DINT RULES AND ORDERS

OF THE TWO HOUSES.

y case of an amendment of a bill agreed to in and dissented to in the other, if either House shall nference, and appoint a committee for that pure other House shall also appoint a committee to committees shall, at a convenient hour, to be y their chairman, meet in the conference chamte to each other verbally, or in writing, as either , the reasons of their respective Houses for and amendment, and confer freely thereon.

a message shall be sent from the Senate to the Lepresentatives, it shall be announced at the door se by the door-keeper, and shall be respectfully ted to the Chair, by the person by whom it may

ame ceremony shall be observed when a message t from the House of Representatives to the Senate. ages shall be sent by such persons as a sense of n each House may determine to be proper. - bills are on their passage between the two Houses, be on paper, and under the signature of the Secreerk of each House, respectively.

- a bill shall have passed both Houses, it shall be Led on parchment, by the Clerk of the House of Reves, or the Secretary of the Senate, as the bill may nated in the one or the other House, before it shall Led to the President of the United States.

7. When bills are enrolled, they shall be examined by a joint committee of two from the Senate, and two from the House of Representatives, appointed as a standing committee for that purpose, who shall carefully compare the enrolment with the engrossed bills as passed in the two Houses, and correcting any errors that may be discovered in the enrolled bills, make their report forthwith to their respective Houses.

8. After examination and report, each bill shall be signed in the respective Houses, first by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, then by the President of the Senate.

9. After a bill shall have been thus signed in each House, it shall be presented by the said committee to the President of the United States for his approbation, it being first endorsed on the back of the roll, certifying in which House the same originated; which endorsement shall be signed by the secretary or clerk (as the case may be) of the House in which the same did originate, and shall be entered on the journal of each House. The said committee shall report the day of presentation to the President, which time shall also be carefully entered on the journal of each House.

10. All orders, resolutions, and votes, which are to be presented to the President of the United States for his approbation, shall also, in the same manner, be previously enrolled, examined, and signed, and shall be presented in the same manner, and by the same committee, as provided in cases of bills.

11. When the Senate and House of Representatives shall judge it proper to make a joint address to the President, it shall be presented to him in his audience chamber, by the President of the Senate, in the presence of the Speaker and both Houses.

12. When a bill or resolution which shall have passed in one House, is rejected in the other, notice thereof shall be given to the House in which the same shall have passed.

13. When a bill or resolution which has been passed in one House shall be rejected in the other, it shall not be brought in during the same session, without a notice of ten days, and leave of two-thirds of that House in which it shall be renewed. 14. Each House shall transmit to the other all papers on which any bill or resolution shall be founded.

15. After each House shall have adhered to their disagreement, a bill or resolution shall be lost.

16. No bill that shall have passed one House, shall be sent for concurrence to the other, on either of the three last days of the session.

17. No bill or resolution that shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall be presented to the President of the United States for his approbation, on the last day of the session.

18. When bills which have passed one House are ordered to be printed in the other, a greater number of copies shall not be printed than may be necessary for the use of the House making the order.

19. No spirituous liquors shall be offered for sale, or exhibited within the capitol, or on the public grounds adjacent thereto.