[Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 114th Congress]
[114th Congress]
[House Document 113-181]
[Jeffersons Manual of ParliamentaryPractice]
[Pages 204-205]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


 

                  sec. xxiii--bills, leave to bring in


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pointed 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 being given, on 
the question, a committee is ap





  This provision is obsolete because rule XII provides an entirely 
different method of introducing bills through the hopper. The 
introduction of bills by leave was gradually dropped by the practice of 
the House, and after 1850 the present system of permitting Members to 
introduce at will bills for printing and reference began to develop (IV, 
3365).