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138 If the vote on the reconsideration is lost, the effect is to clinch or reaffirm the former vote, which then stands safe from reversal.

138. Reconsideration is applicable to almost all motions the exceptions are the motion to adournadjourn [sic], an affirmative vote to lay on the table, suspension of the rules, elections to office, the motion to reconsider itself, or any action that has been wholly or partly executed, or that has determined or influenced subsequent proceedings, or caused action that cannot be reversed. No question can be twice reconsidered; but if on reconsideration an amendment has been adopted making a material change another reconsideration may be had, because the question before the assembly is by reason of the amendment a different one.

139. An amended motion must be reconsidered before the amendment; hence, whenever an amended motion has been adopted, a motion to reconsider an amendment previously adopted would not be in order; it would be necessary first to reconsider the vote by which the amended mo-