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101. Upon motion for a select committee, any member of the House may require such committee to be formed in the manner following, viz. :—Each member shall give in to the clerk a list of the members proposed by him to serve on such committee, not exceeding the number originally proposed, exclusive of the mover himself; and if any such list contain a larger number of names, it shall be rejected, and the members reported by the clerk to have the greatest number of votes, shall be declared by Mr. Speaker to be, with the mover, the members of such committee ; and in case of two or more members having an equality of votes, Mr. Speaker shall decide by lot which shall serve on such committee. 102. Any notice of motion for discharging, adding, or substituting members of a select committee, shall contain the names of such members. 103. The sergeant-at-arms attending this House, is, from time to time, when the House is going to prayers, to give notice thereof to all committees ; and all proceedings of committees after such notice are declared to be null and void. 104. In all select committees, three shall be a quorum. 105. Every select committee, previously to the commencement of business, shall elect one of its members to be the chairman, who shall have an original as well as a casting vote. 106. The examinaton of witnesses before every select committee shall be conducted as follows, viz. : —The chairman shall first put to the witness, in uninterrupted series, all such questions as he may deem essential, with reference either to the subject of inquiry or to any branch thereof, according to the mode of procedure agreed on by the committee; the chairman shall then call upon the other members severally by name, in the order of their sitting, to put other questions ; after which, questions shall be put in the same rotation as often as any member of the committee may require. All questions and replies shall be reduced to writing, and signed by the witness, and the name of every member interrogating a witness shall be prefixed to the questions asked. 10?. Every report of a select committee shall be signed by the chairman thereof. 108. Lists shall be posted in some conspicuous place in the clerk's office, and in the lobby of the House, of all members serving on each select committee. 109. Whenever it may be considered necessary to examine witnesses, special application shall be made to the House for power to call for papers, persons and reports, and for leave to report the opinion of the committee from time to time. 110. On the appointment of every committee, a day shall be fixed for the reporting their proceedings to the House ; on which, or some earlier day, the final report of the committee shall be brought up by the chairman, unless further time be previously moved for and granted, on motion without notice. 111. Upon the presentation of a report, no discussion shall take place, but the report shall be laid on the table, and may, on question put and passed, be read and ordered to be printed, together with the appendix and reported evidence. 112. After a report has been laid upon the table, it shall be competent to any member to move that such report, or any portion of it, be adopted by the House or to make any other specific motion relative thereto.