A Committee on Apportionment.

A Committee on Banks.

A Committee on Canals and Inland Navigation. A Committee on Retrenchment and Reform.

A Committee on Education.

A Committee on Agriculture and Domestic Manufactures.

A Committee on Public Buildings.

A Committee on the Militia.

A Committee on Constitutional Reform.

A Committee to Compare Bills.

A Committee on Vice and Immorality.

A Committee on Public Printing.

A Committee on New Counties and County Seats. A Committee on Federal Relations.

Which several committees shall each consist of five Senators, except the Committees on the Library and on Public Buildings, which shall each consist of three Senators, the Committee on Apportionment, which shall consist of nine, the Committees on Finance, Judiciary, (General,) Railroads and Corporations, which shall each consist of seven, and the Committee on Constitutional Reform, which shall consist of fifteen.

The Committee on Constitutional Reform shall consist of five sub-committees, to be numbered from one to five respectively. Each sub-committee shall be composed of three Senators; the chairman of each of said sub-committees shall be a member of a Revisory Committee consisting of five Senators. The chairman of sub-committee number one shall be chairman of the Revisory Committee, and of the general committee. All bills read in place proposing legislation to carry out the provisions of the new

Constitution, and all bills of the same character coming from the House shall be referred to this committee, and shall be by its Revisory Committee referred to such sub-committee as it may determine, and the said Revisory Committee shall allot to each of the sub-committees a portion of the new Constitution, with instructions to draft the legislation necessary thereunder.

Each of said sub-committees shall have power to originate bills for that purpose. All bills referred to the sub-committees or originating therein, shall be referred to the Revisory Committee for revision; and a majority of that committee shall have power to report any of such bills to the Senate for action. The general committee shall meet for organization or consultation at the call of the chairman. The sub-committees respectively shall meet at the call of the chairman thereof. [Amended, and all relating to Committee on Constitutional Reform added January 8, 1874.]

XXI. Every member of a committee shall attend the call of the chairman, who shall be the first named person on such committee; and in case of his neglect to call the committee together, or in case of his absence, by sickness or other cause, the committee shall attend the call of the next person named on the committee.

XXII. The rules and proceedings of the Senate shall be observed, as far as they are practicable, in committee of the whole, excepting that a member may speak oftener than twice on the same subject. In committee of the whole the previous question cannot be called, the yeas and nays required, nor

can there be an appeal from the decision of the chairman.

XXIII. No member shall absent himself without leave of the Senate first obtained, unless prevented from attending by sickness or other sufficient cause.

XXIV. The files of the Senate may be inspected by the members, but no paper shall be withdrawn therefrom without the consent of the Senate.

XXV. No person shall be admitted within the bar of the Senate during its sessions, except the members and officers of the two branches of the Legislature, the Governor, Heads of Departments, ex-members of the Legislature, and stenographers, who may desire to report proceedings of the Senate for publication, under the direction of the Speaker; nor shall any person be admitted within the lobby of the Senate, except such as shall be invited by a member of the Senate. No person or persons shall be permitted to occupy the seats of Senators, or pass across the floor of the Senate when the Senate is in session; nor shall any person or persons, at any time, be permitted to enter the room of the Trarscribing Clerks, or the recess behind the chair of the Speaker, except the members and officers of the General Assembly.

XXVI. The consent of two-thirds of the members present shall be necessary to dispense with any rule.

XXVII. Any Senator may call for a division of a question, which shall be divided if it comprehends questions so distinct, that one being taken away the rest may stand entire for the decision of the Senate. A motion to strike out and insert shall be deemed indivisible. But a motion to strike out being lost

shall preclude neither amendment, nor a motion to strike out and insert.

XXVIII. Every bill and joint resolution which may be received from the House of Representatives, or which may be read by a Senator in his place, shall, immediately after being presented to the Chair, be referred by the Speaker to the apprcpriate committee, unless otherwise ordered.

XXIX. No member shall read in place, nor shall any committee, either standing or select, report any bill for the action of the Senate, granting corporate powers in any case when the authority of granting such powers has been conferred upon any of the courts of this Commonwealth, or proposing to legislate upon any of the subjects prohibited by the seventh section of the third article of the Constitution, nor shall any bill be read in place, or reported from a committee reviving, amending or extending the provisions of any law by reference to its title only, but the whole shall be re-enacted in words by such bill. [Amended January 8, 1874.}

XXX. When the Senate shall resolve to go into committee of the whole on a bill, on third reading, the question before the Senate, when the Speaker shall have resumed the chair, and the chairman of the committee has made a report, shall be, "Will the Senate agree to the report of the committee?" [Adopted March 6, 1851.]

XXXI. The rules of parliamentary practice comprised in Jefferson's Manual shall govern the Senate in all cases to which they are applicable, and in which they are not inconsistent with the standing rules and orders of the Senate, and the joint rules of the Senate and House of Representatives.

XXXII. When, upon a call, which may be demanded by not less than four Senators, it is found that less than a quorum is present it shall be the duty of the Speaker to order the doors of the Senate to be closed, and to direct the Clerk to call the roll of the Senators, and note the absentees; after which the names of the absentees shall be again called, and those for whose absence no excuse or an insufficient excuse is made, may, by order of a majority of the Senators present, be sent for and taken into custody by the Sergeant-at-Arms, or his assistants appointed for the purpose, and brought before the bar of the Senate, where, unless excused by a majority of the Senators present, they shall be reproved by the Speaker for neglect of duty. [Adopted January 28, 1869.]

XXXIII. When a call for the previous question has been made and sustained, the question shall be upon pending amendments and the main question in their regular order; and all incidental questions of order arising after a motion for the previous question has been made, and pending such motion, shall be decided, whether an appeal or otherwise, without debate. [Passed session of 1844. Senate Journal, p. 7.]

XXXIV. No law shall be passed except by bill; and no bill shall be so altered or amended on its passage through the Senate as to change its original purpose. No bill shall be considered unless referred to a committee, returned therefrom and printed for the use of the members. No local or special bill shall be reported unless the same be accompanied by proof of the publication of the notice thereof in accordance with law and of section eight of article three of the Constitution. [Amended Jan. 8, 1874.]