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§ 144 has not yet adopted, it is simply a question as to which the assembly prefers, and if the substitute is carried it takes the place of such proposed action and is subject to further modification by amendment, postponement, commitment, or other action. The assembly may reject both motion and substitute.

Note.—In legislative assemblies bills are often referred to a committee to examine and put into proper form, with such recommendations as the committee may offer for the action of the assembly. And said committee, after deliberation, often offers another bill on the same subject as a substitute for the original bill, or any member may offer such a substance. This is what is known as a “substitute bill.”  

144. Since societies are organized and meetings held for such a variety of purposes, it is impossible to give an order of business acceptable to all societies or meetings. Inasmuch as some order of business should be adopted to restrain individual members from calling up favorite measures or business out of its proper order, it is