    [Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 104th Congress]
    [104th Congress]
    [House Document 103-342]
    [Rules of the House of Representatives]
    [Page 768]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                   Rule XLII.

                               GENERAL PROVISIONS.

    Sec. 938. Relations of Jefferson's Manual and
    Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to the rules of the
    House.

      The rules of  parliamentary practice comprised in Jefferson's Manual and the
    provisions of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, as amended,
    shall govern the House in all cases to which they are applicable, and in
    which they are not inconsistent with the standing rules and orders of
    the House and joint rules of the Senate and House of Representatives.

      This rule was adopted in 1837 (V, 6757), and amended January 3, 1953,
    p. 24, when it was also renumbered. Joint rules have not been in force
    since the 43d Congress. Discussion of the importance of Jefferson's
    Manual as an authority in congressional procedure (VII, 1029, 1049;
    VIII, 2501, 2517, 2518, 3330).