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provisions for the Constitution shall submit its reports
(whether a majority or minority report) in articles without
assigning reasons and arguments sustaining the same.
Rule 15.—Every report from a committee, containing arti-
cles or sections proposed to be made a part of the Constitu-
tion shall receive three readings in the Convention, on three
different days of the session previous to its adoption, unless
two-thirds of the members elected to the Convention other-
wise determine; the first of which readings shall be by the
title only, unless a majority of the Convention shall other-
wise order.
Rule 16.—Every resolution shall be read on two several
days, with an intermission of one day at least, during which
time it shall be on the table for the perusal of members, un-
less on very urgent occasions, the Convention by special
order, two-thirds of the members present agreeing, dispense
with the rule, which order shall be entered on the Journal.
Rule 17.—Calls of the Convention shall be made if re-
quired, by fifteen members at any time when a subject is un-
der consideration.
Rule 18.—All resolutions which have been once read And
are entitled to a second reading, and all reports which nave
been once or twice read, and are entitled to a second or third
reading by the rules of the Convention, shall be arranged
every morning agreeably to seniority by the Secretary, placed
on the President's desk, taken up by him in due order, the
date of their last reading announced, and read a second or
third time, although no motion for a second or third reading
may have been made.
Rule 19.—All reports from committees containing clauses
proposed to be made part of the Constitution, shall be en-
tered on the Journal, and also printed in form similar to
bills.
COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE.
Rule 20.—The Convention shall be resolved into a stand-
ing committee of the whole, if required by nine members,
which committee may originate articles or clauses to be em-
bodied in the Constitution.
Reports of committees containing clauses proposed to be
embodied in the Constitution on their third reading and res-
olutions on their second reading shall, if required by seven
members, be committed to a Committee of the Whole,
Rule 21.—In forming a Committee of the Whole, the Pres-
ident of the Convention shall leave his chair, and a chairman
to preside in committee shall be appointed by the President.
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