BILL, RECOMMITMENT.
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
reasons, it is sometimes recommitted, and usually to the same committee.
_Hakew._ 151. If a report be committed before agreed to in the House,
what has passed in the 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.--3 _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
_Hats._ 131; or so much of a paper to one, and so much to another
committee.