    [Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 105th Congress]
    [105th Congress]
    [House Document 104-272]
    [Jeffersons Manual of ParliamentaryPractice]
    [Pages 191-192]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                     sec. xxiii.--bills, leave to bring in.

    [[Page 192]]

    being given, on the question, a committee is appointed to prepare and
    bring in the bill. The mover and seconder are always appointed of this
    committee, and one or more in addition. Hakew., 132; Scob., 40. It is
    to be presented fairly written, without any erasure or interlineation,
    or the Speaker may refuse it. Scob., 41; 1 Grey, 82, 84.

    Sec. 398. Obsolete provisions as to introduction of
    bills.

      When  a Member desires to bring in a bill on any subject, he states
    to the House in general terms the causes for doing it, and concludes by
    moving for leave to bring in a bill, entitled, &c. Leave

      This provision is obsolete, clauses 1-4 of rule XXII providing an
    entirely different method of introducing bills. The introduction of
    bills by leave was gradually dropped by the practice of the House, and
    after 1850 the present free system of permitting Members to introduce at
    will bills for printing and reference began to develop (IV, 3365).