2. A Committee is appointed to compare them with the list of members, to see that there are no mistakes.

3. They are then put in a box and well shaken, in the presence of the whole body, so as to thoroughly mix the ballots.

4. The members, excepting the Speaker, and all other persons, except reporters and those whose official duties require their presence in the Assembly Chamber, retire to the rooms adjoining the Assembly Chamber, or to the adjacent space allotted to spectators.

5. The Speaker designates a person other than a member or an officer, who proceeds to draw one ballot from the box which, without opening, he hands to the Speaker. The Speaker opens the ballot and hands it to the Clerk, who announces the name drawn. The Sergeant-at-Arms calls the name at the Cloak Room door, when the member called enters the Assembly Chamber and chooses his seat, which he must occupy until the drawing is completed, under the penalty of its forfeiture, unless he has previous leave of absence from the Speaker.

The drawing being completed, the House usually adjourns for several days.

OFFICERS AND EMPLOYES OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY AND THEIR COMPENSATION.

The officers and employes of the Legislature, as provided by chapter 682 of the Laws of 1892, amended by

chapter 24 of the Laws of 1893, chapter 473 of the Laws of 1894, chapter 477 of the Laws of 1895, and chapter 856 of the Laws of 1895, are as follows:

6. OFFICERS AND EMPLOYES OF THE SENATE.-The President of the Senate may appoint a Clerk, a Stenographer and a Messenger, to be known as the President's Clerk, the President's Stenographer and the President's Messenger. The Senate may choose a Clerk, a Sergeant-at-Arms, a Stenographer, a Postmaster, who shall also act as Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms, and Assistant Postmaster, a Post-Office Messenger, a principal Doorkeeper, and seven Assistant Doorkeepers, a person to act as Janitor of the Senate Chamber and its ante-rooms, and two Assistant Janitors, fifteen persons to serve as clerks to the Committees, one of whom shall be designated to serve as Clerk to the Committee on Finance, one to the Committee on Judiciary, one to the Committee on General Laws, one to the Committee on Cities, one to the Committee on Railroads, one to the Committee on Canals, and the others to serve under the direction of the Clerk of the Senate upon the remaining Standing Committees of the Senate. The Clerk of the Senate may appoint one Assistant Clerk, a Journal Clerk, an Assistant Journal Clerk, five Deputy Clerks, an Index Clerk, an Assistant Index Clerk, a Librarian, an Assistant Librarian, a Financial Clerk, a Superintendent of Documents, four Assistant Superintendents of Documents, such Superintendent of Documents and his assistants to also perform the work of the Wrapping Department, six Messengers and fifteen Pages, who shall be appointed for the session and who shall not be under fourteen years of age, to serve under the direction of the Clerk of the Senate as Messengers to Committees.

87. OFFICERS AND EMPLOYES OF THE ASSEMBLY.-The Speaker of the Assembly may appoint a Clerk, a Stenographer and a Messenger to be known as the Speaker's Clerk, the Speaker's Stenographer and the Speaker's Messenger, respectively, and also eight Assistant Doorkeepers, a Postmaster, and an Assistant Postmaster, a Post-Office Messenger, a Janitor of the Assembly Chamber and its ante-rooms, one Assistant Janitor, six general Messengers and eighteen Clerks of Committees, one of whom shall be designated to serve as Clerk to the Committee on Ways and Means, one as Clerk to the Committee on Judiciary, one as Clerk to the Committee on Cities, one as Clerk to the Committee on Railroads, one as Clerk to the Committee on Codes, one as Clerk to the Committee on Villages, and the others to serve under the direction of the Clerk of the Assembly. He may also appoint six Stenographers, one of whom shall be assigned to the Committee upon Ways and Means, and one to the Committee upon Cities, and one of whom shall be assigned to the selected representative of the minority upon the Committee upon Ways and Means, and the three remaining to serve under the direction of the Clerk. The Assembly may choose a Clerk, a Sergeant-at-Arms, a Stenographer, a principal Doorkeeper who shall act as Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms, and a first and second assistant. The Clerk of the Assembly may appoint a Stenographer to the Clerk, an Assistant Clerk, a Journal Clerk, an Assistant Journal Clerk, twelve Deputy Clerks, one of

whom shall act as Clerk to the Committee on Engrossed Bills, and one as Clerk to the Committee on Revision, who shall be an expert in matters pertaining to that position, an Index Clerk, two Assistant Index Clerks, an Assistant Clerk to the Committee on Engrossed Bills, a Librarian and Assistant Librarian, a Financial Clerk, an Assistant Financial Clerk, a Superintendent of the Wrapping Department, an assistant to the Superintendent of the Wrapping Department, a Mail and Document Carrier, a Superintendent of Documents, an Assistant Superintendent of Documents, five Messengers, one of whom shall have charge of the Pages under the direction of the Clerk of the Assembly, five Messengers to Committees, and thirty Pages.

§ 8. APPOINTMENTS TO BE ENTERED ON JOURNALS.- All appointments made under this chapter shall be entered on the Journal of the House wherein made, with a statement of the date of appointment, and the length of time the same is to continue.

$9. STENOGRAPHERS TO SPECIAL COMMITTEES.- No additional officers or employes shall be elected or appointed by the Senate or Assembly, except that either House, by a majority vote, may employ a Stenographer for a Committee of Investigation or other Special Committee.

10. THE COMPENSATION OF OFFICERS AND EMPLOYES.-The following compensation shall be paid to the officers and employes of the Senate and Assembly for the annual session of the Legislature: To the Clerk of each House, three thousand five hundred dollars; to the Clerk of the Senate, five hundred dollars, and to the Clerk of the Assembly, seven hundred and fifty dollars for indexing the journals, bills and documents of the Senate and Assembly; to the Clerk of the Senate, not to exceed five hundred dollars; to the Clerk of the Assembly, not to exceed seven hundred and fifty dollars for the extra clerical service and engrossing; to each Assistant Clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; to each Journal Clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; to each Assistant Journal Clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; to each Deputy Clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; to each Financial Clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; to the Assistant Financial Clerk of the Assembly, ten dollars per day; to each Index Clerk, two thousand dollars; to each Assistant Index Clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; to the Clerk of the President of the Senate and to the Speaker's Clerk, each ten dollars per day; to the Stenographer of the President of the Senate, of the Speaker and Clerk of the House, and each of the six Stenographers appointed in addition thereto by the Speaker, five dollars per day; to each Sergeant-at-Arms, Librarian, Assistant Librarian, Postmaster, Assistant Postmaster, and Principal Doorkeeper, six dollars per day; to each Assistant Doorkeeper, Janitor, Assistant Janitor, Superintendent of Documents, and to each Assistant Superintendent of Documents, five dollars per day; to each Stenographer of each House one thousand five hundred dollars; to each Clerk of the Senate Committee upon Finance and Affairs of Cities, ten dollars per day; to each Clerk of the Senate Committee upon Judiciary and General Laws, seven dollars per day; to each Clerk of the Assembly Committee upon Ways and Means and Cities, ten dollars per day; to the Clerk of the Assembly Committee upon Judiciary and Codes, seven dollars per

day; to the Clerk of the Committee on Engrossed Bills of the Senate, six dollars per day; to each Clerk of the other Committees of each House, five dollars per day; to the Assistant Clerk of the Committee on Engrossed Bills of the Assembly, five dollars per day; to each PostOffice Messenger of each House, three dollars per day; to the Messenger of the President of the Senate and the Speaker's Messenger, each three dollars per day; to the Superintendent of the Wrapping Department, to each Assistant Superintendent of the Wrapping Department and the Mail and Document Carrier of the Assembly, five dollars per day; to the General Messengers of each House, three dollars per day; to each Clerk's Messenger of each House and to each Messenger of the Committees of the Assembly, three dollars per day; to the Messenger of the Assembly having charge of the Pages, five dollars per day, and to each Page, two dollars per day. The pay of the officers or employes who receive by this chapter a per diem compensation shall commence at the date of the appointment, and no person or employe shall receive any additional compensation during the term of service for which he shall be appointed.

II. COMPENSATION DURING EXTRA SESSIONS AND IMPEACHMENT TRIALS. An employe of the Senate or Assembly, during an extra session of the Legislature, or an officer or employe of the Senate designated to attend upon the Senate when sitting as a court for the trial of impeachments, or upon the trial of public officers on the recommendation of the Governor, shall receive the same per diem allowance during such term or extra session as his compensation or per diem allowance would give per day of the regular session of the same year.

12. ATTENDANCE OF OFFICERS OF EACH SESSION AT OPENING ON NEXT SESSION.-The following officers only of each session shall attend and receive compensation for their services upon the opening of the next succeeding session of the Legislature:

The Clerk of each House, or in his absence or disability, the Assistant Clerk and the Journal Clerk, Speaker's Clerk, Sergeant-at-Arms, Postmasters, Librarian and principal Doorkeeper of the Senate and Assembly, an Assistant Doorkeeper and four Pages in the Senate, and three Assistant Doorkeepers, two Messengers and six Pages in the Assembly, the Assistant Doorkeepers, Messengers and Pages to be designated by the presiding officer of the House for which appointed before the close of the session and entered upon the Journal of the House. The officers named in this section shall receive for services upon the opening of a succeeding session of the Legislature, the same per diem compensation as they were entitled to receive at the preceding session for like services.

13. OFFICERS REMAINING AFTER ADJOURNMENT.- The presiding officers of each House may designate five officers thereof to remain after the adjournment of the Legislature to perform duty under the direction of the Clerk of each House respectively, for not to exceed thirty days. Such officers shall receive the same per diem compensation respectively, as they were entitled to receive during the session, to be paid upon the warrant of the Comptroller, on the certificate of the Clerk of the House for which appointed.

14. UNDERTAKING of CLERK OF EACH HOUSE.-The Clerk of each House before entering on the duties of his office, shall execute an official undertaking in the sum of five thousand dollars.

$15. DUTIES OF CLERKS.- The Clerks of the Senate and Assembly shall, annually, without extra compensation, revise and send to the members of the Legislature, before the organization thereof, the Clerk's Manual, and shall, within thirty days after the organization of the Legislature, prepare a statistical list of the members and officers, with their boarding places or place of residence while in the city of Albany.

The Clerk of each House shall, as soon as practicable, after the close of each session, prepare and deliver to the legislative printer the indexes to the journals, bills and documents of such House.

16. SUPPLIES FURNISHED BY CLERKS.- The Clerk of each House shall purchase all stationery, printed blanks and other articles necessary for use in his official work or in the work of the Sergeant-atArms; and shall furnish its members, officers and reporters with necessary stationery and writing materials, and the Clerk of the Assembly shall prepay the postage upon all letters deposited with him for transmission through the mails by members of the Assembly. The Clerk of each House shall, under the direction and subject to the approval of the Comptroller, purchase such furniture as may be necessary for the House of which he is Clerk.

$17. ACCOUNTABILITY OF CLERK TO COMPTROLLER.- The Clerk of each House at the end of each month during the session shall account to the Comptroller for all moneys received up to that time, and within ten days after the close of the session, shall file with the Comptroller an abstract in such form and containing such particulars as the Comptroller shall direct of all expenditures made by him, with the vouchers thereof; and shall give him satisfactory evidence that the expenditures were reasonable.

18. DUTIES OF POSTMASTERS AND ASSISTANTS.- The Postmasters and Assistant Postmasters and Post-Office Messengers shall perform all the labors in the Post-Office of their respective Houses.

19. DUTIES OF STENOGRAPHERS.-The Stenographers shall attend at every session of the body, for which they are appointed or elected and take stenographic notes of the debates of such body and in the Committee of the Whole thereof, and furnish a copy thereof, written out in long hand, to any member of such body.

COMPENSATION OF MEMBERS.

Each member is entitled by the Constitution to receive an annual salary of one thousand five hundred dollars, and one dollar for every ten miles he shall travel, in going to and returning from the Capitol, once in each ses