[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 Printing 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).