTING.

20. When a Senator declines to vote on a call of his name he shall be required to assign his reasons therefor, and having assigned them, the presiding officer shall submit the question to the Senate: "Shall the Senator, for the reasons assigned by him, be excused from voting?" which shall be decided without debate. And these proceedings shall be had after the roll call and before the result is announced, and any further proceedings in reference thereto shall be after such announce

ment.

PRINTING.

21. Seven hundred and fifty copies of all bills shall be printed; and the Sergeant-at

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