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102 vene to prevent an immediate vote on all questions to which it applies, together with the main question. “If an adjournment is had after the previous question is ordered, the subject comes up the first thing after the reading of the minutes the next meeting and the previous question still operates, making the main question privileged over all other business whether new or unfinished.”—Reed's rules, Sec. 125. [See also sections 73, 75].  

102. If a question arises which the assembly prefers not to decide at once, or if the member desire further time for reflection or examination that they then possess, or if they desire to take up some other business, the question then under consideration may be postponed to a certain day or hour, but such postponement should not be to a day when the assembly will not be in session—because such motion would be equivalent to indefinite postponement, or to a time beyond the next succeeding session, because this would be equivalent to an