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RULES AND ORDERS

OF THE

SENATE OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK.

be read.

1. The President having taken the chair at the hour Journal to to which the Senate shall have adjourned, and a quorum being present, the journal of the preceding day shall be read, to the end that any mistake therein may be corrected.

2. After the reading and approving of the journal, Order of the order of business shall be as follows:

1. The Presentation of Petitions.

2. Reports of Standing Committees.

3. Reports of Select Committees.
4. Messages from the Governor.

5. Messages from the Assembly.

6. Communications and Reports from State Officers.

7. Notices and the Introduction of Bills.

8. Third Reading of Bills.

9. Motions and Resolutions.

10. Special Orders.

11. General Orders; but Messages from the Gover-
nor and Assembly, and Communications and
Reports from State Officers, may be consid-
ered at any time.

business.

by ballot.

3. All committees shall be appointed by ballot, unless Committees otherwise ordered by the Senate; and if upon such appointed ballot the number required shall not be elected by a majority of the votes given, the Senate shall proceed to a second ballot, in which a plurality of votes shall

elect; and in case a greater number than is required to compose or complete a committee shall have an equal number of votes, the Senate shall proceed to a further ballot.

Clerk to pre- 4. The Clerk shall prepare during each week, and pare general calendar, &c. have printed and laid upon the tables of Senators, Members of Assembly and reporters, on Monday of each week, a general calendar of the proceedings of the Senate, which shall be called the General Orders of the Day, and arranged in the order in which they were introduced, which shall be acted upon by the Senate in the order in which they are reported and stand upon the calendar, unless otherwise ordered. The printed calendar shall give briefly the number and title of all public and private bills; name of the Senator introducing the same; the time of their introduction; when reported from a committee; whether referred to the committee of the whole, or to a standing or select committee; whether made a special order of the day, and the day of such order, and the progress made in such bills. Also, and in like manner and form, the number and title of bills and joint resolutions which have passed the Assembly and been received by the Senate. But no bill shall be taken up except on motion.

Priority of business.

Reading of papers.

5. Whenever any bill or other matter is made the special order for a particular day, and it shall not be completed on that day, it shall retain its place in the General Orders of the Day, unless it shall be made the special order for another day; and when a special order is under consideration it shall take precedence of any special order for a subsequent hour of the same day; but such subsequent special order may be taken up immediately after the previous special order has been disposed of.

6. All questions relating to the priority of business shall be decided without debate.

7. When the reading of a paper is called for, except petitions, and the same is objected to by any member, it shall be determined by a vote of the Senate without debate.

8. No member shall speak to another or otherwise Business not interrupt the business of the Senate, or read any news- to be interpaper, while the journals or public papers are being rupted. read; and when the President is putting a question, no Senator shall walk out of, or across the House, nor, when a Senator is speaking, pass between him and the chair.

9. The President shall have the right to name any President member to perform the duties of the chair, who is may name a hereby vested, during such time, with all the powers substitute. of the President; but such substitution shall not lose the right of voting on any question while so presiding, nor shall his power as such substitute continue for a longer time than one day, without leave of the Senate.

10. Every member, when he speaks, shall address the Order of dechair, standing in his place. No member shall speak bate. more than twice in any one debate on the same day without leave of the Senate.

11. When two or more members rise at once, the Ib. President shall name the member who is first to speak.

12. No motion shall be debated until the same be Order of seconded; and it shall be reduced to writing, if desired motion. by the President or any member, delivered in at the table, and read by the President or clerk, before the same shall be debated; but it may be withdrawn at any time before decision or amendment.

13. When a question is before the Senate, no motion Ib. shall be received, unless to lay on the table, for an amendment, for postponing it, to commit it, or to adjourn; and a motion for adjournment shall always be in order and shall be decided without debate.

divided.

14. If the question in debate contain more than one Questions point, any member may have the same divided, provided the division called for embodies a distinct principle or statement of fact.

15. A motion for commitment or reference, until it Amendis decided, shall preclude all amendments of the main ments. proposition.

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