The joint select committee appointed to draft and report rules for the government
of the two Houses, having examined the joint rules adopted at the last session, recommend
their adoption for the government of the two Houses at the present session;
Printed Transcription, 1 page(s), Journal of the House of Representatives, of the Twelfth General Assembly of the State of Illinois, Convened by Proclamation of the Governor, Being Their First Session (Springfield, IL: William Walters, 1840), 34