t of summons.

Witness -------- --------, and Presiding Officer of the Senate, at
the city of Washington, this ---- day of ----, A.D. ----, and of the
Independence of the United States the ------.

All process shall be served by the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate unless
otherwise ordered by the court.

XXV. If the Senate shall at any time fail to sit for the consideration
of articles of impeachment on the day or hour fixed therefor, the Senate
may by an order, to be adopted without debate, fix a day and hour for
resuming such consideration.

On March 31 Rule VII was amended to read as follows:

VII. The Presiding Officer of the Senate shall direct all necessary
preparations in the Senate Chamber, and the presiding officer on the
trial shall direct all the forms of proceeding while the Senate are
sitting for the purpose of trying an impeachment, and all forms during
the trial not otherwise specially provided for, and the presiding
officer on the trial may rule all questions of evidence and incidental
questions, which ruling shall stand as the judgment of the Senate,
unless some member of the Senate shall ask that a formal vote be taken
thereon, in which case it shall be submitted to the Senate for decision;
or he may, at his option, in the first instance submit any such question
to a vote of the members of the Senate.

On April 3 Rule VII was further amended by inserting at the end thereof
the following:

Upon all such questions the vote shall be without a division, unless the
yeas and nays be demanded by one-fifth of the members present, when the
same shall be taken.

On March 13 Rule XXIII was amended to read as follows:

XXIII. All the orders and decisions shall be made and had by yeas and
nays, which shall be entered on the record, and without debate, subject,
however, to the operation of Rule VII, except when the doors shall be
closed for deliberation, and in that case no member shall speak more
than once on one question, and for not more than ten minutes on an
interlocutory question, and for not more than fifteen minutes on the
final question, unless by consent of the Senate, to be had without
debate; but a motion to adjourn may be decided without the yeas and
nays, unless they be demanded by one-fifth of the members present.

On May 7 Rule XXIII was further amended by adding thereto the following:

The fifteen minutes herein allowed shall be for the whole deliberation
on the final question, an