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APPENDICES
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Article LV.—When either House makes amendments to a Bill carried into it from the other House, the Bill as amended shall be returned to the first House. When the first House agrees to the amendment, it shall, simultaneously with addressing the Emperor, report to the second House. When, on the other hand, the first House does not agree to such amendments, it may demand the conference of the two Houses.

When either House demands a conference, the other House cannot refuse it.

Article LVI.—Both Houses can elect an equal number, not more than ten, of managers to meet in conference. When the Bill in question has been adjusted in the conference, the adjusted Bill shall be discussed first in that House which had either received it from the Government or had initiated it, and the Bill is then carried to the other House. No motion of amendments can be made to a Bill that has been adjusted in a conference.

Article LVII.—The Ministers of State, the delegates of the Government, and the Presidents of both Houses, are at liberty to attend a conference of the two Houses, and to express their opinions thereat.

Article LVIII.—No strangers are allowed to be present at a conference of the two Houses.

Article LIX.—At a conference of the two Houses, votes shall be taken by secret ballot. In the event of a tie vote, the chairman shall have the casting vote.

Article LX.—The managers from the two Houses shall separately elect one of themselves chairman of the conference. The chairman thus elected shall occupy the chair at the alternate meetings of the conference. The chairmanship of the first meeting shall be settled by the drawing of lots.

Article LXI.—All other regulations, besides what is provided for in the present chapter, as to any business in which both Houses are concerned, shall be determined by a conference of both Houses.

Chapter XIII.—Petitions.

Article LXII.—All petitions addressed to either House by people shall be received through the medium of a member.

Article LXIII.—Petitions shall be admitted in either House to the examination of the Committee on Petitions.

When the Committee on Petitions considers that a petition is not in conformity with the established rules, the President shall return it through the member through whose medium it was originally presented.

Article LXIV.—The Committee on Petitions shall compile

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