shall be reduced to writing, if the President or any member request it.

8. After a motion is stated, by the President, it shall be deemed to be in possession of the Senate, but may be withdrawn at any time before decision or amendment.

9. When a question is under debate, no motion shall be received, unless to amend it, to commit it, to postpone it to a day certain, for the previous question, or to adjourn.

10. That every question shall be determined by a majority of voices, and after the determination, the same shall not be reassumed, but with the consent of two thirds of the members present, at some subsequent day of the session, and that, upon notice given of the motion for reassuming such matter, at least one day before such motion be made.

11. That no motion shall be determined on the day that it is agitated, if one third of the members shall request that it be deferred to the next day.

12. A motion to adjourn shall always be in order, and shall be decided without debate.

13. The previous question, until it is decided, shall pre. clude amendments and debate on the main question, and shall be in this form,“ shall the main question be now put ?”

14. No member shall speak more than once upon a previous question.

15. A motion for commitment, until it is decided, shall preclude all amendments of the main question.

16. Petitions, memorials, and other papers addressed to the Legislature, shall be presented to the President, by a member in his place.

17. Every Senator who shall be present when a question is put, shall vote for or against the same, unless the Senate excuse him, or unless he be immediately interested in the question, in which casé he shall not vote.

18. When the President is putting a question, no Senator shall walk out, or across the House, nor when a Senator is speaking, pass between him and the chair.

19. A Senator called to order, shall immediately sit down, and the Senate, if applied to, shall decide on the case, but without debate; if there be no appeal, the decision of the chair shall be conclusive.

20. Every bill shall be introduced by motion for leave, or by an order of the Senate, on the report of a committee. 21. Every bill shall receive three several readings previous to its being passed, and on different days, unless the Senate unanimously direct otherwise.

22. No bill shall be amended or committed until it shall have been twice read.

23. In forming a committee of the whole Senate, the President shall leave the chair, and a chairman shall be named by the President to preside.

24. All questions, whether in the Senate or in committee of the whole, shall be put in the order they were moved, except in cases of amendment, and except that in filling up blanks the largest sum and longest time shall be first put.

25. A similar mode of proceeding shall be observed with bills, which have originated in and passed the Hon. the Assembly, as with bills originated in the Senate.

26. The rules of the Senate shall be observed in the committee of the whole, so far as they may be applicable, except the rule limiting the times of speaking.

27. Upon a division either in the Senate, or in a committee of the whole, the names of those who vote for and against the question, shall be entered alphabetically on the minutes, if two members require it.

28. A motion that the committee rise, shall always bein order, and shall be decided without debate.

29. That no member shall absent himself from the Senate without leave of absence on motion.

30. That every member of the Senate shall keep secret all such matters, proceedings and things as shall be enjoined from the chair, by order of the Senate, to be kept se

cret.

31. No person is to be admitted within the bar of the Senate except his Excellency the Governor, the Chancellor, the present and former Judges of the Supreme Court, the present and former members of Congress, the present and former members of the Legislature, the gentlemen of the Clergy, the Comptroller, the Treasurer, the Secretaxy, the Attorney-General, the Surveyor-General, the Gov

ernor's Secretary, and the officers of both Houses of the Legislature.

32. The President shall appoint all ordinary committees, who shall consist of three members, unless a greater or less number shall be directed by the Senate.

THE LEGISLATURE,

SECTION 1.

HOW COMPOSED.

Extracts from the Constitution of the State of New-York. I. This convention, therefore, in the name and by the authority of the good people of this state, DOTH ORDAIN, DETERMINE AND DECLARE, That no authority shall, on auy pretence whatever, be exercised over the people, or members of this state, but such as shall be derived from and granted by them.

II. This convention doth further, in the name and by the authority of the good people of this state, ORDAIN, deTERMINE AND DECLARE, That the supreme legislative power within this state, shall be vested in two separate and distinct bodies of men; the one to be called, the Assembly of the state of New York; the other to be called, the Senate of the state of New-York: who together shall form the Legislature, and meet ouce at least in every year for the dispatch of business.

IV. That the assembly shall consist of at least seventy members, to be annually chosen in the several counties, in the proportions following, viz.

For the City and County of New-York,

The City and County of Albany,

The County of Dutchess,

The County of Westchester,

The County of Ulster,

The County of Suffolk,

The County of Queens,

Nine

Ten

Seven.

Six.

Six.

Five.

Four.

The County of Orange,

Four.

The County of Kings,

Two.

VI. And whereas an opinion hath long prevailed among divers of the good people of this state, that voting at elections by ballot, would tend more to preserve the liberty and equal freedom of the people, than voting viva voce; To the end therefore, that a fair experiment be made, which of those two methods of voting is to be preferred:

Be it ord ined, That as soon as may be, after the termination of the present war, between the United States of America and Great-Britain, an act or acts be passed by the legislature of this state, for causing all elections thereaf ter to be held in this state for senators and representatives in assembly, to be by ballot, and directing the manner in which the same shall be conducted. And whereas it is possible, that after all the care of the legislature, in framing the said act or acts, certain inconveniences and mis-chiefs, unforeseen at this day, may be found to attend the said mode of electing by ballot :

It is further ordained, That if after a full and fair experiment shall be made of voting by ballot aforesaid, the same shall be found less conducive to the safety or interest of the state, than the method of voting viva voce, it shall be lawful and constitutional for the legislature to abolish the same; Provided two thirds of the members present in each house respectively shall concur therein. And further, that during the continuance of the present war, and until the legislature of this state shall provide for the election of senators, and representatives in assembly, by ballot, the said elections shall be made viva voce.

SECTION 2.

ORGANIZATION OF THE ASSEMBLY.

'Oaths the Members take and Subscribe.

1. "I, do solemnly, without any mental reservation or equivocation, swear and declare, (or affirm, as the case may require) that I renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty whatever, and that I will bear faith