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 Deb._, 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
question, and so on until the whole are adopted or rejected, before any
other amendment be admitted, except it be an amendment to an amendment.
_Elsynge’s Mem._, 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 amendments, putting no questions but on amendments proposed; and
when through the whole, he puts the question whether the bill be read
the third time.