A manual of parliamentary practice, composed originally for the use of the Senate of the United States. By Thomas Jefferson. With references to the practice and rules of the House of representatives. The whole brought down to the practice of the present time; to which are added the rules and orders, together with the joint rules of both houses of Congress. And accompanied with copious indices.

92 TITLE-RE-CONSIDERATION.
tinues exactly in the state in which it was before the
division, and must be resumed at that point on any
fiture day.-2 Hats. 126.
1606, May 1, on a question whether a member having said Yea, may afterwards sit and change his opinion? a precedent was remembered by the Speaker,
of Mr. Morris, attorney of the wards, in 39 IEliz.,
who in like case changed his opinion. - Mem. in
Hlakew. 27.
SECTION XLII.
TITLE.
AFTER the bill has passed, and not before, the title
may be amended, and is to be fixed by a question;
and the bill is then sent to the other House.
SECTION XLIII.
RE-CONSIDERATION.
WIEN a question has been once made and carried in the affirma.
tive or negative, it shall be in order for any member of the majority
to move for the re-consideration thereof; but no motion for the reconsideration of any vote shall be in order after a bill, resolution,
message, report, amendment, or motion, upon which the vote was
taken, shall have gone out of the possessi{ n of the Senate, announcing
their decision; nor shall any motion for re-consideration be in order,
unless made on the same day on which the vote was taken, or within
the two next days of actual session of the Senate thereafter. —
Rule 20.