Chapter LIII: Section XVI: Order Respecting Papers

The Clerk is to let no journals, records, accounts or papers, be taken from the table or out of his custody. 2 _Hats._, 193, 194.

Mr. Prynne having at a Committee of the Whole amended a mistake in a bill without order or knowledge of the committee, was reprimanded. _1 Chand._, 77.

A bill being missing, the House resolved that a protestation should be made and subscribed by the members “before Almighty God and this honorable House, that neither myself nor any other to my knowledge have taken away, or do at this present conceal a bill entitled,” etc. _5 Grey_, 202.

After a bill is engrossed, it is put into the Speaker’s hands, and he is not to let any one have it to look into. _Town._, _col._ 200.