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142 In this example A's motion should first be perfected by acting upon its pending amendments and such other amendments as may be offered, then the substitute should be perfected in like manner, then comes the text vote to ascertain if the assembly prefers the substitute as perfected instead of the motion as perfected. If the result of the vote is in the negative, then the question recurs on the adoption or rejection of the motion as perfected.

If the test vote is in the affirmative the question recurs on the adoption or rejection of the substitute, as perfected.

143. If the result of the test vote is in the affirmative, then the substitute takes the place of the proposition for which it was offered and is the question before the assembly; it, therefore, follows that if the proposition for which it was offered is one that had been acted upon and was in force (such as a section of the by-laws), then the substitute is in force without further action. If, however, the substitute was offered for some proposed action which the assembly