JOINT RULES OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE.

1. When a message shall be sent from the Senate to the House of Representatives, it shall be announced at the door of the House by the Sergeant-at-Arms, and shall be respectfully communicated to the Chair by the person by whom it was sent.

2. The same ceremony shall be observed when a message shall be sent from the House of Representatives to the Senate.

3. Messages shall be transmitted from one House to the other while both Houses are in session.

4. Neither House shall without the consent of the other adjourn for more than three days; nor to any other place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting.

5. After a bill shall have passed both Houses, it shall be duly enrolled by the Enrolling Clerk of the House of Representatives, or of the Senate, as the bill may have originated in the one or the other House, before it shall be presented to the Governor of the State for his approval.

6. When the 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 enrollment with the engrossed bills, as passed in the two Houses, and correcting any error that may be discovered in the enrolled bills, make their report forthwith to their respective Houses.

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

SENATE RULES.

8. After a bill shall have been thus signed in each House, it shall be presented by the said committee to the Governor 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 Chief Clerk 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 Governor, which time shall be carefully entered on the journal of each House.

9. No amendment to any bill by one House shall be concurred in by the other, nor shall the report of any committee of conference be accepted in either House, except by a vote of a majority of the members elected thereto, taken by ayes and noes, and the names of those voting be entered on the journal.

10. All orders, resolutions and votes, which are to be presented to the Governor of the State for his approbation, shall also, in the same manner be enrolled, examined and assigned, and shall be presented in the same manner and by the same committee, as provided in the case of bills.

11. Each House shall transmit to the other when requested, all the papers on which any bill or resolution shall be founded.

12. The presiding officer of the Senate shall preside at all conventions of the Houses.

13. Any three members may move a call of the convention.

14. When a bill or resolution shall have passed one House and shall be rejected by the other, notice thereof shall immediately be given to the House in which the same may have originated.

15. Bills appropriating moneys for the payment of officers of the Government shall be confined to that purpose exclusively, and no law shall embrace more than one subject, which shall be expressed in its title.

16. No joint rule of the Senate and House of Representatives shall be suspended, altered or amended without the concurrence of two-thirds of the members elected to each House.