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 has been urged, that the power of the Houe terminates with their eion; ince a prioner committed by the Speaker’s warrant cannot be detained during the reces. That power indeed ceaes with the eion, which mut operate by the agency of others, becaue, when they do not it, they can employ no agent, having no longer any legal exitence; but that which is exercied on themelves revives at their meeting, when the ubject of that power till ubits. They can in the next eion refue to re-admit him, whom in the former eion they expelled.

expulion inferred excluion, in the preent cafe, mut be, I think, eaily admitted. The expulion and the writ iued for a new election were in the ame eion, and ince the Houe is by the rule of Parliament bound for the eion by a vote once paed, the expelled member cannot be admitted. He that