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140 The motion to rescind is debatable if the action it is sought to rescind was debatable, and any subsidiary action may be taken upon it. It requires the same vote as did the question to which it refers.

It cannot be reconsidered, because it is in itself a reconsideration of the former vote. If decided in the affirmative the former action is rescinded; if decided in the negative the former action is reaffirmed.  

141. A substitute is really equivalent to the amendment to strike out and insert, and is governed by the same rules. It is usually applied to a whole paragraph, or to a whole amendment; there is nothing, however, to prevent the substitution of certain words for words in the main or pending question, or to substitute one motion for another: but the words or proposition it is proposed to substitute must be germane or relevant to the original proposition.