VALUATION OF PERSONAL PROPERTY-Continued. THREE-MILL TAX. All mortgages, money owing by solvent debtors, All annuities over two hundred dollars, except All personal property (not taxed under the laws Tax on same at the rate of three mills on the dollar. *Reduced, October 12, 1887, to $141,474,004.56. + Reduced, October 12, 1887, to $424 419.01. Index to Joint Rules of the Senate and House of Representatives. PAGE. ADJOURNMENT sine die, no new bill to be transmitted within four days of, 326 final, no bills to be passed on day of... 326 Amendments passed in one House to be printed in italic,. 527 526 526 527 not to be passed on day of final adjournment, not to be transmitted within four days of sine die adjournment, rejection of, passed either House, notice to be given, Concurrent bills, presentation of, CLAIMS, reference of, when in order,.. Conference committees, time of meeting of, of whom composed, JOINT rule not to be dispensed with, violation of action thereon,............. NOTICE to be given when clerk of either House waits on the other, .. 525 525 525 526 526 5:25 Joint Rules of the Senate and House of Representatives of Pennsylvania. Bills, etc., for Concurrence. RULE 1. All bills, resolutions, votes, orders, and amendments of either House, to which concurrence of both is necessary, as well as messages, shall be presented to the other by the Clerk of the House from which they are sent. Announcement of Clerk of Either House. RULE 2. When the Clerk of either House shall wait on the other, notice thereof shall be given by the Sergeant-at-Arms, or Door-keeper, to the Speaker or President, who shall declare the same to the House or Senate, as the case may be. Conference Committees. RULF 2. When either House shall request a conference, and appoint a committee for that purpose, and the other House shall also appoint a committee to confer, such conference shall be held at any time and place, to be agreed upon by their chairmen; and in all cases where a conference takes place, the committee shall be composed of members who vote in the majority on the point or points of difference; but the committee shall not have power or control over any part of a bill, resolution, or order, except such parts upon which a difference exists between the two Houses. Claims Against the State. RULE 4. Whenever a claim against the State, of any description, has been or shall be presented to either House, and referred to a committee, and such committee shall have made a report, in writing, against the allowance of the claim, setting forth the grounds of their decision, and the same shall have been concurred in by such House, it shall not be in order to originate again the consideration of such `claim in that House, either by bill, resolution, petition, or otherwise, except upon a memorial of the claimant, first setting forth, upon affidavit, that he has obtained material evidence in support of his claim, since the decision against it, which was not before the committee at the former decision, and a statement of the substance of such evidence, or, second, assigning specific errors in the report of the committee adverse to it. Notice of Rejection of Bills, etc. RULE 5. When a bill, resolution, or order which shall have passed in one House is rejected in the other, notice thereof shall be given to the House in which the same shall have passed. General Appropriation Bill. RULE 6. That the committee having charge of the general appropriation bill shall be required to report the same to the House on or before the first Monday in March, and when reported in either House, said bill shall have priority over all other business until finally disposed of. New Bills. RULE 7. No new bill shall be transmitted from or received by either House within four days of the time fixed on for an adjournment sine die. Bills, etc., on Day of Final Adjournment. RULE 8. No bill, resolution, or order, to which the signature of the Governor may be required, shall be passed by either House on the day of the final adjournment; and all such bills, resolutions, and orders, after they have been duly transcribed and compared, shall be presented to the Governor for his signature, by the proper committee, before eight o'clock on the morning of the day of the final adjourn ment. To be Engrossed. RULE 9. No bill, resolution, or order shall be sent to the Governor for his approval, unless the same shall have been clearly and fairly engrossed, without obliteration or interlineation. Dispensing with Joint Rules. RULE 10. No joint rule shall be dispensed with but by a concurrent vote of two thirds of each House; and if either House shall violate a joint rule, the question of order may be raised in the other House, and decided in the same manner as in a case of the violation of the rules of such House; and if it shall be decided that the joint rules have been violated, the bill involving such violation shall be returned to the House in which it originated, without further action, or, at the option of such House, the Speaker may direct the Clerk to mark the section or sections in conflict with the rules, as non-concurred in or negatived. Amendments. RULE 11. Every bill, resolution, or order, transmitted to either House, if amended by the House to which transmitted, shall have the amendment or amendments printed in italics, or inclosed in brackets, by the House in which the amendment or amendments are made and marked Senate or House amendments, as the case may be. [Adopted January 13, 1874.] |