RULE XXXVI.

Bills, memorials, resolutions and orders shall be referred by
the Speaker to their appropriate committees, and in case of
erroneous or objectionable reference, correction may be made
on the next day or the day succeeding immediately after the
reading of the Journal by unanimous consent, or on motion of
the committee to which the bill has been so originally referred.

RULE XXXVII.

Every bill shall receive three readings in the House on
three different days of the session, previous to its passage, un-
less two-thirds of the members elected to the House otherwise
determine; the first of which readings shall be by the title
only, unless a majority of the House shall otherwise order.

RULE XXXVIII.

All bills of a local character, and of a partial operation, re-
ceived from the Senate or originating in the House, shall be
referred to the proper local delegation, except in cases when
the delegation consists of only two members, in which case the
Speaker shall name another member, making a committee of
three.
RULE XXXIX.

All bills which, on a third reading, shall be committed
either to Committee of the Whole House or other committee,
shall be considered as upon their second reading, when re-
ported back to the House, with amendments, otherwise as
upon their third reading, in the same state as when committed.
Bills committed or recommitted on their second reading
shall occupy the same position when reported back as when
committed or recommitted.

RULE XL.

All resolutions which have been read once and are entitled
to a second reading, and all bills which have been once or
twice read and are entitled to a second or third reading by
the Rules of the House, shall be arranged every morning agree-
ably to seniority by the Clerk, placed on the Speaker's desk,
taken up by them in due order, the date of their last reading
announced, and read a second or third time. although no mo-
tion for a second or third reading may have been made.