except by unanimous consent or when made a special order.

15. Petitions, memorials and remonstrances may be presented to the Clerk at the close of each day's session.

OF RESOLUTIONS

16. The following classes of resolutions shall lie over one day for consideration, after which they may be called up and considered, under their appropriate order of business, upon one week's notice in writing specifying the date for such consideration:

1. All concurrent resolutions, except resolutions in reference to adjournments and those recalling bills from the Governor or Senate, which shall be regarded as privileged.

2. Resolutions containing calls for information from State officers or departments.

3. Resolutions giving rise to debate, except such as relate to the disposition of matters immediately before the House, such as relate to the business of the day on which they were offered, and such as relate to adjournment or taking recess for a day. 17. All resolutions for printing extra copies of documents shall be referred to the Committee on Printing, which shall report on each resolution within seven days after such reference.

18. All other resolutions calling for or leading to expenditures shall be referred to, and reported on, by the Committee on Ways and Means, unless the House shall designate some other committee.

COMMITTEES AND THEIR DUTIES

19. The standing committees shall be as follows, viz.:

To consist of fifteen members:

Ways and Means.

To consist each of thirteen members:

Judiciary.

Affairs of Cities.

Codes.

General Laws.

Internal Affairs.

Insurance.

Banks.

Electricity, Gas and Water Supply.
Excise.

Affairs of Villages.

Labor and Industries.

Taxation and Retrenchment.

Canals.

Railroads.

Conservation.

Penal Institutions.

Public Education.

Charitable and Religious Societies.

Public Health.

Commerce and Navigation.

Agriculture.

Revision.

Social Welfare.

To consist each of eleven members:

Public Printing.

Public Institutions.

Military Affairs.

Soldiers' Home.

Claims.

To consist each of nine members:

Privileges and Elections.

To consist of six members each:

Rules.

Printed and Engrossed Bills.

Standing committees, except the committees on rules, revision, printed and engrossed bills and privileges and elections, shall hold regular meetings each week, the days respectively selected or assigned to be posted on the Assembly committee board; shall hold special meetings only on public notice of at least one day by the chairman or upon the call of a majority of all the members thereof entry of which fact shall in either case be made on the records of the committee; and at least one day's notice shall be given of all public hearings before committees. No committee, except the committees on revision and printed and engrossed bills shall vote to report any bill unless a majority of all the members thereof is actually present. The affirmative vote of a majority of all the members appointed to a standing or select committee, except the committees on revision and printed and engrossed bills, shall be necessary to every report. No proxy vote shall be valid. The report of a committee upon any matter referred to it, other than a bill, may include a brief statement of the opinion of a majority and of any member or members of the committee voting in either the majority or minority.

The clerk of each standing committee shall file with

the Clerk of the Assembly forthwith upon the assignment thereof a notice of all hearings, which notice shall contain the title of the bill, the name of the introducer, the printed number thereof and the date upon which said hearing is to be held. The Clerk of the Assembly shall keep a record of such notices in a book to be provided by him, which book shall be a public record and kept in a place accessible to the public at all reasonable hours.

20. The Committee on Revision shall examine and correct the bills which are referred to it, for the purpose of avoiding, repetitions and unconstitutional provisions, insuring accuracy in the text and references, and consistency with the language of the existing statutes. It shall also report whether the object sought to be accomplished can be secured without a special act, under existing laws, or without detriment to the public interests, by the enactment of a general law, provided, that any change in the sense or legal effect, or any material change in construction, shall be reported to the House as a recommendation and not as an amendment. All bills other than Senate bills which have not been amended in the House shall be so referred prior to their third reading, except a bill which has been made a special order on second and third reading.

Each bill, other than Senate bills, unless otherwise ordered by the House, or endorsed as having been prepared or examined by the legislative bill drafting department, shall, before such bill is sent to the printer, be delivered by the Clerk to the revision committee. The revision committee shall examine such bills and

shall have the power to correct or redraft the same in accordance with the provisions of this rule and so that the same shall conform to the provisions of rules eight and nine.

21. A report of a committee must contain the name of the committee making the same, the name of the introducer of the bill or other matter reported on; the title, if a bill, with the numbers thereof and the fact as to whether reported favorably, with or without amendments, for the consideration of the House or adversely. If the report be on a resolution, petition, memorial or remonstrance it must contain the recommendations, if any, of the committee thereon.

The reports of all committees, except the committees on revision and on printed and engrossed bills, must also contain, except when a report for reprint and recommittal, the name of the members present when such report was agreed to and how each member voted thereon and a record thereof shall be entered upon the Journal of the House.

22. On or before the fifth day of April committees, except the committees on revision and on printed and engrossed bills, shall make final report upon matters referred to them unless further time is granted for cause, and after that date no bill shall be introduced, except by message from the Senate.

Of Special Orders

23. Any matter may be made a special order for any particular day by the assent of two-thirds of the members present. When so made, a similar vote shall be requisite to rescind or postpone.