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§ 140 tion was carried, and if the reconsideration prevailed a motion to reconsider the amendment would be in order.

If the previous question is ordered when this motion is pending, it applies only to the motion to reconsider, and if the vote on the reconsideration is in the affirmative the question for reconsideration is again before the assembly.  

140. When an assembly desires to annul or reverse an action taken at some former meeting, and it is too late to reconsider such action because the motion to reconsider had not been made within the prescribed time, the proper procedure is to rescind.

The motion to reconsider and to rescind should not be confounded, since it is not in order to move to rescind during the time a motion to reconsider is in order; in other words, reconsider an action taken at this meeting, rescind an action taken at some former meeting.