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RULE XXXVI.

OFFICIAL AND OTHER REPORTERS.

1. The appointment and removal, for cause, of the official reporters of the House, including stenographers of committees, and the manner of the execution of their duties, shall be vested in the Speaker.

Official reportand removal of,

ers; appointment

by Speaker. Jan. 15, 1874.

admission of to

floor and report

ers' gallery.

Sept. 6, 1993.

Dec. 3, 1857.

2. Stenographers and reporters, other than the Press reporters; official reporters of the House, wishing to take down the debates and proceedings, may be admitted by the Speaker to the reporters' gallery over the Speaker's chair, and to the hall in the rear thereof under such regulations as he may, from time to time, prescribe; and he may assign seats on the floor to a representative of both the Associated and the United Press associations, and may admit to the privileges of the floor an assistant to each or such representatives.

RULE XXXVII.

PAY OF WITNESSES.

Witness fee and mileage.

The rule for paying witnesses subpoenaed to appear before the House, or either of its committees, May 21. 1872. shall be as follows: For each day a witness shall attend, the sum of two dollars; for each mile he shall travel in coming to or going from the place of examination, the sum of five cents each way; but nothing shall be paid for traveling when the witness has been summoned at the place of trial.

RULE XXXVIII.

PAPERS.

Clerks of com

mittees must de

1. The clerks of the several committees of the House shall, within three days after the final ad- liver papers to

Clerk of the at final adjournment of

journment of a Congress, deliver to the Clerk of House
the House all bills, joint resolutions, petitions, and Congress.
other papers referred to the committee, together
with all evidence taken by such committee under

Mar. 2, 1880.

Papers, how withdrawn from

the files.

Dec. 18, 1873.

the order of the House during the said Congress, and not reported to the House; and in the event of the failure or neglect of any clerk of a committee to comply with this rule, the Clerk of the House shall, within three days thereafter, take into his keeping all such papers and testimony.

RULE XXXIX.

WITHDRAWAL OF PAPERS.

No memorial or other paper presented to the House shall be withdrawn from its files without its leave, and if withdrawn therefrom, certified copies thereof shall be left in the office of the Clerk; but when an act may pass for the settleWhen Clerk ment of a claim, the Clerk is authorized to transmay loan papers Department mit to the officer charged with the settlement thereof the papers on file in his office relating to such claim, or may loan temporarily to any officer or Bureau of the Executive Departments any papers on file in his office relating to any matter pending before such officer or Bureau, taking proper receipt therefor.

to

officers

Feb. 27, 1880.

On ballot, majority required to elect.

Apr. 7 1789.
Sept. 15, 1837.

Passage and ap.

proval of bills en

and in Record.

RULE XL.

BALLOT.

In all other cases of ballot than for committees, a majority of the votes given shall be necessary to an election, and where there shall not be such a majority on the first ballot, the ballots shall be repeated until a majority be obtained; and in all balloting blanks shall be rejected and not taken into the count in enumeration of votes or reported by the tellers.

RULE XLI.

MESSAGES.

Messages received from the Senate and the Prestered in Journal ident of the United States, giving notice of bills passed or approved, shall be entered in the Journal and published in the Record of that day's proceedings.

Mar. 15, 1867.

RULE XLII.

EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS.

communications

dressed to the

Estimates of appropriations, and all other com- All Executive munications from the Executive Departments, in- shall be ad tended for the consideration of any committees of Speaker. the House, shall be addressed to the Speaker, and by him submitted to the House for reference.

RULE XLIII.

QUALIFICATIONS OF OFFICERS AND EMPLOYÉS.

Mar. 15, 1867.

Officers and employés shall

not be agents in

claims against

Mar. 8, 1842.

No person shall be an officer of the House, or continue in its employment, who shall be an agent for the prosecution of any claim against the Govern- the Government. ment, or be interested in such claim otherwise than as an original claimant; and it shall be the duty of the Committee on Accounts to inquire into and report to the House any violation of this rule.

RULE XLIV.

JEFFERSON'S MANUAL.

Manual to gov

House, when not

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

RULE XLV.

AS TO PRINTING BILLS.

There shall be printed 500 copies of each bill

with standing

Sept. 15, 1837.

500 copies of public bills and

and river and

of a public nature, of which 25 shall be deposited 100 of private in the office of the Clerk of the House, 100 copies harbor bills to be shall be delivered to the Senate document room,'

printed.

uted.

and the remainder shall be deposited in the document room of the House for the use of Members; and there shall be printed 100 copies of each pri vate bill and bills relating to rivers and harbors, How distrib- of which 25 copies shall be delivered to the Senate document room, and the remainder shall be deposited in the document room of the House for the use of Members. Motions to print additional numbers of any bill, report, resolution, or other public document shall be referred to the Committee on Estimates of Printing; and the report of the committee thereon fore reprinting shall be accompanied by an estimate of the probable cost thereof. Unless ordered by the House no bill, resolution, or other proposition reported by a committee shall be reprinted unless the same be placed upon the Calendar.

cost required be

ordered.

Dec. 21, 1887.

DIGEST

OF THE

RULES AND PRACTICE OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES.

FIRST SESSION, FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS.

ABSENT MEMBERS.

A smaller number than a quorum may be authorized to compel the attendance of absent Members, in such manner and under such penalties as the House may provide.-Const., 1, 5, 8.

Every Member shall be present within the Hall of the House during its sittings, unless excused or necessarily prevented.Rule VIII, clause 1.

In the absence of a quorum, fifteen Members, including the Speaker, if there is one, shall be authorized to compel the attendance of absent Members, and in all calls of the House the names of the Members shall be called by the Clerk, and the absentees noted; the doors shall then be closed, and those for whom no sufficient excuse is made may, by order of a majority of those present, be sent for and arrested, wherever they may be found, by officers to be appointed by the Sergeant-at Arms for that purpose, and their attendance secured; and the House shall determine upon what condition they shall be discharged. Members who voluntarily appear shall, unless the House otherwise direct, be immediately admitted to the Hall of the House, and they shall report their names to the Clerk to be entered upon the Journal as present.-Rule XV, clause 3.

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