matter reported upon, shall lie upon the table until the reports thereon shall have been printed in the journal and laid upon the desks of the members.

BILLS, RESOLUTIONS, ETC.-PROCEDURE.

29. Copies of bills, etc. Two carbon copies and an additional copy of the title page shall accompany the original of all bills, resolutions, joint resolutions, and memorials when first offered. After the second reading the original shall be marked by the clerk as such, one copy shall be delivered to the printer, and one copy kept on file at the clerk's desk.

Any employe who shall typewrite a bill, resolution, joint resolution, memorial, amendment, or motion, to be offered in the senate or in a committee, shall place his name on the lower left hand corner of the back thereof.

30. Bill backs. There shall be attached to each bill or resolution sent to the clerk's desk a substantial back which shall be furnished by the clerk and which shall bear no writing except the number of the bill and the name of the person or committee introducing it and shall be enclosed in an envelope as provided in rule 31.

31. Filing of bills, etc. The superintendent of public property shall provide envelopes of a suitable size to hold any bill, memorial or resolution and the papers pertaining thereto, respectively, without folding or rolling, and cases or drawers for the vertical filing thereof without folding. The clerk shall not file any paper for any purpose, the cover of which has been either folded or rolled. The clerk shall provide a substantial back for bills. Such envelopes and backs shall be distinguished from those of the assembly by color. The envelopes shall be properly printed and ruled to receive the notations of the clerk.

There shall be noted by the clerk, upon the envelope, the number and title of the bill or resolution, and the date of introduction, the name of the person or committee introducing it, and the committee reference, and upon the cover the number of the bill or resolution and the name of the person or committee introducing it. The usual notations of either committee or clerk shall be made on the envelope and any paper placed therein shall bear the initials of the chief clerk and the date of its receipt.

32. Clerical corrections to bills. (1) Minor clerical errors in any bill, memorial, or resolution, such as errors in orthography or grammar, or the use of one word for another, as “affect" for "effect," wrong numbering or references, whether such errors occur in the original bill or in any amendment thereto, shall be corrected by the chief clerk as a matter of course upon the approval of the chairman of any committee to which the bill was referred.

(2) The chief clerk shall, with the approval of the author of the bill, insert the enacting or usual enabling clause in any bill before its passage if the same shall have been omitted. He shall also, when necessary, amend titles of all bills so that they will show the sections affected, the subject to which the bill relates, and the making of an appropriation, if such is made by the bill. (3) Any corrections made by the clerk under this rule shall be noted by him upon the journal.

(4) Webster's New International Dictionary shall be the standard.

33. Journal preface; reference to bills, resolutions, etc., in journal. The title to all bills, resolutions, joint resolutions and petitions, shall be arranged numerically and printed from day to day as a preface to the journal. All reference to any bill, resolution, joint resolution or petition either in the journal, or messages shall be by number only, excepting in the journal where the yeas and nays are entered. The clerk shall read the titles except where the senate directs otherwise, except that messages from the assembly, and messages of approval of bills by the governor, the chief clerk shall read by number, only, except where a member requests the title to be read.

34. Bills first offered for revision. Before introduction, bills and reslutions not privileged by rule 75, shall be offered for revision. Every bill offered shall be recorded by the clerk by a temporary number which shall be known as a revision number, and be delivered by the clerk to the revision clerk, who shall return the same, if in proper form, marked O. K. with a conspicuous rubber stamp and signature of the revision clerk, within forty-eight hours, Sundays and days of adjournment excepted. When such bill is thus returned to the clerk, it shall be read the first and second times and referred. Any recommendations of the revision clerk upon any bills delivered to him by the chief clerk under this rule shall be transmitted to

the chief clerk within the same period of time, in a written report, and the clerk shall immediately deliver such bill and report to the member who submitted the bill. The member may, in his discretion, accept or refuse such recommendations and may then offer the bill for first and second readings. Any bill not having been referred for revision which shall be ordered to a third reading, shall then be so referred.

35. Notations of bills affecting same section. The revision. clerk, where bills submitted for revision are duplicate or identical in subject matter with other bills introduced in either house, shall make such notation in respect thereto on the corresponding bill envelopes of each house as will apprise any committee considering any such bill in either house of the bill in the other house. At the close of the sixth week of the session, the revision clerk shall proceed to note upon the envelope of each senate bill the numbers of other bills in either house affecting the same section of the statutes, and, in so far as practicable, the numbers of other bills in either house, affecting the same subject matter, where such bills affect other sections of the statutes. Upon the receipt of the assembly bills in the senate the revision clerk shall make similar notations upon these bills, if such notation has not previously been made. For the purpose of carrying out these provisions, the revision clerk shall have access to the bills in the hands of each senate committee, and shall be assisted by the respective committee clerks.

36. Time for new bills by members. The time for the introduction of new bills and resolutions not privileged by rule 75 by members shall expire with the close of the fifth week of the session. A bill offered for eevision within this period shall be entitled to be introduced whenever corrected to conform to the rules.

37. New bills after fifth week. If a member or committee desires to introduce a bill after the close of the fifth week of the session, such bill shall, before its introduction, be referred to the committee on Legislative Procedure of the senate, which shall, within forty-eight hours, report thereon, recommending that the bill be received and read the first and second times or that it be rejected. Such report shall stand as the action of the senate unless the senate on motion shall order otherwise.

38. Time allowed revision clerks. The chief clerk shall report out all bills from the revision room by the close of the sixth week of the session unless otherwise ordered by the senate.

39. Printed bill, etc., to be on file one day before action. All bills, resolutions and memorials, and substitute amendments thereto, that shall be printed, shall remain at least one day on the files, after being printed, before being considered, provided that this rule shall not affect any bill, resolution, or memorial, which has privilege by rule 75 of immediate consideration. If the rules be suspended for the consideration of any bill, resolution, or memorial, before such bill, resolution or memorial has been printed, the same shall be read at length at least once before its final passage, and this rule shall not be suspended without the unanimous consent of the senate.

40. Three several readings; first reading. Every bill shall receive three several readings by title except where otherwise provided previous to its passage, but no bill shall receive a second and third reading on the same day. The first reading of the bill shall be for information, and if objections be made to it, the question shall be "shall the bill be rejected;" if no objection be made, or the question to reject be lost, the bill shall go to its second reading without further question.

41. Second reading; reference to committee. On the second reading, every bill or memorial requiring three readings shall be referred to the appropriate committee which shall be announced by the presiding officer, unless the senate, on motion, make a different order in relation thereto; and this rule shall apply as well to bills, resolutions and memorials originating in either house.

42. Engrossing bills. Each bill ordered engrossed and read a third time shall be, under the direction of the engrossing clerk, carefully typewritten, with all amendments adopted to the original bill reduced into the text, placed in a new envelope, upon which the endorsements on the original envelope shall be carefully engrossed, and, with the original, shall be delivered to the chief clerk, who shall report it correctly engrossed to the senate. The original shall then be filed by the chief clerk and the engrossed bill shall thereafter be considered as the original. If it shall be subsequently found, however, that mistake has been made in engrossing the bill, the chief clerk shall have the power under Rule 32 to correct such error in engrossing. A bill whien

shall be ordered engrossed and read a third time" without any amendment thereto having been adopted, shall not be engrossed, but shall be placed upon the next calendar under the order Bills Ready for Third Reading;" and when a bill which shall have been amended only by a substitute adopted without amendment, shall be ordered engrossed and read a third time" the original substitute in an engrossed envelope shall be the engrossed bill.

43. Third reading; question. Upon the third reading of the bill the question shall be stated thus: "This bill having been read three several times, the question is, 'Shall the bill pass'"' or "Shall the bill be concurred in", as the case may be.

44. Appropriation bills to be read at length. The third reading of all bills appropriating money shall be at length, and the suspension of this rule shall not be made without the unanimous consent of the senate.

45. Bill amended on third reading to be reengrossed. If a bill, resolution, or memorial ordered to be engrossed and read a third time be amended or otherwise changed it shall be engrossed in typewriting before being read a third time. Any bill, resolution, or memorial which shall have passed the senate with amendments that have not been reduced into the text, shall be engrossed or reengrossed under the supervision of the chief clerk before being messaged to the assembly, provided, that if the amendment is an unamended substitute, the original substitute in an engrossed envelope shall be the engrossed bill.

46. Rereference in order. Any bill, resolution or memorial may be recommitted at any time previous to its passage.

47. Messaging to the assembly. Each bill which passes its third reading shall be certified by the clerk and by him transmitted to the assembly. The date of transmission shall be entered on the bill books of the clerk.

48. Papers held during reconsideration period. All bills, joint resolutions, etc., upon which such action has been taken that they are next to be messaged to the assembly, shall be held by the chief clerk until the time for reconsideration of such bills, joint resolutions, etc., has expired, but privileged resolutions, etc., shall be messaged immediately unless it is otherwise ordered by the senate.

49. Enrolling bills. After a senate bill has passed both houses, it shall be duly enrolled under the direction of the chief