BILL, REPORT 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_, 365; 6 _Grey_, 368; 8 _Grey_, 47, 104, 360;
1 _Torbuck's deb._ 124; 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 question, and so on till the whole are adopted or rejected,
before any other amendment be admitted, except it be an amendment to
an amendment.--_Elsynge's Mem._ 23. 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 amendments; putting no question but on amendments
proposed; and when through the whole, he puts the question, Whether the
bill shall be read the third time?