Sec. 418. Parliamentary method of submitting
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The chairman of the committee, standing in his place, informs the
House that the committee to whom was referred such a bill, have,
according to order, had the same under consideration, and have directed
him to report the same without any amendment, or with sundry amendments
(as the case may be), which he is ready to do when the House pleases to
receive it. And he or any other may move that it be now received; but
the cry of ``now, now,'' from the House, generally dispenses with the
formality of a motion and question. He then reads the amendments, with
the coherence in the bill, and opens the alterations and the reasons of
the committee for such amendments, until he has gone through the whole.
He then delivers it at the Clerk's table, where the amendments reported
are read by the Clerk without the coherence; whereupon the papers lie
upon the table till the House, at its convenience, shall take up the
report. Scob., 52; Hakew., 148.
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