98 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Jan. 28,

XX VIII.

When a blank is not filled up, and different sums, num-
bers or times shall be proposed, the question shall be taken
on the largest sum or number, and on the longest time.

XXIX.

Every Member who shall be in the Senate when the ques-
tion is put, shall give his vote, unless the Senate for special
reasons shall excuse him, and the refusal of any Member
present to vote on calling the yeas and nays shall be noted
on the Journal at the request of any Member.

XXX.

The Reading Clerk of the Senate shall lay upon the desk
of the President, every morning, all bills, resolutions and
motions depending before the Senate, in the order of time in
which they were reported or presented for consideration ; and
at all times while the Senate is sitting, when no motion is
under consideration, the President shall, without any motion,
take up said bills, resolutions and motions in the above
order, and propose them for the consideration of the Senate,
and they shall then be considered and acted upon, unless
postponed by order of the Senate.

XXXI.

Whenever any Senate bill, resolution, report or other
proposition, shall have been read through a second time,
with or without amendment, the President shall propound
the Question : "Shall this bill (report, or other proposition)
be engrossed for a third reading?" If decided in the nega-
tive, the bill, &c., shall be rejected ; if in the affirmative, it
shall be engrossed and read a third time, according to the
rules of the Senate.

XXXII.

No amendment shall be received at the third reading of
any bill, resolution, report or other proposition originating
in the Senate, unless by consent of two-thirds of members
present; but it shall at all times be in order, before the final
passage of any such bill, resolution, report or other proposi-
tion, to move its re-commitment; and should such commit-
ment take place, and any amendment be reported by the
committee, the said bill, resolution, report or other proposi-
tion, as amended, shall be read, and such reading be
considered a second reading ; and then the question shall be
put, whether it shall be engrossed and read a third time ; and
if decided in the negative, the bill, &c., shall be rejected ; if
in the affirmative, it shall be engrossed and read a third
time, according to the rules of the Senate.