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Rule 8. Priority of speaking and all questions of order shall be decided by the President (of the Senate); but either party may appeal to a vote of the Honse,

Rule 9, The name of the Senator making and of the one who seconds a motion shal] be entered on the journals of the House.

Rule 10, No Senatof shall speak more than twice on the same subject without leave obtained from the Chair. ,

Rule 11. Inviolable secrecy shall be observed with respect to all matters transacted in the Senate while the doors are shnt, or as often as the same is enjoined from the Chair. *

Rule 1%, Every member of a committee shall attend the same at the time appointed by the chairman, who shall be the Senator of the most northerly State of those from whom the committee are taken.

Rule 13. When 2 commitment is agreed upon, the President (of the Senate) shall take the sense of the Senate as to the manner of appointing the committee, whether by motion from the Senators, nomination from the Chair, or by ballot; which shall take place accordingly.

Rule 14, The files of the House shall remain open for the inspection of all the Senators, ete, but no original paper shal] be removed from the House without leave obtained for that purpose by the Senate.

Rule 15, The yeas and nays on any question shal] be entered on the journals at the desire of one fifth of the Senators present.

Rule 18. These rules shall be engrossed on parchment and hung up in some couspicnons part of the Senate chamber. And every Senator who shall neglect attendance during a session, absent himself without leave or with- draw for more than a quarter of an hour without permission after a quorum is formed, shall be guilty of disorderly behavior,-and his name, together with the nature of the transgression, shall be written on a slip of paper and annexed to the bottom of the rules; there to remain until the Senate, on his application or otherwise, shall take order on the same.