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568 P. ECOP. D8 OF THE FEDERAL CONVENTION COMMITTEE OF STYLE ceedings; may punish its members for disorderly behaviour; and may, with the concurrence of two thirds, expel a member. Sect. 7. The House of Representatives, and the Senate, shall keep a journal of their proceedings, and shall, from time to time, publish them, except such parts thereof as in their judgment require secrecy; and the yeas and nays of the mem- bers of each House, on any question, shall, at the desire of one-fifth part of the members present, be entered on the journal. Sect. 8. During the session of the Legislature neither House, without the consent of the other, shall adjourn for more than three days, nor to any place than that at which the two Houses are sitting. Sect. 9. The Members of each House shall be ineligible to any civil office under the authority of the United States created, or the emoluments whereof shall have been encreased during the time for which they shall respectively be elected- and no person holding any office under the United States shall be a Member of either House during his continuance in Office. Sect. Io. The members of each House shall receive a compensation for their services, to be paid out of the Treasury of the United States, to be ascertained by law. Sect. ?. The enacting stile of the laws of the United States shall be. "Be it enacted, by the Senate and Repre- sentatives in Congress assembled. -? Sect. xz. All Bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House o� representatives: but the Senate may propose or concur with amendments as on other bills. No money shall be drawn from the Treasury but in consequence of appropriations made by law. Sect. x3. Every bill, which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a law, be presented to the President of the United States, for his re- vision; if, upon such revision, he approve of it, he shall sig- nify his approbation by signing it: But if, upon such revision, it shall appear to him improper for being passed into a law? he shall return it, together with his objections against it, to