§ 1714Personnel of Contest Committee; Senate Members

The 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.