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176 If any Member defire, that ap A& made, and in force, may be repealed or altered, he is firft to move the Houfe in it, and rave their Refolution, before any Bull to that purpofé may be offer'd ; and if upon the Reafons fhew'd, for repealing or altering fuch Law, the Houle fhall think it fit,they do ufually appoint one or more of the Members to bring in a Bill for that purpole.

All men of Law know, that a Bill, which is only expofitory to expound the Common Law, doth enact nothing, neither isany Pre. vifo good therein.

But the Speaker is not precife- Jy bound to any of thefe Rules, for the preferring of Bills to be read or pafled ; but is left to his own good Difcretion (except he be {pecially directed by the Houft to the contrary} and tho’ he be earnetily preiicd by the Houle for the reading «©. fome one Bul; yet if he have »<: bad convenient

time

176

Ibid.

Town/Cail. 238.

Habimet 135.