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434 A HISTORY OF CHILE it shall be reconsidered in both chambers, and it approved by both in the form suggested by the President, it shall become a law and be returned to him for promulgation. If such modifications and corrections be not approved by both chambers, the bill shall be considered as not proposed, and can not be presented again during the session of that year. Art. 47 If the said bill be again proposed in any of the sessions of the follow- ing years and be approved by both chambers and sent to the President of the Republic, and he shall reject it in toto, the chambers shall again take it into consideration and it shall become a lav?, if approved by a two-thirds majority of the members present in both chambers. The same shall also take place, in case the President returns it with corrections and modifications, and each chamber approve it without such corrections and modifications by the same two-thirds majority of the members present. Art. 48 If the bill, once returned by the President, be not proposed and approved by the chambers during the two years next following, it shall, if afterward brought up, be considered as a new bill, as far as affected by the provisions of the preceding Article. Art. 49 If the President of the Republic does not return the bill within fifteen days after its presentation to him, it shall be considered as approved and be promulgated as law. If the chambers close their session before the expiration of the fifteen days within which the bill should be returned, the President shall return it within the first six days of the ordinary session of the following year. Art. 50 A bill approved by one of the chambers and rejected hi toto by the other shall return to the chamber where it originated and be again considered, and if it be approved by a two-thirds majority of the mem- bers present, it shall be sent a second time to the chamber which rejected it, and it shall not be considered as again rejected by this chamber, unless by the concurrence of the votes of two-thirds of its members present. Art. 51 Any bill which shall be amended or corrected by the revising cham- ber, shall be returned to that where it originated, and if such addi-