ASSENT.
The House which has received a bill, and passed it, may present it for
the King's assent, and ought to do it, though they have not by message
notified to the other their passage of it. Yet the notifying by message
is a form which ought to be observed between the two Houses, from motives
of respect and good understanding.--3 _Hats._ 242. Were the bill to be
withheld from being presented to the King, it would be an infringement
of the rules of Parliament.--2 _Hats._ 242.
$When a bill has passed both Houses of Congress, the House last acting on
it notifies its passage to the other, and delivers the bill to the joint
committee of enrolment, who see that it is truly enrolled in parchment.
When the bill is enrolled, it is not to be written in paragraphs, but
solidly and all of a piece, that the blanks within the paragraphs may
not give room for forgery.--9 _Grey_, 143. It is then put in the hands
of the clerk of the House of Representatives, to have it signed by the
Speaker. The clerk then brings it by way of message to the Senate, to be
signed by their President. The secretary of the Senate returns it to the
committee of enrolment, who present it to the President of the United
States. If he approves, he signs and deposits it among the rolls in the
office of the Secretary of State, and notifies by message the House in
which it originated, that he has approved and signed it; of which that
House informs the other by message. If the President disapproves, he is
to return it, with his objections, to the House in which it shall have
originated; who are to enter the objections at large on their journal,
and proceed to reconsider it. If, after such reconsideration, two-thirds
of the House shall agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent, together
with the President's objections, to the other House, by which it shall
likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two-thirds of that House, it
shall become a law. If any bill shall not be returned by the President
within ten days (Sunday's excepted) after it shall have been presented
to him, the same shall be a law, in like manner as if he had signed it,
unless the Congress, by their adjournment, prevent its return; in which
case it shall not be a law.--_Const. U. S._, Art. I. Sec. 7.
Every order, resolution, or vote, to which the concurrence of the
Senate and the House of Representatives may be necessary, (except on
a question of adjournment,) shall be presented to the President of the
United States, and before the same shall take effect, shall be approved
by him, or, being disapproved by him, shall be re-passed by two-thirds
of the Senate and House of Representatives, according to the rules and
limitations prescribed in the case of a bill.--_Const. U. S._, Art. I.
Sec. 7.$