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Hinds' Precedents: About
Asher C. Hinds, Clerk at the Speaker’s Table of the U.S. House of Representatives,
compiled the early precedents of the House of Representatives, dating
from the First Congress. These materials were prepared and published by
authority of the Act of Congress, approved March 4, 1907.
Hinds' Precedents is a 5-volume series containing selected rulings made
by the chair. The publication provides valuable coverage of the historical
origins and evolution of House procedures dating back to 1789.
The precedents are numbered sequentially throughout the volumes. Each
precedent appears with a headnote in bold type indicating the principle
established by the precedent. The procedural exchange(s) establishing
the precedent is then summarized, with the full text and citations to
the Congressional Record often provided. Hinds' Precedents also furnishes
citations to the House Journal and predecessors of the Record.
Hinds’ Precedents consists of eight volumes and 148 chapters. The first
chapter is preceded by an introduction to Hinds' Precedents, as well as,
a table of contents. All the chapters are available on GPO Access. Volumes
VI (Index--Digest A to G), VII (Index--Digest H to P), and VIII (Index--Digest
Q to Z) are not yet available on GPO Access. All documents are
available as ASCII text and Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files.
Volume-to-chapter correspondence of the four volumes of Hinds' Precedents.
| Volume |
Chapter(s) |
| 1 |
1-27 |
| 2 |
28-52 |
| 3 |
53-82 |
| 4 |
83-110 |
| 5 |
111-148 |
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