THE Subscriber does not address you, from a wish to make the more pages to this little book, nor to gratify any vanity of appearing in a preface. He feels it a duty he owes to Mr. JEFFERSON, publicly to acknowledge, that from his Manual much of the matter contained in the following pages has been extracted. By the constitution of the state of New York, the Assembly is " to proceed in doing business in like manner as the Assemblies of the colony of NewYork of right formerly did." The mode of doing business in the Assembly of the colony of New-York, was much like that of the House of Commons in England. The practice of the House of Representatives of the United States, and of the Assembly of this stale, are much the same in most important particulars, and copy much from the forms of the British parliament. Hence, besides, noting the forms of business in common cases, it became peculiarly proper to mention numerous decisions of the parliament of England, in regard to more important branches of Legislation. In its present form, this work will prove useful to the Congressman, the Senator and others, as well as to the Assemblyman. Many subjects intended to kave formed a portion of this volume, are necessarily omitted. Some of those are the rules of the Court of Errors, the proceedings of the Council of Appointment, and Council of Revision, &c. &c. These and other useful subjects will form the substance of another volume. This already contains about forty pages more than were contemplated to have been included in it. The work is already so large, that the Index could not with propriety be more particular. The work may be thought imperfeet-defects it may have. It has been the misfortune of the compiler not to have time sufficient to submit the sheets to men of experi ence before they went to press. But it is believed that gen erosity will forgive the errors of this first effort. Exertions have not been wanting to render these pages truly useful and even interesting to Legislators. Should they think those exertions worthy their approbation, it will be gratifying to the AUTHOR Albany, Dec. 27, 1816. Assembly, 179 Rules of Senate of United States, Rules and Orders of the House of Representatives 182 of United States, 189 ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION, AND PERPETUAL UNION, Between the States of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts-Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, aud Georgia. Proposed by the Congress of the United States, on the 17th November, 1777, and approved by this State, by law passed February 6, 1778. ARTICLE I. THE style of this confederacy shall be, " THE UNI- T ART. II. Each State retains its sovereignty, freedom and independence, and every power, jurisdiction and right, which is not by this confederation expressly delegated to the United States in Congress assembled. ART. III. The said States hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other for their common defence, the security of their liberties, and their mu tual and general welfare; binding themselves to assist each other against all force offered to or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever. ART. IV. The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this union, the free inhabitants of each of these States (paupers, vagabonds and fugitives from justice excepted) shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several states; and the people of each State shall have free ingress and regress to and from any other State, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce, subject to the same duties, impositions and restrictions, as the inhabitants thereof respectively, provided that such restriction shall not extend so far as to prevent the removal of property imported into any State to any other state, of which the owner is an inhabitant: Provided also, That no imposition, duties or restriction, shall be laid by any State on the property of the United States, or either of them. If any person guilty of or charged with treason, felony, or other high misdemeanor, in any State, shall flee from justice, and be found in any of the United States, he shall, upon demand of the Governor, or executive power of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, and removed to the State having jurisdiction of his offence. Full faith and credit shall be given in each of these States to the records, acts and judicial proceedings of the courts and magistrates of every other State. ART. V. For the more convenient management of the general interests of the United States, delegates shall be annually appointed, in such manner as the Legislature of each State shall direct, to meet in Congress on the first Monday in November, in every year, with a power reserved to each State to recall its delegates, or any of them, at any time within the year, and to send others in their stead, for the remainder of the year. No State shall be represented in Congress by less than two, nor by more than seven members; and no person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six years; nor shall any person, being a delegate, be capable of holding any office under the United States, for which he, or another for his benefit, receives any salary, fees, or emoluments of any kind. Each state shall maintain its own delegates in a meeting of the States, and while they act as members of the committee of the States In determining questions in the United States in Congress assembled, each State shall have one vote. Freedom of speech, and debate in Congress, shall not be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Congress; and the members of Congress shall be protected in their persons from arrests and imprisonments, during the time of their going to and from, and attendance on Con. gress, except for treason, felony, or breach of the peace. ART. VI. No State, without the consent of the United |