In Parliament, a question once carried, cannot be questioned again, at the same session; but must stand as the judgment of the House.--_Towns._ _col._ 67; _Memor. in Hakew._ 33. And a bill once rejected, another of the same substance cannot be brought in again the same session.--_Hakew._ 158; 6 _Grey_, 392. But this does not extend to prevent putting the same questions in different stages of a bill; because every stage of a bill submits the whole and every part of it to the opinion of the House, as open for amendment, either by insertion or omission, though the same amendment has been accepted or rejected in a former stage. So in reports of committees, _e. g._ report of an address, the same question is before the House, and open for free discussion.--_Towns. col._ 26; 2 _Hats._ 98, 100, 101. So, orders of the House, or instructions to committees may be discharged. So a bill begun in one House, sent to the other, and there rejected, may be renewed again in that other, passed, and sent back.--_Ib._ 92; 3 _Hats._ 161. Or if, instead of being rejected, they read it once, and lay it aside, and put it off a month, they may offer in another to the same effect, with the same or a different title.--_Hakew._ 97, 98. Divers expedients are used to correct the effects of this rule; as, by passing an explanatory act, if anything has been omitted or ill-expressed, 3 _Hats._ 278; or an act to enforce, and make more effectual an act, &c., or to rectify mistakes in an act, &c.; or a committee on one bill may be instructed to receive a clause to rectify the mistakes of another. Thus, June 24, 1685, a clause was inserted in a bill for rectifying a mistake committed by a clerk in engrossing a bill of reply.--2 _Hats._ 194. 6. Or the session may be closed for one, two, three, or more days, and a new one commenced. But then all matters depending must be finished, or they fall, and are to begin _de novo_.--2 _Hats._ 94, 98. Or a part of the subject may be taken up by another bill, or taken up in a different way.--6 _Grey_, 316. And in cases of the last magnitude, this rule has not been so strictly and verbally observed as to stop indispensable proceedings altogether.--2 _Hats._ 92. 98. Thus, when the address on the preliminaries of peace, in 1782, had been lost by a majority of one; on account of the importance of the question, and smallness of the majority, the same question in substance, though with words not in the first, and which might change the opinions of some members, was brought on again and carried: as the motives for it were thought to outweigh the objections of form.--2 _Hats._ 99, 100. A second bill may be passed, to continue an act of the same session; or to enlarge the time limited for its execution.--2 _Hats._ 95, 98. This is not in contradiction to the first act. SECTION XLIV. BILLS SENT TO THE OTHER HOUSE.