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AMENDMENT AND POSTPONEMENT.
If an amendment and postponement are proposed, the latter
is put first, because, in case of postponement, the amendment,
at the time appointed, may be then brought up, when the main
question is again considered.
A motion for postponement being followed by one referring
the question to a committee, the latter must be put first.
Reading Papers.
A motion being made relative to reading papers which relate
to the principal question, must be put before the main ques-
tion.
In referring to a committee, the order of the commitment
is as follows:
ist. Committee of the whole.
2d. Standing committee.
3d. Special committee.
A motion being made and seconded cannot be withdrawn,
though, if no one object, the chairman need not put the ques-
tion.
A motion having been made and it being subsequently
moved'to commit the question, or to postpone, to amend, or to
lay on the table, the motion to lay on the table comes first.
That being lost, the next question is on the amendment. Next
comes the postponement; then the commitment, and lastly,
the putting of the question.
POSTPONEMENT.
If it is moved that a question be postponed to a certain
time, the time appointed can be amended, and the amendment
can be amended. The amendment to the amendment comes
first, and the amendment before the main question.
It being moved to insert or strike out anything, and the
matter to be inserted or stricken out being amended, the
amendment must be put first.
DATES AND NUMBERS.
Blanks being filled with different sums or dates, the ques-
tion is to be put first on the longest time and largest sum.
A disagreement between members should be disposed of be-
fore the putting of the main question.
An appeal from the decision of the chair, or a motion to
withdraw a question, must be acted upon before the putting of
the main question.
Orders of the Day.

When several questions have been
day, such questions are termed the or(
a motion being made on the day appoi
the day be taken up, such motion to
other question that may be introduced
decided in the affirmative, must be fir
are then considered in the order of
appointment for that particular day.
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not particularly interfere with the order of business before the
general assembly.
Deoisioms as to Order.
Whenever, as is frequently the case, disagreements and ques-
tions of order arise among membes of an assembly, and the
chairman is appealed to as the arbitrator in such case, he will
himself decide the matter, and the expression of his decision
is in order before the transaction of other business. If, how-
ever, any member of the assembly objects to the ruling of the
chair, he can appeal from the decision of the presiding offcer,
and have the matter decided by a vote of the meeting.
In such cases the presiding officer will put the question on
the appeal as follows:
"It i4 desired that an apleal be taken from tk chair. Do the
tembers of this meeting sustain the decision of the chairman ?"
The question is then before the assembly for consideration
and debate, in which the chairman will take part if he desires
to do so.
Vote of the Chairman.
As a rule in most assemblies, on ordinary questions, the
chairman is not expected to participate in the debate, but sim-
ply to make statement of facts, maintain order, and facilitate
the business of the meeting by affording information relative
to questions in order, put questions, determine the vote, etc.
While the chairman does not usually vote, he nevertheless re-
tains the great advantage of being able to determine, if he
chooses, in case of a tie vote, what the majority vote shall be.
A TIE VOTE,
In legislative assemblies, such as councils, legislatures, etc.,
the regulations of the code under which the assembly works
sometimes give the presiding officer the privilege of voting only
in case of a tie vote, and in that case he is compelled to vote.
In all other meetings, the chairman may cast his vote when
a ballot is taken. This privilege he does not usually exercise,
however, unless he is desirous of making a tie, for the purpose
of preventing the passage of a question.

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