which shall be deducted from their pay by the Committee on Accounts, unless remitted on sufficient cause shown to the Library Committee.

8. Any person who wishes to obtain a book for perusal in the Library will be furnished by the Librarian or Assistant Librarian with a card, on which he will inscribe, from the Catalogue, the title of the book, and his own name. The book thus received must not be taken from the Library rooms. On returning it to the Librarian's desk, the card will be given up, otherwise the party will remain responsible for the book. Lawyers in attendance on the Supreme Court in the Capitol at Harrisburg, shall be subject to this rule, only they will be permitted to take such law books as they may wish into the Supreme Court room, but they must be returned on the day they are taken out.

9. "The Librarian is hereby prohibited from permitting any person except the Governor, Secretary of the Commonwealth, Canal Commissioners, the Head of a Department, or member or officer of the Legislature, to take from the Library rooms any book, map, chart, print or other property belonging thereto."-Act of the 16th March, 1847. The judges of the Supreme Court, during the sittings of the court in the Capitol at Harrisburg, shall be included in this exception.

10. Those persons entitled to take out books from the Library for themselves shall, in giving an order for a book, give its title, with the name of the individuals to whom the order is given. The Librarian shall charge the book to the individual by whom the order has been given, who shall be held responsible for the return of the book; and if the book be lost or

injured, he shall be responsible for its loss or injury, as provided in the foregoing rules. And the Librarian is hereby strictly prohibited from giving out books on orders, unless this rule is fully complied with.

11. No atlas, map, chart, drawings, or books with colored plates, shall be taken from the Library room; nor shall any dictionary, encyclopædia, file of newspapers, law reports, laws and journals of this or other States, journals of Congress, State papers or official documents, be taken out of the State House, on any terms whatever. APRIL 4, 1859.

Rule adopted by the Joint Library Committee of the Legislature April 3, 1866.

That so much of the rules adopted by the joint Library Committee of the Legislature, April 4, 1859, as would seem to authorize Heads of Departments and members of the Legislature to issue orders to other parties to take books from the Library, be and the same is hereby rescinded; and the Librarian is hereby strictly prohibted from observing or accepting any such order, unless he is positively assured the books asked for are for the individual use of the Head of Department or member of the Legislature sending the order.

No Head of Department or member of the Legislature shall be authorized to take more than four volumes from the Library at any one time, which shall be returned or renewed at the expiration of two weeks, under the penalties prescribed by Rule 4 of the Joint Library Rules, 1859. .

Joint Rules of the Senate and House of Representatives of Pennsylvania.

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.

RULE 2. When the Clerk of either House shail wait on the other, notice thereof shall be given by the Sergeant-at-Arms, or Door-keeper, to the Speak er, who shall declare the same to the House.

RULE 3. 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 voted 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.

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.

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.

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.

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. [Amended January 13, 1874.]

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 adjournment.

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.

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.

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 enclosed in brackets, by the House in which the amendment or amendments are made, and marked Senate or House amendment, as the case may be. [Adopted January 13, 1874.]