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§ 107 107. There are five forms of amendment:

1. To insert or add certain words, Sec. 113.

2. To strike out certain words, Sec. 113.

3. To strike out certain words, and insert, or add certain other words, Sec. 117.

4. To divide the question into two or more questions, Sec. 128.

5. To substitute another proposition on the same subject for the one under consideration, Sec. 141.

108. Any proposition which seeks to merely change the vote from the affirmative to the negative, or vice versa, or to simply reverse the meaning of the proposition, would not be a proper amendment; for example, if it be moved that the assembly do a certain thing, it would not be in order to amend by inserting the word “not”, or by striking out a word or words and to insert others so that the effect would be exactly to deny the proposition—for example, to strike out the word approve, and insert disapprove—because the question before the assembly is not changed and the object of such amendment is merely to reverse the