MR. JOSEPH COWENsaid, he believed it was the case that when a Bill had been referred to a Select Committee, and the labours of that Committee were not completed at the end of the Session, it might resume its work next Session at the point whore it had left off. He wished to ask whether the same rule applied to Grand Committees; and whether they could take up a Bill next Session at the stage where it was left in this Session?
§ MR. SPEAKERAs the House is aware, the act of Prorogation of Parliament terminates the existence of Bills on the Order Book of the House; and Standing Committees will have existence only to the end of the present Session of Parliament, unless otherwise ordered by the House.