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13G. If the amedments be agreed to. a message shall be sent back acquainting the other House thereof, and the bill itself shall then be amended by the House in 'which it is originated, and shall remain with that House for transmission to the Governor. 137. Amendments made by one House in a bill sent by the other House, may not be rejected ; if therefore they are not adopted, the bill must drop, unless a conference take place at the request of either House for the adjustment of the matter in difference •; and if the original amendments, or a modification thereof, be adopted by such conference, and their decision be confirmed by both Houses the bill itself shall be amended in accordance therewith; by the House in which it originated, and shall remain in that House for transmission to the Governor. 138. The Speaker of the House with which a bill may remain under the foregoing orders, shall immediately cause the bill to be fairly engrossed or printed on parchment, without punctuation, and the clerks of both Houses shall examine and certify to the correctness of the bill by an endorsement thereon ; after which the Speaker of the House aforesaid, shall, without delay, transmit or present the same to the Governor. 139. The date of the Governor's assent shall be certified by an endorsement, to be made on acts of the General Assembly, by such high public officer as the Governor may be pleased to direct in that behalf; and the acts shall then be kept in such custody as the Governor may appoint, pending the establishment of a public record office. STRANGERS. 140. Members of the Legislative Council shall be admitted to the body of the House, but other strangers shall be admitted only by Mr. Speaker. J 41. On the request of any member, or in his own discretion, Mr. Speaker shall at any time order strangers to withdraw, either from the body of the House or from the gallery, and such strangers shall immediately withdraw. CONTEMPT. 142. Any member not attending in compliance with an order for a call of the House, without reasonable excuse, shall be held guilty of contempt. 143. No member shall absent himself for more than one week at a time without leave ; and any member infringing this order shall be held guilty of contempt. 144. Any member who shall wilfully disobey any order of the House, and any member or other person who shall wilfully or vexatiously interrupt the orderly conduct of the business of the House, shall be guilty of contempt. 145. Any member adjudged by the House for any of the causes hereinbefore mentioned guilty of contempt, shall be fined in a penalty at the discretion of the House, not exceeding fifty pounds ; and in default of immediate payment, shall be committed by the warrant of Mr. Speaker to the custody of the sergeant-at-arms, or such other person or persons as Mr. Speaker shall appoint, for a period not exceeding fourteen days ; and it shall be lawful for the said sergeant-at-arms, or such other person or persons, to detain the said member in his custody for the period