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   ble, where the amendments reported are read by the clerk without the co-
   herence; whereupon the papers lie upon the table till the House, at its
con-
   venience, shall take up the report. Scob., 52; Hakew.,148.
   The report being made, the committee is dissolved and can act no more
   without a new power. Scob., 51. But it may be revived by a vote, and tho
   same matter recommitted to them. 4 Grey, 361.

                           SECTION XXVIII.
                           BILL, RECOMM3ITMIENT.
    After a bill has been committed and reported, it ought not in an ordinary
  course to be recommitted; but in cases of importance, and for special rea-
  sons, it is sometimes recommitted, and usually to the same committee
  lZakew., 151. If a report be recommitted before agreed to in the House,
what
  has passed in committee is of no validity; the whole question is again
before
  the committee, and a new resolution must be again moved, as if nothing
had
  passed. 2 Hats., 131-note.
  In Senate, January 1800, the salvage bill was recommitted three times after
  the commitment.
  A particular clause of a bill may be committed without the whole bill,
(3
  fZals., 131;) or so much of a paper to one and so much to another committee.


                           SECTION XXIX.
                       BILL, REPORTS TAKEN UP.
   When the report of a paper originating with a committee is taken up by
 the House, they proceed exactly as in committee. Here, as in committee,
 when the paragraphs have, on distinct questions, been agreed to seriatim
(5
 Grey, 366; 6 Grey, 368; 8 Grey, 47,104,360; 1 Torbuck's 1Deb., 125; 3 Hats.,
348,)
 no question need be put on the whole report. 5 Grey, 381.
   On taking up a bill reported with amendments, the amendments only are
 read by the Clerk. The Speaker then reads the first, and puts it to the
ques-
 tion, and so on until the whole are adopted or rejected, before any other
 amendment be admitted, except it be an amendment to an amendment. El-
 8ynge's Hem., 53. When through the amendments of the committee, the
 Speaker pauses, and gives time for amendments to be proposed in the House
 to the body of the bill as he does also if it has been reported without
amend-
 ments, putting no questions but on amendments proposed; andwhen through
 the whole, he puts the question whether the bill be read the third time.

                           SECTION XXX.
                           QUASI-COatauTTEE.
  If un motion and question the bill be not committed, or if no proposition
for commitment be made, then the proceedings in the Senate of the United
States and In Parliament are totally different. The former shall be first
stated.
  [The 28th rule of the Senate says: "All bills on a second reading
shall first