A manual of parliamentary practice, composed originally for the use of the Senate of the United States. By Thomas Jefferson. With references to the practice and rules of the House of representatives. The whole brought down to the practice of the present time; to which are added the rules and orders, together with the joint rules of both houses of Congress. And accompanied with copious indices.

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mous, afterwards desires they may be returned, that
he may communicate them to the Lords. —1 Chandler,
303.
SECTION XLVIII.
ASSENT.
THE House which has received a bill, and passed
it, may present it for the King's assent, and ought to
do it, though they have not by message notified to
the other their passage of it. Yet the notifying by
message is a form which ought to be observed between the two Houses, from motives of respect and
good understanding.-3 Hats. 242. Were the bill to
be withheld from being presented to the King, it
would be an infringement of the rules of Parliament.
-2 Hats. 242.
When a bill has passed both Houses of Congress, the House last
acting on it notifies its passage to the other, and delivers the bill to the
joint committee of enrolment, who see that it is truly enrolled in parch.
ment.-(Vide Joint Rules, 6.) When the bill is enrolled, it is not to
be written in paragraphs, but solidly and all of a piece, that the blanks
within the paragraphs may not give room for forgery.-9 Grey, 143.
It is then put in the hands of the clerk of the House of Representatives,
to have it signed by the Speaker. The clerk then brings it by way of
message to the Senate, to be signed by their President. The secretary
of the Senate returns it to the committee of enrolment, who present it
to the President of the United States.-( Vide Joint Rules, 8, 9.) If
he approves, he signs and deposits it among the rolls in the office of
the Secretary of State, and notifies by message the House in which it
originated, that he has approved and signed it; of which that House
informs the other by message. If the President disapprove, he is to