Chapter XVIII: 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," &c.--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._ 209.