Section 3314 - Personnel of contest committee; Senate MembersThe Senate and House of Representatives shall, on a day and hour to be agreed on between them, which day shall be within five days of the reception of the petition as aforesaid, convene in the hall of the House of Representatives, where the petition shall be read by the secretary of the Senate; the names of the members of each house shall then be called over by the respective clerks, and a quorum of each house being present, a joint committee shall be formed as follows:
(a) The names of all senators present, except the President pro tempore, shall be written on distinct pieces of paper as nearly alike as may be, each of which shall be rolled up and put into a box by the clerk of the House of Representatives, and placed on the Speaker's table.(b) The secretary of the Senate, having shaken and intermixed the said papers, shall draw them out one by one, and put them alternately into three boxes, also placed on the Speaker's table.(c) When the whole number shall be thus distributed, the clerk of the House of Representatives shall shake and intermix the papers in each box, and shall draw alternately from each box the papers so rolled up, until twelve papers have been so drawn, and shall deliver them singly, as drawn, to the Speaker of the House of Representatives.(d) The Speaker of the House of Representatives shall open the said papers singly and read aloud the names on each, and then deliver the papers singly to the President of the Senate, who shall place them openly on the table.(e) A member of each House, to be designated by the respective presiding officers, shall take down in writing the names so called, and shall each of them repeat aloud the name so written.1937, June 3, P.L. 1333, art. XVII, § 1714.