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A Committee on Federal Relations, to consist of five Sena-
tors.

A Committee on Militia, to consist of five Senators.
A Committee on the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries,
to consist of five Senators.

A Committee on Retrenchment, to consist of five Senators.

Whose duty it shall be to take into consideration the ex-
penditures of the Government, in the several departments
thereof; and to enquire whether any, and if any, what re-
trenchment can be made without injury to the public service,
and report thereupon, together with such propositions, rela-
tive thereto, as to them shall seem expedient.

A Committee on Public Buildings, to consist of three Sena-
tors, to act jointly with the same committee of the House of
Delegates.

A Committee of three Senators, whose duty it shall be to
audit and control the contingent expenses of the Senate.

XLV.

No motion to rescind a rule shall be received, unless notice
of the motion shall have been given on a previous day.

XLVI.

The Senate, from its organization, and the duties it has to
perform, not having the time, and not being adapted to inves-
tigating the facts upon which Private Rights rest, will not
pass any Private Acts, in cases where any or either of the
Courts of this State have jurisdiction, and can, upon proper
application, afford competent relief.

XLVII.

When acting on Executive business, the Senate shall be
cleared of all persons except the Secretary, Reading Clerk,
and Sergeant-at-Arms.

XLVIII.

A distinct and separate Journal shall be prepared and kept
by the Secretary of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate.

XLIX.

The Rules which now govern the Senate in Legislative Ses-
sions, shall govern it while in Executive Sessions, except so
far as they may be modified by these or other rules.

L.
When nominations shall be made in writing by the Gov-